skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vouch | Various Engineering Roles | US Remote, or San Francisco/Chicago | FTE, Interns | Visa ok

Vouch is building an insurance company that can keep up with the rapid change that characterizes the startup lifecycle. We're doing this by making insurance fast, responsive, and focused on our customer - startups. Our team is currently 150+ people and we're planning on doubling over the next year. The engineering team (currently ~40 people) moves fast, and we see each person as crucial to the success of the company. We've raised over $160M from YCombinator, Ribbit Capital, etc[0] and partner closely with Silicon Valley Bank and other key players in the space.

We are hiring Senior Engineers and Engineering Managers across our Data, Platform, Customer Experience, and Enablement teams. Our team has a hybrid remote set up, with offices in SF and Chicago, and many roles fully remote. Check out our open roles: https://www.vouch.us/careers

I joined almost a year ago to lead our data efforts after 6 years at Apple, and it's been a great experience. I wrote a bit about why here[1]. Our roadmap is full of interesting technical problems - from building the most comprehensive startup ecosystem dataset in the world to embedded insurance platform challenges.

Feel free to ping me at avy.faingezicht@<our domain> and I'd be happy to share more about what we're building or route you to the right hiring manager.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/10/vouch-business-insurance-p...

[1] https://faingezicht.com/articles/2021/04/26/new-beginnings/
The target demographic for stuff like this, from my observation, is people who are easily parted with their cash.

Like those get rich quick real estate seminars. Yea the person talking is wealthy, but it's from subscriptions and entry fees to their talks not actual real estate investing.
> The more I think back about the presentation and other aspects not covered in this article, such as their ability to design and manufacture their own waveguides, the more I agree with the people that think the presentation was more of a “For Sale” sign.

Which differs from other such presentations how?
No death is avoided.

All deaths are merely delayed.
This is the closest thing to investing in Renaissance Technologies. It's too bad there is not a way to get 2-3x leverage version of google. The CAGR since its IPO in 2004 is the same as Renaissance too. Rather than executing millions of trades, the profit is from millions of clicks. Like renaissance , massive statistical analysis is involved, such as tracking click patterns and optimizing the ads.

There is no limit to how high this will go. More and more economic activity is being funneled into these dozen or so mega-tech companies, which is how they are able to grow annual revenues at 20-40%/year despite 3% GDP growth.
I don’t know how I feel, all the recruiters that reach out to me are hilariously out of touch and it’s patently obvious that they are purely reaching out to me as a stat and nothing else. The worst of the bunch is Amazon, I keep getting messages referencing my work experience 15 yrs ago! They probably have a resume of mine from back then. My career has changed significantly since then and they don’t bother checking.
There are actually videos of people at the trucker protest shouting out those people, from their area at least and just because YOU haven't seen that doesn't mean it isn't happening. Those 'swastika' people always seem to be fully masked up, with even full face masks, hiding their identity. Just because they aren't beating them up in the street doesn't mean they aren't against them. You see some protests with some people burning down multiple buildings that are called mostly peaceful protests, and yet you are claiming because there may be 1 or 2 people out of 50,000 carrying a confederate flag that that is now represents the protest. Again, these people are against vaccine mandates and are not vaccine deniers - there is a big difference. Many countries have even removed all forms of vaccine passports and mandates because it has been proven that vaccines do not stop the spread of the virus. Canada is simply behind the curve in recognizing this.
Excellent, whenever I stumble across a proof that P=NP, I think it would be better in HTML
The closed issues on the program in question are very endearing[1]. Skiddie culture has survived all these years!

[1]: https://github.com/Stanley-GF/PirateStealer/issues?q=is%3Ais...
Hamas can't get rockets that nice.
They don't even need growth. Their earnings and profit margins are high enough that they can deliver billions of dollars of value every quarter to shareholders absent of growth.
Never thought I would see the day the sleng teng riddim would be discussed on here.
Not just search. it is the entire internet, save for Facebook's properties and few others. huge.
Have you read about Jason Rohrer's stuff? Project December?

Here's a great article about it from an end-users perspective:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation...
You’re just making things up at this point.
I tried it in NYC... the map says "Google." If I'm going to be using Google anyway, why not just use the real thing? (This thread lists some possible reasons, obviously.)
The regular dish is great for normal personal use already in remote areas (and the costs are very reasonable).

It’s not competitive in (most) areas with options from cable providers, but that’s also not its purpose.

Starlink will give us high speed low latency internet anywhere on earth, it moves the lower bound up to 150mbps with pretty low latency which is great.
Their fawning support for 43 but opposition to 45 seems sort of inconsistent.
Those reasons all make sense to me (doesn’t matter If they make sense to anyone else but the person quitting, of course). I quit soon after COVID-19 was in the news in the US, largely because it wasn’t worth it anymore, I’m getting older and have a young disabled child and thus want to be closer to the top of my game not just for myself. I figure we save at least $600/year from this.

What worked? Having a reason, and listening to my body, and a lucky coincidence-catalyst where I felt absolutely horrible The day after one drink and conflated the two, even if the drink wasn’t causative. I don’t miss it, thankfully. My dad died largely thanks to alcohol (well, alcohol as treatment for poor mental health).
I wrote about this opinion piece in more detail here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30172569

I think its arguments are really flawed and not grounded in reality but like I said, I do not think that convalescents should vaccinate but I think they should be highly encouraged to have a booster shot because it about halves the change to become reinfected.

I think that this discussion if previously infected should or should not be vaccinated has generated just too much distraction.

Even in EU, where one, who had PCR test confirmed infection, can get COVID-19 certificate for 6 months (compared to 12 months for double vaccinated, now 9 months), it has given the anti-vaxxers too large platform.

They would not have gained it without this mistake in politics.
I don't really have relevant skills but this sounds really cool. It's the kind of thing I'd want to do if I had a rowing machine.
Starlink won't really ever be designed to compete with wired internet. There is limited bandwidth per satellite, and the density of most places that have good wired internet far exceeds what is reasonable on the current generation of satellites.

It's designed for people who are currently suffering on geostationary satellite internet, or some other low-bandwidth/high-latency setup.
One anecdote from one website is not a data set that generalizes onto a population.
One approach to PINs is to take two numbers that are familiar, but aren't related to each other and interleave them.

Basically the same principle as correct horse battery staple.
I disagree, and have used LinkedIn to keep up with a lot of former coworkers. (But I used to work at LinkedIn, so I clearly have a bias.)
Eh, really? It's due to needing ground station visibilty for the consumers as there's no intra satellite routing links, I thought and they didn't want to swamp the contention ratio whilst they were in beta? Why would the FCC be stopping this?
You could argue that HTML is GTML already. Their is practically no one else deciding how it evolves.
I think you make a lot of fair points, but when I see comments like:

> anything we're doing now still just feels like tinkering on the smallest scales

I’m reminded of: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Why not just set aside some money yourself and donate to a charity of your choosing without tying it to how you spend your money on Amazon? Making your donations directly will help you better see how your money will be used. For example, Girls Educational & Mentoring Services (GEMS) tells you basically how contributions are used when you donate to them:

https://www.gems-girls.org/donate-now
This isn't really about the safe dosage of MSG for human consumption but the prolonged effects from folks whom are sensitive (or have developed a tolerance) to such exposure without even realizing it. I have had non-Asian friends whom have developed an allergy from it when it doesn't overly affect me at all but raises an interesting correlation not causation argument when applied in a broader food and cooking consumption context.
> but at some point, I saw NodeRuntime. We can now say it is a NodeJS bundled executable!

This is cute, but it's important to lose this naïveté/innocence if you want to analyze more sophisticated malware in the future.
@chrisgd what's the best way to reach you / can you ping me at the email in my profile?
So Amazon gives you 3 options, two of which result in a charity of your choice getting money in exchange for a minor inconvenience to you, and the third of which is to not participate in the charity program. And this makes them the bad guy?
From the article: "Sometimes a very open presentation is given by a company trying to sell the company."
I agree. I attribute the rent increase mainly to low interest rates. At high interest rates it's unlikely that landlords would have enough bargaining power to capture the UBI through rent increases.

My preferred policy would be to adjust interest rates to control inflation, and adjust UBI to control interest rates to keep them a healthy distance from zero.
The real problem here is a society that is brainwashed into thinking it’s “normal” for a 21 year old to move out and get a place of his own, let alone doing it at minimum wage. I don’t even know why anyone would want to live alone at that age. Everything about life is both easier and more pleasant surrounded by close family.

Housing and meals have natural economies of scale. Even tasks like fetching medicine while you’re sick or waiting for package become easier.

It’s a travesty how many people these days think the standard course of action is to try to live as an island.
The fact that they're doing this should tell you all you need to know about Google's sense of integrity - or rather, total lack thereof.

What ever happened to "Don't be evil"?
Other can be fought just to cause destruction, or maybe that falls under your economic reasons.
Clever girl...
I'm a programmer at heart, and by day career, and yet... I'm now trying to help fight what I believe are the world's top two biggest threats or future risks: democracy collapse, and climate collapse. They are strongly inter-connected.

Therefore we're building an interactive software simulation about democracy and propaganda. With the goal of impacting voters, citizens, students, and key decision-makers, as well as providing an additional research tool for scholars.

You provide (any or all of):

-- cash (early/angel; via donations, grants or easy equity terms; anything from $5k to $5M would be signif and appreciated, in terms of concrete impact on our runway and speed/bandwidth; keep in mind that in this space we have ultra-hard external deadlines both in terms of scheduled elections, and ecosystem/agriculural collapse)

-- connections, introductions, promotion (to your following, eyeball feeds, etc.)

-- additional expertise or credibility related to history, psychology, politics/PolySci, foreign affairs or education

-- user/audience impact validation testing

-- QA testing

-- localization/i18n

We provide:

-- gratitude

-- name credits & references

-- as we have budget: paying work on tasks needed, and, potential for early employees

-- equity shares for potential key early partners

We can provide a more detailed pitch document and a preview look, or live demo w/Q&A, of our working prototype software.

If you're fine with waking up one morning to find yourself living in the kind of nighmarish world depicted in the Mad Max or Idiocracy movies, then please... feel free to keep living your normal everyday lives.

If however you want a better future, or at least if you want to be able to look in the mirror and know you've tried your best to achieve it. Or you dont want to ever be forced to explain to your children or grandchildren why your generation -- and why you personally -- left them such a dystopian shithole, then consider perhaps giving us a ping today.

Mike

groglogic+ak-hn2022feb@gmail.com
provided you're happy enough to buy multiple dishes, this fixes that.

one account, multiple dishes.
Google Stadia | https://stadia.dev/about/ | Multiple locations (U.S., Canada, others) | Multiple Roles | Full-time | ONSITE

Stadia is Google's cloud-based platform that lets you instantly play your favorite video games on the devices you already own. No more waiting for game downloads, updates, or installs. With Stadia, you have the freedom to decide how to play, what to play, and where to play across laptops, desktops, phones, tablets, and TVs.

We design, build, launch, and land the fundamentals that make it possible to include video game streaming in first- and third-party applications.

We're looking for folks for a variety of roles, such as:

• Software Engineer, Graphics, Stadia - https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/79892054408078022-so...

• Software Development Manager, Engineering Productivity, Stadia - https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/119918908741165766-s...

• Product Manager, Stadia - https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/111760946944189126-p...

• Strategic Business Development Manager, Stadia - https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/79039168157491910-st...

• Product Lead, Infrastructure and Partner Experience, Stadia - https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/85154766151131846-pr...

And many more roles that you can find and apply to here: https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/?q=stadia

You can also learn more about some of our engineering work on our tech blog: https://stadia.dev/blog/
And yet sometimes I'm basically forced into using them. Twice in recent months an item bought from a retailer is 20-40% cheaper if I buy it from that same retailer but through their amazon account. It infuriates me. I'm trying to avoid amazon as much as possible, but if you charge 20-40% more for the same item when ordered direct from you vs your amazon storefront, I'll give amazon my business every time. I wish retailers would stope doing this. One item was fire starters and the other was a barbell.
One time, a CHP car turned its lights off and deliberately hung out in my blind spot for a few miles on the 405. I can only assume they were waiting for me to do something they could use as an excuse to pull me over.
I feel like the intent of the Gutenberg editor and all the 'blocks' is basically "we want to make the specialization of 'bespoke website developer' obsolete".

Whether it's there or not, I have no idea; I only use WP for my personal site, which runs on templates I kludged up myself years ago. But my less-technical friends? If they have a site it's usually something built with some kind of sitebuilder. Gutenberg's trying to serve their needs.
OsmAnd does much better navigation than Organic Maps, but the interface is much clunkier. Has a lot of other features too, so good to have both.
Kosovo fought with Albania. Albania and Kosovo have a closer population to Serbia than Palestine to Israel. So that situation is even more uneven population wise. And just as ridiculous as just saying Kosovo.

Israel has 2x the population and far more land.

This is not about fighting for the same territory. The West Bank government and people are not fighting to get Israel. The weak Hamas government can say whatever they want. Do you have any citation or anything that the majority of Gaza citizens want to take over all of Israel, if they could get back control of Gaza for themselves including land settled on? Anecdotally, I have not seen this be the case.
Elon had a letter in December that to be able to make money on Starlink, they have to launch Starship first....I guess he realized that it's easier to raise prices.
I wonder if Starlink will start prioritizing their premium customers. If someone is willing to pay 5x more, it seems like Starlink would want to get to them first.
>Once you are all-in on 'lidar is shit' it makes it hard to reverse the trend

It can be done, if there's good cause. Just partner with your lidar oem of choice, get them to do a white paper about how the latest point increase version of hardware or firmware is "revolutionary!" and then claim that your earlier criticisms of lidar have been fully addressed by the groundbreaking new lidar tech.
That is interesting; I didn't know European countries would prefer sugar over corn syrup. Do people there also have the opinion that real sugar is more subjectively superior in it's taste and aftertaste?
This must explain why WordPress has been losing market share every year for more than a decade, right?
More link of interest:
Food of Dalits:
https://homegrown.co.in/article/803216/dalit-identity-and-fo...
https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/wJzDhGEE4csaX2BjhjHMsL/A-st...
https://www.sahapedia.org/casteing-food-interrogating-popula...

The untouchability, privileges, and heredity of 'caste' is not found on ancient text:
https://thelogicalindian.com/story-feed/awareness/caste-syst...
You're saying it's better to just hit a child with your own momentum than hit a child with the momentum of the tailgater behind you?
It looks like the chief complaint is that full site editing will make it so you don't have to call in a developer - or a WordPress power user to change something in the footer. This has really been needed for a long time. At the same time, it's kind of amazing that WordPress is the best we can do for making publishing to the web easy for everyone. It's really good, but is sure seems like something better should be possible...
Best wishes Anna. My 86-year-old uncle likes to say he is not old enough to drink yet. His face and hair still look great and he is in good health.
I hope more people stop building bespoke websites and start building tools for regular people to just make things. It's 2021. It should not be this hard for a regular person to update a website.

If you can make a powerpoint presentation with MS PowerPoint, why can't you make a website that way?
Service intervals based on time and usage combined with certified repair. From a passengers perspective airlines are strictly liable but presumably airlines could then sue the relevant third parties in such a case. I suspect a similar model could work fine for self driving cars.
As a US citizen, I feel my first duty is to my country. There are enough problems at home without trying to fix the world.
At my day job a good referral skips the tech phone screen. At Google a favorite ex-manager referred me but couldn’t improve my odds at all.
Microsoft joins Epic Games lawsuit to stop Apple's antitrust behavior
Saying that UBI would be canceled out by demand increases sounds absolutely hyperbolic.

What would you do instead? Continue existing trickle down policies? Use weird neoliberal tax breaks that require an accountant to utilize?

If we continue down the path of the top 10% in the US owning 89% of stocks, we’re going to have bigger problems than slight price increases on essentials.
I think the wide availability of the internet actually made things worse, not better. Before the internet, there was always magazines that dealt with these subjects, pamphlets that people hand printed, books (back when bookstores were a thing). You definitely had to go out of your way to find that stuff, but it was always there. A lot of older technology like numbers stations[4] must have fed into a general feeling of unease with governments as well, they could be tuned into with relatively simple equipment but their use was opaque and well protected.

The following list is by no means exhaustive but offers a few examples of serious, not serious / parody works.

The outright hoaxes meant to spread misinformation seem to be relatively common, easily spread by word of mouth or cheap pamphlets and endemic.

Recent-ish but pre-internet dissemination of wild theories that occasionally sucked people in: The Stranglers made an album about men in black[0], "The Illuminatus! Trilogy"[1] covers a few different conspiracies that were apparently influenced by letters to Playboy.

The Fortean Times[2] started in the 1970s although it seems not all the writing was meant to be taken seriously. Some people did though.

More seriously and much older, The Miscegenation Hoax[3] was an actual conspiracy to discredit Lincoln.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_According_to_the_Me... (1981)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy (1975)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortean_Times (1973)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation_hoax (1864)
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station (1914-)
What is going on inside Google? Far worse search results recently, verbal ads during Maps navigation directions, and stuff like this. Do they see some writing on the wall (eu pressure?) and they’re squeezing as much as they can while it’s an option?
I want to build a prototype experimental Skytherm roof on a garden shed or tiny house as a proof of concept to reduce home energy consumption for heating and cooling. See http://www.solarmirror.com/fom/fom-serve/cache/30.html for the concept. The idea is to have shadable thermal mass on the roof that will gain solar heat during winter, but in summer operates in reverse shaded during the day to prevent heating, but open to the sky at night to allow any heat buildup to radiate into space. Goal would be year-round interior temperatures in the range 60-80 degrees F without any additional heating/cooling. I am thinking the solar mass could be bricks or water bladders or bags of phase change material (e.g. snowmelt calcium chloride). The glazing could be cheap polycarbonate roof panels, and the shading can be motorized roller blinds or miniblinds. Could be operated manually or could be motorized and automated with custom arduino/raspberry pi controllers. Can measure temperature and humidity at various points in the building using cheap DHT11 arduino sensors.

I am retired and don't have the space or physical capability to build this at my home so I'm looking for someone who has or wants to build a shed or tiny house and who has basic construction ability. I can help with basic design and maybe arduino prototyping and scripting. If it works I'd like to put it on the web so anyone could copy it and be confident it would work. Phase 2 might be doing the same with a manufactured/mobile home.
Submitting Urgent Hotfix and Apple Wasted Time
I applied to Tulip (a few years ago at this point) several times (either on the website or LinkedIn), including applications and follow-ups to that very e-mail address. I never once got a response, positive or negative or otherwise. It always felt a bit weird, especially given my experience. I thought I'd give that feedback since I happened across this.

Also, a few of Tulip's job descriptions list Elixir as interpreted, which isn't correct.