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Sindromeon Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group

Thank you covid for making everyone lethargic

Sindromeon Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset?

I am surprised how intuitive the Quest Pro MR Workstation stuff is. So far everything else is not worth the $1.5k price.

Sindromeon Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees

You signed an employment-at-will agreement. You have no rights.

Sindromeon Facebook/Meta asks: “Wouldn't it be nice to die?”

The vast majority of people in the world live shitty lives. Metaverse doesn't seem so bad for some.

Sindromeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)

Welcome.tech | Sr Rails/Full Stack Engineer | Principal Rails/Full Stack Engineer | Full-Time | REMOTE (all TZs) -or- Santa Monica, California

We are https://welcome.tech, a group of Gen -/+1 immigrants creating a suite of products to help the newly immigrated backbone of America succeed. Our bread and butter is our POPDERcard banking Fintech Product (occasionally, we have hit the top 15 rankings in the iOS App Store under Finance), enabling the unempowered masses to access banking. But we have way more products we have been working on that create exciting network effects. We have a small, intimate, and highly accomplished four-person engineering team. We are looking to scale this team with other skilled, humble, and quirky engineers.

==Our Tech Stack==

-AWS

-Ruby on Rails

-React.js

-iOS/Android (Swift/Kotlin) apps using simple native wrappers

-Lots of Fintech integrations. Right now, we are building a bank from scratch.

==Please apply here==

Senior Role: https://jobs.lever.co/urwelcome/b8e39212-8686-42a5-a2ea-bfa8...

Principal Eng: https://jobs.lever.co/urwelcome/654789ee-bb7b-4ea1-b0a6-63f8...

==Additional Info== We are a B-corp that serves the community. Something that you won't find anywhere else. We also pay well.

(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/welcome-tech-recogn...)

(https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/21/softbank-bets-big-on-a-dig...

Sindromeon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)

Location: FULLY REMOTE - OR Santa Monica

Position: Senior Backend Rails or Full Stack

To summarize, what https://welcome.tech does would be impossible without a TLDR; which is what this is. We are a group of Gen -/+1 immigrants creating a suite of products to help the newly immigrated backbone of America succeed. Our bread and butter is our POPDERcard banking Fintech Product (currently top 15 in the ios App Store under Finance), enabling the unempowered masses to access banking. But we have way more products we have been working on that create exciting network effects. Right now, we have a small intimate, and highly accomplished 5 person engineering team. We are looking to scale this team with other skilled, humble, and quirky engineers.

Our Tech Stack: -AWS -Ruby on Rails -Vue.js (All of us came from React and we might switch back) -ios/android apps using simple wrappers -Lots of Fintech integrations. Right now, we are building a bank from scratch.

Please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/urwelcome/b8e39212-8686-42a5-a2ea-bfa8...

We are a no-bs B-corp that serves the community. Something that you won't find anywhere else. We also pay well. (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/welcome-tech-recogn...)

Sindromeon The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (2013)

More like a Leetcode crisis

Sindromeon Duolingo S-1 IPO

Always nice to see a Latino founder having an exit on here.

Sindromeon How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?

Sindromeon Surprisingly little alcohol can affect heart rate variability

My Apple watch tells me my heart rate is spiking every time I have more than 5-6 drinks in a night.

Sindromeon Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

No shit?

Sindromeon Stash is a Go app which organizes and serves your porn

I feel like these adult only hosting services usually succumb to operating costs.

Sindromeon Y Combinator Failed Startups

Maybe because the CEO is now a YC exec

Sindromeon Hiring for tech jobs has increased more than 100% in these Midwestern cities

No thanks

Sindromeon Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?

There are other payment processors other than Stripe....

Ever heard of CCBill?

Sindromeon Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

Company doesn't want employees to install spyware. Is Fortnite next?

Sindromeon Why Big Tech Is More Competent Than the US Government

profits

Sindromeon Mobilewalla used cellphone data to estimate the demographics of protesters

Once I was approached by an ad company that wanted to use geo data gathered by Candy Crush that they purchased to target people with ads on their daily commute.

Sindromeon Dev Degree: Behind the Scenes

First, game the SAT. Then this. Then game leetcode.

Sindromeon Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?

Eat the rich

Sindromeon Coronavirus outbreak likely now ‘gathering steam’

Crypto clearly reacting

Sindromeon Bosch Smart glasses: A tiny laser array paints images directly onto your retina

I tried a pair of these in Toronto. It was pretty cool, but still very early.

Sindromeon Why do Americans view zero road deaths as an impossible goal?

I work on the West Side of Los Angeles. People honk at me when I cross the streets and they are in a hurry.

In Beverly Hills rich man-children with sports cars speed around with bumper stickers showing they donate to the Beverly Hill PD.

Just citing some high-level observations that show some issues.

Sindromeon Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

Stop wasting time voicing your feelings and get back to drilling LeetCode before you lose your job.

Sindromeon Facebook's fake account problem

Interesting to discover the author is a classmate of Zuckerbro and claims to have invented Facebook. Which seems to have led to a career of writing articles like these.

Sindromeon NBC’s Snapchat news show gains 29+ million viewers in its first month

I pretty much exclusively followed the last presidential election through Snapchat channels.

Sindromeon Ask HN: Is Anyone Living “The 4-Hour Work Week”?

No, but my grandfather owned a successful restaurant. Invested all the profits into real estate. Built an empire of 5mil+ as a Mexican immigrant. Towards the end, he had everything pretty automated by people he hired. Property managers for the rentals and a mix of family and a good restaurant manager for the restaurant. He would just come in on Sundays to count the money/accounting.

Side note. Our entire family has been destroyed by fighting over money. Money isn't everything. :)

Sindromeon Some insurers insist that patients forgo generics and buy brand-name drugs

My first software job out of college was working for a healthcare company. I worked in the Drug Comparison team (which consisted of 3 people) finding people ways to save on prescriptions by beating the system using software! Yay, helping the world and stuff.

Actually, we ended up selling out and building systems that benefited healthcare provider's formulary plans. For example, not recommending generics, which was most of what we got paid 500k+ per contract to do.

We did do some amazing work on Medicare Part D stuff, tho. We saved some elderly people tons of money by algorithmically reccomending them the right drugs at cheaper cost.

Sindromeon Ask HN: I have Bitcoin in Coinbase, what should I do before the forks?

This is the play

Sindromeon Ask HN: Which companies are considered to have the best engineers in 2017?

I've looked @ Blizzard jobs and they pay remarkably low. They consider it a privilege to work there. Supposedly it gets better after 3-5 years of proving yourself. Just seems like your typical enterprise position.