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As a poor college student I scavenged 3c509 cards to build a computer network in an apartment I shared with two other chronic internet users.

That was right about the time someone has solved a bug with certain revisions of the card behaving differently. So suddenly the availability jumped considerably.
$299 a year? It is $99.
Totally respect this. Especially for "household" things.

There's an alternate timeline where CPUs are really hard to make, so every SOC 'wasted' on a curtain-opener or a glorified doorbell deprives someone who badly needs a general-purpose computer and can't afford one. But in our timeline, every day probably a million perfectly good "computers" (cell phones, desktops, smart speakers, etc) get tossed in e-waste anyway, so it's not a sin to use an overkill computer for a task. (Ironically of course the Pi itself is in a shortage but... :shrug:)
Yeah the issue is how fucking toxic the CS community is. I'm usually pretty numb to people talking shit but my god, I always remember why I stopped playing CS every time I reinstall to play it again.
Half Life: Alyx
Really cool to see Valve finnaly announce CS 2 but it's somewhat sad knowing this will be the last CS..
> I take sole accountability for where we are today. I am deeply and profoundly sorry. I will be taking a 25% cut in base pay. Additionally, more than 75% of my total compensation is directly tied to Indeed revenue growth, and is at risk given current trends.

That’s how you tell people you’re accountable.
Deployment from a bash script that ssh's into the hetzner VPS and git pulls the data and restarts the server.

OS kept up-to-date manually.

No load balancing necessary, it's one server.

No scaling necessary, it's a few thousand users.

Backups: cron with script that s3-compatible copies over to off-site cloud every 6 hours.

Security: firewall yes, DDoS protection no.
System 7.5.1 and later used the name Mac OS in its boot screen [1] but the boxes still said “Macintosh System 7.5” [2] up until the release of 7.6.

[1] https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/12/69888558_ee83d000f9.jpg

[2] https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?image_uri=https:%2F%2Fs3.am...
Where are some finance/economy-focused forums where people are discussing this?

EDIT: can someone explain why this is being downvoted? I made this comment when there were zero other comments on HN, so I meant no offense to this community. It was just crickets on the HN thread, so I wondered where else there might be active/informed discussion.
Thank you congress for passing the IRA, which did nothing but further increase inflation.
Slack sucks, but if you compare it with Teams, it is still gold. If anyone asks me, whether I wulould rather join a voice chat on Slack or Teams, the answer is 100% of the time Slack. You never know what bugs Teams will cook up this time to ruin your call.

O365 is a child's toy for non-professional document creation. Quickly hacking a document together maybe. Any normal non-web office suite blows O365 out of the water in terms of creating maintainable non-directly formatted documents. Now that they are deprecating offline Office (I think last release 2017 or so) their office suite has gone downhill at alarming speed.

VS Codium is OKish, and has some cool features, but ultimately does not get close to what I have in Emacs in most aspects that actually matter, so that's not a convincing offer either.

Their software is OK at best and rubbish in the average. And don't even get me started on Windows itself.
I definitely had some sort of personal MSDN subscription at one point. Plus compilers and the tike were far from free. I had shelves of books. And computers themselves cost more in inflation-adjusted dollars.
Not Finance person, but Fed not raising interest rate would evoke suspicion about how bad is it? it being the financial health of the system.

This is more or less in line with expectations.
Thanks for your in-depth response.

> Why are you interested in CS in the first place? Computer _Science_ will not be affected by LLMs and other technologies at all.

I haven't really had a chance to try out pure CS. In my own time I work on practical applications (though a current project involves lots of boolean algebra), and the curriculum at school is mostly things I already know (Sorting algorithms, and we'll do big-O at some point). The practical part of the school curriculum is heavily-OOP C#.

> Now, if you want to go to CS just to get a programming job at some company and you are doing this for money, I would indeed ask you to reevaluate. If you like programming as a hobby, a good way to kill the passion is to turn it into a boring 9/5 job. Physics and engineering may use programming as a tool and that may be more interesting to you?

I'm certainly not doing it for the money - I genuinely love it - but when I'm a 17 year old making pragmatic decisions about my future, "Can I get a job" is a pretty important one. I hope that programming as a job doesn't kill my passion, but that's certainly a concern. How frequent is that?

I'd be interested in programming within other industries, but I'm not sure on a path to doing that. I've had a lot of comments suggesting I take physics/engineering courses at uni in addition, but I'm not really sure how much of an option that is in the UK. I'll ask.

> That said, LLMs will not make a dent anytime soon. Yes they will plagiarize code and spit it out in a way that's similar to what you have requested – and for this very reason, have been banned at my Fortune company (Intellectual property is tricky). But they have no reasoning capabilities, there's still demand for solving actual problems. These days, writing code is a fraction of what I do, a lot of work goes into syncing with other teams and figuring out _what to write_. When I actually sit down to write code, that usually takes just a few days. That pales in comparison to all the architecture and coordination work that had to happen to reach that point.

Yeah, I did a week's work experience with Microsoft research about a year ago. I definitely got that impression - I, the work experience kid with no internal access, given some small projects they hadn't had time to do, programmed far more than the actual programmers on the team because I was in less meetings. I enjoyed the meetings and thinking about how to make the tool practically useful, but I'm not sure if that would continue into a decades-long career. I'll probably be doing it again, so I'll have another opportunity to consider that.

Part of my motivation behind going to uni is that I've had a pretty bad time at school due to bullies, violence, and a serious, ongoing concussion from an attack on me. Going to university and finding a good tech job appeals to me because it would (in theory) mean being surrounded by intelligent, motivated, decent people.
I've felt kind of similarly. My wife and I are young--graduated college in 2018--and I feel like I've been a bit lied to about what constitutes "good financial decisions" over the past couple years. We've been squirreling away cash to have an emergency fund, long enough to support us being out of work for 6months, paying down her student loans, trying to wait on buying a car, etc--but our friends have been buying houses, cars, etc etc, and it seems like that's been the more prudent decision time and time again.

We delayed buying a house to have a bit more in savings? House prices skyrocket, our friends who leveraged the crap out of themselves look genius.

We wait to buy a car to have a bit more in savings / wait for the used market to come down? The used market goes up, our friends who bought new cars look like geniuses.

There's part of me that keeps waiting for a correction, esp. in the housing market, both so that houses come back into our budget range, but also maybe because there's part of me that feels vindictive about the fact that everyone who, to my sensibilities, seems to be acting recklessly are making out better than we are.

Some of that is reasonable, I suspect: we're very financially conservative relative to our peer group, which means we're going to miss out on some opportunities, and I don't want to be "proven right" in saving for a rainy day by everyone else having economic hardship, but I do feel rather confused about how we're "supposed" to behave in this market.

We're also remarkably well off, as is our peer group, which will obviously skew the data radically, but it also scares the crap out of me: if these are the thoughts we're having with a household income just barely under $200k this young, what is everyone else thinking?
crypto isn't some magic wand that just makes corruption go away. It'd just be baked into the new system from the get go.
Sorry, are we talking about videogaming? Or a career as a programmer?
I second this. From my youth where I just couldn't afford a better pc, to now where my gaming pc has been off for half a year again because I can't be bothered to switch computers, the relative undemanding nature of Counter Strike has been part of the core identity of the game and reason to stick to it for me.

(And of course it's just nice for as many people as possible to be able to play it)
... what were they doing with 1k Pi's

Please tell me they were using the GPIO pins for something.
It's still an A-profile MPU and not an R- or M-profile MCU, and while it will be fast it will have less deterministic behaviour than we might like. If you disable the caches and MMU you'll get better consistency. But wouldn't we expect ~microsecond accuracy from a properly-configured MCU?; ~millisecond accuracy is not a particularly high bar.
for those unfamiliar with MSCHF Art Collective - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCHF
Flagged for anti-vaxx propaganda. It's disgusting how this crap ends up on HN. dang needs to ban the "people" who are spamming this.
I'm a huge fan of a few government sponsored ones:

- A great simple one is YR: https://www.yr.no/en

- if you happen to be in Switzerland: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.admin.meteo..., https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meteoswiss/id589772015

Government sponsored apps are great because there's no advertising, they aren't selling your data, and they are free. They usually pay to collect the data, run the models, and provide the API anyway. Providing the app is the cheap part.
> It IS incredibly silly that you need a specialized tool to code the new battery

It's not silly. It's ridiculous that car manufacturers abuse their customers this way. And people wonder why I stick with old cars.
I used to think the UK had all
the weather too. Then I moved to New England, which still doesn’t get all the weather, but compared to the UK, feels like the weather is turned up to 11.

What the UK has is changeable weather, which is, as I say, what dark sky excels at helping you with (‘will I need me brolly? Or will it blow away?’)
It's kind of mind-blowing to see how well Microsoft has navigated the Next Big Thing (AI) waters compared to Google, whose bread and butter is (was?) AI/ML.

Microsoft seems to have positioned themselves extremely well not only to be a leader in the space moving forward, but also to completely change the space. That's the mark of a great leader and it's exciting to see someone taking the reins whose not afraid to shift a paradigm or two.
I hear the Matcalfe has been spending some time recently at the MIT Julia lab working on climate issues.
What does your day-to-day work involve? I don't really know what day to day engineering looks like, I just assumed engineering would be more difficult to replace.
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You mention managing webhooks as another tedious part of integrating with third party api’s at scale but I’m not seeing in defer docs any considerations for this.

I’m guessing while I could use defer to create a job that calls a 3rd party api to create a webhook POST call (later trigger by some activity on their side) I would still be building an webhook endpoint in my app to receive that request and then optionally hand that data to another new defer job? In other words defer does not magically create and handle ingesting webhooks as a way to initiate a job right?

Another question regarding memory / hard disk limits for executions (500mb / 10mb on hobby) is 10mb on “storage” limit pertaining to, for instance, what the final build size of that function would be or does that fall under memory? I ask because for my use case there’s potentially scenarios when the defer function would be using numerous npm libraries and local files so i’m curious what limits im looking at there. (EDIT: Just notice build limits, i’m assuming thats what would pertain to “bundle” size for bundled code?)

Lastly in limits does “concurrency” mean how many executions across the entire account can run at once or is that just for that execution?

Product looks awesome by the way, great job solving a real pain point for devs!
Have you tried GPT-4?
They don't. Most wind turbines use electrically excited induction generators. Wind generators containing permanent magnets account for a minority of the market, used mostly for offshore wind (due to reduced maintenance requirements) and in China (due to discounted rare earth element pricing for domestic users).

https://www.evwind.es/2017/05/31/rare-earths-and-wind-turbin...
That's completely backwards. Pets don't have to work. Try to convince my cat to do something useful. I'd switch places with him in heartbeat if could. If an AI, or anybody else for that matter, offers to make me their pet without me having to grow fur and losing the opposite thumb (but I still could learn to purr if needed), I'd be even more for it...
M4B-Tool is super useful for people who enjoy audiobooks along with Audiobookshelf. M4B-Tool is getting reworked into Tone which could use some help at the moment.

https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool

https://github.com/sandreas/tone

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
If you check the video on maps they made everything brighter and made aesthetic changes to improve acquisition, so it was covered.
>Phone cameras can't come close to the quality of even a full frame DSLR, anything medium or large format is light years ahead of phone quality.

This is true for medium format if you're doing a drum scan of the medium format negative. Realistically, however, most medium format negatives are never going to be drum scanned.

If you're scanning with a flatbed or via a DLSR, then the difference in quality vs. a modern cell phone camera is not huge. With a typical flatbed you'll get less resolution than a modern cell phone camera; if you scan with a DSLR and macro lens you'll get a bit more (but it's laborious, especially for color negatives).

It's possibly a bit counterintuitive just how bad a job flatbed scanners do in the case of medium format negatives. Years ago I was very excited to make my first scans of some 6x6 negatives with a consumer Epson flatbed scanner. The resulting photos showed about the same amount of detail as roughly equivalent photos taken using my iPhone 4S. There was far more detail on the negatives, as I easily confirmed with a loupe. Extracting that detail via practical scanning methods is far from trivial.

The other point to consider is exposure, color and dynamic range. Modern phones do a fantastic job here.
Hi tamar,

Thanks again for your patience. The ticket number is QKL-147-94127.
> I'm just building a outside watering system. I was going to use a RasPi,

You could also use a $1 ESP8266 or a slightly more expensive ESP32.
That’s all fair, but that’s not even remotely what their argument was.

Their entire point is that Microsoft is re-centralizing everything by forcing people onto VS Code. Which is something they’re… just not doing.

This is also an optional, paid tool to help when coding. The comparison to Google Talk is IMO not relevant. It’s never going to be “good enough that someone won’t be able to live without it” because it’s at its core a completely optional tool.

If Copilot for NeoVim goes away in 5 years, you can just… stop using it. It’s not like we haven’t developed things without Copilot for decades now.
> Just like we need less manual labor in farms today.

Back of the napkin suggests we have approximately the same amount of manual labor in farms today. The difference is that the same amount of labor today is able to feed a much larger population.

This may simply mean much more software written, not fewer developers.
Unforytunately, only one founder, Arkady Volozh, is still alive.
Ilya Segalovich has died 10 years ago.
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Did they say that somewhere or are you just thinking that will be the case since valve isn’t doing tons of releases these days?
It is a defeatist attitude; you are surrendering to the current culture.

Let me ask a question. If you happened to win $10-20-50 million tomorrow, would you show up to work (assuming you have a "regular" job, where you have to show up on time, ask for vacation time, get a performance evaluation, semi-begging for a promotion) as you have done for the last I don't know how many years?

I don't even know if I would take the time to send my laptop back or talk to my boss about my departure. And not because I'm having a bad time at work, but it's very clear in my mind that this is something I do because I need the money. I try to "have as much fun" as I can while working, but I would have a lot more fun elsewhere.
I've been hiring and managing developers and engineers for almost 20 years, and I don't/won't do any of this nonsense.

During the course of a single interview I describe what we are building and how we are building it, and invite the candidate to explain if/how they could participate in that. One or two senior guys from the team will ask them some smart questions about real-world problems and complexities to get a sense that they know their stuff. No quizzes or puzzles or abstract questions. No homework. No second or third or fourth interview.
Fine, but why do you need a special tool to reprogram the BMS? The car should have a "reset" button or something built into it that you can trigger when needed to accomplish this.
> "Metcalfe insists on calling Wi-Fi by its original name, Wireless Ethernet, for old times’ sake."

Okay, besides all his contributions, I've decided this guy is my favorite for that alone. Imagine if he was your (great?) uncle and you're on a family vacation together. "What's the Wi-Fi password here, Bob?"

Bob: "What's the what now?"

You: "Excuse me. What's the Wireless Ethernet password?"

Bob: "Oh, it's HotelGuest2023"
> Thank you congress for passing the IRA, which did nothing but further increase inflation.

And now many states are planning to "fight inflation" by literally sending people "inflation relief checks." :/
Yes - but that would be as a extension/integration with their browser asset - not a random unrelated project.
Many years ago, on the Womens' International Fight Day, the Goethe Institute in Copenhagen set up a specialized photo booth just for this sort of thing and the pictures are online. You'll find some more info if you search its Danish name, "Kussomaten".
Thanks for your reply. A lot of my concern is because I feel I need to make a decision soon. I'm taking A levels that allow me to easily change to other STEM subjects, but my impression was that a CS degree would limit my options. It's good to know that that isn't the case.
Here is how to manage this now for other Office 365 admins that are looking. Seems like you need to create a group and enable it for the org/tenant for now as it is a preview.

Some customers might want this enabled...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/le...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/manage-loop-com...
Walmart, CVS, and Target are not sexy at all (on the tech side). But they're stable, pay well, and you get to work on interesting technical problems that actually matter. You are more likely to deal with an interesting issue at WCT then at a FAANG, there's less red tape to deal with, and everything is just better designed in general since it needs to be reliable.

If you're still there after a year you'll probably spend your career there.
We write a general purpose game engine, but some of the predefined classes do have integrations exactly like this. What you're describing is similar to what we do for predicted projectiles, yes.

We reused the concept from Team Fortress 2, which is when Valve first implemented the concept, I believe. But the idea is as old as when QuakeWorld first came on the scene. I think I remember Carmack specifically talking about how projectiles wouldn't be predicted in his .plan files, but the overall feel would be much better.
I wonder how much of this is actually age bias, would it be more likely to make them criminals if they chose young but white sounding names or explicitly suggested an age?
Simply decentralize it. When running locally, user will be able to attack only their own machine. But since we're doing everything to deprecate such way of computing and have everything in cloud for a decade....
Part 1: Setting up a Local Data Stack with DBT and DuckDB

In Part 1 of 3 of this tutorial you will:

* prepare an intermediate dbt data model from raw patient checkup visit data for use by data engineers downstream in a machine learning pipeline

* use DBT to produce the summary aggregation as a data model from the raw data sitting in DuckDB

* use DuckDB here as a simple local option so as to not force the reader to set up any cloud infrastructure
I assume this is to control inflation to some degree.

As an aside, the BTC USD rate has also jumped during this turmoil, and in many ways, it appears to mirror safe haven commodities quite closely. I find it interesting that an asset with such a "bad" reputation in the media is attracting investors during these unstable times.