Location: Kansas City, MO, USA -- but 100% enthusiastic about relocation
Remote: Sure, but hybrid/in-office roles are fine
Willing to relocate: Yes!
Technologies: React, Typescript, Ruby/Rails, Node.js/express -- any modern web application framework is easily within my wheelhouse, especially in the LLM era.
It's infinitely sad that there's no place to just connect with people on the internet anymore. My post got 6 comments and a DM within the first minute, before the post got taken down. These people could have been new friends.
I've been through this cycle so many times I have long given up on trying to post on the internet. Logging on to find people and share thoughts only to be met with this massive wall of context and janitorial standards. I gave up like five years ago.
This is to say that the whole debate between "social media causes anxiety" and our landscape of social media causes anxiety makes this debate way too coarse. Getting on the internet between 2005-2012 felt happy, free, and was just a wellspring of community and connection. Post-2013 it's been a nightmarish hellscape on every platform.
I mean, you kinda answered the question there yourself. The whole REST paradigm (spearheaded by the Ruby on Rails community) was strongly influenced and modeled after the HATEOAS paper and ideas. There's some talks and papers about it but I'd have to dig them up, but basically the working reference implementation that shaped the web for years is here: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
I don't think anyone is trying to fork Dwarf Fortress and sell it on a different platform.
Actually, even if they did, they would likely have proved the market to the founders earlier; maybe lighting a fire under their feet to monetize quicker. The current renaissance of DF via the Steam release could have happened five years earlier -- inspiring five more years' worth of other business-focused indie developers...
Incredible map of PFAS hotspots in the article -- very notable applying the "is this just a population map?" test, specifically look at the West coast in comparison to the rest of the country. It seems dramatically lower out west.
Seems like a good list, I enjoyed the comic explainer of stable diffusion and learned a thing. Thank you to the authors and a16z for publishing this :).
Bridgewater famously had pretty obscene levels of tracking and monitoring and were open about it, lauding it as part of their company culture. This seems like the same type of thing.
If people think that 100%-fake papers, with completely made up data and process are bad... wait until people learn how bad 30%-fake papers are, with real cherry-picked data and absurd levels of p-hacking :p
I believe he is referencing the passage of a major, controversial Illinois state bill that passed just five months ago, eliminating cash bail among a host of other enforcement restrictions against known criminals. So we wouldn't see any solid empirical data from this policy for the next 1-2 years at minimum.
I've had a good heuristic in my life of simply writing off people that go on lengthy, cuss-filled rants about how bad something is without soberly explaining the technical components, offering alternatives, etc. This author seems no different.