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SeedFi | NYC/SF | HYBRID/REMOTE | Full Time | Engineering, Product, Data Science. Product Design, Growth Marketing

Early stage FinTech start-up SeedFi [www.seedfi.com] building financial products for the 100M Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. Our customers are the most vulnerable members of society and our products tangibly improve their financial health.

Many of the products we're building don't have any existing analogues in the market, so we're looking for engineers with an entrepreneurial bent. Our team experiments frequently, iterates quickly, and we use both data and customer feedback to measure our success.

We announced/launched a partnership with Credit Karma AND closed our Series B funding ($15M) in the last few months!

We are hiring for:

Sr. Data Engineer | Engineering Manager | Sr./Staff Frontend Engineer |
2X Product Designers [Mid/Senior] [Can be fully remote]

Director of Product Management [Fintech/Payments/Lending exp] | Principal Data Scientist [Financial Modeling] | BI Analyst [Mid/Senior]

Stack:

TypeScript/JavaScript | FE: React/Tailwind | BE: Node/Express

Infra: AWS/ECS/Docker/Terraform | Mobile: SwiftUI/Kotlin

To apply, please email your resume to jobs [at] seedfi [dot] com OR Apply on our careers page --> https://www.seedfi.com/jobs
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There is even country called China. Like the ceramic material.
Show HN: I made a deceptively simple but hard sliding puzzle
>> “Oh, it is so ugly”, “They did not age well” for the more diplomats.
> I think I've never read this, referring to graphics

The games that tried to have realistic graphics with the best the tech had to offer 15 years ago have definitely aged badly (Crysis 1, Fallout 3). Compare that to highly stylized graphics that didn't push the envelope, and still look good today (Team fortress 2).

That being said, I'm of the opinion that modern AAA titles spend _waaaaaay_ too much effort (money) on graphics.
Goodyear blimp only flies in relatively good weather. On airplanes over cities though: compare the cross-section and the corresponding force exerted by the wind on a modern jet and a blimp. Jet engines can compensate for wind gusts that would make landing an airship in a tight spot hopeless.

A fun example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPn3MBNt7Rc
The key to enjoying Twitter is to unfollow anyone who is clearly only Tweeting engagement and follow bait all day.

It’s easy to spot. They all seem to follow the same pattern du jour, such as posting threads that feel like mad libs (“I talked to <number> people who are passionate about <topic>. What I learned was surprising! Here are the top five takeaways. 1/6” is popular right now)
It would also have the merit of distributing the best students to other colleges and eliminating (at least the perception) that those top college short list are a relevant filter when selecting CVs. The focus will be on the student, not the credentials, as it should be.
> All our governments are dysfunctional & ineffective to some degree and there just aren't enough resources to cope with everything and the burden of proof for action is high

You know what a time honored way to make dysfunction worse is? Add money.

The incentives in these organizations are set up all wrong for delivering "good for society" outcomes beyond some local minimum of catching the smallest fish. Money won't change that.
And to do that comparison, where will they find an East German Olympic athlete undoped?
Hybrid Air Vehicles is the British company - https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/
Wonder how they will deal with the current helium shortage? The article did not mention it. :(
somehow stumbled across this HN post while searching for a pass-tomb alternative.

pass-coffin is a great utility!
At home I'm using pass-tomb, which does the job pretty well, except the fact that the timer functionality is kinda broken (won't stop the timer when closing a tomb) and that entering sudo password for mounting is pretty annoying (so in total you've got to authenticate twice, one time for tomb and then for gpg decryption as well), especially when working with multiple password stores...
My work laptop however is running Windows (no admin and no WSL), therefore pass-coffin is the only option and it's been doing a great job so far! I'm thinking of switching over my home setup to coffin as well
I always find this guy's version of Tokyo very 90's make believe.
How to boost your attention span: tips and tricks
Very little? They have normal hormone profiles for men, not excessive ones intended to enhance performance. Moreover, they only take hormones the body would naturally produce, not unusual “performance-enhancing drugs”.
https://brave.com/terms-of-use/

> All Brave logos, marks and designations are trademarks or registered trademarks of Brave. All other trademarks mentioned in this website are the property of their respective owners. The trademarks and logos displayed on this website may not be used without the prior written consent of Brave or their respective owners. Portions, features and/or functionality of Brave’s products may be protected under Brave patent applications or patents.
This is why we’ll never “stop the climate crisis.” Everybody thinks somebody else is causing the problem and that somebody else needs to change more than they themselves do.

The truth is, stopping the climate crisis involves everybody changing how they live in a significant way. Anything short of that and you better hope your great grandkids like eating crickets and forest fires.

The sadder truth is that the climate crisis is unstoppable so it doesn’t really matter how many cows you eat.
The link gives a bad gateway error, here’s an archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20220531063207/https://www.dynam...
That's debatable. People bring this all the time up but older games were massive too especially if you played any RPG/cRPG/JRPG. Baldur's Gate took me a summer vacation time to beat back then, easily 100 hours or more. But that's just one example.

It's more like a generation grew up and they have less time now.
To further increase the sells of your shovels as a next step you pay successful gold diggers (or actors) to amplify the message how easy it is to find gold, as a side job you show how easy it is to sell shovels ... at some point you arrive at the pinnacle of the current financialization of every aspect of life: you sell people the philosopher's stone itself to transmute everything into gold i.e. how easy it is to sell anything, really.

It is remarkable how long this spawned ouroboros can bite through itself given the context of financial desperation (no savings, inflation, no stable source of income). At some point I came to the sober realization that younger generations, now, have no clue how people lived back then. It must have been even more terrible.
I think the form field certainly influenced the particular technical evolution path the web and internet took, but I also think it's not the reason we have social networks or e-commerce. Those were extremely compelling usecases even before the web and I don't think any particular technology was the reason, they got so big. That was probably more due to economic or social factors.

My guess is even without the form field, someone would have eventually tried to hack interactivity via some "stateful" links or something.

If Berners-Lee and co had somehow adamantly defended the "web of documents" idea, interactivity and e-commerce would probably have gone through other technologies, e.g. email or IRC.

Though I think it would be interesting to imagine an alternate universe where most of the effort and development went in those technologies and not HTTP.
For anyone wondering, Xonotic is still very actively developed despite the lack of releases.

https://gitlab.com/xonotic

If you want to run latest without compiling yourself: https://gitlab.com/xonotic/xonotic/-/wikis/Autobuilds
It's an even more typical California thing...
As the UK brings back imperial measurements, is it time for Canada to drop them?
I'm just wondering why Brave is mentioned and Firefox not, especially since they already mention Firefox (as Brave being an alterantive to it)
It kinda implies Firefox not being open source
> ...do people care about it enough to vote for people with an agenda for it...

Yep. Happens regularly.

> ...or pay for it to change?

And nope, certainly not. But crypto will fall into the same category - stamping out the ability to do the - rather simple - necessary maths would require horrific compromises that are simply not supportable. This technology has radically altered the power balance of moving funds around. Sure that isn't sunshine and roses, but at least we don't have to worry about so much about asset freezes.
I don’t have many apps. I use my browser for just about everything: weather, search, YouTube, etc.

I’d be really interested to see how much my phone leaks to services like this vs the average phone. I bet it’s still a shockingly large amount.

That said, doesn’t iOS notify you when an app wants to use location services? Did all of these users just opt into that? That seems crazy, if so.
Yeah I’m familiar with this blog post, but other than it being a huge fuel to this narcissistic tendency, it fails to explain to me any reason lisps would be that much above everything else.

Homoiconicity is a cool and elegant thing, but I think it has way too many things attributed to it. Plenty of languages have very strong macro capabilities, and while they may need a separate API for using it, this is hardly that big of a problem and in effect at that point they are just as good at everything as lisps are.

And we should not forget about the author’s (and apparently several other lisp-cultist’s) very own Blub paradox — they are often not familiar with strong type systems being able to prove the lack of several kinds of bugs, and I’m not just talking about the typical types, but about more advanced things like higher kinded types, effects, etc.

There is an entirely different aspect of languages dealing with new approaches to memory management like Rust, and newer ones having native support for arenas.
Was he into tech as a kid? Maybe something vintage that got him interested in tech as a kid that he can share with his own kids.
> there is a solid understanding (in the more professional community at least)

Hmm. I don't know about that. There has been a spate of recent deaths of professional bodybuilders in their 30s and 40s despite more knowledge and health checks.

The problem with PEDs in competitive sports is that in many cases, higher doses mean more results. It pushes competitors and coaches out of what might be safe usage into high risk. Although use is admitted in bodybuilding, the vast doses and number of compounds is something most lie / downplay with only a few whistleblowers sharing real world usage.

> Another more serious issue are the effects of extreme weight cutting

Also a PED issue. Some of the Shelby Starne's stacks used in recent deaths of female bodybuilders are insane. Stacking 3 different diuretics, multiple types of stimulant... my god. They looked like they were designed to give people heart attacks.
Don't know who to follow now honestly, it's all boring. My followings are pretty diverse.
I've become convinced I have no ikigai, the circles don't overlap for me in the way that's assumed.
I don't suppose you would have any good tutorials / resources for quest 2 development with unity. I've had a brief go recently but as someone who's never used unity before I found myself floundering a bit.

I've also found the unity editor to be pretty unstable on Linux so if you happen to have any tips there I'd be all ears
How can you know the impact? It is not easy to measure.

Vetting a job candidate on the social networks is now a standard feature of the hiring process. If you get a "no", they won't tell you that you were dropped because of "that" video, or even that you were dropped because of something on the Internet. There is an enormous "fog of war" there.

I had myself the "pleasure" of deciding whether to hire a person whose drunk photos from the bar were less than flattering. I decided to give him a chance, but in his case, he was a real alcoholic who could not be trusted with administration of a server.

I can see other people being less tolerant and more CYA in their approach.
Not sure why this is all over the news?
Why just transmen?
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — the absolute best roguelikes around.

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The first has a very focused philosophy of removing all tedious and spoilery game mechanics, optimal strategies and no-brainers from the game. Some hate that, I love it. DCSS is the anti-Nethack. You can play online on your browser, with graphical tiles, spectators and even information bots for all your queries.

https://crawl.develz.org/

The second has an extremely passionate and vibrant community of contributors, and they're adding everything and the kitchen sink. Blink and a whole subsystem will have been merged into master. I reckon CDDA will be the first universe-scale quantum simulator, a couple years before the entire humanity will transfer its consciousness inside a Dwarf Fortress world.

https://cataclysmdda.org/
Impact of Celiac Disease on Dating
Indeterminacy and Borges’ Infinite Library
> MS will have all your data plus search history attached, but, no worries, you will get free (for 3 months) pro Linkedin account!

This is not possible with Kagi because there is no data/search history to begin with.

In the very unllikely event of Microsoft acquisition tomorrow, Microsoft would get tech and IP, accounts which only have email address, billing tokens for Stripe (as we store no payment details), and no search history as one is not recorded.
No, I don't use Baidu as it performs poorly for english queries. From what I have read online, the popular sentiment is that Baidu is better than Google when it comes to chinese search queries. Ofcourse, like Google they have the monopoly advantage (atleast in China). Yandex, I do use daily - it's good with queries it knows about, but struggles with new / unknown queries (for e.g. when I search something geographically related or local, at which Google is obviously better because of its userbase).
My Experience Building an Editor in Rust
libpas is now in mimalloc-bench (https://github.com/daanx/mimalloc-bench). Thanks to Julien Voisin (https://dustri.org), which makes about 20 allocators that can be compared on a collection of workloads.
> What the gaming experience has become
Today the gaming experience could be summed-up as follow.
• You go on steam.
• You buy and download a 4GB game.
• You play at it.

I don't know on which planet the author lives but my experience is a bit different:
• you go to the store and buy the game. Allmost all games have the same price.
• Come home, insert DVD, install it.
• after instalation the game wants an online account for which it needs to install a windows service.
• account created, try to start the game, it needs an update (couple of GB, it needs one hour)
• after update you can finaly start the game (entusiasm is gone) and you play for some time. Graphics is a bit better than 20 years but nothing "wow".
• you don't touch the game for a couple of days
• you want to play again, try to start the game, it needs another multi GB update, another hour lost.
• you decide next time to avoid this company (EA) when buying games.
Dr. Levin and Mr. Hyde
How would automatic recurring payments be handled with this?
Maybe some LoRa goodies. Or a book about one of those topics you mentioned that maybe your brother hasn’t actually gotten too deep into.
It took me a few minutes to really understand what you're getting at, but I think I understand.

And Flyway can be used in conjunction with GitLab/GitHub to achieve the same thing, but it's still plagued with all of the issues you can probably imagine, especially if your DB doesn't support transactional DDLs.

I agree about how these database migration (i hate this name) tools are starting to show their age, but when it comes to read/write schemas there doesn't seem to be many options.

If you're wondering why I qualified the above statement with "read/write", there is an alternative way of managing read schemas that has a lot in common with any other sort of artifact management lifecycle that we have become accustomed to. Every source change that results in a CI/CD activity leads to an entirely new instance of the schema being built out. Then it's just a matter of hot swapping the new schema (`ALTER SCHEMA ACME SWAP WITH ACME_V2_0 RENAME TO ACME_V1_9_OLD`) or just having your consumers update their connection configurations to point to the new schema (schema=ACME_V2_0). Rollback is just unswap, or reverting your app's connection config (or maybe the software artifact should be hard tied to the schema anyways?).

The whole process of using a migration tool to alter individual parts of a live schema one piece at a time, updating/data, etc... and rollback if necessary, is extremely complex and an incredible nightmare to deal with, esp if these tools are in the hands of app developers with limited DBA experience.

Imagine that if instead of building new code artifacts (jar, zip, etc) we just resorted to taking the latest one, modifying it, and then saved it (overwrite). And then when you experience an issue and have to rollback, you have to undo everything mentioned above.
Graphics are extremely important for me for buying a game, yet the least important for actually playing a game. Sadly, it's been a long time since I've had time and interest to finish a game, most of them I rather just try out and never touch again after an hour of playing. For example, I bought Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2 when they came out and never played them - it was too much of a hassle, and even getting into a game like that takes too much time for me nowadays. I basically just tinker around with the graphics settings and enjoy the scenery.

From time to time I fire up games like these again just to realize that I don't have the time to even get through the tutorial.

To cut a long story short, there is unfortunately nowadays a huge divide between making a game that people buy and making a game that people play, and the bias is obviously towards the former.
If someone focus’s on 1% of the problem and never touch the 99%, the former is going to get frustrated and give up.
Planet Crust released Corteza 2021.9.11
The Corteza open-source low-code platform has a new point release – 2021.9.11. Check out what are the new fixes: https://www.planetcrust.com/corteza-2021-9-11-released
Bristle (YC W21) Is hiring to analyze the oral microbiome and prevent disease
This really clicked for me in Javascript when revisiting the saying "functions are first-class objects in JS".

I think most people know this in the context of callbacks or lambdas, but it's useful to keep in mind that this is how all functions in JS work: A function is an object with support for a special "call" operation and () is an operator that invokes that operation on whatever object is given.

So Application('System Events').processes() is invoking "call" on the object contained in the "processes" property.

But because it's an object, it also supports all the other operations of objects, such as attaching properties - which can contain other callable objects.

So Application('System Events').processes.name() is fetching the "name" property of the same object and invoking "call" on that value.
...god, my eyes ...why is everything CL plagued by such horrible design choices (hyperspec, Lisp-IDEs... all!) - why such ugly colors, ugly typography, bad contrasts, ugly logos, ugly diagrams, ugly supporting graphics?!

I know that even the language itself is kind of the opposite of "beautiful", but the way all docs, blogs, websites etc. look ...seriously, is this intended to scare away any aesthetically sensitive people? Programming languages are about aesthetics too, and Lisp at its core (not CL ofc) is absolutely beautiful!
Isn't there anything else Sergey Brin should be spending his time and attention on? Google's free rein in its early years surely had a lot to do with the fact that Page and Brin were successfully marketed as nice guys who could be trusted to be responsible stewards of Google. However stupid the rest of the world may have been to ever take this on faith, it is still on Page and Brin to keep their end of the bargain now. Together they still control the company outright, so (IANAL) they can do whatever they want. Let's be clear: everything that is wrong with Google's products and services—or at least, everything that is reasonably obvious, fixable in a reasonably obvious way and can be fixed without really enraging the other shareholders, at the very least—is on Page and Brin personally, as individuals. And there are many such things. The fact that in-document search (search!) performs atrociously on large Google Docs, causing real difficulty for literally millions of people and organisations, is something that Larry and Sergey could fix but choose not to. The lads have clearly, some time ago, decided that the hard, unglamorous work of stewarding Google—Google!—is work beneath their dignity and below their abilities: that instead their talents are needed for other, more high-impact things, like playing with airships. That really isn't so, and the rest of us need to stop going along with the pretense.
This article was written a couple years back. I'm not sure OnlyFans was as big then as it is now.
(I work at a major publishing and developing company)

The biggest change have to be us, the players. Almost every game let it be an indie or a triple-A blockbuster have been researched and min-maxed by most players. Not just the "sweats" but the casuals too. Of course official guides and playthrough books have been a thing back in the 90s too, almost every PS1 game had one. But now with the internet, reddit, Discord etc. people can come together and basically "solve" the game they play. I see this everywhere. It's not even about the game being hand-holdy or not it's the fact that players can datamine and simulate every aspect of the game. Elden Ring is a perfect example recently where builds are min maxed to edge as possible. And that's a mainly single player title, there is not even anything on the line. MMOs are kinda dying because of this mentality, especially WoW everyone expected to have the best build doing the best possible dps or else. Even in very casual games like Animal Crossing you have this mentality of having the best villagers in the game, people asking insane amount of money to visit their islands ot get that best item you need etc. So yeah, I'd say this is the biggest change.
Laws can turn things that are on their own legal, like using an accelerator when driving a car into criminal, like speeding, when done in a way that violates that law.
Agreed and to extend this further I wonder how the current summer vacation eligible demo spends their time compared to how "we" did?

I don't have the statistics handy (maybe someone does and can link them) so won't speculate but...do "kids" today spend the same relative amount of time playing games "we" did?

Seems fairly safe to assume they have alternative ways to spend their time (tiktok/current social media flavor of the day etc.) but not sure if that's the case or not.