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Ask HN: Need help and Advice for a Jack of all
Hey HNers,

Please bear with me and forgive for throwaway account

Who am I?
40 years old self taught programmer. working as a CTO with 3 startups: (Junior dev salary but gives me flexibility)

Situtation:
I am slacking for the last 15 years. What I mean?
After 5 years with largest enterprise software company in the world left it as it was not satisfying
Blew 40k USD of my and my parents money on MBA (I realised that the MBA education was not good until unless you know clearly what you want from it and work towards it)

Have been working with startups and leaving them early as I loose interest.

My wife is in a high corporate job and has given me enough cushion to play around stuff. She is the bread winner and we also live just enough.
So for the past 10 years I have been lethargic and never really built on my skills.
Till my MBA I was very good in academics and was always a A student. After my college pretty much I have lost zeal in anything for long periods.

Problem as I said is "I am Master of none"

plz help me with

How to get deep into something. I want to contribute to open source but feel do not I have right skills.
My ideal role would be to get into starting or joining VC company that can evaluate tech properly
What kind of companies are there? Or what roles do you guys suggest for me.

I have been taking up this junior roles just for flexibility and keep working on 10 different things and nothing is materialising. :(

If you are shifting from one language to other how do you keep up? I sometimes work on 3 different languages and have to keep seeing manuals to understand how loops or case statements are written sometimes. How do you guys manage shifting from one lang to another.

How to filter HackerNews and reddit, like how to consume the info better and not just all the things out there?

Yeah so many questions. But would love to have some ideas, advice, inputs, feedback thrown at me.
Why the id generator? Aren't GUID's enough? The chance of a collision is basically 0.
I like this approach. In my case it's 50/50. However even improving half of the meetings would be a huge change.
Ahhhh, that makes sense. Knew I had to be missing something. Thanks!
Yes having worked with MS SQL Server for many years then taking a look at PG the first thing that really surprised me was lack of hints. Having been through similar situations with MSSQL but being able to force it to do the right thing was a life saver.

This is about repeatability and stability. I would rather the DB run slower so long as it does so consistently and repeatably until a human can profile the issue and make a source code change to speed it up. Having the optimizer just decide in the middle of the night on one of a number of different production databases is a nightmare.

MSSQL now days lets you save and load full plans and freeze plans, but the reality is just some simple hints go a long way, like which index to use and what type of join to use.

Another surprise coming from MSSQL is PG does not cache plans at all. It actually spends time replanning every statement coming in. The client can manually prepare a plan but only reuse on the same connection.
What is the reason for flagging this post?
Nothing in that article suggests a leak. If maybe your own personal theory, but this article doesn’t support it.
Extending the timeline from the first case to the first detected outbreak doesn't strengthen the theory though? If anything a longer timeline means more time for the virus to travel to Wuhan from somewhere else...

Anyway, the early cases that most closely match the supposed bat-virus ancestor aren't even from the same province as the Wuhan virus lab.
I have to admit, the passive-aggressive ad hominem attacks caught me by surprise, but my request for transparency with regard to the methodology they employed when converting their dates stands.
People thinking like that would be happy making New English and in fact is probably making one already.

For me, as someone with no grammatical genders at all in his native language, I don't think there are any real differences between using grammatical gendered pronouns or not. In some real way, gendered pronouns help in parsing subjects much more easily than otherwise. We do use proper noun-as-pronouns by default more than English or other gendered languages so that might be one way of avoiding ambiguity
It was properly tested by the platform owners, and it was determined to be in an un-releasable state.

The mistake of the platform owners was to believe CDPR when they said they will have fixed all the found problems by release time.
The EU seems to be a bit too good-natured for their own good. They assumed that everyone would play nicely and got double-crossed by the UK and US. I bet they learned a thing and at least regarding AstraZeneca's production inside the EU, they seemed to have taken off the gloves.

> Anecdotally, a friend’s frail father is in a far worse risk group than my mother, yet will be finally vaccinated months later thanks to living in Germany

It's possible to be vaccinated earlier if they are at risk for a severe case of Covid. They might want to consult with their doctor and would need some medical documents to backup the claim. Knowing that it is actually possible might help, so maybe tell them?
> It is a de facto government

Say you're a US citizen. You can choose not to buy an Apple product. You cannot chose to not pay your taxes.

This is just one of many distinctions between a government and a corporation.
Second derivative has been negative 22 years out of the 44 I can calculate it for with this data set: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...

More importantly, exponential growth of the solution is much faster than the sub-exponential growth of the problem. Indeed, faster than almost everything else in the technological world — so far as I am aware, only Moore’s law and the cost of gene reading/writing have been improving faster for any length of time.
> ...just because it's a minority doesn't mean it's inherently wrong. At the risk of the ghost of Godwin's, black people were a minority in the 1960s, yet still had a good point about their aims.

Another good point: if the cancel-culture we are currently suffering under now was practiced in the 60s, black people, women, minorities, etc would never had gotten equal rights.

It's because everyone was allowed to speak that the message came across and won minds. The fact that people are asking for the silencing of their opponents is a good indicator that their arguments do not stand up to scrutiny.

Like it or not, RMS does scrutinise the status quo. Petitioning for exemption from critics makes it hard to support those people doing the petitioning.
What exactly did he do ? From what I've gathered he gave out cards which was basically an invitation to a date with him should anyone be interested, and he made a very ill-concieved statement regarding harm from children having sex with adults. A really stupid comment but hardly something that would warrant this kind of response, at least unless he doubled down on it.

Is this all ?
Not long ago? That was in 2001, which is 20 years ago!
Hosted on GitHub, a business (now a division of Microsoft) whose core is centered around the "Tivoization" of a GPL-licensed program. Ironic.
Probably you have seen CCTV cameras monitoring premises 24/7. CCTV analyses areas to find out threats and hazards in real time. Similarly, predictive maintenance is also about monitoring your in-service asset conditions. However, it is a bit different from monitoring premises.

This process involves monitoring assets to find out about its performance. Based upon this analysis it chalks out a report about the need and urgency of maintenance. Furthermore, for monitoring asset conditions, predictive maintenance relies on IOT devices.

Probably, you got an idea about what predictive maintenance is.
Selling 8 TB of Mobikwik data
> I mean, the OSI is filled with people who work for proprietary companies

So is GNU, though. For instance, https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html identifies the affiliations of most of the GCC steering committee, and they're generally proprietary companies. (Several work for Red Hat, a subsidiary of IBM.)

Also, if we're going to claim that working for a proprietary-software company means you're not a member of the free software movement, the movement is very small indeed.

> and open source was made to make free software enterprise.

That may be the case, but the FSF has a long history of saying that you can work on free software for profit, too. Frankly, that's why the FSF exists separate from the GNU project - to be a place that you can order physical media with GNU software from and expense it.

> but the people opposing him are pretty awful people largely pushing proprietary software, actually

This is untrue of the authors of the open letter - you should look at their stated positions on free and proprietary software. (It might be true of some of the signatories, of course.)
Give me a break.

Look, if you don't want his personal conduct to factor in, let's look at the percipidous decline in free software (and the rise of copyright BSD/MIT/Apache open source software).

Years ago, LLVM was offered to Stallman and the FSF. Due to the idiosyncratic way he chooses to handle his email, he never even got their message. As such: LLVM fell under a BSD-style license. Clang was built on top of it, also under a copyright license. This all culminated in giving Apple a much needed escape-hatch from GPL'd software.

This is critically important, as prior to Clang/LLVM, the only open source compiler with any real mind/market share among developers was GCC. The fact that this was poorly timed, right before a sort of cambrian explosion of PLT language interests as corporate culture shifted away from only tolerating code written in C++/Java. Modern languages started getting built outside of free software and mainstreamed into industry.

This is a critical setback for the movement. Stallman has stated, and I agree with this, that having a state-of-the-art compiler suite is central to the free software movement. GCC should have been that compiler, instead it's now Clang/LLVM.

Between the rise of a non-free developer ecosystem (of which clang and LLVM helped state), and the mismanagement of the GPL v2/v3 switch, you now have an entire generation of software developers (and a start of a new one IMO), who basically don't give a crap about free software or the GPL - it's just that annoying restrictive open source license made by that guy.
Comically I was registering for an event and they required a prefix with choices “Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, My lord” and like a hundred other prefixes for fancy people. I was surprised that there wasn’t a non-gendered prefix to call someone by unless they have some prefix due to training or station. “Honorable” and “Dr” have requirements before use.
Because they have a massive amount of data and compute and could and would compile a list of who voted for what, or will attempt to.
Actually, 5 months ago :)
Facebook is already an echo chamber. How much would that amplify things?

Hypothetically, aunt Joan just shared the post about the Ever Given ship containing tons of children in cages, and it's all Hillary Clinton's fault. Since she only allows her conspiracy theory believing friends to comment on her posts, there's no disagreement about the cause of the Suez Canal blockage. It's accepted as fact among anyone who can comment, and it's uncontested for the ones who could be swayed.
The author, Leah Rowe, is English as far as I know
> I get that using "they/them" requires a bit more mental gymnastics

For us. We are the first doing it. Our children and grandchildren will accept that naturally. As we should.
It doesn't look like they are going to the ISS. If so I think this will be the first orbital space mission not going to space station. I know the spaceX capsule has been described as roomy by space standards but it's still the size car. It's definitely a very intimate setting.
Yeah, they do. There's a video of Linus talking from many years ago about git where he says web of trust is the only way to do security.
Can anyone provide any more context on this graph?
> ... but the counter incentive is the free market.

Yes. Which is why the free market is ILLEGAL in the medical system, in the police system, in the educational system, in the judiciary system...
Why is this flagged?

This is an important debate.

Should RMS's private or political views unrelated to the work of the FSF debar him from FSF?
It this how HR issues are settled in free software? With pressure groups?

Where I can sign to support impartial investigation.
That's kind of you. I still feel that this is something that is being forced on the rest of us, whether we like it or not. If we don't comply (and we really don't have to), then the army of twitter extremists come down on you hard. It's a privilege to be treated with extra compassion and care, not a right.
What? You have to specify a dependency in the .service file, what does it matter how much time does any of them take? That’s the whole purpose of dependency management.

Either that is missing or you have some other config error, like the service believing it is ready, because it is not told about its state correctly?

But there is a setting to fall back to serial mode I believe, but it will also not work correctly if your service files are configured incorrectly.
Aren't all exponential processed like this? Fragile in the beginning, unstoppable past some point?

I don't think we were unlucky at all. If there was a 70% chance of this petering out it doesn't take a lot of tries to get one that doesn't.
Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman
slax did this a long time ago.
Besides the analytics being added later (as mentioned), personally I see a headline sometimes and think "yeah I know enough, show me the comments".

Does HN show viewing stats for comments? Might be nice for the sites featured on it to know.
German humor.
Which did he say?
Wikipedia does not lose money in any sense. Its revenue exceeds expenses, and net assets increase year over year. And in any case, the Wikimedia foundation is organized as a nonprofit.
According to Google, non-personalized ads need to store data on your device
I am running a website www.Photopea.com , which is monetized with ads.

As you know, there are personalized ads (that are trying to track websites, which were visited by your device, in order to deduce your interests).

There are non-personalized ads, which are not supposed to track such data.

Right now, the ad technology, managed by Google, provides both types of ads. However, Non-personalized ads still need to store "something" in your computer (see here https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/9805023?hl=en ).

So if your have a website, and you want to have ads, which do not use cookies at all, you can not use common ads based on Google technology (which cover 99% of the ad market). I just think it is quite sad, that Google decided it this way, and that Google has a monopoly.
As a Russian you could try to change your government. I don't really understand what people want here. Companies to ignore the laws made by sovereign governments?
That's cyberpunk stuff.
Why is this post not flagged vs this one?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26646048

What is the reasoning at HN for allowing one side of the story and censuring the other side. Very disappointed at HN moderators...
State of the industry update: rising container demand catalyzes disruption
I really don't want to sound elitist, but building something like this with a big JS framework and immediately jumping to monetize it?(NFTs are gross and undermine any message or intention, even just to be "funny")

This could have been a 20kb html page on a CDN or on GitHub. But I don't work in web dev so maybe my mind just doesn't go to these lengths immediately.
Isn't Mozilla VPN just rebranded Mullvad? The only difference is that you can get Mullvad anywhere and pay anonymously without any accounts.
There is a thing called "name".One of the strangest things I've seen, is one "famous" people claiming online (I lost the tweet link, so you have to take my word for it) claiming that using a person's name is weaseling out, and must be considered as offensive as using the wrong pronoun.

I am sorry, I will use she/he or the person's name according to the individual preference but I will never say xher/xhum/them/they/xuei, and I will opt for using ONLY that person's name. If that makes me a bigot, so be it.
Maybe you would just have a (fixed) phone outside, forwarding calls/sms/internet to an internal device via fixed line.

Wifi hotspot would have a password, so only trusted devices can connect.

Maybe Apple devices can already do that?
Huh. Almost as if a company would provide a guarantee and only get paid if they kept the servers running for at least 99.999% of the time.

Weird, huh?
Sounds like SELinux might do the trick here :)
It should take less than 5 minutes to get it up and running. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/macos

It took me about 60 seconds on a new EC2 ubuntu instance
Is this Sybil attack resistant?
The security white paper of that luca app is available in English, if someone wants to have a look:

https://luca-app.de/securityconcept/intro/intro.html
Depends, how unethical do you want to get? (e.g. do you include "blackmail" in the options to monetize audio?)
The people have spoken and decided that they support him.
Author points out that Red Hat killed CentOS, which had a significant community.
For those who don’t know him, David Jonathan Ross who made Input also runs the “Font of the Month Club”, where for $6 / month you get one font made by him per month, as well as really detailed and well written emails about the thoughts and process behind his typefaces.

https://djr.com/font-of-the-month-club
It was posted just minutes ago. Also, flagging is done by users.

EDIT: As you can see it's dead now.

EDIT: And now it's back.
>Does not in any way imply that people not defending RMS wish to destroy Free Software.

From the statement it is understood that you are defending free software by defending Stallman, and those attacking Stallman are attacking free software.

At best this is hyperbolic, abrasive language that makes bystanders at least complacent as the destruction of free software happens by some "Orwellian" conspiracy. Their statement is perhaps even less hyperbolic than the original writer - which I question why'd you examine the commentator with such scrutiny given the hysteria in the article.
Five years ago, Leah Rowe published a hasty declaration on libreboot.org, announcing that, as a free software developer, she's boycotting the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation after a transgender employee she personally knew was allegedly fired due to discrimination. [0] Later Rowe apologized, said it was a mistake for several reasons, mainly for accidentally revealing the identity of that employee, eventually the declaration was retracted [1] and it seems she decided to restore cooperation (e.g. speak at LibrePlanet on Libreboot, etc), although Libreboot was no longer a GNU project.

And this time Leah Rowe is the first person to publicly support the reinstatement of Richard Stallman, and now has published a declaration on libreboot.org again, this time announcing the support of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.

I wonder what really has happened to her in the meantime. I'm genuinely curious about what made Rowe to change her stance.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20161207233755/https://libreboot...

[1] https://libreboot.org/gnu/
>I'm not a he, I'm an it!

If it causes serious distress to you (just like misgendering trans people do), complying is absolutely the correct and human thing to do, regardless of my beliefs and opinions. It is not a good faith argument to compare transidentity to delusion and I suspect you know it.

Nobody is "forcing" you to comply, an open source project for exemple might just choose not to engage with you and your harmful attitude. No rights of yours are trampled, you just fail at basic respect.
Really? So I can send anyone I want to jail, as long as they have one of these? Wow, that's definitely not going to cause problems!
> These people even started an online petition calling for RMS’s forceful removal and for the entire board of directors at the FSF to resign from their posts

By reinstating Stallman the board created this controversy and deliberately sabotaged the FSF's mission of defending Free Software. It's ludicrous to imagine they didn't know what the consequences would be.
There are two letters currently being signed by people either for or against the removal of RMS from the FSF.

The against letter is here : https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.git...

And the for is here : https://github.com/rms-open-letter/rms-open-letter.github.io

You can find the number of votes on the respective websites for each letter or by checking the number of merged pull requests.
Maybe a bit off topic but what is the status of wayland capture support anyway? Normally I used ffmpeg with x11 and that worked great. However due to the security model of wayland this doesn't seem nearly as easy to implement. I think they went with some kernel level grabbing support that needed root?
Hey, I run an ad tech company. Our targets for US traffic are about $10 USD per thousand page views. This is multiples more than what you would get from AdSense, plus we help with strategy and integration.

Besides that, the author did mention several things he tried besides ad monetization. I think the most effective thing would have been to either find an opportunistic brand that wants to advertise here (like a maritime company or something) for like $25 CPM+, or to quickly find somebody to sell it to if you have those kinds of connections that trust you already. Lots of people trying to build businesses based off of a network of "micro sites".
These are already a thing for WLAN-routers for the electrosmog people. Which is of course the one place where they don't make sense, but would probably work for similarly-sized appliances.
So THATS why I was Rickrolled the other day...
yes, it is... There's no evidence of cases months earlier. Virus don't typically jump species and are effective immediately. They need time to adapt. Therefore:

a) The virus learned about humans over weeks or months in public with no one noticing

b) The virus learned about humans in a lab then leaked resulting in a fast moving pandemic
Where to Find Ethical Hackers?
Thanks for the correction! Although, would this make a difference if you were just investing in an ETF and not selling and then gifting it to the child, assuming it’s less than the lifetime gift tax exclusion?
> Where I can sign to support impartial investigation.

You can sign the "support" letter.

It says clearly that RMS is not above criticism, that it welcomes discussion on all the issues, but that the smear campaign supported by the other letter is unacceptable.

Besides, notice that the promoters of the pro-ostracization letter are not open for discussion. Any discussion or move towards a compromise (e.g., by questioning RMS's fit as a leader while rejecting the lies of the letter) is ruthlessly suppressed.
How do you view the classic front-page?
Eh, unlimited data plans might still be valuable to someone.
UberAgent – UX monitoring and endpoint security analytics
could easily be the UK.
Totally unrelated but: The day I can wireless screencast my Linux Laptop to my home television I will lite a candle.
I'm a bit unfamiliar with Eich, what has he done?