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The Sensble Code Company | Remote Contract Senior Frontend Engineer | 6 month full-time contract, option to extend to 12 months. Remote, Ireland & UK

We use modern software techniques to transform the processing and publication of data and statistics. Over 10 years ago, we created ScraperWiki: one of the first collaborative in-browser coding environments focused on scraping and wrangling messy data. Most recently, we’ve built Cantabular: a software framework for the protection and publication of statistical data. We’ve just used it to republish the 1911 Ireland census and the Office for National Statistics are using it to automate much of the dissemination for the 2021 England and Wales census.

You’ll be:
Building new features and make other improvements to our existing user interfaces using vanilla TypeScript, Sass and Go templates
Leading the development of larger features on our roadmap such as map-based interactions or data visualisation, potentially using a framework such as Svelte, React or Vue
Writing readable, maintainable and well-tested code
Collaborating with a committed team of developers and designers to maintain a high standard of software development

Requirements:
Rock-solid understanding of the core JavaScript language, HTML5 and CSS3
5+ years of experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, build tools and testing approaches
Ability to plan, iterate and ship ideas quickly
Great written and verbal communication skills

Bonus points if:
We don’t expect the successful candidate to have all of these things, but please mention any that apply. If you have other relevant expertise or experience let us know.
Experience building accessible, progressively-enhanced user interfaces
Experience building interactive visualisations with D3, Svelte or other libraries and frameworks
Interest in or experience with user interface design
Interest in data science, statistics or machine learning

Pay and benefits:
Competitive day rate: £350-£400 per day
Flexible: flexible working times to support a healthy work/life balance
Location: you can be located anywhere in Ireland & UK

How to apply:
Email jobs@sensiblecode.io quoting scjob28, cover letter, CV, telephone number
No agencies please
It's odd, people freak out all the time with hiring saying "hiring a poor candidate does more damage than hiring no one" but spewing ML generated noise directly into your repo is somehow considered reasonable.
Are you comparing driving to another state to buy a gun with manufacturing a gun?
"It’s hard to predict what conditions matter and what doesn’t to a neural network." resulting score matters. dooh
Sure, you can drill them. I am just saying you should intermix them with other problems.

I am not telling you to do multiplying digit only 1 times. That would be silly. I would be telling you should mix up multiplying digits with other previously learned concepts, say 10 addition and 10 subtraction questions, and the rest can be 80 multiplying digit problems. I don't know the optimal intermixing ratio here, but it shouldn't be a straight 100 multiplying digit problems which all use the same algorithm to solve it.

Drilling and repetition is good, but there's the danger of having illusory mastery because it's already there in short term memory. Your goal is to encode those skills into long term memory.
It will fail because the number of users outraged about this is far lower than the threshold needed to create a sustainable community. Check back in a few months and see.

It’s crash reporting and update checking. Stop getting so outraged over such minor things.
Valid concern, but bug bounties are a thing; It’s up to the developer to decide if the bug is worthy of a payout. Maybe make it so that if it crashes, and they provide a useful log (or steps), then you pay out.
For 2020 that looks even low. For reference QQQ almost hit 50%.
Are supermarket workers under payed?
Except the Slim models had a new refresh of the CPU's so they were a lot more energy efficient and quiet. Hoping they do the same for the PS5, given that its size is mostly due to cooling requirements.
Any type of passive income is generated by capital which you have to somehow acquire, typically through labor. For example, you can use your labor to create a game. Or you can sell your labor and buy stocks in a gaming company.
For your consideration, the LaserDisk DataBase:

https://www.lddb.com/
My wife and I are Newyorkers (well, to be fair, Newjerseyans) that want to move out West. We love California, both SoCal and the Bay Area, in spite of its warts, and frequently visit.

But we realized that despite living right next door to NYC, we haven't really explored it. We might have explored LA or SF just as much if not more than NYC - especially the non-Manhattan boroughs. We've even started visiting San Diego right before Covid hit.

I'm not sure why to be honest. I guess the fact that it's just there and available whenever makes us postpone it.

While we still want to pack our bags to head out West, we've realized we really ought to take in NYC while we're still here.
Man those are both terrible.

Just use a pastebin if you really care so little.
Future of artistic expression in Africa lies in non-fungible tokens
That I can definitely agree with. Especially when the right and left wing sociopaths go off on J Random Passerby instead of each other.

This doesn't feel like that though, given just how often Ngo shows up in the right-sociopath column.

Or, as I said in another comment, Winston Marshall has picked a really weird hill to die on.
all the pull-requests mentioned on that webpage are from 2019 and 2020 and all were rejected (well, technically the last one is still open, with a comment pointing to an another place where it was rejected).
the "get involved" link points to a page that does not exist.
hiring-and-firing robots are probably the next business innovation.
One thing I've been considering: At what point does a creator have a moral or ethical obligation to a creation. Say you create an AI in a virtual world that keeps track of some sense of discomfort. How complex does the AI have to get to require some obligation? Just enough complexity to exhibit distress in a way to stir the creator's sympathy or empathy?

The glib answer is never, of course. And one easy-out, I can think of is setting a fixed/limited lifespan for the AI and maybe allow suicide or an off-button. So the AI can ultimately choose to 'opt-out' should it like; and at least, suffering isn't infinite or unending.

It reminds me of reactions to testing the stability of Boston Dynamic's early pack animal. The people giving the demo were basically kicking it, while the machine struggled to maintain its balance. The machine didn't have the capacity to care, but to a person viewing it, it looked exactly like an animal in distress.
Show HN: MyLinx – A developer alternative to Bio Link products
MyLinx is an open source tool for developers to create and host bio links page using github pages. Feel free to try it out and share your feedback.

https://github.com/YouAskWeBuild/MyLinx
This is either misinformation or disinformation.

This set of new rules did not undergo legislative scrutiny at all. In fact, this is the main objection of multiple legal petitions about its constitutionality. Search for "IT rules 2021 ultra vires".

Two departments specifically advised the government that a new law was necessary. They were ignored. https://themorningcontext.com/chaos/did-pmo-get-its-way-on-i...
That's in relation to portable devices though; the device itself doesn't have an ethernet port, the docking station does.
A free REST API to fetch hand-curated remote jobs
Remotewx is a remote job board on the web to help you find a career where you can work remotely. We only accept listings for job positions that are fully remote. Most of the companies we share are distributed or remote-first companies.

The Remotewx API returns the list of all active remote job listings on the Remotewx job board. The API supports an URL endpoint for HTTPS requests and JSON formats as responses.

Remotewx is not a typical job aggregator that takes data from other remote job boards.

To use our API: Please link to Remotewx as a source. I created the API to extend the reach of Remotewx.com. All jobs appear delayed by 24 hours so that Google Jobs indexes Remotewx first.
Our clients can edit the job posting at any time. Therefore I recommend to query the API weekly or include it in real time via JavaScript.

Have fun with it!
Maybe I'm just not enough of a film connoisseur but I just watched Fury Road last night and thought it was mediocre. Sure the action was okay and it was cool how you just started with the action but the storyline seemed superficial at best and I felt like the climax came way too late in the film.
>> There's nothing wrong with generated code if it's never manually modified.

Agreed. The issue is that I have never encountered code that did not need to be changed later.

I have encountered generated code for which the code generation system was no longer available and it was a tremendous pain to understand and modify.
I don't see the absurdity frankly though perhaps you mean hypocracy. Both superpowers love to exercise soft power as well as the kind backed up by munitions.
> but wouldn’t algorithmic decisions be preferable to biased human judgement?

An algorithm also can't apply correctional factors (e.g. age, physical strength, disabilities).
Are there people programming their "algorithms" with flags that say "if black, fire them"???
Google was up about 30%. I made most of my money by procrastinating about diversifying.

(I believe in diversifying for the usual reasons and sometimes do it, but usually regret it in retrospect. Maybe someday I won’t regret it.)

It looks like I will regret diversifying again this year.
You can't write a bug and nor can you write a test if you don't even have proper spec. But it happens a lot when requirements are just ambiguous.
> Say you have a CLI that sends back the frequency of usage for all top level commands daily. If the user doesn't log into the tool, or that information isn't sent then the developer would have IP address. If they discard that, how would it land under the remit of GDPR?

I think it wouldn't, given proper handling of the IP address.

Where I'd expect your Bob to land in trouble is in mishandling crash reporting, in particular wrt. logging. It's very common for log files to accidentally acquire passwords or PII, or potentially other secrets protected by different laws. To be safe here, you'd have to ensure no user-provided data, or data derived from user input, ever enters the log files - which may include things like IP addresses and hostnames, names of files stored on the machine, etc.
I was referring to the current controversy with licensing of co-pilot code and them serving ICE customers.
... and the root cause of that is the commercial nature of most popular film production.

This might sound like a trivial statement, but as we are finding out - the profit motive can take us down a highly problematic and noticeable path.

A challenge, though, is figuring out what paths, content-wise, this has already taken us down with us simply having internalized the choices as axiomatic.
Without a significant SoC upgrade, I don't see why they would, games are already struggling with 720p.
Any film recommendations for someone new to the genre?
That's the primary reason I mention a total-world fund. A lot of people expect the US to be flat for the next few years, with a corresponding uptick in the world market.
> For usage data, it allows developers to focus on features that matter and know which ones you can remove.

I find tools that don't do this are generally more powerful because they allow for deep expertise and provide a ton of payoff if you put in the effort.

E.g: Vim. 80%+ of users probably don't use macros. Hell, I use them <1% of the time. But I'm sure glad they're there when I need them.
Governments really need to start getting their shit together and stop blaming each other for their own mishandling (this will never happen I know). There is no point in trying to blame each other or cook up new regulations (enforcing regulation, particularly international regulation is just never going to happen). Quite frankly,most governments should seriously start considering how they will defend their citizens against biological threats. This means governments should do the following:

1. Build vaccine manufacturing capabilities. These are as important as other aspects of physical armed force defense. Every country should try to have their own facility given how vaccine supplies are being weaponised by certain powers.

2. Build up hospital capacity and make healthcare affordable. Train more doctors and nurses. In particular nurses are very important and generally require less training, so I would focus on building up a reserve of nurses. Pandemics will only get worse with our aging population. Our beds:human ratio is terrible even in the most advanced countries.

3. Invest in R&D towards breakthrough technologies in testing. There are currently tests like Breathonix's breathe based test that can detect a covid infection in 2 minutes with pretty decent sensitivity.

4. Build a medical reserves corps. This would be a group of citizens who voluntarily are trained in basic first aid.

5. Build more oxygen plants/equip hospitals and ambulances with oxygen concentrators.

6. Conduct drills like the Army does that simulate such an emergency. Practice emergency buying. Keep your medical corps on their toes.

7. Make sure every god damn citizen has a bank account so you can transfer emergency funds into the account in the event of a major economic disruption.

8. Estimate the financial impact and provide backup options for people who work in the service industry. If you were an air hostess for instance, you would have some basic training in medical emergency handling. In the event of a pandemic, your income source will be hurt. However, the government would definitely be scrambling for nurses and contact tracers. These are jobs that could be taken up temporarily during the duration of the pandemic.

9. Work on technolgies and training for deployment of field hospitals.

None of these actions should change irregardless of whether the vaccine is a lab leak or not a lab leak.
If you look at the PR they sent to Homebrew, they defined it as an alias for their existing flags for turning off analytics. That doesn't look like an overreach to me? https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/6745/commits/f255f63d4...
I hope the new dock is compatible with the old model and they sell the dock separately.
It's called mansplaining.
That's why accumulating index funds are better option.
$ k explain -h

List the fields for supported resources

This command describes the fields associated with each supported API resource. Fields are identified via a simple
JSONPath identifier:

<type>.<fieldName>[.<fieldName>]

Add the --recursive flag to display all of the fields at once without descriptions. Information about each field is

retrieved from the server in OpenAPI format.

Use "kubectl api-resources" for a complete list of supported resources.

Examples:
# Get the documentation of the resource and its fields
kubectl explain pods

# Get the documentation of a specific field of a resource
kubectl explain pods.spec.containers

Options:
--api-version='': Get different explanations for particular API version (API group/version)
--recursive=false: Print the fields of fields (Currently only 1 level deep)

Usage:
kubectl explain RESOURCE [options]

Use "kubectl options" for a list of global command-line options (applies to all commands).

$
>This new mRNA tech might completely change some degenerative diseases.

For those who can afford it. Just another example of the rapidly growing chasm between the wealthy and the poor.
Should You Use JavaScript Maps and Sets? Spoilers: Maybe
I'm new to k8s and have found it useful. Hope it helps you too.
Let's not beat around the bush, data costs money. Personal data costs money.

How much are you willing to pay me for my app usage data? Oh, nothing? Well then, buzz off.
Photonic in-memory ML
https://www.rmit.edu.au/news/media-releases-and-expert-comme...
> One can still disagree with Carmack but it's still worth understanding what he's claiming.

Exactly, one can still disagree, and he is making a claim. Those are 2 things:

He does not know what would have happened, had they gone with BSD license. No one does ultimately. It might be a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side".

Second is, that he might write however good code he wants, but what is its use, if it can only be used in 1 product, and then gets copied into other people's proprietary products, with no modifications shared back to the community? His code could have been "trapped" in that one BSD licensed product, if they did not make use of it themselves later on. By going GPL, at least they got the people, who did in reality, not just in imagination of an alternative past future, use the code, to contribute back. Those are the facts and they were caused by the license choice. A BSD license does not ensure any such thing. Of course it is possible, that there would have been more adopters and more people sharing code back, but that is not guaranteed, which is kind of the point of GPL.
Well for two years in a row they did not remove support for iPhones. So iOS 15 will support the same devices as iOS 13 did. So it seems they are now less driving people to new phones.

I think the emoji are more driving people updating the OS than any features. And developers will only update their minimum target if people leave behind that version.
Check out Western Governors University. It is an accredited online university formed back in the 90's and I believe is non profit as well so it isn't like the University of Phoenix or those other scam schools.

They have a competency based model where if you can demonstrate competency by passing the test and/or completing the project you can be done with the class, whether that takes you 3 days or 3 months.

You also play a flat rate for the semester and complete as many classes as you want at a time.

I did it I loved it, I'd been in the field and was able to breeze through some of my courses while the ones I wasn't familiar with helped me.

They also have a lot of classes that the test is an industry cert, so it's a cheap way to get some certs under your belt as well.
That's not even necessary. Some of those -isms creep in implicitly, because e.g. certain performance metrics assumed by the algorithm may be statistically less likely to be fulfilled by women, or stuff like that.
> You'd be amazed how much can go into "simple" resampling... if you care about being accurate, anyway.

Audacity is "My First Audio Editor", and people use it primarily because it's free. Quality is not a concern. Audacity is a great entry point for people who are new to audio production, but those users eventually graduate to better, more fit-for-task audio tools.
OLED doesn't mean more power efficient by default across the board.

In fact, it can use up more power in white/light scenes to the point that it averages out to not really make a huge difference. If your average use include a lot of light/white content, you'd have even less battery life than what you'd get with LCD. Here's one test (a bit older but OLED hasn't changed much since then): https://www.anandtech.com/show/10697/the-lenovo-thinkpad-x1-...
Depends on the country; in countries like North Korea it'll probably get you executed.
I'll try with a different tone.

The intention of keeping freedom and not harming the economy was IMNSHO not matched by that effect and the discrepancy wasn't really surprising.

The authorities where I live decided to keep more open than I considered wise, and not much later closed a lot of sports, for example. The effective choice was freedom now against freedom later, even if the intention was to choose more freedom rather than less.
Really? I would have guessed Seinfeld or something in that vein.
> isn't Elsevier a major copyright holder for all academic papers and thus causing all sorts of problems

No, I could be wrong, but it’s my understanding that the author of the academic paper still holds the copyright, it’s just the author licensed sole (or near exclusive) distribution rights to Elsevier in exchange for publication in their journals. It’s basically the same in the publishing world, I own the copyright on the book I coauthored, but WROX Press owns the distribution rights as we gave those up in exchange for them publishing.
NZ already has vaccinations rolling out. They do not plan to have restricted borders forever. Last I heard 1.5m doses had been distributed and govt expects everyone to be vaccinated by end of year.

People can travel but on return would face a quarantine process so most do not bother (except for recent travel bubble destinations). Athletes travel.

Most people have been supportive of the NZ govt as the healthcare infrastructure may not hold up with large numbers of sick COVID patients, hence the vaccine being helpful in reducing those critical cases requiring hospitalisation.
> What little I know of Ada indicates that it doesn't actually solve the problem because it doesn't have safe dynamic memory allocation.

It does, just not the way most are used to it.

Surely if one wants to code like malloc()/free(), free() is unsafe in Ada and requires the Ada version of unsafe {}

However many type constructions in Ada do dynamic allocation by themselves, including on the stack.

If memory allocation fails, an exception is thrown and a retry with less memory requirements is a possible execution path.

Ada also has RAII since Ada95 (controlled types), and yes SPARK formal specification now allows for ownership rules.
Why would you ever willingly choose bitbucket over Gitlab?

Does Bitbucket offer syntax highlighting when reviewing code changes yet? When we used it (before migrating to Gitlab) you had to install a third party browser extension.

What a joke.

Edit: nope, not yet: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-8673. Opened in 2014.
> You think that's frustrating, try watching an expert talk about economics.

Physics, too. I once mentioned on a forum that at least as the fat guy in my group of friends I coasted down a slope faster on my bicycle than did my skinny friends. (It was quite noticeable, too).

The number of people who jumped in to tell me I was wrong and attempted to do that math using their first semester freshman physics knowledge to prove it was astounding.

They did a decent job--for bicyclists on the Moon. For bicyclists on Earth--not so good. They all neglected wind resistance.
I'm comparing driving to another state to driving to an illicit gun smith.
Possibly, but luck isn’t an inheritable trait.
>Imagine getting fired for something you have no control over, or didn't even realize was getting penalized for.

That is life, that could always happen, the right thing is to accept the fact and plan accordingly.

If i took any kind of job I acknowledge that there always possibility that I'm going to be fired for something I have no control.
It’s disappointing, although not entirely surprising, how some projects met this idea with outright hostility. It’s an extremely simple idea. It seems obviously correct to me and I’m not sure what benefit any further effort at discussion or standardization would bring.
You can already buy just the dock for about $70 USD. I can’t imagine they’d not do the same here.
I would strongly disagree that github's code review features are "great".
+1 Almost every memorable movie I've watched in the last 2-3 years was on Mubi
Nope. Same old hardware.
He still tells people off when they're being stupid. One instance of this happened a few weeks ago when an antivaxer said something on the mailing list.
Oh, I understand that. It's still a lot of robots, but maybe it means less lorries and, ultimately, a whole layer of small shops and maybe secondary warehouses that aren't needed. Maybe it does add up to less fuel and less steel.

It also leads to a lot more centralization, but that's a different discussion, of course.