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Koop AI | Senior Software Engineer | NYC/JC Hybrid | $150k-$180k base + Equity

Koop provides insurance for robotics businesses as well as compliance implementation (www.koop.ai), in addition to other new products that we are exploring.

Looking for golang background (typescript a plus), good DS&A, and attention to detail. You will be helping modernize our product, adding LLM powered features throughout the stack, building engineering systems that leverage LLMs to improve the engineering experience, and have the freedom to approach everything with a critical eye.

I've recently joined as CTO and am building out the US team, and the pace of development has accelerated dramatically. I have a golang and C++ systems background myself, and am enjoying shipping code here.

If you're interested in joining a fast paced, high ownership environment with immediate business impact please email me directly at engineering at koop dot ai with your resume, or apply here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4473527631

The language has changed a lot since then. Give it a fresh look sometime.

There are multiple ties in the list that actually put the US passport tied for 37th in the ranking.

https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking

I have been building a mostly free website and API to interact with sec EDGAR filings, get realtime new filing alerts (and preview those alerts), and see the historical impact of financial filings.

Right now I am working on adding historical tables extracted from filings, as well as historical financials and their calculations.

https://www.secblast.com

Still a work in progress, but please check it out

I worry about developing sleep apnea, not only for the effects on my health, but also on my relationship with my partner.

A medicine that treated sleep apnea would be revolutionary for so many people.

We have abandoned Europe, why should we expect them to stay loyal to us?

Getting all the filings is a lot of work, too - you have to build an old load parser

This was my take, as well.

I took Paxlovid twice. Horrible bitter taste, but kept the symptoms at bay. No long covid or persisting brain fog unlike some of my friends. Tested negative by the end of the treatment. My fiancé didn't catch it from my while I isolated.

Derek doesn't have to take Paxlovid next time, but I will.

370 degrees Celsius? Hopefully a typo

Last time I was in Rwanda I had banana wine. It comes in beer bottles.

I think it’s an acquired taste - I didn’t have the acumen to acquire it myself.

Do you have a recommendation for having frame by frame control of a file?

I am trying to synchronize multiple video files that have uneven framerates. I have separate metadata containing the frame timing.

The video files are .ts (mpeg stream) files.

I have found it to be more trouble than it is worth, as well

I used to walk across this bridge every day. You could feel whole bridge shake when heavy vehicles would drive over it (Lived in Reagent Square 2017 - 2019). I remember one morning I was trapped on the bridge for an hour in traffic on my drive to school because the city of Pittsburgh could not afford to keep the roads plowed.

Very thankful that nobody was hurt when it collapsed, and as other people have pointed out it is representative of all of the infrastructure that many cities have but can no longer afford to maintain or replace.

A lot of people and businesses use debt to finance the things they want to do. (Buy a home, build a new facility, pay back management). When money is cheaper, people do more.

If you can issue at 6% instead of 7%, your interest expense on that debt has decreased by 16%.

I don't think anyone expects say the fed funds rate to go to 1%, but it could go to 3.5% or 4%. [0]

[0] Fed funds: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1mM6j [-] Const 10yr Treasury https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1nYkd

The article appears to be syndicated (at best), or lifted, from its original source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/javier-mi...

This is a very exciting product - I'm surprised this didn't exist until now. Would love to see C++ support in the future.

Gigabytes were renamed to Gibibytes (2^30), and a new "Gigabyte," (10^9) replaced the old meaning of the word.

It is always sad to see an 8TB SSD come back with only 7.2TiB

I once worked for a firm that used NetworkSolutions and spent a lot of time in their online portal and with their support. I do not have anything nice to say about them, their services, or their billing practices.

Sea Launch, as mentioned in the article, did this for years.

I remember seeing the fuel tanks being wound in the 9-101 in 2013. More parts were made than used, and the launches were seemingly never publicized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Launch

It was very weird.

Plenty of people believed it would fail from the beginning - are they prescient or just lucky?

I believe it was Clayton Christenson who pointed out that disruptors took the lowest value activities first.

But mainline Java is written in C and some C++, right?

C++ lets you write anything you can imagine, and the language features and standard library often facilitate that. The committee espouses the view that they want to provide many "zero [runtime] cost," abstractions. Anybody can contribute to the language, although the committee process is often slow and can be political, each release the surface area and capability of the language gets larger.

I believe Hazard Pointers are slated for C++26, and these will add a form "free later, but not quite garbage collection" to the language. There was a talk this year about using hazard pointers to implement a much faster std::shared_ptr.

It's a language with incredible depth because so many different paradigms have been implemented in it, but also has many pitfalls for new and old users because there are many different ways of solving the same problem.

I feel that in C++, more than any other language, you need to know the actual implementation under the hood to use it effectively. This means knowing not just what the language specifies, but can occaissionally require knowing what GCC or Clang generate on your particular hardware.

Many garbage collected languages are written in or have parts of their implementations in C++. See JS (https://github.com/v8/v8)and Java GC (https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/tree/36de19d4622e38b6c00644b0...)

I am not an expert on Java (or C++), so if someone knows better or can add more please correct me.

My mistake, I had only seen / searched for the Bloomberg reporting.

1 nautical mile (~6076 ft) is exactly one minute of arc at the Earth's equator.

As a sailor, I wish that all miles were nautical miles because they have a real meaning. What good is 5280 feet?

I'm building software to transparently connect your program or machine to remote filesystems. I'm initially supporting C++ and Go, and later plan to support Python and Javascript as well.

There are a lot of exciting filesystems out there - what I'm focusing on is ease of use and getting a "magic" experience for the end user. Think NFS, but easy to setup.

If anybody is interested in learning more or helping write some language specific implementations I'd love to talk.

Unfortunately I cannot get full article access, but from the abstract it sounds like they did not control for actual sun exposure.

It would seem to me that those who self medicate with vitamin D are those who know they do not get sufficient sun exposure, and would necessarily also be those at reduced risk of melanoma.

In Ecuador the US $1 coin and US $0.50 coin are in wide circulation - as a tourist from the US I really enjoyed getting to use these coins to their full promise.

Ecuador also makes a $0.25 centavo coin which is the same size and weight as a U.S. quarter. You can’t change them practically at a bank, but they work in vending machines.

Looks like there has been some progress on this front - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/b0f65ead84c1ecd5...

Speaking of future aircraft - what's interesting to me is they do not seem to be planning on any more composite barrel aircraft after the 87. Even 777x is only graphite wings, no graphite barrel, which seemed to me like the natural next step. I wonder if it is manufacturing capability related, or if they regret the amount of R&D it took to get the 87 barrel to viability, or some other reason?

The A350 has composite panels and one barrel component iirc, which is a step above what the 777x is doing.

I know BA had a Next Generation Aircraft project looking at a fully composite 737 replacement, but that didn't proceed anywhere either. The braced wing design is pretty wild, but at least they will have plenty of room to make the engines larger...