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The last three jobs I've held, I've had to state up front in writing that I will continue to act as the paid IT support for my spouse's one-person consulting firm. Hasn't been an issue yet.

Three jobs ago I also had a very small side consulting gig that came along after I'd been hired, so I had to get it cleared. It was at the behest of one of their board members though, so it really wasn't a hassle...
Location: Switzerland

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: In Switzerland only

Technologies: Typescript, Python, C, Nextjs, TailwindCSS, Svelte

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: remimarche at gmail.com

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Hey, I'm a friendly web developer, that likes say it's hard to make me lose my smile. I have several years of experience in the industry, mostly in C++ and Web (React), but I spent most of my free time with Svelte and Vue, have developed a music font, and studied Rust quite a good bit.

As I need a last internship to finish my engineering studies, I'll be willing to have a look at any interesting opportunity, and really, if anything, the fact that it's called internship is just because I need it to be so on papers. The only difference for you is that you may have to read a few pages explaining what I did during the last months of work. The internship should be from june to december.

Have the greatest day,

Remi Marche
They’re still using legacy human agents
If the FFI is also capability gated why can't the language do it?

Edit: Pony seems to rely on restricting FFI privileges at the package level https://tutorial.ponylang.io/object-capabilities/trust-bound.... Suppose it could have been function by function ("unsafe") but this sounds fine. Not sure what else I could have meant by a capability gated FFI.
> scanners with their bright and large displays

Give a retailer a large display, and they will fill it with ads, with the important info in tiny type. Or even a small display. I've seen user-facing credit card terminals where the small screen is 3/4 ads, 1/4 transaction.

If they'd just put up "Place card against screen here" marker that was 1) where the antenna is, and 2) fully synchronized with when the system is ready for a card read...
I'll bet many of them simply wouldn't want to.
Even if this doesn't replace triangles everywhere, I'm guessing it's still going to be the easiest way to generate a large volume of static art assets, which means we will see hybrid rendering pipelines.
After advertising "Just Walk Out"?
"This is about more than just making bindings to resources on Cloudflare more Pythonic though — it’s about compatibility with the ecosystem."

Someone might be getting editorial help from GPT-4.

// Or a human might be getting fine-tuned interacting with LLMs, which I've noticed happening to me.
Copy the link and open it in a new tab. Works fine.
There are no models or textures, it's just a point cloud of color blobs.

You can convert it to a mesh, but in the process you'd lose the quality and realism that makes it interesting.
An alternative would be a 360 camera and do the cropping in software. It has the advantage of being able to show multiple speakers at once.
Trader Joe's and their pattern of copycat merchandising
If you can write the code, it could be pretty straightforward. From a quick search, motorized turntables already exist, from $10-100, both with and without remotes. So you could either wire a controller into one, or reverse the remote’s signals. I also found this guide for a DIY one[0], if that’s your preferred route.

[0] https://www.instructables.com/15-Motorized-Rotating-Display-...
As Oxide, Joyent. Netfly, Vercel, GraalOne,... are showing, there is a lot of market out there beyond hyperscalers.

One doesn't need to be yet another AWS to be a sustainable business.
Windows 11, Firefox. Doing the same on my NixOS install with Firefox (showing the proper url). Seems like a regression if "modern" systems are supposed to be showing that eyesore of a URL, which I get could be a phishing safety thing, but annoying to say the least.
Personally speaking, I think ugly programmer art is better-looking than an AI icon. Even if it was a two-tone vector silhouette of a slice of bread, it would be more evocative and readable to me.

The app is theirs, and they should feel proud enough to make an original icon for it too. I agree with the parent, the AI-generated icon would be the first thing stopping me from spending $1.99 on this.
It's definitely a factor for all diets, true. But as I understand it there's a (close to) binary cutover between "you're in ketosis" and "you're not in ketosis", rather than a gradient. If you're 90% compliant with a normal diet you might still get the benefits, just at a slightly lower level. If you're 90% noncompliant with a ketogenic diet, you get 0% of the benefits because you don't trigger ketosis.
Would you go into some specifics to guide my web searching?
Yikes. I've poked HN staff to get it fixed.
Model S and X aren’t big volume movers. The 3 and Y are, that’s why they’re getting refreshes.
I think they are saying that even with much better MRIs the limiting factor is finding a radiologist to interpret the image, and the costs of treatment.
> I'd love an open source alternative. But there just isn't one for APM (which is our main use case). Nothing comes close. Every time I see "OpenTelemetry integration" I just close the page. Hours and hours of manual setup, code pushes, etc while New Relic installs once and works.

Depending on the language/environment/framework, OpenTelemetry Autoinstrumentation just works. It's the new standard, and lots of working is ongoing to make it work for everything, everywhere, and even the big observability vendors are adopting it.
It may also be part and parcel of the market they're trying to play in.

If every other "car company" has a private jet ready to whisk the CEO anywhere in the world, you might look really silly to other companies who expect you to be able to make a near last minute meeting.

And if you're an employee, as long as you get paid you're likely not to care much about it.
Y/M/D, the only sane way to spell dates.

Too bad it's only a 2 digit year.
> we are still the ones building most of the tool.

You will always have to build the piece of software that's specific to your needs. A framework can only make it simpler. Today, we are writing code; tomorrow, you'll need to prompt/draw/imagine in your head (hopefully) to get something built.

> auth - why do I want to use your auth over the many tried and tested auth solutions for Next.js? Where are you hosting the user data? Or are we hosting the auth data ourselves?

To set up auth, you'll need to set up keys, webhooks, and SSO for the providers. Just to mention, the auth is not part of the boilerplate; the auth is applied when your repo is deployed, as we embed your repo on our platform.

We are also using Supabase internally, so that's where the user data is hosted. You can of course build your solution with one of the many solutions out there. But we wanted to keep it simple keeping in mind all the use cases of a regular internal tool. For example, it may change to something else as we offer SAML, etc.

> Components - there is a hundred dashboard component UI libraries. Some of them are very extensive and good. Why do I have to pay for this?

You are right, there are many options, and most of the time, going ahead with any of the maintained ones works out with no issues. We want to be one of those many. Right now, we are using shadcn/ui, but later, we will develop/extend components that are frequently used in internal tools with a reduced number of properties. Our UI library will be open-sourced; it's not something you will have to pay for, and you can use it with any of your projects, as it's an npm package.

> Group permissions - this seems fairly straight forward to implement. Some auth solutions also have this built in.

Yes, it's straightforward, but time-consuming to build. I have yet to see a built-in solution where you can configure things like which team/group should have access to which tools. Most built-in solutions stop at assigning groups/roles, and it's because tools (or some generic entity) may not be relevant to their users (unless it's a solution for internal tools).

> In terms of AI offering, it’s not much different than asking ChatGPT and I already pay them $20/month.

We want to be on top of the game in terms of the AI when it comes to any knowledge that Creo should have, like its components, how to glue them together, error handling, and being fast with feedback loops (not taking a huge prompt and minutes to build the entire app like many other solutions). ChatGPT could be really good, but it will be spitting out unopinionated code, and to get it to produce code in a certain way, you'll need to prompt it heavily. Think of mentioning "Use shadcn's card in light theme" every time you want a card component. The value here is in the context being provided by default.
"Pawns may not be promoted to bishops;"

??????????

For real, I would absolutely love to know why that constraint was needed. Does anyone have info on why?
You can also do this at Walmart (with Walmart+), though you still need to stop at the self checkout on the way out to get a receipt. It's pretty handy. I wish Costco would adopt this too.
Like a taxi or bus?
I recently finished a book called "The Secret Life of Groceries" by Benjamin Lorr. Amazing book. I learned that grocery and supermarket stores of the past, seemed to have worked very hard to give the best customer experience possible. Today it feels that customer experience has been replaced by cost cutting.

Self checkout has been rife with problems, internally and socially, but supermarkets keep pushing them. I can only conclude it is cost cutting.
If it's open source they can just fork it, and if you're no longer maintain yours you can put a link over to their fork. (Or any other active forks). It's still on the user to vet new forms.
At one point they were the #1 radio station in the UK market. They def put pressure on Auntie Beeb.
3D animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwU6m9tjM2A&t=74s
>> 2. Modern JS is extremely performant. Look at any of the benchmarks for the new JS runtimes that have come out in the past 6 months (e.g. Bun / WinterJS / etc...). It approaches Go / Java in terms of performance.

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=composite...

I like JS but lets not blow smoke up anyones ass here. Your not picking node or its faster safer cousin bun for server speed. You're picking it because you can keep your engineering overhead to a smaller number. Your picking it because you need to generate pages out of your SPA like app.

> 4. There is no possible way that building your CRUD backend in Golang / Rust is a "faster" solution than just using React Server Components.

Spend a month with SQLC and writing blood and guts API's in go. Your gonna realize that the slight slow down in finishing the feature code is more than made up for in finishing testing, ease of deployment and a million other things that you skip by NOT using a JS backend.

>> The benefits of Go (for most companies) only apply once your company hits an inflection point and starts to scale and starts to see the throughput that can really take advantage of a lower-level language.

This is some holdover thinking from PHP vs JAVA days that isnt true when comparing node/ruby to go/rust ... Im going to leave python out because you may have OTHER reasons (existing bindings to C ...) to head in that direction.

>> If you're building a high-throughput infra company or something, then the things I've mentioned are less relevant.

Maybe this is true. But I worry about the long term stability and paintability of anything written in JS. So much flavor of the month and then poof, off to the next thing, it IS a concern.
It would be ironic if the open app store would create an european app develoment renaissance. New apps on iOS, Europe only, built for european standards by european developers.
tight tolerances and repeatability is mostly a combined rigidity and resolution issue, which is functionally equivalent to a cost issue. Add more money. Unfortunately there is a point where programming and hardware costs is higher than a skilled artisan ... hence the profession!
But I don't want to interact with the cashier. The store near me is almost the thing I actually want. I walk into the store, I wander about picking items I want off shelves, and scanning them with my phone, I put them in a bag I happen to have with me, or my pockets, or my backpack, or whatever, it doesn't matter, then I walk to the big graphical terminals near the exit and scan that too.

That's the only place where it has a step I don't need, it wants payment because capitalism, so there's a bunch of touch, tap, touch again sequences to get from it knowing what I took to being satisfied that I have exchanged money for goods and then I can go.

One thing I barely noticed at all until after it had happened was the removal of cashier operated checking out from most of the store. Ten years ago there were maybe 20 such checkouts, then sixteen after they added some self-checkout features - obviously rarely all manned but they existed. Today it's four, and often none of them are open, because almost nobody stands in a line to have somebody else scan your shopping, why would you?

Instead there are three distinct self-checkout zones. First, the one I use almost always, for people who have scanned their purchases already. There's nowhere to put anything, because these are just vertical terminals for taking payment. Then, short order terminals, a small built-in scale is provided so that you can buy say, lunch, but there's nowhere to load and unload a whole trolley of groceries. Finally the big shop terminals with lots of dedicated space for you to transfer from a trolley onto a scanner and weigh scales, then to your bags, this takes up most of the space previously occupied by cashiers.

If you've scanned everything you can actually use any of these areas, because the terminal understands that you've already done the whole job, but unless it's super-busy it will be easier to use the dedicated area for people who've done all the scanning.
Control theory is very interesting and in my opinion more relevant than before
There is usually a mention of "humans in the loop" when articles discussed Amazon Go[1]. Amazon just always refused to give actual numbers. The best "give" that humans were watching you was that Amazon Go receipts often arrived in your email many hours after you left.

Anyone who works in computer vision immediately knew this wasn't possible beyond a cool proof of concept in a tiny room with <300 SKUs. Even in 2024

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/21/inside-amazons-surveillanc...
Pokemon Palette – Generate color schemes for your website from any Pokemon
You have to remember every time to scan what you get which is a bit annoying and tedious.

And then if you are unlucky you hit a random "let's recheck everything" at the cashier which nullifies all the work that you have done.
Japan, Korea and Taiwan had good results for minimal disruption.
When I worked there back in 2005, Best Buy had an RFID test setup in the basement of their HQ that could tell what you had in your cart without scanning.

Walmart was also working on similar technology, but from what I heard they couldn’t convince suppliers to include RFID tags on all of their products.
The problem with your second suggestion is that it gives the customer no recourse for improperly tagged/scanned items. Interaction with a human or checkout system before leaving the store is necessary, given how ripe for abuse a totally automated checkout system would be.
The lesson here is that, even when the stakes are small, human beings are still human beings, with all that that entails.
Also, are you able to get contact info for leads as part of the pipeline?
They’re just stories. A future Disney could declare 7-9 non-canon and redo the lore.
I get http://www.xn--plankalkl-x9a.de/ in my Firefox (Mac OS) address bar. I think it's modern? I mean I let it auto update.

Tbh I like the xn-- spelling more, it makes it more mysterious.
Chinese, iranians, russians should now exclaim - "Poor americans! Look at what Biden's regime does to them! Look at how their liberties get suspressed! Let's help those people fight for their rights".

Because if this had happened in any non Western country, the mainstream news in US and EU would've been of the similar sentiment.
It can be to make space for script changes: you may overwrite the first bytes of the script.

Or just add some laziness.
> The hard part is repeatability. You need tight tolerances and each joint in the arm adds inaccuracy the further you get from the base. If the base has 1mm of wiggle, the 20cm arm has 4mm wiggle at the end, and the arm beyond it has even more.

Could this be solved by software instead of expensive hardware?

Some idea I had a while ago was to build an arm out of cheap, "wobbly" components for the large-scale movements, but then add some stages at the end that have a small movement range, but can be controlled very precisely.

Finally, add a way to track the deviation of the tool's actual position from the desired position very precisely, maybe with a tool-mounted camera.

Then you could have a feedback loop in software which tracks the tool's deviation from the desired position and uses the "corrective" stages at the end to counteract it.

I'm not sure if this would work, however.

(There is also the question how long the "counteracting" would take. It's one thing to "eventually" arrive at the desired position at the end of the path - e.g. for pick-and-place - and another to stay below some maximum deviation for the entire path, e.g. for etching or welding.)
It always seemed so needlessly complex, relative to well-established RFID tech -- Uniqlo can count the number and type of garments in a pile in a big bucket, and compute an invoice from that.

Even if you couldn't do this at the exit, seems like it would have been a far easier lift to incorporate the same idea into shopping carts or baskets all along.
That doesn't matter because presidential campaigns aren't designed to get them the popular vote.
author of the post — this was my first time doing anything with stable diffusion and I have to say I was quite surprised with how beginner-friendly ComfyUI was, especially when paired with Modal. And clearly it scales well for advanced use cases given all the crazy stuff going on in the community. Excited to use it more!
24 pieces on an 8x8 is a nightmare, sure.

However, other smaller chess versions (e.g. 5x5 w/ 20 pieces) are at least weakly solved and given the piece/pawn/move restrictions of this 6x6 variant, I wouldn't be surprised if a weak solution here is possible as well.
how about 1D?
https://oneuptime.com/product/apm
>This program is absolutely rife with fraud.

Keep exposing it, just like you did here. I have faith that our government will react, eventually. This stuff is crazy.
This is neat.

I'm building Formester and it is a lot of work to keep up a good form builder.

Wish you all the best.
Probably not eating enough dirt early on.
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Can someone explain why people try to make new cars from the ground up, rather than "fork" a base platform from GM/Toyota/KIA/whoever with a different design and little features?

That's sort of what Tesla did with the Roadster. It was a Lotus that they put an electric motor into.
You can clone our starter and play with it: npx creoctl@latest init
>> We use Python on the backend of our web app for realtime image recognition

I have no qualms with python. But Python is the high fructose corn syrup of programing languages... It's in everything.

It's dead easy to write out c bindings so from ML to Math to big data tasks it forms the glue to a lot of things.

My question is: is your real time image processing IN python or in C that python calls out to?
California of all places doesn't have low taxes for wealthy people. Its tax system actually depends on wealthy people. (IPOs specifically)

It has low taxes for people who've lived there a long time.
Skin test detects evidence of Parkinson's and related disorders
A study showed that a simple skin biopsy could identify people who had Parkinson’s disease or similar disorders with a high degree of accuracy
CAD$50-100k is market rate in Abbotsford for a fresh QA Tester (7 months to less than 1 year according to LMIA), which is what this role is.

I'm surprised that they even decided to try to hire in Canada instead of outsourcing.

Abbotsford is Canada's Fresno, for people who are out of loop.

Edit: I think this is a US-to-Canada transfer for an employee of theirs in the US who's F1-to-H1B or H1B-to-EB1/2 conversion failed.
> someone else's code

I don't use someone else's code. I use my code. But I may be the minority.

Use a namespace, then.

Array.prototype.glAppend = Array.prototype.push;
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Don't tip them off, they'll make something that requires a cloud service and records every time you cook rice.
Exactly.

Now if we start arguing if Torvalds "deserves" to be richer than Gates (even though both are quite better than adequate programmers from their time) that's a different story.

But in the end most of it really sounds like sour grapes and complaining.
I'm not aware of any pure platform available off the shelf, though I imagine a big enough checkbook and a conversation with Magna might get you pretty far, but you can buy from Ford the Mustang Mach-E motor https://performanceparts.ford.com/part/M-9000-MACHE
I wonder what the reasoning behind this is:

> what’s become a pivotal EV tipping point: when 5% of new car sales are purely electric

5% of new car sales being EVs doesn't mean much. There will be more traction for charging infrastructure and such, but that doesn't mean that more consumers will be interested in EVs, or that economic downturn won't result in people resorting to second-hand cars which are probably going to be ICEs.

I'm not convinced by the arguments:

> New technologies — from televisions to smartwatches — follow an S-shaped adoption curve

> “Once enough sales occur, you kind of have a virtuous cycle,” said Corey Cantor, an EV analyst at BloombergNEF. “More EVs popping up means more people seeing them as mainstream, automakers more willing to invest in the market, and the charging infrastructure expanding on a good trajectory.”

Especially with a product that is already seen as political by some, and has clear drawbacks that make it unviable for many types of users.
Applied Systems | Sr. Backend Software Engineer (Golang) | REMOTE (US, Canada) | Full-time

Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for a talented and passionate Sr. Backend Software Engineer (Golang) to join our Platform Team as we create innovative web applications and web services for the insurance industry. In an Agile environment, you will design and maintain software with Golang and .Net Core as we build and scale backend services. You will be responsible for developing and iterating solutions integrating multiple Applied Systems products.

https://careers-appliedsystems.icims.com/jobs/5921/sr.-backe...
Can we start a list of technological magic that is actually "1000 people in India watching and labeling videos" (or functional equivalent)?
A takeaway for me is to be extremely tight with personal information on the internet. People will use this to craft a situation to fool you.

Are you married? Have a house? Pets? Children? Sick parent? Gay? Trans? Mental health issues? Disabled? All of this can be used against you. Be careful where and how you share stuff like this. I know it's not "cool" to be mysterious online anymore, but it creates a much larger attack surface. People can still engage with groups around these things, but better to do it with various personas than to have one trackable identity with everything attached to it.