Narrative (YC W23) | Remote | Full Time | Full Stack Engineer (Backend)
Narrative is making AI powered data tools for logistics (and other industries soon!). You will help with building the workflow, data cleaning, data transformation and alerts platform. We will also be using AI to make the product super easy for customers to use without any need for support engineers.
From what I've seen is the "Change Date" is usually updated so you always have a few years older software as Apache License and the latest software as BSL
Just to make it clear - the cutoff date on previously released software remains the same. So if you download it now and wait a few years, your software will have matured into its final form, the Apache 2 license.
Narrative (YC W23) | Remote | Full Time | Full Stack Engineer (Backend)
Narrative is making AI powered data tools for logistics (and other industries soon!). We standardize and find errors in shipping invoice data for large companies.
Funny thing is this was the second time Stewart Butterfield tried to build a massively multiplayer game and pivoted the company. The first one was Flickr!
Reminds me of my brother, who wanted to have a little toy car consolation price at the christmas fair, but kept winning the main prices. Parents were chatting with another couple, he came asked for a buck to play, dumped the main price into my fathers arms, this went on six-times, he was almost crying by the point my father said "enough" the arm full of Dresden stollen. Sometimes your glorious victory is the defeat of others. Good times.
Usually works but sometimes there's no one at the kiosk.
> I suspect the excursion fare today is trying to disincentivize the use of the trains and stations as shelters by the unhoused.
Time limits around entry exit could be useful here, where you can exit within 10 minutes of entry there is no charge. Reason for exiting at the same station for me is the train is delayed by 30 minutes and I forgot to check the next train before entering the station.
exactly - it seems braindead obvious to me that there should be a 5-minute window for exiting without charge. Not implementing such an obvious and trivial feature can only be interpreted as deliberately taking money without delivering value for riders because....it's possible?
Until recently, BART used magstripe tickets where all information was stored on the ticket itself. It might not have been possible to implement a time window with that.
That doesn't explain why they didn't add this when migrating to the Clipper card, but I feel like "nobody thought to change it" or "we wanted to reduce risk by not introducing changes while migrating" seem like more likely explanations than malice.
I wouldn't call it malice. It's simply a rational decision. BART makes more money with the fee than without, so absent political pressure to discontinue it why would they?
Also, Clipper cards have been around many years. They aren't a recent addition to BART.
"I wouldn't call it _malice_. I make more money robbing travellers on the King's road than not doing so, and it's very unlikely I'll get caught!"
Assuming a value system in which certain acts are wrong even if not observed / punished, some acts can be rational _and_ malicious.
(This isn't intended to say anything either way about BART's actions here, which are obviously not the same as literal robbery; I'm mainly disputing the idea that rational acts can't be malicious.)
I’d take it further and say this isn’t intentional at all.
Having worked in, for, and around governments, this was almost certainly an oversight that hasn’t been a big enough of a fire in comparison to the other fires.
Making a public stink about it makes it a bigger fire though, so the system is working as intended!
>I wouldn't call it malice. It's simply a rational decision. BART makes more money with the fee than without
by taking money from those weaker than it, since it is a large well financed organization and the people riding it will not be equipped to fight it (legally), that's malicious.
While Clipper cards have been around for a while, it was a very long migration process. BART didn't stop selling the magstripe tickets in vending machines until 2020, and continued to use them for discounted fares through the end of 2021 [1].
Ambient.ai | Full-time | SF Bay Area / Bangalore | ONSITE
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I did use the mobile app to watch lecture videos on the go. Would it be possible to put the videos in a course-wise playlist on Youtube for easy viewing?
Yes, if you need a new H1B visa (not a transfer), best to have an offer before April with enough time for the lawyers to apply for your visa. After that companies will have to wait until next year October for you to start with them in US.
Some companies like Google and Facebook might send you to a non US location until you get an H1B.
Narrative is making AI powered data tools for logistics (and other industries soon!). You will help with building the workflow, data cleaning, data transformation and alerts platform. We will also be using AI to make the product super easy for customers to use without any need for support engineers.
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