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Location: Paris

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not really, but open to visit as much & as long as necessary, regardless of the location

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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Experienced (15 yrs) full stack product engineer. Very good at both web & mobile & desktop apps, APIs, Postgres, Linux, mentorship, and communication in general. Touch typist, VIM ninja, refactoring monster. With an academic background of philosophy.

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, entreprise) and industries (finance, digital marketing, automation, online education, e-commerce).

Late focus is finance technologies. Been building exchanges, trading bots, payment gateways, banking APIs, financial monitoring & reporting tools, as well as crypto. Open to all kinds of projects though.

My technical specialty is building simple systems with few moving parts that contain as little accidental complexity as possible. I'm pragmatic but always chase proper implementations at the same time. I don’t easily buy the hype nor subscribe to every new shiny tool & paradigm. I focus on robust & reliable software as much as possible.

My business specialty is caring greatly about understanding your domain, business model, figuring out your product priorities and actually iterating fast. In a world where the majority of software projects fail and the majority of engineering hires disappoint, I am promising you the peace of mind of knowing that you have an actually capable engineer beside you who understands your business model, cares about your investment and is able to make good judgements.

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Only open to contract work & consultancy. I run a small guild and have very talented people around me with whom I've been working with for a while. We usually give support together which works best. You can contract one or two or more of us depending on your situation to receive whatever support you might need for as long as you need.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.

See website at https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html for more information or reach me at hire@gwn.wtf
I'd argue the sane part too, after all he did launch a religious crusade.
> Perhaps you can refute the existence billions of people on the planet who live without commuting via car, or the dense networks of public transit which they often rely on?

You have to remember that the infrastructure they depend on to have drinkable water, stores with food on shelves, power and other media, itself is built around cars and trucks, and depends on them being available and able to drive everywhere. Cars are intertwined with everything else in modern civilization - you can't just rip them out. Even if everyone other than critical infrastructure operators suddenly got rid of their cars, this still wouldn't let you eliminate roads from the city, as the trucks and construction equipment and ambulances etc. need to be able to go everywhere.
He’s a fuckwit who’s trying to start ‘culture wars’ in the UK as a way of deflecting attention from the current government’s failings and the effect of 13yrs of austerity spending
I have worked with a number of codebases where we did that.

In fact, I have worked with a number of codebases where I was the one who deployed that, because the app process could already do the relevant level of restart without dropping a request, and the leak was slow enough and hard enough to find that I couldn't justify keeping going until I -did- find it.

This continues to annoy me, but having made sure the leakiness wasn't able to -increase- over time without us spotting it immediately, I'm still convinced it was the business-correct decision.

(but, still, sulk)
Cool! Feature requests:

1. physical synthesis of typewriter sounds rather than using sound files.

2. Simulating key jams, so if you type too quickly further key presses are inhibited.
"Sorry, can't build that grocery store there. It's too convenient. Move it further away from everyone!"
That’s still choosing allowing judges, a part of the government, total control of your fate. Dystopian stuff
I assumed that when you renounce your citizenship, there is no judge involved, it is automatic.

In that case, preventing coerced renunciations is easier than allowing anyone to renounce their citizenship but trying to allow the renunciation to be overturned and the citizenship reinstated afterward if it was based on coercion.
Imagine this happened to Oprah (when she was younger) and somebody said "it is nice of him to try to take the heat off of a young content creator".
These types of ‘appeals’ are usually not appeals. They often come in the form of clemency requests and, in some jurisdictions, Post Conviction Relief. Several State’s have legislation in place allowing for a proceeding in the court of conviction to be opened (within some specified period of time) when ‘factual innocence’ is being alleged. The burden for the relief is pretty high to get the proceeding going however.
In the first appearance of Superman, he breaks in to the governor's mansion to obtain a stay of execution for a woman wrongly convicted of murder.

https://whynotcomicbooks.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/action-...
That is not an unreasonable assumption, no, for a service.

I would posit that your error is in thinking of Mastodon as a service, rather than a community of people trying to get away from using "services" to live our lives through.

In that context, I would expect exactly these sorts of errors, and as an admin, I would expect the community to understand and be forgiving, because we are all figuring this out together as we go - again, with only the money in our bank accounts.

I think that if you're genuinely interested in participating in the Mastodon project and helping it to succeed, I would suggest that writing a polemic which reflects your service-based expectations and shits on the efforts of the earnest sysops who do this for the passion of it and the desire to see this better alternative happen is about the worst way to express your frustration at losing data that you had the option to do a weekly backup of yourself.

You need to let go of your "service" expectations and start thinking of Mastodon as what it is: a network of personal computers which people are using to talk to each other. You need to think of your personal Mastodon profile the same way you think about your personal hard drive.
> Best case, if you can get it, would be the buyer and seller meet up without the agents and each has an attorney to help with legal.

I did this years ago, and it all went well. There's a substantial opportunity for Redfin here if they can connect buyers and sellers directly and charge a reasonable fee for all the boilerplate involved. At the time there wasn't an infrastructure to find homes with this selling arrangement so it was literally a "for sale by owner" sign in the yard.

I'm curious about the specific wording here:

> NAR membership is required for agents to access listing databases, lockboxes, and industry-standard contracts

Is it possible even in places with this regulatory capture for them to facilitate direct sales? Is it only NAR "databases" "lockboxes" and "contracts" that are unavailable to them, and if Redfin brings their own for both buyers and sellers they're in the clear?

I think real estate agents do add some value, after all there are things about properties that you won't know just by looking at online listings and having somebody familiar with an area out there doing some legwork for you is indeed a real job, but it's certainly not commensurate with the 3% of the entire transaction they're extracting.
Absolutely kiwis - its a tool for downloading offline copies of Wikipedia, stack overflow, etc.

Your other problem is going to be pulling in new dependencies and docker images.
Accurate. I had a similar reaction and ended up writing a detailed blog post about it: https://loeber.substack.com/p/12-what-i-wanted-from-wework

WeWork was executing a strange vision of how "creative" work should be done while ignoring the ordinary needs of office workers. Open-plan couches instead of soundproofed phone booths.
Quick remind that Firefox on Android allow you to install extensions and then adblocks. You can use it as a replacement for the Youtube app and you can even leave the browser and continue listening if it is music.
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The text already contains the data about how the character was entered (more specifically, what codepoints it's made of), unless it has been normalized somehow. It seems like a tarpit to me to properly specify these behaviours in a way that won't be an annoyance/surprise to a lot of people.
Why is this on Hacker News?

The one place where we mostly don't argue and fall out over politics.

Don't turn this into reddit. Go post it somewhere else.

Flagged.
That's exactly why it's a bad idea to use IoT on everything! Most companies working on this kind of product doesn't give a shit about security.
Just one more lane in any suburban neighborhood will fix all traffic issues, trust me bro
When I come across a headline like that, I can’t help but think these must be a propaganda tool to make people believe economy is doing great. It’s similar to saying “headline inflation is slowing - yayyy we have brought inflation down!” and now everyone clap.

Just like inflation the effects of these economic indicators are cumulative. Total inflation is up over 37% over last year and half (when you combine over quarters and that doesn’t even include housing), your average rent in most livable cities with jobs in the country are over 2000, and guess what wages haven’t gone up meaningfully compared to that. And cherry on top, a good chunk of people don’t have a 1000 dollar saving.

Yet everyone is cheering - rent growth is slowing. Inflation is down.

If there ever was a most delusional group of people, that would be the economics experts making commentaries in media. Good lord.
Even if they could, and they probably can, they are inherently cogs in the machine of the law and shaped by it. A jury of twelve layman will always be more fair and I’m glad America has a system that understands this fact. People arguing against juries must be so ignorant to why they’re even a thing to even begin debating why they are a bad thing.
The US elected Trump, then voted him out of office. This is democracy.
Because they want it to have properties it can't possibly have due to its very nature: absolute, flawless, immutable, etc.
Almost every way of asking citizens about the outcomes of "15-minute cities" both yields positive results, and is well known to align with positive outcomes in terms of happiness and community benefits.

Unfortunately the pro-car and often sovereign-citizen aligned community, mostly in the US, latched on to this as a sign of reduced freedom, because cars are such a critical part of freedom identity in those groups.

It's a shame to see our politicians giving this any time whatsoever, but it's unsurprising as it's necessary to maintain any semblance of support among a party that have not represented a majority for many years.
If both sides agree to a price then that's a very local market value.

If lots of people on both sides agree to a price then that really is market value.
Just nice to see it used against someone other than the little people for once
Except that hitting "Pay Inside" probably activates the "get high res photos" function because that's a known fraud profile. If the pump is tricked into giving gasoline for free how long does it take for the gas station employee(s) to notice something went wrong?
US TV provider given first-ever space debris fine
Ironic given the "nation of shopkeepers" nickname we have, that we're now inventing the inconvenience store.
> Making GC/goroutine optional & customizable requires building a std works with no GC/goroutine.

Right.

You've picked a goal that require you to do some hard things to make that goal even possible.

OTOH even if you never reach the -final- goal, making any of those hard things work would be an achievement.

The only way to find out is to try. So: Good luck!
So many prank ideas...
If only embedded compilers would support anything past C99. Hell, Microchip's version of GCC only got C99 support in Nov 2021
This is why you need to not visit the same pump multiple times. They don't know they are being stolen from.

So... fill up your car. Then leave. Then use a diff station next time. Rinse, repeat.
> I don't believe child killing would require prior convictions in order to get the death penalty in Texas.

Noting here that using 'child killing' in this context loads the term. It unhelpfully stirs intended and unintended deaths together and conflates murder with awful mistakes made by poorly equipped, poorly informed or overpressured parents.

Parents who've lost infants after rolling onto them while sleeping - they ought not be lumped together with people who've killed a child thru a planned, horrific act.
This is an interesting position to take. As someone who’s in the middle of chemotherapy I don’t think anyone’s in a position to judge me if I’m not interested in putting myself through this treatment anymore. They have no skin in the game and they’re not the ones having to deal with the side effects.
What argument am I making exactly?

Your statement seems to be one of 'should' due to social factors largely outside of the various actors control and/or self-interest.

Which in my experience tends to mean 'I wish was', not 'will be', let alone 'is'. Unfortunately. But pressure applied to various regulators, PR campaigns, etc. could change that! I wish whoever wants to spend the time and effort doing so the best of luck. When that happens, the factors will change.

In the end, labor markets only care about the wellbeing of participants as much as they have to - because labor will either actually not participate, or regulators will actually intervene, etc.

If someone is willing (and able) to commute 12 hrs a day to fill a job, and an employer is willing to employ that person at the rate they want, that will often happen barring better deals. Stochastically of course.

One can think of it in relation to energy states (when markets get above a certain size) if one was in the mood.

As always though, just as in said physics or chemistry problems, individual 'atoms' can and will end up in wildly different states from the median.

But that a single atom may be a movement/vibration rate equivalent to 100C doesn't mean the temperature of the solution isn't 25C (for example). Or that it won't average out over time for that atom as it collides/interacts with others.
Only women? I like this positive articles.
Yeah, definitely I feel the same about the public parts, but I still find the public-but-private network part of it useful in itself. Both have use cases, but currently the public one just isn't feasible to use :/
While it won't mean much to most of the people here, I find myself looking back on the John Major administration as a beacon of stability and competency. The John Major years, FFS.
Cross platform support is a good reason.
I used Kagi to generate a summary of the video and generate a list of key moments:

The podcast discusses recent and upcoming changes to the C programming language in versions C23 and beyond. It explores new features being adopted from C++, such as auto type inference, attributes, and variably modified types. These changes aim to improve compatibility while staying true to C. The presentation highlights the addition of bit-precise integer types that allow specifying exact bit widths and avoid integer promotions. It also covers new Annex F functions for improved support of IEEE 754 floating point operations. Overall, the podcast examines exciting updates to C that enhance functionality, performance, and security for developers.

- C has seen significant changes over the past 12+ years for the first time, with C23 introducing many new features.

- Some of the new features in C23 are inspired by C++, such as attributes and auto type inference, but aim to stay true to C's spirit.

- Attributes allow providing additional information to the compiler without changing code behavior, and can be standard or vendor-specific.

- Auto type inference makes generic macros easier to write by inferring parameter types.

- Enumerations can now specify their underlying type, like long or unsigned int, for more control over sizes.

- Variably modified types allow array sizes to depend on non-type parameters without stack allocation issues.

- New integer types like intN_t specify exact bit widths and avoid integer promotions.

- New macros help with endianness and bit manipulation operations in a portable way.

- Annex F for floating point is now in parity with IEEE 754-2008 for more consistent floating point behavior.

- Memory clearing functions like memset_s were added to improve security by overwriting secrets before freeing memory
Interesting. I'm not on Linux at the moment, but on Windows you can right-click on the video to get to playback speed controls in Firefox.
I flag your comment for being inflamatory and irrelevant to the article.
Will this be used for Harvard architecture where programs are run straight from their storage instead of first being read into RAM? Maybe we can use data stored on this instead of having to stream it from storage to RAM?
After mentioning the physical issues you have when you exercise, it was quite hard to tell you were being sarcastic.
1. github.com/golang.go is just a mirror. The main Git repo is available via https://go.googlesource.com/go

2. GitHub.com is Microsoft infrastructure. cs.opensource.google is Google infrastructure.

I still wonder why there is both cs.opensource.google and go.googlesource.com.
The next general elections are due to take place by the end of January 2025, so probably next year, and he has started campainging.

He knows that "15-minute cities" are not popular so he is using it.

Frankly, a number of local councils have given a bad image to the concept and that's a shame but they have only themselves to blame. I am sure that most people would actually like 15-minute cities but councils are not doing that at all, they are only restricting cars and so many people are not happy.

In any case, it's utopian (or dystopian) to think that people will be able to work within 15 minutes of their home unless we implement a collectivist-style management of employment and housing. But at least there should be investment in moving healthcare, schools, shops within 15 minutes, then they can start discouraging cars...
A Tetris Clone in TypeScript
Power usage could be a huge factor. Modern LED/OLED panels can get bright enough to fight the sun, but pay for that.

I'd love to see what this thing can do with a mobile processor and a laptop battery. I bet you could get days of battery life.
By some accounts Gordon Brown helped prevent 2008 into a total global economic meltdown, but many just think he was utterly incompetent.

But this move by Sunak is contemptuous, the unpopular expansion of ULEZ saved a Tory seat, so now he's nakedly making drivers vs the rest another battle in the "culture war", in hopes of saving his party from destruction.
Closer to home, I can think of a few competitive video game players with more money than sense who would spend in the thousands for a DRAM replacement that allows to go from 150FPS to 300FPS. Depending on workload, DRAM latency generally ends up being the bottleneck at such high refresh rates.
In my state they sure as heck don't let you pay after pumping! That's only really a thing in small towns
Because GitHub is a mirror not the actual repo, I think I was around 2015 when Go was gaining massive attraction they had to use GitHub for issues also, still you can’t change the fact that more than 70% of commits is from google
You’re right in that the buyer pays the seller so the seller pays the agents so ultimately the buyer is paying for everything and hoping he will find another buyer down the lane willing to pay more than 6% of the price he paid to at-least not lose what he put in.

Houses have a huge transaction cost, unlike say trading cost. Yeah the value goes up and down due to supply and demand but the transaction fees are zero at many internet exchanges now.
In America this is the way. Large corporations strive to be minimally compliant in all things. A small vendor would probably try to delight tough and do exactly what you wanted
I think you have a very different definition of a 'right' than the court system?

Folks on both sides are allowed to make decisions others disagree with (within bounds), and suffer or enjoy the consequences appropriately.
Artists Are Losing the War Against AI
The article seems a little light on details. I don't expect them to explain exactly how it works, but is this a bug/feature in the pump design?

If you can just roll up to the pump and communicate with it over Bluetooth, then I'd argue that it's a design flaw and the manufacturer should be held accountable as this seems like a gross laps in security.
It's not exactly difficult to obfuscate a license plate for the few minutes needed to fill up.
Isn't binance going away? Feels like they're going under heavy pressure and are getting restricted everywhere.
Implementing vector DB architecture isn't complex (so I'm bear on commercial vector dbs as a net value add especially since they all wrap some oss ANN solution)

You pair a vector db with a metadata store (can be anything, but ideally you want low gravity with the vdb and disk for fast retrieval... i.e. leveldb, sqlite equivalents... or hell a traditional db - and the author is right traditional dbs dont need to work too hard to create a ANN extension)

In general, the greater challenge is the data engineering and overhead of managing retrieval stores (in terms of the data-integration/model pipelines) ... so I'm bull on the solutions addressing opportunities here.
That's not a compromise, that's RTO.

Also, I've been in this industry for 17 years. Malwarebytes (VP), Vicarious (VP), Rad AI (VP), Explosion AI, Aptible, and now Comcast. Every one of those companies except Vicarious had a remote or hybrid culture, and it's worked great for all of them. You absolutely can "arbitrarily mix people with different modes" as long as you have good management.
What are the pumps even using Bluetooth for?

I suspect it might've been something like a default feature of the embedded PC that they didn't bother to disable, so you can "plug in" a BT keyboard / mouse and take control of the system.
Yea it’s less automated but this bit: “when the clerks inside try to stop it - they can’t.” suggests it’s very obvious.
I'm not too bothered about their loss, given that gas pumps now have advertising screens installed. Let the ad revenue make up for it.
It’s stealing from gas pump owners who are still very much the little people.
If the 5x reduction in LOC to execute a wasm function isn't enough, then hopefully the logo just carries us to wasm nirvana :)