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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option,
include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

Searchers: try https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/,
https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.

Don't miss these other fine threads:

Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573869

Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573870
Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map
Disabling Matrix Portalling
• Resume: https://taylor.town/resume.pdf
• Email: hello@taylor.town
• Location: Los Angeles / Southern California
• Remote: yes
• Willing to relocate: no
• Languages: Rust, Elm, Typescript, Swift, Haskell, C++, Elixir
• Technologies: web development, systems architecture, UX/UI design, high-performance computing, database architecture, rapid prototyping, devrel / developer relations, product design, compilers, engineering management

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Taylor Troesh • https://taylor.town

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• selected writings: https://taylor.town/about

• programming language: https://scrapscript.org

• static site generator: https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress

• fun weekend project: https://dreamdaddy.io

• opinionated time-tracker: https://github.com/surprisetalk/nowify

• iOS computer vision demo: https://taylor.town/livecount

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hello@taylor.town • https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min
Snout https://www.snoutplans.com/ | Senior Software Engineer | Remote US | Full Time | $120k + equity and benefits

Join us at Snout on our mission to ensure no one ever has to make a health decision for their pet based on the cash in their back account. Snout plans pay for 100% of routine veterinary care, unlimited visits, and additional member benefits - think pet insurance, that you will actually use every year.

You will be working on our core wellness product, launched late-2022. Work includes the addition of new wellness plan features and capabilities, enhancement of user experience, testing and operation of the wellness platform, and special projects that arise from time to time. We frequently work cross-functionally and you can expect to write code and perform technical operations for our marketing, sales, and support efforts, as well.

Our tech stack includes Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Tailwind. We use both JavaScript and TypeScript heavily.

We’re a small startup team consisting of fewer than ten people. Successful team members are comfortable participating in spirited and detailed debates to establish product and technical plans, and then taking initiative and ownership to deliver on those plans quickly and effectively. Our team is collaborative. You can expect to meet with the team on a daily basis, pair regularly, and participate in slack discussions throughout the day. We keep pacific work hours and expect the team to be available during 9a-5p at a minimum. If you’re looking for a team where you can carve out your area of responsibility, work with experienced partners who have your back, grow your role alongside the growth of the company, and take a product to the moon, then we should talk.

To apply, please email kyle@snoutplans.com.

Our typical process is a one hour technical interview followed by a casual 30 minute meeting with our whole team.
Dealing with any international company requires having a translation office with a distinguishable stamp on every single letter. Might be slow, but they can be held accountable unlike your number soup AI
I apologise, I probably could have been clearer. One key advantage is being able to improve the model without needing to re-release via the App Store/Play Store. Our app (Blinq) is also native so we'd need to prepare a model to natively run on both platforms.
This seems like a case where Go’s ‘minimum version selection’ approach would have helped——Sidekiq would have continued using an older version of the dependency that didn’t have the breaking change.
Most 8 and 16-bit microcomputers at the time had a Lisp.
Automate Your Network
What freaks me out is the transition to electric handbrake. That thing was meant to be manual, no electricity, nothing, ever.
The way they talk about this shit, you would think it's a religion rather than just ice cream. I think that tone is required in order to think that the owner has some sort of duty to expand in order to "make ice cream and help the community around him."

Even weirder to create a story around some sort of selfless ice-cream evangelical, and explain in the beginning how he had no particular interest in ice cream, and was just unemployed and wealthy, looking for a arbitrary business to start that might be successful in the area.

His idea of total success would have been the brand just becoming another big franchise and/or label on store freezer shelves. Instead of doing it himself, he sold a big piece to someone who they would do it, but failed because he was all mouth. I'm not buying it as a tragedy.

edit: note, I'm talking about Steinberg, because the person who started the shop disappears pretty quickly in the narrative.
Paying your mortgage by winning th lottery is also possible, just simply not likely or common.
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE

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Estimates:

6m $120k launch a small video game for Nintendo Switch
4m $80k make a visionOS app prototype
3m $60k double your daily active users
3m $60k design and deploy an iOS app
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2d $2k basic technical writing
2d $2k launch a basic frontpage CSS redesign
1d $1k edit a podcast or shortform video
1d $1k branding design packet

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hello@taylor.town • https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min
Taylor Troesh • https://taylor.town

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Recent projects:

• selected writings: https://taylor.town/about

• programming language: https://scrapscript.org

• static site generator: https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress

• fun weekend project: https://dreamdaddy.io

• opinionated time-tracker: https://github.com/surprisetalk/nowify

• iOS computer vision demo: https://taylor.town/livecount

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hello@taylor.town • https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min
A few years ago I was working at an agency, one of their teams was building a real-time gaming system on top of FoundationDB.

Apple then bought it up and shut the open source down. They had to rebuild whole layers from scratch.
>I don't think that's actually true, at least not in the current century. What happened is they created maps to advantage Party A, and black people tend to vote as a near-monolith for Party B, which had the side-effect of electing fewer of black people's preferred Party B candidates.

You are free to think that. You need to remember, though - Alabama only had its first black representative in 1992, and that only happened because of a lawsuit reorganizing districts. In a non-racist system this would be a surprise because the black population is over 1/4th of the state and is geographically compact.

Either way, the effect of the districting is to dilute the voting power of the black population in favor of the white population. That's not legal to do, for good reason; states in the 20th century masked racial gerrymandering to hide their intent. See City of Mobile.
Most people outside of tech that I know haven't really heard of ChatGPT aside from in passing in a news piece or something. And those that have heard of it have no idea what it actually is.
From the outside, I’ve never seen a smaller professional circle with grander claims.

Crypto was more mixed from my recollection, a bit less ivory tower as the tech isn’t that complex, and very prominent people in the tech itself werent so readily making huge claims.

I’m seeing tech leaders saying things that make me concerned, like engineers saying Bard was sentient.
Start menu is really slow
Ask HN: Who got hired? (July 2023)
Comment if you got hired from a whoishiring thread in the last three months:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152014 (June 2023)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773707 (May 2023)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35424807 (April 2023)

Please include a link to the comment that got you hired.
Why would you believe that? How do you know human operators don't type pages of results manually every time you do a Google search?
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Our major project focus is OpenTitan: https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan it’s a silicon root of trust being built and funded by a collaboration of major companies, such as Google, Western Digital, Seagate, Winbond and Rivos amongst others. lowRISC stewards the project as well as performing a significant proportion of the engineering work.

We’ve just announced the RTL freeze for the first OpenTitan tapeout, a discrete chip, named Earl Grey: https://lowrisc.org/blog/2023/06/opentitans-rtl-freeze-lever...

We’re looking for verification and infrastructure engineers to join us. We work in System Verilog and use UVM, though plan to expand our use of formal verification. We’re also keen to explore new innovative ways to verify designs.

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lowRISC is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and we have an office in Zürich, Switzerland. We utilize a hybrid working model.

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There was a similar survey conducted by Pew in the US [1]. From the results in May, 58% of Americans have heard of ChatGPT.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majorit...
Where did you get 10:1 from?
> essentially just checking the language/graphics

I'm outside academia, but that seems unethical to me. As you said, the co-authorship brings the real value. These people want tenured positions not a few hundred dollars.
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Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Linux/UNIX administration, DevOps, Docker, Rust
Résumé/CV: Available upon request.
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Shortform | REMOTE | Full-stack Engineer | Full-time / Part-time | $100-200k

https://www.shortform.com/

Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to learn? Do you have hundreds of books and articles in your to-read list, but wish you could extract the main ideas faster?

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Our next goal is to index every idea on Earth and make sense of it. Specifically, we want to summarize and contextualize every meaningful idea published each day, in every form of media (books, articles, podcasts, videos, news, research papers).

Our first step was to build a Chrome extension that summarizes any page in your browser (https://extension.shortform.com/). Next, we're building content products to comprehend the world's information - for example, an idea explorer lets you see how a specific idea has been expressed throughout human history; a news summarizer shows the entire spectrum of opinions on a topic to help avoid groupthink. If ideas like these interest you, please apply.

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Technology: Vue.js on frontend, Flask / Python on backend, with heavy R&D in AI / LLM / GPT.
(Keywords for searchers with tech flexibility: Angular, React, Django | BERT, LLaMA, Natural Language Processing / NLP, Large Language Models, ML)

About the role: Ideally you're fullstack on the web, and comfortable on both front-end and back-end. Position is remote (current team is worldwide). Fulltime / parttime roles available. We're able to pay competitive market salaries (i.e. not decreased by equity).

Email jobs+engineerhn@shortform.com to get more details about the company, what we're building, and the application process. In your email, please discuss your experience for our stack, and also your favorite non-fiction book (to help us screen spam emails).
Also knowing my fair share of about automotive development, the kill switch would be likely present in all ECU software, including police and other security cars, only not coded (enabled) in the software. So this kill switch is supposed to prevent chases, but it could also enable them by kill switching the police. Irony.
>Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived.

At the present moment the human voice online is none of these things, as the market pressures which led to the hated 80s corporate speak are now felt by everyone - the risk one might "lose subscriber" or that one could be "cancelled". If you want a real human conversation now you have to use the abandonware IRL protocol.
SEEKING WORK / Remote

Location: Barcelona, ES

iOS developer looking for new projects. I have experience with both Objective-C and Swift. Technical skills: Swift, objective-C, iOS, macOS, Linux, Python.

Educational Background: BSc in Computer Science from UIUC.

Some apps I have worked on: http://nickpetrov.weebly.com/portfolio.html

Feel free to get in touch at n26cnu22@duck.com for more info.
How do those distinct lifestyles" match with rising inequality and people having a hard time buying a house or paying rent?
IDE space is free. Copy and pasting a long string takes no more time or effort than a short string. What you stand to gain from shortening a name is trivially small compared to the risk of making a name too short, potentially leading many people to each waste time trying to figure out what you meant.

The author's real problem is not about an excess of characters, it's that names are often long because they include redundant or irrelevant information. Still an incredibly minor issue, but there's some legitimacy to that. Better advice would be to keep names informative.
Texas's has unusual features.

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why-the-texas-power-m...

> Yes. Fundamentally, the difference between the Texas market and other energy markets across the U.S. is that it’s an electricity-only market. There is no capacity market paying generators to ensure there will be enough power to meet peak demand. The generators only make money when they’re delivering electrons into the grid.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/27/970877890/the-power-is-back-o...

> Take DeAndrew Upshaw of Dallas. His electricity bill is normally $80. A bad month is $300. His electricity bill over seven days in February? $6,700.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/us/texas-storm-electric-b...

> He said he had nearly emptied his savings account so that he would be able to pay the $16,752 electric bill charged to his credit card — 70 times what he usually pays for all of his utilities combined. “There’s nothing I can do about it, but it’s broken me.”

That's not very standard.
I see more people outside of tech talking about it than within tech.

Within tech the biggest constraint I'm seeing is a failure of our imagination on how this tech could be used, so far we've limited our interactions to that which we've been shown... chat bots, and if that's all we can imagine then this is definitely a hype cycle.

But when I speak to those outside of tech, who are not constrained to imagine what they've seen, then I see and hear much different things. It's not the second coming, it's not going to make the whole world redundant, but it is a change and for the most part non-tech people seem more eager to get there. At least, I'm surrounded by positive people who seem to hope that the most mundane aspects of our lives will be replaced by AI and will lead to some qualitative improvement of life (ignoring the cost of living crunch presently hitting most of them).
Does anyone find the timing of all this suspicious? It’s like once Elon left to focus on Twitter (and destroy what’s left of it), Tesla is suddenly doing a lot better. Probably without his constant meddling people are actually able to do their jobs.
Electric can be more reliable than hydraulic
This was announced in 2022, not a response to red hats recent decision.
And in following the road they did, they changed the world far more than JOVIAL ever did.

C has weaknesses. But it also has strengths, and those strengths mattered. It turns out they mattered more than the set of strengths that JOVIAL had.
> Morgan Systems line filters are a complete package of inductive isolation, overvoltage control, capacitive decoupling, and interference control of both common mode and differential mode signals across a broad frequency spectrum range ... single piece heavy chassis measuring 4″ square ... filtering ability with up to 45dB of noise attenuation, and fast surge attack speeds with gas discharge devices.

This class of device can be used to attenuate AC powerline networking (data leak) transmission over interconnected power wiring within commercial, residential and hotel buildings. Improves isolation of electronic devices, including USB-C docks connected to AC power, DC power or data over USB and/or Ethernet.
In the data side of the world, "structs of arrays" translate to column based indexes i.e. Snowflake and OLAP. "Arrays of structs" translate to relational databases with its page/row based indexes.

FWIW, I am a big fan of Snowflake and think it will eat everyone else's lunch. I also find it amusing that Snowflake "supports" foreign keys but don't enforce it. In other words, Snowflake is as "nosql" as I care to go.
"It's interesting they could have the most up to date mapping of anyone, I wonder if they plan to do anything with it."

No worries, Amazon has an excellent reputation, they would not think of doing shady things for money.
It has been my experience that for things that may be slightly or very obscure, and/or controversial/uncertain, and/or with limited # of sources, and/or when pushed into complex dialogue or tricky questions, chatGPT can really muck things up.

At the same time, when asked simple, clear and basic questions, on topics where there are myriad of resources, that agree with each other, it's very very very useful.

I'm not learning either French nor Music theory solely from ChatGPT of course; I use it to supplement and explore. As such, it's proven to be in the top 5%+ of patient & knowledgeable tutors/instructors I've ever had (or to put it another way, my piano teachers have been WAY more wrong, WAY more often about music theory than ChatGPT - we all take risks :)
I asked Google's Bard and ChatGPT4.0. They both said, "No. Don't worry." So I'm good.
> but boosting to higher T levels does come with real health risks

Absolutely, like shutting off your body's natural T production (!)
A home still needs to use socialized resources be viable. It needs the surrounding infrastructure, the schools must be funded, etc. Unless your home is in the middle of nowhere, it will definitely need to contribute to the upkeep of the region around it.
What always fascinated me is they built the simulator for the database first(ish) and relied on it as a first class citizen while building the DB:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc

> We wanted FoundationDB to survive failures of machines, networks, disks, clocks, racks, data centers, file systems, etc., so we created a simulation framework closely tied to Flow. By replacing physical interfaces with shims, replacing the main epoll-based run loop with a time-based simulation, and running multiple logical processes as concurrent Flow Actors, Simulation is able to conduct a deterministic simulation of an entire FoundationDB cluster within a single-thread! Even better, we are able to execute this simulation in a deterministic way, enabling us to reproduce problems and add instrumentation ex post facto. This incredible capability enabled us to build FoundationDB exclusively in simulation for the first 18 months and ensure exceptional fault tolerance long before it sent its first real network packet. For a database with as strong a contract as the FoundationDB, testing is crucial, and over the years we have run the equivalent of a trillion CPU-hours of simulated stress testing.

https://pierrezemb.fr/posts/notes-about-foundationdb/
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