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Pachama | Remote | Full-Time | Staff Software Engineer- Applied ML

Our mission at Pachama is to fight climate change by restoring nature. Pachama is a technology company on a mission to restore nature to solve climate change. Harnessing the latest advancements in satellite imagery, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence, Pachama evaluates the carbon stored in our forests and monitors forest growth over time.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead development of cutting-edge systems for our mission to restore and protect the planet's forests. As a leader on the Protocol team, you will build, scale and deploy AI and Remote Sensing technology to our customers so that they can identify and originate the highest quality nature based projects.

We're looking for engineers who find joy in the craft of building but live for seeing the end to end impact and want to rally engineers around them. Engineers who push forward initiatives by asking great questions, cutting through ambiguity, and organizing to win. Engineers who are relentlessly detail-oriented, methodical in their approach to understanding trade-offs, place the highest emphasis on building, and building quickly.

To apply: https://jobs.lever.co/pachama/da37339f-28dc-4274-8106-1772dd...
I'm not an electrical engineer but it sounds implausible for power to be transferred that far without losing a bunch of it in the process, unless you have massive cables.
That is as expected. They seem to be gearing up for one last serious offensive before winter sets in. Artillery would be intended to soften up the targets before sending in infantry.

Judging by what we've seen so far, it's almost certainly going to be a disaster. They will achieve a few objectives of little tactical value at immense, horrific cost in human lives. It will be declared a victory before going on winter hiatus to re-arm and regroup.
The real question is: Why is there a *cloud* API to access a device that is hosted 40 feet from me?
It's beneficial for all the other sites if non-secret data is TLS-encrypted, though. If I want to ban secrets, and HTTPS is only used for secrets, I can just ban TLS; but if HTTPS is used for most of the web, I have to ban most of the web (and such a ban will never last long).

Additionally, metadata such as browser history can reasonably be considered a secret: TLS helps protect that somewhat.
I was confused for a few seconds. This is to help others. The user didn't build their website, they built the web server, a more difficult task.

I was expecting a classic CGI gateway approach with some templating support and maybe a data source (not necessarily sql but perhaps INI).

Instead it's an HTTP server
Oh interesting! We had a 9000 when I was a kid for a bit but I never looked into it that deeply.
Oh nice. Just today I started watching Jon Gjengset's video implementing TCP in Rust https://youtu.be/bzja9fQWzdA?si=Gh4s8FHpk9vBVEwZ
All of this seems to rest on the paradox Theil can't overcome. He believes in the Great Man Theory of history but can't rectify that by his own philosophy he is not one of them.

He's stuck in the misery of not living up to his terrible inhuman standards.
City Storage Systems: CockroachDB on Kubernetes at Global Scale
And it will continue to be unable to do so because they are only targeting making it a better experience for developers, not consumers.

The app is less usable than Steam (in general), and most user's experience with it is just being forced onto it because certain devs hopped over on an exclusivity contract. So it's already soured in most people's mouths. No one is interested in investing in another walled garden when they've invested thousands of USD in one that generally works better.
That's the price of working in the same envelope as humans. Can't build up too much kinetic energy.
Article is in German language.

From my limited German it seems that Microsoft transfers all email-related information to a Microsoft-owned server on signup; including not only the access data (ie. SMTP passwords of all acounts, and such) but also the contents of all the the emails.
I read the OPB article and it mentions DEI at the end, in a way that suggests that this change did not come as a result of DEI.
> Whether this will be the solution is unclear; the privacy/creepiness angle is still real with an outwards-facing camera.

I don't think you're wrong, but it's funny that we aren't as concerned about everyone walking around with outwards-facing phone cameras.
Trees aren't really carbon negative, but carbon neutral over an extended lifespan. They die and turn back into atmospheric CO2 (perhaps becoming even worse methane along the way) while their leaves continually do this over a short period.

But the trees usually do this over a timescale of 20-220 years (less when there are fires or climactic change), so are much better than nothing. But they don't count as "permanent".
"Scoop: What were @AP, @Reuters, @CNN & @nytimes Gaza freelance photographers doing inside Israel on October 7? Coincidence or were they part of the plan?"

https://nitter.net/HonestReporting/status/172230927394061140...

They were probably just deceived and lured to some location under a ruse. Anything else isn't just unlikely it also doesn't make much sense psychologically.
Whenever I open the Epic Store, I'm in disbelief that the company behind Unreal Engine is okay with having such a sluggish piece of software.

It has a fraction of a fraction of Steam's features, and yet feels 10x bloated. The visual response to clicking anything in the interface takes what feels like hundreds of milliseconds. It feels worse than any Electron app I've ever used, and I can't imagine why. I know that's not a main reason of why it's floundering, but I also wonder if it's a bigger turnoff for the average PC player than Epic's willing to admit.
Screen sharing and global hotkeys have been my only pain.

Pipewire and desktop portals have solved certain aspects of screen sharing, but not all of them (since apps arent updated to use those portals yet).

I feel like global hotkeys could easily be another portal. Let me flag apps with full global background listening ability, or simply let me say which keys an app can listen to. Then apps don't need a rewrite, they can keep just background listening as they always have, and my DE can decide what even to send to them.

If I don't want discord listening to keypresses, then discord will just think it's weirdly quiet without ever knowing if it has the permission. If I do want discord listening, then nothing has to change from Discord's end and it just starts working.
While it can’t do anything on the device, you can activate Siri and then say “Ask ChatGPT” if you have the app install and then have ChatGPT answer questions.
There’s so many options for distributing PC games that the market clearly sees the 30% as fair. This is an ecosystem where you could sell a game on a website with a payment portal and nothing else…
A lot of mountain bike and hiking trails in the area of that forest. We even have a race called Palos Meltdown because takes place in the vicinity :)
I like the idea or such a thing, but the actual form factor just has Google Glass vibes. I doubt anyone wants to wear a HAL on their shirt.

It would be cool to have a personal assistant on your body capable of setting appointments, answering questions, contacting people and what not without having to look at and tap a screen. Audio interface is a fantastic use case of LLMs. But I wouldn't do it unless the device was fully hackable. FOSS software, available hardware schematics, these should be bare minimum requirements today, alas they're not. At least with Android the software is available for hacking.

I like the idea of the laser projector, there are times you need to display something visual but interfacing with a phone for that requires a phone, which negates most of the hardware requirements for the device, and interfacing with existing wireless protocols and phone UX is infeasible. It's a good stopgap while we wait for real holographic techtechnology, but only works if it is not a primary interface. The primary interface has to be voice or there's no benefit to it at all.

The form factor is unattractive. First, there's the issue that voice interaction provides no secrecy in public, just as a holographic visual interface would not, then it clips to a shirt and looks like a shoplifting prevention clothing tag with a camera. If it cannot adapt to loose clothing and moving around unpredictably it doesn't make sense to attach it to clothing and needs to be attached to the body in some way.

Socially acceptable accessories are a problem. To be candid, people want to get laid, and walking around with a helmet on your head or a small computer where your pocket protector should be get in the way of this. A watch or glasses are fine, so long as they're not overly obvious in signaling that they're a nerd toy. The problem with a watch is that you can't do the laser display thing without using up two hands. The problem with glasses is that the technology to display high resolution overlays in your field of view doesn't exist yet. The problem with the laser display concept itself is that you need a hand to use it, the same hand you could use to hold a phone with a much better display. So it doesn't really offer an advantage. This form factor is basically a phone in your shirt pocket, camera facing out, with a worse display.

I like the idea, but all in all this does less than a phone running an LLM with a Bluetooth earpiece and mic. I don't think this kind of wearable technology is going to take off until you can get a full computer into glasses that don't look silly with a good resolution display in them that can overlay on your normal field of view. That is a long way off. Even just a personal area network that puts the processing power in a bracelet or candy bar in your pocket, that is, earpiece and display glasses as accessories to existing personal computing, are not coming very soon. It's going to be a while before such wearables are viable.
> they're so small in numbers ... will be successful

worse, because it's so few people, this is suspicious behavior (in the eye of LEO)
To my recollection the problems with the Steam Box were reliance on third party hardware manufacturers, weak hardware, and trouble with game compatibility.

If they were to do a reboot of that product line today I think it’d go quite differently. They have the chops to manufacture the hardware themselves this time around, and the game compatibility factor has improved dramatically (partially of their own doing). I think there could be a real market for a console with an APU somewhere in the ballpark of the PS5’s, but running SteamOS and embracing upgrades and modding like the Deck has, especially if they can price it aggressively.
I think the implication is, that like the Maoris in New Zealand, they're only faux indigenous, as they arrived on boats. Probably doesn't matter much as there is no grift to be had.
I think we're saying the same thing, they're successful in the sense that Tumblr users like them but they're small potatoes. Tumblr users aren't necessarily allergic to monetization but the ones they've found don't pay the bills.
> which might have benefited from the product that was assimilated into the Borg.

I think a partial solution to this is to ensure a minimum level of support for say 10 years. A planned and community-agreed roadmap, bug and security fixes. Google could afford it without any practical cost. Founders get the money. Consumers get a product for a decade.
You can do that with Siri today. Just tell it to call someone $ADerogatoryTerm
I remember Google had something like contractors need to pay $1 to use the gym, meaning it wasn't free so it doesn't count as a benefit, but the amount was clearly not something that was material.
I used to grab those also, but I never played them, so I stopped bothering. I'd rather just play them on Steam, especially now that I have a Steamdeck.
Normally robotic arms are either cobot arms or industrial arms.

A cobot is relatively safe to be around. They're meant to work with humans nearby so generally you'd have to be both inattentive and unlucky to get an injury that needs any sort of treatment. But these arms are relatively expensive, slow, and most can barely handle the weight of a typical box of vegtable.

Industrial arms like this are more common. They're less expensive, faster, and can handle an unusually large box of veggies no problem. And mostly any arm large enough to move the box far enough to be useful in your workspace is going to be able to lift way more weight. But these are not safe to be around and either inattention or bad luck when you're around it will send you to the hospital. And both at once and you end up like the poor worker in the story.

Needless to say be careful around cobots but don't be careful around industrial arms, instead use some sort of lock out system that makes it impossible for the arm to move if you're in close proximity because there's no way anyone will ever be careful enough.

So, I don't blame them for using an industrial arm. But there was a serious failure that occured to ever let a person into the area while the arm was live.
Thank you, the EPA doc and interactive map is interesting and I had not seen that one before.

The blocks are a bit weird. For example zooming into my neighborhood there is a house with a score of 93 but the house next door (no more than 50ft away) has a score of 70 just because it falls in a different map block. Although in reality people from both houses can walk to the same things with same ease.

Found an even more extreme case in Mountain View. Houses on one side of Shoreline Blvd have a score of 90 and houses on the other side a score of 10! Shoreline has pedestrian crossings, so houses on each side should logically have the same score.

So while interesting at a big scale view, the data is flawed.

The walkscore site I was familiar with and I think it's quite bad, does not reflect reality.
The only additional point I’ll make is that places like Stallings (the first link I posted) are absolutely considered suburbs. For instance the Wikipedia article on Stallings calls it a “suburban town” ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stallings,_North_Carolina ).

That’s another thing I found a bit odd - it would never have occurred to me that anyone would not have considered that area a suburb.
HVDC loses 3% in 1000 km, depending on the value of "HV".
For anyone considering working with Peter, our firm has been a client for 10 years, have sponsored 5-10 green cards and 20+ visas. Peter has been amazing to work with and we've gotten emphatic thank you notes from people we recommended to him.
“Full-time” is misleading noise here; the employee/contractor classification distinction doesn't hinge on term (temp/permanent) or time base (full/part time). Its true that some shops only bring contractors in for one side of one of those divides, but that's not what defines the status (or what defines who can be assigned each status.)
My IG feed is 80% WeRateDogs, most of the rest is silly-positive stuff. I've not ever seen erotica on there, barely even seen any ribaldry. It has learned my tastes well.

I don't know how much variation there is in other people's feeds, of course, but that you think IG is a good example implies your feed is showing you very different things to mine.
There are more deaths directly attributable to coal fired power plants than to nuclear energy in all forms (including Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/archive/2013_khare...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2019/ph241/marshall2/

https://www.engineering.com/story/whats-the-death-toll-of-nu...
Good. Anything to dissuade a future computing dystopia where every application developer has its own "store" that you need to install in order to get their applications which are exclusively offered on their store. I don't want to have to install N stores to obtain (approximately) N applications.

Ideally, I don't want to install a "store" onto my PC at all! I already have an application that allows me to download bits from your site: A browser.
Nice, this looks interesting. I was building my lexer in tree-sitter but not sure what to use after that. I'll check this out, thank you.
I’m don’t think it’s true at companies like Google that contractors get paid better. My impression was they get a similar salary but no equity and worse benefits. I’m assuming we’re talking about the TVCs who basically act like ordinary contributors on a team. Not some specialist consultant, I don’t know about them.
> Anything that creates an economic incentive for good paying manufacturing jobs to return to these states...

The article talks a lot about carbon-free electricity by 2045, but I see nothing about where the SMR's might be manufactured. Between the Mississippi River and St. Lawrence Seaway - SMR's could easily be brought in from ~anywhere on earth.
... after record profits.

> where the company reported a record gross quarterly profit of $1.9 billion.

Not saying that businesses should not try to optimize, but it seems a bit of a dick move to post record profits and cut nearly 10% of your headcount.
That makes it tougher of course but letters from former colleagues or supervisors also can do the trick along with other evidence such as offer letters, employment agreements, and pay records.
Huffman codes – how do they work?
Ah, yeah, I forgot about that. Seemed like a good tactic to get it onto some production use case more quickly.
Not who you replied to but often even if significant parts of your job is shitty, if the fundamentals (incl having a good boss who bats for you) are in place, you'd speak favorably/with fond nostalgia. This didn't sound anything like that.
in the individual case, it's ads or blackmail (and because the latter is illegal, Google isn't doing it).

in the aggregate, at the population level?
very valuable. especially changes over time.
Personally, I insta-bought Baldurs Gate 3 when it launched due to having played Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 + the video's of it showing the graphics looking ok.

It was a mistake.

The Steam discussion/forums for it are here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1086940/discussions/

I've not looked at them for ages as they were very toxic for a few weeks after launch, and I personally have no real desire to go looking again now. Maybe they've magically improved somehow, but I doubt it.
They did not mention any positive impact…
Right, network effects -- benefits accrue as power of population size. That's a good point.

And the stagnation is a depressing thought. I naively hope that if we can survive this phase of our existence we will find a way to exist in large numbers but also allow all the other beings along for the ride with us to exist and thrive as well. But to survive that long and figure all this out, we actually need to increase our numbers and demographic trends look pretty pessimistic for that.
I have a lot of friends at work that have H1B visas. They try to get green cards but the process drags out often for more than a decade. Why is it so hard for people who want to be here, and who have well paying jobs, to get green cards?
I have a strong grip on the meaning of these words and the organization I have observed as a customer and user for decades.

How about you get a dictionary and encyclopedia and learn what dystopian horrors and banal inconveniences are?

Then look at Apple's factories, mining operations, glued together, locked down, borderline unrepairable products, and a big old pile of lightning cables and see that is an apt, fair and even charitable description of their activities.

Or you can just take yours and grip them to your chest and cry, whatever works for you.
For me, if there's some good way to gate kids from participating then gambling with loot boxes should be perfectly accepted. Not that it's good game design, but adults can vote with their attention/money
It was in many ways. There were of course more enlightened spaces, but the little they had was not very evenly distributed.

Btw. nice trivia about cats and plague: Venetians caught cats from the mainland and took them to their islands to catch mice and rats that they knew were responsible for the plague. Therefore it was prohibited to feed the cats but there was a special rain water collector for the cats to have enough drinking water next to each Venetian rain water cistern.
I like everything about this! Font families seem like an incredible idea that I'm surprised nobody's done before, variable fonts are new to me and super interesting, textural healing seems like a huge step forward, and damn if that isn't one of the smoothest sites I've ever played with. Nice work!
Only way it makes sense is to do it all in house like SpaceX. But that is a tall order.
High schoolers in Oregon won’t need to demonstrate basic competency in reading, writing or math in order to graduate for at least five more years because, according to education officials, such requirements are unnecessary and disproportionately harm students of color....

So take this for what it's worth
E-2s for founders are generally easy as long as there's the qualifying investment and a good business plan. Sometimes founders of very new backgrounds with limited experience run into issues but even this is rare.
What about when something new happens that's not in the training set?

That's called life.
Better for developers? Hardly. Epic game store is a weapon designed to attack other game developers. Especially the ones foolish enough to use Epic's engine which allows Epic to easily clone the game then release it for free on their walled garden.
Canonical's Juju Charms Inspire the Ultimate Kubernetes Integration Operator
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I have conflicting feelings about the Epic Games Store. On the one hand, Valve definitely needs to have competitors to avoid the kind of "enshittification" we see in other tech products. On the other hand, Epic's tactics - especially securing exclusives - have been quite anti-consumer. Epic's Fortnite has also popularized a bunch of monetization tactics that, frankly, suck.

I guess what I'm saying is: use GoG whenever possible.
Contrary to what seems to be the rough consensus here, ESB/SOA (+ SOAP + WSDL + XML + ...) the 'correct way to do microservices' is probably something more like Self-Contained Sytems (SCS)

https://scs-architecture.org/
With Zen 2?
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