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SEEKING WORK | Seattle | Remote OK

I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Google Style, with experience at both large and small organizations. I've been using Kubernetes since the very beginning, been actively working at scale, and worked across the stack and with diverse technologies. I'm looking to help small dev teams increase their velocity by implementing best-practices of Devops: CI/CD, Kubernetes Deployments, and effective Monitoring frameworks.
My current availability is limited; I'm well stocked on clients though trying to increase throughput and wrap up some projects. I'm available for consulting on your initial setup, for fixing your build, as well as on retainer for operational Oncall. I'm actually quite busy at the moment, but happy to have a conversation if you've got something small or forward-looking, or happy to forward it on to my network.

My resume: https://resume.gauntletwizard.net/ThomasHahnResume.pdf

My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-hahn-3344ba3/

My Github: https://github.com/GauntletWizard
How did you managed to draw such a firm conclusions out of the morass of confounding effects that is the reality of the social sciences on a global scale?

Please share your methodology!
NASA ADS | One Search/Back-End Engineer + One DevOps Engineer | Cambridge, MA (US) or Remote from US | Full-time | VISA Sponsorship Available

The NASA Astrophysics Data System (the world-leading scientific literature search engine in Astronomy & Astrophysics) is seeking two talented engineers (a DevOps and a Search/Back-end engineer) to maintain and improve the data pipelines, as well as to support the search engine and the ADS natural language processing/machine learning efforts.

- The Search/Back-end Engineer will work on improving our custom Apache Solr search engine (requires Java & search knowledge) and our back-office data pipelines (requires Python knowledge).

- The DevOps Engineer will manage our infrastructure, which consists on-premise Linux servers and a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud (AWS).

Job descriptions: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/careers/

Typical entry salary range of 75-115K with annual revisions + generous benefits.

We encourage applications from minorities, women, protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and all other qualified applicants.

Your contribution will be open source and it will have a world-wide impact in the astronomy community!

Hiring process:

1. Apply through the USAjobs links provided in https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/careers/. In USAjobs, select Cambridge as location (even if you wish to be considered as a full remote employee from the US), if you do not have a Social Security Number (e.g., foreign nationals) write a random number (different from 1234..), and not all documents listed in USAjobs are required (e.g., School Transcript only necessary if you are using education to qualify for the position instead of experience), send us an email if you have questions or difficulties: adshelp@cfa.harvard.edu

2. For applications that fulfill the requirements, the candidate will be contacted by email to setup a 1 hour online technical interview (no preparation in advance). Short-listed candidates will go through a second and final interview, where there will be some additional technical questions/exercises and the candidate will have about 15 minutes to present some past project or technology (relevant for the position).

NASA ADS: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
Operating in the world means accepting a threshold of risk, sure. You can account for some as best you can without necessarily being overly restrictive, it's just hard to have an intuition of the odds when all you can address are black-and-white scenarios like "could someone be kidnapped right now, and how easily?". The mere cognizance is enough to make people fearful, so it requires some perspective to stay even.

I'd have more fear for kids in teenage and young adult years, as either foolishness or being too trusting can lead to ostracization or even jail time.
The answer depends VERY MUCH on RAM.

My M1 with 8GB takes 70-90 minutes per image.

My M1 Pro with 16GB takes 3 minutes per image.
A lot depends on the industry in question. For some things, a 24/7 presence is really needed - network management, many manufacturing processes, power plant and grid operation, etc.

Moving to shorter working hours simply requires hiring more people to keep those things up and running. Now if hourly wages remain the same then labor costs don't change much and it might even improve hourly productivity (as tired people make more mistakes). However, will the resulting decrease in income for the workers be worth it to them, in terms of having more free time?

To maintain income levels, there would have to be a raise in hourly wages, resulting in an increase in labor costs, which would have to be balanced by a reduction in shareholder dividends and executive salaries and bonuses.

That's the answer to the question. Corporations have been doing everything they can to cut labor costs since the 1970s (global outsourcing and automation) while directing the profits to relatively small group of executives and shareholders, and won't change direction willingly.
I also had a similar problem at some point, where it wasn't possible to use readily available filtering options to find the very narrow niche of job postings that I was looking for. So I hacked together a custom data pipeline that 1) scrapes search engine results every day 2) downloads those page results as HTML content to my laptop 3) breaks down every page into sections 4) for each section, computes several scores based on the presence or absence of certain words or terms, using text similarity tools wherever necessary 5) presents a fresh top-down, custom-scored list of job postings that were just seen on that day for the first time.

To give you an idea of the kind of custom-crafted query I'm using:

'site:jobs.lever.co inurl:apply data engineer'

The codebase isn't open-source, but I can share it with you if you're interested.
Miso has hydration w/ a global event event handler.

https://haskell-miso.org/
Unless your product is a billing system, stop right now and go look at using a third party. Zuora, Stripe, etc all have billing platforms you can use. Trust me from hard earned experience that billing system seem "easy" but they really aren't. They are very, very hard to get right and if you fuck up you are gonna overcharge, undercharge or god knows what else and piss your customers off.

Not only that but you'll be stuck in a loop writing features that work out of the box with third party software. Important ones like the ability to change the price, customize the price for a single account, refund money, export to quickbooks, add new products, offer coupons, offer sales, provide quotes to prospects, etc. You don't want to do this! A third party does all this and more.

So yeah. Don't build it! You'll regret doing so! Trust me!
Finally, a U.S. carrier – T-Mobile – touts the power of eSIM
Not even just an electron Linux app?
This would matter in a democracy, but the United States is far from it. Between the electors and gerrymandering the vote of someone who would support climate change actions carry much less weight, a third or less in some cases. With elections costing billions of dollars, and lobbying being legal, a few big corporations can't just influence policy, but literally write it. It doesn't matter if it's 66% or 80% if the people are not represented. Might as well throw in the kids too, they aren't represented either. It's only their future. Even when the people are represented, legislation done through executive orders is trivially squashed by a new incumbent or the Supreme Court packed with religious nuts.
That's not true. Unions are only practically possible because labor laws make it illegal to fire someone for advocating for unionizing, to fire someone for joining a union, and to fire someone for striking (kind of). The law also makes it legally mandatory to negotiate in good faith with a union. Without any of these government interventions, unions could never work.
Text-only version:

https://text.npr.org/137002727
I'm not claiming they shouldn't nor they cannot, for whatever reason they want. I'm just asking if there is any official position/reason provided that I might have missed.
I would never use a hardware 2FA on any service with no other way in. But that doesn't make them not-valuable. For me the ideal setup is a service that offers a SMS verification code or a 2FA token. The 2FA is far more convenient for me, but if I don't have it the SMS is there as a backup and I can get in to unregister or register a new 2FA token.
The two most famous Fascist movements in history replaced democratic governments after initially attacking them as failures for decades beforehand and promising to return the nation to greatness and save it from failure.

They did (most of) the famously bad stuff they are remembered for after they took over and abolished the democracy and its institutions, so no one could stop them.

Many of the people they killed would have lived in democracies all their life. And became targeted because they stood in the way of them politically in that democracy.

So I feel a blanket rule of "you can't call anyone a Fascist in a democracy" is not particularly historically insightful or useful, no matter how many countries and/or dictatorships you've visited.
Humans have 10 fingers. We desire to wear a hundred rings.

It’s not ‘self righteous doomsaying’ to point out we are consuming our planet to extinction and looking for other places to stuff the maw of our human needs.

The solution is to reduce world human population to carrying capacity. As a super apex predator, we need the environment and habitat to survive.

If we polish off resources meant for ecosystems that need to exist to feed us, what we are doing is akin to slicing our fingers for soup because we ran out of carrots.

Want less and no more than you can afford. That’s the idea.
With the 1.4 checkpoint, everything under 40 steps can't be used basically and you only get good fidelity with >75 steps. I usually use 100, that's a good middleground.
To your first question, an emphatic yes. That's the point of labour laws, employers rarely fire people for fun, they do it for economic reasons.

I expected your second and third questions, and I agree with the premise to some extent. If algorithms promote or demote some speech they affect free speech. If you accept that, free speech does not exist online and never can by definition.
It's a spectrum however and it's hard to reason about because recommendation algorithms are complicated, have many parameters and are a black box to consumers.

If a company promotes posts that benefit it financially, that's very far from free speech, if a company promotes posts based on a random generator it's very close to free speech but probably useless to users.

I don't have a bite-sized answer to what must be done, it's a project that must be started and tested in the real world. I'd certainly prefer the government to be in charge of what gets implemented, it's a matter of public good that should not be left to private corporations. My naive, off-the-top of my head idea would be a range of public, open source algorithms cautioned by the government that prevent companies from exploiting their users. There are other softer ideas depending on your beliefs wrt the government, for example you could let all companies use any algorithms but force them to publish them.

To me social media is equivalent to tobacco, sugar and gambling, it's highly toxic, exploits our baser instincts, and cannot be solved by an individualist perspective but social media is a fairly recent phenomenon so I think it'll take a few decades before we grasp the full severity of the problem.

W.r.t the press, I think the problem is apparent but I'm hesitant to answer because I'm not knowledgeable enough about the domain. Often technological solutions get discussed here, like micropayments & cie, which don't seem to be doing well. I think there is something to be said for more diversity in the industry so it's more representative of the people they're supposed to inform, but positive discrimination is a tricky subject. There are also lot of former government employees working for big media companies so we're not starting from a blank state wrt the influence of the government, passing laws could rebalance things but I honestly don't know what form they'd take. I know addressing perverse incentives doesn't have to lead to a curtailing of free speech.
> Or they might have an email address but it not be .edu - in the UK they're .ac.uk for example.

At least you have a common suffix. Around here, a student at the computer science department of the federal university of the Rio de Janeiro state (UFRJ) could have an email at the domain dcc.ufrj.br; yes, universities which got on the Internet early enough have their domains directly on the ccTLD.
I do not consider myself a slacker, in fact I consider myself a miracle worker in terms of the output I generate (in terms of code, business organization, end product, $$$ generated in the long term); but I do not "work" even a fraction of a 5 day work week, I would even admit this to my manager. Do you have any evidence to suggest programmers/engineers/managers who are productive work every moment of a 9AM-5PM day? Literally never seen a person do that before and I've seen some productivity legends. Let's be real here we're all on HN at 3PM on a Thursday.

EDIT: To give context, I'm a software engineer.
Looks like 9.72% vs 9.34% at least from what I can quickly find on Google.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...
I prefer working all the time. It is way more fun to build stuff, especially if that's your own company.
>Grown women on reality TV...

It is worth being careful about judging the present state of society based on social media/marketing (so you buy stuff you don't need) verses reality. i.e. a lot of people are normal IRL but rabid animals on twitter/fb.

Nobody with an ounce of IQ should be watching reality TV (it's just grown up (barely) high school drama). In fact watching TV (in general), makes you dumber and angrier.

I think there are still a lot of people that care about 'stuff'. Maybe other sources of input would be recommended. e.g. ACLU has regular meetings in big cities. Earth-Justice is big (although not sure about meetups).
> I imagine lots of people do not have their email account attached to their phone

I certainly don't.
That feels like blackmail though. They wouldn't have as much incentive to drop the charges if their reputation wasn't also on the line. Ugh
Can you provide direct contact information for someone who can answer questions about these roles?
Awesome to see 4DWW - Four Day Work Week! I wish there was a standard label (explicitly stated in the thread description) to make your company stand out from the rest.

Wherever I end up next after my current company will only be a 4DWW employer, I will not consider the usual five days as a viable option for my life.
What horrible software... I switched to running Teams in Edge on Linux awhile ago to get camera blur and it's just as bad as the native client was...
DAM.
It's only copied to VRAM once when implemented correctly.
> I'm saying intolerance in broader society is an incredible weakness that encourages and gives power to intolerance in the state.

What is your evidence for this statement? Could you provide an example?

> Corporations are taking the place of the state.

Yes. The state’s role is certainly smaller than it was in many western countries (e.g. in the UK) but I don’t know what that has to do with free speech.

Yes, it does matter. If I am an asshole who stirs shit up at a company, I probably won’t find work. If I am an asshole (not breaking the law) the state can’t deny me basic services it provides to its citizens just because I am an asshole.

Can I just ask though: what period would you consider the golden age of free speech? What is the peak from which we are descending?
WTF is that Dao De Jing quote? Laozi did not care about love at all, whether romantic or Christian. I reskimmed https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing to see if maybe I just forgot some passage, but nothing popped up. Anyone have any idea where Brooks is getting this quote from?
Satisfied customer here. I like being the customer, not the product.
Both sides... good vs bad makes it easy
So your solution is to write a browser so you don't have to write JS?

Supposing I just want to create an internal tool that allows me to collaborate in realtime with my colleagues on a document (multiple cursors, everyone editing at once) and I have to do it in an existing browser because I don't write C++ and only have a few weeks to deliver - how would I do this without JS? Also, it needs to work on Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS in FF, Chrome, and Safari.
Fair point—I never got good at “dating” as a standalone skill. I still think that’s the benefit of activity dates over bar/dinner-and-a-movie/whatever dates, though. Doing a thing that you’re both already reasonably confident at helps counteract the anxiety and pressure from being on a date, and if you both have a good time doing the activity it makes follow-on conversions easier and less stressful since you have a common foundation to build and/or fall back on.
Here's a fascinating related Numberphile video with Professor Brian Butterworth on the way our brains see numbers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sPBCxlDQQ
Some researchers don’t agree with this:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/is-pop-mus...
The children on this TV show go along preplanned routes that are vetted by the show and are of course secretly supervised by the tv crews. 3 year olds are not routinely running errands in japan.

Young children do do things at a much younger age independently in japan than america, but it's not like the show.

edit: not to imply the show is fake or anything. It's just a special situation the show is filming.
Knowing that the planet exists and doing its own thing right now, exotic weather patterns and all is amazing
If the US actually started using its military to hit these guys, what would stop them from sending a thousand guys into a large chemical or nuclear plant and creating a disaster that wiped out a city, or more? I find this sort of jingo rhetoric disturbing because the US has never faced an enemy with thousands of troops inside the US and the funding of a nation state. I can imagine an idiot like Trump actually starting something like this up.
Conda environment
To clarify, I'm referring to entities that tout themselves to be a platform for providing customers to express their opinions. For your example, I think a better analogy would be a venue owner that publicly advertises their space to be rented out for events and/or performances. In such case, the owner should have no right to refuse the comedian from hosting a show even if they find them objectionable.
I have the same problem with anything over 512x512 on my M1 Ultra with 128GB. VRAM must be capped.
Linus Trust Tips pulling off another "Trust me, bro!"-warranty here or did they do it properly this time?
My husband is terrified of mathematics but he's a great programmer. I'm no genius when it comes to the subject because it's not my passion. I've only used degree-level math a couple of times in the (mumble) years since I graduated and I had to dig the textbooks out and revise it every time.

My husband and I went to uni together. I dragged him through the mandatory maths units in the computer science degree by reframing the equations we were working on as "a bunch of steps, just like code" and he got through the unit, but our lecturer was a horrible, impatient person and managed to reinforce his fear of the subject.

A lot of people I know have similar stories. Maths and physics seem to attract teachers who think (out loud) that students who don't intuitively "get it" are beneath them.
Against the Law: Countering Lawful Abuses of Digital Surveillance (2017)
Thats what they tell you
That's my point. This is the early days for crypto too. I'm not a fan of crypto, but it's clearly going to learn from these mistakes and develop the same kind of safety guarantees over time.

I mean look at online banking - in the UK it's only in the last few _years_ that we've been required to do 2fa when buying things online. The earliest online banks didn't even have 2fa to log in and move money around, and at some point HTTPS didn't even exist so everything was sent in plaintext. SMS is still mostly plaintext. Things evolve.
The term for that is purity spiral. If you _recognize_ that you're in one, it's time to take a step back from that community as it rarely ends well.
I'm guessing this is one reason companies don't like posting salaries. Not saying it's wrong or right...
In theory maybe. I bet most people don't have the luxury to chose a 80% job that still lets them pay their bills. Probably has to do with wages not tracking inflation which was caused by the same free market principles.
Because society has decided it does not want to.

I mean... If you increase work productivity there's basically two things you can do: Increase free time or increase consumption. Increasing free time is not a popular position. It is widely seen as a given that "increasing consumption" and "economic growth" are good things by itself that don't need any further justification (while of course society could strive for "free time growth" instead). Switzerland had a referendum on reducing work time not so long ago. It failed.

I say this noting that I disagree with the popular position here, but I can't avoid seeing that this is what most people seem to want.
unrelated: the depth of the YouTube channel library is simply staggering. it amazes me to uncover channels that i absolutely would have subscribed to on day-0 if i had known them.

at the same time, youtube is really bad at exposing you to new channels that you would enjoy. they bombard you with similar videos ("here's 15 more toilet seat review videos for you!") but they're not able to extrapolate channel tastes for some reason. it's left largely up to the user to dig around for collaterally-themed channels.
Don't specifically know sorry, largest I can generate with my (windows pc) vram size is 512x1024. But just wanted to comment that SD is trained on 512x512 images and runs iterations in a 512x512 window.

This means anything larger than 512x512 tends to confuse it. For example 1024x1024 will have 4 non-overlapping windows and many overlapping windows.

So if your prompt is "a cat wearing sunglasses", you may get 4 separate cats as the 512x512 windows have no knowledge of each other, and each window is trying to fulfill the goal. Even more likely you'll get some sort of eldrtich horror 16-legged cat being as the windows shuffle around.

Sometimes it just works perfectly somehow, but 90% of the time the non native resolution really screws it up. I'd suggest generating 512x512 images and using a different AI to upscale them in most cases.

However it does lead to some amazing fantasy landscape art as you get weird terrains and mountains shoved up against eachother in fantastic/magical ways.
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands | REMOTE, or hybrid in Randstad region

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: SciPy, Pandas, OpenCV, SkLearn, TensorFlow, PyTorch.

Hi I'm Stephen, I'm a scientific Python programmer specializing in machine learning, computer vision, and signal processing applications. Currently looking for contracts involving problem solving in areas such as robotics, haptics, machine perception (vision, sensors, audio).

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CV: https://sinclairs.gitlab.io/cv/sinclair_cv2022.pdf

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