The backstory is that in the late 2050s when AI has its hands in everything, humans loose trust of it. There are a few high profile incidents - based on AI decisions -, which cause public opinion to change, and an initiative is brought in to ensure important systems run hardware and software that can be trusted and human reviewed.

A 16bit CPU architecture - with no pipelining, speculative execution etc is chosen, as it's powerful enough to run such systems, but also simple enough that a human can fully understand the hardware and software.

The goal is to make a near-future space exploration MMO. My Macbook Pro can simulate 3000 CPU cores simultaneously, and I have a lot of fun ideas for it. The irony is that I'm using LLMs to build it :D

We sell digital signage, and a host of related products, that create interactive retail experiences. This is powered by a small stick, that you plug into the back of any TV. That stick is Intel hardware, which runs Linux, various Docker containers, and the main UI for our service, through Electron.

The software that runs on it hasn't really been touched for a few years, and we are running into issues. The main issue is video decoding, where we cannot get hardware acceleration to work in Electron. For 1080p we've been able to ignore it, but we want to support 4K now, where things don't work without video acceleration.

We are looking for someone who is an expert with Electron + Linux + dealing with driver issues between them. If things go well, there will be more work down the line (and if you want, a full time position).

If you fit the bill, but are located elsewhere, please still get in touch. These locations are preferred, as it'll make shipping hardware for testing to you easier, but for the right candidate we can make an exception.

Email me to apply: luca@blissfulsystems.com

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-ai-locations

With over a decade of experience as a versatile full-stack software engineer, I bring a wealth of expertise gained working with small to medium-sized startups. Recently I've build a team based in Eastern Europe for a US startup, being responsible for the A-Z of hiring and management.

If you're an early-stage founder looking to establish a stellar development team, or an already established entity seeking an additional pair of skilled hands to propel your features forward, I'm here to help. I'm particularly passionate about collaborating with bootstrapped and non-VC funded companies. Let's build something extraordinary together!

Key areas of expertise: Retail, point of sale, payments, ecommerce

Tech stack: TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Serverless, React, Ruby on Rails

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaspiller/

Email: luca@blissfulsystems.com

I wouldn't say their comments were that helpful or insightful - mainly just advertising. Now they've raised ~$10m. It's spam, but it works ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-raise-regulated-...

https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

The basic premise is that opticians often over prescribe glasses. I've had this personally, an optician prescribed me glasses that were 0.75 dipole too strong for computer use, as the way they test (unless you ask otherwise) is for long distance vision (i.e. driving), not for 50cm in front of your eyes.

The theory is that your eye muscles become lazy as they don't need to work so hard, and you get used to that, so you need glasses to see clearly. If you look at distance text that is ever so slightly out of focus, eventually your vision system will figure out how to correct for that blur, and you will be able to see in focus. If you rinse and repeat, changing ever few months to a slightly weaker prescription (e.g. a reduction of 0.25) you can greatly reduce the strength of glasses you need.

I've only just started, but there are other comments on HN about people who have done this.

[0] https://endmyopia.org/how-to-finding-active-focus/

https://www.stackednotion.com/blog/2019/05/07/automatically-...

Earlier this year I added SSL verification to a website uptime monitoring service I run (https://www.watchsumo.com/docs/ssl-tls-monitoring) and it wasn't anywhere near as simple as I thought it would be. There's so many edge cases regarding verification, and languages usually don't expose the full errors in exceptions, then you have errors like this which only affect a subset of clients.

Self plug: I wrote a Node library a few years ago to use this data offline. It builds a SQLite database, which is small enough to be suitable for embedding into applications. [1]

[0] http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/readme.txt

[1] https://github.com/lucaspiller/offline-geocoder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19852452

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Bobtrade is an exciting startup which is going to revolutise the construction industry. We are changing an industry set in its ways and bringing it into the 21st century.

We are launching our first product, an e-commerce platform, at the end of the month. Our customers are incredibly passionate about our product, which is going to solve a big pain point in their industry.

We are currently looking to hire a number of candidates for paid data engineer internships. Basic knowledge of ML would be a bonus but not required.

We also want to expand our product team with another senior full stack engineer (React / Rails).

Email me directly for more details and to apply: luca@bobtrade.com

Location: London or remote

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucaspiller/

GitHub: https://github.com/lucaspiller/

Email: luca@blissfulsystems.com

I'm a full stack developer with over 8 years experience working with everything from startups to enterprise. My primary experience is with Ruby on Rails, doing frontend, backend and everything in between: from setting up new servers with Ansible, to tweaking some CSS. Recently I've been working more and more with frontend JavaScript, mostly TypeScript and React. I've had a lot of experience writing billing and booking platforms, and all the reporting and compliance tooling that goes with that.

Expert in: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript, React

Experience with: Erlang, Golang, Devops, Ansible, Docker, AWS

Like to learn more: Embedded programming with PlatformIO and C

I'm especially interested in working in the IoT or cryptocurrency space.

Many other parts of the signup flow changed at the same time, so it's hard to measure the impact, but from my side it's much better having an email - I can find out what account someone has when they email me for support, and I can send them account notifications and marketing emails.

In one case I had a company email me, as they had forgot how to access their account. The user who emailed didn't have an account in the system, so I had to ask them to forward an email they were receiving from the application, and eventually found they had signed up with an old GitHub account for the company, that was no longer used (after this I added the account name to all emails I sent).

I'm also currently evaluating the best way to add PayPal as a lot of my traffic is from countries where credit cards aren't so popular. I currently use Stripe, but am trying to find a service to outsource all billing, to avoid having multiple payment provider implementations. I can see how customers could feel uneasy giving their credit card details to a random website, where as with PayPal you don't have that risk.

https://github.com/lucaspiller/hugo-privacy-cactus-theme

I wanted a minimalist theme that's fast to load, but a lot of commonly cited examples are too extreme or look too dated for my liking. I wanted the same results, but something a bit more up to date and with code highlighting. You can see the end result on my blog (total network transfer 78kB):

http://www.stackednotion.com/blog/2016/07/09/setting-up-a-ne...

My point is there is no technical reason why the emergency sevices couldn’t put up towers for 911 calls only.