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1 point by aweiland 30 days ago | parent | edit | delete [–] | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

Location: DC area but looking for 100% remote

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Kotlin, Spring, Python, Django, AWS, DevOps/DevSecOps. Knowledgeable but not preferable: PHP, Javascript/Typescript, CSS, React

Résumé/CV: https://andrew.weiland.site/pdf/resume.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewweiland/

Email: aweiland [at] gmail.com

Looking for a 100% remote position, mainly back end but I have a wide range of experience all over the stack. Not looking for a young startup environment. If your culture is modeled after Basecamp or Shopify, let's talk shop.
There's not one way to collect these stats, see the section "ONS and PHE COVID-19 deaths data are produced in different ways and have different purposes:" in [0] on what the UK gathers how. Neither of which changes the excess deaths resulting from the pandemic.

It's just a matter of timeliness in some cases and up to the consumer of such data to decide which is suitable for which analysis (and honestly a moot point, no country tests enough to warrant the assumption that the odd accidental death that is later corrected would be worse than the effects of undercounting).

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/fre...
As a Kazakh American I was waiting for this. Since my parents are from Xinjiang they only spoke Kazakh to me and never wrote it. I found the Cyrillic alphabet too hard to read!
What does the necessity of the product have to do with malfeasance and unethical behavior?

I assert that we can produce plastics without conducting massive deception campaigns that threaten the very future of our economy, the survival of many cities and states, and mass migration across the globe to adapt to new climate.
You can't build a society on oil and gas and then, now that we're experiencing the side effects, just be mad at the companies that provided this service. We all participated in this process.

Apportioning blame isn't even particularly useful compared to just fixing the problem.
Okay, but that still sounds to me like taking an overly technical view. I doubt the courts will consider it sending an email if an email isn't received.
It's the top response to a comment on an _extremely_ charged issue and has had at least a dozen direct engagements. 3 disagreements is a lot less than I expected to be honest, particularly when all 3 are about something different. I fully expected -5 karma and 5 comments saying the same <x> in the morning because I missed something obvious. Of the responses tshaddox probably had the best point that the comment focused a bit to much on talking general climate change points before it got to the meat of the response to the actual comment. jacquesm probably said what I was aiming to try to say best out of anything in the entire parent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27704578 and he avoids my mistake right out of the gate.

Regardless "# of HN commentors disagreeing with you" probably isn't a good measure of not being correct or a good goal post to monitor. Best to assume it's exceedingly, exceptionally (impossibly?), rare you ever have the fully correct picture and you have keep the understanding you'll need to grow your view with new data as you discuss. Even if you have 50 straight responses that agree someone will agree but add something you hadn't considered.
> 400 seems crazy, I wondered about UPS.

In cities, an Amazon delivery driver might be delivering 5, 10, or 20 packages to the same building.

And in those areas where Amazon is using its own delivery network, UPS packages (non-Amazon) will be far fewer -- often just 1 or a couple or none per day.

So it's not crazy. The Amazon driver might be elivering far more packages but making fewer stops. Also, a lot of those packages are the little white-and-blue padded envelopes, almost more like large letters than packages.
The problem being described is an identifiable group feels like they are unwelcome or an otherwise hindered group within the industry. They use the population ratio as a mere point of evidence to argue it’s not just anecdotal.

Pointing out what groups _aren’t_ underrepresented is like saying “Yeah, we’ll, all lives matter” in response to “Black lives matter”.
How is it even physically possible to deliver 400 packages in 10 hours? That comes to 1.5 minutes per package. One cannot do it even if it’s in the same area and every house has a package. Amazon employees already pee in a bottle to save time now they need to learn magic too?
They were approximately the same size as us. Shorter but wider and on the whole around the same weight.
Brett Deveraux touches on this here:

https://acoup.blog/2021/05/28/collections-teaching-paradox-e...
Your first paragraph is dead on. When I first encountered Ruby on rails after developing in C++ for years, it was very difficult to accept the black box of ruby on rails. In fact, my instincts are to fear tools like that. The sheer number of dependencies on third parties when using tools like Ruby on rails is downright frightening. Good luck making sure that all of the libraries your linking to are secure and that you can fix any issues that come up.
Of course for databases you should use a decimal.
I assume you work in unreal? Unity is more popular though and doesn't have visual scripting. Unreal Engine just having visual scripting and C++ with nothing in between is probably its biggest weakness, people prefer C# over those.
How can it be "click bait" if neither the title nor the headline contains that number? You have to read at least the first three paragraphs of the article to stumble about that number. The focus of the article is on the inexpensive design, not on its efficiency
If you're starting from an essay, I doubt all those things together would he as helpful as adding a spoken-word audio track.

Or some text.
Homebrew also runs on Linux.
> I see this in the gender balance of programmers. Female programmers have had to fight against a constant discouragement from pretty much everyone in their lives, while male programmers have had nothing but encouragement.

As a male growing up in the 80ies and 90ies in Europe I must say this must be somewhere else.

If this was the case then there would be some merit to the idea of "male privilege".

From what I saw encouragement came in two forms:

- generally for everyone

- and in addition, specifically for girls

I.e. I've seen activities for "kids who code" or "girls who code" but never for "boys who code".

I also have some personal experience regarding encouragement: from I was a young boy and until I had almost finished my Bachelors degree I was more than once discouraged from IT and encouraged to get a "real job" so either I was very special or the idea that boys get "nothing but encouragement" is plain false
Do you not understand the difference between all senators quiting (rare / big news) and one stepping down? You can still report it, just say So and so stepping down.
Many people here are mentioning alternatives. The ones I’m using are mailbox.org (although they recently raised prices for new customers) and uberspace.de (includes ssh access).
> What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
Its worse than that, its a lottery. Those graduates who have already paid off their debt, lose. Those soon-to-be students who have to pay high tuition, also lose.

Indeed, since colleges will see loan forgiveness as an option, tuitions will rise.
Copilot may do more to move open source projects out of GitHub than the message that Microsoft is the buyer. Now you can host the code on GitHub to get your license violated, or DMCA-ed in a long run, when your code will become a part of some big proprietary project. At least it makes me think about my choice for code hosting more then whatever happened before.
Go to a tool store and find yourself a spring loaded center punch.

Something like this: https://www.homedepot.ca/product/dynamic-tools-automatic-cen...

It should get through the tempered glass at the doors.

You can also get an automobile specific glass hammer with seat belt cutter.

But yeah, complete lack of mechanical door release is insane.
I think it is not silly because when I read that headline it made it sound to me as if this was a problem/trend. In reality the story is about 2 companies...which could be a problem if those two companies deliver 50% of the packages but it isn't. But it still might be an article worth writing and reading if the reasons they shut down are matters of justice or some other noble cause or just because Amazon Inc are a bunch of jerks...I think more effort should be made to make the headline fit the truth rather than draw people in under false pretense.
Facebook asks users if they're worried a friend is 'becoming an extremist'
That does not seems to be unique. You can do all that on linux (or windows) with android as well either out of the box or after installing kdeconnect. Also then you are not tied to icloud but can use google drive/one drive/dropbox/... .
this is the worst landing page i have ever seen for a SaaS product
You either let somebody tell you their race, or you assign them one. Which one would you be more comfortable doing?
I need to report all my "Rust" friends!
Freedom of speech is the fundamental right from which all other rights derive and upon which all liberty depends. What right does anyone have to deny the right to speech simply because the speaker happens to be "15?" What if the next Einstein or Shakespeare or Galileo are being silenced and their genius blotted out forever in the name of ageism?

What is a "troll?" Who gets to define that term? By what basis is a "troll" differentiated from a "non-troll?" Was Diogenes a "troll?" Was John Locke? Galileo? Jesus Christ? A "troll" is simply anyone who offends the status quo - and all necessary advancement in justice, science, philosophy and enlightenment come from offending the status quo. The "troll" is the "unreasonable man" upon whom all progress depends. The "troll" is the enlightened mind looking beyond the shadows of Plato's cave. In today's world, where all art and culture are manufactured by corporations and manipulated by vast, mind-controlling algorithms, the troll participates in the last pure form of human culture that still exists.

Who appointed the admins of a BBS the Ministry of Truth, with unassailable power to determine what speech is or isn't worth publishing? Why do they get to decide what people can and cannot say, what right do they have to dictate what people can say or do, or who is or is not a "troll?"

Surely a few dollars is a small price to pay to maintain the very lifeblood and ideals of civilization itself. Perhaps if they had stuck to their principles, as Voltaire eloquently put it - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - the entire world wouldn't now be suffering under the iron boot of cancel culture, where even the leaders of sovereign governments can be erased from history for the slightest thoughtcrime by pitchfork wielding internet mobs and the Marxist ideologues controlling the few centralized platforms on which the majority of all human communication now occurs.

We shouldn't be casting the trolls aside, we shouldn't be making them pariahs, we should be on our hands and knees thanking them for holding aloft the bright flame of the Enlightenment's ideals in a world full of blissful ignorance and soulless mediocrity.
Neural net: ”It’s all in the training data, stupid.”
An interesting effect is that railing against bootcamps in general is common and uncontroversial.

But railing against any of the bootcamps you named above would be career suicide.
> As a kid I was taught to use "unità" (unit) to refer to the numbers below ten (e.g. "add up the units first, then carry the tens..").

Arithmetic instruction in English uses "unit" in the same way. However, since "unit" is a highly overloaded term, I think the idea of "uno" is a good one, at least for English. For Italian and Spanish, etc., probably not so much.
And here I am telling you I've done this and it has worked and continues to work today.

Do whatever you want with that information.
Hmm, I certainly see where you are coming from, certainly a large part of art is that, an artist really did some feat in creating it. I am sympathetic to the notion that aspects of modern art certainly seem value vision more than outright skill.

Would you say that the person who made the machine/software at least has claim to the title of artist?

I think about Sol LeWitt, where his main works are instructions about installing the piece. You have works that are in buildings and such, but then, you have works in museums, where the way you 'acquire' a piece seems to work is a representative from LeWitt's studio (this seems like a requirement? not an authority, any description of the endeavor mentions how exacting it is) helps the museum staff install (i.e. draw, paint) the 'actual' piece.
Built on Stolen Data
This is more or less how it should be. If Amazon isn't going to offer a good enough deal, then companies shouldn't move packages for them. As more and more people figure it out, other delivery companies will stop working with Amazon as well, although it may be that the deals work out better in places with lower cost-of-living, easier delivery routes (due to climate, geography, etc.), or other advantages.

If some other delivery company can figure out how to make it work economically, then they can do the work instead.

If nobody is interested in trying to make it work, Amazon will have to either improve the deal it offers or go back to using FedEx/UPS/USPS.
At Least 2,034 Ways Earth Has Blown Its Cover
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To put a different spin on that: it would presumably be bad for a scientist's career to be associated with a garbage journal that publishes dangerous nonsense.
TIL what "InfoGalactic" is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day#Infogalactic

After clicking some of the links in this article I went to what looked very much like wikipedia, so much so i went on a typical half hour wikipedia-dive, but wasn't actually wikipeida (I have a big monitor and the links I clicked all directed to subsections of articles so I didn't see the info-galactic logo at the top).

Really puts this article in a whole new (bad) light.
We most certainly can be mad at them for intentionally deceiving the public and shareholders.

It's one thing to provide a product honestly. It's another to provide a product dishonestly. This entire post is about the dishonesty, so just forgetting about that dishonesty and not addressing is seems odd.
I'm honestly kinda amazed this as upvoted here as it is. Typically anything ML-related is upvoted to the top positions and any dissent harshly ridiculed. Anyways... it appears those who thought about this as if it was a glorified code search engine were close to being right.
Scientists that I used to know would just quietly judge people who they suspected of fraud.

Several classes I had emphasized that peer reviewed journal papers were basically only good for reading their methods and results of those methods. And even those come with the baggage of "ok, but who put this out, because we know xyz groups make shit up all the time"
I like this idea - they are usually pretty obvious and follow a pattern. Usually very broad statements (all workers) with strong language ie "revolt" when reality is different.

Air traffic controllers on strike actually meant something back in the day
You are implying this is a major story… it isn’t. If Assange were actually standing trial, that’s interesting. Hearing more random court proceedings of a very bizarre 10 year fiasco is not.

Everybody is a critic of what the MSM is covering. They cover what is interesting. It isn’t a giant conspiracy to explain their behavior.
Sometimes heterodox means “interesting and unfairly dismissed” and sometimes it means “absolutely nuts”.

If Neanderthals were alive today I doubt we’d even class them as a separate species.
That's not how you'd use it. It's a "dimension" for dimensionless numbers. You don't append measures of length with "length" or volume with "volume" but with the actual units of length or volume.

I developed code to do unit conversions and I do include a "dimension type" for dimensionless numbers, which is effectively a 1.
but what about GPK (Garbage Pail Kids) ?
Nuclear desalination is more efficient though
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/07/14/megadroug...
Probably an excellent reminder that both Google and Microsoft decided to use your private emails for a training set to create Smart Reply behavior that can "write emails for you", and they swore up and down there's no way that could ever leak private information.

We need legislation banning companies from ingesting data into AI training sets without explicit permission.
They are basically delivery franchises in my understanding.
The point is that two empty loops should not be let run the CPU to 100%. But yes, the concept is nice at least.

I agree on NÍ hardware, it’s very solid. I’ve had good success using session based control with Matlab and also with Python.
It's almost as if low prices and fast shipping are what people care about.
> addressed at a higher level.

Odin?
Every company needs a return policy , in fact the best ones are most likely to honor them and for longer periods of time. I'm not going to buy something more expensive if I can't at least return it if I need to
I've seen more than a few instances of bikers thinking the side of the autobahn is a great place to take the fast route to some destination. Probably their GPS navigation or them being rather light on the entire "being alive" thing.
And what responsibility will consumers bear? Have you gotten rid of your car? Or converted to electric? Stop buying plastic items?
I used to use uMatrix before it was abandoned by its developer. I had to block literally dozens of pinterest<dot><some TLD> domains but still more kept showing up in search results. I think Pinterest have literally registered every single TLD out there.

Of course none of that answers the question as to why they're showing up in search results in the first place --even when completely irrelevant to what I'm searching for. In fact Pinterest is such a vacuous waste of space it practically makes Quora look useful.

I'm sure any other business would get blacklisted by the search engines for such search result spamming.
"Can we render some rental listings?"
"No, we need to first design a completely new programming language, a new compiler to compile the new language into universal low-level byte code that can be translated by LLVM to run on 3 different platforms."

"Can we use MySQL for the rental listings? I mean there are only so many apartments in the world"
"Nooooooo.....We need to design our own storage system that can run on all Cloud vendors and then design our own database on top of it, and a new generic caching system that beats Redis by 1% on this particular job"

Exactly the result of overpaying overqualified people to do something basic and they end up over-engineering everything to make themselves look good.
Huh? China literally slowed its pace of development intentionally so they didn’t kill millions more. They learned that the Great Leap Forward was too fast so they slowed it down and made it a multi-decade project. Interior China was largely subsistence farming 50 years ago and now boasts some of the largest cities in the world. They have industrialized incredibly quickly given the scale of the challenge. You can’t bootstrap enough industry to modernize 1.6 billion people overnight; it takes decades to build.

They haven’t gone faster because a country like Singapore can buy enough industrial output from Japan or the US to bootstrap their industry. Nobody has enough spare capacity to build at the scale of China, so the Chinese had to cultivate industry over a period of decades. Given that most of the worlds manufacturing is done there now, I’d say they’ve been quite successful.
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With apologies to Martin Niemöller[1]:

First the automation came for the farmers, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a farmer.

Then the automation came for the factory workers, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a factory worker.

Then the automation came for the accountants, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a accountant.

Then the automation came for me (a programmer) —
and there was no one left to speak for me.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...