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Messaging Ops: 2023s most important role for SMS SaaS
Calling it right now…. Messaging Ops will be one of the most critical roles to hire for in 2023 for SaaS companies that have an email, SMS, or messaging product. Here’s why:

They Ensure high-quality deliverability for messaging products:

As channels like SMS become more crowded, channel providers will and have already begun creating higher standards for regulation and filtering of messaging. To keep message delivery high, you need a player on your team who lives, eats, breathes, and geeks best practices for both internal channel infrastructure management and messaging compliance.

Communicate compliance changes throughout the organization:

Compliance and deliverability best practices are constantly in flux, which makes keeping your team and customers educated paramount to delivering a great messaging product. Your messaging ops team is tasked with ensuring all members of your team as well as customers are aware of messaging best practices. This ensures that everyone is aligned on how to deliver certain outcomes leveraging certain channels.

Manage relationships with infrastructure partners:

To ensure you’re delivering high-quality messaging across regions, you’ll need to manage multiple channel infrastructure partners. A messaging ops team needs to maintain a close relationship with these partners to keep up to date on compliance standards as well as broker best-in-class prices as volumes increase. When shit hits the fan, your infastructure partners will be the best equipped to help you solve issues.
Sockets, hopefully.

For example, it should be possible to build websites for downloading YouTube videos that does not use server side code execution or bandwidth. These were popular at some point but disappeared after Java applets stopped being supported by most browsers.
This is one of those companies that were always hiring when I checked HN's jobs page. Honestly I thought they seemed like they have trouble hiring, but good for them that at least they've hired enough to get to the point they need a reduction.
XML did everything and it's perfectly readable if it's formatted and structured well. This zoo of different markup/object/whatever languages we have to deal with now is largely a mistake.
Ever heard of banano? It's pretty much a joke, but it is basically this.
MySQL historically isn't very good about blocking bad data. Sometimes it would silently truncate strings to fit the column type, for example. It's getting better as time goes on, though.
Unrelated, but Florida Code requires landlords to ensure working heat, but not cooling.

Most heat pumps installed in Florida default to heating mode, and to switch to cooling mode a constant 24V needs to be sent to the heat pump's reversing valve. So if that valve, or voltage, ever fails when supposed to be in cooling mode you get cooked to 100F+ temps while you sleep, and burn out your heat pump while you're at it.
Just Google it, it’s not hard. Are you really surprised that rail also costs money to maintain?
October 4th, 2021 proved that they at least used to. If the SREs did their jobs, that may no longer be true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage
I kinda miss XML. Yeah, I'm weird.

The tooling is super mature, it's easy to emit, it's easy to parse, it's easy to validate, it can just a little hard to read and write by hand (and I mostly blame SOAP for that). Still, basic XML isn't that hard to read or write, thanks to editor support.
You didn't fail, you just jumped head first into the deep end. React is a great framework, but you need to learn the basics first.

If you want to learn react, I would start with the tutorials on the react site. This will help you wrap your mind around what is happening when things get more complex.
I disagree that it would be obvious. In many cases, it could be really hard to tell. Also, supposing someone has a mental health problem, and actually does need tons of time... is that abuse? How do you handle that, and who gets to decide?
Goes hand in hand with you ignoring that except for React, everyone else supports Web Components in some form, so that you can keep bashing them.

We are done here, it is quite clear were we stand.
Source: I was born in Toronto, and have been to many of the Western cities you mentioned, and didn’t know anything else until I moved to culturally homogeneous Ukraine. The difference is night and day. Life is just more meaningful and I have a much stronger relationship with people living around me.

I would prefer Bangladesh to Toronto anytime (and yes I have actually travelled extensively in Bangladesh, and I am NOT ethnically Bengali) just because of the cultural homogeneity. There is no place on Earth I hate more than Dubai because of the cultural potpourri. Maybe it’s just me, but I strongly prefer cultural homogeneity over everything else, even risking my life in a warzone right now (Kyiv) because I love being part of a well-defined centuries-old cultural heritage.
Ah, thanks; that explains the apparent discrepancy between what I thought you were saying here vs. your other comments.

As for why the 1% may have much more than 1% of the power in practice… that's kinda where I was going with the Hyper-Dystopia vs. Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism example: whoever controls the AI gets to play as Gods to a much larger degree than mere billionaires get to act like real life is a Civilization/KSP/SimCity game, and the default for who controls the AI is whoever has skills such that they can't be replaced with an AI. Or the current rich, if everyone can be displaced by AI.
Why does installing this app require sidestepping Gatekeeper? That’s kind of a smell.
I used my Copilot trial to explore writing tests more than writing code. I found that it actually worked well, especially for data and boilerplate heavy tests, like table-driven tests in Go. It was saving me quite literally dozens, if not a hundred or more, of keystrokes. I wrote Go for side projects these days, not for work, so I don't pay for the license, but if I was writing Go again professionally I'd pay for the license for this alone.

In my day job, I write Ruby, and it didn't impress me much when I used it with Rspec. I'd says it was saving me maybe a dozen or so keystrokes in total to write a new spec.
I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks for having the courage to state this.

I think the reasons are straightforward: 1: The supply chain has evolved. Affordable ingredients are mass produced and low quality and a pizza place needs a strong motive to choose better ingredients. 2: family pride has not passed to current generations. And as you say most of those families have migrated out to the suburbs.

To be fair, I still think the bar is much lower outside the NY area. So visitors may legitimately love places we cringe at. And more power to them, frankly.

I think the decline extends to the suburbs too. Would love to get some of your New Jersey recs.
i am egyptian, and i can tell for a while now germany have been getting the cream of the crop from egypt, mainly engineers, programmers and to a large extent medical doctors and pharmacists (although doctors have a slight preference to UK, many still go to germany)

and german have also for a while replaced french as the second most popular foreign language ( english is the first foreign language)

and compared to france for example, germany have a good rep, if you are good you will be promote to management and leadership, in france companies (the reputation is) there is a limit to how far up you can go
Why not listen to a recording at this point.. While it might be impressive, it's not interesting (to me).

The point of witnessing live music is to experience the hard work and character of a human with their instrument.

An entire band in sync together - witnessing this incites some emotion in me. Improvisation... this is exciting.
Sure, I'm just pointing out that if the premise is that this hypothetical civilization is compute-constrained in some way and so everything beyond our local area is a facade, they have seemingly wasted resources on making the facade unnecessarily large and detailed. Perhaps the amount is insignificant to them, but it's still pointless waste.
> It’s absolutely a corruption issue, in that the government prefers to pay 2-3x

Being serious, I wish I could find one of these 2-3x multiple payouts in government. Every time I've looked at anything government related (including direct contractors) the pay is garbage. Usually 15% to 50% of what the private market pays for my skill set.
They're "selling" a TV as a TV when the world has switched to using full-blown mind-control shopping malls as TVs.
Yeah but there are other solutions as well. When these articles come up people seem so obsessed about finding some gotcha! and why it won't work for them in certain situations, its strange to me. Heat pumps are absolutely a better technology that will recoup their higher costs within 10 years for just about everyone (yes, not everyone... just about everyone). Find me a guaranteed 10% return in the market these days please, I will thank you enormously.

I am looking into this right now in the NYC area. My ~13 year old HVAC system has a refrigerant leak in the AC component. Heat pumps that work in the very cold are considerably more expensive. Except... I have a perfectly fine gas powered furnace that will likely last another 20 years, if not more. So we are going to leave the furnace in, only have it kick on if the temps get too cold and... done. This may not be true in all environments, but in the Northeast, electrical demand is far far higher in the summer than the winter.

Yeah, in the super cold north, maybe they aren't a home run- yet- but they get better every year, but this whole ludditeism and resistance to change is very strange for a place like HN.
Agree, Season2 was already deteriorating from episode to episode, with the finale making me wonder how they expect to progress in another season.

By Season4 the aimless world-building reached a degree that it's unlikely they could ever connect back to the same audience as Season1...

HBO's Watchmen on the other hand...a pity that they killed it after just one season...
Guidelines for tests that reduce maintenance burden rather than add to it:

* Test the externally visible useful properties of your system, rather than implementation details. Related: don’t bother with mocks unless there’s no other way

* Keep your tests DRY: if there’s some invariant you want to check have it appear once in your test code

* Don’t over-test: you can delete tests and checks that fully overlap with other tests

* If you need to over-test make it easy to regenerate the expected results from your implementation (characterisation tests) as espoused by the article.
* the amount of testing effort should be proportional to how important the functionality is. Reduce the effort for low impact features
Surprisingly a lot of it was usually just a misplaced registry entry or one with the wrong ACL on it.
I'm working on a robotic drumming project, but rather than playing canned sequences, I'm experimenting with rhythm synthesis to create an intuitive and expressive instrument that anyone can play. This was a test of an early version with rhythm synthesis happening with oscillators in Puredata that trigger OSC hit instructions to the robot which is just an ESP8266 wired to a Vertiq smart motor. https://youtu.be/zeHJXyyhJ70

My model of rhythm in that version was extremely naive, so now I'm now trying to grok Godfried Toussaint's The Geometry of Musical Rhythm with the goal of moving the rhythm generation to the microcontroller. This is to have a toolset for making autonomous musical ensembles.
I'm definitely having challenges figuring things out, so if anyone else is interested in this stuff, ping me and I'd love to share notes.
Hackers discover that vulnerabilities are rife in the auto industry
Which they're also not trying to do. It's just a cool project, shared for those that want to use it.
> Theres a place for hacking towards a goal theres a place for reliability.

Most engineers and managers believe this. Nobody agrees where that place is located.
GP's "zero gain" was a statement about efficiency, not heat loss. ("Zero gain in efficiency as compared to resistive heating" rather than "zero gain in net BTUs inside the house".)
Many commends are (correctly IMO) pointing to JSON as superior to YAML given YAML's problems, but these ignore JSON's problems due to its lack of semantics. When moving JSON between systems, the JSON parser makes certain assumptions about the JSON document, such as whether the numbers represent integers or single-precision or double-precision floats. This is certainly less obnoxious than "no" being treated as a bool, but it is a problem.

A friend of mine created Preserves[0] in part to resolve this problem. I'd encourage everyone to check it out. To be fair, he's also quite pro-Dhall and Nix.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34354614
> Btw, if anyone wants to finance terrorism by using a crypto exchange, let be clear: that's a very bad idea. Have your own wallet and use at least some privacy coins ...

Or just buy your own bank...

The disposable bank industry is thriving around the world, and is completely circumventing all of that nonsense AML theatre in its entirety.

The draconian banking reporting regulation only impact individuals, but nearly none business accounts, and close to nothing is aimed at banking institutions themselves.

You literally need more papers to open a bank account in some EU countries, than to buy a fully fledged tier 1 bank, with a central bank account, and direct access to FX exchanges, clearing, securities brokerages etc.
>a few things 1) mostly thank the airline operators for that.

So Thank airlines for not crashing and do what when Boeing creates a death machine called 737 MAX??
No woman is an island.
Bitcoin has failed as electronic cash (its intended purpose). Bitcoin has failed as a store of value. Bitcoin has failed as inflation hedge.

The project is 13 years old at this point and has failed to provide any meaningful use, has failed in terms of mainstream appeal and isn't nowhere near revolutionary. All of this while being an environmental disaster, burning through electricity and producing e-waste like there's no ecological emergency.

That farce needs to stop and the sooner the better.
Headline and Core CPI printed 'as expected' however Services CPI soared to the highest in 40 years, real wages shrank for the 21st month in a row and housing costs continue to soar
You had to ask, https://www.npmjs.com/package/mmap-io
Every mind has value, we must agree.
I’m not fan of a heating technology that only fails when I need it most. The system can work adequately thousands of times, but I only get to freeze to death once.

Winter Storm Elliott dropped temperatures far below the average lows in places that might otherwise be well served by heat pumps. Many southern states saw -5 F and it got considerably colder elsewhere.

That’s not to say that heat pumps can’t play a role in HVAC systems, but they must have a backup.
In my experience, a less complex but more thought-through solution often requires more time to implement. It's easy to just stick more layers onto a big ball of mud, but it takes excellence to change it such that these layers aren't necessary.
Ok so one carton of eggs a week.

Also, it seems pretty silly to talk about a dollar of extra cost as a problem in the context of making homemade pasta. Homemade pasta is a time intensive luxury.
In my experience, the smartest people write code that is almost unbelievably simple, so simple you almost don't believe it works or someone didn't think of it before.

The goal of writing code is so other people can maintain it because you won't be there forever and you can't do it yourself.

I've seen this in C++ engineers in particular. There's a certain kind of person who comes to believe that complexity is a virtue. In a way they're bored and they alleviate that boredom by finding the dark corners of the standard and insist on using those features. It's also a way of demonstrating how smart and knowledgeable they are.

It's also a defensive measure as it makes it really hard to replace such people.

If such people are already running the aslyum (so to speak), you're probably going to have a bad time because (IME) they're just not receptive to the people argument or they dismiss it with a quip about anyone should be able to recite the C++ standard by heart.

The best yo ucan do is constantly ask questions like "do we need this?" and "is this the quickest way to do this?"
> There are many choices for a loss L (e.g. gradient, Hebbian) and optimizer (e.g. SGD, Momentum, ADAM). The output(), y, is detailed in step 4 below.

I don't get it, don't all of those optimizers work via backprop?
Or just block its Mac address from your network, though, make sure there are no other open WiFis nearby!
I don't know why something with many LOC is a problem. Why does OP care about LOC?
Most likely because the dev isn't paying $100/year to Apple to get a signing certificate and access to notarization.
Bitcoin will never gain mass adoption as a currency, that leaves it as a "value store" - and the only people buying bitcoin are suckers buying bitcoin from others in the hope that they can in turn sell it to a bigger sucker down the line.
> If it wasn't a dense deposit, then did the costs substantially increase with cyanidation? (Not total cost, but cost per unit production.)

I made a broad long term statement that's true over multiple decades and centuries - if you take a keyhole view there will be times when the long term trend is bucked.

I don't specifiaclly know the exact answer to your question (although it can be worked out by a research student with a month or two to spare) but I would hazard that profits from gold mining were dwindling with a high cost of getting some value from fines .. and then cyanidation made things profitable again.

It's a market with supply | demand and a finite amount of gold in the crust - nuggets are no longer laying aboutto be picked up, and now many tonnes of sand and grit need to be centifuged | screened | shaken to get a concentrate .. and as the profit from that dwindles and price/kilo rise due to limited supply - it become possible get more gold from the concentrate with a little additional cost (in time + chemical) and profits rise again.

Whatever specifically happened in a short time window in a specific location though; the long term trend remains, more effort for less return of product.
Learning complex stuff takes time. Peter Norvig has an excellent blog post about this, I'd recommend reading it before throwing in the towel: https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html
' when we literally have testimony'
How do you communicate with them? I'd start there. Is it over IM, email or in person, zoom calls? I'd try to get off 'written' mediums and get on more personal medium.

If you are REALLY serious about fixing this, I recommend a book called "Non Violent Communication" https://www.amazon.ca/Nonviolent-Communication-Language-Life... Satya Nadella claims it was one of the reasons he was able to turn around Microsoft.

The way you express your needs may resonate better if you adopt
> Eggs are significant ingredient in many homemade things (eggs, bread, pancakes, pastas, brownies) and one of the cheapest,cleanest protein sources in the American diet.

Yes, and food makes up ~13% of the BLS CPI. This is taken into account when they do their surveys to see what people are spending their money on:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Expenditure_Survey

Remember that the CPI is the national average inflation for an average basket of goods, and not your personal inflation. In Canada, StatCan actually has a personal CPI tool so that you can see how things are for your personal basket of goods:

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015...
Not sure about now, but a BGP error affected all Meta services one or two years ago.
The fact that inflation has been around 2% for the past several months means they are already not doing this.
I am not German but I think an oversimplified explanation is that expectations of salaries by employers are so low now, that at the same time:

- They do not expect to pay more than ~1.5K Euros per months (sometimes lower) for most usual service or construction jobs.

- They do not find people ready to work for ~1.5K Euros per month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010

As WP notes "Some scientists see the wage depression in Germany fostered by the Agenda 2010 as one of the causes of the European debt crisis."
> I'll keep saying this until it happens...the biggest AR use case, for me, is replacing the television

Personally I think they'll be replacements for mobile phones. This will only happen if the devices start to become indistinguishable from a normal pair of glasses and allow for prescriptions as well.

Audio will either be through bone conduction or small speakers like how Bose's Audio Glasses [1] do it now (I have a pair of these actually, got them for free at a developer hackathon they hosted once a few years ago, never use them mainly because I don't wear contacts and need prescriptions)

Ideally it could even pick up subvocalization to be able to compose messages in quiet situations without rudely having to speak out loud, if you're the type that cares about that (I certainly do)

We might still need some small handheld device paired with it, maybe it has a simple keyboard on it or maybe just a number pad that also serves as 4-directional buttons for traversing menus and things in your view"

1. https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/frames.html
I have yet to see whether implementations allow users direct access via the filesystem to these contents. The idea of each origin having some files sounds fine. But if I genuinely want to help & empower my users, give them the most user agency, I'd want them to be able to access the sqlite sb themselves directly, with whatever hazards they thereby assume.
I really like Sinatra but a lot of the Rails improvements kind of took away some of the benefits of using Sinatra over Rails.
Ha. Our natural gas bills in my area doubled this month.
1. Nobody is saying that there has been deflation, so yes, prices that have gone up will remain up. The old baseline, the one in your head, that's gone. The question now is will prices keep going up, and the answer seems to be no.

In addition, a series of issues unrelated to monetary policy have hit individual items like eggs (avian flu) and lettuce (INSV) and so on, because food is messy.

2. The election season has been over for two months, and yet the SPR is continuing to contribute to US supply[0], so apparently not everybody thinks solely in election terms.

Russia is more complicated; they are at least as focused on their limited opportunities to earn and spend money given sanctions as on hurting us, which they might see as less easy to do now that the election season has been over for two months.

0. https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_ending_stocks_of_crude_oil...