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Ask HN: As a bootstrapped solo founder, what else should I be working on?
I'm a bootstrapped solo founder heads down in building a product that has been validated. There are a ton of other things that I need to do like building a marketing site, business incorporation, etc.

When I'm in the weeds of dev work, I often think to my self what else could I be doing that's productive to move the needle forward, which can act as a temporary break from dev work?
Why would you think it's a "one of" situation? In my experiences the company lays off X% AND cuts salaries YY%. This is quite effective because the subtext is "if you still have a job you're lucky". I suspect you actually get less attrition from both at the same time vs. just a pay cut or freeze.
I think you're on to something. A lot of it comes down to the expectation and what people feel they were promised.

I think people were sold/sold themselves on unrealistic expectations, but that doesn't mean that everything is shit. They're just jumping from one unrealistic extreme to another.

We don't live in some post scarcity Jetsons future, but that was never realistic. People are disappointed that they don't have what's the homes and Families they saw in the TV shows growing up, but those were always fiction and not an accurate depiction of how most people lived
I'm interested in knowing about graph layout algorithms that allow specific constraints. If anyone knows about these things please let me know. I do not, but I have a use case for them.

For example, the constraints may be:

1) The graph is read left to right. This informs the layout such that those spiral and circular graph layout algorithms that blow out the graph do not work.

2) Try to keep certain types of nodes vertical aligned, so that they lie on the same horizontal line.

3) Minimize edge crosses.

4) Have the edges be not lines but paths made up of horizontal and vertical lines. This probably requires some path finding as well.

5) Be able to live update in the sense that a new node or edge entry into the graph does not drastically re-layout the graph for reasonable inserts.
>then that has a downstream effect of more roads being built and maintained, which is far more polluting than the cars themselves.

Surely this is negligable compared to the carbon currently being emitted by ICE cars? The first source I can find says that building and maintaining one lane mile of highway emits 3,500 tons of CO2, whereas the vehicles driving on it will emit 90,000 tons of CO2.
> very nature of information is that it yearns to be free. Information cannot be "owned."

The nature of information is to dissolve into entropy.
hey, do offer visa for eu residents?
Are you hallucinating?
The Public's lack of imagination / vision is the worst indicator of anything. There is a reason there are only a handful of Jobs, Zuck, Elon, Bezos, Gates, Buffett in the world but 15 Million people on Wallstreetbets.
> Two things can be true at the same time.

Of course, but the commenter I replied to made a specific statement, first sentence, making it sound to my reading - and I don't think I'm reading something into it that isn't meant to be there? - as if it's a lot less in the US. But even a little bit of searching, and every single time the topic comes up here, which usually is for higher education so I'm not making any statement about anything below, ends up with a lot of comments, and no opposition to them, saying there is a lot of cheating there.

Examples:

https://academicintegrity.org/resources/facts-and-statistics

> McCabe’s original research and subsequent follow-up studies show that more than 60 percent of university students freely admit to cheating in some form.

https://proctoredu.com/blog/tpost/5dk67zrns1-academic-dishon...

> The level of cheating in high school according to statistics is extremely high. One of the most thorough studies, carried out by Dr. Donald McCabe, reveals that about 95% of polled students (both undergraduates and graduates) admitted to having cheated in some form.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/27/1031255390/reports-of-cheatin...

Therefore, it surprised my that the original commenter made such a strong statement.
Ask HN: Anyone Looking for Interns?
A friend of mine is looking for an internship for her Master's at Duke.

She has professional experience of Kotlin (including Android), familiarity with ReactJS, and is open to Java and C++ too. She's friendly and fun to be around to boot.

Competition for internships has been tough, including at my employer - I referred and she did well but another candidate was selected.

I would love to see if HN can be of any help. If your org or some good org you know of is looking for interns, please post them here!
Yes we are a OAuth 2.0 client (and have SAML integrations too).

So if PingFederate is the provider, you can add "sign in with Ping" on an app that uses SuperTokens
I might put together a script for that because of the danger of making a mistake on a live system.
It is a salary cut because the dollar is worth less every year. It's already lost well over 99% of it's value in the last 200 years (a time when the average house cost 800$). So, if inflation goes up by 10%, your salary is being cut by almost 10%.
How exactly do you "steal" a job?
At its height, FAANG companies are dishing out > $500k total compensation to engineers.

You would have to be quant analysts themselves to beat that number.
Insightful on overall cost savings and increased revenue
Remembering America's first social network: the landline telephone
Step therapy, did she get a second opinion?

>>insisting that she should be put on a different medication that has never so much as been studied, much less approved for treating MS.

I find this hard to believe and would be very interested in seeing details.

Ironically, Cigna has a very good speciality Rx program for MS.

>>I cannot fathom however why we as US citizens allow this cruel practice of private industry insurance to continue.

Did she find a Country where she was comfortable getting the denied treatment? What do you recommend besides "Government paying for everything"? What makes you think that "Medicare for all or whatever" will get the declined drug approved? Do you realize Canadians commonly get denied for things too? God forbid you have Rectal Cancer in Germany, generally not covered by the Government plan.

https://bookinghealth.com/disease/colorectal-cancer/germany
I tried looking for myfirstname.com and it is completely inactive and private registration for the last 20 years.

I am not even sure how would I go about placing a bid.

It is an uncommon name not in English dictionary. Possibly my namesake bought it 20 years ago and has done absolutely nothing (not even placed parking on it).

How could I even contact them?
I think that the main difference is that the average person reboots his PC at least once a day, and in addition to this a good chunk if not most of your RAM is unallocated most of the time. Combine the two, and the chances of a bitflip actually affecting something important get very low.
The total number of PropTrading engineers in the US is most definitely in the low to mid thousands at most. Most PropTrading firms are tiny from a headcount perspective

For example, Citadel has around 600-700 engineers globally and Jane Street only has around 400-500 globally. Both of these firms are actual behemoths headcount wise, and most other trading firms tend to be way smaller (total headcount in the high double digits or low 100s if lucky).

Meanwhile, Microsoft alone has around 70-75,000 engineers. PropTrading gets a lot of mindshare among TC chasers but is a very small industry.

Also, salaries are definetly comparable when factoring in hours worked, exit opportunities (PM/SE/EM/Entrepreneurship while working in Trading you deal with forced garden leave/potential litigation when job switching within Trading), and even the base salary itself. I remember IMC was offering around 100k base in Chicago in the early/mid-2010s when you could earn 90k-110k base at Groupon or JPMC as a SWE while working 30-40 hour weeks.
They hired with someone else's money though, now they're looking to cut when it's their own.
The app was analyzing all the pixels in a live image and overlaying data on it. Accessing the data from the camera was slower with .Net, I think more mem copies working with buffers and by arrays. This was long before any span<> memory<> functionality. Iterating the pixels was way slower, don't remember why but you have to remember vb6 has no garbage collector, and no VM/byte code. It was pretty fast surprisingly. So when we updated, our FPS took a major hit and we could never get the performance back to what it was.
Large corporations are arguably a form of "AI," so that's not too surprising.
i was more confused about the point you are making. more as an educational piece for myself in the sense maybe there is something im missing in my knowledge. you seem to know what you are talking about. that said, as far as i am concerned, you made your point clear in this reply. common lisp is primarily a high level language, albeit one with really good low level capabilities. however for tasks that require fine grained stack memory control, or even abstractions over that, it would be hard to see how it could compete with c family. i think this is perfectly fine

i brought up haskell as an example of a high level language that does unboxing of arrays, but also because your handle[0] suggested to me that you know quite a bit about haskell and will be able to inform me accordingly :)

for what its worth i personally think that it is a very good thing for a programmer to have thorough knowledge of both high and low level languages, and a great thing if they are able to combine it. for me lisp fits the latter porpose, but thats not important for everyone, and people are definitely free to dislike lisp

thanks for your reply

[0] https://zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputprelude/foldr_f.html
This statement is speculative.

It's quite interesting how quickly people rush in to defend persons in perceived power, without objectively analyzing the actual claim. Are you part of the C-suite in-group?
This is the "best" answer so far in the thread.

I truly believe the "economic impact" and by extension the "political impact" will be undeniable and profound long before people get tired of arguing whether or not it is AGI, or whether or not it is sentient, or whether or not it has a 'soul' (despite not being able to clearly define 'soul').
No amount of these gimmicks will turn folks on to non-iOS devices if their friends/families/social circles are using iPhones. Messages, photo sharing, and the close paring with Apple devices is too much to walk away from.
we had a fun idea around a one month challenge - sendmeyourphone.com.

basically you sign up, we mail you a dumb phone with instructions for putting your smartphone sim card in, and you mail us back your smart phone. after 30 days we send it back with some swag saying you did it and some instructions for restarting your digital life with good habits post-detox.

would love to get around to it, but channeling steve jobs for now - "focus means saying no to a hundred other good ideas"
Yeah, that's fair, though I still think that's going to selection-bias towards employees who can't really find work elsewhere.

I don't know about Microsoft but certainly at Apple there were plenty of people who were pretty mediocre engineers...I certainly was the last 6-8 months I was there because I hated it so much and realized they probably wouldn't fire me.
I love Lage too, but I play guitar. I think people who play an instrument are vastly more aware of star instrumentalists than the general public, especially the star instrumentalists who play the same instrument you do.
The readme of the leak contains "meow :3", and the author's website is strongly cat-themed. Doesn't prove anything, but an interesting coincidence.
> If I had to name one it would be the violinist Vanessa Mae

Haven't heard any of her work, have skied with her though.
I like Porkbun. They have competitive pricing, a very easy-to-use website, and no dark patterns that I've found.
> Last I heard a CEO was demanding dev increased productivity or firing some devs because he saw a Youtube video about how easy it is to create a website now

reminds me of Donald Trump complaining about the health exchange website costing millions of dollars when he can build a website for $3
So far the only example I've been given of this operator is that it's what the compiler uses to decide equivalence, which is a situation where the correct answer was categorically no. The belief seems to be that this code is fine if we mistakenly unify cases where we think the IEEE floating point number had the same representation, and I don't buy that this is better than unifying -0.0 and 0.0 in the example, I think it'll be the exact same outcome.
> "We made next-gen state of the art transparent video translation/dubbing" and "we will let to use this tool only to our hand picked partners". What the fuck ?

Because otherwise developers will write bots that generate and upload fake videos, then download the generated captions, in order to use YouTube as a free deep-translation API. (People already proved willing to generate and upload videos in order to use YouTube as a bulk data storage API.)
Nor does unbounded positivity and optimism.
Nah that's not cheating, that's piracy, I did the same thing as a broke college kid - copying is not theft. Information wants to be free.
4chan blocks Tor and VPNs
current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35890784
What's the problem of being sold out for Gandi? Does it really change anything?
It reminds me of being a teenager in the late 90s and the early days of the internet. I discovered entirely on my own that I could telnet to port 80, type "GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n" and the server would send me the headers + page content. Shortly after I discovered the same worked for SMTP.

I was very far from the first person to have this revelation but it was definitely an eye-opening "there is no magic, it's all just software" moment for me. It fundamentally changed the way I think about computers at every level and inspired me to look "under the hood" at everything... how CPUs implement superscalar OOO execution. How atomic operations work at the CPU level. What a syscall actually is. How subroutines are called (and calling conventions). How dynamic linkers work.

You don't have to be an expert at all these things but it is like a superpower to understand the basics of every layer.
> If someone can just look it up, digest information in X minutes and come up with the same answer, then why does it matter that they didn't memorize it in the first place?

But this is usually not possible- it's contingent on other people having already solved and posted solutions online for some question worded nearly the same. Much of the knowledge behind interview questions applies to all sorts of programming problems where the solution won't be available to copy. A knowledgeable programmer would know quickly that some problem is best approached by dfs or bfs, while the cheater may not.

> Fundamentally, the issue is the interviewing/selection process itself

I agree, but this will always be a hard process. LC problems are like IQ test or SATs, they work fairly well most of the time, but probably better to weed out the particularly weak candidates than determine how good people truly are.
Your first error was using Google as your search engine, at least for that.
In the login response I see the private key being sent back from the server, it looks like it is encrypted with a key derived from the user's password. 100100 iterations of PBKDF2-SHA512 is certainly better than it could be, but not it's certainly not as secure against brute force attacks as Argon2 or any other modern KDF.
1. We went way too far with computer metaphor for human mind and intelligense. Up to the point where we demote human intelligense to fit some calculated standard. It is a nonsense many people overlook.

2. Key cornerstone of a human intelligense is an ability to create something completely new that cannot be predicted or calculated in advance, another one is a will — none of those are even touched by current neural networks. DALLIE makes a nice imitation of the first point though.
So this might be a dumb question but it's been bothering me and you sound like you might know.

What's the big advantage of DRAM over SRAM? In school we learned that DRAM was cheaper -- but surely the difference between 1T1C and 6T isn't more than 6 and my intuition says C is big so it's probably 2 or 3 or something for a given process generation. The problem is that the latency of DRAM is absolutely dreadful. On one hand I see a staggering amount of engineering that goes into hiding DRAM latency, and on the other hand I see that DRAM has become so cheap that many systems are over-provisioned by a factor larger than its theoretical cost advantage purely by accident. The "obvious solution" would seem to be DIMMs of SRAM with (comparatively) wicked fast timings -- but this doesn't happen, despite the fact that the memory industry is extremely competitive and filled to the gills with smart people, so presumably there's another factor that stops "DIMMs of SRAM" from being viable. Do you happen to know what it is?
Freedom.to has been working pretty effectively for me on Android.
You guys care to comment on why your approach may be better? Definitely willing to try you guys out
Don't forget how Dell included/includes DRM in their laptop chargers to prevent customers from buying cheap aftermarket replacements. Of course the wire for the DRM functionality is as thin as possible and is always the first thing to break.
If you're ever in London go to the Prince Charles Cinema to discover the experience of cinema at its absolute best.
From what I understand of the parent's comment, there wasn't even the minimum viable effort for compliance, because the version checking system doesn't comply with the TLS standard.
That's _really_ weird
bootguard keys are oem specific
Wouldn't be more accurate to say they fired 58 people? Laid off? Sacked? Sent off to greener pastures? I don't care what form of corporate speak they use, it's all just another word for "fired" lol

"Today we are embarking upon an Employee Enrichment Initiative - we are sending 58 people on a journey for a better future - by releasing them from their current obligations"
Google teases a prototype AI notebook that learns from your documents
Very true, trends after all come and go.

Specifically about this style though, I feel it fits right into the blog series about "domestic cozy"[1]. It aims to be exactly that, imply super casual/low effort tone, make it feel a bit more personal, and simultaneously about ignoring social traditions that feel redundant to them. Like all trends, it takes effort to follow, and part of this is encouraging friends to turn off auto-capitalization on your phone.

So I would say it's a bit more than just trying to make something hard to read, and focusing on that bit might make you miss the rest of their storytelling process!

[1] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/series/domestic-cozy/
In case you're referring to their servers (from https://dl.dell.com/manuals/common/poweredge_pcie_cooling.pd... ):

> The automatic system cooling response for third-party cards provisions airflow based on common industry PCIe requirements, regulating the inlet air to the card to a maximum of 55°C. The algorithm also approximates airflow in linear foot per minute (LFM) for the card based on card power delivery expectations for the slot (not actual card power consumption) and sets fan speeds to meet that LFM expectation. Since the airflow delivery is based on limited information from the third-party card, it is possible that this estimated airflow delivery may result in overcooling or undercooling of the card. Therefore, Dell EMC provides airflow customization for third-party PCIe adapters installed in PowerEdge platforms.

You need to use their RACADM interface to update the minimum LFM for your card.
Persistent and immutable data structures written in C++14
This makes a lot of sense.

Slightly stupid question but maybe you know the exact reason: could we apply symmetric encryption only after Alice has determined that maybe-Bob is the real Bob? That is only after Bob sends the certs and the signed transcript of key exchange? I'm calling this a stupid question because I see no real advantage, but I wonder if there are clear disadvantages.
Now that everyone can see what is possible with webapps, it is time to drop the centralized app stores and free the world from the shackles of google and apple ...
Google's AI Search Is Over
> What they had was taste, and good priorities.

Upper-middle-class sensibilities and attitudes, rather than middle.

> They also make stained glass as a hobby; I have no idea how expensive that is, nor how it would compare to buying a similar piece, but they had installed some of their work in their own windows, which added to the class of the place.

Pretty accessible, actually. My wife does it off-and-on and is always shocked at how much people charge for not-especially-well-made pieces at e.g. art fairs. The equipment and materials are cheap, as hobbies go. Buying decent finished stained glass pieces is expensive—but getting decent at making it's not all that hard and doesn't take too long, and the materials are cheap. It's one of those "very cheap if you DIY and count the hours as fun hobby-time, pretty expensive if you don't" things. It's especially easy if you just use pre-made templates rather than designing your own, and there are tons of those cheap or free online (and nobody who doesn't do stained glass will think anything of it).

I think she only made a half-dozen pieces or so before she was roughly matching the quality of stuff we'd see at art fairs and such. Maybe 30ish hours to reach that level. Very-good tools might run you as much as $1,000 total, but you can get started for more like $150-200 (shop used for the grinder, especially). Glass is glass, it's not really that expensive when you're just buying sheets of it.

The biggest pain with it is materials storage and little glass bits getting on the ground in the work area (and sometimes tracked outside of it...) making it kinda hazardous. :-/
> but isn't this something that can be more or less corrected by a lot of engineers finding work elsewhere?

In this market? I'm skeptical. I'm sure some fraction of them can do so at equivalent or higher pay, but the tech market at the moment is quite soft and I wouldn't be surprised this was taken into account and served as another motivation for this move from MS.
Maybe it's just personal preference, but I find "This criminalizes a very common behavior, but don't worry, prosecutors will use broad discretion while enforcing it and only enforce it on the right sort of people" to be very, very disquieting.

It's how you get war-on-drugs-level legal atrocities.
The company and its income is for the benefit of the shareholders, not the employees. Maybe the argument can be made that they should pay more money to certain people to improve their future income, but that has nothing to do with how much money they make.
You're not wrong, it's one of those "HN traps": we're smart, and we can apply that other places, and even find other people who will back up our findings and agree. But colloquially, in the actual field, people expect something different.

Makes it hard to converse because _nobody_ is wrong here: i half-assed my way through an economics degree and know just enough to know OP is making a relevant comment, then confirm their comment: M2 money supply, is in fact, decreasing.
Plutonium is particularly dangerous because it essentially does not exist in nature and evolution has had zero opportunity to create mechanisms to handle it.