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Hatchet (https://hatchet.run) | New York City (IN-PERSON) | Full-time

We're hiring a founding engineer to help us with development on our open-source, distributed task queue: https://github.com/hatchet-dev/hatchet.

We recently launched on HN, you can check out our launches here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643136 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40810986. We're two second-time YC founders in this for the long haul and just wrapped up the YC W24 batch.

As a founding engineer, you'll be responsible for contributing across the entire codebase. We'll compensate accordingly and with high equity. It's currently just the two founders + a part-time contractor. We're all technical and contribute code.

Stack: Typescript/React, Go and PostgreSQL.

To apply, email alexander [at] hatchet [dot] run, and include the following:

1. Tell us about something impressive you've built.

2. Ask a question or write a comment about the state of the project. For example: a file that stood out to you in the codebase, a Github issue or discussion that piqued your interest, a general comment on distributed systems/task queues, or why our code is bad and how you could improve it.
This area is covered by non-parametric statistics more generally. There are many other methods to non-parametrically estimate functions (that satisfy some regularity conditions). Tree-based methods are one family of such methods, and the consensus still seems to be that they perform better than neural networks on tabular data. For example:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03253
Location: Pennsylvania, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: I'm a polymath/generalist, but most recently: JS/React, Python ML

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taintedzodiac/

Email: taintedz (at) gmail

Looking for roles in the Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering space, always up to chat about whatever might be exciting for me in the world of software though! Currently working on my next startup that came about from a side project, but open to full time opportunities either remote or via relocation.
I totally agree. But for the full picture, transport in a 15 km radius is included. I guess this is interesting for high paid jobs traveling frequently between these cities.
I think that cryptocurrencies get an undeserved level of hate, and that it would be perfect for monetizing a project like a web browser. Yes, there are scam coins, but there are also legitimate use cases for it.

IMO the Basic Attention Token used by Brave is a good way to do it. Users have the option to earn BAT by watching "privacy-friendly" ads, or exchange fiat into BAT and skip seeing ads. They can then use the funds to support websites they visit, or the browser developer. I'm not a Brave user, but this always seemed to me like the best way to transition away from the intrusive and hostile ad-based business models, and into one that eliminates the middle-man and allows users to support content creators directly.
Juniper (YC W21) | Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineer | NYC | Full-time | juniperplatform.com

Juniper operates at the messy financial infrastructure layer for US Healthcare. We’ve built an end-to-end insurance billing system for recurring care, starting with Autism clinics.
Healthcare in the United States runs on private and public insurance billing, but providers spend huge amounts of time on faxes, phone calls, and error-prone legacy systems to get paid. That’s not why they got into care.

What’s worse, these systems aren’t hugely successful—clinics regularly get back 80% what they know the insurance company should pay. Those missing dollars could be used to hire more care providers to help more kids, but instead line insurance companies’ pockets.

We’re changing that.

At Juniper, we’ve built an end-to-end billing system. It starts with ingesting from a clinic’s EHR, then create, validates, and submits claims to insurance providers across the country. If claims need corrections or appeals, most of the time we can handle those automatically or our CX and Operations team use our in-house internal tools. We also handle patient invoicing for co-pays, co-insurance, and deductibles (we never send anything to collections.)

Our typical paid rate is above 95%.

We are a team of 25 with strong product market fit—we’ve had to push out onboardings because engineering can’t build quickly enough.

You’ll be working with an engineering leadership team from AWS and Stripe to get doctors and clinicians back to work helping kids.

Interested in fixing American healthcare? Email josh.paul@juniperplatform.com to chat
Paying for a service that agrees to not use or collect data on me, except to provide the service as I request it to, is the healthy model. No perverse incentives.

That would eliminate ads, but also surveillance and feed manipulation. Let me actually control my own feed.

Ads are just one way Facebook uses surveillance to manipulate its users. They use follow and like choices as surveillance info to insert unrequested “sticky” posts, instead of just honoring them as user features.
Author here of the PostgreSQL raw queries feature mentioned in the release notes, which allows users to use PostgreSQL's native placeholders ($1, $2, etc.) instead of the standard %s placeholder [1].

from psycopg import connect, RawCursor

with connect(dsn, cursor_factory=RawCursor) as conn:
with conn.cursor() as cur:
cur.execute("SELECT $1, $2", [1, "Hello"])
assert cur.fetchone() == (1, "Hello")

The release notes highlight several interesting advantages I hadn't considered. However, they don't mention the primary motivation behind my contribution, so I thought I'd share it here:

I was concerned that psycopg replaces the %s placeholders using regexes, which might inadvertently alter my SQL queries. My goal was to ensure that my SQL queries were passed directly to PostgreSQL "as is," without any intermediate modifications. Only PostgreSQL's parser can safely and accurately parse all SQL queries. While this concern might seem theoretical if you're certain your queries don't contain any %s, it still felt much more reassuring to eliminate this potential source of bugs entirely.

[1] https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/advanced/cursors.html#...
> How do you think I should reason about making this distributed - should I use one of the (various) sqlite replicatoin libraries? Or should this be something I roll on my own (on top of some other protocol, such as raft, or something else.)

It really depends on the semantics of the MQ you want to provide. There is rqlite if you want a distributed SQLite over Raft.

The question is what sort of guarantees you'd like to provide and how much of latency / performance you are willing to compromise
Check what is happening in Servo (https://servo.org). Some active members also want something very modular, and this is helped by work being actively done to use the engine in various contexts.
The app manifest could state "I need this runtime installed". The OS can know whether it is already installed or not. The OS also knows whether it is internet connected or not. If a runtime that isn't installed is needed and internet connectivity isn't available, the OS could state that, with information about how to procure the runtime manually.

That would stop people that have copied thr application from a pendrive in an air gapped system, that's true. One could make the case that someone meeting all of those requirements for would be technically minded enough to figure it out.

This wouldn't help developers who want to distribute a small application that won't ever require a download, but would be an improvement for anyone already distributing .Net applications over the web.
Context here: djmdjm is Daniel Miller, an OpenSSH/OpenBSD developer.
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This is an event where you will make new contacts and exchange experiences and ideas for the near future. But not only! It's a conference you'll love coming back to, both for the atmosphere and the new contacts, but also for your own development - as a listener, as a speaker, or maybe as a recruiter looking for new talent. Who knows?

This year, PHPCon Poland for the first time will take place in Wisła, a town often called "the pearl of the Beskid Mountains”.

It is a uniquely picturesque mountain resort located close to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, surrounded by the mountain ranges with the highest massif of Barania Gora (1220 m.a.s.l). Three mountain streams join each other to create the river Wisła – the Queen of Polish rivers. The town of Wisła is the hometown of Adam Małysz – the world champion of ski jumps.
Wow, so you do have a workaround for the missing window.showSaveFilePicker, that's promising!
>We think 9am-6pm will bring a great cadence to work

Any reason why you think this given that studies show knowledge workers can't be productive over that long a period?
I can't follow what you're saying. Once people start reviewing the PR, we typically do not manually squash (rebase -i) because it is helpful to see how the flow of the review went. Following this, we sometimes end up with 10 commits on a PR that are just addressing various comments, nitpicky or not.

Then once approved, we click the "squash and merge" button, and github squashes all that useless noise into a single commit on master for us.

We don't have any complaints about this workflow.
Cries into my drawer of Lightning / USB micro / USB mini / USB A / USB C adapters
KPTI won't be default enabled on Linux on AMD CPUs is the issue here.

Yet it provides valuable separation between kernel and userspace address ranges.

iirc the predecessor to KPTI was made before these hw flaws were announced as a general enhancement to ASLR.

AMD aside, Spectre V2 isn't even default mitigated for userspace across the board, you must specify spectre_v2=on for userspace to be protected.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-pa...
2015 was WAY too early for that switch.

However, since December 2020 the EU mandates that all new cars equipped with a radio must be able to receive DAB+. In H2 2019 only 22% of cars sold in Germany were equipped with a DAB+-capable radio, in H2 202 this already rose to 80%.[0]

So yeah, in 2015 they'd indeed lose around 80% of listeners. But it's a completely different story in 2024, as anyone with a car bought in the last 5 years would support it. Give it another 5, and the switchover might be possible without anyone really noticing.

As for Switzerland? 99% of cars sold in 2019 were already equipped with DAB+, so they probably mandated it even earlier.

[0]: https://www.worlddab.org/system/news/documents/000/012/060/o...
You should read about the monarch butterfly and what its lifecycle entails
These are personal views. How can they be extremist? It affects none and has no power at all.

Does me as a Hindu having an opinion about my faith offend you and strike you as extremist?

Time is relative. Non abrahamic religions have always been a minority faith since millennia.

I think it’s not right to say that I ‘despise secularism’. I am critiquing the poor state and expression of ‘secularism’ in India.

Example:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism_in_India#:~:text=....

[..]The Indian Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act of 1937 continues to be the law of land of modern India for Indian Muslims, while parliament-based, non-religious uniform civil code passed in mid-1950s applies to Indians who are Hindus (which includes Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Parsees), as well as to Indian Christians and Jews.[..]

Is this a secularism?

All I am saying is that if Muslims are allowed to practice their religious laws, Hindus should also be allowed to hold their religious law as Personal law.

The state cannot discriminate between two faiths and call itself secular.

I want Muslims (and Christians and Buddhists and everyone)to have the freedom to practice their faith. I want the same for Hindus, Saying Hindus should have the same freedom and rights is causing me to face accusations of ‘extremism’.

Strange.
Public perception of scientists' credibility in the US has gone down
I've been eyeing https://neutralino.js.org/ since if I'm going to make the app render right on browsers then relying on the same code via webviews likely isn't (much) more portability effort.
I don't understand, I've been told by many random posters over many years that you either pay with your money or you pay with your privacy. Now that's morally wrong? Next you'll be telling me that you shouldn't be able to sell yourself into slavery.
I believe he was saying what else could that portion of the spectrum be used for, if not for FM radio?
My feeling is Britain is both paradoxically tolerant (I live in Germany, and the difference is stark), but also omnidirectionally hateful - for instance, British people are the only people in the world who, as a norm, hate children. It's a nation of sadists, not a nation of racists.
Location: South America
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Depends on location
Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Node, React, TypeScript, CSS, Next.js, Postgres, etc
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u8lj0Hes9jugQt2l7_ZrMxgPVkk7zJU1/view?usp=drivesdk
Email: it's in my CV
What fifteen minute delay? I'm pretty sure all of the retail brokers I have an account with (I have three, for historical reasons) give me instant (less network and computing latency) live data when I'm logged in.

Google/Yahoo give delayed data away to the public for free, but if you're actually trading, you have a broker and you won't wait fifteen minutes for data.

It's true that professional traders have less latency because they spend money on that, so they can act faster. But as a retail investor I really don't care if they pocket about a quarter of a cent per share on each trade I make, I'm happy there's liquidity and trading costs have never been lower for the little guy than in the present era.
I also just realized this board is the primary photo on this Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_hack
`strace -c` will show you wall time per call and not just the volume of syscalls.
The current mass of asteroids is estimated to be about the same as the current mass of Earth's oceans. The mass of asteroids early in the solar system was likely much larger. So I don't see why one would necessarily prefer Earth to be the OoL location.
Totally fair. :)
This is obvious if you took a DB course, and if you didn't, you have no business building a DB. Sadly, all the NoSQL junkware was built by people who didn't.
Microsoft's solution to DLL hell was installing lots of DLLs side-by-side. The problem with WinUI and VC redistributables is that we've now got a combinatorial explosion of them and teaching an installer to know and understand the complex network of dependencies is a lot of work.

Microsoft's intended solution to this was to write one last Installer platform to try to rule them all. That's where AppX and MSIX installers came from. Unfortunately for us all, that Installer platform was synonymous with the Windows Store/Microsoft Store for just long enough that everyone assumes that is all that AppX/MSIX were intended to be. Today MSIX supports everything you want to do in a Win32 application, plus all the Dependency Fu of getting a WinUI application correctly installed. Just about the only left that you can't install directly in an MSIX is kernel-level drivers and even then there are options depending on your hardware vendor relationship with Microsoft.

The article dismisses MSIX packaging out of hand, but given it is still referred to as AppX packaging in the article, the author might not be aware of how much MSIX packaging has advanced in a bunch of years and still makes some assumptions of MSIX limitations based on early Store-intended AppX restrictions.
SEEKING WORK | Canada | REMOTE

Fractional CTO & Staff Level Engineer for Rapid Product Delivery. Ex-Zapier

I'm a deeply technical, hands-on engineer who has founded small companies and led multiple teams. My particular expertise is working with the business to identify high-ROI opportunities and bringing focus to engineering teams to accelerate product delivery. Specialties include:

- Rapid Prototyping: I can quickly prototype ideas leveraging LLMs, DevOps infrastructure, and other cutting-edge technologies.
- Fractional CTO: If you need a technical approach or hands-on help for your team, I can do both. I have been a CTO and Director of Engineering previously and have moved to an IC role as a Staff Developer currently.
- Accelerating Product Development: I take chaotic engineering teams and bring much-needed alignment and focus, ensuring they're working towards a unified goal and delivering products efficiently.

Some of my recent achievements include:
- Took charge of an unfocused team of 13 engineers and data scientists to launch the world’s first free machine learning-based dermatologist app in four weeks. Over 500k uses in 6 months.
- Built a document generation prototype using LLMs in two weeks, leading for it become a major development initiative across multiple teams.
- Lead product management and business development for an AI product I co-founded: aerial.ai. I led and landed deals with Amazon, Samsung, Panasonic, iRobot and others.
- Unlocking mid-market sales for a legal SaaS company by leading performance improvements that delivered 5-10x faster load times
Implementing an observability platform using OpenTelemetry to give insights on how our desktop app is performing.

I'm available for part-time engagements, either as a fractional CTO or as a hands-on technical leader. If you need help bringing clarity, focus, and rapid execution to your engineering efforts, let's connect.

Email: jevin@quickjack.ca
Personal site: https://www.jevy.org
Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, AWS, Kafka, 20 years with Linux
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jevinmaltais/
This article seems particularly good at escaping the dupe filter as it has 4 submissions with comments in the last few days. (edit: or is it Ars generally https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=arstechnica.com)

On the topic: a great example of how much modern right-wing politics is essentially elder abuse. "Am I out of touch on this technology that's been widely rolled out after I turned 40 years old? No, it's the children who are wrong, Fox News tells me constantly, making me fear for the future."
My argument is not that water resistance is not required but that it has always been present.

Older phones were already water resistant. You just couldn't chuck them in a pond.

It's a total non issue. If our Game Boys collectively survived our childhoods then a phone with far fewer ingress points is going to be fine.

You can't even use it in the rain because capacative touchscreens.

Waterproof phones are marketing.
Depends if you fear the US legal system!
Lots of impossible things are hypothetically healthy.
Ai is just a tool. Its not necessarily better than any other way of modeling data until you prove it is. That being said it is a newer tool, and whenever a newer tool comes out theres a lot of low hanging fruit for researchers to validate existing notions with the new tool. These won’t be seminal papers or anything but serve as proof of work so the author can get a relevant job.
Very interesting marketing development but I do not at all understand why that would be a feature. Would love someone to explain.

"No crypto" labels in the last cycle made sense to me. Similar to "no ads", it points to the business model incentives and how the product is intended to evolve over time.

Conversely, "no ai" feels like a very fuzzy line around which editing features will be included (smart lasso tool? object tracking to frame shots? background / foreground selection?).
Shield.ai (https://shield.ai) | San Diego CA and Texas (ONSITE mostly, some REMOTE positions) | All Full-time

We're hiring a people/tech manager for our planning and controls stack, in particular.

We also have a huge number of open roles across software, foundations, cloud, embedded, and autonomy for software engineers.

Link for SD jobs:
https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai?location=San%20Diego%20Metro%...

Shield is a well funded deftech startup experiencing rapid growth in their autonomy software and medium/large segment aircraft sales.
I'm writing a book about the Spring Modulith project (https://spring.io/projects/spring-modulith).
To me this notion that shoes like this have a spring action that are actually useful seems dubious. Prosthetic blades have a spring constant that’s clearly calibrated to match the cadence of your running step. I really don’t think the little springs on these shoes could possibly have the necessary correct spring constant to be beneficial in that way.

Yes they might cushion your knees and joints from the blows associated with your foot landing on pavement but that’s a different effect that saying the spring action is actually helping you run more efficiently (like prosthetic blades do).
The Triumph of Electromagnetism over Thermodynamics
GDPR is a different law from DMA.

This recent development is harmonization.
https://archive.is/pcC0N
Location: Málaga, Spain, Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No but occasional travel OK

Technologies: Java, Go, Typescript, Rust

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/dlion

Email: hackernews.easing085 AT passmail DOT net

I'm a Senior Product Engineer based in Málaga, Spain.

I've been working as an Extreme Programmer for more than 8 years now, and I have more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer.

I worked at Thoughtworks and then VMware Tanzu Labs, former Pivotal Labs.

Ex-VMware due to the European layoff, I'm looking for a new role as a product engineer.

I'm currently focusing on delivering value to customers applying the Extreme Programming methodology (TDD, CI/CD, lean methodology, fast-feedback, etc.)

Don't hesitate to reach out.
"Backed by non-profit" .... shudders

I'm being unfair, but am I? Have been stung a few too many times by those words
> But even if a quantum computer is never built, new PQ standards are safer, more resilient, and more flexible than their classical counterparts.

I disagree.

First of all they are far more inconvenient. They keynotes and signature sizes are bigger. With Curve25519 ECC we can have 256 bit keys.

Secondly, flexibility is mentioned, but I think the last serval years have shown that flexibility is huge vulnerability in crypto systems.

Finally, I feel pretty confident that the NSA doesn’t know too much more than we do about RSA or ECC which have been studied, studied, implemented, and analyzed for decades in the open. I worry with Post-Quantum algorithms, that there is a good chance that the NSA knows far more about them than does the public cryptography community.
I believe it should be https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/continua
Indeed it does happen and it's unavoidable. You have to pick your axioms from somewhere and sometimes we pick the wrong ones or we find errors in our definitions. There's no "complete" or "perfect" system.
Sounds like a way to rile up a bunch of angry troops.

"Hey fellas, if you want your cigarettes, you just gotta get through those guys over there - they have tons of tobacco."