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Lists, sets, graph traversals, parsing, knowing when to use hashmaps, using recursion, knowing when to use a priority queue don’t have much to do with programming or software engineering?
start hacking in your spare time. builders gotta be building.

start interviewing casually, prefer small companies and early stage companies.

when you find interesting people, join them!

welcome back, and good luck. life is too short and engineering is too fun.
This is actually a really great explainer about YC and how it works! Not being an entrepreneur, I've only ever offhandedly heard about it through this forum but never knew what the investment side of it was like.

The article has a great background on the history and operations of that side.

Thanks for sharing!
Sure, art is important, but not professional art. Almost everyone is an artist. Garage bands playing for beer money. Fanfic. Amateur theater. Choirs.

I would far encourage that, than fund degrees for people who mostly wind up doing something else.
A super solar storm rocked Earth in 1872. They're more common than you think
links to this paper

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acc6cc
Or simplify a white list for all cell phones by default. But just like they make it hard to keep your snail mailbox from being clogged from garbage, this remains hard.
That seems to be the spot humans are weakest at—reviewing something where we think the computer did a good job 90% of the time, but quickly noticing when something goes wrong. Similar to level 3 self-driving—requiring full attention, able to instantly snap into full unassisted driving.
Every time you post...with a brand new account?

You don't even have any submissions, yet.
> Also the debate about whether all human speech need be piped through such a preemptive filter.

Have you worked at a company with a PR, Comms, and HR department?
Not at all! I agree it is a useful feature, I'd be curious how much it is necessary if not using any mutation, but the best way for me to find out is to try it out :)
I wouldn't say that open-source SaaS is the "least open" way of using software.

If you're using a hosted service based on open source software, you know that you can leave. You can grab your data and self-host. You can move it to another host that has reused or forked the code. You can run it locally. You have options.

If you're using local closed-source software, your files might not even be usable without an Internet connection. Think Spotify (closed source, local) where even your "offline" playlists won't load if you don't allow the software to phone home once in a while.
That happens, but what also happens is that everybody is painfully aware of the situation and they do the best they can. Just like you or I would.

And of course, if you start a bank today you'd do the whole cycle all over again, shiny new tech, that in a decade or two is legacy that nobody dares to touch. Because stuff like this is usually industry wide: risk adversity translates into tech debt in the long term.

I suspect that the only thing that will cure this is for technology to stop being such a moving target. Once we reach that level we can maybe finally call it engineering, accept some responsibility (and liability) and professionalize. Until then this is how it will be.
That said, who doesn't send SMS texts also, at least in the US?
Thankfully, having secrets is not suspending democracy.
What would people recommend for a self-hosted CI system in 2023?

I'm currently leaning towards Jenkins, because neighboring teams are using it (with some pain due to their scale, but theirs is 10x-100x ours), and I have some ~10y-old experience with it.

(Our builds are compiling for embedded targets, with a Makefile-based system)
The complaint about a long feedback loop is true of every CI system I've used (jenkins, travis, gitlab, github actions). None of them really have a good way to test a pipeline locally. The best solution here is to put as much of the build logic as possible in scripts and your build system.
It seems digital compression artifacts have replaced the previous generations' audiophiles liking for the "colour" that tubes and vinyl imparted to the sound.
My ATT mobile stopped getting spam calls in mid 2022. It was quite a sudden drop off between the couple years before that.
I don't think it'd take two years to learn cobol, it should be less than that.

There's a comment in this thread from a former consultant that completed a 4 week COBOL bootcamp before being sent to a client to write code!
I think you mean Wheel-Buzzsaw-Legs-Arm, or else it won't be going anywhere very quickly
I don't know where you're from but when I was 13 I had a paying job throwing newspapers before sunrise. I did all my payment collections door to door though my Mom had to drive me to the route every morning. It was my first job and was a great introduction to job-related responsibilities.

At 13 years old, he should've been mature enough to understand when he would be crossing a line but instead he was not taught clear boundary issues. Was it because of bad parenting where they set no boundaries because he was the oldest son or something cultural? I don't know but at any rate in my view there is no universe where he didn't know that he was doing something wrong. He went for personal satisfaction over everything else just like he does in his dealings today.

Pretty funny seeing all the downvotes I get on this thread. I am pretty sure in real life that I would not want to hang out or socialize with any of the enabling cowards who support someone who could do this to his little sister and who could walk through life with so few restraints on his own behavior. Pretty pathetic.
> It has the same problem all socialized health care programs have: the people who are actually getting the care, patients, have no idea what it costs, so they can't judge whether the care they are getting is worth the cost.

Let’s imagine (unrealistically) that through some technical breakthrough, patients knew the cost before making their purchasing decision. They still do not know what it is worth, because they have no idea what the risks of not being treated are. There is a problem that your doctor also probably does not know the cost, but they are the only person in the decision making process with the information necessary to make a rational recommendation. (And, unfortunately, they usually have a conflict of interest.)

Healthcare is different from buying cars or groceries - even if you know the relative costs, you are unlikely to know the relative benefits.
Curious for vegan versus vegetarian.
Does a Tesla owner have root on their own vehicle, or is that privilege kept for the masters at the mothership?
Tanks!

I agree, that in sugar -> ethanol you lose 1/3 of the carbons, but it's "free". The bacterias get the energy for the conversion from those carbons that are lost. It need some energy for refining, anyway.

I guess that using catalytic removal of oxygen with Hydrogen needs more energy, in particular to produce the Hydrogen.
>Most 13 year olds know that this is wrong.

Definitely true where I'm from.
SMS enabling offnet numbers has gotten stricter over the last few months, Bandwidth.com will not enable wireless numbers for SMS, and if there is an existing routing record (eSPID/NNID) most vendors require this be removed by the losing SMS provider prior to enabling a number for offnet SMS.

I used to be able to SMS enable my T-Mobile numbers offnet, but every 30 days TMobile would take this back.

10DLC is being strongly pushed by some carriers, while others are still permitting conversational traffic (for every one message that goes in, one should come back, with a 10% margin in either direction) to go over P2P rails.

With The Carrier Registry invalidating all registered organizations and campaigns every few months, triggering everyone to fill out a ton of paperwork, pay $50 or more to re-validate every business, and also the recent sudden devalidation of every sole proprietor 10DLC registration, I don't blame those who don't want to participate in this unsanctioned cartel formed by the big three wireless carriers.
But i passed both of those interviews without having seen a single question before.
US Companies: "You think privacy laws are a good idea right" We'll finance your re-election if you stop that"
I mainly stopped using phone calls years ago, and I hope more people also do. I ported my main number to voip.ms and created a couple others to use for pseudonymous accounts. The service is cheap at about $1/month per number, but it is a little technical to configure and is sometimes spotty. My phone number has sometimes been unregistered/out of service for long periods which has been a bonus. Nobody who really knows me calls me on the phone. Instead they know to go to my web page that has many ways to call me including a URL to a Nextcloud Talk conversation, Simplex, Session, XMPP, and Matrix.

If you want a slightly more expensive but simple and reliable number on Android, I highly recommend jump.chat.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you were trying to compare the Lobsters moderators to Dang in a positive way, something not really emphasized in the top comment and its children.
From 2014: Ford Exec: 'We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law' Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car

https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-exec-gps-2014-1
You can have arbitrarily complex names because filesystems are a tree, not a flat namespace. The limit you'll hit is either inodes or kernel memory, neither of which will run out all that easily.
I know another one: "Don't be evil!" wink-wink!
Tesla Cybertruck on Top Gear
Sir, this is Wendy's.

No need to note; the topic is telephone and SMS. Everyone is probably familiar with spam mail and unsubscribing from it.

Email is still manageable and less personally invasive than someone calling you or sending a message at random.
I've noticed the Avahi folks use Woodpecker CI [1], which I hadn't heard of before, because it supports priorities and pre-emption [2]

[1] https://woodpecker-ci.org/

[2] https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111258515328251078
Yes, before we have the facts we should try for sweeping laws that won't pass or pass but are easily flouted.
Could dinosaurs have shaped ageing in present-day mammals?
> It’s still early, so anything from an agency providing blockchain services, to a startup building a web3 marketplace platform is a greenfield opportunity.

This might have been true 5 years ago but not today
There are other environmental and practical concerns with hydro. Building the required reservoir destroys a lot of habitat. You can't site them just anywhere you want, but are beholden to local topography. Power production competes with other human and natural uses for limited water resources. Dams make a heck of a target for an enemy military as well. Hydro is great reliable simple baseload power, but not perfect.
This is enabled by essentially free communication --- while it's probably not feasible to go back to the rates Ma Bell used to charge so as to fund their infrastructure (and generous pensions, and stock dividends)....

Why not have a system where a small amount of money is put in escrow when a call is placed? If the person who answered the call is displeased by it, they can punch in a command at the keypad after the call to claim the money.
Because not every company wants to allow their source code to the cloud. Basically all the reasons organization self host their code repositories (and a bunch do) all apply.
Milei Plans Labor, Tax Reform in 'Shock' Package, La Nacion Says
Taking a measurement at the same time every morning helps to establish a consistent baseline so that you can detect changes from day to day. But the latest generation of smart watches can track HRV continuously throughout the day, so if you have one of those then taking specific measurements is less useful.
>My elevator argument [...] against Medicare Advantage (Part C) is: why would you want to spend the rest of your life arguing with an insurance company?

It's an affordability issue so it's not as simple as you laid it out.

Some corporate-sponsored health benefit plans for retired ex-employees pay 100% for Medicare Advantage and not Traditional Medicare + Medigap.

The UHC Medicare Advantage has some aspects of "Medigap" included in that plan and 100% of that total premium is reimbursed by the company.

So choices are:

- $0.00/month for Medicare Advantage

- $2100/year out-of-pocket for Traditional Medicare + $$$ extra for Medigap

That's the tradeoff math that some seniors contend with. Some choose to hypothetically "argue with an insurance company" because they don't have $2100 to spare.
Amnesia? Or did you mean insomnia?
But you left?
You can cut through a surprising amount of spam by just reading the voicemail after letting an unknown number ring. If they didn't bother to leave one it was either not at all important or the vast majority of spam calls. If they did leave a voicemail you can generally tell whether it seems even remotely legitimate and, if it does, call back at the number. E.g. if you have a kid and the school calls they will leave something generic like "It's so and so elementary calling for <your name>..." you call the school's main number back and say "so and so called looking for me" and get directed to them.

OTOH it seems if you ever answer these even once you're no longer a random number to try you're immediately marked as a real person who can be tricked into answering at least some calls and will never hear the end of the endless ringing.
Three gaming-focused Linux operating systems beat Windows 11 in gaming benchmark
yeah, really need a repl for CI. have run into exactly the same issue, conditional cases are impossible to test ahead of time
I provided a link backing my point and you didn’t. Sure, believe what you want lol.
You don't read TV scripts - you watch them.

I often take my eyes off a book to ponder and process a passage. Who pauses the TV to process a scene? The pace is dictated for you. The images flicker forward and your brain needs to quickly discard previous information to catch up with the new one.
In 2023, if you're using a major commercial provider, and the caller ID is a US-originating number you're more likely to see accurate Caller ID than not. STIR/SHAKEN has been widely adopted, and networks now have permission to drop calls providing inaccurate digital signature.

Even as of last year caller ID accuracy was bad.
> It’s mostly a fairly simple scheduling problem, plus having one adult sleeping somewhere they can’t hear the baby during each “shift” (loud fans help).

Wouldn't it be easier to have a soundproofed room for either the parents or the baby?

Your key assumption is "not badly space-constrained" is plausible, but no time/scheduling constraints for adults seems unlikely.

> if you can wait a minute they may go back to sleep, because they weren’t hungry, they’d just woken up and briefly freaked out—if you keep pouncing every time as soon as they make a noise, it trains them to stay awake rather than going back to sleep, and you’ll have a bad time for, potentially, much longer

Your observations would be in favor of soundproofing where delaying intervention would be a feature, not a bug.
Can Chinas reputation be worse than it already is? People make business with China not because of its good reputation, but because of greed. They want to profit from cheap labor and one of the biggest markets in the world. I have never heard that any company chooses to go to China because of its good reputation e.g. for human rights or it's freedom or it's favorable political system. I don't think China cares about its reputation in any way.
On the other hand we also have a lot of Americans who go to other countries for medical care [1]. Destinations include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Singapore, and Thailand.

[1] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2024/health-care-abr...
> even your 6e ap will not archive more than a gbit in most real world scenarios

au contraire; even for wifi 5 aps like original Turris Omnia (3x3 MIMO, 80 MHz) or Ubiquiti nanoHD (4x4 MIMO, 80 MHz), the gigabit uplink was the bottleneck.

> major point: 10gig uses vastly more power than 1gig, making integration (esp. in laptops) challenging.

Only 10GBase-T. For a networking equipment, you would want SFP+ anyway.

Laptops slowly are losing wired Ethernet entirely. Meanwhile, 2.5GBase-T is still good enough for laptops, and does not represent integration challenges.
> Because if we do it the same way we did 50+ years ago, we learn absolutely nothing and the whole thing is a pointless waste of money.

I would argue that if we did it exactly as we did back then that we would actually learn something because we forgot how to do so much. Literally can’t build an F-1 engine. It would take a ton of work just to recreate it.

However, the benefit is that we would then have plans (diagrams, specs, etc) to build it and one built we can iterate.

But building what we had is already a tremendous challenge because of the lost knowledge. Were it not for that, I would agree with you.
My spam calls are down to 1 or 2 per month after using nomorobo.com for 5 years. It is not direct action as TFA suggests, but it works well for me. Callers reach voicemail, almost never leave messages, and the phone almost never rings. Free for VOIP numbers, $20/year for mobile. Several similar alternatives exist.
ChatGPT on web uses 100% CPU
It's a sad state. We are right on the cusp but I seem to have no way to block all unverified numbers. But the verified number system is in place!
2 years ago when I decided to create rqbit, I've been using qBittorrent as my main client.

I think there was a bug in it, or smth else that caused it for me, that made it download torrents really slowly, and it couldn't saturate my gigabit network, whereas previously it was close.
It didn't bother me enough to investigate deeper, but instead sparked the curiosity of what would it take to make a qBittorrent myself.

Since then, either qBittorrent fixed the bug, or whatever else was causing it fixed it, so it's no longer an issue. So if you like qBittorrent, I'm with you - it's great!

My *recent* motivation to put some more work into rqbit was caused by smth else though:

1. I had some free time on my hands, and was craving coding some Rust

2. I gave the client to my dad, he put it on his RaspberryPI, said this is the fastest torrent client he's ever seen, and asked if certain features are available. I implemented them all, cause it wasn't hard, and I made my dad happier at the same time :)
The security solutions on the mail system make a line that you need to cross, but it doesn’t guarantee a success.

It’s a hard way to guess how good is the implementation on the receiver, like GMX, Libero or other big country providers with “historical” service that don’t care about them too much.
You seem like someone who can add to a discussion, and you like SDR stuff too. Figure out how to contact me using the info in my profile and I'll send you an invite.
The port would report them to the part of the police that’s not corrupt, which as a Belgian, I like to think is most of the Antwerp police.

I have a hard time believing this story to be honest, most police corruption here would probably be a lot more covert, e.g. in the form of providing information or turning a blind eye at the right time.

Someone else already asked for a source and it’s yet to show up.
For TCPA compliance purposes, they should be pulling the deactivated numbers list (which Twilio offers for free), checking the do not call list, and querying the reassigned numbers database to establish safe harbor against TCPA lawsuits.

This is really expensive to do (the RND and Do Not Call lists are very expensive to query, the FCC needs to make these cheaply available) and automation for doing these queries is not offered by most phone providers.
Turn any Git directory into a SQLite DB and make your own Spotify Wrapped
Thank you wildergarden for giving MAIM out for free!

Most other usable plugins in that realm cost real money (Lossy is USD 79 for example) so I like to take the liberty to highlight the donation link:

https://ko-fi.com/wildergardenaudio
Its up to your implementation. Which is very similar to any other "average" database ...
Use iPhone focus feature, whitelisting contacts phone calls. Just need to manually add notifications from frequent contacts. Works pretty well.
Most of these companies are public, and you do not have to be rich to own shares. Also, tons of rich people do not own healthcare insurer interests. Tbh, they generally don't perform exceptionally well.

"Rich people," as a group, do not somehow benefit significantly from insurance companies being garbage to those they insure.
I see no downside to frustration also blocking a business. Dark pattern sub/unsub? Messaging hourly because marketing thinks you’re that important? Either pay to design an experience respectful to customers or pay after the fact for losing access.
Sure, but Musk is not the person I will trust with a principled stance on anything - except what concerns his own ego. A selfless defender of humanity? Hmm.
But collective rent bargaining is common so it's clearly not impossible.
The bacon-rajan-cc link says it's stop-the-world. Samsara seems to be fully concurrent.
I would love to hear more about how you successfully releared how to fall asleep.

I'm facing a similar battle right now, I've always been a "night person" and on a roughly 28h day, for the past year I've been (mostly unsuccessfully) trying to force myself into a morning person and 24h day. It's kinda worked, though I get btw 3-6h of sleep, which isn't enough.
Some folks cycle throwaways over time instead of allowing a consistent identity to be built. The guidelines request nicely against doing so but some always do anyways of course.
I would guess it's part of the ethos of not spending more time and effort on HN than strictly needed. Perhaps also a bit of the standard silicon valley culture of building on open source but not actually contributing anything meaningful back.
Really interesting. I would love to see more.
No just folk lore from folks I work with. I used to work at Apple and now work somewhere where we do a lot of iOS work where there are a lot of former Apple people that worked on Foundation AppKit clang etc in another life.
> I am curious, what kind of conditions require you to be productive on "other systems"?

For me, vnc and qemu: I haven't found an easy way to have gvncviewer use my caps-to-control-or-esc

Even just caps-to-control would make happy!
You're saying like it completely invalidates the results. It might, but you'll have to read the study and show some calculations; or it might not, I personally don't know, I'm not a statistician.

For what it's worth, the study addresses the sample size: "We aimed to recruit 22 pairs of identical twins 18 years or older, a sample size determined by resource availability rather than a formal power calculation. "
Hacking is not only for Technology Elites
I mean, compared to Hacker News in comment velocity and overall homepage change rate yeah it's a lot slower. Microscopically slow in comparison. Some people that are used to the fast-paced change of feeds like you have on bigger social media websites get used to the rapid pace of how things change. It can feel really weird when things _don't_ change that fast (such as how people bounce off of Mastodon because they don't know how to curate their feed anymore). I kinda like it, but I've been trying to break the addiction cycles of things like Twitter, so for each their own.
I use either llama.cpp or exllamav2 as the backend, but speed is mostly dependent on how many layers fit in your gpu. I'm not sure which gpu I was thinking of for that 50-100 tok/s, on my 2070 I can only get around 15 tok/s on 7b models. I have to use 1.3b models to get to 100 tok/s on this gpu.