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SEEKING WORK | REMOTE
Location: Europe, open to overlap 2-3 hours of my working time with US hours

Role: Full-Stack Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer (contractor / freelancer / consultant)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React, Redux, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, AWS Lambda, C#, .NET, SQL. I also worked with many kind of databases during the years (SQL/NoSQL), and most of the trendy frontend libraries & frameworks

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrudanpop/
Email: contact@alexandrudanpop.dev

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I'm a software engineer with 9+ years of experience. I love building frontend applications but also getting my hands dirty with complex cloud solutions. I understand scaling challenges and have worked in environments where our solutions served millions of customers.

I'm looking to work as a long-term team member heavily invested in the problems your company needs to solve.

No visa required.
What's wrong with <iframe>? I find it quite useful.
I put a lot of work into doing the last 10% for a project recently, and I'm not convinced yet that I'll be getting anything out of it, other than my own satisfaction. After my colleagues and I got our paper (on real-time depth estimation with an event camera and a laser projector [0]) accepted at a workshop, we could have just dumped the convoluted, messy research code on GitHub and be done with it. For other people to figure it out, if they really cared.

But I sat down and completely rewrote all the scaffolding around the presented algorithm, to make for a smooth and fast demo. Wrote up documentation for the implementation, gave it a command line interface, set up a script to reproduce the measurements in the paper with a single execution (downloading the required data and comparing several methods). Broadcast in all channels available to me (institution press release, LinkedIn posts, GitHub awesome list linkings). And I actually brought the demo to the workshop, which wasn't required at all, I could have just presented it as a poster.

The feedback of the people seeing the polished demo was fantastic, but now I'm sitting here with my 5 GitHub stars on the repo, after I put like 2.5 extra months of work into it. Maybe it led to more people noticing it, and finding it useful. Maybe not.

Getting stuff out there to be noticed is difficult, a lot of work, and going the the last 10% does not guarantee any more success.

[0]: https://fraunhoferhhi.github.io/X-maps/
Seems like aot of people misunderstand what these examples are best for. Sure you wouldn't want to ship these as-is on most sites, but it shows how much can be done without JS. That can/should make it more clear that you can likely get by with much less JS when you do need to reach for it.

It's not about throwing out JS, it's about avoiding 30kb of JS if all you need is a few summary/detail elements where only one can be opened at a time. Use the example code here then write a small I line script that closes all siblings. Done.
Driving through KY on a roadtrip two years ago saw all the signs so decided to stop. We’d never heard of the caves.

I’m retrospect I wish we’d known and booked the longer tours, which all sell out early in the day.

I thought the kids would want 5 mins of walking around and then be bored, but they loved it all, and it prompted us to go to more caves on a different trip to WI.

There was even older conflict in Mammoth Caves too. Earlier fighting over control of the caves to extract saltpeter for gun powder, then a story about a businessman who imported mushrooms from France to grow in the caves, but was stymied by a rival who poured oil over them.

The whole area was beautiful and well worth the stop.
Related:

A few examples of Influencer Seeding Kits:

https://www.premierpress.com/project/discover-the-magic-case...

https://www.teltmgmt.com/home/production#:~:text=Seeding

https://www.premierpress.com/blog/project_type/influencer-se...

(Random observation: There's probably a good business market for companies which produce Influencer Seeding Kits...)
That's like asking what Microsoft does. SAP has lots of different products, many from acquisitions, but the core product (what people think of when they say "SAP", although it's actually called S/4 HANA) is an ERP system. The Wikipedia article looks like a decent overview from what I can tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning

Disclosure: I work at SAP, but on internal IT and not on any of the customer-visible products. (I don't know much about how S/4 HANA really works, except that I use it to view my payslip, enter my vacation days and such.)
I think that is true for most programming fields, not just game development. Back in the day a 16 year old who knew HTML and a tiny bit of JavaScript could easily get hired to do 'web development'. I got hired as a sys admin fresh out of high school simply by "knowing computers". My interview was basically

"Hey, are you good with computers?"
"Yes!"
"Great you're hired. Go see if you can fix this thing"

Back then there were simply much fewer people who had any relevant experience so the barrier to entry (experience wise) was much lower.
Normally, interest rates for debt increase as lenders factor in additional risk. Realistically with it being the USA, probably not a large impact.
Improving Contextual Translations with ChatGPT
There's a Herculean task ahead of us here at Dubverse, as we navigate the complex universe of translations. We find that despite Google translate's efficacy in AI translation, it's unfortunately lacking in providing contextual or vernacular translations. Take for instance, when the word 'sleek' was translated to `चिकना` (Hindi) in a tech video. We pondered, can this truly convey the intended meaning?

Inspired by GPT-4's text-prompted translation and flexibility, we startd experimenting with ChatGPT. We compared translation outputs for a tech conference video and noticed that grounding the translations with Google translate's high-quality output yielded much better results. While the results aren't perfect, we found it to be a promising solution for our translation dilemma, particularly in terms of configurability and faster result generation.

However, considering the high cost of GPT-4, we investigated further with GPT-3.5-Turbo and discovered that GPT-4 remains superior in quality.

As we tread this uncharted territory, we've become aware of ChatGPT's own limitations such as its proneness to hallucinations with longer text length variables and difficulty in setting metrics for translations.

In the end, when we evaluated both ChatGPT and Google's Cloud Platform (GCP) for translations across domains like cooking and pharmacy, GCP surprisingly outperformed in some cases. Nevertheless, our work in translation, particularly the challenge of making them contextually and vernacularly sound in the realm of AI, is still ongoing and full of potential.

Stay tuned as we continue to explore possibilities and watch this space for updates on the availability of our ChatGPT translations!
Most people don't really interact with social media via the web anymore anyway. They use apps.
There is not enough liquidity. The max profit you can take from that market by betting on yes at this point is around $17,000. It probably costs something like that or more to do a convincing fake at this point.
For all of us who struggle with %-encoded routing in Falcon (it is not Falcon's fault), I've put together the complete workaround. Hope that helps! :-)
"Honest" Government Ad – COP31 Australia and the Pacific [video]
Ask HN: Surprise $700 Google Cloud Identity Platform Charge
I got a surprise $700 charge on my Google Cloud billing account yesterday for Identity Platform. I don't have it enabled on my account, and I have never been charged for this before. I contacted support, but that will supposedly take 48 hours. Has anyone else run into this before? Is there anything else I can or should do on my end to remedy this as soon as possible?
> on learning HTML

Anecdote. Was recently freelancing at a web-agency. They build complex web-apps. Lot's of senior and experienced web-devs there: react, mui, typescript, tailwind, and a large host of backend frameworks under the belt.

But when I built a quick PoC using `<template>` a few lines of JS and some of the elements used in the article (meter, dialog, details) they were flabbergasted. This was a whole team of experienced developers doing web-ui development for their job, 40+ hours a week. And they didn't know, not even realized, that HTML had them covered for loads of use-cases.

Edit: I am no frontend-dev, so I have to look up everything anyway. Which is probably why I come across those "new" things easier.
Who they gonna sue next week?
makes them more trustworthy than say moodys or standard & poors, especially after the subprime debacle
Are you hiring US engineers? I applied before and was told Europe only.
X Blue, formerly Twitter Blue, subscribers can now hide their checkmarks
P&G was able to argue in court that Pringles are a type of cake rather than a type of potato chip (crisp in the UK) which means VAT doesn’t apply to them. In the UK cake is sold free of VAT.

I guess my point is that there is clearly a precedent for success by doing this sort of thing. Unfortunately.
Some social networks used to offer rich page customization with Wiki or markup or something like that. And that essentially was the HTML wheel reinvented. Some even offer in-app apps, some even lock whole life oof the whole population in them (e.g. China).

A social network with (or without) this essentially is reinventing the wheel of the whole Internet which is made of HTML pages (which are replaced by personal pages on a social network), RSS/ATOM (which is replaced with in-app notifications), e-mail (which is replaced with in-app direct messages), Usenet (which is replaced with in-app groups) etc. Everyone theoretically could just have a personal www page on their own domain instead of a social network account.

Oh, and HTML never needed CSS to be not ugly - that's the browser default settings which make unstyled (styled with default styles) HTML pages look this way. We always could just change the default fonts/colors or apply a userstyle for more complex things.

Once general population joined to the Internet (where in the past there were only nerds) the demand emerged for it to become much easier and prettier and the corporations responded offering the features pople want taking their freedom, privacy and independence in exchange (which an average person doesn't mind, all they ace about is that being "for free"). We could just build better apps (browsers with sensible defaults, intuitive e-mail and Usenet clients and web servers), but we still lack them because nobody wants do serious work for free and make great products which would suit everybody ather than themselves.
I think the idea that HMRC (who have a limited enforcement budget and were pressured into taking this action by outside campaigners) is the one exploiting the tax system and corporations that spend vast sums of money coming up with creative reinterpretations of terms to dramatically increase their post tax profitability are merely bemused by its complexity is an odd take. Particularly when the company in question is notorious for creative reinterpretation of or plain ignoring regulations inconvenient to it.

VAT isn't a particularly complicated tax. This dispute relates to the fact Uber tried and failed to convince UK courts that its drivers were self employed under UK law so it lost its grounds for only owing VAT on commissions.
(afaik they hadn't provided any mechanism to pay VAT invoices to the minority of drivers with self-employment earnings over the VAT threshold, so it's difficult to argue they were doing their level best to comply with VAT law under the "self employed contractor" model anyway)
I have to admit my knowledge of complexity theory doesn’t extend too far, but isn’t the solution to LBAs just.. brute forcing? Also, is it even decidable a priori whether a program is LBA vs requiring a tape that is not only linear function of its input?
I've been toying with JB fleet as an alt to VS code. It's certainly not on par yet, but for day to day light editing it's gotten good enough and has someil interesting differences.

The last few times I've launched VSC it's been way too many pop ups, notifications, dings, bells and wizzers that I almost forgot the task I opened it for.
So what was the previous record and when?
Living without a smartphone: The definitive guide
I no longer speak with my neighbour, but she introduces herself quickly to everyone that moves into the building. When she speaks like this, I suspect it's part of a manic episode.
A machine we have to today in isolation with no form of IO are not general Turing machines, but almost all of them do have that and so if you consider them in isolation rather than the full system (which would include all sources of inputs) the halting problem applies. E.g. code to the effect of "while gets() {}" will either halt or not halt depending on the input, but which isn't decidable without knowing or constraining that input.

We can certainly look for AGI that can do better at deciding the halting of decidable programs, but even for current computers the general halting problem is undecidable without adding artificial constraints.
That is again reiterating their point that it is favorable only to the small portion of insanely wealthy shareholders and does not even favor the overwhelming majority of shareholders too who are not insanely wealthy.
The world exists beyond the US.

Purchasing power is also a thing. Median gross salary in Poland is $18000, and about $14000 net. They earn less than 1200 per month, of which 300-400 is spent on rent excluding utilities, add another 50-100 utilities, 200 for food, then gas and transport and you quickly see that the savings are minuscule.

How can you buy stock on 200 (at best) after all expenses?
My guess is that it needs to be very pure to have zero resistance. But levitation requires less purity.
talking about "not-really-pasta" dishes, you should try "tagliatelle di mare" - sea tagliatelle / tagliatelle of squid

for example have a look at https://www.greatitalianchefs.com/recipes/tagliatelle-of-squ...
The US has proven quite willing to just take assets off Russians for political reasons. Fitch probably isn't going to say it outright; but if a country has a record of saying "nah, I'm taking it back" about someone else's assets then it seems reasonable to rate them below an AAA.

Even if the US doesn't fail, it isn't really credible to claim its debt is an AAA security. For a lot of participants in the market there is an obvious risk that the US will take their money and not return it.
I think people are right to be nervous about the brinkmanship around the debt ceiling. We pretend to be about to default every couple years, then at the last possible second, we say "haha, just kidding". It's possible that one day, the "haha just kidding" part might not happen.

That said, I'm not sure that this is any more dangerous than any other kind of debt. In the past, people considered US government debt to be equal in safety to a savings account. It is definitely a little more risky than that these days. The FDIC has never said "just kidding about that insurance!"
It's hard to know why projects didn't get traction. Is it because the documentation is not as good as it could have been? Is it because the marketing was insufficient? There are some projects out there which are similar to some of my projects and which did get traction and they have basically the same level of polish and documentation. I feel like it just comes down to marketing which itself just comes down to social connections. I'm quite certain now that if someone like Elon Musk looked at some of my projects and promoted them, they'd get tons of traction. The user feedback on some of my projects has been very good but it appears that none of my users has been a high-exposure individual.

On one of my open source projects which did get a little bit of initial traction, at one point traction slowed down and I was paranoid and thought that the code could be improved more and I reworked a lot of stuff to make it work optimally with Kubernetes. But some years down the line I found out that a significant subset of my users actually preferred how it worked before and were still using the old version. I still think it was a good move because the new architecture is much simpler and more elegant but probably not necessary as it didn't help my project get more traction.

Sometimes the only problem is just marketing and social networking and if you're not born at the right place and right time, there's nothing you can do about it.
A wikipedia article does not pretend to be proof. It is a summary. For proof you would need to look at the, y'know, evidence. The decay rates of the isotopes involved are known exactly. It is hard to find anything more certain than timelines revealed by radioactive decay.
102F is hot?

I imagine its rare for that region, but compared to India/Pakistan temps, that is was underwhelming.

EDIT: OH ITS MID WINTER! Wow
Agreed. I find shallow skepticism to be very sad way of thinking. If the stakes are not high, i.e. you are not putting your life savings into it, why don't you allow your imagination to be entertained for a brief of time? If it turns out to be a fluke, so what, maybe we'll get there next time. Yeah, bunch of videos from researchers could be fake but are they so likely to be fake that you won't allow yourself to imagine a little bit? Every poster on this thread might be a LLM, it's technically possible, but are they really?
I agree, html works great for flashcards, and I make heavy use of images and audio
The halting theory is analogous to Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and these are fundamental truths to any system. That matrix multiplication that deep learning does is hardly immune to that.
99 in the name comes from the year it was discovered. However, it was only researched more thoroughly during the last few years. It was patented a few years ago.

But yes, there was a leak in the form of the first whitepaper published by Kwon who was a former member of the group—so perhaps had it not been for that release then they would still keep trying to enchance the process more before releasing.

Like for a decade ;).
The Wikipedia page lists the publication history, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Publication_history and the initial paper and patent history go back to 2020.
Manager of third-party sources of Semgrep rules
A break in steering system would be a big deal. And unlikely. What is more likely is a reduction in power steering. If you are used to it manual steering is brutal especially on city streets or for things like parking.
Because we live in a society of people other than just ourselves. Life is generally better when we take care of each other.
It appears one of the discoverers feared he wouldn't be properly credited, and rushed the publication. See https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/15b27wn/the_st...

Perhaps his fears were founded. A few hours later in fact his name was suppressed in a second version of the paper.
If the video is to be believed, the samples shown are huge compared to a, trivial to make, pulled or cut platinum wire probe. You could just put it on a plate in an SPM and measure it.

So many questions. I assume this is all possible but they are focussing on one thing at a time to duplicate the results, if possible.
Standard and Poor's downgraded the US to AA+ in 2011.
> If the measurement is based on sales there will also be an obvious increase after legalization as the majority of sales are recorded.

This may be true, but it’s the best measuring that we have. I don’t know if it’s worth throwing out the existing measures we have from before and after legalization on a hunch that it might be different results. The surveys try to account for this as much as they can.

I agree that people shouldn’t be punished for their drug use, but I think the point is that without punishment, drug use increases. And there are some negative impact from that increase.
This may be a chink in the armor, but so long as the USD still the dominant reserve currency and oil is mostly traded in dollars, does anyone care what Fitch thinks? Now there may be some movement away from USD for both of these uses, but I think this has more to do with geopolitics than what Fitch thinks or the petulance of the GOP.
I'm starting to see a lot of products in "beta" that seem to be little more than a very thin wrapper around ChatGPT. So thin that it is trivial to get it to give general responses.

I recently trialed an AI Therapy Assistant service. If I stayed on topic, then it stayed on topic. If I asked it to generate poems or code samples, it happily did that too.

It felt like they rushed it out without even considering that someone might ask it non-therapy related questions.
What a list of anti-consumer companies. Natural allies. What are the odds that its Open, like OpenAI is open?
Im still trying to wrap my head around superconductors.

When energy flows from one and of a wire made from a superconductor to the other end, then no heat is produced? Where did the energy go then?

If CPUs were made from material without resistance, would they stay cold?

How much of the heat a CPU expells is inevitable?

Could (non-reversible) calculations be done without creating any heat? If yes, where did the energy go? There is no way to compute something like 10+20 without "using up" energy, right?

So many questions...
I'm just a bystander with no understanding of the specifics, but there are lots of general reasons why it might happen this way:

1. The discovery was in a university research context, where publishing results is normal practice.

2. Maybe publication was mandated by the funding source.

3. Maybe it's not yet certain that it's a breakthrough and they want more eyes on it to help validate.

4. Maybe they want to be publicly acknowledged as the discoverers, for future patent/prize/fame purposes.

5. Maybe it's so early stage, or with so many practical limitations, that it is not yet ready to be industrialized.

6. Maybe the recipe is so simple that there's no realistic way to contain knowledge of it.

7. Maybe it's a revolutionary technology that will save the world and the best outcome for everybody, including the researchers, is to get it into as many hands as possible.

No need to invoke conspiracy.
> What would you rather read? An AI generated, NLP-infused news article, or a classic novel that’s been around for decades or centuries?

I think you're missing everything in between these extremes. "Real" books(as per your definition) can be in digital form as well, ain't nothing wrong with having a kindle.
Winter record? Or all-time record? Because right now they are breaking all-time records in mid-winter. I'm not sure if the exact numbers really matter right now.
> simple element can't be used properly, I have no hope for all the others.

The first solution that comes to mind, is stricter validation. Where the browser would just refuse to render a <footer> properly unless it's structure is correct.

But we had that. Anything before HTML4 really. And it sucked even more.

So maybe browser dev-tooling that throws warning or errors when devs are Doing It Wrong?
> When someone feels that a viewpoint receives this sort of feedback, one is inclined to ask why?

But the answer to this "why?" is just super boring: it's because people don't like unorthodox views (that's what makes them unorthodox). It's not an enlightening answer.

> I think public justification of downvoting/flagging would help him in his job & make his job more rewarding to him.

I do think requiring a rationale for a flag is a good idea. I don't think so for a downvote.

The "solution" for downvotes is just to not worry about it so much.
I think you should feel bad for making this post. But you won't, will you?
Eh, given how unsustainable fishing is, it feels dirty to click on that link and give them ad money for hosting it.