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Show HN: Garnet – Distributed Python on Kubernetes https://ift.tt/3a0ibzw

Show HN: Garnet – Distributed Python on Kubernetes Garnet (https://garnet.ai) is a framework to run distributed and parallel Python on Kubernetes. We make it easy to scale from laptop to cluster, without requiring any devops work. Garnet plugs into any existing Python environment (notebook, IDE, CI/CD pipelines, custom apps) using a lightweight client library, and enables users to scale popular data/ml libraries (including pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, XGBoost, etc.) and custom code to a remote cluster for execution. Under the hood, we natively wire up Dask with Kubernetes for scheduling, which brings advantages such as dynamic resource allocation, ephemeral clusters and autoscaling, while abstracting the devops complexity for developers and data scientists. Our vision is to build the orchestration layer for distributed computing in Python. We’re starting off with Dask, but have goals of supporting other frameworks such as Ray and Modin in the future. Some of the cool use cases we’ve se

Southeast San Francisco Residents Speak Up for More Mobility

Southeast San Francisco Residents Speak Up for More Mobility By Adrienne Heim The start of the 15 Bayview line on January 23 signals the SFMTA’s strengthening commitment to the diverse neighborhoods in southeast San Francisco, which have for too long seen disinvestment and a lack of sufficient transportation infrastructure. This commitment  extends to neighborhoods from Mission Bay to Visitacion Valley that have seen a surge in infill development such as the Chase Cente r, Visitacion Valley/Schlage Lock Plan and Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Shipyard . To begin to correct historical inequities and support this new growth, the SFMTA has been steadily engaged in bringing transportation improvements to residents, merchants, businesses and visitors to this important area. Voice of the Community From 2017 to 2019, the  Southeast Muni Expansion  project partnered with the Muni Service Equity Strategy, the Bayview Community Based Transportation Plan, and The San Francisco Coun

San Francisco Launches Safety - It’s Your Turn Campaign

San Francisco Launches Safety - It’s Your Turn Campaign By Christine Osorio In San Francisco, left turns are one of the top three crash factors in severe injuries and fatal collisions for people walking and biking. SFMTA is kicking off the new year with a city-wide education campaign designed to encourage safer driving behavior around left turns. The Safety - It’s Your Turn campaign will use multiple strategies, including grants to community organizations, to engage the public at different times and raise awareness about unsafe left turns. Drivers especially will see the Safety - It’s Your Turn messaging on billboards and buses, hear about it on the radio, and read about it on social media and in newspapers. This community education program also accompanies the SFMTA’s Left-Turn Traffic Calming Project .  Under that project, launched in October 2020, the SFMTA installed safety infrastructure at 7 intersections on the High Injury Network. Community Grant Awardees After a competi

Show HN: Duffel (S18) – The best API to sell flights online https://ift.tt/2LIUe81

Show HN: Duffel (S18) – The best API to sell flights online Hey HN, We're Steve and Tom (YC S18), the co-founders of Duffel (https://duffel.com/), an API-based travel platform. Think of Stripe, but for searching and booking flights. We built Duffel after running head first into the problem of accessing airline inventory for a side-project that we had. All the providers out there (ever heard of a GDS? Amadeus? Sabre?) felt antiquated, expensive and quite frankly didn't even want to work with us. To top it up, once we started digging the only things we could hear were "PNR", "IATA", "ARC", "RBD" and other wonderful acronyms. It’s difficult to innovate in travel today. The process is intimidating, time-consuming, and often cost-prohibitive for new startups. The antiquated tech stacks and expensive accreditation processes are enough to keep great travel sellers locked out of the industry. We built Duffel to remove all the barriers to innovati

Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups https://ift.tt/3o599X8

Launch HN: Finmark (YC S20) – Financial planning software for startups Hi HN! I’m Rami, cofounder of Finmark. We make it simple for companies to manage their runway, hiring, and cash. Three years ago a bad financial model almost killed my last company. A miscalculation in our behemoth of a financial model led us to overestimate the amount of cash we had coming in, and in turn, to overspend. When we finally discovered the error after 5 months, we were forced to shift from aggressive hiring to aggressive cost cutting and had to lay off employees. We were able to course-correct and sold the company successfully in 2019, but I kept coming back to how difficult and time-consuming financial modeling is for founders. So after taking some time off to recharge post acquisition, I pulled my old team together to start Finmark. We built Finmark so all founders, not just finance pros, can easily create, update, and share custom financial models without having to spend weeks laboring over complex sp

Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connecting MENA engineers with global companies https://ift.tt/39OjIc7

Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connecting MENA engineers with global companies Hey everyone! My name is Laila and with my co-founder Iliana I’m building Manara ( https://ift.tt/3sHqRDB ). We support software engineers in the Arab region to get great jobs at tech companies worldwide. These companies appreciate being connected to skilled talent that is diverse and inclusive (50% of our engineers are women). I grew up in a refugee camp in Gaza. My dream was to become a Silicon Valley software engineer. Eventually I hacked my way there successfully, becoming a software engineer at Nvidia. I like to joke that the hardest part wasn’t escaping Gaza in the middle of the 2014 war, but rather, my first interviews... which I totally bombed. ;) Once I got to Silicon Valley, I was surprised at the lack of women. In Gaza, more women study computer science than men! I was also surprised to learn how hard it was for companies in Silicon Valley to attract the talent we needed. During interviews with cand

Muni Expands Service, Access for Equity Neighborhoods in January

Muni Expands Service, Access for Equity Neighborhoods in January By Mariana Maguire On Saturday, January 23, the SFMTA will restart T Third Muni Metro rail service and increase Muni bus service, including adding several routes based on community feedback. Graphic: New C ore Service map, effective January 23, showing new and returning Muni lines. Temporarily modified T Third rail service will resume between Sunnydale and Embarcadero Station. This frees up the buses currently providing the temporary T Third Street Bus service to increase bus service elsewhere. This change also brings more of our rail operators back to operating Muni Metro rail service. Temporary changes to bus service include the return of the 27 Bryant and two new lines: the 55 Dogpatch and the 15 Bayview-Hunters Point Express . The full 33 Ashbury-18th Street line will also resume to provide another vital cross-town connection. All of these changes are the direct result of community engagement and feedback. I

Show HN: AnimationCPU https://ift.tt/3o1ThES

Show HN: AnimationCPU Features - Basis for OS, NoCode and UIs, apps and games - Ultra fast and light for low power devices, compiler, jit, vm, and everything is procedural - Reactive and live coding - ACPUL pure minimalistic programming language - Mobile IDE with realtime reverse debugger - Develop on desktop and mobiles, tablets and phones - Visual first - Code and No-code - Minimalistic core - A new alternative to Flash Screenshots: [1]: https://ift.tt/2LNU3rX [2]: https://ift.tt/3nZAI43 [3]: https://ift.tt/39Qd2u0 More videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYvin_F73BoNJ_VibPvtSjg Bootloader code sample https://ift.tt/3nWKPqd More updates on Twitter https://twitter.com/acpustudio Read more https://ift.tt/2RvKVIe Please fill out the form to connect to Animation CPU TestFlight! https://ift.tt/3bWBRHm January 20, 2021 at 06:52PM

Show HN: Intro to Python and Programming for non-CS majors (revisited) https://ift.tt/2XXjGJb

Show HN: Intro to Python and Programming for non-CS majors (revisited) Hi there, I am the author of this Show HN post: https://ift.tt/33GWdOt Back then, I released the materials for my Intro to Python course "to the world". GitHub repo: https://ift.tt/39b2eEs I incorporated many of the constructive criticism and am currently recording a video lecture series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2JV1G3J10kRUPgP7EwLhyeN5lOZW2kH I guess that a lot of people without a CS background would find these resources valuable and am open for further feedback. If you have any "non-tech" friends who want to learn to code, please feel free to direct them to my course. Stay healthy everybody! January 20, 2021 at 01:20AM

Twin Peaks: A New Vision for All

Twin Peaks: A New Vision for All By Benjamin Barnett SFMTA staff are recommending a proposal for Twin Peaks access aimed at balancing the diverse needs of the community, which they selected based on park usage data, feedback from neighbors and other stakeholders, as well as a public survey with over 1,700 responses. Map showing the proposed configuration of Twin Peaks Boulevard. See our website for a more detailed map or to read our report . Recommendation: Open Portola Drive Gate at All Times, Close Burnett Avenue Gate The proposal includes opening the gate at Portola Drive to traffic at all times and keeping the gate at Burnett Avenue closed. This option (also called Option 2) provides the best combination of safety and access, and addresses the negative impacts affecting neighbors. This preferred option closes the northern Burnett Avenue gate to vehicles at all times, creating dedicated space for people walking, rolling and biking all the way to Christmas Tree Point Road. T

Twin Peaks: A New Vision for All

Twin Peaks: A New Vision for All By Phillip Pierce SFMTA staff are recommending a proposal for Twin Peaks access aimed at balancing the diverse needs of the community, which they selected based on park usage data, feedback from neighbors and other stakeholders, as well as a public survey with over 1,700 responses. Map showing the proposed configuration of Twin Peaks Boulevard. See our website for a more detailed map or to read our report . Recommendation: Open Portola Drive Gate at All Times, Close Burnett Avenue Gate The proposal includes opening the gate at Portola Drive to traffic at all times and keeping the gate at Burnett Avenue closed. This option (also called Option 2) provides the best combination of safety and access, and addresses the negative impacts affecting neighbors. This preferred option closes the northern Burnett Avenue gate to vehicles at all times, creating dedicated space for people walking, rolling and biking all the way to Christmas Tree Point Road. The

The SFMTA and San Francisco Beautiful Kick Off Muni Art Project 2021

The SFMTA and San Francisco Beautiful Kick Off Muni Art Project 2021 By Jeanne Brophy The SFMTA  and San Francisco Beautiful   announce the kick-off of the 2021 Muni Art Project.  This year the program launch will be held virtually due to COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders. Artwork by Agustina Caprioglio who found inspiration from COVID-19 and the frontline staff in hospitals, “They are our modern-day temples,” she states, “where people are born and die, where doctors and nurses work hard to take care of all”. The 2021 theme, “San Francisco United” is the sixth year that the SFMTA, San Francisco Beautiful and The Poetry Society of America (sponsors of Poetry in Motion ®) have collaborated to bring art and poetry to Muni riders.   “Now more than ever—it’s important to appreciate and be thankful for the positives around us,” said Jeffrey Tumlin, SFMTA Director of Transportation. “That’s why we’re looking forward to bringing Muni Art back and sparking some joy in the wake of such a

Launch HN: Seed (YC W21) – A Fully-Managed CI/CD Pipeline for Serverless https://ift.tt/3bZJIE9

Launch HN: Seed (YC W21) – A Fully-Managed CI/CD Pipeline for Serverless Hi HN, we are Jay and Frank from Seed ( https://seed.run ). We've built a service that makes it easy to manage a CI/CD pipeline for serverless apps on AWS. There are no build scripts and our custom deployment infrastructure can speed up your deployments almost 100x by incrementally deploying your services and Lambda functions. For some background, Serverless is an execution model where you send a cloud provider (AWS in this case), a piece of code (called an AWS Lambda function). The cloud provider is responsible for executing it and scaling it to respond to the traffic needs. And you are billed for the exact number of milliseconds of execution. Back in 2016 we were really excited to discover serverless and the idea that you could just focus on your code. So we wrote a guide to show folks how to build full-stack serverless applications — https://ift.tt/2iQiT8Y . But once we started using serverless internally,