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Astronomer | Software Engineer, Office of the CTO | NYC | astronomer.io

Astronomer is a Series C data infra startup building a data ops platform for our customers on top of Apache Airflow. Airflow is one of the largest open-source data projects, allowing users to write, run, and scale data pipelines in Python. It's downloaded over 30m times a month!

The core of this role is to experiment with new ideas and build prototypes. As a Software Engineer in the Office of the CTO, you will act as a “hacker in residence” - someone with the freedom to experiment, explore big ideas, and validate concepts. You’ll be a generalist, working with whatever technology, tools, and programming languages are required to validate an idea. For the ideas that do work out, we work hand-in-hand with the broader product and engineering teams to turn the idea into a customer-facing feature or new product.

There’s a particular focus on how Generative AI will change the lives of data professionals over the next 3-5 years. We want to lead the market with both a perspective and set of products on how AI will evolve from a human-driven copilot to a set of fully autonomous agents.

Role: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/astronomer/77867d45-1141-4ba6-8772-...

My email is [my first name]@astronomer.io if you want to reach out directly. Please include HN in the subject line so I don't miss it!
That sounds like a lot of time wasted with nonsense when you were looking for sea bass recipes.

Sorry, but when I’m looking for recipes, I don’t really want to go down a rabbit hole of anything else. Especially not AI slop about nonsense.

What’s more, I doubt it randomly started talking about “zen” or whatever.

You likely prompted it.

A prompt is effectively a search query. LLMs can do a lot more with semantic information than read search algos.

> To the point that I'm disappointed with human contact.

Seek help… seriously… that’s not okay…

Find better people to fill your life with.

> If you're using it for React.js you're the problem...

What does this even mean?
Yeah, the fact that they're at odds is what makes this a difficult situation.

Right now I'm leaning towards: this other domain is close enough to my old domain that given work's context in my overall life, the pay makes it worthwhile to compromise on my work goals, as long as I'm able to "leave the door open" to re-enter my old domain. That probably won't happen at this company until the other, more experienced engineer who took over my old domain leaves, and maybe not even then.

But the magnitude of the pay difference is great enough that a couple, few years of the dot product between what I'm doing and what I'd like to be doing in my career is ~0.8 rather than 1.0 is worth it in my life right now, given that I want to eventually buy a home in my high COL city.

I think having been in the situation where I felt I was basically in my dream-job and knew I was, makes it harder to have lost it, even though I am in a really good spot in my career overall.
My account is hosted on my own PDS that I run on my own. My public repo can be viewed here https://pdsls.dev/at/did:plc:oisofpd7lj26yvgiivf3lxsi, and you can see the requests being made directly to that PDS. The account is also viewable of course on the Bluesky app, https://bsky.app/profile/hailey.at.
Location: Remote / USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, React, React-Native, Swift, Solidity, Websockets, gRPC, WebRTC, SQL, NoSql, Postgres, Redis, PostGIS, AWS, GCP, Firebase, Terraform, Docker, Lambda, Axum, Express, Posthog, Google Analytics, Metabase, Sentry, Supabase, Vercel, Retool, Plaid, Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce,B2B Sales, Startup Fundraising, Operations, Business Strategy, User , Research, Lean Startup Methodology, Heavy Machine Operation, Concrete, Welding, Construction Project Management, Agronomy, Livestock

Resume:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n8iaIuFO2bfb0JQT_cL7amNh...

Contact:

https://carllippert.com/contact
Nicely done, what are the most popular use cases for this service? I guess weddings?
Totally valid point, but I do think magic is more a property of the clever (usually reflection-based magic) things people make with Ruby, less so the language. The draw towards magic is actually because of the logically-consistent object model Ruby is built around that I find to be less magical and edge-case-filled than other script-y languages.

If you just use it as a glue language to call out to other things, prepare data, and iterate over results: it's pretty clear and concise.

(I do personally like the reflection-magic in a lot of Ruby apps, so I might be overlooking something that feels normal to me, but is some very weird behaviour to anyone else!)
lol I said "closeted dictator" for the record. But alrighty why don't we start over and see if we can both argue in good faith. I can certainly be a dick on the internet sometimes.

I honestly can't tell what your concrete points are. I come from the position that economies are naturally occurring phenomena which cannot be centrally planned or controlled. If people can find ways to profit off market inefficiencies, they should! The HFT/Quant firms make their arbitrage money (value for them) and all market participants in return see: (non-exhaustive list)

1. Better price discovery
2. Tighter spreads
3. Higher liquidity

Which is value for everyone else.

If your bar is that "all smart people should be working on curing cancer or andrepd-approved endevours" then almost nobody in the economy is providing value. Is my lowly SecEng job at $MEGACORP good enough? What about my buddy who writes firmware for toothbruhes? Are professional starcraft players wasting their talents?

> EDIT: The funny part is even the exchanges and hft firms agree with me see PLP/speed bumps on exchanges like Eurex lol

This debate has been going on for ages, and it's silly to pretend that it's been settled and everyone agrees with you.
From the article:

> Encourage Diversity in Tech Let’s not sugarcoat it: Silicon Valley’s diversity problem is a national embarrassment. By failing to include women, people of color, and other underrepresented groups, the tech industry leaves untapped talent on the table. A more inclusive workforce isn’t just a moral imperative; it’s a competitive advantage.

The author presents zero evidence that DeepSeek staff have the diversity of birth characterstics that she claims is lacking in Silicon Valley.

There are several high profile female engineers and researchers at Google and OpenAI - watch the OpenAI YouTube videos to see them demonstrate their accomplishments.

Have we seen a single female (or non-Chinese) representative of DeepSeek yet?
Why System Bloat Can Hurt a Contact Center
Yes, but it seems that there is a dearth of low hanging fruit that could make its way into everyday consumer products. We have just about everything we need in terms of gadgets.

But we still need: non-intrusive blood glucose monitors, auto-focusing AR glasses, better early detection and prevention of disease, and chocolate free of heavy metals.
> But President Trump was less definitive about shuttering the agency, telling reporters on Sunday night that USAID was run by "a bunch of radical lunatics".

> "We're getting them out," he said, "and then we'll make a decision."

This is pretty wild considering USAID is an extension of the state department, sits with the National Security Council, and closely works with the CIA. However you feel about USAID, the point of the org is to prevent humanitarian crises from becoming more expensive security issues.

If the argument is that the USAID is too left leaning, oh boy I can't imagine what they have in store.
Sony issues DMCA takedown for Bloodborne 60fps mod
Any plans on grafana integration? It would’ve been great to have an ability to match performance metrics with other app indicators
Old but probably relevant essay:

“I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now.”

https://archive.is/xxFTC
Some non commodifiable sub cultures are easy to find in real life. E.g. drinking or doing drugs in public.
A precise geometrical description of the Nepalese national flag
But to be honest the UX of Mastodon is just unusable. Following someone is not a click on Follow button. It's the most basic feature I can think of. And it's complicated there. It just couldn't work. Bluesky just did it better.
SEEKING WORK - Remote | USA

We are a small remote full-stack design and dev team specializing in healthcare apps. Our portfolio: https://vitalsphere.digital. Some recent projects we've worked on: https://pathways.org/mobile-app, https://axiosint.com/digitalsolutions, https://popset.xyz, https://www.signupmedia.com, https://emulatebio.com, https://conveyour.com, https://www.webvideocaster.com, https://ways2well.com.

Some of the technologies we're most familiar with: Web and mobile design, UI, UX, iconography, illustration, design prototyping, PHP, Node.js, Meteor, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Sass, LESS, Stylus, CoffeeScript, WebSockets, AJAX, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, Cordova, PhoneGap, React Native, iOS, Android, Browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Safari), AWS, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, C, C++, C#, Java, Objective-C, Swift, pharmacy systems such as QS/1, HL7, HIPAA, Smart Contracts, Motoko, Web3.

We offer hourly rates and discounted monthly retainer options. Contact: via our website or you can contact me directly at eliyah@vitalsphere.digital.
Rally UXR | Remote | Full-time | Senior/Staff Software Engineer | $175k-$200k | 0.10% - 0.40% Equity

We're building the leading User Research CRM for Product teams (rallyuxr.com)

Apply here:

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rally-uxr/jobs/3f6JRnn...

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At Rally, we believe *talking to your users* is the key to building great products and the single most important thing a product team can do.

To enable teams to talk to their users as fast as possible, we’ve built the most powerful User Research Platform that consolidates all the steps needed to talk to your users into a single tool.

By building Rally with a focus on scale, flexibility and quality, we’ve become the platform of choice for the biggest research teams in the world (StackOverflow, GitLab, MongoDB, Discord).

Since the start of Rally, we’ve been a fully remote company. While we have a strong remote first culture, we also value the importance of connecting with your teammates in person. We prioritize quarterly in-person offsites for the entire team with expenses fully paid for. Additionally, we offer a work-from-home stipend to ensure your remote setup is comfortable and well-equipped.

We’re a small team of seasoned Engineers and Designers who love to build. We place an emphasis on building with high craftsmanship, scalability, and a platform first mindset.

As a Senior/Staff Product Engineer, you’re expected to lead entire features end-to-end, collaborate closely with design to shape projects or initiatives, and deliver reliable and scalable systems. Rally is fully built with Typescript to make it easy for engineers to work quickly across the stack. While we don’t expect you to have a background in all the tools we use, we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and an ability to adopt new technology quickly.
> Runaway consumption is bad

Right, no disagreement there

I am just not sure I agree that runaway consumption is a unique feature of capitalism in particular

I tend to think it's a function of population size and average standard of living expectations tending to increase over time
Similar for Signalis fans with games ;)
Great Question | Rails / React Software Engineers | Full time, Remote (US - Colorado preferred; Brazil - Florianopolis preferred)

Great Question is a unified customer research platform used and loved by teams at companies like Figma, Canva & Brex. Our platform makes it easy for anyone to recruit research participants, schedule customer interviews, and share what you learn with your team all in one place.

We're third-time founders, backed by Y Combinator, building a company for the long-term, with a great team across the board, and shipping at a rapid yet sustainable pace.

We use Ruby on Rails, React, Postgres. We run on AWS.

We're looking for full-stack & backend engineers (emphasis on Rails) with some product sensibilities who believe in the power of understanding your customers to build world class products.

We've built an awesome team + culture at the company, high candor + EQ environment and we ship. We also welcome applicants who have previously run their own startups, with a bunch ex-founders on the team from the likes of Respondent and Indiegogo.

Check out our careers page here: https://greatquestion.co/about/careers
Or email the co-founder & CTO: pj@greatquestion.co
There are thousands of third party PDSes on the network https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping?tab=readme-ov-f...
As they say: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy. And even that criterium quickly breaks down at mild scrutiny. And not just because of landlocked countries.

Linguists try to draw some lines in the sand, but in the end the reasons we call Swiss German a dialect and Luxemburgish a language are cultural and political.
The damage is done and has shown to trade partners that you cannot rely on fair and consistent trade agreements with the US; as a trade partner, if they don't decouple from them as quickly as possible, they'll be held hostage at the whims of the US political winds and be in perpetual peril of "I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
So what are they supposed to do then. The right makes a mountain out of a molehill. That happens to target some group, like a minority. Those on the left who reject the Culture War argue against it since they think the right’s focus will hurt the minority. They argue that the right is making a mountain out of a molehill. And yet they are now participating, begrudgingly.

What are they supposed to do.
I use both of them. My experience is that they are sort of mirror images on opposing ends of the political spectrum. I don't want to see politics at all, so for now Bluesky is inferior because it has way fewer people in my interest areas.
Microsoft has tried so hard to mess with the built-in apps over the years. Product designers need to avoid getting usage by just getting in the way of existing usage. Although in this case it doesn't seem like it would do much harm, just add a button.
Chip making is one of the most concentrated industries in the world, and in no way representative the whole. Even then, a huge amount of the chipmaking industry aside from the bleeding edge is parallelized.

Let me ask you a question. How much efficiency do you think would be saved with zero population growth and zero innovation?

What percent of the world do you think works in Chip making? It is tiny.
Not this project, I've seen this something like this done with Google's MediaPipe models to get face tracking data into Max/MSP.

https://cycling74.com/forums/n4m-facemesh-handpose-google-me...
Big words of a man with an even bigger ego. But let’s leave the persons aside and compare businesses. It only takes a quick query to ChatGPT or other AI to compare NeuroVigil and NeuroLink. The first one monitors, the second one actually enables severely handicapped people to get their life back. Which one would you think has the potential to do more good to humanity?
Would love to know how to build such a system but with a normal camera and projector if possible for creative art+tech projects!
Infracost | Senior Software Engineer | Remote (GMT+2 to GMT-6) | Full-time | €80K - €140K EUR

Infracost helps engineering teams understand cloud costs before they deploy infrastructure changes. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us solve challenging problems at scale.

What we’re looking for:

* Solid experience with statically typed languages. Our core parsing functionality is in Golang.

* Knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript—our APIs and business logic rely heavily on them.

* Experience building and maintaining complex systems, solving integration, performance, and scalability challenges.

* (Preferred) Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS—we use these tools, and so do our customers.

Recent challenges we’ve tackled:

* Refactoring our Terraform HCL evaluator to handle monorepos with thousands of projects.

* Mapping Terraform resources to their deployed cloud counterparts accurately.

* Scaling our APIs and onboarding to support customers with thousands of GitHub orgs and tens of thousands of repos.

More info & apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/vdMNDwh...
It depends on context. Imagine you're playing poker or some other game where being deceptive gives you an advantage. Do you tell the other poker players your hand because Honesty is the ethically right thing to do? You wouldn't win many games. On the other end of the spectrum are your dealings with your own friends and family. You're expected to be honest with them. I'm not going to try to place the job hunt anywhere particular on this spectrum, but surely it's somewhere in between.
I built something for post-processing runs into common running workout structures (e.g. 4 x 1mi) based solely on lap data, without needing the actual programmed workout. workoutsplitz.com if you want to try it out.
Cathmere | Sr Engineer | Hybrid NYC | Full Time | https://cathmere.com

We are are a seed-stage startup revolutionizing how capital flows to emerging markets through our innovative fintech platform. We're seeking an exceptional Senior Engineer to help build our end-to-end solution that connects US investors with high-impact equipment financing opportunities in emerging markets. Our challenge is to build a scalable platform that captures real-world asset performance via multiple streams of operational and financial data in a decentralized network of business counterparties.

Responsibilities

- Build and maintain a decentralized processing system that can handle a high throughput and complex counterparty relationships

- Creating data models that support complex financial analytics

- Implementing data quality monitoring and validation systems

- Developing APIs for real-time data access and analytics from decentralized ledge

Must Have

- 5+ years of experience building complex distributed or decentralized systems and strong communication skills

If you’re interested in learning more, email matt@cathmere.com
I think Neuromancer is timeless and will prove to have extremely long-lasting appeal, even long after the ideas in it are hopelessly dated, because of how stylish it is. It will last like Lovecraft gas because of how much fun it is to read.

Contrast with Asimov, who's books were carried by ideas but had a very tedious style.
Brilliant.org | Software Engineers | Remote (North America), SF, NYC | Full-time | $175k — $230k | https://brilliant.org

Brilliant is building world-class interactive learning experiences that combine challenging problems, compelling narratives, and delightful visual storytelling.

We're hiring for a number of engineering roles to help craft the next generation of interactive learning and change how the world learns.

Engineers at Brilliant think about both "building the right thing" AND "building the thing right" while pursuing high standards of excellence for ourselves, our product, and our codebase.

If you're energized by the prospect of doing the best work of your career and changing how the world learns alongside the most talented peers you've ever worked with, you can learn more and apply here: https://brilliant.org/careers.
This is stuff is such a PIA to parse. I assume it's just different teams doing different features over the years, and being alternately repulsed/seduced by each format. Probably features are implemented as libraries so there isn't a master oversight - they aren't trying to make iMessage's internal formats follow a consistent plan, just let all the libs coexist...
SEEKING WORK | North America | Remote

Location: Ontario, Canada

Willing to relocate: No, but open to travel

Technologies:

- AI/Machine learning (including LLMs, retrieval augmented generation, agents etc.)

- Full stack web development (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go)

- Mobile app dev for iOS and Android (Flutter, React Native)

- Payments, financial systems and quantitative trading platforms

- Oil and gas

Email: tale_me@outlook.com

Experienced generalist product engineer specializing in applied machine learning and fintech. Shipped multiple products to market. Familiar with financial services, sustainability, and various other B2C/B2B SaaS verticals. Reach out if you need to bring a greenfield product to market or integrate AI into your services.

Industries/opportunities that I am particularly interested in:

Machine learning (or "AI"), logistics, e-commerce, fintech, EdTech
okay so the very few examples you named have been bought up and are now part of american companies.
And did you really just bring up komoot, a outdoor biking/hiking app, as a comparison to silicon valley? lmfao
Statistics I can find via search differ by a lot, but https://www.appbrain.com/stats/number-of-android-apps says there are currently 1.58M available apps. So, it seems they are moving more apps than they are allowing.
Then you have a subculture defined by fashion, which might be fun for the people in it, but it's not something anyone else has any stake in preserving. Nothing of value is lost if it disappears.
This looks pretty great, seriously considering ordering one!

The length is fixed at 72 pages/frames, but you support uploading up to 30s of video. How does this work? You sample 72 frames from a video of any length? Is there a recommended frame rate (and therefore duration) that is somehow optimal? What's the natural frame rate range of humans flipping flipbooks? So many questions!
We’re thinking of adding a DIY version where you can buy a pattern made from your video, print it at home or a local print shop, cut it, and bind it with a clip binder. Would that be something you’d find interesting?
I have a product that does exactly this. E-mail me at ben AT theengine DOT co, I'd love to show it to you and see if it would help.
I recall about ten years ago there was a poster here who warned about tech authoritarianism, got banned for it, and had his career destroyed for the service.
Yeah, I did feel fortunately supported, though the political situation was rather more complex, and things outside both of our control played a role in this promotion.

I did express my interest in transitioning back in-person to a few important people, while asserting my commitment to getting the other team up and running, and my interest in my old domain is really well known, and strong enough that I do think it'll sustain itself even if I settle into this new position.
That is manifestly untrue because the SE is time-reversible. That is the whole problem.
Ah yes. Mobile web pages famous for not being able to fit in 58 characters.

:)
(2022) Discussion at the time (167 points, 74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387833
Too much magic? Ruby is super straightforward and consistent.

Unless you're talking Rails, which indeed uses a lot of metaprogramming under the hood and is quite different than programming in basic Ruby.
Whoa, great!

Questions:

- What's the performance impact?

- Does it allow payload/headers inspection?
Non-paywalled alternative link: https://www.cbtnews.com/teslas-california-sales-decline-as-e...
Graphene tattoos that are biosensors
The WASM spec is so well defined presumably because Andreas Rossberg is the editor - and he did a bunch of PL research on extensions to Standard ML, which is famous for it's specification!