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Category: Senior Software Developer

Location: I am based in São Paulo, Brazil (UTC-3)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Clojure(Script), Elixir, XTDB, Datomic, SQL Databases

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/defnpablo/CV/blob/main/README.md

Email: pablo.bcb@gmail.com
I'd be happy to provide more info but I have none.
First I communicated with support which told me that my account was restricted most likely due to 2.8 clause violation (non html content) and suggested to contact with sales which I immediately did.

Sales over the phone (was fastest) told me that it's good I contacted as otherwise in 24hours my account would be fully banned(whatever it means) and that they will prepare me an offer in 15 minutes, but it was taking longer (no response after an hour or so) and in the meanwhile I wrote Twitter and HN post which CTO of Cloudflare noticed and then after a while I've got another phone call from sales that I should update my ticket to ask unbanning my account as it was approved now by CTO which I did and that solved the issue at least for now - and that's it - no further info what the issue was, still waiting on Enterprise plan quote for me.
yeah wow, imagine a company providing a free product in exchange for the externalities it provides like more traffic and marketing, unheard of!!
Is this the guy who promised to "thermonuclear name and shame" the advertisers who no longer want to do business with him? Oh, it is!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588676939463946241
The true freedom of living under a bridge because you have no income? The tech bros are not coming to save humanity from the toil of labor. There will not be a post-scarcity society where everyone's basic needs will be met in a capitalist regime. You will have to produce to keep the beast running. I'm sure the tens of millions of people displaced will be able to learn more technical roles or quietly starve to death living under a bridge somewhere. Billionaires, corporations and their shareholders need to get richer!
Not really. If my school produced murderers, we'd definitely know about it. It would be a big deal. Like certain notorious schools in inner city London.

There were some crazy nut cases in my comprehensive school in the north of England, but even they seemed to have eventually lived fairly decent lives.

Having been to university with a large number of old Etonians, I can tell you with some confidene that a significant proportion of them believe themselves to be above the law.
> only infectious disease experts can prescribe HIV antvirals and have it covered, for example

Jesus fuck Canada is amazingly backwards if that's the case. So if you get stuck with a needle or a condom breaks you need to wait until you can see a specialist to get on post-exposure prophylaxis? Which has a 72-hour window to start, by the way.
> The simpler reason is that it means that people believe Fed will read this as a license to not have to slow down rate increases

But there's a direct relation, because the Fed has been very explicit that they're worried about employment and wage growth, and they're raising interest rates in order to depress those.

The Fed operates according to the interests of the wealthy.
The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 90% of these stocks.

Most of you reading this are in the top 10%.

Stock prices are a game among the wealthy who haven’t demanded that workers should be paid more to lower the absurdly high corporate profits.
How is that irrelevant? People who trade want to make money. If you could control crashing the market, you could make so much more by crashing the market than you could otherwise.
There's a 19th century German philosopher that would agree with you (as would I): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation#...
I stopped buying after recieving one too many fake items. Not even listings that were for blatently fabricated products like the 16TB portable hard drives for $45. Just everyday items, being dispatched from Amazon that were clearly fakes.

Amazon doesn't give a damn, so I don't give them my business anymore.
This is a great point. For years, Amazon had good quality and prices. Now, shopping on Amazon you have to actively look out for scammy items and search for the good deals. Very easy to get fooled. “Verified purchases” don’t mean much either
When advances in technology creates new opportunities, the first one to conquer the market is remembered. Everyone had the idea for a 3D shooter back in the day, but Carmack is the one that is remembered.
I'm pretty sure that Opera invented tabs, not Firefox.
> I propose that the main reason that most of us look more boring in public is that social predators lie in wait there. With friends, family, and close co-workers, we are around people that mostly want to like us, and know us rather well. Yes, they want us to conform too, but they apply this pressure in moderation.

> Out in public, in contrast, we face bandits just looking for chances to gain social credit by taking us down, vis accusing us of violating the sacred. And like townspeople traveling among the bandits, we are in public pretty vulnerable to the kinds of bandits that afflict us.

As someone else said, people have to make a living. If you don't have a job you cannot live, and most average people can't imagine surviving expulsion from society. Frankly, the people who belong to outrage cliques are generally toying with a weapon in capitalism that they understand well: if you cannot make money, you don't survive, even if you do your psyche and feeling of safety are likely lost.

We have no perfect barometer for what makes someone fireable under the right circumstances. I remember years ago a key Drupal developer was outted for having a Gorean relationship with his wife that was mutually consenting. The mob succeeded and he was fired. Last I checked his blog he's doing fine, but I attribute that to kink becoming more mainstream around the time. Had it been a decade earlier he would've been unhireable in any place that employed women for how those folks had postured him.

Anecdotally, this is the only place I talk about using mushrooms or LSD. I'm very selective, especially in tech, of going into any detail of my military service. There are some things you just know people won't know how to interpret or where their lack of familiarity will be a playground for their imagination.

I say all that to say that the wise man says fewer words. You don't know what tomorrow's weapon will be, so it's easier to be boring except among a select few. Even people who believe outrage cliques are exceptional or rare will follow these same patterns.
> authenticated using a phone number which wasn't even associated with my account

As in, they required you to add a phone number when you didn't have one before, or they said "verify you can receive SMS at 555-123-5678" which wasn't even yours?
Yeah, we have 30 minute standups, and they often overrun. We don't, on the other hand, have grooming or estimation sessions or retros. The result is that the same issues plague us each sprint, not least badly defined stories ending up in the sprint.
> I like the theory that he's planning to discharge all of the debts he's run up in one fell swoop with a bankruptcy filing.

And that theory is incorrect. If Twitter goes into bankruptcy, the shareholders are wiped out. Ownership goes to the banks. He could be trying to drive the cost of the debt down (supposedly already down 40% on the open market), so he can buy it. But, the banks aren't stupid. He will absolutely have to pay a premium to buy it back.

There is another card Elon could play - which is not pay the loan and force the banks to declare bankruptcy. Do the banks really want to own Twitter? Can they kick out Elon, get competent management and somehow make themselves whole on the loaned money? That's certainly a scenario, but one that can't look appealing to the banks.
simplebrowser had them before opera
And some small pages seem to have gone missing entirely – some "humorous" typos that I distinctly remember used to return a small handful of pages now return nothing on Google, even though the page(s) in question still exist(s) and is/are still indexed by Bing.
https://bback.me/ a site to help people finding their lost belongings (marked before). Thought it was a good idea, but did not seem appealing to other people. I'll probably close it in the coming year to avoid maintenance cost.
60+ years of conformity shapes your brain permanently for most people.
The scammer here doesn't seriously expect anyone to pay up—they expect people to call the phone number they include in the message so they can move on to phase 2 of the scam (whatever that is).

The PayPal invoice form is just a sufficiently scary-looking template to trigger a reaction in someone who might fall for a phone call with the "Coinbase Billing Department". The amount on the invoice is too high for people to accidentally pay but too low to immediately clue the victim in that it's fake.
that works to some of the same things firefox can do, but you can also tell firefox to "Always open this site in my banking container" and the next time you load it up, from any container, it will switch it the one you prefer. Also, I really love having amazon and facebook on their own containers, to cut down on all the weird advertising stuff I see..
Apple has a public API with some rate limiting that returns a link to the preview audio file, see:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/lookup?id=1023678453 (https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2017/06/19/working-with-itunes-...)

So probably all that is required is a couple threads downloading and a proxy service with a large pool of IP addresses randomly rotating on every request. Maybe OP also found an undocumented API endpoint somewhere that was not rate limited.
Is something like privacy dot com (virtual card numbers) not anonymous enough? I kinda don’t wanna know what you’re doing with these email addresses
Good luck to them. 10K boomers retire a day, there are less workers than jobs, and no benchmark rate will change that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34601350
Thanksgiving Thoughts
> Firefox uses much more battery on MacOS than any chromium based browser.

I really don't see that. Firefox with certain extensions is a battery hog but the browser itself is pretty lightweight on CPU for me.
This is from the same person who recently wrote:

Religion Can Divert Sacred Energy

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2023/02/religion-can-divert-s...

Middle aged garbage fire. I've been there. Outta marshmallows.
I cancelled prime a few year ago and haven't looked back. Amazon has basically turned into a flea market chock full of counterfeit goods, goods of questionable origin, and a relentless "review optimization" schemes under the hood.

Recently my mother threw out a bunch of Christmas decorations because "they gave up the ghost". What had actually happened is she got counterfeit energizer batteries from amazon (which had 5-star reviews ofc). This story is not that big of a deal, but perfectly emblematic of the mess that is Amazon's store and hardly the only bad experience I have had with the junk they sell there.

Also this has been going on for years now and amazon has done _nothing_ to address it. I suppose it's because people keep voting with their dollars for them to do nothing. Maybe now they'll start to think about it.
If you played your cards right you could have retirement money. Important for the upcoming automation mass unemployment and the UBI era.
The Dark Zige.
The extent of denial about this is terrifying. I mean, the Fed literally gave that exact reason for the first rate increase. They could not have been anymore explicit.
Well, fortunately, I never click the "Ad" sponsored links and most of the time I don't see them anyways (uBlock). That doesn't help the other 90% of users online though.
As I understand it, the Childrens Act of 1989 had a huge effect on how these places were run. It took a while for the law to filter out into practice so people who went to private / boarding / posh state schools in the 90s experienced a gradually toned down version.

I suspect that in the early years, when physical punishment was banned, the psychological stuff amped up a bit.

Even at a state school in the 90s, some things we thought were normal would be shocking and absolutely a child protection issue these days.
Not just on Android, I'm using it with uBlock Origin on a GNU/Linux phone as well. Only iOS is an exception.
In a big city, you basically can. Go to a neighborhood you've never been in before and everyone (most likely) you meet is the first time you've ever seen them and vice-versa.
Its for the media. i.e. it would need to be a downloadable piece of software that you run. SaaS is a different category entirely.

Also, regardless of trademark registration, its legally only trademark infringement if it is likely to cause confusion, deception, or mistake about the source of the goods and/or services.

I doubt anyone is going to confuse a fictional time-ship (or related paraphernalia) with a SaaS providing crypto pricing (or whatever it is they do), or believe that they are made by the same organization.

But I suppose people do litigate this stuff (or threaten to...), regardless of the spirit and letter of the law.
> Wegmans supermarkets opened a new store a few years ago at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in reaction to that Whole Foods in Union Square with that dehumanizing cattle chute.

Dehumanizing cattle chute? What do you mean? I've never heard this term in relation to a grocer.
Oof. I did a last pass migration last night, and noticed that movetodon was broken then, but I assumed it was due to load, rather than... this.

End of an era; Twitter is dead. Whatever is left, it's not Twitter.
In the Netherlands 80% of all glass is recycled [1] (it is 100% recyclable as long as you don't care about the colour). In the UK the percentage is a bit lower, 67 % for green glass, 48 % for brown glass and 43 % for white glass [2].

[1] https://recyclingnederland.nl/soort/glasrecycling/

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-waste-data/uk-st...
> It can ever so slightly give one the impression that the rust community has decided that the language is mature and the only thing missing is faster compile times.

Is not the case, is that the features are now good enough and compile times is the one major, big, sore point.

So, if you compare Rust to X you can make a very good case until you hit:

"... wait, Rust is THAT SLOW TO COMPILE?"

":(. Yes"
Same, switched to Walmart+ and can get as good shipping and also local groceries
> There's nothing actually substantive about it. It doesn't feel like it belongs on HN.

Most of the comments on every new Firefox release post are just as bad and have nothing to do with the actual release (folks whining about how their incredibly-niche use-case isn't supported anymore which breaks their workflow etc.), so in some ways it's nice to see something positive (which I would wager is more representative of the average user).
> Seems fairly obvious to me that the boringness comes from adults having to… make a living. And for most people that equates to a 9-5 job that demands conformity and leaves little room for other things after you factor in all the other things adults have to be responsible for.

A full-time job and adult responsibilities still leave plenty of time to be “not boring” for people who make an effort to manage their time.

Many jobs also provide an opportunity for social exposure, get people out of the house (or at least out of their comfort zone and interacting with others remotely). I suspect a lot of people would actually become less socialized and outgoing if they didn’t have the structure of a job to make them adopt routine and discipline in their lives.

> I have an unproven suspicion that if UBI was a thing we would see a lot more “not boring” adults

The only remotely feasible UBI programs wouldn’t be supplying enough money for people to go out and live their best lives. It’s more of a subsistence amount of money.

In a theoretical world where large numbers of people received significant amounts of money and didn’t have to work, we wouldn’t all be going around doing leisure activities everywhere. The work of running, building, and maintaining the world we all inhabit must still be done, which would require significantly higher labor costs to make up for the decreased supply of labor. This would make everything more expensive, which means people would have to go back and get jobs if they wanted to have enough funds to do the “interesting” things beyond subsistence living on UBI.

It’s a common fantasy that removing the 40 hours per week of work would cause individuals to suddenly become more outgoing, adventurous, and interesting, but if people aren’t already doing those interesting and outgoing things on the weekends then I don’t think they’d suddenly start doing more of them with the job removed.
Unless you have some social value that you can barter with
Drama classes perhaps?
Well, they don't need to spend money to schedule my Lambda, but they did already spend a bunch of money building out the datacenter so they can pick up my 100th of a nickel when they do schedule it.

AWS is kind of like a bank, making money on the spread between the cost of compute at different time scales. They can get cheap compute (by committing to owning datacenters and filling them with silicon) and sell expensive compute by letting customers buy it by the second. This is a great business if the demand for per-second compute is always rising, but it isn't if all your customers suddenly take you up on it all at once and start spending drastically less but your huge datacenter investment is still illiquid.
Why the new era of artificial intelligence inspires this startup founder
The perplexing thing is that all these headwinds are fairly well known and for some time (even though probably internalized more by participants in this particular forum). So this raises the question whether there was any rationality attached to the infamous $44bln purchase. One could hypothesise that it was just a random, discretionary action, made possible by an insane system that has lost any sense of value, purpose or accountability.

In either case this story will definitely increase popcorn consumption.
Don't think Source ever won out, Global Offensive was the game to dethrone 1.6. At least in our "semi-professional" neck of the woods CS:S adoption was 30% at best. A clear majority were still playing 1.6 even when Global Offensive came out, and even then it took a year or two of updates to make that game good enough to start convincing significant portions of people to switch over.
For example in 2011 Electronic Sports World Cup just before Global Offensive came out 1.6 still had a significantly larger price pool than CS:S. Funnily it was also the first and last ESWC to even have a CS:S tournament, even though the game had been out for 7 years at that point.
Not even a question these days.
It's not wasted. It's 100% recyclable. Well nearly, the resin or plastic layer on the inside and he ink on the outside are not.
Why are we fixing inflation that doesn't exist? Sounds to me like a scapegoat.

https://delong.typepad.com/kalecki43.pdf oh wait, the O.G. wrote about this 80 years ago.
I wonder if note taking applications like Notion (or new startups) might include something this as a capability to improve their search and summarization.
Biggest difference compared to Chrome, of course, is privacy. Of course Chrome cares about performance and all that other stuff, but significantly less about privacy.

The downside of that is that ReCaptcha sucks more than usual. Because Google knows less about me, I sometimes have to do a ReCaptcha two or three times before it will grudgingly acknowledge my humanity.

Usually I see ReCaptcha as a sign not to use that site.
I think he's off base. There are lots of places on the internet I could go to where the users are anonymous and the conversations are frequently about sacred subjects. In this sense they would be considered 'lively' but to me they are also boring because they are all alive in exactly the same way. It's the same sacred cows being slain the same way, day after day after day. I think real liveliness doesn't come from avoiding social sanction per se, I think it comes from the interaction of different viewpoints in some sort of measured fashion (ie no one viewpoint overwhelms) and important that will include some degree of social sanctioning. But even that liveliness doesn't survive long because it's very uncomfortable. One side always overwhelms the other and when I see posts like this (there's lots of them) it always feels like the true reasoning underneath is: "if my ideas were considered fairly in a marketplace of ideas they would win and overwhelm." So no one is really seeking liveliness, just a boringness that they happen to agree with.
And I wouldn't turn it on without at least three keys (one of which can be your phone) -- the consequences of accidentally getting down to zero are too high.
I used to be a grad student adjacent to Bjarne Stroustrup; he has a quip he's used a bunch: if no one's complaining, no one cares.

I see all of these complaints — both the volume, and the count — as great indicators of Rust's total health.
15% unless your app is hugely popular.
As far as educational screentime goes, my child has learned addition, subtraction, and multiplication purely from Number Blocks. To the point where we have to do supplemental learning because the fellow kindergarteners are just learning numbers and letters.
I just can't agree with this one
SEC Considers Easing Climate-Disclosure Rules After Investor Pushback
Could you not shitpost like the parent, please?
> And now you have become an antagonist. A rule maker to be subverted.

Good, then you can teach them to subvert you productively. Keep the tablet locked down, but put an unlocked Linux machine in the house and tell them they can watch whatever they want in Firefox. Once they've done that, make them launch Firefox from the command line. Once that's mastered, make them connect to the wifi manually. Then make them start the DE manually. Then make them configure the router to get online. Then disassemble the PC and force them to put it together. Better to learn computer literacy skills in the process than just be a drooling, gormless consumer.
No. I don't understand why this social predators thing is even a hypothesis; it seems totally unfounded to me. This essay starts from a what-if and then bounds forward with great leaps of logic...
OP said regularly murdering civilians (intentionally targeting to kill, after meetings on who to target). No one is saying it hasn’t ever happened, but are there weekly/monthly meetings now?
(Partly copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34640251.)

On models: Obviously, almost everything is Transformer nowadays (Attention is all you need paper). However, I think to get into the field, to get a good overview, you should also look a bit beyond the Transformer. E.g. RNNs/LSTMs are still a must learn, even though Transformers might be better in many tasks. And then all those memory-augmented models, e.g. Neural Turing Machine and follow-ups, are important too.

It also helps to know different architectures, such as just language models (GPT), attention-based encoder-decoder (e.g. original Transformer), but then also CTC, hybrid HMM-NN, transducers (RNN-T).

Some self-promotion: I think my Phd thesis does a good job on giving an overview on this: https://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/publications/downlo...

Diffusion models is also another recent different kind of model.

Then, a separate topic is the training aspect. Most papers do supervised training, using cross entropy loss to the ground-truth target. However, there are many others:

There is CLIP to combine text and image modalities.

There is the whole field on unsupervised or self-supervised training methods. Language model training (next label prediction) is one example, but there are others.

And then there is the big field on reinforcement learning, which is probably also quite relevant for AGI.