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bilkoo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
Moonshot Brands | Remote | Toronto, ON/Miami, FL | Full-time | https://www.moonshotbrands.com.

We are a ecommerce brand aggregator, we acquire emergin ecommerce brands and operate them with the combination of human excellency and artificial intelligence.

Openings:

  * CTO. 
  * Sr Data engineer. 
  * Software engineer. 
  * ML engineer. 
https://jobs.lever.co/MoonshotBrands?team=Technology.

Or e-mail me directly: bill.gu a@t moonshotbrands d0t com

bilkoo··on Ask HN: How to design a good technical interview test (take home or live)
I think lots of companies compensate for take-home tests (as we are doing now). Also I think the willingness to do a take-home is in itself a good filter (but you gotta make it interesting, as parent said)
bilkoo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)
Moonshot Brands | Remote | Toronto, ON/Miami, FL | Full-time | https://www.moonshotbrands.com we are a ecommerce brand aggregator, we acquire emergin ecommerce brands and operate them with the combination of human excellency and artificial intelligence.

Sr Data engineer: https://moonshotbrands.breezy.hr/p/7ca4524d3a56-sr-data-engi....

Software engineer: https://moonshotbrands.breezy.hr/p/d6033f4026d2-software-eng....

Principle data engineer: https://moonshotbrands.breezy.hr/p/cc3fb677919b-principal-da....

Or e-mail me directly: bill.gu a@t moonshotbrands d0t com

bilkoo··on FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant Pax Technology
No I meant the PoS machines
bilkoo··on FBI Raids Chinese Point-of-Sale Giant Pax Technology
Not sure about other places, but in Canada it seems most cannabis stores use Pax
bilkoo··on Ask HN: What does mastery look like in software engineering?
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
bilkoo··on Samsung ends mobile phone production in China
By exploit, do you mean offering them jobs that pay higher than local average? Or that developing countries have weaker institutions for labor laws?
bilkoo··on U.S. personal income posts first drop in over three years
Would make a good South Park episode
bilkoo··on Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn (2008)
The stock market is not 'people', but rather composed mostly of institution money and their managers. And due to the short term and relative performance goals, if they want to keep their jobs or fund from withdrawal better escape the stampede before everyone else. As to your question though, people may think the Fed has little room for stimulus this time around.
bilkoo··on Tencent's AI plays StarCraft II, and wins over 90 percent of the time
I don't think you need to learn all possible matchups to play any matchup, as a human would. You'd need to just learn how to play/counter each hero, plus some 2 or 3 hero combos (not all permutations), so on the order of a hundreds?
bilkoo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
Operant.ai | Toronto. ON (ONSITE) | Full-time | Fintech/AI | Full-stack developer CTO | http://operant.ai/ |

Our mission is to become the world’s leading debt collection intelligence platform. We work with leading financial institutions and accounts receivable groups to revolutionize the collections process. By integrating the rich data and machine learning to personalize the collections approach in order to improve customer experience, increase repayment rates and maximize retention.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial full-stack developer as CTO. Bonus if you have experience in enterprise software, SAAS, and banking. Email me: allan AT operant DOT ai

bilkoo··on How to Decide What to Build
Agreed. So shovel for dopamine?
bilkoo··on Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model
Sounds like doctor-as-insurer, financially speaking.
bilkoo··on Theranos’ Letter to Shareholders Shows the Company Is on Its Deathbed
Prompted by this comment I looked up Theranos' investors. Turns out Rupert Murdoch was in Series A. What irony!

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/theranos/investors/i...

bilkoo··on In America, politics is the new religion
"Sociologists have long understood that people rely on elite cues to form their opinions. It’s difficult to understand the nuances of every issue, so Americans generally adopt the views of people who share their values. " I guess this will always be the case, that cue being religion, politics or other ideology.
bilkoo··on Hedge-fund managers that do the most research will post the best returns
Well couldn't it have been the opposite? Hypothesis: maybe this kind of research has the least marginal return, therefore only the most profitable funds are willing (or able) to invest in it (Bridgewater would invest $10M for 0.1% of improvement while a small fund can't afford that luxury given that 0.1% is fund size independent).
bilkoo··on Blue Apron Shares Hit New Low, as Anyone Can Do “Meal Kits,” Even Walmart
I think it's for people who are too lazy for grocery shopping but not lazy enough to just order takeout. That's a tiny sliver on the laziness scale IMHO.
bilkoo··on Tesla’s China Dream Threatened by Standoff Over Shanghai Factory
Wait, what do you mean Intel abandoned China?
bilkoo··on Dow plunges 1000 points
Individually, maybe. Let alone the ethical implication of 'tax them high enough so they don't retire early', artificially lowering the income of a trade would - to your point - constrict *supply of labor. And of course this would lower the total productivity of the industry and society.

And the Ford example, while interesting, doesn't have to do with taxes does it? It has to do with Ford lowering the barrier of entry for factory workers AND increasing productivity rate at the same time. I think we can all agree that that advancement was good for society as a whole?

Am I understanding you correctly? Or is there something I am missing?

bilkoo··on Dow plunges 1000 points
Marginal return. If working an extra hour per day will give me $100 pre-tax, tax rate being 10% and 90% will largely determine whether I'd do the extra work, versus spending that hour with family etc. Everyone has different threshold for pay/fun ratios but overall society will be less productive as tax rates go up at least in the static sense (not considering tax money being put into productivity-increasing use).
bilkoo··on For These Young Entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley Is, Like, Lame
https://outline.com/dtqTfg
bilkoo··on Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away
This is such an interesting question so I made a blogpost about it: https://medium.com/@kwbil/the-poor-are-shunned-even-by-their...
bilkoo··on When F00F bug hit 20 years ago, Intel reacted the same way
I doubt we can even find a contemporary software company with that kind of market share to begin with, let alone the severity of bugs. Windows in the 90s perhaps?
bilkoo··on As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting
And look at how many Swiss watches he's buying!
bilkoo··on Tesla Roadster
> struggling to produce their most important car ever

Isn't this part of not executing the roadmap as planned? Put another way, how do you know if they are on the right trajectory to profitability? How much are they ahead/behind?

bilkoo··on All 500 of the world's top 500 supercomputers are running Linux
A lot of Finns speak Swedish as their mother tongue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_population_of...

bilkoo··on Show HN: Ferzy – Discover profitable and easy-to-rank keywords
Would it make more sense to show the full search keyword suggestions? Most of them are truncated when on a smaller screen (desktop)