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If you are highly intelligent, and recognize your own ignorance, then this works quite well. Anti-vaxxers get it wrong because they lack intellectual humility.
Show HN: Ninjobu – Find software engineer jobs anonymously
I know from personal experience that however long you've stayed up, that 8 hours of sleep is the most you can do to help at that point, in other words after 20 hours of 'lost sleep' you can really only sleep for 8. (Edit: you can sleep for more but it will make no difference).

Or - if you lose a few hours every night during the week, you cannot 'catch up' on the weekend, it doesn't work like that.

A person who lives for years at 5 hours a weeknight but 11 on the weekends will be in poorer health than someone who just did 8 hours a night consistently.
A successful 51% attack lets you double-spend your coins, which is effectively the same thing. (Until the market catches on and BTC plummets, anyway.)
Black Mirror is more polarizing than I expected. I watched San Junipero with someone. I thought it was adorable. He thought it was horrifying. The rest of the few episodes I watched made me feel the way he did, though. People bring different lenses to media and culture generally. I think that might be the point of the show.
Hi HN,

Like many of you, I suspect, I get flooded with messages from recruiters on LinkedIn about new job opportunities, even though I don't have my 'open to new opportunities' flag set. These offers rarely fit my experience or what I would be looking for in a new job. But I do like the idea of being approached with potential opportunities.

So I've built Ninjobu. You can create a profile as a software engineer, fill in your previous experience, domain knowledge, etc. Most importantly, you get to state what job you are looking for next.

The candidate profile is completely anonymous (unless you choose to add identifying details) to remove some worry and hopefully even bias. I understand on other platforms, when you open your profile for new opportunities, the system hides it from your employer. But what happens if recruiters from parent or subsidiary companies see it? Does it still work? Maybe, who knows.

Recruiters get to use an excellent search system (thanks to the fantastic Algolia) to find candidates for the roles they are looking to fill, not only based on a candidate's experience but also based on what job they would like to have.

If you'd like to try it out, I'd love to hear what you think and how I can improve the experience, so please do get in touch. This is an MVP, and it's light on features for now.

From now on, I'll be sending all the recruiters that get in touch with me to this place. If you're looking for a new job, give it a shot, there's virtually a new recruiter sent there every day.
Yes it's a misconception. Their profit margin on cars is consistently over 20%. They have large overhead costs that are more or less fixed like R&D that get amortized more and more as sales go up. They have massive net free cash flow every quarter even while building out new factories that will increase production capacity by 50% every year for the next several years, further increasing economies of scale and operating margins.
Right, right. Not arguing with article premise, just mentioning that a useful effect of useful open source software is that this stuff generally remains true.

And I'm not a zealot or anything. I just like this aspect.
It's a pretty defensible claim on its own for one simple reason - overtones.

A string, pipe, or other resonating component of a musical instrument, if it resonates at some frequency X, will also resonate at frequencies 2X, 3X, 4X, etc. (Picture a taut string: you can get a standing wave where the whole thing vibrates back and forth, or you can get a standing wave where there's a node in the middle and it looks like the left and right sides are vibrating in opposite directions, or you can get a standing wave where there are two nodes and three components, or so forth.)

These frequencies are exact pitches in just intonation. Let's say that you play a C at octave 3. Its overtones are C at octave 4 (twice the pitch), G at octave 4 (3x the pitch, or 3/2 the pitch of C4), C at octave 5 (4x the pitch), E at octave 5 (5x the pitch, or 5/2 the pitch of C5).

When you play a note on any instrument except a pure sine generator, there are natural overtones because of the construction of the instrument. A guitar or a piano basically introduces random noise into the string when you pluck/hammer it, and the standing waves stay around and resonate, producing the "bright" sound of these instruments from their overtones.

If you play a chord on an instrument, the overtones of the various notes in the chord will line up - if you play a C3 major chord, both the C3 and the G3 have overtones at G4, both the C3 and the E3 have overtones at E5, etc. If you're playing an instrument in C-major just intonation, those notes will line up perfectly. (Moreover, for e.g. a piano with the sustain pedal down, the strings for those upper keys will resonate by receiving the vibrations in the air, even if you're not playing them!) If the instrument is in equal temperament, they won't exactly line up. That is perceptible, even if only slightly, to the non-musical listener.

Of course, the tradeoff is that if you play a C# major chord on an instrument tuned to C major just intonation, they'll line up even worse than they would in equal temperament. Which is why "modern" instruments - which is to say, from at least around Bach's time - have avoided tuning to a just intonation.
It’s a contract. You agree to the terms or you borrow the money from somewhere else.

The thing this article casually omits throughout, aside from the opening, is that these are sub-prime borrowers. They have a history of poor credit. They probably are not putting much money down. They have a history of being late on payments. In order to get the lending terms THEY find favorable, they agreed to install an interrupt device.

I just purchased a car without one and got a great rate because I spent years... YEARS! Fixing and improving my credit history.

These people want the same terms without the work or change in behavior.
Haha! I didn't realize you were imagining a battery bank as some kind of toy. I was thinking more like an alternative to a gasoline generator, which is not really "discretionary spending".
Also important to note that in theory a lot of the materials used can be recycled to a large extent. Although it also depends on how that recycling tech evolves, i am assuming it is better than recycling ICE cars ?
TL;DR: (Though you really, really should read it, it's fascinating)

A guy got paid actual money to work on a variant of iPod that works like a James Bond gadget, with the secret stuff hidden under a boring interface option and all.
Rtl_433: Receive and Decode Unique IDs from TPMS
Can’t recommend this approach more. I’m a PhD student in cryptography and I often find that my understanding of a particular problem area is dramatically improved by reading stuff from 20-30 years ago (crypto is a young field) rather than recent publications.
Hello HN,
I built this program which allows you to run terminal commands on your machine/server via text message.

I am looking forward to feedback from the community
I’m not trolling at all. This is how I live.

If you think a big house, a car, kids, flying for vacation, and a steak are what make life worth living, well then enjoy the end of the ride.
I was a big fan of Soulseek back in the day. Everyone else I knew used Limewire
Discretionary spending doesn't imply toy. What's with the taunting?
for me Google's captcha is much harder to solve then hCaptcha...
I have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. I've gone on a diet and lost 30 pounds in 1 month. Why am I telling people this? If you eat junk food(including carbs), you need to exercise to burn it off. If you don't like to exercise, don't eat junk food.
> a hair-shirt, masochistic lifestyle stripped of all joy

> a vow of poverty

I’ll assure you I spend a lot of money on stupid shit I don’t need and I hate my life but it’s not because of these decisions. I thank my chronic illness for that!

Will just ignore the supply and demand argument. So few people live the way I do that it’s clearly not influencing the price of flights or suburban living. Good try though. That’s a new argument I haven’t heard before.

Anyway, enjoy the rest of the ride! Going to be a wild century or so. If you have kids, I hope they have fun.
I was disappointed when I learned Cities Skylines doesn’t have mixed use buildings: first 1-2 floors commercial/markets, with the rest residential which are very common where I live. Turns out interspersing residential and commercial zoning based on demand is very effective in their model though, which I was pleased by as that reflects reality.

I did find though that the game forces the player to limit the availability of education to provide a sufficient supply of low education workers, which I didn’t find very fun.
You weren’t bothered by it because you had no previous experience of life.

I think some (maybe many?) people aren’t afraid of “being dead” they’re afraid of all the things they know exist and are enjoyable.

Life is the greatest, and most tragic blessing. Once you know you can’t un-know.
I have depression/anxiety and procrastination issue in the morning. It gets better especially once I decided to do something for the day. Then it's all momentum all the way.
Also a rather famous occurrence of a mistakenly decrypted message (nonsense padding was thought to be actual plaintext) sent by Admiral Nimitz to his suboridinate Admiral Halsey.

WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR THE WORLD WONDERS

"the world wonders" was supposed to be nonsense padding to make enemy cryptanalysis harder, but was mistakenly thought to be part of the original message and passed on by Halsey's radio operator, causing Halsey to believe that Nimitz was sarcastically criticizing him and led to an angry outburst from Halsey, which in turn potentially led Halsey to delay help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders
KrabzCAM
An earlier comment of mine about some more shell checking/linting/formatting tools:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26510549
It's not targeted at failed founders explicitly, however Indie Hackers is probably the community you're looking for!

https://www.indiehackers.com/
> This is important to keep in mind when you read articles and/or studies about how electric cars or wind or solar power is impractical. A lot of the data these studies use is just obsolete.

My understanding is that phone batteries are extremely different from batteries for large storage. They have vastly different cycle and draw requirements (you can't quick draw on your phone battery). I don't think these studies are being nefarious, but looking at different batteries, where this article is averaging. Reading the article it doesn't give any inclination that they are differentiating these types of batteries.
More precisely, modern keyed instruments are slightly off tune. :) I'm pretty sure unaccompanied voices (either solo or in groups) tend naturally towards just intonation in the current key, because you don't think of it so much as "E to G#," you think of it as "up a major third." I'd sort of assume that players of continuous-pitch instruments like violins and trombones also do that instinctively, but I only have firsthand experience with singing.
From the HaD post: "It’s a nice simple tool, and is the perfect fit for 2D CAM jobs. It’s got some other nice features, and it handles laser engraving nicely as well."

https://hackaday.com/2021/04/03/when-the-right-tool-is-wrong...
I feel like when renter friendly laws get passed people think of fat-cat, tophat-wearing Manhattan landlords and don't really consider that the same exploitable laws also apply to an immigrant in Queens who needs rental income from the first floor unit to afford their mortgage.
It's an interesting thought. Excessive rumination is generally pretty bad for your state of mind. Maybe with sleep deprivation, you don't have the spare brainpower to spend ruminating.
WestWorld, particularly S01, is the best take on AI I've ever seen and I consider it must watch TV of this golden era. The concept naturally made for great classic scifi material but the storytelling and execution was absolutely brilliant.
I remember really liking Modula-2 when I had to learn it quickly in 1985 for a cheap ($50? 100?) programming project. I was 16

Kudos for bringing it and other languages to OpenBSD Brain!
Here's the thing, though. It's not the civil people you have to worry about. It's the bad apple. Just like you shouldn't walk down an alley in a bad part of town wearing a suit. Sure, most times you'd have no issue... but it only takes one time to ruin your life forever.
It is said that death is impossible for humans to understand. We don't have a concept of 'nothingness.' We like to imagine being in some void.

More simply, I think we just cease to exist and don't feel anything. Just as you didn't exist before you were born, and so on.

My only fear of death is for my family. They depend on me for so much. So, I took out giant life insurance policies, and that gives me a weird comfort in it.
I grew up in Queensland too. There have been massive changes to the reef, and the whole coast in my lifetime. Even now it is a shadow of it's former self.

During that time the run off from farming, mining and development has increased markedly. The destruction of forests and mangroves and see grasses had increased. There was a time in the 00's when the rate of forest clearance in Queensland was the highest of anywhere in the developed world.

Technological ideas will do sweet fuck all if the political will is not there. (Unless your technological idea is to change the political will). Not even if there is real money behind those ideas. Need i remind you the gov gave half a billion dollars to a few ex mining executives to 'protect the reef'. It seems previous little had been achieved so far.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/11/a-mocker...
https://www.failory.com/
There is no tax due on unexercised options (which is not what I meant to imply above, but I left it ambiguous).

If you have non-qualified stock options (NQSOs), on the day you exercise, the difference between the strike price and the fair market price is taxed as ordinary income. That's what I was talking about.

If you have Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), the tax treatment can be more favorable if you follow certain rules, primarily that you have to sell the shares no earlier than two years after the option grant AND one year after you exercise them. The AMT calculation comes into play between the exercise and sale.

Basically, figure out exactly what you have, as the type of instrument you have changes the taxation, and read the tax laws on that. This is not tax advice.
> If you want to actually create a business you need to realize coding is both the easiest of all the things that needs to be done and also the least important.

I don’t agree. I understand the sentiment, though. In my experience “the importance” of coding depends on the business.

Like the author says, if you just want to code - go do it, you don’t have to have a business! But what they are missing is the compliment: if you just want to business, you don’t have to code!
Much of this seems like useful lessons learned, but this particular section jumped out at me:

> To my credit at this time I would learn and do anything to get more users to my site, to the point where I was getting banned from multiple forums for posting after people told me to get lost.

How is this "to your credit"? If, as you say, the success of your product depends on getting niche users to buy in and trust that you can provide value, maybe it's a bad idea to antagonize those same users by behaving in ways that violate their community norms.
No it is not. This is not normal behaviour outside of the us.

Even then, this should never be normalised behaviour and should be firmly stamped out.
Well, if they got any stock, it's worth about 50x as much now as it was then (not adjusting for inflation or other factors). So if they were getting $25k in stock for 4 years, that would be worth a few million today.

The sad thing is I'd wager 95-99% of startup employees put in work hoping for some kind of similar payout, only to never find it.
Important Answers on Children Psychosexual Development
and to make things weirder python can concat literal strings together with "space operator"(j/k)

>>>'a' 'b' 'c'
>>>'abc'
Why isn't a dynamic system?

A given point has current wealth as it's level and moves randomly up and down in that level according to a process that's random.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_dynamical_system
A moratorium with no accountability was asking for this to happen.
This is one of those areas where percentage and actual count tell different stories. "doubled" vs "increased by about 1000" are very different stories when viewed in the context of "all the individuals of a species across the globe"
We're sadly moving towards everything being leased, rented, or "as a service". The ideal future for corporate take over is where they own the fundamentals of your "free" life, and they can shut you down at any time.
Making a timetable for the next day helps, I have found. The downside is that I tend to say no to anything that deviates from the timetable.
Okay then that’s not what this is. It’s not people deleting and re-submitting, it’s people submitting hours (or even day(s)?) apart and the submissions getting joined.
The Pale and the Partition are contemporaneous. How is it false? lol
1. How is this different from Intel TBB?
2. Does it have support for pipeline parallelism?
Software upgrades are not the same as people voting for what's effectively taxation.
I dunno. I think its like my last visit to the dentist with to get my wisdom teeth removed. I had some serious necrotic pain and had to get them removed. Horrible pain. I sat there and the tech shot something in my arm. I said to myself, "That did nothing." I woke up getting rolled out of the office in the wheelchair, remembering none of it. That's how I picture death will be. Remembering nothing.
MoonCrash by Jack Thomson
sqlight can ".read" a number of formats. It's one of the more convenient ways to do joins on ugly tables.
I brought it up precisely because what you were saying didn't make sense, because what you were saying in this thread didn't make sense either. The reason I thought you were saying what you, in fact, said, even though it wasn't what you meant, was that it appeared on this website under your name.

It seems like you have a long history of not worrying about whether the things you're saying don't make sense, and you're continuing it. Instead of responding, "Oh, I see what you mean, you're right, I actually did say the opposite of what I meant—thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify and taking so much time to explain at such great length what was in the end very simple and obvious," you're responding with some kind of chimpanzee status hierarchy nonsense about being "lectured" and what "position" I'm in. Instead of responding, "Oh, you're right about the 'bedrock with no aquifer' thing, that was totally wrong and didn't actually make sense," you just ignored it.

I guess you're just trying to score some kind of points rather than learn what is true and help others do the same?
On Cache Invalidation: Why Is It Hard? (2018)
> But one of them usually works. In the end.
> At least you can fix it yourself.

Almost no regular consumers can in fact fix it themselves.

That’s why you see a small number of minor issues being complained about a lot on Mac forums.
> Second, JSON always had a parser in JS, so I don't know where that eval nonsense is coming from.

Firstly, it sounds like XML ran over your dog or something. Sorry to hear about that. It wasn’t particularly hard to use at all, and if you’re dealing with the possibility of emojis in your JSON UUIDs in 2021, one might even say it’s easier to use.

If you’re referring to JSON.parse() in “had a parser” above, then you have a temporal problem. Regarding eval(), it’s suggested right in the original RFC for JSON. Check it out. Web developers at the time were following that advice.
Relevant song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Fs5uuAlnk
That's not quite right. If you can't be afraid of actually being dead because you won't be experiencing anything, then you in fact won't be afraid in the moments before, so there would be no reason to be afraid of the moments before either.

But you actually can be afraid of death, even though death doesn't come with any negative experiences, because you can and do care about things besides anticipated experiences. It's a common misconception that you can only care about experiences, but the counter to any conceptual argument that purports to prove that is that you do in fact care about some things that aren't experiences, death being a great example.

My friend Ronny discusses this at some length in this podcast https://clearerthinkingpodcast.com/?ep=032
> It’s a contract.

America has a long and honored tradition of mechanisms preventing some clauses in contracts to be legal. IANAL, but maybe a next patch to laws could be to forbid such behavior (on the side of lenders) as predatory. Or maybe more sane approaches are possible.

It's even more important when some clauses can be enforced mechanically, without going through the legal system. This underscores the importance of having the ability to negate mechanical means to enforce contract clauses - at least in some cases :) like this. With rise of IoT, the problem seems to be getting more urgent.
What I was trying to say is that bash scripts are superficially simple but their behavior is hard to reason about.

I chose Rust for my example because its addition operation is tightly specified and thus the behavior is very easy to reason about. (I probably should have chosen a language other than Python for the counter example.)

As soon as shell scripts get mildly complex, like others in this thread I prefer to port them to Python.

Since I'm a FOSS programmer, I've often dealt with the misery of non-portable shell scripts. Userland incompatibilities across operating systems mean that the same bash program behaves differently because the userland programs bash calls behave differently.

In contrast, reasoning about the portability of a Python script is much easier than predicting which tangle of flags in a shell script will do the right thing.
Makes sense now, thanks. I had assumed it was a direct quote by Diogenes himself.
Wow, this is horrifying and fascinating.
> slash programs created to help the urban poor and people of color would actually, counterintuitively, help these people.

Yes. Yes it will. Much better than modern day barbarity and animalism, proselytized as sincerity. Limit the violence. Don't create it.

Don't make everyone happy.

Don't turn yourself into a movie star.

To everyone else, it's not okay to be a victim.
That's what I mean. So make it very expensive to run them on your service and the coin miners will go elsewhere.
31 is still quite young. The more people you see in a box, the less weird and terrifying the prospect becomes.
The taunting was uncalled for. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have accused you of ignorance. Your response was definitely not what I expected.
I was going to say hopefully it's not the same committee that picks the Nobel Peace Prize winners, and it turns out it's not!

"By the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1901. Alfred Nobel left no explanation as to why the prize for peace was to be awarded by a Norwegian committee while the other four prizes were to be handled by Swedish committees."

I'm suspicious of these Norwegians, and their peace prize process.
This is not true based on my experience with multiple switches and xbox one consoles.
If it wasn’t for certain experiences that I’ve had in the past, I’d say that death is the final end.

But I’m not so sure.