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Kombo (YC S22) | Engineering Manager | Berlin | In-office (with flexibility) | 80k-110k + equity | https://kombo.dev

We are a small (~35), fast-growing (tripled revenue last year) team building a unified API for HR systems. We are looking to hire an engineering manager to help us manage one of our product squads.

I haven't yet finished writing the job spec but I still wanted to put this out there already for the HN hiring thread. You can get a feel for what our engineering culture is like based on the job posting of our Product Engineering position: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Kombo/5446702e-cf0b-4a53-9400-0be2d...

Feel free to contact me at arne@kombo.dev - I'm the CTO and leading the hiring process!
I'm not talking about mathematically exact reconstruction, I'm talking about not being able to see the difference.
Maybe something like (untested):

- Create an unlogged table named events_active.

- At the app_checkpoint time, start a transaction:

1. Rename events_active to events_pending_write.

2. Create a new unlogged table, events_active, to handle writes for the next app_checkpoint.

- In a new transaction:

1. Set events_pending_write to LOGGED. This writes the entire table into the WAL. [1]

2. Rename to events_pending_write to events_part_20250304

3. Attach events_part_20250304 to a partitioned events table.

For stronger consistency, combine the two transactions, but you'll block incoming writes until the transaction completes.

Unlogged tables don't guarantee Postgres uses RAM for the table. If you need a stronger guarantee, mount a directory on a ramdisk and create a table space to hold the events_active table. Then, to promote to a logged table, use a create-table-as statement to copy the table into a new partition.

[1]: https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/195829
Convert.App: Convert anything 100% privacy
Convert.App is an all-in-one online conversion platform with the main goal of user data privacy. Developed with the motto "Keep your data with you!" in this project, by pushing the limits of technology, your data is never sent to our servers and processed on 90% of the tools created. You can clearly see the security of your data with the %100 Privacyand No-Upload tags added under each tool.
Absolutely. Actively degrading the user experience might have the opposite effect, though.
I thought you were joking about this but they are still selling 3 different pencils. At least one has been retired. But Jesus what a mess of a lineup.

I'm assuming/wishing/hoping they are going to get to Good Pencil and Great Pencil and Good Pencil works on everything and Great Pencil works on a limited set of products.
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Remote: Preferred
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, Linux, SQL, K8s, Spark, Cloud
Resume/CV: https://treatmesubj.github.io/
Email: hupperts.john@outlook.com

I'm a self-taught software engineer with an education in finance.
I have a few years of experience, first as a Financial Analyst,
then as a Data Specialist, and finally, as a Software Engineer.
I work in DevOps & Data Engineering capacities, supporting
a data platform with >25k users.
Saturn Lamp
You know refinement can be done anywhere? We take bauxite and ship it to the other side of the world to make aluminium because electric power is cheaper there.
So your advice to my parents is...

(a) Ignore browser security updates

and

(b) Install some extensions to fettle with user-agent strings to match popular browsers.

Streuth.
Thanks! Unfortunately the chat links aren't shareable yet. We're planning on adding this within the next couple weeks along with the other full stack features (database integration and easy deployment).
But you’re just describing the slippery slope. It’s a real problem, and the solution is continual vigilance against sliding too far and a simultaneous pushing to the desirable point. How can we do better?
My experience with laser projectors, is that they work great, but have very weak beams (for reasonably portable ones).

I need it to be something I can toss into a backpack (along with a bunch of other stuff), and be around 1000 lumens.

Not just lumens, either. The color needs to be good, the resolution needs to be (hopefully) greater than 1080p, and it needs to be usable in a semi-lit room. I don't care about speakers. I use projectors as a speaking aid.

I've been using a tiny InFocus LCD unit that's great, but a little anemic (1080p/750 lumens).

The promise of a laser, is that you can project it against a cinder-block wall, and it will stay in focus, and show great color.
What are you using Ada for?
That is in the hands of the ultra-wealthy class. What is the goal of enabling people to cross these thresholds? Who does it benefit?
> in 2025 it's basically saying "Please hack us China" so we don't do that any more.

It took almost two decades to explain that to sitting presidents and Congress.

'We' have been telling 'them' that shit won't scale since at least the 90's.

Everyone forgets about Al Gore's black sheep - the Clipper Chip.
40% of electricty consumption in Virgina will be data centers in 2030? (Table A1
Has someone got a guide they can link that is easy enough to understand for service administrators that aren't doing anything complicated?

Also, can I request these risk assessments off companies myself?
Nice work, very impressive!
What software did you use to create the design? Any recommendations for CAD and PCB design newbies?
good find! (i have the book)
Ah, I was wondering if anyone else noticed the Louqe case in the background. Legendary sffpc case, and I agree the custom keyboard matches very nicely.
Yup. Though I think I may have had to install (free) Karabiner to enable that:

https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

So I'll e.g. page down by holding Fn on the left keyboard and down arrow on the right.
i posted an emoji and it counted it as two characters
Blue Ghost Mission 1 – Moon Landing [video]
I wouldn't be surprised if it starts up pretty soon as the gigantic tax cuts were just made permanent - that likely means the folks with money have gotten everything they needed out of this administration.
Yes. For example if he were caught in the act with other men? That might cause the MAGAs to turn on him.
Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: preferably

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: embedded development, C, Python, C++, embedded Linux, Buildroot, EV chargers, Network/socket programming, writing Unix daemons, a bit of web dev (react, typescript), MQTT, MODBUS, microcontroller/RTOS, desktop software, electronics.

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juancarrano/ , PDF on request.

Email: juan@carrano.com.ar

10 years experience. Done very disparate things, but mostly focused on embedded and numeric-related software (image processing, robot path planning, electric power optimization). Quite heavy on Buildroot too. Right now I'm working with video and OpenGL as a side project while building a react-router site on cloudflare.
LOL as much as I disagree with Elon's current stint in government, this is probably among the most tame projects in DARPA's portfolio.
MD-5 died the same way. We had to scare people into investing into upgrading to SHA-1 by showing them the slope of hardware and the variability in new breakthroughs and ask if they'd rather have an emergency that lasted for over a month or work it into the schedule among the other requirements now?

Yes, people can upgrade but nobody fucking will until you impress upon them how stupid they're being by gambling the entire company on carrying that debt for another year.
Imagine having fun with animals, men, children, bsdm and so on. That's not even bottom of the pit.

I mean he was a good friend with epstein and there are numerous videos of their friendly encounters (so did clinton, gates and so on just to be clear). Go figure.

But I think he is just a small insecure emotional boy at the core, and thats enough if you know which buttons in which order to push. ruskies somehow figured that out, it seems israelis too during his first term.
In New Administration, Supplement Makers See Chance to Cash In
I see this article every quarter.
When you don't vote you accept responsibility for everything that happens next.
Prediction: USA will NEVER put troops on the ground in Taiwan, particularly with the current admin. There is no risk/benefit analysis where fighting a war makes sense for the USA. The USA's posture is a bluff - it's willing to provide aid and maybe a blockade but not fight directly. It's primary goal is to protect other regional allies and chip access (which it can build domestically).
No. Space debris, radiation, power capacity, latency, maintenance, not yet worth the likely burn rate and risks. Cart before the horse. First master short distance space travel maintenance, shields debris and radiation, energy efficiency and advanced battery tech, etc ... If the data-center in space is bigger than a telco closet then the power tech to run this beast is thousands of years out and would more than likely be some cold fusion reactor.

Ocean shore-face area behind a seawall could be a little more feasible however, especially for deep sea fiber hubs and oceanic packet flow WAN optimization.
Command Zero | Back End Go Engineer | Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario | Remote | cmdzero.io

Command Zero is looking to revolutionize the way organizations conduct cyber investigations. We're seeking an experienced back-end developer to help design, build, and maintain our Go-based back end. An ideal candidate has 3-5 years of (recent) experience in building production code in Go.

For more information, see https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4169587096/
Feel free to send a resume directly to jobs@cmdzero.io.
This is very cool and definitely a step in the right direction, however, the question remains where exactly this formalizing module should be placed in the stack. As an external api, it's clear that the model is not "thinking" in these logical terms, it just provides a translation step. I'd argue it would be better placed during inference test-time compute (as seen in these so-called reasoning models). Better yet, this formalizing step would happen at a lower level entirely, internal to the model, but that would probably require totally new architectures.
I would hope so with the current administration working as hard as they can to bring about a recession. They seemed to be personally offended when Biden somehow pulled off the soft landing. Recessions make it easier for the rich to consolidate power.
I want something to push when I git-push.

And I want something to pull when I git-pull.
As a bit of a surprising note - Canada actually does have a serious issue with drugs and weapons illegally crossing into Canada... not enough to start a trade war over but quite a bit more significant than stuff going in the other direction.
Yesterday I tried to power up my pocket chip, but after years in dust of my dad basement the screen does not light, now try sshing and see if anything is running or die

The pocket chip it been revolutionary but waiting 2 years to receive lost all the time to been completive with other plataforms
"States rights" is not going to save us. Conservative think tanks push "state rights" so hard because they know they can get overrepresented in state government via gerrymandering/voter suppression. Anything that slips through the cracks after that can be appealed to a higher court, up to SCOTUS, which they have made sure is full of judges sympathetic to them. A recent example would be SCOTUS overturning the Chevron doctrine and its possible effects on California's environmental rules.
Ada (safety critical stuff) in work. Not a great fan, but it has its passionate defenders.
Chip-8 is a great starting point for anyone interested in learning how to build emulators, would highly recommend!
Can I give your money ?

I'll try it out tonight.

Does running it inside of VS Code sandbox this ? Claude keeps failing when every it tries to run a shell directory.
My view - as a manager - is that as I get older (simply put) I’m not as good any more as my younger team! While I help them, I also learn a lot from them as well. And I love that.

I have experience: project management, real life, edge cases, dealing with C-levels and customers, risk mitigation, being calm when sh*t hits the fan, mentoring, etc. These are things the team benefits from far more than my fingers typing away.

At the same time, if I’m actually doing my job well, I really don’t have time to code.

I also want my team (senior and junior) to have a feeling of ownership. The company has goals and directives, but what’s being built belongs the team, not me. All the successes are theirs, and the failures are mine alone.

When do my fingers hit the keyboard? When there’s a time crunch (if I’m not willing to work more how can I ask the team to?), when the team is having a difficult time with a particular problem, or maybe when there’s some downtime and I can fix a few outstanding bugs or work on something extremely isolated (I never want to get halfway through something and then have to hand it off to the team).
Looks pretty promising, would be great to see some more documentation around pushing data out to elastic, etc.

Small nit, the GitHub link at the bottom of the page leads to docusaurus' GitHub, not the project. It took me more than one attempt to realise the project's gh was in the sidebar.
Wasn't the word still nonetheless unjustifiably weaponized? Would it not be extremely reasonable to be upset if a sitting US president prior to the US getting involved in WW2 criticized Churchhill and strategically called him a dictator to delegitimize him?
It was less Pence and more the old guard career folks like Tillerson - but now Trump just exists in an echo chamber.
I have recently found myself drawing parallels between deep research and knowledge working org structures.

For example,board exec asks senior exec a question about a particular product. The senior exec then has to fire off emails to say 5 managers, who might go down their tree to ICs, all the info is gathered and synthesised into a response.

Normally this response takes into account some angle the senior exec might have.

A lot of knowledge working tasks follow this pattern that I have somewhat simplified.
Apple Fights UK's Demand for iCloud Data Backdoor
Unfortunately, you'd probably have to create a whole new teaching program to train teachers for it first. A lot of them are missing those life skills.

You will find no shortage of teachers confused about their own pensions.
This seems true of any place where reputation matters. If it takes time and effort to build reputation then there will be a cost in leaving. Unfortunately, places where reputation doesn't matter tend to be absolute cesspools with little redeeming value.
Then when you need to buy a house you have to leave.

Net migration to London from the rest of England and Wales is only positive for those aged 20 to 27

There's plenty of great experienced people outside London, but all the rich (business owners) are openly prejudice to everywhere else. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cwy57v07gn2o
Actually this is addressed in the article. Unique signing keys per capture or per short rotation period.
- XZ is critical software
- XZ was (is?) developed by a single person
- XZ developer does XZ development in their spare time, having a normal job to pay the bills
- XZ developer gets overburdened. Not making money, they can't hire another dev.
- Pressure builds up. Hacker leverages and takes advantage of this. Especially since everything can't be checked due to said overburden

Look at it from the flip side. Take the counterfactual of if XZ Utils was making money for their work

- XZ is critical software, therefore it is funded
- XZ is funded and critical, so more than one developer is hired to ensure quality
- XZ is funded, developers don't have a second job. They have ONE job
- XZ is over burdened. XZ is funded. XZ hires more devs.

It's true that a hacker can still infiltrate corporate software, but it is also true that the pressures would have been far lower were the main dev not doing 2 fucking jobs.
I think last time I read about this someone brought up ~~ocular~~ occlusion, maybe that was for holograms

edit: seems like you get that here, person walks in front of another person, blocks them

The driving bit is like a lidar playback of a self-driving car ha
These type of models need to be trained across thousands of GPUs, which requires distributed engineering on a much higher level than "normal" distributed systems.

This is true for DeepSeek as well as for others. There are a few companies giving insights or open-sourcing their approaches, such as Databricks/Mosaic and, well, DeepSeek.
The latter also did some particularly clever stuff, but if you look into details so did Mosaic.

OpenAI and Anthropic likely have distributed tools of even larger sophistication. They are just not open source.
I guess you would trust Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-01/chinese-g...

Or via Wikipedia since it’s paywalled:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_...

Google "critical media analysis".
Dude 'nobel' peace prize has nothing to do with actual scientific Nobel prices as they were originally intended, its highly political medal for various political stances and activism dobe by very different people.

The list of its recipients with properly shameful past ain't short neither and I don't recall a single one recently which wasn't somehow controversial to put it mildly.
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When you're not profiting off of them: "professional protestors".

When you are profiting off of them: lobbyists.
I have a child. In fact I am an empty-nester. So here we are again.
> On the flip side, modern toasters cost $10 and last nearly as long.

This claim can only be meaningfully examined in like 60 years, minimum, and I have my doubts. I've yet to see a 70s era toaster die, and have personally watched four modern toasters go into a dumpster in the last 25 years. Old toasters were reliable because consumers of the day wouldn't tolerate disposable crap which informed every aspect of material selection and design.
Thanks, yeah it is C#/.net9 and WinUI3. I started with C#/WPF, but wanted to get it on the Windows Store and couldn't figure out that would work with WPF.
An NSA contractor writing malware choosing to use Kaspersky is either a massive mark against that contractor or a massive endorsement of Kaspersky.
two days later, and crickets, of course.
"we have prophets at home" :
the prophets at home : ketamine and dmt fueled madness
If the author reads this: John Carmack's last name was mistyped as "Carnmack" throughout the document.
Not exactly a fan of bluesky's seemingly centralized state, weak network effects, and us just 'reliving' all of the development that we went thru with Twitter for over a decade as they 'build in the open'.... But there is some developments with the AT Protocol that have kept my mind open about the service. The way they are pushing towards domain-based identity ownership and also the fact that running your own PDS server is an option even tho no one is doing it yet. There aren't any other 'services' to migrate to as of yet, but if need be, there could be, and you'd be able to take your data with it. I suppose there are still the underlying federation problems 'at the whim of sysadmins' maybe? but who knows. Basing your main points on a Doctorow article from 2023 might not be sufficient here as so much has gone on with the masses. Again, still all being developed. The migrations happen out of perceived necessity for the most part when things got really bad and some momentum building, but I think there's also something to be said (as is often these days in the discussions on blogging) that social media should be treated as potentially ephemeral and you should approach it with a POSSE attitude, posting on your own site and syndicating / sharing on networks elsewhere.
I haven’t thought of KenS in ages but back in the 90s I was super active in the Duke3D modding scene. Scripting it was literally my first “coding”.

So in a way, I owe my whole career and fortune to KenS. Cool.
Your assertion that future home owners don't is false.

Anecdotal Source: Every single person I know who has bought a house, myself included.

If you wish to counter this source please provide data supporting your claim that all home owners have stock options to liquidate.
uBlock Origin still works with the latest version of Arc Browser. However, when you go to the extension store, it shows a warning that it will not be supported in future.

Arc Browser uses uBlock Origin natively, so I assume they will "patch" it or find a workaround to keep it working
It is an interesting test, but I wish they could provide a bit more details. Doing some searches it seems that this is a €350 million project, for which €100 millions is direct grants given by the government, and the remaining are special loans given out by different green investment initiatives. It is planned to generate 8.2 MW of electrical output (in practice they intend to divert some for heating, which mean less total electrical output but with higher amount of usable energy).
The trade war reduces China's dependence on the US, whether through sales or holding US treasuries. This means China can invade Taiwan with less risk of economic sanctions. That said, without TSMC, and especially with the current administration, I doubt the US would step in.
Kudos for his contributions.

Lots of solutions out there. I like wasab.is https://wasab.is

curl wasab.is
curl wasab.is/json
The same applies to air fryers with touchscreens and "smart" cooking programs. We only need 2 options like power and time like a microwave.
Run it on more obscure hardware?