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SEEKING WORK | REMOTE, EU and US-East timezones | Back-end, integrations, performance

Hi there! Need some help with complex backend topics, integrations, or your web app deployment and performance? I can plug into your team on a part-time basis (up to 30 hours/wk) and get the ball rolling.

Tech stacks I use routinely:

- Node.js / Typescript

- C# - ASP.NET Core, WPF

- PHP - Laravel

- Docker, k8s, AWS, Azure, Heroku

Recent client highlights include:

- billing system for a car-sharing operator in the EU (Node.JS, Typescript, Postgres, Azure functions)

- backend & integrations of a large content website for a US credit card company (PHP, Heroku)

- backend dev & enterprise integration for an insurtech startup backed by Munich Re (Node.JS, Typescript, Mongo, AWS, k8s)

Drop me a line if you need someone who is a quick study, will grok your business and the big picture. Raw developer firepower included.

Personal website with links to Github etc.: https://tomaskohl.com
Agency website: https://colladeo.com
That’s just not true. London is huge talent magnet and salaries/TC at top tech companies are about 75-80% of Bay Area and comparable to Zurich. London is also fun place to live compared to cultural wasteland of bay area.

3k visa fee is frankly irrelevant when you consider full cost of moving.
The visual design is amazing.
Chat is not asynchronous communication. It's not the best synchronous communication, sure, but it's certainly not asynchronous. Dropping typing indicators isn't necessarily going to make everything more asynchronous. There are business patterns and pressures that push us to need realtime or semi-realtime answers. And so often, the tool we use for that is chat. True asynchronous communication is a change in business, not just the tools we use.

Typing indicators can be useful in some situations. It's nice not having to wait for someone to finish a thought to know that an issue is being addressed. Heavyweights can jump into a conversation and pause it immediately so people aren't spinning their wheels trying to figure out something they really don't know much about.

It's also useful in 1:1 chats to know if the person on the other side is there or not. If I don't see an indicator (or read-receipt) in the next few seconds, I'll go make another cup of coffee.
If we are looking for stuff that really changed the direction of the web, it is online advertisement.

Once you could reliably turn views into money, the web became more and more about “engagement”. Couple that with machine learning that optimizes engagement, and you know the rest.
Yes, as Web should have been all about dynamic documents, but here we are with browsers having replaced X Windows.

My first Web site was CRUD data entry form calling into a CGI written in C, actually.
Are you implying it's not both an alternative and open-source? ;)
Show HN: Tone – a pure C# cross platform auto tagger without dependencies
Hey HN,

just wanted to show my latest project called tone to get your feedback. It is a cross platform command line audio tagger. Currently in an early state of development it already comes with a neat set of features:

- read and write support for a decent amount of fields
- supports id3, mp4, flac and most other formats
- chapters, covers and even custom tag fields
- install one single binary - no dependencies (M1 macOS does not work atm - maybe someone can help out here)

Source code and release download:

<https://github.com/sandreas/tone>

Feedback is really appreciated.

Thanks :-)
Budgets. $500k was enough for dev and marketing of a licensed Nintendo GBA title circa 2004. But the return was higher probability, if the game was high quality, popular IP. Now, you could produce an indie VR title for approx $100k. And expect a return in $1M gross sales. But it probably requires more luck. Marketing to a niche, or popular IP. It's just kinda the fragmentation of the channels. How folks divide attention now. And skyrocketing costs of specialized industry talent: environment art, gpu shader programming, metahumans etc ;)
Thing to note: the open source version on GitHub, installable by homebrew and native package managers, is not the same version as Ookla distributes from their website and is not accurate at all.
Exactly this. Physical synths are more fun to play with, explore, learn. You can feel you fully understand them (I challenge anybody to say they fully understand every feature of every module of native instruments and arturia v collection, which together cost as much as a single mid range hardware synth :-). They are great for hobby and creativity, playing around and having fun, and in some ways for performance. They are tactile and immediate and physical. (Note that I am empathically not claiming "superior sound" in that list ;)

Daws are practical for actually making and producing music.

In reality though they can complement each other nicely. You can sketch on hardware and even integrate it into a daw.

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My personal thought on superiority of sound is same as records and film - if you feel a particular specific past sound (or image) is the pinnacle of possibilities, soft synths will indeed asymptotically recreate it and may or may not ever recapture whatever "feel" it is that makes that specific sound superior to you.

I came into this late and without preconception so all sounds are equally valid with no absolute framework and all synths CAN produce interesting cool useful and usable awesome sounds - I'd rather marvel at creativity and variety than endlessly try to recapture something previous (which even my favourite companies are sometimes stuck doing - how many ways can roland and others re re re re re create the Jupiter 8 sound?? Same for Moog etc)

My 100 Croatian lipa and no more :-)
Sounds like you should get out of California for a while.

I'm not saying it's not bad, but modern California living means accepting natural disasters and horrible governance in exchange for the weather (and family/community ties.)
Early 3D graphics clearly fit the "haven't aged well" category. Most of that is due to the low polygon count making the models look angular.
I suppose it’s somewhat natural for this to happen at the lower end of the pay-scale, because one stops actively restricting one’s expenses. But I’m curious, what form did the creep take from 135-150? Are you still living paycheck to paycheck?
I'm absolutely fascinated by airships and would love to see them roam the skies again, but last time I looked at it they had too many drawbacks:

- they are very sensitive to the weather condition, especially winds

- they are more economical in fuel compared to airplanes but maybe not enough to compensate for their slowness

- they use either hydrogen which is very dangerous or helium which is available in limited amount (and afaik already in tension)
The word 'friend' is really abused these days (guess because of Facebook etc) and people are somehow falling for it. Seems it's becoming quite common (in my circles anyway) that people use the term friend for basically everyone they ever talked or wrote to and 'good friend' for people they had a deeper than casual talk with. And then the drama after because these 'friends' probably didn't think the same about them (if they even remembered meeting them).
Yeah I dabble a bit in game dev every now and then. Released 2 small games, but nothing spectacular. Gonna keep at it whenever time allows, more fun than my day job ...
The Aurora Serverless Road Not Taken
Compared to what? If you're serious about making music and really want a Prophet 2000-3000 euro's should be within reach of most middle-class people. (certainly if they are willing to trade in some other expense)
Name one person though. Identify someone who's life is ruined. I will bet you cannot because these videos are neither memorable, nor did they reach such reach that they actually register with 1% of the population, nor do people really care about that time you did something dumb.

It's neither common in reality, nor is it impactful at all.
“One remarkable case of sound changes in English is the Great Vowel Shift. It explain a lot of “weirdness” in English orthography.” In contrast to the nightmare that is Kanji, Kana is one of the kindest writing systems in regards to sounds that directly and reliably correlate to the symbol.
I think the parent meant it this way:

In any country there are thousands of special interest groups looking to do the same. How are the folks advocating for renewables succeeding over and above so many other groups where tax credits, subsidies, etc., are a matter of life and death, when renewables are already so cost effective, and thus don’t need it as much?
I don't know anything about this teacher, but they might already be physiotherapists and doing additional courses on some speciality.

It's common for health workers to take additional classes to stay on top of things. Some countries require certain professions to take some number of classes every few years to keep their license.
Also all the exams are blind/anonymous, and recruitment strictly based on grades. Or at least they used to be.

Despite this the French system has a very low rate of social mobility, and the overwhelming majority of students in top colleges come from parents within the system.

Now there are good reasons for social background to be sticky (not the least because I don’t buy the tabula rasa theory that your genes account for nothing in your intellectual capacity, and for the part they don’t, well how your parent raised you should matter), but it is implausible that such concentration is a natural outcome (the respective size of elite vs non elites in the country is such that even with a high natural stickiness, you should still see half or at least a third of a top college generation coming from non elite families, I think France is in the <5% territory).

Having graduated decades ago and not living in France, I follow it from afar, but it looks like the government is actively trying to eliminate the meritocracy part of the system. By preventing elite high school from selecting their own students, by creating as many parallel admissions to colleges that were purely competitive exams based.

I have mixed feelings about it. One one side I like the idea of a cursus to be purely merit based. On the other side the obsession of the French with education is unhealthy, where your career at 50 is still determined by an exam you sit 30 years before, and this tendency of having clubs within clubs for the elite to run the country with little competence or accountability (again an exam you did when you were 20 doesn’t qualify you for everything) has lead to fuck ups after abuses after frauds. I would prefer a decentralised german style system where (from what I understand) what matters is the student, not the name of the college.
Do you live in a region where the majority of people are adept with a computer?
I simply would ignore this as an open system developer. On the contrary, this mass surveillance is certainly not d'accord with the spirit of most constitutions. And that is even more relevant outside of common law countries. The same argument was used for saving connection meta information. The argument was that it is needed to fight terrorism. Now it is used against weed smokers in the vast majority of cases and the statistics are openly available. Covid tracking data was used for criminal investigation. This is a political and management problem as police has quotas to be fulfilled. So they have to find crime to justify their existence.

Of course this would also demand that messengers would log connection information. This is a security risk and should not be done with very few exception like financial transactions.
Great work! You write,

> …wasm has a few poor decisions in its design that make it less-than-conducive to being a target for Common Lisp…

Could you say a bit more about those design decisions?
Disappointed that this was not a fleet of SAAB Draken fighters.
> why are we worried about Kessler Syndrome with the thousands of satellites and junk that is already up there?

One, Kessler syndrome should really be called the Kessler hypothesis since we’ve never actually proven it’s a problem in any real form. To the degree it’s been rigorously modelled, it would create a lot of property destruction in a limited number of orbital planes, not block access to space. The problem is breaking stuff. Not blocking. Two, where it’s been rigorously modelled and shown to be a problem (again, only for a limited set of planes) it derives from something big breaking apart. Not lots of small stuff. And again, we’re talking about a bunch of property destruction. Not annihilation of everything in the plane let alone orbit.
Then the answer is not to regulate private industry. The answer is for the local government to pass laws saying that all communications must be on public websites.
The massive amount of time you have to invest in any new game
You can't represent π or 1/3 exactly in decimal floating point either…
Pioneer Space Sim - https://pioneerspacesim.net/
This is an Open-Source remake of Frontier Elite 2 AND Frontier First Encounters.

I only discovered this game a few months ago and only put of a couple of hours into the game so far. For me it takes the best bits of both FE2 and FFE, modernises the UI, improves on the graphics (some of the developers were GL/D3D mod developers of Elite - Frontier). It manages to keep the essential ingredients that made FE2 good and picking out the few extra nice bits from FFE.
> None of these tech billionaires deserve to be treated as anything but the robber barons they are.

yeah, this is false.

> or the shareholders he's defrauded through blatant market manipulation.

this is also false.

i mean, if you're going to do a flame bait comment, at least do it well.
> but even then a lot of jobs out there are requiring degrees and ...

yes, and that's basically the crux of the problem. this is a social coordination problem, not a problem of education.

the trivial solution is to "outlaw" this by blinding the prestige credentials of the candidate (so only show a standardized thing like 3 year applied maths bsc) and only ask about previous experience (2 years working as data scientist) or whatever

"obviously" people will try to game this (though other universities can then copy what comes out of the fancy universities)

of course this could quickly lead to the rise of alternative prestige/reputation networks, but if the whole job application is standardized (so it becomes very hard to identify the candidate) then at least it gives a chance for folks to get in the door.

then only the usual biases remain, and the usual unfair questions (and typically the most disadvantaged candidates have the least chance to know about what kind of questions are discriminatory, and even if they know most of the time they don't have the time/energy to do anything about it)
well they keep using Czechoslovak flag (the blue triangle represents Slovakia) despite agreement they signed that they won't do it, so it's only fair to ignore the new name as well - Czechia with Czechoslovak flag = Czechoslovakia, Slovakia with Slovak flag = Slovakia
> a workforce more aligned to their culture.

toxic culture, going by the tone of those tweets and Musk's general behaviour. but what do I know... * shrugs *
Not a perfect comparison, but Microsoft has higher revenue that entire video games industry across the globe (not perfect, because MS also has some game dev revenue, and is also selling hardware and consulting, so not all of its money come fron non-games software).
Moreso ordinary people using fully traceable digital money in these situations is a special kind of stupid
Cognitive Load
Graphics are not the most important thing for sure but they still _matter_ at least to some extent.

For example yesterday Nintendo revealed the new trailer of the next mainline Pokemon game... and it has some insane texture shimmering and apparently zero anti-aliasing in the whole game. And that's how they promote the game in the trailer. It's not even a low budget title, it's the flagship AAA game of the company sold for $60. And the Switch is not a bad hardware so at this point they most likely just don't care which is the strange part. It's like watching a movie in 360p. Sure the story, the characters, the music matter but a low resolution can damage the whole experience, same as the intentionally low quality graphics in an otherwise good game
The 980 Pro does way more with random reads of sufficient concurrency. The main issue is the 100us latency under load, so to get half a million IOPS, that's 50 concurrent requests. For maximum speed you need some batching I think.
Kagi will likely remain a niche product for those who really care about search quality since it will never be able to catch up to google in convenience or integration, etc. That almost by definition limits maximum addressable market to a small fraction of the population. So it makes sense to price it at a premium, or on a per search basis.

Some power users could in fact be money losers for Kagi even at $10 USD/month so moving to usage billing is
probably more likely as it gets greater traction among that crowd.
I think the lack of autonomy is largely due to the move away from written social encounters to voice acting. When good synthetic voicing arrives we may see the options open back up. I have an easier time with written rather than spoken communication, so I miss the walls of text in games like daggerfall or baldurs gate. In daggerfall a lot of the texts was generated, we could do that so much better now. Quest markers, fast travel, and automapping also made the smaller hand sculpted (rather than generated) worlds seem even smaller.
Generally if you add some helpful context to a submission the mods will remove it after a few hours.
Usually except I went on to elaborate that curve fitting was essentially what intelligence was. If mr. Genius here read my post more carefully he wouldn't have had to reveal how immature he was with those comments.
> What forms enable are transactions. Transactions of all kinds—commercial or social—can be consolidated into platforms, and platforms are where you find your margins.
>"On 17 May 2016 the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the United Nations informed the UN that the short name to be used for the country is Czechia."

which are both CORRECT English name for same country, completely different as replacing corect English name of the country with local name of the country
I think JavaScript/TypeScript, python and C# would be a good choice. Maybe golang and/or Rust.
love is hard to foster

solve a deep and painful problem and people will follow

give people meaning and purpose is why religion is so powerful

the best products look like religion (see tesla as an example)

the fans take on the identity of the product

speaks more to the human condition and our need to belong, the biggest fans are rarely healthy folks
There has been a lot of debate here already about the origins of the word and it’s been called a “Japanism”. But personally, I don’t care, I find it a wonderful concept and leave it at that.
> Another more serious issue are the effects of extreme weight cutting but I'll leave it at that.

Agree. That is one serious elephant in the room.
Oh man, I haven't played IVAN in a decade! That was a lot of fun back in the day, I wonder if I still suck at it :).
Ask HN: What to get for my brother's 50th birthday?
My brother, who works as hardware installation tech, is an absolute gem who loves communications hardware, radio and internet broadcast tech, cars, bikes, whiskey, camping. I've been looking for something magical, that he will find useful and unexpected.

Over the years I've bought him: expensive whiskey or bourbon, a metal detector, radio gear, antennas, camping gear.. I'm looking for something I wouldn't think of to surprise him. Even better, something he can do with the teenage kids.

Any ideas, of something you bought yourself or were gifted and love?
> it's households and small businesses

Is it? The people I know who reduce use self select. The ones who don’t want to ignore these directives.
Counter point: Outside of the US I don't know anyone using any of this except Messenger for keeping in contact with some people. And the last point is generally seen as a necessary evil, i.e. something they would love to change asap if they could.

EDIT: Correction, anyone below the age of 60.
I don’t think airships are as bad as it may seem today. Perceived badness is a lot due to lack of networking effects which airplanes enjoy today. There is infrastructure for landing airplanes everywhere. If the same had existed for airships I he economics and practicality of using airships would have been very different.

Many of the problems that existed with airships in the past are solved today. Weather forecasts are much better today. Elevation can be controlled better with compressors which can expand and reduce volume of ballonets on demand combined with propellers which can be more fine controlled and directed to cause lift of descent.

Not to mention access to a plethora of advanced materials they did not have in the 30s.

Most importantly we are in a green shift. When airplanes took over nobody cared about CO2 emissions. Airships can realistically run using electric motors driven by batteries or preferably fuel cells. For airships volume matters less, so you can more easily have large quantities of hydrogen in the ship. In theory you could use hydrogen as lifting gas and fuel.

The dangers of hydrogen is somewhat overrated. Hindenburg was about paint coating more than hydrogen. We also got much better techniques for handling it yet today. You can have an outer shell of a different gas e.g.

During WW1 German airships got frequently fired on without causing any them much damage. They had to fly close with incendiary grenades to take them out.
Increasingly databases can get do-overs on bad plans. A micro-level example might be dataflow splitting particularly expensive tasks so as to better parallelize them: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/no-shard-left-beh...

Spark will re-run the query planner after doing the map stage of a map-reduce operation so as to leverage the information collected: https://databricks.com/blog/2020/05/29/adaptive-query-execut...

Both examples represent changing parameters about a lower level plan than simply join operators, but the industry is certainly moving in this direction.
Sure, got your point. However, you said he has no fraudulent intentions. I think he does and that it is one of the pillars for his success; manipulate to get more money, use that money to fund ideas (and get others to co-fund which is easier if you pony up too). He just doesn't get caught too much.

I agree he is not just a 'luck' guy; he work(ed)(s) hard, is very persistent & pushes boundaries; he also knows how to manipulate the world successfully to pursue his goals, like Jobs & Gates & others before him. However, as far as we know, they weren't walking such a fine line close to fraud (although Gates was of course somewhat close to the illegal line with his anti-competitive actions in the EEE times).
Is there a 3rd crack? They probably found it.
IOS uses WebKit which is also what Chrome is based on.
I'm not sure you understand how regulations work. For the most part they are enforced after the fact. The SEC doesn't have tens of thousands of employees to do due diligence on every single listing out there. That's just completely impossible.

That said, this is a great example that huge returns in the equity markets are possible if you're willing to do the work. If you read about a stock in Bloomberg you're months too late. It's the smaller edge cases where the price discovery goes all out of wack.
One does have to wonder if the level of vitriol around crypto would be quite so high if it was merely popular and had not made some people a lot of money.