palerdot (u/palerdot)

palerdot commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

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SEEKING WORK - Data scientist, remote worldwide, email in profile.

I'm a data scientist and I've been absolutely slaughtered by this recession. I lost a big project in July and haven't picked anything up since. Everything is "on hold", "Taking it in house". I hope things will start moving again.

I love avant garde problems, and have a pretty unique toolset (LLMs+KB, OR+ML, etc). I've worked with names you know in automotive, tech, and other spaces.

I've worked on projects including large language models, knowledge extraction, automotive part failure prediction, translation, maintenance optimization, automated sports highlights, and more. I've also done some more interesting work including vehicle route planning in constrained environments.

Get in touch. Even if you're unsure, get in touch. Referals welcome. Email in profile.

palerdot · 6 months ago

My 2 cents. Get a temporary job that is tangentially related to your skill sets. For example, if you are comfortable with python, there are plenty of backend jobs (api, LLM integration etc). Along with recession, people might be just using LLM tools instead of hiring a full-time data scientist, which might be the reason for less data science positions. I'm not familiar with data science domain and this may not be a accurate read of the situation. In any case, I think instead of waiting for the perfect data scientist job, just take a tangential job atleast temporarily. It will relieve some pressure, and you can better focus your energy on searching for your ideal job.

Wishing you luck for your search!

palerdot commented on Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI? · Posted by u/ramesh31

biztos · 7 months ago

As someone with a pretty long career already, and who's comfortable talking about it, I was a bit surprised that in three interviews last year nobody asked a single thing about any of my previous work. One was live coding and tech trivia, the other two were extensive take-home challenges.

To their credit, I think they would have hired "the old guy" if I'd aced their take-homes, but I was a bit rusty and not super thrilled about their problem areas anyway so we didn't get that far. And honestly it seems like a decent system for hiring well-paid cogs in your well-oiled machine for the short term.

Your method sounds like what we were trying to do ten years ago, and it worked pretty well until our pipeline dried up. I wish you, and your candidates, continued success with it: a little humanity goes a long way these days.

palerdot · 7 months ago

So, did you find a company that you are happy with (interviewing or otherwise)? I would be really interested to know how you are dealing with tech landscape changes lately, and your plans for staying in tech ...

Wishing you all the best for your career!

palerdot commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

palerdot · a year ago

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Senior Full Stack/Front-end Product Engineer

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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Tech: Typescript, React, Svelte, Vue, Node, Elixir, Phoenix

Github: https://github.com/palerdot/

Contact email is in Github profile

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I'm a product engineer, currently working primarily in the Typescript/React/Svelte/Vue/Node/Elixir ecosystem. I have 10+ years of professional programming experience. I currently prefer flexible hourly/part-time contract remote opportunties. I have experience working remotely with people across the globe.

I'm the creator and maintainer of 'react-d3-speedometer'(https://github.com/palerdot/react-d3-speedometer) and their corresponding ‘Vue' (https://github.com/palerdot/vue-speedometer) / 'Svelte' (https://github.com/palerdot/svelte-speedometer) ports. I've been working in the javascript ecosystem for 8+ years. I'm a full stack engineer (Elixir/Phoenix/Node/Postgres) and mostly working in the Typescript/UI ecosystem.

palerdot commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

sushi · a year ago

Boxento (https://boxento.com/) | React Frontend Engineer | REMOTE

Boxento empowers users to create web pages in seconds using a 3x3 grid layout. We're focused on making web creation fast, easy, and beautiful.

We're hiring for:

React Frontend Engineer (React, Tailwind CSS, UI/UX optimization) You'll develop new interfaces and maintain our frontend, collaborate with design and backend teams, and optimize for performance and scalability.

Email your portfolio to jobs@boxento.com

palerdot · a year ago

You are using development version of React for your production site!?

palerdot commented on Tell HN: My wife was banned from WhatsApp without reason or recourse · Posted by u/tempestn

dorkwood · 3 years ago

Instagram banned my account without reason. Or rather, they turned off my ability to interact with the account. The account is still there. People can view my photos. At this point I would just like the account removed, but there's no way for me to do it.

If I log in on my PC it tells me to log into the app to regain access to my account. If I log into the app on iOS, I get a black screen. On Android I also get a black screen, but I can also navigate through the menu. Every menu item either gives me an error saying something like "challenge required" or takes me to the same message I see on PC. I've tried all the online guides I can find, but none of them seem to have my specific problem.

Is there any way to remove an Instagram account without going through the usual channels?

palerdot · 3 years ago

> Is there any way to remove an Instagram account without going through the usual channels?

It is amusing how times have changed that a highly technical person seeks help in a highly technical forum for things as basic as removing an account. We are truly entering interesting times.

palerdot commented on Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell saurabhnanda.in/2022/03/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bigDinosaur · 3 years ago

Too many high profile community members basically saying that it's impossible to work with the core team on improvements, with no clear communication that there even is a core team left any more, and bugs in the standard library/compiler that haven't gone fixed despite being one line changes. Many, many pull requests with such fixes have gone ignored for 3+ years. No indication of any possibility for a superior FFI or at least a path forward for the evolution of the current one.

The language itself is still mostly fine, so long as you don't run into its limitations. I still wouldn't recommend it going forward for the above reasons, though. Too many warning signs and contributor goodwill unnecessarily burnt. Evan is a perfectionist and clearly has no interest in developing a feature if he can't see the use case for it (his response to negative numbers in case..of expressions was a classic example).

Personally I think it's all a bit of a shame, Elm is one of my favourite things ever in web development. I really, really wanted/want it or something similar to succeed in terms of major projects being written in it.

palerdot · 3 years ago

Maybe check out Mint - https://mint-lang.com/

This is an effort that takes best ideas from Elm. AFAIK, the creator was one of the high profile community members (or atleast a prolific Elm user).

I'm not sure how this language will pan out. There are too much options for UI development right now. Also, last when I checked, you have to buy in on this framework/lang completely and you had no option of plugging this in an existing project.

Still, I think Elm users may find this interesting.

palerdot commented on Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell saurabhnanda.in/2022/03/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bigDinosaur · 3 years ago

I still think Elm is a better example for reliable (web) software development. I've simply never had a similar experience in terms of the high amount of type safety enforced by the compiler. Interestingly I found I was much less fatigued after programming in it (and this applies for Haskell too) because the problems one has to solve aren't really stupid ones.

(I don't recommend it for production only because it has been partially abandoned, it seems, but it if hadn't been and the community had kept growing it would have been awesome).

I don't think your snarky section is that relevant, because it's hardly like the best technology wins. Software engineering has a bias towards either irrelevant nonsense to pad resumes or extreme conservatism.

palerdot · 3 years ago

> I don't recommend it for production only because it has been partially abandoned

Why do you say that?

Sure, there were some dramas around how the language/ecosystem should evolve and almost all external opinions are not considered. But again, you could argue that Elm is consistent because of this heavy handed approach to language design. I'm just wondering why you would consider it as `partially abandoned`.

palerdot commented on Show HN: To prevent dry eyes and back pain, I created a macOS app · Posted by u/cswenshuo

palerdot · 3 years ago

Tangent/Shamless plug

I created a browser extension [0] for myself to deal with this problem. I have been using this for past 6 years and so far I was able to deal with this particular problem.

[0] - https://remindoro.app

palerdot commented on Ask HN: Share your personal site · Posted by u/MaxLeiter

palerdot · 3 years ago

https://palerdot.in

PS: Though I'm primarily a React/Typescript developer, my personal site has no JS.