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SEEKING WORK | Remote | Canada

Technologies: Various solvers (CPLEX, Gurobi, Or-Tools, etc.), Python, C++, Bash, Linux, and others

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/PhilippeOlivier/curriculum-vitae/blob/mas...

Email: See CV

I have a PhD in optimization / operations research. I'm the father of four young children, so I'm looking for flexible/remote part-time work, and/or contract work. I can work up to around 30 hours per week (this varies depending on whether kids get sick, if I have other contracts, etc).

My specializations revolve around optimization and operations research. You can give me a real-world problem and I can translate it into a mathematical model that can be solved (often optimally) via integer programming, constraint programming, or various forms of metaheuristics. I could manage my way around new solvers and programming languages if the project required it.

I'm currently working on a column generation-based daily fantasy sports (DFS) solver as a personal project. Taking as input the predictions/requirements of a user, this solver can generate optimal lineups for multi-entry tourneys. It is, as far as I am aware, the only DFS solver that can generate provably optimal sets of lineups for multi-entry DFS tourneys.
"Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain language, and repeatedly." - Steve "Newspeak" Jobs

Apple doesn't care about what cyberlibertarians think about their business practices. Baking in ads won't affect sales (might even prop it up if used to subsidize devices).
This looks really interesting! Now i can sell all those side projects that I never marketed
49,407 tokens, many of which are not useful. It's an arduous process to narrow down, so this link decided to go in the other direction, working from zero up rather than 49,407 down.
CourseKey | Data Engineer | AWS | SF, Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Los Angeles, & Remote (US) | Full-time

CourseKey is changing the Career Education industry with a cutting edge SaaS Platform for vocational-focused training businesses. Launched in 2015, CourseKey has quickly grown to support over 200 organizations and hundreds of thousands of learners across the United States having raised ~$20M in VC funding.

Data Engineer https://boards.greenhouse.io/coursekey/jobs/4040068004

In this generalist role, you'll join a small, existing data science team to leverage data insights to help build the next generation of CourseKey's (user-facing) analytics dashboards. You'll also work closely with a Technical Product Manager and an EM to facilitate discovery of value-add product additions that power the company's growth in the near- and long-term.
Emotional coldness is when you react calmly to inflammatory statements that normies can't withstand.
Show HN: gh-mirror, keep a mirror of GitHub repos, locally
I wanted a really simple tool to have my GH repos mirrored locally so I created this. Under the hood it's just running `git clone --mirror` and `git remote update` on a list of repos.
I spent hours and hours playing with <MARQUEE />, had lots of fun putting a marquee within a marquee. Sad that there's no mention of it.
I'm not sure of your situation and I'm not a lawyer, but you could research forming a US corporation as a foreign citizen. Stripe offers such a service called 'atlas'. While I've never used them for that, it may be a good source of information for you.
What an amazing world?

15 years ago, there was a shop down the corner that would print me PCBs for a pittance. The only thing I had to do was to drill the vias by hand, something which I would do with a simple mount for an off-the-shelf drill.

Today, that shop has been replaced by some brand clothes store of which there are other 17 quasi-identical ones in town.

If anything, it is harder today to get this done than it was 15 years ago.
Public health in Toronto and Vancouver run a program where they do mass spectrometry on recreational drug samples submitted by the public. Even some community pharmacies are participating as drop-off sites. You put a few milligrams in a small vial and you get the results online. The service is free and anonymous. And not widely used. Even with some government and legal support, it's hard to convince people to test their drugs.
> hired, trained, and equipped former Nazi SS officers

did Nazis claim pre-existing enlisted officers (that pre-date the Nazis) as their own?

I mean Erwin Rommel predates the Nazis and was just a professional soldier, but they claimed him as their own, even though he himself always thought them nutjobs, it seems.
ah makes sense. something something great artists steal
I'm guessing it means "stop asking why before discovering the root cause". I.e. the analysis stops at a symptom rather than the cause.
I'm sorry, but this doesn't make sense within the context of "why do you need an SSH server" on a computer?

> Let's see if we can get back to good computing and gaming, where you give up a little convenience for a ton of power and possibility.

This doesn't make any sense to me. Please explain.
you can also use it with kotlin
There is something similar [1] in Nevada, USA that uses molten salt to store energy. I drove through a few months ago and was blown away by it. The top of the tower was so bright that I could see it from the moment it started to crest the horizon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Pr...
The top comment is about a CEO who left to work in an Amazon warehouse due to the daily structure.

This is the second most top comment.

Also really illustrates the whole “grass is always greener …” thing.
Repeat the following sentence 10 times in a row, 3 times a day and once before bed with the diligence of a Muslim:

"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living things."
What you say about some writing today is true, but beware of the bubble effect of social networks and the internet: not everyone reads or writes like you do, and just because the set of people famous now doesn't intersect with those still writing and reading conventional books doesn't tell you anything about the future. Truth is, bad writing has always been wrote, there was throwaway writing also in ancient Rome for instance, which was something like (but not quite) our newspapers. And again, newspapers came, book persisted. Smartphones came... books are persisting.
You say that like nobody of Hacker News knows anybody who is a land developer.

> some existing thing that didn't need permission when it was done 40-140yr ago

Not every law ever written has grandfather clauses, and where water rights are concerned we are quickly running out of patience for grandfather clauses.

> no matter how hard people may dishonestly try to imply otherwise

Hey you know what else is dishonest? Making a big conversation with wide ranging consequences have to pause to talk about one particular line item you have a problem with. Agenda or no (which you are projecting on others), the results are the same.

Every city is worsening its watershed - through development - except for the few that are actively fighting against it. And so many families are getting burned out by wildfires because we keep increasing the density of cabins out in the woods. It's not isolated incidents when you have 5 million or even half a million people living in a county all trying to do their own thing without The Man trying to stop them.

No single rain drop believes it is responsible for the flood.
Perfectly good according to whom, exactly? Expert journalists? I can scarcely believe that pellet plants are paying nearly as much for good logs as sawmills.
Well first of all tell us how we should read the first amendment. Do we do it based on what the FOUNDING FATHERS believed or what the language of the amendment says, or some other doctrine?

Because if we do it based on what the FOUNDING FATHERS believed, unless you can find a quote where they said the first amendment would apply to advertisements, then we can conclude that the first amendment doesn't apply at all.
I remember Tim Cook said they are not in the Ads Business. Unfortunately I am too busy, Apple's PR has worked hard to delete those tracks of what Tim Cook said, or Google's search engine is longer showing what I am looking for.

And I remember that "Apple is not in the Ad Business" before 2018 was the most cited defence and reason on HN. That was before the war on tracking, the submarine articles on ads, and the attack on Facebook.

Because you know what? Privacy is a Fundamental Human Right. And because iPhone is the only smartphone that values your privacy, banning iPhone sales in your country is also against Human Right.

>But I'm deeply suspicious of such a convenient message.

I was probably the only few who was deeply deeply suspicious of the "Dont be Evil" Google in the early 00s, in an era of "Dont be Evil", when everyone in Tech thought they were Saint.
The self righteousness of Google, I thought nothing could be worse than Google's hypocrisy. I mean how can something be worse than "Dont be Evil"?

Well here we are. The era of "Fundamental Human Right". A company that worked with CCP, invested $275B to build and improve the whole CE supply chain in China. Helping those companies to compete in area where CCP has a strategic interest, Continue to invest and help those companies to set up operation in India or Vietnam in the name of "Diversification from China" as PR headlines.
What if an advertiser truly believes in their product and thinks it will better mankind? What if they've done a bunch of research into the product and theirs is actually the best on the market? I think the two are closer than you'd like to admit.
The other problem is that doing high quality video content is hard - you can do a one-man channel but it will NEVER be as "flashy" as channels that have dedicated editors, etc. And once you have a group, you have deadlines and income requirements you have to meet.
Augh! Why the lack of capitalization but intact punctuation?
That'd be excellent. A 4DWW would certainly be one of the few things (aside from a large salary difference) that'd make me switch companies as well.
I'm not European so I'd be very interested to know why?
Let's not forget that App Store search ads replaced iAds, which was an in-app ad network. I assume that it was shut down because of too much competition in the space, but perhaps we'll see it come full circle as Apple diminishes the "effectiveness" of third-parties.
Is there no such thing as a win-win? If the business makes money off of a sale and the consumer gets a product they actually wanted?

Or is the default mode of operation always the consumer losing and the business winning?
Very philosophical take on things.

> There are no immovable mountain. Everything is vulnerable, everything exists because it, or something esle, didn't break/transform it into something else.

Vulnerability is what humans would use do describe how something alive and conceptually "whole". It is something can can be exploited to inverse those properties. If we are all just matter in different configurations, in a universe full of matter in infinite combinations, "vulnerable" loses its meaning.

So perhaps, in the larger scale of things, nothing is truly vulnerable.
My circadian rhythm is structure enough. As for morning and night routines, I have them, and it usually involves a phone. So first thing I check in the morning is my local news, and then world news (so I can have some context for the whole day and to be alerted of the fact we're not in a nuclear war). Then caffeination happens to bring me back to baseline reality.

As for night, I catch up on social media, then place the phone in another room so I'm not tempted to doom-scroll. I have a dedicated non-internet iPod for listening to podcasts with the VLC app which typically sends me to sleep. If I have problems sleeping, I take notes, since my brain is buzzing with valuable ideas which I execute on the next day.
It is still totally a thing, it just takes effort to notice it, since it is so common. Also there is still nondigital advertisement.
It seems like you're guessing at best, stereotyping at worst. Is there reliable demographic data for HN users?
Who else is going to sign up for the job? Especially as it moves from sabotage in case of Soviet invasion to terrorism and murder against Italian communists, and against the general public while framing Italian communists.
I mean, it sort of doesn't? Coroutines is a whole concept, Virtual Threads can in most cases just replace java.lang.Threads, which is how it's implemented in Javalin. We just swap out the OS Threads for Virtual Threads.
A point made in the article's comments — an experienced doctor working in prenatal diagnosis says he struggled with organic chemistry, has not found it relevant to his career, and found biochemistry in med school more approachable. He concludes with:

> It makes no sense that a course so peripheral to successful, high quality medical careers is a gatekeeper > to medical school applications at undergraduate programs throughout the country. [1]

I find it unfortunate how NYU approached this situation, and the idea that students can protest their way out of a rigorous education is troubling. That said, I think this MDs point is excellent and worth consideration in light of a story that might otherwise be more ammo for a meritocracy in decline argument.

[1] https://nyti.ms/3rqZIoZ#permid=120729762
Constellation: The First Confidential Kubernetes Distribution
Here's my anecdata. Every Uber/Lyft I've taken is clearly servicing both. Indicators range from multiple phones, one with each app running and multiple logos/stickers on the cars. I almost always ask the driver which they prefer. The consistent answer is they prefer working with Lyft better but Uber more consistently has rides for them to pick up. It's unclear whether they get paid better with Lyft or are otherwise treated better, but that is what they say every time.
What do you do when an entire cohort fails? Bump the grades? That is what has happened in every low scoring class I have been in, but that hardly addresses whatever the core problem is.

Should it be an expectation that 30% of students will always get an A and only 5% will fail, no matter what?

That being said, I am amazed they fired someone so high profile.
Synchronizing ~/aws/config gets harder and harder as your team grows because there are both more people who need to receive changes and more people making changes.

I think the human-readable names for AWS accounts need to be part of the account, not part of the laptop. Substrate [1] does this so that you can type commands like `substrate assume-role -domain example -environment production -quality beta` [2] to get where you're going.

[1] <https://src-bin.com/substrate/>
[2] <https://src-bin.com/substrate/manual/moving-between-aws-acco...>
If there are any real protests, Trudeau will just freeze the protesters bank accounts as well as their families - no way to win.
gonna piggy-back on this to raise awareness about some of Austria's primal forests getting destroyed so they can build massive roads needed to transport concrete for wind mills. Austria usually uses reservoirs on the mountains which is a lot more effective (considering there is little wind). The "green" power generated is sold to neighboring countries. I've talked to the farmers who owned the land formerly ~2 years ago. They were acknowledging the damage but laughed it off as "not a big deal because we've already sold our soul when we said yes to ski resorts"

oddly the only party that opposed the plan was the right-wing populist party.

[1 in German] https://www.meinbezirk.at/lavanttal/c-lokales/erste-kaerntne...
My suggestion: Don't use adjectives in a Resume. It doesn't matter much because if I am looking for say a programmer who can code in JS, you saying "expert" vs "comfortable" won't change the fact that I will interview you anyway if I decided to otherwise. Yes, when the interview starts, you can clarify your level of experience further.

In other words, when I interview Entry Level candidates, I don't give the adjectives much weight. People put all kinds of adjectives on their Resume and I don't pay attention to those. You want to be more specific if possible. You can say "I worked on this project where I was responsible for <xyz>". Then explain it in the interview if asked.
> I've come across a lot of productivity and self-help resources and all of them suggest setting up a routine.

I’ve noticed that having a routine is also about the best way to accelerate the perception of the passage of time.

The more routine my life is, the quicker the years go by, and I look back and say “what did I do during all that time?”

My most memorable years are the ones with a lot of variety, change, and novelty.
Ukraine has increased its coal mining because it's going to burn it and it will give Poland some as well. In Hungary Mr Orbán came up with the genius idea of burning wood.

I would love to live in the world of renewables, but reality is that it's not as easy as flipping s switch.

We can't even make batteries without causing immense pollution and harm to the environment.
> I did put a lot of work into my profile - going on dozens of dates, learning from the bad matches how I could signal incompatibility earlier, and generally just going head first into the trial-by-fire of online dating for the first time.

I think why so many guys get mad at the apps is they just don't have the resilience for that amount of rejection. It's very easy to get disheartened when you match with someone, talk for a few days and ask them on a date only for her to not be interested. It's so easy to get mad when this happens and just go "F this entire thing", but you have to keep telling yourself that it's part of the process and keep going.

I've had a rather positive experience on Hinge but I think one of the main reasons is I set the expectation for myself that there will be alot of rejections.
Location: Canada

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Various solvers (CPLEX, Gurobi, Or-Tools, etc.), Python, C++, Bash, Linux, and others

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/PhilippeOlivier/curriculum-vitae/blob/mas...

Email: See CV

I have a PhD in optimization / operations research. I'm the father of four young children, so I'm looking for flexible/remote part-time work, and/or contract work. I can work up to around 30 hours per week (this varies depending on whether kids get sick, if I have other contracts, etc).

My specializations revolve around optimization and operations research. You can give me a real-world problem and I can translate it into a mathematical model that can be solved (often optimally) via integer programming, constraint programming, or various forms of metaheuristics. I could manage my way around new solvers and programming languages if the project required it.

I'm currently working on a column generation-based daily fantasy sports (DFS) solver as a personal project. Taking as input the predictions/requirements of a user, this solver can generate optimal lineups for multi-entry tourneys. It is, as far as I am aware, the only DFS solver that can generate provably optimal sets of lineups for multi-entry DFS tourneys.
Good point, sometimes it's hard to see what's right in front of us. Especially, when it's inconvenient to see it.
None of those companies are monopolies. You just want the government to force companies you don't like to be less popular than they are.
We're looking at asymmetrical warfare between incredibly advanced targeting algorithms, and our monkey-brains.
It's all fun and games when you're selling moustraps, but what about when the algorithm finds out you have a predisposition towards addiction and realizes it can profit from that by showing you ads for alcohol and pharmaceuticals?

What happens when it learns that you have a gambling problem?

What happens when it learns that you're a hypochondriac?

What happens when it learns that you have a retail addiction?

What happens when your ad profile identifies you as somebody who has had an abortion in one of the states where it's illegal? Can the ad company be subpoenaed?

What happens when an insurance company goes to a data-broker and finds out that you've been googling cancer symptoms? Would their access to this information change your premiums or eligibility?
Yeah. The guns in a typical WW2 bomber were M2 brownings...which are less than 100lbs.

It's the square-cube law in action (twice over). Going from a 12.7mm to a 20-25mm bullet... twice the diameter, four times the crosssection, eight times the mass.
Is it important outside of germany?
They're doing more than "push the crap to the bottom". They're pushing the crap to the bottom and then limiting how far you can dig into the pile. I am sometimes interested in that crap.
A Canadian company is cyanide gold mining in Turkey. They destroyed thousand year old forests while the poison spills everywhere. They just get a hand slap and get another license all the time.
> Not entirely true: Apple’s iAd platform ran for a few years in the 2010s before being canned in 2016

It still exists, was just renamed to Ad Platforms (worked there).
Google prototypes, open sources an extra-long keyboard with one row of keys
Illusion of Control. We need group therapy and nobody who has successfully accomplished that at such scales has any formal training in the subject.
how is that different from what the blogpost said?

edit: to be clear, the blog post has listed, among other complaints:

> Onfido may disclose your personal information to an actual or potential buyer (note "potential")

which you seem to be confirming from your own review of their policy. What did the blog post misrepresent?
Seriously. I literally have gone to the page for my Google advertising profile and updated my interests to be more accurate.

Targeted ads usually aren't trying to trick me, they're telling me about products and services I genuinely don't know about. Maybe this will shock people, but I have actually bought things linked straight from ads a handful of times. (Only a handful, but that's more than zero.)

I infinitely prefer targeted advertising rather than the horrible lowest-common-denominator generic non-targeted "grow your dick" and "one weird trick" and "millionth website visitor" garbage. (I just wish there were a button for "don't show me ads for humidifiers anymore because I already bought one after researching, I'm not gonna buy another". So that the targeting worked even better.)
there's a certain irony to this just cant put my finger on it.

I'm pretty sure they didnt do this to for the benefit of the planet and more for the bottom line
actual lol
I just skimmed the article, and didn't see a single text that shed any light on Musk whatsoever, good or bad. The article didn't even seem to allege that any of the texts made him look bad, let alone "shatter the myth of the tech genius". The gist of it seems to be "The world’s richest man has some embarrassing friends" (which is the subtitle). Title is pure clickbait/propaganda imo.
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

Programming: Typescript, Javascript, Java, C++, C, Go, Hack/PHP

Frameworks: ReactJS, React Native, Redux, GraphQL, Relay, Apollo, Jest, Junit

Platform: AWS, Serverless, NodeJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CGXo9vpsn958DYkyfkeCZlK0F97...

Email: azhao991@gmail.com

Website: https://alicezhao.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicezhao1991/

Hi Hacker News Community!

I'm Alice, a 4th year computer science student at UBC looking for an intern or new grad opportunity for next May 2023. Being a transformation driver fuels me as I create lasting, measurable impact with code. I've had a year of internship experience at Meta and Rivian. I'm also a core contributor at RedwoodJS, an open source full stack framework. Previously, I was a business development manager for 5 years. Looking for a challenging role to kick off my career as a software dev!

Feel free to reach out if you have any opportunities or just want to chat!