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Fullstack developer
Location: Brazil
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: Probably no, but we can talk about it.
Technologies: Smalltalk, JavaScript, TypeScript, Electron, ReactJS, Svelte, VueJS, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, git, docker.
Before: Go, Swift, C, Redis.
Résumé/CV: Provided upon request.
Email: sebastianconcept@gmail.com
WebSite: https://sebastiansastre.co
Github: https://github.com/sebastianconcept

I'm strong strong at OOP used in a functional fashion. Over 20 years of experience working on enterprise level applications and services of diverse complexity and scale. You can check my open source contributions on github. Happy to have a chat demo/about them.
>I also heavily limited the types of things Facebook will send push notifications for.

That answer for me would be everything. (Except messenger which basically one friend uses for me because of where she lives.)
Will DM you
You do sometimes have to be careful about how you handle configuration with embedding multiple copies of other supervision trees though: https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/ranch/2.0/guide/embedded/
Home Depot Wants to Sell You Tools That Require Bluetooth Activation
Right, can't to abstract callable overloads in older versions of julia
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Actually the US declared they were willing to spend money for commercial space flight at the end of the shuttle program. They literally said “I’m a demander for a good/service” and entrepreneurs got to work.
Yup. If you expect to be able to play with nice trustworthy people, it's horrible.
there is some sort of on going testing with a set group that I've been told was randomly choosen.

My sister/ husband and neice (uk based) are currently being tested once a month since the outbreak (mid 2020 ish) and they where told that they was picked at random,

All of them have had covid - and probably would not have been discovered without this testing - since all their cases have been asymptomatic
I’m sorry man. I’m on silent 100% of the time (though I could imagine turning the ringer on for a specific phone call)

Almost everyone texts or emails and I’ve never had anyone freak out if I didn’t reply quickly.
Are Facebook employees required to work from the office now? Seems like it makes more sense to just to continue WFH, if this is the alternative. I'm happy to go back to work, but not if I have to make compromises that would be unnecessary if I just worked from home.
I've come to believe that the most important quality of capitalism isn't markets or some super-human intelligence that markets somehow possess, but simply the ability to bypass stagnant incumbents, entrenched interests, and bureaucracies.

In other words the most critical quality is permission-free innovation.

In all other systems from feudalism to socialism to communism there generally is just one department or agency responsible for each thing, and it's usually either the state itself or some state-blessed entity with an enforced monopoly. If that entity does it's job well, that's great. If it doesn't, tough shit. Nobody can go around it.

This is also why I disagree with market purists about anti-trust. If a private company gets so huge that it is able to occupy an entire market niche for a prolonged period of time, it's important to do something to either break it up or incentivize other entrants. A private company allowed to remain super-dominant in one sector for too long starts to look and behave like a Soviet bureau.
Well that's certain an answer. Voters and non-voters alike are, of course, free to define "the greater good" for themselves provided they refrain from harming others while putting their definition into practice, but what moral justification do the winners of an election have to enforce their definition on anyone else or harm others to implement it just because they were backed by an arbitrarily small majority of the voters? Which is a subset of the eligible voting population, and (perhaps more importantly) an even smaller subset of those who will be affected?
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Possessing the ball in midfield means you have an opportunity to move the ball closer to the opponents' goalkeeper, or the option of keeping it safe so that the opposition don't possess it near your goalkeeper.

Having the ball in midfield over a period might only give you a very marginal chance of scoring at the end of it, but not being able to get the ball back is an absolutely massive disadvantage for an opponent that needs to score.
I think sometimes having a foot in the door helps anyways. Of course grossly misrepresenting yourself is a bad idea but enhancing a bit, why not? Also, it is indeed possible that your potential partners may value other aspects besides your appearance, not everyone is obsessed with looks. But of course your mileage may vary depending who you met in your life, and also based on where you live / local customs etc.

Then there is the issue of how you perceive yourself, when I was in my 20s and 30s I used to think of myself as not attractive, but now when I look back at my old photos from a more detached point of view, I think I was a fairly attractive young man. Excessive self criticism can be bad and artificially put you down.

After entering a "serious" relationship and then getting married in my 30s I was able to look at myself in a more balanced way. I think my previous self-criticism was fuelled by some vague fear that I would never find a partner and I would live a lonely life. Probably it's a common thought among people of that age.
Is this a type of inflation or a type of fraud or neither? Popularity is a made up category, or one that is ill defined while being manipulative.
Popularity implies those most desired, but since this can be goosed by paying for attention, it is meaningless and hence let the hacking begin.
I genuinely don't understand what the point of all this is. Is this all about sending people to Mars? Is it basic research? What is the end goal here? I don't follow this too much, so I'm hoping someone can paste me a link to something I can read to explain the justification for building this thing.
That's actually the trickiest part of the engineering, but we've managed to make it directly compatible with the an intermittent energy source like solar and wind
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> Here's a worst-case scenario if people do get vaccinated: everyone is vaccinated, COVID-19 starts going away

How do you figure that last part?

If we're talking worst-case scenarios from mass vaccination I would think you would need to put Marek's or ADE type outcomes on the table.
And they tell you that they went there but the parking lot is too big, the carriages are too hard to push, they can't really stand in line a lot because their knee hurts them, and more.

I don't think people understand that sometimes your body makes savings not a savings. You don't miss good health till its gone, or the ability to do things with it.
"Computer programmed decision making" is anything but transparent currently. Just look at the example of Northpointe, Inc.'s COMPAS ("Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions") tool, which purports to measure recidivism risk. Even under threat of lawsuit, Northpointe refused to reveal the underlying source because it is a "protected trade secret."[1]

Are judges biased? Of course, and that is not acceptable. However, the answer is not to surrender our system of justice to unaccountable commercial actors.

1. https://www.uclalawreview.org/injustice-ex-machina-predictiv...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28035458
Yep! It'll be quite a journey to get there
Does “the request type has a body property” actually imply (1) though? In a language like C or C++ or Java, you could have a protocol like “body is always null on GET requests.” The question isn’t really about HTTP, that was just an easy-to-reach-for example, it is really about what having explicit types allows one to deduce about a program.
The UK is one of the few countries in the world that does have proper randomized studies of Covid-19 prevalence, and has done since close to the start of the pandemic. Unfortunately the results lag behind the actual number of new infections by long enough that we wouldn't expect the drop in cases to cause a corresponding drop in the numbers coming of those studies just yet.
A solid choice and well reasoned. It was a joy to read all of the discussions.

Been following Vue and Evan’s work since 2015, before it even reached 1.0. I think it strikes a good balance between the freedom of React and the rigidity if Angular. (Interpret the terms “freedom” and “rigidity” as you please.)

My only problem with Vue 2.x was the bad TS support, but I trust 3.x solves that.
Won't all extraterrestrial life just look like crabs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Nobody ever takes pictures of normal things. If you just looked at photos you'd think all my male ancestors ever did was fell trees and pour concrete and all the women ever did was hang out together drinking coffee and smoking.
The only reason I take my phone with me on hikes is for the camera. One day I’d like to get a dumbcamera and leave my phone behind more. I don’t take a ton of pictures but do like to have the option.
Okay, the quote might not be literally true for boots (or many consumer goods) in 2021, but it's a good intuitive explanation of why it's quote-unquote "expensive to be poor," which is absolutely a meaningful and important idea to understand.
This reads like a blog post I would have written ~15 years ago after giving up on Remember The Milk. It frustrated me that I still had to organize my own mind and the todo app didn't actually take responsibility for telling me what to do (when I wanted to do it). I then discovered I had ADHD.
Depends on country I guess. In Sweden they usually pay for the door.
> Since when is Texas a pejorative?

'Pray for rain' type politicians and Taliban style government. (Rick Perry, the Bushes, Paxton and Abbott)

Cronyism run rampant.

Some of the most corrupt corporations.

The electrical grid collapse, Refinery explosions,
West Fertilizer Company explosion, Result of letting corporations 'regulate themselves'

Cowboyism/Ignorance as a virtue.

One the most polluted states.

The only reason Texas can be in the world top 15 economy is due to population and landmass size, along with its dependency on oil. But given Texas is second in state population behind California and California is #5 in the world, I'd argue it's not doing as well as it could be.

Oh, and the weather in Texas is less preferable to having a weasel clamp down on your balls.
I can get on board with this, as it scans the same both directions
If this were true, then the proportion of tests which are positive should remain the same or go up but it isn't, it's going down:

https://twitter.com/ThatRyanChap/status/1420407991937949699
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When you donate billions, you help lots of people who may then be honest about that.

What is surprising to you that beneficiaries of philanthropy are happy to report and promote philanthropy?

It's not like they try to cover up his "sins", or that the channel doesn't report on the latest gossip about his marriage just because it's "news".
for (int i = 0 to text.length() - substring.length()) {
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if (text.charAt(i) != substring.charAt(j)) {
found = false; break;
}
if (found) return true;
}

We’re not taking rocket science here. This code already properly handles surrogates and Chinese characters. The question about characters that can be written in two different ways should only be raised as a second level, once the first implementation is done.
I thought the whole point of complaining about dollar stores was to mask concern for your property values and callousness to the impoverished as compassion. It struck me as more dog-whistle than any coherent non-cynical logic. "We don't want to get rid of the poor, just cheap stores. To help them!"
anti monopoly?
> The great lie still [...] is that Covid is going to go away courtesy of vaccinations. The authorities have pitched that to the public from the early days of the vaccines

That is (1) outrageously hyperbolized and (2) completely wrong. Delta wasn't known to have this level of transmissibility until the last three weeks. People, experts, doctors, "authorities", whatever, you want to label them 100% believed sincerely that we were on a path to the elimination of the outbreak.

Cut the bullshit, basically. Yeah, yeah, I know it's HN and everyone wants to think they're smarter than everyone else. But you aren't. You're retconning brand new science to make prior understanding into a "big lie". That's really awful.
That currently lives here: https://github.com/wikimedia/wvui/tree/master/src/components.... This is WVUI, the component library created to serve the needs of the Desktop Improvements case study mentioned in the post here.

Some of this code may change or get moved around based on the outcome of these tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286946
Favorite quote:

At one time during system checkout we had a very elusive problem which we couldn’t pin down. In looking over the programs, we realized that the symptoms we were seeing could occur if an unconditional jump instruction failed to jump. We therefore asked CDC whether they had any indication that that instruction occasionally misbehaved. The reply was, “Oh, no. That’s one of the more reliable instructions,” This was our first indication that commands could be ordered by reliability.
Montgomery Phister, Jr., 1989
"The freedom of React" is a hard statement for me to digest.

I stopped using React specifically because it was so incredibly limiting. And my life has been a lot better without it.
Thanks! ABsolutely, looking at optimizing time of day we operate will be important. As grids become more dominated by renewables a solution like ours will be able to help stabilize acting as a electricity sink when the wind is blowing too hard or the sun too strong, taking advantage of lower power prices at these times
I've worked with a lot of people like that as well. It's always a bit awe inspiring.

I don't know what component is responsible for the difference between immigrants and natives. Maybe it's the selection, the change of environment, the adversity, or sheer diversity of individuals. If we could manage to build an education system that produced students as dedicated, creative and hard working as our best immigrants, the USA would secure a place in history that would make the 1400 years of the Roman Empire seem like a blip in comparison.
The anti-cheat software (which borders on being spyware) is the issue, in particular for very popular games today.
> And they're digital images that won't fade.

They might not fade, but they are augmented by noise filtering algorithms, HDR and other tech that still subtly affects the picture quality and perception.
I suppose irts worth mentioning that while the reported number of daily infections is dropping in the UK, so is the numer of tests taken.

Meanwhile hospital admissions and deaths continue to rise, albeit slowly. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk
> I think the best way to save the planet is to move heavy industry into space.

Good luck dealing with the absence of cheap oxydizer and the lack of convection which makes heat dispersion a nightmare.

> Move our power generation into space and beam it down.

Our power is already generated in space, and beamed down to us. It also comes with no infrastructure cost, which is truly an engineering wonder when you think of it.
Don't use it myself but `Erase Distractions' for FF claims "helps you defend your attention without having to block the site and go cold turkey" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/erase-distrac...
Consider that you're thinking too much of "cow farming" when you think of human farming.

No, humans are too useful to just eat! Even for menial tasks. You could think of slavery as a primitive form of human farming, but it's inefficient: being too harshly treated means poor health and mental performance, which means the tasks they can work in are limited. No, the farmers that would be worthy of farming humans would be more astute.

It's far more efficient to let a farmed kind live just comfortably enough to be healthy and develop themselves (free range), as long as they (1) are imposed with an element of scarcity that will force them to struggle to be useful in exchange for the scarce element and (2) the farmer is positioned in such a way that they extract value from these useful activities, with no downside.

As a bonus, because there's an element of competition for the scarcity, the farmed kind will police themselves (fairly or not), and band together, cooperating to generate an oversized portion of the scarce element at a certain level of increased risk for the leaders of the band - we can call them stakeholders. Winning stakeholders will be rewarded with increased amounts of the scarce element, and losers will be punished with a loss of scarce elements.

Extraordinarily successful stakeholders would be rewarded with benefits, and benefit not unlike the farmers - they are to be rewarded for their feats.

Those that are successful enough will be invited to travel to the farmers' homeland riding on a giant space phallus...
one objective is to have affordable and perfomant global connectivity
Well, perhaps coolant would be delivered to racks at a particular psi/volume just as electricity is today provided at a particular voltage and current. Then an entire datacenter would be served by a handful of massive pumps. Server racks might then have no moving parts, which couldn't harm reliability.
I was getting HR hits like every six months and eventually I told them I would get back in touch when I was ready.

Now I'm getting an email every month from FB, and about ready to do the same with them.

The last time I passed the first and second rounds and Google let me languish on the third round for a month. I still probably would not have made it through, but it was surprising that my candidacy was dropped like that.
That summary seems to show infections plateauing in every age group except school kids. (And of course, with schools breaking up since then they're probably both less likely to get infected and less likely to get tested.)
Because an uptick in cases always has resulted in an uptick in hospitalizations and death.

Maybe you think things have changed (and indeed: I think vaccinations have changed the pattern of cases -> hospitalizations -> death). But ultimately: cases give us a glimpse of what is to come 3 or 4 weeks earlier.

And lo-and-behold, the Florida hospitalization counts are now kicking up dramatically. Good thing we got the news out weeks ago about Delta, so that public opinion can start changing (and now people are beginning to get vaccinated, which should lessen the number of hospitalizations).

Similarly: UK hospitalizations are in fact dropping now!! (coinciding with the drop in case counts 3 or 4 weeks earlier). So even in highly vaccinated countries like UK, case# remains our best predictor for hospitalization counts.

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USA is too late however: we let up on our vaccinations and this surge is going to catch a lot of us by surprise. Hospitals are filling up again.

The vaccinations are coming in too late to stop this current surge (July / August timeframe). But the vaccinations will help us prevent a winter surge.
What? No ones built an app to simplify the process and bring this amazing opportunity to the masses? Come on already... get on it boys.
> I had a coronavirus called a cold last year; does that mean I'm immune this year?

There are supposedly over 200 different viruses that can cause the common cold (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/underst...). So it's quite possible for immunity to any individual strain to last a very long time and still get multiple colds per year.

> Usually viruses become more transmissible and less lethal in response to rational behavior in their hosts--but humans are proving we're not rational.

Our own "rationality" doesn't matter much, if a virus leaves you bed-ridden or dead, that makes it very hard for you spread it regardless of your choices. The fact that we have so many different viruses which essentially cause more or less the same "common cold" proves that there is very strong evolutionary pressure for a virus to behave this way.