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Ask HN: Books for engaging with business problems as an IC?
After a youth spent avoiding the rat race by any means possible—volunteering on farms, teaching English overseas, etc.—I find myself in my late 30s as a junior eng. IC at a tech megacorp (think 10k+ employees).

Even after 1y+ here, I continue to struggle with adapting to this environment and making myself valuable to the team/company beyond merely completing my assigned tickets. I think I am reasonably competent at the craft of building software (writing tests and documentation, identifying code smells and antipatterns, applying design patterns and particular software programming styles where appropriate); I'm even pretty good at the bureaucratic work of filing tickets, maintaining the wiki, and writing self- and peer-evals through performance review season. But I have difficulty with being a proactive member within it: in other words, having a voice, leading initiatives, or feeling qualified to make meaningful decisions (technical or otherwise).

If pressed, I could describe my team's OKRs and how my tickets move the needle on them. I could not describe what my teammates are working on, much less what adjacent teams are working on. There are a lot of design docs, architecture docs, and planning docs; I have a deluge of these tabs open, and I have a vague sense that it would be good to grok them, but when I take the time to read through them, I feel very little confidence that I understand well enough to put that knowledge to use. The only meetings I've ever scheduled were to ask for help getting unblocked on a ticket. I tend to drift off in meetings because people are almost always discussing things I have no context on and am not party to.

Can anyone recommend books that will help me engage better with the business that I work for, or get meaningful things done within it? I am not necessarily aiming for a management position, but would like to actively leverage the fact that I work in an organization: to create my own opportunities to work with people other than my manager and mentor, and in the process, to get things done for the business that is greater than the sum of us working separately.
This isn't exactly a new concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller

Tugboats use them.
Not an excuse but the Judicial Branch is woefully underfunded due to their limited leverage for funding from Congress. Two of my friends clerked for different Appeals district judges. Windows 98 and Lotus Notes were still in use.
This is why I like nano. Easily the simplest editor out there that actually feels like modern command line software and not something vestigial from the 1980s. All I need is syntax highlighting anyhow and nano checks that box after a git pull of someone elses hard work making those rules for every file format under the sun.
I used Webstorm and IntelliJ over the years, and the statement that their IDEs are super slow was true every day in the past 12 years and on every machine I had ever used them :D
Brilliant! I have no idea what the technical background of the author is but for anyone to tease apart the vast, complex, details of the GPS universe is a massive feat. Coupled with his ability to craft software to both assist his analysis and to implement the final solution, he has created a magnificent project. I've been studying GPS and worked with it professionally for a number of years and I still don't know everything about it. I'm looking forward to digging into the code. Kudos to the author!
Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)
Look for "diode laser cnc". If you search for "laser cutter" or "engraver" the results get mixed in with all kinds of larger machines.

The world of home laser apparati is kinda wild.
This would raise a lot of eyebrows in the UK. Hiring managers might wonder what you’re hiding.
Was laid off last April. After around 100 resumes, it took me about 5 months to land another position through a recruiter. It was contract to hire, but due to budget cuts I was laid off again in December. Found another contract gig that lasted 3 months, and just started another 6 month contract to hire gig.

10+ years experience in infra, very well rounded, lots of projects to show off my skills. Out of the hundreds of apps I've put in in the last year, maybe 5 call backs, got passed on in 2 interviews (was legitimately not what they were looking for, can't blame them).

It's brutal out there. I wouldn't waste your time tailoring resumes or cover letters. The call back ratio is so low it's just not worth it.
Although, there are also people who are deaf as a doornail and never get it. And you can experience it as a symptom of psychotropics.
In Canada, it seems like there’s a large and growing number of remote jobs available at US software firms through employer-of-record startups like Deel and Remote. Canadian software engineers are surprisingly cheap, relatively speaking, especially when you hire outside the Toronto area.

Economic realities mean there’s quite a bit of downward pressure on CAD right now, so this is likely to continue to be a good deal on both sides for quite a while.

I’m still getting approached by recruiters for Canadian-based remote roles like it’s 2021.
He's the company's Chief Technical Officer.
that y2k bug is delightful
I am deeply touched by the expression of a need for actual "home". I hope everyone can figure out what home is and find it. It is in some way related to self.

As a young child I moved from an extremely urban environment, to a relatively pastoral one, and then back to an urban environment. The pastoral one is the one which "stuck" with me. I now live on enough land that there's always yard work and I keep chickens; it's repetitive but changes (with the seasons), and to me that feels like "home".

My father was a psychiatrist. An NLP practitioner turned me on to a great hack (for me) of "charging up" (by handling) some object (could be a set of keys, could be almost anything) when I'm in a setting where I'm grounded, centered, at peace, etc. etc. and then handling that object when I need to "find myself".

My father in law was an origami master. This gave him the opportunity to learn from and teach others, but the practice not only helped him maintain dexterity but I think it also helped ground him in old age.

My wife is an artist. The act of making art helps her mentally process things, helps with dexterity, etc. etc. She also teaches art at a senior center. Not only does it help with dexterity, but it helps stave off dementia. "Art therapy", at least in some form, is not a joke.

Best wishes for all of you.
Sorry wheres the communism part?
I hate Pixel exclusivity and dropping past-EOL phones, but Storage Scopes (aka unveil()) is the biggest reason I stay vs switching to an alternate.

>The one that really grates on me is the last one: I don't want an OS that chooses an app developer's "don't copy this file" flag over my desire to copy it!

Wholly agree. I think we have a huge problem with loss of [device] owner-sovereignty in the economy, with enshittification, rentiering, and surveillance capitalism rising to sap away more value from customers like customers are some sort of planter garden to glean from.

Business today has become like the drug dealer business: how do we get 'em hooked and coming back for more and more? Selling a lasting quality product at a painful but fair premium is out, sucking wallets dry $1.49 at a time for somethings which last a short time before "engineered obscelescence" kicks in to force a re-buy is the in game now.
Main problems: lack of public healthcare (and only being for-profit instead) and lack of government enforcements around public healthcare.

Same thing in the UK with dental (and Doctors); clinics prefer to take private patients over NHS patients because they make more money that way.

Easily solved, the government just needs to 1: require a certain number or threshold of accepted patients per week to be public (and any contacts are submitted with type to government to track, same as passport travel) 2: apply harsher labour laws to clinics to prevent them from forcing their staff to work ridiculous overtime to make more money and cover availability 3: allow more medical students and have no idiotic unfair restrictions.

Medical industries are critical to modern society and I definitely think that there should be no limited number of places, any student that passes entrance exams should get minor scholarships to help pay for/promote this position.

We're all important to the economy but at the end of the day all comes down to medical staff when any of us get sick, no matter which industry we work in ourselves.
Looks like boats date back about 12 Ky: https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~vaucher/History/Ships/Prehisto...

Seems odd that a technical revolution of some profound technologies (e.g. ships, agriculture, stable settlements, apparently novel social structures) seems to have started that millennium, leading to relatively rapid technological development up to today. The first ~260 Ky of human development seems to have resulted in less technological development then that single millennium.
Same except for me it was covid. It's likely caused by eustachian disfunction and they've all told me it takes so long to correct itself.
Commodore 64 outperforms IBM's quantum systems
That little extra thing, that soothing/warm Windows 95 chime is what's missing from today's things.
An Introduction to Large Language Models
That would make a lot more sense, yes.
Until you start firing emails and texts to your production customers :-)

That aside, I think Neon is pretty cool. I will wait some time to see how stable a service it is, whether price hikes happen often, or whether VC money destroys it.

I think Autora for me is too pricey, but I settled for self hosting PG on Hetzner. I'm there bc Hetzner has been stable for me for years. What I fear the most is having to migrate a db off of some service bc I stopped being their target audience. I know this sucks for startups trying to make it but a risk is a risk. I'll wait and see.
As an EE grad, I would still consider what you did to be “from scratch”. Yes, the RF side is complex, but for the purposes of GPS, it is also generic enough to abstract out. Nice work.
If you are primarily trying to provide quality content for a few long-time viewers, you could try a discord stage channel. It'll destroy your discoverability, but for people who are already there, it's probably the best streaming platform there is atm
I’m already paying for a bunch of subscriptions on Twitch. Why am I expected to pay another $10 to block ads.
Bittorent created a p2p streaming technology like 5 years ago.
I think you need python3.11 for that syntax.
You missed the point entirely.

The base level Porsche is absolutely slow compared to the top-end.

The base level Tesla has vastly less range than the top-end.

The base level card from NVidia is a joke compared to the top end.

Companies make a range of products to suit a range on consumers and needs.

The idea that the cheapest, smallest and lightest laptop Apple make should be more geared towards pros is laughable, doubly so when they literally have a product called "Pro" that doesn't precisely what you want.
What country? I'm seeing $12/mo for turbo and $14/mo for YT Premium
I think we'll just have to disagree on this "subtle" point.
So does this means that in recent days there wasn't GPS jamming but GPS satalites were broadcasting fake signals? In south Turkey people were appearing to be in Beirut airport.

Also see this one: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1148748/War-zone-GPS-jamming-se...
US steel was a poster child of government capture
Just to be a little clearer, jamming and spoofing are the not the same thing. Jamming obfuscates a signal, usually through noise. Spoofing impersonates the signal.
Show HN: AI Copilot for Modern Marketing Teams
Hey HN'ers! Hope you're doing well

Today I'm launching this startup that I've been working on for some months now.

It's an AI copilot for Modern Marketing Teams.

Basically you describe your business to us. Be it by a simple text description, or something more complex like uploading images, powerpoint presentations, word docs, etc...
Anything that you upload will be used by a LLM to then:

1. Brainstorm content ideas

2. Turn those content ideas either into visual social media posts (we do linkedin and instagram carousels for now)

3. Written content like blog posts, ad copy, cold emails etc... (where we do provide a real time collaboration feature thanks to liveblocks!)

Besides those main features we also allow you to:

- Create your own brand voice, so you don't sound robotic like all other ChatGPT generators.

- Define Brand Safety Rules. These are strict rules that aren't based on AI so you are perfectly sure that your texts ALWAYS follow these rules.

Thanks in advance, I hope you like the tool. I'm open for your feedback

Mike

PD: Obligatory Tech Stack:
- Next.js

- Prisma

- PostgreSQL

- tRPC

- zod

- TailwindCSS

- Shadcn/ui

- LiveBlocks

- ChatGPT API

- TipTap editor

- Posthog
The problem is you're summarizing bland fake information, though.

There are entire categories of searches that I've now given up on. Want to remove <x> stain from <y> fabric? You can only find SEO-optimized results (not just Google ; DuckDuckGo and Qwant are the same) which will always tell you

- use vinegar

- use baking soda

- use both!

- try lemon

- if all fails, try (insert guaranteed epic fail recipe eg ammonia mixed with salt)

There you go, I just "summarized" thousands of those websites for you. Now try it on your real-word stain?

I think we're going back full-circle to calling Mom and do what she'll recommend.
Yes, you are of course right. The comment was maybe a bit too passive aggressive. Sorry about that. There are more things to consider than just the terms of service and a moral or implied obligation of course extends past twitch and amazon to the content creators.

I wanted to point a bit toward the moral failings of the service providers themselves, which are many, in regards to ads and, in particular, tracking.
Same. I also ended up getting dry/itchy inner ear and was given a steroid oil to put in my ear and to my surprise it also helps out my tinnitus for a day or 2 after using it.
Only a factor of 20 higher than the equivalent 16tb spinning rust. Not as bad as I expected to be honest.
I'd read "moving in one direction with Brown motion" to mean Brownian motion plus a linear term.
If margin trading causes you to lose the asset, its value goes to zero, hence log of that could be said to be negative infinity.

(I'm not endorsing or disputing the conclusion of the comment).
> For me, indeed KDE 3.5 has been the best graphic desktop that I have ever seen.

I agree wholeheartedly with this. I miss KDE 3.5.
Why?

Are you sure it is more environmental to keep all the computers, the network and other related infrastructure running (powered on, security updated, etc.) than it is to print and distribute banknotes every so many years and associated costs with that?
And will be ruled legal in a 6-3 vote.
In the US at least I think this time is usually 10 seconds.

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coverage/evidence/cpap
Kinda sounds like "client side connections to postgres" was the poor decision at root of your security concerns, not the choice of provider
Perfect! I have my GPT-Based Interviewee.ai ready to go to interact with your Bot. It's been trained on my personal repos and writing and can answer just as I would! Now I can interview for hundreds of jobs simultaneously!
/s

Actually, thanks for creating this. It's a perfect screening device for companies I would NEVER want to work for.
Seriously. If you employ a service like this to fully dehumanize job candidates, then you are definitely NOT the kind of shop I would ever want to work for.
It's the key to their success and other schools are crazy not to do it. But also I think their program is just straight up better.

OTOH, after successfully recruiting from Waterloo for over a decade, my company's recruiters suddenly decided to stop because it was more work for them even though it has consistently given great results.

It's a decision we've been fighting but our recruiting org won't budge.
4 years ago.
I used VPN that was setup in my house not a public one. I clarified with the bank - they saw me logging in from my country and then used my card in SF and blocked me. Private exit node will not help.
I feel the same way - I forget I have it until I read about it, then i can hear it again (unless I've had too much salt or caffeine or something)
Yep, I've become excellent at ignoring it, only about 2% of the time does it get bad enough to be bothersome or noticeable. I always comment on these "this will make your tinnitus go away" posts with be careful, you may find it makes the times you can't use the device or product even worse because now you have a taste of real silence!
And those phones are behind an equivalence of CGNAT so the whole dream of "no NAT" is utterly not true for most IPv6 deployments.
Because the plan is $11.99/Month for something I could get for free. All the other benefits (Chat Badge, Custom Username, More Emotes...) are irrelevant for me personally. I'd maybe pay $4.99/Month for no ads, but I'm not paying $12.

If Discord can offer me a Nitro and Nitro Basic, where the Basic plan pretty much has all the features I need for less than half the price 2.99 vs 9.99, so can they offer me a plan for just ad blocking, which is the main feature people want in the first place, either that, or they offer me something else that justifies me having to pay a premium for something I can get for free.

Not to mention that like many other people, I'm already indirectly supporting them through other means such as donations to specific streamers which they take a high cut of.

TL:DR: $12 is a lot of money for what they offer when I already support the people I watch and they siphon from that.
Can’t you trivially deface an identifier?
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Exactly what I was thinking of, too. It was freshmeat.net[0], got sold, renamed (to "Freecode"), then died.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode
I know people say that, but I also know quite a few people who learned English after that age who sound "native". All of them now live in English-speaking countries.
IPv6 behind an equivalence of NAT is. :D
Ideally, the rankings should be associated with a time period. Something ranked high... but all those high rankings are from 2 years ago, and there's been none since... that's a different signal that current high rankings and current code changes.
Very little harm... If the telemetry is from your users I'd like you to value them more than that.

Also consider the potential risks of handling personal data and leaks.
People are brainpower and labor. They are fungible. Its politics and religion that tries to make you think this person with a brain and two hands is fundamentally different than this other person with a brain and two hands.
That usb a to usb a cable is beyond cursed.
Yes. I have domains with internet.bs and buy email hosting separete from https://www.infomaniak.com/en

Just put your domain name for registration. It will say it is registered already but then offers you the option to buy email hosting. I think it is 18 Euros for 5 Email accounts per year. It is based in Switzerland.

Australian fastmail may be better - I don't have experience myself - but it starts at 60 dollars a year. Maybe someone who is a user can give feedback here.

Regarding infomaniak: They offer a free email service (without your own domain). Maybe you try it out to get a feel if this is right for you and your domain: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/free-email

And hands off to apps that have a registration code. E.g. pleco. They are not linked to your email and you don't lose them if your gmail is gone...
My experience was I was 100% ignored by companies using Lever or Greenhouse for their applications. I don't know if that's a sign of their company processes, some bit of info on my resume, or if those tools offer the recruiter girls a quick way to ignore/filter out certain people, but FYI. I don't bother with applying to those anymore.
Sexual diversity is a sensitive topic for a practical reason. Lifetimes of suppression with continuing waves of thoughtless or damaging bullshit.

If you are going to post something in public on diversity, be careful to avoid casual speculation that just adds to the all too prevalent bullshit.

Also don’t hijack discussions with real physicists with “interesting” casual non-expert theories. They are “sensitive” to that.

I.e. understand your audience, understand the context of the topic. Be realistic about the quality of what you might say, and where. Different topics or forums require higher standards, for genuinely good reasons.
SanDisk is still SanDisk and I don't consider them to be Western Digital. Their products have always been dodgy and I still have heartburn over some of their thumb drives where it was impossible to remove the shovel-ware installed on them. It will continue to be nothing other than Samsung products for me in the foreseeable future.
This is a fair point. Including them is a little weird in the first place and totally a red flag.
When Neon goes down twitter lights up, we haven't had it for a long time now.

Internally we are measuring the number of projects under 5 min in the last 30 days and it's been lower double digits over 700K+ total databases under management.

A TON of effort is going there, twice a week standups, tightening our processes and quality across the board, a standing item in our monthly board meetings. While stability is black and white, what goes into delivering it is a long tail of small and large improvement and a major team effort.

We will also update the status page soon.
As an addendum, it occurs to me that the article's authors could have looked up the public statements that these aids these were referring to and so have given the reader an idea what bills she was opposing as contrasted with what bills she favored. But I could find no mention of this in the article.
Blessed work. Terry would be proud.
> Early race cars were not paragons of safety

They were death traps, racing drivers were way more cautious back in those days because any slightly severe accident was likely to result in death or severe injuries. Reliability was garbage too so basically just crossing the finish line was a great result.
The fast TTFF on a typical modern device e.g. your phone is because the device has the Internet, and so it can obtain all the information it needs from the Internet up front, it isn't magically brute forcing everything needed, that's not practical at all.

The 12.5 minutes includes a rough multi-week almanac which you could perhaps brute force given available compute and receive capability (original GPS receivers have a single channel receiver and minute compute capability) but they more importantly include the ephemerides, precise data about exactly where the birds are and the atmospheric conditions, replaced hourly by a ground station. You can't "brute force" these - they're parameters measured by someone with objective truth like "I, a massive NASA satellite ground terminal in Florida, am definitely not moving, therefore this GPS bird #14 is 0.08 metres away from where it should be, I will adjust the data for the next hour accordingly".
Two books helped convince me this effect was "real" enough to try it: The Oxygen Advantage and Breathe.

A ~year later, anecdotal evidence: it works.
There's money to make with a Chrome extension that flags comments contrary to your beliefs and tags them as "likely AI-generated misinformation" while highlighting the "report" button.
Revived the Network Utilities GUI for macOS
Network Utilities on macOS has been deprecated for a while now, leaving all of us to rely on the terminal. Not that the terminal is bad, but there's still a couple of people preferring a minimalist GUI, so i built one. Feel free to try!