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Location: Toronto + Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: LLM/FM, Typescript, Python, Unity/C#, C++, VR/AR

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabaadams/

Email: jaba.adams+hnhire@gmail.com

I've been deep into using LLM's for the past 6 months. Learned Typescript / Node. Previous daily go-to was Python. Before that, Unity/C# and C++. Helped ship https://ollie.ai . Side-projects include building a personal assistant robot (C++ video streaming), and LLM coding / research agents. Would be super down to work on anything personal assistant.

So, I just got laid off from a VC-backed LLM/AI/Commerce startup like 2 hours ago. Not the only one. Burn rate and all that. Sigh. Employee #1. Excellent references.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabaadams/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jaba96438469
A $5 Billion Roth IRA! Implying tax free withdrawals.
Electrified cement? LK-99? Where are the aliens. Who talked.
"Inefficient" is a rather relative term here, since batteries, motors, and transmission wires are >=95% efficient already.
But if you have too many alerts, you have to remember to check those, and the temptation is to skim over them, and then you'll inevitably miss stuff. Then you need an alert system to alert you to the really important alerts.
Your tape and tubing scenarios make sense. I'm not sure anyone can seriously require a non-stick pan though. Cooks managed without them for thousands of years by just paying more attention to their eggs, and comparably unsticky materials existed before the invention of non-stick coatings. The long-term negative impacts of teflon just doesn't seem to be worth the incredibly slight convenience they offer.
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: yes, hybrid/on-site fine in local area

Willing to relocate: not immediately but yes

Technologies: full-stack web, infrastructure to frontend, broad base of knowledge/experience but not all of it is current. More recent: Typescript, Firebase, Flutter, Angular, OpenAI, currently learning Elixir.

CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uuicMlhieX_aOi1euI5LEChm...

Email: paul@verticallabs.ca

Senior/staff level engineer, looking for a new domain to set up home in. I'm looking in the climate tech space at the moment, but also very interested in tooling (in particular creative tools), communications/messaging, and a variety of other domains.
unless they just put a cap on it. like $3 million or something. problem is I've seen 401ks get adjusted so they work for the CEO. like a 100% match on the first 1% then 50% after that. or some other craziness.

because 1% of a 1.5M salary is enough the max 401k. so why shouldn't CEO adjust the plan so it saves them like $6K. geez...greed much...
> We can't even all agree on whether all humans have it.

What would it mean for humans not to have it? The debate is over the nature of consciousness, not that humans (and many other organisms) lack any sort of consciousness. So when we see color or feel pain, what is that? We are conscious of colored things and painful sensations. There's no real doubt about that, unless you're solipsist about other minds. Which good luck if you are, I guess.
…and sometimes there are obstacles that you can’t bulldoze. Mountains, rivers, towns, etc. You can build tunnels and bridges but it’s very expensive just to get people to their destination a little faster. The temptation to add a little bend is strong, but the smaller the minimum turning radius, the slower the maximum speed, and the higher the chance that you don’t need maglev at all.

It’s very dependent on geography. Ironically the US is a much better candidate for maglev than Europe with its wide unpopulated expanses.
You forgot the part of putting that money to work in a way that returns exceed the cost of debt service.
I worked at Microsoft from 1996 to 2011. I was a SDE and lead on Windows Media and Media Foundation. This is a cute story, but I never heard of anything like this. There is no way my management would have approved any time off to write a book on a Microsoft product. Sabbatical is possible, but everyone I knew that qualified for a sabbatical was already filthy rich from early 90s stock options, and used that time to sail around the world or something like that.

I can't rule out that such a thing did happen at Microsoft in groups that I wasn't part of, but I would be stunned if it was more than a couple of people.
Charles Simonyi's Intentional Software was doing that back in the days of Windows NT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnnfUj1XCQ But, they stayed insular and enterprise right up until Microsoft bought them back.

We mortals barely got to see or hear anything about it. I heard one podcast interview of a developer there who said they basically represent the code as an s-expression tree with a bunch of metadata on each node.
No. A superconducting grid will mean the end of nuclear, because you can just put renewables in a really wide geographical area and transfer power arbitrarily. It'll fix the problem with intermittency entirely.

If we move into "light science fiction" area, we can imagine setting up a global grid, so that there's always sun shining over solar panels somewhere in the world. Or maybe allowing countries like Chile to provide energy accumulation services by pumping seawater up the Andes.
Generally yes because the taller person has lower resistance relative to the shorter person. So unless they're connected, lightning would pass through the person with the least resistance to the ground (easiest way to dissipate a voltage difference).
Uber was a good investment for all of their private investors until SoftBank. For many of those investors, it was the best investment they ever made (see Benchmark, for example). For very late stage private investors who entered when the company was valued around $50B, it's more complicated and depends on the entry and exit timing. But rest assured that the returns to all investors who bought their stake before 2015 greatly exceeded their opportunity cost.
"Spherical harmonics are orthogonal functions on the sphere, just like Fourier modes are orthogonal functions in normal space"

I am stupid. What does this mean?
I don't think that is true but in any case: Honoring the license, which we are usually we particular around here, has to be enough on both ends. The license is up to the licenser. White knighting around it on an arbitrary per case basis is just awkward.
We use Tiptap with vanilla React and it's great. My only wish is for it to have collaborative support beyond JS. Currently support for YJS is very limited if you are not using or can't use JS for the server component.
I use Ghostwriter in Linux and iA Writer on a Mac and iPad. These are distraction free Markdown editors with excellent Markdown support. I use Vim for programming but don’t care for it for writing articles. For finishing I use Pandoc to convert Markdown to Word format, HTML, or TeX.
> I hope we find a path to at least fine-tuning medium sized models for prices that aren't outrageous

It's not that bad; there are lots of things you can do with a hobbyist budget. For example, a consumer GPU with 12 or 24 GB VRAM costs $1000-2000 and can let you run many models and do fine-tuning on them. The next step up, for fine-tuning larger models, is to rent an instance on vast.ai or something similar for a few hours with a 4-8 GPU instance, which will set you back maybe $200—still within the range of a hobbyist budget. Many academic fine-tuning efforts, like Stanford Alpaca, cost a few hundred dollars to fine-tune. It's only when you want to pretrain a large language model from scratch that you need thousands of GPUs and millions in funding.
It would be nice to point out that: "PredictionHealth is currently not hiring in the following states: CA, MT, HI, or NY"
We've had perfectly serviceable non-stick cookware for ages - carbon steel cookware treated properly easily replicates teflon with a little oil or butter.

Before someone claims to the contrary - I basically only use TWO pans now for all my cooking - both 14" carbon steel pans I initially conditioned that have only gotten more non-stick as I've used them. I regularly cook over-easy eggs, scrambled eggs, and other foods that are apparently only possible in teflon non-stick pans if you believe the literature.
If it's fraud, this would be the second time a South Korean scientist has tried to lie about work that revolutionizes a field
In the U.K., Brexit is the disaster no one wants to talk about
Note taking apps.

I've used Evernote, OneNote, Apple Notes, and Notion.

I prefer Notion hands down.

I dislike OneNote. Poor syncing. Hard to keep formatting consistent. Can't link to notes easily. Web app is inferior to installed app.

I used to love Evernote, but then it got slow, which led me to eval the others. This ultimately led me to Notion.
Performance testing. I'm familiar with gatling, jmeter, locust, but k6 is definitely the winner. Take locust if you strongly prefer Python over JS, TS or Go. If no preference towards Python, k6 is your answer.
You'll easily find the answer if you search for forever chemicals wikipedia, what's the source of the confusion?
Sure, but does that mean if a reputable researcher at a reputable university (which do exist outside the US and Western Europe) provides strong evidence, should we discount all that simply because Chinese academia has a fraud and plagiarism problem?

Speaking of, I'd guess that the likes of Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Tokyo and National University of Singapore (amongst others) would magically count as "American or Western European" for this test.
https://archive.ph/1QRi6
I don't know, the material is a ceramic made of a powdered lead, copper, sulphur, phosphorus and oxygen heated up together. It's not some advanced meta material which if true it's amazing this was not discovered earlier but let's just hope it is.
git fetch --tags presents the exact same warning/error.
I think if we actually did more of the latter portion of your statements things could actually change for the better. Hold companies fiscally responsible for cleanup and actually criminally charge the decision makers for cases of negligence. Similar for the railway disasters like East Palestine.

The protections provided to corporations are intended to shield hands-off investors, not executives and board members that drive profit above safety and common sense. I'm not in favor of a lot of heavy handed regulation, but I'm all for corporate liability.
That's what makes prediction markets work — if you (or anyone else, for that matter) feel the market has priced the expected outcome wrong, you stand to make a fortune!

Great article on the economic theories behind it here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/prediction-market-faq
Philosophy of science is philosophy, not science. Kuhn, Lakatos, etc, however, muddied the waters a bit by introducing the notion (at least implicitly) that philosophy of science should consider how science is actually practiced, which looks like a scientific approach to me.

I think science and philosophy of science would both improve if there was less separation between the fields. Many, if not most, practicing scientists have a Doctorate of Philosophy in a scientific field, yet none of the graduate programs that I'm aware of require a single course in philosophy of science. Equally problematic, I'm not sure how many philosophers of science have actually taken the time to empirically discover anything.
I agree: it's dumb.

However, the sentiment expressed in your post is subjective and depends on individual user preferences. Some users may appreciate the ethical considerations, while others might find them unnecessary. Developers often take user feedback into account to improve the user experience and enhance the AI system's interactions. It's also understandable that some users may find these statements repetitive, especially if they have read similar disclaimers multiple times. Striking a balance between promoting ethical usage and avoiding an excessive number of repetitive statements is a challenge faced by developers and researchers.
Location: Philadelphia, PA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go/Golang, Node.js, Docker, TypeScript/JavaScript, React.js, SQL, AWS (S3, RDS, EC2), CI/CD (Github, Gitlab, CircleCI), HTML/CSS

Resume/CV: https://hyperhtml.net/resume.pdf

Email: bryce+hn@hyperhtml.net

Experience as Full stack Engineer, Managing Engineers, Team Lead, and as an Independent Contributor. Worked in various startups in Healthcare, Ecommerce, Finance, and Defense.
I don't mind if you build a lot of stuff on top of it. But if the vendor more or less withholds useful documentation from their customers on purpose to make them buy their training and certifications or hire their consultants, that's a dark pattern, isn't it?
I'm sorry to say that I am not convinced. In recent years, Microsoft has introduced [Virtualisation-based Security](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...) - funnily enough while recycling one of actual security experts' most-loathed acronym, "VBS" - for OS components that are deemed critical, such as Windows Defender Credential Guard. If your OS, that is now also a hypervisor, shards off some "critical" computation, such as computing RA-TLS nonces - into a privileged domain that your regular user domain may not access, and that privileged, TMP-attested domain is protected by all the secure/measured boot shenanigans that are going on with Windows 11 and its mandatory TPM, it's as game over as it was with SGX directly in your CPU (barring some grave implementation bugs that will make everything vulnerable to state-level actors regardless).

Also, Arm silicon, for example, has TrustZone, which afaiui serves a similar purpose as SGX did.
the government didn't have news, someone that worked for it said they heard someone else say something
Cybercriminals train AI chatbots for phishing, malware attacks
This is not quite true. All ground rods have resistance and are supposed to be tested with a megger and documented to be below a specific ohm rating. With time they gain resistance and some of that energy will be induced into nearby objects, notably anything with electrical properties. In this case we are talking about a concrete that stores and conducts electricity. A lightning strike can be over 1,000,000,000 joules of energy. Some of that will be induced into that special concrete. Regular concrete can heat up and fracture which is mostly harmless but I would like to know what happens with this special concrete.
I'm certainly not against chaining combinators in general. In fact, I love functional programming and I enjoy Scala. I'm only specifically criticizing it in JavaScript and other languages that decided to import functional programming features onto eager collections.

Scala's standard collections are implemented as persistent collections, so the overhead for each combinator call is small, and could even be optimized by the compiler. JavaScript doesn't have a compiler, so the best you could hope for is a JIT optimization, but even that's impossible for several reasons related to the dynamic nature of the language.

As an aside, I sometimes like to shit on Java, but the language is very well engineered, despite its "original sins" that make me hate it. When Java decided to import functional programming niceties, they didn't just tack `map` and `filter` onto `Collection<T>`. They added the whole `Stream` API which does the best possible thing given what the language already was.
The trick to remember though is that new clones don't have any "update" check, they only see and fetch the latest value. There's no force push audit log for git refs in most git server software, there's just "local and remote refs disagree". That's not really an "update check" from the perspective of "having an update notification or update event".
One interesting aspect here is that the materials processing is comparatively simple. A real industrial process might require much higher precision. But none of this needs aliens. Based on descriptions of the process, it looks like anyone could try to replicate.
FWIW, there's a community around Emacs that focuses on writing. Lots of articles have been written about it and there are some "famous" authors that have written books/novels in it. Yes, you can use Emacs in the terminal if you want (which I do cause I like using tmux for my workflow). But then, I don't see the issue with using Google Docs (you can just treat it as nano) unless you care about a local workflow and don't want to store in the cloud.
My uncle said the Replacements for pfas are actually worse. What’s the final word on that?
cool propaganda bro
It used to have several headers about site privacy compliance [1].

But because one really big early intenet player disrespected it [2] it became mostly useless.

[1] https://www.w3.org/P3P/

> What is P3P?

> The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) enables Websites to express their privacy practices in a standard format that can be retrieved automatically and interpreted easily by user agents. P3P user agents will allow users to be informed of site practices (in both machine- and human-readable formats) and to automate decision-making based on these practices when appropriate. Thus users need not read the privacy policies at every site they visit.

> Why is P3P useful?

> P3P uses machine readable descriptions to describe the collection and use of data. Sites implementing such policies make their practises explicit and thus open them to public scrutiny. Browsers can help the user to understand those privacy practises with smart interfaces. Most importantly, Browsers can this way develop a predictable behavior when blocking content like cookies thus giving a real incentive to eCommerce sites to behave in a privacy friendly way. This avoids the current scattering of cookie-blocking behaviors based on individual heuristics imagined by the implementer of the blocking tool which will make the creation of stateful services on the web a pain because the state-retrievel will be unpredictable.

[2] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en

> P3P and Google's cookies

> In some situations, the cookies we use to secure and authenticate your Google Account and store your preferences may be served from a different domain than the website you're visiting. This may happen, for example, if you visit websites with Google +1 buttons.

> Some browsers require third party cookies to use the P3P protocol to state their privacy practices. However, the P3P protocol was not designed with situations like these in mind. As a result, we've inserted a link into our cookies that directs users to a page where they can learn more about the privacy practices associated with these cookies.
Location: Scotland, UK
Remote: Yes, full remote
Willing to relocate: No, sorry
Technologies: Rust, EtherCAT, embedded Linux, microcontrollers
Résumé/CV: https://wapl.es/cv
Email: james+hn@wapl.es

Senior Rust programmer with 6+ years working in the language full time, ranging from web backends to embedded Linux IoT services. I'm looking for Rust work either in industrial automation with EtherCAT or `no_std` and microcontrollers.

I'm the creator of EtherCrab (https://crates.io/crates/ethercrab), a pure Rust EtherCAT controller, borne out of frustration from the field of C/C++ implementations out there. Do you have a Rust automation application that needs EtherCAT? Let me know!

If not, maybe you're interested in hiring a `no_std` embedded Rust developer. I'd love to discuss a full time role if you're willing to take on a fast learner with a good hobby background in writing software for microcontrollers.
> MongoDB has zero use cases. Just Use Postgres.

I kinda am on that bandwagon but at a new job we're using mongoose and mongo for our database, because the consultors that implemented the webapp before us decided so.

How do I convince mgmt that we might want to switch that? When? Is it even worth it or possible now that it's already our default?
The majority of software I have come across can be put into three categories:

The first is the 'de facto', which are widely adopted for various reasons, mostly marketing, market share, and marketing.

The second is the "alternative" options that serve as alternatives to the previously mentioned choices.

The remaining software falls into the third category, where the focus is on implementing improvements to the other two categories.
Don't know if this will be "game-changing", but definitely a nice to have QoL
for me (mobile developer) interop with python is not enough because of really poor python story on mobile devices (iOS / android) when using native modules. I think if Nim had a seamless interop with Rust or even Zig it could piggyback on those communities to get some libraries for free.
Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging
Cab drivers are the real ones getting scammed, unfortunately, and rarely have any way of recourse. When paying with card, they are rarely paid in a timely manner, if they get the proper amount at all. This is even before uber made medallions worthless. When I was growing up, it was a matter of common courtesy to use cash in situations like that, where you know the employer is going to play games with the employee when you pay with card, like a cabbie's fare or a waitress' tip. As we got older, most of us who worked in service industries & survived on tips knew this the hard way because we were also a victim of wage theft via skimming tips, etc.

I'm glad my city isn't allowing certain businesses to go completely cash free for this reason. The push to force credit card payments everywhere just hurts a class of people that are already vulnerable.
There you go. I have been visiting NYC for two decades now and could rely on cabs to a large extent. But haven't seen any reliable cab network like that in other parts of the US (SV, Austin, LA, Seattle, Denver-Boulder, ...).
Slate did an article on this that backs this up

> For an apparel maker designing a garment that will cost $40-$65 to manufacture, and will retail for three times that much or more, it’s simply not worth it to skimp [on zipper price]

> Multiple apparel designers I talked to recalled incidents in which batches of non-YKK zippers failed to meet their standards

https://slate.com/business/2012/04/ykk-zippers-why-so-many-d...
Cloudformation, SAM, Terraform, AzureRM. Terraform by miles and miles, then SAM. I mostly won't work in CF anymore.

Rider, Visual Studio, VSCode. Just use Rider.

AWS, GCP, Azure. Never Azure. The rest doesn't matter.

A more obscure ref but Airbyte, Fivetran, Hevo. Totally avoid Airbyte and Hevo. Begrudgingly use Fivetran.
> From each other.
Bigbang that has a center is perfectly consistent with Hubble law.

So we see all distant galaxies moving radially away us. Are you saying that the big bang happened to be centered, of all the universe, around the Milky Way?
History has shown that it is difficult to hold parties liable because they find creative ways to eschew the obligations via spin-offs, bankruptcy, or both.
The US government has never had a policy against recruiting drug users as intelligence field agents. Just because they aren't public servants doesn't mean they're not snitches.
That's a pretty nice suggestion. Honestly, though, the expanded for loop implementation is never really that complicated in practice.
Well, a real experimental system is a quantum computer that 'calculates' the emerging behavior in real time.
Sorry, that was needlessly sarcastic---actually, you have a good point there: it's ironic that we used digital computers to simulate quantum systems, and now we're beginning to use quantum computers to calculate digital properties (like decryption, etc), whereas it would be interesting to actually use quantum computers to calculate quantum systems such as electronic structure of many body systems. It's just that we're nowhere near that yet.