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20kleagues commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
20kleagues · 2 months ago
SalesJack | Data Engineer | Hybrid (Hamilton/GTA Canada) | C$130K-C$150K + equity and benefits | salesjack.com

SalesJack is a sales software platform (CRM, Prospecting Service) for independent businesses in the construction supply industry. We are growing quickly and profitably. Our founding team and customers are based in the US, and we aim to grow engineering capabilities in Canada.

This role is responsible for leading our data pipelines development. SalesJack operates data ETLs from sources like client ERPs (enterprise resource platforms) and municipality open data to power our CRM features. You will collaborate directly with founders and lead engineers at the company and help:

- Enable scalability in our pipelines as we onboard more customers and data sources

- Setup visibility, monitoring and alerting in all parts of our ETL processes

- Allow plugging in AI led transformations at the right stages of our pipelines, and enable this to be done easily

- Lead RnD effort for AI toolings that transform a lot of manual work in the industry

We are looking for:

- 3+ years of data wrangling and pipeline scaling experience. We prefer if you have done so with a focus on reliability and efficiency (both in terms of compute and costs) in the past.

- Someone who loves experimenting with data, regularly tries out new tools, and enjoys exploring the possibilities of AI and machine learning—especially large language models (LLMs)—we want to hear from you.

Our hiring process will be:

1. Initial call with our founding engineer to briefly discuss your experience and introduce SalesJack ~ 30mins

2. Technical Exercise (this will a live coding on a screen-sharing call where we will ask you to work on some problem) ~1.5 hours

3. Call with one of our founders to see cultural fit ~ 30mins

4. Offer

Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/salesjack/5645b4c3-dc1b-4021-83d4-2... and mention Hacker News

20kleagues commented on Tell HN: Azure outage    · Posted by u/tartieret
mc32 · 2 months ago
If India can have voters vote and tally all the votes in one day, then so can everyone else. It’s the best way to avoid fraud and people going with whoever is ahead. I am sympathetic with emergency protocols for deadly pandemics, but for all else, in-person on a given day.
20kleagues · 2 months ago
Voting in India is staggered over multiple phases over multiple days/weeks. Only the vote count happens on a single day at the end.
20kleagues commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
20kleagues · 3 months ago
SalesJack | Data Engineer | Hybrid (Hamilton/GTA Canada) | C$130K-C$150K + equity and benefits | salesjack.com

SalesJack is a sales software platform (CRM, Prospecting Service) for independent businesses in the construction supply industry. We are growing quickly and profitably. Our founding team and customers are based in the US, and we aim to grow engineering capabilities in Canada.

This role is responsible for leading our data pipelines development. SalesJack operates data ETLs from sources like client ERPs (enterprise resource platforms) and municipality open data to power our CRM features. You will collaborate directly with founders and lead engineers at the company and help:

- Enable scalability in our pipelines as we onboard more customers and data sources

- Setup visibility, monitoring and alerting in all parts of our ETL processes

- Allow plugging in AI led transformations at the right stages of our pipelines, and enable this to be done easily

- Lead RnD effort for AI toolings that transform a lot of manual work in the industry

We are looking for:

- 3+ years of data wrangling and pipeline scaling experience. We prefer if you have done so with a focus on reliability and efficiency (both in terms of compute and costs) in the past.

- Someone who loves experimenting with data, regularly tries out new tools, and enjoys exploring the possibilities of AI and machine learning—especially large language models (LLMs)—we want to hear from you.

Our hiring process will be:

1. Initial call with our founding engineer to briefly discuss your experience and introduce SalesJack ~ 30mins

2. Technical Exercise (this will a live coding on a screen-sharing call where we will ask you to work on some problem) ~1.5 hours

3. Call with one of our founders to see cultural fit ~ 30mins

4. Offer

We aim to have the full process take no more than 2 weeks from the initial call.

This is a hybrid role, with in-person 2-3 times a week in Downtown Hamilton, Ontario.

Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/salesjack/5645b4c3-dc1b-4021-83d4-2... and mention Hacker News

20kleagues commented on Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family   apnews.com/article/syria-... · Posted by u/perihelions
someotherperson · a year ago
“Actual Syrians” isn’t a thing for this — it’s like wanting to hear from ‘actual Americans’ what they thought of the US election.

Depending on the ethnicity, religion and politics of those Syrians you’ll get wildly different views.

20kleagues · a year ago
And those different (or similar) views are what would be important and what I would be interested to read. Because the views of the people from that land are what matter the most during these events.
20kleagues commented on Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family   apnews.com/article/syria-... · Posted by u/perihelions
20kleagues · a year ago
I would love to hear what the Syrian hacker news community has to say about this. I’m reading so many comments here but not sure how many are from actual Syrians who probably have a deeper understanding and hope/fears about what comes next.
20kleagues commented on Why is it so hard to build an airport?   construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/gmays
_delirium · 2 years ago
Hong Kong recently added this, called In-town Check-in [1]. You can check in and drop your bags at the MTR Hong Kong station when taking the Airport Express. Can even drop off the bags up to a day in advance. Currently only open to Cathay Pacific customers though.

[1] https://www.mtr.com.hk/en/customer/services/complom_checkin....

20kleagues · 2 years ago
This is not a recent addition. It is more than 10 years old but was shut down during Covid. They are slowly starting to bring it back. It also wasn’t restricted to just Cathay before, but a large number of major airlines had counters at HK Station for check-in services. It’s wonderful - you can check in your bags before heading to work in the morning and in the evening take the train to the airport directly.
20kleagues commented on DBeaver – open-source database client   github.com/dbeaver/dbeave... · Posted by u/saikatsg
interbased · 2 years ago
I mainly use Postico but I’ve noticed coworkers using DBeaver. I like how the tabs are named whereas in Postico I have to leave comments at the top of the query for later. I had to use DBeaver to access a non-Postgres database. I may end up trying it out as my primary tool for a bit.
20kleagues · 2 years ago
I absolutely love Postico. For postgres, there really is no comparison for a Mac native db client. DBeaver seems so clunky in comparison, but I use that for everything non postgres.
20kleagues commented on Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal   bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-... · Posted by u/brrrrrd
guardiangod · 2 years ago
I just want to give a shoutout to BC's Civil Resolution Tribunal. They take their job seriously, and make it as easy as possible for plaintiff to submit a complaint.

I once had the misfortune of generating a batch of defective enterprise-grade SSD from a S company. That S company requires all RMA to go through the sales channel you bought the SSD from, but the sales company we used was out of business.

S has refused all attempts to RMA by stonewalling us saying that we need to return the drives thru the bankrupted company. When we explained that the company is bankrupted, S just ignored us. When we created a new RMA request, S's rep says we already have an open case, and that we need to return the drives blah blah blah.

After 5 months, in a fit of rage I typed up a 2000 words complaint, gathered all the emails/phone calls/photo evidences, and submitted a complaint to CRT ($75 fee). I wasn't expecting much, but within 3 weeks I got a call from a corporate lawyer in S company's Toronto office, asked me for the situation, apologized profusely, and asked if I can drop the case if they RMA all affected SSDs.

That day was great, to say the least.

Aside:

The CRT posts all their cases (that reached arbitration) here- https://decisions.civilresolutionbc.ca/crt/en/nav.do

Reading the cases is quite am entertaining time passer.

20kleagues · 2 years ago
BC CRT is great when the happy pathway happens. They send legal letters to all parties so they are able to arbitrate, and that letter might be enough to get things resolved.

I had the misfortune of trying to use them for a company which had just stopped responding and in the end even though I did get the default judgment in my favour, actually enforcing the judgment still required me to go through the normal courts (which in my case was not worth the cost). But the process of dealing with CRT was nothing short of delightful.

20kleagues commented on iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail   twitter.com/SeanSafyre/st... · Posted by u/wannacboatmovie
kemayo · 2 years ago
The flight was from the US to Canada. It's very plausible that the cell plan doesn't have international roaming.

EDIT: per replies, this was entirely wrong, it was a domestic flight

20kleagues · 2 years ago
Flight was from Portland, Oregon to Ontario, California - it was a domestic flight.

u/20kleagues

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