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Ask HN: What was the craziest/dedicated act you did for your job/business?
Posted my story in reddit and got some funny and interesting stories - please, share yours!

Mine:

As a hardware startup, we send a package (very rare and important components for mounting) to one of our engineering teams in a neighboring country. Using express (the most expensive) delivery as we always do - with promised delivery in 3 days.
- Then Europe gets hit hard by Covid-19
- Airports closed and days pass
- After 3 weeks our package is still “on the way”
- When checking the tracking it reports it to be still with border customs for the last 2 weeks (obviously stuck)
- So I decide to file a complaint - customer support says it may take up to 3 months; it was for us impossible to wait
- I start calling one post service after another, asking friends and friends of friends to find me a number to the international investigation department (which is private as I was informed)
- Writing dozens of emails to different levels of the delivery monster and learning how the process of complaining works
- I'm even trying to get in touch with people from border customs to somehow push the whole process from the other side - unsuccessful
- Then I realize I can get hired by the delivery company itself, to get inside and just find the package on my own
- So I find an open low-skill position in their airport warehouse with an option to start right next week ... PERFECT! ... Send the CV ... get in touch with their HR, fill the online form for the position, and am eagerly waiting to start a new career - at least in the meantime I will find the effin package!Luckily a couple days after me signing up, the package moved from the border, and our team received it with an almost month-long delay.(Btw. that official complaint is still not resolved - guess they are still searching for the package and job position also somehow strangely evaporated with no further communication ....)

lesson learned -> when you have something very important - deliver it on your own!
They pay you money because you bring them value. Not because it's fulfilling or not for you in any way.
I don't understand how that's 'ethnically' wrong. Yes, all of FAANG companies are like this. In order to work for these companies you have to become comfortable with the idea of being paid more to do less.

My advice to you would be to pick up a more rewarding side-project, or to use the in-between hours to do something that you enjoy. Ride a bike or something. Think of your main gig as a function to make money. If it's working, and working efficiently, then you have a good function. If you have extra time as a result, use it wisely. Time is your most precious resource, and it is finite.

I spent the first few years of my career as a developer working for startups, and the break-neck pace is thrilling, but the stakes are low - you might break things for a few thousand people, none of whom expect perfection from your application. Think about how many people are potentially affected by a change to (for example) the F codebase. That's why it takes so long to release a one-liner, and justifiably so. For a FAANG company, prudence > professional development. Take the money and run; enjoy your free time and use it wisely.
Triage tent != Triage.

A triage tent is used to sort patients between codes, ie emergencies and non-emergencies when space inside the hospital is unavailable.

Actual triage means when the hospital itself rejects patients because they do not have the resources to treat everyone anymore. From what it reads in the article, the hospitals weren't unable to treat patients on that level yet.

>Yes, all disease could have delayed death/long lasting permanent damage.

And we don't know what Covid-19 brings but that isn't even the point so I'm wondering why you brought it up anyway.
University of Maine creates the world's largest 3D printed boat
Excluding the crappy screen resolution, I am still happy running KDE on my x240 (i5, 8GB RAM) :).
> One small disadvantage not addressed is that neither of the two motherboards support BIOS access via COM1, which is a bummer.

I've always wondered if you could burn SGABIOS (https://code.google.com/archive/p/sgabios/) to a PCI(e) card ROM to get this working on real hardware instead of just in QEMU.

Apparently someone did try this, so it might just work: https://www.flashrom.org/User:GNUtoo/Howto_flash_sgabios_on_...

Maybe I should dig up some old flashrom supported NIC card or something.
Difficulties in Salesforce Implementation and it's solutions
IMO as an individual the best is to either go to SV or stay home.

By moving to some other location you get all the downsides of migrating, few upsides of the best location and no upsides of staying home.
That'd be truly remarkable as in actual magic.

Take this rather simple example:

PointList interpolate(PointList sample_points, OrderedRealNumberList points_to_interpolate);

This function can be auto-documented from its name and the names and types of its arguments alone. No ML required - simple pattern matching and LUTs will do. But then again, do you really need a detailed documentation in such case?

Where a documentation would actually be helpful are cases like this:

SUBROUTINE PCHFE (N, X, F, D, INCFD, SKIP, NE, XE, FE, IERR)

A format commonly found in the FORTRAN code of numeric libraries. If the author(s) didn't document this, an AI wouldn't stand a chance to know what it does.

PCHFE is Piecewise Cubic-Hermite Function Evaluation of course [1] and the parameters aren't exactly self-explanatory either...

[1] http://www.netlib.org/slatec/pchip/pchfe.f
NIST Selects 7 Finalists and 8 Alternates for Round 3 of the PQC Standardization
> For example in Sweden and most of Europe, most devs only make 2x-3x of what the toilet cleaner makes.

Most devs in Europe are massively underpaid, and should work on the internet instead of some local underpaid wage-slave job.

There is a shortage of skilled programmers in the world. There’s no reason to remain underpaid other than really, really wanting to work a very specific set of local timezone hours.
Why not use a Raspberry Pi populated with several USB to console adaptors, there are USB console cables with up to four serial ports per connection which would result in 16 console ports per Pi.
So should every author of the trainingset be attributed?
I think this is only US pop&rock industry, I'm sure there's singers out there better than this. They are awesome, but I don't buy "World gratests...blah". They forgot Ynwie Malmsteem singers, the guy from "Leonardo" song. Sebastian Bach from Skid Row is there? Well...
Yep, more competition, more knowledge and more efficiency is meaning that you can't really push big prices unless you're either going for a massive company (I've seen my day rate as high as 1800 before for doing relatively generic work for gov organizations). When I first started contracting we were replacing a big-4 consulting firm charging 3200/day for some stuff (!) For a UK insurance comoany. Alternatively as I mentioned if you're doing specialist work (code review, hardware, some forms of SE, mainframe testing) you can definitely push the numbers up depending on the client. I have friends still working at several of the larger companies and the day rates really around about 8-900/day on average but they just supplement it by tacking an extra day on whenever they can. All depends on the customer and the sales guy tbh.

On average I'd even say that my day rate went down compared with 10 odd years ago - when you needed an interview at GCHQ to get CHECK - as there were just few people doing it whereas there are loads now.
Want to Become a Unicorn? Buy It, Don’t Build It
The only PDF linked in the blogpost is "Bitwarden Network Security Assessment Report", and it does indeed only cover network related topics. Their earlier report from 2018 covers lots of web/desktop application assessments: https://cdn.bitwarden.com/misc/Bitwarden%20Security%20Assess...

So I wonder if they just forgot to mention that this second audit report doesn't cover that, or if there are more reports coming.
New website launched for VDW Design
Neither scenario at the end of the article (therapist, legal analysis) is particularly futuristic.

From 2019:
https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/eliza-ellie-evolution-a...

From 2018:
https://www.techspot.com/news/77189-machine-learning-algorit...
Is this GPT-3 output?
Dialysis+Catheters+Market+Size
So why does it work better than the commercially available tools at the moment as claimed in the article?
IoT should be the primary adopter of IPv6. those devices don't need to be able to access every server on the internet, and they only run into problems if they connect to a wifi that doesn't support IPv6

if you disagree, i'd appreciate if you could explain why...
From the FAQ's:

Q:What is NRI account?

A:An NRI account is either an NRE or NRO Bank Account made specifically for NRIs.

Q:What are benefits of NRI Account?

A:There are many NRI account benefits. You MUST have one if you are an NRI. You will be able to deposit all Indian deposits, earn high interests, and invest in India through these accounts. There are a lot of tax-savings as well.

Ah, well, that explains everything.
fuck facebook. fuck mark zuckerberg.
At apple, you cannot browse internal resources.
At fb and google, it is called SWE instead of SDE.
Amazon has SDEs. (perhaps netflix too?)

Although you might be smart enough to know that and misdirect.

Even at the best universities, best tech companies, best startups, you will find pools of miserable and unmotivated people.

Don't get stuck.

There are brilliant people everywhere and certainly at faang. Find them, learn, and seize your opportunity to have an interesting life.
Quantum Entanglement Is a Misnomer
The term "Quantum entanglement" is a misnomer that creates conceptual distortions. What we are observing is neither quantum in nature nor entangled.
screw mark suckerberg. he's a dumbasss
Timothy Gowers's response to one questions was interesting:

https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1283771474923462658
I would recommend a thermal pad as an alternative to paste (I bought this: https://www.innovationcooling.com/products/ic-graphite-therm... ).

You won't ever have an issue with dry paste, and from what I can tell the CPU/GPU only runs a degree or so hotter than when using premium thermal paste.
What a tortured logic this interview follow.

It's funny that the period from the second world ward to the neoliberal revolution in the 80's is considered by this guy a bad thing. It was a period of grow shared by a big part of the population. I suppose if you work in the City or Wall Street, something like that looks like the end of the world.

And he believe two contradictory things, he thinks that politicians control the central bank and that they need private saving institutions to control the bond yields. But if you control de central bank you already control the yields (see Japan), you don't need any private institution help.

Mainstream economics is arriving to what Modern Monetary Theory has been telling us the last 20 years. There are not insights in this article that have not been repeated again and again by the MMT people.
You may be confusing the concept of hardware-assisted virtualization with full virtualization. Moreover, the famous Xen paper you've linked to never claimed that x86 didn't support full-virtualization because it did thanks to VMWare.
That's really good. My last article on HN made 40k views and might hardly do $40, hosted on wordpress.

What's the requirements to use this medium pay thing?

Do users have to pay to view the article? I don't think this works for me if it prevents HN visitors from reading it.
Open Source Agents and Projects at New Relic
fuc maxine maxipad.
A new competitor to Drzly arrives in the US
this happens in large companies, not just FAANG. things slow way down since there's a lot more gears turning. also, screw up bad enough and stockholders notice. "well we're suppose to move fast and break things right? " isn't going to get a pass like it would in a small company.
Could you explain your last phrase more concretely?

In my country mortgage loans stop when people don't have the downpayment of 5%-15% of the mortgage or when they have already indebted themselves for more than 45% of their income.

Other loan types are also capped when you debt level exceeds a certain threshold of your income.

This all seems reasonable to me.

It also seems reasonable that banks would not issue more debt to people when their collateral value drops in market values, such as housing market bubble bursts.
Whether it’s well managed conflict or chaos will totally be opinion / politics based. In fact, it’s articles like this one that are exactly the type of thinking used to politically argue that something which is in reality just well managed conflict about urgently needed changes is instead FUD-style disinformation or chaotic unprofessional communication.

“Chaos” is in the eye of the beholder and “don’t create chaos” means stay subservient to the eye of the beholder.
This is a bot???
This is a very interesting perspective, had not noticed this advantage for companies to have more open source projects.
This is super interesting - would you recommend to someone who has never soldered before?
I would like to know how people are judging these painting. I have no knowledge or understanding of abstract paintings. To me the only criteria seems to be does it look "organic", but organic to me is just "not completely random".
Ian Gillan?
David Byron?
"Greatest artists of all time"

Mostly American pop singers.
Samy Kamkar
bookmark this and come back in 20 years. your life should be fulfilling not your job.
Eh, that hair is realistic. Whereas in '62 somebody spent a ton of gel and time combing all those smooth waves.

Can't find a higher-res vid aside from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYdwyiO0Zg
David Lee Roth?

Michael Kiske (Halloween) and Rob Halford (Judas Priest) also had decent ranges.
I run the latest OpenBSD stable and several utilities for myself.

The router and firewall is composed of just standard PF and a config I've built myself based on the networking FAQ.

I also have a bastion host for my home LAN, local DNS caching, a syncthing server, and some useful cron jobs. My goal is to also use it for a home automation hub, but all of those projects are in the future.
I think this sampling is not good enough. Tikona is not even close to being a major player in India. I am paying 3.5$/month for a 4G connection with 1.5 GB data every day.
Portrait of Stefan Klestil and his role at Wirecard
They pay because you wouldn't bring them value if they didn't pay. Otherwise Facebook would be paying the developers of every open source project that they use.
But that is not what Trump is doing. He is using the Fed to take on as much debt in the nation as possible. Why? Because there will be an audit of the Fed and it will be discovered that the Fed has been misusing their funds. This will allow the US government to cry foul and dis-organize the Fed - in effect, declare bankruptcy.

What does that do the US? It basically stimulates the economy by forgiving that debt the Fed bought.

What does it do to the central banks to whom the Fed owes money?

Naysayers take note: The IRS stopped all collection actions back in January. IRS filing and payment deadlines were delayed. How was that possible? The president just can't wave a magic wand and make the Federal Reserve jump through a hoop. Or can he? What's the current EFFR?
Fata Morgana (Mirage)
Are you telling me that if you had the financial freedom to work on any project you wanted, you’d choose what you’re doing right now?
Sofa Mobility Report: Building mobility analytics similar to Apple and Google
No, just a slightly surreal sense of humor.
¿Por qué no los dos?

"The Final Teen Spirit Mashup (Nirvana vs Europe)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr06IyWMf4Y
Fear. It can always get worse.
welcome to the workforce! Where you receive money for doing a task you don't care to do.
Some of us end up working at jobs infinitely worse than adtech, the public service.
Which in turn was because they had no stake in the loan if they sold it on.
Take them both.

Those subjects are the foundations on which practical and applies computer science and programming are built. Not having a thorough understanding of them is like building a house without an understanding of its foundation. Don't be surprised if your magnificent Swamp Castle burns down, falls over, then sinks into the swamp if you don't know about foundations.
very subjective indeed. i find that knowing whether water will feeeze or snow will melt without having to memorize a number for that rather useful.
>Governments have taken control of the money supply.

laughable.

The economist Wolfgang Streeck debunks this entire premise in his book 'how capitalism will end.' after the 1993 financial crisis and 2008 market collapse financial power eclipsed the state through the introduction of debt and credit as the means of financial operation. First at the personal level, through blank-check irresponsible issuance of credit cards and mortage loans, then through the insistance that states and entire nations operate on a debt model, sacrificing traditional tax revenue from the top earners instead for a system of infinite term, low and even zero interest credit. all they have to do is prove their solvency through austerity measures, which absolve the wealthy from paying evermore taxes in the process.

Streeck even highlights how this happens in the EU, with northern nations routinely subsidizing obstinant southern nations in an uncomfortable exchange to push them toward a debt structure that only benefits the wealthiest. He makes a compelling argument that everyone knew what greece was doing, even encouraged it, and yet walked away blameless after the crisis.

the only way central banks benefit the political class is in their employment as a cudgel to punish the wicked. Central banks disarm valid opposition like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Kim Dot Com. Or at least they did, until cryptocurrency.
In Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (Latin) we have č ć š đ ž, but we've just repurposed extra keys from English characters (to the right of l and p).

We've retained x y q (no purpose in our alphabet), making it quite convenient to just type using the native keyboard layout, regardless if I'm writing in my native language or in English.
Mail for Good
I don't know much about the subject, but take Mariah Carey (not trying to pick on the girls, honest), but she can make a really high pitch sound, so does that count? Or does she have to be able to actually _sing_ at that note for it to count?
I’ve been struggling with just purpose in general for years. I’m a husband and father - those are supposed to be my purpose. But sometimes I don’t feel very good at them. Hang in there. We’ll figure this all out.
If it's crying it's not happy. Your job is to figure out what that is and fix it.

My four month old wanted me to hold her up at the door to the kitchen so she could watch mom cook dinner. She cried and cried and cried until I figured that out. Then she was silent. Good luck.
It is not clear but you say you only work one day a week and get away with it, but also blame the tools for the inability to get work done?

The process is supposed to be there to protect things from breaking and for allowing so many people to iterate on the same codebases. If it's just that costly and everyone knows it what is the issue?

You're saying that somehow the cost of you or other teammates is disgusting, which is very funny! Tech companies have some of the highest profit per-employee than any other company. Why are you feeling shame towards this? As long as you are putting in the expected time and effort I really wonder why you would feel shame.

If you think the tools can be improved maybe you can work to improve that for everyone?
You are right about the underpayment, but you're underestimating the challenges of finding good remote working opportunities that pay more. For one thing, why would an American company offer to pay me twice as much as I could make in the UK if I'm in the UK? They only have to offer a little bit more to inceltivize me to take the job.
Thank you. Do you have observations on how easy it is to add a WiFi access point to a pfSense box? I've read some obscure posts on Reddit claiming that it's a hassle and that's the main that scares me.
According to the article, RIPscrip came to market in 1993 and it was being widely advertised to BBS sysops by 1994. From what I remember of this era, that was simply too late to stand a chance against the juggernaut of the web.

NCSA Mosaic (the first popular graphical web browser) came out in 1992. By the time I first got web access in the fall of 1994, the web was already far larger and more fascinating than any BBS I had ever used. And then Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released on December 15, 1994, and I remember that all my geek friends had concluded that the world was about to change. The early web was captivating.

In 1994 and 1995, a proprietary graphics format from a 6 person company stood no chance.

I do miss BBSs. The shared a lot of the good aspects of forum culture in the mid-2000s, but for a local audience. And they definitely had a true geek spirit. But the early web brought the world to your fingertips.
Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack
A char is a scalar value, rather: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.char.html
That's still coming via the API. They may be blocking any
large chunks of text from being reproduced, rather than individual characters (which would be harder to police).
May I suggest finding a cause you truly believe in and volunteering your tech skills. Most non-profits and advocacy groups have such a huge tech deficit that they could use someone like you.
You can't talk about ANSI and RIP graphics without covering the art scene that existed around that..

A lot of it was banners for pirate boards, but the art that those folks managed to squeeze out of text characters was amazing.

Textfiles.com has a good archive: http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansi/

Tip: use the (?) next to the source file to view the rendered PNG
Awesome, glad it was useful! Yes, great point there's only like 15ish in there so far. I do have a backlog of ~25ish more still to add that I'll be adding over the next few weeks. Hopefully I should be able to find enough content after that!
To raise capital and fuel their growth. They raised 2 billion earlier this year at a price of 767 (1650 now) to fuel their growth because they thought there share price was high then. It seems like a perfect time to announce another massive capital raise to fuel their growth now that their share price is double what it was back then and this page [0] lists 1 trillion dollars worth of sp500 index funds and I know vanguard sp500 etf (voo) which isn't in that list has another 250 billion. sp500 is about 27 trillion so that list alone represents about 4.6% of the market.

TSLA joining the sp500 means those index funds alone will have to buy about 4.6% of TSLA to rebalance so this to me looks like an amazing opportunity to raise a ton of cash to fuel cybertruck/semi/roadster growth. 4.6% of TSLA 300 billion market cap could fuel a 13.8 billion dollar capital raise which could be announced after sp500 inclusion as a quick way to get those funds to the proper weighting.

At least that is my idea. During the call, they said they have 8 billion in cash so they don't need to raise any more capital. But then again, elon also said that right before their 2 billion dollar raise earlier this year so...

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/101415/4-best-...
I wish everyone in web developemnt stopped only looking at the thing that makes it easier for themselves and start to focus on what's best for the users.