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Location: Santa Clara, CA
Remote: Yes, potentially open to hybrid in the south bay area
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, AWS, SQL, GraphQL, others less recently on résumé
Résumé: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TCXM9voQU2Xk7wu6cxkFaxehAkgSNVmKxrGkqamzumE/edit?usp=sharing
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-freidin/
Email: daviddjf at gmail.com

Backend engineer, most recently worked on the data backend (database and api) for https://apertureplatform.com/ which is being shut down for business reasons. 4.5 years software development experience, with previous experience and degree in computer hardware engineering. I'm open and interested in learning (or re-learning) languages and technologies that I may not have used recently, and would prefer working either in a team with established practices, or with an experienced team leader with a solid plan to implement them (i.e. not as a first or lead engineer myself).
This argument is in the same category as when people link you a 2 hour YouTube video and say "if you watch this you'll understand (unsaid: and agree with) my viewpoint!"

Which is to say, I don't think the political disputes of the United States are being driven by social media algorithms because they are exactly dividing along historic fault-lines dating back the founding of the country.

The thing about blaming social media is it excuses anyone from dealing with the content of any sides complaints or stated intentions by pretending it's not real.
It felt like what it does is make a higher order polymer, which itself was useful. So, its making feedstock for "more" plastic but not the specific polymer chains of the inputs, or feedstock to make them.

A bit like if there was a mixture of plasticine and play-doh, and what you get out is a composite of both chemically, which it turns out makes lego bricks.

At least thats how I skim-read it.
Do you have any idea of where a young person might find that sort of environment today? Did you by chance work with Odlyzko there?
Back in 1968 the NYPD had an effective way to address armed robberies. Stake-out squad members would hide inside targeted businesses and then just shoot the robbers. However, this approach has fallen out of favor in modern law enforcement.

https://qualitypolicing.com/the-stake-out-squad/
Not exactly correct. The Mission Training Center has only missionaries of the church attend for language training. But, Special Forces and many other agencies have studied and patterned their own language training off of the MTC model.
A favorite of mine! My friend Oz (of teachyourselfcs.com) and I chatted about this talk in the first episode of our show - focusing on how Oz has seen its influence and impact on the early/mid-career software engineers he's taught: https://show.csprimer.com/episodes/e1-doing-meaningful-work
I've been taking low dose herbals as maintenance since my last round while I wait for the next round

> I was given the metronidazole for one week and it helped as well, but symptoms came back.

Make sure you focus on gut motility. A lot of people have it come back due to poor MMC which causes the food to sit for longer, ferment, foster the overgrowth, and cause inflammation. Here's a good thread with some options: https://www.reddit.com/r/SIBO/comments/11ac3ic/list_of_possi...
Related is the recently posted article that said aluminum foil hats actually magnify the signal in certain frequencies frequented by the US government
Same quantity of power consumption, same quantity of electronics, same waste. The more powerful the machines get the more 'difficult' the 'problem' is to solve. These machines don't do any work unless they successfully guess the nonce. The bulk of its time is spent wasting power. Doesn't matter how many boxes you split it into or combine it into.
I can recall many, many years ago (20+), reading an article about the future of telephones. The article proposed that many developing nations would never install landlines with full penetration because mobile phones are so much cheaper. This was written in the era when mobile phones were still expensive. That blew me away.

This brings back bad memories, and illustrates the risk of linear thinking: South Africa's black population was denied proper services under apartheid, including telecommunications. In an effort to supposedly right that wrong, the state-owned telecommunications company, Telkom, was given a years-long monopoly on fixed-line telecommunications in return for putting in fixed line connections to black communities. There were reports that an American corporation, SBC, helped write the country's telecoms act after it acquired a minority stake in Telkom.[1][2]

That monopoly set South Africa back many years, and it's only been in the last decade that it began catching up with the rest of the world. Oh, and the copper network has been so badly looted that many/most places now have wireless landlines. And those under-served black people: they all bought cellphones for the same reasons that people in the rest of the world did.

[1] https://twentythirdfloor.co.za/2007/08/27/telkom-sbc-and-a-f...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20070827181955/http://www.busrep...
Flagging is a privilege you get with 500 karma. By definition it's my call to make, or else there wouldn't be a "flag" button available to me. However, note that moderators can silently ignore flags from certain users. For example I'm pretty sure my own flags have no impact. Whereas soon after I reached 500 karma, one flag from me was enough to set a post to flagged, but at some point my flags stopped making a difference. I'm guessing that if you flag too many "false alarms" then the moderators just turn your flag button into a no-op.
That's the old world, and the world I want has limited JavaScript yet fully interactive products.
Mining does zero useful productive work. That's the point. That's how it has to work. It's literally a proof of waste system. Each unit of wasted energy should be spent doing something useful. If you economically incentivize waste, there's no market signal to utilize the power to productive ends.

So if there's a small amount of power, you get no yield from mining. If there's a lot of power, you can afford to connect it to the grid. If there's a medium amount of power, decommission some of the supply - or never build it in the first place. All three options are better that using it to probabilistically guess at nonces and prove you expended it on nothing of value - and get paid for it.
It's just down to small context window. Once the context window is big enough to fit entire examples in the training data, then it should be trivially solvable to train a model to do it.

There are various finetuned models out there for conversations or story-telling, though they're quite small in terms of parameter count at the moment, but I don't see it as being fundamentally impossible.
Yeah. We need to hook the commenter up to an fmri and transformer model to understand what they are thinking.
And most asian would agree with our American friends. That is how we have experienced it.
> 50MT is 2% of global waste production

There is a huge difference between 50MT of feces or food waste or other organic matter that could easily decompose and e-waste. Even outside of organic matter, we often at least have solutions for recycling many things. We simply don't have the technology currently to completely recycle solar panels though. There is only one facility in the world (a tiny facility in France) that can completely recycle a panel and it's unlikely that it is actually able to do it in an economically feasible way. In addition, e-waste in general often has to deal with very hazardous or toxic waste

Which would you rather have near your backyard, a landfill filled with plastics (at least the non-compostable kinds so you don't have to worry about microplastics) or a landfill filled with e-waste?

E-waste is simply much more difficult and expensive to deal with. And much more so if we're being honest about the environmental and health impacts and what it would take to resolve those as well
You don't have to lie to keep a secret. Not telling someone something is still keeping a secret, and is necessary in the scenario that you know something will trigger an episode in someone. There's also the factor of time. You may start talking about something previously left unsaid later on therapy, after you've established some trust.

It's really not any different than how people engage in normal relationships. How I talk to a stranger is different than how I talk to a colleague is different from how I talk to a friend. You need to first build a rapport before you can talk about certain things.
The primary effect of ALPRs in other cities has been to identify stolen cars as well as those registered to owners with open warrants. They aren't typically used for traffic enforcement.
No, I do mean to say it's uninteresting, because I can predict all the replies. Without any factual basis for discussion, it will inevitably devolve into a predictable - and thus uninteresting - argument rooted in opposing idealogical positions of a culture war.
I haven't seen them called that in quite a while. It's possible it's regional or something though.
>They moving there because they want to be in a big city - with friends, jobs, museums, and nightlife.

Sure

>So I don’t understand why Matt believes that building a few new apartments in some city - a very small move along that spectrum - would do anything other than make local prices go up.

Huh? Other than friends, none of the previously mentioned amenities are provided by apartment buildings.

Adding commercial real estate to a city adds jobs and amenities that make it more desirable, and thus more expensive.

Adding more housing does not.

That said, adding more housing raises the demand for commercial real estate (more available workers and customers), hence the cycle that leads to very dense, very expensive places like Manhattan. Strictly speaking though, adding apartments alone isn't enough to keep that cycle going.
Only links and buttons respond to clicks, and buttons look like buttons - finally! Flat design is moronic, and this smartphone thing of magic zones to stroke is awful.
I think this reflects the fact, as you allude to, that the term 'socialism' has been stretched to mean many different things.
I think the answer in cases like this is to not sweat the definitions just ask what people are actually talking about.
This isn't unique to "socialism". Words and their ambiguious definitions are behind a lot arguments that people find themselves embroiled in.
Vim: How to Exit Ex Mode
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: python, numpy, pandas, kubernetes, docker, llm, pytorch, tensorflow, deep learning, machine learning, devops, django, aws, azure, sagemaker, vertex

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Email: nsudhanva@gmail.com

5 years' full-time work experience. Mostly generalist dev. Looking for Machine Learning Engineer/Platform Engineer/Backend Engineer roles.

Thank you!
I'm a Canadian, so of course when this first hit the news, much hilarity ensued in our household.

Incidentally, the town really is called Dildo Newfoundland. The fact that these coincided adds so much to the story.
Which brand of fish oil did you use?
Yes, but WebAuthN can't be used for arbitrary signatures (which would be required to support various cryptocurrencies/blockchains), nor can it be used to decrypt data or derive keys, which would allow using it as an unlocking key for some hybrid solution.

I'm happy to be proven wrong if you've found a way around these fundamental constraints!
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Remote: Yes please
Willing to relocate: Unlikely, but not impossible, not immediately
Technologies: React, Typescript, Vue, react-testing-library, JavaScript, Python, CSS, Docker, a little Postgres, Jest, Jenkins

Résumé/CV: Upon request via email
Email: luke@luketully.ca

(mostly) Frontend Developer with ~8 y.o.e looking for a new role to start in June, fresh off a ~1 1/3 year term working on a web-based building management system, specifically migrating from Angular 1.x and React class components to React Hooks/Typescript/Redux. Learned a lot, but layoffs hit since commercial real estate is losing money. Worked with a small team who's size fluctuated between 5 and 9 as I followed the original German startup through an acquisition of a major U.S company.

Most of my experience is not greenfield—not that I'd shy away from anything—it's heavier on contributing to larger established complex codebases with immediate team sizes of 5-10. I'd like to build on my skills as a frontend engineer going forward, though I'm not strictly looking for an IC role and don't have strict technology preferences, I'm mainly interested in delivering value and solving some interesting problems along the way.
Even when he was at Vice he had a long history of espousing racist views. This isn't something new.
I suppose all that really matters if the ratio of the two? I have use-cases for which I use GPT-4 and it does as good a job as I would, but faster and so I just leverage it by default now and am faster at certain things. There are also things I try it for and I don't get a useful result, so I learn not to rely on the model for that particular use-case. In that regard, it's a tool and you simply learn what it's useful for and what it's not.
So what? Coal went down much less than it would have if nuclear wasn't disabled.
I know it's frustrating to get rejected without an interview, but comments like this are off-topic for the thread and the instructions at the top ask people not to post them.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35783027.
The blocked apps are:

1. Briar (decentralised encrypted chat app): https://briarproject.org

2. Crypviser (decentralised encrypted chat app): https://crypviser.network

3. Enigma (encrypted chat app): https://enigma.im/en/

4. Safeswiss (encrypted chat app): https://www.safeswiss.com

5. Wickr Me (discontinued encrypted chat app): https://wickr.com/me/

6. Mediafire (file hosting website): https://www.mediafire.com

7. BChat (decentralised encrypted chat app): https://bchat.beldex.io

8. Nandbox (unencrypted video/voice chat app): https://nandbox.com

9. Conion (encrypted chat app): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.secapp.tor...

10. IMO (unencrypted video/voice chat app): https://imo.im

11. Element (encrypted chat app): https://element.io

12. 2nd Line (unencrypted VoIP app): https://www.2ndline.co

13. Zangi (encrypted chat app): https://zangi.com

14. Threema (encrypted chat app): https://threema.ch/en

Source: https://qz.com/india-has-blocked-14-messenger-apps-on-securi...
That productivity OS for power users does exist. It's free and you can even run Windows games in it now.
> the world is turning to shit

By most objective measures, this is false. More people are being lifted out of poverty than ever before. People are also less bored, more creative, and more productive.

> because of climate change

Hasn't happened yet. Barring a runaway effect, it looks like we'll have fewer species (lamentable) but more arable land. We're still in an ice age and we're nowhere close to Cretaceous climate.

We're closer to inventing transcendent intelligence than killing it off completely.

> forced to live underground like rats

This is just vivid imagination. We're not Morlocks.
Please don't break the rules at the top of the thread.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773776.

Edit: plus could you please stop using HN for ideological flamewar generally? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Obviously since they've done literally nothing in the last 20 years.
At the time, friends/family were annoyed at anti-soviet memetics. Why shouldn't a Russian computer be on UUCP? Much of the discussion was basically stupid, reactionary noises. Research institutes worldwide were interconnected by email across multiple protocols, NATO summerschools were held in interesting economies, Conversations happened.

When Vadim named his node later on as a post-hoc self-referential joke, it kind of made things even worse. Ironical self-deprecating humour can do that.

Jokes are sometimes both more and less funny than intended. It's in the nature of humour. When they escape into the wild, it can go to some very odd places. "The Aristocrats" is kind-of the end-game of "thats not funny" when it comes to apparently funny stories. Kremvax isn't quite there, but its along the road of things which demanded you make a wall between people, to insert some humour into it.
Well if you put your SF hat on, that's not a violent crime, because no one is harmed but evil businesses, which is actually good.
The use case for nuclear power isn't to assist renewable energy sources, but to replace coal power.
can lidar see thru dust storms?
You've got to wonder how many times per day nearly identical "environmental impacts" are occurring due to mundane causes such as the use of explosives in mining, building demolations, or whatever.

This is a bunch of attention seekers latching on to a famous company like leeches.
Please don't break the rules at the top of the thread.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773887.
I am not claiming to be all aware on the big picture, but based on my personal experience till now as an Australian, an even better solution is free Medicare.
I think the trail runner feature you want is called a "rock plate"
I imagine it would go up … in flames
_Berenstein_ Bears. Don't fall for the fake news. ;)
Here's a prompt:
"If there is a bob outside, and a bib inside, and the bib cannot see the bob, can the bob see the bib?"

Answer:

"If the bib cannot see the bob due to being inside, it is likely that the bob, which is outside, also cannot see the bib. The reason for the bib not being able to see the bob is presumably due to some kind of barrier, such as a wall or a window, which would likely obstruct the view for both the bib and the bob."

Prompt:

"What type of reasoning did you just apply to solve that task?"

Answer:

"In solving the task, I applied abductive reasoning. Abductive reasoning involves inferring the most likely explanation for a set of observations or statements. In this case, I inferred that a barrier (e.g., a wall or window) is the most likely explanation for why the bib cannot see the bob, and thus, the bob likely cannot see the bib either."

ChatGPT solves the problem by a mechanical reasoning process, not a "party trick". It's a machine, not a person at a party. Surely you don't believe that it has seen that exact sequence of questions and replies in its training set and is simply regurgitating. You can argue about whether its actually using "abductive reasoning" or not, but that is besides the point that it involves some mechanical reasoning process over an interpretation of the prompt. It's not a simple regurgitation.

AlphaZero learned to play Go starting with nothing but the rules of the game. What is it regurgitating there?
Sorry I don’t understand your comment.
Other countries should introduce a tariff on all Canadian content - fight fire with fire. I'm Canadian but I don't think such protectionist policies are ultimately helpful.
Looking both ways even when the light is green has become a habit of mine.

Over forty years ago my lead foot saved my life. I was first off the line and I punched it when the light turned green. Just as I crossed the intersection I saw a car in my rear-view mirror whiz past through the red light at ~80MPH. If I had been slower, I would be dead.
By year 5 a panel is already down to 95% efficiency. Year 25 is around 80-85%. That may not sound like much but in many environments, that difference is enough to make solar panels not worth keeping. And ask yourself as a consumer if you really think other consumers are going to keep a solar panel because it's "the right thing to do" when they could probably buy and much better solar panel for very cheap at that point in the future. It's like keeping a 15 year old graphics card when you could buy a 5 year old graphics card for $50 and get 100x the performance
Maybe designers should research why we are not redesigning things like power sockets, forks, knives, shoelaces every other month.
They should really have used an example like John Smith who made it to Level 6 SWE at Google instead of Level 4, because he kept his passion for low level coding (even though everyone was say "do web programming") or something. But that would be too prosaic I guess!
`Warning: sense of humour failure. Please insert more coffee. Error code: 8008`
How does the receptor un-lock? What happens to the previously airborne molecule, now coupled to the cell with the receptor, to make that receptor open to receiving again?
The old one didn't say the end of the world was 2012 either. It was just the date going from 0.0.0.0.12.19.19.17.19 to 0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0

And there exist Mayan documents talking about dates that are still in the future!

The rumor was just because the previous world supposedly ended after that amount of time, with the current world being the fourth, but it was specifically not supposed to happen to this one.
From having scraped HN job posts before, I’ve observed that it does take the full 2 weeks for these job postings to come in. I’d wait awhile before drawing any conclusions from today’s post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33773972
The author describes his learning process in detail and explains what's exciting: he got a basic understanding of the subject within minutes, after being frustrated by Wikipedia, a physics education site, and some other site. Getting through the surface level is a big deal for someone who's new to a subject.
The kind of show that really makes you pay attention!
My take on this is that all philosophies tend to get pathogical at the extremes: Communism as the extreme end of socialist ideas, unfettered libertarianism / neoliberalism as the extreme end of capitalism. Speech with no consequences and an expectation of a platform as the extreme end of free speech ideas. Abortion bans as the extreme end of "respect for life".

My heuristic is that any time you're espousing a "pure", "unadulterated", "absolutist" philosophy, you're probably on the path to becoming a monster. The real world is never black and white and morally grey areas are unavoidable, if messy.

Rant over =)
In Switzerland they have a “simple” solution to this problem. The onus is on the consumer to make sure all recyclables are washed and split appropriately. There are different bins for metals, paper, compost, and the different kinds of plastic. The municipality randomly checks your bags and fines you if you don’t do this right. Regular trash has to go in specific bags that are much more expensive.

Basically the incentives are setup such that everyone takes the 10 extra minutes to do it right. People are annoyed but once you have a system down it’s not really hard to do.

I think this is the way to go. Everyone pitches in to make recycling work. In the long run it may even incentivize sellers to make their products easy to recycle, as buyers are forced to care.

Note I may have some details wrong as this is based on what I remember from living there 10 years ago.
Do you believe this is something you're experiencing?
Would you then agree that your original point that "99.7% of machines do not solve a block" is not by itself an argument that bitcoin is more or less wasteful than it needs to be? Because through a bookkeeping trick you can reduce or increase that figure by an arbitrary amount.
Coming up the food chain from ed, you learned ex en route to vi. So the question "what is ex mode" has always somewhat bemused me, because in the causal chain which led to vi, you walked through it.

At least, I did, using the BSD training materials I had to hand. (4.1BSD et seq)