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Show HN: I have curated a list of 127 remote companies https://ift.tt/3eio9j4

Show HN: I have curated a list of 127 remote companies When we are looking for remote jobs we generally browse job postings in remote job boards. In doing so we miss some opportunities which are not posted in those job boards. So if you are actively looking for a remote job you should also checkout career pages of companies which recruit remote talent. I have compiled a list of such companies and tagged each company with remote locations they are hiring for. Those who are looking for remote job do checkout this page. https://ift.tt/2MQrnPu March 6, 2021 at 07:44PM

Applications are now open for SFMTA's 2021 Powered Scooter Share Program

Applications are now open for SFMTA's 2021 Powered Scooter Share Program By Richard Aicardi Today the SFMTA opens applications for the next round of Powered Scooter Share permits . The current permits for operators expire in June 2021 and the next round will go into effect as soon as the current permits expire. Powered scooters are an increasingly popular way for San Franciscans to move around the city. SFMTA’s Powered Share Scooter program is aligned with San Francisco’s goal to provide numerous, reliable transportation choices for people moving in and around San Francisco. This is particularly important given the significant reduction in Muni service as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 Powered Scooter Share Permit program builds on the lessons learned from the current permit program and feedback from our community stakeholders to create a more useful, safe, and equitable citywide program. As part of the development of the updated application process, staff conduc

Show HN: Practical Python Projects book release https://ift.tt/2ML4XPC

Show HN: Practical Python Projects book release Hi everyone! I just released the Practical Python Projects book! (https://ift.tt/3sOUsdt) I am happy to announce the first version as a release candidate. I have poured a lot of love into writing this book and would love to hear what you guys think. (A limited 100% off and discount coupons at the end) This is not a pure beginner book. The book does assume some background Python knowledge. You need to know the basics like methods, functions, classes, and such. If I use something that is not typically covered in beginner Python books, I will explain it before I use it. There are no tests for these projects as they are really small and teach you how to glue different pieces together. Some projects that we will be making A Twilio bot that keeps you updated with the latest match scores from the FIFA World Cup A Facebook Messenger bot the shares latest memes, jokes, and shower-thoughts scraped from Reddit An automated invoice generator and depl

Show HN: We made a CLI and API to automate inbound email https://ift.tt/3bVkHYZ

Show HN: We made a CLI and API to automate inbound email Hi HN! We're a 5 person team working on simplifying the creation of email apps. Right now, most email services focus on outbound emails (newsletters, transactional, delivery), but that doesn't solve the fact that we all hate receiving them. You can try it at https://mailscript.com Mailscript lets you create programmable email addresses. It works headless, via the CLI, API (we use Swagger to support most languages). You can even run it as a daemon on a server (to run functions when emails arrive). Once you get username@mailscript.com, you can create as many aliases as you'd like (including on the fly support for *@username.mailscript.com). Just like in Gmail, we support adding . or +. Every address gets an SMTP key as well, so you can use your favourite email client e.g. Gmail... We've been working hard on making the CLI and API easy to understand, and take a trigger/actions approach. We even have parsers for GitHu

An Update on Cable Cars and Muni's Historic Fleet

An Update on Cable Cars and Muni's Historic Fleet By Erica Kato Unbeatable views. Unforgettable trips. No experience is more uniquely San Francisco than a ride on a cable car. Cable cars have come to symbolize our great city.   The Powell/Hyde Cable Car turnaround at Fisherman's Wharf Last March, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we temporarily halted cable car service as part of the city’s emergency response. This decision was made to best protect our operators and the public. Muni resources were then shifted to  a core network  to serve our essential workers and accommodate physical distancing on our most utilized lines and to retain access for transit dependent neighborhoods.   We’re excited to announce that we have a timeline to phase in cable car service, as well as bring back service on our historic F Line fleet. Thanks to the acceleration of the COVID-19 vaccine and a more optimistic outlook for federal funding for public transit, we can craft a path forward. O

Show HN: NNext.net – A Firebase-like managed vector storage for ML applications https://ift.tt/2NYUXmz

Show HN: NNext.net – A Firebase-like managed vector storage for ML applications Hi HN. Peter here. As a machine learning engineer, I mostly think in terms of feature vectors, embeddings, and matrices. One of the most useful byproducts of deep neural networks is embeddings because they allow us to represent high-dimensional data in terms of lower-dimensional latent vectors. These feature vectors can be used for downstream applications like similarly search, recommendation systems and near duplicate detection. As an ML engineer, I was frustrated by the lack of a datastore in which vectors are first-class citizens. As a result, most ML engineers, including myself, end up using awkward workarounds to store vectors such as arrays in SQL/NoSQL databases, stringifying vectors and storing them as text in in-memory-based caching systems such as Redis ETC. Furthermore, these systems don't allow for vector-based query operations such as nearest neighbor search. Consequently, engineers have to

Temporary Ramps Provide a Platform for Local Artists

Temporary Ramps Provide a Platform for Local Artists By Jonathan Streeter San Francisco’s arts community has been hit particularly hard by the shelter-in-place guidelines that have been in place since March 2020.  Inspired by the challenges faced by the arts community during the pandemic, SFMTA staff undertook an initiative to fund public art installations on two temporary wooden rail platforms installed last summer. For the project, a partnership between the SFMTA and local arts organization Paint the Void was formed with a mission to keep artists engaged and paid as a response to COVID-19. This effort was spearheaded by SFMTA project manager Liz Brisson, who oversaw the contracting and coordinated the necessary approval from the San Francisco Arts Commission. In consultation with the local community, two artists were selected to create murals that would be an attractive addition to the streetscape. These works, by Simón Malvaez and Emily Fromm , now greet passengers and passers-

Show HN: NASA Mars 2021 as full-scale VR puzzles https://ift.tt/3uBIllI

Show HN: NASA Mars 2021 as full-scale VR puzzles We built a VR game with giant 3D puzzles[0], and to celebrate the successful landing of NASA Perseverance rover on Mars, we just added an experimental mini-series of Mars 2021 puzzles: - Perseverance rover at 1/3rd of the size - Perseverance at full-scale. At full scale in VR, it's impressive! Bigger than I thought! Screenshots for Perseverance VR puzzles: https://twitter.com/PecoPecoGame/status/1362880879966748679 - Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter, at full scale. Again, full-scale in VR is a cool way to get a sense of the size of Ingenuity (spoiler: the body is smaller than what I expected, but the blades are huge comparatively! That's because the martian atmosphere is much less dense than the earth atmosphere.) Screenshots for Ingenuity VR puzzle: https://twitter.com/PecoPecoGame/status/1365704324232454147 These are directly based on the official NASA models, so they have great accuracy. There's one puzzle to play for each m

Show HN: Extension for Hacker News https://ift.tt/3kxohfC

Show HN: Extension for Hacker News Hi folks, I included HN to the list of sites supported by the Social Cat extension. The browser extension lets you tag/categorize/group authors and highlight their posts at the HN website. In a sense, you will immediately know if the post was submitted by someone you want to track. I hope it will be helpful to you.. Happy to add new features if you need anything: Chrome: https://ift.tt/3pYE3Bu Firefox: https://ift.tt/3b2mBaP Cheers March 1, 2021 at 07:42PM