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I've built massive RF stuff with high school math and it worked quite well, better than some off the shelf stuff, and that's after a nice session with a spectrum analyzer to make sure you don't end up spewing garbage all over the higher bands. What really helps is to have access to good measuring tools and to know how to use them, as well as people with more experience than you to help guide you.

Stuff exploding or bursting into flames I've seen exactly once, on one of the most trivial circuits I ever built: a small boost converter for a windmill to charge batteries in low wind conditions. It worked extremely well. Until I disconnected the battery for service and then the boost converter kept on increasing its output voltage until the capacitors let out the magic smoke. Other than that stuff occasionally breaks. Oh, and if you do do RF stuff: beware of RF burns, that is a real risk, coils and capacitors in high power RF circuits should be treated with proper respect.

I'd be much more wary of Lithium-Ion batteries than analog stuff and buck-boost converters are cheaper to source as complete units than to build yourself (though you definitely can if you want). Your typical hobbyist isn't going to start off by building themselves an large inverter or a HVDC interconnect. They're going to build amplifiers, other audio gear and maybe some measuring kit or digital devices. Sound generators, function generators and so on.

By the time you reach the stage where you need to design a resonant LC circuit you'll have picked up a lot of working knowledge and some of that will tell you what bits to avoid and what bits you can probably handle.

I know plenty of HAMs that know enough math to be dangerous but they usually would not be able to do really complex stuff without access to tools (though I also know some HAMs that definitely would be able to do really complex stuff, they also have the corresponding higher level license).

Let's not pretend that everybody that builds electronics for hobby purposes is a math wizard, it just isn't true. Though it definitely doesn't hurt to have a basic understanding of RC and LC circuitry and to understand how to use op amps and other interesting components like that. Applying those is vastly different from designing them from scratch.

Also: quite a few people have a ton of fun just building kits and slowly expanding their knowledge and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. At the highest levels you will need that math, but there is plenty of interesting stuff to be done lower on the ladder. HN is the last place where I would expect such gatekeeping.
Interesting. I use

> -o reconnect,cache=no,defer_permissions

So, I add "cache=no"; and omit "kill_on_unmount", "allow_other" and "direct_io". Looks like "kill_on_remount" is a cleanup option; "allow_other" allows other users to mount the same drive (I don't need that) and "direct_io" is similar to "cache=no". FYI...
The $50k spend is interesting with NYC rents being so high, apparently
> So in this case they are no longer competing on product quality, but on distribution.

Incorrect. Quality is a moving target as search gets better. Competition is in quality and distribution. If Google stops improving and lets Bing move ahead on quality, it'll be dead. Witness the recent worries about incorporating LLM's into search.

> Furthermore no one, including Microsoft, is going to risk $20B on overcoming Google's brand preference.

Earlier this year there were reports that Samsung was considering switching to Bing, and it was suggested there was a similar $3B contract involved. So of course Microsoft is in the same game, and it's quite obvious that Google wouldn't be paying these sums at all if Microsoft weren't willing to offer something as well (but keeps getting outbid).

E.g. if Google weren't paying Apple $20B, it's quite likely that Microsoft would be paying Apple $15B instead. One of them would be.
The warning that displays when bringing up a JavaScript console on their homepage was always enough to steer me clear of that product.

Stop!

reqaccts_js_bundle_jquery_3_6_1?1693888551:2732 This is a feature for developers and researchers! If you are not a developer or researcher, pasting something here could cause your account to be compromised
It’s not the best metric. Just responding to 80k req/sec with static in memory content is easy nowadays. If there are some complex database queries you have to finangle 80k/sec then that’s the interesting part
Our ideas of what it means are the same and I agree, but "general computing" doesn't mean the latest, most up to date hardware. The ability to freely compute on a basic level isn't under any threat.

I guess I'm being kind of pedantic, but I think there's a meaningful difference between being able to freely compute and being able to freely interact with systems run by other parties which is what is actually threatened.
Your article shows you put in a lot of work, and was written well. But... A few thoughts... Service Owners usually tend to design and build their systems in a way which allows them to understand and know how the system will behave under the worst conditions. It is not difficult to test these conditions either. A bash script utilizing curl will suffice.

If you have to use 'Chaos Engineering' to experiment your way into innovation, this is a sign you built your service wrong. What will Amazon Re-Invent next!? I am guess the wheel. Well written article though.
Imagine if, in addition to income, you could also lookup the debt level and net worth of anyone you know.
Are your neighbors driving a fancy car just because they're leveraged up to their eyeballs in mortgage debt? Would people change their buying habits if their net worth was public. Is there any point owning ostentatious possessions if everyone knows your debt level?
While I 100% agree with wage transparency, just like I agree with price transparency for any other good...

This idea that there is some evil conspiracy to screw people is crazy to me.

Everyone wants to get the best price they can for anything, I am sure when you hire a HVAC person, or a plumber you are not looking to hire the most expensive person, you are looking to hire the best value...

Why do people believe employment is something different than any other goods exchange, employers buy labor from the market no different you buy a computer monitor, or a plumber.

I think everyone should have transparent pricing for everything, if Space X can post pricing to launch something into orbit, then dave the plumber can publish his rates, and Amce Corp can publish what they are paying employees...

"Call for pricing" should be a thing of the past for products just like "We pay competitive wages" should be a thing of the past for job ads.
It has already happened. Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe settled a class action in 2014 over their anti-poaching agreement.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/silicon-valleys-...
> At some point most people will sell out.

That might be true, but I don't believe people sell out for the money. There is no concrete difference in lifestyle between having a hundred millions and a billion. And no matter how luxuriously you live, there will be an enormous amount of wealth left to your heirs.

When you have that kind of money, changing the world and the future becomes more interesting than getting as rich as possible. After all our time on earth is finite. And as a tech giant you have a good possibility of doing just that.

So when extremely rich people sell out, I think the reason is rather some other kind of pressure and influence, that they might not be able to talk openly about.

If a dog steals a sausage, it's because it was hungry. But if a dog that has just eaten a hundred sausages and has his dog house full does it - then it's not hunger.
I disagree, I consider it a matter of ethics when I'm deciding whether or not to add telemetry to a piece of software. Passing it off as a preference is equating them, when the software with telemetry is less trustworthy and has a broader attack surface due to network connectivity. Maybe doing all that is worth treating your users like a science project, but it's not just a preference to me.

There is too much behind-the-scenes telemetry, analytics, and other intel-gathering happening on websites and in software. The gains are held solely by developers who either cannot figure out how to build their software, or whose management is so incompetent that there's no real connection to the users of the software, so making meaningful and helpful change to the software is less accessible.

I strongly hold that the practice creates less durable software that also primes a user to expect their software to study their behavior and change accordingly. That is supremely creepy, and users deserve better treatment than that. It's our job as developers to respect the resources our software is using on the user's machine, and for them to be 100% informed of anything they may be sharing over the wire.

Maybe that viewpoint isn't in line with VC-backed startups or enterprise, but I also don't expect them to act ethically wrt software, either... Analytics and telemetry created the data brokerage industry. Programmers are responsible for allowing that behemoth to invade and shape lives.
Even seasoned professionals can get caught in the gap between 'prototype' and 'production grade' especially for things that are on the margin of what can be done with a particular hardware recipe. That's when component variation can cause your product yield to go straight into the sewer.
Thats from the candidates perspective. Its no less helpful than not publishing the range.
Why is it anyone's "problem"? Nobody said they're being forced to do it this way - just that they are. And I guarantee that there are thousands of other companies out there that have an API-fanout model as well, and might be interested in how Amazon does it.

I don't get the hostility around this article. Nobody is forcing you to read it or to do it this way. If your system is architected in a different way where you can run your whole system on a single instance, then good for you! But Amazon presumably doesn't have that luxury, and others may not either.
I have a PPO, but each specialist I contact still wants a referral from my PCP. I suspect that it is the insurance companies that create this and every other distortion of our ridiculous HC situation in the US
Europe has startups
> we need that extra 300msec of speed, Jim! Web metrics are all that matter!!!!11one
Thanks for sharing. I didn't make it past page one (https://app.mentra.com/signup) for similar reasons, and based on your experience it sounds like I'm not missing much.

Apparently they figured out the "why" of their mission but the "how" (how they intend to accomplish the mission) is lacking to say the least. The site feels no different to me from other job search boards -- AFAICT, they're just using different words.
Oh, and just to clarify, I think open protocols should count towards openess, even on closed source devices. It should just be clearly labeled.
Wait - you guys get sky high salaries, stock grants, benefits, flexible work hours, free gourmet meals, stocked pantries, gym memberships?
That’s pretty close to what I meant by hosted Terraform.
Wonder what it would take to implement a neural network in Emmy.
It's a bit inefficient, but I think state of the art is over 80% commercially and 95+% in the lab. Of course, then you have to compress and transport and store it.
> some roles don’t really have a budget, salary will depend on applicant and can range a lot

Of course they all have a budget. You're not going to have a $1m range on pay for the same position that depends on the applicant, except for maybe a few exceptional cases.
Having a Wintel monopoly hasn't been great for customers though.

Really? Would the PC industry have been as successful -- and its products as widely accessible -- if left up to Apple and a dozen expensive almost-but-not-quite compatible Unix clones? I think not.
Nintendo is a capitalist corporation aiming to maximizing profit, and not anything else. Maximizing profit is the true end of Nintendo, and that may be done by several strategies. Maximizing the consumer well-being (i.e. being ''nice'') generally is what we hope they do, but it is not necessarily the most able to profit = profitable thing to make.
Nintendo perhaps actually thinks it is horrible that random people will spoil their IP or threaten their sales:

- Spoil their IP → making mods of their games can spoil Mario, Pokémon etc as the child-friendly characters they are, not to mention water down the novelty of a new game, if for instance there would be a ''new'' 2D Mario or pokémon every 6 months (if they released the tools and did not persecute). Or even being straight better received than the official games, which is already the case with several pokémon fans going after hacked ROMs because they hate the current generation's gameplay etc.

- Threaten Sales (main one)→ If fans and the community extend the life of older hardware and games, then the people will consume less new games and even less switches, and it directly replaces their current cloud retro gaming offerings (it is so barebones that anyone could make a better experience of NES SNES etc by just installing an emulator and downloading ROMS, make that automated and Nintendo-aproved retro gaming is over).

Nintendo therefore has a hostile draconian, anti-fans anti community anti ecological and even anti consumer strategy to maximize sales. The fact that there is still people working on stuff on this environment is only due to the strong love the fandom has. I wish they could dedicate this craft to FOSS games, where their contribution would be respected and celebrated.
I've got some things which have a thick veneer over the top of some other solid wood. It's pretty good quality. Many times better than the stuff that's like 1mm of wood over the top of cardboard hexagons.
the irony that you can't run Android Studio on Android, but can run VS Code?
Why isn’t the AGPL sufficient here? Also, should we be rethinking adopting vendor-led projects overall?
I just wanted to show how absurdly short the character limitation is for new links. 5-8 more characters would help significantly.
Sergey is pretty involved according to recent reports