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Ask HN: Has remote meetings changed who does well
For meetings, I like sitting in a room, (preferably a pub but beggars and choosers), and being able to see and hear real people - to get immediate feedback on how my words - the lack of audio and visual feedback (or worse the latency) makes it harder for me to form the next thought

Yet some people don’t seem to mind - either they are not making it up as they go or they are not saying new thoughts.

Either way I tend to stumble on calls and zooms - whereas I generally work much better with a room

I have noticed that the “players” at my work are changing slightly based on what I would call “phone manner”

Anyone else?
So true. Whenever I need to use it I go and look for an update first and am always relieved (and amazed) that it's still going 20 year later. Best example of software done right.
I’ve had no issues with Parallels, but their supports a bit rough.
It is the kind of engineering Teams feels like.

A glorified IRC client should run in under a megabyte of memory.
I still haven't learned any flavor of Common Lisp; I've always played with Clojure and Racket to get my Lisp fix.

Still, people who I really respect have told me that Common Lisp is "better", by whatever definition of the word. I don't really see how it'd be better than Clojure but I was curious if anyone here could explain perks of Common Lisp (any version) over other variants?
Well, see, I don't actually have a method for that. But if I did, I think my capital is low enough that I'd have more success selling it to other people than trying to exploit it myself, since the benefit would be pretty minimal if I did it with just my own savings, but could be pretty dramatic for, say, banks.
Did you read these? The first article clearly states the US is actually ramping up production better than expected and it can do even better with more support/funding. It's Europe/NATO being behind where they want to be and limitations on funding/support in the US that is causing the difference in supply, not US production struggles.
Apple added some standard vector processing instructions
This will be a useful reference for later on if not now as well. http://www.jeffreythompson.org/collision-detection/table_of_..., it covers collision between points, circles, rectangles, lines, polygons, and triangles.
>So it didn’t “spring out of thin air.”

Right. Almost nothing does.

You see, it's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
That's literally just a variant of the issue being described here.
Yes, but my point is that I can do a lot of stuff that isn't just DCops work; in fact it's a very small part of my job. I handle all the infrastructure to include cloud and some managed services as well. Kinda the nature of a small company - you just do what needs doing.
500 million observations, with 4-byte floats, is 2 GB. This is the kind of size that you can store uncompressed, in RAM, on a phone. It is hardly at the point where you require specialized time-series software at all.
What qualities do you consider unique to a "social network" system (beyond its own self-marketing or the time-period in which it arose) that aren't qualities already present in ICQ, E-mail, IRC, newsgroups, etc?
Those are questions of style.

The allegation was that ChatGPT produces answers that are wrong.
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Just logged in, there's nothing left.

I remember being so annoyed I hadn't signed up a few weeks earlier and gotten a 5-digit instead.
Element is where it's at.
Tabulated Values
Mirabilis contacted you?

I worked on some ICQ software in high school, and was the maintainer of large user base ICQ clone. I still own the domain: licq.org

Never got a single job offer, guess they saw my code and went running away ;)
It also stings that I can't pay by PayPal, so not only would I have to pay the currency exchange margin to US Dollars but my bank also changes an out-of-currency fee.

I understand that they're probably focusing on US market growth first, but the UK and EU surely have potential too.
Very cool project. I think efforts like these are among the most promising to get a FOSS WiFi cards. Because these WiFi-capable MCUs are: designed to be generally programmable, have quite a lot of open documentation, are available for purchase in both small and large quantities, have s availability over long time-frames (10 years), can tap into the larger community knowledge-base. This is in contrast to the more specialized chips that dedicated WiFi cards use.
you wouldnt believe the amount of developers that don't know how to write sql
I still feel bad I left my parents' computer online all night to download a .wav (?) audio file of Mario jumping from Nintendo.com. Back then, the closest most kids got to Nintendo was via video game magazines. So going to Nintendo.com for the first time and downloading an audio file was a special moment. The download was taking hours and I have no idea how much it cost my parents. I just remember being so disappointed the next day when it turned out to only be a 1 second audio file. THAT WAS IT?!?! I WAITED ALL THAT TIME FOR THAT? :)
Excellent point! Shah and Bender have explicitly called this out:

> Contrast this with posing the query as a question to a dialogue agent and receiving a single answer, possibly synthesized from multiple sources, and presented from a disembodied voice that seems to have both the supposed objectivity of not being a person (despite all the data it is working with coming from people) and access to “all the world's knowledge”

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3498366.3505816
Appreciate it.

Sincerely,

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Thanks for addressing it and your availability. Keen to look into how Neosync might fit my team's dev needs very soon.
So basically the next generation of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8gF0KTfMrQ
Lots of "greed", "stupidity", etc arguments here, but that is too simplistic.

There are other aspects.

* Industry/mining/some types of manufacturing are often dirty business and cause pollution, not something you love to be around. Energy consumption is also high.

* They usually come with many hard jobs that people don't exactly love to do if they have alternatives.

This can be countered with automation, but that comes with high cost and limitations that we are only now approaching solutions for (eg flexible humanoid robots with AI-driven controls).

* The big industrialization craze of the 90ies/early 2000s came about as western markets started to saturate and approach low growth rates. The hope was that lifting new countries out of poverty would create economic opportunities.
You should consider just adding a `ripped on` tag, or if you're worried about it being a bad encoding then consider re-ripping from sources into a lossless format.
>My first thought is to cram leetcode for a while but are there any better resources out there? And/or other general advice.

If you're going for staff/principal/senior engineer at Big Tech, this is necessary. (Though I don't think you'll get principal engineer interviews, maybe not even staff unless you have some really notable technical accomplishments other than just being a CTO).

However if you want to work at later stage startups you may not need much practice either.

Finally, you're going for Engineering Manager, I think you shouldn't need to do leetcode. I think most FAANGs etc are going to ask for code reviewing interviews or the like, not have you actually doing algorithmic puzzles.

You do want to practice system design interviews, depending on your skill set, you might be fine and just want to get used to the interviewing process, or you might need to study up quite a bit.
I don't disagree, but also blocking incoming requests that contain ops secrets gives you a great oracle for brute forcing what those secrets are!
>parachutes

Very easy and simple demonstration though. With a high confidence value.

Whether masks make a 1% or 0.07653 difference or whatever is very difficult.
I appreciate the encouragement and I can say that I have made some effort there. I've also faced chronic pain throughout life and am trying to face the surgery that can probably alleviate it, so I'm working on it.
Well, I guess you were lucky - legally the seller didn't have to repair it unless you proved that the glass fell off due to a manufacturing defect - just because they don't have to do it doesn't mean they won't(it's less hassle and I guess you left a happy customer not one that will go and write them a bad review).
I guess "PAID" at the top means you have to pay to read this post, not that Oxide paid them to write it.
Seriously? That is a completely different animal from the drone portrayed in the article. Anything in that league wouldn't be anywhere near cost effective vs. something like a conventional crop sprayer plane.
Well explained, +1. Didn't knew Ciechanowski is working for Apple. Such a genius!
A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years
"The agent is LLM agnostic and you can use it with OpenAI or self-hosted LLMs."
I do find it amusing that journalists never go beyond Twitter for discussion on this because this was all being confirmed on Mastodon days before any of the posts in the article
Oh yeah I can see the place for it, thanks for filling in that context, and only on HN would the original author of ModSecurity see my comment about it haha!

For my context, I’m coming from a place of adding it to very new deployments, where the needs are constantly changing, which is why it feels a bit square-peg-round-hole I think.
Happy to explain further, but first I need to know more about what you can relate to.

How do you feel about the ice cream analogy? Would you just be happy for the opportunity to eat ice cream and not be bothered by the gun to your head?
I love very confident explanations that use the word "somehow" as if we're just supposed to ignore it. It adds to the humor
‘Just’ is doing a lot here.
There's a reason Silicon Valley VCs prefer software startups: they're way, way cheaper and more agile than hardware.

As the story says, it took Oxide two years to build their networking switch, and that's just one part of their system!

Despite Silicon Valley's success starting from hardware (... it's in the name), since at least the dot-com boom the money focuses on software. See also https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/

There's still money for hardware (in case the VCs hit the jackpot on the next Cisco or Apple), but it's much harder to get their attention than for a web (... or AI) startup.

So really, kudos to the Oxide folks for pulling off shipping a product! I'm rooting for you.
Indeed, thanks! Euclidean here too ;)
Err, right, they're doing the transformations CPU-side. The blog hints that it's related to shell maps, so maybe the new mesh geometry is densest on the sharp edges?
I'm starting to think somebody has a bunch of truckloads of this stuff they gotta unload.
Your examples confirm what I said. Your "30 year" aircraft spends 2/3rds of that time literally not functioning as an aircraft.

As for my "shiny iPhone" (I don't use an iPhone) and "Good luck" using it 8 hours a day: I don't understand the hostility or how you've arrived at the belief that 8 hours a day is a long time for a phone to operate. My unremarkable phone reports a current uptime of 180 hours. You're suggesting that being unusable for 16+ hours a day is the norm, but here on Earth, if phones routinely stopped working as phones for more than a few minutes a week people would riot.

The point is that there are different kinds of machines in the world with different constraints and demands in their designs, and different operating models for how they are used. You seem to be trying to make a better/worse argument out of things share practically nothing in common and it doesn't work at all.
I'm in exactly the same boat, and I 100% agree. The OWASP ModSec rules are insanely naive, and generally your only option when you run into false positives will be to disable the rule altogether.

I think ideally you'd want to use the rules to create some kind of temporal risk score for a given IP / client. Eg, if a single IP hits your service several times in 5 minutes with suspicious requests, then you block the request. But this isn't possible so you basically have to ensure all your rules are only looking for the most obvious and suspicious requests, otherwise you're going to get far too many false positives.

The only argument I could make in favour of using it is a lot of attacks these days are automated and therefore are quite naive because they're simply poking around for holes.
526450, I think
Rethinking the kernel system call entry
Or just don't take your phone out? I always read these threads and think that the folks here probably have issues disconnecting and so they're longing for a world where social pressures forced disconnection. I still frequently don't check my socials until after work or after a long social activity. I'm upfront with my contacts about that too, and most of my friends are like me. I only monitor my phone constantly if I'm awaiting an important call or email, but then I usually have something big going on in my life at the time.
> to make sure they are stripped of dignity and comforts s

That's the point. You speak as if we do this mistakenly.

> Imagine being put in a concrete cage with only dudes, you are literally regimented by force to someone else's early-morning schedule,

Yes. I can imagine this. My imagination acts as a deterrent. I implore you to continue to urge others to imagine it, particularly those at risk of becoming criminals themselves.
I miss Adium. All my chats in one place. Beeper is trying to replicate that.

https://www.beeper.com
It's almost as if you are describing the meetings in my company (and my previous)

I think focusing on technical trivialities is a symptom of what type of experience the developers have and how the current workplace is organized.

In traditional companies, the developers are at the tail of a process that they have limited participation in. Most of the product decisions has been done by others and the developers often don't have enough contact with the business side to make any real impact.

You end up with an isolated group that can only influence technical desicions, so that's what they will focus on.

Choosing tech X vs tech Y is actually only 1 choice in a long chain of product, design and business choices that has led to the Jira ticket.
From their point of view, it seems like the most important desicion because it is taken out of context.

This is where experience is actually a good thing, because it increases the chance that you have been exposed to "the other side". They will also know that these types of decisions are not likely to be the reason why they fail.

By participating from the beginning you also tend to be more motivated by outcome. Technical discussions that don't have a real impact become less interesting.
They did a good job of describing what Oxide's product-market fit was at the beginning of this article, which I always wondered about since I couldn't see how Oxide could fit in.
> which is that the virologists and materials engineers who work on masks know something the tradespeople don't, which is a) that viruses rarely travel around as single viral particles and b) that this is why we make surgical and N95 masks electrostatically charged.

Right. Which is why we saw a great many "virologists" (who are not "maskologists", btw, so I'm not sure where we get this idea that they "work on masks" [1]) blindly assert that it didn't matter what kind of mask you wear, then for a long time defended the silly notion of a 6-foot rule (remember "ballistic droplets"? I do!), then said, "OK, cloth masks probably don't do much, but 'swiss-cheese model!'", and so on and so forth. Literally anything than just be intellectually honest about what the data says.

This entire debate has been insipid, and OP is correct: a great many people who should have known better shifted their brains into neutral and allowed slogans to drive the conversation. The entire point of the linked article is that the CDC has historically used crap studies to make causative arguments that wouldn't work in any other scientific debate.

[1] ...and let's not forget people like Jeremy Howard (philosophy major; Kaggle guy) and Zeynep Tufecki (librarian) somehow get cited as 'mask experts' and publish total gibberish in PNAS and other high-profile journals, despite having zero relevant experience. Expertise is a slippery concept when the speaker makes an argument you like!
13 years of working for startup companies (10 as CTO and 3 as CEO)

Then

My first thought is to cram leetcode

I think you need to figure out what kind of job you're actually looking for. I'm assuming you mean "something not another startup"; if you're angling for another startup gig I'm not sure why you're concerned.

If you've been a C-level for 13 years, I'm sure not going to be interested in bringing you on as a programmer (unless maybe you have a notable project I'd know about), and probably not as a line manager. It's not just that you should be wildly overqualified, but as cajunboi said, you're not used to having a boss and I'm used to managers who understand what having a boss means. I spend enough time with HR without "my new hire still thinks he's the CEO".

I would de-emphasize the C-level job titles to the extent of changing them to 'Manager' or some such, and if brought up demure with something like "hey, it was a startup...everyone was C-something". Focus on the nuts-and-bolts of doing a job, so to speak. "I managed a team of 15 people and we did X" (citing 'on time' and/or 'under budget' metrics is good here), "I did X things to keep my team happy, productive and had low turnover", "I have a track record of taking a product from inception to X revenue", "I'm a recognized industry expert through my book(s) and participation in X events". Emphasize the team aspect of your accomplishments. Tailor the pitch to the job and don't just spam out generic resumes. And as always, work your network.

FWIW, I came from the startup side too, several times CTO. Now doing my penance in the corp world. :-)
Xapp works as well as I believe Apple lets them on iOS. You need to connect via the app, tap an iOS “Join WiFi” dialog, then 30-70% through the transfer it will stop and you need to tap again “This WiFi doesn’t have Internet, disconnect or continue?” and then it succeeds most of the time.

Don’t even get me started on Fujifilm refusing to support Geotagging unless the iOS app is in the foreground though. That is entirely Fuji’s fault and their design choice because apparently users complained that “it was tracking my location when the app is closed” uh duh that’s how geotagging works, turn off location if you don’t use it.
As someone who quit WhatsApp a while back when there was a big scare about a change in ToS (and everyone was promising to jump ship to telegram/signal), I cannot overstate the importance of the network effect. For a platform with a userbase this size, the critical mass of users required to pull everyone over to a new platform is simply massive. I'm on both other platforms, and although I see many of my contacts there, they are simply not active. They prefer WhatsApp, and unless something cataclysmic happens, they'll remain there.
I think one needs to have different standards for an academic discussion versus a public health campaign.

For example, taking drinking and driving. If we're talking academically, it's an incredibly nuanced topic, and I'm sure the actual risk depends a ton on the individual, their skills, their reaction times, their built-up alcohol tolerance, and many other factors.

But if we're talking about actual individuals getting hammered and then grabbing the keys, then "Don't Drink And Drive. Ever." is about the right level for the discussion.

And I think part of the reason that it's so important to hammer home messages like that is that the people who want to do the thing that's dangerous for others will seize upon the nuances of the academic discussion, use anything that gives them permission, and absolutely ignore the rest of it. That's true of drunk drivers for sure. It was also true of smokers before they lost that battle. And of course the Andrew Wakefields of the world are great at building a whole grift around that.
Osprey Is Unsafe and Unairworthy
Toward electrochemical synthesis of cement–An electrolyzer-based process
Is the idea for these sensors to be very temporary? Human skin is constantly flaking off, and it's supposed to do that, as defense against infection.

> The bioelectronic fibres, which are repairable, can be simply washed away when they have reached the end of their useful lifetime, and generate less than a single milligram of waste: by comparison, a typical single load of laundry produces between 600 and 1500 milligrams of fibre waste.

Hmm.. so yes? Most people bathe at least a few times a week. Also, the fibre waste from laundry is also known as microplastics, aka the thing we've all already been concerned about. This will just add a bit more?
Probably the latter, but "just eating less" is next to impossible for a non-trivial minority of people much the way "just stopping heroin" would be for someone battling addiction.

An aid to help clear the noise in the brain seems to be unsurprisingly useful, then, in achieving these outcomes.
In a similar vein--or a whole vascular system--getting fMRI results from a dead fish.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ign...
I've done this in Google Sheets, with "Google Apps Script", the most horridly named thing I think I've ever worked with.

It's just (utterly ancient) Javascript (I think ECMAScript, technically, since there's no DOM, no browser, etc.), bolted on. I wrote in modern JS and used Babel to transpile the source back into the stone age.

… I'd much rather write Python.
If you ignore KMD, Elektra was reasonably artist friendly back in the day. They were able to sign some bands like the Stooges, MC5, Phish and even Del tha funkee homosapien on that basis. Selling rights over an artist’s objections (especially one as influential as Tom Waits) would have led to a lot more trouble than Frito-Lay would have been worth.

A big part of that era’s music industry was being able to convince musicians they weren’t totally fucked as soon as they signed.
It wasn't so much centralized control as just spending gobs and gobs of money. If the federal government just started handing out money to produce consumable goods and machinery today, you can bet every company in the world would be all over that.
It’s very tough to do a good double-blind parachute RCT.

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
Same for me, I could never understand the hype around their suggestions. Even random playlists like „coffee house music“ (which I exclusively turn on when friends are over) seem to be personalised to me - so much so that they pretty much immediately veer off into heavy rock or other stuff that I may have come across, but that definitely isn’t good as a chill backdrop.

And even the much-praised weekly playlist is hit or miss - sometimes it’s weeks with abhorring stuff, then for once I get a good one with two to three songs I actually like.
Boeing says its spacecraft leaking but still safe to launch astronauts next week
It’s sometimes hard to understand how you keep a business running when you’ve open-sourced your entire stack, both consumers self-hosting but even worse would be a competitor just taking what you spend R&D budget on & rehosting it with a cheaper price since they don’t need to pay for that R&D. From a business perspective, do you see the operational challenge of running your stack at scale as the differentiator?
I seek you. This was the first internet messenger I ever used. I met some people playing quake on one of the few servers I could get below 200 ping on. Netman, and BayardBrightBlade, if you're still out there, thank you for an excellent 8th grade.
Inflation still has a chance to make $3500 in 2026 dollars equivalent to the starting price of the 2016 16" MBP