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Show HN: Pagecord – Effortless blogging from your inbox
Hey HN

I’ve been at a loose end for the past few days so I decided to build a thing. I’m largely devoid of original ideas so I built a (micro-) blogging app with a slight twist: you run it using email.

All you need is an email account. No new tools to wrangle. No password to forget.

Compose in your favourite email editor and send to a secret address. Pagecord does the rest.

It's great for bloggy long-form writing, but it’s maybe even more fun for micro-blogging your thoughts as you would a Twitter feed (you can subscribe to people/blogs using RSS).

I figured nobody would pay so it's entirely free (I do accept donations ).

I put together a short video for the home page which shows it in action. There’s an FAQ at https://pagecord.com/faq and you can see my actual feed at https://pagecord.com/pagecord.

That’s it. Just a bit of fun, but maybe some people will enjoy it. Let me know what you think and have a lovely day!

-- Olly
In text analysis people usually get better results in many-shot scenarios (supervised training on data) vs zero-shot (give a prompt) and the various one-shot and few-shot approaches.
Meta does this too. My guess it appears as some signal to some "AI" somewhere that this is Legit Bad Stuff, and they then send it over to an underpaid overworked exploited moderator somewhere who doesn't care, and just takes it to the next level.
> and we've had a rash of folks come in, learn what they can, and then depart, leaving us to repeat the cycle all over again. It's taking a toll, so we're actively seeking people who are committed to the long run so that the energy we invest in education has a decent return.

In my experience this may be a sign that your company does not offer anything that retains people.

If people conclude that there is no growth opportunity and/or that the overall conditions are poor they will leave within 2 years even if they want to be committed for the long run.
I'm not saying this is the case for you, but often when companies have recurring problems with retention it's because of some underlying issue: culture, perceived lack of professional development opportunities, low pay, etc.

These issues might affect even new hires joining with the best of intentions.
I actually mentioned this in the article! That's a nice catch on the L2 cache reasoning and modulo idea, that saves on spenny heap allocations everywhere.

I did the first sweep of optimisations to kill the super-slow regex and turn the slowest operations into a set matching operation.

I considered pre-processing all the potential interesting codes, reducing everything to a simple dict/set matching, but by that point the actual operation to generate OTPs was orders of magnitude slower than everything else, so there would be negligible user-facing benefit to doing so.
I agree 100%, but alas; it's come down to the silly "This is what I did yesterday...this is what I plan on doing today...I am/am not bocked". It is a waste of time, hense the disdain. But if your team does do DSU in this (silly) fashion (most teams I've been on do), at least my gem is fun, and helps you remember the silly things you need to :)
Right, I try not to be too prescriptive, so apologies for taking the worst read of what you said and assuming you wanted to be in the headset straight 6 hours. :D

I'm not short, so I definitely appreciate having a desk where my monitors let me hold my head higher. I just don't know how much the extra monitor space really helps me. Especially tough as any change in setup usually gives me an initial boost.

I find the VR ideas interesting, but I am rather turned off from the ideas that were shown in the advertising for this one. Games and maybe in flight use seem nice. Games I already have with the psvr2. In flight... I just don't fly that often. Everything else, my home is way too chaotic for some of it, maybe?

At any rate, annoyed with myself for seeming like I'm attacking your idea here. That was rude of me. I'm genuinely curious on what got people to pick this up over other VR solutions. I think VR has gotten way better than folks realize and that most people have written it off.
The economy and where you live / are willing to work will play a much larger role in how easy or hard it will be for you to find a job. Right now, the job market for software engineers is shit. Maybe 8 years ago, when tons of money was slushing around and both big tech and startups were paying well even for new grad hires, you could take career risks much worse than trying to start your own company.
Really appreciate it! :)
That's an interesting perspective. I wonder if the screening rejections/silence have anything to do with the history seen on the resumes; eg, 10 yrs of experience in 1 to 2 year stints, vs having worked in only two orgs but for say 4 and 6 years.

I've always heard that the best strategy to raise your salary is to change jobs every couple of years. Could this be the flip-side of that?
Depends whos asking (actually of course I do), my email is on my profile.
>Architecture -> scale

Yeah, "scale > architecture" assumes that those are indepedent, whereas architecture affects scaling reach, needs, and options.

Also would a Perceptron with the original architecture do what an LLM does just given scale?
> most people never reach the point where they can actually have meaningful social interactions

There are many parts of the world where this is untrue. For instance, where I live I would say most people are bilingual to A2 or better, and the well educated are C1 or better in multiple tongues. Even for fairly localised trades like farming, it's highly recommended to do the apprenticeship in a different language region (which really should result in B1 or better).

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I've left and come back 3 times in my career. It was absolutely no problem to come back--until my beard turned grey. After that, you are looking at a 6-18 month job search.

P.S. You can do irreparable damage to your career just sitting in your cubicle too. Or have it irreparably damaged by something which is 100% outside of your control.

Nobody can predict the future--if you really want to know what's going to happen, go make it happen.
I’m actually quite happy with how it’s done, but I know many others aren’t.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing, it's just so unexpected that every time I see it it fascinates me.
They, in turn, will be front-run by the availability checking service.
This is actually really clever. Future employers often don't know how to interpret a role like CEO.
I have so many problems with nextcloud! It kills itself from time to time, often during updates. Randomly problems with folder rights when everything was working before. It's slow and the code is php. The official documentation and forum are a mess.

I have a lot of files, the database is not able to handle them correctly, even the cleaning commands take hours and do not work.. I regularly lose files in the database and need to re-upload them from the file in the server..

The app on Android has a lot of issues synchronizing my files, too many too often I guess.

I'm hoping to see a good alternative to nextcloud one day.
An endoscopic sensor capsule for real-time gastrointestinal pressure monitoring
Around the start of this year, I did around five interviews for a 160k role, then got ghosted for about two weeks before getting rejected for "not being a startup culture fit". I think they just liked someone else better and gave me a generic reason, but it hurt that I got all the way to the final stage of the application process and still didn't make it. Delayed my job search by about a month, made me dream up all sorts of future plans that I'll never actually be able to afford. Devastating.
Care to explain what exactly "may be illegal" in this case?
I'm just a touch disappointed that this thread is still dominated by neural-network methods, often that apply similar architectures as LLMs to other domains such as vision transformers.

I'd like to see something about other ML methods such as SVM, XGBoost, etc.
How do you filter for that at the resume/interview stage? Beyond just looking for resumes that don't have a lot of jumping around?
About 5 recessions in my life's rear view mirror and looks as if we're in one now. For those of you new to this, and if we're in-fact in a recession:

- Almost any job is preferred over no job at this time.

- Some cities in the US are a bit less impacted by recession (eg. Omaha, Nebraska), or have labor shortages because the area offers zero glamour and zero Starbucks.

- Technical skills are needed by USGOV, directly and generally not via body shops. Your country needs you if you're in the US.

- US has a shortage of skilled blue collar labor. Welding, electricians, plumbing, fabrication, etc. Manufacturing in the US is on the rise, though likely never to achieve the rhetorical aims of policy makers. Consider a career change.

Recessions are an inescapable event in any economy, and we were/are overdue. Bad times separate well run and well capitalized businesses from those less so. Such times reward productivity innovations. And, those of you resilient enough to persist & position yourselves smartly - get rewarded during the next boom cycle.
Transformers are really more general than seq-to-seq, maybe more like set-to-set or graph-to-graph.

The key insight (Jakob Uszkoreit) to using self-attention for language was that language is really more hierarchical than sequential, as indicated by linguist's tree diagrams for describing sentence structure. The leaves of one branch of a tree (or sub-tree) are independent of those in another sub-tree, allowing them to be processed in parallel (not in sequence). The idea of a multi-layer transformer is therefore to process this language hierarchy one level at a time, working from leaves on upwards through the layers of the transformer (processing smaller neighborhoods into increasingly larger neighborhoods).
These days I feel like spider man swinging from in app browser to safari to another in app browser to open in app. Sometimes switching 3-4 browsers before getting to my destination. Absolutely ridiculous, and should certainly be eliminated.
I work at Grafana, and we be hiring, I posted on the Who's Hiring in January and that was a big mistake. I've posted before (probably 6 times a year as I miss the 1st sometimes) and had few to no responses, but in January I had over 50 responses in the first few hours, and it continued to elicit responses for the next week.

Employers are swamped right now, there are a lot of people seeking few positions. I've gone from giving personal replies and spending time on most applicants, from spending time sourcing, to just trying to keep up with the inbound applications.

It's obviously a very hard market right now, and I feel for those who are searching in this climate.
I would recommend contacting your local police department in a less roundabout fashion. Often smaller municipalities base all their policing on citizen complaints. Especially if they are civil.
If i may ask, what made you switch your field?
From my limited vantage point (in-laws) this is normal in the Filipino culture. My wife and I moved away from her parents so we didn't do this but her sister's kids were probably a 70/30 split in being at the grandparents' house. Her cousin's kids were the same. In fact, many of them would send the kids to the Philippines for months at a time where the grandparents lived to be raised by them. It felt really odd to me at first but that's more because it wasn't how I was raised plus I didn't have any grandparents that were still alive when I grew up.
Well, I'll say this - I've gotten a lot more responses this month than ever before. Although I have to turn them down because the positions are onsite only.

Luckily I'm employed full-time. But my pay isn't good at all, so I've been exploring other options.
this sort of comment is extremely common from people using languages that don't allow for abstractions that reduce LOC, like Go and Python.

cause or effect? who knows.
Off the top of my head:

- Cloudflare

- Webserver-level user-agent blocking (Apache, nginx)

- Application-level user-agent blocking (`if request.user_agent == 'OpenAI'`)

None of them are ideal since you can simply change your user agent, but all of them seem like better options than robots.txt to me.
Are you concerned about cost? There are linear-time and space algorithms for unification and they are algorithms (i.e. guaranteed to terminate).
Nothing will "move". Think of it as "cp", not "mv".
Not rejected as per say, but about 12 months ago I applied for a role in Intercom. Strangest, downright oddest interview shuttle bus I've ever hopped on.

First up was a screener with one non technical recruiter, final question of the interview was something like "would you be open to other roles too?". I said sure, but I was mainly interested in the role I applied for.

End up moving to the next stage with a technical interview, same question at the end of that.

Third interview was with someone else for a completely different role. I asked what about the first role and the recruiter put me back on a screener with the same non technical guy I had talked with the previous week.

This guy then said they'd filled the other role I didn't initially want, that the role I had originally applied for was still open but if I'd consider other roles again. I responded that I'd actually like to try for, you know, the role I'd actually applied for in the first place. Recruiter says sure...

Then silence, haven't heard from them in about a year.
Yeah, as an interviewer at a large tech company, it’s not uncommon to get 300+ applications for a role (if it’s remote OK and we don’t set many pre-filters), do a dozen phone screens, and 4 interview loops to fill a single position.

In the relatively awesome market in 2021 I did 70+ applications, 10+ screens, 4 loops, and ended up with 2 offers. And that was all as an internal transfer, with tends to be a little easier.
"Only the paranoid survive" :)

Mentally preparing for failure is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, but it's not about "feeling sad" and "giving up", but about thinking through all the things that may ruin your business. You'll also be less shocked when you do fail.
I switched to hetzner hosted 'own domain' a few weeks ago, which includes webmail (I use thunderbird client). YouTube failed to delete, even though I'd deleted all content a couple years back, but deleting the complete google account worked! (and feels great!)

Funny thing was that I was then blocked from sending email to other gmail accounts. Turns out there are a couple simple switches in the hetzner web interface to enable some of the anti-spam measures these big tech receivers require.
Does it though? The congestion is a "tragedy of the commons" problem. Being stuck in traffic sucks for everybody regardless of income.

If rich people pay enough to keep driving on the roads frequently, funds (and maybe even space for buses/rail) can be reclaimed to make transit that much better. The rich people pay for the privilege of driving and transit riders get better service, a win/win.

NYC can't solve income inequality in the US. It's pretty much globally true that everything is better for rich people, everywhere.
No. I was planning to write up about my findings but never got to it. I may have some graphs laying out somewhere. To my knowledge, the normal/power law distribution idea is my original idea and have never read anybody refer to it. I have written few times about it on this site, and few people appear to have picked the idea up. But you don't have to take my word on it being a real phenomena, just look at the data.
I never said it made you violent, only that it provides an outlet for distraction.
Correct, the article actually mentions the birthday problem somewhere. Even with 10k codes (2 days) you get dozens of duplicates, so I'd say it's potentially even more common.

Sextuples are 1 in 100,000, so something like every 50 days (per account).
You sound incredibly naive. Good luck enjoying technology when all you get to do is manual labor to feed the machine. Everything else will be done "for us", with the rich people in charge of it all.
A dozen applications is not very much. Anecdotally, I've heard from a few folks that the funnel these days looks something like this: 100 applications -> 10 interviews -> 1 offer. Doesn't mean that you should be shotgunning your resume to every conceivable job (this happens a lot right now and hiring managers are overwhelmed), but it is a numbers game and you need to widen the top of the funnel.
The body does that under circumstances of low calorie intake. The case study I posted shows a person developing keto acidosis just from following a ketogenic diet, it’s a well documented risk of ultra low carbohydrate diets if you bother to look. It happens frequently in people using these diets to treat diabetes, it just happens to be less dangerous than Type II diabetes.
Whimsy is what I aim for. Really appreciate the praise! :)
It's crazy you think we don't want our jobs automated away. The whole point of automation is to reduce human labor. Mind boggling people literally choose to want to have to labor even if it is no longer necessary.
You massively overestimate how deserted Australia is. Most of the population of Australia lives in the greener areas near the coast, which has a much more moderate climate.

...also I doubt anyone from e.g. Brisbane would need to be told about mold and condensation.
Pay enough so it doesn't make sense to hop jobs.
To everyone struggling to get hired:

Start your own thing.

Seriously.
That's an extremely easy change as well, I'll pop a TODO in
Those lost jobs might mean other markets have less demand.
The title is accurate. The linked Instagram post clearly states that the account was frozen.

> This is a very common and reasonable policy.

Common? Maybe. Reasonable? Debatable. At least the response isn't proportionate. Not even remotely. Locking people out of their digital lives like that is not okay.

> none of them are being straightforward about exactly what happened

That's some cheap victim blaming. It's hard to see this type of vague unfalsifiable claims as being made in good faith. Especially considering that you haven't even bothered to read the actual claims of the victim that you accuse of being unforthcoming.
As long as advertisers don't turn it into a giant Pepsi logo.
I am someone who has 'done my own thing' for more than 35 years at this point - i.e. direct contracting with my own clients, occasionally working on some 'side' project I hope I could sell, and even took a FT position here and there when the right opportunity came along.

My feeling is it has not hurt my career at all, and more likely made it better - having your own company, with your own clients and working on lots of things you learn lots of skills you likely won't learn grinding it out for mega-corp year after year.

Other big bonus is, on my resume - there are no gaps - I was either on someone else's payroll (for me less than 5 years of my 35 years of work) or doing my own thing - I never had a recruiter or hiring manager question 'gaps' - on paper I was 100% employed at all times, which is easy to say if you have your own little corp - even if you were technically idle at times.

IMO if you have some money to get thru thru for a while (i.e. you won't be homeless if you don't get a check every two weeks), this is the perfect economy for doing your own thing.
Their business is in the doldrums.
Other side, I put out a job req for a remote react dev position a month ago and got 1k applications in a week. 95% were automated spam.
This is eh very common in many parts of the world. I myself have probably spent more time with my grandparents than my parents at certain times of my life. Often this happens if grandparents and parents live closeby and children cant go to daycare for whatever reason.
> Surely this must be a factor in people in expensive western markets?

Yea, this was/is my main fear with remote work. It will "even out" the pay ranges across the globe...not perfectly (due to language, timezone, regulatory, and general cultural barriers), but the imbalance will be less severe as western salaries come down and int'l salaries rise from the new demand. I expect this to happen over the course of 5-10 years, not overnight, but seems like the early signs are already there now that Covid is 4 years old.
Good luck.

The age of committing yourself to a company for ten years is over. That’s a recipe for obsoleting yourself ten times over. You’ll also miss out on the best talent, since by definition they have lots of options. I wouldn’t want to work at a place that filters by that criteria, on that basis alone.

It might seem like this is a reasonable thing to you, especially right now that the season is tough for programmers. But it’s an illusion.
> Interestingly, Drew DeVault, the creator of sourcehut, forks redis (into redict) in Codeberg, not in sr.ht:

Apparently so as to avoid even the appearance of favouring his own financial interests. At least astute, maybe even noble.
Per dev yeah, though this does sort of disincentivise keeping stuff online if you're not shipping regularly.
"irreparable damage to my career"

You're doing irreparable damage to your soul by not trying it out.
There is no real way to handle the influx of applications these days since it's so easy to apply, especially on platforms like LinkedIn. I just take the first X and try to find a qualified applicant. I'm at a small company, we simply can't process 1000 resumes.
They did but that’s a bit different as while it’s not your real card number it’s not a tokenized payment in the background. It’s still just a PAN and security code.
Can you ban someone from walking to the store if it is less than a mile away? Or riding their bicycle to work if it is less than 4 miles away? If your government can do that, cars are not going to save you from the totalitarian dictatorship you are living under.
Like most cells, brain cells have DNA. I don't think this is saying that the memory is directly encoded in the DNA, but that when a memory is formed (in this case a fear response), that can lead to breaks in neuronal DNA, and loose DNA in cells triggers the immune system, which then tries to repair the damage.
How to Tame Technical Debt in Software Development – InfoQ
How many people looking for jobs though have a 10 year stint with a company on their resume? It's probably pretty uncommon outside of some traditional tech employers like IBM where I know people who have been there for 25+ years.

On the other hand, if the resume is all 1-3 year segments, yeah, there's no reason to think you're going to be different.
For the past year it's been a hirer's market. Applied to 30 positions I'm perhaps overqualified for, all form letter rejected. Recruiters ask me for a call, I reply back and say what's a good time, ghosted; we actually scheduled a time, I'm ready and waiting, ghosted. The positions are listed but nobody's in a hurry to fill them.
Many of China's Belt and Road projects underfunded
Yes, it is; it's as irrational as seamstresses complaining about looms.
Taylor Swift is a startup
He sounds charming:

“ Arnell has been compared to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, meaning you could fill a book with horror stories about his cruel behavior—screaming at people, even hitting them. "He has this remarkable capacity to be both the most intoxicating character—lovable, brilliant, seductively intellectual—and then turn on a dime and be staggeringly cruel," says a former business associate, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of alienating Arnell. This person recalls Arnell humiliating employees by making them get down and do push-ups in front of clients. "He is unencumbered with any sense of morality. Until you experience it firsthand, it's just completely and utterly unfathomable."”
Retention is a problem with your company, not with candidates.

If you need people to stay 5 years then give them a gracious 5 year vesting schedule