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SEEKING WORK | US | Remote

I polish resumes, usually for tech professionals. I work online. I charge $50/page. Turn around is typically a week or less.

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They really need to filter out these kind of people in the hiring phase.

Edit: And there goes the last bit of my karma. Incredible that I once had close to a 1000 karma, and then one day slowly but surely it dwindled down to nothing.
Bite the Bullet
Why tough? It works. What exactly is wasted here? 100MB for Chrome binary and that few percent of CPU hike while rendering the image? Is it worth wasting endless hours of time researching some niche, quirky, badly documented drawing library, where the hard earned end result has absolutely negligible difference from a human standpoint? Machines work for us, not reverse.
At this point I think we are talking about different things. I’m not sure I disagree with you and I’m not sure if I agree but mostly because it seems like we are prioritizing different things in this thread. So that said, anything to do with social rank will be hard for me to follow, so best to just leave it :)

Wanting to fit in to me is about feeling a general comfort with your surroundings, not having social status. And by fit in, I mean not being ostracized for being yourself, a thing that happens to me in a lot of places, I don’t want to be popular, I just don’t want to be denied service or have my property vandalized.

Also, by socialize with people like yourself, I mean going to a user group for some tech you like, etc, these are fewer and far between in rural areas. So even accessing such a community in person becomes a hurdle. This is something folks may take for granted. Or maybe not, I don’t know any more :)
I will be pleasantly surprised if Discord could reach a $1 trillion dollar market cap on that business model.
Facebooks purpose isn't too serve advertisers. Most for profit companies propose is to make money. Facebooks primary way of doing that is asking ads. But they can't sell ads without plenty of eyeballs. Their FB needs to also pay attention to the users.
Then any communications medium is a middleman — postal mail, telephone, even telegraph. Maybe the only exception is speaking face-to-face. There’s no middle-man there.
Most activities can be quantified, at worst by looking at sector averages. There is already plenty of tax law around those, about what you can and cannot realistically expect tax authorities to believe. The IP field, though, has massive value swings, that make it fundamentally uncontrollable. How much is the word "Starbucks" worth? How much is "Nespresso" or "Linizio"...? These can move hundreds of millions in one go, whereas you would struggle to achieve it with murky consultancy contracts over several years.
It’s a strange pattern [0]:

[Sophie Zhang] joined Facebook in 2018 after the financial strain of living on part-time contract work in the Bay Area had worn her down. When she received Facebook’s offer, she was upfront with her recruiter: she didn’t think the company was making the world better, but she would join to help fix it.

“They told me, ‘You’d be surprised how many people at Facebook say that,’” she remembers.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/29/1030260/facebook...
Like Fenchurch with Douglass Adams!
Their claim was that the 20% raises were explained by the person jumping a “secret” level, and my counterclaim was that that wasn’t the cause, because one year everyone in my group got a 20% raise and also because I didn’t have any levels, secret or otherwise, left to go.
That line of argument doesn't make any sense to me. The Americans were actually in FAVOR of a cross-channel invasion in 1942-43 (see operation sledgehammer and operation roundup), but were shouted down by the British. Which, to their credit, was fair: the Allies lacked the ability to launch a large amphibious assault in 1942 into France. They lacked a sufficient fleet of landing craft, along with the proper doctrine, the same degree of air superiority they would have in 1944.

"The North African front was basically secure while Stalingrad was happening"

That doesn't make any sense. Operation Torch (the Allied invasion of Morocco and Algeria) didn't even start until Nov 8th, and Montgomery's position in Libya was hardly "secure" before November. But the Soviets were already launching counter-offensives and encircling the German army by the end of November. If you're counting from the beginning of the main Stalingrad offensives, August 1942, yeah maybe you could call the North African theater "stable", if by stable you mean that the Allies just one a defensive victory and managed to stall out an offensive into Egypt. But it's not like they could cancel their planned invasion of Algeria and Morocco and re-plan for an invasion of France in a couple months.

Plus the US would be invading mainland Europe Sept 3rd of 1943, and I really don't think they could have performed a successful invasion anytime sooner.
Going to be honest. I really feel like people are making a larger deal out of this than it is.

It takes what, 15 seconds to realize a PR is stupid. Close it and lock the conversation.

This is always possible when you use platforms like github. You have to interact with outside variables. Don't like it? Turn off all collaboration.

Seriously this is one of the least annoying things about managing open source projects, and it's lead to people getting interested in collaboration.
> IA will unpublish (but not delete) content on request.

As I said, I have yet to see that happen, and that would be a really vile thing for a supposed library to do.
The delights and the dangers of deplatforming extremists
Melbourne earns a dubious distinction: most locked down city under Covid
Histories of California contain many descriptions of extensive oil seepage both on shore and off. Here’s an example from further up the coast, from a book published in 1883:

“The flowing springs of petroleum early attracted the attention of the settlers. The oil was flowing from the earth in hundreds of places, sometimes forming large pools into which cattle, sheep, and horses, as well as wild animals, would venture and get caught, leaving their bones as a warning of danger for future visitors. Sometimes it flowed into the streams and would float away for miles before it evaporated. There were hundreds of acres, perhaps thousands, covered with the residuum left after the evaporation of the lighter parts. Springs of it also occur in the Santa Barbara Channel, and the first navigators had fears of the near vicinity of a hot place, from the villainous smell that pervaded the atmosphere where the oil was floating on the ocean.”

History of Santa Barbara County, California, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers

https://archive.org/details/historyofsantaba00maso/page/n189...
Also if you hate dealing with stupid PRs then open source development really might not be for you.
Yeah, in grad school one of my colleagues told me how a car was stolen from his father in Italy, and he (the father) went to the local mafia and arranged to have it returned. I did some digging into the history of the mafias in Italy and they really did originate in stepping in to do things like protecting private property when the government refused to do it. That eventually morphed into the "protection racket", but when the government creates a void, people step in to fill it.

It's just absurd to think that any random person can steal up to $900 of your stuff whenever they want and that you should be OK with that or that you're not going to defend your property. Yes, maybe if you are a clerk for a big faceless corporation you do nothing and then let the HQ close the store, but if you are a small business owner or an individual, you are unlikely to just let yourself get robbed without fighting back. Society can't function if it doesn't protect private property.
I think this is a common misconception about the economy and the study of economics.

Everyone who participates in the economy has some mental model of the economy. That means anyone who accepts money as payment, or takes out a loan, or opens a bank account. In their model, cash will hold its value reasonably well, interest rates won't change too dramatically, etc. There is no agnosticism when it comes to the economy, and you make decisions based on your mental model of the economy on a daily basis.
> that's not as sexy a narrative as “suddenly we woke up in this election cycle with divisiveness that just came out of nowhere”

Because a lot of people want to believe that the time in which they live is more special and more different than the ones that came before.
> As soon as you install Google play services it is pretty much a moot point.

That is optional.

> Maybe that has changed but using a purpose built ROM like GrapheneOS or CalyxOS is a lot better & actually easier.

If you have a Pixel phone. I'd rather pay as little money as possible to Google.
There's a lot of stuff on there: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Electric+l...

Here's a 19th century one:

https://archive.org/details/practicaltreatis00gord

This one is all about Nernst lamps:

https://archive.org/details/DevelopmentOfTheNernstLampInAmer...
Yes the truth matters. Why is this even a question?
Or is that just part of their marketing?
>"Have you considered that Tesla actually has a process and good engineers and good models to understand their changes?

Maybe they are simply more dynamic, have better on the fly testing, more flexible software to manage their production, are more vertically integrated and have thus more control over their production."

Yes. That's cost of entry. It works when the customer takes delivery.

They can also do smart things like have consistent APIs, electrical bus systems, etc (I don't know if they do, but they could)

Even with all of that, technical debt on physical products in the real world will drag you down to the depths of the ocean.

You see this with the customer experience on repairs. But like I said, Tesla is a growth company. As long as people believe Tesla is a growth company it will continue to be a growth company.
Sound waves are the middleman, only direct telepathy will do.
All that garbage was circulating and being amplified in early Facebook and for many years later, even today, generating engagement and profit regardless of algorithms. They just made it worse over time. Why do you also dismiss the rest of the list?
I totally agree, but nevertheless this is a behavior I’ve seen in several audio/video call apps.
It's mentioned that they're actually speaking a creole that's been translated and simplified to english for the (baseline) reader.
The huge surprise to me is that I always thought the point of the warnings was to give readers the opportunity to simply not read the material, not to somehow lessen negative effects when they do read the material.
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I don't work on that kind of ad: I work in display ads. If you go to a newspaper or other publisher and see ads alongside the content, there's a good chance that my team owns the JS that handles requesting those ads and putting the responses on the screen.
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There's only one. All reputable news sources agree that all others died after the event due to other causes. Why is this controversial?
I thought the point of a trigger warning was to enable people with PTSD or anxiety disorders to leave the room or avoid the material rather than sit though it and feel worse.

"“the point is not to enable—let alone encourage—students to skip these readings or our subsequent class discussion (both of which are mandatory in my courses, absent a formal exemption). Rather, it is to allow those who are sensitive to these subjects to prepare themselves for reading about them, and better manage their reactions.” "

I feel that this professor has completely reversed the material benefit of it. If you say this could cause you severe anxiety but I'm going to make you sit though it anyway what was the point? It doesn't surprise me that if you trap the audience and warn them it will make them feel worse.
What Large companies do is largely monitored, the problem is what the Android security model allows smaller unknown companies to do.

Apps abuse permissions, and do nefarious stuff, which is why you have a news post a month about Google removing apps. 4-5 years ago I came across a startup reading all of the SMSs to give you APIs to get bank balance, number of bank accounts etc. iOS that way is "relatively" more secure (not perfect)
U-haul the truck rental business? Probably their biggest competitor is Enterprise.

U-haul the storage company business? Probably Public Storage and a million other small operators.

Both pretty red markets, not sure how much capital you’d need to disrupt 1-2 cities, but that’s also U-hauls benefit of having a network of operators.
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What a tiring argument. The point of trigger warnings is that they allow you to not engage with content you don't feel comfortable engaging with. If you warn someone about a trigger that applies to them, but then make them read that content anyway, then you've just shown that you can make someone suffer by warning them before forcing them to endure something uncomfortable.

> among people who said they believe that words can cause harm, those who received trigger warnings reported greater anxiety in response to disturbing literary passages than those who did not

A valid interpretation of this result is that people who think words can cause harm are correct with regards to their personal experiences. In other news, people who say they're allergic to peanuts on average have a worse reaction to being forced to eat peanuts.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Friedrich August von Hayek

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hay...
A couple years ago I would have had a bigger interest in this. Pytorch added elastic training as part of version 1.9 when they incorporated torch elastic into it. Tensorflow added an easier way to do fault tolerant training in 2.4 with backup and restore callback for keras models. For non-keras models it'll take some extra code but they do include some examples for this too.

Also there's at least two open source free solutions for elastic training I know of. RaySGD, https://docs.ray.io/en/master/raysgd/raysgd.html and elastic horovod, https://horovod.readthedocs.io/en/stable/elastic_include.htm... For me to consider this I'd need a comparison table with native framework solutions and these solutions along with what does it add for me.
I always thought that the warning lets one walk away before they get triggered. Of course, this would not be possible in every situation, but if I am watching news and see a warning for e.g., I can stop watching.

Edit: there are many other comments which showed up just this minute which say the same thing. Hence, I just repeated what others seem to concur with too.
This individual is not a 'whistleblower'. Nothing revealed is illegal or fraudulent.
I have personal experience with transcription software (e.g. Otter.ai), and it's still not good enough. Even if you get 95% accuracy, which isn't a given if the audio is recorded outside with background noise, that's still 5 in 100 words for correction, more if there are technical terms.

So you need someone to review it and clean it for accuracy. It's not trivially easy at all to provide all the source materials for every interview because it's time consuming to clean and verify. For especially sensitive investigative reporting that isn't breaking news, and where there's more time to report, news outlets (e.g. CBC News) already publish recordings and full email transcripts.

I would also argue that it's the norm for journalists from respectable outlets (usually the ones with paid subscriptions) to put quotes in proper context. It's an ethical principle of the field. When they don't, the current system works when the interviewee, readership, and press watchdogs call out the unethical reporting.
If you are in a class or a lecture, you can't just skip over parts of the material without hurting your understanding.
I'd love to know how Apple distributes its CloudKit data across all of (what I assume are) its dozens of globally distributed FoundationDB clusters.

As of version 6.0, a single FoundationDB cluster currently only supports one active, writable 'master' region + one hot failover region. Transactions are all essentially LAN so performance characteristics are great. It doesn't support the slower TiDB/CRDB style active/active configuration where all nodes are writable, data is globally distributed and transactions can span across all nodes in the cluster.

Do they have some kind of scheme whereby ACID is preserved for local transactions only, while far away regions are asynchronously replicated to with less guarantees on data consistency?
According to the subthread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740261 , oil has been coming out of the ground on its own for a long time. As in, before humans even knew what to do with it.
I don't think that invalidates the quote. It's how I came across it in the first place.

I think economists are well aware of the nature of the beast they're studying.

And even if doing the task is daunting, and the landscape changing as it's described, it's still worth it.

Especially if anyone finds fixed points which do have the property that describing them doesn't invalidate them.
I said the same thing. It's how I rationalized selling out for a company that does harm to the world.
It's a perfectly legitimate concern and it's a shame you're being downvoted. Anyone who is concerned about fake news and misinformation should be appalled by the media's treatment of the bogus Russian interference story.
Is the price you could sell it for used the same as you could buy a new one, or am I misunderstanding?
i bought the 6" display from eink.com to build a small personal art project - an infinite scrolling procedurally generated landscape based on this project - https://github.com/LingDong-/shan-shui-inf

A few gotchas:

1. some of these eink boards are hard to procure as a consumer. the vendors want you to be a company

2. the driver boards are purchased separately, are definitely required, and sometimes have windows software (vs easy to use rasp-pi drivers)

3. support is often difficult or from the OEM so english-language communication can be difficult.
One of PingCap's (company behind TiKV and TiDB) founders once did his own FoundationDB review [1] - he concluded: "the performance is cool". I'm assuming at that time FDB's performance was superior to TiKV.

[1] https://medium.com/@siddontang/benchmark-foundationdb-with-g...
I agree completely.

For free markets to work, we need the following:

-Bankruptcy without bailouts to clear dead wood.

-Abolish patents as these simply limit free market competition and are a ploy to try to claim ownership on something that usually is one tiny fragment of human knowledge.

-Public tax records for everyone. Sunlight is the best disinfectant (and the best way to allocate resources)!

-Wealth tax instead of income tax.
Users are a supplier, an input, a resource used to make the actual product. Facebook cares as much about that supplier as a company cares about any other supplier. They'll push for the lowest possible prices and push the supplier as hard as they can without breaking the relationship.

Facebook will do as little as possible to benefit users, min/maxing as close to the
breaking point as they can without going over the line.
As someone who dealt with some severe PTSD issues at a young age, I think trigger warnings are counterproductive. You don't get over PTSD triggers by avoiding them, you get past them with therapy and exposure. You have to retrain your brain to react differently to similar stimuli. Trigger warnings simply encourage people to continue living in hell.
Python 3.11
As far as the taxes bit, at least here in the USA I always felt that we should just get rid of corporate taxation entirely, and instead tax ya know, the CEOs etc the difference, which in effect means taxing capital gains like regular income for instance.

That would do wonders for businesses to simplify the tax schemes and really moves the taxation portion to the individuals.

I’m sure like any tax reform this has edge cases and stuff I know I haven’t considered but wouldn’t the upside be taxation happens more uniformly as a result?
Will wait until they implement 2FA. Looks like it's a high-priority feature request for them: https://github.com/desec-io/desec-stack/issues/316
That’s correct, but you can decide to skip over parts because you value your emotional well-being more than your understanding of a subject.
From what I've seen, they're mainly associated with one side of the political spectrum. The other side never did use them.
> There is almost no point in buying an ecosystem-dependant device and then trying to cut off the ecosystem dependency.

I mean, your work could be dependent on an embedded appliance from an enterprise vendor, where that 'appliance' just consists of an app running on an iPad in kiosk mode sealed into an ugly case, with its lightning port hard-wired to a particular accessory.

If you're an IT admin of an organization and you have to support an appliance like this within your Intranet, it's in your best interests to lock it down from doing anything other than "its job as an appliance." For the same reason you wouldn't leave any ports open on a machine/VM other than the ones it needs to perform its function.
I guess the reason more people put up with the noise is because everyone loves a well cared for lawn without clippings laying around. Another thing I hate is that on some streets they push things like nails and glass into the roadway causing punctures.
Pet Rock is a collectible toy made in 1975 by advertising executive Gary Dahl. Pet Rocks are smooth stones from Mexico's Rosarito Beach. They were marketed like live pets, in custom cardboard boxes, complete with straw and breathing holes. The fad lasted about six months, ending after a short increase in sales during the Christmas season of December 1975. Although by February 1976 they were discounted due to lower sales, Dahl sold over 1 million Pet Rocks for $4 each, and became a millionaire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Rock
I learned this term when I was looking for roles in the robotics industry. There are lots of RPA jobs that show up when you’re looking for robotics jobs.

I didn’t know until your post what it actually was (just what it wasn’t)
It 100% isn't adult behavior to talk about a subject that triggers someone if you know it may trigger them.

For example, functional adults don't discuss topics like rape unless they are reasonably certain that discussion participants do not have an associated traumatic experience.

The purpose of trigger warnings is to let people excuse themselves if you do not have that familiarity or certainty with your audience, e.g. a classroom setting.

I'd argue that not using trigger warnings for such topics with unfamiliar people is immature and callous.
Perhaps this is why we have bacteria and other life forms that can eat oil.
I'm talking about the truck rental business. I've personally never had a good experience using U-haul for a move (truck I reserved not there, long wait times in shop, online reservation flow sucks, etc.). A lot of my friends have had similar experiences too. I know they're entrenched and have a lot of advantages, but they are definitely an incumbent that hasn't innovated almost at all. I think the move would be testing one market with a fleet of vans for small apartment moves and see what the magic features are.
Perhaps you could add "learn how to use paragraph formatting on HN" to your list :-)
Variable refresh rate display is adopted before Apple (like Galaxy Note 20).