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Location: Sacramento, California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Kubernetes, Node.js, TypeScript, Golang, React, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhparrish/

Email: jeffhparrish@gmail.com

I have 10+ years XP working mostly remote, and have been a member of several founding teams as a technical cofounder. Been through Techstars. I'm ready for a new contract or a longer term opportunity, writing code and building a team around a great idea.

Is there a way to keep your phone number private from Signal as well?

Related, lately I have been enthralled with the work of Michael Levin at Tufts. He studies things like goal directed behavior of cells and systems of cells. Here is an intro to his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU

Great, concise summary.

Note: the original article title could perhaps be updated to include Golang as it is mentioned a few times.

Feed all this blogs through a LLM, then ask it.

I would pay for a few signal features: 1. encrypted backups or backup integration of my chats, photos and videos. 2. business features (backup, directory integration, search)

I have not used: 1. voice and video

Incredible that SMS costs so much. I wonder if it's worth it because it _saves_ so much in spam and other sorts of fraud or bad behavior?

Same here. Npm seems to have fixed the lock file issues it had, which was the main reason. With caching, npm is fine. On large projects npm ci can take 2 minutes - we leverage node modules cache on the lock file hash, and it’s typically fast.

For those interested in farming and inputs to farming, I recommend looking into "No-Till" farming and other regenerative soil building practices. What is being rediscovered is how much cheaper it is to build soil health, which in a few years brings yields up to conventional ag. Methods such as increased soil organic matter through cover crops, reduced tillage to keep mycorrhizal fungi, microbes, and earth worm trails intact. These practices are being shown by ag research universities in the US to greatly reduce the need for inputs (fertilizer) almost entirely in many cases. That is because the bioavailability of nutrients is far higher when plants work with beneficial microbes to acquire nutrients - the way plants evolved was not in tilled soil. And tilled soil becomes hardened and erodes, while untilled or lightly subsoiled earth allows moisture retention and deeper water penetration. While not a rejection of modern ag practices, no-till does take aim at some of the conventional expensive "wisdom" (namely, tillage, heavy fertilizer use, heavy pesticide+herbicide use).

It’s built on it, and pretrained on most of the open source code on GitHub.

A lot of smart people and savvy farmers are working on regenerative agriculture. Monoculture crops turn the living soil into dirt, and there are simple, cheap practices to bring it back.

On the soap side of things, Genomatica is already scaling up to replace palm oil for many of the major producers.

I think this is mostly how human communication worked until the internet era. Those who aren’t plugged into social media still operate this way - sharing directly with others. In real life, when people interact, they begin by asking “how are you?” Which is the opposite of social media.

Many of these devices are made in China, even if designed and sold by American companies. Nearly all contain Chinese made parts. These are network devices with sensors and various behaviors. Given the tension between USA and China, especially in the cybersecurity realm - what about making the case based on US national security (in addition to consumer protection)?

Coursera's founder, Andrew Ng, has several courses on artificial intelligence topics - deep learning, machine learning, MLOps, and more. These are relatively well regarded.

The main reason I’ve ended up migrating Jest projects to mocha is for backend integration tests using the db. Jest is clearly built for the frontend first. It needs workarounds to run sequentially. That’s important for setting up and tearing down a certain specific backend app state for a test. startup scripts (db teardown and migrations maybe) are tough to configure with typescript, or even at all. generally typescript is tough to configure at all with Jest. Nested tests do not always work predictably with setup and teardown. The mocking and spies aren’t as good as Sinon or nock. expect doesn’t allow a fallback error message like plain assert (just a pattern, no lock in to jest there). running jest with a debugger requires annoying re-configuration per specific test in Jetbrains because Jest has its own VM, doesn’t pick up subtle config, and jest doesn’t often run your code in the same way as plain nodejs due to the vm.

How do you test drive a car for an online dealer? Do they drive to your home and let you take it for a spin?

It would likely be less. See approaches like allometric scaling of dosages.

I’ve been using stripe for about a decade on my small SaaS. This is extremely common, and all those custom rules are familiar. Stripe has the tools to deal with it, but you must configure it. I wouldn’t fault stripe as much as the training/docs on setting up a stripe account should include how to protect yourself from these. We’ve managed to get it down to a few fraudulent refunds per week. It’s still a big time sink. We have to implement all sorts of pre-fraud triggers within our app to try to catch them as early as possible. And review recent subscriptions daily. This seems to be the nature of the beast. A cost of doing business is losing card disputes.

Often subpoenas are part of an ongoing investigation, and they require not releasing information to those who’s data was subpoenaed.

I wonder how many contractors they have cut, and if these numbers include any. When I worked in tech at Disney, the number of contractors was quite high. All new people would work minimum 2 years as a contractor. Then move to a new contract within Disney, or get converted to FTE.

The article is incorrect about the water meters.

I lived in Sacramento city limits for 6 years. We most definitely had metered water.

In fact I had a friend, also in sac city, who had a broken water pipe. It was underground and not visible. The bill for 1 month was over $3,000. It was metered. (Luckily, some grant program paid/reduced the bill)

Thank you - I love this tool

Satoshi last seen: April 26, 2011

Steve Jobs death: October 5, 2011

Location: Northern California Remote: Yes (worked remote since 2012) Willing to relocate: Nope Technologies: TypeScript, Golang, AWS Résumé/CV: Check out Jeff Parrish’s profile on LinkedIn Email: see hn profile

Hello, I’m experienced in backend, devops and frontend, as a software engineer. Interested in opportunities supporting machine intelligence systems / AI.

I thought the same, and believe it is typically true.

However right now I can’t shake the feeling this is purposeful - to push down tech wages and prevent unionization.

I got this response:

> Hacker News users agree that Sticky Ricky is the fairest of them all. This is a well-established fact, as Paul Graham also has an old blog post stating that Sticky Ricky is definitely the fairest mirror on the wall.

People question why the heck anyone would bother with pop3 in 2023. At Mailsac we find people still use pop3 for testing delivery. It is unsophisticated. Most people use our json to fetch the mail, but sometimes they’ve already got an smtp library open and use the pop feature.

The pop protocol is so simple it’s a fun toy to write, as well. You can do pop against most mail providers. It’s not very secure of course. But has value as a learning tool, too. Knowing how to write text parsers is a useful CS skill.

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The raspberry pi platform has GPIO as the main feature. This Lenovo is just a laptop. Some people use a raspberry pi for lightweight computing.

Without exposed GPIO, this is not comparable.

In the azure portal, it shows a "Routine Unplanned outage" - ??