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tornquiston Ask HN: Why is uploading to Google Drive so slow?

Google Drive has a macOS app like Dropbox. I’ve also found direct web uploads slow.

tornquiston Show HN: Rotary Phone Project

Very cool project. I was really struck by this comment:

> Dial out to a short list of family contacts. It's not something I think about much, but when I was a kid there was a phone on the wall and once I could reach it, I could use it. Now, if you're not old enough to have a cell phone, you also can't call anyone at all.

That's not something I've ever thought about, but is a really huge change in what kids can do. I was always allowed to call over to a friend's house and see if they could play.

tornquiston Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

I've been very happy with goatcounter as well.

If you're looking for self-hosted the repo is here: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

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

Auterion (auterion.com) | Senior Software Engineer (Web, Node/TS) | Remote (US) | Full-Time

Auterion is building an open software platform for drones to transform and enable the use of widespread enterprise robotics programs. The Auterion Suite is the web platform to enable these enterprise robotics programs. We're building the infrastructure for widespread analytics, data management/processing, and deployment/hosting of custom user applications.

Think IFTTT + robotics.

On the web team, we're looking for senior engineers to start building out major greenfield extensions to the core platform.

Our stack is: Vue, NodeJS (TS), Postgres, Redis, AWS, Docker

Apply for the web team here: https://auterion.com/company/careers-open-position/?gh_jid=5...

All openings are here: https://auterion.com/company/careers/

Or reach out to me directly at nathan [at] auterion.com

tornquiston Show HN: DbGate – open-source, cross-platform SQL+noSQL database client

Have you seen Sequel Ace? It’s a fork of the project that’s maintained again. https://github.com/Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace

I also use Postico for Postgres https://eggerapps.at/postico/ the UI there is nice as well. It’s the closest I could find to Sequel Pro.

tornquiston Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

They're changing the lights all over the city. You can see the stars again. I can see way more stars now than 5 years ago.

tornquiston Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)

SkinIO | Chicago, IL | Full Time, Onsite | https://skinio.com

SkinIO (https://skinio.com) is building software for AI-powered skin imaging on mobile devices. We provide tools for dermatologists and primary-care physicians to perform total-body photography and mole-mapping in-office. In layman's terms, we write software to take photograph patient's entire bodies and then automatically identify and track every mole on their body to detect new moles and changes over time.

Our goal is not to replace doctors with ML models, but to empower them to work better and work faster so that we can extend their reach to more people and save more lives.

We're hiring for:

* React Engineer: https://angel.co/company/skinio/jobs/463657-react-engineer

* Full-Stack Engineer: https://angel.co/company/skinio/jobs/628256-full-stack-engin...

Our stack: NodeJS, Swift, React, Python, Docker, AWS, Keras/Tensorflow, OpenCV

You can apply though the AngelList links, or email me directly at nathan@skinio.com

tornquiston LibreOffice latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Do you mind sharing what you moved to? I’m curious about the hardware you chose and the build quality.

tornquiston QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

No, this is a desktop version hosted offsite instead of the browser-based cloud version from Intuit. See this above post for examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20481074