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Ask HN: Which Project to Concentrate On?
Hello,

I am a REALLY broke programmer, have negative credit and just one step from homeless. Yesterday, I decided I want to get rich. I am documenting my struggles here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4T-vKV6zU

Each month, I will pick a project that I 100% commit to and see how far this takes me.

When I say 100%, I really mean it (even if it entails selling software from the back of a trunk).

Do you have any ideas that I could focus on?

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Background:
I am relatively proficient in C++ and CUDA. Also did some things in Javascript. I am OK at mathematics, I wrote a book about probability and how to implement multigrid procedures on gpus (https://keinefirma.xyz/pages/fluid_tutorial/). But I am open to learn more!
"When I die, as I will, choking on gummy bears, please tell everyone that I died by a bear attack to preserve my dignity. Thank you."
Many jurisdictions outside the US do (much more readily) award fees so that the loser has to pay the winner's legal costs.

The disadvantage of it is that if you're just some guy against a BigCo, then instead of risking having to pay your own $50k lawyer bill you're potentially risking having to pay their $5M lawyer bill.
So you're actually conflating two topics with that first sentence - since this is a topic from the UK government, we don't forbid alcohol consumption amongst children here (over the age of 5), only bar them from buying the alcohol.

Given the topic at hand, it might be a bit more challenging to prevent children from buying loot boxes, whilst still allowing them to open them - but there is prior examples of a distinction in legality between the two.
I recently began reading GOF (a bit into the behavioral patterns at the moment). A lot of those patterns were ideas I had been familiar with, but not through a formal specification, likely due to seeing so much code inspired by the book. I just find it so fascinating that these patterns were written about in 1994 (?) and they were pretty well designed.

I will say, the book is heavily focused on OOP, which has fallen out of favor a bit with newer languages (but obviously very alive), and it's almost like a time piece. Feels like OOP was seen as this answer to so many business problems and organization of code.

Just interesting to imagine OOP at a time when it was new and exciting, since I grew up at a time when Java was ubiquitous and everyone was at least a little OO.
> I’m not sure why you focus on that aspect

Ah that was because in the video I watched on docker, the guy gave the example of one application using node v14 and another application using node v9 on the same machine, so I was like why aren't they just separate precompiled files like nuget packages.

Great explanation though, thanks!
Right, I get that. I just wanted to make sure that the lawyer's fees are covered in the settlement, or would a settlement include a final FU you that you now have your claim, but you're potentially out of pocket paying the lawyer fees you now owe.

Worse yet, could they string you along and wait till the last minute to settle, thus increasing your lawyer fees potentially beyond the value of the original claim?
"As a legal system, and as a society, we have to ask ourselves whether these civil rights violations are a priority or concern or not."

For "minor" violations, they are not a priority at all. At least that's my experience and what I was told by that lawyer as well. If nobody in the system will enforce or defend your rights, then do you really even have those rights?
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For early voting they did require ID. I presume for making sure I was in the correct electorate since the venue I went to was doing multiple electorates at the same time.

However previously, when voting on the election day my name has been crossed off a physical list.
Exactly!
The problem is people are scared to leave their confort zone while it's what will make them happier, it's kind of ironic.
I didn't know that saying and it's pretty accurate!
People always say some are "lucky" to go travelling, while in reality "Luck" is at everyone's reach but they just don't have the courage and motivation to do it.
> The thing with docker is that you just get a complete package with everything delivered directly by the developer and it's very hard to mess up.

The downside is: you are also, at the same time, excluding yourself from standard patch management. Whereas in ye olde times for a situation like Heartbleed or log4shell the 24/7 on-call sysop team would run a simple "apt-get upgrade openssl" and restart all affected daemons, under modern "devops"/docker-centric models you need to wait for the developers or, worse, the container image vendor to deliver updated versions.
MariaDB is GPL there are some enterprise components which are BSL.

Was excited to see the project but now seeing it is not Open Source it means 1/10th of value
It's not much of a civil war. Those separatists are mostly Russians acting on Putin's orders. I don't think there was ever a majority in Donbas for independence or joining Russia. The only reason the separatists got as far as they did, is because they were entirely propped up by Russia.

The only reason Russia is losing anything at all, is because Putin chooses hostility. Before Putin, relations between Russia and NATO were quite warm. There have been joint exercises, and there was even talk of Russia joining NATO. Putin chose otherwise, and that's hurting Russia.

Russia would do well to get rid of him as soon as possible, and replace him with someone more reasonable and interested in peace.
>Why would an employer care whether I took time off to pursue other things otherwise?

I agree, and if they do?

I'm not telling you to lie on your resume, but...have a good story to tell about what you during that time off. If that doesn't cut it, you're probably not dealing with a company with a good culture.
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>I'm sure that the answer is "both of course"

IANAL, but my understanding is that the default rule in the US is "each party pays for their own lawyers, regardless of who wins"[0]. Of course, the specifics would depend on the actual terms of the settlement agreement.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_rule_(attorney%27s_fe...
Interesting perspective. Which academic field is that?
> why don't the dev's test the application on the dev/test-environment?

They did, it failed, then the JVM was upgraded for dev/test (but not yet for prod as that was still running the prev-JVM version of the code).
Listen to Sara Palen talk. She sounds very much like a Canadian.
> Let A = 50 Envelope 1 is 100 Envelope 2 is 25

No. The problem specifies that E1 is twice E2, but here you have E1 = 4 x E2.

A is the amount in one of the envelopes, so if A=50 then either E1 is 50 or E2 is 50, and the other E is 25 or 100. But under no circumstances can E1=100 and E2=25 at the same time.
I have something like this, never bothered to do the serial bits. I really should, I will probably do some ebay buying sometime.
But nobody is talking about the technical merits of that switch or of Go, we're talking about the popularity of Go. If tomorrow I create a language called "Gorilla" that is a worse language than Go, that Kubernetes switches to Gorilla and that Gorilla gets popular, there's a good chance that the switch will help the popularity of Gorilla. If instead I create a language called "Whale" that is a better language than Go, and the same thing happens, again the switch will have helped the popularity of Whale. The exact same thing will happen with a language exactly the equal of Go. All of that to say, technical merit has nothing to do with it, it was never the subject.
And if you're on the other end as the buyer and actually need to use the warranty, good luck. One of the worst experiences I've ever had, and it was supposed to be "one of the best home warranty companies out there".
I hate it, it has a terrible aftertaste for me.
That is the standard American rule. However for this reason, most consumer protection statute include a provision where the prevailing consumer gets their attorneys fees. Otherwise consumers would be left without representation.
i volunteer with homeless weekly and my wife runs a homeless support facility where they try and help people get benefits such as social security, recover IDs and get food stamps and such.

most “work” a lot flying signs out in the heat to make a few bucks, some drink it all away.. some use it to try and get the hell out of town. some are just so into survival mode they don’t know any better

but what i find the most interesting is how most are just nice people.

you wouldn’t know that by reading this thread.

most homeless people just want to talk, share their stories and have a friend. They’re tired of being arrested for sleeping. They’re tired of their stuff being stolen - a lot of their mental issues stem from lack of sleep and filling that void with drugs and booze..

it’s unfortunate how people get treated and this thread is no exception to people perpetuating their high and mighty views of a world they know nothing about - merely to protect their world view that dehumanizes these people.

if being without a home is decriminalized and we work to build systems that support these people they wouldn’t be under bridges and in parks.. they sometimes get pushed into camps but those camps rarely give glimpses of hope and service but rather make them feel like outcasts. and everyone is a NIMBY when it comes to this - the OP being no exception to it.

They don’t care about people, they care about appearances and property values and thus nothing will ever change or happen.
> Transforming an F-150 Lightning into a backup generator means you can keep the lights on during blackouts.
> ... 9.6 kilowatts of carbon-free electricity generated onboard...

fail. it’s a mobile battery, not a generator. For a modest extra few $1000s it can be grid-tied and used as a battery backup.

I predict grid-tying will not look like a virtue when the public utility decides to tap into the owner’s battery to make up for generation malinvestment...
+1 travel. If a future employer/recruiter asks, say: "I went travelling to X and Y and Z."

(Do not apologise or feel guilty for trying to better yourself or your life through new experiences.)

You're young. Travel for more than a month. Go somewhere you've never been and you don't speak the language. Stay in hostels. You'll meet friendly people everywhere and see things you can't imagine now and, perhaps, gain a sense of self-belief and confidence. Perhaps through adversity - it might be hard sometimes! Fantastically rewarding like nothing else, though.
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> I managed to link my email address to another Microsoft account, but I'm not confident that someone still doesn't have another Microsoft account with partial control of my identity.

I'm not sure I'd rely to much on that new account though. It's easy for me to imagine the first renamed account being banned for fraud and then any "known associates" being banned as well.
If you think humans are only interpolating machines then I agree with your statement. Personally, I don't think humans or animals are only capable of doing interpolation

Nonetheless, assuming that these models are only doing interpolation it is astonishing

Now, a question arises; is there some emerging weak extrapolation going on? I have no idea, until very recently I though I had a good grasp of what interpolation/extrapolation meant in "human conceptual space". Not anymore.
This must be a highly regional thing because nobody offered to sell me a home warranty when I bought my house.
> Why is it OK for Russia to be dictating what sovereign countries can or cannot do within their own borders?

This is political reality and what Merkel really meant with Realpolitik. It was very well known that NATO involvement in these countries is seen as aggression and that makes the reaction of Putin almost predictable. Most did not believe he would do the last step and he certainly surprised with that. But Ukraine has to have a relation to Russia too. If they want to associate with former enemies of the Russia, the result might also be a war.

Without context this question is almost comical because western nation more often than any other group of countries to intervene in other countries. Lybia, Iraq, Afghanistan, ... It is simply a question of political will, power and interests. Ukraine suffers from that aggression. It was no secret that it is seen as nothing else. Does it ever justify an invasion? Of course not but that also is of no relevance.

> Also in case you're going to pull out some kind of whataboutism with regards to America's behaviour on the world stage, please spare me.

I probably did just that in your opinion, but "whataboutism" is of no relevance. Geopolitics isn't about morals or justifications for foreign interventions.
> And I dont trust your setup script

Worth pointing out that if you don't trust their setup script, then you probably shouldn't trust their Docker container either.
Germans understand you to mean that your German is terrible, but since if you wanted them to slow down and speak clearly you would have said so, they think nothing more of it than that your German is terrible and you are surprisingly self aware for an American (or whatever you are).
Yes, exactly that. It is unlikely to be a concern outside of the groups I mentioned.
What criteria do you use to evaluate, if not the case details?
Large organizations are big, dumb, and slow. Only a tiny bit of that is hyperbole.
I've found out it gets surprisingly better around like page 10 of /r/all.
The "pen display" is the type where it's a monitor with the transparent trackpad overlaid on it. That, I think, is what you want. I tried the other type, where you write on the tablet but you look at the screen elsewhere, and it was not fun.

The Wacom One is a fine choice (its their smallest and least expensive model). Maybe artists would need a larger one, but the Wacom One is, IMO, large enough to take notes on.

Haven't tried an iPad, but that Wacom is a really excellent writing/drawing experience.
Because in reality, with large teams, communication is expensive.

Containerisation allows reproducibility, in a self-documenting manner. Delivery can be automated, depended upon to run, in a totally system configuration agnostic manner. It allows projects to deliver their software in a way that it can be ran, instantly, with a single command (image download not withstanding).

I've worked heavily in service software engineering for over a decade now, and with docker since 2013, and it has changed everything. There will be some people who don't fully understand it, but perhaps they don't have the problems that it solves and thus don't need it.

Alternatively, they /could/ just be suffering without realising there is a solution.
Ask HN: Organizing and Searching Personal Documents
I have my documents (pdfs, text files, source code, markdown, google docs etc.) strewn across local drives, Google drive and GitHub.

I struggle to search for my pdfs, Google docs and sometimes source code (although grep works decent)

What do you use to help organize and search your personal content?
Of course, if ever invited to play such a game, what you really want to do is ditch the contents of your wallet on your way. Can't lose!
Attorney as well, and agreed.

To be sure, it’s not the rainbows and butterflies solution that the businesses would like you to believe it is. But it’s also not the insane, unending trampling of rights that anti-arbitration folks claim it is.
My wife has been trying Allulose over the last month or so, particularly for low carb heated foods, with fairly good luck. In particular, it makes a very good low carb+sugar free caramel that she serves frozen. We've also been using it in homemade ice creams.

We take a can of low sugar peaches or pears, mix in 2tbs of allulose and a pinch of xantham gum, freeze it and then run it through the Ninja Creami and get a quite good sorbet with 120 cal a pint, and super easy to make.

The cooling effects of some of the sugar alcohols, I'm not sure exactly which one, is pretty weird. She made some great cookies that I just wouldn't eat because of that cooling effect. Which makes them even lower calorie. :-)
> Why would an employer care whether I took time off to pursue other things otherwise?

It's not that. Having a gap in your resume might mean that the candidate is trying to hide something. E.g. a job where candidate was fired and doesn't want to be asked to provide references.

If you took a gap to pursue other things, put whatever this was on your CV, don't just leave a gap. If it was something interesting, it might even put you in front of other candidates for some employers.
A Quarter of Internet Users Rely on Infrastructure That Is Susceptible to Attack
>trust me they care.

The Boomers might.

Thankfully, one of the best things to come out of the recent progressive movements is that work is the be all, end all. There's more to life. More and more companies are being run and staffed by people who understand this.
Do something to break your routine. Start going to the gym and lifting weights on a linear progression scheme, travel, that sort of thing.

I'd also recommend reading Marcus Aurelius, Mediations. Sometimes you cannot make a change to your schedule or whatever, but just have to deal with things in place. Marcus was an emperor with absolute power over the largest society (to date), but fond great solace not in instant gratification but in hard work.

Right now I have a puppy, 8 months, and he gets me out of the house for about 2-3 hours everyday. I'm not saying get a dog, that's a life changing decision you cannot back away from without consequence, but find something you like or want to learn about, and do it every day. Maybe it's a destination vacation to visit ancient ritual sites in the Southern US, I don't know, but just make it something that's piques your interest and you can pour your self into.

You have money, you have time: use these to your advantage.

Otherwise, tech can eat you alive. Working in the industry is not a program for a balanced life. It's just a job, and even if you're passionate about it, your job will still burn you out if you let it.
A lot of advice here about working less, and you should, but working a lot early in your career is not a priori bad.

I think you will really benefit from a formal education in computer science, whether online courses or a traditional institution.

Not only do you want to work less, and get paid more, you want to feel intellectually and creatively stimulated and competent. When you copy and paste less, you will feel more fulfilled in your work. You might also get things done much faster.

So, take a break. Go to school (in whatever form work for you) and get a job that pushes you intellectually, not long hours wise.

And you aren’t old. It’s ok. Many people don’t realize any of this until much later in life.
I suspect the question was rhetorical. The point is, every reader is going to have that question pop into their head and have to look it up. Better to use code that doesn't raise any questions, even if it's a few more characters.
nsroot: Minimal Process Isolation Tool Implemented With Linux Namespaces (2016)
> but in any case it's safe to assume that anything between 11 and 19% of the UK's population are in one way or another following ethics that refuse gelatine-based products. That is not "nobody" at all.

That doesn't even come close to being a safe assumption; it's wildly overoptimistic.

Kind of like claiming that, since Buddhists are forbidden to kill insects, and almost everyone in Thailand is Buddhist, killing insects is rare in Thailand.

We already know that most vegetarians are happy to eat meat. Compare https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/3/626S/4690004 , finding that two out of three self-described vegetarians had eaten meat within the past one day. They are even less likely to be worried about incidental animal products in candy.
You can't neglect your soul for 4 years straight without your entire mind breaking down. Sounds like you've learned this the hard way.

If you still have family that cares about you, talk to them about your experience and possibly let them drive your life for a while. They don't know how to program, but they almost certainly do know how to be human.
> Regarding the original point, I think it's important to highlight that without the industrial revolution humans wouldn't be able to live closely together in cities.

Note that settlements have naturally occurred around rivers because of agriculture (e.g. Mesopotamia), so "cities", in some sense of the word, have existed long before the industrial evolution.

I am aware that civilization brings good stuff with it - it's hard to not be aware of it - but I don't think the tradeoff is worth it. I think it can be, and ought to be, much better than this. It is my opinion that each and every human deserves to (be able to) live in an environment that is pleasant to them. I see it as a fundamental human right.
The strategy pattern was really funny for me. I'd call it a different name: "code". :)
Is depending the container image vendor actually worse? I was under the impression that they were about as "on it" as the distro maintainers with updates. And if you wanted full control then you could just have your sysadmins manage their own base images. Then upgrading system dependencies becomes as simple as doing a regular deploy.
There is no blaming in GP's post. Just the notion that Germans themselves, of their own volition, are striving to not let history repeat itself.
Conniving scum skimming off the top is a large is part of the reason it costs $108k/y/pp in the first place. A simpler system is less prone to fraud and embezzlement.
As the article describes, the enzyme in the title is a "uridine diphosphate–dependent glucosyltransferase" which "catalyzes the addition of branched glucosides to compounds in stevia".

So the sweet compound is not the enzyme, but "diterpenoids called stevioside and rebaudioside A" which are small molecules. Well small-ish, as you can see:

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/searchId.do?chebiId=CHEBI:9271

with a formula of C38H60O18 it is 4-5 times the size of a glucose molecule.
I think the HTTP connection should be used to integrate webdis. https://github.com/nicolasff/webdis
Simple data fetching with custom React hooks and SWR
There is no law that says you need a job and money to move to California so qualifying it like this is absurd. People still have freedom without proof of income.

everyone can be helped, you just don’t want to be bothered. Some people need professional help but again, why start the discussion off with jobs and money when those people with severe mental issues probably don’t have either?

what’s interesting is they views your behavior as disruptive. Go watch a hobo or homeless youtube channel and they will describe you to the T - slave to wages, kids with problems and bills and credit card statements to look forward to but instead of breaking fee of that we do more to protect it.

ahh well.. i’ll never change your mind.. but you can go change it yourself by volunteering and fining things out first hand instead of assuming.
That's basically what I was going for. We have subjective value and mostly self value. I wonder if we provide any objective net benefit when looking from non human centric perspective.
Also availability, he came running when you had a problem because he stands to make $100, offer him $10 and maybe he can pencil you in next month.
Bye, Bye Algorithm
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