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Propel | Full-time | Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer | Remote (US) | $150k-$230k

Propel is on a mission to empower low-income Americans by simplifying access to government benefits with modern technology. All of our users deserve first-class experiences in their daily interactions with the social safety net and financial services. We're a passionate team of 100 Propellers - all working to help our users get through the month, every month. We’re looking for a self-motivated Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team within the engineering org at Propel.

You will own our fundamental cloud services that our engineering team builds upon, our application platform (based on Kubernetes) that we run our applications on, and own our developer experience and tools.

Tech stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Datadog

This position is fully remote, but offices are available in Brooklyn, San Francisco, or Salt Lake City if desired. Location does not affect compensation, but unfortunately we are only accepting applications from US residents at this time.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/propel/jobs/7445950002
Honestly, I am way more concerned about food being left out than sell-by/best by dates. The harm that can result from leaving food out is well-established. Sell-by dates? We're basically taking the manufacturer's word for it, as if they're somehow impartial here.
This isn’t really the competition. This is more akin to opening up the OpenAI app than using Siri. Hey Google is, like Siri, still not LLM-based.
The auto-industry are full of them self longing for the high margin rich person market. BYD etc. seems like a good way to bring them back to earth.
In almost any job there are going to be things that are annoying, frustrating, or harder than you think they need to be. Those are the opportunity. “If only X existed, I wouldn’t have to do all this nonsense.” Then go build X.

Of course if you’re working for a company and the idea is closely linked to your current role, you’d probably need to read up on your companies policies, or check with whatever department, to make sure it’s cool to move forward with it as your own thing and it’s not simply part of your job.

It could also be about building platform, which is more like the interview. Working at a company, and solving a problem for that company is one thing. What if there is a way to solve that problem more generally, so people can simply plug into it instead of rolling their own solution. Here again, you’d probably need to check with the lawyers. Some companies will say they aren’t interested in that business, like when Woz bright the Apple 1 to HP. Others, like Amazon, turned their in-house solutions into a product to sell to customers with AWS.
That's 35 cents a week to pretend you care about eating healthy. You tell yourself you can't eat them today because they're too green. Then in a few days you can't eat them because there are spots. Too bad! I'll try again next week. I can see the reasoning.
Afaict gorilla, as in that thread ;-)

Nexusflow probably too, as it also does function calling and would need to bake in, or explicit fine-tuning for RAG use, which I don't recall seeing

I haven't look recently, but there is also a cool category of models that provide GIS inferencing via LLM
The article implies that he was drunk, but every eyewitness refers to sleeping pills. It seems that the alcohol claim is solely from his demeaner in the infamous outtakes without knowing the cause of the slurred speech. People assume that he was drunk, so the few articles written about this event duly report that he was drunk.
I don't know for sure that this is the one that I watched, but I think so and the time frame is about right: [The Inside Story](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1918873/).

The deep details of the movie are fascinating. Schlock filmmaker gets a recent Oscar winner and an experienced but little-known in Hollywood actor to take on a very confusing story, which then debuts into a slow burn that gradually builds over more than a month to become one of the best movies ever? You would never sell that as a script because nobody would believe it, but it really is true.
I feel like if you were close enough for a gravity assist, wouldn't the tidal forces just tear the probe apart?
Crazy, even Bern is bathed in Northern Lights
Don't label me so quickly.

I'm not saying we need less population at present.

I'm just saying that at some point the cost outweighs the benefit. And humanity has been trying pretty hard to go toward that point.

Do you really think it will always, always be better to have more people? If you say no to this, then you don't get to say we're on different sides of the line. If you say yes, then you need to explain how that's physically possible.
Basketball may be designed like that, but trust me -- hoopers care about their basketballs. There are arguments all the time about the Wilson Evolution vs Baden Elite vs the Spalding TF-1000 vs Wilson EVO. And at AAU games the home team gets to pick the ball -- this is the only advantage they have (since there are no real home arenas) and I've definitely seen teams not be able to shoot because they practice with Evolutions (which are heavier on average) but they play the game with Evos.

Even in college the home team gets to pick the ball (except in situations like tournament play), and players definitely complain about balls (e.g., the Nike balls are horrible).

My point -- almost everyone who cares deeply about an endeavor has strong opinions and ties to their tools (I suspect just as many, if not more, kids sleep with their basketball as they do their musical instrument of choice). My bigger point -- unless Apple came to my house and took the ball out of my bag, I don't really mind that they used a ball which they probably just bought from Amazon.
They’re “apologising” but really their ad did the job: people are talking about Apple and their new products.

They’re not sorry, they’re happy.
Alcumus – Adaptive Math Problems
I learned of this site recently and have become addicted to it. I haven't used much of this math in 25 years, but now I've got kids who are getting into more challenging stuff, asking for my help, and this site is a great way for me to review a breadth of material. The adaptive system seems to work well and is delivering consistently challenging but doable problems for me.
Carrington comes to mind…
Agreed. I am a huge fan of defending domestic supply chains and manufacturing capacity, but not creating artificial barriers because domestic producers are lazy and have no will.

If legacy US auto and Tesla choose to not make cheap EVs, allow China to sell into the market (with strong right to repair and consumer protections around anything where these products could be used in an adversarial way, telemetry, data security, cloud dependency optional, etc). If these builders start delivering cost parity vehicles, implement tariffs accordingly to defend the domestic market from dumping (very common).

Worst case, we send all the battery packs off for shucking to use in stationary storage, or recycling by Redwood Materials. That’s US refined battery feedstock ore now. Regardless, we’ve got lots of combustion miles to replace with EV miles. We must move faster.
Ok, so are you advertising your product using features it doesn’t yet have? Not cool.
If you has suggestions for making RecurseChat more useful for you especially for RAG, I'd love to hear about it!
Ask HN: What Is Process Mining?
Can someone explain to me, in clear terms, what "process mining" is? (in the sense of what b2b startups like Celonis are doing).
Most people have a weeks worth of food in their house. Unless they are people who don't cook.

It is easy to make that longer by keeping extras of stable food they normally eat. I like to keep extras of everything I use regularly. Which really helped during the pandemic.
i do not recommend settling for an e6b 'flight computer' or a slide-rule wristwatch; they are not at all equivalent to a standard slide rule. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40324625 for details on why those are bad

insist on at least a cursor and the a, b, c, d, ci, cf, and df scales. k and l are also big leaps in power. r1 and r2 are valid alternatives to a and b. the ll and trigonometric scales (s, t, st, etc.) are less often useful, i think (prosthaphaeresis has been obsolete since 01614), but still general purpose. and of course there are numerous slide rules with special-purpose scales for other special functions; https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Aerospace/MartinSpaceRule_Ea... has scales to shortcut calculating things like the specific impulse needed for a rocket to escape a particular planet's gravity
From what I can deduce, phone GPS just doesn't measure the proper signal data to do the correction. It's something like the offset of the signal frequency and timing.

It's not the software, it's the hardware.
I believe that the stability being spoken of here is in the micro-environment of the household, and primarily concerns two things: first, the parents’ ability to provide for the children and keep a roof over their heads, and second, the parents’ emotional stability.

The latter is often closely tied to the former. When things get rough, things can get ugly. Tensions build and emotions run hot which at best makes for a less-than-stellar environment for kids to grow up in and at worst can lead to violence or divorce. Many young adults experienced this first hand in their childhood and want to avoid inflicting these situations on any potential children of their own.

As such, a lot of people who’d otherwise be parents have held out because they fear these scenarios playing out. For most, the goal probably isn’t to be perfect or raise their children in the lap of luxury, but simply to wait until they’re reasonably confident that they’ve precluded financial disaster for the most part and that hardship and struggle won’t be commonplace.

I don’t think that’s bad or wrong, and in fact I feel is thoughtful and responsible. With all this in mind, if an individual or group wants to look at turning around birth rate numbers, they would do well to address the issues that prevent young adults from feeling financially secure in this way.
why fish for fwupd? systemd-resolved which is everywhere, will open (at request) an LLMNR server (a.k.a. mDNS, nee microsoft netbios) on port 5355.

With IoT everyone have access to your LAN, so now people are making sure linux also join the REDACTED party

btw, fix for fwupmdg, since they have a low quality default conf file without commented out defaults:

```
# /etc/fwupd/fwupd.conf
[fwupd]
P2pPolicy=none
```

fix for resolved is commented out on /etc/systemd/resolved.conf `LLMNR=no`, and you probably also want `DNSStubListener=no`. heck here is a good default

```
# /etc/systemd/resolved.conf
[Resolve]
DNS=9.9.9.9#dns.quad9.net 149.112.112.112#dns.quad9.net 2620:fe::fe#dns.quad9.net 2620:fe::9#dns.quad9.net
FallbackDNS=127.0.0.1 ::1
Domains=~.
DNSOverTLS=yes
LLMNR=no
DNSStubListener=no
```
heh! i didn't realize it was intentional; i thought autocorrect was playing a joke on you
For french speaking ppl see [hello457].

[hello457]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XOly5CBftA
D-Layer absorption is way up.

https://www.solarham.com/globald.htm
What's the lowest latitude it's being seen from in Europe?
Umm, the tool converts the code to C, but doesn't include any of the code (which is a copyrighted asset) and you have to select the code (the ROM) in order to run?

Yeah, that's not how that works.
Classic parallel (ATA, PCI, parallel ports) is going away and not really coming back. The newer interfaces like 4xPCIe and USB are multiple serial interfaces bonded together.

The difference is all the bits in a true parallel interface operate synchronously. All the bits get set; the clock pulses to signal data is ready; all the bits update again. The problem with this approach is you have to wait for all the bits to settle before you can read. It's no problem at low frequencies, but when you get into hundreds of MHz or more, it becomes a real challenge to get everything time-aligned.

4xPCIe channels operate on 4 independent clocks. They have the same nominal rate, but they don't have to be precisely aligned. Each channel is transmitting a single frame at a time - it's not splitting them into 4-bit packets and sending 1 bit down each channel.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a new technology in the last decade that implements splitting a byte into bits and sending each down a separate line.
It really depends how far south you are and how strong the solar storm will get. You should look for some dark place close up. But it might be, that it is only visible on the northern parts of the US. Even seeing it there is quite uncommon.
Could a G4 to G5 storm disrupt air planes while in flight?

Do they ever cancel air travel for this level of storm?
Porting Lyle in Cube Sector to Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
I share your frustration because comments like that show up in every thread about open source.

By putting something out into the world you're creating connections with others. If people like what you've built and start to rely on it then that puts power into your hands, and any time you have power over others it should be wielded responsibly.

Volunteering doesn't give people a pass to screw over others.
That had aurora visible in Florida and Hawaii. It's going to take a little more effort from the Sun to match that.
Irish person here: the “almost no” is being disputed by more recent scholarship/research. And was even featured in a documentary from the national broadcaster a few years ago.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/role-of-s...
I'd wait until after sunset.
https://archive.is/P91pA

please if you are going to post a paywalled article, have the decency to post an archive link
The auroral oval stays roughly the same but the Earth rotates under it.
There is one truth you can more or less rely on.

If there are two items on the shelf X and Y, such that (< (best-before X) (best-before Y)), then you know X is the older item.

A jar of peanut butter that is best before January 2025 is one month older than one that is February 2025. Therefore, of course, you want to grab the latter one.

Whether it's actually good until February 2025 is just someone's opinion.

Furthermore, if you know that X is a month older than Y, then you know something else: X is at least a month old, today. If you buy the January 2025 jar of peanut butter, you're getting something that was already around for a month when the February 2025 jar was just made, assuming they keep the best before offset the same between runs. And then add the time it took for the jars to arrive to that store shelf.

I would much rather see "date packaged" on every product.

For instance, roasted coffee beans are not very good past only two or three weeks, but not in a way that you would get sick from consuming them. (You can keep them in the freezer to keep the flavor a bit longer.) The exact roast date is important, which they often don't want you to know, substituting a fictitious best before date which includes a generous margin regarding how long it's going to sit in warehouses and on store shelves.
It never hurts to fire wildly into the air, Yosemite Sam style.
Why is it that we don't see tonnes of Chinese ICE cars though? They've had many more years to catch up.
Sure the Chinese electric vehicles will take over in China but why would they take over in the US?
Yeah actually I’m with you on this. Not for everything, but there are definitely food items I won’t try to save after ex. putting them out for a party (like if a dairy based dip has been at room temp for more than 1-2 hours it’s not going back in my fridge).
Decency? Why the attack here?
Half the cars… that hit the bollards. In my example I said suppose 2 cars per month veer off the road in that stretch.

Of course this is supposition and made-up numbers. And yes I was assuming immovable bollards. If they’re supposed to be there to keep pedestrians from harm, a bollard that lets a car push them 2 feet are an even more pointless waste of money than I was picturing.
> The population is getting very old at a breakneck speed.

https://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/united...

Looks fine to me. What's your definition of "old" here? Are you specifically worried about Korea like you mentioned in another post?

I'd worry about the implications of a global 1.6 birthrate if they were actually going to happen. I don't think that's very likely, though. I don't know if we're even going to get down to 2.
Hey if China wants to spend their money giving me a cheaper car, I’ll take it.

> vast amounts of coal

Legitimate concern. Let’s make regulation around that instead, not just a blanket tariff.
I love how by making the whole idea “one minute” the creator has made it super accessible to anyone to create/submit, and keeps the content manageable.
I have a spreadsheet. I take action at the end of the year depending on whether I'm itemizing or not (which I'll know at the end). I'm not going to do too much research. I'll add to it if I have a positive experience. If something annoying barely approaches the space of a thing I blacklist. I have some retention of some things on it but others I might fail to blacklist. In this case, I remembered.

I have a good base-case: GiveWell. So I'm content to dump everyone else on the slightest suspicion. I don't really care that much.
The digital landscape is ever-changing, and pinpointing the best affiliate marketing niches of 2024 could be the key to unlocking your revenue potential. A well-chosen niche allows you to carve out a specialized corner in the vast online market, making connecting with targeted consumers and cultivating a community around your content and chosen products easier.
Not only is this not guaranteed, it is not possible to be sustained in the long term, either physically or economically. Physically, there are bounds on the energy inputs required for any process, including information processing. Economically, if economic output increases exponentially while energy input is constant, this creates a contradiction, as it becomes exponentially easier over time for one individual to monopolize the entire energy supply.

The notion that economic growth can continue without growth of energy is a short-term illusion created by the transition to an information economy, outsourcing of manufacturing, and perhaps a lack of appreciation for the ongoing growth in energy consumption even within countries like the United States as the economy shifted away from physical goods, let alone the growth in energy consumption in countries like China that ramped up physical manufacturing to make this possible.
My black pepper is BBE Jan 2006 but still tastes peppery.
In less rural northern England, it was faintly visible to me. If I hadn't been looking for the aurora specifically, I would have assumed it was a weird cloud. After walking a bit away from street lights I could make out a south facing arc spanning the sky directly overhead which went away within a few minutes.
If you really want to be safe: put it in a cardboard box, wrap the cardboard box in air tight aluminum foil or a metal container, and then put the whole thing in another cardboard box to prevent any grounds or shorts.
Really? How does that work if two motorcycles go by in parallel and only one is "extra-loud"?
Ah, thanks. That definitely clarifies it.

For the pro license, am I able to build a tool that allows my users to search and select SVG icons to use in their webpages created in my app? My app is a website builder. I'd love to enable support for hugeicons. But maybe this is a gray area use case for the pro license?

https://docs.hugeicons.com/faqs/license-questions
This response is basically just you saying "nu uh, you're wrong" again. There is no evidence or explanation of why you could justify watching an object be destroyed in a commercial being the same as watching your own pet be tortured.

Find me any example of people thinking this is normal. How would someone go to the movies or throw anything away? It's complete nonsense.

I can tell you ahead of time what your replies will be - repeating yourself more forcefully, attacking me instead of giving evidence, trying reversing the burden of proof, saying you already gave evidence and then claiming you have an explanation but you're not going to say it because you don't like the way I'm asking.
I'm sure there are articles discussing the point, but I wonder why citizen-facing scales don't use more linear representations for things.
The main issue with beaming solar power from orbit to surface is that this can be a weapon at a push of a button. There is no way you can make the owner of that orbit-based power station to promise they'll never redirect the beam, under any circumstances, cross their heart and hope to die. The only way to not have that threat is to not have the power station up there.

And that's how it's going to be. No matter how technically feasible the idea will ever be, it will never materialize, because the weaponization potential cannot be eliminated.
What do unions have to do with this?

If it wasn't a safety issue that needed correcting why does it matter that it was or who reported it to the FAA?
What Fed's Climate Scenario Analysis Tells Us About Bank Prep for Climate Risks
I suspect they intended to pull all job openings a few weeks ago, and there were a few stragglers left.
> In the before times, would you copy/paste something directly from StackOverflow or the like?

No. I'd first check the votes and comments from other users.

There's no such option with ChaptGPT.
Original title “What the Fed's Climate Scenario Analysis Report Tells us About Banks' Preparedness for Physical Climate Risks” compressed due to title limits.
The Conquest of Bread - Kropotkin
Oil the guns. Count the ammo.. .
> more pedestrians may start to use the road (because pedestrians now perceive the road as safer)

In America, nobody is driving on a high-speed road only because they perceive it’s not safe enough to walk that road. They’re driving because we have physically laid out 95% of the continent’s surface area in such a way that walking anywhere is impractical. Danger from cars is one reason sure, but time impracticality is the main one. Biking is slightly better, but many people don’t choose to bike, say, 45 minutes to work — even if it would be is as fast as driving in traffic, because they don’t want to be drenched in sweat. Safety improvements won’t actually change that, not by the orders of magnitude that would make a big difference to anything.

It’s a problem of layout.
I suspect 6 days ago/6 comments [0] (12 points) is as good as it's going to get

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40257826

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40246355
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40305578
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315360
I got out of bed (here in London) for this one and managed to see the aurora for the first time!
> In the before times, would you copy/paste something directly from StackOverflow or the like?

No. I'd first check the votes and comments from other users.

> LLMs are no different.

One difference is no votes and comments from other users.
This thread got me to buy the book "My Lunches With Orson"
I feel like every company I've worked at sometime has gone through a hiring freeze for any number of reasons.
By the way, this stuff literally makes the frogs gay.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/100301-at....
My G5 is still running ;)
Track record on this site: not great. Just for whatever that's worth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=usrtk.org
Under the guise of protecting the grid from an EMP attack, it would seem well worth it. I’ve seen estimates shared here, but drawing a blank at the moment. Seemed dirt cheap, relatively speaking.