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Homeless Developer in Los Angeles Needs Work, Can You Please Help?
Dear HN,

Apologies in advance for posting something non-technical and personal, but I have no other place online to ask.

I am having an emergency. I have been homeless in Los Angeles for the past 2 years. Prior to this, I was a developer for over 10 years. Mostly I worked at small startups. And let me just get the stereotypes out of the way: I don't do drugs, I don't drink, I'm not a criminal, and I'm not mentally ill. I'm just a spectacularly unlucky coder who worked for a series of not so great startups that failed, slowly ran out of money and savings between jobs, and fell through the cracks to become totally stranded living on the streets. I have no family to ask for help--only-child, parents deceased. The only reason I have survived this long was by working part-time on 2 remote contracting gigs, but I was paid sub-minimum wage. It's extremely difficult to do remote development work without electricity nor WiFi. The Public Library and Starbucks have been life savers.

I am now down to my last $40 dollars and I am panicking. That's it. I expect to run out of food in about 4 days. Then I guess it's the end for me. But I refuse to lay on the sidewalk and starve while pedestrians step over me. I'm afraid I am going to be pushed into doing something dire that there is no coming back from. I wish it were otherwise, but that's the one thing I still have control over, so I'll do it on my own terms.

The nearest food bank to where I camp is over a 10 mile walk away, but what they provide requires refrigeration and a stove. You'd think there would be more food banks for the homeless in the 2nd biggest city in America, which is also home to over 20 billionaires. Food stamps are not an option for me because they tell me I don't qualify, due to the new Federal rule change (Thanks Trump). Local assistance from the city welfare office is needlessly complicated and I have been shocked to discover just how little is actually available.
But I don't want any free stuff from the gov't. I want to work! I'm not a 10x'er. I did Node.js/Javascript for 7 years. I'm experienced with both front-end/back-end web development, and SQL and AWS and I'm a minor wizard when it comes to Linux. Maybe I'm hitting the dreaded age wall in tech.

I have applied to hundreds of devjobs both in LA and remote using all of the top job boards. I got only a handful of interviews. Obviously, the problem is me. I do really well if I can get past the HR firewall, and get an in person interview to talk shop with another developer. Recruiters tell me that I'm a "job hopper" and that "it'll be difficult to place you." Is that the new code word for "you're too old to code"? Now that I'm branded as a job hopper, how am I ever supposed to stop being a job hopper? Only low quality, high-turnover companies hire job hoppers, so I end up permanently stuck doing more job hopping.

Do you or anyone you know have some dev work that you could hand off to me ASAP? Anything that can keep me going to live to fight another day to someday achieve my dream of founding my own startup (I have had the startup idea that I want to build for 8 years--it's a far out crazy idea for a hardware device involving Lidar that nobody else is doing). Maybe your company or your friend's company is looking for a Node.js/Javascript web developer? I'm open to working with any language on any project. I have also worked with a little of Go/Python/Perl/PHP/Scala/Lua/C. I don't have any means of transportation, which has severely constricted my options in the vast sprawl of LA, so you would have to get me to you or I can work remotely. I do keep clean enough that if you passed me on the street you wouldn't even realize I'm long-term homeless. I should also add that I'm open to working anywhere world-wide, and not just in LA.

Thank you for reading this and thank you for any help or advice or encouraging words.

unhomedcoder@tutanota.com
I know we are not supposed to discuss dead comments, but Gusen is some kind of odd propaganda bot, right? Those comments are bonkers.
Can someone summarize the context behind this post?
The IIHS rates TM3 it's top tier aware of Top Safety Pick+ which is a higher rating than the Bolt (noted in the article)[0]. This doesn't factor in autopilot although it does evaluate collision avoidance systems, which must rate advanced to superior.

[0]https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/tesla-earns-its-first-ever-...
>does that mean you can smoke with no health consequences by stopping when you're middle aged?

The answer to that is clearly no.

Young people aren't immune to cancer; they're also increasing their risk of developing cancer while they smoke...

Additionally, this study only speaks of lung health. There is also lots of evidence out there showing smoking adversely affects cardiovascular health... whether you heal from those effects is another matter.

On a personal anecdote, both my grandfathers smoked their entire lives - and both had thoracic aortic aneurysms (one actually had his rupture and survived miraculously despite a 97-99% mortality rate). Anyhow, tobacco use is a risk factor for developing thoracic aneurysms - and I can't see how one's aorta would ever go completely back to normal after developing such a malformation...
Cool. A while ago I wanted to report bugs wrt notebooks but the bug reporting flow asked me to turn off extensions, and after turning off extensions notebooks no longer work, so I didn’t even know where to report the bugs.
Lsd lasts twice as long, and while the peak is substantially similar, the come up and down is fairly different — lsd tends to make things mostly funny or amusing, and mushrooms have an almost mdma like euphoria and feelings of love. I described mushrooms as being like getting a hug from the universe.

I’d choose mushrooms over lsd any day of the week.

But at their core, they are very very very similar experiences, to the point that I think it would be difficult to tell which you took if you didn’t know.
Unclear. We know how authors get paid for Kindle Unlimited because KDP is a self-publishing platform that anyone can use and Amazon has pages that explain everything when you go through the KDP signup process (plus reports from literally hundreds of authors who are enrolled in the program and post on forums/facebook groups about it). We have significantly less insight into the closed-door negotiations that happen between Netflix and Paramount Pictures to allow Indiana Jones movies to appear on Netflix; there are strategic reasons for both sides of the deal to want the details to be kept secret.
That is good, but it is besides the point.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

- Upton Sinclair
Ground-based light pollution is a far, far bigger problem than low orbit satellites.
Someone I work with on react-native just sped up large text parsing by 40% or so.
the best thing about this was discovering https://git.sr.ht/
> Can you imagine what data science/analysis would feel like with multiple low-level Pandas competitors, from different corporations? Each one would feel consistent, but none would work together (and imagine building an ML platform which supported multiple dataframe sources).

> I do sometimes miss working in R - yes, R takes flexibility to a fault, but there's a consistent set of primitives that mostly get reused. Perhaps R gives off that impression because of the work done by Hadley and others to build tooling according to the tidyverse principles. I wonder if Julia will combine the best of these worlds in the future.

Funny that you mention R, which has exactly what you criticized before (base R data.frame, tidyverse/tibble, data.table), not to mention at least 6 different packages/datastructures to represent time series.
The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin (2005)
It's possible to use erasure coding to avoid needing that many more copies. With 75% erasure blocks you can lose any 75% of the nodes hosting the data without compromising availability, and that only requires the equivalent of four copies. Moreover, distributing that number of copies has negligible overhead when data is requested much more often than it's modified, as is normally the case.

It's also possible to cache lookups in the same way as DNS by having larger nodes cache the lookup data and having smaller nodes query them, so that the most common queries are satisfied using a single request to a lookup cache.

Meanwhile the advantage of a P2P network is that most of the nodes are client devices which would have been powered on regardless, instead of needing additional devices dedicated only to hosting data.
Mushrooms also wear off a lot sooner. You’d be just getting going with lsd by the time you were almost done with mushrooms.
Note that this study only focuses on lung cancer. It studies genetic damage to the bronchial epithelial cells. It does not study other diseases caused by smoking, like COPD which involves lung performance getting gradually worse until you die from suffocation.

COPD is actually cause of more deaths [1] than lung cancer and it does NOT get better if you stop smoking. It can only be slowed down, e.g. if you stop smoking.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...
Respect for science and clear evidence are becoming primo commodities these days - it seems all over the world.

Get ready to live in a world of a LOT of stupid in it, and keep your wits about you.

It's all a simulation nothing is real NOTHING MATTERS.
I don't know why you're getting down-voted. This is basically the answer. In general, politicians tend to be very smart people - you have to be smart to convince people to vote for you (or even in dictatorships be your enforcers). However, the economic incentives are by and large not aligned and therefore decisions poor in the long term get taken.
Australia (as well as the US, UK, NZ, and I'm sure many other countries) have a two-party system as defined by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-party_system

In Australia, in recent times that's the Liberal Party and the Australian Labour Party.

While there have been influential minor parties, and even independent persons who hold the balance of power on occasion, the executive leadership is always from one of two major parties. Those parties may change over time, fwiw.
Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the Little Ice Age
My grandmother smoked for 40 years, stopped in her early 60s. Sill died from COPD and lung cancer in her early 80s and was miserable for the last 5 years of her life.

Don't smoke kids.
I think your username adequately describes the state of your generation (guessing you are about 30, based on your thinking); the smoldering remnants of a great fire that once was.

The idea that, somehow, your actions do not define your value is so fundamentally broken that it isn’t found elsewhere in nature. There isn’t a single creature in nature that gets to be valuable in the eyes of the very objective and unrelenting judge that is evolution.

We are fortunate that the younger generation, filled with potential, is almost here to replace the vast void.
I started smoking on the day of my 16th birthday, which, at the time and place, was the legal smoking age. It was irresistible for a high school kid with a job. By the end of that first pack I was completely hooked and smoking would be a permanent part of daily life.

I only smoked for about a year before deciding to quit. Unfortunately, I took me 12 years to finish quitting.

During that period of my physical prime (ages 18 to 26), I couldn't climb a flight of stairs or ride a bike without getting completely winded. Any sort of physical exertion would result in gasping, coughing up phlegm, and seeing stars. A pick-up game of basketball or street hockey was out of the question.

I finally kicked it at age 30, 14 years after I had started. Although it took a while, by age 35 I could physically do things my 20-year-old self could only dream of. Like riding a bike up a hill, or exerting oneself at the gym.

I'm now in my mid-40s, and while the rest of body is now deteriorating at an alarming rate, my lungs are quite literally the only part of my body I never think about. I'm physically stronger and healthier in my mid-40s than I was at age 20.

So if you smoke, quit. Your lungs will recover.
This is great. Reminds me of Bret Victor’s work.
I think you don't understand how mortality rates are calculated. This also explains why you took two completely unrelated measure and compared them to each other in your original post. Deaths per 100,000 is based on total population.

The SARS mortality rate for China in 2003 was ~0.02 (349 deaths, 1.3billion population). I was being nice to you and using just the population of southern china where the sars outbreak primarily occurred.

Whether that's the most appropriate measure for this comparison isn't clear, which is why included the other measures.
ALiceML is indeed a rather nice set of extensions to SML. If you pull the code from here:

https://github.com/aliceml/aliceml-alice

and make sure you have all the dependencies installed first, it does build on linux and its fun to play with.

I am currently working on a AliceML derived language and if there is any interest I'll post a note on HN - once its a bit futher down the line.
Honestly if I was forced at gun point to get in a car with someone under the influence, I’d choose someone on mushrooms over someone shit-faced drunk.
Bear in mind that when students and employees are on their school/work network, they often have to accept the network admin's certificate authority in order to be allowed to connect to the network. So effectively, the network admin can spoof SSL certificates and MITM traffic, even if it's encrypted.
FWIW, Privacy One Group Ltd has "invested" in Startpage since January 2019. Privacy One Group Ltd is a separate entity operated by System1, an advertising company. Startpage does still seem to get regular 3rd party audits to keep everything in check though.

More info on this can be found in this reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_i...
>Maybe that was why Montana enacted actual limits and fines later on.

No one in Montana cared. 'reasonable and prudent' was struck down due to a simple court case where a defendant appealed his reckless driving conviction because he thought the law was too vague.

https://law.justia.com/cases/montana/supreme-court/1998/b182...

The Montana Supreme Court agreed with his assessment, and as a result, a numeric speed limit was instituted.
Contrary to what Musk & co's claims it doesn't look like this will help the people/countries who actually need access, at least not with the prices that they are saying they will charge. Someone scatter-plotted the GDP of countries and internet penetration, and it turns out none of the countries who need access can afford starlink internet. (There are many other similar calculations out there on the interwebs).

https://twitter.com/chmn_victor/status/1219721896075366403

Most likely this is mainly to be used by bankers and computer stock traders to buy and sell stocks even faster over the ocean.
// Holy shit, is this the cleanest fucking frontend file you've ever seen?!
ubersearch($_GET, $embedded = false, $template = true);

Yup, that tracks
An open source alternative to GitHub
When Dinosaurs Left Tracks in a Land Consumed by Lava and Fire
Korea to Partner with IT Giants to Run Startup Accelerator Program
The inverse is also true.

"It is easy to get men to claim something, when their salary depends on them making the claim."

As supporting evidence: Statistics.
If you haven't heard, this is how Xkeyscore scheme is said to work to dodge 4th amendment:

US lets UK spies read US wiretaps they legally cannot, and construct dossiers from them. Then the UK side does the same.

Both then share the resulting work with each other.
Is WeChat an example of React Native?
Go Slugs!

The astrophysics PhD program is very good. Top 40 worldwide physics and earth sciences undergrad programs too.

The forest hippies are mostly harmless, though they will try to expand your mind and sneak into the dorm showers from time to time.

Is the totem pole still by the cat graveyard? What a great view up there of SC on Friday nights as the smoke, err, fog rolled in about the drum circles.
If I go out for a walk in the park, I still have a right to say that people can’t murder me and sell my organs?

???

As a (supposedly democratic) society we (supposedly) decide what is acceptable and what is not. These decisions are, in the eyes of the universe, quite arbitrary. You may be discovering that now, but some of us have known it for a while.
One way to improve this is to look at the confession pages and the meme page data of the universities.
Though getting all this data will be cumbersome.
I had a similar experience.

I was also frustrated by the Redux stack, which was odd because I quite like it on web. But in RN, I kept thinking over to how networking and data work in Cocoa Touch and Swift and wondering why we were building these byzantine solutions to problems that iOS already had built-in, elegant solutions for.

Now I’m digging in to SwiftUI, which seems to take best from AppKit and React... I don’t think I’ll be doing another RN project.
Unfortunately it took 30 years and countless more damaged lives to get here:(
Very interesting answer, never seen it offered in that perspective but true nonetheless.
If that is not good enough for some folks, there is also the print version of the site. A big 700+ page thing that really need to get my chops into. Been on my bookshelf for about 6 months just calling me to delve into its full glory.
I interviewed at a big insurance company for the team measuring the data used the safe driver discount and they basically said something to the affect of "who says we have to decide anyone is safe ;)... or with enough data, maybe one day we won't have to insure unsafe people at all"

So good call holding your data close here.

Edit: Exited the interview half way through, would never work there
> One fundamental reason is that ZFS is philosophically and practically opposed to rewriting existing data on disk; ...

That's not quite the issue.

The issue is that PHYSICAL and HASH block addresses are stored together, intermingled, which means that the PHYSICAL addresses get hashed into the copy-on-write tree, which means any block can't be relocated (i.e., have its physical address(es) changed) without rewriting the path to the block containing a pointer to it as well.

I.e., ZFS is not content-addressed storage. In CAS the hash of a block is its pointer, and the physical addresses are stored separately (not intermingled with hashed data) and not hashed into the tree.

IF instead ZFS had used ONLY the hash value as the blkptr_t, and then had stored the physical addresses at the end of metadata blocks and then NOT hashed the physical addresses into the tree, THEN relocating would be a lot easier. Not trivial, mind you, just easier. Not trivial because of snapshots and dedup: you can find a singular pointer to any data block in the absence of snapshots and dedup, and rewrite the physical address stored nearby, but you can't easily find duplicate pointers, so to relocate blocks in CAS w/ snapshots and dedup you have to leave behind forwardings, or have a database of relocations (which is costly).

> (In the grand tradition of computer science we can sort of solve this problem with a layer of indirection, where the top layer stays immutable but the bottom layer mutates. This is awkward and doesn't entirely satisfy either side, and is in fact how ZFS's relatively new pool shrinking works.)

Yes, and proper CAS also has a layer of indirection, and some awkwardness around snapshots and dedup (see above). For mirror drive evacuation there's nothing to do. For shrinking operations you only need to relocate blocks whose physical addresses are beyond the end of the new device (but you'll need a fair bit of swing storage for the interim relocation or to use as forwardings until you've found and fixed all pointers to any one relocated block).

I've said this many times in the past, and always someone complains that not hashing the physical addresses is unsafe, as if the hash of the contents is not safe but hash of contents and physical address could somehow be so much safer (it can't be much safer, if at all). And again, see CAS.
I'd say bloat is bad. And as the browser comes to encompass more OS functionality it does so more poorly than the underlying OS could.
AppleTV+, Numbers, Pages, Keynote, Mail, iCloud Drive, Photos, Apple Music, Maps, Find My....
One thing the article doesn’t mention is what stopping means. I can guess the more time passes the better the healing but if they said after x years after stopping the effect is profound.
That's a good question, because I've had no luck finding an example.

I do recall reading about it, but that could have been decades ago. And it's hard to find old stuff.

What I find is about contributions from employees of government contractors, and from government employees. So maybe that's been the driver for the requirement.
Other car manufacturers would be smart to source their batteries from Tesla.
You can still just have a local pihole dns server with your web traffic going out over your mobile isp.
Do you have proof?
I also smoked when I was younger, because advertising gave me the information that it was “cool”, but hey, if it weren’t for the advertising I never would have known!
Sure but that article was about using it on a LTE connection and the GP was asking about Pi in general. In the articles setup it's going to be bottlenecked on the cellular network anyway.

(The Pi 3 also is 4 years old now and you wouldn't want to buy it today)
I used to work 80 hrs a week. Get drunk with colleagues 3 or 4 nights a week and took recreational drugs. Even though my team was crushing it, this Life wasn’t for me, I was miserable inside. I lost my marriage, kids moved to another country with the mother.

Fast forward a few years I take LSD first time. This experience compels me to clean up my diet. Over the next 24 months I completely stop drinking and recreational drugs and have a
healthy diet.

Inspired, I go to Peru to study Plant medicines with a Shipibo Maestro Shaman. And now after years of training I serve this medicine to people walking my old life in the cities. I can’t consider it work because it’s my passion, it’s a self perpetuating energy loop. I’m so happy that I just don’t want to escape anything.

Without having tried recreational drugs I doubt I would have tried LSD. Without LSD I would not have ended up with in the Amazon. Money is no longer a concern, it’s a by product of my passion.
> So he literally just framed this as a 'cost of doing business'?

How would you prefer he frame it?

Maybe I'm jaded or cynical now
If you don’t mind me asking, what was your job before and what is it now? Were you in software in both cases, but just drastically different roles? Or totally different?
Pet photo contest app question
Hi all and thanks in advance for taking the time to check out my post. I am conceptualizing an app thats an animal photo contest. Users would be able to upload pictures of their pets within an allotted time frame and then other users would be able to decide, within that pool of uploaded pets, which one is the cutest (ranked 1st to 8th). It would be set up as two pets going head to head and a user would have to choose between one out of the two. The pet that is chosen would receive points of some sort.

The bottleneck Im running into is.. Lets say the number of entries grows to a high number (1,000 + entries), from a programmatic perspective how can the app equally give each pet a chance of being seen or properly ranked without redundancies or being missed out?

Hopefully Im making sense. All answers are welcome. Thanks yall!