CAC is great for detecting calcified plaque in your coronary arteries. But before you have calcified plaque, the above risk factors tell you about the buildup of soft plaque. And 4 out of 5 of them are modifiable through lifestyle, exercise, and medication.
Vision Intelligence | Senior Engineer – Infra, Tooling, and Backend | Western Sydney, Australia | Hybrid | Full-time
Cool stuff: We work on offline-first systems, distributed state, real-time video streaming, and remote edge device management. We get to work on finding practical solutions to hard problems in software and hardware.
Company: Vision Intelligence is a 10-year-old IoT company building solar-powered site-security and monitoring systems, operating across Australia and New Zealand. We’re vertically integrated — from hardware manufacturing and logistics, to 24/7 monitoring and software development. We’re growing fast and investing heavily in new software platforms to support our expanding fleet. https://visioni.com.au
Role: We’re spinning up a new internal team to build the platform that powers how our customers manage field-deployed devices across their sites. You’d be the third engineer — helping shape both the infrastructure and engineering culture from the ground up. We’re looking for someone comfortable in a backend/devops role and is happy to wear a few hats across backend, infra, ops, and tooling. This is a hands-on role where you’ll work directly with experienced engineers across the organisation.
Experience: We’re after a senior engineer who can piece together systems on AWS and codify everything using the CDK. You should be comfortable building cloud-native applications, enjoy debugging things in production, and be eager to contribute application-level code as well — whether it’s shaping backend services, improving developer tooling, or building integrations between systems.
Technologies: TypeScript/Node.js, AWS, IaC (CDK, or similar), CI/CD, React.
Location: Hybrid in Seven Hills, Western Sydney, Australia. During the first month, we’ll be in-office 3 days/week to get up to speed together. After that, 1–2 days/week is the norm.
Salary: $160k–180k AUD + super.
Working rights: you must have full-time working rights in Australia.
How to Apply: If you have any questions or you’d like to apply, please email me — Mark — at mark.finger+hn@visioni.com.au and use the subject: "HN hiring site-awareness team".
Please include:
- Your CV
- A short write-up: tell us about yourself, why you’re interested, and the relevant experience you bring.
“Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:
First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.
Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.
The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.”
Totally free, don't need to buy anything just a computer.
I've been designing electrical hardware for robots for the last 4 years for a big corporation and I can tell you, the fun and money is in the software but having another skill is awesome. Robotics is a place where multiple fields converge and if you find a good team they will help you to grow.
Embedded is the adjacent field after you complete the course. Maybe something like zephyr project.
If you want to get you feet wet with mechanical. Buy a A1 mini and play with onshape (www.onshape.com) to design your first pieces, supports for the motors or the board, try create you own gripper.
As for the electrical engineering, is the one with most pitfalls and the most expensive. A wrong voltage will release the magical smoke and is another 30$ for a board. Tread carefully. Start with the RP2040 or the RP2350, they are cheap and well documented. This skill will evolve hand by hand with the embedded coding. Start small. Learn about H-bridge and brushed motors before doing the jump to the bigboys and FOC control with brushless. Get a cheap soldering iron. If you can, a clone of the JBC C245 tips. Is the most versatile and you can find stuff in alie xpress for 45 or 50$ and would be similar to the tools you will find in the field without breaking the bank.
Search for ROS meetups. I could point you to some depending where in the world you are.
And above all, it will be a long journey. Don't dispear, do at your own time but don't forget the objective.
What the other commenters are forgetting is that this is the same Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast.
This acquisition (and the Windsurf acquisition) are all-stock deals, which have the added benefit of reducing the control the nonprofit entity has over the for profit OpenAI entity.
How do you extract the for profit entity out of the hands of a nonprofit?
- Step 1: you have close friends or partners at a company - with no product, users, or revenue - valued at 6.5billion.
- Step 2: you acquire that entity, valuing it unreasonably high so that the nonprofit’s stake is diluted.
- And now control of OpenAI (the PBC) is in the hands of for profit entities.
I have no doubt that a lot of garden-variety diagnoses and treatments can be done by an AI system that is fine-tuned and vetted to accomplish the task. I recently had to pay $93 to have a virtual session with a physician to get prescription for a cough syrup, which I already knew what to take before talking to her because I did some research/reading. Some may argue, "Doctors studied years in med school and you shouldn't trust Google more than them", but knowing human's fallibility and knowing that a lot of doctors do look things up on places like https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/uptodate to refresh/reaffirm their knowledge, I'd argue that if we are willing to take the risk, why shouldn't we be allowed to take that risk on our own? Why do I have to pay $93 (on top of the cough syrup that costed ~$44) just so that the doctor can see me on Zoom for less than 5 mins and submit an order for the med?
With the healthcare prices increasing at the breakneck speed, I am sure AI will take more and more role in diagnosing and treating people's common illnesses, and hopefully (doubt it), the some of that savings will be transferred to the patients.
P.S. In contrast to the US system, in my home city (Rangoon, Burma/Myanmar), I have multiple clinics near my home and a couple of pharmacy within two bus stops distance. I can either go buy most of the medications I need from the pharmacy (without prescription) and take them on my own (why am I not allowed to take that risk?) OR I can go see a doctor at one of these clinics to confirm my diagnosis, pay him/her $10-$20 for the visit, and then head down to the pharmacy to buy the medication. Of course, some of the medications that include opioids will only be sold to me with the doctor's prescription, but a good number of other meds are available as long as I can afford them.
I wrote one a while back https://github.com/ashish01/hn-data-dumps and it was a lot of fun. One thing which will be cool to implement is that more recent items will update more over time making any recent downloaded items more stale than older ones.
It's inspired by VS Code and hopefully positioned to eventually be a Cursor-like experience for transactional lawyers. The LLM integration isn't baked in yet to keep the in-house onboarding frictionless.
It's a desktop application written in Rust. It uses egui (an immediate mode UI library) for speed.
https://undetectag.com I developed a device that turns an Airtag on and off at specific intervals.
Current Airtags are detectable right away and cannot be used to track stolen property.
That device allows you to hide an Airtag in your car, for example, and someone that steals your car will not be able to use some app to detect it. The Airtag will also not warn the thief of its presence. After some hours, the Airtag turns on again and you can find out its location.
It’s not foolproof, as the timing has to be right, but still useful.
Been a freelance dev for years, now going on "sabbatical" (love that word) imminently. Just moved to reduced hours, still in the transition and unwinding phase.
Planning to do a lot of learning, self-improvement, and projects. Tech-related and not. Preparing for the next volume (not chapter) of life. Refactoring, if you like, among other things.
When I was at uni in NZ (mid 70s) me and my friends wrote a compiler for 6800s (an algol subset, it fit in 2k), we wrote it with copyrights for "uSoft" (that's a greek mu), in retrospect it was an obvious name at the time.
Later we discovered some other guys using the same name in the US (also with a mu) they had a basic interpreter, how lame! (we had a compiler) however we really didn't understand the advantages of being born in the right place .....
I really wish we'd incorporated, we could have sold the name for some silly amount of money
IMO, people generally only want a few things out of work:
- Sufficient money so you don't feel ripped off or left behind compared to others in your social class
- Agency over your day - you can take an afternoon off if you're feeling down, your kids are sick, etc
- Enough free time to relax and have an out of work life
- Lack of obstacle/roadblocks to actually doing good work
Most modern companies get all of this wrong. They pay the bare minimum and raises are small and slow, encouraging job hopping. You have to beg for time off like a child. No clearly defined off hours for most employees. The daily job is filled with bureaucracy and excessive micromanagement that slow you down at every turn.
Being disengaged is the logical response to these conditions.
Ok I was the the tech lead and a flight controller at NASA with the team that released this telemetry as part of Isslive which this api (used by ISS mimic) used - we spent a number of years educating the public about the space station program
Being one of those lucky few at Google Brain who switched into ML early enough to catch the wave... I fielded my fair share of questions from academic friends about how they could get one of those sweet gigs paying $$$ where they could do whatever they wanted. I wrote these two essays basically to answer this class of questions.
I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month.
I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives.
It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos.
I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that initial spike in traffic has been fairly consistent over the past 8 years.
It uses Stripe for payments and for the first few years it was only Stripe. 3 years in I decided to add PayPal support... revenue doubled overnight, mostly from international customers.
Waitwhile works to eliminate the 1 trillion hours that people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform is trusted by over 10,000 companies worldwide and has helped more than 250 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience at places like IKEA, Chanel, Costco, Tribeca Film Festival and more.
Hiring for multiple roles for our Stockholm office. You must have work permit and live in Stockholm. Come join our wonderful, supportive team!
- Frontend Software Engineer: Junior or senior frontend focused engineer with big interest in building scalable and maintainable apps built with modern Angular and RxJS based in Stockholm. https://careers.waitwhile.com/jobs/4537202-software-engineer...
Datenna | DevOps Manager | Full-time | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Hybrid (2 days in the office)
At Datenna, we combine China expertise, OSINT, data and AI technologies, to create a software platform that provides the insights governments need to explore the hidden connections between China’s complete corporate, academic and technological landscape.
We are looking for a DevOps Manager who will help us shape the future of our SaaS solution. You’ll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact and improve our groundbreaking OSINT platform.
Mostly I use XLD (https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html) for audio conversion (as I'm mostly converting from .BIN + .CUE to "iTunes Plus" AAC for uploading to iTunes Match); but my understanding is that under the covers it's mostly just using afconvert (or whatever the system-framework equivalent of it is.)
So if your needs are just "one audio file in, one audio file out, and let me tell you exactly what it should look like", then afconvert is probably what you want.
Does anyone know if there is a way to host just a few of the tiles in a static way? For example, if I wanted to build a web page which just shows a map at zoom level 6 for a lat/lng point, and then go to zoom level 13. That would require a tiny subset of tiles; is there a simple way to add the tiles plus the JS code in a static way so no external downloads were necessary?
[0] https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage