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Ask HN: What's the most memorable onboarding process you've experienced?
This could be a good or bad experience.

For me, it was my second internship. The main thing I remember is the stress of not being able to do any work while I waited for access to some of our systems. Feeling imposter syndrome as an intern is a given, but it's only made worse when you can't even start doing your job, let alone deliver anything of significance.
People always underestimate the amount of readers in any place where you can leave comments. The great majority doesn't even upvote/downvote, and a small percent actually leaves comments. Check any popular site who tracks views, like Twitter or YouTube. Thousands of views, hundreds of votes, tens of comments.

In a high-traffic site it's almost guaranteed that at least one lost soul will read you comment, maybe vote/flag it, and maybe maybe reply to it.
I have seen this comparison to Tor before. There are similarities related to the mesh overlay which OpenZiti operates. Sessions are routed according to a policy which can be security or performance-based (natively its routes to the lowest latency). Nodes can be in any location around the world. Packets, as they flow, are synthesised to look like 443 (i.e., cannot determine the app type based on ports) and have metadata encrypted so that the only thing visible if someone intercepts are the public IP of the next hop, nothing related to source, destination or that its OpenZiti type traffic.

The major difference is that Tor is designed to be a decentralised, anonymous internet whereas OpenZiti is a private overlay operated with trust and identity. But to an outsider to an OpenZiti network, they would know little about what was going on like Tor.
But when mass transit phases out paper tickets, "use the convenient app for a 20% discount!", it's not much better...

Even with paper tickets, if you paid with a credit card there's now a perfect record: Jim Smith got on at the Fruitvale station and got off in Fremont, stayed there two hours, and then came back the same way.
I did not notice this in Ireland, but I may have missed it. It was this easy in London though.
This resonated with me as I resigned Sept. 2nd and is one of my goals:
"generally getting back to being the better version of myself that I know is in there somewhere"

Good luck with your funemployment!
I'll add some more detail. There are a lot of different ways your application can break as it scales up. From something which is handles data flow, the three I tend to think about the most are: the model, throughput and number of connected clients.

We've tested the model with 100k identities with the operations that clients use: auth, listing services, creating sessions, etc, to make sure that the model scales reasonable well. We had to add additional denormalization and make some other tweaks, but now the controller scales relatively well for those operations. I'm sure there are still edge cases where it may break down, but we'll have to fix them if someone hits them.

We've done thoughput testing to make sure we can handle high throughput use cases. This also resulted in lots of changes, including reworking the end-to-end flow control. This is an area where we're happy with the progress we've made, and performance is in a reasonably good place, but where we have lots of ideas of how to continue to improve and will be continuing to test and iterate.

Having tons of connected clients (even without much traffic flowing) is it's own scaling challenge. We've done some amount of testing here. As part of the testing mentioned above we had to make some changes to make sure that slow clients didn't hold up fast clients. More generally,this is where things start getting complicated and very specific. You can have very different types of traffic flow, so it's hard to model anything generic. We have not done as much in this area because we've not seen any cases where we're memory constrained, which is the usual sign of a concurrent connections scaling bottleneck.

Hope that's helpful.
"The part of the Civil War after the century-and-a-half truce".

The geographical lines are largely the same. Slavery is no longer the top-line issue, but the ideological lines date back to the Declaration of Independence. These are people with a deep antipathy towards each other, forcibly united by the necessity of fending off their original colonial host.

They never trusted each other or liked each other. Much of the sloganeering puts that front-and-center. We'd never have to make our national motto "Of many, one" if we actually believed it. We created our indoctrination oath after the Civil War, forcing children to repeat that they were "one nation indivisible". They say it in the hopes that they'll come one day to believe it -- and the message was later deliberately obscured by cramming "under God" ungrammatically into the middle of it.

It's exactly the same Civil War as it was the first time, a war running hot and cold since fourscore-and-seven years before the "Civil War" was underway. It's remarkable that the cease-fire has lasted this long.
fwiw its not all sunshine and roses. have had a couple chats with recent ex employees that this has caused internal strain. nothing unexpected ofc
BLM caused billions worth of damage over the course of the summer of love.
$1,000 is a very reasonable enterprise price point. After all, datatcenter CPUs are much more expensive.
The original plan was to use Bowden cables for some of the low register notes, but I've since redesigned those to use more robust and stable traditional linkages.

Bowden cable linkages work well on some woodwinds, specifically those made by Wolf or Eppelsheim. However, on those instruments they're used for harmonic vents; tiny keys that are normally held shut by spring action, where the cable linkage only needs to open the key slightly, and which often need to be placed in positions where traditional keywork would be impossible (like on the bocal). For low register notes, the holes are large and on the main bore, most keys are open by default and must be closed a precise amount for proper sealing, and even those that are closed by default need to be opened a precise amount for proper intonation. So in the end I believe Bowden connections are unnecessary for the current design (unless I decide to add an altissimo vent to the bocal).
Yeah, definitely the time wasted on commuting is one of the main reasons as I love remote work.
From the linked article:

>> Well, new technologies (Save All link) leveraging techniques like spaced repetition mean it's much easier to remember what you learn so its time to rethink that. You don't have to forget what you learn anymore.

Might be wrong, but at the point topic is covered and a single solution is presented, it becomes the topic.
Maybe "remembering in long-term memory" means understanding, internalizing, and intuiting? I got the same problem as the author described when taking physical chemistry and linear algebra. All of sudden, there were so many concepts per page and the concepts were so abstract to use that my usual M.O of getting very good at derivation and proofs by manipulating equations stopped working. Only then did I realize that I needed explicitly focus on intuitively understanding each concept.
Given comments about using memorization for code etc, wanted to share this other article about how that can be incredibly effective:

https://senrigan.io/blog/chasing-10x-leveraging-a-poor-memor...
dunno? do you think there could be an easy answer?

for me, it boils down to keeping the brain open and helping others do the same. but that's a personal heuristic. most people don't want to pay the socioeconomic cost of being an independent thinker.
Your position looked foolish then. Consider that maybe you don't do well in situations without perfect information and take that into account in the future.

The two most authoritarian countries on this earth (china and North Korea) were not able to get covid "to near zero". China literally had tanks rolling up and down their streets to enforce said curfew.

The idea that somehow the US (or similar western countries) were ever going to get there was always outlandish, as was the idea that it was worth giving up what makes us different from China and NK to do so (Australia is struggling with this question now).

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Assumptions you made.

1. That human behavior was anywhere near the major deciding factor in covid transmission approaching zero

2. That covid transmission approaching zero was the most important factor

#2 is akin to always turning right in a vehicle because safety is the only concern. It was NEVER a good thought process.

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And finally, the point here isn't that there were a lot of unknowns, it's that many people were RIGHT, and they got shouted down by people like you whose thinking was entirely flawed. There's a canyon of difference between being wrong because you just didn't know and being wrong because the entire platform you were basing it on turned out to be wrong.
I do agree with you that Apple have done well to support this.

But also 2016 is only 6 years ago. It's not just Apple thing, but it really doesn't feel sustainable for us to keep write off our hardware every half a decade.
> There's two meanings to attractive... One is you like them physically, another is 'a lot of people would like them', or more prosaically, 'a lot of people would like to have sex with them'.

OK, that makes sense. Perhaps I can't apply the second criterion because I'm too uninterested in who other people want to have sex with: see my reply to rchaud.

But I seem to have a problem with the first criterion, too. Lack of imagination, perhaps? I can't/don't think about having sex with someone unless I've already done it or have come quite close? Or perhaps I'm just non-visual? (I'm a bit face-blind.) So if you were to show me a selection of women of child-bearing age with no obvious signs of ill-health and ask me which I'd most like to have sex with then my reply would be either (1) none of them, because none of them is my wife, dur, or (2), in a different era or parallel universe, all of them, in any order, and then I can perhaps tell you which I prefer, because, as far as I'm concerned, a large proportion of the female population tie for first place when it comes to looks. (Though only a tiny proportion of them have a really nice voice: I'd probably find it a lot easier to pick a favourite voice from a set of recordings.)

So I hope I'm never a subject in a psychology experiment that requires me to rate how "attractive" people are from a picture. In most cases I just can't do it.
> You can remove resolution from the image URLs to get a slightly better version.

> However you're right. People hosting this blog clearly are still in the dial-up era.

Or do they just have their blog software misconfigured? I have a feeling the scaling is being done automatically.
Who's using up the water in the American West? [video]
Does it also detect bit squatting?

See:

"Bit-squatting – DNS hijacking by cosmic rays/memory errors" (2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2944445

"What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla" (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31016042
WaPo gift link (no paywall) for their story - https://wapo.st/3CdyDfo
If anyone like me is confused by the term "CMS", my guess is that it means "Content Management System": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
None of this surprises me. I was at that company for over 10 years. Quitting was the best thing I did for myself, and I should have left long ago.

Amazon’s real innovation isn’t a cloud service company or a logistics business. The innovation is on how to squeeze every once of labor and value out of a human being, and how to do this legally, without damaging customers’ or public opinion of the company, at massive scale.

As a leader, I was coached on how to motivate my employees by selling promotions as a carrot, even though my leadership had no interest in seeing through that person gets promoted. It was lies and gaslighting.

I was coached on detaching myself from employees and their well being, so it would make it easier to do the right thing for the company.

I was pressured to get onto specific managers who weren’t meeting their attrition targets.

The idea that amazon would walk back compensation targets is no surprise to me.
> I'm reading online that I was stupid for buying a house in a bubble and that rates need to go up and house prices need to fall.

Everyone looks "stupid" afterwards when something "everyone knew would happen" actually happens. The problem is that NO MATTER WHAT, there's someone who predicted this exact case and everyone forgets that wider consensus, etc was the other way moments ago. Even the "inflation is going to explode" people thought this was going to happen 2+ years ago (like myself) so it's easy to be right eventually.

> I do understand this is my fault, but it sucks because I've also let my family down big time by deciding to buy a house.

Cut that out. You haven't.

Tell your closest family members your concerns. They're not as close to the specifics and may have different perspective or at minimum can help you emotionally. Try to get help now - even if it's just moral, not financial - before things get ugly.
Wow I never though about the diet perk, it definitely is a plus!
Translating the App
I’m not sure that any language meets these criteria yet, but I’m placing my bets on Swift. There’s been a lot of activity in Swift’s various cross-platform working groups recently… whether or not that pans out remains to be seen, but within the community there’s absolutely a desire/will for Swift’s cross platform story to improve.

Personally speaking, if Swift’s Windows/Linux support improved and a cross platform UI framework were built for it, I’d have a hard time imagining using anything else for cross platform desktop development. Swift gets a lot right for that use case and strikes a good balance between ergonomics and safety.
Not Workday![1]

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/28/amazon_canned_workday...
Compensation for at-will employees does not constitute a contract. That's what "at-will" means, basically. In the breakdown of good faith interaction, the remedy (for both sides) is largely limited to the ability to walk away.

But yes: if these were contractors Amazon had hired it would be very different.
Silicon Valley’s brain drain is bringing innovation back to small cities
Very cool. We've just started exploring customer requests to sync our data to their warehouses, so great timing.

What sort of scale can you guys handle? One of our DBs is in the billions of rows.

I assume we'd need to potentially create custom sources for each destination as well? Or does your system automatically figure out the best "common" schema across all destinations? For example, an IP subnet column.
It's super common for people to reach for trig to solve geometry problems when they should be using vector arithmetic instead, eg this answer on SO has to special-case vertical/horizontal lines, which can be avoided entirely if it didn't reach for trig in the first place.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/63673261

I think this is the sort of situation that GP is referring to.
Completely off-topic, but someone on HN posted a theory that Caesar let himself be killed, because he was afraid that he wasn't able to keep up his stellar reputation as winning everything as he got older. Was one of the few "eye-openers" for me, since as you get older, nothing is really "new" or "interesting". If the parent post turns out to be true, it goes on that list. Will research after work.
So… macros? This is how it sounds to me.
yeah it's awesome. i wish video streaming sites had a similar interface. would be so easy to find something to watch.
I run a 3 year old install of 3CX on a public IP; last year i got tired of the weird spam calls coming in on my 15 year old phone number i route through the pbx; so i set up a simple IVR. Each phone i have connected to my extension does a quick "blip", the first part of a ring, so i added a second of silence to the ringtones on phones that don't automatically go into DND. I get the flash of a notification that someone has dialed my public phone number, but unless they actually know who i am and push the number the IVR says, they get routed to the operator, who is never there and just records a voicemail, that i can't access. I can see a log of all calls, obviously, so i don't miss calls, but i also avoid 99.9% of all spam, ever. I can't even think of the last time i got a spam call on that number routed to a phone i can answer.

my VoIP line costs ~$23/month, the PBX is nominally free (3CX software didn't cost anything and i don't pay for rackspace/VMs at the datacenter i use for it), but it could be hosted anywhere. the best part of a public IP PBX (and 3cx in particular) is that you can have your most common contacts download the app and scan a QR code, and now you have presence, texting, voicemails, etc on a "secure line" that never goes out on any real phone network[0]. We don't use this feature anymore, but prior to the lockdowns in 2020 it was a nearly daily thing while we commuted or whatever. Now if we need to call we use Matrix or just regular cellphone calls.

[0] this also works for children who don't need or want a SIM enabled phone with all that entails. Kids can call grandma on an app that doesn't require a phone number to register for...
You've created an axiom that says "randomized sample sizes are the only source of knowledge".

So of course it follows that you keep saying we know nothing about aliens and must reject speculation from what we know of the laws of physics. But it's only as true as the axiom that led you to that conclusion.

It doesn't strike me as a very compelling argument. In practice, every human believes things that don't have random sample sizes that prove their existence.
Former NSA Chief Signed Deal to Train Saudi Hackers Before Khashoggi’s Murder
This one was particularly high profile. That should give it outsized attention.
IMO, a major ingredient of raytracing running well enough in a game that also looks as good as any other current AAA title in raster-only mode has been DLSS. Raytracing is (or at least, at time of 2xxx series GPUs, was) still quite expensive to run at full res at resolutions (1440p, 4K) and framerates (60,120,144) that PC gamers demand. However, rendering raytraced games at a much lower resolution is just within reach for dedicated CUDA hardware. So DLSS makes up the difference with very sophisticated upscaling. Without DLSS, I think the raytracing in titles like Cyberpunk 2077 might not be performant enough.

In light of this, you might go back and see that AI and RT for NVidia have gone hand in hand, because one enables the other to be performant enough for AAA titles. Opinions may vary greatly on this, but personally, I don't think AMD's FSR upscaler is capable of matching what DLSS can do in this regard. (Intel's upscaling does seem to be capable of doing it, but very high performance parts are still some ways away from release).
I actually prefer that HN doesn't notify on replies. It takes some time getting used to it, but it dampens reflexive replies, and that's an advantage I can appreciate better after a while.
8' is a standard length for metal bar. OP might just have been buying their normal increment.
I don't think your correction is accurate. If you look at a PS2 mobo, the chip labeled the Emotion Engine is the CPU. The "Graphics Synthesizer" is a separate chip. You can see this on the Wikipedia article on the Emotion Engine [0], which also identifies it as a CPU. It cites an article [1] from early 1999 - around a year before the Japanese launch - which maintains the same naming scheme.

It's possible that at some point in development Sony was calling the GPU the Emotion Engine, and then renamed it to the GS but liked the Emotion Engine name so much that they started calling the CPU the EE, but that seems a little unlikely...and either way, the article is accurate in terms of how things ended up in production.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Engine

[1] https://docencia.ac.upc.edu/ETSETB/SEGPAR/microprocessors/em...
Use .NET from any JavaScript app in .NET 7
From the perspective of the Open Source community, you mean? I'd say yes. At least then people would know upfront what the game is, and maybe it wouldn't attract certain users.

Same with his Android example. It's _technically_ open source, but not for most practical cases (similarly with VSCode, there's a version you can download right now that's fully open source, it's just not very practical).
I expect as battery prices fall, car manufacturers will start offering free battery upgrades as an included service with the sticker price. Today people are actively paying $40K for a new car. As batteries get cheaper, some manufacturers might race to the bottom and just try to offer cars for as cheap as possible, like imagine a 300 mile range Honda Civic for $10k. Others might still charge $40k but give you goodies like a fresh battery every five years.
> so if you got lucky with a low price and big grant in the past four years, your yearly grant might end up low as a result.

Yep, luck is only for the capitalists, not for the plebes. Shouldn't it be the case that if a worker was part of a major turnaround they should reap the rewards? Instead this would just make sure they didn't really benefit. If this were sr mgmt they would claim the increase should justify _extra_ comp as they did such a good job to make the stock go up.
Soon: abortion wars. The US could invade any nation without an abortion ban to liberate fetuses.
Apple Watch Ultra athlete interviews and discussion
I think much of math 'education' is constructed as a filter to identify a small handful of math prodigies. The general population suffering anxiety and youth lost in the filter is seen as an acceptable sacrifice for the greater good of finding the math prodigies so those can be given a real math education.
How do this compare to @cperciva scrypt[1]? I've used scrypt before and love how simple it is.

scrypt enc test.txt > test.scrypt
Please enter passphrase:
Please confirm passphrase:

[1] https://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html
> We use an underwater projector that transmits a 20 kHz sinusoidal acoustic signal (source level 180 dB re 1 µPa @ 1 m) on the downlink

That sounds pretty abusive towards everything with ears and/or any kind of pressure sensitivity
Learn AI in 10 Minutes
It looks like Spike Aerospace is still trying to build a supersonic business jet to target customers who don't care what it costs. But they don't even have a prototype yet so it's unclear whether the market is viable.

https://www.spikeaerospace.com/
God please no, Unreal Engine 3 forced that approach which is why games derived from that engine all had wonky mouse inputs
It will run faster with more cooling. We'll probably see some air vs. water benchmarks in the coming weeks.
Sure, any dev from LAMAT are wanting abroad roles. The Argentinian peso is 300:1 , the ones that can't speak english are are making $350 month localy.
That’s right, because many departments have their effectiveness undermined by legislation with the intent of undermining the existence of those departments altogether.
Indeed, Monday starts on Saturday is better. Only Hungarian or Czech authors are similarily funny
May became Prime Minister saying "There's no magic money tree". Boris didn't really have a manifesto, in the sense of a programme; it was just "Get Brexit Done".

So the last government that was elected with a proper programme had exactly the opposite economic policies to the present unelected shower of deadbeats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XxRJuG9qfQ
GitHub also has a tool that will covert Jenkins pipelines (and other tooling) to Actions called Valet.

https://github.com/github/gh-valet
This is not a club, it is a series of books. If you or your son are so threatened by the idea that the main characters of a series of books about problem-solving using coding skills (and teaching of same) can be girls then I think the one who has a problem here is you.