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Location: South America

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

3+ years working as a Data Analyst/Generalist (foodtech/ecommerce/livecommerce/liveshop) + 6 months working as Product Owner

Technologies: google bigquery sql, firebase data, postgresql, google looker data studio, python, pandas, google cloud function, google cloud run, etc.

I can perform some machine learning as well - I'm not a specialist, don't have fluence and I'm just an enthusiast in the following (however, had professional experience in all of it): sklearn, numpy, prophet, gaussian mixture models, recommendation systems, clustering, forecasting, NLP, speech recognition, GPT-4/OpenAI API, etc.

email: nothingcomeseasy@protonmail.com
Restaurant spending is one of the most wasteful sources of spending in America. If you sink money into a car you don't need, at least it has some sort of utility and ongoing (rapidly depreciating) value. Restaurants charge a huge markup and provide zero ongoing utility.

I personally hate to see the millions of dollars wasted on restaurant-cooked food, most of which is not good for you and a lot of it not even good. We would all be better off environmentally, socially, and financially if we returned to the earlier status quo of people cooking most of their own food. "Local communities" still thrived when there were 10% the restaurants there are today. In fact, they were much stronger. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the rare night out as a luxury. But the idea that not eating at restaurants enough is the source of some kind of decline is exactly backwards. Your insight that about the criticality of local connections is critical is true, but it has nothing to do with the number of local restaurants, and they have if anything hindered it rather than helped it. Inviting people over for dinner is an activity that has declined precipitously and forms much deeper connections than going out to eat and patronizing someone's (often vanity) business.
As someone who didn't know what pawpaw fruit is, I thought it's about One Piece.
Exactly this! It's a bit frustrating that there seems to be no acknowledgment of friction being an issue, even though the vast majority of our industry is practically defined by it.

Everyone who's ever worked on a website knows the value of being above the fold, the value of reducing a single click in a checkout, etc.

I lived car-free for many years, and while I had carshares easily available to me and went through the high-friction bits already (had the apps downloaded, accounts signed up, license verified, everything ready to actually rent) - I rarely did it (in fact I did it exactly twice in about 10 years!)

I sympathize with the argument here - having 4,000 lb steel boxes rolling around with a single person in them and no cargo is terribly wasteful, but a lot of the alternatives suggested assume a physics-experiment-like smooth frictionless surface that doesn't actually exist IRL.
Well, I heard hamming give this talk at NASA Ames in 1984. By the end of the year I’d quit my job (doing research on very obscure properties of programming language semantics), partially because I realized there were only a dozen or so people who even understood our work — what’s the point. Until then really I was just working on things that looked like fun — nothing really wrong with that.

I spent a few years working on common sense reasoning (AI) but began to feel it was making no progress. One thing that had shocked 20 yo me in Hamming’s talk was his criticism of Einstein for working on unified field theory: the fundamental mathematics and theory weren’t there yet so the effort was a waste of time. I was partially wrong but it didn’t seem like that was the right time for such work to be a productive effort, so after a few years I quit.

Since then I’ve mostly worked on problems where I could make a difference. At the end of the 80s and in the 90s that was enabling work on Free Software/open source and end user Internet access; first decade of this century pharmaceuticals (trying to reduce drugs in the water supply), then solar and renewable power (in the long run it’s hard for any one person to have significant impact for the good reason that lots of others are all pushing it forward), and lately climate repair.

I’m still old school enough that I non-cynically do work on projects that make the world a better place, and I think the world is a better place in ways large and small due to my efforts (and those of so many more).

I am disappointed that when the gold rush hordes flooded into the Bay Area in the late 90s they said they were “making the world a better place” because that seemed to be just a thing people around here said.
But then that kills UX for people on VPNs.
Looking up the specs, the actual laser is 1.5W, the converted output power is 600mW.

The chart you linked suggests that it'll start fires if you accidentally break the fibre.
What is an OS? Genuine question, not being sarcastic here. "OS" is a pretty loosely defined term at the moment. Clearly Android and Ubuntu are very different operating systems, despite having roughly the same kernel.

FrameOs uses Nim, which means it can be ported to run on bare-metal with no kernel. The async dispatch means that Nim also provides some light-weight co-operative multitasking.

I'd say that FrameOs is an OS (or userpsace if you prefer) that currently only runs on top of the linux kernel, but there's no reason it couldn't be ported to run directly on a microcontroller.
Haha. With a piece titled “…commands I got by with for years”, I have to laugh about this comment on modes. I’ve been using VIM for years for admin and some scripting and I don’t _know_ what a mode is. If I think about it, I guess I know edit is a ‘mode’, but if you start with cat and less, then VIMs edit mode is intuitive.
> But there’s lots of people living in dense cities. That’s why they’re dense.

Well, some populous cities sprawl, especially if they were built a little more recently.
A restless Gen Z is reshaping the Chinese Dream
Collision detection is far cheaper. One method:

Simply add up all the bytes of all seen placenames while running your fast algorithm. This is effectively a checksum of all bytes of placename data.

Then at the end, calculate the 'correct' name-sum (which can be done cheaply). If it doesn't match, a collision occurred.
The complexity is the killer for me. I think with the advances in efficient (>90%) propane synthesis and direct fuel cells, we will see some fuel cell hybrids to give the fuel cells time to warm up. But even then, the extra complexity is very high.
Ah, bless them.
> At the same time, US car manufacturers know their business well and have not delivered small EVs or small hybrid vehicles because the manufacturers have chosen to aim at Tesla's demographic (i.e. rich and "spendy"). It's clear that physics absurdities like the F150 Lightning or the Dodge RAM "RAM charger" are also aiming at rich and spendy customers.

They're aiming at it because like almost everything (including ICE cars), you need to make it work before you make it cheap.
> Can the falcon 9 fix the Hubble?

Maybe. There's a plan to use the Dragon capsule to reboost the Hubble and possibly EVA to it. No one knows what exactly will happen, although if you're interested in learning more, the potential mission is Polaris II[1].

But that ignores the bigger point - the Shuttle had a bunch of rarely used capabilities. And the tradeoff for that is that it's main mission: taking people and cargo to space was severely compromised.

It would have been easy to just buy a new Hubble with the savings if the US had a reasonably designed and priced rocket instead of the Shuttle.

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1. https://polarisprogram.com/
Reliability, ruggedness, flexability, serviceability, lots of ilities.

The line of switches I linked lets you snap on independent contacts (both normally closed and normally open) that are all actuated by the same button, as well as leds in various configurations, to a baseplate that fits in a standard hole in the panel; the button itself can be swapped out from that baseplate for various reasons (recessed, illuminated, a rotary switch instead of a button, a giant emergency stop button, a 2 or 4-way joystick, etc). Various ratings on the whole mess for dust-proof/splash-proof/water-proof/high-pressure-wash-proof, which is one of the places where the cost starts to go up. Button materials range from relatively cheap plastics up to stainless steel, and potentially heavy duty enough to survive and continue functioning after blows that might shatter a cheaper button.

And you'll be able to order compatible replacement parts 20 years from now. That's a big part of it too.
"You pass butter."
The Planetary Computer from Microsoft has an explore tool, which includes Sentinel-1 at any time and location, rendered on-the-fly. Free open access. No account required.

https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/explore?c=11.6778%2C...
green lasers are scaring the heck out of me, each one of them is pumped IR laser and each reflection causes green beam and IR beam to diverge more and more
Giant worms are a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Gippsland_earthworm
This assumes the file is already in page cache, and therefore already in RAM. The 0.3 seconds is the time to get it from RAM to the CPU L3 cache.
> You can get an OK used car for a couple thousand

While I agree with the rest of your comment, this sounds several years out of date.
I would not risk an infection. A nice rock back then or one of musk’s flame throwers today or even the back of a shovel.
Having gotten into the Hollow Knight series recently, this speaks to me.
Hitting that key in-game will increase the difficulty as the computer can leverage more AI
I've done some searching. 30 years experience, I've been writing Java and Python since the 90s. I was working in .NET since Beta 1. I'm very much a generalist, but I can't even get a call back from a company that looked ideal - I had worked at a successful startup that invented the space that company was in, I had demonstrated experience in all the relevant tech on the posting, I'm local and have no problem with the commute... does my resume suck that badly?

My theory on this is that X created a bit of a chill that became a full blown cold front. While the high profile layoffs at the FAANGs, percentage-wise it wasn't that big and most of these companies are still above pre-pandemic staffing levels, but it affected job seekers profoundly.

While those numbers are true in aggregate, a layoff is disastrous to an individual. There's no more "take this job and shove it, I'll have a new one by the end of the week". My current employer has a moribund stock price, and is nowhere near a prestige name, has suddenly stopped complaining about not being able to find qualified candidates. On recent data engineering position that opened had 350 applicants. I can't imagine what the FAANGs are getting. It must make navigating the pipeline that much more challenging. I've had 2 recruiters tell me that you really need a referral, or better a champion inside the company to get you seen.

I've heard some tales from recruiters about how aggressively recruiters poach job listings, it seems companies now feel empowered to play recruiters off against each other.

For my part, I'm out of market for another job for now, barring something extraordinary. I've made my peace with my situation: it's not awesome, but it's OK and it's time to focus on other things in life than landing a dream job.
> authoritarian much?

Protecting people who speak up against authority is the exact opposite of authoritarian.
Because node is a comedy. It’s intentionally making a very easy problem into a Rube Goldberg machine.
So I thought when I bought my Asus 1215B netbook (remember those?), and had my share of headaches related to the 3D support (when AMD drivers got rebooted), video acceleration (still doesn't work), and a wlan driver that keeps losing connections to my home router, forcing me to use a LAN cable instead.

Ah, and rebooting occasionally requires taking the battery off as workaround to take it out of an UEFI zombie state.
Was this bug found ever addressed?

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=170234892604404&w=2
I had a TRS-80 color computer that had BASIC built in and the first alternative language I got was a “editor/assembler” ROM cartridge.

By the mid 1980s they came out with an operating system called OS-9 which was a multitasking OS inspired by UNIX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

You could get a few languages for that, including a C compiler. A lot of people were using C on CP/M so I would type in programs from Byte magazine. I wrote a FORTH (in assembly language) for OS-9 that was subroutine threaded and unusually had a C like API to access files instead of the block based I/O most FORTHs had.

By the late 1980s I had a 80286 machine and wrote a lot of Assembly, C and Turbo Pascal. I thought Turbo Pascal was better than C but switched to C when I got to college because it was portable to the Sun workstations they had. By the time I got to grad school I got a 486 and switched to Linux.

Personally I liked 8086 assembly a lot and even though the segmentation scheme it used could be awkward I thought it was fun to code.
It's a way to hurt Biden in the elections.

(Trump was tougher against Iran but they feel they can survive it. What's important is that the Mullahs read all the press arguing that Trump is a danger to the American republic itself and take it into account. How often does one get a chance to seriously harm such a powerful country like the United States? For people whose call is 'death to America', this is a one time opportunity, which at worst won't work. These people are compulsive gamblers especially with assets they can afford to lose like the Houthis.)
Pilot accused of threatening to shoot captain midflight first court appearance
America can help Ukraine (I'm not from either place) with their side of the war all they want, imo. If Russia wants to treat gay men like me as second class citizens/animals, along with all of the other atrocities they perpetuate then I fully support whoever is on the other side of that mess.

But yes, Russia seems to use this "poking" tactic quite often, trying to provoke a response.
Good point for the buses, I wonder which is more energy-efficient in-between putting all passengers in a battery-electric bus or on electric scooters.

The main advantage I see to electric motorcycles is that you barely need to change anything in most car-dependant areas to start mass adoption. They are fast enough for you to not feel unsafe next to cars at a red light, and can go quite far on a single charge.

I've been raving about Taiwan's Gogoros for a while, but still, too many motorcycles is a big safety hazard. Electric bicycles are much better in that regard, muscle ones even more.
Definitely not holding my breathe this time.
... I've eaten at enough Michelin-starred restaurants in my life that if you summed them it'd be well over 200. I'm not a stranger to fine dining.

... and I still want to host people at my house and cook for them?

Fine dining for you may be a strictly superior replacement to home cooking (or alternatively: home cooking is what you do when you cannot have fine dining instead) - but many of us don't see it that way. They are complementary.

Yeah, my cooking isn't Thomas Keller... but that's not actually what it's about? In the same way I'm not Chris Nolan but yet I want to take video at family events?

And if I can say so: seeing fine dining as a strictly superior replacement of home cooking is a regretful way to view the world.
It would not. It is not allowed by the CAB forum. You have to use non third party DNS Resolvers to verify dns-01 certs.
So the common earthworm, while usually much smaller, can grow to be 35cm. And from a quick search, the giant Oregon earthworm can grow to be 1.5 meters.

So between the disappointment in the size of 'giant' and the age vs fossil age, this is a pretty big let down of a title.

Now maybe I'm a bit of an idiot for even a second believing any creature could be hundreds of millions of years old - but in the flip side once you take away both of those qualifiers (giant and old) there isn't much story here to be much interest. Or at least not to me.
> this one-size-fits-all solution fails to address our broader transportation problems

This just about sums it up. Even the best EVs today present a combination of strengths and limitations that mean they can't replace any given ICE car - only some of them.

I didn't buy my ancient gas-guzzling Lexus because it's good at doing things a public bus can do. I bought it because it's good at taking me into the sticks to see my loved ones.

The problem with EVs has little to do with the powertrain at this point. The biggest barrier is infrastructure. I need to be able to charge this thing anywhere along an interstate, without specifically planning every single stop ahead of time. We can figure out charging times later, just get the damn stations out there so we at least have something.
It's not the same. Because Shift-F10 includes shift you get the extended context menu:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110809-00/?p=99...
One minor comment, but if the electric grid is down, then it's likely you won't be able to pump gas either. At least, most gas stations have not planned to be functional without electricity.
And why do Australians think governments should build power distribution systems? Why can't we leave that up to private enterprise?

And why do Australians think governments should fund the building and upkeep of federal highways? Why can't we leave that up to private enterprise?

Surely the best option is to make sure every public road is a toll road. That Liberal Party approach to road building has worked great in NSW.

Toll Holdings is now one of the most profitable companies in the world, thanks to a Liberal NSW government turning every major NSW 'public' road into a Toll Holding toll road.

That's how good government works, making sure the public pay tooth and nail for a 'public' road as that helps out the donors and the shareholders.
Knowledge and skill-wise, it's obsolete for the vast majority of jobs that exist, but in reality, it will be a struggle to get hired without a degree, not just because of the status marker that is a degree, but primarily because industries are increasingly getting into bed with colleges: modern hiring pipelines now begin in college, with unpaid internships being an almost necessary entrypoint for a variety of industries and roles.

Modern students who someday want a job are effectively paying (college tuition) for the privilege of working for free (unpaid internships) just to have the chance to one day get a paid position with industry incumbents. Typically, an apprentice is paid for their work, but rebranded as an internship, suddenly students have no problem paying to work instead of getting paid to work.

It's especially spurious given the scope creep of a lot of these apprentice-internships. Students are so desperate and indoctrinated that they'll acquiesce to such a poor deal. Companies learned of this desperation and are taking advantage of it, getting free work while the student pays for the opportunity.

What company wouldn't take advantage of that deal?
Because the infrastructure is designed such that it's not safe to do otherwise, and anything but driving is an afterthought. I have a shopping center just over a mile away from me but I'd be putting my life at risk walking or biking there.

I would love to be able to bike there safely. Wouldn't even take much longer than driving.
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Depends on what "fix" means.

Can it get people there to get out into space and turn some wrenches? Absolutely.

Could it haul a new full-diameter mirror? No. It's constrained by it's diameter, and the cargo capacity is the Dragon's trunk. Bigger rockets may be required, but nothing about the shuttle is strictly necessary there.

The thing the "space plane" had that was entirely unique was the capability to load something large into the cargo bay and bring it back down. But in practice that capability was barely ever used. Starship might eventually offer that capability, but it won't be as gentle as a shuttle landing.

There may one day again be a beautiful space plane, should that particular need become important again.
the who is hiring monthly post of this site, and the openAi API!
In relative terms (violent deaths per capita due to war) it went down compared to any period before the end of WW2.

French revolution, Napoleonic wars, American Civil War, wars of independence in Latin America, etc. comprise some 100 years. In the last 80 years we had markedly less deadly wars across the whole world...
Sounds like the Gartner RGT model

https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/align-it-function...
Can't wait for an LLM query-and-response taking less time then it takes a file explorer to open.

Trully a well designed user experience
20mph is hauling it on a bicycle. A normal cruising speed on a bike is more like 12-15mph. So that's more like 3.75mi.

But yes, for all the suburbs I've lived in I've had the choice of dozens+ of restaurants, a few grocers, various stores, office parks, and more within 5mi. There's definitely places where this isn't true but it's not like all suburbs take two miles to leave the pure houses neighborhood.
> I'm honestly shocked anyone here thinks they could pull this crap without getting fired.

I'm shocked at how many closeted authoritarians here on HN crawl out of the woodwork to defend Musk every time that he faces criticism for his dictatorial actions.
Don't forget: Russians enter UK to perform an assassination using a potent nerve agent (with essentially no repercussions). They do this all the time and get away with it. And like a child that doesn't get told off, they'll keep on doing it.
> I should really have got over it after 40 years.

I am with you. The movie has no hints or clues when it's okay to feed again. Dawn ? Sunrise ?
It's gigantic relative what you'd expect for predators at the time, is the point.
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