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Ask HN: Fun summer coding project ideas?
I'm a compSci student and am looking for some ideas for a fun project to do to fill out my programming portfolio over the summer break. I have a list of my own ideas but most are overly ambitious for something to do over a single summer. Most of my interest in programming involve video games but I want to expand my realm of interests to something perhaps unfamiliar to me. Thanks!
Hahah

"I feel comfortable now that humans have the ability to conduct global business and scale with fast..."

Yeah thanks for designing a system that burns the electricity of a small country. Nice try.
The only issue with that take is that there are equally — if not more — powerful tools that are not as overwhelming as Git. Mercurial and Bazaar spring to mind.
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Whole life, and health insurance in general, have no problem with that.

Property insurance is definitely different. I get that.
If you view Tesla for what it is - a car company than the insistence doesn't seem dumb.

They got all the hype and PR for the AI angle without the money pit that comes with a real self driving project.

Even if they eventually get cannibalized by actual self driving cars then they still made billions and billions in the process.
I need to get me a TI99/4A
I love electric vehicles and was an early adopter [..] increasingly I feel duped
I brlieve self driving can be achieved through standards, e.g. if roads become digital. Street signs and cars could communicate the current state of traffic in real time with other cars. It should be left to the state to detect certain events. E.g. traffic jams or, if a bicycle or pedestrian is about to cross the road. This way liability issues could be fairly split up between law- and car-makers.
Yes, there are transfers which finishes well within a minute, between banks. You can eat pizza and spit by doing a transfer yeah.
The title needs a "(2015)".
> you are covered under seller protection.

I’m probably wrong, but doesn’t seller protection only protect you from PayPal disputes? i.e., not bank-initiated chargebacks and fraud reports.
I bought (separately, used) a full set of older Infinity surround speakers. Eventually they all had to be re-foamed, but I managed to do it myself with parts ordered online. Have some acetone on hand to take the glue back off if you get it wrong and have to try again...
I’ve had a LiPo swell on me once…it was embedded in a tracking device I used for anti theft on my car…tucked away hidden…
I always knew in the back of my mind that I should check on it since it got so hot inside…
Anyhow I sold the car and removed the tracking device and opened it up…that’s when I noticed the swollen LiPo. Counted my blessings that day.
I find it interesting that, despite the evident GNU ethos in this project, they chose YouTube to host the demo.
I really wish Bob would write a “Crafting Type Checkers” sequel.
I keep hearing about this but I just don't see how its going to happen.

Russia is essentially finished if not now, then definitely due to their demographic collapse.

People thought China was the next big empire to take on the US but after their ongoing real estate collapse, the ongoing failure of belt and road, and their eventual population bomb leading to a demographic collapse that is probably worse than Russia how can anyone see them overtaking the US?

Originally I thought that maybe China can make up for its woes by way of immigration and assimilation with Bent and Road 'colonies' but having traveled to one of their closeest B&R partners(Pakistan) recently, none of their partners are in a good position themselves to help China out. Plus I don't think China is really open to immigration. In the end I suspect the 'friendships' with China will last only as long as the money keeps rolling in.

Who else is left on this planet that could take on the US? India? EU? Both have serious flaws that limit their reach.
Clumps of 5k-mile seaweed blob bring flesh-eating bacteria to Florida
I knew it. I take longer because I have an intelligent brain.
That's just your opinion. I say we need to prove this out.

If a significant portion of the tech and non techy population anthropomorphized LLMs to the point where they don't understand that LLMs hallucinate then surely some of those people exist on HN.

If one of you readers is one such person who honestly has no idea what it means for chatGPT to "hallucinate" then let us know (and be honest, please don't troll).

My bet is no one will respond with affirmation because the amount of people who don't get it is miniscule.
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

So if you want to enshrine a right in US law, the highest place to do it is as an amendment to the Constitution.
There is no one type of value. Some people place 0 value on non OSS solutions, for example, because avoiding vendor lock-in is a requirement.

Many open source projects make it by providing paid support, hosting, etc.

Also understand that you are also receiving value from OSS in the sense that you receive potentially unlimited free contributors.

It really depends on what you are building and the community you are trying to target.
>2560x1600 on 16inch monitors.

2560x1600 is what Apple used to do on a 13.3 MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, at roughly about 226PPI. That is what used to be the standard for Retina on Mac.

At roughly 180PPI. Unless you view it from 19" distance it doesn't quite fit the definition of Retina from Apple. But may be it is the sort of Good enough scenario for many.

Interestingly even ~220PPI should leave plenty of room for Mac usage. But Apple decided to pump it up to ~260 for reason I still haven't quite figure out, nor have I seen anyone on the internet gave any plausible explantation. ( Most likely because no one gives a damn about technical details any more. ). I much rather they drive the 120Hz refresh rate rather than pixel count.
> absolutely mediocre of a job

Yes but crypto has no customer protection. You make the transaction, your money is gone. Seller screws you? Oh well. Your key was stolen? Better luck next time.

There’s no perfect system because we’re all out scamming each other.
Belgium still has policies in place. Now, you do get paid for sick days, but still, my PCP in Belgium did one thing from 9am to 2pm. Write doctor's notes for overzealous employers.
The same issues arise when people store crypto in exchanges, crypto doesn't really solve this problem at all.
Super interesting! Thank you for sharing.

The culture is so different here in Australia and New Zealand.

I've done a lot of interviewing of candidates over the last 12~ years or so - here are some generalisations based on my experience and that of my peers for tech roles:

- 95% of the time it's 2-3 interviews / meetings. I have seen a single interview be enough when the person is already known to the team and the interview went well confirming and clarifying existing knowledge of the person.

- The first is usually a call with people and culture / the internal recruiter - high level intro and general culture fit. These tend to be between 15-30 minutes. You should usually know if you're being offered another interview by the end of the call - or within a few days at most and have the next (main) interview setup for the next week or two at most.

- Then if the role is for a developer / programmer or design / UX the candidate is usually sent a coding (or design) test which can be done remotely and will usually take 30-120 minutes but this obviously varies depending on the test, role, and persons abilities.

- Second is often a technical and team fit interview with two people in or working closely with the team / department you're hiring for. These are usually around 45-90 minutes. You should usually hear back about this within a day or two, and if another interview is required you would hopefully have that booked in for some time in the next week or two.

- A third is often done if the team/tech lead wasn't in a previous session - or if the interviewers can't agree or get a good feel for the candidate.
> ...but Git does not really expect published history to change...

That's a weird statement for a tool which has had `rebase` as the very basic command from the get go.

Git does expect history to change, it's publicised as a solution to a bunch of issues: basically, there is no getting around understanding the Git internals, and even once you do, it's hard to remember how GIT cli commands tie into those internals for things you seldom use because of their arcane naming.
it's a coalition of sargassum, plastic waste, and flesh eating bacteria
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https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/issues/59 Would working on this feasible?
> Sam Abuelsamid, the industry analyst, told me that he “did some math” on Cruise’s plan to generate a billion dollars in revenue in 2025. He concluded that the goal was “actually probably achievable.” He estimates that the goal corresponds to a fleet of around 6,000 driverless vehicles

Let's plug in some reasonable guesses and see. 6000 vehicles x 10 trips/day average x $25/trip average x 250 days/year: $375M.

To an analyst that maybe be practically the same as a billion, but not to an accountant. And that's gross revenue. Take off all the car costs as well as the overhead.

(Remember: these vehicles can't cope with the busiest, most profitable locations for taxis.)
You're referring to the tactic where billionaires can live off loans against their unrealized capital gains (e.g. stock with appreciation/dividends). Which goes back
to the US case Eisner v. Macomber (Stock Dividends are Not Taxable) (1920). But it also goes back to CEO compensation in general, and in stock in particular, being abnormally high. It is not tax-effective for the proverbial Google chefs to do this, only a tiny group.

A dictionary definition of "Income" is "money received, especially on a regular basis, for work or through investments". It's not just the narrowest definition, e.g. "only the thing that appears in the Income box on your [US] tax form, under the latest revision of the US tax code". (Like when Mitt Romney in 2012 accidentally shone a spotlight on
"carried interest" which allows private equity managers to pay only 15% tax.)

If your unrealized CG is so high that you can live off the loan until you die or retire, then it semantically isn't really a loan, is it.

When US CEO compensation becomes so excessive that it means that something that originally meant temporarily deferring tax in the 1920s now means deferring essentially all income taxes for most of their working life, it does suggest things have gotten distorted.

Sure ProPublica should have been more accurate and said "Here's stuff that is functionally equivalent to income, yet isn't taxed". But if you want to argue that ProPublica isn't entitled to is own semantics, then neither are other people in that debate. For example, we'll probaly see more scrutiny that Clarence Thomas (and his mother) were clearly receiving multiple streams of undeclared "income" or benefits from Harlan Crow. Also allegedly a complete miscarriage of ethics. (Yes that's currently primarily an ethics scandal not a tax evasion one, although it might become that too).

By the way, Warren Buffett essentially made the same point as ProPublica with his famous 2011(?) wager about CEO's secretaries' tax rates being higher. Noone accused him of a complete miscarriage of ethics.
Interesting release from Apple but there's been a similar (and I think more promising architecturally) paper from Meta lately:

> MEGABYTE: Predicting Million-byte Sequences with Multiscale Transformers

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07185
As long as this country doesn't enforce mandatory paid sick leave and as long as employers can just fire people because they're absent too often this will continue to happen.

What also doesn't help is that these are the lowest paying jobs, so you end up with someone doing 3 jobs just to keep the lights on. They cannot afford to miss work.

We're doing this to ourselves.
That sounds great if we want to rebuild our entire road infrastructure. So using this for self driving will never happen since it would require every country to implement a very costly standard.

Sounds great in practice but isn’t realistic in the slightest
Math was born out of reality needs, not from thin air.

But due to the force of all kinds of artifical force (passing the exam, learn by heart all the formula, paying the college debts,..), the quality of books is bad. It's more like a boring dictionary in most of cases.

The Math way of thinking is very different from software engineering though: On math, it's more about How things is reasoned about, rather than on result. It's how Math created Math itself.
If I posted an article about some people got rich off crypto is that also worthwhile because it's "news"? No, if there's no intellectual discussion and it's just cheap 10 second takes then it's not suited for HN.

From the guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is a very shallow news story that gives no information on the technical nature of the hack or anything intellectual in the slightest.

As can be seen by the comments on this thread almost everything is low-brow commentary similar to what you'd see on a Facebook news story.

If people want to discuss crypto security and the merits of different approaches that would be an awesome discussion to have. Unfortunately it can't happen here any more because the only crypto related things that get upvoted are news stories about bad things happening and the more that happens the more intellectually curious people are driven away.
I was hoping this was new as well.
Sorry for the naive question, and I'm truly asking it honestly -- food grown organically (i.e. abiding by the recognized norms to be recognized as organic) would not be affected by this issue, correct? Using a weedkiller such as paraquat specifically makes food grown this way not organic, right?
Why would a self-driving car only drive for 250 days? You have to consider maintenance/repairs, but that won't be 115 days. The 10 trip a day guess is probably also low, but seems okay as an average to me.
Oh yes, and David had a room and a machine park I would have killed for. Still would, really.
But why and how a Danish cray fish poster on his wall?
Did I miss the part where they operate in a city that gets a lot of snow? Dallas and Houston: maybe they get snow once in a great while. Phoenix and San Francisco: never.

> But it’s hard to judge the risk of something that’s never happened.

That isn't even a Black Swan; it's a known unknown.
Living close to work in Seattle would mean they'd have to join a shared house with some other Amazon devs, because otherwise it wouldn't be possible to afford to live that close.
Yeah, my chronic weak spots are with pre-planning future events, and doing things on a regular schedule.

I would often gape in wonder about how my bank or landlord managed to send notices and do things like clockwork according to schedules and deadlines. And, isn't the important phone call at 4:30pm on Friday rather different than a little email that shows up at 8am on Monday?

My parents have always lived by an orderly and structured schedule. My disability contributed to an inability to adhere to any such order or schedules, and that was my downfall. It began to turn around, when I was fired from a volunteer job, for being about 10 minutes late.

I became quite obsessed with punctuality and the associated bus schedules that would get me somewhere on time. But still, going to sleep, waking up, household chores, pre-planning a year ahead of time, that's still elusive.
And let me cover this separately:

> The key idea is to have a workflow in mind, and steer users towards that workflow. Because sure, you can ask user if they want to "delete a local branch, and then just get it recreated when you pull again".. but that's terrible idea. Why would you want to do this _ever_ as part of any regular workflow?

I've recently tried to guide someone to fix their bad branching strategy, and after a few of their bad attempts, just suggesting they remove their local branch and then refetch it from the published repo instead (just imagine how easy it is to figure out what commands-people-have-blindly-typed-in-from-the-internet have done, and then reverting that with git).

Going back to a known good state is the most common of all debugging tools (also part of more advanced tricks like bug bisection search — interestingly also present as `git bisect`), and with it being too easy to mess up your local repo, going back to a remote that's "clean" is sometimes the fastest approach.
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As companies start to run their on LLMs, we will be faced with the question: How do we operate and secure our LLM-based applications? Let's discuss
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email your local college or university's professors
Maybe, in the long run...? Take a look at working-age population projections in NA and Europe [1].

I have for a long time had a gut feeling that practical broadscale self-driving is a $ trillion- or 2 trillion-dollar R&D project. It's still under a trillion so far, I think.

1. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/20-69...
Running a conventional ransomware scheme is a bit different from arresting a drug dealer and taking his money.
Nah, that's just what academic correspondense looks like.
I know this is hacker news, and this'll get down-voted to oblivion, but alas its worth saying, so I'll say it.

The number of possible customers , who care whether your product is ooen-sourced or not, iz a rounding error away from zero. [1]

The pie chart ideas follows:

A) the big slice goes to companies who've never heard of open source.

B) the next slice are ones who've heard of it, but they lack the tech to make it a useful feature.

C) then there are those who think it's a great idea, but ultimately want a good program now, not some source code in the future.

To illustrate the point, drive down your high street, or ho yo your mall, or visit your local industrial park. Go past each business in turn. Wonder if he cares about open source. Wonder if he runs Word/Excel or Open Office.

In my career I've had a small number of customers who cared about the source code. I simply burned it onto a CD and gave it to them. Quite frankly it's useless to them. He the time they've hired a developer, and he's spent time just getting the code so it'll compile, he's spent 10x more than the software cost.

I agree selling is hard when you don't have a "history". For every product we ever made, the first 10 sites are the hardest to sell. You're asking people to take a risk. You need to convince them that you are worth the risk. You need to reduce that risk as much as possible, but IMO providing source code does nothing. [2]

[1] this can be product dependant. If you are selling to Linux OpsDev then sure. But assuming some not-sold-to-techies thing, it's reasonable safe to assume that your customer base has never heard of open source.

[2] in cases where we've built custom software for folk which is how we started, we've negotiated ownership of the code. Typically we own it, but we give it to them when we no longer want to be involved in the project. This allows dome other programmer to maintain it going forward.
And Maglev is also an Ruby JIT [1] compiler

[1] https://maglev.github.io
still no update about how it was done

surely they would have some idea
> Elon and Andrej Karpathy argued that since humans can drive using just vision, that’s how we should do it in self driving cars, but I think that’s a flawed argument.

Of course. The real argument is "LIDAR is expensive in comparison and after scamming people for almost a decade, we have to be careful what kind of money we ask for". LIDAR was never considered an overkill by Elon.
Yup, the whole sub structure is a shield, as it's made from steel, which is ferromagnetic.

Also the 20T field is only in the "air gap" of the drive. I think one needs supercomductors to obtain that kind of magnetic field. The PUMP drive would use seawater as the conductive media, which also complicates things with electrolysis and Joule heating near the electrides. I don't know tge geometric configuration of the "air gap" but it could be a copule of milimetres thick in order to put a 20T field through it.

See this video explaining how it works on liquid metal. It uses the Lorentz force.

https://youtu.be/nakeHnWVUjQ
Claw back the wealth gained from selling the product, even if it ends up being a multigenerational claw back. The families that benefitted should be bankrupted.
the level of technical savvy to store crypto safely makes it impractical for the general population
It speaks to their incompetence really, because when I look at the list of subs I have subscribed to and interacted with, my Reddit history is very, very closely aligned with my interests, much more so than any of my other social media profiles. If they can't mine that data effectively then they don't deserve to make money.
The problem is that whenever a human driven car reverses over a toddler or wraps around a telephone pole or veers across lanes into oncoming traffic or blows through a red light and T-bones someone, nobody cares because it happens all the time, but when a self-driving car does, murderbot outrage makes frontpage news all over the world.

So even though we rationally should immediately go all in on automation as soon as self-driving cars are on average safer than human ones, realistically this is politically completely unpalatable until they reach a much, much higher, possibly unachievable, standard.

It's not "fair" that this is the case, but unfortunately humans are really bad at accurately assessing the risks of low probability incidents (eg. dying from terrorism), especially if they get a lot of media airtime.
This seem less the perils of niching down but more not diversifying one’s identity.
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Sorry I can only upvote this once. Awesome.
I think to an English speaker with no other prejudice those would both be pronounced "wine-er". We all know that it's pronounced "ween-er" but the idea that it means someone from Vienna or something in Viennese style is lost to time, so there's no natural instinct for order of the i and the e.
I'm not saying any of this is alright but can't you just wash this stuff off produce as a consumer? In which case the real health issue is for those interacting with produce before they get to consumers.
Some viewpoints are correct.
I'd like to see them operating year-round in Delhi and Lagos.
Could this be used as a library in golang?
No, I watched their video and it says the batteries are meant to stay on board.
And it’s not the only weed killer with issues: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/24/health/bayer-monsanto-rou...
Obviously they know that. They are just betting that they can do it with vision only, to save on expenses, and also work with the way their cars work today.
> if you transfer $100 USD they have a legal obligation to give you that amount

I don't think they have any legal obligation, given the large number of times they have decided to simply keep people's money and never return it for no discernible reason.

Sure, most of the time for most people you can get the money out just fine, but no guarantees with paypal (venmo, etc).