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Jam.dev | Staff Fullstack Engineer & AI Product Engineer | Typescript/React | Remote (+ in person in SF, Austin, NYC) | Full-time

Dev tools company with 100,000+ users in less than 2 years. $10M in funding from Vercel CEO, GitHub CTO, Cloudflare CEO, etc.

We’re building a flight recorder for web apps – so anyone can report issues to engineers in a way that's actually debuggable (w/ console, network, websockets debugger, etc).

Small, senior team – several ex-engineering directors turned ICs (mostly ex-early Cloudflare). Looking for staff-level engineers with experience building highly performant front-end apps.

Stack: React/Typescript and MobX (MST) on the frontend, and Node/GraphQL across our backend.

The challenge ahead: Scaling. Usage 10x’ed last year, and our users are in 150+ countries, on all sorts of devices, network conditions, etc. Our bar for quality is high.

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Are you saying you believe this conversion from a string to a path should involve I/O? Because it's literally impossible to validate a path's syntax without FS calls.
Weirdly two other Japanese automakers, Mazda and Honda, said the same thing: that they had been testing improperly. Maybe this was brought up by some changes at the regulatory body?
Great to see more retro gaming devices being put out there, looks pretty similar to the analogue pocket though right? Trying to figure out if they have a big differentiator:
1. Basically same price point (200 vs. pocket's 220)
2. fpga based
3. plays the same games (though the pocket seems like it might have more adapter/connection options)
4. screen looks lower res (though that's probably the goal for these games)
5. nicer shell

The headphones look neat. If I had all the cash in the world for a retro gaming device, I would've focused even more on bringing the accessories back in some way that hooks them in to the current world to get people excited.

Like the old game boy camera being internet connected in some way, or pair it with an all new gameboy printer of sorts since the retro polaroids are in right now. Something that can better step apart from the analogue pocket and feel even more retro.

Here's Palmer's response about why it's better, I do like the OSS angle and would have to play with it to see if the rest feels "right" but good to see he was thinking more about this: "Open source, metal shell, sapphire screen lens, clock speed actually correct, display structure/color temp/etc is correct, daylight viewable, much better battery life" - https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/1797669089324011548
Not the worst way to celebrate Kafka considering he himself was working with an insurance company, giving inspiration to works of deep disconnect and inherent search for meaning such as Der Prozess.
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: LLM, RAG, Python, Document Processing, OCR, Image Processing, NLP

Résumé/CV: https://superdocs.io

Email: superdocsio@gmail.com

I'm a freelance consultant specializing in document processing.

Currently building LLM + RAG apps.
If you're interested in a "chat with your PDFs" app, I can help.

I can also help with:

- Extraction of data from PDF documents (structured, semi-structured, unstructured)
- OCR projects
- Table detection/recognition
- Document classification
- Document splitting
- PDF workflow automation
And ... what is just linux?

They use a custom kernel. A completely different display manager, process scheduling, startup etc.

But yeah, rsync works the same.
> You need a system that disrupts production and fires (or retrains) workers with deprecated skills to meet new demand

The prevailing monarchic structure of corporations is terrible at firing the people at the top. All of my friends at Google would love to fire Sundar Pichai, and yet they can't because authority in companies is structured such that it flows from the top down rather than from the bottom up. Give ownership to the employees and let them vote on the executives.
Just as a reminder for folks. This California based position falls under pay transparency laws -- "Effective January 1, 2023, California Senate Bill 1162 (SB 1162) requires employers to disclose pay scales on all position postings". The linked position posting doesn't include this.
They are not trans but yes it is even worse for them.
Yes, this is what Cartels do - and that behavior is generally illegal - but requires a government that cracks down on this.

In China this level of crime gets you sent to re-education camps or just executed.
Supply and demand?

Lower supply means the price of existing offerings goes up.

Obviously, it's not holding all units off the market but collusion to hold enough units off the market to get a maximum value of the units times price, what they called in econ back in the day the monopoly equation.
I have to go back to around 1992 or so for this one ... not that I don't have plenty of newer humbling learning moments, but this is the one I tend to think of as the most obvious "how did I do all of these things without knowing something so basic."

Background: I was in the 7th grade, hosting a BBS and wanted to simultaneously host two different BBSes behind the same modem (and both with a working FIDO feed). I can't remember specifically why, but it had something to do with how one of the two BBS systems detected if it should ingest messages or if it should return a user session. I believe I was handling that detection manually but still had to have the BBS setup in such a way that it would look for a specific exit code from FIDO and if it saw "0" (which was what it always saw in this configuration), it never provided a user session in response.

Let's start with the first problem. I had a non-working understanding of what an exit code actually was. This was all-together weird. I'm in 7th grade, but I'm taking AP Computer Science at the High School. I mean, I think by then I could actually make Wing Commander start or some equally heroic juggling of HIMEM statements with the various TSRs. I was writing actual software in Borland Turbo Pascal 4, compiled to an executable file, every one of which returned an exit code. I'm fairly certain the last statement of many of my programs was something along the lines of "RETURN 0;" if memory serves. I had even processed command-line arguments at this point!

In what easily made me look like the 7th-grader that I was, I called another programmer I had met on a local BBS (after 10:00 PM, no internet, long distance was expensive) who was writing a BBS application in "C" ... and asked him if he had any time that week to write me a quick program which took, as a parameter, any number 0-255 and exited with that exit code. You can't imagine how thankful I was when he was uploading the program to my second node before we had finished talking.

You can't imagine how stupid I felt when I found the seven hundred other ways this could be done, including with a BATCH file, that I had just never had any real reason, up to that point, to properly connect with the words "exit code" (it was an ERRORLEVEL, you could set it directly (?) in DOS).
Just messaged you via email.
That might be effective, but requiring credit card payments is an unacceptable solution to me.

First, it would introduce a commercial aspect to my websites that I don't want them to have (too much of the web is commercial as it is).

Second, it would require me to have some sort of merchant account just to have a website. I don't want that additional hassle.

In the end, it doesn't appear to be a better solution than to just make my websites invite-only.
That would be easy, the problem is that Rice's Theorem tells us the compiler definitionally cannot be sure whether every possible source code represents a valid program if it has any non-trivial semantic requirements (C++, like Rust, has a whole lot of such requirements).

So while "What should we do when we're sure it's not a valid program?" is easy and so it's very silly that some C++ compilers will compile that anyway, it's not enough, you also need to decide "What should we do when we're not sure?" and there the ISO document provides a firm answer, which all the compiler vendors follow - press on anyway, too bad. "Ill-formed - No Diagnostic Required" is how the ISO document describes this situation. The diagnostic isn't required because it's technically impossible to guarantee.

You might insist that "Not sure" can't happen. Unfortunately the reason it's called Rice's Theorem is that a guy named Henry Rice got himself a Maths PhD proving this in 1951.
I had never really considered how a bunch of similar companies using the same SaaS might actually turn into a monopoly whether intentionally or not. Nice catch FBI or somebody;)

Wonder if this is just the tip of an iceberg? What other industries might be doing similar things?
Good induction to thinking about quantum gravity.
Not to be that "hurr hurr durr everything was better in the past" guy but nothing beats a box somewhere that you scp your code onto with a little 10 line deploy script in terms of speed, maintainability, cost control and overall simplicity.

I long for the good old days of /cgi-bin

Can't get decision fatigue if there's no frameworks or cloud shits to decide on.
I’m not sure where the article is getting this from, but it seems as though turnips and other root vegetables were available before the Columbian exchange took off:

> The Old English word neep – a name now only seen in Scotland alongside tatties and haggis – goes back to at least the 10th century, but turnip (“turn-neep”) is only about 500 years old.

> Historically, the word “turnip” didn’t only refer to the round purple root, but root vegetables of various shapes, colours and sizes. Sixteenth-century botanist John Gerard was particularly keen on “small turneps”, which he said were much sweeter than the large kind and grown in a village called Hackney outside London.

From: https://theconversation.com/turnips-how-britain-fell-out-of-...
The model would be, this company RealPage, controls a significant fraction of the ready to rent housing stock in some portion of the market. "Control" because their contracts with landlords include provisions that say landlords will use the prices dictated by RealPage, and RealPage will exclude or ban the landlord from its services if they rent below the rate set by RealPage. A cartel by contract.

It increases revenue with fewer units rented, the claim is not "maximize" revenue, but, for a property manager, that they "increase" revenue, in step with a sizable portion of that local market. It's a marketing claim to property owners, not a global/overview claim to the public.

Holding housing stock level constant, they can set prices that a renters moving in, in the coming years, can't improve on.
If you don't mind, can I ask you a few questions about your tooling? I work in rust verification and would be interested in hearing about how industry uses verification techniques.
I didn't actually realized that.

I read that it's intended to get people to the ISS... which is not long for this world. I suppose it was begun well before it was clear that we'd be dismantling the ISS, but still...

Maybe there will be a new space station at some point.
> This Elizabethan convenience food, however, was not available to all. “Dovecotes for the time were a badge of the elite,” says John Verburg, a dovecote devotee and self-styled “Jane Goodall of pigeons.” During the reign of Elizabeth I, a pigeon tower was a privilege reserved only for feudal lords. And this law was enforced: Cooke wrote of a case in England in 1577 in which a “tenant who had erected a dovecote on a royal manor was ordered by the Court of Exchequer to demolish it.”

This is actually how a lot of manorial/serf institutions worked. You weren't allowed to build anything unapproved that might compete with the services "offered" by the local lord. In many places, building an oven was illegal as it would undercut the dues the lord would be paid for using his.

Most pigeons were probably sold to the local peasants, and the rules were about enforcing state monopoly.
So you refer to a consensus of the thinking of one person?

I estimate the probability that the virus is 100% of natural origin to 3.21 ×10−11. And I am backed by one widely ignored article:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fviro.2022.8348...
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We are building software to help landscapers design, sell and maintain beautiful spaces. Millions of acres a year are converted into urban dwelling spaces, and we want to help make them as beautiful and as ecologically friendly as possible.

Duranta as a company was just founded a few months ago. We are well funded and are expanding our team. We are looking for talented & experienced FE and graphics engineers to complement the currently more BE heavy team. As the first frontend engineer and member of the founding team you will have the opportunity to shape the FE architecture & make a significant impact on our company’s product and trajectory from the ground up.

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I would not have ever expected that. I always thought Dr. Pepper was a pretty niche product, with some avid fans but also widely disliked (or at least, not liked nearly as much as a conventional cola.)
I wish him luck.

Projects like this seem to go one of two ways:

1. "Wow, what a visionary, who had a brilliant idea and we all admire what that idea looks like."

2. "Clearly, nobody was there to tell him no, so every dumb idea got onto the screen."

I genuinely hope it's the former. I'm always glad to have more great art in the world. Even if it's not for me, I'll be really happy if it finds an audience.

If I were a bettor, I'd guess it's the latter. But I hope not.
Exclusive – Blacklisted Chinese Companies Rebrand as American to Dodge Crackdown
Doctors are human. how did the rest of conversation go? did you explain that they misunderstood what you said?

Also, Did you consider just taking half the dose?
ah nice, did not see this because I searched for `llama-3-v`
What is this for?

a) So people can reawaken in a post apocalyptic world where everything is ... worse?

b) Send people to distant planets like sci-fi. Except in our lifetimes there will probably be AI just as able to report back, with a handy hibernate mode for extra long flights.
TLDR for non-NLP people: Mamba-2 is much faster to train than Mamba-1.
Wow. Maybe some folks will consider having their money managers blacklist Thomas Bravo. If this egregious behavior is in the portfolio it may be an outlier, but probably isn't.
It does happen, just not all that frequently. The US and Canada changed daylight saving time's dates as recently as 2007 and time zone rules are changed in various parts of the world now and then. It happens frequently enough that there's a database maintained to track it and let systems programmed to use the database to adjust to the changes.
The hate of Nickleback originally started with a Brian Posehn bit about how he hates Nickleback.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4ojvSuhAko

The article even calls out the Colin Quinn episode above. But it's like 2/3 of the way down, and let's be real, no one on HN reads that articles.

But more broadly speaking it was overplayed mid-tier generic rock with a tinge of country and metal, aimed explicitly to get radio play. Posehn calls out Imagine Dragons and Kid Rock for the same reasons.
I think it is https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05766.
“The meaning of life is that it ends.” - Frantz Kafka

No. Inherent. Meaning.
Cloudera acquires Verta to bring some AI chops to its data platform
Stable Diffusion 3 to debut on June 12
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: OK

Willing to Relocate: No

Programming Languages: Ruby, Scala, Python, Javascript, TypeScript, Haskell Programming Strengths: Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Engineering, Programming Language Theory, Type Theory, No-Code, AI&Prompt Engineering

Other Skills: Leading Teams & Managing Projects, Architecting & Implementing Greenfield Solutions, Managing Interview Pipelines, Education & Team Growth, Leading Communication and Coordination Between Stakeholders Across Teams and Organizational Silos

CV: Available Upon Request

Email: poetic.artifice@gmail.com

I am a seasoned (15 years experience) full-stack principal software engineer specializing in the backend. In the past, I've led teams of up to 12, managed interview pipelines, pioneered a number of no- and low-code solutions for stream processing, data model and query generation, form building, workflow systems, and front-end construction for a variety of industries, including those with strong regulatory requirements and complex business rules such as healthcare and fintech.

More recently, I've built a workflow engine for coordinating LLMs and other generative AI processes, and on top of this a platform for minimizing hallucinations and working with documents that are too large for existing context windows.

If any of the above seems like a match for you and your organization or project, don't hesitate to reach out.
the problem, generally speaking, is even if it reduces costs per ride, if it becomes popular it quickly becomes too expensive.

New York City tried replacing its dial-a-ride accessibility public transit service that required 24h advance appointments with an e-hailing subsidy and blew out its budget. https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/06/22/mta-paratransit-ehailing-...
>> But the price-fixing amongst "competing" landlords is where it goes wrong.

I would bet they're spreading the empty units around too, so no landlord ends up with all the empty ones.
Right, and it works best for large landlords that have hundreds or thousands of units.

The small landlord/owner with a couple of houses or condo units is going to want them 100% rented because leaving even one of them vacant is going to be significant impact on revenue.
I dunno if I have a lot of tolerance for people complaining that their CRM costs too much.

Consider Salesforce.com which used to start at $65 per month per seat and go up to a moderate multiple of that, say about $250 a seat per month.

I know now they have different pricing plans (marketing cloud priced at $1500/month/org, not per seat), but compare that to what a salesperson costs. If they get paid $100,000 that is $8k a month but overhead makes it a lot more than that. If a tool organizes $8k a month worth of worth it really doesn't seem crazy to spend $200 on it if it really does what it supposed to do and is part of a sales and marketing plan that works.
The fundamental problem here is investment cash flows eclipsing operational cash flows. This invalidates basic economics of supply and demand price equilibrium. In this case, it means that the landlords can restrict supply without losses.
@nerdz: Is the RepairWise site working? I tried to login with my Tesla account and am getting an error.

app.repairwise.pro can't currently handle this request.
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Location: Chicago, IL, USA

Remote: Yes; Open to in person or hybrid positions as well.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: JavaScript, Typescript, Node.js, Go, Express.js, React, REST APIs, HTML, CSS, jQuery, AWS EC2, Digital Ocean Dropolet, Linux, Bash, HTTP, Nginx, OOP, MongoDB, SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

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Recently I built Pinniped, an open source Backend as a Service(BaaS) for fast moving Node.js developers. https://www.pinniped-baas.dev/

I’ve previously worked as a software developer at General Motors and in various operations leadership roles. No matter where I'm at, I’m always learning, and looking for ways to lift up the team around me.
"We can't absorb, the world will not accept everything China wants to export,"
>and somehow also got more (or at least better) sleep than me

It must be better sleep, because these people also seem to only need 4 hours and yet are able to function at 100% the rest of the time, meanwhile I've been tired for 20 years no matter how much sleep I seem to get.
The law of supply and demand.

This is artificially limiting supply so instead of saying you have "100 units for rent" you only show 3 or 4. Done strategically this can give the appearance of a limited supply, even when the supply is not limited.

Imagine you go to 5 different complexes and they all say "Oh man, we only have 1 unit left and it's $$$". You're going to behave differently, especially if you're in need for a room then if you go to those 5 complexes and they say "Oh, yea, we have 40-50 units vacant at the moment". A sense of urgency is put on the renter.
Location: New Jersey, USA
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Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies
Programming: Python, Go, Java, SQL
Frameworks: Django, Flask
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Backend developer with 3 years of experience. Currently focusing on database internals. Looking for a full-time SDE roles and also looking to break into database development.
I thought the most interesting bit in this article was the link to "How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere":

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf

Written by William Kahan, also known as the Old Man of Floating-Point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042853 - An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)
Ticketmaster confirms customer data breach
>That's why landlords are able to own hundreds to thousands of properties / units.

Presumably they have dozens/hundreds of workers to manage those units? I'm not sure how "number of units owned" is indicative of easiness. A quantitative trading firm has billions of dollars under management. Does that mean it's even easier to be a quantitative trading firm?
Why are you talking as if this "could exist"?

It already exists in almost every EV...
480MBit/s is fast enough that you do need to worry about best practices and impedance matching within 10% or so. Many MCUs will also need series resistors between the USB PHY pins and the connector.

Will you need to respin a board because you needed to use a 20 mil trace instead of 24 mil? Probably not. All things considered, laying out a USB 2.0 differential pair is pretty low stakes. But you should still try and do it right - it's good practice.