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Turnstile (https://www.tryturnstile.com) | REMOTE (US/Canada) | Engineering | $175k-250k salary + equity

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We're a small (23-person) team of repeat founders and seasoned operators building a usage-based revenue platform that helps SaaS companies price however they want. This is a tight-knit and senior crew — most of us have 10-25 years' experience, much of it together.

The last company we started, Second Measure (YC S15), scaled to 70+ people and tens of millions in revenue, received multiple “best places to work” awards, and was ultimately acquired by Bloomberg in a landmark deal.

We're looking for extraordinary builders to play a foundational role in a company designed for scale:

- Billing Platform Engineer (Staff)
- Fullstack Engineer (Staff)

We're well-funded by top investors (led by First Round Capital), fully distributed, and known for building intentional, inclusive culture. We offer competitive global rates (SF salary + equity), equal pay by level, work flexibility (including a 4-day core schedule), and comprehensive, family-friendly benefits.

I'm Mike, one of the founders— if interested, apply here (https://tryturnstile.com/about) and mention this post.
What does a data scientist do?

It the description given here (data mining and visualization), and the fact that for a long time this was (I’m pretty sure) advertised as a bootcamp-appropriate sort of role seems to indicate that make this is not a role in and of itself?

A little coding and the ability to think about data seems like a generally useful add-on skill for most roles? Maybe a we’re seeing unsatisfied need for, like, office workers with some technical proficiency?
>Apple was built on a lot of peoples' ideas, some original and many borrowed (like all companies); Steve Jobs' gift was for editing.

And it turns out, editing, combining multiple things together where the sums are greater than its parts, is perhaps the single most important criteria for greatness.
Total nostalgia for the days when an OS cared about the user. Moving memory pages around is all well and good, but a realworld OS has far more important functions than responding to the demands of the user. I suggest adding a dimension whereby the player must respond to the wishes of the OS creator/owner. Have the OS be asked to inject ads into content. The OS could slowly depreciate itself in order to upsell the user on the next version. The OS should detect un-friendly activity by the user and brick itself and/or report the user as a "pirate". Or the OS could be asked to respond to FBI/NSA requests to spy on the user.
My point is that in Christology there is literally nothing but conspiracy theories all the way down, by every active participant for fully two millennia. If you imagine anything, anywhere is even a hair better than a conspiracy theory, it is a trick of the light.

To any sane historian, the whole topic is plastered over with "Nothing to See Here" signs.

About Carrier, I find nothing but "crank crank crank crank" name-calling that is beneath any actually respectable historian speaking of another credentialed academic. The only response that does not itself identify the speaker as himself a crank is, "We differ on details, as follows." Of course every historian differs on details with literally every other historian.
Is there an epub version?
Amazon warns workers to come back into the office
We've always used https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx which is just the standard package + mapping to/from structs.
After about 20 minutes of searching, I found the voiceline in question at 7:46 at https://youtu.be/SeG5YYq8kQU . It's definitely not the same as the series of "two grunts in a row" that my siblings and I finally eventually settled on, but you can see why it would inspire such a silly practice.

Additionally, for more, um, very strong overacting that was the cause of lots of laughter in the house, please see 14:56.

You can see why we spent a near-majority of our time playing together as Buzz Lightyear, and finding the closest pit<->respawn point pairing so we could die as dramatically as possible as quickly as possible.

We spent many, many, many hours doing this. Some of the hardest times I've laughed in my life. Good times. Thanks to the above commenter who brought up this trio, you've brought a lot of nostalgia that has brightened a rather rocky week! <3 :)
Allegedly owned by someone that attended the DEFCON Shoot event where gun powder was transferred to the package, tipping a dog doing a random search in the Forums.
The tools, design and manpower needed to build a skyscraper are different from those needed to build a 1-story wood house. It's not that the ones that build the wood house are failing to study and adopt the ways of their extremely successful competitors.

Now, some of the things you say like unit-testing and user data encryption are ones that I've never seen associated with the "We're not google" mindset, so maybe people have started using that phrase for anythingnow
I would bet the government did not want to pay for enough bus drivers and the outside firm gave them plausible deniability for reducing quantity of buses/increasing length of bus routes.

There are probably fewer and fewer kids per any given distance, so transportation cost per student keep going up, but for a number of reasons, the funding is not maintained (unless a sufficiently big disaster like this occurs).

Funding for schools is also based on number of students, so funding is being reduced at the same time that transportation cost per student is increasing.
Except security... every network I build, ALL traffic between hosts/apps must go through an inspection device.

Due the mass use of encryption and overlays, you can't trust any process or device any more.
Unless you have a monopoly on the ad market that's going to mask all of your bad managerial, strategy and culture problems, then I'd advise steering well clear of copying Google. They make money in-spite of their day to day practices, not because of them.
This is a common meme, but it depends how you define "product". There are companies with millions in VC backing that would just be a feature on a Google (or other big tech company) product as most people define them.

I would argue that taking a product from 100m to 1bn users is a whole new level of success, and that has been done multiple times in the last decade.
If Amazon don't have a need to change anything in software, they'll just provide it as service without any problems. AGPL permits this.

If they have to change something, then they would likely want want to return hose changes in upstream to lower maintenance burden. Or just publish changes on github of upstream doesn't want to accept them. AGPL is fine with this too.

If Amazon would like create similar offering but with some secret sauce that they don't want to share, then they'll develop in-house solution from scratch and sell it as a service in AWS.
Suppressing bad instincts is good and all, but don't overdo it. Central American farmers are not interchangeable for Chinese physicists. It's really amusing how much of leftism relies on discredited 1960's blank slate ideology.
Triggered. Missing from this is the experience where the reviewer rejects for something trivial, then you fix the issue in 1 minute, resubmit, and finally have to wait 24 hours for them to check their code review requests again.
> However, in so far as HN is an avant-garde community, its adoption of tech and practices likely foreshadow adoption writ large.

I'd love to see an analysis on this thesis!

Or more generally, how various sources of new-hire job descriptions correlate with each other: HN Who's Hiring and other job-advertisement boards; LinkedIn profiles; etc.

And same thing for programming languages: appearance in job postings vs. TIOBE index vs. ...
I like that you improve on the underlying database error messages, as they are really unhelpful, and I think this is a great place to add value.

I've been keeping track of a few dbt alternatives. Dbt have opened up the market to this use case, while only partially solving the business model and maturity side. Here are the more interesting ones:

sdf.com (ex Meta team)

sqlmesh.com (relatively new)

paradime.io (more an IDE)

cloud.google.com/dataform (GCP only)
Testers needed for security updates: Intel and AMD CPUs affected
An interesting thing to me about SO is how their focus on being Dev Centric ultimately led to some problematic internal culture issues.

This came up in a podcast episode I did and then turned up on twitter.

At one point in 2013/2014, an exec asked me if any of the developers had ever treated me badly because I was a woman. My honest reply at the time was “not because I’m a woman, but they definitely have treated me badly because I’m not an engineer”.

https://twitter.com/lauradobrzynski/status/16646162421104271...

Ben: This was a meetup at, I think it was Denver 2014. We were standing outside an arcade. The evening outing was a lot of pinball fun and air hockey. And one of our community managers was standing outside, and we got to talking, and he said to me, “You know, I was actually kind of surprised. You’re a really nice guy.”

https://corecursive.com/stack-overflow/

It's interesting to me as a warning.

I think treating developers really well is important. But SO seems like an interesting case where they allow entitled behaviour of some devs to get out of control and it led to problems.
Have you used `mediainfo` to check the codecs, bitrate and encoding settings? Curious what you'd find there...
Why is it undecidable? Is it not just a graph traversal/coloring problem?
It's not. You're describing a static analyzer that inserts free() automatically. Not GC. GC is pretty much the opposite.

Edit: Well, I didn't think it through. You're correct. A "perfect GC" is indeed undecidable, and all the real world, practical GC have "false positive" (a piece of memory is no longer used by the code, but there is no way to know it). A perfect GC without false positive is equal to halting problem.

Example:

var obj = new Object();

// === real code begin
... 50 lines of real code that never uses obj
if (something == true) return;
... another 50 lines of real code that never uses obj
// === real code end

obj.doThings();

A perfect GC can release obj while the real code is running. A real world, imperfect GC can't, since whether the real code returns early or not is undecidable.
I don't see how you can credibly claim their locations are a moat. Take any WeWork location in the world and there will be office space to rent within 5 minutes walk. So if they ever up their prices there's a juicy opportunity for a competitor just around the corner. The global convenience is a nice feature, but for 99.99% of workers it's probably a theoretical benefit rather than a practical benefit, and so it seems unlikely that that provides a competitive advantage.

The argument that companies would move to co-working spaces during the next downturn is something WeWork argued. But the truth is that during the downturn WeWork is stuck with high long term contracts and their customers either cancel (because it's a downturn) or can move to other cheaper coworking spaces that didn't lock in high costs during the boom times. It's a highly cyclical business and we know that because we can see how other established companies operate in the space.
Unfortunately good code does not mean a good product, and Google is anything but a good product company.
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The whole article is clearly written by someone struggling with English, with no checking or editing.
They use 'seldom' in a way that makes no sense, where I guess they meant 'hardly'. Then there's 'hilight' instead of highlight. That's just in the first few lines.
Personally I would not involve the authors life at all in the term (then again I think the ideal term length is zero) but I also don't see an artist kids not being able to profit from their dead parents works anymore unfair than a cobblers kids not being able to profit from their parents works after death. Life isn't fair. If someone needs welfare than I am in support of making sure it is available - but please let's not use it as an excuse for unrelated laws.
American VCs don't care much about EU regulations despite what the Europeans wants you to believe.
There seems to be a typo there. But in general, I understood the argument as different roles that have narrower and better scopes are causing less popularity of the data scientist role. Basically, DS was/is used as an umbrella term to cover many different things, and as companies are understanding the field better, they are moving towards more specific roles they need (such as ML engineer), rather than hiring for a data scientist role.
By the metric that the system was slower to use?

2012 iMac had the i7 2600

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-2600+...

2013 iMac had the i5 3470

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-3470+...

It was noticeable enough in Photoshop that the system ran 30% or so slower.
If we did science as you seem to think it should be done then very little progress will be made. You should read up on the history of progress in neuroscience. Metaphorically speaking; when you walk into a dark room one has to reach out and try to make sense of things before stumbling upon where the lamp is.
The "3. Thesis" section [0] seems empty. Anyone know what's up with that?

[0] https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/part1.html
Wet signatures are also a thing to avoid updating ancient procedures. I looked into the legal requirements for needing a wet signature (in my jurisdiction) and it turns out that they are rarely required. You need one when buying a house, but you need them for very little else.

I told the credit card company that demanded that I mail them letter with a wet signature to just accept a scanned PDF or lose my business and after a few emails back and forth they simply relented (admittedly, this was a few years ago).
isn't the "mostly good enough" aspect of ipv4 the biggest problem for ipv6?
Lower BMI as well.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/05/thin-air/
Nominal wages are rising faster than they have in decades (5-6%):

https://www.atlantafed.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker
What are your thoughts on Sophia, an algorithmic replacement for ADAM which promises to converge in fewer steps?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14342
> With MS now being the caring innovator who values your freedom of choice

they most certainly do not, but might be a slightly lesser evil in some ways
As I understood it, the first amendment has been hedged to protect what papers can publish. But it does not protect how or where they get the information. The result is that courts and the police both can and will raid offices, seize materials etc. The only protections against this are (a) getting it published before you're raided and (b) whatever respect for the spirit of the constitution you can inspire in judges or maybe lawmakers to try and codify these things.

Is that wrong?

I am asking here about the actual interpretation of the law, not the "ideal world" scenario...

This is the best case I could find:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branzburg_v._Hayes
The KBI might now be wondering if the Marion police chief was being entirely forthcoming about what was going on when he sought their assistance.
> If Google's code writing process really was superior, you'd expect them to consistently produce killer products in other fields.

This is a very simplistic notion of what enables the creation of killer products. That has much more to do with understanding users' needs and identifying market opportunities. Good code writing processes are about code maintenance and scaling engineering effort, not dreaming up the next killer app.
Flag the code and unit tests for multiple petty issues and then forget to review your change requests. Eventually accept them weeks later without comment after multiple prompts from the developer.
You contact the study author(s).
That's assuming that new facts never come to light over time.
Two 'second' chances seems generous to me. How many would you give before acknowledging a pattern of willful violation?
Just glancing at Dawn, which I never heard of until now, it appears their use of absl is similar in purpose to the way other Google open source projects use it: faced with the choice between requiring C++20 (or 17, or 14) or requiring only C++11 and using absl as a kind of polyfill, they chose the latter.
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When choosing a company I often check their about pages, checking who they really are, etc.

I came across Namecheap's affiliate marketing program, and they really seemed to treat affiliate marketers like shit. Now, think what you want about marketing, but as a business I'm for treating any business partner with respect, and if you don't like affiliate marketers then don't have the program, but don't have the program then abuse them, especially small time ones.

So, yes, there is something wrong with Namecheap. Perhaps it manifests itself in areas outside their marketing programs too, YMMV, it was enough for me to not go forward with them, an incompatible corporate culture.
FYI - the main Call to Action button on the homepage, "Start Learning" linking to /docs, gives a 404 error. On the other hand, the menu items "AI 101", "Chat GPT" work fine to navigate to the content.
ATC communication is fascinating to me. I go down the Youtube rabbit hole a few times a month.

A few things that always stand out to me...
- the calm demeanor shown by both ATC and pilots. Even in situations that make me cringe sitting at my laptop, everybody involved is steady. I know it's their job, but it still amazes me.

- the complexity of airport operations at a major international is mind-boggling. Hand-offs from ground to tower to departure... and then back again if something goes wrong. And doing that for dozens of planes at a time. Some crewed by pilots with thick accents or static-y radios.

- that air travel is the safest form of transit given the complexity of engineering and human processes involved is truly astounding. I know today's successes are the result of all previous tragedies; it's still something else.

I live under the main international approach to IAD. Watching the heavies fly in makes me smile. Especially the A380. It's a shame the A380 didn't find a long-term market - looking up, it shouldn't be able to fly, but there it is.
Fiber Optic Cables Are Natural Earthquake Detectors
I have yet to be impressed by internal software tools developed by one team and consumed by another. You're likely being friendly and understating the degree of jank which is present.
It's a good way to game performance reviews.
"Readability" works terribly when your company is acquired and your team enters all at the same time.

Google has (or had ~10 years ago), a thing called "readability" for each language, where in order to be allowed to commit code to the central "google3" repo, you needed to have written some large amount of code in that language, and needed to have a readability reviewer sign off on your code. The process is designed for slowly on-boarding junior people into a team, and introducing them to google coding style and practices. Eg, the senior, mentoring folks on the team do the reviews and bring the new person up to speed. I imagine it must work well in that context.

However, this breaks down when your entire team is new. How do you find somebody to review the code? All several million lines of the product that was acquired? Especially when it is written in multiple languages.

So we were basically locked out of the main corporate repo, unable to do anything productive. We finally figured out that there was a paved path with a git repo used by the kernel team (and android?) that had none of these hurdles, where we could put our code and get productive immediately.
As the article highlights with the Japan near-miss, "Regulations are written in blood". What a tragic story for everyone involved.
Watch "unknown: cave of bones" on netflix. The first bones were found more than a decade ago and this documentary is based on a recent expedition there. The cave itself has an interesting story.

You can judge for yourself the evidence and how it is presented.
Are Americans allowed to choose which kind of immigrants they want? I know those on the left think merit-based immigration is "condescending" (Pelosi's exact words), but can we at least not pretend all immigrants come from immigrantland?

I feel like I'm the rare type of person who is both very pro immigration but also very anti- endless low skill immigration.

I take my cues from LKY, I guess:

http://thekansascitian.blogspot.com/2013/02/dont-take-fruit-...
> Offensiveness that rises to the level of a crime

The larger question is, how is this even possibly a thing?

That there are legal liabilities that are wholly dependent on the internal emotional state of another person is absolutely insane. How is it possible to take a government that treats its adult citizens like kindergartners seriously?
So you bring up Russia every time you join a discussion about Israel I guess.
Instead of saying that rightful owners should get their artifacts you have down the bs route.

In the real world developing world is getting stronger and Europe is weakening. That tells you what's in the store sooner or later
Does it make use of hardware AV1 encoders when available?
Dell fined $6.5M for cheating customers about monitor discounts
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It looks like Newell was using Tammy Ensey's liquor license, which is non-transferrable and expires later this month.

[1] https://peabodykansas.com/direct/restaurateur_accuses_paper_...
But it is also possible, perhaps likely, that some coincidences are in fact higher-level resonances between groups of planets. These would be multi-body problems that may take thousand or millions of years to react to perturbations. The calculations for these may well be beyond our current capabilities to detect (3+ body problems).
Google software engineering may not be perfect, but that's because we all have high standards probably. I've worked at both FAANG and non-FAANG companies, and while the sample size is small and not representative of ALL non-FAANG companies, I will say that my experience at FAANG companies is the engineers there do to get dream big and come up with ingenious engineering solutions that make engineering work at non-FAANG look like college senior undergrad projects. I think we should celebrate what Google has done for software engineering instead of nitpicking every little detail that they got wrong.
> Did he believe nothing would come of this and it would all just go away?

My entirely unevidenced belief is that this happens _all the time_ and recent events are only notable because they didn't just go away. With local news in freefall if anything I imagine this is happening more and more.
It's just a separator page. Each of the parts is like that: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/part2.html

This is an html copy of a physical book. In book, that's nothing unusual.