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yes I am very pleasantly surprised to find the support i've gotten back so far. it has already put me at ease.

i also really appreciate your outlining what i can do. document document document, communicate communicate communicate.

thank you for your kind words.
Is the only way for the fcc and faa to come to a joint conclusion for someone to spend millions in court forcing them to?
If your boss hasn't left yet, talk to them. Ask if there's a runbook and what credentials you'll need. Both aren't just reasonable questions, they're required to be known to complete the task.

If boss is gone, go to their supervisor.

Do this today. Assuming you're in the US, you have most of the workday to figure out what you know and what you don't.

And, as somebody else posted, calm down. Either your boss trusts you, or your boss is an arsehole. Either way, that's a good thing to know now. In the first case, great. In the second, no great, but you know you don't want to work for him beyond this internship.
Actually keeping it simple makes you seem smarter https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2006-04065-001
The thing is that the antisemitism has always been present in the United States, and I don't mean the bs kind where if you criticize the Israeli government for using police state tactics against Palestinians, I mean the kind where you have folks going full Hitler apologetics and other such vile things. I've experienced this quite a bit throughout my time on the Internet. I think part of why it persists is the fact such beliefs can propagate more easily and with little push back through the Internet. I don't know if deplatforming even works on such things but I'll say at least there's the block button and block list functionality for platforms like Twitter, so folks don't have to listen to such tripe for long.
> “Only ever break one law at a time” is pretty universally good advice.

If you’re breaking zero laws, stop.
Ideology before common sense.
Today a website doesn’t even load without JavaScript. So, there’s that.
cznic or modernc.org is just a name clash, AFAICT. They have nothing to do with cz.nic.
Interesting .. I guess it comes down to preference

I think the white space is awesome .. It helps show the conversational nature of the messages .. I personally do not want long SMS messages .. If the conversation is long, then I typical switch over to audio as it is much more efficient .. Additionally, I don't want to type that much without a keyboard

I guess I also look at is "pick the right tool for the job" .. If you want a long convo, use e-mail .. I mean it has called SHORT messaging service from the jump .. I guess I want my mobile convos to be more back and forth and not structured more formally .. Again, I see this all as preference
I think you're underestimating the amount of innovation required to make the original iPhone.

The hardware required an extremely thin battery, a super-efficient processor, a high quality display with a built-in capacitative sensing grid, robust(ish) glass, and very small carrier, WiFi, and Bluetooth hardware.

The visible software required a good touch OS with a secure file system, while the underlying carrier stack relied on data compression and adaptive line quality innovations, under a complex mix of networking protocols.

The productisation required a complex logistics chain that sourced raw materials and converted them into phones at unprecedented scale with extreme precision.

Very little of this existed in 1997. ADSL was just starting to be a thing, WiFi was still fairly exotic, and most people were still using dial-up. Windows 95 was everywhere and OS X hadn't been invented yet. Most phones used GPRS.

Products like the Nokia Communicators might look somewhat iPhone like, in a bricky way, but they just didn't offer the same intuitive pocket-sized touch screen benefits.

Modern phones are very literally the summary of modern materials science, microelectronics, comms and data compression theory, industrial engineering, and some CS, in a package that hides the physics and engineering in an almost effortless way.

They seem simple, but they're anything but.
Just came here to link this.

Tldr: There was no use case for low power steam engines in the ancient/roman world. There was no know-how on building high pressure vessels that would allow higher power steam engines (this know-how was gained by work on cannons).

The key use case for the first practical engines was draining coal mines, in the ancient/roman world this was not a big problem because most of their energy was from wood not coal.
As an solopreneur running a SaaS and various apps/addons on other SaaSes on AWS for 7 years now, I'm inclined to agree.

In fact, I've already migrated a fair chunk of my workload off AWS Lambda onto constantly running fly.io VMs.

It's significantly cheaper than serverless (when you're past the free tier), the servers just restart if they crash (as opposed to running up a six figure AWS bill), and it's less complicated operationally (it's just a VM, less need to pipe messages with SQS, figure out IAM, etc)
> what's weird though is how many mega-corps are going away from Custom Hardware in Custom Built DC towards Cloud.

Why is it surprising? Building and maintaining custom data centers is a big, slow business initiative. It takes months to years of forecasting to get the data center buildout to match the business needs, as opposed to the extreme flexibility of using a cloud provider.

> There's also something to be said for buying a VPS or a Colo machine, making sure it's backed up and dealing with the 9's that you get from that machine on it's own. I am routinely surprised by how far a single node machine will get you.

For personal projects this is exactly what I do. It’s great until something goes wrong with that one machine or VPS.

But it’s not really a good option for any business that needs consistent operations and uptime. Years ago I worked at a company that tried to self-host some of their collaboration tools on a VPS to save money over the cloud-hosted versions. When the server went down it stalled productivity for a day while the team restored a backup, with another week of confusion as we tried to find all of the things that were lost between the last backup and when the server went down.

When someone did the rough estimations on how much it cost to pay everyone’s salaries for that day of lost productivity, the number was far higher than the trivial cost savings we got from self-hosting. We also had a constant background burden on someone internally to maintain and monitor the server, plus the burden of them being on call. Often, moving to cloud anything can be a huge load off the company’s back.
Thank you! (Yes I forgot that it was an option I chose; I probably went with the defaults, not knowing the implications of deviating)
I would definitely prefer governments to be made up of small autonomous city states with a simple NATO-like 'An attack against one is an attack against all' clause to maintain peace.
I'm an architect (of buildings) and mostly lurk here but this is very interesting and had to comment - many designers don't like the idea of quantifying design value through measurable data, but it's most definitely the future. The design time and cost savings that can be had from using datasets or software like Archilyse's will continue to grow, while also (hopefully) ensuring a higher baseline design value of buildings. I'm personally just beginning my journey of coding/programming because of exactly this sort of thing (among other reasons).
What are you running that costs $50/month? Several services with decent amounts of traffic?
We can't address the GHG issue fast enough, so that pretty much means we'd have to try other stuff. They could certainly be worked in parallel.
I think I see now why you're being angry and confused. I'm not talking about Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. I'm talking about people like Marlene Engelhorn in Austria, who literally toured TV shows making arguments that border on anti-capitalism. She's a millionaire heiress and advocates not just for a higher maximum income tax rate but also for reinstating the wealth tax and raising inheritance tax.

She's basically advocating for policies that would make it impossible (or extremely difficult) to become and remain as wealthy as she is, let alone a billionaire. And she's directly going against her own financial interests with this because no amount of creative accounting would shield her from all of it if it became actual policy.

For the record, I remembered her being a billionaire heiress but it seems I was off by a digit or two. So I apologize for incorrectly referring to one-percenters when I meant mostly her and other millionaires (afaik) who support her project called Taxmenow. She also criticized philanthropy.
> Sure, https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-us-carriers-e...

How were those carriers threatening Taiwan exactly? I understand how those carriers might have threatened China, but not Taiwan. Can you find any statement by Taiwan decrying the carriers' presence? Can you find any statement from Taiwan asking the carriers to leave? I can find many statements from Taiwan decrying Chinese actions near them, but none taking issue with the US. Please find me an example of the USA threatening military action against _Taiwan_.

> Your turn now - can you quote the law which threatens Taiwan?

I already have mentioned the Anti-Secession Law multiple times, but sure I'll save you from typing "anti secession law" into Google yourself. Here's Article 8:

> Article 8 In the event that the "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces should act under any name or by any means to cause the fact of Taiwan's secession from China, or that major incidents entailing Taiwan's secession from China should occur, or that possibilities for a peaceful reunification should be completely exhausted, the state shall employ non-peaceful means and other necessary measures to protect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

> The State Council and the Central Military Commission shall decide on and execute the non-peaceful means and other necessary measures as provided for in the preceding paragraph and shall promptly report to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

https://www.refworld.org/docid/474403752.html

If you are curious as to Taiwan's position on the law, here is what they have to say:

https://www.mac.gov.tw/en/News_Content.aspx?n=8A319E37A32E01...

China's law quite clearly threatens military action against Taiwan. I can't understand why you would claim otherwise. I've never even met a Taiwanese or Chinese person who has made that claim. Everyone knows the official policy of the PRC is to attack Taiwan if Taiwan doesn't allow its annexation. Your claiming otherwise makes you an interestingly unique person on the internet.
Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption Insecure Mode of Operation
> i think sometimes people, like me in this case, can feel almost indebted to a company that took a chance on them

What does giving you that chance cost them, versus you? If you fail, they'll likely fire you and move on to the next person. If you succeed, they will likely get credit for picking a good one, then they get to utilize you for years, potentially. During that time, they likely will make multiples of your salary on your work. There is very little real risk to the company for 'giving you a chance'.

In some bad companies, you have little input into shaping the expectations into something reasonable. In those companies, you can easily be expected to do something that just isn't feasible, and it is no fault of yours.

From your story, it sounds like you may be in one of the companies that expect what they expect, and never ask if it is reasonable from people who know. I also wonder if your boss is taking vacation to distance themselves from an expected meltdown that they were unable to manage away. Hard to tell reality single point of view on the internet, but it wouldn't surprise me.
The Metaverse is the internet no one wants
I feel this in my bones. Worked at a smallco acquired by market leading bigco. The average meeting size was 15 people and decisions that previously required 5 minutes took weeks.

I didn’t even last 6 months.
Sure, those don't feel much like tech at our current pace of change, but it's millions of years further up the tech tree than, say, feathers, thermoregulation, photosynthesis, or multicellular organisms.
If your GPU inference can run on an Intel integrated GPU, you could rent a dedicated server from OVH for ~$130 a month and use the integrated GPU on that. I don't know about affordable dedicated servers from mature providers with Nvidia GPUs.
In the UK, them using the data in this way would be a breach of GDPR.

You can only use the data for the purpose you originally stated, and this is not it.
Epicor is an ERP program, and from my limited time working with a different one, I think it's a bit unfair for them to expect you to handle this whole thing on your own, and on such short notice. I've only seen ERP software be big and clunky.

So, don't calm down, but feel a bit justified in being worried all of a sudden.

Be very clear that you need to have login sorted out before you can begin work on the project. Write down all of your concerns in a text document, and save them to be raised the internal kickoff meeting (There should be one. If not, ask for one).

Meanwhile, search their documentation as best you can, and see if you can get an idea of what the actual work would entail. Research can count as productivity, and you may find more questions that need to be raised.
> I just want the information

Certainly a reasonable choice on your part. We all want what we want.

I have a friend who, when he goes grocery shopping, grabs the first item he sees from each of the items on his list. As far as I can determine, this is without regard to price, quality, or any other factor.
I used epicor for years and I’m honestly still surprised it exists. It is such a bad program from a terrible company. The updates generally broke the system every time and required a company rep to come out and fix it. Seemed like a total scam. I would not expect any upgrade to go well and I’m pretty sure it is by design.
It wasn't the equipment working fine that made it defective. It was the fact that they were using frequencies hundreds of MHz away from what they were allowed to use.
But I'm not comparing the phone company to KF, I'm comparing the phone company to cloudflare. (Admittedly, rereading my comment, that wasn't clear.)
> communication is probably the best tool I have

Without a doubt. Just make sure you are not being a whiny complainer about getting dumped on. Everyone you talk to will already know you've been thrown to the wolves - you don't have to remind them of it. But on the other hand, they will also see that you are trying and preparing and taking the job seriously: If things blow up on Monday they will blame your boss for leaving. If things go smoothly they will think it's because you took charge and made it happen.

(But also, spend some time thinking about a new job, because there is always a small chance you get screwed. The business world is cold and heartless sometimes).

PPS - it is entirely possible that the users do not yet know about the scheduled upgrade, either because they were never told or because they ignored the email or whatever. They might have some major thing going on Monday and can't have any downtime. Talking to them and asking about experiences and concerns will surface that. If it is the case, they will voices on your side in a call for delay. And! It will look good on your resume: "Improved inter-department communication, saving company $$$$/increasing revenue $$$$ by optimizing software update schedule"
Yes, calm down.

I wish someone could have told me that when I was an intern. Many times.

If the upgrade blows up, it won't be your fault because you're just an intern. There are multiple people making way more money than you are who are responsible for running the company. If those people leave an intern in charge of a mission-critical system and it breaks, it's their fault. If you do end up in the soup and you're able to save the day by calling Epicor support, you'll end up with some very nice letters of reference.

If it doesn't blow up, great, it means your advisor trusts you to keep the plates spinning while he's out. Keep doing what you're doing and you'll have a bright future.

Next time get trained before the guy with the knowledge disappears :)
I did not anticipate a Hacker News discussion about a remotely exploitable Linux kernel WiFi vulnerability requiring some network benchmarks on an unusual network stack architecture, but I'll oblige:

This publication (http://www.minix3.org/docs/jorrit-herder/asci06.pdf) claims that MINIX3 could saturate a 1 Gb/s Ethernet link with an user-space network stack, with separate processes for the stack and the driver, on a rusty 32-bit micro-kernel that can't do SMP. In 2006.
Show HN: Tool that matches careers with your interests
We've created a tool where anyone can select their interests and explore careers with skill maps without signing up.

Once we launched the YouTube analyzing algorithm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32482716, we discovered 2 crucial things:

1. People want to edit and set up their interests manually.
2. People are concerned about privacy and don't want to share their results.

We've also improved the privacy part of YouTube's analysis.
We removed profile names and avatars from the public view, added the ability to edit them, and made the data policy clear and straightforward.

Kudos to the community for previous feedback. Looking forward to the next :)
The article mentions Zipcar paying a $365 cab bill for another family, so it's possible?
Disclaimer: not a backend or web engineer, I mostly write embedded software, but inevitably need to implement services from time to time (and had a startup at one point)

My response is "yes but what about databases". There are any number of ways of hosting my application - "put it on a VM" is a perfectly reasonable approach, particularly as my preferred platform is Elixir which is pretty monolithic anyway. That's fine for the app, but what about the DB? I think I know just enough to know that hosting Postgres properly (i.e. reliably and performantly with appropriate backups) is not that easy, and I'd like someone else to do it for me.

For my startup I used App Engine (Flexible Environment) and Cloud SQL. That worked well in that I had the "two instances behind a load balancer" that you want for seamless upgrade, and managed SQL without having to delve into all the many Google Cloud services for networking etc. etc. Everything else was just 'more elixir' which is easy to test locally.
Really cool thanks for explaining
Dealing with Heat in Near-Memory Compute Architectures
Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada
Just a few years after Covid started - very possibly related.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33914346/
I think you can be pretty big and still stay in Public Cloud. There is enough competition that pricing should trend toward commodity over time.
Well. I think Nietzsche provides a helluvalot of solutions. And precisely to many of the disorders of our time.

Couple examples:

> Out of life's school of war - what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.

Applies to muscle building and investing, among many other things. How much of today's self-help literature can be traced back to this idea?

> Free, dost thou call thyself? Thy ruling thought would I hear of, and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke. Art thou one ENTITLED to escape from a yoke? Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude. Free from what? What doth that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall thine eye show unto me: free FOR WHAT?

That one thought alone is dynamite. It is packed with answers to many of the most pressing problems of our time:

Nihilism, people feeling lost, numbing themselves with consumerism and getting addicted to social media. Why? Because they are free, but they have no purpose for that freedom.

Advertising and gamification. You can give people the illusion of being "free". And it's true: Nobody is holding a whip. Yet what is much more powerful than the whip is positive reinforcement. People are free to do what they want. But they are not free to want what they want. Because, with people lacking a "will" of their own, businesses will harness the power to make people want what's in the business's interest.

> Most people are too preoccupied with themselves to be evil.

How easy is it to get enraged about something someone else did. How easy is it to explain their behavior in terms of them being an "evil person". But how often is that actually true? Also, once you remind yourself of this insight (and it is necessary to remind oneself, because the attribution to an "evil character" otherwise happens reflexively), you are in a much better position to diffuse the conflict.

Remember the Cuban missle crisis, and McNamara's rule #1: Empathize with your enemy. Figure out what he wants.

Remember also Nixon. Remember his "evil empire" speech, and what almost happened in 1983 (see the post on HN about "Able Archer" recently). It was only once Nixon put himself in the shoes of Russia that both parties were able to stop the arms race.

The idea that some people are just "evil" is a kindergarten teacher's tale. And yet it still dominates our mainstream media, and is exploited for clicks on the internet.

I just cherry picked these quotes. There are hundreds of them. And there are many more between the lines in Nietzsche's works. If these are not solutions to the disorders of our time, I do not know what else.
I think it's worth my time to not need to go to the post box every day and exchange dead trees.
“So much screaming inside me”–Google Stadia shutdown stuns indie developers
Therapist have a huge amount of influence and power over their patients.
Do you really think lowering the bar is a good idea? Try and imagine the end result. Maybe it's me, but I shudder thinking of it.

The real problem, IMHO, is we've built an inhumane economic system that causes tremendous stress over the psyche of the individual. Instead of optimizing for wellbeing,we optimize for GDP, this is a pretty poor proxy. A more humane and tolerant society, with less hyper stimulating culture could reduce the need for more therapists.
But of course this is an ideal, I don't know how to get there, but it seems to me unleashing therapists into the wild, while streamlining out the ethical and self regulation that come with the guild structure is a terrible idea.
the idea of the vaccine was always to prevent bad effects of infection, not infection as such. However, it usually helps with the latter as well but whatever.

However, what the big social media sites really need (instead of laws against disinformation) is downvotes. If the metric is only engagement then enragement is good, but actually it shouldnt (necessarily) be.
Literally this is about research to figure out more about how to control these things. It isn't a plan to ignorantly execute the actual idea. If you are correct, the research should enable us to be informed and NOT build this out. You should be against not doing research.
thanks for the advice.

to add some context, i have been voicing concerns and i just feel that i may be in a position where i have to take the silence and work it out for myself - i must remember all the resources i have available to me (including you kind folk here at HN) and work with what i have been given.

i have gotten myself this far, and only i can make it better for myself. time to nut up or shut up i suppose and stand up for myself.
Unfortunately these altimeters are part of a very large critical infrastructure, which can't be ignored. Just saying they shouldn't be working that way doesn't negate the fact that they are working that way. Part of engineering is taking the real world into account, even if the real world is inconvenient for you.