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Sikoia | Full Stack/C# Developer, Technical Business Analyst, Intern | London or REMOTE | Contractor/Permanent/Intern | https://sikoia.com

Sikoia is an API marketplace and data platform for financial services. We help fintech, lenders and corporates bring financial solutions to the market faster with our extensive library of integrations and smart workflows. Combined with our advanced analytics, we extend the capabilities of our clients’ systems without the pain of traditional integration projects.

We are at an early stage, making our first tech hires after closing our first funding found. We are backed by two of Europe's best fintech VCs plus 8 fintech CEO/founder angels (announcement coming very soon, hence no names here). Our co-founders are ex-Softbank/Experian/JPMorgan, with deep experience in financial data and credit risk and the ambition to quickly build a global business. Our tech stack is C# in Azure plus some Python.

London-based or remote with max 2 hours time difference. Contractor or permanent. Intern position also available.

Positions:

Full stack/C# developer: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2647555911/

Technical Business Analyst - B2B Fintech: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2656347876/

Intern: ask us!

For details, email jobs@sikoia.com.
There is no problem with GPS time, only with converting from GPS time to POSIX time or some other leap-second affected time.
Dragonfly P2P on Kubernetes
Being popular is a "sexy attribute" on its own, to many people.
Agreed, 2 seems way lower priority than the other two. You already put your clock "out of sync" with the Earth's rotation every time you move East or West. Nobody actually cares about this. 1 hour timezones are generally granular enough for our needs.
IKEA’s Starkvind does double duty as a smart air purifier and side table
Web UI development is a solved problem, yet many choose to write code to build it, some of us doesn't want to. There are other interesting problems to chase, but this is the only money providing job. nothing to complain.

Anyways, I build a tool that can generate code. I was working on it for nearly 2 years and I had free time. I'm not finding time to work on it nowadays, but I can guide someone to take this to a good shape.

https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor
Almost. I don't actually ever navigate to the REPL process itself. I have my source files open in my editor, and when I want to evaluate something, I select the expression to evaluate and press my shortcut to evaluate it. Then my editor shows the results of the evaluation either inline or in a separate window next to the call.

So when I later call the function I created for example, it'll use the new evaluated code instead of the old. If I'm happy, I save the file, everything reloads from there while keeping the same state.
That is because the 90% is heat efficiency, this is for extracting electricity, which is much harder.
Since both behaviors are illegal and carry penalties, it is probably safer to do both at once.
Chin up, mate. In the US, I'm starting to hear a lot more "I wish I did that", and a lot less "that's weird what are you hiding?"

People are starting to come around as they and their family members start to have more acutely negative experiences with social media.
It's easier to hide when you only have 3 or 4 employees, can do all the books yourself and deal in cash. A bit harder (but still possible) when you have 200 employees and a CFO, more people need to be on board with the fraud.
Silicon at those temperatures is still not a gas. But more interestingly photosynthesis equivalents become drastically less efficient at those temperatures. Life could still extract energy from chemical processes or even light, but ecosystems would be energy starved which slows down evolution. On top of this the chemistry capable of supporting complex life is again less efficient than carbon based life at lower temperatures.

Net result you might get the equivalent of very simple multicellular life, but intelligence becomes extremely unlikely.
I met some of the people working on regulatory advice so Segways could be used in Europe. This would be about 2003 or 2004, at Campus Party in Valencia, Spain.

The story they told me is that Segway was going to be successful in the USA as a mobility scooter for the elderly, giving range and speed to people who could not walk or cycle far and fast, while not still requiring a traditional wheelchair.

From memory, the strategy was to get the Segway classified as a mobility/accessibility device, which would gain regulatory exemptions and access to funding from public health. They were lobbying the EU with their left hand, and running Segway demonstrations at TV-friendly events like Campus Party with their right hand.

I don't know how much these people believed that this would work in the EU. I didn't believe it. But they weren't getting paid for believing it, nor for persuading me. They were getting paid for telling everyone about it.
Yes! Exactly. If humans wrote an algorithm, to determine sentencing of crimes, it's possible that biases and predjudices of the time would be included in the algorithm because they don't realize or don't want to admit that their current ways are unfair.

Much like the constitution did!

But the constitution can be amended to be more fair and so the abstract sentancing algorithm, whatever it may be, would have to be amendable as well.

I hope that statements not racist!
Untraceable money is far more likely to lead to centralization of power, because it allows the already wealthy to act unaccountably.

>>In the last 20 years of available data, real median household income of Washington, D.C.’s residents has increased by 66.11%. For the entire country, the 20-yr increase is only 5.23%.

With untraceable money you'd never know this. Or you'd have to limit yourself to "declared income", which would be effectively voluntary.
I would also prefer "useful", as in "capable of being put to use", to apply to uses with net positive outcomes for society - I was just trying to make the point that, unfortunately, many others don't.
> Having a firstnamelastname address will subject you to a truly baffling level of false accounts and misaddressed email

First initial and last name it even worse. John, Jonathan, Julie, Jacob, James,and more all start with "J." I've gotten rental agreements, investment reports, appearance contracts, song demos, family pictures (not my family), and more.
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> People like templates, and the clear and declarative correspondence between input and output.

You don't get that clear correspondence if you can have logic in your templates, and even supposedly simple expression languages in templates somehow always end up growing ifs, looping constructs and so on. Plain HTML fragments are good, but they need to be kept absolutely simple.

> Wicket looks like absolute nonsense of the worst kind. It completely reminds me of Struts and Spring and friends, and that is not a positive comparison.

I don't understand your position at all. The problems of Struts and Spring are the problems of templates only more so - if I were to make a spectrum I'd have Struts (and Tapestry) at one end, Wicket (and hiccup) at the other, and traditional templates somewhere in the middle.
Probably depends on the person, too.

I do take significantly more pictures than I would with a film camera, but this also affords me the freedom to take the pictures right there and then, and not agonise over whether "a shot is worth it".

And yet, I don't end up with thousands or even hundreds of pictures. Almost a full year of 365 challenge somehow taught me to look out for actual good shots, and not obsessively hold the shutter button to everything.
Mattermost is open core. There are features that aren't available in the open source version and which you have to pay for https://mattermost.com/pricing-self-managed/
I've never heard about it, thanks for writing about this issue. Are there some other resources that cover this problem in more detail?
During my maths phd time in France I really enjoyed so-called "colles". It was a 1h long 1 on 1 conversation with the student where (s)he was given a complex problem (way too difficult to simply solve in an hour) and a sequence of hints and smaller, easier tasks, leading to the solution. I would often help the interviewee when stuck/correct computations, let them follow the wrong path to make them realize why it was wrong and generally allow for unsupervised exploration of the task. Even though quite often students were not able to get to the end, or even close, I could get a decent idea about their knowledge and understanding of the matter. When I first did it, I instantly thought that's a good way to do a job interview -- being prepared and interactive, have a conversation instead of one way question-answer traffic.

The caveat: I needed to really think through the problems beforehand, understand other possible solutions, traps and potential dead ends (ie. spend time on it).

When a few years later I was asked to do some recruiting at my company (DS/R&D positions, not SE), first thing I did was to prepare a few sets of interconnected problems, to gauge the person's knowledge and how does (s)he think when encountering a new problem with all necessary tools at hand. The problems were difficult but I never expected anyone to actually solve them.

I did dome technical interviews as a candidate, being asked about random math puzzles/algos one can google in 30 sec and which are already implemented in standard libraries -- even though I usually could solve most of them I sincerely wish such interviewers would ef off and stop wasting my time. We are grown-ups, I already spent my fair share of time solving elementary riddles during high school math competitions and I'd like to be treated like a serious professional. During my years as a ML Engineer/dev I never EVER needed to implement a single tree/graph/whatever algorithm from scratch. Also, many adults have a life, family, other full-time job and grinding leetcode is not something anyone should be expected to do.

To be honest, quite a few times I doubted that the interviewer would know how to solve a similar problem without having the solution checked in company's interview problems database. Also, time pressure and stress are a buzzkiller.

As for multiple interview rounds -- a non-starter. Recently, while exploring the market, a top-tier betting company asked me to do a take home, 4h technical interview and then another long take-home (unpaid, of course). I told them that they are ridiculous and asked to never contact me again. I'm at liberty to do so as I have a job I'm happy with and zero need to actually change it, but if someone has been laid off I can see people get grinded to death -- both mentally and physically -- by such interview processes.
It's a matter of taste, but there are other clients than Element as well.
Interesting example of how context can affect the sentencing and seriousness of the crime!
Was this the RICO case from some years back?
The CEO wasn't charged. There was tons of evidence in this case of what the people did. If the CEO had any part in the activity the Federal prosecutors (charging eBay CEO would be like catnip to a Federal prosecutor) would have offered a deal to one of the five to act as a witness.

It's deplorable that eBay and other large firms run 'anti PR' campaigns against their detractors - but there's a big step from that to physically threatening people and sending pigs heads to them through the post.
I can only speak for Tabnine, which is like a single-line mini-Copilot, but I find it just saves me keystrokes. It doesn't help me design things.

For example - code quality aside; just for the sake of demonstration - if I have a line `name = data.get("name")` and then press enter and write "ad", it'll likely suggest `address = data.get("address")`, so I can type "[Enter]ad[Tab]" and save myself a few seconds.

Repeat this for every line in a program, and those seconds add up. I'm a fast typist, but it's still nice to have intelligent autocomplete that can infer my intentions with pretty good accuracy.

I'm guessing Copilot will largely be similar, but with support for multiple lines. It'll probably be especially helpful for imperative, somewhat repetitive languages like Go, where boilerplate is common.
> The polycrystalline tin selenide the team makes is spiked with sodium atoms, creating what is known as a “p-type” material that conducts positive charges. To make working devices, researchers also need an “n-type” version to conduct negative charges.

This is literally inventing half a solution. Shockley didn't go to the press when he'd built half a diode.

(OK, this is snarky, but I think this is another case where people need to understand the difference between "a small but valid advancement in the art" and "actual products". As a materials science paper this is valid.)
Yes, January 6th is more like the Beer Hall Putsch. And we all know that that was only the beginning of Hitler's political career. Not sure if that is the right comparison, history is not repeating itself in that way. But having a failed, rather embarrassingly, coup attempt is no guarantee there won't be another one. Or a power grab abusing existing, legitimate democratic processes. The first time the NSDAP won was through a fully legitimate election. First order of the day was a new election that was everything but democratic, so.
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So I think this thread was about two claims:

1. Can ANN's (in their current iteration) achieve general intelligence

2. Can they do it more efficiently than a biological brain

It certainly has not been established that a Turing machine can achieve general intelligence.
GitHub is now a burning platform for free software - plan according
See the ActiBlizzard fiasco.
Doesn't it make sense to do exactly this? Once your population reaches MAX VAX (tm) you let everybody get the variant that you still have solid protection against.

They then get natural immunity to the latest and greatest. Herd immunity achieved going into the winter.

The future variants (Delta+++) will probably have full escape ability against the almost 2 year old vaccine. But they will be much closer to the current Delta. Thus widespread boosted natural immunity will help carry the load as these new variants emerge.

By the time the Delta-based booster gets produced, it will be too late.
Major outlets get skipped for pay wall shenanigans. Known sources essentially aren’t worth clicking on, since you can’t read them anyways.
I just realized that Harley Austin from harleyaustin.com is the same guy that wrote the article. He writes romance novels, horrible blog posts, and websites.
Genuine question - why wasn't it cheaper for that company to drop you as a customer?
This is a horrible, rude, and insanely demeaning take.

Formerly one of those developers, finally got fed up with the beast and left. I continue to do VR dev.

1. The internals were actually some of the most robust software I've ever seen.

2. People who worked on it originally were some of the best devs I've ever seen across multiple companies

3. They uniformly got burnt out by incredible harassment from people who hated facebook transferring their hate to people who cared about games or VR - or, ironically, wanted to transition away from the facebook teams...because facebook.

4. Don't ascribe to developers what was clearly forced commandments from deeply flawed leadership decisions.

Those people doing the forcing in #4 are the first in line for blame. Not the developers. Maybe a little sprinkling of people similar to you.
At least you're honest about wanting to dismantle Israel, could be nice if we got rid of the 1967 border/settlements bullshit. The "occupation" doesn't mean crap to the hard left, it's all occupation.
> I guess they are taking advantage of labor and technical expertise due to intel's chandler site?

Or geopolitical concerns.
I don't really understand this point of view. The day demand for software developers diminishes, but demand for manual laborers remains, I will start to automate manual labor.
If you insert something between hot side and air to extract energy, there will be more heat resistance and lower heat transfer, but this resistance will be bigger than what you get from your energy extracting device.

If you use that new device as a cooling enchancer, you will have to provide some power. If your first cooler user more efficient method, you should just make bigger unit using more efficient method, because otherwise whole apparatus will be less efficient.
They should be scared of breaking stuff! If newer standards break things, those newer standards are unlikely to get wide adoption, which prevents actual progress.

In any case, while the POSIX and C standards need to accommodate atomic time, that's not enough. The software on top needs to switch to atomic timestamps too.
Thank you for the article "Best Practices Around Production Ready Web Apps with Docker Compose". I've been referring to it since seeing the original HN submission [0]. Something like Kubernetes was overkill for my needs, especially since Docker Compose is already a part of my development workflow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27359081

edit: wrong link
I really hope that traffic enforcement systems don't use timers that know the date.
A good moment to contemplate whether or not the stock market paper-clip optimizers working at Big Tech should have the power to be the arbiter of truth and the judge of free speech on the internet.
> For what it’s worth, NASA doesn’t directly build much. Even the Apollo program was a huge web of private vendors (many who still exist today).

All created because the government wanted something done and was willing to cut a check:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State
I wholeheartedly agree. It's just obvious that this is harvesting work done by the free software community. It will be very obvious in retrospect, but hard to see now. If you consider that people will code more abstractly from here on, using AI code generation and understanding, automating workflows, the real value is in the way software is _used_, over the original source code. This is what GitHub has stolen (the representation of software as defined by its usage). Like a function can be defined by a formula or by its domain and range, so does software have multiple reprsentations. The representation of how software is used as being just as important as how it was written will become obvious in the future. GitHub should start by serving a model trained on ONLY free software because right now, in order to remain pure and keep separate from SAAS and copilot, we are losing productivity. It's not fair on open source!
The problem with rendering TAI as UTC is you can't do it for future dates because you don't know how many leap seconds will have been added by then. For future dates you can either:

- store TAI: you'll always know how many SI seconds in the future it is, but you won't be able to accurately render UTC,

- store UTC timestamp: you'll always know what the time on the clock will be when the event happens, but you won't be able to accurately calculate how many seconds in the future it is.

The alternative is to ditch UTC. Make all wall clocks tick in SI seconds and render TAI dates in local time. This will always be correct. The only downside is you won't be able to accurately predict what position the Sun is in the sky when the event happens. But is this actually important?
Not to mention that they are great vacuums. They aren't the quietest, nor are they the most powerful, but damn if they don't store a lot of dust, and keep working.

We dropped ours down the stairs (by accident) multiple times over the years and it's still working as-new. The only real functional impediment is the fact that the handle broke off a long time ago. We did buy a new handle, unfortunately the newer models use a slightly smaller handle so it doesn't fit. Still, just the fact that they sell spare parts at all in this day and age is impressive.
Frankly, i doubt that most software projects out there get that sort of attention. Aside from that, it's also very likely that management and the legal departments of most orgs don't even inspect the licenses of all the libraries that closely.

Not saying that i condone it or anything like that. However, it does feel like these things will oftentimes be ignored because of a lack of a regulatory body that'd inspect all codebases for compliance (even the idea of which doesn't feel feasible).

Because of that, cases where someone has both the skills to decompile a codebase and also has an axe to grind seem like the exception, rather than the norm.
Contrary to popular belief, privacy is not a core function of most cryptocurrencies. Every transaction is on an open ledger viewable by anyone. If you fund an address from a regulated exchange, it's simple for the government to know who you are.

Mining is a core function. None of it works without that (or staking, which is equivalent). A miner is not able to know who you are, since the regulated exchanges are not reporting their KYC to all the miners. Making miners responsible for sending 1099s would effectively make it illegal to run public blockchains.
So how did these people use economies of scale AND also have a legal and physical protection against other people stealing it?

In the old days, the rich would have to hire their own small defense/army just to protect their riches from being stolen. And we're not even talking about the public road/education/health/communications system that allows their products to be made and delivered to customers that pay the money that becomes their profits.

From the above you can see that the these people want to "ride free" off the backs of people that pay their share back into the system.

It should be treason.
Agree. Wish there were more backlash on this.