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Location: Vancouver, BC Canada

Remote: Yes but office is fine later

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Skills:

Property-based testing
Technical writing
Functional programming
Conceptual design of new features
Basic SQL like CTEs/Aggregates/Window functions
Converting math/stats functions to programs
Metaprogramming like CI and dependency management
Tools like Git, wrangling textual data with the shell

Resume: Working in non-tech labour (w/security clearance)

Email: jb3946170@gmal.com

Looking for apprentice or internship. I primarily audit university courses and whatever stack you're using I can learn from TypeScript to C++, and I'm careful to never ask the same question twice to avoid bothering engineers on Slack. Any role where I can slither my way in to eventually working on the code so open to user support, technical writing, QA/testing oracles, or even bounty-style work for PRs solving open issues.
With “electrification” Germans shouldn’t have unique hardware advantages when it comes to the car industry
That's reallyhelpful. I am building youtube integration right now and noticed how the search results are really weird.
>Those places would have come out better if we all did this.

If we all did what, exactly?

I live in Canada. We shut down our economy, spent vast amounts of money on social supports, had wide vaccine and booster adoption...and had similar results to many countries that did far less than that.

Our smallest province had, literally, zero deaths and a handful of hospitalizations for over a year into the pandemic. It was an example to the world. Then Omicron hit and that province had one of the worst infection rates in the world. Almost like nothing they did mattered and it was just a matter of time...

>In this case the dissidents even use this argument to show that the better choices didn't work

And the conformists keep moving the goalposts, claiming we didn't do enough. You need to tell people what they need to do, and for how long, and then you're kinda hemmed in. We were told vaccines would get us "back to normal" (even that they prevented the spread). It turned out they were remotely as effective as claimed. How long can normal people be offered that carrot, then have to backtrack, before they revolt?

I agree that global coordination would be fantastic, but probably impossible.
There's also the reverse issue - if they change after your process is started.

Refreshing an environment variable that has changed is (for me) a line I won't cross. Time to write the app a different way, once that becomes a concern.
Yeah, the install function of npm/yarn/pnpm are all incredbly slow. And also seems to get slower super-linearly with the number of dependencies. I have one project where it can take minutes (on my 2015 MacBook - admittedly it’s quicker on my brand new machine) just to add one be dependency and re-resolve the lock file. If that can solved by a reliable tool I’d definitely switch!
No.

Thats not how search engine optimisation works. Neither in theory nor in the real world.
At the time I’m talking about that was a proprietary forge for bzr, Canonical’s unnecessary version of baz, which was the community fork of tla, which was the GNU experiment in DVCS with an even worse interface than git.
> Incredibly, climate denial still festers. “There’s no cliff,” they insist. “This bus is on a smooth road that goes all the way to the promised land. Only a fool would swerve now.”

I think I get the main theme, but I don't think "climate cliff" is a useful analogy. It makes one picture a scene of relative calm until suddenly (and abruptly) the shit hits the fan, when the reality is going to be far more messy. (Just look at all those historians who could never agree on exactly what year the Roman Empire fell.)

If anything, it will make people argue "Well, we haven't hit the cliff yet, which means we still have time," or, worse, "They've preached that we will hit the cliff by 2020, a bunch of liars!"

I think the fictional "denialist" in the sentence is actually half right. Instead of a cliff, we will have a smooth ride... to hell. We will never have one glorious catastrophe where we get to say "I told you so" five seconds before dying. Instead, half of the passengers will still be arguing that we're fine while we're slowly dying.
In case anyone wanted to run SteamOS on metal (or inside a VM), the more user friendly approach is probably to use HoloISO from https://github.com/theVakhovskeIsTaken/holoiso.

They've managed to get things working like the Deck UI, Gamescope, and other internal components.
I know of many people who believe Google Analytics to be unnecessary & poor quality. Many would argue you can get just as good, if not better info from just using Google Search Console. None of these sources I've heard from have been concerned with a penalty. I unfortunately don't have citations for you.

A counter argument would be if you use Google Analytics for more advanced tracking of user features, such as A/B testing & tracking how users interact with your site.
And I removed it from a lot of client websites. Just do it.
> It's also not possible to block a contact if you have previously communicated with them without first deleting the contact from your address book. Why FM can't just do that automatically (and indeed, why it is a requirement in the first place) I have no idea - but it is really annoying.

I'm seeing this kind of complaint a lot and I wonder if people that need this kind of business level functionality considered that Fastmail is not a CRM solution. Its designed for email and it has very limited features for contacts and calendar. IMHO if you want that level of control you really should be using a full on CRM solution like ZohoCRM.
Without global coordination it's a wash. With global coordination it might have made a difference.
Last week youtube decided to start pushing pus / pimple popping videos, and push them hard. I've never shown interest, this was purely the algorithm's idea.

Gross.

I had to install an extension to get it to stop because "Not Interested" and "Don't Recommend Channel" don't work in search results, even though they are turning search results into just another front page :/
Thanks for reposting this. The last link submitted by me only got 3 upvotes. Guess it sounded just too crazy to be true 2 days ago!
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The whole global economy is built around cheap energy sources that also happen to be at least 100 times more efficient than solar, wind, or even nuclear. Petroleum is BY FAR the most efficient way of storing energy.

Wind and solar power are both intermittent. That's fine if you live in a coastal city in a temperate zone, but most people in the world do not. So efficient energy storage becomes a huge problem. And we have two main timecycles for which we have to store energy: capturing it during the day and releasing it at night (to charge all those EVs) and also capturing it during the summer and releasing it over the winter. That would require longer-term storage AND while we can capture the most energy during the summer, that's also the highest period of use because the world is now also air-conditioned.

If you end petroleum production, that also ends all plastic production. So all the cheap gewgaws from China disappear.

Also, did you know that solar panels are made from firing coal and quartz together at high temperatures? Do you know why they're all made in China? Because of much less strict environmental regulations there. Did you also know that solar panels have a lifespan of only 15-20 years, and that they're not recyclable?

I could go on and on, but there's no magic "alternative energy source" that even comes close to being able to provide stable power at a cost that comes anywhere close to petroleum, not to mention how portable petroleum is as an energy source. Nuclear power is the only thing that even comes close, but it's fraught with trouble as well.

You think there will be solar-powered shipping vessels? Trains are electric, but you know what runs the electric motors on them? The on-board diesel generators!

The global economy is based on cheap energy sources. Increase the cost and reduce the availability of the energy sources and yeah, you'll destroy the economy.
Those charts are unfortunately not truthful. They are designed to manipulate people into taking vaccines. In other countries with more truthful approaches to data what you see is close to no effectiveness against death anymore, and seriously negative effectiveness against infection i.e. the vaccinated get infected a lot more often than the unvaccinated do.

The way public health agencies like Canada's manipulate the data is as follows:

1. They use a form of statistical adjustment called test negative case control. This is meant to remove bias from observational data, to go from "case rates by vaccine status" to "how effective the vaccine is". But to do this it critically relies on the assumption that people don't control whether they get tested for a disease or not. For many diseases this is somewhat reasonable, because people don't control if they feel sick and they don't control what tests a doctor decides to use. For COVID this assumption obviously doesn't hold, and as such this adjustment method goes wrong such that it raises perceived effectiveness incorrectly.

2. They don't count someone as vaccinated for a relatively long time after they took their shots (like, weeks or even longer). There is no biological basis for this - try and find one, whilst remembering that the spikes are meant to be fully gone within one or two days. This creates two forms of bias: it creates a period of time in which the vaccinated cannot die (a denominator issue), and also, the vaccines are immunosuppressants. This was confirmed by a Pfizer document released after the judge ordered disclosure in the FDA lawsuit. That is, the vaccine itself makes you more likely to be infected by things in the time period immediately after taking it. It means the vaccination pulls forward infections into the "taken it but not yet officially vaccinated" territory, where they're allocated incorrectly to the unvaccinated bucket.

Public health tries very hard to keep this fact a secret. At one point the government of Alberta accidentally published a graph of COVID-19 cases indexed by days after vaccination. We know it was accidental because it showed the immunosuppressant effect extremely clearly, and the moment people noticed the graph was there they simply deleted it:

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-government-of-albert...

Gone without explanation.

There are other tricks but you get the idea. Public health agencies are not trustworthy. They want you to take vaccines, they want you to take a lot of them, and they will happily abuse people's trust by redefining common words, or by knowingly using invalid statistical methodologies, if it allows them to convince more people to follow their instructions.
Indexes typically only speed up reads while also slowing down writes (sometimes massively).

SARGability of the queries is also needed to effectively use the indexes.
If I can manage to store all the data from HN comments and submissions in 99 GB (31993925 "items", in a very naive way), we should be able to have a DB with most common translations for most web apps way below that, closer to 1GB, if some clever people do it :)
And we need to ban binary downloads from vendor sites as well, as those pose the exact same risks? Good luck with that!
If the M the V and the C are roles with not fixed functionality or purpose (given that you apparently can put anything you want in them) then what _is_ MVC?
If any of them live in London (and they surely do) then I'm not surprised.

Renting (or buying) a modest 3 bed (say 1000 sq feet) terraced home inside an hours commute of central London will easily eat 50% of what you take home out of a £100K salary. Factor in the incredible cost of child care (meaning it's barely worth your partner working unless they're also in a highly paid career), saving for retirement, and the steadily increasing cost of living (fuel, food, energy) and raising kids, and you're not really leading a life of luxury or building any wealth.
The game is up for the tech monopolies, happy days.
Also the biggest problem to solve for the climate crisis is to solve for diesel fuel. If you could replace Diesel engines with anything else or curb their emissions that is the biggest contributor to CO2.
making money is not the motive for some. this database will be very useful going forward. imagine the leverage you could have over business dealings.

some guys at the top of the game are probably already doing this and have figured out how to both insulate themselves and launder/hide data they horde.
Awesome, thanks this clears it up. And are these reserves measured, inferred or indicated? Is there a PFS?
How the world's first sand battery stores green power
This misses the problem.

Countless, countless, countless iOS devs, even extremely high-profile ones like Marco Arment, can talk all day long about problems they've had with App Review and the capriciousness of the App Store. Tons of high-profile, reputable devs can talk about specific apps they were making or wanted to make, never saw the light of day, not because the apps violate App Store policy, but because App Review is such a minefield that they didn't want to bother.

Apple literally publicly said that devs criticising the App Store, or App Review practices, could expect retaliation.

It's insane that devs are expected to only provide apps through a single storefront, that operates at such a huge scale that moderation is necessarily arbitrary, mostly algorithmic, and inconsistent. The App Store monopoly is indefensible.
> Thunderbolt vs USB. Again whole world vs Apple.

WAT.

Maybe you mean Lightning vs. USB? Well, it turns out that while a whole committee was designing 15 different and confusing standards over the past 20 years, Apple designed two, and they work.

Now it's suddenly "Apple vs. the world" because the USB committee managed to spit out a semi-functional spec that ... Apple was the first to actually go full in with their desktop offerings, pissing so many people off.
The WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/vast-cache-of-chinese-police-fi...

https://archive.ph/02v3p
I almost had a heart attack from laughing so hard. Thanks for that.
> Facebook can't ask people to sideload some privacy destroying crap on iOS

That is arguably the responsibility of the OS and the user. Lots of ways to do that. Examples: Network, no network access unless use gives permission. App manifest lists up to 10 domains or "all". If "all", user is prompted "App would like to access entire network Y/N"?

What else is there? Camera access? Camera can be multiple permissions (a) User gives app full access (b) User gives app access only when app is active (c) User doesn't give access. Note: iOS already does a good job at this. I don't give the Messenger app access to my camera, nor do I give it direct access to photos, only selected ones.

Same with NFC etc. I'm guessing Apple will come up with clever ways to allow the user to limit access.

Bluetooth, no idea what they do here and I don't know bluetooth but I'd just guess devices have ids and the OS could require an app to list a limited id filter so an app can only talk to devices built for that app unless the user gives blanket permission

I suppose FB can put an app on another store that doesn't run without full access. If user says "no" then app says "can't run". That's fine. I won't run it. Individual stores are still allowed to enforce their own rules. I can't imagine Apple's store to not be the dominate store and therefore apps from it will be safer. (Unless someone steps up to make an even safer store ;)
In theory you already have the choice of opting-in by choosing not to install apps that utilize NFC, hardware APIs, other payment processors, etc.

But that's if nothing changed. My concern is that if companies are given the opportunity to have their own stores, and their own payment processors, we're going to end up with de-facto-forced-install of a store and acceptance of terms, and it favors companies that already have a strong presence in the marketplace. I might want to use WhatsApp, but now I need to install Meta's store, and I'm required to give it access to a blanket set of permissions.

And guess who doesn't have the power/influence to get you to install a custom store: The small devs, the new entrants, the challenger apps.
It doesn't really matter, does it? As analogies go it's pretty clear what the message is and for that purpose this metaphor is good enough. Any arguing over the shape of the metaphor is essentially pointless, if you didn't get it then it doesn't matter because you are clearly not the target audience, and if you did get it you realize that it is a leaky abstraction, but a useful one nonetheless.
> They don't buy on the open market like a normal person would. They buy from Coinbase or other large exchanges off market.

If they were being responsible about it (or, at least, as responsible as any government speculating in cryptocurrency could be), they would.

But, according to Bukele himself [1], these purchases are made from an app on Bukele's personal mobile phone. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they were buying through an over-the-counter exchange.

[1]: https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1467333081505976323
It seems better for birthdate to be stored in the database and age just to be calculated when needed?
"You tasked me with translating this scene, so since you gave me a general programming language I used a buffer overflow to break out into the animation engine and animate your characters to use sign language."

Jokes aside I don't hate the idea and is actually quite positive to writing translation in code. I am a bit questioning of why you would need a new language for it though, why not use an existing programming language?

As others pointed out here the biggest downside I can see is that it would be harder to outsource.
Jordan Peterson always says that, when it comes to predicting success in life, IQ has the highest predictive value of all the traits that we can currently measure.
What's stopping Signal from creating their own native MacOS app?
Brave search. Search for brave search, and you're back to when google was good.

https://search.brave.com/

(Not affiliated with brave at all, just really impressed by their search engine)
Hey Microsoftie reading this page! Yes you! Could you please tell your VP they should buy or build this into the OS? Thanks!
I would, after this and switch to usb-c. 3 months ago I was deciding where to put 1300 euro, apple vs samsung top of the line, and samsung won. This was 1 out of cca 4-5 points that decided it (sideloading, notch, usb-c, better zoom photos for family/nature, weight... apple had only battery as plus).

Firefox mobile with ublock origin (and other plugins) makes general internet seriously usable.

Sideloading for me is not about some cracked games. I have older (otherwise still good) Pioneer receiver that had failing remote, and official (but unsupported and removed from store) app to control it. Otherwise I need to shell 500-1000$ for new one of comparable quality.

Clearly, for some obscure reason nobody can explain, not everybody in this world has your mindset, values and decisions. Something to learn here.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how well done this article is.

It's like the AAA studio equivalent of a tech article.
Minus the word "incredibly" which is quite an exaggeration, I agree. But, it can be made pretty safe. Entirely safe in fact, for good drivers (less so for shoddy ones)

The fine details of implementation are not noted so we can only speculate. I would hope it's designed to very gradually start limiting the speed after X seconds of alerting the driver. That said, even the most naive design, which would work the same as RPM limiters (which all cars have to avoid engine damage) would just cut fuel injection whenever over the limit. This produces about the same effect as coasting in neutral, so even then you are going to coast to a stop very very gradually and have lots of time to make it to a shoulder.

That said, even that does present some danger -- not to me or you of course, but you know, to shitty drivers who might not be accustomed to driving cars that fail at random and might panic and fail to cope appropriately with the situation. I mean, I have even ridden with drivers who are afraid to stop on the shoulder, even in a situation that warranted it, so it's bound to happen now and then. A manual override if available, will help here, but the pool of drivers dumb enough to still be startled into making a mistake will merely shrink then, not disappear.
Agreed. There are better blocking/muting/filtering systems, and worse ones. Implementations also vary widely. For example, I think the design of filtering on Tumblr is perfectly fine, including keywords, but the implementation is garbage and stuff from blocked users "leaks through" in reblogs. It would be great if there were a widely agreed-upon set of principles (preferably not a formal standard) for how such features should work, but I'm not aware of any. Then again, it's very far from what has ever been my professional specialty so maybe I'm just missing something.
yes, if I claim that the painters did a bad job and they gave me a laundry list of professional reasons for it.. I would consider those reasons before criticizing. would you not?

trying to use painting as an analogous situation like that isnt transferable to the point i am making though. Putting the excuses in their mouth doesnt even make sense. We are presupposing that the painters did a horrible job.. while discussing how to decide whether or not a CEO did a horrible job. The only reason you know the painters did a bad job is because we are saying they did. the only reason we can use painting as an example is because most people can imagine a terrible paint job. i.e. we do have a full scope understanding of what it takes to be a painter. I am saying it is much harder to imagine the role of a CEO and what good results would look like than it is a painter.

Maybe my wording was fuzzy, but I am not saying you need a complete understanding of the CEO's role, but it does need to be of full scope. I see that reads near synonymous, so in other words it may be infeasible to account for the total depth of their role, but at the very least the entire breadth of the role should be looked at. If you default to "i gave you a lot of money to make it happen so it should be perfect" type logic; you're just being a "karen". the cost of something has nothing to do with the results, directly. Money needs to be converted into something that helps the work, and in that process we are all still limited by reality; diminishing returns, supply chains, quality of communication, availability of resources, etc. A CEO is at the focal point of all of this, and is human. Whether they get paid nothing or everything doesnt change how effective they can reasonably be.

But they do deserve criticism. it just needs a lot of work to do it right. you have to provide some sort of evidence that across all scopes of work the trade-offs do not make sense. maybe the CEO sacrifices on every front in order to provide the fastest service in the business and is successful in that. If you leave speed of delivery out of your criticism it becomes a meaningless criticism. "They charge a lot for poor quality". "These painters did a terrible job.. (even though I called them this morning, and they were done by lunch which allowed me to do a walk through with a potential tenant)".

All i'm really trying to emphasize is that we absolutely can criticize a CEO, but if you dont do it properly it is very easily washed away by the many unknowns of the position. however, if it is done right - it would be very damning as they cant default to company policy or directives from above as a scapegoat since they are the ones creating such things.