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>>Parts are easier than ever to find and order.

So true. I was surprised to be able to replace a circuit board on a (probably) 20 year old garage door opener. Surprised, in that I had no knowledge of the things, couldn't really be sure I was searching for the right part, no instructions for replacement on YouTube, etc. Fortunately you could look at the drive, see that there was a PC board in there which was screwed in so you could remove it and look it over, google the part number.

Pretty sure if I had called a specialist out to repair it, they would have told me it's not worth repairing, hard to get parts, will just break again in a different way due to its age, just get a new one. And that argument is probably both true and well intended.
That's a cynical take -- I'm not sure it's untrue, but another factor is cost. Things that are not meant to be maintainable also tend to be cheaper to design and build initially. You don't have to worry about maintenance access when you design the product, or making the components replaceable, or using industry-standard parts.

By avoiding maintenance concerns in design and production, you can sell a cheaper product, and the vast majority of buyers will look at purchase price and not total cost of ownership when they are evaluating choices.
Yes, yes, yes! I am so sick of sites putting fixed top bar, and fixed side bars as well. Add "clever" bar animation in as well, and you get the awful UX we have today. Classic case of people inventing a problem to solve.
korean would be great, as it's a language i've tried learning in the past. i sometimes watch k-dramas and can understand about 20-30%, but would love to practice at my leisure so that i can understand more without reading the subtitles constantly.

i've watched enough wuxia/xianxia now to recognize about 10% of the mandarin words/phrases, but have almost no understanding of the grammar. the real key to learning seems to be (going through the often frustrating process of) communicating in real time, not just reading and listening.
I'd rather have a richer analytics system, but I'll take it over no analytics. It is beneficial to know that someone has consumed your work. There is no fun in speaking to the void.
I agree. Sounds more like Poland to me. And I don't really blame them. The germans are quite hard to trust.
Ask HN: Language choice when starting a new project
I have wanted to start a new project for weeks, but I cannot make a choice as to what backend language to go for!

I want to keep things simple and although the project in the long term will or could become complex, ideally now it will be a single service. If I want to make it a single service for as long as possible I should opt for Python as there will be ML components, at the same time I know that in the long run a single service will get bulky here and I should split them, this pushes me towards selecting Node and splitting out the ML services right away.

Anyway, I am not asking for help on actually selecting the language, but rather how do people overcome this non starting due to making a technology decision such as this?
I knew one of the Tandy children. He lived in the Virgin Islands and was known as “the water mon.” He sold 5 gallon bottles of water out of a white van. It would be hard to guess that he was from money and had money.
Amusing, never heard of it. And quite honest IMO.
I used to use my Tandy to check my email, along with my brothers Mad and Sad.
The distinction is whether he cheated previously to the Sinquefield Cup or at the Sinquefield Cup itself. It's a critically important distinction.
It depends on the type of content, really.

Someone who is reviewing tools could be hurt by getting sponsored by a tool brand, because of the obvious possible conflict of interest.

But that same person getting sponsored by one of the damn VPN providers might affect it less.

It also depends on where they put the sponsorship and how easy it is to skip.
Not necessarily. Learning enough English to understand the UI is much lower level than being able to converse.

It's also the difference between active and passive command of the language.
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Well, they say that you lose the flux too early using that method.
I don’t agree on the
recommendation for memory « Always set your memory requests equal to your limits »

you can layer high priority service and low priority service better if you use some buffer.
awd = awk?
> Bookmarklets work fine on iOS Safari

Does the bookmarklet get executed for the current open tab?
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It makes no sense to actually abandon this. Gas is a irreplaceable product. Europe is Russia's natural customer and Russia is Europe's natural supplier.

The issue here isn't strategic. It's just Putin.
it's probably to avoid spinning the wheels down in the budget garbage being referenced here and wasting a bunch of time. Pay the upfront cost and leapfrog over the delay.
> If doing fully remote, they could be dialing in from another country and immune from arrest. Makes it much easier to do.

This also substantially increases the reward. Traveling to SF for a 2 month con as a mid-level software engineer isn't a good deal. Working remote from a low cost location for a 2 month con might be a fantastic deal.
but it's a theory as of now and hence a "conspiracy theory". I'd like to mention that for me "conspiracy theory" is not a term I frown upon. It's been labelled as something equivalent to "dangerous tin foil hat bullshit" by some politicians and news outlets who'd like us to believe that history unfolds linearly and obviously.
It's okay. Portability depends on the behavior of the developers on average, not the rate of new features added to a language. Bash developers are generally conservative and not going to be using the newest backwards incompatible features for at least a decade. Whereas, say, Rust dev demographics are more bleeding edge types and when they get new features they use them immediately.

That's why bash scripts can be interpreted on any OS from 1995 to now and Rust can only be compiled on an OS which has updated it's rustc in the last 3 months.

Gotta hand it to Bash devs. They do a good job.
Right, any casual reader who wants good information should look for meta analyses. You should almost never draw conclusions from a single study.
It’s JavaScript first but the entire V8 dependency is abstracted behind an abstraction layer. Conceivably could be ported to other runtimes like Spidermonkey or JavaScriptCore with some work.
Surely unrelated but I remember being 15 (30 years ago) and being an electric guitar player with modest or no economic resources.

I'm not saying that I celebrated the moment when one of my wires or jacks broke, but it felt great fixing it with a little patience and some soldering.

I am close now to many musicians that never fixed any of their wires/cables.

I kinda like to belong to those older times.
Attempting to compare Vonnegut and Rand without acknowledging that Rand fundamentally believed poor people should suffer for their poorness is comparing a scathing comedian and a clown: you have to accept one has a point, and the other is a clown.
The top story on HN right now would seem to indicate that it's not just you/your team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32996953
It's not the thermostat but the power output that matters and a slightly more expensive soldering iron will generally have a slightly better power supply. For example, the best soldering iron I've ever used is the Metcal fixed temperature inductive soldering station which require changing out the tip alloy to change the temperature (and I've never had to change tips for temp, only shape).
School shootings and other mass violence is the best thing that ever happened to mental health care systems. Every time there is a big shooting, legislators scramble to shovel more money into the pockets of insurers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies providing "mental health care" as if that will prevent violence somehow (hint: more drugs cause more violent behavior).

So it's a vicious circle: more drugs -> more violence -> more legislation -> more money -> more treatment -> more drugs.
More pre-war threats: https://twitter.com/JD71723577/status/1574822820269391872
It has features that regular users really, really like. Not having to associate the account with a phone number, scheduled messages, groups/channels with thousands of users, the ability to program bots, silent messages, editable messages, ...

Some people care more about these than security or privacy. It's that simple.

As for monetization, I believe they have premium stickers and such.
Name and shame the firm at least?
If you are going to go this route may as well blame Middle Eastern countries who have a lot more capacity for selling gas to the EU than the US does.
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Dealing with doubt when working for yourself
How have you managed the fear of leaving a big company?
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Taking the professor at the word that it's those graduate students' fault (who very conveniently can't defend themselves and haven't been at the University since 2020) and not the fault of the professor is a bit strange. It might after all be their fault, but it could have easily been some manipulation done or demanded by the PI who wanted a publication.

What I'm trying to say is, I'm not willing to take the professor at their word here when their word is so extremely convenient for them.
For anyone keeping score, 23 million is approximately .05% of Oracle's 43 billion in annual revenue.

The only interesting question in these SEC settlements is where the funds go?
Remote "butts in seats" policy/monitoring. If the work is getting done and is up to standards, then it shouldn't be an issue to work without being watched.

Hopefully you're upfront about that. Personally, from a business perspective, wouldn't use this method. From an employee perspective, I wouldnt want to work for anyone who would require this. Comes off as voyeuristic, controlling, untrusting, and just weird.
Possibly another example of the libertarian-to-alt-right pipeline:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insidious-libertarian-to-a...

> “People should be free to exercise complete control over their own person and property. If blacks are committing crimes, or Jews are spreading communism, discriminating against them is the right of any property owner. The fact that he may or may not miss out on good blacks or Jews is a risk he takes, and the merit of his decisions will be proven out by the market. Since a libertarian society would permit this, it seemed foolish that I should be compelled to support a democratic government policy which did not… It was only after all this that Donald Trump seemed worth taking seriously.”

My own take on this, which the above quote supports, is that removing government support from groups you hate, is a baby-step towards using the government to suppress the groups you hate. The former is much easier to disguise as noble and non-discriminatory, even if that's not the underlying motive.
OP here, I think I might have been blacklisted. Seems like this isn't turning up anywhere on the main pages despite the upvotes. Maybe because I tried to submit the Kiwi Farms url where the recent hack was documented. Anyway, thanks for the comments.

edit: Okay, now it's on page one. xD
> If you have a secure method of distributing keys, you could also just distribute the encrypted file (or its hash) via that secure method.

Well in my case the central thing is mutable, changing. Ie it's a pointer to the HEAD, in git terms.

So yes, i have to distribute keys but the keys are immutable and can be distributed. The HEAD however can't, or at least can't with assurances that it's trusted.

Which is kinda the root issue i suppose. To answer the question of "the file on S3 is mutable, did i actually write it?". I have to be able to answer that

> Its been a while since i read it, but it was mostly about how to use different crypto primitives properly. It was not about how to design a block cipher or anything like that.

That actually sounds great. Definitely interested, thank you!
Astronomers also use angstroms when refering to the filters used for solar observations.

Just because they're pretty, here's a link to the SDO gallery:
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/main

Also, the SDO takes an image through each filter as it rotates through the filter wheel, IIRC, it takes 15 minutes to rotate through them all. They are then made available for each filter at different resolutions. Being the hacker-ish type, I wrote a script to use curl to download the image sequences for chosen filter/framesize for the sun's full rotation to create a one day timelapse.
Incorrect. Names are a reference, not a value.
Yes. People knocking on our doors thinking they were hired and come to start their first day of work.

What happened was the fraudsters asked the candidates to buy some hardware on their own claiming we will reimburse them. Then they said they are sending them money to reimburse them but they made a mistake and sent too much and asked to send back the difference.

Another variant was they asked them to buy computers and then send to fraudster's address ostensibly for software installation.

We tweaked our website so that candidates browsing our website learn we never do such things, we explained the hiring process and especially the communication.
China is already dictating the price - it’s been like this even before war. Without gas they have no reason to tolerate Putin.
The most prescient fiction work of the century, in my opinion.
Interesting lead. I just logged into the Photos app. It gave me a welcome/onboarding flow like I had never used it before and there were no photos in there.

On the other hand, I can totally imagine 2015 version of me signing up for a free Amazon photos account to get $15.
> The Russians blew up their own brand-new pipeline, which they spend billions creating (jointly with the Germans) and is one of the few major "hopes" to salvage that relationship, especially as winter dawns.

There is no "salvaging the relationship" for the current regime. No gas will flow in these pipelines while Putin is in power, and the EU has already prepared alternatives:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-27/europe-is...

Thus these pipelines are worthless to the current regime, except as means to cause damage to the hated Europeans who are enforcing sanctions against them and arming Ukraine against their invasion.

You may argue that the relationship might be salvaged with the next regime, but Putin doesn't care. He will be dead or imprisoned for life whenever such next regime takes power.
> that their internet connection isn't good enough

a person who wants to work remotely but doesn't figure out how to have a good internet connection, then they are not a good fit for remote work.
If a person decides to travel to a location where internet connection is not good on the day of the interview, you can imagine what he/she will do when it's a regular work day.

Somebody shows up for a remote job and doesn't have a good internet connection is too big of a hiring risk to even both continuing the interview.
Managing consultancies is a full-time job in itself.

If you don't have someone in your company scrutinizing everything and spot-checking work that comes across, they will notice and they will take advantage of it. Starting with strong developers to impress a client and then swapping them out with newbies is standard practice.

When we engage with agencies, we make it clear that the people working on our project are expected to be present for the one weekly meeting and that they will be the ones doing the work.

We also reserve the right to "fire" specific agency team members and request a replacement if they're not working out. This is crucial as the agencies will often send teams of three: 1 strong developer, 1 strong communicator, and 1 straggler who needs a lot of supervision from the first two. You pay for all of the developers, so you might as well insist that you're getting what you pay for.
what do you mean, exactly what it was that they saw!?!? Kiwi Farms was actively sanctioning stalking, doxxing, and large-scale cyber-harassment against the trans community
I got an offer for something similar from someone recently, wanting to rent my codementor account that I haven't used in half a decade. Strange times.
is it possible to include language in the contract that comes with a penalty for things that result in this? At the least a money back guarantee.
You act like countries in the EU don't have their own intelligence agencies. If the US was behind it they will find out very quickly.
I am not talking about Slavic culture, I am talking about USSR culture.

In my limited experience there's more in common between Russia and Ukraine / Georgia / Kazakhstan than between Russia and Poland / Czech / Croatia etc, latter being Slavs.

USSR did a lot of work to unify culture of its states.

In my personal experience I can never tell if someone is from Ukraine or Belarus until they tell me. I can tell that someone is from EU (including Slavs) just by looking at their back 20 meters away.
Sounds like they’re stealing that salary, not earning it. Hope they work at a place that will never affect me personally.
Several reasons, but one major watershed is because it was viewed as "more humane" to drug us rather than restrain us with shackles or strait-jackets. Invisible chemical restraints are more palatable to the general public, and produce much better income streams for the producers.
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re transmission -- someone told me a long time ago, you really do not want to open a transmission
I think you have no idea what you're talking about. Read the book. Very few states would be able to do the things described there, and even less of them (1-3, maybe) could hide it.
The nice thing is that many, many shells implement POSIX, so there is enormous portability.

Busybox bundles the Almquist shell, and there is a Windows port available. This is the easiest and least intrusive way to run shell scripts on Windows.

Busybox advertises that it bundles bash, but this is not true - it's Almquist with some added bashisms.

It also bundles their own awk implementation, but not Tcl/lua/lisp/scheme.
Doesn't matter, keeps prices high. Besides that, one delivery of LNG amounts to a revenue of about 150 million USD/EUR/or something. So depending on the route one such thing could do that about once per month, or maybe once every six weeks.

Cha-Ching!
I like "Tell me about a time you failed miserably, absolutely and unequivocally, and how you recovered from it."

It's surprising how illuminating the responses are.
Apple always had anti-consumer rules for their products... not sure why it finally took off.
The Fastly approach has some advantages for wasm, but Cloudflare have mentioned that the vast majority of their users want JavaScript and TypeScript. Cloudflare's approach is more optimized for that: running a JS VM directly will take a lot less overhead than one compiled to wasm atm (since JS VMs depend heavily on JITing, and compiled JS VMs will have a much larger memory footprint due to the bundled compiled runtime).

It's possible that Cloudflare and Fastly users are different enough that different approaches make sense.
Which one do I shoot!?
> The guy... was definitely not him

But:

> We gave him the day

That was very nice of you, but my first thought in that situation would be security. Your best case here is you have a fraudster "accessing the terminal" -- but maybe he's otherwise harmless?
My name is evidently hard to pronounce, even though the spelling, which is seldom right, is phonetic. It is specific to an obscure ethnicity. Except for also being my father's name, it is globally unique. I own the .com of my first name. Despite the occasional annoyances, I appreciate it as a security feature.
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> I wouldn't call it fraud

Grossly misrepresenting work experience in a job application does sound a bit like misrepresenting a material fact in order to obtain action by another party, where the other party relies on the misrepresentation and suffers injury from it.

Now I wouldn't want to have bootcamp graduates prosecuted for fraud, and it would be near impossible to put any concrete number on the damage anyways, but I do wonder if bootcamps that systematically abet graduates to commit fraud run afoul of any laws.
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That's how we get standards.
It’s all on amazon.com urls.
Everything the US does to Europeans Europeans do back to them. Why do you think the spying allegations went away so quickly? Because German and French intelligence spy on the US as well, and so it's better for both parties if they just shut up about it. Everybody spies on everybody, that's the entire reason of existence for intelligence agencies that every country has.
>"The bigger problem is that all the rosin flux in the solder will have evaporated"

But the OP specifically adds short pieces of solder to the pads before soldering wires. When they finally lay the wire and start heating that solder piece might have just enough flux in it. Alternatively one could just smear some flux on the pad before laying wire.

Still I am not convinced this particular way is of any practical advantage.
Tandy models 2, 12, 16 and 6000 were great business machines: they had 80x24 screen, buffered keyboard (just like IBM PC), and had lots of software support (Xenix, TRSDOS, CP/M, RM/COS).

IBM PC was basically the same thing, but cheaper and had even higher quality keyboards and screens.

CoCo had a nice CPU, but otherwise was junk. I bought a CoCo3 recently, and have been playing with OS-9. If only there had been a popular 6809-based computer with better hardware than the CoCo.
FYI I wouldn't recommend browsing that guys feed. He has some strange posts on it.
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We’re launching a new digital magazine for the startup and tech community. The 2 things that we have decided on so far is that we will give more coverage to newer startups than the big boys and we will NOT allow garbage-a* autoplay ads. We’re still developing what the rest of the product will be. What features or editorial emphasis would make you want to read? What do you like or not like about the current market offerings ie TechCrunch, Wired, VentureBeat, etc. We’re a very lean team right now. Every idea won’t make it into the launch but all feedback will be factored into our roadmap.
The vast majority of therapists do not - and cannot - prescribe drugs.
I came across this amusing question a while ago:

"How many computable numbers could a computer compute if a computer could computer all computable numbers?"

The correct answer (from HN comment section) appears to be 'countably many'.

Interestingly computable numbers don't go to infinity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number#Not_computab...

> "While the set of real numbers is uncountable, the set of computable numbers is classically countable and thus almost all real numbers are not computable."

But they do get very very big, i.e. you can theoretically compute numbers so large that:

...even the number of digits in this digital representation of Graham's number would itself be a number so large that its digital representation cannot be represented in the observable universe. Nor even can the number of digits of that number—and so forth, for a number of times far exceeding the total number of Planck volumes in the observable universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number
That's an oddity; there was no Tandy 1000 model that came with 384 KB RAM and a 3.5" drive. The SX and SL had that amount of RAM but a 5.25" drive. The TX and TL had a 3.5" drive but 640 KB RAM.

Was DeskMate in ROM? That would narrow it down to an SL or TL.