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Heliolytics | Backend or Full-Stack Developer | Remote First (Canada), office in Toronto | https://jobs.lever.co/heliolytics

Heliolytics is the leading provider in Aerial Inspection service for Solar Power Plants. Over the last two years, we’ve seen a massive increase in global demand for our services. As a team, we are working to set new standards on how to build and run solar energy sites at peak efficiency. To help scale our team effectively and achieve our goals in 2023, we’re looking for a Backend Developer to join our remote-first team.

We recently launched a new version of our inspection platform and are actively adding new capabilities to help our clients (typically solar power plant operators) better run their systems. We work with large amounts of geospatial and imaging data, dealing with challenges around remote data transfer, geospatial data manipulation, automated image analysis and much more.

We are hiring for a variety of experience levels, however on the backend we are looking for someone with prior experience in Python.

Our backend tech stack is:

- FastAPI (Python)

- Kafka

- PostgreSQL (+ PostGIS for geospatial problems)

- GraphQL

On our frontend we use:

- Typescript

- React

- Deck.GL

- GraphQL

I am one of the techinical leads on R&D team and would be happy to answer any questions in the thread.
Oh wow, I'm not even sure now it's what you meant, but I had no idea before this thread that you could run wayland/x11 out of termux.

How's the access to hardware - does this mean I can essentially trial what 'daily driving' a Linux phone would be like without actually buying one/carrying two devices? E.g. can you designate Termux to handle phone calls/texts?
I read this sentence like 5 times trying to make sense of it. Glad it wasn’t me.
You have a lot of good faith in what your bank would or would not do, and they have a conflict of interest: if they side with you, they would need to make you whole — out of their own pocket. The hospital has the opposite conflict of interest: they are actually interested in helping you — and charging you (or your insurance, or NHS, or somebody).

If you get your case against the bank in front of a judge, you need to prove your claim of an account takeover. The bank does not need to prove anything. If you haven't convinced the judge, no money for you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/ge...

And...

"Fred Trump, had actually lent his son at least $60.7 million.

The Times reports that the amount would be worth $140 million in today's dollars and that much of it was never repaid."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/trumps-small-loan-from-his-f...
It feels like in the last few years all the beloved, life changing formerly-unicorn-startup offerings came crashing down. They are a mashup of dark patterns, unattractive price hikes, user hostile behavior, lies and trash content. Additionally, the early "mutual trust"/"assume good faith"/"organic"/"non professional"/"human" sentiments disappeared, everything is hyperoptimized by greedy capitalists and uncaring AI. This fits the current era of tech layoffs, Russian war madness and high inflation.

Uber, AirBnB, Netflix, Facebook come to mind.
No, it's not. The median household income in the United States in 2020 was $67,500.
Was it the giant flags, monotonically lengthening renditions of the Star Spangled Banner and military fly-overs that were the final straw?
How the marijuana ‘green rush’ fell apart
Location: Florida, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Solidity, EVM, Blockchain, Web3, TypeScript, Hardhat, Foundry

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-jordan-435aa31/

Email: hn[@t]joejordan.net

GitHub: https://github.com/joejordan

Full Stack Web3 developer with Solidity experience dating back to late 2017. Currently seeking a role that includes a focus on smart contract development.
Location: Orange County, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, React, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, GraphQL, RESTful APIs, Node.js, Express.js, HTML/CSS, AWS (S3, SNS, EventBridge, EC2, ECS), Docker

Résumé: https://nykaeladodson.github.io/assets/Nykaela_Dodson_Resume...

Email: nykaelad@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/nykaeladodson

Website: https://nykaeladodson.github.io

I am excited to jump into my next opportunity, feel free to reach out with any of the links above!
As someone whose main income source is from short term rentals, Vrbo provides a much better experience for both hosts and guests. Being able to easily call and talk to a helpful human at Vrbo and have them actually solve a problem is really refreshing.
Would you rather grow cover crops or have soil depletion?

Also cover crops don't result in a 50% increase in land usage.

Here is a video that might interest you:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmIdq0D6-A
Airbnb seems to primarily be interested in protecting hosts instead of guests. It's probably much more structural than people realize. I'd really love to know from someone that's deep inside Airbnb why they could allow the service to become such a poor experience for guests(1)? Is it because there's not enough host supply in the system?

(1) https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.airbnb.com (1.3/5)
XAML in Visual Studio is similar. You can put in the call to the handler, then "Go To Definition..." and it will create the handler for you.
It is not just the money that enabled their business. They were also able to tap into a significant social network of people. That was probably more important than a check for $250K.
"Haven't needed to try the WiFi on it yet. Only use one screen, not sure why I'd need two."

I actually laughed. "It's fine! Just don't do things that most people do all the time! In fact I think those things are dumb!"
That was good one, as someone almost 200cm tall with BMI 20.0 (I gained weight now after holidays, was under 20) I am astonished to see amounts of food everyone (which means almost everyone shorter than me) around me eats.

Heck my 129cm developing kid eats more than his 158cm mother, so much for savings.

I'd recommend everyone wanting to lose weight to stay for at least few months in Southeast Asia, they are onto something with food portions. You realize how much food your body really needs instead of gigantic double western portions, which are designed to make pretty much everyone obese.
In the heyday of BitTorrent sharing was the incentive, and still is I imagine. We don't need to financialize everything.
A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1
The whole series is interesting
Where's the robot to pat you on the back?
1) many Mars advocates want to colonize Mars to provide more resources and land to alleviate overpopulation. In that regard, it being of Earth does not matter.

2) even if it does, the point of GP's counterargument is not "if you want to colonize a hostile environment we have those here on earth" it's "your goal is extremely far outside of our current technological capabilities. We can't even colonize hostile environments in our own backyard."
Unusable unreadable unnecessary complex abstractions in a language that doesn't need them. Also, extremely non-performant.

As you can see even in the blog post: straightforward readable code using built-in functionality is turned into 8-12 imports, a bunch of auxillary functions and multiple function calls that obscure the actual functionality. At 35 times speed penalty and 2 times memory penalty.
Dang, I should've been collecting paychecks this whole time!

Sadly, my Rust evangelism comes purely from the heart. I've been so impressed by the language -- how more than worthy it is as a replacement for C[++], how it managed to break the ancient yet false dichotomy of "fast but dangerous"/"safe but slow (garbage collected)".

I'm convinced that switching to Rust will lead to less losses in both dollars and lives (as in actual deaths) than C[++] bugs have and will continue to account for.

Heck, if someone spins up a bunch of GPT bots to flood every discussion with pro-Rust propaganda, I can practically read that activity as humanitarian.

I think the zealotry is due to people who have come to the same conclusions I have (and who probably know the pain of CMake vs. Cargo) rather than shady corporate Nakatomi space psyops.
Earn Update: An Open Letter to Barry Silbert
I did read the entire thing, and as usually Maciej is on-point, but: since it isn't going to happen anyway as per his first couple of paragraphs it makes me wonder what the point is to having the many words following it.

Anybody that believes that we have the technology capable of setting up a self sufficient Mars base should be invited to demonstrate such on the Moon, where in case things inevitably go pear shaped at least there is a small chance of rescue, which in the case of Mars is impossible. Anybody that signs up for a Mars mission may well end up bringing life to Mars, but not in the way that they intend to. Either way it wouldn't be intelligent life.
SEEKING WORK | North America / US / Los Angeles, CA | Remote preferred, onsite in LA possible

some of my past works: http://goshacmd.com/works/ — most recent is my years-long engagement with Gumroad to help them reduce technical debt, modernize their stack, and add new features quickly

technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, React Native, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Ruby, Rails

email: me@goshacmd.com

Full-stack / front-end developer looking for new projects. The range of clients I work with includes: startups looking to go from zero to a working product; established products that want to iterate and add new features; internal tools; developer tooling
Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eminem, Oprah, John Paul DeJoria, Ralph Lauren, Halle Berry, and Lloyd Blankfein come to mind off the top of my head.
The only way you can tell that this article isn’t chatgpt is the frequency of grammar mistakes
I don't reckon that you've studied the history of hackers much.

If we go back to the 80s and people were making acoustic couplers and hooking them to their telephone would you be calling them out for breaking the telco rules, or would you be asking for a blueprint to make your own?
Mars exploration has a wide presence in literature and movies which in turn backs Elon's (and Mars One etc.) grift. It is pointless and dangerous to send humans so far away on a dead planet without magnetosphere. Let's establish a base on the Moon first. This seems way more practical as a goal.
> We aren't machines that can trivially reproduce ourselves from commonly available materials and then eject into space.

Nah, we use plants to turn raw materials into what we can consume. And in the other direction, we can only make stuff on this scale with factories that take a while to build. But in both cases, that's a distinction without a difference. A farm and a factory rather than a spacesuit, makes no difference on this scale, so long as they feed themselves while growing their families.

> Feeding ourselves is hard, getting to space (alive) is harder.

Feeding ourselves is about 1% of our current labour. Getting into space is only hard because we use rockets, but at this scale we'd use launch loops, atlas towers, orbital rings, or similar. Those are extremely cheap, like "$300 to LEO" cheap for this thought experiment's ("spherical cow in a vacuum" model of a) 100 kg human.

> And once the overwhelming majority of us are in space because there's no more room down below, how are we supposed to meet up to keep up the 25 year doubling rate. How are we supposed to keep up the rate of resource extraction from Earth?

There's lots of ways I've seen suggested. Even without the exotic options like the Dyson Motor (would take too long, at 40k years for Earth, not seen the numbers for Luna or Mars) or redirecting Kupier Belt Objects to blow off percentage points of the target planet mass at a time, even just with traditional digging, at that scale it's "how fast can you drill vertically?" and "how many launch loops can you wrap the target planet in?", followed by "how fast does the deep ground cool down when exposed?" — the latter being why I said thermodynamics probably gets in the way when the timeline gets down to decades; this is radiative-dominated cooling in a better vacuum (insulator!) than most laboratories let alone thermos-flasks.
Articles like this try to make people think the reverse correlation is true. That people with well-to-do parents will automatically become millionaires. The reality is that there are ten's of millions of parents of similar means and circumstances, and that very, very few of their children will end up millionaires.

The real conclusion of this article and many like it; is that success is not just blind luck and not purely egalitarian, but the combination of the two. There is no useful information to glean from so a large generalization.
syllable.ai | Dev Ops Engineer | Remote or Onsite (Seattle, Chicago, Sunnyvale, Nashville) Link: https://boards.greenhouse.io/syllable/jobs/4087799005 Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloud Formation, CI/CD

Syllable is a healthcare technology company that uses artificial intelligence to help patients while lowering cost for hospitals and medical groups. Syllable is the first voice 10s of millions of patients hear on the phone when calling leading health systems nationwide every year.

Join our dev ops team to build the infrastructure on AWS to support our product and data engineering teams. We're multi cloud and multi region and take pride in building automated systems to ensure high availability and reliability. Come work with and learn from an awesome team!

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Yes, I keep trying everyday, as I have no alternative. I've seen things go south so many times so far in life with myself to blame that I have no faith in faith or good luck anymore. As someone once told me "I've seen Prison inmates less miserable than you". I wish you the best though!
While that's true, people who do end up being millionaires or even billionaires almost never come from any other background. Rich parents seem to be a prerequisite for starting successful businesses - and in several of these cases, having the extra spare funds to turn an initally stagnant business into a success.
We search for universal, objective, pithy summaries of messy, complicated situations. Both of the following seem to be true:

1. It would be effectively impossible for someone from a disadvantaged background to start Amazon, Microsoft, or Facebook.

2. Bezos, Gates, Zuck are extraordinary business people who achieved what 99.9% of their peers would be unable to achieve from the same starting point.

I'm not sure why we keep debating whether these guys are good or bad, impressive or not, as some sort of universal truth.
There seems to be an important distinction here. This is not inter-generational wealth in the traditional sense. For instance, Bill Gates did not inherit his fortune, but rather he had some advantages when it came to funding of school, help getting started, and other resources. I see a lot of people mention inheritance taxes when this sort of topic comes up, but of course an inheritance tax would do nothing here.

In fact, I'm not sure what could or even should be done to prevent this sort of situation. Does anyone expect parents not to invest in the success of their children? Imagine if you're lucky enough to be well off. Will you move to the worst school district you can find for your child to "even the odds?" An idea like this would simply never get any real adoption.
Additionally, an underwater civilization would make Humanity more resilient to some kinds of extinction events, if you care about that.
Somewhat surprisingly, this seems to be basically a pro 'defund the police' argument in the end.

> “If you have an effective criminal-justice system, and you have effective community partners that are assisting towards long-term community transformation, then, yes, traditional security models—the security model of observe and report—works,” he says. “But when you have a breakdown in societal connectivity, you lose the ability to operate out of that business model. So we had to come up with something unique and different.”

And what they came up with is something with probably better outcomes (in terms of reducing violence) than law enforcement.

Of course, there is no guarantee that private security will remain "social service-y".
Which users are you even talking about then? If you don't take into account Windows and macOS you remove 99.9% of the people which are going to be impacted by this (and I say this as a full-time linux user for a decade).

> That combination is probably the worst from the both worlds so not exactly a shiny example.

I really disagree, Windows's model of shipping DLLs along the app is the only one that works and does not cause headaches for the end-users who want to run their software from 15 years ago (e.g., me, my parents, my non-technical neighbours, etc) ; this is the only thing that matters, the end-user experience.
I've been working for years on not taking myself so seriously and pray a lot.
I think there is more nuance here. A 4x4 with a locked center diff and open front and rear diffs acts just like many AWD implementations.

That same 4x4 with limited slip diffs on front and/or rear is just like other AWD implementations.

And that same 4x4 with locked front and/or rear diffs is just like yet other AWD implementations.
Reminds me of GoLive vs. Dreamweaver - or ImageReady vs Fireworks before their Macromedia aquisition... "if you can't beat them, buy them".
That's not a sign of Musk Derangement Syndrome but the sign of a working set of brains.
Don't respond to the Scala stuff; the poster is just trolling you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218609
Microsoft's UI designers used to be useful. The Windows UI design got better by leaps and bounds at first, was at its peak between Windows 95 and Windows 2000, and has been getting worse ever since. The problem is now that the field has matured, there's a lot less that needs to be changed, so they've started to change things that were fine the way they were to justify not being downsized.
One thing that I find incomprehensible is the fact that you CANNOT place the taskbar vertical to either side of the monitor.

It's so infuriating. Such a small thing, but that capability was present since at least windows XP.
"Where is this coming from? Is it because we want our work to look important?"

I am intimately convinced it could play a role, at two layers. First, at the framework layer itself: the plethora of propositions seems symptomatic of our approach to dealing with things we don't like. When confronted to the choice of walking the extra mile to improve and contribute to an existing language/framework, or building your own new thing that focuses on solving your own problem, my guess is that the more senior architects (esp. those working at licorns or GAFAMs) will choose the latter option, thus resulting in an increased offer. Also, let's not forget, being the author of a successful language or framework sounds cool.

Second, at the user layer (architect at random corp): this individual is increasingly convinced that working with the latest silicon valley approved framework will work wonders on her/his resume.

I am confronted to new software architectures on a weekly basis as a result of my job and the choices of framework/language X as opposed to Y often follows a common pattern: some architect thinks that segmenting a system into as many components/technologies as possible somehow always makes it more reliable at the end.

If I owned a software company, I'd immediately get rid of anyone showing these behaviors. But I have to admit: the bigger the mess, the more hours I can bill :)
Having a wealthy family helps you in a few different ways:

- Fallback scenario. Wordt case they can go home, or they have a heritage at one point.

- Environment. Probably a more stable environment / background.

- Network. Network to customers, capital, pr.

- Access to capital. Easier today.

Especially the fallback scenario is almost always overlooked. Most people who claim to have risked it all and were "living on the streets", always had some fallback in forms of well off parents (or simply stable parents).

It's just like the starving artist syndrome, where most of these "starving artists" actually have a huge fallback, but they simply don't want to use it. But just by being there it helps a lot.

Free climbing is a lot different than climbing with ropes. Even if you didn't need to use them.
Well the taxpayers did not have to invest trillions for that to happen, if I remember correctly :)
8vdX will extend your seed extension with a 'seedex booster' of up to$1M
Steve Jobs was adopted into a lower middle income family.

There’s kind of a no true Scotsman thing going on where people will point out some advantage anybody who became very successful had and therefore they weren’t poor enough to count.
More social media regulation expected in 2023, members of Congress say
>> toggles heating on/off based on window sensors.

Do people want this? Maybe I want both warmth and fresh air in the room? And I foresee the day where the window sensor is faulty. I'm shivering in bed as I have an argument with my furnace about which one of us should be in charge of setting the temperature in my bedroom.
Depends on your definition of rags and riches I suppose.

By my definition, I know plenty of folks who grew up lower middle class or below, had no exceptional support from parents (many from single parent homes), zero assistance going to college (if they did at all), and otherwise lived lives ranging from unremarkable to living in poverty growing up.

I can point to about a 3 or 4 of those types in my personal network who now are multi-millionaires. This is my definition of "made it" - but not many others.

If your definition is billionaire, I imagine the list gets a lot smaller.
And the guarantee of dilution. The banks are _securely_ creating debt based digital dollars they gain the interest on.

Since they're already practically minting their own dollars they don't need to steal yours.

And if for some reason the FDIC fails, then they effectively will have stolen your dollars.
LEO does have export potentials: mainly tourism, r&d, and manufacturing of specific goods.

Many countries import the majority of food / material inputs, but output high quality manufacturing, technical, and entertainment goods.
Apple’s Mac business has been highly profitable relative to its PC competitors for several decades now. Their habit of consuming the lions share of the profits in an industry, from a small fraction of the sales, started with the Mac and was extended to the iPod and then the iPhone.
There was a line from Jeff Bezos, ""One of the early examples of this is customer reviews. Someone wrote to me and said, 'You don't understand your business. You make money when you sell things. Why do you allow these negative customer reviews?'
"And when I read that letter, I thought, we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions."

The incentives are different at different levels of the business. There could be someone with a shorter-term outlook making these decisions, or (more likely imo) it was a very quick misapplication of the policy based on skimming the review. Acting as a first reviewer actually seems like a great application of LLMs, where attention won't flag + they can hopefully be tuned to only focus on the policy-relevant pieces.