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Ask HN: What elements should a side project have for senior-level web developer?
If one were to invest 3-6 months into improving a CV and applying new knowledge and experience into a demonstrable form which perspectives can be used to determine which path to take to maximize the outcome? For a full stack web developer.

A few examples:

- search ads for the ideal job and study their requirements closely and try to cover them all as much as possible

- build a small Saas, think of original idea, and try to get a few real world customers, so you can say "I build real things"

- add one algorithms, system design feature, they are very favorable in interview process of big tech companies, like in this example:

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/an-educational-side-project/

- try to make something reusable for other developers, library, starter project...

- build something visually impressive, rich UI and CSS, 3D graphics (WebGL)

- try to go wide and cover all parts of the stack

I know there is no universal answer but you can start from yourself, what thinking is closest to you if you were to build it, or what would you like to see and what would impress you?
Such a reality is the DESIRED end state of every "free to play" type game, as it's waaaaay cheaper to nurse and milk a few thousand "whales" who will spend tens of thousands (whether they can afford it or not) on literal trash because they are addicted.
Plenty of devices are perfectly fine with plain 5V charging. That's my entire point: instead of a zoo of chargers, you have that one charge dock on your desktop that does it all. I call that victory, not defeat.
Acceleration was never really the top metric for super cars. It was more performance at high speeds, with high end cars like the Bugatti Chiron Supersport 300+ going up to 489 kmph (that is a lot in case you wonder). Part of the super car segment will go electric, that is for sure, but I do not see the end of the super car. Look at luxury watches. They are booming despite a Casio GShock with Multiband beating the shit out of them in terms of accuracy.
Yeah, Icculus' case is a bit odd but also one of the strongest showing this in action. Barrier/synergy/input-leap (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) is another good example, but I can't just link to one polemic thread to get the point across. They've more or less just given up, despite the like 3 grand bug bounty for getting it working on wayland. Waypipe works, but ironically you can't forward x11 apps so you get into this weird situation where you need to use different protocols for different apps and you don't know which ahead of time.

OBS seems to finally be working with linux/wayland again, semi-reliably, and of course most things continue to work via x11 shims. It's getting closer, especially as Gnome gets closer to actually implementing a full set of desktop app protocols, but it is just a lot of work for toolkit developers to port everything over.

I still don't know how you'd go about running GUI apps inside docker containers, something we do at work for a few complicated deployments of ROS stuff (yes I'd rather do it some other way, but we don't have the man power).
You might be thinking of Joseph Campbell, not John Campbell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Campbell)
how do you do deploy / bundle your configs?
A history of Apple making us buy new cables
> He was so bad, even Republicans of the day were grossed out.

Nixon was so bad that he won 1972 re-election with 520 out of 528 electoral votes. Or 60.7% of popular vote.
Mathematicians Solve 50-Year-Old Möbius Strip Puzzle
I guess it's quite rare within US.
Before this dude gets downvoted to oblivion, there has been a lot of thought about how the introduction of women into the workforce has (theoretically) caused wage stagnation.

Basically, there are twice as many eligible workers in the economy now, and so labor groups lost lots of bargaining power.

I don't necessarily buy this explanation - but there have been some somewhat serious efforts to quantify this effect when looking at wage stagnation.
TB3 and 4 have a max data transfer rate of 23 Gbps iirc when using an SSD.

I wonder what's the actual max data transfer speed of TB5.
I really don't get your struggles. I bought a crucial 1TB external TB4 SSD - the speeds over TB are fantastic and it's extremely small and reasonably fast (about half the throughput of the builtin drive). Most of my video processing is on this drive, but other than that 256GB is completely usable.
Envisioning a Future with GPT
Honest question - where do hell people buy dry ice from like it's the easiest thing ever, I've looked into it and there was no one within hundreds of miles from me who would sell to private buyers. UK here.
We have to assume that nature “does” those consequences of our own brains being embedded in the very nature we're trying to describe though. Even if we can’t even articulate precisely what they are the assumption is not so mild.
Protip: no need for a dedicated unit conversions utility, this awesome calculator has it built in:

$ apt install qalc
$ qalc
> 100 km/h / 0.956 s to gee
(100 * (kilometer / hour)) / (0.956 * second) =
approx. 2.9629132 gees
I don't agree. Estonia has online voting and I do not recall any fraud or interference. I actually think pen and paper would be a lot easier to manipulate or "miscount".
Haha I realised this idea after a fair bit of mulling, if it gives any comfort. I’m also coincidentally finishing my thesis, albeit a master’s.

In what areas of startup’s have you been in? More of electrons or software or something?
I'd love to work 2.5 days a week and raise my own kids. Might help with that whole fertility crisis thing.

The mistake wasn't bringing women into the workforce, it was doing so on terms that nakedly favored capital and screwed labor, men and women alike. We should probably revisit those at some point.
In the US, best buy uses them. I think I've seen them in some airport shops too.
That query works in Wolfram Alpha too:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=100+kph+%2F+%28.956s%29...
Google's Trials Will Reshape the Internet Whether It Wins or Loses
Pit stop times matter, and supercapacitors exist.

I'd love to watch that race, especially if the cars were sucker cars like the one in the article, and the drivers got to wear high-G fighter jet suits.

The best supercapacitors apparently have 20x the energy density of the best batteries. Apparently, self-discharge can be as low as 20% per day, which rounds to zero for racing. They only cost 10x more than lithium batteries, which again, for racing rounds to zero. Discharge current blows lithium-ion so far out of the water that I couldn't find a rule of thumb ratio.

https://supercaptech.com/battery-vs-supercapacitor/

edit: I had the energy density backwards; supercapacitors are at 10% the density of lithium ion. Still, the other advantages stand. I wonder how hard it would be to add an inductive charger to a straightaway...
Select Subcommittee: CIA Paid Analysts for Virus Origin Statements
This is from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. "New testimony from a highly credible whistleblower alleges @CIA rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their Covid-19 origin conclusion from a lab leak to zoonosis."
Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report
Then there's the Brabham BT46 "Fan car" that actually raced in F1. Once. Before it was banned. :-)

https://youtu.be/B294RfWj1QE?si=jxYpIgwtH44at6Bq
Decades with an 's', yea, this code has been around a very long time in most cases.
So you feel this applies healthy economic pressure, and his appropriate for applying across all markets?

Like I kind of get where you're going... Increasing expectations so products must be high quality and guaranteed to be profitable. Although that's still a little wishful. And so it might not be realistic.

I personally think this will actually suffocate certain segments of the software market. It's like the insurance donut hole here in the United States where if you're between certain ages you don't qualify for Medicare and you still are paying for it and so you risk going into extremely high insurance cost zone, just because your age happens to be like 58 years old.
The author of “A Hero With a Thousand Faces” is Joseph Campbell. I think he might be talking about John W. Campbell who was a fellow sci-fi author.
Vote for me or I'll break your legs.
Your comment was ~10 hours after mine. The ordering will have changed significantly during that time.
The Journey to Staff Engineer: Main Takeaways
It should be noted that some sites (not sure about reddit) will re-encode images in various ways (sometimes to entirely different formats), possibly mitigating this.

Exploits aside, there are quite a few undesirable behaviours you can cause with media, such as the bouncing video file which changes it's height every frame and makes content around it reflow.
> racing, as a sport, is a lot less interesting without the variable of a human with particular skills operating the vehicle.

If full self-driving gets much better, I think it could be fun to see this happen. It would be like a hackathon with teams swapping out and improving on strategies through laps. The qualifiers could happen on electric miniatures then the final round would get a full car to race on a track.
I would assume that such planets have a very large surface area, larger than Earth and Mars combined? In this case, super-Earthlings have plenty of exploring to do, just in a different way from us. It can still be challenging and time consuming, for example air travel may not be practical, or may require balloons floating in denser atmosphere rather than jet engines. By the time we explored Mars and they explored their entire surface, or prospects for going further may not be so different. Either we have developed technology to travel much further, or we have to accept that that's all the planetary surface we are going to see and we better take good care of it.
I think hub motors like this are the future. Frees up space under the car for more battery. Removes the complexity of drive shafts and universal joints. Gives software full traction control. Reduces design time for new vehicles (just route a power and data cable to a wheel and you have a vehicle). Is the first step to all-electric braking.

The downside is more unsprung mass. But modern motors are getting lighter and lighter. And without a drive shaft, wheels could do crazy things like moving in and out to avoid potholes, or dynamically adjust camber to match the road you're on.
> The API is necessary to perform config reloads.

Of course it isn't. It could reload the config from the same path it loaded the config from in the first place. Like practically all other software has done for decades.
Since it is 12.3 meters a more suitable unit of measure (for US journalists) should be the schoolbus.
I hope they will drop the funny little language in favour of first-class C# support.
Decent alternatives have been bandied about here for over a decade. Guess what? There are none.

Google’s business model is selling user data to the highest bidder. Google’s other business model is selling opportunity to collect data on people.

You as a search user are not a customer, but a data point.

There is literally no incentive for this to change.

Desiring an ad company to not show ads is a ridiculous desire.
I'd rather not participate in the network, have the network flow logs on my ISP and it's slow. You can run the app on top of Tor if you need it. Seems to be not just me that can't understand why it's needed and it's definitely turned me off as a potential user.
"with machine gun attacks and knife killings common,” where boys have to “wade through pools of blood” on the way to concerts"

Oh really - he did not grow up in Soweto but in a posh suburb of Pretoria - white youths was spared that reality - you could not go there.

Walter Isaacson - how much did he get paid for this nonsense ???.
Kuo: First MacBooks with M3 Chip Unlikely to Launch This Year
This ignores intimidation, vote buying, and a million other ways people would find to coerce you to vote a certain way or else.
I am talking from a US perspective. There are few cities in the US that offer this, though NYC is by no means the only one.
I'm aware. Yet I am prepared to wager that the number of people who upgrade their own mobo(instead of buying a whole new pc/laptop) is absolutely insignificant on the scale of the market.
Roll up the windows too
We see this same sentiment in comments on this very website. Comments like "Straight line acceleration doesn't matter", for example.

Except, as a driver, I never accelerate in a tight curve. Once I got an EV, aggressive drivers were no longer able to block me from merging into traffic; if anything, I was able to easily get away from them if necessary.

I believe what we are seeing is car enthusiasm being pushed further into the long tail. Aesthetics, self-sufficiency through repair, exotics, etc, will always have a place, but speed off-track is over. ("Drive feel" is the new "gold cable connectors".)
Or say it was done in Switzerland, that would make things clear, too.
McCarthy directs GOP-led House committees to open Biden impeachment inquiry
It's actually not, every city in the US has packed parks and stuff to do.
A common pattern that I use is to pass a behaviour module as a function argument to support dynamic behavior or dependency injection. Last I looked, I couldn't use dialyzer to describe the behaviour that a function accepts.
Yeah, there's like a small size studio, or studios where they plan to not have like a very strong monetization curve, where this makes sense.

This pricing change pressurizes modestly successful long tail profits. And so I think yes competitor game engines that are more progressive will be more popular for those segments.
But did the assembly line become more efficient?
There was also Mono UE [0] - which was being developed by some of the Xamarin folks.

I’ve not played around with any game development for a long while - does C# end up popular here just because people are familiar with Unity? I definitely get that C++ is not the most productive language - though improving perhaps.

Simply loading the .NET Core CLR is not difficult [1] - but unless things have changed since I last tried binding C++ interfaces to C# is time consuming, especially if you want to be able to implement an interface in managed code.

[0] - https://mono-ue.github.io/

[1] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tutorials/netc...
The only point I’m trying to make is that C and C++ are well supported on iOS -- they work out of the box with the standard dev tools and there are plenty of Unix system libraries (e.g. libcurl). On Android, C and C++ are very much second class citizens. I find that a strange decision.
Or worst an utter mental case.
Arcan has some really cool ideas.
Didn't Nokia have a proof of concept mobile using something like this ten years ago?
In house apps.
To add onto mholt's reply, we avoid implicitly enabled functionality where possible (the only feature that's implicitly enabled generally is Automatic HTTPS, off the top of my head). By default, Caddy's HTTP handlers do nothing which is good because it gives you a clean slate to build on top of. If you had to turn off features to reset back to zero, that's cruft. For example, think of CSS resets, which are needed to turn off styles added by browsers by default; that's annoying and a complication that all websites need to deal with to get consistent behaviour.
I could argue that, but it would be wrong. For me, art is about human connection. When I look at a work, I'm interested not just in the surface layer of the image, but what the work evokes in me and what was in the mind and context of its creator.

If what I'm getting is just a synthetic, semi-random découpé, then that is lost. Similarly, looking at randomly generated maps can be fun, but it's a pretty shallow fun unless there's a real territory represented there.

That said, it can also be interesting to look at the machinery that's generating it, in the same way I enjoy videos of how things get made. But it's a different kind of interest and engages different parts of my mind.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12116231
You can buy a desk phone and connect a voip line if you really wanted. Otherwise I recommend against it because you’ll learn quickly enough how bad the robocallers/spammers situation is
Battery storage expands in Texas as power grid struggles with demand
Why My Startup Needs Just Two Users
I feel almost certain someone could wrap ArgoCD into a product if they handled the 'patternization' of applicationsets. D2iQ already do it with Flux, but we bailed on D2iQ before we even got to try it.
There is a graph showing the house prices in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and an arrow pointing at 1971 - but unlike the US, the Netherlands left the gold standard already in 1936, and according to that graph the house prices went lower for several decades after 1936.
I would argue that the moon, Venus, Mars, Titan, Enceladus, and others are quite interesting :P

But I see what you're saying. Excluding our own solar system, yes, chemical rockets are super limited :)
You might have the money to buy an Amiga now?

https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/

Fact is, with a little LCD and a nice keyboard, one could put the Amiga in the 'loo and have a fair bash at the old school while pushing one out, eh .. ?

/oric_telestrat_forever
Oh, you mean handegg :-)

https://br.ifunny.co/picture/ag-not-soccer-not-football-it-s...
Well, we can start by asserting that we do not know everything. We can assert this from the contra positive: If we did know everything, then we would have an acceptable solution to all of our problems. Since we do not, it stands to reason that we don't know everything.

Once we accept that the assertion is valid, then it raises the likelihood that our understanding of the world is incomplete in some way. And furthermore is incomplete to different degrees along multiple dimensions of knowledge. Whether incomplete or wrong is a word choice, it doesn't change what's missing. So with each new discovery, our understanding improves, our wrongness decreases.
We can transform education by reducing the workload of teachers so that they can actually have time to connect with students and truly TEACH! Excited to see what mylessonpal.com and others are doing. Would love to see the lessons generated identify the common core or state standards; also embedded rubrics.
Original title, rewritten to fit title limits: "As brutal heat tests Texas’ power grid, batteries play a small but growing role in keeping the lights on"
You don't get to choose what flows through your exit node.

This is why it is important to bookmark ExoneraTor [1] so that one can prove the IP in question is/was a Tor exit node accepting that it would still be a PITA to deal with boots-on-neck and legal fallout.

That said one could block some of the known illegal sites via DNS and IP null routing on the exit node at the risk of the Tor network flagging it as a malicious exit node.

[1] - https://support.torproject.org/glossary/exonerator/
Here in the US, you can buy it at the supermarket.
The free market recommends open source.
A big cup of hot water works pretty well too.
Accessing those identifiers violates App Store and Play Store rules for some categories of apps (kids app eg)
US here. the large supermarket chains (Safeway) stock it as a normal commodity, in the front, next to the water ice.
soon we're going to be drawing triangle shapes on a whiteboard
Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry
I was thinking the same. It is interesting to think of different fuel modalities. Liquid fuels seem to have a throughput advantage for now. The article doesn't seem go into electrical depth. From the pictures, it looks like they are powering all four wheels at the hub.

This articles says" The vehicle weighs just 140 kilograms and has an output of 326hp." https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-students-break-world-reco...

A top fuel dragster accelerates from a standstill to 100 mph (160.9 km/h) in as little as 0.8 seconds (less than one third the time required by a production Porsche 911 Turbo to reach 60 mph (96.6 km/h))[1] and can exceed 297 mph (478.0 km/h) in just 660 feet (201.2 m). This subjects the driver to an average acceleration of about 4.0 g0 (39 m/s2) over the duration of the race and with a peak of over 5.6 g0 (55 m/s2).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel
> As someone with an econ degree, people advocating for a return to the gold standard are so weird to me

I mean, I understand. People really like simple things they can understand. And people hate inflation. It's clearly a bad idea, but I understand the appeal if you were raised in a blue-collar household and think debt is evil.
How so? I've volunteered to help run elections in two states in the US, and they both used optical-scan paper ballots. In both jurisdictions, the voter is the one who feeds their ballot into the scanner machine ("ballot box") to be counted. The machine makes a digital copy of each ballot and stores it in local memory. At the end of the night, we then report the number of ballots in the box and compare it to the number of ballots we issued out and the number of people who checked in at the registration desk. We call these numbers in, and the precinct chief hand-delivers the paper ballots, digital scans, and seal records to the county for legal and archival purposes.

In order to manipulate this, you would need the entire polling place staff to be in on the conspiracy, and they would need to cook up numbers and ballots that all match. All to mess with an election at a precinct with no more than ~1500 registered voters. Where those voters are likely of the same political persuasion as the poll workers themselves. High cost, low reward.
> They might add some DE-specific protocol for themselves, but I don’t see why that would be a problem.

What Wayland advocates don't see as a problem is the one of the main problems. I see a pattern here.

> years of hard work.

The only thing that takes "years of hard work" is writing a simple native Wayland client that takes screenshots.
Happy 65th Birthday, Integrated Circuit
Any particular reason to highlight this release? 1.4 introduced Properties, which is cool, but this is just a minor release.
I sympathize with this argument to some extent, but also would also warn that it conflicts with how many people consume art, to the point where they will respond almost hostilely.
Sometimes. The best manager I've had was business trained with no technical background at all. However I've had many very bad managers who didn't have a technical background.

Note that I don't think MBA really gives someone the right background to be a good people manager.