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jonathanpeterwu··on Transformers Create Shapes of the Universe
Haven't seen this train of thought discussed. Takes some interesting comments from Karpathy and others to argue that transformers can distill down things well beyond just text and images
jonathanpeterwu··on Taro: A New Protocol for Multi-Asset Bitcoin and Lightning
This opens the door to many use cases for secure, privacy focused, and scaled asset transfers leveraging taproot, lightning network, and the existing bitcoin protocol. Very exciting news
jonathanpeterwu··on US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018
Yeah no doubt about this. But its also important to remember we've been doing this non stop since 2008 minus a few months in 2018. So this is a multi president, both parties are involved in continuing this train.
jonathanpeterwu··on YC’s $500k Standard Deal
That seems to be the suggestion with MFN, it gets priced at the lowest term sheet so in this case the sale term sheet
jonathanpeterwu··on TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage
I highly doubt the chip shortage a la increased chip demand from a company perspective has to do with gaming/mining GPU demand.

Much of the supply demand can be traced to increased car chip demand (Toyota cutting production by 40%) as well as general device chip demand across many sectors.

jonathanpeterwu··on Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules
We should probably also find a way to tax US dollar usage with CO2 tax as the net energy usage here is quite high as well
jonathanpeterwu··on Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink
Mining bitcoin is exactly what the author mentions a heat sink not a battery.

But mining bitcoin and capturing excess heat produces a provably scarce and globally accessible digital asset.

You are not transferring energy across time or space. Instead you are directly converting cheaply available energy (usually hydro) into monetary value that can be easily transferred through time and space.

jonathanpeterwu··on Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink
Bitcoin is not a battery it is not a valid analogy. It’s more a store of value of the energy produced. It’s a monetary incentive to capture the cheapest (now mostly hydro, solar, wind potentially nuclear) wherever you can cheaply or safely find/capture it at the source (since energy transport is inefficient over long distances)
jonathanpeterwu··on Bitcoin is not a Battery – it is a Sink
Bitcoin energy consumption is a brittle argument, our entire monetary system is backed by much more expensive energy usage. Energy usage for security is a trait of sound money.
jonathanpeterwu··on Tony Hsieh has died
What’s the point of sharing this on an article about his passing?
jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
Little Cinema Digital | Frontend Engineer (React, Typescript) | Remote US, New York, Los Angeles | https://littlecinema.net Little Cinema is an online shared digital experience platform helping Movie Studios and Show Producers build interactive online live screenings and digital experiences.

We're pioneering the space of live launch event live screenings and after party experiences for the cinema world.

Currently working with some or most of the Top 4-5 streaming platforms out there.

I’m one of the hiring managers so happy to chat more informally before putting you forward in the process to the rest of the team.

Contact Jonathan.wu@littlecinema.net

Looking forward to chatting!

jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
Little Cinema Digital | Senior Backend Engineer (Node, Typescript) | Remote US, New York, Los Angeles | https://littlecinema.net

Little Cinema is an online shared digital experience platform helping Movie Studios and Show Producers build interactive online live screenings and digital experiences.

We’re looking for a senior backend engineering lead to help build out our upcoming self service hosted platform in Node, Typescript, backed with Graphql, Postgres and AWS.

If you enjoy leading architectural decisions as well as designing performance oriented backends and want to work I’m pushing the field of live simultaneous events let me know!

I’m one of the hiring managers so happy to chat more informally before putting you forward in the process to the rest of the team.

Contact Jonathan.wu@littlecinema.net

Looking forward to chatting!

jonathanpeterwu··on Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing
Can you explain this a bit further, long tail which was better ROI
jonathanpeterwu··on Most employees of NYT won’t be required back in physical offices until 2021
Building on this. If you have the risk tolerance. Just stating that you have to work remotely (if its legitimate) at-risk health, child care, family care I'm sure there can't be a ton of pushback on an individual level. Otherwise it might be a GREAT signal to leave a company who in the midst of a pandemic is irrational.
jonathanpeterwu··on After Facebook staff walkout, Zuckerberg defends no action on Trump posts
Zuck. Pathologically lies and moves the goalposts. But employees are essentially powerless in this.
jonathanpeterwu··on Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?
Worth reading all chapters that are in here, but chapter 3 gets at the meat of where we're heading. We're at the end of a long credit cycle post WWII, dislocation of the dollar from the gold standard, to bretton woods, to now QE printing of money being loaned to the government by the fed.

Market reflects the cash flow available being printed by the FED to keep the markets up.

https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/

jonathanpeterwu··on Business Chat – A whole new way to talk to companies
This is a primarily large company focused initiative. You’ll need to work with apples partner integration chat providers to build on it. It’s invite only at this point.
jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020)
Location: London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: React, GraphQL, Apollo, JavaScript, Rails, PostgreSQL, React, AWS (ECS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudfront), ElasticSearch, Docker, CI/CD

Email: jonathan.x.wu@gmail.com

Github: github.com/jonathanpeterwu

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Experience working as a team lead on scoping/architectural design decisions as well as an individual contributor on high performing teams. Comfortable within fast-moving environment having founded and worked at early stage startups over the past 6 years.

* Open to freelance or remote-first fulltime roles at this point.

jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired right now?
Location: London Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

* Back-end: Node | Rails | Elixir

* Front-end: React | Redux | GraphQL | CSS | SASS

Résumé/CV: By Email

Experience: I've worked within early to mid stage startups for over 5+ years, happy to work in a contract or full-time role to help a team accelerate their development bandwith

Email: jonathan.x.wu@gmail.com

jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: How should I spend my $1000 check to help my community?
Donation to food banks seems to help the highest critical need people otherwise seeing funds that work with homeless shelters may be a good source to focus on as well.
jonathanpeterwu··on Twilio releases open source video conferencing apps for iOS, Android and web
Do you have a reference for this or is this just a major assumption
jonathanpeterwu··on Coronavirus can travel twice as far as official ‘safe distance’
Order groceries delivered wipe down all surfaces with alcohol. Avoid supermarkets if possible
jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2020)
Location: Seeking London or Remote

Remote: Open to remote

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, GraphQL, Lambdas, Containers.

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

Email: jonathan.x.wu@gmail.com

jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2020)
SEEKING WORK | LONDON | Remote

Specialties are front-end development in React/Redux/Graphql

Full stack web development with background in Node, Rails scaled development.

Also comfortable building infrastructure using Containers/EC2/Lambdas/Cloudfront, etc.

jonathan.x.wu@gmail.com /

https://linkedin.com/in/jonathanpeterwu

jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)
Location: London/NY Remote: Yes Technologies: React, Redux, GraphQL, Javascript, Rails (Ruby), Elixir Resume: Feel free to email me for a copy Languages: English/Chinese

- Currently looking for a long term contract FT role based either in London or remote-friendly.

- A little about me: A background in early-stage startups, lean small agile engineering teams.

- Comfortable w/ holding many hats front end/back end development, devops, application development, system design, etc.

- The majority of my work experience (5+ years) has straddled complex front end web applications consuming a backend API written (Node/Rails).

- Value add: If you're in need of a high value engineer, whose comfortable w/ changing product needs, high quality deliverables and a fast paced environment.

- What i'm looking for: A long term role that fits a small to mid-sized engineering team that needs help with front end application design and best practices, or a new team member who can help ship things.

Email: jonathan.x.wu at gmail.com

jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2019)
Location: London/Remote Remote: Optional Willing to relocate: No Technologies: React, Graphql, Node, Rails, Redux, Mongo; Postgres. Resume: https://github.com/jonathanpeterwu linkedin.com/in/jonathanpeterwu

The majority of my background is in early to mid stage startups in NY, Silicon Valley. Working to get products to product market fit. Comfortable in an agile, fast moving, environment.

Email: jonathan.x.wu at gmail.com

jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2019)
Location: NYC/London Remote: Yes (have remote work experience) Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React (Hooks++), Graphql, Rails, Node, Mongodb, Postgres, AWS.

CV: Available upon request.

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonathanpeterwu

Email: jonathan.x.wu@gmail.com

I'm open to remote or onsite (London) jobs.

Currently planning on moving to London and influx on next job opportunity. Used to working on earlier stage agile small teams both in person and distributed. I've worked as a first hire engineer, solo engineer, and engineering manager. Open to joining a clear vision, product first team that is looking for an additional member to help contribute!

Open to remote and sponsorship in UK.

jonathanpeterwu··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (August 2019)
SEEKING WORK | New York (USA) | Remote Technologies: React, Node, Rails, Ruby, Mongo, Redis, Postgres, (some) Elixir, Python.

Platforms: AWS, Heroku, DO. Comfortable w/ AWS Lambda, EC2, SQS, etc.

Description: Open to working on interesting existing projects or helping getting MVP proof of concept applications built out. Also open to helping manage remote or contract teams abroad (having experienced running both internal and distributed teams).

Github: https://github.com/jonathanpeterwu

Feel free to reach out to me jonathan.x.wu@gmail.com

jonathanpeterwu··on 8760 hours: How to get the most out of next year
I've used this review last year to prep for 2018. Ended up being extremely useful for prepping and orienting the year ahead. Looking forward to using it this year again.
jonathanpeterwu··on SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record
At its current rate thats a rocket every ~19 days
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