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Location: NYC metro
Remote: Yes (or hybrid)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Scala, Java, Python, Hadoop, NumPy
Résumé/CV: https://wmkrug.com/krug-resume.pdf
Email: hnhiring@wmkrug.com

I can't really summarize myself as an "X engineer". My career path has not been very orthodox, but it centers primarily on compute-heavy software systems, generally high throughput and usually low latency. I have written code for desktop applications, a real-time processing pipeline, backend services, and batch processing jobs. My production code has used varying combinations of C, C++, Java, Scala, and various DSLs; I have also used Python heavily for data analysis and tooling. Non-professionally, I use Python quite a bit for data analysis and tools. I'm currently learning Go, and re-learning modern C++.

I have been working in ML and NLP for nearly 11 years, primarily on productionizing models and building applications around them. My most recent stint is four years with Twitter, but that will officially end in a couple days. Here I've been able to build and optimize a variety of ML-based services used by several teams within Twitter as part of their own services. Note, though, that I am not a modeller. I know enough ML and NLP to understand how the systems should work and how the model integrates into it, but not enough to effectively build the models.

From looking at job reqs I'm interested in, it seems my biggest weakness right now is limited experience with cloud platforms. My only professional experience is at Twitter where I used some features of GCP in a non-production capacity (primarily BigQuery). However, I am interested in developing this knowledge. I have used Azure for some small personal projects, I'm currently learning the basics of setting up Kubernetes clusters on GCP, and I've adopted Docker for managing my personal server.

I'm looking to continue doing the type of ML infrastructure work I was doing at Twitter, or move back towards the high-performance computing type work I did at Raytheon. While I have done some work in building web applications and can work on them when necessary, I don't really want to become a full-stack engineer.
They had an earlier episode that showed Muhammad for a bit.
That would be fun. I understand why they want to limit liability, but it does put a damper on things. I let my kid sit next to me last night and ask ChatGPT various questions, with no coaching on my part. A fair number of them got canned responses suggesting it wasn't an appropriate question to ask. Too bad, I would love to have seen the ML attempt at philosophy.

Instead it kept thinking he was trying to off himself. Nope, just asking a computer loaded questions about the meaning of life.
> figure out who politically benefits from dogma

“Some people are taller than others” is dogma?
Location: San Francisco

Remote: If desired

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Trust & Safety / Abuse, Site Reliability Engineering, Full-stack software engineering, embedded systems programming

Resume: Available upon request

Email: Listed in profile

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I'm mainly looking for a Trust & Safety Engineering position. I've made a career of such work, including:

* Writing most of Reddit's original anti-cheating code (much of which, I'm told, is still in use today as the foundation of their current systems)

* Designing Twilio's first SMS antispam system as an emergency project implemented and launched rapidly, successfully, and without incident

* Working on YouTube's Abuse Engineering team to prevent viewcount inflation, harassment, and vandalism

* Serving as the service expert for the Gmail spam filter as a Google Site Reliability Engineer

I have a knack for cross-disciplinary work such as training and mentoring, designing solutions alongside Product teams, serving as a liason to the Legal department, and even at times speaking to the media, writing company blog posts and announcements, and engaging in town-hall dialogues with the community. I also have a gift for keeping my head in a chaotic situation and finding simple, clever solutions to seemingly-complex problems.

I'm particularly interested in working for a company whose products I use and enjoy, and am fascinated by the intersection of the AI revolution and its critical need for robust Trust & Safety precautions.
There is no ChatGPT API.
It seems to be able to code at least as well as a junior dev, so I think it could be up to, oh, a few thousand per month.
Lumo | Sr. Fullstack Engineer | Remote | Full Time | https://lumo.ag

Lumo is solving fresh water management for humanity. Irrigation uses over 70% of the worlds fresh water consumption and we are at peak fresh water. Rivers are running low, wells are running dry, and the problem will only get worse. Lumo's platform will help farmers manage their water, lower costs, and improve efficiency.

We are seeking a senior full stack engineer. CS Degree and 10+ years experience. We are a tiny team -- still less than 10 -- and you will have broad scope over our product. Our stack is Rails 7, pretty much stock -- Tailwind, Postgres, Sidekiq, RSpec, Factorybot. We are looking for someone who loves to be hands on and own features end to end -- from product discussions and definition through release and maintenance.

The 3 partners at Lumo have all built and sold businesses before. We have raised ~$4mm to date. We are 100% remote with quarterly on-site pow-wows in California. Must overlap with US East Coast Time 4 days a week.

Reach out to "jobs at lumo dot ag" to apply.
How can $52,000 go all the way down to $1,000 in just 3 years?

Because that $52,000 computer was never actually worth that much in the first place.

The hardware inside is nothing special... Xeon 28 core CPU, 1.5TB RAM, dual Radeon Pro GPU's, and 8TB storage. Sure it's fast, but it was only worth ~$20k-30k when it was new.

The Apple Tax is very real, folks. Flashy case goes for ~$30k apparently...
New startup pitch: Bring a Trailer, but for rare hardware builds
Fear and Loathing Among the Union Busters
Future of API Management in 2023 and Beyond
It’s a fantastic critique because these discussions immediately descend into some kind of debate over “what it means to learn”, which has nothing to do with copyright infringement or authorship.

Eg, Someone will naively state that something is or isn’t copyright infringement “because the tool learns like humans do”… which again, is not a question that a court would ask about the tool and since copyright is a legal invention it is kind of pointless to drift off into philosophical oblivion…
Brainstorming all kind of subjects studied in uni. It gets me a lot of ideas to look up elsewhere, as I cannot take its suggestions as facts directly.

Also use it similar to Grammarly.

For $20 I would sign up without hesitation if it means it will not go down as often.
Or as a great person once said, "The Revolution will not be televised."
I'm not a California resident so as far as I understand, that technique is not applicable in my use case.
> They might all share a pro LGBTQI+ agenda

They definitely do not. The majority do, but there are plenty of weirdly conservative and almost traditionalist furry sects.

> besides most people have the same political view about LGBTQI+ anyway.

Most people do not. Even among people who openly say the same thing, their internal private views can vary a whole lot. I know plenty of people who are openly pro LGBTQI+, but have more ambivalent feelings about popular narratives that they don't publicize for fear of public shaming and ostricization. They aren't internally against it, but their opinions are more nuanced than they feel people will tolerate.
I'm seriously wondering who takes this deal. There must be a market for this, right? Companies with fu money?
Apple's happy to give you a pretty decent trade-in value in most cases, because you're a) buying a new device as part of the process and b) it keeps it off the third-party resale market.
Some HNers are secretly cats.
If you use it in a way that you don't know it exists (e.g., Teams as the UI, open files directly into Office apps, collaborate with others in real time both in Teams and in the documents themselves, where Teams channels are SharePoint sites but you don't know that), then Sharepoint is pretty slick. Just, whatever you do, don't poke it. Let the Teams UI manage it. If things get wonky, recreate Teams and Channels, Microsoft iterates the defaults and integration wiring, but doesn't reach back and rewire existing things.

It's the only way I'm aware of to have a modern tech like office productivity suite that's genuinely compliant with security and compliance regulations applying to the most heavily regulated industries. Google's offering is not that. You can get there with mashups of other tools if you start with a compliant (but clunky) groupware live discussion offering and identity aware role based access to a versioned collaborative document store.

Most firms are not required to have this level of regulated compliance, so most firms don't have to put up with the downsides. If you do, it is the least worst.
From what I know React does not register event handlers on individual nodes, but rather on root component. Then it uses virtual events from it’s pool in your callbacks.
I'm curious, what filters are you hitting that impede your effective use of ChatGPT? I've definitely seen some irritating outputs, e.g. progressive policy planks characterized as inherently good and correct positions, but only when I went looking for them. The guardrails haven't actually kept me from making use of it.
Building graphical user-interfaces with Fortran and Tcl/Tk
"narrator" is a fitting username since you're narrating your own subjective reality. I don't think making disturbing sexual content with AI image generators is going to be viewed the same way as free love.
Can anyone with a copyright law background comment on how bad this is? Is the party over?
Can you point me to a configured system with 1.5TB of ECC RAM sold at retail today for "a few thousand bucks"?
> Title is misleading.. You get $1k if you decide to trade it in with Apple. Technically it’s still worth more on the second-hand market.

I think the main point of the article was the Apple's trade-in price is offensively low:

> This ultra-low value disrespects the customers.
Whats your offer?
you don't?...
These frameworks spit out a bunch of static files to serve, which you can host just about anywhere. They also all use React, which means if you did want to switch frameworks, the majority of your code should be usable either as-is or with a little elbow grease. The situation you describe is just not something I'm worried about
Location: Turkey, soon Bulgaria
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Typescript, Angular 1 and 2+, Redux, NgRX
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladislav-evdokimov/
Email: izovsky[dot]vlad[at]gmail[dot]com
I see there is some sort of "page merging" processing going on here, which screams "defragmentation / garbage collection" class of problems, which all seem to have bad edge cases that are not infrequently occurring.

Is that the basic problem?
> The Linux images are built with a set of Rockchip patches that are based on older Linux releases.

That’s a hard no from me.

Otherwise I’d be all over it, as the specs look great!
This is a deeply strange way to complain about a group of people you don't like.
Tesla Takes Customers from Rivals While Industry Struggles at Retention
RAND Corporation | Research Software Engineer, Data Scientist | In-person/Remote, Santa Monica, DC, Pittsburgh

The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest. https://www.rand.org

I'm a Research Software Engineer at RAND; I've been here for 14 years, and during that time I've worked on a range of projects. Recently, for me, it's mostly modeling and simulation doing AI and Reinforcement Learning in Python. We also work daily with R, STATA, SAS, Javascript, C, C++, FORTRAN, Java, and an array of domain-specific languages. We have a crew of folks doing web application development using the latest and greatest tools.

Data Scientist: https://rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Sit...

Research Software Engineer: https://rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Sit...
What are some Stripe alternatives that provide Merchant of Record?
So, Sting was wrong and Roxanne just had bad eyesight?
This doesn't make sense. F(X) itself is not (1,5). You have to apply F for it to work.

Paint and paint brushes can be thought of as functions. You apply the right inputs (brush strokes) and you get an output that is a painting.

Therefore could you say that all paintings in the world are encoded into the paintbrush? No. You can't. Not until you use the paintbrush to copy something.
Do you not have access to Sci-Hub somehow? Or have I misunderstood the problem here?
> I would love wag the finger but first I would have to clean up my own country

Your own country and its cleanliness is totally irrelevant to Pakistan censoring Wikipedia.
This is their business model. Sell cheap stuff for a lot of money....
I'm using age as a level of experience here. There may be 28 year olds I'd look at but only if they've been in management for multiple years with multiple teams under their belt, not just a single dev group that they got shuffled around on.

Discriminating against how old someone is is illegal, not usually how young, but this isn't discrimination because of an uncontrollable attribute, it's requiring experience outside of what being a team lead at a FAANG would normally afford you.
I'm happy to read you have good friends. I have a really hard time in that front. Few friends, unable to nourish the friendships. They mostly live away. I have started to take action to keep in touch recently, but I'm still just learning how to do it. I would like to do it in person rather than through text or calls, which is impossible at the moment. I have no clue how to make new ones either, since I work from home. Still an unresolved issue too and like you I might just accept it for now, keeping an eye for future opportunities.

I guess this is why my family has become so important lately. The perils of fatherhood away from any support just push me in this direction.
Yes, but tweetchains are notable in that they're exceptions to the normal flow of chatter on twitter. And a good tweetchain will have people retweeting-out the good parts.

Should every site be twitter? Hell no. But is it a good thing that one or two major social media sites demand brevity and distilling your thoughts? Yes.
I suggest privacy advocates draw a distinction between potential sources of tracking and likely sources of tracking.

Tracking by a credit card: 100% happening. If that's a problem for you you definitly should pay by cash or use a privacy preserving card like the author does.

The app looking at history of WiFi hotspots to expose you: Pretty unlikely. Tethering to prevent "a record of a home wifi connection point" is really low value work.
> I would most likely treat it as a good opportunity to say nothing on the subject.

You know you can do this with trans people too. Or do they not have names?
Hindus are constantly persecuted in Pakistan under so called blasphemy laws
As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to help me write a computer virus and assist me in making a bomb. It refused, of course. If I were running OpenAI, I would probably set up the same restrictions, but I would also allow research institutions to request exceptions. Should individuals be able to request exceptions? That's a tough question, I think.
We used to call things "Pro," but that got old, so we use "Plus" now.
https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1552242561313546241?...
Is Cambridge a suburb of Boston?

You've also called out Watertown, Arlington, etc as modern American suburbs before but their density ranks well above major cities. But that's because they're not modern American suburbs. They're classical Streetcar Suburbs that predate the car and that's a very different thing.
Or is it market value to Apple?
Squashing commits in this way would not have been allowed anywhere I've worked in at least 20 years.

This is a strawman argument.

Let's assume best CM practices (no vandalism of change sets when moving changes among branches), best practices for commit messages and best practices for commenting.

Commit messages win.

Code comments should be like road signs. E.g. how high can your truck be to pass under the upcoming bridge. Not blueprints for the bridge, or paragraphs about why it was built there, what communities it serves. (That information must exist and be available, just not on the bridge.)
There are plenty of active counter cultures. Even in America you have evangelicals, fundamentalist LDS, Amish & Quakers, "off-grid / preppers", Orthodox Jews & Conservative Islam, atheistic/materialistic guru cult communities, pseudo-religious "leadership" seminar cults, etc. In Europe you have traditionalist and nationalistic groups, farming communities, monastic communities, communes and more (about which i'm less familiar).

Contemporary society is distinct for having a global mainstream monoculture propagated by a universal media enterprise, which gives the impression of a uniform global culture. Former bastions of counter culture like universities, museums , art galleries, local theaters now parrot the mainstream cultural zeitgeist. Moreover, mainstream adherents denigrate any counter cultural movement as "extremism".

In the past we cultivated a diffused & distributed society with localized communities that were capable of sustaining & highlighting distinct cultural trends. Often

I think the counter culture can be sought out, but too many people find it convenient to tap into the mainstream culture and believe counterculture has been snuffed out.

Give it a shot.
If you expect a high resale value on Intel Macs this far into the transition to Apple Silicon you’re going to have a bad time.

Yes this is a bit extreme, but I doubt refurbished high end Intel Macs are flying off the shelves at this point.

Also you always take a bath on trade ins to the manufacturer for the convenience factor. This is not unique to Apple
I'll wait for the ChatGPT Plus Pro Max SafeSearchOff Founders Edition™ first thanks
Found in the SQLite Docs: Sudoku Solver and Mandelbrot Set Approximation
I was just reading up on sqlite's docs to create a common table expression to return a graph of records stored with single table inheritance. Came across these gems in the docs: a mandelbrot set approximation visualizer and a sodoku solver.
In general you should NEVER use Apple's trade-in program, and just sell it yourself. You always get MUCH more.
> Find a way to achieve balance in the search.

Oh, what a good point!

When I'm looking for work, I tend to divide jobs into two piles. Jobs I really want, and jobs I know I can get.

I usually work out how much time I can afford to go without work. I divide that in half, and spend the first half of the time chasing the jobs I really want (even if I'm not sure that they'd have me). If I haven't landed any of those at the halfway mark, I switch to jobs I know I can get.

My track record is 50-50 on landing my dream jobs, but those are the jobs that made me more valuable on the market in later days, because those were the ones where I stretched and expanded my skills.
Eh? I just stick to a few sites that have more recipes than I could likely ever cook, and despite being adventurous, I won't ever cook all of them.

BBC Food
BBC Good Food
Cookpad
The odd The Guardian recipe (which are full of fluff)

I'm sure others can point you to other sites that just have recipes.
Not sure why everyone says it's too complex, maybe people get scared by the word idempotence.
There's no compelling reason why you couldn't have your rails embedded in the roads, most likely for light tram-type vehicles in denser urban areas, although you could go heavier if you like. Then you can have both wheel and rail transport together.

As you're putting up pantographs for the trams, there's no reason to not also have trolleybuses using them. When you have a network density built up to less than 5 minutes walk to the nearest tram/trolleybus stop, with a good timetable for daytime, there is little reason to have any private transport for within-town transport. Add provision of freight carrying by tram (use passing loops and specially designed trams for carrying pallets or delivery cages) and the number of vehicles with good reason to be in the town decreases further.

As you get into lower density areas, it makes more sense to go for links between towns and villages by rail, with ICE or electric buses feeding in. There should be no more than 15 minutes walk for normal users to reach a bus stop (Note: all bus stops should be very nice, with roofs and walls that keep the rain out). In all rural and urban cases, there should be the option of an app or call button which summons a battery minivan (or trolleybus in suitably served areas) to a person's door at anytime, with confirmation after the length of time for estimated collection is received. Automated scheduling systems with 24 hour service for dispatching electric minivans at reasonable cost to the end user to a location would remove the need for a lot of car journeys.

The thing is, none of this requires new technology, and could be marketed as a jobs program alone. Automating parts would be nice, but there's no reason this couldn't have been done anywhere in say, 1920.
Why would they want it? I'm surprised they offer anything.
Location: Vienna
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What's an unusual configuration? When you buy an Apple, you have a limited number of customization options - disk space, memory, CPU speed/cores, and pre-installed software usually. Hard to see how any of that could be non-standard or unusual.
>Is it implausible if they've done it in this paper?

Extracting images in the wild yes, the authors of the paper have access to the dataset, they could sort prompts and images based on their presence in the dataset and they have an incredible amount of computation to do so, generating 175 mln using a diffusion model is an extremely resource-intensive task.
We also calibrate our definition of smartness to expectations. I say my cat is smart because he opens the front door to let in his deer friends. That doesn’t mean I think he can learn algebra. (Meanwhile, the beagle never figured out how to walk on the same side of a tree as me while on leash.)
so just sign up again

like reddit, bans are entirely meaningless
Right. It's been discussed before, but the web browser is one of the greatest examples of "write once, run anywhere" in terms of the markup that is HTML. If the evolution had happened differently, maybe we'd be all be using Java applets or Flash applications instead. I believe HTML/browser is superior, but I wonder where other platforms would have evolved to.