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I haven't chosen a software niché to focus into and am curious about Development Operations -- anybody know any internet web-sites that have ,,Leetcode''-like exercises/education? Or even books and technologies I should study would be helpful, but obviously, content recommendations which are more structured would be more useful.
Sounds naive. Do you have any experience with real-world projects? We're nowhere close to just writing some glue code. Web APIs are moving in that direction but the software world is a vast ocean and APIs are just a drop in the bucket.
The private sector could totally build the extra capacity. Look at 'peaker plants' for electricity generation. It's worth quoting Wikipedia here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaking_power_plant

> Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity.[1][2][3][4] Because they supply power only occasionally, the power supplied commands a much higher price per kilowatt hour than base load power. Peak load power plants are dispatched in combination with base load power plants, which supply a dependable and consistent amount of electricity, to meet the minimum demand.

> Although historically peaking power plants were frequently used in conjunction with coal baseload plants, peaking plants are now used less commonly. Combined cycle gas turbine plants have two or more cycles, the first of which is very similar to a peaking plant, with the second running on the waste heat of the first. That type of plant is often capable of rapidly starting up, albeit at reduced efficiency, and then over some hours transitioning to a more efficient baseload generation mode. Combined cycle plants have similar capital cost per watt to peaking plants, but run for much longer periods, and use less fuel overall, and hence give cheaper electricity.

> As of 2020, open cycle gas turbines give an electricity cost of around $151-198/MWh.

The issues is that the natural mechanism that incentivises the private sector to provide peak capacity is what some people call 'price gauging'. And that's a big taboo for 'sacred values' like anything to do with medicine or health.
I live in Finland, it has this system, the UK where I’m from does not, you just squash your cans and bottles into a weekly recycling collection.

It’s the ‘squash’ bit that I miss and makes me hate the deposit system. You have to keep the cans all fully intact, so the machine can read the barcode, so you have to give up stacks of room in your house and carry an awkward big bag of mostly air around to return them.
Some good advice here. I'll just add that getting into a startup early doors can have its advantages e.g. shares. Downside is greater risk. I'm more impressed now by the small business that grew their revenue than startup gets a million dollars in funding. A million doesn't cover a lot of wages for very long.
For all the Go programmers out there: the good old Amiga MOD files are the reason why some file managers identify go.mod files as "music files"...

Also: nice info page, nice YouTube videos, but how about providing the MOD files (or whatever format it actually used - sounds like more than 4 channels to me, but maybe that's just because of the remaster) for download?
Don't a bunch of squids, birds, other primates, etc. show plenty of intelligence? Yet none show any ambition to develop high tech that anyone could spot from space, chimps don't even feel the need to communicate all that much even though they're totally capable of using sign language when properly incentivized, they just don't seem to have the urge to express themselves like we do.

Might that not imply that intelligence is pretty frequent, but that what we're looking for isn't intelligence per se, but a bunch of other very specific qualities and factors that channel intelligence to express itself in high tech spacefaring ways? Seeing how much had to fall into place just so in the last 100 000 years so we could put someone on the moon, I guess that seems plausible?
It's a weird assumption that something like a Trex would even bother with a scrawny human with barely any meat on it when there's much more meat to be had from other dinos.
They seem pretty good. This summer was a bit of a mystery, but otherwise things have tracked pretty well.

<jk> Obviously you can't determine anything without taking into account the estimated/guessed factors (extent of people movement, other restrictions) included in the models versus what really happened (new restrictions, lower than expected movement). And why only select this subset of forecasts, given they are produced daily/weekly (depending on urgency)? There was an early prediction that Covid would only cause ~30,000 deaths in the UK, why wasn't that included?

Do you have a link to anything that isn't Fox-news level cherry-picking? The Spectator is notoriously not a reliable source.
Ahem from the ACT where our 16+ double-dose rate is “>99%”. [0]

I’ll give you the technicality that you said “state” but still, we’re doing pretty good here in the territory!

I had my booster yesterday morning. I’m 45.

[0]: https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021...
Wow, definitely, the caseload matters a lot. 'Flatten the curve' has always been a very real policy, if you watch the reports from State/Provincial agencies you can very clearly seem them watch the number of available beds, and particularly how much COVID caseload affects other hospital operations i.e. delayed surgeries etc.. This definitely informs policy.

It also helps motivate people to get vaccinated, with a 3rd shoot booster seemingly providing decent protection against Omicron, it's something we probably want to get people to.

Humans survive for millennia because we react rationality to situations, not because we just lay down and die.
Chinese government to ditch Windows in the next three years
niché?
Which phone numbers do you remember?
From learning point of view? Unanimously do something with it. Or at least see some examples of someone doing something with it to make you care about what you just learned. It's very high to remember a fact, as in commit to long-term memory, if there was no feeling attached.
Not sure how well it removes "ehm"s, but I use unsilence[1] a lot for lectures. It removes the silent bits from a video file. It isn't a browser plugin however. You have to download the lecture before converting.

It works quite well in my experience.

[1] https://github.com/lagmoellertim/unsilence
S3M could do a lot more than the old MOD format though. Mainly the support for more channels and instruments made a world of difference. It's the same basic principle, but creating a track was far less of a priority puzzle in Scream Tracker.
Or we might get Ob'enn (I heavily recommend the attached comic universe) https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/Ob%27enn
You're right, it would not be hard. But I don't have the keys to do that. I would have to talk to someone on the devops team and I would hope they wouldn't write me off as some dumb developer who only knows how to code, whatever that means.
For the problem of converting pulses to tones, some time ago I made a small circuit that generates the DTMF tones directly inside the phone. It's basically an interface between the rotary dial and the phone line, based on a simple 8-bit PIC microcontroller powered from the phone line (actually coming from an ATA). The idea is to publish it as open source hardware as soon as I find enough time to document it... Downside is that you have to solder it (SMD components) and put it inside the phone...
New EU data blockage as German court would ban many cookie management providers
A.K.A not as good? I mean couldn't you say that about any product? My little marketplace would be amazing if I had Tik Toks network effects.
"be the change" I think nails the difficulty of devops and why we end up with the non Devops that we call Devops.

Most of us are not Fang companies and don't have the pick of the best engineers in the world (or the region). We cannot trust some of our devs to deploy directly to production because quite simply, some do not understand that responsibility and cannot rise to it. We still need our CTO to check any big changes because things are missed and this just reinforces the idea that you don't have to nail it, the CTO will probably find any problems.

We are also in Europe where you can't just fire people if they e.g. deploy 3 bugs to production. So what do you do? Like most companies, you try and introduce a good level of automated testing, some testers to write smoke tests etc. and we don't just deploy whenever like some companies do.

Then we are just back where we started with a bit more overhead and still not deploying more quickly to production.
I highly recommend "History of philosophy without any gaps".
> Boeing in January agreed to pay $2.5bn to settle criminal charges arising from the two fatal 737 Max crashes. The manufacturer did not admit guilt, however, which would have prevented it from receiving future government contracts. Instead, it entered into a deferred prosecution agreement.

It's nice though that we have got a clear tag price on the human life now. This allows our commercial departments to quantify the risk better, and to make decisions that are commercially viable even at the expense of somebody's lives.

/s
Rightfully so, and they are still being used by a certain breed of people.
> weren’t for the fact that it seems like the only current and useful learning resources are Apples WWDC videos and similar content

I don't know what you mean by "and similar content" but even though I agree that Apple's own documentation could be a lot better (though it is gradually improving), there is an enormously vibrant and flourishing ecosystem of learning materials at all levels, including people like Paul Hudson's Hacking With Swift (with website, tutorials, videos and books), Sean Allen (with YouTube videos and extensive Teachable tutorial courses), expert and in-depth discussions on SwiftUI from the programmers on pointfree.co, other in-depth resources including weekly video tutorials and books from the amazingly smart Chris Eidhof and Florian Kugler at objc.io, video tutorials and in-depth articles from Bart Jacobs at cocoacasts.com, not to mention the very advanced blog-posts from John Sundell at Swift by Sundell.

There are probably hundreds of other blog-resources - definitely more than I can keep up with on a weekly basis.

So lack of learning resources is definitely not a problem for Swift and SwiftUI if you just use some initiative to find it.

PS: people here often mention raywenderlich.com but my own experience is their content often boils down to "for networking use this external library..."
Psychology in Seattle has some excellent well researched content. It has very concretely changed or modified my perspectives on relationships, parenthood and mental illness.

The "deep dives" are definitely the best.
I actually think this is a false dichotomy, and a common misunderstanding. You do get a hierarchy in a self-organising team. The self-organisation will re-produce itself, and produce a hierarchy with components from within the system itself.

This is how we view it in my company. The difference between self-organizing and traditional methods of organizing is the following:

In traditional methods of organizing, the hierarchy is fixed, and embedded within a specific role. i.e a Product Owner. Usually it is also imposed from outside.

With self-organization power is "fluid" , in that it shifts based on the circumstance and context. The system itself will internally produce the hierarchy. This hierarchy is emergent based on the specific context, in order to deal with the specific situation.

To put it simply, a self-organising system is much more adaptable. The hierarchy and structure is emergent. Organisation is not imposed from outside, but from within. The hierarchy itself can shift from moment to moment.

* YCombinator?

* Edit for clarity
The problem isn't the qualified beds but the personnel. In contrast to gas turbines, which are small standalone plants where an operator already there essentially just presses the power button.
With zero fatalities?
it was quite tedious to call another number

Just as an aside, the reason the UK uses 999 as the emergency number is because it was much quicker to dial on a rotary phone.
Yeah, you are right pxeger1 1: niche (/NEESH/) doesn't have accent mark. (In French, the e without an accent mark is silent. According to some person on Quora . . . )
every time I read some in-depth article on shrek I have to laugh because I'm reminded of the quora post on the kid that memorized the entire movie

https://i.redd.it/ozcijbe1itt41.jpg
Ask HN: Have you worked on F# web apps in production?
I'm trying to get a feel for the feasibility of large long living web apps that are developed in F#.

F# seems great and well supported given that it's a fully supported .Net language. But on the Fable side you have to rely on the Fable project and on React. I think both of these projects are solid but there is always a cost to bringing in dependencies.

Is this something you have worked with?
Are there any recommendations you'd make to someone investigating these technologies?
It's not a broader question.

It's a question mainly used in a form or another by covid deniers to first shift the blame for hospitals saturation from the covid infection rate to government's downsizing of our health infrastructure and then to claim this downsizing is the main and only reason for hospitals saturation “so covid is not responsible for hospital saturation, see ? so let's stop the vaccine madness".

Whatever our hospital capacity is or should be or was it's not enough now to handle the situation.

If it was enough 2 years ago then we'd still be facing health worker's fatigue.
Show HN: New Book – Practical Go
Hi all, I wanted to share that my latest book is on Go programming and it is now out electronically as well as in print. It is titled "Practical Go: Building Scalable Network and Non-Network Applications" and published by Wiley publications.

The book targets readers who have learned the language basics - syntax, understanding of types, being able to write functions (details are available in the "Getting started" chapter - but essentially, just a passing familiarity with the language is enough I think). With that assumption:

In Getting Started, I guide you through the installation of the software required for the book. I also discuss some of the assumed knowledge for the following chapters.

In Chapters 1 and 2, I show you how to write command line applications using the standard library’s flag package.

In Chapters 3 and 4, I show you how you can write robust HTTP clients, using the standard library’s net/http package and friends.

In Chapters 5, 6 and 7, I show you how you can build production ready HTTP servers using net/http
and related packages from the standard library.

In Chapters 8, 9 and 10, I show you can build production ready gRPC applications using the Go gRPC implementation.

In Chapter 11, I show you can work with two categories of data stores - Object store and a SQL data store using the https://gocloud.dev library.

In Apendix A, you will learn to implement instrumentation in applications to emit telemetry data - Logs, Metrics, and Traces.

In Appendix B, you will learn to read configuration data in your application, learn to build a container image for your application and get some guidance around deploying your applications.

I wrote this book, not to share with you things I already knew - far from it. The book is essentially a documentation of my journey of learning Go and applying it to solve problems which I think based on my experience are being solved by folks in the industry today.

On that note, you may find bugs/inconsistencies and so if you read the book, please let me know and/or leave a review.

You can find a detailed table of contents here: https://practicalgobook.net/toc/ along with a link to an excerpt of Chapter 1. Any further questions, let me know, i will be happy to answer!
I upvoted this even though I think you have a hopelessly Confucian mentality wherein the imposition of authority can be a cure for bad policies/backward culture/lack of education. I believe culture, education and good policy can only grow and thrive among educated populaces (i.e., those educated to reject blunt authority), and really can't be induced from the top down. In third world basket-cases, a distributed, non-authoritarian approach of soft power is better; it's only American or Russian or Chinese imperialist ideas that argue an external imposition of order or a new political hierarchy will be the cure for social arguments in a nation that can't grow enough grain to feed itself.

For examples of how local authority is less impactful than soft power, consider the economic and cultural growth of the entire planet under American cultural dominance from 1918 to 2001.
> Aluminium cans are artificially made available only at tens or hundreds of times their cost to produce.

You forgot externalized costs... add the cost of cleaning up after irresponsible people leaving behind their cans wherever they want or the added costs and pollution of making a can from fresh aluminium ore (bauxite), and suddenly that "ten or hundred times" becomes "at cost".

Deposits are a regulatory way to account for externalized costs, at least to a bit.
Imagine if Google decided to make search a paid service when used for commercial purposes like this.

How much could/would they charge?
I really enjoy my teaching of and in R, where it is preferable to develop most commands yourself. Preferable because it is just hard to google even fundamental tasks because it is hard to formulate your problem. You must use Google only strategically.

Then I taught a class on applied software development in Python and I had to learn that convention cannot be developed by just yourself, so most of the times it is indeed "Straight to google if it's something I don't know."

I think for the latter it is the right way to teach the process as messy as it is, but what does that say about it?

And not to be misunderstood: Most of the problems we face in R are harder to google because the user base for what we do is so much smaller.
Oh, the history of Rome. Don't know about this particular podcast, but the history is absolutely amazing and 1000% worth reading/listening about.

I've always hated history lessons at school. But the history of Rome was amazing! Good teacher too. I guess it was the audiobook of the time :D
In part. There was definitely a 10 min target time for a long while.

However, a lot of TV shows - particularly USA ones seem to needlessly repeat everything like there running a lecture for amnesiacs. Here's what we're going to say in the first part, here's the first part, we say what we said we would, now a recap, then a break so we review the whole first part ... now we're 10 minutes into the show and we've seen about two minutes of unique footage. It's harrowing -- I'll take overdrawn explanations in preference to that.
I'm 40, and last month I caught some bug from the kids, was in bed for 36 hours with a high temperature, but then was fine after that. PCR tests say it wasn't covid.

This this month I did catch covid. I'm not even sure I'd class it as a bad cold, it was far less debilitating than the bug I had in November - although seems to be lasting longer (4 days of coughing so far). My last vaccine was in July (went positive literally the morning by booster was due).

I suspect most people have either had covid or know someone close who has, and see that the main problem is the effects of restrictions -- not going to work while waiting for results (leading to public transport cancellations for example), kids being kept off even though they feel fine. (One symptom of covid is a headache, but that's because I've been trapped in a house with 2 very energetic very excited children for the last 10 days)

Throw in the constant disregard for the rules that the government has shown, and I can't see the acceptance of restrictions surviving in the UK past January.

The brexity type people I'm 'freinds' with on facebook began covid all in favour of restrictions and vaccines. They are fortunatly still in favour of vaccines, but are increasingly shifting to being anti restrictions. Further restrictions will push them more into the Piers Corbyn echosphere, and that's a bad thing.
You make a fire with algebra and calculus because your brain overheats, right?
But most importantly, leave that bullshit at work. Don't let it get under your skin and bring it home.

100x this -- contrary to what some people like to peddle, you are not your job.
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Since there's currently a shortage of objective journalism, we're left with adversarial presentations. Above is one perspective. There must be other presentations or analysis from teams or organizations with varying incentives. Maybe even from the people creating the models? Hopefully someone can link them.
> An investment in capability that benefitted basically no one.

There is a benefit: You rarely find plastic bottles and beer cans in the environment any more.
It's possible that absent coal, oil, or natural gas we would have leap frogged directly into solar power first with directed mirrors powering a liquid turbine, wind, and eventually conventional solar panels made from silicone.

There's really no reason to use fossil fuels. The fact that we do actually let's us waste a ton of it. If we had to ration it to the bare essentials we'd be able to get away with using only 5% of the energy we currently use. Our current solar energy production in the United States is 2% but that 2% would have been more than enough to power the entire country in the 1920s.
Yea I completely understand the complexities that emerge when you're doing this stuff for a ~1500 person organization. And I know that overwhelmingly the people building these systems are talented and competent and have a stake in things and take pride in what they're doing. My comment was really more in response to the tone of the parent comment which insinuates that these helpless devs just can't figure out what the fuck is going on.

Coming from a team that builds and supports an end user suite of applications. I'm not asking you to bend over backwards like I would have to do for a client. But at least don't enter in to conversations with that attitude. You are in a service organization. You deliver value insofar as you can help the next link in the chain.
I loved Space Debris and it was a big influence.
First, listening 3x is impossible for most content, I almost never listen to x1 but I'm very rarely able to go past x2.5.

Also at that speed it is almost impossible to understand complex things, so if you listen at x3 or x2 and you never go back or reduce the speed to understand specific parts then you are not listening.

On Youtube

- Shift+> or Shift+< let you increase or decrease the speed at all time

- Left and Right let you go back 15 secondes backwards or forwardds

This makes it super easy to skip or speed useless parts and go back and slow down usefull ones

Last, people who say they listen to podcasts or videos to learn are not learning anything, podcasts or videos are just good ways to have a broad understanding of a topic
> You need some APIs → API Gateway

An API Gateway doesn't make APIs?