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MONOKEI | Singapore / Malaysia or Remote | Full-time | Hardware / Electronics

We're an input device studio currently building mechanical keyboards, and we believe that good input devices are important. Come build metaphorical shovels with us.

We're hiring for the following roles:

- mechanical engineer (please reach out directly)

- electronics hardware engineer

- senior firmware engineer

More information about the roles here: https://monokei.co/careers

We'll be happy to sponsor your work visa (if on-site work is required) to SG.
Unix style locale (set by env vars) is flexible, that can set per app. Android and iOS now support locale per app recently IIRC. Windows locale settings is global and some requires reboot.
Sonim sells "dumb" phones for professionals as well. As well as ruggedized Android smartphones with physical buttons.
I remember a friend whose company allegedly was putting money from their paycheck into some kind of retirement plan, but there was never any documentation showing where that money went. It was skettttttch
I tried to buy something from Steam yesterday and it hung for a while, a gave up and tried again today. May be unrelated.
The victims are the public.

Edit: to clarify, I believe this is the actual legal basis of anti monopoly legislation. Protection of the interests of the public, not competitor companies.
It's not fitting for all insects but in the house I use a small cordless Dirty Devil vac. Works great on flies in the window.
But Bing launched when Google was also good and there was no reason to switch.
PicoCalc: A fully-functional clone of VisiCalc for the PICO-8
Were you here for the hellish days of when all browsers were incompatible?
Receiving ownership of defunct satellites with russian nationality as a service
Erm, which subordinate was the one Bezos married?
I would argue the takeaway here is not precisely that this behavior is "maintaining their monopoly", rather that it's incredibly strong evidence that the monopoly exists.
There are plenty of guns running around that are over 100 years old that are surely an antique by anyone's definition, but are safe and reasonable to show with modern ammo. Pretty much any gun of that age, unless it was some kind of commemorative thing from the start, is going to have plenty of rounds through it already.

For example - an M1903 is an antique by any definition, and you'd be hard pressed to buy one today that's unfired.
This is an interesting application, too bad the pricing model sucks. "$0/month (+ usage fees)". What are you, Comcast?

Does anyone know about open models that do the same thing?
Location: Argentina
Remote: Yes!
Willing to relocate: Not really, but can consider it
Technologies: Next.js, React, Typescript, Javascript CSS, Node.js
Résumé/CV: Hit me an email and I'll send it to you
Email: martinbianchi996@gmail.com

I'm Martin Bianchi, I've been in the industry for more than 5 years.
I'm resourceful and proficient with the modern web stack. Exceptional at envisioning and building projects from the ground up!
The name of the channel is "There I Ruined It".. That's the point, the person who created it did it specifically to make you feel like that.
Why in the world would you go to such elaborate lengths to kill a stinkbug in your house?

They don't bite or sting, and they're really crap at evasive manoeuvres. They don't want to be inside any more than you want them to be.

Just pick them up and toss them outside. No need to get medieval.
Can’t speak to PayPal, but my transfers between TransferWise and Chase are instant now vs failures or slowdowns. Highly recommend Wise if you can.
Yikes. I want to give the finger to xfinity/Comcast, but I’m paying $50/month or possibly less.
Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Javascript/Typescript(ReactJS, NextJS), NodeJS, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://maximchen.com

Email: chenr.maxim@gmail.com

Hello everyone! My name is Maxim Chen. I'm a software engineer with 3 years of experience primarily focused on Front End based in the SF Bay Area. I come from a design background, having studied Interaction Design at UCSD with some uiux experience with figma and adobexd. Now I'm focused on software engineering especially anything front-end related. I'm open for relocation ideally NYC. Feel free to reach out! I would love to chat
Captchas are used to distinguish between anonymous humans and scripts trying to impersonate a large quantity of unrelated humans. The other way of preventing someone from impersonating many fake people with a script is requiring actual verification of identity - that's a higher barrier of entry and (for now) requires country-specific solutions and so is harder to internationalize/globalize, but this seems the direction the world is moving towards.
I'm curious if you can back this up from a technical perspective. I work with mobile (but all Android these days) and it is a mess. Best training ecosystem is Pytorch (and maybe Jax). For inference, you need to endure all manner of pain to optimize/quantize your model (PTQ has perf loss so Training aware quant is key). There are lil operator optimizations (fusion helps perf) but then certain ops have issues on the accelerator you care about. This android experience is mostly related to ARM issues. Q seems to be investing heavily in tooling but now that they are laying people off, I think their toolchain is a bit risky (and may not work if not on Q hardware). Is the story for optimization much different for Apple silicon?
Maybe I miss-interpreted the quote at the end of the article.

> At the end of Mr. Nadella’s appearance, a Justice Department lawyer asked why he thought Google paid Apple so much money to be the default search engine on Apple’s web browser Safari.

> “That’s a great question,” Mr. Nadella said. “I would love an opportunity to sort of not have them pay — maybe on behalf of the Google shareholders.”

I read that as: Nadella saying it cost Google's shareholders X in expenses. Reading it a second time, he is probably implying it increased Google's shareholders Y in revenue. But either way, CEO of a trillion dollar company making hypocritical remarks on another trillion dollar company. IMO it's just a poor decision of DOJ to use MS as a witness. I'd prefer they bring to light companies that are actually struggling, and not the company that can sign a $10 billion deal to boot strap new features into their competing product.
Let’s suppose the motive of wanting more women in tech is to rally against historic prejudices and institutional biases, in order to assist an otherwise marginalised group towards a more equal footing with the traditional power brokers, men. If you can’t see how this extends to trans women, a group that is almost inarguably as oppressed as cis women, regardless of whether you view them as ‘true’ women, then I can only assume bad faith.
(this is a meta-comment on HN)

The parent comment was dead when I check, and I vouched it.

While the parent comment was not too insightful, it wasn't bad either (and you can argue it is useful). Not sure why it was dead.

It seems to me HN is becoming more intolerant recently.
...a power MSFT deeply wishes it had and would argue is fine if they were in Google shoes.

There are some deep ironies in this case.
Seeking: Consulting/Contracting

For the next couple of months I'll only be available on a part-time basis because of other client work, but if you let me know what your schedule and timetables are I'm happy to try and work something out.

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Location: Eastern US

Remote: Yes (Any US time zone is acceptable)

Willing to relocate: No, I'm only seeking fully remote roles at this time

Technologies: Full stack JavaScript/Typescript (Node, React, Vue, etc...), modern CSS/HTML patterns/frameworks like Tailwind and BEM. The usual tools and systems: Git, Linux, Mongo, etc...

Skills: System and architecture design across both the front-end and backend, tool development. Feature planning/design, UX planning, design, and iteration. Product testing and support.

Resume: https://danshumway.com/resume/base/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielshumway

Email: workwithme@danielshumway.com

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I have around 8 years of professional experience working with both large and small teams covering both front-end and backend architecture and tooling and full-stack feature planning, development, deployment, QA, and maintenance.

My approach to feature/architecture planning and development is to work through requirements directly with product owners and to iteratively build out the systems they need. Each step in that process sheds more light on what is possible, what the requirements and scopes of the projects actually are, and what changes and alterations to the design should be made. In my experience following an iterative, agile approach where product owners are kept in-the-loop throughout the entire dev cycle results is vastly better products.

I'm very good at getting up to speed with new technologies and requirements and thrive solving difficult or nebulous problems. My development background has required me to pick up a broad range of skills and to tackle a broad range of problems from security design to debugging and patching 3rd-party libraries. It's my policy to try and leave teams, products, and codebases in a better position and in a better condition than I found them.

I am currently interested in both consulting and contracting roles, although my dev process when contracting is very similar to how I approach consulting tasks; I believe there's a huge value add in making sure that development processes are tightly integrated into the planning and design of features, products, and architecture. If you have an interesting problem to solve, I'd love to get in touch :)
Starting salary, also if you want one that big. My first house cost me just $230k, which I sold for about $240k. That was about 1800 sq ft.
Location: Townsville, QLD, Australia

Remote: Please, if not in Townsville

Willing to relocate: No, family comes first

Technologies: MSSQL (22 years), C#, others

Résumé/CV: https://pcblues.com/resume/

Email: markosborne@pcblues.com

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I've submitted more than a dozen reports to their service.

To their credit - Mozilla pulled it from their copy of the safebrowsing list and no longer reports it as malicious. Google does though.

Google also has no contact in place to appeal, and I've provided written contact information if they have any actual evidence of abuse that I can prevent.

They have had these reports for more than 10 months now, and I resubmit roughly once every week or so.
For the most part the most direct victims of unfair competition practices are competitors.
Someone holds up a shop, it’s caught on ccd. The criminal is not caught and the media is matched to your photo. Your id paperwork is not going to help. You have become the person they’re looking for.
This kind of pretty sloppiness is exactly why I avoid their defaults like the plague. Tell me you're being irresponsible with your position of power without telling me you're being irresponsible with your position of power. Sigh
Yes, I am aware of how these schemes are marketed. I have lived in homes that use these schemes and it's not worth it.

Maybe you live in a better climate, but not getting adequate heating or cooling when I need it most negates the entire purpose of having heating and cooling.
I'm not a doctor, so standard disclaimers apply: I've followed the LEF's recommended list (https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2006/5/report_blood) since I was in my early 30s. Doing them every year or two, out-of-pocket using DirectLabs or similar, which frequently goes on sale for ~$250. The key mentioned on that LEF page, and echoed by longevity doctors, is that the standard test ranges are often too wide.

I also paid out of pocket recently (age 42) for a coronary calcium scan. It was surprisingly inexpensive (~$125), but did require a prescription.

One thing you will probably hear from your GP is that these kinds of tests are a waste of money for someone near 30, and speaking from population averages, they're correct. Odds are, there won't be anything in there that is actionable or useful, but I think there's value in establishing a baseline and observing trends over the years. Of course, if you fall into the rare case where your CAC shows a >0 score, that's a really valuable bit of info.

Those, to me, always seemed like the best value to $ spent, for someone younger than 50. I suppose an early (<45) colonoscopy might approach that value, but those would be thousands out of pocket.
Honest question: in what way are student loan servicers in the US financially incentivized to steer borrowers away from income based repayment plans? I think that the opposite is true.

Servicers are paid a flat fee per outstanding loan, without regard to balance or monthly payment, _as long as payments are current_. Delinquent accounts are worth less. Being put on an IBR reduces your monthly payment, making it more likely it can remain in the state that is most profitable for the servicer.

https://thecollegeinvestor.com/36556/how-much-do-federal-stu...

From that perspective, the servicer is strongly incentivized to use IBR plans for accounts at risk, with no downside to them for erring on the side of lower payments.

Furthermore, income based repayment plans aren’t a forgiveness of debt or reduction in interest rate. They simply reduce the monthly payment by extending the term as needed. In practice this can mean adding decades to the term, sometimes creating a situation where the principal grows every month. The longer the extension, the more fees paid to the servicer, since they make a flat monthly fee per loan. Again, one would think that the servicers would have every incentive to promote such a system.
>Quantum gravity is obviously the elephant in the room,

Isn't that just our understanding of gravity not being complete.

> the standard model doesn't account for neutrino masses ,matter/antimatter asymmetry, or why the lepton masses are related, and it gets the magnetic moment of the muon wrong. The existence of physics beyond the standard model is certain.

That seems to be a big leap, is not the existence of flaws in our understanding of gravity also certain?
I was crazy once..
roughly:
In the US, the state has to prove consumer harm.
In the EU, the state has to prove competitor harm.
I love my iPhone. But I miss flashing my various Android devices with CyanogenMod. Felt so cool
The person testifying in this case is the CEO of the company that runs the second largest search engine in the country.

The trial is about if Google used illegal practices to suppress and harm competitors.

So the person testifying, literally, is the victim of the crime.
is this just google propaganda trying to sway public opinion towards them not having a monopoly because “well apple could do it”. Why would apple invest anything into search when they get paid billions not to?
I have it at my cabin, and get anywhere between 100-200mb/s down and 10-20mb/s up.

I’m in a discounted area and “only” pay $90 per month, so that probably has something to do with the speeds.

I’m also fairly close to the downlink site - not sure if that has any effect.

There are no other non-satellite options available.
> Isn’t this how pre-undergraduate math education has been for the entire history of mass education?

Yes. Not sure why you're in the negative ATM.
Love your argument! Nailed it on the hypocrisy.
That is what I also thought; I submitted it a second time, and it was rejected again. I even showed them a video of the process.
Asserting that Bitcoin is equivalent to money laundering is an exaggerated claim bordering absurd. Such unfounded statements are best addressed with dismissive ridicule.

An entire industry exists that specializes in scrutinizing transactions, with both the IRS and FBI utilizing blockchain forensics for many years to trace financials of crypto bros and criminals alike.

Bitcoin serves as a global financial safeguard, protecting vulnerable individuals from issues like rampant inflation, exorbitant remittance fees, and oppressive governments.
Unions are not sophisticated economic coordinators. They’ve been captured by the elderly and low skilled employees. Many unions demand different compensation for the same work, old people get more money at the cost of our youth.
The high optical brightness of the BlueWalker 3 satellite: 64 m^2 phased-array
I never understood how people can browser the we WITH IT. Even 10 years ago. today more then ever basically every website needs JS to work properly. I basically never come across a page where I have the urge to disable JS. I have a large list of adblock lists active that also help getting rid of cookie banners and other shit.

I can not imagine manually approving JS for every site. And again doing the inverse and have noscript installed to deny one website a year does not seem to be worth it for me. In this case I can also just use a adblock rule to block that specific script or all .js files from the domain I guess. So I really no not need NoScript.
Who cares honestly. It's just brinksmanship by career politicians who love the sport more than they ever loved their country, elected by Americans who aren't motivated enough to hold them to account. They're playing their periodic game of debt ceiling chicken in their time off between the usual scheduled programming of squabbling about wedge issues and the consequences of decades of this are of no interest to these people.

"Washington is already scheduled to borrow $119 trillion over the next three decades"

This isn't even real. Most Americans can't even conceptualize what that number means.

If you want some kind of solution or profound spiritual change to the nation, it won't come from this system.
It's not just looked down upon it's called market splitting and it's patently illegal.

This case exists because it's the opinion of the United States Department of Justice that this law was broken by Google.
Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors
https://ecosia.helpscoutdocs.com/article/33-how-does-ecosia-...
Mackenzie worked for Jeff at D.E. Shaw
No. It is just too powerful.
It will be used in panopticon-like setting.
https://archive.ph/02xw3
Yeah, 30 days vacation really isn’t that crazy in the U.S. tech world at least. I currently get 20 days vacation, an extra 5 available to buy, plus ~13 federal holidays off. I went ahead and bought the extra 5 days for this year since an extra 5 days of vacation was worth more than a marginal $3k or so.

My previous employer had just switched to an “unlimited PTO” policy and had I not been laid off I planned on taking at least 30 days off.
CHIPS Act 2nd Funding Round
Data Science Services
I am a seasoned data scientist looking for remote consulting work. The url below provides a gist of the kind of problems that I can help with and an engagement plan. If you are looking for help on data science projects with these problems, I would appreciate your consideration.
https://rajivsam.github.io/r2ds/
The fact that people are still treating it like entirely raw text input is insane to me. If you have a document, have a separate input for the user to paste/upload data, and then another for the user's instruction.

That allows you to do things like chunk the document while leaving the rest of their instruction alone, or do a sliding window of just the document while your instruction stays static.
> there's not many good ways to kill them without releasing their nasty odor

Handheld vacuum cleaner, then empty outside after they've starved to death (about a day). No mess, no fuss. Gruesome, but very satisfying.
"Google as a search engine is far better than Bing and that’s just a fact."

Is it?

I just tried a couple of searches on Bing.
"Market Size of Apple Watch"
Both Bing and Google didn't answer, providing market share instead.

"novak djokovic age when he won first grand slam"
both said 20 in an infobox on top.

In my experience it's evened out, with Bing better at image and video search.

OK just tried 3 more. Almost identical with tiny edge to Google, but seriously, not by much. Try 5 searches yourself.
You should be earning returns on your investment while retired so you get more. Plus you get social security as well.
Yep. And mind you "flexible" here means fully remote. None of that 3 days at office BS.
Every programmer don't have to remember all things in this article, but they should remember that Unicode (or text system in the wild) is actually complex so they should research as needed.
That really wasn’t clear from ten years ago to now. There has been a lot of disagreement on liquid cable cooling, AC vs. DC, voltages and the total amount of power that will be required, etc. Things seem to finally be settling down now though.
Wild claim, not really the point either.
Level 1 macro analysis with no insight, just as you would expect from a CNN editorial.
I'd be curious to hear about your take on gaussian splatting and whether or not you're looking into using technologies like it (NeRFs?) in your tech stack.
>This, on the other hand, feels bitter. It seems to be coming from a place of hate.

Of course is bitter. Dude said it clearly. Was hired as WFH before COVID, had challenging work, enjoyed it and then some asshole higher up, one day, decided to RTO indiscriminately for everyone.

And I didn't felt any hate, just disappointment. He was disappointed that he had to resign. Hence his rant. I would rant too in same shoes.
Kids that have only 1 or no parents in the home are at a significant disadvantage compared to kids that have 2 parents. Spending per pupil, income level, education level of teachers, teachers per pupil - all that is in the noise compared to this one factor.
If just for the fact that it annoys people I love the mouse cursor idea. But I also find it technically interesting. Is some kind of consent legally needed per GDPR or something for this? I for sure is tracking, literally. And a website has to ask to set cookies ...
Honest take: I’m an Apple customer (no, I’m not interested in hearing how terrible that makes me). I want to see them focusing on innovating in hardware that works for their products. I want to see them improving and stabilizing Swift and SwuftUI. I want to see them actually investing in fixing long-standing issues with macOS. The last thing I want as an Apple customer is for them to launch a giant new undertaking like search. Right now they have been fairly good, with some significant exceptions, on user privacy issues. A search engine, especially one relying on ad revenue, would muddy those incentives. And it would be a massive investment in an area they just don’t have any reason to touch aside from trying to stick it to Google.
On linux there's the XDG_CACHE_HOME env variable for pip, but strangely enough there doesn't seem to be an windows equivalent.
I will place a bet against Apple successfully launching their own general purpose Google competitor successfully before 2028.

Search is incredibly complex and expensive to build and run. Apple lacks the server side chops to build super low margin services (iirc they’re around double the cost of gdrive). Say, it’s 2-3 years for them to build out capacity, and another 1-2 years to get the software working well. That still would make it a mad dash.

That being said, I can see Apple building a special purpose alternative to Google, indexing a small subset of the web, which is curated - think what gets put on Apple News, or similar.
Intel was just going to shut the NUC division down completely. I imagine Asus is mostly buying the brand at a bargain price. Maybe any custom tooling as well?
Cost of doing business in this hell hole of a platform
Mitochondria are at the center of a lot of key processes in general. They play an important role in regulating cell death and free radicals in the body. They also play a role that is still being studied in what membrane receptors are transported to the surface in neurons.

There's a lot that intersects at the mitochondria making it common across many pathogenesis and a very delicate system to interfere with (not ideal for intervention)