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Location: Chicago, IL
Remote: Yes (CST but flexible)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Technology leadership, Head of Software, Emerging Tech R&D, IoT, AIML, XR
Résumé/CV:
Throughout my career, I am proud to have accomplished the following:
* Invented an IoT solution for the President of the US
* Architected an AI software for detecting breast and skin cancer
* Developed an animated tour guide with text-to-speech, voice recognition, and facial recognition
* Built an IoT smart HVAC solution for Johnson Controls that won the Product of the Year award
* Served as the founding architect of the no. 1 fastest growing company in the US
* Built AI e-learning platform for Foxconn ( Industrial AI Institute - iAIinstitute.com )
* Currently head of software for a smart-cities computer vision/AI startup, recently featured in the New York Times under my direction
Email: james@jameswilson.name
Website: https://jameswilson.name
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesatjameswilsondotname/
I think that my experiences have been better than yours!

I think it's good to be clear and show some authority in a field, and it's also marketing.

Is it instant riches and fame? Not for me!
There's no shortage of land in Canadian cities or really any western city in a housing crisis today. The problem is that this land is squandered on lower density development that is illegal to improve into higher density development thanks to zoning mandating low density. Zoning must keep up with job growth or else you end up with the situations we see today: wealthy people entering bidding wars on an 80 year old originally working class home.
The two parts article does acknowledge inefficiencies and losses, but dismisses them
High Efficiency Mechanical Transmission of Power by Rope
Open-source blockchain analytics tool [1]. Lots of use-cases, but a straightforward one is compliance. Many alternatives in the space, but most are SaaS-only.

Still early in the journey, but feel free to star or follow along:

[1] https://github.com/barreleye/barreleye
I don’t buy the portability argument. If you want to write native io_uring code from windows, sure. But as far as I can tell, most people using docker are using it to deploy cloud services. And guess what? Nodejs, Python, Java, golang, Ruby - they all work fine natively on every platform.

I suspect the popularity of docker as a local developer tool comes from convenience. It feels easier to install docker than fix your homebrew permissions, install anaconda or install a recent version of nodejs on ubuntu. And if you’re already using docker in production, you need a workflow to make docker images anyway.

That and it’s trendy.

Never mind that using docker makes macos sometimes not sleep properly. That it makes your program much more difficult to debug. Or that you’re throwing away 2/3rds of the performance and 1/2 of the RAM of your expensive computer in the process.

Everyone else is using it. We can’t all be wrong, can we?
Stearic acids are used everywhere, including detergents, shampoos, soaps, etc. TIL they're made from tallow.
Wow, that's extremely timely and is pretty much exactly what I was hoping someone would link to correct me. I'll keep my eye on that, thanks. I'd personally still only be in the market for a >27" size, just because I feel like 27" is too small, but this would open the floor for competition in that range.

I really like the 30" Ultrasharp, and would consider a 32" as long as the resolution, connectivity, pixel density, and panel tech are in place.
> In the EU I can do instant payments from phone...

^ This. I'm not sure if this is actually EU wide yet.. but there are several payment systems available, which aren't AFAIK yet usable across countries or at least not many countries. They're in any case members of the European Mobile Payment Systems Association. The goal is to make an EU/EEC-wide mobile payment system.

Unlike Paypal, Venmo etc. these are directly managed by the banks, i.e. nothing like the horrors you sometimes hear about from those private companies.
With the variant I use I just need the/a phone number from the recipient, I enter it in my app, I see a name come up, I pay (with a pin), either directly from a bank account or from e.g. a credit card - I can choose at pay time. So, for that example where you need to pay someone doing garden work for you you don't hand over a check, you simply ask for the phone number, enter the details, show the guy "Is that you?", if "yes", then pay, show the guy the receipt on your phone, deal done. Instant, if it's paid from your account, or "Real Soon Now" if from your credit card (the transaction will fail if you don't have the credit - you don't get a receipt to show. You do get an instant receipt if your credit card works, so there's no doubt on the receiver's end that the money will come).

Very convenient. Works in lots of shops too, and, as it's free up to a certain amount, and you only need a phone number you don't have to invest/rent anything, as in getting a card reader. When that's said, until this became popular you could more often than not use a credit card for anything including flea market sellers, parking meters, everything. The only limitation I've run into is with, of all things, doctor's offices where their payment machines for some reason only accept bank (direct debit) cards, not CC. The dentists accept everything though, and everybody else accepts everything too. But the phone payment is so extremely easy, and safe, that it's taking over everything. Splitting a bill at the restaurant? Phone transfer. Someone forgot their credit card at the gasoline pump? Phone the amount to someone who's got a CC and then the person with the CC can fill up the car.
I do prefer contactless CC payment in shops though.
This was very much a problem for WordPress back in its "glory days." I had to go in and optimize a lot of stuff to get our website's performance to be sub-5s. (I haven't worked with WordPress in years, so I can't comment on its current state, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is still a thing.)
Fuah sure: the vegan foie gras selling out across Spain
For me, thinking in public is the only way to get quality critical peer feedback.
Eating better and working out is hard. If the medication can get you a similar outcome with minimal side effects, that seems like a prudent protocol to prescribe.

If it’s determined to be safe (statistically), why not? Might only be necessary until we can inexpensively synthesize miR-1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34196488
It succeeded because the Saturn V had enough heavy-lifting capablity that we could do the entire mission with one launch vehicle for the complete round-trip.

It was the power of the Saturn V being sufficient to get us out of the Earth's gravity well, plus the cleverness of the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mission plan that allowed us to pull it off. Once those two things were worked out and understood, the rest was just a matter of executing. But it was pure happenstance that the laws of Physics and the Earth/Moon orbital mechcanics lined up to make it possible.
Possibly lack of context. Without the edit, I would assume you're going for a version of "webscale" meme about postgres. (Haven't heard of planetscale before)
Location:Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Remote: max 1 day per week in the office, if office is in Amsterdam
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: Python, NodeJS, AWS, GCP, K8S, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kinesis, Kafka
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mustafadokumaci
Email: mstdokumaci `at` gmail `dot` com
Exception prevent the control flow from continuing, which prevents the creation of those states which happens further down.

I find your tone too inadequate to engage further with you though.
Yeesh - Can you hire me?
The message:

“19 people rescued. You're next. Don't lose hope.”

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Days_(Natalia_Gutierrez...
The romaji is "gozaimasu"
Banana oil is waiting outside.

Castrol wishes to be remembered to you.

Meanwhile, whales are breathing a sigh of relief
That's one beautiful website.

The code snippets colorscheme/nav/typography. Well done.

Edit: looks like it's using Tailwind.
I'm not sure about faster anymore. You'll have to get your reactionary opinions up-to-date.
Show HN: built an e-ink pregnancy tracker
I will finally build something fun that ties in Strava data and gives myself little collectibles for bike rides.

Have a simple application I want to build also
Then they become research professors and make up data in their "research". There is a crisis where the papers cannot be replicated. Probably because they are all lies.

I dont understand why there isnt some institution who just sits and replicates papers all day.
"I'm not an Elon fan, but" Is the telltale sign of an Elon fan who knows Elon isn't cool right now... Might consider rephrasing that in the future if you're actually not an Elon fan.

"I'm not an Elon fan, but I'm going to defend him like I am."
Such opportunities for investors only exist if the government artificially strangles the housing supply as many local western governments have done over the past century. If a nation wanted to effectively end such investment into the housing stock, then lawmakers should devalue this asset by allowing production of an excess by updating restrictive zoning codes, not ban foreign investment which could very well bring in benefits in some cases.
I think many love the promise of a distributed database, but in practice there is a real speed and feature set compromise to make.
I write on https://www.oilshell.org/ for many of these same reasons:

Why I Keep a Research Blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22033792

(a great post from 2 years ago that I remembered)

- to make sure I really know something, rather than just being able to name it

- to calibrate myself -- there are always people more experienced, and it's useful to get feedback on whether you're making a mistake. Also to keep a sense of reality on a long project :)

Another great side effect is that a few skilled people have been reading my blog for YEARS and now want to help me finish the project! If it was just a random project with no writing/explanation, then that wouldn't have happened

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34221617

- I also do "documentation-driven development", where I write how something should work, and then implement it. If I can't "explain it with a straight face", then it's not the right design. Most of bash you CANNOT explain with a straight face :)

Personally I like writing on content-centric sites rather than person-centric sites (e.g. social media), because with social media your ego can get in the way. For example, some people mentioned here that there can be a tendency to "dig in" to positions attached to your identity, but I find that writing in public is a good way to do just the opposite -- adjust your positions based on the feedback of others
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I'll specifically go into the pros of private thinking, as that's where you seem to be getting the least feedback.

1. Intent is preserved. When you write something publicly, your output are words that you constructed from your ideas and your intent. As others read it, they will have wildly different interpretations of the text, even if you write well. Thus, your original intent does not translate perfectly. You don't have this problem with private thinking, because you own the additional context and intent.

2. No self-censorship. You don't have to cater to anybody's liking of whatever your thoughts are. You don't need to win anybody's approval, and this allows for the brewing of fresh and pure thoughts.

3. Exclusivity. Maybe one of your ideas is of high value. Could simply be a rare skill you mastered, a trick unknown to the world, a little software asset you produced. The norm in our industry is to share wide and far. Write that blog post, open that Github project, etc. Alternatively, you can also keep it to yourself and leverage its value. Quite literally as leverage.

I imagine this last point to be somewhat controversial. By sharing far and wide, you'll be doing free labor for an industry that doesn't give a fuck about its volunteers. People will simply take your free shit and run with it, and often still complain about it. In light of such hostile and unrewarding environment, I have absolutely no moral problem with refusing to do free labor and keeping some things private and exclusive.
I mean, "kfsnd." KF. They're not exactly hiding who they are.
> I miss just being able to disappear for 2-3 hours midday with no one really being bothered by that.

You should have asked about this in the interview. I only work/apply for companies that offer a flexible schedule: that basically means “we do have certain ceremonies per week at certain times that you should attend, but besides that it’s up to you how you handle your time”.
Some more questions I’d suggest asking yourself:
- Do you enjoy programming? If yes, CS.
- Do you see yourself working in more of a corporate environment (MIS) or startup environments?
- Are you better at logic or parrot learning? For me, for example, I had a lot of free time at university because CS doesn’t have a lot of coursework you need to memorise and I was quick with the logical and practical parts.
Isn't Dove a detergent?
OutVoice | DevOps and Backend Engineer | California based REMOTE company. Worldwide is fine. | Full-time or flexible.

OutVoice is a startup that helps publishers pay and manage their freelancer workers. Our stack is terraform/kubernetes, mysql, nodejs/express, typescript.

Email jobs@outvoice.com and say hello. Passion around journalism, freelancing, or content creation more important than resume or specific experience. The salary range is going to be more in line with a junior position, but there is equity and benefits, and lots of room to grow.

https://outvoice.com
What's behind NYE attacks on German police, firefighters? – DW – 01/02/2023
I can empathize with this.

I also partially rewrite my old blog articles where I made a mistake, the status quo has evolved, or I want more SEO keyword hits. More authors probably do it, but it is not publicly spoken about - perhaps it is a little taboo. Some of my articles go viral after a rewrite. It saves time and allows me to refine the content over time.

Recently I've started putting notes about article edits at the end as news sites do. I firmly believe that news media used to do it in the past, but it was too taboo to admit to editing old articles. Things are changing now.
I came back to MariaDB after leaving MySQL about a decade ago.

The JDBC driver is 10x as big and times-out after less than 12 hours default.

Things are not going in the right direction, but on the upside I now learned how to install MariaDB manually so installers can't brick my OS like MySQL did back in 2014 (MySQL bricked itself and no way to unbrick it except reinstalling Windows).
Fair, thanks for the clarification
I opened the post to see photos of Venice but there were none.
If you show a skyscraper to an ant, should he abandon his queen because their little hill is too insignificant to matter? Or should he jump back in and build the best damn nest in the city? I just don't think relative scale is really important - even a galaxy-striding star-snacking titan would grapple with the same problem of meaning.

> Nihilists recognize that meaning is not inherent, but rather ascribed by the person experiencing the feeling.

That sounds reasonable, so here's an attempt at a synthesis. The universe is huge and mostly empty, but here we have a tiny patch full of life and self-ascribed meaning. Does the universe prefer life? The part that's alive certainly does! So don't let it fall to ashes just to appease the void. I think that's the best answer a mere mortal can give.
Off topic. I've been appalled at how tasteless store-bought strawberries in the U.S. have become. I don't know happened, a change in cultivar? 12 years ago I could buy flavorful strawberries in the U.S., today I cannot. I hope they have more flavor in AU.
Hmm, to my knowledge, followers only posts are ActivityPub feature, where you just shovel the message to inboxes of just followers. It is not sending it to all servers?

It's also possible to send messages to part of the followers as well, some instances like qoto.org support circles. You make circles from your followers and post to just them.

I wouldn't call these privacy features, but ability for sender to choose what it wants to say for certain group of followers.
The problem with the Python transition is that the language is so flexible that it becomes challenging to understand if/where/when any code will be impacted by a change. Unit testing becomes the static type checker (less so now that Python typing is spreading).

For a statically compiled, AOT language, it should be easier to migrate the bulk of the code and identify the hairy bits. Which is not to say it would be easy or fast, but I think Python, Perl or other flexible languages are worst case examples for breaking language change migrations.
Those are not exceptions by most reasonable definitions. Exceptions are a general purpose error handling method. Try, catch and all that. They are almost always objects with multiple types.

Go and Rust's panic is for unrecoverable errors. They both have the ability to catch panics because sometimes you really need to do that (e.g. when interacting with FFI or sometimes multithreaded code).

They are not exceptions though. I've seen this myth repeated a few times lately (always about Go and not Rust for some reason) and I wish it would die.

You wouldn't say C "has exceptions" would you?
> Isn't the oils and extracts that solution for the long term storage?

Yep, and you will see distillate used for things like edibles/drinks/vapes.

This has two problems (in my mind), but both the same cause...consumers are picky.

First issue is most states require the date of extraction to be listed on the product packaging. If they see a really old date, they get sketchy about it. (ex: I have recently got some R&D stuff from a grow, and the extraction date was listed as February 2022 and that set off alarm bells in my head, even though it's perfectly fine like you mentioned.)

The second is a group of issues in consumers minds and they are all closely related. Distillate doesn't have all the terpenes the other forms do (and therefore removes the 'strain specific' effects that some go after), so you lose out on the entourage effect[0]. Some grows will start re-adding the terpenes to distillate using cheaper plant based (tree in some cases) terpenes and again, people are picky and this turns them off of the product.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3165946/
Job board focused on Germany. Same procedure as every year.

https://www.arbeitnow.com
How about in the US? "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States" [1].

However, if you are willing to regress the definition of slave to a 19th century understanding: are you being paid a wage to sell your time to build an Elysium for someone else?, do you have to wake up at a certain hour to go to work?, do you have to eat/urinate/defecate at certain hours provided by your work environment?, do you have to sleep at a certain hour to prepare for work?, do you have to work or suffer hunger -> homelessness -> death? You, me, we are the slaves already, only the whip is different. But if you own over $30 million, it's fine, you are on the internet, nobody knows you are a dog here.

[1] https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment
The prevent the control flow from continuing in that direction, which prevents those variables from ever existing.

Early return is nothing like exceptions. Early returns needs to return something which passes the problem to someone else. It's also a choice to do it at all.
What's the scam here? A bunch of people went into a super competitive industry where a vast majority of businesses fail within a few years and then failed.

I certainly wouldn't work with any company related to Kalanick or Uber but it's not really clear what they did wrong here besides advertising.
I agree. It is honestly a fine language IMO and while I have nothing against Rust, I also haven’t had much of an interest or incentive to use it. Yes, buffer overflow is a thing - it’s never been an issue in my experience. Use after free and memory leaks are infrequent, easy to fix, and caught early.

Golang is not a real replacement because 1. Golang core devs are too opinionated on random shit and make some things very hard to do without reinventing the wheel because “you shouldn’t do that” partially because it’s a corporate-owned language 2. GC. There are other minor things but those are the big ones, it’s still an excellent backend language but can’t replace C++.

Besides Rust everything else is a toy without stability and backwards compatibility and/or lack of libraries. Rust is fine, it’s just that the problems it tries to solve aren’t something that experienced C++ devs often struggle with.
I wouldn't say HTAP is an across the board trend. The need is mostly in the enterprise where we see high value mixed workloads.

Neon will take a Postgres centric POV. I consider a few approaches, but not committing to any particular at this point. The reason to not commit is that there is a lot more opportunity for Neon in serverless, devtools, and edge. And it makes a ton more sense to partner for OLAP workloads. So what is Postgres centric POV:

- Plugins like Timescale and Citus

- Seamless integration with sending CDC to Snowflake, Singlestore, Databricks, Clickhouse, and Motherduck

- FDW for integration with Snowflake, Singlestore, Clickhouse, Databricks, and Motherduck

- We looked at putting DuckDB on Neon storage with Jordan Tigani, but it was too big of a lift as DuckDB doesn't push all data through the WAL. Maybe in the future.
Every decision is a trade-off. If you call TypeScript complicated, what do you call maintaining a 1000+ component-based web app without types? Please try to understand that every decision is a trade-off. Also, all the major frameworks default to non-TypeScript documentation, so nothing is getting more complicated.
You're talking about laptops. To me, a heavy computer user, the case is more important than CPU performance. There Apple has always been second-to-none. Lenovo has always been second but one look at their laptops and I want to fall asleep.
No, it doesn't make any sense.

You cannot decide whether a small piece of what you call "UI" is good without considering its place within the larger context that you call "UX". A dialog box that is very pretty, fits well with the overall aesthetics of the application and the platform/OS, and properly does what it says it does—would still be an example of bad UI if it's one of those dialog boxes that shouldn't exist in the first place and is a product of the developers/designers fundamentally misunderstanding the workflow or goals of their users.

This distinction you're trying to make is really not productive. Its too vague and subjective about where to draw the line, and I'm pretty sure most people who are adamant that a line must be drawn are people who will subsequently neglect things on one side of the line as "somebody else's problem".
That's fair. And balanced. Too bad our media seems to have given up on that.
Yeah weird question because you can use the exact same style in C++.