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> My experience with the discord.py community left a bad taste and I imagine some people at Discord might see what I've seen and not want much to do with it.

I only briefly looked at discord.py and left with the exact same impression. A lot of angsty energy. Felt like everyone was fighting with each other and Discord itself, with a heavy dose of martyrdom.

Fortunately none of the other Discord libraries I looked at had anything remotely similar.
Oh no. Anyways...
In my experience this is a feature of startups. The enterprise I work at doesn’t ship releases with major bugs, period. But in exchange they release only once every 6 months, and releases are very likely to be postponed if any defect is found (even if this occurs in maybe 1/10,000 cases).

Discord gets to move fast at some expense to the users, but mostly those users do not care, as long as messaging/voice chat functionality isn’t impacted.
mosquitoes?
Show HN: I made a website that encourages you to write more often
Pre-COVID, AC transit moved a total of about 50% as many people across the bay per day as BART did in a single peak hour. The bus may well meet your specific requirements, but it's pretty clear that that's not the case in general. That may not have generalised to the Golden Gate crossing, but there's evidence that the bus service there is insufficient - the Larkspur ferry was operating at above nominal capacity at peak hours, which suggests that there's meaningful demand for public transit that isn't being satisfied by the buses.
I've had mixed experiences with RQ. It works great most of the time, but I've observed that you can get into weird states if you OOM your system or otherwise throw curveballs at it. Overall I think Python makes it easy enough to handroll a queue management system that I would generally recommend that over RQ.
But in a surprising number of situations the fact that you are bridging tor activity is leaky info. You don't just have to be on a public IP list.
It makes normal photographs look weird.

Full-spectrum mods are something you want in an astrophotography camera, but they're not something you want for regular photography.

So to use the camera for normal things like portraits, wildlife, landscapes, product shots, or basically anything other than taking pictures of the sky you need to get a set of (expensive) filters to go on the lens to block the excess light and restore normal color rendering.
I really hope this isn’t really that common. Like how bad do you have to be with a knife and do you really need someone to tell you it’s going to be a tad difficult to cut a frozen piece of bread?

Basic safety tip: Don’t pull or point pointy bits towards your meaty bits.
Yeah that's an interesting problem. I mean the simple answer is you just make an unsubscribe method. But that doesn't solve the layer of adding and removing subscription handlers.
> If you scroll back up and look at the agreement Paul and I made in January, there was no mention of me not being able to label the content as “sponsored”.

But they did mention it..
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33505-why-of-course-the-peo...
I’ve been using Celery and it has been working okay for our needs but it is not very friendly to make changes depending on how you write tasks. I feel okay when a task is a wrapper around some other functions that you can just run and test with any tools you’d like but we have some tasks that go all in by binding all kids of data and functionality to the task that isn’t guaranteed to be there if you just launch a task with .delay or similar so you can’t just spin up a REPL or debugger and call the function and have it work.
Random factoid: Kodak had a small nuclear reactor in the basement of its Rochester, NY headquarters for thirty years (until the plant and HQ was closed).

Emphasis on small. Not a true secret; fully regulated and licensed. But they didn't talk about it!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kodak-reve...

"...it came pre-loaded with nearly 1.5kg of uranium enriched up to a level of 93.4 per cent, which is just about right for an atomic warhead."
The link claims there are 2 thousand bagel injuries per year. (Out of 3 billion bagels eaten per year.)

People should be careful with knives, but this is not the most serious risk modern people face. Living near cars is like 3+ orders of magnitude more dangerous.
Yes, something similar to this actually happened with a giant directory of users. They still could have gone about the rollout much better by adding features that the community requested to slash commands before forcing everyone onto them.
You may be underestimating the hysteria this could generate locally.
Still crazy that evolution has chosen it.
Bolivia is also a huge market for cars stolen in Brazil.
A more-deadly virus ruins its chances only if it kills before it spreads. In this case, where it appears that COVID-19 is contagious for a week before substantial symptoms appear, and a large fraction of those who catch it are not debilitated, ultimate mortality has little effect.

Smallpox was overwhelmingly more deadly, and its spread was not limited, even without airborne transmission. Measles was also overwhelmingly more deadly, did rely on airborne transmission, and afflicted us century in and century out.

Research into viral function, absent military intent, has no reason to experiment with making the infection more deadly. The primary research goal is to discover what may affect virulence, and try to anticipate and understand what may occur naturally, and then discover ways to block those.
To a quart of red wine, add an ounce of cinnamon and half an ounce of ginger; a quarter of an ounce of grains of paradise and long pepper, and half a pound of sugar. Bruise all this, not too small, and strain the wine through a cloth bag.

Geezus, half a pound of sugar? Sounds like an early recipe for coca-cola.
Crazy nonetheless that evolution has chosen it.
It seems very strange that these companies are spending so much on engineering resources.

How many 750k engineers are actually producing 7x a 100k engineer? I look at companies like Google and aside from the core cash cow (ads) it seems like very little of value is actually happening. They have the cash flow so I guess why not burn it on staff, but e.g. how many 500k or even 250k engineers did Google assign to reinvent messaging for the nth time? How many shitty attempts at a Google watch? How many Meta/Facebook/Instagram clones of some other social network’s feature?

I get that there are occasionally known-by-name engineers who it would make sense to pay for, but I don’t think that constitutes a general “market for SWEs”.

Maybe it is just the market for FAANG SWEs, but they do lots of weird things to constrain their hiring (e.g. only hiring from certain schools or doing bizarre algorithm tests) so really they’re playing themselves at shareholder expense.

Maybe a bigger question is: why are these big companies letting fungible labor take such a big piece of the pie? Facebook likes having the fanciest engineers, but I seriously doubt that they _need_ them.

Anyway, off to the job boards, I guess.
Didn't some company turn up the heaters at night, to increase the power costs.

Also this
https://www.wired.com/story/water-heaters-power-grid-hack-bl...
It is in India as well. The salaries have doubled in the last couple of years. Hiring has become extremely difficult. Good SWEs typically have 2-3 offers at 2x to 3x salaries
The other side of the problem is that humans do not want to admit that they are afraid of death and change. Blaming lab leak for the pandemic gives them the feeling of control and safety. They would rather have the belief that this was human caused rather than natural as they cant control a natural disaster.
Can you at least let us know what "stacks" anyone involved has produced? last I checked nobody involved has ever been involved in real voice platforms (as evidenced by 8 years of "voice first" but actually producing very little actual voice integration)
>Why on earth would you want to survive a full-blown nuclear exchange?

because death is for all we know very permanent. I would rather be alive and miserable than be dead. I know i will die one day but i would rather put that off as long as possible.
> 0.24% chance of being one of those people injured, each day

2,000 / 330,000,000 / 365 = 0.00000166% chance of daily bagel injury. Not sure what calculation you did, but as far as I can tell it is off by 5 orders of magnitude.
This sounds very similar to what happens in Cory Doctorow's Radicalization.
2000 that result in an ER visit. No doubt the vast majority do not require such attention. Few injuries involving cars go unreported.
Very bad title, the tweet has nothing to do with regional hiring market and is only about company salary levels.

Salary levels at companies != US & Europe & India’s hiring market.
“Smart” appliances are so idiotic this has stopped being funny many moons ago and it saddens me that it’s such a sad state of affairs. Even the best consumer electronics companies generate such frustrating software that I’m losing faith in the profession itself.

Why is software so difficult and when will it stop?
If you consider it fully, you may change your mind.

The bodies natural cycle in sleep is not intended for muscle repair. So it makes sense that it does not suddenly become the prime concern during sleep.

Muscles get better oxygenation and fluid exchange when they are being used, pumped, and this helps remove lactic acid and deliver nutrients.the same can be said of the lymphatic system which you can look into.

Looking at top teir athletes, cool-down excersizes are standard practice after intense workouts...

All of these lead to this conclusion, though in hindsight, of course, it's easier to stitch together
I'd say the negative parts of Discord mixed with the negative parts of classic forum/Q&A behaviors plus a heap of angst/martyrdom (good phrasing by a sibling).

In my experience on the discord.py server, I had recently come back to discord bots after a couple of years and wanted to try slash commands and was told: "slash is trash", discord.py will never support slash commands (lol), the gist on the issue is SO OBVIOUS and easy to find just google it (it wasn't), talking about forks and other bot libraries is against the rules (wtf?), and this was all served with mild verbal abuse. It was also served while at least 2 people were asking if they were allowed to ping Danny to express bizarre levels of affection and they somehow got more positive traction than me trying to understand why this advertised API feature wasn't available in what I thought was a highly popular/respected library. Looking around the other channels had me cringing a bit on conversations and shared media to put it lightly.

Sometimes going to a discord server feels like entering an online shooter voice lobby. If you try to be serious you just get talked past or berated by loud 15 year olds. If they even say something related to what you're trying to talk about, they're mindlessly parroting their idol and not thinking critically on their own. These servers often have a handful of active people forming their own little social club with hundreds or thousands of other members on the side never saying anything, probably not even lurking. This is something I've noticed a lot on Discord but I imagine extends to similar solutions in the same space. My experience on Slack has been less juvenile but also less populated and similarly useless.

Anyway so mix that experience with the "I'm quitting" gist (which is something I can write a few paragraphs on but really don't want to) and yeah I wouldn't want to work with these people if I were a boring corporation, and I don't want to think about them when I'm doing a fun side project for friends.
If I remember right, newer Samsungs have their stack of telephoto optics pointing toward the top of the phone, parallel to the display. Then use a periscope style prism to look out and forward. That way you aren't limited by the device thickness (although I guess now the diameter of the lenses is constrained)
> He explains in a follow up that it was the only one offered by his home builder

That doesn't explain why he doesn't sell this (likely very expensive) oven at cost, and then use the proceeds to buy a (likely much cheaper) regular oven.
> is a company with a 15B valuation and hundreds of employees

And zero profit nor viable plan to generate any. That's the problem.

There's no money to be made in being a message bus, certainly not enough to justify such a valuation and sustain hundreds of employees (whether it needs those is a different matter, but that's out of scope).

Discord's current business model is "growth and engagement" - this is what netted them their current funding and valuation. This requires keeping the audience captive and being able to regulate their behavior, including coercing them into doing things against their interests such as seeing ads, navigating through dark patterns, etc.

Having a healthy developer ecosystem goes against this - it means you become a dumb message bus and people will be able to automate their way around any inconvenience you might put to monetize them. Developers are great when you've got a real business providing a real product people pay for, but when your only bet is on the "attention economy", the last thing you want is to have "smartasses" around that can create technical workarounds to your inconvenience-based business model.
Induced drag is a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift-induced_drag
You need close to 100% vaccination rates for vaccines to really work. Not so much for creating a makeshift army.

This is an example of framing of the issue, and in this case it is deeply misleading. Nearly everyone wants what makes us safe. The problem is that certain groups in America have transformed that into something dangerous while disguising it as a form of safety. At some point, society will move away from this kind of thinking regardless of how it is perceived today.
Ask HN: How to find the network bottleneck to my cloud storage provider?
I recently signed up for a lifetime plan with PCloud EU. I used their integrated speed test because the speed is erratic and unusable at its worst. PCloud support directed me to my ISP but they haven’t been helpful beyond asking me to reset my equipment. The connection is just as slow on my fast work connection with a different ISP. Speedtest.net to other servers in the same country (Luxembourg) are fine from both home and work connections. Is there something like traceroute that can measure the speed (Mbps) for each hop, or a better way to see where the bottleneck is?
> when I send a parameterized query to PostgreSQL or MS SQL Server

You're not sending a parameterized query. The libraries are creating prepared statements under the hood, and managing them for you. This generally requires one call to prepare the statement and fetch some sort of handle, and then executing the statement with the handle from the first call.

Part of the confusion is that it's common to see SQL libraries offer an API to parametrize queries using some sort of placeholder in the query, but it's really just a facade to perform local string interpolation along with some sort of vendor-specific sanitation scheme.
I think their reasoning is that if they have the 750k salary engineer, their competitor doesn't. But I'm just speculating.
As a kid, I lived in a part of the world where we did not buy potatoes in the supermarket. We harvested them in autumn and stored until next summer, storage was a basement (cool, dry, dark place). By the spring it inevitably sprouted, we had to remove sprouts and sort out rotten ones (usually done only once). No one ever got sick from sprouted potatoes, that is the most ridiculous thing that I heard. Green potatoes are those that were exposed to light, people said it's not good to eat, but I guess you would have to eat a lot of them to see the effect.
Red wine and coke or dr pepper is pretty good. Especially to mitigate having opened the bottle yesterday.
I'm interested and considering getting an amateur radio license.

It's not clear yet, but I wanted to get a single portable device that allows for reception of all the most important frequencies, which I think includes shortwave, HF, VHF, NOAA weather and the amateur radio bands.

Is there a device that does all of this?
This is a great example of what would be obvious to a 10 year old (natural virus leaking from a lab) yet we've seen endless lies and distortions from the media and intelligentsia trying to obsfucate the idea.

I dont understand how anyone can have anything other than utter contempt for the media and associated "experts".
My simple question would be, if it was really a lab leak, wouldn't you expect the people working in lab to be infected first? Or is this assumption flawed? If so why?

The two new preprint papers (“The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence” and “SARS-CoV-2 emergence very likely resulted from at least two zoonotic events”), only trace back to December 2019. Why no go back further? Considering the "unknown" virus stated even in November and possibly October.
Point-and-shoot cameras are a dying segment. The target market for this segment is taking casual photos of friends and family. These buyers prioritize convenience and price over performance. Smartphones meet these requirements as good or better than their dedicated counterparts.
> I can’t think of another analog-to-digital transition that also maintained its outer form so thoroughly.

Keyboards.

TV cameras.

Hi-Fi stereo systems.

Movie theatres.

Desk telephones.

Headsets & Ear buds

2-way radios.

Magnetic tape.

Automobile engines.

(Coaxial) cable & tuners/receivers.

Likely quite a lot more examples.
So open the bugs are not viewable.
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We all take what we can get, don’t we?

Are we really interested in fairness and equitable compensation or is it that these wide ranges are just more visible now that everyone’s salaries are pretty much accessible and widely known

Question is can we (the collective we) get the same piece of that pie when everyone is global and remote based on merit alone- various forms of protectionism will conspire against this..

I know some excellent software engineers making 15$ per hour because they are stuck in India and I know folks with same talent making 200$ per hour for some US consulting firms because that’s what they can get out of them..

Fair? No - understandable yes- free market? Not quite - yes cost of living makes one persons 15$ Per hour worth more than another’s but it is unfair -

I’m US based engineer applying for FAANG companies now that I can work remotely from the south and hoping for a compensation bump - it’s not in my interest for those jobs to go “offshore” to top talent in Poland or India (just what does Offshore mean anyway in todays world?)
They are describing a setup like this: https://imgur.com/a/R2jbfzj
If they have more of a constrained supply, they win. Right. There aren't enough SWEs, so if you have them, your competition can't. Get enough SWEs together and you get some cool shit like K8s.
That and probably keeping the good ones who are 2x in some areas, but make fewer mistakes than two 1x would.
I am not involved with the project, but wondered what the license was after seeing the previous comment.
There are some places where the wheel and driving side don't match what's usually expected.

Like Vladivostok, Russia, where cars drive right but due to its proximity to Japan some cars have the wheel on the right.

Or the U.S. Virgin Islands, which drives left, but most cars are U.S. imports and have the wheel on the left.
Urban rail usage in my city was down 20% from 2000 pre-covid and has lost another 60% or so from Covid. That's despite a ~25% increase in population.

Similar story around the US. Outside of NYC public transit usage is declining.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29974476

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29981141
It was there in 2007-2008. And really won't last beyond winter. America has a normal stance of releasing gas supplies over the summer for vacation travel. The only real problem is covering the gap in Europe, which is why prices will go higher then come down in a few months. Unless the oil companies do what all other companies (food etc) are doing and just charge more and make record profits.
Honestly, people can be weirdly difficult about some things. I've had a few cases in business where a vendor will say "this is the only way, nothing else is possible" for an obviously silly solution, only to reveal an alternative after the third or fourth push back.
Bit of an odd gripe IMO, but either way Sharpie ink is non-toxic & you’d have to ingest more than an entire marker to do any real harm.
well, it is fair when 15/hr gets what 200k/y does in the USA. But I wonder if a 15/h job and a 200k job have the same responsibilities regardless.

But this is one reason so many come to where wages are high: to send money home where is goes a lot further.
I would maybe consider it the other way; these companies are wildly profitable with huge margins, why don't the employees capture _more_ of the value they create?
The US is not currently occupying Japan, but they did at some point. The US and Japan are currently in an alliance. Japan's constitution requires a self-defense force, so they don't have a normal military. That was imposed by the US after WWII.

Please don't deflect.

Let me ask you: do you think it would be just to have Russia occupy Ukraine? Do you think countries have a right to self determination and sovereignty?

Russia was signatory to the Budapest Memorandum, basically agreeing to acknowledge and help protect Ukraine's borders.

I wonder why you support occupation.
This is a perfect example of why I often just read the comments before the links on HN. Saves a lot of face-palming.
in 2007-2008, it was costly, but driving was rather peaceful and nice to have to drive to work for once. When the price came down, the assholes came out.
I would say that Europe is on fire right now, however due to a combination of Brexit, IR35 and COVID, companies are a lot more willing to hire remotely across Europe.

At the end of last year I had an initial call with a certain London based food delivery company, and the recruiter said they had to place 100 engineers over the next year. He said that it was now much harder to find people in the UK, and most of the people they'd already placed (over the last few months) were outside the UK.

This was a role advertising rates of £650/day. In the UK you can live pretty comfortably like that, in Spain or Poland you can live like a king.

This doesn't really increase the top end salaries, but it does mean they become more balanced across Europe.

I live in the Baltics, and have seen local roles advertised paying up to €90k (I'm guessing 'up to' is the key part, but still). That's at similar levels (or slightly higher) than non-London UK salaries. To get a salary like that 5 years ago you'd have to go to the UK (or maybe Berlin), and people here did, but now you can get the same at home.
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Moving a steering wheel seems like it would be more trouble than it’s worth, but I’ve not actually taken apart a Japanese car to see if the holes and mounting spots are all there.
On many cameras you can set the viewfinder to match the prescription of your eye-glasses. I need glasses to see data displayed on the rear screen, but can easily read the viewfinder data without them. Saves a lot of faffing around
And also by stories like the GPU shortage.