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Carebit | carebit.co | Mid/Senior Full Stack Product Engineer (React and Rails) | REMOTE

Carebit is a young, design-led healthcare technology company that is helping hundreds of private doctors across the UK run their practices more effectively and efficiently with our web platform. For too long, medical software has been clunky, user-hostile and complicated and we want to change that.

You’ll consider yourself to be a mid-senior level developer with solid technical ability and good communication, but what really sets you apart is your interest in product engineering (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engine...). You’re not interested in pumping out leetcode, but instead you’re looking for a rewarding, creative environment in which to write, prototype, iterate and ship where your work has immediate real-world impact on doctors and patients.

To apply, please send your CV with a cover note to hiring at carebit dot co and we can share the full job spec with you!
Flowminder | Southampton, UK | Full time/part time | Remote (UK) | Full stack software engineer (frontend bias) | python/react | 52000

Still looking for someone to join my small but wily team of engineers and help me build a new, open source (https://github.com/Flowminder/flowkit-ui and https://github.com/Flowminder/flowkit-ui-backend), data platform for the humanitarian and development sector. (There's lots of other interesting and impactful things to get your teeth into as well, but the role is primarily for this project to start with).

Flowminder is a pioneering, internationally operating non-profit organisation that supports disaster relief and development efforts through several products including the analysis of data gained from mobile phones and household surveys in ethical, privacy and security preserving manners.

We use things like:
React, Linux, Mapbox, Deck.gl, Python, FastAPI, Docker, make, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Terraform, CircleCI, Github, GCP, OpenAPI, Auth0

I can also promise you no stupid interview process - you, me, and a couple of the engineers have a chat about you, us, and things you have worked on and the kind of work you’d do with us. If you’ve got a GitHub/bitbucket/gitlab/whatever that’s great, and we’ll look at it, but not everyone’s work is public, and not everyone develops as a hobby, and those things are entirely reasonable as well!

https://www.flowminder.org/about-us/work-with-us/full-stack-...
As the maintainer of a cargo ship tracker [1] and as somebody whose sailing career started and ended with sinking [2] a J/22 sailboat [3], I can only salute you. This is clever, bold, and ambitious. How do we keep track of your progress? I looked for a blog or mailing list, but I didn't see one.

[1] now at https://sfba.social/@sfships; formerly at https://twitter.com/sfships

[2] They said it was unsinkable, but as a software developer clearly I'm more talented than the norm.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J/22
Hey! That would be really cool and interesting. You'd still need all the creators to agree on a pricing structure based on the transparency mentioned in the article, you'd still need to pay engineers and cover server costs.
23 MY owner here - I have been very unimpressed with the automatic wipers in my car, especially in intermittent rain/water thrown up from the car in front, or snowy conditions/lots of salt on the road - they seem to either want to wipe like crazy and smear the windshield, or they never trigger when most of the windshield is covered. This wouldn't be quite as annoying except that the wiper interface isn't physical, and having to reach over to the touch screen to change wiper speed when you're already in a reduced visibility situation is not a great UI! I basically end up just pressing the one physical button to trigger a one-off windshield wipe a lot.

This was a pretty big disappointment for me coming from a 2005 (!) Audi A4 which has auto wipers that work _almost_ flawlessly (and has a physical adjustment on the stalk when I need to override).

I'm very much not a Tesla hater - overall I _love_ the car. I just wish a few details were different (speedometer & nav more directly in line of site, physical controls for windshield wipers, CarPlay integration). I've just been kinda shocked how bad the auto wipers are for a brand new car.

Adaptive Cruise works well for me though, although I enjoy the act of driving so I don't use it all that often other than long straight highways.
this is why f-droid warns you about some applications, 'undesired features: promotes non-free network services'

free software is a good start, but as long as it's dependent on a centralized service, it's not a guarantee this won't happen to you
> Add the 19 or 21% of VAT that is typical for EU countries and it's almost the same.

These taxes seem punitive. For essential goods such as computers, that seems way too high.
mmap does not hide the real RAM usage, it just maps a part of virtual memory address space to an I/O-bound storage medium (e.g. file). That trick does not consume RAM in any significant amounts, so there is nothing to hide.

However, such image mapping technique is not always suitable for data-intensive workloads due to page thrashing. If it works for llama.cpp then it can be considered a huge success.
> Remember MCAS, where Boeing decided their solution to a hardware design problem was a software workaround?

The problem was the software wasn't dual path. There was nothing wrong with the concept.
Pop_OS was my son's first linux wipes tear .. android doesn't count.
There's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuanpai and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_clique. And of course a third one - Xi organized his own clan.
Or when you have just moderate amounts of data.
Sure, my Ioniq 5’s software isn’t as good as Tesla’s and I’ll never have all those experimental features.

What I do have that a 2023 Tesla will never have, no matter how many updates it gets:

- A dash in my center view that is as or more informative than Tesla’s while driving

- Blind spot camera feeds that pop up prominently on said dash as needed instead of some corner of a tablet in the middle of the car

- A HUD that maps most of the important driving information directly onto the windshield, including navigation arrows “on” the road

- Physical controls I don’t have to look at to find while driving

I also have ADHD. If I look away from the windshield it’s a little random when I get back. Without these types of things that keep my eyes front and center by putting the prettiest lights there, I’ll be in trouble someday, and maybe get someone else in trouble too.

Tesla’s entire car UI aesthetic of drawing attention away from the centerline and then making you search a screen is simply fundamentally flawed and is detrimental to safety. Nobody will ever convince me otherwise because I know it’s detrimental to mine, and I know I’m just a canary. What affects me affects others, I’m just the one where it’s easier to have a consequence.

Plus, to the subject at hand, my Ioniq has parking sensors with collision avoidance and the best 360 view I’ve ever seen, with a 3D reconstruction of your car and surroundings you can swipe around with a virtual camera.

And just to seal the argument, the MY would’ve been cheaper when I bought my Ioniq 5 less than a month ago. I still bought the Hyundai. It’s safer.

PS of all of the features it has, my Tesla MY owning friends seem to want this last one most:

- Sunshade that closes over the roof glass panel
The predictable result of this is that companies like Adobe will be pushing for absurdist interpretations of copyright so their competitors in this space are annihilated. They’ll be calling it “ethical and fair.” And the effect will be basically a destruction of open source versions of these tools.
In which case you'd be far better served with an electric car and rooftop solar. Gas supplies disappear. Electricity is needed to run pumps. But no one can cut off a home solar generation system short of bombing your house.
Lessons of the 19th Century
I've seen it multiple times; the sole company/developer often considers the software "their baby" and doesn't want to "let it go" for a number of potentially quite valid reasons, such as fear of loss of livelihood, disagreement with others on the direction, etc.

Tarn Adams has a similar situation with DF. But hopefully they realize that at least having some sort of 'make available on death' could be valuable.

We have already lost untold countless relatively custom software packages for niche markets that you've never heard of - and people just continue or go back to doing things by hand.
I'm in strong agreement and can offer a very simple piece of evidence

If these "masterminds" actually offered effective advice, then the best way for them to make money is find likely candidates, PAY THEM to take the advice, and then GET PAID a share of the success.

Sounds ridiculous? It isn't. A wide variety of businesses do some variation on exactly that. For example this is exactly what Y Combinator does. It is how coding camps work. You can find interview coaching that works on the same principle - they get a share of your first year's salary.

But if THEY ask YOU to pay THEM, maybe the advice is worthwhile and maybe not. However their business model should not inspire you with confidence.
This might not be the answer you're looking for, but I've frequently heard that charities are in dire need of people willing to do hands-on work instead of the "comfy" administrative stuff. Someone who is willing to guard the entrance to a DV shelter, for example, or someone to come in and do a few loads of laundry. I know we want to help with the skills we have, but it seems charities already have enough supply of people wanting to do some low-key work. Meanwhile the real problems go unsolved.
I don't mean that I look backwards the whole time. I mainly look at the camera, but at the same time I'm glancing around checking mirrors and looking out of the windows for hazards. I've watched some people just stare down into a camera and then be surprised when they nearly hit a truck that was coming down the parking lot not yet visible in the camera.
But were inherited from S, which was first released in 1973.
Suicide is often included as a cause of death to intentionally distort this statistic:

> From 2019 to 2020, the relative increase in the rate of firearm-related deaths of all types (_suicide_, homicide, unintentional, and undetermined) among children and adolescents was 29.5%

If you control for this, and include rates of homicide using other means of destruction (i.e., explosives or knives), it starts to look a lot more even compared to other OECD countries (albeit still above average).
Worse, if stapling at the reception now takes significant more time than stapling before, that's costly too. Particularly when the stapler is in use when you need it, or someone borrowed it and now no-one can find it. Before you know it, you've wasted an hour stapling a stack of forms or so.

As an aside, the organization I worked at before had two to four secretaries per floor. Before the pandemic, most were in their offices when you needed anything practical, like staples, batteries, etc. After the pandemic, most of them work from home most days of the week. That's great for them, but I've had days that I had to go through the whole building to get this or that.

These small informal conveniences and ways-of-working aren't on the organization's radar, and when they're gone, it takes some doing to get them organized again. Until then, and until everyone in the organization knows about the new ways of working, this can be quite frustrating and inefficient.
A very strong claim. Do you think intelligence from other biological systems could also never surpass human intelligence?
If I owned any Google stock right now, I'd be thinking hard about selling it. Not because everything here is silly, but just because:

A. over the course of 20+ years in this industry I've noticed a trend that when companies start worrying about things like tape dispensers or staplers (or the free coffee in the cafeteria, or the cost of the subsidized sodas in the breakroom, etc) it's almost always a Really Bad Sign for their future.

B. (related to A of course) when this stuff starts happening, it tends to send the best employees heading for the doors, either because they feel slighted, and/or because they assume (rightly or not) that the company is spiraling the drain. And the best employees leaving can have exactly the effect of sending the company spiraling down the drain...

These things have a way of becoming self-fulfilling prophecies (or at least self-reinforcing negative feedback loops). At best, it's vanishingly rare for this to be harbinger of anything good.
I think you're better of making a blog style (or similar) page for him...e-mail providers would eventually delete older emails to save space. Especially if you don't log into the account and it becomes active
The Cloud Computing Book
Musk is likely just trolling the 258B dogecoin racketeering lawsuit.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-requests-dismissal-...
I use a board with 32 RGB LEDs to show process status: https://github.com/shapr/bloohm

If you ever have multiple hour long builds and/or test suites running, this is is a big help.
Polars is apparently faster, though I haven't tested it myself.
Due to stigma, people will dance around the relationship of mental illness and socially maladjusted behaviors all day
I mentioned in another comment, this is true, but all you really need to get gas if the gloves are off is a short tube or hose.
Kay McNulty (Kay Mauchly) Honoured by Donegal Community
> I see a lot of people celebrating Windows 95 as a high point, and it isn't really a surprise - that was one of the last times that Windows had to genuinely attempt to compete economically for their OS share.

I think it has a lot more to do with nostalgia goggles. Windows 95 still had a lot of the same cruft on install. It really wanted you to sign up for an MSN dial-up account to use the bundled IE to browse MSN.com as your home page "of choice". Another bundled app suggested a subscription service to get and send Faxes.

(Windows was always like this. It seems far more "extreme" now, but the roots are deep and old. A lot of regular Windows users don't even notice what Windows 11 is doing because the frog has been boiling in that pot for so long.)

Don't forget was Windows 95 that became the anti-trust scandal because a lot of people felt at the time that Microsoft didn't have to genuinely attempt to compete economically for their OS.

(Same as it ever was.)
Some of us, one of us at least, love the cheap toys
"Majority" is an exaggeration. Tesla battery replacements cost around $13-20k while the cars themselves go for well over double that.

https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/how-often-do-te...

The battery still drives costs to some extent, but the bigger issue is manufacturing capacity; you can only make so many EVs on the existing production lines (including battery factory capacity), and there's plenty of high-end demand to consume the supply, so you're not going to leave money on the table selling a cheap car.

People who want a cheap EV just have to do what every cost-conscious consumer does when a new technology comes along: wait. At some point there will be plenty of EVs for the PMC and it will make sense to build one for the rest of us.
Causal AI & Generative AI: Decision-Making in Complex Business Environments
The equivalency of opinions (e.g. giving opinions equal weight at all times) is the bane of modern discourse.

Sometimes it feels like 90% of the general populace doesn't understand the difference and it's easier just to throw your hands in the air and cut contact off with the person than to try to explain to them this concept.

Luckily, once you make friends with the 10% club, your life starts to feel great.
Learning off of works of other artists is not illegal.
> I think Yudkowski may have positioned himself as the "grandfather" of a new, budding ideology defined by anti-technology and anti-AI views.

God, let's hope not.
I love that RISC-V is starting to take off!

I'm curious about standardization of the rest of the system - the way x86 operating systems more or less work on any x86 machine, whereas ARM seems to basically require a device-specific OS image for every single device. Is there any work going into addressing that and making RISK-V more like x86 and less like ARM systems?
Personally, while I've tried neither, I feel like there wouldn't be much difference between that and video chat, psychologically speaking. I think that's because they'd be fixed to a particular position in the room, like a TV would. You wouldn't be able to e.g. dance around the room together or watch the same TV together or explore other areas together, like you would with VRChat in a virtual space. Seems like there's tradeoffs to be had in the psychological experience.
Gasoline polluted with ethanol has short shelf life. Clean gasoline should last few years.
Decreasing the Number of Memory Accesses, Part 2
Yeah I'm considering scrapbook + polaroids (or printing pictures) and gluing them into the pages. I just don't think it will be practical as something digital.
So this is the same SoC as the Vision Five 2?
Okay thanks, I see the analogy. I was under the impression GP thought they were actually directly related somehow.
A general shift in mentality and
therefore law has started and needs to be pushed through in the next years:

Price externalized costs.

The world was treates like an infinite resource that it isnt.
Emit carbon? It has its price to emit that that someone needs to pay. Same should go with noise etc. Reving that Car at midnight waking up hundrets of people? That does an economic health damage of thousands of dollars too.
Exposing an accident like this via a picture added to a student briefing would be a lot more stupid than the flashcards fiasco. This is just wild speculation based on a single out of context picture.
When you get used to it, driving other cars just feel dangerous. Like if for any reason if your feet leave the pedals the car will just fly out of control and not slow down.

Even taking your foot off the brake at an intersection will cause the car to drive right into it. That seems crazy when coming from a car that when it is stopped, it remains stopped.

Holding the brake is like holding the trigger of a grenade.
What's the threshold for when you need to use something like pola.rs instead of just fitting the majority of your data set into memory? If your computer is 8GB and you have ~4-6GB of memory free, you need to be working with a data set that is at least 4GB+, right? Is that a good way to look at it?

Kind of like "do I really need k8s?", "does my workload dictate I need SQL OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) / data frame lazy loading data library?"

what's the general rule of thumb to know "you're missing out by not using existing library like pandas/polars" for somebody who is out of the loop on this kind of stuff
So dumb to cheap out on laptops and computer equipment for employees. Internal IT just gets a tonne of "my computer slow/out of space" that is impossible to fix without upgrading the hardware...
How good one's German should be? The listing on your website mentions German is an advantage :)

I assume you are open to hiring EU/EEA candidates too, correct? (ones who will need Aufenthaltsbewilligung)
The sun doesn't shine so that we can see it. It just shines. And now we can see.
I’ve found that complaining is productive but has a social cost. But I and others absolutely do work this way.

I started opening GitHub issues I never expect anyone else to read to help myself explore and verbalize a problem without having to nag anyone else about it; it’s been helpful and also yields a lot of what is effectively documentation of the “why” behind our design choices. Not sure if it would work as well on public repos or if you work with anyone that tries to max their GitHub stats (eg average issue close time) though.
I hope you're right, I haven't had time to look at the same warning for 6 months now. There was a hard deadline on it in February and it came and went. The backwards incompatible Kubernetes api updates are a PITA. I know they said "beta", but if you literally have a version field in your manifest format, why ever deprecate a way of configuring something? They could just have operators translate the configs automatically on the fly.
Didn't even know that was possible! You've saved me a lot of stress from that damn sound.
That all makes sense.
I've been away from python for quite some time but enjoyed using django on a project 5-6 years ago. I thought it was really full-featured and fairly intuitive, but it seemed to rely heavily on what seems to be considered an older paradim of submitting forms, and getting sent to a new page, etc, vs the "Single Page Application" concept.

I know it was possible to do SPAs with django-rest or something, but I'm curious if Django has mostly stayed in this "older" paradigm or if its more .. modernized at this point?
> it was a completely artificial problem produced by business considerations

Making the plane behave the same as a different airplane makes it safer. There are many examples of crashes due to pilots reacting to an emergency in a manner appropriate to the previous plane they were flying, rather than the current one.

About 98% of the mass media reporting on MCAS was written by people who have no idea how airplanes work, and is hysterical nonsense.
Is 5 years any kind of achievement? I’m currently running a generic hp laptop from 2012(?). Not a single issue. Just had to insert one more 8gb ram, to keep chrome happy, and change the ssd once. Everything else still works fine.
> Not a lot of people realize that Pandas was inspired by R, and in particular the Tidyverse model of handling rectangular data frames, created originally by Hadley Wickham.

Can you give a citation from this, preferably from Wes himself?
Ah, that's much worse, and sadder. More and more "desktop" software is just streamed intentionally or unintentionally from various SaaS servers, which will go dark at some point.

Gamers have dealt with this for years now, but it's going to affect more and more things. The era of emulators being able to preserve software is coming to an end.
Wow, that’s really interesting!
Very intrigued. With the real VM isolation, I wonder if I could use this as a way of dipping my toe into the Nix pool.

Have you given any thought to offering pre-baked development templates? For example, here is a standard Django build with poetry + js utilities + Postgres drivers + jq, etc.
The SSD on my two year old M1 MacBook Pro is showing 25% lifetime left. The rest of the machine is just fine, but I am looking to replace it soon. Apple will get their money from me soon.
This is a big mess. I'm sure this is probably the goal for really large companies to amortize expenditures over multiple years. But for a smaller shop, this will just reduce the amount I can spend on development.

Yes, it would balance out eventually in 5-6 years, but this would be painful for the near future and require a change up in what we're capable of doing, since so much more "revenue" is going to tax payments.
Eliezer has been working on AI theory for 23 years, AI risks for 18. He foresaw what is happening today super long ago while practically everyone else on HN was asleep at the wheel. Call him crazy if you want, he's taking the wrong side of Pascal's wager. But, Sam Altman, who is leading all this, cares enough about his opinions that they have spoken in person. Musk agrees with him. Paul Graham, Andrej Karpathy, and Bezos follow him on Twitter.