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Open edX / OpenCraft | Full-time | TRUE REMOTE (async/worldwide) | Senior Open Source Developer on Open edX - React, Python/Django, AWS/Kubernetes

Do you care about contributing to open-source, and appreciate a good challenge? We do too! :)

Open-source

We are a team of veteran open-source developers, working on educational and community-based projects in an open-first environment – and we are looking for new members. By joining us, you will work full-time on open-source, pushing your changes to free software projects upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation, or help on public forums.

We care deeply about contributing our work upstream. You will see the results of your work reused and recognized across the educational community, increasing access to quality education for everyone, everywhere.

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Unlike companies who reluctantly started to accept remote workers recently, we have embraced it from day 1. For the past 7 years, we have based and refined our way of working around remote-friendly workflows, from the ground up. No day-long video meetings, mandatory work hours, or risk of being forced back into an office one day -- as long as you have a good internet connection, it’s none of our business when or where you work from. :)

We are all working remotely, from all continents (except Antarctica, at least so far - applicants welcome!). We use remote-friendly and timezone-agnostic workflows based on asynchronous principles and good documentation practices.

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We are one of the main contributors to the Open edX project, the main open-source MOOC platform created by MIT, Harvard and many other top universities. It powers sites like edX.org, the MIT Open Learning Library, and the national online learning platform for France. We provide development and hosting for institutions like Harvard Medical School, Harvard LabXchange, Cloudera, Autodesk, and several governments. We are not affiliated with edX.org, but we contribute and work with them on various projects.

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Job description: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VgA7geR5oAsHzTRnldm6KU7L...
Google AI ethicists and other researchers would be wise to recognize the delta between why Google ostensibly has them, and why Google actually has them. If they aren't tailoring their research to whatever Google executives want to hear, then they aren't doing what they're actually being paid for. And if they want to be honest researchers instead of corporate whores, they picked the wrong company to work for.

Would an honest climatologist last long working for Exxon? Would an honest cancer researcher last long working for Phillip Morris?
I'm surprised news outlets still report that Timnit Gebru was fired. It's at best disputed.

This case looks much clearer; he was terminated with cause.
Manifold Markets | Software & UX Eng | REMOTE | Full Time | https://mni.fo/jobs

Manifold Markets is a platform for user-created prediction markets. Our goal is to create the largest, most accessible, and most impactful forecasting platform by allowing users to create and participate in their own prediction markets.

We're super impact-focused. As of today, we're open source, and support donations to charities! Check it out: https://manifoldmarkets.substack.com/p/manifold-for-good-man...
- Machine Learning Research Scientist | Fully Remote | Full-time

- Machine Learning Research Engineer| Fully Remote | Full-time

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## About us d-MATRiX is developing a novel hardware system and a full-stack software solution to accelerate large-scale modern deep neural network compute workloads for the cloud. Leveraging a unique combination of in-memory computing and digital signal processing system design, in-memory compute array design, and on-chip and chip to chip interconnect fabric, d-MATRiX's AI compute engine holds the promise of drastically improving power-efficiency and compute latency of cloud inference workloads, by orders of magnitude compared to competition.

## The team and the role The Machine Learning Team is responsible for the R&D of core algorithm-hardware co-design capabilities in d-MATRiX's end-to-end solution. You will be joining a team of exceptional people enthusiastic about researching and developing state-of-the-art efficient deep learning techniques tailored for d-MATRiX's AI compute engine. You will also have the opportunity of collaboration with top academic labs, and help customers to optimize and deploy workloads for real-world applications on our systems.

For questions, please reach out at twebb@d-matrix.ai
this is possibly, but yields go way down, in some cases by 50% or more. the amount of land that will need to be utilized for food growth will have to drastically increased.

not saying this is a bad thing. soil regeneration and more sustainable farming practices are a good thing Imo. it's just that we can't switch to that instantly. yield goes down, takes time to switch, cost likely will increase to make the same $/acre of land, etc.
> The newer tomb raider games are the most AAA games I’ve ever seen

uncharted, horizon, god of war, last of us etc
The link submitted by OP loads perfectly fine in Firefox (current version). Maybe check your settings?
I still find Rust a disappointment. I thought Cyclone was a good idea but it hurts so much to watch people to struggle doing what should be very simple things in Rust. People are re-writing the Software Tools by Kernighan and Plauger. C took over the world because books like that made it look easy.

I like the idea of being able to guarantee properties of the compiled code but the properties that Rust is guaranteeing aren't really that exciting.

That is, we have systems of memory allocation and resource management that almost work in C++, Java and other languages. Rustifarians would claim they've removed the almost (if the program compiles) but there are programs that will never get written, features that will be added, bugs that will never get fixed because of the extra complexity. So the "almost" doesn't really go away.

I like the idea of a flexible compiler that supports a lot of metaprogramming, has a theorem prover to prove that application-specific constraints hold, and writes code that meshes with a bespoke runtime. (e.g. imagine a C++ designed to support what people really do with C++) Unfortunately it kills the whole idea of importing libraries, so it is still an "almost".

The C implementation for Arduino drives me absolutely up the wall. AVR8 has as many registers as the old IBM 360 (a lot!), the programs I write can run entirely with statically allocated memory, I almost want to cry writing AVR8 or ARM assembler and still having to hook into C libraries with calling conventions and futzing around with the stack that are providing features the application doesn't really need... And there is that Rube Goldberg CMAKE build system that could have only been inspired by autotools.

That's how "almost" is the enemy of the good.
You're just making it worse by trying to gatekeep whatever others should comment. My original comment has a point and is on-topic for the thread regardless if you agree or not. You're just dragging this unproductive and offtopic conversation you started.

Please stop dragging this needlessly with ad-hominem attacks.
The Hardest Climb
> This does not seem like a valid use case for driving on public roads.

Driving in the snow often requires this because the brake acts as a poor man’s diff lock which gives you more traction. You can see the effect at speeds as low as 30kph in snow – a nice slow speed even in the city.
I actually have real life - if anecdotal - experience to answer this. I cut to decaf from a 3 large cups a day habit of black coffee over a year ago.
My productivity has actually gone up. I am mainly attributing this to the reduction in anxiety and how it has allowed my mind to slow down and better focus. I find that I am better able to keep on tasks and manage my to do lists.
I was a heavy coffee drinker under the same assumption that I could not function without it or would be slow, plus I love the taste.
Turns out regular exercise and good sleep have far more impact on my productivity.
Nightwatch.io | 100% Remote | Full-time & Part-time

Cultivating non-corporate, friendly and bootstrapped remote environment.

At Nightwatch we are looking for a long-term back-end developer with devops knowledge who would like to gain knowledge and skills on a distributed global product systems.

Nightwatch helps some of the more successful global companies understand the visibility of their websites on search engines and can make the best decisions for their SEO growth.

We are looking for a person who has high moral standards and, with his early upbringing, has acquired the necessary knowledge and tools on how to effectively deal with problems and the accumulation of knowledge, and the skills of communication and effective cooperation with other homo sapiens.

It is important to us that you have core values that are compatible with ours. These values are:
1. Reliability and responsibility (we can rely on you in moments when the server does not respond even if you're enjoying a beer with your friends),
2. Autonomy (without having to write you the whole procedure of how to determine the effectiveness of a particular service by measuring, you can determine this yourself and suggest and make the best decisions),
3. Proactivity (you can suggest and identify appropriate changes and improvements to the system at a given time).

We use a whole bunch of interesting technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, Clickhouse, Postgres, Ruby, Elixir, Rust, Go.

We do not expect you to fully cover the technical requirements from the beginning. In addition to the qualities above, the ability to learn quickly and the desire to progress are important. More than taking advantage of all earning opportunities, it is important for us to solve a concrete addressable problem in the world and help companies and organizations in which we believe.

We value freedom, authonomy, ownership, good communication.

Senior Back-end Developer (Ruby, Elixir, Go): https://nightwatch.io/jobs/backend-developer

Back-end / Devops person (Amazon, Kubernetes, Go, Rust): https://nightwatch.io/jobs/backend-developer

Product Owner: https://nightwatch.io/jobs/product-manager

Front-end Developer: https://nightwatch.io/jobs/frontend-developer
> You just have to set it up to fully power down the GPU.

Can you please tell us a bit more?

I have a NVidia + Intel GPU. I was thinking about using the NVidia for KVM (the NVidia would be powered down when not using KVM), and the Intel for native linux display with Pop or Ubuntu 22 LTS as another attempt to use Wayland (since I read NVidia GPUs can cause many issues)
Awesome, I'm sending it your way right now :) I'd love to have your feedback on it.

PS: Let me know if you haven't received it or if it's in your spam folder.
Water is very heavy. The energy expenditure (AKA fossil fuel burned) to lift water over the mountains between the PNW and Southern CA would be massive and defeat any climate change progress.

A fraction of that energy/investment put toward using water more efficiently in agriculture (in both the physical and economic sense) would make a bigger difference.
An LSM-Tree Index for Spatial Data
When food prices double/triple/quadruple in the next few years I think people will quickly adapt simply because they won't be able to afford to throw out any food.
> For the U.S. military, Hamilton said, “if the tank is destroyed and the crew survives, you can make another tank more quickly than you can train another crew.”
For Russia, “the people are as expendable as the machine,” he said. “The Russians have known about this for 31 years — you have to say they’ve just chosen not to deal with it.”
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It doesn’t leave earth, but commercial farming practices lets all those nutrients run-off to pollute the water systems instead of being retained in the soil. Where they end up is difficult to recover.

Furthermore, soil needs to be alive, and commercial farming practices kills it every year. So instead of building up soil fertility year after year, external inputs is added year after year in a self-destructive cycle.
Can you give an example? I’ve never seen it myself. What do you find the most impressive about it? Any links where those parts can be seen in action? Also, what would be the closest competitor, and in what regard are they worse?
Exactly! SOPHIA is not just the bird herself. How many jobs of historical interest are going away here? (No, I don't think we should keep all jobs forever) How many seasons of a reality show could be made about the person who maintains the telescope itself? The telescope support system? Heck, even the engineering of Ye Olde 747-400 and how different it is from other 747s in terms of maintenance costs and procedures.

Yes, lots of those are just 'nerdy interests' but there are families who have built lives around supporting SOPHIA and likely at least some involved in Kuiper before her, and we're gointg to shut it all down, we should at least record what it was like before it stops, what it was like before they weld the airplane doors shut so morons don't try to parkour inside, get injured, and sue the museum etc., a necessary activity that still restricts the public from more fully understanding what this entire system (bird, observatory, support structures, experiments, results, an dmore) was like, and that's in a best case where NASA puts SOPHIA on display somewhere instead of the much more common [park her and cannibalize her parts, move her to a boneyard, scrap her] pipeline that ends most (admittedly pretty common) birds.
And how would you go about halving the population? Who should die?
Per TFA, the story is not really about an insufficient production capacity, but an increase in the cost of the inputs. The product is (literally in some cases) on the shelves, but at a price that impairs or breaks the farmer's unit economics.

Nitrogen fertilizers are, basically, a fossil fuel product. The dramatic increase in price reflects the increase in the price of natural gas. Agricultural phosphate is competing with more profitable application in LFP batteries [1], so prices are rising.

More resilient production for agricultural inputs and support of farming that builds on local conditions to require fewer inputs would be nice.

[1]: https://www.producer.com/news/china-cuts-phosphate-exports-t...
How I frame data questions to make analyses more useful
Battery stats are available in the Battery System Pref pane and that has not changed. There is also some health information in the System Profiler (Apple Menu/About This Mac/System Report).
Machine learning-aided engineering of hydrolases for PET depolymerization
SEEKING WORK | Renewable Energy consultant

Research portfolio and contact info: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=a0oog-YAAAAJ&hl=en

CV/Resume available on request

Location: Canada, Ontario
Remote: Yes
Technologies: Utility-scale wind, solar PV, battery storage.
Areas: Technology design, feasibility evaluation, performance evaluation
Nearly everywhere cattle can graze, you can grow other crops.

As a percentage of all livestock land usage, there is not much chicken, goat, or pig grazing left in the world.

It is true most other livestock CAN utilize land that can't be used efficiently for other forms of agriculture. In practice, less so.
Pilots Contend with Record Number of Laser Strikes, FAA Says
He's come a long way since yelling at hard drives in Sun's data centre:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

* https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2008-12-31/unusual-disk-la...
In healthy soil phosphorous is released by fungi and bacteria from the sand, silt, and clay. Nobody fertilizes forests or native prairies and they are doing just fine on phosphorous.
Pretty slick! I wish we had this a long time ago. At the time, our testing infrastructure was a bunch of very flaky Selenium tests that we would run on through SauceLabs. The tests were super slow, mainly because we tried to reduce flakiness by buffering clicks/interactions with sleep() commands. All around, a painful experience which developers hated, which meant engineers did everything they could to avoid adding/modifying tests. It was the worst vicious cycle.

Biggest concern I would have is portability. One benefit of testing suites, when done right, is they gain more coverage over time, especially against regression bugs. I would be very concerned about building up a large suite of tests for my most critical flows on proprietary tech that could be rendered worthless in an instant if the company goes bust, decides to pivot, etc.
People aren’t willing to have the conversation that acknowledges

1) most men aren't attractive to women at no fault of their own and aren't included in the perceptions of consensually hooking up with or dating men. Its easier to denigrate a man that ever speaks up about a poor experience dating (your profile wasn't good, your game wasn't good)

2) that men have any trouble at all. so a lot of people have withdrawn from that conversation.

Giving that there is a symbiosis involved, the experience of all genders is all part of the same discussion.
They are not all that different until two particles or two strings are involved. In quantum mechanics, "either one string is vibrating or the other" is a state the strings can be in, and a state that can be added or subtracted from other states. In classical mechanics you can say "half of the energy is in a low frequency vibration and half is in a high frequency vibration," which is roughly equivalent (mathematically, not conceptually) to a single particle either being in a high or low state - but as for two strings, either one is vibrating or the other, and you might not know which one is vibrating, but one is.
Cars are not built only for public roads.
You don't get to make decisions for me on the basis of what is necessary from your perspective.
I really like this! Though I'm still going precede everything with TODO like so:

TODO([person], [subtypes...]) [message]

Just as a catch all, in case w/e tool (or other people) don't grok the subtypes of TODO, or in case I encounter a new subtype I'd like to use. And at this point I think TODO is pretty ubiquitous.
Many products are made inferior/worse for the purposes of price discrimination. Inkjet printers, lap tops, Tesla vehicles, etc…

Remember that Tesla can just send a OTA update to remove artificial software limits on the same battery capacity during disasters (Model S and X with the same battery capacity).
> Similarly, a sure-fire way to tell someone hasn't lived in a place where you haven't needed a car for every aspect of life is when they criticize anti-car policy without engaging with the deeper reasons behind it :)

I think this is mostly a straw man or nut picking. From what I can tell, there aren't many rural people arguing that rural transit policy should be imposed on urban areas, but rather the debate is about whether or not policies that arguably make sense in an urban environment should be imposed on the rest of the country. Notably, rural people have enough exposure to urban environments that they understand that urban environments differ from rural environments, but not so much the other way around: e.g., everyone watches the same entertainment media that is almost invariably set in urban environments and most people have traveled to an urban area for business or pleasure, but there's very little media set in a rural environment and "rural tourism" isn't exactly a popular pastime of urbanites.

> I think a lot of the pushback against cars have to do with the popularization of human-centric design movements that question the assumption that cars are the pinnacle of transportation that American cities have operated from since about the 1950s. An easy example is the idea of "induced demand" [1] that shows even from a pure engineering perspective that the cost-benefit math for cars has long been unfairly weighted towards cars by outside forces.

Sure, I actually agree with a lot of this. I would like to see American cities and suburbs become more walkable, and I'm sure the car industry lobbied for car-centric planning, jay-walking laws, etc. My criticism isn't that anti-car policies are unfounded or they don't make sense anywhere, but that the anti-car movement is generally ignorant (in a literal sense, not pejoratively) of the non-urban world.

> We're seeing a lot of pressure around housing and energy and social policy in general which in turn is making us question decisions we've made, culturally, in history, like can we really sustain the building of less dense housing for our growing population?

Yes, outside of urban areas we certainly can do this for the foreseeable future. Most of America isn't constrained by space.

> I'm rambling now, but I get frustrated when people dismiss concerns like that out of hand.

No one is dismissing these concerns out of hand--I'm only arguing that the policies that policies which assume a high degree of density don't make sense in areas where that assumption is incorrect. This seems almost tautological.

> but I still think it's worth interrogating these assumptions we've carried to see if there's a better way we could be living life.

Fully agree. I think we could have a lot more productive conversations if we started by reimagining collectively rather than asserting how others should live their lives (without demonstrating any understanding of their concerns).
If I remember correctly, people regularly shelled out $5,000 plus for those Thinkpads. They had some insane “Rolls-Royce” type of support for business executives.
What actually happens is that the new bone material is initially gelatinous, so as you lengthen the gap, the gelatinous material is elongated and doesn't harden (at least not in the in the middle of the gap).

The rate of hardening and the rate of gap extension should be optimized to create the best bone quality. I wonder if then science to find the correct balance has been done.