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Ask HN: A suit too big to fill, a jr. developer in the turmoil?
Hello everyone,

I felt the need to describe to you the situation in which I find myself, your potential comments will surely help me as well as people in relatively similar situations.

- I work in a startup less than 2 years old, as a junior web developer. We're growing and profitable.

- I was the first developer to join the team, made up of salespeople and administrators (< 5 people), we are now 3 juniors.

- I started web development late, 2 years ago. Made some progress recently, far from enough, lacking fundamentals knowledge for sure.

The problematic situation is as follows:

- I actually have to manage all the web development department + hardware management for ~10 people.

- I do not have a tenth of the skills required for this position.

- Pay is the legal minimum.

- I don't want to let down my great fellow developers but the situation is getting too heavy for me. The workload is so heavy and my/our skills so limited that it is impossible to meet deadlines and development quality standards.

- I can't stand having to change development specifications anymore because the boss(es) change their minds every 4 mornings about the requirements of our software.

- I accepted the job because I thought we were creating a team of more experienced developers, but to reduce costs my superiors want to recruit juniors devs or government-subsidized contracts, so students.

=> Is it acceptable to admit defeat and give up?
I'm thinking about finding a cooperative training course with a web dev agency. I need to work with some badass seniors and learn.

I understand that taking a suit that is too big for you and learning to fill it is part of the game, but the gap seems too big to me.

Holding on will potentially allow me to obtain a comfortable position within 3/5 years. But continuing to work like this risks crashing all current development, risks users's data, and my mental health.

What is your feeling? Your feedback?
And with gscan2pdf - not hate scanning too!
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. (This is true regardless of which ideology you favor, btw)

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Well, if that's something you _actually_ want, take a look at Pulumi, which does precisely what you ask.
One of my previous cars came with no spare but “run flat” tires (might be named something else). Basically they have strong sidewalls that do not collapse even without pressure. You can ride on them at much slower speeds to get to a tire shop. Loved those.

My later cars both had no spares neither an emergency solution like the previous one had. I used a foam tire sealer once, worked wonders on a small puncture.

Couple weeks ago I managed to completely fuck up a tire on my volvo with no spare. Had to call assistance number, they sent a tow truck.. Spent half a day sorting it out.
> I give myself the benefit of doubt as not technically a native speaker... but "Envy"? Really?

It is a very odd name. Maybe it's because people who own those envy people who don't.
The public is unanimously in favor of funding asteroid protection mechanisms and research. It's even higher support than the military.

Naturally what do we do with that money and goodwill instead? Yes! Let's build a massive space telescope which takes pictures that are only marginally better than the other multi-billion dollar space telescope!

Protect the Earth? Fuck that, don't ya know kid? She's toast anyway because the Sun will explode soon! Also get in loser, we're going to Mars!
Also, they fix a lot of the issues that early game consoles had.

For example, affine texture mapping and the pixel popping that really gave the PSX its distinct flavor is completely gone from modern games that try to emulate it. Or the SNESes texture warping in mode 7. Or the N64s very monotonous textures (or essentially black and white video due to compression).

If a game really tried to replicate the PSX or N64, I don't think people would like the result. Modern sensibilities appreciate the idealized aesthetics, but not the rough edges.
My checklist for publishing a blog post
You could've said this about calculators
For the continued-fraction convergents, instead of Mathematica, here's a web page of mine that does the same thing: https://shreevatsa.net/fraction/best (try it with the 3.213432 from the post, and a large limit for the denominator).

Also, the mediants approach mentioned in the post is not unrelated to continued fractions; the latter can be seen as an "accelerated" version of the mediants (specifically, counting how many times to take certain mediants, and directly getting there), as explained in this great article "Continued fractions without tears": https://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/conti...
Just bump up the price 50$ and get It over with. The cost of admission is pretty small in comparison to the cost of housing food and transportation
Doesn't one of the SV rich kids want to make the world a better place by building non-crappy printers? The only innovation would be to forbid anyone with a MBA from making any decision or suggestion at any level of the company. Normal basic printers, the tech is here, we want not even faster horses, thanks (actually that might be the impetus for someone to define what a faster horse would be).
Yup. I’ve had the HL-2240 printer for at least a decade. I’ve changed the toner once during that time, and that was pretty recent. It’s boring and reliable.

I bought a stand-alone Brother feed scanner that I’m also happy with, but for occasional scanning, phone apps do quite well these days.

If I want to print something in color, I’ll go to a print shop.
Pretty much my reaction. Total pixel vomit like it's 1993.
That's in the submission, there's a column called H in the first table that says 19.90
There are dozens, but this is one of the most clear and to the point, and is found in one of the most mainstream, orthodox, and hard-to-get-published-by journals in mental health:

https://sci-hub.ru/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.1941

The citation is:

Weinberger, D. R., & Radulescu, E. (2020). Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging All Over Again. JAMA Psychiatry. DOI:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.1941

The article is a follow-up editorial on an older (2016), more substantive critique of MRI methods in psychiatry, which is also worth digesting slowly:

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.1...

The citation is:

Weinberger DR, Radulescu E. Finding the elusive psychiatric “lesion” with 21st-century neuroanatomy: a note of caution. Am J Psychiatry. 2016;173(1):27-33.

The situation is about as bad as it can be: there are so many potential sources of confounding in MRI studies that they simply cannot be trusted to say anything about the basic cellular elements of brain tissue in either healthy or diseased patients. All they can validly talk about is themselves; in other words "rather than referring to differences as evidence of brain structural abnormalities, they should be called differences on MRI measurements."

This is without getting into other hugely problematic aspects of MRI studies in mental health: tiny samples; failure to replicate; and most interesting to me, the fact that experimental subjects (i.e. the people in the study "with ADHD" or schizophrenia or whatever) are not screened for psychiatric medication use, which, because medications can shrink brain tissue, can make it look like the condition is affecting brain structure when in fact the drug is. (So another source of confounding, then.)
Evaluating SIMD Compiler Intrinsics for Database Systems
Not a problem with the library, but a documentation issue. The advice around how to correctly use useEffect was a bit ambiguous in the old documentation, but thankfully is much better in the new docs.
Can you add a layer with e.g. an image of yourself?
I'm having a weirdly difficult time finding some basic ELI5 answers.

- What is the probability that this asteroid will hit us?
- What is the time interval where that probability applies?
- Do we have a probability distribution for where it might hit? I don't know anything about anything, but I assume we know what *general direction* it's coming from?
- Do we have a probability distribution for the potential blast radius?

In general, I am very confused by this news because "400m diameter asteroid 3% chance of impact" is something I would expect literally everybody to be talking about all the time. It's also something where if I learned that everything north of Kansas has a 5% chance of getting hit but everything south of Houston has a 1% chance, I'd seriously consider taking an impromptu vacation.
There's also a special law for IP related to the Olympics, though I think that's quite common internationally. Not that it makes it any better.
FastViT: A Fast Hybrid Vision Transformer Using Structural Reparameterization
I was recently at a museum and I had two choices to buy a ticket. Buy a paper ticket from a real person or use a self-service kiosk which emails me a ticket for a $5 electronic delivery fee. Why??

I am always baffled by fees for electronic delivery of anything.
If anyone wants to add SDXL support, all you have to do is create a new extension with the correct SDXL logic (loading from HF diffusers, etc.). You could parameterize `num_inference_steps`, for example, to delegate decisions to the user of the extension.

If anyone gets to making one before me, please leave a PR!
I totally agree. Templating is not the critical factor indeed. The templates shouldn't contain business logic so they should be simple by default. If not then you're following an anti-pattern.
I made a keyboard stand for bicycle adventures
Unrelated to this benchmark but Chrome vs Firefox on the same Mac has significantly worse scrolling performance on pages with a reasonable amount of images. Or at least that’s what I have observed.

In Chrome while you scroll you get these moments of empty white space while it is probably loading the content in and out. On Firefox I don’t get these empty white chunks at all it is just a smooth content scroll all the way.

To me this is more jarring than being faster in JS.
Typewriters... Oh if I could get my hands on a working selectrix and years of supply of ink and spare parts for less than the price of a kidney I'd be using it all the time, pages would fly and neighbours would whine. It would probably make me more happy than 90% of my 'stuff'. Some things felt better before, and I can understand the sadness of not seeing more (in my case) mass-produced electromechanic tech today or that they haven't survived, at least in affordable form.
Is there a manufacturer that sells these things pre-assembled? I'm sure quite a few people would be ready to pay good money for privacy-respecting, open-source hardware in this area.
I wonder what the distribution is like; the most extreme length to height ratios we've seen for example. Not sure I've ever heard of something weirder than on the order of 2:1
X is accesible from Europe as well
This is clearly a poor idea. Declarative infrastructure management is ultimately a dead end, because order of operations actually matters.
Show HN: Build a Cellular Cargo Tracker with Geofencing and SMS Alerts
FYI VSauce is a different content creator than Veratasium (unaffiliated).
I don't like 2fa and don't want to use it.
I was interested in Nomad in the past, but Kubernetes is open source, so it has that going for it
According to a site [1] pointed to by another post in this page, the estimate for "Minimum Orbit Insertion Distance" was about 0.02 AU or about 3 million km (in round numbers).

Luna's distance is roughly 384,000 km -- so call it 8 lunar orbital distances...

(edited to add the link)
[1] https://www.projectpluto.com/neocp2/mpecs/ZTm0038.htm
In fairness, when sun spider was first released it did accurately reflect the core pain points in JS engines, as present on the web. That applied to V8 as well (though V8 introduced its own benchmark suite as well on release, it was overly focused on property access, and insufficiently on the parts of initial page load that sun spider just happened to cover).

Of course all of that was _15 years ago_, no benchmark from back then is really reflective of anything useful, and they are largely no longer valuable for anything other than catching regressions.
You're missing the point, which is that a 5 second delay is added only to some very specific Musk-hated sites, such as Threads, Substack, and until the story blew up in the media, the NYT.
There is some rare stuff on YouTube - check out this channel - https://www.youtube.com/@OGDonNinja

Guy is a collector of old hip hop records and tapes from the 80s until early 2000s. They are all available on his channel in their dusty-sounding glory. Amazing.
Having lost 10b dollars of value is quite an accomplishment. Maybe he can work for government now and help loose 100b
The journal article is open access and available through the DOI link. Short version, as I understand it (take with more than a grain of salt): the mechanical process does not degrade the C-F bonds at all, but when you grind quartz that is already sufficiently fine it produces some highly reactive species on fresh surfaces which chemically attack the PFAS. At least some of the C-F bonds are replaced with Si-F bonds, though I'm not sure exactly what the products are.
I'm curious what basis they will use to enforce, or even detect this.

A crawler doesn't need to accept nobody's Terms & Conditions, so it's not like they're signing binding civil contracts with everyone who can access/read/download the content.

Copyright law doesn't cover this... yet. Can a copyright holder's license dictate terms about what you can do with the content? Perhaps, perhaps, but then we're back to the problem of detection.
I'm curious what you mean by that. It seems hard to censor people when anyone can run an ActivityPub-compatible server on a $5 VPS.
Little known fact, but you can scan using macOS's Preview. Just do File->Import from Scanner.

Scans from my Brother something-or-other with no apps or drivers whatsoever directly to PDF, over Wi-Fi. Perfect.
Nathan Marz created Apache Storm, coauthored the book "Big Data", and founded an early real-time infrastructure team at Twitter. It's likely the 'curse of knowledge' of working on this specific problem for so long is responsible for the unique and/or unfamiliar style of communication here.

EDIT: Specifics
But is some limited edition swag gonna be worth 20x in a few decades? I think not.
Lack of sum types is complete deal-breaker for me unfortunately.
Stricly speaking it's a render function indeed, but it does serve the same functional purpose as what people usually call "templates", i.e. defining a dynamic view only once.
Might be worth going to bed early (~10pm) and getting up at 5.00am to work on your bootstrapped company.

The trip is to not look at your phone at doom-scroll sites (which will burn your time), but start coding (or whatever was planned the previously day) immediately.
Immortal Objects for Python
400x1x1 would be a pretty nasty spear that must have been made by someone.
did this pass ~4000km from earth?

[1] MOID given as 0.0000296

https://newton.spacedys.com/neodys2/NEOScan/risk_page/ZTm003...

[2] AU to km
https://www.google.com/search?q=au+to+kilomore&rlz=1C1GCEA_e...
Just realize that recently ESPN was positioned as its own division, fully separate from the rest of the mouse. Very easy to spin off.

Disney can take the gambling dollars, dillute the ESPN brand, then send it on its merry way and keep its reputation long-term.
I own a 2010 Camaro SS and it doesn't have a spare. Part of that because those tires are HUGE -- I doubt I could fit one into my trunk -- but also because the front and rear tires are of different sizes. Which size should you carry?

Chevy also put my battery in the trunk for weight distribution reasons, which makes the available space there even less. Maybe they felt they could do that because there was no spare.

I love my Camaro but it is definitely a "pay to play" vehicle.
I think the problem is that tires are getting so big there's no place to store the spare. Especially on EVs where you need all the space you can get for the battery.

That being said all the cars I looked at when I bought my car had a spare tire as an option (by default you wouldn't get one)
Thanks for the share! Very timely

We are in the process of introspecting TF to produce CUE schemas. Maybe this can help us cuetify user TF as well

if you are curious: https://github.com/hofstadter-io/cuelm (it has expanded in scope since inception to include the likes of TF and other areas of e2e CI)
itch.io

There are benefits to not having to worry about browser restrictions though (storage, state clearing, working on the latest browser or version, dances for various permissions (both invisible and visible) as well as something to be said for getting your game in the same marketplace as non-web games. This makes it less attractive for many games, even if it's possible.
Pedia: Hacker News
Google and Meta over-hired thousands of employees who do 'fake work,' says PayPal Mafia's Keith Rabois

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-meta-staff-do-fake-wo...

Alphabet's Google and Facebook owner Meta had thousands of employees who don't do anything.

"There's nothing for these people to do — they're really — it's all fake work," he said. "Now that's being exposed, what do these people actually do, they go to meetings."

Google, he continued, had intentionally over-hired engineers and tech talent to stop them from moving to other companies, a strategy he described as "pretty coherent." But, he added, that meant engineers had been happy to "be entitled, sit at their desks, and do nothing."
> pIRCh98

Proprietary software. I guess the answer to my question is no, there are no open-source competitors in this space.
On an extension?

I would wager ... between "nothing" and "not much"

On the service the extension ties to?

Depends on how much you can reasonably charge for what the service does - and if you are doing something that is already being done (for free/cheap), how are you different/better than the competition?
I don't care about fees as much as I care about competitors (e.g. Google Fiber) getting easy access to poles.
It's technically possible, but it looks horrible and should be avoided because of lack of readability. Keep the templates plain and simple, and store your business logic elsewhere.
Going at 55~ km/s
> Closest approach time [...] t_max = 2023/08/15 12:22 TDB [...] Run started at 2023-08-14 23:51 UTC and ended at 2023-08-15 00:06 UTC

So this computation result became known after the closest approach would happen at the latest.

Looking at the asteroid I saw hitting us, 2023CX1 (known as Sar2667 before being designated), it says:

> Closest approach [...] t_max = 2023/02/13 03:22 TDB [...] Run started at 2023-02-13 11:47 UTC and ended at 2023-02-13 11:53 UTC

Again, hours after the impact actually occurred. And that's from the 7-observations page, there are 3 more pages with 28, 76, and 125 observations, all listed here: https://newton.spacedys.com/neodys2/NEOScan/index_past_imp.h...

The next one on the past impactors page has a 3 day delay between when it hit us and when its orbit was computed

What's the point of this?
San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged by line of Cruise robotaxis
San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill

"One day after California green-lighted a massive expansion of driverless robotaxis in San Francisco, the implications became clear.

At about 11 p.m. Friday, as many as 10 Cruise driverless taxis blocked two narrow streets in the center of the city’s lively North Beach bar and restaurant district. All traffic came to a standstill on Vallejo Street and around two corners on Grant. Human-driven cars sat stuck behind and in between the robotaxis, which might as well have been boulders: no one knew how to move them."

"As I understand it, outside lands impacted LTE cell connectivity and ability for RA advisors to route cars."
They've apparently switched to the "run our good name into the ground for $$$$ phase".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
... Maybe the post isn't targeted to your audience at all? How is "C++" and "non-web work" adjacent to web work with web launguage audiences?
Mystery of Entropy Finally Solved After 50 Years (Stephen Wolfram)
Nathan worked at Twitter so while he might be wrong, I don't think it's reasonable to assume he's just naive http://nathanmarz.com/blog/leaving-twitter.html.
There is little surprise that if a brain is behaving differently, that we can see differences in neurotransmitters. Like the Serotonin Hypothesis, that doesn't mean the neurotransmitters themselves are part of the physical cause and not just a consequence.

It's like trying to diagnose and treat a political crisis by observing telephone connections. We see stark changes in telephone use in a crisis. If we meddle with the telephone exchanges we might improve or harm various types of event. It's not really about the telephone calls though, we are just hacking at the messaging of an external event we are ignorant of.

A conspiracy theory induced panic might be superficially "solved" but cutting all the the phone lines. We have not identified or solved the cause though and people don't find life without telephones (dopamine) worth living so they plug them back in (quit their anti-psychotics).
Not a bad start. One quick suggestion: avoid the temptation to make it overly complex.

Stable Diffusion needs to go out to the masses to a greater degree. The unnecessary garbage complexity (eg Comfy's ridiculous noodlescape) that developers keep including into the UIs is holding Stable Diffusion back significantly from a greater mass adoption.
For anyone following along at home, MC Solaar might be a really good entry point into French Hiphop.

Give La concubine de l'hémoglobine a try - talk about smooth.
I agree and disagree at the same time. If your just providing the open source software, yes. Where Red Hat and other kind of kick this rule is by providing the open source software + some more (which may or may not be open source). This can also be support. But I look at something like Tailscale, even though it is still young, it looks pretty promising to me. They provide wireguard, but the magic is their tools and interfaces on top of it. So it seems like, you have a good shot at doing open source SAAS, but you also need to provide something like, a better and simplified interface. Which is sometimes all you need. Tons of great FOSS software out there, but a lot of them are not great at user friendliness.
Sure, I have no problem with that.
I can very much recommend Exel Composite's "system 30".
It is a sort of lego-like system for building structure's frames, we've built several 30m by 10m barn/shed type buildings with it that have withstood the elements for 20+ years.

https://exelcomposites.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/EN_Sys...

junctions: https://www.etra.fi/en/engineering-plastics-e540/plastic-rei...

tubes: https://www.etra.fi/en/exel-tubes-e54211505
These features become orthogonal when the right primitives are there, and so there's no need for a "system" (other than the language/platform itself). Some of the communication problem is already addressed by other Loom features (https://openjdk.org/jeps/453), and others will be addressed by future ones (like channels).
> React's programming model with Svelte's "compiling down to nothing" mantra.

Solid JS!