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> How about putting a small tariff on every phone call originating from countries that do not shut down these fraudulent call centers?

The calls are coming from Canada. These guys are buying Voip and dialing over the net.
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You mean like ... South Korea, New Zeland, and the UK who are already there?

Seriously, the USA aren't the only armed forces that patrol the area.
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Pony's ORCA GC is supposed to be the faster than Erlang's BEAM/HiPE and Azul C4. Ideally, it would be extracted from that language and examples given how to integrate it with the likes of LLVM (it's not compatible OOTB with LLVM's API because of different synchronization primitives).

https://www.ponylang.io/media/papers/orca_gc_and_type_system...
Love to see the progress on Crystal, hope that they manage to sustain its development.
On the other hand, I think the most important thing in making developers replaceable is the degree to which the codebase explicitly contains all the information relevant to it.

Lifetimes are an additional, important piece of information that would have previously been something a programmer would have to have an intuition for, or that would need to be put in documentation.

Now, that work is delegated to the compiler, and so, your individual developer is somewhat more fungible.

I don't know if rust is specifically the future in this regard, but I think if I was a machivellian manager, I'd be interested in replacing instances of human intuition and group knowledge with tooling, as much as possible. The burrow checker is one such tool - even if automatic garbage collection is probably a more straightforward one.
At least one person is taking the news as “I need a new job” situation.

https://twitter.com/whyhiannabelle/status/122810842950535168...
I just wish that they would had chosen another name for the OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_(computer)

https://www.cfbsoftware.com/modula2/
Your experience is incredibly close to my own. I'd love to know if you also feel the same about a few other issues:

- I used to have a massive impostor syndrome due to not having a CS degree. Joining FAANG alleviated perhaps 80% of it. (Just to be clear, that's not the reason why I joined FAANG; I just wanted to try a large corp after years in tiny startups.) It feels good, but I'm mourning it a little, because I believe it was a driving factor to how intensely I was trying to better myself.

- I enjoyed solving all these problems. There's beauty in finding the most optimal solution to each of them. Binary heaps are plain beautiful, and suffix trees and arrays still blow my mind years later. I wonder if people here dislike this stuff because they were forced to learn it in college for a piece of paper, while we learned it on our own volition for a big jump in compensation. Maybe I'm just projecting because I hated school and college; many HNers seem to have enjoyed their studies, which is awesome.
I'm principal-ish engineer level, and, after being tempted to go to a FAANG, but turned off by the hazing rituals (and other behavior of some of them), I ended up choosing a startup a few months ago.

Even in best case I can imagine for eventual equity liquidation for the startup, the startup pays only about 1/3 what Google would, and the stress is high at times-- but I've already made crucial contributions to the company's success, my coworkers didn't try to haze me or play other arrogant power games during the recruiting process, and there's a genuine sense of don't-be-evil.
Eh, before we go looking for intelligent life up there, how about finding some down here first?
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this popped up a few days ago. Could become an interesting alternative ode day. It's p2p based (no blockchain nonsense):

> Session is an open-source, public-key-based secure messaging application which uses a set of decentralized storage servers and an onion routing protocol to send end-to-end encrypted messages with minimal exposure of user metadata. It does this while also providing common features of mainstream messaging applications

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306140

whitepaper: https://getsession.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Session-Wh...
Dart actually observed this exact thing and added if expressions inside the language; more exactly, "if" works as an expression if it is inside of an initialization of a collection. It might seem a bit less elegant that the semantics of such an important token changes with context, but I think it solves this particular problem pretty well.

Dart also has spread operators and for-expressions to make writing "UI with code" much easier. It's fresh to see how language design choices are being made more by pragmatic ones (for Dart it's the fact that it's primarily being used for Flutter to make UIs) instead of ideological ones (One might claim that "if" should be a pure expression following the tradition from functional languages like ML, but that also has its own set of problems in a language designer's perspective)

https://medium.com/dartlang/making-dart-a-better-language-fo...
Run a shady binary that seems to not have a certain author/website, as administrator, so it modifies VMWare binaries? A rather... curious approach, but for some reason common in Windows among e.g. gamers.

I've ran MacOS in VirtualBox iirc, without shady patches―though it probably was in Linux.
Specific focus of getting the best workers? Since when is competence divorced from humanity? A business isn’t a family, I don’t see your perspective here.

The alternative seems to be that they keep poor talent because it’s more... humane?
I fail to see how a bare bones language is a replacement for a language with Lisp/Smalltalk like expressive power.

The only thing missing is having more love for JIT compilers among the Python community.
Many theories and opinions . Here is an observation from someone involved with GCP more than many of you (especially more than the WSJ journalists) - These job cuts are not an indication of the health (or lack of it) of GCP division. From the familiarity I got as a partner, it's probably the consolidation of the sales function. Inside Sales Reps (ISRs) being moved to Field Sales Reps (FSRs) and some of the ISRs being asked to find jobs elsewhere because the strategy is to avoid duplication of efforts and close more deals.
Why isn't Twitter using and backing ActivityPub?

It sounds pretty much what Facebook has done with login with Facebook for developers. Except that the network effects aren't controlled by 1 commercial company but is an open source effort.
Shrug recursion, where it makes sense, is wonderful and fun. I’m always happy when I find a problem where it makes sense, because those tend to be interesting problems. But in a lot of roles, working in languages like Python and Java, it just isn’t the best option very often.
Are you still looking for a FE role in the CDN industry?
What field accepts or rejects html? What are you talking about?
Will be rebuilding reposits by pumping solar won algea into depleted repositories.
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I've tried to use the web speech API in a browser-based educational game, yet the tech isn't well mature yet, except on mobile maybe.
- The mic on laptop & PC are noisy and mobile ones are better in suppressing noise
- Apple, Google and Microsoft have huge cloud-based API yet other browsers don't yet.

But i hope in few years speech API (both synthesis and recognition) will be a solved problem with strong open source alternatives
PCB Mills create a lot of fiber glass powder. That thing is not healthy to inhale.

You can buy PCB of other materials such as compressed papper (F2?) but they are not easy to get hold off.
The company keeps track to make sure people take off the minimum amount. After that take off as much as you need. I don’t keep track but I’ve taken off a day every other week for months. Comes down to company culture and how healthy and focused it is.
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Nice one!

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Does Signal have or plan to have an open source client? Not necessarily freely licensed, just with some minimal auditable component available (like Tarsnap.)

I have no reason not to trust the app, but it would be great if the trust in Signal was strengthened by knowing that (at least) the client source code had been publicly audited and could be verified and built by end users.

Too tin-foil-hatty?
Been surprised plenty by “overly cautious” drivers, mostly having to do with slowing down or stopping unexpectedly.

Folks that hit the brakes crossing a green light. Braking well before the off ramp so they are going 40 on the highway. Slowing down while merging.

The worst ones are those that are scared to go but decide too late. Like stopping in the middle of the intersection while turning left because there is a car coming from the distance but late enough they end up blocking the left lane going straight.
Are you prepared to rely on foreign governments protecting your interests? And what happens if those countries you mentioned adopt the same mindset?
I have always found coding interviews weird.

For example, you don't ask a carpenter if they know what a dovetail joint is. You don't ask a bricklayer on which brand of bricks he prefers, or how tall his last wall was.
You certainly don't ask a mechanic how an internal combustion engine works!

Sure throw a few algorithms at entry level employees, with no experience, to make sure they understand the basics. But not experienced developers!
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What does Twitter stand to gain from it? They’re also notorious for disabling 3rd party integrations and seem to prefer a strong walled garden.
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I have been working in the banking industry since 2015 as an Oracle database developer and contractor and having a few hundred or several thousand tables in a single database schema is typical. In a single ETL or ELT process you can have several different tables such as staging tables, configuration tables, tables for slowly changing dimensions, enrichment tables, configuration tables, temporary tables, tables for exchange partition, etc.
The position of the oil based economies will really be interesting, if/when we decide to disincentivise extracting the remaining fossil fuels from the ground using trade policy, international institutions etc. Will there be a climate denialist bloc vs the rest of the world bloc split, with the latter trying to use embargos etc to stop the oil producers? Or can the oil producers be bribed and coaxed to fall in line.
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Ask HN: Best COA for an exploded sunroof in the UK?
I experienced a terrifying event the other day. While driving on a motorway almost as fast as the speed limit, panoramic sunroof of my BMW spontaneously exploded with a huge noise. It's a 3.5 years old SUV, all windows and sunroof closed at the time, everything is factory-fitted and I'm a very cautious and safe driver. Thankfully, I didn't panic and cause a serious accident but instead stayed calm and pulled over.

My car is now in a BMW service pending an initial investigation. Even if the damage is repaired, this is a much more serious problem in my opinion and I will never feel safe in a car with a sunroof from this point.

I am not a British citizen and have lived here for a few years - so friends living in the UK: what would be your best course of action in an event like this? I would highly appreciate any advice you may have!

PS: This is how it looks like just after the incident: https://imgur.com/a/gFVHnCL
> entertaining map of mathematics

They have also done videos on Map of Computer Science and Map of Physics. Do check them out.
Because without some ounce of truth to back it up, it's just a conspiracy theory.
I don't have any feedback or strong opinions on this, but the concept of mapping (x,y,z)=>bool and having it produce a 3d object is new to me. This is a very cool demonstration; thank you for sharing.
Pleroma guy here.
Look into pleroma!
It's very lite weight, coded in elixir, and full of excellent hackers
I often imagine there is something like "subspace" or faster-than-light communication, and species across our galaxy are a bunch of chatterboxes chatting away.

The only problem is we don't know how to tune in to join the conversation.

I still think we should keep trying to find them, though.
How do you think Twitter makes money?
From my personal experience with not having a TV for the last ~10 years. I think the reason this comes up a lot is because people talk a lot about what on TV. When I was one of the only people around who did not have a TV and the conversation turned to some TV program, I was "forced" to say that I did not have access to it and couldn't have seen it. I think some people took it as slightly condesending that I actively choose to remove some activity from my life they themselves enjoyed.

When there are only a few people in a group who do not do as everyone else and it's a frequent conversation topic, they stick out. I have been on the other side with veganism. I'm not vegan. People talk a lot about food. Vegans say they don't eat meat. I would be slightly disheartened that they can't relate to the tasty greasy burger I was taking about.

As a lot of my peers now don't have flow TV and a fair amount is vegan, the default of everybody, my self included, is not to assume that you have a TV or eat meat, but to ask if you don't know. When you don't have a TV program or some types of food in common, the conversation shifts to something else. I see a lot less friction now than a few years ago.
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One of my favorite websites is clocking in at 25 years now- Marathon's Story [0], a website dedicated to the lore of Bungie's Marathon series.

[0] http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
That is because proving that it isn't is a major task that involves dissecting the codebase, its current specs and planned future features (a seemingly pointless abstraction now can be the groundwork for a new module that will appear soon[0]). Thus the asymmetry between adding and removing abstractions.

[0] where soon either means really soon because product management needs it yesterday or never because there is too much work to do in other places.
I think the methane clathrate risk has been downgraded in the current science? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis#Curre...
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You can also use a Circuit Scribe pen [0] to draw the circuits directly without the messy step of acid etching the plate. Related [1].

0. https://www.circuitscribe.com/
1. https://chibitronics.com/sailboat-card/
> ActivityPub prevents that a social media platform becomes a silo (see photo) that can’t communicate with other platforms.

I wish that were true. In practice, server admins are more than happy to block federation with entire other domains (and all associated users, hundreds or thousands at a time) based on little more than gossip and rumor.

Imagine if email services worked this way! “subscriber@otherhost is rumored to be slightly politically oriented in a way we don’t like, so we as admins have prevented everyone@thishost from mailing everyone@otherhost, and vice versa”.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/12600

“the internet treats censorship like damage and something something”

I’m glad that, in practice, you can still email people who are destination-server-adjacent to users your local mailserver admin hates. (Of course, mailservers can configure to drop mail from specified MXes too—but they don’t. Usually they get spam-foldered.)

PS: I’m on the fediverse at @sneak@sneak.berlin and would love more people to follow.
Seems as if unapproved comments got auto hidden after a few days or a week, all that spam would disappear?

There are real comments too, though, starting from 8 years ago: "I can't say that I would ever manage to live like this, but I applaud their motivations behind it. // ... Why they don’t use automobiles ... // Actually, some do. ... Local church elders basically determine what is acceptable ..."
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So what? I can give you a point-by-point rebuttal of everything on that page.

> The standalone legacy SDK and appcfg tooling

Just use the newer `gcloud` command-line tool.

> Go 1.9 (GA) and Node.js 8 (GA)

Upgrade your language man. This is PaaS. You're expected to keep your app up to date.

> Admin API v1beta4/v1beta5

These are beta versions of the API. Why don't use migrate to the GA versions?

Etc, etc. In fact the large number of deprecations on that page only shows how rapidly new features and runtimes and frameworks are being developed to replace old ones.
Not defending Google, but this is dangerous myopia:

> Those are the kinds of mistakes that kill most companies.

All companies make big mistakes and burn lots of money on failed projects. The difference between a medium-sized company and a huge company is that a huge one can absorb the cost of failure, shrug and carry on. Medium-sized one will indeed die.

The difference between a large company and a huge company is that while both can survive the cost of a failed megaproject, for a large company the failure is probably enough to warrant a rethink and change in strategy. A huge company knows (from their aggregate financial metrics, of course) that what they are doing is right and proper, and will take the failure as just one more datapoint.

The moral is that there is no moral. (Or if we're talking business, morals.) Wild success begets arrogance, which begets organisational cargo-culting.
> trivial toy examples with no real world application

It teaches you how to write malloc. Plenty of the examples have real world applications. If you want a book on architecture then get a book on architecture. K&R is about C.
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> sorry but remote database = postgres, mysql (or any relational db server)

You can use open source libraries like Zeoslib (https://zeoslib.sourceforge.io/) or mORMot (https://synopse.info/fossil/wiki?name=SQLite3+Framework).
All my JLCPCB orders are moving and arriving without an issue but that is not the case with their parts supplier (LCSC) or others.
The point is that the mere fuzziness of a given line is not a reason to doubt that a legal distinction can be drawn. All OP did was to show that the line is fuzzy. I was criticizing OP's argument, not presenting a positive argument by analogy. Perhaps a legal line can't be drawn between money and speech, but if so, this can't be the case merely because the logical boundary between the two is fuzzy.

In fact, any disanalogy only lends further support to my point. If the First Amendment doesn't even permit you to say anything you like, then it surely doesn't permit you to spend money any way you like!

If it were really impossible to draw a line between money and speech, then the First Amendment would protect all kinds of dubious financial schemes. It doesn't.
Just curious to understand how do you currently do ?. Does OpenCollective solve your problem ?.

Apart from individual/company liked projects and you can consider foundations like apache, mozilla which have contributed a lot to the community..
I have couple of sites I built in 2005 with plain procedural php and they are still running absolutely fine today on php 7.4 with no major rewrites.
1. Don't get discouraged. As a founder myself, I can tell you this: "this is just the Beginning of the beginning of the beginning"

2. If you truly believe your idea is worth it, and have some cash set aside, I highly recommend you hire someone to build a decent website. I actually went with https://draftss.com/ - if you truly know what you want, you should have a logo + website ready within one month or so. I know it sounds like a lot of time, but in the long run, it'll feel like nothing.

3. Either do marketing yourself, or hire someone - to truly see if there's interest, you should spend at least $500-1000 / month, and see what that gets you (feedback, subscriptions, etc). Then decide how to continue.

4. A bit more detail on marketing - be sure you do it correctly, if you decide to do it yourself. It took me a looong time to realize I was wasting money big time, until I hired a marketing person.

Good luck!
I think the really good deal is being in a country where the entire college education is $4000.
> A mute-able variable

This would be a variable that can be muted. More commonly, when people refer to "mutable" variables, they mean variables that can be mutated. It's not clear what muting a variable would mean.
AWS and Azure seem to both have growth and profit...
I instead find that when using functional languages the code begs you to go in a small, tiny function.
It makes the intent much more clear about what that code is doing and 99% of the time you don’t need to know how is doing it.
Obviously if that code is used only once then it doesn’t make sense to extract it, but I find out that small pure functions are really composable, powerful and reusable.
Maybe the best example is the pipe operator definition in F#:

let (|>) x f = f x

It’s extremely simple, extremely powerful and it’s used pretty much everywhere.
> the real estate market dictates you must earn that income to stick around the bay.

Well, there's your problem right there.

There are plenty of smaller tech hubs around the world.
I have only known about activitypub for a few years but never ventured into learning about it. If I wanted to contribute eventually how and where should I start? Thanks.
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