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Roboflow (https://roboflow.com/careers) | Software Engineers, ML Research Engineer, Former Founders | Full-time | SF, NYC, Remote

We make tools that enable developers to make the world programmable. Over 250k developers, including those from half the Fortune 100, use our computer vision tools to improve datasets, models, and deployments. For example, Roboflow is Snap's partner for building custom vision models into AR lenses [1].

We have SF/NYC/distributed roles. Every team member also has an annual travel stipend [2] to spend coworking with others, anywhere.

[1] https://twitter.com/SnapAR/status/1671985144524165120/photo/...
[2] https://blog.roboflow.com/remote-not-distant/
What kind of software would you sell to corporations or rich early adopters?

We'll see in Q1/2024 when the Vision Pro comes out for real.
Yes you can. Our tests are layered as follows:
- unit tests
- mocking tests
- integration tests (i.e. service + db)
- system tests (full api to db level)

integration starts providing flaky tests already sadly, i.e. with kafka on our end… (i.e. calling the listener twice or thrice even tho it should only once..)
I would assume that most Microsoft employees receive both cash and stock compensation. While their cash compensation might be frozen, one would assume they'd be able to realize some upside from the equity side, if this is truly a landmark year.

In that respect, they're in a better position than employees of non-public companies, where even if they're getting extra stock option grants to make up for salary freezes, they have a fat chance of seeing liquidity any time soon.
You’re arguing that using a PCI compliant PSP solves the problem of credit card number harvesting, but that’s not correct unless the entire transaction takes place on the psp (like PayPal). Once the payment details are collected in environments outside the psp’s control, it’s not protected. For example, payment info could be skimmed by devs with access to payment pages using js like in the NewEgg Magecart attack
I have many friends that don't care about it, others that never heard about it.

Anyway, call it AI, ML, statistics, the truth is: all these algorithms are helping us get rid of the boring stuff in tech.

ie.: I won't waste my time reading a regex documentation to learn how to remove every white space after a combination of characters, because I'll completely forget it two days later. and the examples goes on and on.
Lots of proposing to vote with your feet, yet leaving is not the solution to make things better when everywhere else is the same.

Two things I didn't see were 1) unionizing, which I get is complex, but at some point its a way of re-establishing some kind of power balance 2) taking the raise yourself by decreasing your hours. With remote, and given that the outcome is often barely noticeable, why not?
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What sucked the last time you rented a house or flat? Come and fix it.

OpenRent is a force for good in an industry tarnished by rip-off agencies. Enabled by an unrelenting focus on technology, we now let more properties than any agency in the UK. In the last 12m we let over £45 billion worth of property, to over 5 million registered users, without ever charging any admin fees.

You'll be working on things that vary from machine learning models to predict the right price of a property, to the future of property management, all to help tenants find their dream home, and landlords their ideal tenant.

We're VC backed, profitable, and have plenty of ambition to maintain our fast growth in this absolutely massive market.

We have a bunch of roles available at the moment and keen to find great people like you!

- Senior Web Designer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Full Stack Engineer (C#) | Equity | £45k-£120k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

- Senior DevOps Engineer | Equity | 75k-100k+ (based on experience) + Quarterly Bonus

All roles visible here: https://www.openrent.co.uk/jobs

OpenRent is already impacting millions of tenants and landlords each year, join us and make every tenancy better than the last.
Inequality is a red herring. Poverty is down.

Have you looked for housing in Columbus, Ohio?
This seems like a yesteryear problem. People today are paying for EVERYTHING in a subscription model.

Streaming services.
Midjourney.
YouTube.
Twitch.
Even ChatGPT4.

I would gladly pay $10/mo for an information-centric search engine that filters out all blogspam and supports power queries.
One thing is sending telemetry and occasional update to a car. Could be done via pre-charged SIM on X GB to hold during the cars warranty. Other thing is uploading GBs of data from sensors and cameras.
It’s honestly not enough range to be useful towing things for road trips: https://insideevs.com/news/593575/rivian-towing-range/

Stopping to charge for an hour every 140 miles is awful.
This seems like it will just get people to not admit to using ai. Do they do analysis to find whether images or text in the games are AI generated? I'd rather know whether the game I'm playing was generated in some part or not
6 year olds are perfectly capable of operating complex computing devices already.
high speed digital circuits rely on silicon for semiconductors.

There are plenty of other semiconductors in use, just not for the same thing. Not even for digital circuits in many cases.
> France given the enormous portests still underway...

Protest is part of French tradition
>Apple has been smart to present it as a desktop replacement

It means that now you are competing against desktops which have been iterated upon for decades and have a lot of value already. Instead of standing out by having apps that are only possible in VR people will way if they would rather use the app outside of VR.
That's only eight dashes, though.
We are building a product, working on the initial release now, we do not plan to do consulting if that is what you meant. Users should, amongst other things, be able to obtain data solutions by interacting with our system.
Thanks for sharing your impressions.
what hollywood does for US imperialism is also shameful and obfuscated. studios work closely with military and CIA and no it is not disclosed as propaganda.
That description goes for college students, too. Though the blandness isn't lack of skill; it's fear and powerlessness.

Michael Berubé has this story where he says, he once came early to class and overheard the students make great arguments about movies and shows they saw last night, discussing them heatedly. Then, when the lesson started, all the arguments turned bland, banal, reproductive.

Obvious conclusion: They -can- very well produce good insight, but the college and school systems discourage it. They reward them for repeating ideas they read in books about their things, or what the teacher said; an original idea is dangerous, because they're responsible for it themselves, and if the teacher doesn't like it, they'll get punished for it. Safer to say, "Miller said..." and shove off accountability to someone published.
All of those things are possible at other companies, with much higher pay to boot.
"... your reputation is tied to your real identity."

Why do corporations get to conduct business, have credit scores, influence others' credit scores, and even make political contributions without anyone knowing the identity of the humans directing them? Seems like that reputation system functions well enough, and it's anonymous vis-a-vis "real identity." Shouldn't human beings be entitled to at least as much privacy as a shell corporation?
2000s was also the time when the motto of google was “don’t be evil” and people believed them. Most importantly Google employees believed the company believed it.
If these headsets ends up collecting dust on a shelf after a few weeks, as most headsets seem to, then it doesn't matter how wealthy the owners are. They won't buy apps for a device they no longer use.
Not parent, but thank you for the thoughtful explanation.

Which free/open source licences do you think would be better for the specific purpose of preventing SaaSification while actually being usable/useful in real life?
> I truly and honestly hope you succeed.

Thanks!

> However.

Yes. These things are challenges, but that doesn't mean they're insurmountable. I am confident that we can overcome them.

> Would you say that KVM or ESXi would be an easier or harder sell here?

I am not in enterprise sales, so I couldn't tell you :) Oxide has those people, I'm not just one of them.
I have had my own share of problems with both portalled rooms as well as plumbed rooms on Matrix. Dropped messages, dropped connections, etc. were some of the problems. Sometimes the re-connection times can be several hours long. Despite these problems, the portalled rooms have been a convenient way to quickly set up a relatively persistent connection to the IRC network via the Matrix bridge.

That convenience is now going to be lost unless the IRC channel operators opt-in to create an account on Matrix, then set up a plumbed room on Matrix, and then advertise the plumbed rooms sufficiently well. Of course, many regular IRC users set up an IRC bouncer (I use ZNC myself) to keep a persistent connection to the IRC network, so this move would not affect them. But the portalled rooms served as a good alternative to setting up IRC bouncers yourself and unfortunately, this nice alternative is now going away.

As a channel moderator, I haven't been too happy with the plumbed channels either. For example, one of the things I have found to be a little problematic is that the Matrix bridge service joins the Matrix room with Admin power level. To avoid these complications, I wrote my own tiny script to bridge the Matrix rooms and IRC channels I needed. Since my script joins the networks as an ordinary client, it does not need elevated privileges in the channels/rooms. In case, anyone is interested in the script, I have shared it here: https://github.com/susam/nimb

The section "Differences from Matrix Appservice" at the bottom of the README in the preceding link explains some of the inconveniences I faced with the Matrix bridge service for plumbed channels and why I had to write my own script to avoid them.
You are making a lot of sense, you are setting up logical arguments but some folks go like "uhhh I just don't think so"
They are not involved in running your instance
I explained that (I hope) over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30678324
Working on a distributed key/value store myself, I couldn't agree more and think what FoundationDB did for testing from the start is absolutely the way to go. Testing distributed system is very tricky and tests can be incredibly time consuming and bring everything to a halt.
This is a chalk drawing prop made specifically for the movie.
LLandMark year.
The thing is that this issue is so niche that it is not anywhere close to being on anyone's political radar. Nobody outside of niche technical forums is thinking about the consequences of their cars being internet connected, or even realize that they are.
Yes, it’s a slightly different language and should have a different extension, like js versus jsx.
NO!

( No no no nooo noooOooo noooOooOoooo )
okay - if it's a successful product then production can be scaled up.

paywall and I'm not really interested beyond the headline anyway.
The Halo games and lore had a pretty interesting storyline with military AI, some going rogue, others being built to counter the rogue ones.

https://www.halopedia.org/Offensive_Bias
> "Researchers working with high-power laser weapons discovered that they could create a glowing ball of fire in the sky by crossing the beams of two powerful infrared lasers. The beams were invisible to the naked eye, but where they intersected, their electric fields became so intense that they ripped apart molecules in the air, creating a plasma…By moving the laser beams around the sky, the researchers found they could shift the plasma ball back and forth at very high speed,” Mullins wrote in 2000.

> So far so strange. What makes it stranger is that by pulsing the lasers they could modulate the crackling sound produced by the plasma to carry coherent speech: in effect, a talking fireball. The idea was that the device would be used for psychological operations, with a seemingly divine voice commanding opponents to flee or surrender.
Yeah, the security of the web depends on it so it’s unlikely to ever change.

Your session tokens that give you access to a website after you’ve logged in are stored in those cookies. If another site could read them, they could use them to access your email, etc.
it really is amazing to see so many people with such strong opinions about a device they've never used, entering a market that doesn't really yet exist, in a year.

why does every thread about an Apple product end up just as a competition to see who can have the least informed but most negative take on whatever it is?
Backend web and API developer with 10+ years of overall development experience. Since late 2019 I've been contracting and doing open source development. I've been working on an OpenStreetMap related project, you can find it on my portfolio link:

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At this time I'm available for full time or contract work.

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Wonder if anybody is really using buildpacks... The stats i've seen recently show that it doesn't have much adoption and I'm very curious why it's not adopted more.

The post also doesn't mention SlimToolkit (aka DockerSlim), which is now a CNCF Sandbox project. It represents another major way to create minimal container images.
There will be no need for self driving cars in 10 years, because assuming we are still around, we will have car driving humanoid robots that drive our same cars. They will fit into our driver seat, be able to reach all the controls, and when they are not driving they can take care of other stuff.

This will be the best of both worlds because we’ll still be able to drive when we want or need to (on roads where it’s allowed), and free to be driven when we prefer that, and the existing fleet of cars can age safely, preserving that investment for its useful lifetime.
No OP, but I had it happen to me and adding a "3DS" card verification to the checkout flow made the problem go away. The 3DS step is where they text the customer a number they have to type in to proceed.

It's a pain for the customer so I only do it on newish accounts, repeat customers don't get bothered.
The latter is probably a better name if there are other functions involving "ownership" (give_ownership, split_ownership, etc.), but otherwise you're right.
Just wondering - how well does Valgrind work on Zig projects?
NIMB IRC Matrix Bridge (NIMB): A simple client to bridge Matrix and IRC channels
> you may start wanting to use such approaches to data for everything

Please, dont. Arrays of structs is more natural for a reason, SOA is not universally faster and it has some of its own performance problems. If you really care about performance, AOSOA may well be your best bet. Again, please dont use it for everything.

> a dhcp pool full of cats is half the fun

Replacing the weird code that the last guy wrote for his own amusement is not fun.
I'm missing the not quite part here? The studios wanted to utilize fighter jets and other military grade hardware for their movie, I assume to make it more realistic, and in return they help market the US military as more kind, professional, whatever organization.

There's nothing stopping the filmmaker from creating those items as props, using CGI, ... and releasing their movie, completely ignoring the demands of the Defense Department.

China, unlike the US, has a quota on the number of foreign films it allows to be imported into the country, and to be selected for one of these coveted spots, Hollywood and film makers change the content of the their movies to fit the narrative of the Chinese government. Try marking Taiwan as an independent country and see where that gets you, for example. Alternatively, try releasing a movie sympathetic to the Taliban, or being critical of America in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. No one will stop you. The two countries are not equally problematic here.
yes, it is the most impressive tool to have zero documentation, zero affordance and get less capable over time... if they had launched Lotus the same way we would still be using paper ledgers... massive disconnect.

The things it is good for are being obscured by promises of a waterfall of tasks performed all by AI ending up in something usable. If you tell me you have a neat programme that does exactly what you expect 99.4% of the time yet you have no knowledge of why the 0.6% fail you will have to demonstrate that is has some very desirable properties not offered by other solutions. Hammer, looking for nuts, what is nuts is people taking £100 mill to wrap some langchain... the burn rate to get noticed is going to be half your spend, the other half is subsidising loss making operations with the idea that there is some pie to win here.

It's a novel database. Fun, creative, unpredictable in interesting ways, like my cousin.
And those who don't have their careers destroyed - how often do you see actors talk about the plight of Tibet after Richard Gere was basically run out of Hollywood?

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/...
And they can still download CentOS Stream for free and install it in their homelabs. In other words, exactly what you described enabled Red Hat to succeed.
Tiny is relative. Here's Joe[0] - he looks more-or-less like a diet/exercise fitness enthusiast in their 20s, which seems in line for his message/goal of "hey I'm just trying to hold on to that for as long as possible".

Here's The Rock[1] at 48 years old. You can search for in-role Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth, Henry Cavill, etc, etc - Joe is tiny by comparison and all of these actors seem to get bigger and bigger as they age (look at any of them from roles 10 years ago) - which is the exact opposite of what happens to men as they age.

Here's an example[2] of what they look like (in "Hollywood" shape, but normal for age) when not tuned-up to the max on whatever they do/take for these roles.

[0] - https://www.essentiallysports.com/ufc-mma-news-unlike-the-li...

[1] - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9166911/Dwayne...

[2] - https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/photo-gallery/43926966/im...
Ahh yes, there was that kind of thing as well. SUSE provided us with ways of replacing all packages on a RHEL running system with SUSE augmented CentOS packages. It was often used by people who wanted a cheaper alternative to RHEL, but still wanted CentOS for their random 3rd party apps.
Nvidia Uses OpenStack Swift Storage as Part of Its AI/ML Process
> It is good to know, as an author, that you should not accept releasing stuff under a license that has an "or later" clause.

Definitely: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4077/can-the-...
good developers are not only in SF, you get great developers in eastern Europe for 50k with the same productivity and knowledge of a 250k SF one.
I would suggest using either an Arduino w/ BLE shield or a raspberry pi pico w. Both platforms have great SDKs and a lot of online support/community. Raspberry Pi pico supports circuitpython if that is the route you want to go (i.e. if you are more familiar with python). But most embedded software is written in C/C++.
- San Antonio, Tx

- Remote - but I can come to the office at times

- Rails, Static site generators (Astro, Middleman)

- [Resume](https://voodoo.github.io/resume/)

- [Github](https://github.com/voodoo)

- paul.vudmaska@gmail.com

- I've got more than 15 years experience as a full stack Ruby on Rails developer

- I've been on hiatus for awhile

- I'm ready to get back to work
- Part-time at first
- Full-time - if we find I'm a good fit

- This is an opportunity for me to get my foot in the door with AI/Design/Art
- Get closer the front end with Figma and static site generators

- For you, this is a low risk, high reward proposition
- I'm a veteran, I don't need healthcare

- My [dream job](https://github.com/voodoo/voodoo.github.io/wiki/Dream-job) would be working in an artistic environment using Figma, Blender and AI

- I've spent a good portion of my hiatus learning ([Blender](https://voodoo.github.io/blender/))
- And, lately, [Midjourney](https://www.midjourney.com/app/users/4d6697d0-a99c-48eb-b3cb...)).

- I've got working knowledge of Figma (5 years experience)
- Or maybe working as a junior prompt engineer - making UIs with static site generators
> Humans are likely to share when they don't know something or to express concern when they aren't positive what they're is correct.

We must have met very different humans. Are there humans that do that this? Absolutely! Are they in the majority? Absolutely not. Now if you change that framing to "teachers" then I think on average you are going to get more people like that but I've heard many many people say things with complete confidence/certainty that was absolutely wrong. Then again, I've had teachers that have made predictions/statements that they state as facts so I don't know. Dunning-Kruger can account for part of it but still.
> This is only made worse when they scan the gym and compare the weight they can lift with that of a power lifter who’s often times no where near as big yet capable of lifting more

No one in a gym is made insecure by someone who is clinically obese, irrespective of how much they can lift. It's even more ridiculous when you realize how many of these people are obese, and on steroids.
Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it
Yep. Funny story, this was actually a coding interview homework for a question with order of millions of data rows from a file. The exercise required 10s timing requirement, so I decided to do it data centric from start. Interviewers found my style ‚non idiomatic‘, but probably never thought about why my version was done in fractions of a second.
These are also more expensive kinds of tests to setup and run so it's often not feasible, maybe in extreme cases. In a few Rails codebases I tried to mutation test something critical only to see that getting it to work would take more time than worth the effort
A hammer won't turn into a weapon unless it's wielded as such. Privacy is necessary for freedom only because humans have a rich history of wielding information as a weapon. If we can't learn to have power without using it to control others, we won't survive as a species.
You lost me after the first sentence. I don't follow sports enough, maybe that's why. I don't do social media outside HN and don't get people who use their real names on the public internet so the idea of being cancelled is not one I have strong opinions on.

But if you just meant racist people suck then I must agree.
It is unethical to misrepresent your involvement. I personally see no reason to punish publishing papers with a high degree of the division of labor but I do take issue with the idea that everyone contributed the same amount of work.

Co-authorship no longer means anything. If academics insist on counting points, then let the primary author allocate 10 points across all the coauthors.
Well no.. They don't have better self driving prospects. Tesla claimed in 2016 that the driver was only in the seat for regulatory reasons. We're now in 2023 and Tesla is still only level 2, nowhere near autonomous driving.
looks at state of current home vehicle interior Uh... white interior? What the what?