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Ask HN: Breaking into SWE – Bootcamps or Competitions?
I have had a lot of trouble breaking into software engineering with just a Github portfolio and an unrelated degree. Basically, my applications get no response from companies.

I discussed my plans to join a bootcamp-style program with a friend who is a Google engineer. My friend told me that bootcamps are a waste of my time and money and that he believes that anyone can break into SWE with just a few weeks of trying.

His suggestion was to join and score well on programming competitions (such as Google Kickstart), which he describes as a direct funnel to SWE jobs. I have not heard of this option before. I have never tried competitive programming, so I do not know how much effort it takes to win at them. My Google friend says that the effort is minimal and that these competitions have a low bar to score well.

Are code competitions an option you found useful during your job search? Would you recommend this path?
Hetzner is good but I’ve found that their connection from EU to US is weak, apparently in Level 3 somewhere.
PipelineDP Brings Google’s Differential-Privacy Library to Python
Alternative search engines can win more users
After waiting an abnormally long time for parts with them more than a decade ago I've preferred microcenter ever since. Microcenters guys aren't perfect but they're good enough to bounce ideas off of.
Running economies hot lowers real wages
That’s untrue for huge swaths of America. In the Iowa town where my wife grew up, the doctor’s kid went to the same school as the poorest kids in town, because there was only one school for everyone. Even here in Annapolis, there’s e.g. not really any place to eat in town that nearly everyone couldn’t afford to go at least on a special occasion.
> Just how much airtime was given to people blathering that vaccines cause autism, which is a decades-old debunked fraud? Way too much.

Sure, but cut them off and then they cry censorship. "They wouldn't be trying to silence us if they weren't hiding something!"
Well, 3D is not really 'wrong', there are still 3 space coordinates. And 1 time coordinate, which behaves a little weirdly when moving. But surely, we we can talk about what the 3D space part might look like.

> Is there evidence for the finite balloon option?

Well, we cannot know into what the universe might be embedded, so this is a visualisation of a 3D space that has no center, no edge, and is finite. Just like the surface of a sphere, a 2D manifold embedded into a 3D manifold. But that sphere shape is really meaningless, because it is an unobservable structural properly from the embedded manifold itself, i.e., that shape property is outside of our universe. For simplicity, we just imagine a hyperballoon surface.

For the finite 3D manifold part: I think that people are searching for pattern repetitions in the night sky in different directions to maybe see something. :-)

For me, it is the most satisfying option of bringing together 'finite' and 'everything moves away from us' (=expanding universe) and getting rid of 'are we in the center?' and 'how is it like close to the edge?' kind of questions.

> Of course, if that's the case some matter is on the edge and some in the center.

Yeah, this one bugged me. It cannot really be the case, why would we be in the center? Our existence is weird enough, but right in the center? And what would it be like 'near the edge'? It just makes no sense. It means the visualisation cannot be good. And again, it seems weird to need a 3D space to contain the universe -- why not just 'open' the universe and take up all that space it expands into? No, the big bang created that space, so it does not expand into something of the same properties or dimensions. But we can observe properties:

'finite' is quite certain, because whichever direction we look, the farthest away we see the remnants of 400000y after the big bang when the photons started moving normally. We seem to see the whole thing, in principle.

'everything we see moves away from us' is also certain, because whichever way we look, far away galaxies are red-shifted, i.e., they all move away from us.

The two things fit perfectly the 'balloon surface in 3D' mental model: regardless where we are on that balloon surface, we'd observe the two above phenomena. There is no center, there is no edge, and expansion is easy to visualise (blowing up the balloon).
How can you have an ip that can’t be pointed to by a domain?
Gives a whole other meaning to “I’m feeling lucky!”
Is it? You can simulate all of the planes without simulating their air traffic communication. That would be already 99% of the way to a better experience.
Dark Matter Poor Galaxies Emerge in Computer Simulations
The fact that the firearms seized by the RCMP is a pretty good indicator that they were not possessed legally.
I got mugged and the police had the people who did it, and my property, back less than 10 minutes after I called it in. Chicago, fwiw.
I think you have definitely proved me wrong with Trello. Upon reflection I have been on that platform since perhaps day one of its release (I was reading Joel on Software blog posts usually same day back then). I know for sure since the first month (Sept 2011 Trello tells me that) and I am pretty sure I have had a paid plan for nearly a decade, probably dating back to late 2012 when I authorized Zapier to connect to my boards for automation.
It’s just an adaptation issue. After switching from Android to iPhone, I forgot about the back button maybe in a couple of weeks.
I'm pleasantly surprised by the high quality of your top results. That shows the search algorithms (whatever your choice was) are good enough and Google can be eventually disrupted. As a fellow software engineer I'm curious about your stack and size of your operations. Are you blogging about this somewhere? You definitely should!
The entire South Bay may as well be considered a Superfund site (Silicon Valley used and dumped a lot of solvents in chipmaking). Ever wonder how Google got all that Mountain View real estate for cheap? Don't go swimming in those pretty canals.
There are four ways in which people disagree. First is just miscommunication which is easily clarified. Second is working from a different set of facts. Third is same facts, different interpretation. Lastly is same facts, same interpretation, different principles. Discourse online straddles the four, with an unhealthy amount of ego and stubborness thrown in for good (bad) measure. Without a good way to get people on the same page first, aka people don't even read the linked article before commenting (tbc, guilty of that myself), there's zero real hope of getting people interested in epistemology and why we get it so wrong. And who could blame them? Examining why you believe something central to your identity threatens it and is very uncomfortable, and most people simply aren't here for that.
Looks like the h100 doesn't have a release date let alone a price. There are also some applications that don't scale well on a gpu (lots of interdependence) which could still benefit greatly from hbm on a cpu. Although deep learning typically scales very well.
What percentage of the population do you think would need be hospitalized for "brutal" to be accurate?
The January 2016 thing was them finally acknowledging the attack that had happened many months prior, after WPEngine gave Linode the opportunity to announce they were hacked after they were also compromised using the same vector that hit PagerDuty. If Linode had declined, WPEngine was going to do it on their behalf. I couldn't convince the powers that be to make the same demand months prior, even though I was confident, so if WPEngine hadn't pushed the issue I don't know that Linode would have ever disclosed.

But that doesn't matter anymore. This was nearly a generation ago in tech companies, and they are now part of a bigger one.
Here's an article about it:

https://cei.org/blog/human-achievement-of-the-day-using-hiv-...

The hospital's own article about it:

https://www.chop.edu/stories/relapsed-leukemia-emilys-story

I could not find info on that particular trial. Here's one that is happening now:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04276870

I found no details about how the treatment uses HIV. If it is used, it is used to modify the patient's T cells in the lab. So HIV is not curing leukemia, but it is used to prepare T cells which cure leukemia.
“…almost no consumer consciously chooses to use Google search anymore”? 6-8 quality leads in the last 14 days (ave. sale at $3,200) on less than $220 spent on ads begs to differ with you. We’ve only started advertising the last two weeks. We’ve had calls and form submissions _all_ from Google and we only launched our site roughly 45 days ago. I’m not a Google fanboy and I think Search does need an overhaul but people are mostly definitely using Google Search. Another client of mine gets 8-12 new customers per month all from Google searches and she doesn’t spend a dime on Google.
It’s the curse of cross platform development. Apple TV has a tiny user base. It’s not economical to do much custom development for it. So streaming apps tend to treat it as another “smart tv”, which means very limited features.
I love how she takes a sip of her coffee/tea when she has to wait for the computer
Easy, don't focus on them. Get yourself happy customers and solve problems your customers have. Be the competitor that offers exceptional customer service and goes the extra mile.

There is a lot of room in these markets.
My team, and myself, turn it on for conversations where everyone is participating. So a small team huddle (3-5 people) has cameras on. Bunch of slides and a bigger audience? Cameras off. In reality, it is dictated by your team or organization culture.
> Engineers still have good reasons, as Apple's App Store limitations pretty much just hamper tools power users could want. (e.g. Termux, Tasker, etc)

Yeah, this isn't even most engineers I know, but its a legitimate argument. I used to run Cyano/AOSP builds on my LG/Droid phones.

> One other good reason is the very large catalogue of open source apps on Android. There's a lot of good quality free apps that Apple's fees, terms and the necessity of Macs to develop scare away.

I really, really don't think even 0.001% of users care about this. The engineers I know with Android all tend to be either neutral-to-anti-Linux/FOSS, they are "Windows" engineers. All the Linux/FOSS guys use Mac laptops + Linux Desktops/Workstations and iOS devices.

>Longevity kinda depends on your threat model. Of course Android devices will stop getting security updates sooner as we all know, but one extra thing to think about is that Apple does not backport new features and APIs, while Google generally does. This means that most apps on iOS are -strongly- encouraged to move their minimum supported iOS version up often. All this to say that an iPhone that doesn't get any more OS updates will stop getting app updates very quickly, while an Android Marshmallow phone still supports the majority of apps. It's a tradeoff between OS updates vs app updates, the majority of people would care more for the latter

I really don't think this tradeoff exists. The iPhone 5S got 9 years of OS and security updates. None of my apps broke during that period, and I still use that phone in WiFi mode as a remote for home automation/Roku/etc. and two-factor RSA apps/tools.

It's really insane when you consider just how long iOS devices are supported:

https://img.gadgethacks.com/img/original/84/99/6367296924559...

> (Though engineers would likely never keep a phone for that long, but the merit stands)

Yeah, most of my engineer friends who stayed android liked the upgrade cycle so the OS-update/support cycle didn't matter. Problem is that things have been very, very stale for Android flagships the last 4-5 years in comparisons to iOS devices.

I just don't think the value proposition is there anymore for Android. It's basically the Anti-Apple/Niche Poweruser/Low-end phone platform of choice.

I was close to dropping Apple entirely over on-device CSAM scanning (I don't mind iCloud server scanning) and looking at a Pixel/Calyx/Graphene alternatives for privacy, and really found myself not liking my options. You give up a lot of battery life, privacy functionality, and cross-device integration moving away from iOS.
Like, in a nefarious way? For what purpose?
Fascinating article, definitely prompts thoughts around the abandonment of technology...

From a technical standpoint, I wonder how hard it would be to reverse engineer the wireless protocol that the implant is expecting, so that a custom camera/software could be used to beam in the data?

That wouldn't help if the implant fails, but for cases like Jeroen (from the article) who dropped his VPU and needed to crowdsource a replacement, it might be a godsend.
Heads up, I think you're still on the hook for download bandwidth though. Bandwidth is one reason podcast hosting is so popular.

If you use a service like Transistor.fm, you can get a website generated for your feed automatically. Not much customization options, but probably enough to get by. For $9/mo, it's not a bad option.
NO! These are COVID specific policies with real repercussions. If you can't see that then I don't know what to say.

Nobody gets locked down for the flu...
Letters from Prison, Fevzi Yazici
> Most people I know care much less than the Hacker News community about privacy, bloated web sites, web advertisements, etc. and would gladly trade these for free software such as Facebook, Gmail. I'm not saying I agree with them, but I recognize that reality.

"Gladly" here seems like a stretch. No one is happy about slow ad filled webpages that make it hard to read the content they want, they aren't clamoring for pervasive tracking, or unnecessary restrictions. Most people hate those things, but they aren't aware of a reasonable alternative offering what they actually do want and are glad for (reliable email service, pictures of their grand kids, etc) so they tolerate the horrible abuses forced onto them and are grateful for what they can get.

The main difference I see is that most people online don't know that things could be any different. Many don't even realize how much more enjoyable their online experience would be if they simply installed an ad blocker (and used a browser that allowed them). To this day I run into people who honestly think that without pervasive advertising and surveillance capitalism the internet couldn't exist and no one would ever bother to create content for it. Folks who saw the internet in its early days know better, and can see what things have improved and what's gotten worse and how much potential hasn't been realized.

A dog raised eating nothing but table scraps is never going to care as much as someone who is forced to eat them after once having a seat at the dinner table.
on modern systems the memory controller interfaces between the memory network and the DRAM. I wouldn't say the CPU/NIC or CPU/storage boundary touches the memory controller (except if its writing to memory)
I don't think any advertisers would be able to offer "People who bought a washing machine 3 years ago" as a category that can be targeted without a riot
Do have 2 or 4? Generally if you use 4 dimms on 2 memory channels the speeds are derated.
As someone who commented on Linode hacks earlier, I can vouch for lbotos having worked there and feel the same way as they do. I don't believe any of the attacks were an inside job, because I don't believe anyone would have done that and if they did they knew how not to leave a trail behind.

Also hey lbotos, hope you're doing well!
“LocalStorage is lazy” and “server storage is more fun” are not good reasons to avoid localStorage.

Durability and reliability are reasons enough!

- LocalStorage will silently drop concurrent writes sometimes. One of my first major projects at Notion was moving our client-side change queue from LocalStorage to IndexedDB because we found that localStorage would just… lose data. One of our engineers wrote a simple HTML page that wrote sequential data in a loop, and another thread read the data to verify it. We saw loss of 5% or more in some conditions.

- LocalStorage is treated as almost-ephemeral by the browser/OS. We found that under disk pressure, many engines will happily clear some or all of your LocalStorage keys. Browsers seem more reluctant to drop IndexedDB data.

- If you want any kind of “scan” over a bunch of data, or if you want to store larger/binary data, IndexedDB can get you better performance.

- Third party scripts like analytics, customer support chat, etc happily spray data into LocalStorage, and you end up competing with them for scarce quota. IndexedDB has better namespacing and budgeting - plus, if you use entirely IndexedDB, you can nuke LocalStorage to reclaim quota from those third parties.
Generally speaking, there’s no such thing as federal “registration”.

The only exceptions that I can think of are NFA items: suppressors, short-barreled rifles and shotguns, etc. You could stamp a serial number on a piece of pipe and register it as a suppressor with a Form 1 - but that would cost you $200 and require that you file a Form 20 every time you travel interstate with it, so that’s not really a reasonable option for this.
I have two thoughts on this:

1) our “giants” will be Zuckerberg, Elon, and Bezos. They have taken all the talent that would have gone to bell labs and used it to generate ad revenue.

2) our “giants” are still making their name and working, and we will recognize their accomplishments in 30-40 years.
Just today i was bitten by a bug in a framework called NestJS that makes heavy use of decorators: Certain decorator they define doesnt work with Jest test framework.
It's not clear how much this is going to stick. When Google became Alphabet the leadership came up with the idea that employees would refer to each other as "characters", but I can count on one hand the number of times I saw that in 4 years at Google. Also, Microsoft's demonym is "Microsoftie" which is no better and didn't seem to be too popular among folks I knew there.
Your comments about AMD are not entirely true: AMD officially supports ECC in the Pro variants of their desktop CPUs / APUs. I'm currently using a Ryzen 3800X with ECC memory and EDAC reports that it's working. ASRock lists qualified ECC DIMMs for virtually all of their motherboards. It's more that it's a feature motherboard vendors can support if they want to rather than being a platform requirement. But yes, it is sad that AMD doesn't make it an officially supported feature of the platform.
One unfortunate thing NYTimes has done is to block iframe embeds of Wordle :(
Exactly my thoughts as well.
I have one point where I can see if all the remote services that I am using are operating correctly. I don't need to connect to various other apps to figure this out.
I find this exceedingly hard to believe. Around 2009-2010, btc was definitelynot an "asset" (like the bafoons try to treat it now).
It *was a currency*.

Many still believe in the idea that (certain, less well know) crypto can be used as a real currency, but unfortunately the public severely tainted it with ideas of 'being an asset'.

This comment reads as someone who is more aligned with the public's (HN) perception of modern crypto, rather than the use of it pre-2010.
Why not just get a GPU? They seem much closer to the needs of deep learning than trying to shoe horn a HBM memory interface onto a chip that wasn't particularly designed for it.
NYSE Wants to Be Marketplace for NFTs Just Like with Stocks
I’m really struggling to see how “the company’s response to security breaches was inappropriate” logically leads to “staff might be stealing Bitcoin.”

It’s a baseless and unfair attack and I think you should consider deleting your original comment.
Not uncommon for later waves to be harder on children. These later waves are called children plagues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLRx00rrORw
I'm not an expert in this field, I just tried to correct one word. This is a freeze not a forfeiture.

My understanding is that the legal link was created by the Emergencies Act. The government believes that it will be able to calm the situation faster if they can track and cut off the flow of money. This invocation gives the government increased powers to track (they ordered crowdfunding platforms/payment processors to register with FINTRAC). And increased powers to cut off funds (through freezing bank accounts).

Edit:

Here's a relevant quote from Canada's Deputy PM:

“The government is issuing an order with immediate effect under the Emergencies Act, authorizing Canadian financial institutions to temporarily cease providing financial services where the institution suspects that an account is being used to further the illegal blockades and occupations,” she said. “This order covers both personal and corporate accounts.”
Remember, nothing of value is ever airdropped. More inflationary tokens, more shit tokens, more garbage. “Voting stock”. Toilet paper.

Real coin is mined.
That may be a bad example but the “patents on insulin” are on the specific processes to create it not on insulin itself. This would be another unique process.
Well, no the premise doesn't match with my experience at all.

Quoting works perfectly for me dunno.
Just one little problem the article didn't quite touch on: growth factor comes from dead baby cows:

> The culture media is an essential component of in vitro cultivation. It is responsible for providing the macromolecules, nutrients and growth factors necessary for cell proliferation. Sourcing growth factors is one of the most challenging tasks of cellular agriculture. Traditionally, it involves the use of fetal bovine serum (FBS) which is a blood product extracted from fetal cows. Besides the argument that its production is unethical, it is also vitiates the independence of the use of animals. [...]

> The current alternative is to generate each growth factor individually using recombinant protein production. In this process, the genes coding for the specific factor are integrated into bacteria which are then fermented. However, due to the added complexity of this process, it is particularly expensive.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat#Growth_factors

So unless a viable alternative is found the ethical (and probably environmental also) issues are pretty much the same as eating normal meat.
This (commercial) program[1] does the job for Spotify. I think what it does is just play the given playlist then it sets Spotify's audio output to a virtual audio device similar to BlackHole[2], then reads from it, encodes the audio, fetches the metadata (including album art) and sets it. There are open source[3] alternatives[4] but I haven't tested them.

[1] https://www.noteburner.com

[2] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

[3] https://github.com/jwallet/spy-spotify

[4] https://github.com/richardk80/spotify-ripper
I don't put condiments or toppings on my hotdogs and hamburgers.
Libertarian != anarchy. What people mean by libertarian in relation to regulation varies considerably. The main thrusts of it are the non-aggression principle and the belief that there is no instantiation of government that is not systemically corrupt and self-interested (all because of the conflicts inherent in power over people). This doesn't require you to call for the abolition of government, but would not make additional bureaucracy your first solution to a given problem, either. If you tell me you're libertarian, I would assume nothing about where you stand on the EPA, but I would make assumptions about your instinctual reaction to foreign wars, trade policy, civil rights, and your default skepticism of a government's ability to carry out any given task effectively.
I can just picture that every competitor of Kustomer is going to get their salespeople in a huddle tomorrow to tell them how excited they are about the opportunity to "dial for dollars".
It's a launch as long as someone can use it. Launches can be alpha too.