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Location: Bloomington, Indiana (United States)

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Résumé/CV: http://forestgafford.com

Email: (firstname).(lastname)@gmail.com (name is on resume)

Summary:
Senior developer for small company. I have had my hands in most every aspect of delivering for software for a dev shop. I am the lead developer and technical lead for a number of teams. I task, oversee and preform code review for jr developers and well as interface directly with clients. I oversee and maintain multiple production deployments in secure environments.

Credentials:

- Secret Security Clarence

- SEC+ Certified

Systems/Programming Languages:

- Kotlin

- React & TypeScript

- Python

- Headless Linux & Bash

- Docker

- Kubernetes

- EC2

Personality:

I am very outgoing and often function as an internal liaison for for teams looking for guidance on what clients desire from wares. Ideally I would like to move into a more consultant type role but am very comfortable leading a team and interfacing directly with clients.
At the cost of ARM compatibility. Microsoft is doing as atrocious a job at ARM Windows than Apple is at its gaming ordeals. All that being said, I would never want Apple to change its ways. They've given us extraordinary ARM laptops that don't even have fans!
Does anybody know which Dell product they use? Dell also has JBOD enclosures like Powervault MD2460
How do you know what you are looking for in the logs?

If you have the foresight to be able to recognize a malicious action from the logs, why not have the software block those actions from the start?
Self-Play Fine-Tuning Converts Weak Language Models to Strong Language Models
going to bed != falling asleep

depending on which physician you ask, it can actually be worse to just lie in bed for hours and hours without sleeping.

it's definitely bad to put yourself in a situation where you must go to sleep at X PM and wake up at Y AM, and then you're repeatedly failing to fall asleep so now you rely on things like sleeping pills, or you're perpetually exhausted and underperforming at tasks like classes or work and the stress creates a feedback loop of even worse sleep.

it certainly wasn't good for me when i was younger!
I think this is an unfortunately not enough discussed topic. As sciences are young (as psychology relatively is) you work on broader problems and much more aggregated results. You make naive assumptions like everything exists in normal distributions or data is i.i.d. So you get results that are big generalizations and sometimes not even reliable. But then as a field advances, it naturally shifts into requiring more and more nuance and specificity. Where you have to start considering multivariate solutions (even if that's a mixture of gaussians, which, awesome tool btw) because you approach a natural wall at the explainability of your data with naive methods. And let's be clear, if we wanted to really rigorously study psychology -- at the same level as, say, physics -- then there would need to be a lot of crazy math invented and we'd probably still end up needing to do unethical things because holy fuck how do you control all those variables. (definitely warrants being open about error and unknowns)

There's nothing wrong with that. But I do think it's wrong that we're not open about it, in so much that it isn't even always explicitly stated during a science education. We might say something like "all models are wrong" but I don't think that solidifies this thinking enough for novices and can create experts who still don't get it. Wherein it becomes a classic clique, where everyone knows the phrase but doesn't understand or practice the lesson.

There's some noticeable downsides too. If you're constantly not reiterating what your base assumptions are and acknowledging the limitation of those assumptions, you forget they exist. It also becomes hard to communicate the significance of your work to the public and I think in some cases is often why the public ends up calling (sometimes rightfully, sometimes not) bullshit. I think there's also a major advantage to science, in being open about these helps newcomers (such as those entering graduate school) more readily understand the limitations of the field and what work needs to be done. But I think some incentive structures we have in place don't encourage great scientific behavior in this way. Speaking of which, other metrics can even end up making bridging this multivariate gap more difficult. Such as the all too well known p-value weirdness, you may end up rejecting works making progress towards this bridging by having these arbitrary requirements rather than evaluating works with more nuance, which can even then discourage attempting to build such bridges. I guess coming full circle to: it's complicated? Like everything else lol
No, we're not playing a semantics game. The access wasn't "unauthorized" if the person that "hacked" it was using the person's right email and password. MFA was also available and the hacked accounts did not have it enabled. It's not 23andMe's fault that users reused passwords and chose not to enable MFA. This isn't about weak passwords or passwords that were known to be leaked on sites like HaveIBeenPwned. Was there more they could have done? Of course. Is it their fault? Absolutely not. Are they liable in any sort of legal sense? Absolutely not.
This is a cool project; getting bash to run on it seems like a real milestone. I dabbled with my own unix-like OS right out of college in C (no rust in 2010) and it was great fun.

I'm jealous you were able to make time to get this far!
Well I didn't mean to just endorse Bluesky but call it out as one of many alternatives.

I'm actually active on Mastodon but I am thinking about getting on Instagram as well because the content I post that does the best on Mastodon would fit in there.
By the time the Ottomans took Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire had been in decline for centuries already. The crusaders and Venetians took Constantinople 200 years previously, and while the Byzantines eventually recaptured it, that was still an ultimately fatal blow. And even that blow was only possible because Venice had been allowed to drift out of the Byzantine sphere of influence.
Sorry for the naïve question, but shouldn't "cellphone towers in space" require phones to emit more powerful signal to reach the satellite than they do for terrestrial towers?
Because the circadian rhythm of a human body can vary drastically from person to person, that's why some people are more naturally night owls, or have cycles closer to 23/25 hours than 24. You can try and make a teenager go to bed at 10pm, but if they're unable to sleep for an hour then it doesn't matter 'when' you go to bed.

This gets even more important for kids and teenagers because your chronotype can shift drastically as you transition towards young adulthood until it settles into a certain rhythm.
Nearly 200 Lit Mags Founded in 2023
What would happen if you just let them get up and get to school on their own? They might be late initially, but I bet they would figure it out and be on time after a short adjustment period.
I know it is inevitable, but I'm dreading the day when 100% of devices have fast broadband-level connectivity everywhere on the planet and there's truly nowhere you can go to just disconnect. Already in the last few years with satellite internet getting affordable you see people in remote RV camps or backcountry hikes or on boats in the middle of the ocean texting and video calling away, streaming the latest news and catching up on work emails. It's just going to keep getting worse.
"Being a Nazi" or displaying a swastika isn't against their TOS. They have specific requirements that one has to breach to violate.
Probably they go to bed too late?
'The industry is still stuck in a "no one knows what to do about this problem"'

It's not that nobody knows - nobody cares. The lawyers will always advocate for not hiring anyone "risky". Be that criminal convictions, dismissed charges, or people with disabilities.
> Do you share your banking info with complete strangers?

I think this is why we were all so surprised when Venmo took off in popularity, with everybody's transactions made public by default...
a poor take.

cigarette consumption is way, wayyyyyyy down, and is effectively gone in the first world outside of small pockets. compare to the 1950s where everyone smoked, all the time.

or think about asbestos, or lead. we figured out those are bad and made drastic changes to start removing those -- and did.

nature is a little harder, esp. given that the largest corps in the world + plenty of soverign wealth funds, are trying their hardest to keep people from thinking about it as it collapses.
Mostly won for CRUD apps (yes and a few others). Your DAW, your photo editor, your NLE, your chatbot girlfriend, your game, your CAD, etc might actually want to use more than one core effectively per task.
Even go had to grow up eventually.
It appears many here are nervous about the Elephant in the Room, which is why we’re graying out over Wagging the Dog…anything to avoid addressing the problem everyone is still talking about…
Show HN: Generate custom AI podcast recaps and turn them into a newsletter
Hi HN - I love podcasts. I listen to them whenever I can. Yet I don’t know how people listen to more than a few per week, especially when the episodes are multiple hours long. I made Podmob so I don’t have to miss out on useful insights if I don’t have time to listen to every podcast I’d like to.

Podmob uses AI to generate recaps for any podcast episode. You can choose between a few styles and lengths of the recaps you want to generate (paragraphs, chapters, bullet points, top quotes). Podmob sends a recap to your email as soon as a new episode is released for any podcast you follow or you can also recap individual episodes as well.

A few other features that I have found to be helpful:

1. Citations: You can click on any insight or quote Podmob generates for an episode and see it in the context of the episode transcript. You can flip through all the sources used to generate a given bullet point and start listening to the episode from any one of them.

2. Audio recaps: All Podmob generated recaps also come voice enabled. Podmob can create a custom RSS feed so you can listen to all your recaps in any podcast player.

3. AI Q&A. I have found recaps and citations cover about 90% of the content of an episode, however there are times when you want to dive further into a certain topic. Each episode comes with its own AI assistant to ask questions to or generate custom insights/summaries from the episode. This is a paid only feature for now to save on costs.

You can see an example of a recap here ( https://www.podmob.com/p/1545953110/e/1a1a3dd8-db64-49f3-956... ) and there is a free tier where you can follow two podcasts and get two individual recap credits. The paid options are to cover api costs for the time being.

Give it a try and let me know what you think! Ultimately this is not intended to replace listening to the podcasts you love — nothing will beat that. And obviously some genres are better suited than others (LLMs aren’t great at comedy, for example). However I have found this is a useful filter to see which episodes you want to listen to, as well as a “some is better than none” for the podcasts you wouldn’t have time to listen to anyway.
You would probably need to pass around a context type that encodes information about the current context and which interrupts are possible. You would then acquire the lock via that context, which would handle disabling those interrupts.
Location: Norway
Remote: Yes/Hybrid
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: node/js/ts/zig/terraform/docker/nomad/consul/linux/postgresql/mongodb/nginx/caddy/rabbitmq
Résumé/CV: https://qwelias.me/cv
Email: qwelias@gmail.com
You can't see just anyone's DNA. You have to opt-in to the program and share it with specific users, in nearly every case someone who is a distant relative that is tantamount to a stranger.
Unfortunately for actual nomads Google Fi doesn't work. After 3 months outside the US they shut down your service.
i prefer meritocracy to anything else. it may not be perfect, but talk is cheap, world is filled with people on bullshit jobs where they do nothing. there are people that push science, human achievements and create new things we did not have before.

if you think you have better, create a company, apply your "rules" there and let's see how it goes.

me, seeing that POS article you linked, i'm just gonna move my left hand towards my popcorn.
"Since the OS started as a school project, I had to cut corners in order to finish it on time. But now is the time to pay back the technical debt I accumulated."

Please try to keep this mindset.
Can you give any examples to back up what you're saying? I'm genuinely interested in understanding what you mean.
I'm sure that's true for some kids. But it's also true that many young kids are perfectly capable, although perhaps not all environments are conducive to this. I walked approximately half a mile to kindergarten with a friend every day, starting at age 5. I never had an issue with tardiness until high school, when I started driving.

Some of my fondest childhood memories involve conversations with peers from these walks. I think it's an incredible shame that I can't let my children do the same, even at 8, and even though my 8yo is miles more mature than I was at his age.
I was overscheduled in high school and constantly sleep deprived from doing too much. However, shifting the school day forward 1 hour or 2 would not have helped me since it would have just shifted my whole day forward 1-2 hours, as I was completely 'booked' with sports/homework. I think another problem is that a lot of people plan for a certain amount of sleep, but then stay up late due to devices, which is a new, modern problem that I think is actually very severe given the addictiveness of apps. Judging other commenters here, I am pessimistic about people's ability to self-delude themselves into thinking they or their kids don't have a screen problem, and just need the schedule to be shifted forward.
Very cool ! I built a series of scripts to exchange e-ink images through Gmail last year which I baptized DispatchPi (https://github.com/malcolmosh/dispatchPi/blob/main/README.md) and a program like this would definitely have accelerated development. It was a bit fussy to always have to use a terminal to SSH into the Pi, then update the scripts through FileZilla (ftp client) + Vscode.

I've just completed a dashboard project which I'm about to release and I was also thinking of switching my frame drivers to ESP32 to run them on batteries, since they consume far less energy than even a Pi Zero. So +1 for ESP32 compatibility if time allows!
Somewhat unrelated, but I've wondered if I should stop using emoji reactions. They're fun and useful in some contexts (e.g. thumbs up for "Understood"), but I also feel like they're so low-effort that they invite less thoughtful replies.
I was a teenager before cellphones were ubiquitous; I still found plenty of ways to avoid sleeping when I found myself awake and in bed.
> They drive them in cities and motorways, which in Europe force you to drive the same way you’d drive a Corolla.

Expand, I'm interested. I mean, my thought would be, Germany is the land of the no-speed-limit autobahn, the US was 55 everywhere until recently.
I've got opinions on the free speech question, but notice how I wasn't making a statement about free speech. I was saying that Musk has made some exceptionally bad business decisions lately and that they're impacting his bottom line. Advertisers are fleeing Twitter because of Musk's erratic behavior.
I always thought, the "correct" way of doing this was the other way around: the RSS reader would implement ActivityPub so you could "toot" from within you RSS client. It would perhaps attempt to collect other "toot"s about the same link, facilitating a discussion (and keeping everything at one place). But I think this is the next best thing, especially for those feeds you tend to share on the social networks (I don't think it's feasible to reproduce the RSS reader following with this).
True, but the purpose of schools isn't the immediate problems/outcomes. It's the long term outcomes of having an educated society.

We could argue about whether the schooling system is sufficiently meeting those long term goals, but that doesn't mean they take a back seat to the immediate consequences of school closures.
The article and book it’s sourced from make a pretty compelling claim that he does actually know the technical details of the things he’s working on, and that jives with other things I’ve read. I think a lot of what he’s doing is the kind of first-principles argument that can drive seasoned engineers nuts (“factor X is the root problem, so what if we just changed factor X?” “Yeah gee golly nobody’s ever thought of that”), but it turns out if you’ve got enough money, patience, and latitude, there’s a lot of meat on that bone.

Agree though that the echo chamber around him really does feed into his worst instincts - I feel like it’s similar to George Lucas, who, with constraints, made the first Star Wars trilogy, and without constraints made the second.

And, yeah, he’s got a strong engineering affinity and what looks like a strong anti-affinity for anything involving people.

I don’t mean any of this to gas up Musk. I don’t particularly like him, I don’t think he’s a good person, and I think the fact that he’s as influential as he is is an indictment of our society broadly. I do think he’s had some outlier successes, and with both Tesla and SpaceX he’s shifted the world in what I’d consider a positive direction, so I think it’s worth taking a dispassionate look at how he’s done it, both the positives and negatives.
Please be kind to yourself. Life is hard enough.
Is it just me, or does the article not actually answer the question in the title? It explains the components well, and how a magnet distorts the image, but does not describe which component is capable of being permanently altered by an external magnetic field.

Is it the phosphor coating? The deflecting coils? Some sort of static field in the glass?
For those who haven't found it, Let Grow [0] is a great organization pushing for this kind of change. They have resources for parents and have actively worked with a number of states to get free range kids laws on the books.

[0] https://letgrow.org/
How would you know they're compromised before you know they're compromised? According to the info I've read about this, the site and database that was breached was not published publicly but was sold privately on the dark web.
I think that is a cynical and incorrect take.

If babysitting was the primary function, there are much cheaper and easier ways to achieve it.

Given that the vast majority of cost and effort is spent on the educational aspect, I would argue that is indeed the primary function.

Additionally, if you look to history, schooling originated long before the need for babysitting.
May not be obvious from the article, yet all of the authors games are available for play [1]

[1] http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/

And there's also a breakdown of games by their included game mechanics at [2], which from my own perspective is perhaps more fascinating.

[2] https://abagames.github.io/action-mini-game-mechanic-tags/in...
Sure. Foot me a bill since I am affecting other person's lives. Just make sure it is correct. Also do not forget to compensate me as I am affected by other people.
I would have thought school starts before 8:30 because most parents have a workday starting at 9. And, starting earlier may avoid that rush-hour traffic for the busses or parents dropping kids.
Or don’t use their „security“ features. AFAICT everything would have been fine if they used a hardware key as second factor.
I don't know. It seems to be getting worse. Entire neighborhoods now come to a standstill because hundreds of giant cars converge on a school to deliver or pick up one kid at a time.

And this is in L.A., home to probably the least-challenging weather in the country. We have entire generations of junior-high and high-school kids who are apparently too feeble to ride their bikes, walk, or take the bus to school. Pathetic.
If they're close to the exit, it's clearly someone else's problem for those that aren't in our culture. If only they'd invested in their personal safety they wouldn't be burning to death and how else will they learn?
Online web based (no install mess):

Mathcha editor : https://www.mathcha.io/ can cut/paste tiz examples to use as starting template(s)

Asmptote : https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/

WolframAlpha : https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+2x%2B3y-5z%3D7

GeoGebra : https://www.geogebra.org/classic/3d

CPM 3D Plotter : https://technology.cpm.org/general/3dgraph/
This is quite cool, would you be open to making the source available? I'm afraid of such things disappearing in future years/decades and always prefer to be able to host a private mirror.
Still. Things change.
> But how does the hacker get the DNA data? A feature to find relatives is one thing, exposing all those relative's DNA to the current user is another thing entirely.

They didn't, unless I'm misunderstanding. They just got some names and a number indicating the degree of genetic similarity or something like that, right?
Everybody thinks their machines aren't within reach of a 3rd party until they are!
In practice, that just means if someone walks into a bookstore and asks for your book, they can buy it without going through Amazon.
That assumes that haveibeenpwnd knew about this leak which would only be possible if the leaked data was posted publicly. It doesn't seem to have been as the hacker was looking to sell the information.
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> I'm starting to dislike the phrase "the science", since I usually hear it used as a conversational bludgeon

This also goes up there with the "in this house we believe SCIENCE IS REAL" signs.

We're currently living through the replication crisis and are awash in fraudulent academic journals. I don't think people who say this stuff would actually engage with you in a conversation about proper p-values for given sample sizes. So it's really just shorthand for trying to associate yourself to a certain intellectual class.
> The aviation industry doesn't usually reduce incidents down to a single proximate or ultimate cause like that

Correct. Folks here might be interested in the swiss cheese model:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model