TLDR 2023-01-11
Microsoft plans $10B OpenAI investment 💰, CRISPR meat 🥩, subjects for 1-on-1s 👨💼
What is a data privacy vault, and why do you need one? (Sponsor)
If you’re in charge of protecting customer data, you need to know what a zero trust data privacy vault is, and how it can help. Luckily, this white paper by
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Science & Futuristic Technology
The first CRISPR gene-edited meat is coming—and this is the CEO making sci-fi a reality (6 minute read)
SciFi Foods is a cultivated meat startup based in San Leandro. Its CEO, Joshua March, raised a $22 million Series A last summer that brought SciFi's valuation to roughly $100 million. SciFi uses CRISPR to make scalable beef cell lines. It aims to eventually reach $1 per burger at a commercial scale. The company plans to soon begin building its pilot plant.
Monitoring Space Weather From the Ground (4 minute read)
Determining the weather in space is important to the success of the global space industry. Current space weather monitoring systems are expensive and out of reach for many researchers. Scientists from Japan are developing a low-cost system to measure and observe space weather entirely from the ground using magneto-impedance sensors that can detect small geomagnetic field variations of about 0.1 nanotesla. The sensors need to be located in rural areas away from all electrical interference.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
Amazon EC2 Cheatsheet by Datadog (Sponsor)
All the commands and metrics you need to monitor your EC2 instances. Easily find commands used to run status checks and collect vital EC2 health metrics, as well as parameters and dimensions used to query EC2 statistics. You’ll also find a quick-start guide on using Datadog to collect metrics and status information to monitor EC2 instances.
Get the cheatsheet now (free)Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies (6 minute read)
Software is a theory about a particular solution to a problem. Teams developing software develop the theory of it while controlling all modifications. A program dies when the team possessing its theory dissolves. Programs can revive if a new team rebuilds its theory.
Pirate Weather (Website)
Pirate Weather is a free weather forecast API. It aims to return data using the same JSON structure that Dark Sky uses. Pirate Weather uses public data for its forecasts. It can provide forecast data for current conditions, minutely data for one hour, hourly data for up to 168 hours, and daily data for 7 days for anywhere in the world.
Where Managers and Employees Disagree About Remote Work (3 minute read)
Remote work is being held back by a major disconnect between managers and employees. Managers believe that work-from-home reduces productivity while employees think it massively increases it. Part of this comes from the difference in how workers and managers view productivity. The best available solution is an organized hybrid approach.
Ask HN: What do you talk about in 1-on-1s with your managers? (Hacker News Thread)
After a while, employees might find that they are running out of things to talk about meaningfully in their one-on-one meetings with managers. This Hacker News thread discusses what other engineers talk about during their one-on-ones. While there are important business topics to cover during these sessions, many replies in the thread suggest using them to get to know your manager personally.
Supabase - Support Engineers (Remote Asia, $56k - $75k)
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Linea - Senior Frontend Engineer (Remote, $120k - $200k)
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Wanderu - Lead SRE (Remote $145k - $180k)
Wanderu is the leading ground travel search in North America and soon the rest of the world. We are seeking a reliability engineer who will lead the automation of our cloud environment.
K16 Solutions - Web Developer (Remote $110k - $125k)
We are hiring, as we launch new products and are looking for web developers to revolutionize edtech by changing how higher-ed leaders access, move, and analyze their content and data.
3CORESec - Frontend Developer (Remote, Europe)
3CORESec is a Portuguese startup developing platforms and services for adversary detection in information security. We are seeking a front end developer familiar with React, NX.dev, and AWS AppSync.
Maddox AI - Frontend and Backend Engineers (Remote, Europe)
Maddox AI, is an AI-based visual quality control solution, which can automate manually performed quality inspection for manufacturing companies.
Rightpoint - Front End/Angular Developer (NYC, Contractor, $85-$125/hr)
Rightpoint is looking for a senior Angular dev open to going into the NYC office 2x per week to work with a client of ours in the financial services industry.
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