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Location: Los Angeles

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Docker, some machine learning

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugo-sjöberg-56a31743

Email: hugo.sjoberg88@gmail.com

Short about me, I will move to Los Angeles in 8 days, my wife just got a transferred and I joined :D I will apply for a work permit as soon as I arrive so I will latest be available at the end of March.

I am an energetic developer from Sweden who has mostly been working in automotive with different things, started off with machine-learning then moved on to build internal tooling and some infrastructure all in python.

Drop me an email or add me as a contact on LinkedIn if my profile sounds interesting or if you just want to chat.

Have a great day!
Fern Creek Software | Louisville KY | 100% Remote

Fern Creek is a software consulting company. We build stuff for other people, usually in .NET on Azure but we do other stuff occasionally. The company has been around since I started consulting independently about 20 years ago. Recently I started taking on larger projects that need more people and as a result, started hiring people. Sometimes a 1099, sometimes W2.

This is not super sexy stuff where you will get options that might be worth millions, but likely worth nothing. What you will get is a load of experience on new tech (asp.net core, azure, blazor etc) and a great focus on the best feature of all...shipping.

The job is remote so you don't have to be in Louisville though if you are close that is cool. Set your own hours and all that, I want pros not people that need babysitting.

3 openings right now...

Full stack dev (C#, asp.net core, sql server etc) UX Guru (more than a photoshop jockey, make the html and css for us so we dont have to) QA engineer (test all the things, write unit tests, automated UI tests)

Live the stress free life, work from home, build some cool tech, make money, be happy etc etc.

Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware.com
Not really applicable here as WASM is not machine code and is interpreted / compiled / JIT compiled behind the scenes. Something you definitely don’t want for cryptography.
I've seen photos of some very convincing skimmers that I'd have no hope of detecting despite being pretty paranoid about them myself.

Rooted point-of-sale devices are also a possibility - that's what led to the big Target hack.
One of several reasons I put unfair in quotes.
"I don't feel this is an issue until you can't spin up your own website/app/platform and allow whatever speech you want."

I disagree that no "issue" exists. This is a distinctly different notion than "rights".

I find this (type of) conversation interesting from a psychology perspective, because the topic seems to render many people unable to see a distinction.
Pokémon go has an option to track your location when the app is in the background, even though that location is almost never useful. This is actually a regression from a previous version, which synced with Apple’s health APIs to track steps without tracking location. It’s not hard to guess why they removed that feature.
The Legacy of Destructive Austerity
> this long-winded writing style is maddening to read!

I learned not to read/watch things that don’t get to the point

Often times they never do!
5G Doesn't Matter for VR
One possible solution is to provide enough volume that they just don't overflow. In Portugal the trash cans are really just chutes attached to a hinged "door" in the ground that lifts up to provide access to large underground dumpsters that can be extracted and emptied by specialized garbage trucks.

I'm not sure what it would cost to retrofit a city with a system like this. Possibly more than implementing the sensors you mention, but it's one potential solution.
> Need to look at total miles driven, not just population size vs. number of deaths.

If you happen to have traffic, and wish to improve the traffic in isolation, perhaps. More generally, what you need to look at really depends on whether you're trying to measure traffic safety itself, society's general safety and well being (very complex), or something more specific.
If they drink gallons of whole milk they will gain weight.

What is the issue with skim milk? It tastes like milk but has less calories.
If you read the article (what a novel idea!) the author explains that his company was running into heap size limits. The company was preparing to tackle this problem with a combination of extensive refactoring, server upgrades, licensing expensive third party libraries, and delaying new features while all of the above was done. His "optimization" reduced peak heap usage by half, making all the changes unnecessary.
I'm an engineer and I only took 360s seriously the first time I encountered them. I rapidly learned better.
with prices of huge tv screens dropping , what about 3d projection rooms like this? https://prodisplay.com/wp-content/uploads/cave-projection-sc...
The takeaway should be - run profiler at least once before hiring extra architects and spending half a million on hardware/licenses.
Precisely -- dogmatism fails because it does not deal with situations that call for sometimes subtle, case-by-case judgement.
An easier easier way:

1/3 = 0.3333... = 0.????...b
*2 = 0.6666... 0 -> 0.0???...b
*2 = 1.3333... 1 -> 0.01??...b
-1 = 0.3333...
*2 = 0.6666... 0 -> 0.010?...b
etc.
"A few articles?" This is what discoverability looks like on both of those sites: https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html. Just start at "A"?

I think non-academic people like me are served perfectly well by reading Spinoza's Ethics. Googling for more from there will cover almost all of post-dualism Western phil.
It's a post ww2 suburban thing.

In the suburbs I grew up in, walking, especially to accomplish practical tasks like grocery shopping, was seen a signal that you were "on welfare" - which was code for poverty.

Meanwhile, people drove to fitness clubs to walking miles on treadmills while slurping energy drinks.
Detrumpify
"I love pie" they said as they clinked their plates together

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/mince-pie-the-real-ame...

Was unaware of that particular deception, but there were so many others... entire factories that reprocessed "industrial" alcohol to make it drinkable, pharmacies that dispensed whiskey, etc etc.
I think there's a way on a landline to "hold the line open", even while the other person hangs up? Then if they pretend to pick up again after you punch in new numbers they can fool you
Are you really automatically a citizen? In the countries I'm familiar with, lineage might grant you the right to citizenship, but you still have to request it.
SEEKING FREELANCER | Louisville KY | 100% Remote

Fern Creek is a software consulting company. We build stuff for other people, usually in .NET on Azure but we do other stuff occasionally. The company has been around since I started consulting independently about 20 years ago. Recently I started taking on larger projects that need more people.

3 openings right now...all for 4-6 month contracts

Full stack dev (C#, asp.net core, sql server etc) UX Guru (more than a photoshop jockey, make the html and css for us so we dont have to) QA engineer (test all the things, write unit tests, automated UI tests)

Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware.com
It's interesting that there doesn't seem to be a command-line tool out there that lets you do this with LevelDB. LevelDB is about an order of magnitude faster at importing a lot of data than SQLite or Postgres is (although I don't know if it's faster than the Postgres CSV foreign data wrapper for the first query, it sure will be for the second) and it can handle files a lot bigger than your RAM.

It's interesting to note that around 1990 The Mark Williams Company wrote a fairly full-fledged database system using, basically, CSV files. It was called "/rdb". You wrote your queries as shell scripts, but using a set of /rdb utilities that handled CSV files with labeled columns, and they had a screen-based data-entry UI based on vi. I wouldn't want to use it instead of a database --- you had to write your query plan in the shell script, rather than a high-level SQL-like query, because the authors didn't really understand SQL --- but it's interesting that the approach is still useful in 2019.
taste?
It depends. We have a ton of Java apps running atop of kubernetes. All of them use zk, but every team operates their own mini zk cluster deployed on k8s. It’s worked fine except for certain hard to debug problems that hit a few teams occasionally.

I guess my point is that k8s let’s you shift the operational burden to dev teams if they need it. If you have a centralized operations team running a giant, common zk/ etcd, yeah this would be additional operational burden.
Bingo. That's sooo bad for engineering that a company does that, and probably bad generally as well. My company does this and its infuriating, like, you don't even know what's involved, why would you do this? My company also, for most of its lifetime, has relied on contracting out software development.

My current project in fact started out life offshore but the work was so slow-going and awful iterative results that they then rev'd up a real software team to complete it. Initially they wanted us to complete the project without scraping the offshore code base, which was in baaaaad shape. It took another consultant, hired for a different reason, rather than listening to their in-house leads (of which I was not one, I was a junior at the time), that they needed to scrap that code.
My point should have been clear that its less forward thinking than the general population

And you could extrapolate that I’m also referring to the bay area
I thought this was a related or a supplementary story for the BBC programme shown across 6 episodes in March-April 2019, titled: Race Across The World. It featured a father-son team bonding over their experiences whilst travelling from London to Singapore on a budget of £2,000, without directly using modern technology or flights to reach their intended destination and competing with other teams.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002tvs

Spoiler alert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Across_the_World
submitter here, wasn't aware of either of those, especially #2. No problem at all with mods deleting this.
"It'll be fine"? Not "She'll be right"?
I've seen a demo of the machine. It's about 17u in size, with the vast majority (like 15u) of that being for cooling. This was over two years ago so things may have changed.

Right now I'm hosting some DGX's, and only one datacenter in the bay area had the ability to power a full rack of them. Power density is going to be a real issue for the these systems.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936929
I do agree the Snoop Dogg lyrics case is a bad application of hate speech laws.

One could, however, find cases of all laws being abused, from eminent domain to property crime laws, drug laws, libel, qualified immunity, you name it. That does not mean that those laws are all categorically bad laws.

(Though I think qualified immunity has shown itself in practice to be categorically bad.)
Thanks for the thought-image, bub.
> I do wonder if any of this articles cost Google anything when it comes to hiring.

I would say about half of the engineers that I personally know would never consider working for Google. But they largely reached that place years ago, so I don't think that more recent articles had anything to do with that.
Mirror exposure therapy improves body image and satisfaction
Learnerbly | Software Engineer | Full Time | London, UK | ONSITE, REMOTE (limited to Europe)

Learnerbly redefines workplace learning by providing individual learning budgets and connecting you with the right learning resources.

We are looking to hire a passionate full-stack engineer with experience in designing for and operating AWS based systems. Developing in Javascript for an AWS Lambda based architecture, using AWS DynamoDB and ElasticSearch, the ideal candidate should be familiar with these technologies. This knowledge may come as professional experience or personal research but you will be expected to speak knowledgeably about the state of the art with respect to web application development and infrastructure design. We like ‘geeks, and your ‘geek’ credentials are more important to us than your professional or educational experience. Show us your personal projects, tell us what you like and what you don’t like, about interesting things you have read, projects you have been involved with, people you have met and what you have learned.

https://angel.co/company/learnerbly/jobs/333684-senior-softw...
As far as I've seen, the single most important factor in whether someone will fall for a scam is the degree to which they match the "target audience" of the scam's script. The practice of spear phishing embodies this principle taken to its logical extreme.
Many cities in fact already have it. We call them skyways. The bridge is building to building. It is generally not on the corners, but in the middle of the block. Getting in is tricky because you need to find the elevator in the middle of the building, but once in you don't leave for a while so that isn't a big deal.
The RISC-V compare-and-branch instructions are objectively a great deal more complex than the 6502 instructions.
Would be worth mentioning that the inline-webassembly npm package is created by the author and quite recently.
neat work! didn't notice it mentioned in the article but, would there be a processor load difference between the two?
Special interest money absolutely does not need to outweigh the "democracy dollars" contributions in order to be effective. It just needs to be enough to sway the vote of the politicians. Most of the time voters aren't even aware of the agreements their representatives had made with donors. This won't change with "democracy dollars." Politicians will gladly take voter contributions, but they'll continue to take special interest money until the laws change.
SEEKING FREELANCER - New York - Remote work possible

What we're building:
An AI-driven social shopping platform connecting brands/retailers with social media influencers and their followers. A similar app is liketoknow.it which does $1B in sales a year in the fashion space. The Influencer Marketing space is growing 100% YoY. We are going after influencers in beauty & furniture which are each sized at 100B sales in the US market alone.

Startup stage:
Early stage. Currently improving backend architecture, validating MVP and iterating/launching frequently to ensure product-market fit. Already have users & signing up more users every week.

What the developer can get out of the opportunity:
-Chance to build brand new technology from scratch, including back end architecture & design
-Chance to work remotely; generous flexibility for location, hours worked, and time zone
-Chance to tackle major tech challenges: storing, managing, and processing large data sets (e.g. product database, influencer content); integrating these data sets into a consumer-facing app; minimizing online retrieval latency for these data sets.
-Chance to gain experience integrating AI into a backend system. The AI currently has 3 modules: A) recommendation engine for the social shopper, B) NLP to identify products from influencers' Instagram feeds C) Reverse image search/image recognition to identify products from influencer photos.

Developer Qualifications:
- 2-4+ years of experience in backend development, preferably for a consumer-facing app
-At least 1 year of experience in front end development, either web or mobile or preferably both
-At least 1 year of experience with python and/or integrating python code with a back end system
- Self-starter attitude and ability to make decisions independently
- Loves to solve problems and tackle new challenges
- Great attention to detail, well organized and consistently delivers quality performance
- Passion to help users with the technology you build
- BS in Computer Science, or equivalent educational experience.

Desirable Skills:
- iOS and Android app development
- Experience integrating AI/ML with back end

EMAIL: portia@prune.ai
We're close to release a new "officially supported" native Go client library: https://github.com/apache/pulsar-client-go
Lifespan in Weeks
https://lifespan.page/

Shortly, the page shows boxes — weeks of your life and grey ones are passed.

Inspired by Tim Urban's Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator?language=en
In the US we're good at announcing initiatives like "Vision Zero", and continuing to pretend it's a real thing even after a decade or more (in some cities) of making no material changes and traffic fatalities staying flat or even increasing.
A lot of the people involved in this actually come from AMD, so I imagine they're familiar with the issues AMD ran into.
Have you ever noticed that it's becoming more difficult to find recipes without a six page blog entry on top of it? This is kind of like that.

I love the word bloviating for times like this. It's not really an onomatopoeia but something like it. It's also somehow clearly an insult.

Edit: jrockway has actually changed my perspective on recipe thing...if people want to put a six page backstory and photos on top of a recipe that's completely their right and I would never suggest that more quality (?) content is a bad thing. My problem, it seems, is with Google putting that as the top result when I'm searching for a recipe. Esp when I'm on my phone in a store getting spammed by some captive portal while trying to figure out if the damn cookies I'm making need baking soda or baking powder.
And that's all this training is about: legal cover. One of many kubuki theatrics one must engage in as a corporate drone.
There is a good reason why we are not attempting to print a string.

Yeah, there's a good reason printing "Hello, World!" is the test. If you can't even get that far, you're going to have a hard time doing anything useful at all.
This writing style is useful for beginners. Imagine a reader who's not already an expert, who isn't familiar with the decades worth of back and forth discourse about tradeoffs between performance and maintainability. He provides some context and history and tells a little story. Tech writing needs more of that.

Half a million seems like a good guess for how much the company would have lost paying developers and architects to re-design and re-implement the system, buy new hardware, new licenses for their third party software and the revenue they would miss out on by doing all that unnecessary work instead of building a profitable new feature.
For more info on things like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
In my program, we had a saying that lowbrow philosophers end every argument with "Plato said it first"; middlebrows say "Kant said it first"; highbrows say "Wittgenstein said it first."

Modern philosophy hasn't "obviated" Plato, per se, but any competent philosopher today can discuss what Plato thought generally and how/why we think differently today. The philosophical method of analysis and argument remains, but no one talks seriously about Platonic forms except as part of the history.
"Everything is easy, when you know how to do it. It's that learning curve. . ."--me
Location: Midwest USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at this time, unfortunately

Technologies: Python, Elm, Nim, C#, Elixir, and JS; I can learn anything I need to for a job.

Résumé/CV: https://me.3digit.dev

Email: In my resume ^^^

I am an experienced dev, and have worked across the entire stack, including QA/testing. I have a love of quality code and good communication, having experienced the bad end of both.
I would be looking to make changes for the better wherever I go, preferably to Senior Engineer or higher. Looking to stay in code as much as possible, but I would be willing to consider leadership given the right situation.
Innovating from India: Shilpa Shah of Hummingbird Web Solutions
Des Moines IA. Minneapolis MN are two that I know of. They are fully enclosed, building to building. They exist in part because of winter, but have took on a life of their own.
There is nats-streaming-server as well which offers true durability (via file or SQL store) and a streaming model very similar to Kafka and Pulsar. It can also run as a raft cluster or in fault tolerance mode. It still has very good performance and is very simple to deploy and operate (I use it for event sourcing for real time IoT data at my day job).
> I used those words myself in 2010 as Head of Public Policy for Asia Pacific, when I executed the company’s landmark decision to stop censoring Search results in China, putting human rights ahead of the bottom line.

This guy VPs. He's making it sound as if they cured cancer. What google did is agree to the law in China, and then started to break it. Those are horrible laws, but those were rules of the game from day 1.

Google did that _purely_ for PR - they could've just shutdown their service, instead of starting to break the local laws, they suddenly disagreed with.

What Google did which such an horrible execution, is made Chinese government even more paranoid and destroyed any trust in USA tech companies.
Using a custom VM was certainly a clever and efficient at the time.
LucasArt used the same trick for a lot of point and click games.

I don't think this idea would scale well for much bigger projects, as debugging internal scripts can quickly become a bottleneck.
Elevated pedestrian catwalks are a recurring architectural fad. They don't tend to work out very well outside of a few specific areas, though, as pedestrians traffic is most popular in situations where pedestrians also have access to lots of street-level homes and businesses.

Consider further coverage and commentary such as

https://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/streets-in-the-sky-the-...

https://failedarchitecture.com/the-downfall-of-londons-stree...

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/campaigns/notopi...
You can set a password for First Direct to use when calling you. That's worked fine for me, but then I did set up the password like... 20 years ago maybe? Maybe a bit more, I was in this city so that's 20-25 years ago.

It doesn't need to be a very good password, because it's not as though it can be brute forced. It's like the Socialist Millionaire's Protocol situation, a human is in the loop, if you get the answer wrong twice the human is already very annoyed, so you cannot try 100 passwords let alone a billion.
Once you are in the realm of implementation Philosophical/theoretical idealism goes out the window.

No story survives contact with reality, and that is all Philosophy gives us - stories. A.k.a theories.

Risk management requires counter-factual reasoning.
I didn't have Java figured for this much, but I know there are a lot of languages where it's idiomatic to have lots of small hash tables. It is reasonable for a standard library to not make that case suffer too much.
As already noted in the comments under the linked article: This device is currently seriously lacking software support, bordering on making it unusable.

It's interesting to note that the company that developed the chip (Gigadevice) initially got big by copying microcontrollers by ST microelectronics. This went as far as copying the entire product portfolio including naming scheme and marketing strategy. (Personally I find this absolutely appalling)

I guess not having to develop a software toolchain for their devices provided a huge benefit for them. Now that they have a device that cannot rely on external tools, things look a bit more difficult...
I'm guessing headcount refers to hired interview partners paid on a per job basis.
Option 1: search ebay (or a similar retailer) for "IP65 transparent" to find box-shaped waterproof enclosures with clear lids. Arrange electronics to your satisfaction, with the camera looking through the lid. Many sizes, but looks nothing like a normal CCTV camera.

Option 2: Search for "CCTV housing" to find boxes that look like old-fashioned outdoor CCTV cameras. Fewer size choices, but less weird-looking.