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Biologyworks | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full-time

Biologyworks is a molecular testing company that created our own device and platform to facilitate small scale, portable medical testing infrastructure. We have software running from the firmware level, all the up to web pages that display data to lab users and patients. Our goal is to bring down the cost of high quality functional testing without the need to lug around a high priced PCR machine.

We're a small team. We wear a lot of hats. We get a lot done. In a single day it is possible to touch software from firmware levels up to websites displaying data. Our software team is remote, and currently in 3 different time zones. We use a variety of tools to help with the remote working from github to tuple, to confluence/jira.

Our tech stack is based largely in AWS, and the following skills would be handy:

- General AWS knowledge/certification

- Python and/or Javascript

- AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Dynamo, SQS, etc)

- React/React-native

We're hiring for the following positions:

- Senior Software Engineer (AWS)

- Mid-level Software Engineer (AWS)

- Agile product owner/scrum master

Feel free to contact us at jobs[@]biologyworks[.]com
> I honestly don't see the ICE manufacturers really having an edge when it comes to the future of transportation.

I honestly don't see that it's difficult for ICE manufacturers to compete in the EV space. We're seeing most ICE companies at least dipping their toes into the EV space, and in some cases they're going all in (Hyundai/Kia, VW, for example) and offering strong alternatives to Tesla.
As someone who self-hosts a lot of apps myself[1], I can assure you it's not easy to self-host/maintain the apps. Even for very technical people, it still takes a lot of effort to self-host apps(setup server, run in docker, configure a web proxy like caddy/nginx, provision ssl certificates, add firewall security etc) along with doing regular db backups just for one person.

[1] https://vikashbajaj.substack.com/p/the-slippery-slope-of-sel...
Isn’t it funny how much attention these anti-procrastination posts are getting on essentially a procrastination site?

(Tongue in cheek! I love HN. I just know that I sometimes do abuse it as a procrastination device.)
Condor Software | Software Engineer | Remote, San Diego, New York, Los Angeles, Bay Area, Boston | Full-time

Interested in building software that makes a meaningful impact on end users and a big impact on medicine?

With proven demand, a large seed round, and a team of "good humans," we're looking for more product-leaning software engineers interested in tackling a big, hairy, complex business domain, value building "code that is easy to delete," and geek out about going "six levels down" (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-six-levels-d...).

Condor is building a world where finance accelerates human progress in medicine.
Our mission is to help biotech finance teams save time, money, and lives by bringing more cutting-edge therapies to market, faster and more affordably.

We started Condor because we realized that the life-saving treatments needed by our loved ones were held back by billions of dollars in complicated, time-consuming, and inefficient financial processes, which consistently delay clinical trial deployment and growth.

More about us here (https://condorsoftware.notion.site/About-Condor-d8a466f7722e...).

Interested? Shoot us an email with a note about why you're interested in joining and a resume or link to project(s) you are proud of:

careers@condorsoftware.com
What were you trying to feed your kids that they wouldn’t eat anything at all for days? I let my son choose breakfast and lunch, within reason. And then mommy and I choose dinner. If he doesn’t like dinner he can have some fruit or sometimes he makes a pb&j if he is hungrier. If he eats dinner we made, he can have a treat. No dinner, no treat. There is no fight or arguing, that’s just the established rules now and he is aware of them.
Lol I hate it but the extra eyes makes me focus.
1..n is an iterator. The while loop is torturing the poor language - it is using the wrong tools to achieve a goal that is much better achieved using the things it does have direct semantic support for.
It is a horrible disease - my sister was born with Type 1, and was lucky enough to be offered a pancreas transplantation some 10 years ago. Unfortunately her body rejected it after a year or two, and she was on immune depressants ever since, while waiting for a new one.

She works in fitness, and lives a very active and healthy lifestyle - but still the diabetes was progressing, slowly but surely. Those new automatic pumps turned out to be a lifesaver, and she opted to get off the immune depressants due to likelihood of other nasty stuff that those bring (cancers, infections, decreased fertility, etc.). Hopefully these pumps will work so precisely, that the damage from inconsistent insulin levels will be a thing of the past.

But she obviously still needs insulin. Luckily we live in a country where that is more or less free, and always in stock. I honestly can't remember the last time she suffered from bouts of low blood sugar - which was unfortunately a very regular thing back when we were teens.

Unfortunately that was not the case for my old HS gym teacher. He, too, led a very active and healthy lifestyle, but the disease progressed in a very insidious way for him. He developed a foot sore that wouldn't heal, and after some time they decided to amputate said foot from ankle.

Then he had a heart-attack some months later, and was bound to the wheelchair. Which was followed by two more amputations, the other leg and one arm.
He lived like that for some years before ending up blind, and doing longer stays at the hospital. Finally a massive stroke got him, and that was it.

I think he spent some like 5 years from amputating the first leg, to passing away. And as you can guess, that included tons of hospital visits / stays, medication, physical therapy, becoming dependent on your friends and family, and what not.

It is truly insidious, because it can completely wreck your body in so many ways, and pretty slowly too. I can't imagine having diabetes w/complications, and living underinsured (or without insurance) in a country without universal healthcare. It seems like to have a fighting chance, you need consistent insulin supply, and modern delivery systems.

I shudder when I hear about poor people in the US rationing insulin, and still being dependent on those antiquated measurement/delivery devices. Seems like you're just entering a negative feedback loop, which will eventually catch up with you.
ThreeFlow | Senior Software Engineer & Senior Product Manager| Remote (US) | Full-Time
https://www.threeflow.com/careers

ThreeFlow is the first Benefits Placement System, a new category of enterprise software that allows benefits brokers and insurance carriers to manage the entire placement process in one shared system. Our name represents our mission of designing technology that leads to better decisions. We connect people, systems, and information to create more effective and efficient workflows between carriers, brokers, and their employer clients.

We're hiring:

-Senior Software Engineer https://grnh.se/48f6bbf83us

-Senior Product Manager https://grnh.se/a65f5d2e3us

Apply via the link above / email jilliankane@threeflow.com with any questions!
It's often very difficult for developers to test applications in development because of the complexity of setting up `minikube` or `k3s`, so if your small to medium sized company doesn't have a dedicated devops or QA team, it can be too much overhead. I've worked with talented engineers who struggle getting up to speed with networking in k8s because there are a litany of tools, best practices, and terms to learn (nodeport, loadbalancer, and various ingress controllers) and it's heavily dependent on which cloud provider you're using (i.e. GKS , AWS, or Azure) so that adds weeks to dev time.

This is a major problem if the team isn't well versed with devops tools (which is often the case at smaller companies) and can lead to lots of issues pushing a lot of work to a devops resource (or team) which requires setting up a separate dev/staging cluster.

I think the preferred alternative for companies that struggle with this overhead is to use a slightly more expensive managed service, especially if you're just developing a typical MVC/MV* app.
That's not true on a technical level, most spam gets blocked long before it reaches you. Only some of the spam actually shows up in your spam folder.
Thanks for the kind words!

Ya - I can't imagine how hectic it was for you guys. I remember hearing Josh Switkes talk about hand building radars for pre-2010 autonomy.

Re:booms/buckets/etc: right now we're just focusing on mobility (making these systems drive from A to B), specifically because those systems are deceptively hard. FWIW I think the guys at Built Robotics have done some cool stuff on it, as have groups like Moog and FP Innovations.
I have a hard time understanding slot machines. They are so extremely boring.

Are they a late stage addiction phenomena? Like, lowest effort gamling dose, or something?
For stateful stuff, give a try to Google's File Store. It has pretty good performance.

As for K8 managed VMs - thats a good idea. Resource management wise, security wise etc.
Yes, thats a pretty good way to summerize it!
FYI: As one who is on the market, and filling out a bunch of apps, i found something out about fake job leads ;

- There are paid-education companies submitting fake job ads for real companies that direct you to a hiring form. On this hiring form, it asks a button binary "are you interested in furthering your education"

And if you select YES (its YES|NO) <-- You will immediately start getting robo-calls for education assistance. Most people will not select "No, I refuse to learn" <-- Gotcha.

So there are many companies masquerading as a job posting, but are harvesting remote-education-interests....

The psych-point being that with a pointed question "Have you done XYZ, if not, are you willing to seek education in XYZ?" and then they start robo-calling you...

(I doubt this happens on HN, I am saying that others on HN - if you are applying to jobs, there are a bunch of fakes... and this is a common current one.)
For the record, California has an estimated 5.8 GW of wind turbine generation, and in the year 2019 alone, California ADDED 3.1 GW of solar generation capacity. This doesn't require a Nuclear plant or crazy economics or giant nationwide plan. The actual building, machinery, and pipework for desalinating would be a larger infrastructure project than the extra power generation to power it.

The only thing this requires is for Californian government to get their head out of their asses, and stop expecting everyone else to just bend over backwards for them.
many people erroneously assume this recipe originated in Springfield as the dish looks remarkably similar to a popular meal served at a local chain called Krusty Burger. this couldnt be further from the truth. the dish is actually a delicacy from Albany, NY. Despite its well known tradition upstate however, Steamed Hams are also frequently confused by residents of Utica for another dish, steamed clams.

Albany residents commonly enjoy steamed hams on a clear winter night from their kitchen, during which time the gentle lights of the Aurora Borealis can be observed.
I am also a parent coming on the end of a summer, and whitelisting people who _may_ contact me about my child sounds like a nightmare.
Not all people driving cars look left and right thoroughly before turning (but you can learn! [0]) This already leads to crashes and claims of 'coming out of nowhere'. So, practical attacks could be causing crashes. Could cause anxiety, injury, death, monetary loss, etc

[0]: https://www.portsmouthctc.org.uk/a-fighter-pilots-guide-to-s... (been some past HN discussions, searching for fighter pilot got quite a few)
In the first phase of Ukrainian war soldiers were firing a lot of line of sight, it does matter. And especially the IR / night vision opportunities are real.

It's very 'low hanging fruit'. It's ridiculous that that a 20 Trillion dollar Army has 'camouflage' that is very clearly crap next to better camo.

These tests could have literally been run in a day, even back in the 1950s.

Some soldiers, some screens, a few cameras, some changes in lighting and it would have been evident.

Moreover, it's reasonable to be suspect in whether an organization that can't handle such a basic R&D task is going to be able to handle the more complicated things.
I wonder how fast could be something that just replaces everything in the browser, HTML, CSS, JS with just webasm and some reasonable UI engine.
I'm not surprised 20% is not more common, but I am surprised among 20%-enabled companies that the norm isn't to have the company host side projects for all employees. Insurance, snacks, gym memberships, mobile plans and laptops, but not the one thing all hackers need?

Having an employee turn up a popular side projects while being vendor-locked onto your platform sounds like it should be more popular among rich people.
These practices listed correlate with ultraprocessing though. Pre-sliced bread is more likely to be processed in other ways, too, than bread loaves.

It's a heuristic.
Great letter. Sorry about the unwanted publicity :/

Lots of people seem to want Google to be forced to provide customer service. It's an interesting idea, but I'd imagine it would be the end of free Gmail which may just force the very same people who can't afford permanent phones to switch to an even sketchier, unregulated free email service. Either that or the government would have to somehow provide free email, and I think there's actually a strong argument to be made there if an email address is required for welfare / parole / other government processes.
I think it depends on your end users. If you're building a product for devs, personally, I think it's worth investing in a great docs experience and more 'advanced' features. Docs are going to be one of your most used interfaces. But you should make sure that making docs 'pretty' isn't detracting from usability. If you're making internal docs, then ya, I agree with you, keep it dead simple.
I had a similar problem. My solution is to go offline in the evening- 3 hours before going to sleep.
How many joules would your hill/cavity-and-water (or any of your "numerous cheap alternatives" for that matter) would hold for each dollar spent? How would that compare to actual dams? I need sources & links.

Right now I would bet on a highly unfavourable comparison to be honest. Dams have the overwhelming advantage of letting you build a relatively small wall (compared to the lake you're holding), to hold a gigantic volume of water. The mountain an the river are already there, so you don't need to build them.
Many summer camps require that you be available to retrieve your kid if e.g. they start showing Covid symptoms. I'd love to drop them off and forget about it, believe me.
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>and maintain their margins at the level they have them.

Tesla's margins shrunk quite a bit last earnings report, so I agree. Selling high-end cars in a niche market is easier than selling 20 million cars annually (which no one has ever done before).
AFAIK Blosc is just a container. Not a good fit for row-level compression.
Perhaps, but this is far from the only time that book has been criticized on these forums. Here's a comment from the past month alone that goes into why Clean Code has not aged well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31978877

It's from a thread discussing a 2017 article critiquing the book. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31978465
“EtherNet/IP”
I was unaware of this protocol and it created a very confusing conversation with a customer.

How does a name like this come into existence? "Ethernet" and "TCP/IP" had been around for nearly 10 years by the time this protocol was named.
Skydio Autonomy | San Mateo, CA | Remote Possible | Robotics / C++ / Python

Skydio is the leading U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight. We leverage breakthrough AI to create the world’s most intelligent flying machines to make the world more productive, creative, and safe with autonomous drones. Today our products are used for everything from capturing amazing video for consumers, to inspecting infrastructure, bridges, to enabling situational awareness for first responders in critical situations. We’ve raised over $340M and are in a strong cash position to achieve our vision.

We’re looking for strong software engineers to join our autonomy infrastructure team. Please contact us if you have experience and interest in some combination of full stack, internal tool infrastructure, devops, data analytics, low-level performance optimization, and 3D visualization.

If you’re interested in being a core member of a world-class engineering and research team that is defining the future of a major emerging industry, dive in → http://bit.ly/skydio-autonomy

I lead the autonomy team and you can reach out directly to { hayk at skydio dot com }.
Almond (YC S22) | Backend Lead :: Frontend Lead :: Backend Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE or ONSITE in Los Angeles | Full-time

We’re an early stage YC-backed company building tech-enabled women’s healthcare.

ObGyn is the second largest medical specialty in the US, after only primary care: 130 million people need to visit the ObGyn at least once a year. Over 75% of those people are not happy with the care they’re getting. We’re here to change that. Almond is redesigning the tech behind the ObGyn office to enable patients to get extraordinary care, faster. See more here: http://www.almondobgyn.com/

We’re just getting started and have had great early traction delivering care to patients. We recently raised money from YCombinator and other top VC funds. We’re building out our team with people that are passionate about building a paradigm-changing health experience. If this sounds like you we would love to talk!

Frontend Software Engineering Lead / Architect role:

- You should be confident in designing, architecting, and implementing a medium-sized frontend
- We use and expect you to have significant experience in React and Typescript; React Native is a plus
- Comfortable setting and delegating tasks & interfacing closely with product

Backend Software Engineering Lead role:

- Expertise in Python is a plus
- You should be confident in designing, architecting, and implementing
- Comfortable setting and delegating tasks & interfacing closely with product

Backend Senior Software Engineer role:

- Expertise in Python is a plus

General stuff we'd look for:

- 4+ years professional experience as a software engineer
- A commitment to & interest in building simple & maintainable architectures
- Ability to thrive in a startup environment that’s full of ambiguity - experience balancing tradeoffs to make complex decisions where there is no ‘right’ answer
- Good communication and personal skills; ability to interact and work well with the team
- Interest in development of company culture and its reflection in our engineering practices

Please email me at hello (at) almondobgyn (dot) com with your resume/LinkedIn profile if you're interested.

Tara
Founder & CEO
Well, that's a bummer. I can only plead it's not universal!
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Hi Gergo, thanks for this, and keep up the good work! It blows my mind that nothing like this exists yet that is primarily focused on the EU - tech still seems to be biased towards the US. The Tier-info is also exceedingly helpful (for those of us sad souls who are starting out in a new country and have limited information and no connections...).

I was also wondering how you are planning to cover remote jobs, because it further complicates things - maybe info about average cost of living per country would be useful. Or info about taxation. Etc.

(So for example I could see that if I move to my farm in Portugal I won't need to worry about finding a remote job which only pays €2K per month, as the cost of living there is so much lower than anywhere else in Europe.)

Maybe you could have a separate country entry for remote jobs, as long as they are available within the EU... I hope I'm banging on open doors here :)
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Depends on how efficient you are, I prepare 18/21 meals a week at home, and have been doing this for years).

I spend 1 hour every two weeks getting groceries for ~$120.
I spend 1.5 hours every two weeks (5 minutes a day + 20 minutes to prep 14 “containers”) preparing breakfast and rinsing dishes from the previous day for the dishwasher). My breakfast is cooked oat bran with walnuts, flax seed, wheat germ, Ceylon cinnamon, cacao, blueberries, raisins, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, 4oz orange juice, fish oil, vitamins d3, k2.

I spend 2.5 hours a week (5 to 15 minutes a day) preparing lunch, typically steamed vegetables + 150 grams chicken + 1 cup dry instant brown rice cooked OR salmon + simple salad + sweet potatoes OR 8oz unsalted black beans with fresh guacamole OR lentils OR potato and egg tacos with homemade salsa OR “fried” rice, etc.

I spend the same preparing dinner with same / similar dishes as lunch.

I also snack on fresh fruit / vegetables between meals sometimes.

Roughly $240 and 15 hours a month (30 minutes a day) for all food prep + cleanup, and yes, the numbers are accurate as I have timed myself over a two week period in the past, if anything I’m probably faster now. I’m sure there are other factors that can add extra time, but for me, a single guy in the US, I spend less time and money cooking healthy delicious meals at home than I did going out to eat, and only slightly more time than heating up frozen dinners, which I think is more than compensated for by the resulting health benefits.
You should get off the sidelines! Post-Starsky I wanted to run away from HardTech / FrontierTech and just do "easy SaaS stuff."

I was deeply upset to realize I was too broken to do something that "easy." (still, really hard). As a mentor of mine, Boom's Blake Scholl, has said - it's sometimes easier to do "hard" things because it's easier to get the motivation to work on them.

Re:Launch HN - I think so? You can always do a Show HN, though!
There are ways to bet against stocks that don't expose you to unlimited downside.
Given latency 3 / throughput 1, the only reasonable implementations are:
A) Three ports, each non-pipelined, taking 3 cycles
B) One port, with three-cycle pipeline (each cycle, one instruction can enter the start of the pipeline, and anything in-progress moves forward one stage)
Given that CRC isn't too hard to pipeline, and (B) requires less physical hardware, it is almost certainly (B).
The problem is that it's often simple at first until you dive into the management of the cluster.

Then you run into a litany of issues with networking (like you mentioned SSL termination) and stateful apps or databases.

Even in this thread, someone mentioned how Redis defaults lead to a lot of issues in containers.
Joe Bernard successfully land solid fuel model rocket after 7 years (video)