New comment by Ositadinma11 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2023)"

Category: Product Manager
Location: Enugu, Nigeria

  Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Relevant Skills:PRDs, PRFAQs, Scrum, Product Analytics, User Research, Jira stories, Gherkin, SQL, wireframing. I was a developer before I switched to product, so I’m not afraid of anything technical.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ositadinma-nwangwu-45880557/

Email: osita.nwangwu@gmail.com

New comment by danielwashbrook in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)"

SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE (Canada) | Web Dev / Laravel / Vuejs We are a team of 6 freelancers (a PM, designer and four developers) looking for another developer to work on our projects with us. We are looking for skills in: – Laravel, with a good understanding of the core concepts. – VueJS component … Continue reading New comment by danielwashbrook in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)"

LSU's Kim Mulkey has not contacted Brittney Griner since Griner's release from Russian prison

LSU women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey says she hasn’t spoken to Brittney Griner since Griner was released from a Russian prison and returned to the United States.  However, Mulkey did have a message for her former Baylor Bears players.  “I’m glad she’s back,” Mulkey said during her Final Four news conference, per The Associated … Continue reading LSU's Kim Mulkey has not contacted Brittney Griner since Griner's release from Russian prison

Finley (YC W21) is hiring for credit and fintech experts across all teams

Imagine running a retail business without knowing how much you’re paying your wholesaler for goods. Or running a restaurant without looking at the price of your ingredients. Or constructing homes without looking at the price of raw materials… you get the idea.

That lack of transparency would be frightening, but hey, things could still work out, right?

Well, let’s up the difficulty.

Imagine that, on top of not knowing exactly how much you were paying for your inputs, you also didn’t know if you would have consistent and continued access to your wholesaler, your food supplier, or your building materials. That would almost certainly induce high blood pressure, stomach ulcers, and mild insomnia.

In the world of private credit (this is basically business credit for the majority of companies), it’s not only normal but expected that getting and maintaining access to debt capital (one of the key inputs for running any business!) will be opaque, error-prone, and hard to operationalize. In other words, capital uncertainty is the dismal reality in middle-market finance.

Private credit is enormous (add up all the VC dollars spent last year and you’d still be short of the amount of private credit issued over the same period), unavoidable, and broken.

That means credit access–the fuel or primary financial input for most medium-sized businesses–is hard to price, access, report on, and predict.

And yet it doesn’t have to be that way; the data and operational issues of private credit have been solved in other domains (e.g., CRMs for Sales, infrastructure tooling for devs, EMRs for hospitals). What’s missing is a software layer for business finance.

Finley has built the system of record for private credit. We plug into all borrower source systems and automate reporting and analysis for private credit lenders. The result is full transparency into the cost and availability of capital, which gives businesses newfound financial predictability.

We’re a team of builders, designers, finance experts, engineers, and systems thinkers from top companies in finance and technology, and we’re backed by leading investors like Y Combinator, CRV, and Bain Capital Ventures.

We’re two years into our journey, recently raised a $17 million Series A, and already managing over $3 billion in private credit.

It’s still Day 1, though. The challenges we’re taking on will reshape the economy over the next decades, and we’d love to partner with team members who share our passion for innovation and company-building.

To learn more, check out our Careers page here: https://www.finleycms.com/careers/

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Senegalese prosecutors file appeal for opposition leader who received 2-month sentence

Prosecutors in Senegal who had sought two years in prison for opposition leader Ousmane Sonko have filed an appeal after he was given a much lighter, two-month suspended sentence for his conviction on libel charges in a case his supporters say was politically motivated.

The outcome of Thursday’s verdict allows Sonko to run for president next year though he still faces unrelated criminal charges in a pending rape case that would disqualify him if he is convicted. Sonko is widely viewed as the top opposition candidate in Senegal’s elections next year.

Sonko has not yet decided whether to appeal the sentence in the libel case, his lawyer Bamba Cisse told The Associated Press.

SENEGAL’S TOP OPPOSITION POLITICIAN GETS 2-MONTH SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR LIBEL

Sonko was also ordered to pay about $330,000 to Tourism Minister Mame Mbaye Niang, who accused the politician of defamation and public insults.

Neither Sonko nor his lawyers were present on Thursday when the verdict and sentence were delivered.

SENEGAL POLICE SMASH WINDOWS OF OPPOSITION LEADER’S VEHICLE, FORCIBLY REMOVING HIM

Each of Sonko’s previous court appearances led to protests in the streets of Dakar, the capital, and Sonko himself was forcibly removed from his vehicle by police on two occasions. Demonstrations have taken place not only in Dakar but in cities throughout the country.

Sonko’s supporters see the charges against him as the latest attempt to cut short his political career. Sonko finished third in Senegal’s 2019 presidential election and has called on President Macky Sall to declare publicly that he won’t seek a third term.

The ruling party says Sall should be allowed to run after a constitutional change in 2016 — made while Sall was president — which changed presidential terms to five years.

Sonko also faces rape charges based on accusations from a female employee of a massage salon who said she was assaulted by him. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and would be barred from running for president. No date has been set yet for the that trial.

Police union manager in California allegedly imported illegal opioids from India, Hong Kong, Singapore

The office manager for a Northern California police union allegedly imported illegal synthetic opioids from India and other countries and at least once used her work computer and address and the union’s UPS account to ship the drugs within the country, federal prosecutors said.

Joanne Marian Segovia, executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, was charged with attempting to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, federal prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.

Starting in 2015, Segovia had at least 61 drug shipments mailed to her San Jose home from India, Hong Kong, Hungary and Singapore with manifests that listed their contents as “wedding party favors,” “gift makeup,” “chocolate and sweets” and “food supplement,” according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.

FENTANYL OVERDOSES BECOME NO. 1 CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG US ADULTS, AGES 18-45: ‘A NATIONAL EMERGENCY’

It was not immediately known if Segovia, 64, has an attorney who can speak on her behalf.

Tom Saggau, a spokesperson for the police union in San Jose, said Segovia, a civilian, has worked for the union since 2003, planning funerals for officers who die in the line of duty, being the liaison between the department and the officers’ families and organizing office festivities and fundraisers.

He said that federal officials informed the union last Friday that Segovia was under investigation and that no one else at the union was involved or knew about Segovia’s alleged acts.

The revelation shocked her colleagues, Saggau said.

“We didn’t have any reason to suspect her,” he said, adding that the union’s board of directors has pledged to fully support the federal investigation.

Federal prosecutors said that in 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted a parcel being sent to her home address that contained $5,000 worth of Tramadol, a synthetic opioid, and sent her a letter telling her they were seizing the pills. The next year, the CBP again intercepted a shipment of Tramadol valued at $700 and sent her a seizure letter, court records showed.

But federal officials didn’t start investigating Segovia until last year when investigators found her name and home address on the cellphone of a suspected drug dealer who is part of a network that ships controlled substances made in India to the San Francisco Bay Area, according to the complaint. That drug trafficking network has distributed hundreds of thousands of pills in 48 states, federal prosecutors said.

OPIOID DRUGS CAUSE MORE THAN HALF OF YOUNG CHILDREN’S POISONING DEATHS: NEW STUDY

Segovia used WhatsApp messaging service and her personal and office computers to order thousands of opioid tablets and other pills to her home and agreed to distribute the drugs elsewhere in the United States, prosecutors said.

On at least one occasion in 2021, Segovia shipped the illicit drugs to a North Carolina address by using the police union’s UPS account, prosecutors said. That address is linked to at least five illicit drug seizures, they said.

Investigators found hundreds of photographs in a WhatsApp chat on Segovai’s cellphone, including an image of the UPS shipping slip and another one of a computer screen showing a PayPal payment to an Indian name and Segovia’s police union business cards under it.

“Based on my training and experience, I know that shippers of controlled substances often send receipts and tracking numbers as proof that they in fact sent a package. I believe that the receipt provided by SEGOVIA was offered by her as proof that she sent a package to the North Carolina addressee,” David Vargas, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigation, wrote in the affidavit.

According to the complaint, Segovia continued to order controlled substances even after being interviewed by federal investigators in February. On March 13, federal agents seized a parcel in Kentucky, containing valeryl fentanyl, addressed to Segovia. The package allegedly originated from China three days earlier and declared its contents as a “clock,” prosecutors said.

New comment by danielwashbrook in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)"

SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE (Canada) | Web Dev / Laravel / Vuejs
We are a team of 6 freelancers (a PM, designer and four developers) looking for another developer to work on our projects with us.
We are looking for skills in:
– Laravel, with a good understanding of the core concepts.
– VueJS component development
– AWS, EC2s and S3 buckets.
Around 30 hours a week would be nice but we’re big on flexibility. A bit of overlap with Pacific timezone is a bonus.
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New comment by synthc in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2023)"

SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (EU timezone)

I’m available for part-time contracts or short consulting gigs in addition to my main assignment.
My main assignment ends this summer, also open to discuss longer full-time engagements after that.

Skills:

– 15 years of experience in companies ranging from 5-person startups to huge multinationals, MSc in AI

– Deep experience with Kafka, streaming processing and adjacent tech:
designing messaging based architectures, fixing bottlenecks.

– Rule modeling and discrete optimization with Optaplanner, Google OR-tools & MiniZinc.

– Building prototype apps for visualization and decision support with ClojureScript.

See profile for contact details.