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Maven (https://maven.com) | Senior/Staff Software Engineer (full-stack) | US, Canada Remote | $160-200k + equity

Maven is the best way to teach and learn critical career skills after college, through the largest marketplace of expert-led tech and business cohort-based courses.

We're 15 people, have raised $25 million, are earning revenue, fully remote but tight knit, very experienced, and building a new way to learn that we're very proud of.

You'll own major parts of the system, build end-to-end features, and have a voice in shaping the roadmap and company.

React (Nextjs), Python (FastAPI), Postgres (RDS). TipTap, Stream, OpenAI embeddings, dbt, Tailwind, Vercel, etc.

See more details, and apply here: https://maven.com/s/eng-jd
NUX.ai | Remote | Full-Time | Devops/MLOps, Backend Engineer (FastAPI), Frontend Engineer (React)

Convert your AI workbooks into a reliable backend with one line of code. NUX contains everything you need to prototype, experiment and productionize AI applications.

We're VC-backed and NYC based but remote first. We're looking to solve the issue of engineers building cool projects in AI but not knowing how to productionize them. You must be passionate about building production AI systems.

We're former AWS, Mongo and Invision engineers.

Email the founder if interested: ethan@nux.ai
I won the war a while ago now.

I basically trash all emails not in my contact lists. Easy.
I recently discovered CommaFeed and I am self-hosting it. It's somewhat similar to Google Reader in look and feel.

https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
How does this do at rendering modern websites?
There is something to be said about “easy to learn difficult to master” curve, as well as overall basic simplicity and the feedback loop being very transparently clear and “tactile.”

The one game that never fails to hook me in that way is Quake 3. Every mistake feels like your own, but with a very clear and obvious path for improvement. Every improvement step feels incremental and doable, none of that “noscope 180 from the bushes where i had zero chance to spot the enemy” situations.

Even on kills where it initially felt like some annoying cheap trick, i watch the killcam, and walk away very impressed and eager to try out their approach myself. And it always makes perfect sense. As opposed to a lot of more modern games, where killcam only frustrates me more.

Imo this is the same thing that made the original DOOM a massive sensation, but I feel like Quake 3 would be easier to relate to for a lot of people (on HN or elsewhere). At the time, I was too young and growing up in a wrong part of the world to catch that original DOOM hype. But with Quake 3 (and imo even quake 1 and 2), that phenomenon truly transcended countries and cultures.
damn, I had no idea this had happened before

that makes this precedent even more established
If you have to pay $X for AI inference, then it proves that the work is worth at least $X to you... Which suggests the obvious marketplace scheme: Compute providers are paid (or credited) $X/k to contribute their nodes to the network, and users pay $X for inference.

(inevitably, someone will implement this with o.g. bitcoin and we can all cry.)
Let's reverse the comparison....

How many companies have $27billion+ valuation and are not 'shite' software companies?

I'm just wondering about this, because almost all the big companies I know write shite software... in fact it seems has nothing to do with how 'shite' your application is, but if it has the features the users want.

Is there a reverse correlation? That if you're an investor you should shy away from companies writing 'non-shite' software because they aren't focusing on deliveries?
Should not the same standard be applied to high positions such as the US president? If it is only based on inconvenience, it begs a deeper question.
> How do you have any self respect at that point.

Because they have CFOs and other bean counters at that point, and there's just no good way to convince those people to approve spinning up new teams (or reskilling the existing one) to rewrite the application "properly" across several platforms.

It's like comparing "$$ for new feature development" (will move us forward) with "$$$$ for rewriting the application to be more efficient" (with uncertain benefits).
Tasket, a Customizable Todo App
Hello, HN!

I'm working on a todo app called Tasket. The goal of Tasket is to provide an
unopinionated way to create and manage todos.

We work towards this goal by allowing users to:

1. create any task attributes they want, for example, status, priority level,
schedule date, deadline—or nothing if they want to keep it simple

2. custom app actions, for example, a user can tap on a todo and move it
to a different section—or they can tap on a todo and open a web browser, a
phone dialer, prepare an SMS—with more interactions on the way

I started working on this because I found some todo apps, like Todoist, too
limiting, but other apps, like Omnifocus, too complex. I believe Tasket can
strike a better balance between easy to use and powerful.

The reason I believe a better balance is needed is to fight against task
bankruptcy, where our todo list ends up overwhelming us.
Location: Westchester, NY

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Java, C#, .NET, Javascript, Ruby on Rails

Résumé/CV: http://linkedin.com/in/matt-borkowski

Email: matthew.p.borkowski@gmail.com

I'm a current Masters Student, working towards my M.S. in Computer Science. I also have a B.A. in Music! I have ~2 years experience working as a Software Engineer. Looking for a summer internship - willing to talk about the right fulltime role as well.
Variant:

Listen to the customer so you CAN:

-- Make it fit for purpose.

-- Make it fit for use.

If the above fails,

-- Make it fit for marketing.

-- Make three envelopes.[1]

[1] _ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725206
Senior full-stack web developer, 10 years of experience
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, Django, Java, Scala, React, Angular, Ember, TypeScript, PHP, ElasticSearch, Postgres, MongoDB, AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Git, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, Big Pipelines, Big Data, Linux kernel, driver development, C/C++

Résumé/CV:

Email: aGVsbG9obkBlZHdhcmRoYWxmZXJ0eS5jb20=
> Any discussion that fails to acknowledge both of these groups exist is probabaly fallacious.

I'm pretty sure basically every debate about incarceration has considered all these factors. They are the some of the most obvious factors to consider after all.
The big take0away here is that the 90 second rule that Airbus fought and lost with the A380 and Boeing thought about fighting with the 787 and 777 is exactly right. Sometimes every second matters.

A second take-away - emergencies are no excuse to ditch procedure and thinking about Safety. The SFO incident where a passenger was killed after exiting a vehicle by a vehicle rushing to the plane is another example.
> To put it another way: Telling someone they have a negligible chance of being in an aviation accident is worthless comfort if they end up in one.

Sure. It’s also callous and insensitive, which is why we don’t tend to do that. But saying to the vast majority who are never going to experience a plane crash (a number larger than the number of victims by a few orders of magnitude) that it’s a coin toss is at least not very smart.
Right. Another way I though to to say it is "What do you think the average person's concept is for how their phone knows a txt came from Bob vs Alice?" IE, how does my txt app know to display your phone number instead of some other phone number?

Answer: "idk, tech magic." They know there is some way that isn't actually magic, they know there are mechanics, but they don't know or need to know what the mechanics are.

How it knows to display a green bubble or a blue bubble is exactly like that. That's what I mean by it's not a remarkable thing to anyone that the txt app does this. Q: How? A: Somehow. They don't see it and think "Wow, this proves that there are two unrelated back-end systems."
I guess the advantage is that other apps can still take advantage of the OS's unique features. As I understand it Fuchsia has a POSIX compatibility layer which maybe they'll have to use for Chrome, but they wouldn't need to use it for new apps.
It's usually much clearer.

These unofficial ATC feeds are usually captured by volunteers or at least companies not directly affiliated with the aviation industry (similarly to services like Flightradar24), sometimes some distance away from airports, which makes ATC and aircraft on the ground really hard to hear.

What also helps a lot is that the formats of messages relayed are pretty standardized (ICAO phraseology), and knowing what phrases to listen for can help a lot.

On the other hand, it can unfortunately also cause people to hear what they are primed for – such as a landing or takeoff clearance... (Not implying that this happened here – I can't make out what's being said on the tape myself!)
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: T3 Stack (Typescript, tRPC, Tailwinds, NextJS, Prisma, NodeJS, Javascript), Python/Flask, Solidity
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/0xevm1/0xEVM1/blob/main/0xEVM1-Q4-2023-SWE-FS.pdf
Email: 0xevm1@gmail.com

I can take a project from ideation to production, "own" features. I have worked in teams, and led teams. Just let me know what kind of signal you are optimizing for so I can put that foot forward.

Experienced Fullstack engineer with 10 years of experience building web applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node. Python / Flask experience as well. Other stacks include Solidity, Hardhat.

Proficient in developing and maintaining scalable and performant applications, with a focus on creating intuitive and user-friendly interfaces. Seeking a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer role or Staff Software Engineer role.

Will take a lower base for Rust roles.
Always throwing away the first draft is such a useful strategy. Besides almost always resulting in a better finished product, it keeps you humble and light - life is an experiment!
is there a leaderboard? I just got 69,420 points
I've seen this one pop up recently as alternative to FreshRSS. While not as many features as FreshRSS, I like the direction CommaFeed is going. Have you tried FreshRSS and if so, how it compares?
I had to Google this, do you mean the feature in Photos on mobile where you can "extract" items from a picture and make them into stickers? Apple seems to call it "lifting subjects" [0] [1].

0: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/lift-a-subject-from-t...

1: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10176/

EDIT: Try replacing the "Extract text" action with "Remove background". When running the shortcut, use "-o" to specify output image filename.

shortcuts run remove-background -i ~/Downloads/portrait-beard.avif -o beard.jpg
This seems to be related, as in being an implementation for PostgreSQL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844945
Does dillo support javascript?
Location: South America
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Only to Medellín
Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Node, React, TypeScript, CSS, NextJS, Postgres, etc
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u8lj0Hes9jugQt2l7_ZrMxgPVkk7zJU1/view?usp=drivesdk
Email: it's in the CV

I started using Rails in 2006 and React in 2014 so I have a few years experience.
Or maybe you know she shouldn't have said that calls to "gas the Jews" requires context to determine if it constituted hate speech.

Or if she hadn't plagarized massive amounts of her work continually without accreditation and then threaten retaliation against those that brought up the issue, like in this letter: https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Complaint2...

That might've had something to do with it. But no I think you're right that evil Elon Musk and the ultra-MAGA twitter overlords are the ones who caused her to be kicked out. Not to mention the racism as she said "threats fueled by racial animus." it wasn't her fault she plagiarized it was the evil white patriarchial system that forced her to.
Ask HN: Has the tech recession affected you?
I don't see much talk of it here, but are we in the depths of a serious tech recession? VC world seems to have been decimated, massive layoffs at most tech firms, IT consulting and contracting also decimated.

Have you been affected? Is there any end in sight? Sharing your experiences can help others to know they're not alone.
I am very interested in this api. How do I get at it?

AFAIK the only way to programatically obtain bom data is the awful ftp endpoint.
Seems related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38840850
Location: US (EST)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Kotlin, Python, docker, Typescript, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11hiU4zrcpO7MPuUYiru8io-M...

Email: dodsonn[at]gmail[dot]com

Strong preference for backend work, but I am open to full stack work that leans backend. I have a particular interest in working with BEAM languages (erlang, elixir) if anyone using those in their stack is looking for devs.
Do you have a good link to read about that?
This is a very optimistic viewpoint. You are making out climate change to be a technology problem when in reality it's a political problem. Bringing more people into the world to do more climate research isn't going to help. There are billions of people out there that want what we have and have no regard for the climate. They'll burn as much coal and slash as many forests as they need to get there.
The issue here is that the abuse of push notifications makes push notifications borderline worthless. That's why I don't allow them at all on my machines. The value they provide is swamped out by the abuse of them.
> It’s not like scientists are physically incapable of saying “correlation does not imply causation,” in the sense that Ephraimites were presumably physically incapable of pronouncing the word “shibboleth.” It’s just that no real scientists would.

Genuinely curious: What do real scientists say instead at the myriad of pop-science articles that superimpose two graphs and declare that jello cures laryngitis?
ATC uses AM radio since it behaves well. Two AM broadcasts on the same frequency add in proportion to their strength. Two FM broadcasts tend to cut into each other randomly.

It's a case of AM being the long-term standard, and also being physically suited to the task.
I never learned Lisp in my college and I don't know anyone who has, besides MIT friends.
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Remote: Yes. US timezones only.
Willing to relocate: Yes, I am able to work hybrid or in office.
Technologies: C#, C++, C++/CLI, C, JavaScript, Swift, Python, SQL
Résumé/CV: http://aaronviviano.com/resume.html
Email: hn@aaronviviano.com

http://aaronviviano.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronviviano/

Hello. I'm Aaron. As a creative, out of the box thinker, I create solid reliable solutions for the problems Your Organization has. I'm a team oriented self-motivated architect and engineer who loves working with people, and on challenging, interesting, or meaningful problems. In my career I've: developed software for multi-million dollar production lines down to handheld scanners, written software to produce radioactive drugs for over 2.2 million patients, crafted computer vision software to produce and qualify billions of products, designed a dual syntax programming language for nuclear scientists, co-created a custom virtual machine bytecode, designed and implemented my own asynchronous network and intra-process messaging library, ran my own game development studio, reversed engineered x86 assembly, designed and created a mobile user interface implementation from scratch, and much more!

I'd be happy to discuss how my skillset could apply to the problems you need to solve.

I'm interested in a job working on any of the following: User Interface Development/Design, Aerospace, Robotics, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Industrial Automation, AI, Programming Language Development, Scientific Research, Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology, Astronomy, Game Development (not gambling), Rendering (2D and 3D), Virtual Reality, 3D Printing, IoT, or similar areas of work.
I'm in complete agreement here. These are businesses, and are not run by development teams. Sure, the developers could leave because they don't believe in the ethics of the business, but they they are going to get more Electron developers.

For most people, the software is "good enough." That doesn't mean that it's engineered in the best way possible. That just means that the business concentrates on other concerns (some simply about gaining more market share and profit).

I'm always in pursuit to write the best quality code that I can, with performance in mind. I also work for a small software company where I have that luxury, and also the drive to practice outside of my salaried hours (because I enjoy it, not because I feel I need to). I would feel terrible if my clients were complaining about slow performance, and I would find a solution that works within my constraints of having other client work to perform. Not having to support thousands or millions of users with my software makes it a lot easier to work on a rewrite than needing to worry about every operating system and configuration that is out there, along with new bug reports that need to be addressed.
I wonder if, from the more distant dwarf galaxy, if it would look like the Milky Way and the closer dwarf galaxy are the same galaxy.
I'd take the bet that MDMA + talk therapy is more effective than MDMA alone, based on the theory of action that recollection is not a read-only operation in the brain, and traumatic memories remain as such in no small part due to the intense negative emotions experienced when recalling them. By forcing/encouraging recollection of traumatic memories, while subduing the negative emotions with MDMA, the connection between those strong negative emotions and the memories are weakened.

Basically, the MDMA subdues the negative emotions, and the talk therapy forces recollection. Without the latter, you just have a pleasant trip, but I highly doubt real progress would be made against the trauma.
Wow, haven’t seen this name mentioned in years. Apache Storm was a great tool at the time. Good memories.
> we are unexpectedly learning

Many expected this, decades ago. But, also, many claimed that neural networks have nothing to do with the brain. I think we're slowly inching towards and understanding that we're the result of some fundamentals of information organization, and those fundamentals are realized in biology, rather than come from it. Those fundamentals are now showing themselves in silicon.
Their explanation is relatively incomplete, I think. The best explanation I can come up with regarding why gradent descent works is that the optimization space is extremely high-dimensional, which has the tendency to force functions that would look weird in low dimensions to be more well-behaved. Points taken randomly in high-dimensional space also tend to be closer together.

The numerical benefits of dimensionality are my belief as to why the "stack more layers" crowd has been so successful.
Since Elon Musk's Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value
I never knew where Frisco, TX got its name.

Thank You.
Sure, the duopoly of app stores and browsers as a disruptor is a big story.

But can I take offense of all this "The biggest story"?

I see it so often, especially here on HN, and it feels overly dramatic. Maybe even self-centered, like; "this is the truth", where somebody went too far in some kind of cool-aid (of the wrong kind). It is not as awful as conspiracy theories, they are even more awful, but the feeling goes in the same direction.
Unleash the Power of Random Scheduling in Laravel with Chaotic Schedule
Hey Laravel enthusiasts!

I'm excited to introduce Chaotic Schedule, an open-source Laravel package that brings a twist to scheduling your commands. Imagine scheduling tasks not just at fixed intervals, but at random times and days! This package is perfect for those looking to add a human touch or unpredictability to their tasks.

https://github.com/skywarth/chaotic-schedule

https://packagist.org/packages/skywarth/chaotic-schedule

What's Chaotic Schedule? Chaotic Schedule allows you to randomize command schedule intervals using pseudo-random number generators (pRNGs). This means your Laravel commands can run at random times within boundaries set by you. It's like rolling dice for your task scheduler!

Why Use Chaotic Schedule?

- Human-like Interaction: Perfect for tasks like sending notifications, reminders, or gifts, making them seem less robotic and more human.

- Anomaly Detection: Ideal for detecting data anomalies by running commands at unpredictable times.

- Performance and Reliability: Despite the randomness, it's built with performance in mind and is thoroughly tested for reliability.

- Production Ready: In order to harness the chaos and assert that it runs as expected in various conditions; more than 1200+ assertions and 72 test cases are prepared for unit & feature tests. Code coverage rate cruises around 96% whilst reliability rating is fixed to 'A'.

Some Cool Features:

Random Time Macros like atRandom
, dailyAtRandom
, hourlyAtRandom

Random Date Macros for more varied scheduling

Customizable with unique identifiers and closures for more control
Thoughts on PostgreSQL in 2024
> Meanwhile California homicide rates increased 40% from 2019 to 2021. Aggravated assault with a firearm increased over 60%. The article says these programs were started in 2015. If they think what they're doing is working I'd like to see what they think failure looks like.

Hmmm I wonder if there might have been some sort of confounding variable affecting all this between 2019 and 2021...
And what exactly would ChatGPT tell you? It'd make up some story about that person, but it's not real news. I don't see how that's competing with newspapers at all.
nah all scripting is ignored
Nope nope nope.

People just don't want to have kids. Period. Because it sucks.

People had kids in the past because they had less contraceptives and alternatives. With those things, the universal revealed preference is to not have kids.

Biological Ponzi scheme? Always has been.

Raising asexual transhumans in pods (artificial wombs) in government facilities is the way forward.
Location: Greenville, SC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Negotiable
Technologies: ROS(2), Python, C++, Django, Rust, Raspberry Pi, Docker, Spatial indexing
Résumé/CV: email me
Email: {username}@students.bju.edu

I'm currently the team captain for my school's robotics team and have experience designing and building ROS systems. I've also had an internship implementing new motion planning behaviors for Semi Trucks.

I'm open to an internship or full-time position starting in May, or a remote student worker starting immediately .
poorly it doesn't even pass acid2

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809126
Generally not great, as Dillo doesn't support Javascript and most modern sites are using it to create content. But if the site degrades well without JS it should render reasonably well.
Well, if Quebec is the economic powerhouse you claim it is, then surely they will be just fine if the equalization payments stop, right?
Using electricity, scientists find new method of boosting chemical reactions
If someone dies not say "Correlation does not imply causation" then they are a liberal arts major.

All scientists say "correlation does not imply causation."
Style and similar sorts of content is not necessarily copyrightable. I could write in the style of some author a similar story to one of theirs, like a murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christie, but that doesn't make it copyright infringement.