I am specifically looking for fintech or biotech positions with an emphasis on data visualization and time series data.
My focus has been on browser automation and building browser agents since 2018, with 13 years of enterprise experience building dynamic data user interfaces for web and mobile. I have experience working at both medium 130 person AI companies and small, fast-moving 7 person teams wearing many different hats, which I prefer. I have been instrumental in taking multiple companies from 0 to 1, both as a consultant and as a full-time employee in media, real estate, marketing, streaming services, education, and fintech.
Currently, I have a few side projects building Chrome extensions using VSCode’s core libraries. First is a fully automated algorithmic trading platform that uses a Chrome extension to control Robinhood and several information streams doing real time market intelligence using AI. [0] The second is recreating the Playwright / Puppeteer client API to use Chrome extension APIs and DOM APIs without the Chrome DevTools Protocol. I call it Cordyceps. [1]
Both the recent Acapulco and Jamaica hurricanes had non-normal intensification as they hit the warn coastal waters. I wonder how devastating this is going to be to Florida and the Atlantic states. Every time there is a hurricane it hits the Cat 5 physical limit.
Fort Lauderdale and Miami are underwater several times a year as is. The seawall at Daytona is gone.
It is going to be destabilizing. As long as it doesn't affect the corn growing in Iowa.
I went to the 'Obama restaurant' in Hanoi for bun cha (not vegetarian) more so because Anthony Bourdain. Like a good American I smoked a Cuban cigar afterwards in a cigar bar under an image of Che Guevara I passed on the way back to the hotel which was out of the way likely guided by Tony's spirit if such things exist. Nonetheless, the Bun Cha up in the mountains of Sa Pa is better as are Dominican cigars.
I’m a local from Hanoi, always surprised with Bourdain picking that place to eat with pres Obama (I still believe because of presidential food safety standards). I’d not pick that place any day of the week. Having lived in Singapore as well, RIP Anthony, but your picks aren’t that great.
They picked it because it was a spur of the moment decision -- not planned. Their concern according to Boudain was not having the president in line of sight from the outside of the building.
Had a acquaintance who was in a billionaire family. Trick is never ask them for money. They will invite everyone to lunch, parties at the beach house, ect.. The guy drove a Tesla and parked it anywhere. First time I went with the group, there was a ticket on the windshield, he pulls it off, and he says, "It is just a tax." He puts it on the pile of other parking tickets and says, "it is what accountants are for."
Fun fact: in Germany, egregious parking violations can and will lead to your license being not just taken, but you gotta take a psychological evaluation to make sure you're of sound mind [1]. Can't get your way out of that.
The authorities aren't going to send you off to reeducation, they will just determine (accurately) that you are a me-first guy who must not be allowed on the public roads and won't return your license. A win for the general public because road traffic is a coordinated effort.
I don’t mind being admonished by a magistrate for my mad behaviour, but being required to attend what boils down to nonsense treatment theatre is a bit much.
Anyone who’s enough of a sociopath to intentionally park like a jerk knows the right things to say to appear repentant.
I wonder what Germans think of this waste of time / money / effort.
My guess here is that this is not treatment as sic but assessment and that if you’re not appealing for your licence back you could just skip it. Perhaps a German could comment?
It’s weird to me how right wing Americans seem primed to catastrophise about Marxist big brothers when they hear about any vaguely effective or equitable example of public policy.
> My guess here is that this is not treatment as sic but assessment and that if you’re not appealing for your licence back you could just skip it. Perhaps a German could comment?
The point is that there should be a mechanism to prevent such arseholes from getting it back if it seems likely that they'll continue their behaviour. This is one such mechanism.
Freedom of movement is the relevant right. That's why you may need a certification to operate a vehicle above a certain level of dangerousness. But you can't be denied that certification unless you have done something that makes it impossible for you to be a safe operator of that vehicle. Vehicles for commerce are treated differently. Your mileage may vary but that's the theory of those laws in most places.
In countries with sufficient transportation alternatives, freedom of movement is still guaranteed even with your driver's license permanently revoked.
And I've never heard anyone use freedom of movement to argue against prisons, so I think we can all agree that limiting someone's movement can be an appropriate response to certain violations of law.
Parking violations can affect handicaped people. Also parking and halting restrictions at least in Germany are often motivated by safety concerns. If you get injured in an accident made more likely by a parking violation you may feel different.
This is why the Swiss system makes so much sense. Since fines are meant to a deterrent they need to inflict a similar level of punishment on the people who receive them.
I think a fair answer would be divide the current ticket cost by the amount of cash the average total asset value at the poverty line. Forget about net wealth, since that might well be negative.
Kindly don't post bad faith arguments. The comment you link never mentioned "reeducation camps" and "fun fact" is a common idiom for presenting an interesting fact.
If you are going to complain about bad faith arguments then I would expect you to also admonish the poster who asked me what the appropriate amount of fines for a wealthy person is when I had already stated I thought percent based fines that affected the poor and wealthy equally were the choice.
That person already knew their answer and was asking a bad faith question
Depends on how egregious it is and how frequently it happens.
In terms of egregious: Someone staying a few minutes over when they are in a store probably shouldn't be punished at all. On the other hand, someone parking in a handycap spot or leaving their car somewhere for a day or more should probably be a reasonably stiff penalty.
In terms of frequency: Perhaps start small but with an exponential increase for each time someone does it within a calendar year.
I rewrote Playwright to run completely in a Chrome Extension without CDP or chrome.devtools for no practical reason at all. I started to do it like Forest Gump started running. It can't get past bot protection so pretty worthless from a browser automation point of view. [0]
What I don't understand is why the need to rewrite Playwright instead of just patching it. Playwright (or Puppeteer) has addressed every edge case that has come -- especially race conditions which are a monster to deal with -- up over the years and by the time you do the same you will have Playwright.
Why is rewriting or rebuilding Playwright from the ground up needed?
It will make a mess but if you drop a console.log into the browser debug console to show the AI what it should be looking for after it spent 3 hours failing to help understand and debug the problem, it will do 1 week of work in 2 hours.
I've noticed this too. The latest cursor version has a @browser command which will launch a browser with playwright, and call tools to inspect the html and inject JavaScript to debug in real-time.
When it has access to the right tools, it does a decent job, especially for fixing CSS issues.
But when it can't see the artifacts it's debugging, it starts guessing, confident that it knows the root cause.
A recent example: I was building up a html element out of the DOM and exporting to PNG using html2canvas. The element was being rendered correctly in the DOM, but the exported image was incorrect, and it spent 2 hours spinning it's wheels and repeating the same fixes over and over.
I witnessed this traveling through smaller islands in the Philippines. They have cell service without connection to an electric grid in some places. The children with solar charging now have access to education materials and there is access to banking and payments systems.
The effects of this are going to massive and huge in 10 years.
All those unfortunate children will be introduced to the toxic, horrid internet.
They'll be addicted, have no attention span, have their own data used against them to exploit and track them, and end up with their political system reeling under manipulative AI and generic bots.
Far better to just give them books for their educarional system, and leave the evil Internet out of it.
So how many books have you given to kids in remote places in the 3rd world?
This sort of arrogance where suddenly everyone remembers all reasons why some technology is bad once the "poor masses" get it (while they themselves had the technology for years), is hypocritical and frustrating.
The reality is that getting online makes a massive difference for someone in some remote poor area. Not just in terms of education but also economically.
Wow. Everything in life has good and bad consequences. It is important that we remember to look towards the light.
What you describe at its worst is still better than the exploitation many of the children in the Philippines endure today by westerners. Hopefully, being able to communicate on the 'evil Internet', the rest of the world, like you, can truly understand what they endure.
Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGaiVApKfmc - "Avoid restrictions and blocks using the fastest and most stable proxy network"...they're pretty upfront with this, aren't they?
This actually explains a phishing attack where I received a text from somebody purporting to be a co-worker asking for an Apple gift card. The name was indeed an employee from a different part of the large company I worked for at the time, but LinkedIn was the only possible link I could figure out that was at least somewhat publicly available information.
That scam definitely uses linked in as the source. We get a lot of those BEC emails and it’s always the people who are on LinkedIn.
Also keep in mind LinkedIn has had big database leaks in the past, you might not even need to scrape them, just download a huge database from a leaks site.
WOW that video! Ain’t no way anyone has EVER read those terms. This feels so insidious that it really should be illegal. Wonder if this exists in the EU or if they have shut it down already?
That video has the app asking the user to confirm the use of their device to run a proxy within the app - but is there any hard requirement for this, could apps use this SDK and silently run as a proxy?
Yes, and it doesn't matter if they do read the terms- to the average user they sound totally innocuous, especially placed next to a big shiny "GET 500 FREE COINS" button.
Until one day, they get swatted for accessing child porn.
Actually, that might be one way to draw attention to the problem. Sign up to some of these shady "residential proxy" services, and access all sorts of nasty stuff through their IPs until your favorite three-letter agency takes notice.
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I am specifically looking for fintech or biotech positions with an emphasis on data visualization and time series data.
My focus has been on browser automation and building browser agents since 2018, with 13 years of enterprise experience building dynamic data user interfaces for web and mobile. I have experience working at both medium 130 person AI companies and small, fast-moving 7 person teams wearing many different hats, which I prefer. I have been instrumental in taking multiple companies from 0 to 1, both as a consultant and as a full-time employee in media, real estate, marketing, streaming services, education, and fintech.
Currently, I have a few side projects building Chrome extensions using VSCode’s core libraries. First is a fully automated algorithmic trading platform that uses a Chrome extension to control Robinhood and several information streams doing real time market intelligence using AI. [0] The second is recreating the Playwright / Puppeteer client API to use Chrome extension APIs and DOM APIs without the Chrome DevTools Protocol. I call it Cordyceps. [1]
I look forward to speaking with you :)
[0] https://github.com/adam-s/doomberg-terminal
[1] https://github.com/adam-s/cordyceps