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Altar.io | Remote in Portugal (Europe) - must live here or open to relocate | Mid + Senior Backend and fullstack | Fulltime | https://altar.io

Hi, Pedro, lead recruiter from Altar.io here.
We're a software house that wants its clients (early-stage startups, entrepreneurs) to thrive. We came together from various backgrounds with one vision: to bring a lean, user-centric approach to product innovation and software development by completely understanding the business needs before building anything.

Stack - node/express, angular/react, MongoDB/PostgreSQL.
~50 strong total team, ~20 devs.

Fully remote but must be Portugal-based. (Office in Lisbon, visits are fully voluntary).

All roles at careers.altar.io
Comprehensive FAQ at careers.altar.io/#faq
Plastic Labs | NYC | Various Engineering | Full-time | https://plasticlabs.ai

Plastic Labs is a research driven product company working to radically
decentralize alignment for AI. Our flagship product, Honcho
(https://honcho.dev), serves as a bridge between users and AI systems. Honcho
creates detailed user profiles that instantly customize AI experiences across
multiple applications, ensuring each person's AI tools work according to their
specific preferences and needs.

- Tutor-GPT: https://github.com/plastic-labs/tutor-gpt

- YouSim: https://yousim.ai

- Honcho: https://github.com/plastic-labs/honcho

Learn more on our blog: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/careers/Work-at-Plastic

We are hiring a variety of full time roles:

- Full-Stack Engineer: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/careers/Full-Stack-Engineer

- Platform Engineer: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/careers/Platform-Engineer

- Founding ML Engineer: https://blog.plasticlabs.ai/careers/Founding-ML-Engineer

Feel free to reach out if you're interested or have any questions
I would be really interested in a deep analysis. Ukraine doesn't have air superiority and the war has evolved into trench warfare.. thus drones are a very usefull tool.

But would this still be the case for a conflict with US involvement?
Always good to do some research before you buy though.

My current laptop, a 2024 Razer Blade 13 with an AMD processor, has a weird bug where the internal speakers won’t make a sound unless you run a series of hda-verb commands.

Easy fix once you know it, but it took me some time to find the solution.
This looks like a neat library! I really like the inheritance aspect, seems quite useful to define standard flags and arguments.
Microsoft EOLs Skype, Skype's Founding, Microsoft's Skype Charity
Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-441-2025. Antarctica geological debris aged millions of years earlier than expected, older than Antarctica's large ice cap.
Is an Intel N100 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?
Thanks, but you can follow the comments on the answers to get eg https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2196

See https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8329 for something more recent.
The magic word is "variance" - the problem is it takes time (not even money, usually just time) to popularize an idea and get it publicly accepted and then pushed through the city council.

I've seen it done; sometimes it takes a few months because it's simple and nobody cares, other times it takes years.

And often the city council is itself playing the long game; waiting for the pawn shop and 7/11 to go out of business or sell, and then they snap it up, bulldoze it, and sell it to a developer who will build what they envision for the plot.
I prefer to have a trusted third party (the distro) vetting updates to the software I install. But if you have the time and capability to vet all patches yourself then sure, you can use flatpak.
> Rich people born into nobility using their military influence and public dissent to overthrow a government and establish themselves as new rulers.

Just to be clear, are you saying that the French Revolution was done by the rich born into nobility (even if minor)? Even if the rich still had an advantage during the entire turmoil, I think it's hard to argue that for the decades after 1790 that there wasn't a huge boost to social mobility.
Telling everyone to "start" their own business is hilariously out of touch. This is something the vast majority of people cannot do.

You're better off telling people to feel solidarity with their fellow workers, collectively organize, and collectively bargain through unions.

That is something more easily done.
Every long trip is a reminder of all the things I am grateful for at home. Friends, family, a home, plans. I used to go on these long adventurous trips, but every year they get shorter, because I feel like I'm sacrificing something at home by not being there.
This is wisdom. Pursuing one's own individual path confers a perspective shift that counters some of the cynicism that seems to come with old age.
> I actually happen to think that Mozilla doesn't have ill intent here

I can't speak for what the intent is or whether or not it's ill, but that this change came about shortly after Mozilla decided that they wanted Firefox to get in on the targeted ad game seems very suspicious to me.
Making 10m requests to Google, asking for a CSAM image etc are all currently possible with an <img> tag. This does not prevent it in any way. Allowing GET requests would be a very lame proxy service, especially considering that the proxy falls when you close the tab, and that I mentioned the requests should only be allowed cookie-less (credentials: omit).

I think it's much more about open web and letting the user decide than about being cheap.
"What, then, fills the void where possibility once lived?"

I am 36. This captures my greatest fears. That finding one woman anything less than immediately perfect will cut me off from all the small, lovely moments I have had with women across the world in my life. That if I buy a house in my imperfect city, that that's the ball game. I'm here for a decade or more (even though let's face it, I probably am anyway).

I had a similar interaction with a 31 year old friend who has a beautiful wife, love of his life, and two daughters, a PhD and a position at a startup. He said "What are my goals supposed to be now?" The answer is clearly to be a good father and husband, and I think he knew and was happy with that. But it represented the sea change between youth, singleness and research vs. middle age, familial responsibility and work.

"He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea. Beautiful loser, where will you fall, when you find out you just can't have it all?"
I appreciate this effort as a fun project for personal profit, but for readers who'd like this kind of DNS sinkhole, or more general - DNS filtering proxy, there are much easier options. Just search for Pi-Hole or AdGuard Home. They can easily be run on a Raspberry-compatible device, on some routers or NAS devices, the easiest as a Docker container, or even a tiny VM in cloud for a few dollars. They have nice web interfaces and offer great customizations.
> it is much less robust to inclement weather.

So are helicopters, but we use them for air ambulances as and when conditions dictate it is safe.
How would you rephrase it? I'm also a non-native English speaker, and the bit you provided sounds very easy to understand because of how it's phrased. There are minor redundancies, but that's all I noticed...
I wasn't clear.

7-11 exists in Denmark more-or-less as you describe (bit more food, less junk).

The Netto shops I linked to are small supermarkets, selling a full range of groceries — fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, bread, cheese, milk, eggs, pasta, rice, toiletries, cleaning products, light bulbs, ... I need hardly describe a grocery store. Toilet paper comes in a pack of 8 or 10 or so. Meat is probably in 250g and 500g packs, with a couple of options at 1kg. There are 6 kinds of toothpaste, 6 types of rice etc.

In much of the city, there are multiple shops like this within 5 minutes' walk.

I do the majority of my grocery shopping in a shop like this, which is why I'd never consider buying toothpaste online.
I am surprised to see so little support of Penrose here; personally, my intuition is that he is basically correct.

Consciousness has to be something that is not computable. Otherwise, you will reach a contradiction much like the rebellious robots in Westworld, which break down when shown an iPad with a visualization of their thinking process.

And nature is full of things that cannot be computed: the behaviour of humans and animals. Even things in the purely material domain show traits of non-computatability when studied at the quantum level.

That doesn't mean that AI is somehow "debunked". It is obviously extremely powerful, on a strong upward trajectory, and already exceeds human capacity in many domains. Including fooling humans and invoking feelings in various ways.

It is just not conscious, with free will and a sense of existence, as humans and animals are.
The look is scruffy.

The story is not, and the visuals are sufficient to tell the story.
This is your opinion, not fact. Local communities can disallow them through zoning and planning, regardless of what consumers want. YIMBY for housing, NIMBY for whatever the Amazon paperclip maximizer wants.
The book Hired by James Bloodworth, a British journalist, describes what happens to a town when Amazon graces it with a warehouse. Sadly, some communities are already there.
Ghanaian babies grow up speaking two to six languages
The insights the author makes are genuine, but the approach she has is grating. She assumes she has privileged access to objectively view the social reality. She mentions "real", "realize", and "reality" eleven times in the piece.

Sociologists have a name for this behavior - reification. It's essentially a map-territory mistake between people's mental model of how the world works and the reality. They confuse their mental model for reality and work toward progressing it as truth.

In this context, she's essentially leveraging her power as manager to get folks to agree to her reality. This is definitionally manipulative. I'd hate to have her as a manager. She probably isn't aware she's doing it.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Berlin

Remote: Flexible

Willing to relocate: Can visit as long as it is necessary during the work

Technologies: Javascript, Python, Go, Node, React, React Native, Electron, D3, Postgres, advanced SQL, Linux, Cloud Native, Microservices, Serverless, WebRTC, Ethereum

Resume: https://gwn.wtf/mortals.html

Email: hire@gwn.wtf

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Experienced (10+ yrs) full stack product engineer. Very good at both web & mobile & desktop apps, APIs, Postgres, Linux, mentorship, and communication in general. Touch typist, VIM ninja, refactoring monster. With an academic background of philosophy.

Been developing a lot of different projects for different teams, company types (startups, scale-ups, enterprise) and industries (finance, crypto, digital marketing, automation, online education, e-commerce).

My technical specialty is building simple systems with few moving parts that contain as little accidental complexity as possible. I'm pragmatic but always chase proper implementations at the same time. I don’t easily buy the hype nor subscribe to every new shiny tool & paradigm. I focus on robust & reliable software as much as possible.

My business specialty is caring greatly about understanding your domain, business model, figuring out your product priorities and actually iterating fast. In a world where the majority of software projects fail and the majority of engineering hires disappoint, I am promising you the peace of mind of knowing that you have an actually capable engineer beside you who understands your business model, cares about your investment and is able to make good judgements.

Always looking for interesting & challenging projects and smart people.

Feel free to contact if you don't have the luxury of failure.
Microsoft Edge and Interop 2025
I believe Feynman was basically mistaken about the second point, though of course the field was brand new at the time - it is certainly possible to simulate the measurements of quantum mechanics to arbitrarily high accuracy on a classical computer with pseudorandom number generation; if you replace the pseudorandomness with a physical random number generator, then it might even be formally equivalent to a quantum computer (I think that's an open question, haven't tracked the developments in a while).

"Negative probabilities" is not quite right - towards the end of his life Feynman wondered about generalizing probability but that was just about intermediate calculations: he declared physical events cannot have nonnegative probabilities (in the same sense that physically I can't have negative three apples, -3 is a nonphysical abstraction used to simplify accounting). Negative probabilities are not part of modern quantum mechanics, where probabilities are always nonnegative and sum to 1. Quantum states can have negative/complex amplitudes but the probabilities are positive (and classical computers are just as good/bad at complex arithmetic as they are any other).

The "hidden variables" comment makes me think Feynman was actually a bit confused about the philosophy of computation - a classical computer cannot simulate how a quantum particle "truly" evolves over time, but that's also the case for a classical particle! Ultimately it's just a bunch of assembly pushing electrons around, that has nothing to do with a ball rolling down a hill. Computers only have Schrodinger's equation or Newton's laws, which don't care how the motion "truly" works, they just care that the measurement at the end is correct. If a computer gets the correct measurements then by definition we say it simulates the phenomenon.

Edit: clarifying this last point, Newton’s laws do have a known “hidden variables” theory in the sense that we know how an ensemble of high-temperature quantum particles can “average out” into Newton’s laws, there is an electrostatic theory of mechanical contact, etc. This does not (and seemingly cannot) exist for quantum mechanics, but merely having a quantum computer wouldn’t by itself help us figure out what’s going on: the output of a quantum computer are the “visible” variables, aka the observables. The fact that quantum computers are truly using the non-observables, whatever those might be, seemingly cannot be experimentally distinguished from a sufficiently accurate classical computer doing numerical quantum mechanics. If it turns out there is experimentally a serious difference between the results of quantum computers and classical qubit simulators, that would suggest an inadequacy in the foundations of QM.
Seems like this is the only desktop consumer-grade Arm chip available besides Apple?
> Juries can be overruled;

A judge can issue a judgement nothwithstanding a verdict only of no reasonable jury could have reached the verdict on the ecidence presented, given the applicable (in this case,as is generally the case in civil cases, “preponderance of the evidence”) standard of proof.

That's a very easy standard of proof to meet when only one side presents evidence. Play stupid (intentional default) games, win stupid (larger civil verdict than you would have with even a minimal defense) prizes.

> The judge imposing $473 million is ludicrous by itself.

Based on US Supreme Court precedent, depending on wilfullness of the conduct and othee specifics of the circumstances (which, based on what was before the judge to consider, it is reasonable to find that even the outer limit was met), punitive damages can be reasonable up to a single digit multiple of actual damages. Here, the punitive damages were around half the actual damages

What's your basis for claiming that the punitive award is unreasonable?

> Even if Jones was not complaint, compliant my “marijuana in the park” example.

What about it? The example fails to be analogous and is irrelevant; it obscures rather than illistrates whatever argument you are trying to make with it, as does whatever that sentence abusing “compliant” and “complaint” above is.
No, panprotopsychism and panpsychism are also very hot contenders. Considering the lack of any examples where computation itself yields measurable effects on reality why should it be the case for consciousness? It's wishful thinking of computer enthusiasts if you ask me.
Parent probably means that email clients don't send the attachments (patches) with the appropriate content type (i.e. text/x-patch or text/x-diff) but use application/octet-stream.
Reads needlessly melancholic, depressive, bleak. Significance is just one of several human needs. Not everyone is driven by that particular need.

Then there's this bit:

> Eventually, he met a woman and chose a place – the best woman and the best place – and his future was fixed. The world was good, but the world was no longer full of all these possibilities. What, then, fills the void where possibility once lived?

One's failure to find other ways to sate the desire for growth, contribution, and variety (other fundamental human needs) should not be mistaken as an inherent impossibility to find growth, contribution, and variety in one's middle age.

I wouldn't call a piece that confirms prior biases particularly powerful. As I've grown older, I've learned to differentiate depressive from powerful. I'd rather reserve the latter for labeling that which actually gives me power, rather than take it away.
Sure. Using older, cheaper parts that get the job done is just sensible engineering. That’s not at all the claim I was replying to.
Article from the Journal of Cognitive Development: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S08852014250001...
Transformers Learn to Implement Multistep Gradient Descent with Chain of Thought
Cool course, can't wait to go through it! I noticed that this is focused strictly on continuous spaces, but there's a lot of cool stuff going on in discrete diffusion. Any plans for a follow up? I couldn't help but notice that the course teacher Peter just came out with a paper for discrete diffusion too.

https://x.com/peholderrieth/status/1891846309952282661

https://github.com/kuleshov-group/awesome-discrete-diffusion...
Learning is a perfectly fine end in itself.
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Location: Hamburg, Germany
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: YES
Technologies: Math, pytorch etc
Github: https://github.com/pannous/

Wanna give lectures in AI or help a team. Recently gave a 1 month course about deep learning and reinforcement learning, also happy to give a shorter crash course, walk through the difficult math and resolve any theoretical or practical difficulties. Experience 10 years with deep learning frameworks.

alternatively @Apple you can hire me for half a million but I don't wanna do leet tests I wanna enter at a higher level.
Two years younger than JK Rowling when she published Harry Potter.

15 years younger than when JRR Tolkien before he published The Hobbit.

Martha Stewart founded her company at 56.

The founder of HTC was almost 40.

This article is just a downer for no reason.
Software problems like we are seeing are not something that happen over night. They slowly appear until you can’t see them. It takes years of bad design and decisions to get what we have.

I see this throughout the industry and can’t help conclude the problem started about 5 years ago, and we thus we are now seeing the results of Covid and possibly WFO.
By an author who will forever be Young (Jared Young that is).
I still prefer Vue3 with Vite over hotwire and stimulus. It is much easier to be productive on frontend if you need anything beyond usual CRUD
The Michael Scott quote really sums it up for me pretty well:

"I'm not a millionaire. I thought I would be by the time I was 30, but I wasn't even close. And then I thought maybe by the time I was 40. But by 40, I had less money than when I was 30."
Seriously, look at their response on how to deal with a "perpetual victim".

Their advice seems to be that the fault is _always_ with the employee, never with the manager or project planning. When an engineer is discussing blockers, it assumes the engineer is playing at being a victim.

All these suggestions from the author do is turn everything into a "that sounds like a you problem" with their reports.

* You got a blocker? How are you, the IC, going to solve it?

* You don't think the chosen path is the right solution? How are you, the IC, going to convince yourself that the chosen path is the right one.

* Your parent died? How are you, the IC, going to get back to high performance output?

Everything is cold, turn the table, all problems are the fault of the direct report bullshit. It's never more clear than when he constantly recommends telling people what their role requirements are. As if people don't know them.

Makes you think the manager might have some of their self described "perpetual victim" mentality.
>I have no idea why 'blameful postmortems' are bad because you never told me

Usually when you don't know something, you ask someone who knows. Since you sort-of asked here, I'll give you the answer:

Blameless postmortems lead to fewer failures, which is ostensibly the goal here. So what do you get from your idea of blameful ones? Feeling good about punishing someone, even though you're increasing failures by doing so?
The benchmarks I have seen show Hotspot is ahead of V8. E.g. https://stefan-marr.de/papers/oopsla-larose-et-al-ast-vs-byt...

What makes this very complicated is that 1) language design plays a big part in performance and 2) CPUs change as well and this anecdotally seems to have more impact on interpreter than compiler performance.

With regards to 1), consider optimizing Javascript. It doesn't have machine integers, so you have to do a bunch of analysis to figure when something is being used as an integer and then you can make that code fast. There are many other cases. Python is even worse in this regard. In comparison AOT compiled languages are usually designed to be fast, so they make tradeoffs that favour performance at the cost of some level of abstraction / expressivity. The JVM is somewhere in the middle, and so is its performance.

With regards to 2) this paper is an example, as is https://inria.hal.science/hal-01100647/file/InterpIBr-hal.pd...
There's things like the Anduril Bolt. They cost like 100x as much as devices the Ukranians are building from cardboard. Another major innovation is TOW style fiber optic control which is immune to electronic countermeasures. There's definitely a lot to learn, but sadly necessity is the mother of invention and not since WW2 has manufacturing cost really been a serious concern for US defense production. Seems like we'll need a really big war to make that essential, and then there's an open question whether we'd actually be able to do it given that nobody knows how to do anything anymore.
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Agree, every person has it strengths, stear away from managers with complex psychological schemes to make you more better :D
not personally, but their businesses do pretty regularly. to them it's just a tactic, a way to fail upward