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Show HN: Curated Product Engineering Jobs
Hi! My name is Francesco and I'm the maker of UI Makers Club. Lately I've been seeing so many cool job openings for people who, like me, like to do both design and development (e.g. Product Engineering).

Although it's exciting to see more and more companies hiring for these positions, I often struggled to find job openings about it. I've noticed that many companies use different names to call this role, like:

• Product / Design / UI engineer

• Designer Technologists

• Developers who design

• ...

I've decided to create a website to collect all these openings! I hope this can be useful to more people working in this space :) It would be great to get some community support in finding other similar positions.
Feedback is also always welcome!
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No you really can't. In the Netherlands companies have to keep paying sick employees their salary for 2 years.

It gives a nice incentive for a company to really care that they leave no man/woman behind.
Tbh the only thing I find irritating about the article is the dumb story about being 8 and realizing his future already of being the leader of an ai company.
Can you recommend a printer or brand? Or else enumerate all the bad ones? ;)
The thing I don't get about it is that not all UK public services are like this. I know as a fact that senior programmers with the NHS make 70-80k. A project lead can get close to 100k. No idea what the Treasury is thinking here.
A (long) tutorial on MockNeat, a Java library that generates arbitrary data in
> “Why everyone isn't leaving Adobe, Meta, and Google to found their own AI / generative media startups astounds me.”

A nice thing about all the status seekers chasing the latest shiny hype object is that it leaves more room for the rest to build boring startups.
Sooner or later other countries will catch up.

China is behind in semiconductor manufacturing, but they’ll continue to advance-limiting their access to cutting-technologies like ASML’s photolithography machines will slow them down, but given enough time there is no reason they can’t overcome that too. If the point of sanctions is to hold them back and keep them behind, that could continue to work for a long time.

But if you decide to stop progress in semiconductor manufacturing, in order to avert an AI apocalypse - China no longer has to catch up to a moving target, they have to catch up with a stationary one. And as soon as they’ve caught up, now they can overtake. So sanctions don’t work as a way to stop an “AI apocalypse”, unless you convince all the world’s great powers to cooperate in them. And the potential payoff for anyone who chooses to defect is immense-maybe even world conquest-so how do you make sure they all keep the deal, and none wiull try to cheat?

If anything, I think a world with multiple superintelligent AIs with competing allegiances - a pro-Beijing superintelligence, a pro-Washington superintelligence, etc - is likely safer for humanity than a world with only a single superintelligence, or even many superintelligences that all had the same beliefs/attitudes/goals/objectives
The cost effectiveness of these kind of programs is really interesting. It is normal to assume that space is super difficult and this plays into the geeky pride we all have. It is literally rocket science! And then we all get depressed when they go a little over budget or are late. We compare the program to an idealised view of excellence that only exists in our heads. But compared to other human endeavours science and engineering is unreasonably effective. It can break through the mess of human conflict and pettiness that holds us back. It is a great mechanism for getting people to work together for a common cause and we desperately need that. The mission objective is secondary to that.
> How the hell are we ever supposed to build up some savings, settle down and have a comfortable life?

You're not. The system is working as intended, just not for us.
GPT-1…4, Falcon 9 reusability (+ Starlink being possible), most modern VR headsets (Oculus public demo was just over ten years ago), 3D printing is a lot better on many axes, commercially viable consumer OLED, displacement of CFL with LED, vegan "cheese" alternatives suck much less than a decade ago, DNA tests so cheap multiple different companies spam advertising for them at me, vat-grown meat is slowly transitioning from sci-fi to panicking Italian farmers into calling for bans, electric cars have gone from expensive Tesla Roadsters to the ~ 20-fold cheaper Wuling Hongguang Mini EV, about 90% of all PV happened in the last decade (and following a roughly exponential growth rate).
Central European salaries are getting high enough to not make remote work for abroad companies as atractive. $80k+ per year is becoming more and more common for Seniors in Poland.
Given that this article doesn’t share a context, I’m going out on a limb and ask if this is regarding Sam Altman and OpenAI? He was showcased on both NYT and WSJ ..
It so strongly resembles something seen in a film that I have to agree with you. That being said, I don't doubt it is real.
UAE
Mormons have entered the chat. Generally, lots of well behaved kids.
HP is another of many examples how MBAs in their search for ever growing "value" can gradually destroy a company that owes its success to great engineering.
> but there is no cheap way to store that energy for a long period of time

It's getting close to the point that wind+storage can compete with nuclear, and even gas, on price. With the way cost has been developing on renewables and energy storage sulitons it's more or less inevitable. You're also starting to see off-shore wind, even floating off-shore, come rapidly down in cost, and those have more stable generation and require less energy storage.

The problem of storage is also exaggerated by people who haven't looked at the big picture. We need to replace oil/gas in lots of areas where you need to store and transform energy anyway. Like cars. Think about it.. if you buy an EV you'll generally have enough storage there to power your house for 1-3 days. In a world where all cars are BEVs we'll be well within an order of magnititude of having the manufacturing capacity to have energy storage for all homes. You can even feed electricity from BEVs back into the grid, and I already have my BEV set to only charge in the hours where electricity is cheapest right now. We're also starting to see people use smart controllers to exploit the storage capacity in hot water tanks.

Green metal production will also be a huge source of flexible load. Somewhat related to that, there's even molten metal batteries that can provide extremely cheap grid storage.

> WHICH IS WHY NUCLEAR IS THE GREENEST BASELOAD ELECTRICITY.

If you need to shout I'm just led to expect you don't have much meat behind your opinion. Anyway, the problem is just this: what we really need isn't baseload.

You can't solve the worlds energy crisis without lots and lots of renewables. Going all nuclear would be too expensive, too slow, and would probably generate enough heat to slow recovery after climate change. Thermal power plants in general have a whole range of issue that makes it a bad idea to go all-in on it.

Nuclear can certainly supplement with a bit of baseload capacity. But what we need is load following and peaker plants. We need a replacement to gas power plants. Because those are what works well when combining with renewables. And without lots of renewables we have zero hope of combatting climate change.

> And solar also requires a lot of copper and steel, which makes it carbon cycle much worse than nuclear.

At least copper and steel is easily recycled, with low carbon impact. Nuclear power plants use a lot of concrete and the sustainability of that is far more uncertain.
Also anyone with android and airguard installed will find out about the airtag. Also the tile pros, BTW.
Fond memories! My first job out of uni was building interfaces for embedded devices using XUL/javsacript/xpcom/c++. The technologies were fun to develop in at the time and it felt special to be somewhat of a part of such a big open project.
It would be interesting to see what the pension is like for this position - you're giving up lifetime earnings for retirement earnings (and "serving your country").
Link to the job listing:

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?SI...
The worst part is that people are willing to supply their labour at this price level: "31 Applicants"
No doubt this will lead to complaints that foreigners are coming over stealing our secrets _and_ our jobs at the same time :-)
You can buy flats in beautiful, historic city centre in Bytom, Poland for $500 per square meter. There are even well-paying coding jobs in the area (within 30 minutes by car or public transport).
It's a rocket so there is always a non-zero risk of explosion. This one is also a new, not-yet-launched rocket, making it extra non-zero chance of explosion.
I‘m in the process of buying a ~22sqm micro apartment in Berlin. One of 265 units in one building. Admittedly not in the outskirts but pretty central.

Rents are pretty insane (~900-1200€/month, fully furnished, incl. internet and everything).

The only places that are cheap are either government subsidized, old contracts with rent protection, or old not modernized buildings.
That is precisely how I use document.write() in order to replace the current page with a better one from a userscript.
Canada isn’t all frozen tundra.

There is forest, mountains, plains, lakes, deserts, jungles, etc.
Plus, availability of land is very limited; I think Singapore is quite a different story.
Having a space program and specifically a launch vehicle that puts satellites in orbit for other countries brings in foreign exchange revenue. Having a reusable launch vehicle is an improvement on capabilities for competitive pricing. What's not to like here?

Jul 2022: "ISRO earns US$ 279 mn in foreign exchange"

https://indbiz.gov.in/isro-earns-us-279-mn-in-foreign-exchan...
Starship is a massive two stage rocket/ship. Most powerful rocket in history. This is the first attempt at launching the full stack. To reach orbit, a rocket needs to be highly optimised, with little room for error. If errors occur, it could explode. Errors are most likely to happen the first time you try something.

I am aware it's not strictly aiming to reach orbit
In a sense, this is the organisational fallacy, of our time.

The baby version of this was 15 years ago, when Jobs was Musk and being an asshole was the main/only feature visionary executives emulated.

Maybe the lesson is that we're bad at lessons.
My experience was that basically everyone hired in 2020 did not get good on boarding. This lead to people's capabilities being misunderstood, people's roles being not well defined, a lack of healthy relations between them and the rest of the company (that could rely on already-existing social bonds to weather the troubles), and just generally bad experiences for everyone.

2021-onwards was better.

This was not at Slack, of course, but I imagine every company basically was this.
Big fan of Macs. I don't even understand what people see in Linux these days. Sure, I can play around like they do on /r/unixporn, but I don't particularly care to customize my desktop. It's just a tool to get work done, not a public art exhibit.
Show HN: Integrating puzzle rush and spaced repetitions for chess training
Hi HN! I’m publicly releasing BraiMax Chess, a web app I built during the last three months; it’s based on a training technique which brought me from around 1700/1800 to 2000 rating (superblitz) on lichess. Here it is: https://chess.braimax.com

Background story: during lockdown I decided to try and improve at chess, which I was playing online a lot. Bought a few books, tried all the websites and apps I found. This serious study helped a lot in understanding the game better, but didn’t improve my results as much as I hoped. It also was very hard work, and after a few months I stopped having the motivation to continue.

Around that time I discovered Puzzle Rush on chess.com; that one was the most enjoyable chess-related thing I could do besides playing games, and it helped with tactics, but I soon plateaued - until I thought about combining that with spaced repetitions. I would manually review the puzzles I had failed, and add them to a rudimentary spaced repetitions system I had hacked together. It was a bit of work, but still enjoyable enough to stick to it; that’s when I started getting noticeably better and better, making fewer blunders, and climbing the rating.

Late last year I decided to take some time off after leaving my last job; during the break I felt an itch and decided to create a website which would allow anybody to use the same technique I described above, but in a much easier/integrated way. After three months of full time work on it, it’s ready!

Let me know what you think

Dan
so there are multiple threads of conversation here

first, there is no straightforward way to module "a value" as a CRDT, precisely for the reason you point out: how to resolve conflicts between concurrent updates is not well-defined

concretely, if you set v=green and I set v=blue, then the expected observed value is undefined, without additional information

there are various ways to model values as CRDTs, each has different properties, the simplest way to model a value as a CRDT is with the LWW conflict resolution strategy, but this approach loses information

example: say your v=green is the last writer and wins, then I will observe (in my local replicas) that v=blue for a period of time until replication resolves the conflict, and sets (in my local replicas) v=green. when v changes from blue to green, the whole idea that v ever was blue is lost. after replication resolves the conflict, v was never blue. it was only ever green. but there was a period of time where i observed v as blue, right? that observation was invalid. that's a problem. consistency was lost there.

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second

> almost any data structure can be turned into a (op-based) CRDT.

yes, in theory. but op-based CRDTs only work if message delivery between nodes is reliable. and no real-world network provides this property (while maintaining availability).
I clearly notify where ChatGPT falls short. But accounts for both success and failures, still the level of ability is amazing. That's why I said benchmarking standard, because we can't only cherry picking those failures while completly ignore the success.
You have to keep or swap DRM chip. But I am in EU, not really sure about US.
I wouldn't consider Spain low tax. Perhaps lower than Sweden but it's not low. UAE
Reading through your comment history, it seems like you are on a personal crusade against Python, but your arguments boil down to this:

"Python is a shit language because it doesn't do/have [insert a niche thing that you think a language should do]"

Which is failing to grasp the role Python plays. You can make this sort of argument against any language, and generally you would be correct in the fact that languages can be improved.

But the fact remains that Python is widely used, and no, its not because people are dumber than you and don't know better, its because they simply dgaf about any of the niche cases you talk about.

For example, nobody is going to look at Numpy and realize its C, and ask the question of "Hmm, I wonder why Im using Python in the first place if its really just C under the hood".
Not to mention that the practice of patching Python libraries through C like you describe pretty much never happens. Not to mention that core ML isn't even the standard C, its open cl or CUDA C which are specialized, and how you get to defining those kernels is largely irrelevant for functional sake, but largely relevant in how efficient and simple it is, which is why Python is used.

For all your other issues across comments (like venv, pip dependency), you seem to assume that when someone runs into the issue, it somehow causes everything to break and things to fail. None of what you describe really plays out in reality on a large scale. Things work because people are smart enough to realize what they are doing. It could be that you personally have issues with your company, which is the source of your frustration, but I can assure you that is not the case across all of industry. Google, despite its many issues, has built plenty of good things using Python, and defaulting to C/C++/Go when they need to.

Google, despite its many issues, has built plenty of good things using Python, and defaulting to C/C++/Go when they need to. When you start building better things than Google in other languages and prove that the thing is better because of the language choice, then you will have a point.

In your reply to my other comment, you said

"But, even, imagine that in your fairy-tale world Python is somehow so super-important and successful? Didn't I already explain how this is possible while still being a garbage language?"

This is the equivalent of you just standing in the middle of the busy street with a sign that says "everyone is on a path to hell with your choices in life, you must repent and follow Jesus". You are entitled to your opinion, but I hope you realize that you aren't making any real points.
how would the “rape culture” be influenced by india stopping its space program?

This is like saying the US should stop spending money on lots of things until the gun violence problem is solved.
I’m sorry, but I’m not convinced.

A solution is something that requires a problem. In your concert example constraints were the source of problems (or few obvious steps from them, such as substandard instrument => weak bass notes => can’t perform as originally intended), requiring a solution. That’s pretty much straightforward. I agree with you here. Situations like this are exactly what you describe.

But I think it’s different with a manifesto that imposes various constraints for the sake of them, like we have here. The manifesto barely hints (I’m not even sure it does) about the actual issues.

Yes, if your original intent is flawed and only relies on a something that works if you can shove it under the rug with special effects, it would become comparable to the concert example. But it’s not the effects that are the issue!

Please correct me if I’m wrong - as I get it, making a movie is drastically different from performing an already planned piece at an event, it’s an iterative work. And if the team starts working on a film and thinks “okay, we want this, it’s typically done this way but {we have this constraint|it’s crappy approach because of this and that} - so how can we do it {without hitting the constraint|in some proper way}?” and they solve it then they don’t need the actual constraint anymore, because they’re past the point of that constraint. See how the bits in the curly brackets are interchangeable but only one is on point and another is just a distraction?

I don’t know a thing about playing music, but I suppose those improvisations no longer require a substandard piano? And maybe using those techniques when having a proper piano can improve things even further? (I could be wrong here, of course, analogies are complicated.)

Genuine or involuntary constraints require creative workarounds, that may succeed or fail, but this can’t be helped. However, artificial constraints, imposed voluntarily are surely different? Yes, it’s ultimately up to finding a hidden problem, as a part of finding the solution, but it’s so weird…
Once an autocrat or other maniac gets his hands onto a sufficiently powerful one, we will find out by example.
I like Brothers or Xeroxs, or even Epsons.
India's poverty is in an entirely different category to that of the US or other developed nations. Once sewage isn't in the streets, come back to me about starting a space program.
Another reason not to buy a GM
I'm sure at least 30 out of the 31 are woefully under-qualified.

Even for a government role I would expect 2.5-3x the salary.
More generally, cheap areas often means economic underdevelopment or decline, which leads to social problems and annoying neighbors (on account of drinking, unemployment and other issues). On the plus side, there's less traffic, because people aren't as busy going to places to make and spend money as they are in economically vibrant areas.
Yes, this thread is particularly interesting

https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1641976869460275201

Speaking about Ukraine, it seems to be literally a Twitter policy violation ... https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/visibilit...
I bought a cheap (£50) hp multifunction at the start of covid with an instant ink subscription. Obviously this involves dystopian DRM and the printer phoning home the number of pages I am printing but it actually works really well. I print over WiFi from Windows, iPhone, android, etc with no issues, cartridges arrive at my door before I need them, and the cost per page is competitive with professional equipment (under 5p for the ink even if full colour photo).

The cartridges belong to hp, not me, so they would stop working if I cancelled and I would have to buy my own. That's normal with pay per click printing, which is also the standard in high end leased machines. I don't want my computer to be an appliance but having the printer be 'just an appliance' is very convenient.
And an OBE, as well.
London based as well. You’d earn more in Pret-a-Manger. Wages always put me off gov jobs as well as the bureaucracy.
Good point. Besides that, it's not possible to run any code checksum
Apropos Lars von Trier's auteurist style, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZfM1lkLuMI
The trouble is even that is a challenge outside of the London job market
Also the other obvious answer that people have been doing for centuries is multi-generational households.

It's not the end of the world to live with your parents (or your partner's).

I think we could see a lot of pressure towards that as Western total fertility rate continues to decrease and larger population groups (Millennials) age with fewer or no children to help out.

Even a shift towards non-relatives households wouldn't be the end of society, it would just be change (and require some zoning/code changes).
Yeah as someone who’s had job ads out recently if they have 1 qualified out of 31 they’re doing well!
I'm not attacking your experience, but in 2023, with the explosion of remote jobs in software and generally post-covid, this sort of argument looks a bit weak on HN.
The free user interface does something behind the scenes to provide context to chatgpt but I haven't figured out what it is
Or they're not even in the UK nor have any sort of work permit / visa.
It's possible that I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure what's the point of the 'fediverse' is. Looks like a solution looking for a problem, or an overcorrection to the trend from the 2010s to move everything to silos (independent forums -> facebook groups / subreddits / twitter).

Wouldn't it be better and simpler to just revert that trend to how it was before the big tech behemoths put everything behind walled gardens?
What if the 12% were answering questions - not asking o.O. Hell, I'd rather a person go through the effort/thought process of asking a _good_ question to get closer to the answer they might be looking for.
Side point - is £100k really $200k equivalent in US? With the huge costs here and how costly things are including consumer electronics, shouldn't it be cheaper in US as well? (I just moved to UK from India 6 months back)
Could also be a prototype for the orbital tanker needed for the a Artemis mission
I think the job title is misleading, from the job listing:

> We are looking for an experienced Head of Cyber Security to lead a team of two cyber analysts

> We are a team of around 40, responsible for the Treasury’s technology, security and knowledge and information management services.

So it's not _the_ Head - but _a_ head, and that 'head' has a relatively minor / junior manager role.