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SEEKING WORK | INDIA | REMOTE

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, NodeJS, Go, Java, Kotlin, React, Redux, SpringBoot, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Kafka, Jenkins

Hi, after spending the last 5 years in the US, I have returned to India and am looking for exciting projects to work on. I consider myself a generalist engineer with around 6 years of experience building elegant products for both startups and MNC’s. Some of my recent work includes building event driven data pipeline, micro front-ends and infrastructure improvements (AWS, K8s).

I am interested in long-term collaboration and looking for early stage products and can contribute to all aspects of product building.

Email - karanracca@gmail.com
LinkedIn - http://linkedin.com/in/karanracca
I’ve hit rock bottom a few times in my life. Once I was food insecure and another I was on short term disability for burnout. My latest period of strife is due to a traumatic death and a couple of near deaths of loved ones. I’ve done a ton of therapy, read self-help books, had executive coaching. What’s helped the most was deciding what I want my life to be, understanding the gap between here and there, then making incremental changes.

Regularly, throughout the day I remind myself that I am strong in my body. I am confident. I am a successful entrepreneur. Anytime a thought enters my brain stating otherwise, I pause and switch back to focusing on what I want.

What you focus on magnifies. You don’t have to believe every thought that enters your mind. You may feel empty in many moments, but I’m sure if you look hard you will find small moments throughout the day where you feel fulfilled like when you’re exercising. You also made it into a PhD program despite your dysfunctional upbringing. States of being are not binary so you don’t need to attach yourself to a state of emptiness and self-doubt. They can co-exist with other states of being.

It’s normal to feel stressed in a PhD program, especially toward the end. It’s also common for relationships to be impacted as graduate school is a transformative and demanding experience.

Keep going, keep your head up, and be kind to yourself. Replace self-doubt with self-compassion. There’s a new and exciting life waiting for you. By this time next year, this will all be behind you.
GCs can be integrated with allocators to give you memory management. GCs can (not all do) 'move' live objects to compact memory giving better locality and thus performance. GC is applied by runtime and is systemic. If runtime is bug free so are the memory management bits of your code. Less code also reduces probability of bugs and lack of explicit memory management naturally reduces lines of code.

I think the reasonable questions are along the lines of 'when is it not a good idea to use a GC?'. Things like performance, restrictions its places on languages, explicit memory management, and also restrictions on what you can do in your code. The Boehm GC here, for example, has a limited sense of what are 'references' -- it only knows pointers -- so any kind of object composition scheme that is not based on pointers (or mushes pointers like XOR linked list) is seen as 'data' by the GC and could cause bugs.
This is good to know. Was under the impression there was a delay, based on this terrible and abusive series of posts (item?id=20230351) from "V Programming Language released" (20 June 2019), and where other language creators and their supporters were making derogatory remarks, insults, and trying to hurt the funding of another developer. And then actually made pleas to try to divert funding and supporters to themselves.

Persons in the thread gave the impression the release was suppose to be June 20th, when in actually, that was a Patreon supporter early release (as you have stated). The general release was on June 22nd. Furthermore, if the release was to be sometime in June, then it should not have mattered which day (as long as in June) nor was it necessary to come at a developer like that doing an open-source language release.

Upon looking at it further and with this link (https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/287), to confirm the facts of what happened, you can see that you indeed did an early release and scheduled the actual release on June 22nd. Thanks for setting the record straight.
If you've any slight idea about the concepts then Friston's description of the free energy principle is clearly nonsensical.

That said like you point out principle of least something will probably work here, as it seems to everywhere.

Plenty of papers disproving this or that mathematical claim from FEP people.
> People tell me I don’t dream because I don’t remember them. I think that’s false. Sometimes I remember that I dreamed for a few seconds after a wake up, then it fades.

I have confirmed this with experiments - I have woken up in the night, written down my dream and went back to sleep.

When I woke up in the morning I couldn't remmeber a thing and the notes seemed like they were written by someone else. There was no 'yeah, i can sort of remmember it" - memory was totally blank. The experiment is fairly repeatable - not every night, but couple times a week.
On a learning about Commodore history trip.

One thing that is interesting to think about, what if they had gone OpenSource. They were a full on vertically integrated hardware manufacturer. Maybe the could have gotten more technical people, programmer, nerds, even universities on their computers, specially the Amiga.

That it is still not is kind of ridiculous.
Oh wow actually reasonable use of “lemon derived” - I expected the usual “heavily processed with innumerable chemical reactions we converted oil from lemons into a new structure that in practice/volume would require starting with petroleum byproducts”.

This seems to be “we filtered these particles from lemonade and compressed them into pills to give to rats”

That said there’s also the required “in rats” missing from the headline, and I’m guessing the rats used are intentionally bred to get kidney stones, and fed a diet that encourages kidney stones, so the applicability to humans in normal cases isn’t a give . (Recalling the cranberry vs UTIs bs of a few years back)
A large chunk of the contemporary standard of simplified Chinese were basically just shorthand cursive forms that passed down the ages. It's just something people acquire by exposure/immersion.
> stop calling "a woman is a person who identifies as such" a fuzzy definition

I didn’t. I called it a simple definition. It’s not generally correct because it’s too precise.

> had it been challenged strongly and frequently enough, the implicit definitions would become explicit and formal

For people without any civics background, yes. That we lack leaders who push back against overspecification, or people raising needless challenges out of, I don’t know, maladjustment, is a cultural failure, collectively, and an individual failing among those who don’t understand nuance.
I partially agree on that - for example, I find it hard to believe the LLMs will make many lawyers or doctors redundant - not necessarily because of a lack of capabilities, but due to regulatory burdens.
The obsession with language directly relates to the fact that it doesn't matter. They want a safe, meaningless, issue.

Real problems are difficult and scary. No one wants to deal with homelessness, drug use, gang violence, or whatever else.

If you're willing to engage in a little self deception, why not "solve" a pretend issue instead? Go home feeling like a hero because you told people to stop using the word blind as a metaphor. Safe, easy, fulfilling.
It seems like a bold assumption to me that dreams have a functional purpose.
I’m 5 years out from a tough last year of a PhD program. Married with kids now.

It gets better. Power through the final stretch.
hot tip: ld_preload’ing it when running something that leaks memory or erroneously frees memory still in use can fix the problem.

(obviously best to just fix the code if you have it.)
How did this get so many points?
Most of the recent AI advances and hype is around content creation, like generating essays or images. The big money is not content creation, but strategy, ranking visibility, etc. that arise from competition, like promoting a new product or outranking a competitor. Google is worth $1 trillion for this reason. Facebook $400 billion. Getty Images is worth $1 billion. Humans have to compete against other humans for an edge; AI does not stand a chance.
I can't help but think Andreesen's gone off the deep end a bit, especially after he started gushing over Adam Neumann's second run at a real estate company (“We think it is natural that for his first venture since WeWork, Adam returns to the theme of connecting people through transforming their physical spaces and building communities where people spend the most time: their homes.”).

> AI is simply already illegal across most of the economy, soon to be virtually all of the economy.

This just isn't true - AI won't necessarily be a product in the sectors he's talking about, but it'll absolutely improve them. Hospital services? AI is clearly going to be involved, at least in things like radiology. College tuition? I suppose that depends on how much the value of higher education remains in scarce brand names vs. education, but clearly AI is going to open up educational opportunities in a way that brings the costs way down.

And then AI will eventually (and to be clear, it might be a while) get us to general-purpose robots. He says "Those industries are monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels, with extensive formal government regulation as well as regulatory capture, price fixing, Soviet style price setting, occupational licensing, and every other barrier to improvement and change you can possibly imagine." but in an industry like construction, if you accept what he's saying, all of that control is in the hands of the rich folks at the top. What he's suggesting is that they'll protect the jobs of construction workers when they can replace them with cheaper, more efficient robots who are exempt from safety standards.
> I haven't figured out a way to get this to work well with tmux, because the local tmux server doesn't know about the remote tmux sessions. Whereas with screen, screen doesn't need to know or care about that.

I'm missing something here. Why does tmux need to know or care?
The third one resonates. As someone who also started coding at a young age, here’s what worked for me: 1. Have at least 10 free hours each week, 2. Get fanatically addicted to coding, 3. Repeat for 8 years and then do a four year CS degree. Pretty useless advice.

Apropos the article, it’s easy to imagine there’s a similar lottery for most paths in life, including entrepreneurship. “Be born rich enough that you have the innate confidence that the universe will bend to your will” is a lottery I didn’t win.

Surely, a kernel of the current political polarization is the left’s insistence that these lottery tickets matter, and the right’s insistence that the wealth they’re holding is the result of their own hard work. (To be clear, it’s a spectrum — tickets come in different sizes, and hard work plays a role — but such nuance has no place in public discourse)
>each of thrse characters also have a certain way they should be drawn

I have been learning japanese for a few years now, and kanji stroke order was honestly one of the easiest things to get right. there are exeptions, but in general, after having practiced like 50 characters, you pick up on patterns and are able to guess stroke order pretty easily. I highly doubt learning that specific aspect causes a significant amount of time wasted.
A video Ohio governor DeWine and EPA director Michael Regan attempting to drink water in East Palestine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvQck0yZO6k
I'm going to bet it's because this was written by Marc Andreessen.
Well, yes, sleeping! Our brains have to do something while we sleep, but to assume that "something* has a functional purpose seems like a possibility, not a forgone conclusion.
The vast majority of people write faster in print than in cursive with a pencil or ballpoint pen due to reduced friction when raising the pencil or pen (most recent study I could find: https://www.academia.edu/16329948/The_Relationship_Between_H...). It is a waste of classroom time to optimize for fountain pen writing speed.
Jack Daniel’s warehouse project halted as whiskey fungus infests local town
Having been in a couple dense crowds, you really just have to push to get people out of the way. But I'd rather avoid situations where that's required.
Huh, funny because I am thinking the opposite (that it's bold to suggest they dont have a purpose).

I'm not basing it on any facts or data. It's just funny how our gut instincts are so different.
All of them. They couldn't establish themselves enough to leave any important traces in history and are effectively erased. Sexual liberation is not a new idea, the reason why it's not traditional is because it is unsustainable and can never grow to a tradition
> but we're not talking about people in poverty

Um... the parent comment is in fact talking about that
> you can't (or don't want to) allocate memory dynamically. this crate is intended to allow all metrics storage to be declared in statics, for use in embedded systems and other no-std use-cases.

Basically, the library just transforms over a statically assigned buffer.

In a lot of languages, this means you lose out on some language features, but I believe features like pattern matching are alloc free in rust.
Similarly Angular 1 allowed component oriented development far before react. But people seem to think React invented it.

The problem with angular 1 components (isolated scope directives) was simply that not many understood it as a best practice until far too late, and the framework allowed you to do all kinds of terrible designs like shared scope/multiple controllers per file, which was the more common way to develop. Also performance was poor.

Feel the same way about signals. Vue has been doing it for years (just not tied into render optimizations). I used a similar model via angular 1 back in 2014 even, via watch chains. Much less performant though. Can also do it via redux by defining a special third arg which defines state depenencies (which we do here).

Nothing really novel about a tree-like series of derived states. Interesting that social media is ablaze like its something new
The EROEIs give for solar and wind appear to be mostly propaganda. Factoring in infrastructure costs like transmission lines and storage makes it apparent that solar/wind are enormously expensive:

"True cost of using wind and solar to meet demand was $272 and $472 per MWh"

https://web.archive.org/web/20220916003958/https://files.ame...
- Just a little bit of ideological over-simplification in this piece and , generally speaking, a false equivalence between technology and libertarian deregulation. There's plenty of room for technological authoritarianism, ask anyone who lived through zero-covid.

- I don't disagree at all that hospital costs are the direct result of regulatory failure. However, it has nothing to do with technology? Hospitals are actually bastions of advanced technology and AI? We just have no market on healthcare. I actually see plenty of room for AI to help make markets efficient, by helping poorly informed consumers be more aware of their options (such as seeking healthcare in places that DO have two-sided healthcare markets).

- One of the pathological 'red' lines is "college textbooks" some insignificant fraction of the economy, not really a relevant counter to "household furnishings".
You could also argue that the "red" categories align more closely with "needs" people have little to no choice but to pay, and are ripe for predatory pricing.

It's true there are monopoly problems here, but the answer isn't to remove regulation it's to strengthen it. A return to real anti-trust in particular.

The blue items lean more towards luxury items and discretionary spending, so pricing can't be so exploitative.
Yeah, his whole post is thinly veiled anti-regulations blather. I suppose it’s a nice break from his web3 nonsense and his deranged anti-“woke” posting.
I'm sorry but this is some useless mumbo-jumbo. Might even be GPT generated, though these days language models actually make more sense than this.

There's no such thing as SyPi.
Not like they are the only player in town. If they don’t make things easier people just don’t use them, no harm done. So they are either good for consumers or not relevant. What’s the downside?
Looks like the OP is 403.
I disagree. tmux default behaviour suits my workflow much better. It's complex enough problem that there is no perfect default so complaining this or that doesn't fit you when you can just change it so it does is pointless.
People overestimate the potency of monetary policy. Japan's central banks had its foot to the pedal for 2 decades and only recently have things gotten better. 0% interest rates is not an elixir for growth. It's not that easy or simple. Same for other countries which had 'easy money' polices but far less success compared to the US, no Facebook or Aamzons coming out of the UK or Germany.
It could be interpreted that they think you look androgynous, which would offend some people.
Many server architectures work like that, I know apache did/does. When you know you're working in a short term request it's an obvious optimization to allocate from a "grows only" bucket that you then throw in the trash at the end of the request.

In fact, I think the truth is rather the converse. Users of "modern" frameworks and managed runtimes think of the heap as a unitary thing, provided by the runtime, with complicated rules and individual blocks being individually managed. "Old school C" was, in fact, a lot less constrained and a lot more willing to engage in novel paradigms. See the emacs first-stage elisp dump for another famous example of C programs breaking rules about how heaps are supposed to work.
One of those cultural things, such as giving out a single tiny paper napkin when you buy an ice cream (rather than letting you take as many as you like) or the folks who switch off power to their apartment when they go out for the day.

Instead of an abundance mentality (let them browse the books: they might buy more than one, and it least are likely to be more satisfied) it's a zero sum (they might look into the book, read what they want, and then buy nothing).

I buy a lot of used books and of course this shrinkwrap nonsense doesn't apply there.

I don't see this in English speaking countries, India, Japan, or China; I do see it common in France and Germany. I don't buy books in other countries so can't say.
Enforcement failure doesn't mean it isn't banned as you claimed earlier.
Uhh… from the point of view of someone that has spent 12 years in academia (post-secondary education, in Canada) essentially studying health sciences and healthcare, the premise of this article is delusional— completely disconnected from reality.

The conclusion may be correct, I don’t know… But if it’s correct, it’s only accidentally so. Garbage reasoning.
>... Orwell said long ago, that most of what we write is just mindless concatenation of premade phrases.

That sounds really interesting, but my Google-fu failed me here; what is the full quote?
I think there is real difference between a) devaluing someone's work, and b) and voiding work of value. What makes AI different from previous technological innovations is that it seems to have the potential to make peoples labor worthless, rather than merely devalued. To give examples, if your writing is worse than ChatGPTs then your writing is worthless. If your art is worse than stable diffusion then your art is worthless, and if it takes more money to feed, clothe, and train you for construction than it does to run the Atlas robot then your physical labor is worthless too.

I do not think our current social policies are ready for that.
I mean I don't think ワープロ is used to designate word processor programs. ワープロソフト (literally word processor software) might, but not ワープロ. The expression ワープロ馬鹿 has probably never been used in the context of software.

Nowadays, the phenomenon itself is largely driven by smartphones.
This is only tangentially related, but when I was a teenager I practiced remembering my dreams. And now I cannot forget them.

This is actually negativity impacting me. I often get reality confused with something I have dreamed. I cannot always remember if a conversation I had occurred in my dreams or in reality.
Yes, they just jail wighurs because of their religion.
I've worked with software for lawyers, and I remember thinking if it was done right, it would not make lawyers redundant, it would make paralegals redundant. Still seems to be the case.
>...but you are still able to make out the meaning without all that much difficulty and without much of a chance of misinterpretation, i.e. these language are quite robust in the face of transmission errors

Well, sometimes. There are plenty of single-character errors in English that could change meaning though: Presence of absence of a comma, asymptomatic vs symptomatic, bat vs bet, etc.
similarly, i recently discovered that the japanese equivalent for a CLI one-liner is 一行野郎, or "one line bastard". which i think is a very fitting description
Yeah, it's super annoying to see phrases like "Soviet style price setting" when we see this same shit happening in literally every capitalist country
I’m sorry that you’re having a hard time. Calling this rock bottom, or even YOUR rock bottom, is…incredibly ‘Hacker News privileged’, or at the very least needlessly hyperbolic. I don’t think I’m reading too far between the lines to glean that you aren’t aware of the fine fine line between yourself and someone that’s far far far “worse off” than you.
Perhaps if you feed ChatGPT the article, it will discern some meaning that currently only the author possesses.
>Any advice? General or specific, I'll take anything.

Be careful of the homeless and the drug addicts. Spread some cash around the homeless that frequent where you live so that they aren't hostile. Don't step on any poop, and keep an eye out for needles when you walk.

Oh and leave your car unlocked with the windows down. Don't leave any valuables in your car. Don't venture outside at night unless you are streetwise and know how to handle yourself.
Something snapped in him when crypto shit the bed. His new obsession with AI is him working some stuff out.
Either indoctrination or a detachment from reality. Can’t tell which. Wonder when the last time he spoke to someone who isn’t a reflection of himself was.
I am sorry to agree with his conclusion because I really look forward to an abundance world where the marginal cost of production asymtotes to nil and unemployment is universal (pretty sure I won't live long enough to see this).

(He should have stopped his essay after the first couple of paragraphs).

However we'll need more sophisticated intelligence than what most of today's "AI" work is leading towards.
That argument is extremely underwhelming and repeatedly makes assertions that are flat out wrong. Somehow high inflation areas like "college textbooks" are more heavily regulated than low inflation areas like "new cars". Meanwhile, the article completely ignores how much labor costs make up the prices in those different sectors. It does this in an article explicitly about fears that AI will be used to drive down labor costs and cause unemployment.

I have dramatically less respect for Marc Andresson after reading an example of such poor reasoning.
Might be worth looking into detached.el for persistent sessions? Tbh I haven’t set it up properly myself, but I did watch the talk from EmacsConf and I plan to look into it further.
Remember this is the same guy that pitched Crypto as a good investment...
So you agree with the theoretical possibility of somebody in Andromeda seeing a cat in the glorph state (dead & alive)? If not, then why can they (in theory) see the particle in the glorph state?