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Claypot AI | Founding Engineer (Infra / ML / Frontend) | REMOTE (US & OUTSIDE US) | Full-time | https://claypot.ai/careers.html

Claypot AI is a platform for real-time machine learning. Our platform unifies streaming and batch systems to make it easier and cheaper for companies to do online prediction, continuous evaluation, and continual learning.

We’re looking for engineers excited about machine learning and streaming tech to be the foundation of our engineering team.

What makes Claypot AI special?

* A culture of transparency, collaboration, ownership, and learning

* A very high bar for engineering craftsmanship

* Expertise in both distributed systems and ML

* An opportunity to win over a large, growing, yet untapped market for fast ML delivery

What will you get?

* Competitive compensation package

* Flexible remote-first culture with options for in-person collaboration

* Learn how to build a startup from the ground up

* Public speaking opportunities

* An environment for you to grow into the career you want

Reach out if you're interested, even if you don’t find a job description that fits you. We believe in creating an environment for people to do their best, not squeezing people to fit into job descriptions. As the company grows, you can define the role that you want with us.

My email is chip at claypot dot ai (cofounder).

Thanks for considering us!
Did you know the entire US Air Traffic Control system runs on long-discontinued computers and written in JOVIAL, "Jules' Own Version of the International Algebraic Language" (i.e. ALGOL), named after Jules Schwartz?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOVIAL

The FAA's been trying to replce it for ages, but AFAIK it's still ongoing.
The point is not to be productive, the point is to shamelessly do the bare minimum you need to in order to get more money.
This is what the makers of text adventures said about graphic adventures, just in a different dimensional context. And we all know how that turned out... :-/
Note that these benchmarks include compilation time for Julia, while it does not include compilation time for C, Rust, etc.
That is true, but I am not even sure you can cover it all with factory before you computer melts down (and the FPS goes to single-digits). We need to invest a lot more work to optimizations before making larger maps.

You can actually increase the ocean size in settings, making way more space if you decide to move mountains and make new space by landfilling oceans.
Multiplying them is another way of expressing them as a unified value. It's not a question of accidental bias, you're explicitly choosing how important one second is compared to one byte.

You could imagine there's a 1 sec/byte multiplier on the bytes value, saying in effect "for every byte of gzipped source, penalise the benchmark by one second".
> anonymous wallets and then cash out

How do you stay anonymous and cash out?
Bractlet | Remote/Austin, TX | Full-time | Multiple Roles

We are a company trying to tackle climate change through energy efficiency. The built world (residential and commercial buildings) accounts for about 40% of carbon emissions. We aim to do something about that.

In a nutshell, we turn the budget and energy consumption of a building into an engineering optimization problem using data (collected from the building with a proprietary IoT platform) and software. Our stack is primarily React, Rust, and Postgres on GCP.

We are looking for intelligent people who care about climate change. We are well funded and have the backing of important minds in our space. We are looking for:

- Senior Frontend Engineer
- Lead FullStack Engineer
- Lead DevOps Engineer
- Lead Backend Engineer
- Lead Data Engineer
- Engineering Manager

You can email me at hamza.surti [at] backpacknetworks [dot] com (dir of software eng) or use the submission form on our website: https://bractlet.com/careers (email me if the job you want isn't showing up there).
So, Second Life?
I can see one Timmies from my balcony. There's another around the corner.
Not everyone. Everyone I know loved it.
IMO the term "cost function" is much more intuitive than "loss function" - it tells you the cost, which it attempts to minimize by some iterative process (in this case training)
Thanks Google for not allowing us users the ability to stop apps from starting up or not allowing apps to run in the background. Dicks.

Every granted app permission should have the ability for the user of the device to revoke that permission.
There's a federal law that restricts the info to a list of specific purposes (basically that list) and states are slowly updating their processing accordingly so you generally have to lie on the forms. Different states go to different lengths to do their due diligence.
Ticks live in tall grass.

https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2012/4-5/ticks.html
Curious: what happened to them?

Sure, at this point none should still be in orbit because LEO has too much drag. But did they definitely burn up on re-entry? Or did the American Government cover the planet in a fine layer of tiny needles?
this is a very intuitive analysis. well done and thanks
To be fair to the farmers, it's more of an issue of which crops they're growing.

The southern Central Valley used to be a big producer of cotton and sugar beets, and the further north near Fresno has always been tree fruit and some vegetables, while the western valley was much more sparsely cultivated (source: mom grew up in a small town near Bakersfield, dad near Fresno, I grew up working on the farm every summer).

These days the southern central valley is almost all almonds, which are huge consumers of water, and they are used for nut milk, of all things. Dairies have also expanded in the past few decades. Cows drink a ton of water and eat alfalfa, which needs crazy amounts of water to grow.

The biggest thing we city people can do is completely cease drink almond milk and drastically cut our cow milk consumption. Dairy and almonds are the two biggest line items in California's water budget. Agriculture in the state would be much more sustainable if we shifted farmers to different crops.

I submit to you that soy and oat milk are both delicious and can replace cow's milk in most recipes. There's not yet a good cheese made from these yet, unfortunately.
I presume inside Google it's a brawl of teams competing with each other, and if I had to guess the project managers probably lobby the execs hard to ensure their app survives...

I wanted to quickly find the story of how inside Microsoft the teams were also at war with each other, IIRC it was the Windows team vs the Office team, results of putting the query "microsoft insider competition windows team vs office team" in Google or DuckDuckGo:

- Links/articles about Microsoft Teams

- Links/articles about Windows/Office Insider (ie. their beta program?).
NYC explores gun detectors in subways
Haha, not really. But there is mod support, so technically yes!
That's still whack-a-mole. Even if you changed the rules to selling user data, these apps would just update it in their TOS that consumers agree to without reading.

Even laws have this problem. There are so many cookie bars on websites that users just click through them anyways.
Except Sheryl is responsible ads at both FB and Google.

Maybe it’s not just one company. But the industry. Or maybe it’s her ;)
Huge factorio/satisfactory fan so I can’t wait to get home and try this.

Would you mind sharing a high level number on how much it cost to buy all of the art for the game? I saw you mention around $500 per model in another comment but I’m having trouble deciding how many models went into a project like this.
Former OpenSea executive arrested, charged with money laundering
A lot of people find asynchronous and text-based communication to be unpleasant. This maybe isn’t the most common sentiment on a tech news discussion forum, but probably describes much of the population. I think the internet’s potential to help people socialize is really hobbled by the text form factor of social media, chat, and discussion forums. Video and voice calls are richer, but they aren’t good a good way to meet people.

I’ve found that VRChat makes for a more pleasant, natural, deeper experience than phone calls or video chat. For me, it really replicates the experience of hanging out with people in real life.

Part of it is that it has the thing where you stand next to the people you are talking to and you can move around and talk to someone else when the conversation ebbs and flows. You can go to smaller spaces where you know everyone, or bigger places with friends of friends.

This mitigates the problem with video or phone calls where you have to sort of mutually agree with the other party that you want to talk and when you are done talking. Instead, you can more naturally flow between different conversations. You can go to a crowd and meet new people, you can go on adventure with your close friend, or go hang out at your regular haunt.

There are a lot of problems with the service, though. One of the big ones is that the onboarding experience is shitty for new players. If you don’t already have friends who play, you’ll just end up with 14 year olds screaming obscenities at you in a public world.
I’m torn about ClojureScript.

It is a layer of protection against JS madness, and just a plainly better designed language. State management is much less verbose and easier to reason about.

But it is hard to justify outside of SPA and for “in between” use cases that for example Next solves very well.
Perhaps that's true, but still, it's weird to say "we don't have any way of measuring productivity based on output, so our approach is to require people to physically be in the office 40+ hours per week so that we can at least fire people who literally don't show up enough." In fact, I would call that "pretending to manage a company" more than I would call remote work "pretending to work."
> Specifically for cars, that's not actually surprising. They're between several-to-tens-of-thousand dollar highly-mobile multi-ton pieces of hardware that are both incredibly valuable should they be stolen and incredibly dangerous should they be misused.

How does this data prevent either of those things?
That's what he is headed for, maybe sans modest retirement...
I don't think that this related to language, at all. First, let's ask, is there a way for DALL-E to refuse an output (as in, this makes no sense). Then, what would we expect the output for gibberish to be like? Isn't this still subject to filtering for best "clarity" and best signals? While I don't think that these are collisions in the traditional sense of a hash collision, any input must produce a signal, as there is no null path, and what we see is sort of a result of "collisions" with "legitimate" paths. Still, this may tell us some about the inner structure.

Also, there is no way for vocabulary to exist on its own without grammar, as these are two sides of the phenomenon, we call language. Some signs of grammar had to emerge together with this, at once. However…

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Edit: Let's imagine a typical movie scene. Our nondescript individual points at himself and utters "Atuk" (yes, Ringo Starr!) and then points at his counterpart in this conversation, who utters "Carl Benjamin von Richterslohe". This involves quite an elaborate system of grammar, where we already know that we're asking for a designator, that this is not the designator for the act of pointing, and that by decidedly pointing at a specific object, we'd ask for a specific designator not a general one. Then, C.B. von Richterslohe, our fearless explorer, waves his hand over the backdrop of the jungle, asking for "blittiri" in an attempt to verify that this means "bird", for which Atuk readily points out a monkey. – While only nouns have been exchanged, there's a ton of grammar in this.

And we haven't even arrived at things like, "a monkey sitting at the foot of a tree". Which is mostly about the horizontal and vertical axes of grammar, along which we align things and where we can substitute one thing for another in a specific position, which ultimately provides them with meaning (by what combinations and substitutions are legitimate ones and which are not).

Now, in light of this, that specific compounds are changing their alleged "meaning" radically, when aligned (composed), doesn't allow for high hopes for this to be language.
The Ikigai image works out pretty well. I found working as a network engneer sysadmin at a MSP in a rural area pretty satisfying. It was kinda in keeping with 'get everyone connected' mission - not sure you can find that many other places than the developing world nowadays.
I don't do enough sales volume anymore for it to be worth it.

And even if I did I don't exactly want to lead a trail of breadcrumbs straight to a title floating operation.
I’m inferring that OP means they don’t believe in the extrapolated utility of mRNA treatments over time. It’s an exciting technology but COVID vaccines showed us one of its limitations (at least within the context of the disease, its formulation, and vector).
Have you tried Apple Maps? I feel it's been getting better a lot (though I don't know how well it fares in Vienna).
So basically like "Ready Player One" where you need a full motion capture suit, 2-D treadmill, and handheld controls. There's probably a niche market of hardcore gamers like the people who build full cockpits for flight simulators. But this complicated stuff is never going to penetrate the mainstream mass market.
How's that going to work in my living room where there's an ottoman, a coffee table, the dog's running around, etc. Or do I need to build a new room just for AR/VR stuff? I mean, yeah you can do some interesting stuff like having virtual Jenga on your coffee table, or whatever, but thinking in terms of HalfLife 4, or even sitting around chatting with 3 other friends who are in different locations, it sounds like it would start to become impossible just because of the space I'd be in. (Or expensive if I have to have a new space that I keep clear all the time.)
>Scientific Discoveries: The Starfish bomb contained Cd-109 as a tracer, which helped work out the seasonal mixing rate of polar and tropical air masses.

Ah, totally worth it
Isn't this the same argument as 'we have telephones. Why do we ever need to see the people on screens, isn't voice enough?'

Feeling truly present with someone isn't possible in 2d
in general, there may (actually, must) be geniuses who have dropped out of society.
NBC News | NYC, LA, Seattle or Remote | Frontend Engineer - Elections and Live Experiences

We build the interactive Big Board for NBC News and MSNBC. On Election Nights, Steve Kornacki uses our application to tell the breaking story: Surprise turnout in Ohio! Kornacki will tap into the district-level view and show us what's happening in the live election result data. And by "us" we mean millions of viewers around the world.

Our team's mission is to enable world-class data journalism. To that end, we build out data visualizations and tools for breaking news topics. And right now our focus is Elections.

Because we work in service of journalism, our technical core values are being both fast and accurate. Our primary product is the Big Board, but we also maintain additional tools for data processing and management. Our technology stack includes; Vue, Mapbox, D3, Node, React, Jest and Cypress.

Email news.digital.tech@nbcuni.com to apply, and put "HN" in your subject line
Shpongle and OTT are amazing goa-ish electronica. OTT's new album is great.
I was amazed by many things with our 3 weeks in Canada, including how cheap car hire for a massive (Ford escape) car was, how wide the roads were, how off road logging roads were

But one thing that stuck with me was seeing things I’d only ever heard of in tv/movies - Wendy’s and Dairy Queen come to mind.

But I’d heard of them. And of course Starbucks (which we had in the U.K.)

Never heard of Tim Hortons though, which I guess shows the relative strength of a medic an cultural exports vs Canadian cultural exports.
512 in AVX512 is the number of bits per register. You are off by factor of 8.
They did it to themselves. The minute your feed/notifications went so ad-filled and algorithm-driven that you couldn't find events and announcements before they happened... Facebook killed the golden goose.
I think the best way is to attack the market from all sides.

- GDPR-like legislation to try to prevent the inappropriate collection of this information.

- Ban the sale of or trafficking in illegally collected personal information. Apply serious monetary penalties to anyone who sells such information improperly. Additionally, anyone who sells such information and subsequently learns that it was improperly collected or was GDPR-deleted must tell their buyers, who must then delete it.

- Buyers are liable if sellers are found to have violated the rules and don’t pay. They are also liable if they fail to honor delete requests. Buyers who consider this liability unacceptable may attempt to purchase or require insurance.
I’ve had some luck with PyAV, which I’m pretty sure is just some straight-up Python->C bindings (in case shelling out and starting another process feels too weird. https://pyav.org/docs/stable/

However, I’d note that in my use case, I ended up going back to the shell after running some benchmarks and seeing that for my use case, I wasn’t saving any performance.
I'll add to the pile of speculation of "I know why facebook is failing (when it isn't)". To me it's the fact that it became less and less of a useful tool. It used to be this simple thing where you could connect with your friends or people you would meet (perhaps with the intent of dating them). There was a news feed that was sorted by chronological order, and you would mostly see updates and photos posted by people. Creating an event was easy.

Today, nothing is chronological, profiles are (somewhat) public facing, people just posts links, photos has basically moved to instagram, messaging has moved to whatsapp, and events hasn't changed a bit. Plus there's a ton of other new features that dilute the tool.
Bowery Farming is hiring! Software Engineers, ML Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers | New York City | Onsite-hybrid | Full Time | https://boweryfarming.com

Bowery Farming builds smart indoor farms near cities, growing fresher, pesticide-free Protected Produce with bold flavor in precisely controlled environments, 365 days a year. At the heart of each farm is the proprietary BoweryOS, which integrates software, hardware, sensors, AI, computer vision systems, machine learning models, and robotics to orchestrate and automate the entirety of its operations. As a result, each farm creates far less waste and uses a fraction of the water and land compared to traditional agriculture.

Our frontend software stack is primarily Vue.js and React. Our backend software stack includes Elixir services running in AWS and Phoenix + Elixir (Nerves) running on thousands of our in-house built devices located in our farms. We're utilizing an event-driven architecture, RPC, and Channels/WebSockets to pass data throughout our services and real-time UI's.

Senior Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/boweryfarming/b66f7ae1-dba2-4a49-9c44-...

Staff Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/boweryfarming/1f8ace07-4add-4c7c-8a83-...

Senior Frontend Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/boweryfarming/0206bd6f-bd38-47a2-bde9-...

ML Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/boweryfarming/ef54cc2c-d9ce-4294-ad51-...

Site Reliability Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/boweryfarming/be54b63f-7fa3-447f-abe8-...
as long as you work, you get money. You won't be allowed to "let your money work for you".
HIFI Labs | Full Stack Engineer sprinkled with Web3 | Remote | Full-time

HIFI Labs is looking for a passionate Senior Fullstack Engineer with an eye for beautiful designs, intuitive interactions while being an advocate for our end users and their privacy. We’d also love if you have deep understanding of web3 (or eager to learn some of the tech).

You will be a part of multiple engineering efforts such as exploring and building internal HIFI Labs products, develop custom artist websites and contribute to our open-source projects such as neume and EQ.

- Kind team player who take ownership of their responsibilities and leads by example

- Street-smart adventurer excited about new technologies who knows when the old “boring” framework is the safest bet

- Smart learner who knows when to deep-dive and when we need to get things done

- Pixel-perfect builder? Nah, but if you like and care about design, can catch 100px being off, pink color instead of white, we might double-like you.

Some tech: Javascript / Typescript, Ethers.js, Hardhat, Next.js, Styled Components, Cloudflare CDN + Cloudflare Edge Workers. Fly.io

Read more here: https://hifilabs.notion.site/HIFI-Labs-Job-Board-7eade43524f...
Sounds like a great way to get those two minutes to turn into two hours from here on out and all your calls “accidentally missed.”
Adamnite — Full Time Position - Senior Engineer - US (REMOTE)

Adamnite is looking for a full time engineer residing in the US to help build a completely new L1 blockchain based on Delegated-POS. You would be part of the earliest stages of the project and have an enormous say in the development of this exciting project.

Roles and responsibilities
• Being involved in the research, design, development, and testing of the Adamnite blochain.
• Help develop our smart contract platform
• Help develop our A1 Programming language
• Oversee, propose and commit to development milestones.
• Idea generation of solutions to various challenges

Required Skills
• +5 Years development with Go/C++/Python programming language.
• Must have experience on live projects & should have done deployments on mainnet
• Excellent understanding of Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc).
• Created smart contracts and deployed them to the different EVM blockchains.
• Familiarity with ERC20, ERC 721 and other token standards.
• Algorithms & data structures
• Basic knowledge of cryptography
• Basic knowledge of Peer-to-peer or P2P networks

Please send mail to khalilshanti@adamnite.org
Not really. Your proprioception is accurately sensing the same as your vestibular system, which is that you are moving your limbs but you don't have forward momentum because you're not moving. Which is totally fine and indistinguishable from normal in the steady state of walking in one direction at a constant speed as on a regular treadmill, but the illusion falls apart the second you try to turn or change speed, as you'll want to do on a VR treadmill. And it doesn't matter how big the treadmill is, the problem will occur whenever the treadmill changes direction or speed.

If you apply galvanic vestibular stimulation to try to "correct" at least the vestibular sense, you will lose your balance and fall over, because you can't fool physics. Even if you're prevented from falling by a harness it won't feel right. The disagreement between your vestibular and proprioception senses will be uncomfortable.