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Location: Los Alamos, NM, US

Remote: Open to remote, hybrid, and in person

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, C++, Fortran, Java, Message Passing Interface (MPI), Python (Matplotlib, Numpy, Pandas, Scipy), SQL (especially SQLite)

Résumé/CV: Available upon request.

Email: hnjobs-gndxgr@atrettel.net

Hi, I'm Andrew Trettel. I'm a scientist with a PhD in mechanical engineering looking for any potential opportunities outside of academia and research labs. I have over a decade of experience in scientific research, especially on the numerical side. I have years of experience in writing software for and running large simulations on high-performance computing (HPC) systems. I have also developed software for non-scientific purposes, like creating user interfaces for desktop applications. I have years of experience working with large datasets, including the tasks of calculating statistics and developing hypotheses/models/theories from data. I've worn many hats over the years and love learning new and interesting topics.
Uh, like managing people who are difficult out is part of managing a team. A company has no obligation to keep people on who are difficult.
because rock behaves like liquid at the time of impact.
While the archetype descriptions are spot on, the guidance provided to deal with them, is not great, with an obscene amount of CYA baked in.
This is the outcome of Elon's vision for cheap space flight. Without reliable and reusable rockets, small missions like this would never be possible.

In 3-5 years, once Starship is running continuously, expect a flurry of these types of unique "small" missions.

The future of spaceflight is so exciting.
I'm not sure of all the reasons but you absolutely do have a lot of smaller supermarkets in Europe with chains like Sainsbury, Tesco, Waitrose, and so forth (most familiar with UK) which are certainly smaller than most US supermarkets but pretty price competitive with decent products. As you say, in the US you have convenience stores which are pretty crappy for anything other than junk food or buying a coke. Even in NYC, I'm not sure bodegas are much better.
> are phone modems a key source of security issues

Cellular models are also a common exploit vector:
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/pixel-proactive-secu...
Show HN: Open-Source Windows AI assistant that uses Word, Excel through COM
This started off as a project to understand how to get LLMs to interface with more traditional desktop softwares.

We were especially interested in tools related to schematic drafting and molecular simulation.

Decided to explore COM automation for more traditional Windows softwares as a starting point! Been using it to help some friends automate simple excel workflows. Thought we'd share!
Rigid Body Dynamics Algorithms – Roy Featherstone [pdf] 2008
Her husband also got disconnected. A lot of French nobles who asked and collaborated with their foreign relatives to wage war on their people to repress them also got disconnected.
Fog collection as a complementary water resource in arid urban lands
AI marketing and labeling is weird. Companies seem more interested in spamming their brand on things that it makes me LESS confidant in their product rather than showing actual utility.

For me Github Copilot is most of my exposure to "Copilot", and it's nice.

But it also is dumb as a box of rocks sometimes and makes the most absurd assumptions and produces dead wrong output ... like never would function in a million years output / exact opposite of what should be done. This is fine for code as I read and test it and whatever.

So is this something I would want involved in my Healthcare where being that wrong is potentially disastrous? No way!

This doesn't seem like good marketing.

Same goes for google's Gemini, putting it in search results I see it give a "no" answer to a question and then literally list all the reasons why it's a "yes". Just absurd output ... that doesn't sell me on Gemini much ...
I don't think that phrasing implying there was a whole brain instead of a part fares any better by tying it to a definition of fossil. It's not essential to the definition of fossil that what is recovered is a smaller subset of the whole thing. A fossil can be a fossil of an entire organism.

I think the that commenter's point is that the article makes numerous unqualified references to "the brain" which on a most natural reading would imply the whole brain when it's some (albeit very interesting) individual shards.
> Sure, it was a civil trial - but a judge signed off on the amount, and the jury’s decision, even though historically in any other case, such an amount would have been overruled.

It's provably false that “in any other case" such an amount would have been overruled, since much larger civil damage awards have been issued. If you mean to claim “on similar facts” then its an unfalsifiable counterfactual that just restares your conclusion as evidence for itself.
How can you see something is true without proving it is true?

Many an obvious truth turns out to be mendacious. See various counter examples in analysis.
>Take your property tax idea, and assume you solve issues like the wealthy "selling" the property to companies who "lease" them right back to their wealthy owners

This loophole only works if you don't tax large company real estate holdings. Which would be dumb.

Of course this scheme would require for real estate taxes to also be applied to companies holding real estate. And why wouldn't they?

>The wealthy sell their second homes with only a small impact on house pieces.

This is not only about second homes. It is also about tens of thousands of rental properties. It is about commercial properties that are useful investment vehicles and thus get preference during rezoning, but which push housing further and further from the city center (except for exclusive luxury apartments). etc. etc. If the top 10% own close to 50% of the real estate, there are a lot of potential taxable assets if you target the super rich.

>Or maybe the housing market collapsed under all these forced sales and the wealth is gone

That doesn't make any sense. For the person living in it, a house does not become less useful if its nominal value drops by 50%. But it makes that house much more accessible to people looking for a new home.

>a load of normal people are in negative equity

How would that work? If I force a billionaire to either pay 8% p.a. tax on his real estate holdings or sell it, how exactly does this impact "normal" people? A "normal" homeowner would maybe have to mark down the theoretical value of his house, but he'd still have the same income with which to pay down his mortgage. And if he is forced to sell for whatever reason, potentially even at a loss, he'd still not suffer tremendously, because he'd pay much less for his next home.

>but you've also trapped a bunch of mortgage holders with expensive unsecured debt.

This can be solved through banking regulations, i.e. by forcing banks to offer repayment moratoriums if the equity of a normal home owner goes down without any fault of their own (i.e. because of market turbulence). At the same time you can force banks to hold more capital in reserve to reduce the chance of this kind of regulation leading to a banking crisis.

>It's not simple and I'm a bit tired of pretending it is.

Of course the solutions are not "simple", but the root problem certainly is (wealth inequality) and there are some clear guiding principles that you can use to develop new approaches.

>it's just that I'd really like to see a specific workable plan rather than hand waving.

Here in Germany, I know of at least three different NGOs that have been pointing to this problem for more than a decade now and have developed detailed policy recommendations, both on a national and E.U. level. I'd be astonished if there aren't similar proposals being offered in the U.S. The "how" is almost never the problem. It's more the commitment to actually go through with this. Usually this lack of commitment is covered up by (falsely) claiming that there is no workable solution.
Show HN: I created a free tool to showcase Amazon Wishlists
Yeah, I understand all of that. I have sold product to gov/mil organizations and it is a huge time sink.

My point is that, if I meet for two hours with five principals from our local schools with a proposal all of them say they are onboard, the system should not work against you.

If I have to do a bunch of work and hire someone to navigate the bureaucracy, I am going to walk away and focus that effort elsewhere. More importantly nobody else is going to want to navigate the maze. What should have happened was that the system should have the ability to facilitate and streamline execution. What they actually do is precisely the opposite.
HTML, yes, but SQL has another major problem in that it's not composable. HTML can be broken into fragments, but it's very difficult to work with and write reusable SQL in a modular way. CTEs and views help a bit, but they are not a great answer to the fact that SQL statements almost always have to be treated as an indivisible chunk.

I like SQL alright from a functionality perspective (the syntax leaves much to be desired), but I still use ORMs where appropriate just to be able to modularize and make reusable behavior where it makes sense.
Thanks for the clarification. I updated the title!
Even better if Apple started its own cellular ISP.
Relatedly, I've read a couple of neat articles on using mine shafts as gravity batteries: https://bigthink.com/the-future/coal-mines-gravity-battery-e...

Major footnote here that I'm wayyyy out of my wheelhouse on this stuff, so there may be reasons that this doesn't work. I invite correction if that's the case so we can all learn some stuff :)
If rrr_oh_man's profile is real (https://bit.ly/48d9o9P), his resume appears inconsistent and unprofessional. The emptier a person is, the more likely they are to criticize others.
You have things like Homestar Runner that were animated in Flash.

Animation tools are just part of the story-telling tools, and just because something is visually beautiful in stills (or even animated) doesn't mean that the story is well told, or the tools well used.

And often 'bad graphics' or whatever you want to call it can actually help with the story, just like low-def TV, because it covers up things that are unimportant without drawing attention to it.
Excuse me?

I'm familiar with the Mariner camera. It's pretty fascinating. There obviously no way to return film from a Mars flyby, so they had to take a digital approach. But the technology was so crude in 1965 that they literally had to paint the "digital" images by hand in order to get a visual output. It's a fascinating story.

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/first-tv-image-of-mars-han...

Suffice it to say that this technique has essentially no relation to today's digital cameras, apart from using electrons or something. The Apollo missions did not use digital cameras; they used film, which could produce superb high-resolution images, provided you could return it to Earth.

You can actually learn things in this forum, if you listen to people who know what they're talking about.
So everyone disagreeing with you is now suppressing you? Absurd.
Portfolio: https://www.johnfarina.co/

Location: Shaftsbury, Vermont

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Swift, C#, HTML/CSS, React, Vue 3, Next.js, Rails, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xVlEjlMUz5KcF17kz_jP7I4B...

Email: johnfarina8@gmail.com
I spent my 20s on a career that wasn't in the cards and had successes and struggles as a software developer afterwards, so far my 50s have been time of growth and creativity for me.

Last week I saw some photographs of the campus in The Cornell Daily Sun that I thought were just atrocious, like, I wouldn't post photos that bad to social media where there are no gatekeepers, no prestige, nothing. [1]

I've been taking photographs as a hobby for 20+ years, though in some of that time I was carrying a camera around everywhere but not taking any pictures. It was just last summer that I developed a style for landscape photography that really feels distinctive and branded

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113365041910591036

and I feel like I've just "cracked the code" for sports photography after about two years of going to games.

This weekend I participated in a Hackathon run by a student game development club, no way was I going to do it myself, the whole point was I wanted to be in a team. We won the "Player's Choice" award: we didn't have the best game, but we had the best game demo.

In everyday life I'm the kind of developer who takes the time to get to the bottom of things and ties things up in a bow so other people can maintain them afterwards. But my adventures in startup land have taught me to make the most of whatever preparation I've got. The artist I worked with was great and the other developer was much more experienced in Unity than I was, but I had a good sense of "the definition of done" (what a good demo looks like) and stayed cool under pressure, so we had two levels that looked awesome and fun. We had five minutes to present but used only three which was fine because we had people's attention and didn't call people's attention to anything that was missing or broken. So the value I brought wasn't my technical experience but really the startup attitude that I've been cultivating ever since I was a teen.

[1] My wife says I shouldn't expect much from The Cornell Daily Sun since young people don't have much perspective or much to say.
I wish folks would test these against current gen Qualcomm modems. We're comparing a brand new modem to a 2 1/2 year old Modem. Android uses x80 and Qualcomm just released x85. So a fair comparison would be C1 vs x80.

I understand that is what the iPhone 16 uses, but that's an Apple problem they purposefully took an older generation modem from Qualcomm for their 16 series. Knowing Apple's modus operandi they probably decided to use the x71 so when they released C1 it appeared better than it really is. They did this during the Intel Modem days when they shipped that.

None the less it will be interesting to see how this modem develops further and what products it ends up in.
No you are the one denying that the majority of our knowledge of the human anamtomy came from before that period, and that it was entirely possible without corporations delivering us truckloads of stuff from warehouses to make it happen.

Feel free to educate yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anatomy

> I'm not the one who can't handle

Now that you have turned into making this personal, I will exit. Feel free to reply with whatever makes you feel best.
MIT Introduction to Deep Learning – 6.S191 [video]
What kind of tech stack did you use? I work on EV and EV-adjacent at $dayjob, I am very familiar with all of the concepts in your initial post.

Also, where did you get your battery(ies)?
Could this be a translation issue, I wonder? The original source appears to be Chinese.

Perhaps "high signal" means not "conditions where the phone reports high RSS" but "conditions where the phone is transmitting at high power".
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Location: San Francisco, USA

Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, C++, ROS, OpenCV

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ebnufTQEDP4AzwodnjnDKgeLk3L...

Email: nitinjoseph1997@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin1106/

Hi there! I'm Nitin, a software engineer with a passion for AI/ML, computer vision, and automotive software.

I’ve spent some time at Bosch developing real-time ADAS applications and optimizing perception pipelines, and I'm now deep into research at NC State—exploring information bottlenecks in deep learning and contributing to open-source projects like SGLang. I've also led projects in robotic navigation using Visual SLAM and ROS, fueling my interest in autonomous systems. Lately, I've been diving into AI agents and exploring innovative applications across different domains.

I'm eager to collaborate on challenging projects in robotics, intelligent systems, or any cutting-edge tech. If you're working on something exciting in these areas, let's connect!
Any kind of self-observation like this is too contaminated to prove anything. For example, you might be perceiving thoughts as simultaneous even though they are actually serialized (or the other way around).
> But nothing beats knocking on the door of the office next to you. (Whether it’s polite to announce yourself by e.g. email first depends on the country; even if you just show up and you’re turned away

Oh boy. What you are saying is akin to kicking an IC in the balls while he was concentrating on something. I don't think it would be any different in academia for researchers who are concentrating on something.
The graph contains restaurants in France and Belgium but all cuisines are represented.

It's completely possible to expand the graph to other parts of the world. What source of reviews/info do you have in mind?
Ivo | SF (In-Person) | Software Engineer

Ivo (www.ivo.ai) is an AI legal assistant for reviewing and redlining contracts more efficiently — although we primarily serve lawyers, we think we can eventually remove lawyers from contracting processes entirely. Our customers include companies like Zapier, Canva, Quora, and WordPress.

We recently raised our Series A from Costanoa Ventures, NFDG, Uncork Capital, Fika Ventures, and more.

Email me at jacob@ivo.ai if you're interested!
1000 years? We already have brain to machine interfaces that seem able to interpret words with 50%ish accuracy and sometimes even beyond.

By no means perfect but it's surprisingly close. Granted I think that interpretation is from looking at stuff like electrical activation and not just brain structure itself and the fossil is the latter.
Research Finds 12,000 'Live' API Keys and Passwords in DeepSeek's Training Data
Lighter fluid can make plastics brittle. Odorless mineral spirits, shop towels, and gloves would be my next step.
I think it works that way because employers aren't therapists. These are all personality problems. If an employee is a problem they need to sort it out them selves
I read this book about a defector from the GRU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium_(Suvorov)

I can't remember the exact quote but his suggestion was that everyone needed a "sponsor" or patron above them and that patrons chose people who would otherwise not be successful. This way the patron had a number of junior protogees who owed them everything. When your patron rose up you would rise up.

I noticed this in at least one company that got into trouble eventually.

In others the yes man culture is very potent. Where I am now nothing is that bad.
Agree! I’m not saying CIA (or whichever other three letter agency) were not involved in any way. But the way I see this, if I was out in the streets trying to get rid of a pro-Russian stooge making my country an autocratic puppet regime, I would be thankful to whomever is paying for the tea, or helping in any other way.
> American zoning in theory: we will keep noise and pollution away from homes.

I think you misunderstood the parents comment.

The origins of zoning is to prevent the mixing of blacks and whites. It's not about noise pollution; it's about segregation.
Designing a Factorio-Inspired Toy Conveyor Belt
Will FF die though or will it be released from mismanagement when Mozilla finally goes under.
>You seem to be completely confused about why absolute vs relative matters.

[..]

>This is literally a relative measurement. You cannot reason about Moore's Law in absolute changes.

This is exactly my point. I said exactly the same thing as you: "I think Moore’s law should be avoided altogether when discussing progress in this area"!

Performance is an absolute thing, not a relative thing. Amount of work per second, not percentage-over-previous!

Doubling means that each step encompasses the sum of all previous steps. Every step gives vastly more performance than any preceding step.

If a generation gives 60% more performance and all previous generations gave 100%, the latest jump will still be the one that added the most performance.

I think this is often overlooked and worth mentioning. People are actually complaining about performance jumps that are the biggest performance jumps ever seen because they are thinking in percentages. It makes no sense.
That’s kinda what happens when you’re either mean to them on Stackoverflow or their questions aren’t answered
Personally I have never failed at anything.

I just reframe it.

I either have a negative-win or a positive-win.

Either way I always win.

No one fails at anything, failure is used by people with an agenda

negative-winning is learning.
What's really disappointing is that Claude code doesn't really appear to "learn".

Maybe a local SQL lite DB for notes would be ideal. Add a one sentence summary of what you did for each change, and then read it back before writing more code.
NIMBY is characterized by wanting or being ok with something, just not too local to themselves. So they may be in favor of affordable housing in the city, just not in their part of the city where low income students will be going to theire kids' schools.

San Francisco is the classic example of wanting more housing, but nobody is ok with it being built near them.
Matt Levine is great. He also wrote about DeepSeek in summer 2024, just to say he has great insights
This.

Thanks.

Yeah, every person is a ... person ... with agency, self-awareness, and personality. HR loves to think of "cookie-cutter" people, but they don't actually exist, so HR often does more harm, than good.

As a manager, one of my most important skills, was finding out what was important to each of my employees, as that informed how I motivated or corrected them.
Speaking Mini Kore
If you have your own domain name, then you have email address portability.
Normally I have no problem with "bicycles" having more than two wheels operating in bike lanes (for example: recumbent trikes, trailers), but I agree - those vehicles seem more like golf carts than cargo bikes. I'd be interested to know how much they weigh empty and what proportion of their power comes from the rider rather than the "assist." Probably better for the city overall than a full size truck but I wouldn't be stoked to share the bike lane with one...

Also those are definitely going to be parked blocking the lane lol.
Apple doesn’t even put NFC hardware into iPads. Despite the obvious use cases (nevermind platform homogeneity)
Second title should have been named the Book of Job IMO
iwell (scale-up) | https://www.iwell.eu/ | Medior/senior data engineer | Utrecht, Netherlands | Full Time | Onsite/Hybrid

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We build software that uses real-time telemetry, forecasts, and battery solutions to optimize energy flows for businesses. My team handles data from thousands of devices to power customer facing products, analytics and ML. Aside from that, we love karaoke, pub quizzes and (board)games.

Relevant stack: GCP, Airflow, InfluxDB, Python, BigQuery

Full description and apply here:
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Agent Identity, Meta Narratives, and the End of Latent Thoughtcrimes
Hi folks, ParadeDB author here. We had benchmarks, but they were super outdated. We just made new ones, and will soon make a biiiig announcement with big new benchmarks. You can see some existing benchmarks vs Lucene here: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/case_study_alibaba

This comparison isn't super fair -- ParadeDB does not have compatibility issues with Postgres and rather is directly integrated into Postgres block storage, query planner, and query executor
And what about the taste?

(Also my backyard will be automated one day)