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Location: EU

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Backend Programming: Zig, Rust, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda), ...

- Devops & co: NixOS, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin, Distributed Systems, ...
Quote from code review: "This is the most beautiful Bash code I've ever seen written"

- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.

20+ yoe as dev/IC. 10+ yoe in managerial and executive roles. Multiple great exits and acquisitions. Built tech for Tezos, Oracle, Shell, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Warner, Sparkasse, Bank of America.

If there's a problem related to tech, I can solve it. Available for work as dev/IC, EM, Director, or CTO, with experience in each. Full-solution MVP development from scratch. Performance optimization and modernization of older systems. DSL and programming language design, compilers. Let me know if you're looking for experience that isn't below! HN posts are short. CV upon request.

If you think I might be able to help you, shoot me an email: damian.jobsites+hn@gmail.com
I regularly go to sleep at around 6 am, when the sun starts coming up, and wake up at around 2 / 3 pm. It doesn't matter where I am, or the time of the year. That's my natural bed time.
They were in the PowerPC consortium starting in 1991, co-developed ARM6 starting in the late 80s and the M series chips are part of the Apple Silicon family that goes back to at least 2010's Apple A4 (with non-Apple branded chips before then).

They've been in the chip designing business for a while.
Tritan uses TPP, which may be as bad as BPA?

Toxicological evidence takes a long time to acquire. By it's very nature it's a lagging indicator. Remember when everybody freaked out about BPAs? That's because good studies showed the accumulation of those compounds in the body, and the potential health issues it could drive.

And what about now that we have all these BPA free plastics? Most of them have replaced the BPA with other compounds. They haven't been studied, so there isn't evidence against them. But the absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Finally: what, in their long and storied history, has led you to believe that 3M, DuPont, or Eastman are acting in the best interest of your health? Because their incentive structure favors wealth creation, not population health.
What is the difference in battery life between linux on and macos on the Apple M1?

That is, I would be surprised if linux on the M1 had close to macos levels of battery life. My theory being the better battery life on the M1 is more due to the tight integration between the OS and the hardware power profiles than the power profiles themself.
> Very interesting article. The irony is, if not for politics I think many more Americans would be unsettled by the many ways in which China is becoming extremely advanced. As it stands today our instinct is to dismiss it. But I think these trends are too big to ignore.

Yes. I think there's a lot of lazy thinking happening in the West vis-a-vis China, which will serve to delay hard decisions until it's too late.
Your first sentence is exactly what the US has done since the Cold War through recent history. Why is it different when China does it, which it also hasn't to the scale that the US has?
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: most of them :-) The majority of my experience is in Java on Spring, PostgreSQL, AWS but I have hand-to-hand combat with all the major clouds. I am allergic to Ruby, and would rather not JavaScript/TypeScript outside of a web context

Résumé/CV: https://MatthewDaniel.com/mld.pdf

Email: guardian.map7618@fastmail.com (you're welcome to use the one in my resume, too)
+1 for medication with a licensed therapist first. That gives you this massive boost to your own ability to think clearly, that the remaining 80% of things you can do to improve symptoms (exercise, get into a group, etc) will be a lot easier.
Might have been Oil shell, which is worth looking at: https://www.oilshell.org/
Late HP-PA cpus had 1T-SRAM chips used for L2 cache to provide 32MB in PA-8800 and 64MB of L2 in PA-8900 (on top of still large 768kB L1i and L1d)
Is there anywhere to read about migration that isnt tainted by the tribalism of US politics? For example

- how much of US farm labor is performed by undocumented/illegal workers, in reality?
- what stands between the situation today and some kind of mandatory legal-presence test before people get hired? (Eg is it really the cultural barrier of not having a national identity card, or it is the corps dont really want to verify, or that the system is easily gamed, or ?)
- what is the legal standard for claiming asylum in US law? Eg do you need to be persecuted by a government, or can being on the wrong side of a gang be enough?
- what prevents asylum seekers seeking asylum in countries en route, before the US, eg Panama or Mexico?

I expect that some very politically difficult and ugly conversations might need to be had, eg maybe a high percentage of asylum seekers are really economic migrants, or maybe they all are genuine claimants under US law in which case it might be cheaper to solve the issue some more structural way. But I dont know.
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | EU

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20+ yoe as dev/IC. 10+ yoe in managerial and executive roles. Multiple great exits and acquisitions. Built tech for Tezos, Oracle, Shell, Digitas, Saatchi & Saatchi, Time Warner, Sparkasse, Bank of America.

If there's a problem related to tech, I can solve it - and make it sustainable. Available for work as dev/IC, EM, Director, or CTO, with experience in each. Full-solution MVP development from scratch. Performance optimization and modernization of older systems. DSL and programming language design, compilers. Let me know if you're looking for experience that isn't below! HN posts are short. CV upon request.

If you think I might be able to help you, shoot me an email: damian.jobsites+hn@gmail.com

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Example work types:

- Long term dev / IC or managerial roles

- Security audits for cryptography and secure code

- Review your code and dev processes, 10-page report

- Short-term dev and research work

- One-shot meetings

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> in open source your voice carries weight in proportion to your contributions.

And your contributions grow in proportion to your income, and a lot of people get their income from companies who have other than the best interests of Linux users at heart, and rather want to steer it in a direction that is most profitable for themselves.

That's certainly fine for open source, but that's not fine for these distros as a whole, at least the ones that portray themselves as a service to the public.

> It’s also inaccurate to say they’re not focused on users: you might not think you need a given feature but you’re not the only user out there.

If your voice carries weight in proportion to your contributions, users are not part of that equation. Users enter the equation if they're the users that are desirable for the people who are paying contributors.

> Alternatives are there but most people aren’t using them because they don’t feel the need to switch as strongly as you might.

And because people who insist that Linux move in a particular direction immediately start breaking things that used to work, and making their new thing a dependency. Then the alternatives have to spend all their time shimming that stuff, and the best they can hope for is to almost keep up. The prize for becoming an alternative is having to become an expert on the new thing that you disapproved of, or fall behind. You never get time to work on more parsimonious solutions to the problems the new thing claimed to solve.
On the other hand, it is comparing Apples to Apples.

The Gods didn't deliver specs to Apple for Intel machines locking the company to placement/grades/design/brands/sizes of chassis, fans, logic board, paste etc. Apple, in the Intel years, just prioritized small form factor, at the expense of longevity.

And Apple's priorities are likely still the same.

My concern is that, given cooler-running chips, Apple will decrease form factor until even the cooler-running chips overheat. The question, in my mind, is only whether the team at Apple who design chips can improve them to a point where the chips run so coolly that the rest of Apple can't screw it up (ie: with inadequate thermal design).

If that has happened, then... fantastic, that's good for consumers.
This space (managed SQL DB X on cloud Y) desperately needs independent long-term reliability testing/reporting. I can't even begin to imagine how it could be implemented/financed, realistically.
Main tech skills:

- Backend Programming: Zig, Rust, Haskell, Python, JS, TypeScript, Node, Vue, React, Elm, Scala, C, C++, SQL, Perl, PHP, Clojure, OCaml, Erlang, Elixir, Theorem provers (TLA+, Isabelle HOL, Agda), ...

- Devops & co: NixOS, Terraform, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Linux admin, Distributed Systems, ...
Quote from code review: "This is the most beautiful Bash code I've ever seen written"

- Fintech: Dev experience with banks and financial institutions. Launched Tezos and other major blockchains. Dozens of smart contract audits.

- Bizdev: Gamification, consumer modelling, data-driven retention and engagement

- AI: LLMs, predictive text, machine vision (trajectory tracking), DSP, Big Data, ...

- Infosec: Cryptography, Red team testing, RE, audits, threat modeling, ...

- Other tech: Godot game engine, audio engineering (mastering), Verilog, VHDL

Management and business: Minor in Psychology, led and managed teams between 2 and 30 people, product design and gamification, hiring, and a lot of other experience that won't fit in this post.
Well, judging by the M1 and M2, the M4 Ultra will support 256GB of memory, so there's that. And it will have 2x the GPU and 2x the CPU cores...
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On November 8, 2024, NVIDIA will replace Intel, and Sherwin Williams will replace Dow.[34]
My actions are exclusively financial. For context, my portfolio is currently high risk, high reward. Stocks, ETFs and Mutual Funds, zero leverage, no options.

a. If Harris wins, I plan to take a leveraged position in the S&P, as I expect the economy to be less volatile under her. I will begin monitoring small caps more closely.

b. If Trump wins, I will not take out a leverage. I do not have the gut strength. Potentially, I may make my portfolio slightly more conservative, but I am not yet sure. I'd expect oil to pump if he's elected, but I don't have interest in this.

c. Under both, I'd be eying opportunities to invest in domestic production. Democrats are pursing it via stuff like the CHIPS act, and conversely, if Trump's tariffs are enacted, it will look a lot more appealing to businesses
I'm not defending the policy, I think it's abhorrent. No company should be allowed to share identifiable data without the customer's consent.
Kaiserlei is a suburb of Frankfurt and there are bunkers in Frankfurt (as well as elsewhere in Germany) that have been turned into art spaces. It's the kind of thing that is plausible, it may even exist under a different name, but is a hallucination. I wonder what would happen if you searched on the German version of Google.
I know of one business in Minneapolis that has made plans (ie the communications are already written, extra private security headcounts have been scheduled) to shut down their locations in case of civil unrest of the sort in 2020. I'm not from there, so I don't know how likely this is.
Shameless self-plug here, however two years ago I attempted a self study project following a similar intuition:

https://maxdunhill.medium.com/how-effective-are-transformers...

And created a Hugging Face repo of known vulnerabilities if anyone else wants to work on a similar project (link in blog post).

My project was a lay person’s not especially successful attempt to fine-tune a BERT-based classifier to detect vulnerable code.

Having said this, a main takeaway echoes simonw’s comment:

“LLMs are great at pattern matching, so it turns out feeding in a pattern describing a prior vulnerability is a great way to identify potential new ones.”

Given majority of vulnerabilities stem from memory misallocation, it seems that an LLM would most consistently find misallocated memory. Useful, though not the most complex vulnerabilities to weaponise.

It seems the next frontier would be for an LLM to not only identify previously unidentified vulnerabilities, but also describe how to successfully daisy chain them into an effective vulnerability exploitation.

Said differently, giving an LLM a goal like jail breaking the iOS sandbox and seeing how it might approach solving the task.
MS engineer with 45 years industry experience begs to disagree.
I think it's a terrible policy and were I a gun buyer I'd absolutely let those companies know I wont' support their brands until they stop. I'd even think about starting a class-action for invasion of privacy.
blame the lawyers. any effort to share specs would be an implicit license.
It has to be at least 50 times the speed of a fast m68030 ;)
The modern idea in MMT (which is a pretty old philosophy by now) that taxes create demand for the currency. Which helps with stability, since businesses/people can't just abandon trade with the currency in the event of devaluation.

It should not be seen as a mechanism primarily used to finance government spending (that's what debt is for). For a country the size of the USA, balanced budgets (tax inflows = government spending outflows) create currency issues, since there's demand for government debt as a store of wealth. What can Apple do if the government decides to stop issuing t-bills? They'd pay a dividend, but then that leave the receiver of the dividend with the same problem. Or maybe they'd purchase an existing t-bond for over market value (effectively increasing interest rates).

The government will issue as many bonds as the market has demand for as a store of wealth, but the government also decides the interest rates it is willing to pay. The idea being, the government has better control over inflation, since government spending drives inflation, but high interest rates curb it (though, I believe this is still an active area of research).
>> China will have fewer people in 75 years than the US.

> Source? Wikipedia predicts US population of ~425 million, China ~632 million in 2100. Still a dramatic decline either way.

Also, assuming current trends continue for a ridiculously long time. The Chinese government has the ability to be massively coercive if it wants to. It's been less than a decade since they ended the one child policy. I wouldn't be surprised if that's deployed in the next 75 years to increase birthrates (e.g. "hey women under 35, you're fired unless you have two kids, kthxbye"). They already have a youth unemployment problem, and it probably wouldn't be too big of a deal for them to make sure all those unemployed youth are women having babies, and slot unemployed men into any jobs that are opened up.
I’m with you in spirit, but most of the work has already been done. Purchased hardware won’t change. Firmware updates could be held if needed as well. Another team could take a crack at it.

Worse case you restore macos and possibly sell at a medium loss. That said I’m still waiting.
I am sure wheelwright's felt the same way...

I just saw a realtime generative minecraft demo, your head is in the sand if you think this is hype.
Those were the Ive Unleashed years.

Unbridled control over all design in one hyper opinionated guy was an error well resolved.
While I don't feel I have enough information to comment about the likelihood that Apple would try to stop the Asahi project, those who are knowledgable are of the opinion that they would not.

However, as a Mac Studio M1 owner that has used Asahi as a daily driver for software development since the first release (originally Arch, later Fedora), I can confidently say that I could care less. By running the software I want to run far faster than macOS could on the same hardware, Asahi has saved me countless hours and made me far more productive. And I'm incredibly grateful for this tangible benefit, regardless of what happens in the future.
I’m sure Apple has some unique tricks when it comes to energy efficiency, but I haven’t seen the same level of optimization in other operating systems. Apple’s energy management is just another competitive advantage, offering a level of sophistication that sets it apart technically and strategically. Just add the Mx chips to the equation.
I haven't listened to this podcast yet so I don't know if this comes up, but a particularly scary part of running a custom OS on Apple Silicon machines is that the internal speakers temperature is regulated in software. The Asahi devs have had to painstakingly reverse engineer and reimplement the safety DSP that macOS uses on each device, and add some safety margin, because if they get it wrong they could literally destroy the speakers (and IIRC at least one of their own MacBooks did have its speakers sacrificed along the way).

I wonder if there will be a similar issue with the displays when Asahi gets around to supporting HDR on machines equipped with FALD mini-LED backlights (or XDR, as Apple calls it). HDR displays usually regulate their brightness to keep the panel from getting too hot, and if Apple does that in software too then Asahi will need to replicate it.
Sounds like it would be difficult to work on a project with other devs this way, and the git history would look like a Christmas tree at a disco party...
> back to at least 2010's Apple A4

basically Jim Keller happened, I think they are still riding on that architecture
Yes, I think those questions probably underly my choice not to flag it. It just seems like a really slanted hit piece not worthy of HN. Didn’t flag.
> Mac Mini (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $2500

> Mac Studio (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $5000

In those configurations, the Studio would have roughly 2x the GPU power of the Mini, with equivalent CPU power. It also has twice as many Thunderbolt ports (albeit TB4 instead of TB5), and can support more monitors.
Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)
Higher salaries are both a cause of and result of inflation. Hence the positive feedback loop.
My IT gave us right to run a few things as admin. Among them, n++. And guess what, it has a "Run" menu item so you can launch any child process. Perfect.
> I miss full tagging and smart album support

Yes! And plugins are great, but the experience is not smooth, and quickly annoying when working with many photos. Also, switching libraries is not good. I wish it were more integrated because on paper, a photo management app combining the features of Affinity, DxO, and others sounds fantastic.
> I just saw a realtime generative minecraft demo

Wait, that demo wasn't a joke?
I have a similar experience in the IT consulting world. The big companies with the fancy office and the account manager with the $10K suit will recommend that every project needs — I’m not exaggerating — a project manager, a project coordinator, a test manager, two testers, a test designer, an enterprise architect, a customer liaison, a change manager, a change coordinator (somehow different to project coordinator!?) ten software developers, and two senior developers (at three times the daily rate).

That was for a project I completed with a short script I whipped up on the Monday morning.

I have sensible shoes and I sometimes iron my shirt.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org
NANOG presentations are posted to:

* https://www.youtube.com/@TeamNANOG

NANOG 92 playlist that will be added to over time:

* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO8DR5ZGla8jZuNZqoXor...
The question isn't "can you achieve your look with RT?" but "do you need RT to achieve your look?".

As long as traditional lighting is enough (and given that it has for the last 2 decades or so), RT remains a gimmick.
AI generated models are being used in fashion ads
Product acquisition, we’ll be continuing to grow Causal at Lucanet, lots of potential to cross-sell into their existing customer base :)
I'd be surprised if MacOS could match the efficiency of Linux. MacOS relies on a hybrid kernel architecture that emulates a variety of different APIs that aren't used or integrated fully. The simple act of running software on MacOS is deliberately somewhat inefficient, which is a perfectly fine tradeoff for a desktop OS that's not intended for server or edge applications.

The fundamental hardware of Apple Silicon is very efficient but I don't think MacOS is inherently optimized any better than the others. My experience installing Linux on Intel and PowerPC Macbooks tended to increase their battery quite noticeably.
It looks fascinating, but i don't understand it. I'm haven't gone yet deeply into the theory of attention networks.

Can you explain the desmos plot in simple terms?
A truly exhaustive history lesson: https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2022/the-elusive-roots-...

This was linked by Gemini, which happily chirped that rosin potatoes can be great!
Apple does new hardware bring up using the Linux kernel.
They won't stop Asahi with a frontal assault, they'll stop it by churning out new chips every year until the work to support them all is unsustainable.
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What they've been able to accomplish in such a short time is nothing short of amazing, and I applaud them for their efforts.

That said, I've been using Asahi for a month, and I'm ditching it. Maybe in a year or two it'll be stable, but for now it's got too many bugs and unsupported features. A lot of the problems come down to Wayland and KDE/Gnome, as you literally have to use Wayland. But there's plenty of other buggy or challenging parts that all add up to a very difficult working experience.

One of the biggest challenges I see is support for hardware and 3rd party apps. Not only do all the apps need to support this slightly odd Arm system, but so do hardware driver developers. I never realized before just how much of a Linux system works because most people had an incredibly common platform (x86_64). Even if Linux on Mac became incredibly popular, it would actually take away development focus on x86_64, and we'd see less getting done.

(This kind of problem is totally common among Linux laptops, btw; there's a ton of hardware out there and Linux bugs may exist in each one. Adding a new model doesn't add to the number of developers supporting them all. If anything, the Mac is probably benefited by the fact that it has so few models compared to the x86_64 world. But it's still only got so many devs, and 3rd party devs aren't all going to join the party overnight)