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Recorded Future | Senior Operations Engineers, CI/CD Engineer | Boston, MA (Somerville) or REMOTE (US-Only)

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With over 700 employees, $200M ARR in 2021, 1,200 clients, and rapid year-over-year growth, Recorded Future is the world’s largest privately-held security intelligence company. The company specializes in the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence. Recorded Future uses patented machine learning and natural language processing methods to continuously collect and organize data from open web, dark web, and technical sources.

What we're looking for:

Recorded Future is actively seeking for dozens of open roles.

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If one of these four roles strikes your fancy please reach out to me at craig.calef[at]recordedfuture.com with your resume, any questions, or just to chat
There's a classic classification of military officers.

1. Smart but lazy.
2. Smart and energetic
3. Dumb and lazy
4. Dumb and energetic

Type #4 is dangerous. Those are the ones who energetically do the wrong thing and get people killed. The most famous losing generals (Custer, Cardigan, Burnside, McClellan, Westmoreland) were type 4.
It seems strange to me to use a Nobel prize-winning physicist as an example of someone who didn't play status games
Understanding Fourier Transform, FFT and Spectrogram for ASR (2020)
She had been out of office for two (plus?) years when the scandal came to light, so no, President Obama could not have done anything to discipline her. I don’t know what you’re talking about. And like I said, it’s not really about the classified information. It’s about brazenly violating a subpoena by destroying evidence. If you or I did that, we’d be in jail. Your response is: well, Congress should have impeached her. But that’s not a substitute for criminal prosecution. And for that matter, being “punished” by not being elected President is also not a substitute for criminal prosecution.
> rainbow hats with propellers

Would you call such a thing a status symbol? Something glorified in certain circles and disregarded in others?

The author clearly explained that removing yourself from status games just ends up putting you in a different status game (his metalhead days).

The reality is that you have many statuses irrespective of whether you want it or not merely as a function of being in a group. I suppose by not being in any groups you would accrue status among people that value that too.
> A datacenter scenario seems like a good fit for a centralized source of entropy

"One ring to rule them all" is the quote my inner security sense immediately reaches for
> more complex circuits are made from simple circuits. principle still applies.

And humans are made out of carbon, but you are never going to understand human emotion by studying carbon atoms really hard.

Assembly is the interface to the hardware. Assembly is imperitive. The abstraction that assembly exposes is a machine with global, mutable state. That's the way the hardware works.
"romania people" is a misspelling halfway in between, so I wish you wouldn't assume they meant the wrong one.
Your computer monitors and television are not, in fact, radiating substantial modulated microwave and mm wave radiation. In the US, the FCC would have something to say about anybody shipping stuff that did.
Status usually represents having done some social good. The more good you do, the higher your status. If you look at it as a measure of how much good a person has done, then it might not seem so contemptable. Who did more good for more people - a hermit or Bill Gates?
Bractlet | Remote/Austin, TX | Full-time | Multiple Roles

We are a company trying to tackle climate change through energy efficiency. In a nutshell, we turn the budget and energy consumption of a building (usually office-centric skyscrapers) into an engineering optimization problem using data (collected from the building with a proprietary IoT platform) and software (including calibrated thermodynamic simulations). Our stack is primarily React, Rust, and Postgres.

We are looking for intelligent people who care about climate change. Ideally you'll have been on a rapidly growing teams before but it is by no means a requirement.

- Senior Frontend Engineer
- Senior DevOps Engineer
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You can email me at hamza.surti [at] backpacknetworks [dot] com or use the submission form on our website: https://bractlet.com/careers (email me if the job you want isn't showing up there)
The virus can infect pangolins, bats, and dozens of other mammalian species. It's an incredibly generalist species.

When the outbreak began, China immediately culled virtually all the stock at wild animal farms throughout the country. That is where they thought the virus came from, and they wanted to prevent any more spillover events. One side-effect of that decision is that the animals that most likely served as the intermediate hosts are gone.

With the original SARS in 2002-2003, it was much easier to find the wild animal farms that hosted the virus because the Chinese government did not quickly move to shut them down. The farms remained open for a long time, and there were repeated spillover events.

My guess is that the first reaction of government officials this time around was to just cull all the animals and eliminate the danger right away, and that tracing the origins of the virus wasn't on their minds at that moment.
>Are there feature selection algorithms?

Yeah. Here's a few

https://scribe.citizen4.eu/feature-selection-how-to-throw-aw...
I was the one who posted it two times. The second one was an honest mistake. This third time wasn't me but I am glad that someone did.
Who gets to define what is racism and what isn't? And how broadly do we apply this logic? Racism is wrong and dangerous so we can censor. What about sexism? Ageism? Heightism? Extend this out and anything that can be potentially offensive to anyone shouldn't be allowed.
I don't think Catalonia is directly comparable. It's not occupied territory, it's a region/nation that wants to go their own way. Not even the staunchest Catalan separatists defend a referendum where immigrants that arrive from elsewhere in Spain cannot vote. But coming from an invasion makes things rather different.

That said, yeah, of course things are not that simple. Some of the people I'm calling settlers have been in Western Sahara for over 40 years, they may have children of voting age who were born there. Why wouldn't they vote in a referendum about the place that they call home, and where they even may have lived for their whole life? So it's not as easy as saying that the Moroccan government is wrong and the Polisario is right.

But the GP painted a picture where Morocco is pro-referendum and Western Sahara won't have it, and that's clearly one-sided propaganda. Morocco wants a referendum under their conditions, and Western Sahara under theirs. Morocco has rejected UN-endorsed proposals of referendums, even proposals where Moroccan migrants/settlers would vote as well (see Baker Plan II in the links I posted, or elsewhere, of course). And all of this is in the context that started with the Green March, an invasion condemned by the UN that was made by Morocco, among other reasons... to prevent a referendum.

So yeah, you of course have some valid points, but the GP's message is clearly propaganda.
Glacier | Robotics Software Engineer and Senior Mechanical Engineer | On-site in San Francisco, CA | Full-time

About Glacier:
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If tomorrow the government commanded that the color blue is now to be called red, that would not be an evolution of language. It would not be language evolving organically as language does over time. It would be change by force outside of the way things change naturally on their own.
You can always buy insurance…..
Nope, I wasn't the top level comment.

Yes, it came off sharp, it would have discouraged me from contributing. Sometimes people don't really get that the process is open to all and need to be invited, I think it can be good to try and see stuff like this as an opportunity to extend that invitation.

I think you misread this one because it is basically "excitement about new thing -> implied disappointment at not getting to use new thing", and I can't find an ask in that.
Not firing fast is like cutting the dog's tail piece by piece. Every time I have tried to give an employee another chance, I have ultimately regretted it in the end.
It's not syntax, it is semantics. There is a lot to programming language theory/design and this is all formalized. C does not have the semantics you are describing in the formal specifications (C99, etc..). Could they have developed a version of C with these semantics? Possibly. Rust was a step in that direction with it's borrow checker.
I've been hit enough times with this bug, now it's one of the first things I test. Just printing something in order to check I'm editing the right file, even before trying to fix the actual bug!
I look around for this all the time trying to decide what the next best place to live is. A place I like to look is Nomadlist. You can filter by region, price, and other interesting factors. I have the paid version from some sale though I don't know if it's more limited now in the free version. Another trick you can do is to look for college towns. Usually these are quite pleasant to live in if not a little rambunctious (but just the right amount usually). This usually keeps you in good restaurants and airports.

So you can do something like google search[0]

and then start filtering ones that sound interesting through nomad list and Zillow or another real estate site.

Pretty much everything is going to look cheap compared to SF but you can get even cheaper by moving your search out by one suburb. Then it gets novelty cheap. Obviously you still want to check out the area and make sure it's a place you'd want to live. Google maps street view is a good way to start getting clues. Subreddits for the town are a good place to check too.

[0] https://www.bestcollegereviews.org/50-best-college-towns-ame...
Whenever the precision of some number representation format is said to be higher than the precision of another representation format, it must be kept in mind that this claim can be true only in a limited interval.

When a number representation uses a fixed number of bits, e.g. 64 bits, there are a fixed number of points on the number axis that can be represented, e.g. 2^64.

Any other representation has the same number of points. If you increase the density of the points in some interval, to increase the precision, you must take them from another interval, where fewer points will remain, resulting in a lower precision.

The traditional floating-point numbers are distributed so that the relative error is almost constant as long as there is neither overflow nor underflow.

For most computations that belong to simulations of complex physical systems, the physical quantities may have values varying within many orders of magnitude and a constant relative error is what is desired for maximum accuracy in the final results.

The posit representation increases the precision for numbers close to 1, with the price of decreasing the precision for large or small numbers.

There are applications that can benefit from the increased precision around 1, but there are also others whose precision would be seriously affected if posits were used.

So it is wrong to claim that posits have greater precision in general. They have greater precision only for the applications that use only numbers that are neither too large, nor too small.

It is likely that the largest benefits from posits are available only for the applications that use only small number sizes, i.e. no more than 32 bits. Such small number formats have a too small exponent range to be used in applications where very large or very small numbers are common, so if 32-bit or smaller floating-point numbers are already used, it is likely that the application belongs to those that might benefit from posits, due to the limited range of the numbers handled by it.

An application that really needs 64-bit numbers, e.g. the simulation of a semiconductor device, is more likely to have its accuracy worsened than improved by posits.
After 30 years, dozens of startups and several IPOs... I'm here to say that the combination of energy and tenacity is an amazing predictor of success.

I read this more as "in defensive of high energy people" which then attracts the sort of vitriol you see in the comments section here, e.g. accusations of sloppiness, short attention spans, etc.

Obviously, quality is required to the extent customers judge products in that category. Tesla had/has astoundingly poor quality, and Henry Ford is famous for optimizing-down quality as well.
https://archive.ph/JubkG

But I wonder if it is true. I don't dispute that someone died but was it really from radiation so quickly? There are people living and working, and some old people have returned to live in this area. Even if they get cancer, it still takes time for them to die.

If it is true, Russians are probably hiding exact circumstances to avoid looking fooling. Whereas Ukrainians may want to make this as a propaganda about foolish Russian soldiers to further reduce their morale. What is real truth?
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Those launch/focus app hotkeys in Karabiner are exactly why I made rcmd (https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd)

I had a similar setup first in Karabiner, then in BetterTouchTool for easier configurability. But I needed the system to be smarter about this and allow me to assign keys on a whim, not have to change a config file.

rcmd automatically detects your most used apps from those already running and assigns keys to them.

It uses the Right Command key as the trigger, but it’s completely configurable to any other trigger like the mentioned Control+Shift in the post.

It also allows you to hide/show the app fast (I do that a lot with the kitty terminal) or cycle between apps with the same first letter.
These groups are not mutually exclusive. Is the wealthy person an asshole? Is the upbeat person poor? How poor? How much of an asshole? It's a silly example.
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"Worse than" lol
Yeah this is absolutely unnecessary. Maybe it wasn't before I was born, I'm not that old, but good ol' gnupg is still holding on to the concept of running out of entropy. See also putty doing the mouse wigglies for a private key.
> you would be making the common mistake of associating the center-right Democratic Party with leftism.

No, I'm recognizing that even the centrist New Democrats embraced woke/progressive ideas in 2020, or at least didn't dare to challenge them. Now they're distancing themselves from those ideas, so they avoid the terms as well. As Clinton strategist James Carville said: "Wokeness is a problem and we all know it."

> Even if the articles description of the use of “woke” as an encapsulation of leftism were correct

It is correct. It may not be how you use the word, but it is how many people, including Democrats, use the word.

Here's another example in which CNN uses the term to encapsulate the Green New Deal and open immigration along with Defund the Police and the culture war, while advising Democrats to distance themselves:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/12/politics/woke-green-new-deal-...

> it was confused, muddled, and largely inaccurate

Here you're just descending into insults instead of substantive debate, while dismissing contrary evidence without any reason. You might try to open your mind and realize that your opinion doesn't encompass or limit all human experience.
Every single one with a Roma population, likely.

Anecdotally, I remember having discussions with Danish family in the 90s, about racially-related issues in America, and in the shape that they took, I recognized how woefully unprepared they were to really look at their own racist attitudes (e.g. vis a vis Turks and immigration). When I returned in 2019, and had a chat with a gentleman supervising a number of different immigrants on some sort of work-integration program... well, I wasn't much impressed with his expressed attitude towards the workers.
Ah. That makes sense as a strategy for YCombinator. If you fund the energetic ones at YCombinator's minimal level, they either succeed fast or fail fast. If they fail fast, they're quickly and cheaply flushed and require no further attention. The headache for VC firms is the company that takes forever to slowly make their thing work. Or the zombie that has reached breakeven but will never take off. Those require too much ongoing management attention.
I'm not high energy and I have to try very hard to assume super high energy people aren't on drugs.
No manual option on the mazda3 now. That was the biggest punch in the gut.
For me at least, the problem comes in with when you ask for a donation.

When I first downloaded Godot, I didn't donate because I had no idea if I'd even use it for long. After a year or so of using it, I came across various reminders to donate, and eventually I did (if I'm completely honest, literally just now). But most people will never come across that prompt again and will forget any need to. Its the same case with Elementary, or any other distro I've tried out. Why pay if I dont know if I'll even use it?

That being said, I can't think of any better way of asking without being obtrusive to the user. I guess you could have some really pointless badge or something you unlock by donating which could help prompt users later down the line, but I cant imagine the FOSS community would be a big supporter of that.
I always agreed with you but 5 years ago I made the switch and I’ll never go back.

Using Ubuntu, Fedora or any other distro with either a large community or a clear funding path (like PopOS) is great. The “2 guys made a distro and have no funding or way to monetize their work” isn’t a Linux problem it’s a business model problem.
I think people have a poor understanding of just how far to the right the median American is on the issues the Supreme Court regularly handles. Remember, the majority of American support school prayer, think abortion should be illegal after the first trimester, and think that race shouldn't be a factor in college admissions or employment. Even in the latest Gallup polls, only 37% of Americans think the current Supreme Court is "too conservative": https://news.gallup.com/poll/4732/supreme-court.aspx
It’s tongue in cheek - the original site had squares not the advertised “rectangles” - even though a square is a type of rectangle most people consider rectangles to be the non-squares.
I'm not sure if this applies to this situation - this individual was working on it full time, as a co-founder of a startup. They wanted to continue working on it in their spare time after finding a new job, but their co-founder didn't want them involved anymore. I don't think the open source nature really comes into it, they wished to continue working on their baby, which is totally understandable.
Zelda BOTW is just the first NES Zelda for the modern era.

Nintendo's open-world is the only open-world I liked.

I can't get immersed in GTA's open world because I'm just a random going on a killing spree for 15 minutes then shut the game down.

I hated Skyrim, the world is big but empty. There is nothing particular about the landscape that makes me want to "go there". Most of the time, I discovered areas because I was going in straight lines.

Zelda on the other hand, I was like "oh wow, a mountain split in two, I wanna see it". The landscape view makes you want to see what's going on and act as a map ("oh so the gemini mountain is on my right, I must be at XXX"). You're on top of a tower, look at the volcano, and you're like "what is that thing moving on the horizon". Same thing for pretty much all divine beasts.

The other nice thing about BOTW's open world is the map. You don't need it. In The Witcher 3 you have a GPS that tells you where to go. When people tells you to go somewhere in this Zelda, you ask people, you look at the road signs, and you go there. This makes the world much more realistic and less empty because you need to interact with it.

To go to the Goron village, you have many ways of doing it, stockpile a huge amount of food to heal while you burn, or go around and talk to people to find the potion. If you choose to stockpile food, you need to hunt, to cook, and to interact with the world once again.

The world is part of the game play, unlike many other open world games where the world is just the scenery where the game play take place.