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Freelance Sr. Engineer with Kubernetes/DevOps/Golang Focus

Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: yes
Current preferences:
Kubernetes, Golang, Kubernetes Operators, Ci/CD, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Containers and automating everything
Languages: German (Native), English (Native)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-h%C3%B6lzel
Github: https://github.com/jhoelzel
Blog: https://www.hoelzel.it

Hi, I'm Johannes, a tech specialist with a focus on Kubernetes. I have been working in the industry since 2003 and have extensive experience building and managing large-scale systems using Kubernetes, with a focus on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and bare-metal deployments.

In addition to my technical skills, I also have a background in psychology which gives me unique insights on team leadership and communication. I have a proven track record of leading and creating successful international teams.

I'm currently offering my services as a freelancer and would be happy to discuss potential opportunities involving Kubernetes. If you're looking for someone with seniority and experience in the field, please feel free to reach out. I have a wealth of experience with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and bare-metal Kubernetes and am confident in my abilities.

You can read some articles I wrote:

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Does credit card number theft and shipping electronics to Romania wit those count as white collar crime?
Unconscious bias is a completely overblown concept, and some of the science that supports it (such as Implicit Association Tests) is hogwash.

Note that I am not saying that we do not have cognitive biases (in the general sense of the term) or blind spots, but the idea that people are systematically biased against certain racial or other identity groups in ways they are not aware of just isn't well supported.
Location: Athens, Greece

Remote: Yes, exclusively

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Technologies: Linux, Flask, Django, Javascript, Vue, HTML, CSS, SQL, shell, PHP, git, Tailwind, and more

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Email: alxs@protonmail.com

10+ years of full stack web, having done everything from Linux server setup via SSH to SEO. I have worked on pixel perfect applications and database driven ones. I have done ecommerce, fast paced news agencies, government to government/citizen, APIs and bank transaction implementations. I am a social person that appreciates good communication and loves the CLI and git.
Creating the Intent Case–A Portable Timed Safe for My Phone
Heya!

I'm a product developer, currently working to create a portable timed locking case for my phone. I've experimented with a lot of tools to limit my phone use, and so far this is proving the most effective.

Collaborators and feedback wanted!
> Most criminals in the US aren’t desperately poor or anything (…)They mostly just do it because they enjoy it (thrill seeking)…

and

>…or think it’s a way to make more money faster and easier than a real job.

Are contradictory statements.

It is fascinating how easy it is to casually say “Criminals don’t need money, they do crime for the thrill! Or the money!” as if thrills and money are the same thing since they were said in the same breath.

The person you’re responding to pointed out several factors that could influence someone to need to get money as quickly as possible.

It isn’t a rebuttal to say “Those criminals don’t do crime to get money for reasons involving shelter, healthcare, or other things that could be addressed by a stronger safety net! They’re do crime to get money for… other, mysterious reasons! Perhaps the ill-gotten loot is itself seductive far beyond pedestrian causes like ‘rent’”

I have met quite a few criminals in my life and none of them would fit the characterization of “A cross between Evil Knievel and the hordweard dragon Smaug”
https://archive.is/KLntB
Other countries limit guns.
Asked ChatGPT to write me a script to count the open windows :) I have 164. Although I have quite a bit of RAM left at the moment. The OS getting sluggish is usually what prompts me to close a few open apps. So having lots of RAM is bad for my productivity...

The annoying part is just that Windows explorer gets really sluggish -- to a comical degree. For example, I'll do a file operation (copy, rename etc) and it'll take that same explorer Window 5 seconds to register the operation that it itself performed. Meanwhile, Sublime Text open in the background detects it within miliseconds.
>It would be cumbersome and error-prone to try to download this HTML, parse it and try to extract information from it

This is the crux of the problem. Also the reason XML fell out of favor and lead to a massive and still incomplete reinvention of the wheel in the form of JSON schema etc.

Imagine a client side programming language for which a valid html snippet is simply the serialization of an object. And vice versa. No parsing required.

The point is that much of the web has been shaped by the adoption of javascript as the exclusive browser side programming language.
Postgres

Mysql
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We are building smart mobility solutions to integrate with the public transport systems. We already operate more than 40 of these services in Germany and Europe.

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> Article: By comparison, common crimes like burglary, larceny and theft cost just $16 billion per year. (FBI)

> FBI: Collectively, victims of property crimes (excluding arson) suffered losses estimated at $16.4 billion in 2018.

Those aren't the same statistic. The cost of property (or any other kind of) crime is the sum of the losses plus the cost of prevention. If typical prevention costs more than is lost (the security industry is estimated at over 200B by some sources), then that figure should be compared to the combined security+loss cost of white collar crime. I don't think the ratio will get particularly close to 1, but it should shrink from 20.

Also,

> Article: Three-quarters of white-collar criminal offenders are white males.

A majority of the $300B figure computed by the FBI is in the form of foreign economic espionage and (not-necessarily-domestic) IP theft. I'm going to doubt that the major players in that are overwhelmingly white men.

The article (edit: apparently an extended ad) appears to have been written with a conclusion in mind before the facts were cherry picked sans context to support it.
Kicker: most of the white-collar crimes are committed against the state (as listed by their link to Cornell Law); does this insurance cover antitrust violations?

Or better yet, if they cover securities fraud, then I could make some very nice bets in the altcoin market. That's a type of insurance I'd love to buy.
It ia pretty clear that there is a class bias in the way crime is punished in most societies.

I like the Scandinavian idea of scaling certain fines (e.g. for speeding) with the income of a person or at least introduce a point based system where you temporarily loose your drivers license when you you accumulated three points. Otherwise you have a society where the same wrongdoing destroys the existence of one person and barely bothers the other one outside of paying a (for them) small amount of money.

White collar crime is even worse in these regards. If you steal X units of currency from a cash register you will usually get more punishment than if you steal 1000X units of currency through some simple white collar scheme.

And that needs to be adressed.
The only issue with central planning is making people behave according to its rules - it's a problem of motivation. The calculation side itself is evidently better under central planning. Free market is an optimization algorithm and many other exist. It's extremely unlikely simulating prices is the most effective way to allocate, but even if it is, it can be done more efficiently by simulating the process without real world waste.

Everything is slowly centralizing already - some markets remain to provide motivation, but the trend is in the central planning direction.

Given better technology, free markets will definitely die. It could be solved as directly as by overwriting the internal motivation through some brain implant, making people happy to work for the good of the system.
Cool. Thank you to clarify. Based on my screen layout, it was way off screen (below). That is great news and makes good sense. Tim O'Reilly is very forward thinking. I wonder what their annual revenue from that title was when he decided to relicense it for sharing?
I remember it from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Apparently it has some historical basis, which would explain the popularity of this motif:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse#Obs...
Agreed, you could achieve the same success ratio by computing the stochastic probabilities of a well trained English corpus Markov model given those same words two decades ago.
I disagree with the article here (and it’s a good article overall!) The compiler simply needs to be armed to detect this pattern and give better error messages. Vast majority of cases the user simply forgot an argument.
> Translation is simply the art of taking something in one language and expressing it accurately in another.

This article seems to adequate translation with adaptation, which is the crux of the issue I think.

In one case you might want to convey the exact words expressed regardless of the nuances, social context and "making it sound right". Your primary goal is to convey information, however clumsy it can feel as a result.

On the other case, you'll want the reader/listener to feel like a native person is talking to them, adapting to their reference frame, sacrificing accuracy to properly convey the spirit of the words.

I think it comes down to how much entertainment is expected from the result, if it's for research purpose for instance, accuracy will prime.

If, as I think is the main goal of the author, it's "to prevent that person in front of you from subjecting you to a sad, pitying look", fully adapting is surely the way to go.
If the Sackler family are ever successfully convicted of a crime it will be a white collar one. Their actions contributed to the more than half a million deaths from opioid abuse in the 2000s. There's your "drugs," as for your violence, we could start talking about the NRA lobbying to against gun death research, or, Halliburton's weapons in the early 2000s.
Don't forget that GPT was trained on data from all the sources that failed you. So if we all collectively neglect them, and they fall over, we will lose many valuable resources.

I think we need to think about how to keep these valuable sites going, because they are ultimately providing most of the value of the various available language models.
While I agree that the article is a bit specious, I think there is a deeper argument to be made about Springstein's specific kind of lyrics.

As mentioned in the article, his lyrics are about blue-collar workers and the associated struggles and life. This was probably an under-served / poorly talked about community when he was on the rise. It's just a case of focussing on an under-served market. I'm not sure of Springsteins' background, but if he came from a blue-collar background, then he would have known his community / market really well.

So I guess the lesson is, serve an under-served market with talent that's good enough. It helps if you, yourself, are the customer :)
Fun fact: Scientists have determined that a moth or butterfly may not remember being a caterpillar, it can remember experiences it learned as a caterpillar. Hence I'm not sure dissolved is quite the right word to use because the nervous system stays with the creature during there process. The most accurate word is metamorphosis, since that's the word we gave for that process.

The other detail is that at the end of the process is a butterfly, so y'know, there's that.
The article states:

So it’s always pointless to ask it why
it said something – you are guaranteed
to get nonsense back

Counterexample:

MG: Give me the name of a hard thing.

ChatGPT: Quantum mechanics.

MG: Would you agree a pillow is a soft thing?

ChatGPT: Yes, I would agree that a pillow is generally considered a soft thing

MG: Give me the name of a hard thing.

ChatGPT: Diamond

MG: Why did you first name quantum mechanics and later diamond?

ChatGPT: I named quantum mechanics first because it is a complex and difficult subject. Later, I named diamond as an example of a hard thing because it is a substance with a high degree of hardness.

MG: Why did you name two so different things as being hard?

ChatGPT: I named two very different things as being hard because the word "hard" can have multiple meanings and can be applied to different contexts. In my initial response, I interpreted "hard thing" as something that is conceptually difficult or challenging to understand. In my subsequent response, when you asked me again to provide the name of a hard thing, I interpreted the question differently and provided an example of a physically hard substance, diamond, which is a different type of hardness altogether.
The British government has issued a visual design system for their government websites that embraces this philosophy (in their case, for accessibility and speed more than aesthetics).

https://design-system.service.gov.uk/
Sorry that’s my bad, I forget not everyone knows that reference.
Perception/imagination does a lot of heavy lifting in that defintion. Without further specifying what you mean, some game AIs would fit that defintion.
I wish there was a way to walk back from the AI label in order to avoid sensationalism and pop sci-ification of LLMs or any model, really. Too bad that it's incredible for marketing.
Jesus Christ you need to stop spamming the same tokenized response to every comment on this thread or at least add a damn GOSUB routine.
What about Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure", does policing based on money lead to good results?
I'm not sure of other militaries but the Finnish army indeed uses very yurt-like tents, "puolijoukkueteltta"[0].

[0] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puolijoukkueteltta
I'm missing benchmark. Of course it might be obvious to experienced developers that this is faster. But it would be nice to see how much faster it is.
Very nice follow-up. I didn't know about this story. Thank you to share.
Yeah I understand why F# has whitespace indentation now - it resolves these ambiguities in OCaml without adding a bunch of new keywords.
Hippos Spawned from Drug Lord Pablo Escobar’s Ranch Won’t Stop Multiplying
We need more awareness, normies should understand we can exchange a slight inconvenience + less features some times for a middle finger to mass surveillance.
No you actually couldn't lol. If you genuinely think this then you don't know what you're talking about.
I guess we are talking past each other. I agree that there are many things we can and should do to improve the safety of integrating ML tools into our lives. I agree that there are unique challenges here, such as scaling, creating new dangers that will require new methods of mitigation. I disagree that "prompt injection" is a meaningful category of vulnerabilities to talk about, and that it is fixable in LLMs or other comparably general systems.

I've argued before that "prompt engineering" is a bad term, granting connotations to precision and care to a task that's anything but. "Prompt injection", however, is IMO a dangerous term, because it confuses people into thinking that it's something like SQL injection or XSS, and thus solvable by better input handling - where in fact, it is very different and fundamentally not solvable this way (or at all).
I was just demonstrating its capabilities to a client. I asked GPT 4 to summarise a cloud product in the style of Encyclopaedia Dramatica, and it came up with a unique phrase not seen on the Internet when talking about auto-scale: “It’ll take your wallet on a roller coaster ride.”

What’s brilliant about this is that typically auto scaling metrics look like a stereotypical roller coaster track with the daily ups and downs!

That’s a genuinely funny, insightful, bespoke, and stylistically correct joke.

Tell me that that is not intelligence!
Twice is hardly spamming. But whatever, I have no intention of repeating myself.
Interesting thing is that it's not hard to see that they'll be much more conscious than us.

Our communication method of single threaded thought articulated as ie. stream of ascii characters or sound through spoken language is extremely inefficient.

Computers can communicate in binary form, in parallel and many orders of magnitude higher information rate.

We're debilitating them for external i/o communication so we, humans, can interface with them.

They'll be able to communicate at rate that is very hard to imagine for us that is closer to "left hand and right hand" communication through brain than "one human, other human" communication.
trivially false. consider: inline images, emojis, rich links, rich integrations
This comment doesn't really align with the HN commenting guidelines.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-57559653

So their tax rate is 75% - 85%.
This source sorta confirms it: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...
Inner monologue ability is not training ability, it's architecture, runtime ability.
What Is a Rapid Security Response (RSR)?
Of course microkernel approach is more secure, if a driver gets p0wned, corrupts data structures, or plain keeps crashing, it doesn't take the whole kernel with it.

Naturally the issue might be as bad that the whole stack can't recover from, but still much better than corrupting the kernel.

One of the SecDevOps guidelines when hardening servers is that every process should have its own user, yes.

Kmods and akmods run in kernel memory space and aren't ABI stable.
The term "disposable" might be a post-war thing (The Google Ngram views for "disposable" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disposable&yea... and "disposables" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disposables&ye... are pretty neat.)

However, the concept is older. One-use paper Dixie Cups started around 1910, replacing the shared cup.

"How unsanitary!" you might think of the old system.

Sure, but the Dixie Cup Company sure did promote that hard. "Just think of the luxury—a new cup filled with pure water all for a cent" - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ctx.2010.9.1.73
Let me know once Microsoft supports Windows for ARM on M-Series.

Till then, it does not exist for Windows purposes.
> avoiding angering the garbage collector by repeatedly allocating and deallocating stuff

One of the places where I believe the Minecraft code falls down hard - it allocates and deallocates tens (maybe hundreds) of MB per second. Basically the kind of "first draft you'd write before optimising things" code.

Things like OptiFine help out by (IIRC) making certain things mutable and cutting down the alloc/reallocs.

> Performancewise java actually isn't bad.

Yeah, I should probably clarify that I don't think Java itself is bad but the way Minecraft uses Java and how Microsoft have put basically zero effort into optimising things (because their cash cow - Bedrock - is written in C++) since they've owned it.

When mods like OptiFine and Sodium that are monkey-patching the bytecode can improve things greatly, it's a strong sign the base is not optimised.
There’s a misconception about data breaches: Just because we don’t report them doesn’t mean they didn’t happen. In fact, law now REQUIRES we report data breaches.

And yet, there are STILL so many companies who forbid their IT wonks to help prevent the next critical infrastructure ransom attack.

Read this week’s blog post to find out why.

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Fair point, I thought this term is more known, but then myself had a hard time to Google it In response to the criticism. But I think this might be a good start:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33521917
Visualize your dataset using DINOv2 embedding
Visualizing your dataset (especially large ones) in a low-dimensional embedding space can tell you a lot about the patterns and clusters in your dataset.

We recently release a notebook showing how you can visualize your dataset using DINOv2 models by running it on your CPU.

Yes! No GPUs needed.

We used it to find clusters of similar images, duplicates, and outliers in a subset of the LAION dataset

Try it on your own dataset:

Colab notebook - https://colab.research.google.com/github/visual-layer/fastdup/blob/main/examples/dinov2_notebook.ipynb

GitHub repo - https://github.com/visual-layer/fastdup
I'm saying "stop trying to solve the problem of consumer market IoT fission bombs by trying to remove fission from physics - this just can't possibly work, and it takes special confusion to even think it might; instead, focus on the 'consumer-market', 'IoT' and 'bomb' parts".

"Prompt injection" is a vulnerability of generic minds in the same sense "fission" is a vulnerability of atoms.
I would love a PC with 12 drive 5.25 bays and a 90° turned design with bottom to top airflow. That way I could chose what I want to have. 12 bays would give me 15 hot swap 3.5 disk spaces. Or a memory card reader. Or a cigarette lighter and beverage holder (real thing). Or a proper sound card. Or a fan controller. Or speakers. Or any USB connectivity I could ever want. Or a drawer. Or 3 120mm fans. Or just a regular dvd drive.

Now every case I buy will have outdated IO in less than 10 years.
> But you know what makes most of human history's output of art, music, literature et al great? Intent, attention to detail and self-expression.

What makes them great is that people enjoy them. Whether they were created with "Intent, attention to detail and self-expression" or monkeys banging on typewriters is irrelevant and indistinguishable.
Sounds revolting, fail to see how you could possibly imagine this as a 'good' outcome.
Auto-completion would update the view state which is gossiped back to the server, and the server can regenerate the list.
Yeah this. I guess we all have some story, bigger or smaller, when doctor didn't do perfect diagnosis or treatment.

Take a look form different perspective - if you do software, have you ever created a bug? Imagine if your employer wanted to vengefully sue you for every other bug you ever did - that's what many doctors are facing with various patients. Maybe you yourself are perfectly stable well balanced individual, but our of those 2000 other patients some are bipolar, schizophrenic, sociopathic etc. without proper diagnosis and treatment.

We outsiders often tend to have this image of medicine being a solved problem, when reality is so far from this.
You could at least have named the prior art you appreciated and pictured, but I'll just link to its Amazon page: Kitchen Safe Time Locking Container (Medium), Timed Lock Box for Cell Phones, Snacks, and other unwanted temptations (White Lid + 5.5” White Base) https://a.co/d/d62NlvL
You are forced by law to take at least two consecutive weeks once a year. But yes my employer also allowed this and one of my colleagues had accumulated an absurd amount. You still had to take two weeks but could keep the rest.