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Seeking an engineer for UI/UX work on a small Vue website. Desirable experience with Mapbox/Maplibre, TypeScript, Vue, D3, Observable Plot, and in general making things intuitive and beautiful.

Email in profile.
Paraphrasing Seth Godin: do you want your heart surgeon greeting you before surgery by authentically telling you about the big fight he just had with his wife this morning?
I'm not in this field so I don't have time to read these documents. But I checked it out, and...from my understanding the document describes that they can't see your passwords because they do on device export+encrypt and new device decrypt+import.

Is it like that in reality? Should be easy to confirm with a MITM Transparent Proxy, someone should try to find out. Just out of curiosity.

It's exciting to find a company like Apple making a mistake, and they do make mistakes, but boy do they have quality software and it's getting better by the day. Just have a look at their SDK and interfaces: uniform and practical.
Show HN: I automated Next.js deploy to Hetnzer VPS
Got a bit tired of unpredictable Vercel bills and created a way to automatically deploy in a Hetzner VPS.

- Commit push deploys to VPS

- Easy setup of a VPS

- SSL and Nginx config automatically

Made it easy to:

1. login with github

2. add hetzner api key

3. create VPS

4. select github app

5. add DNS

6. voila, app deployed. Every new commit updates with blue/green deploy

also handy to add redis or whatever else to same VPS
If it's only a slight bubble, then it's much less water escaping than in conventional cooking techniques. Frying potatoes give off so much water it gives the impression of a rolling boil.
First of all, you should be aware that Stripe was founded by two guys from Ireland and it's based in San Francisco. This is the epicenter of the American political left. This is the side of American politics that cares about worker's rights, treatment, etc.

Ignoring that, your characterization isn't accurate at all for American software companies in my experience. I'm an American and I've worked overseas in Australia. In addition, most of the current technical team that I am currently on is based in the UK.

If anything, I've found other western cultures to be more discouraging of openly challenging management decisions. However, the differences are very very small. Working for a UK/Australia/German company is exactly the same as working for an American company. The day-to-day culture depends a lot on the people who run the company rather than their nationality. Trust me, there are jerks everywhere in the world.
Shit the top is in, time to sell NVDA and buy INTC.

Was fun ride.
Neuroscientist here, been teaching my kids since they were really little to power down: lights off, slower and slower breathing, time to say goodnight to our adventures and thoughts as we’ll have more tomorrow. They are consistently asleep by 7-ish.

Curious if anyone here was taught how to fall asleep by their parents or school? We teach our kids so much, but we don’t seem to teach the importance of sleep as well as we teach the importance of brushing your teeth or nutrition.
I mean theoretically that makes sense? If you get more value for something it increases the chance of buying it? But I also have no idea if this statement is true.
keeping people in cardboard? Is that like singing under plywood?

If you're barefoot, far better to pass under Steghorn and Daubenhorn. Even Ötzi had grass-insulated moccasins: https://exarc.net/issue-2023-2/at/reconstructing-otzis-shoes

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOUi0PVTXw

(does discriminating by ranges of continuous spectra instead of at monochromatic points bring us back to Banach?)
I needed to get a 100+ gb image to a coworker remote once and after fighting with it for a while we just said screw it and created a torrent. No third parties. No relays. Just us.

Worked well enough then we promptly forgot how to do it again when we needed it.
> I think my reference was 3DGPL, unfortunately can't find a live link to that.

This one[1], code being here[2]?

> surprisingly it doesn't do perspective-correct texture mapping

Yeah it was covered in some other document, can't recall which. I have some memory of fatmap3, but I can't find any references to it, and any files I had were on my IBM Deathstar[3]...

[1]: https://www.gamers.org/dEngine/rsc/

[2]: https://www.gamers.org/dEngine/rsc/3dgpl/code/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...
Sure. I was specifically talking to people browsing hacker news, which have a high probability of working a job in the capitalist economy. Of course there are other ways of life, but the predominant part of humanity does not choose those. So I still think it’s appropriate to talk about ”all of us“ in this case.
You are not your code, but putting my code up to be torn apart in a PR definitely feels like being vulnerable to me. It's a good thing for it to be torn apart and scrutinized, so as to make the product better, which is what we're all after, but it still touches a nerve when the reviewer is an ass about it.
Tears for Fears – Dancing to Their Own Trauma ("Mad World") (Trash Theory) [video]
Embeddings are indeed great.
I have been using it a lot.

Even wrote about it at:
https://blog.dobror.com/2024/08/30/how-embeddings-make-your-...
I'm going through the same path right now, building my own product, and while I do indeed feel like it taught me tons, I don't want lessons, I want to get a business off the ground!
This has nothing to do with "Who is hiring?"

Personally, i don't feel pity with people who gamble more than they can afford to lose.
Figure out what you want to build.
Figure out how much you will need to build it.
Now cut that in half and only build the most important parts.

-Dropped out, no connections, still built stuff.
> That can only be a bug - UTF-32/UCS-4 never saw external use

I regularly use `iconv -t utf-32be | hd` to look what a bizarre sequence is denoting yet another weird symbol like an itchy hedgehog.

And what is a real reason to disallow this?
Financial institutions told to clean house before next CrowdStrike strikes
I have an i7 12th gen thinkpad and the fans would often be audible when I first got it with Windows 11. Then I installed linux. Now the fan is only audible when something has gone wrong and a process (usually chrome) is pinning a core.
I also agree with this sentiment but at the same time I think it boils down to how you interpret these things , for op it was one of the greatest things but to somebody else , this makes boss not likeable.

I think this shows that the boss was going out of his way which I "personally" appreciate.

I don't know what people expect managers / boss to do. Somebody on team expects their boss to X and somebody else on that same team expects their boss to be anything but X.

If I ever become a manager , I am probably taking this boss's approach , I think its good to have some talks like this. I am also much inspired by the likes of charles schwab and dale carnegie's how to win friends and influence people so probably there is a bias here
Mac minis aren't available with set up - seems only macbook pro?
> it seems that glibc does not support it

`iconv` does, and this is enough in common. Among with tons of eerie EBCDIC/whatever...
There will always be lots to do for those who are motivated to find such things. While the objective value of a thing may change greatly, the subjective value can be kept fairly constant. Just think about all the retro-x enthusiasts.
yeah, it has always been as low level as something like Cedar in Xerox PARC, and just as high level.

Or just as low level and high level as Interlisp-D at Xerox Parc.

As plenty of other languages.

If you want actual low level code, that is Assembly, and even that depends if the underlying CPU is a pure hardware implementation, or makes use of microcode and is for all practical purposes a mini-interpreter/JIT in hardware.
> Please consider changing the name. A generic common word is hard to search for, and there is already well-known software named Signal.

People are free to use the name they want, whether it is the NSA or an individual, it doesn't matter
Do you work out? How often, how long and what type of exercises do you do?
iPod fans evade Apple's DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games
That’s what common sense makes you think, reality is big money needs someone to sell into their NVDA stock and this is how they do it.
Just look at what happens to the stocks every time they get added or removed from the index, the complete opposite of common sense.
Agreed, and yet the celebration of stuff like Blazor Server, Phoenix, among others show that some folks really like this approach.

Personally the experience with JSF and Web Forms, is what makes me appreciate any framework that exposes the underlying browser stack, instead of pretending it is something it is not.
OK let them add an explicit check to standard tools, and/or to open(), mkdir(), etc. with O_PORTABLECHARS. And an environment option to disable this check.

Why they force the restriction at syscall level?
Awesome demo. I’ve really missed that map it’s been too long.
You still need to MITM the connection though. I think this is more of a risk if you live in dictatorship states, but even a rogue ISP or Wi-Fi hotspot would do. So yeah, definitely not theoretical.
It comes up all the time in the news, studies on the affect of smartphones on childhood depression and anxiety.
The DJIA is a dinosaur and irrelevant. Its price-weighted because that was easier to calculate than a market-cap weighted fund when the thing was created ~140 years ago. Which means that high dollar value stocks have more weight in the index which doesn't really make sense.

But worse, how we talk about the index, even today on radio and TV, in terms of nominal points up or down is completely ridiculous. Just yesterday "the Dow Jones was up 100 points". Ok - no reference value, no percentage change: means nothing to me. And we wonder why we are financially illiterate in this country.
Important to note that 42 have been preserved, not the full 54 yet. If you have one of these iPods with games in it, maybe you can help.
> I dunno how you authorize user actions. Especially complex cases that involve shared data. E.g. some user can see all materials, another can edit materials belonging to her group and also shared with him by others.

It works just fine for those types of use-cases, including that specific one. I am planning to open-source it one day, but not soon (As an independent developer this gives me a very large edge over my competition for custom SaaS-type apps).
> Well, to wake up earlier, one needs to sleep earlier.

Why?
Do you have proof for this? Why accuse one team and not the other?
One interesting point he made in there was that with his phone costing only €99, he doesn't feel like he needs a case. Who cares if it gets damaged? Just buy another €99 phone.

Any phone that requires a case is going to be bulkier than one that doesn't so this automatically means that the iPhone will be bulkier in the pocket than his budget Android.

If you go the budget phone route you'll probably buy a new phone more often because why not. They're cheap. If next year's model is a decent upgrade you'll probably get it.

I run into people with iPhones that look like they've been through hell despite the case, glass cracked in three places, edges scuffed, outdated model... because frankly they can't afford a new phone all the time so they have to live with this one. But they'll say they just HAVE to have an iPhone and would never consider Android.

Personally I'm somewhere in the middle of the two extremes with a Samsung A5 that costs a couple hundred bucks. Maybe I should ditch the case.
I’ve heard of exactly these “vulnerability sharing” exercises from colleagues, but luckily have not experienced it myself.

Anyone starting to over-share becomes very problematic, because it forces everyone to conform. One of my colleagues didn’t feel like sharing anything personal, and he was silently outcast for the rest of the offsite and it continued to bite him in the ass for the rest of his time in that team.

The examples were very similar to those mentioned - people talking about their divorces, sex life, etc. I don’t think it’s fair to force colleagues to share such stories with each other.
This isn't and shouldn't be the typical response to such things.

The boss had also become vulnerable asking you to be 10% more vulnerable.

I think I would respect it more than harsh cold calculating boss.

And also the chinese gospel's taking its effect here , the post above this paraphrased it differently and this has taken it to completely different level.

Nobody is forcing you with a gun to tell things or else you are fired

the boss just said , " Hey if you are comfortable , lets try to be a little vulnerable " and if you didn't like it you could've said " hey boss , I appreciate your gesture but I really really wouldn't like to share it as it would be a violation of my privacy , hope you understand "

This would probably be my approach if I was one of those people who hated boss asking him such thing but I don't. I think I like it.
Neurotechnology boosts memory without surgery
Look at the authors of AI papers from big tech companies, many are authored by Chinese. There are also a lot of teams in some big tech companies (e.g. Meta), who are 100% chinese. I've heard they muscle out non-chinese employees. I bet it's difficult for Zuck. He has to choose between patriotism or business. As we know, in the short term globalisation and business are at odds with America.

I remember when I was in university in the UK (2014). The cohort was atleast 40% Mainland chinese. I bet some had cheated on their English tests to get into the university. One of my Chinese friends told me he planned to learn the cutting edge research in the UK from a well known UK company related to my field and bring it back to his dad's business.

Strategically, not only are we in a bad position, but it is actively getting worse. Economically, there is nothing wrong with Chinese citizens paying £40K a year on university tuition fees, on top of that, spending money on nice accommodation, which has been "great" for the UK economy. We pay for their cheap labour and manufacturing, and they pay for our services. Also, going back to Zuck, chinese employees have a harder working culture (e.g. "996") - that hustle leads to exponential better results (IMHO). The western work life balance does not. Can you start a business in a culture of working 4 hours a day?
While it is not Django's responsibility to unite the Python ecosystem, continuing to rely on a tool a sizeable share of the community deems inferior to a popular alternative will keep these discussions open and results in the fragmentation OP is talking about.

Now of course it is not Django's responsibility to unite the Python ecosystem in the first place and they can value other factors and arguments as they see fit.

Although this very thread shows that there might have been something to it.
There are HN readers in almost every time zone, so it's not night owls and early birds. I think it's downvoted because it's a shallow dismissal.
Now imagine being the designated driver on a night out and all your drunk friends shouting commands at the car while you're trying to drive. "Rivian, turn the headlights off!".
This could be very wrong, but I thought DJIA is relevant mostly due to WSJ? Most publications care about S&P 500, but in WSJ they always quote DJIA first (for obvious reasons) and maybe mention S&P 500.
That’s just a different set of customers (“patrons”).
Good points, and I agree. I think what bothers me is that a lot of the advice you might read out there is biased towards what you should build if you already had hundreds of employees and millions of users. Sprinkle in a bit of incentives from cloud providers, and you end up with a world where it only seems reasonable to start out with a Kubernetes cluster or multiple distributed communication systems from the get-go. I do think a lot of developers would intuitively start out with a much simpler system, but it almost looks wrong if you do. But it's not wrong, you can't predict the future so if you try to predict and set up your infrastructure for future success, "just in case", you'll still have to re-platform it, as you say.

I should add that some form of re-platforming is pretty much inevitable at some point in the lifetime of a business no matter which approach you take. Because infrastructure is informed by the structure of your organization as much as the needs of your product. If your number of engineers increases by a couple of orders of magnitude, it's likely any infrastructure you set up will need to reshape to account for that.
I wouldn't want knobs on the top either, so I'm looking at whole stoves (i.e., a single unit with an oven under the hob) where the knobs are in the same place as the common gas stove models: in the front above the oven door, next to the oven's knobs.

If I choose to splurge on this item, this one might be nice:

https://etna.nl/keukenapparatuur/fi590zwa/

Smeg has a similar sweet looking offering, but I'm not convinced of the longevity of their appliances:

https://www.smeg.com/products/C9IMMB2
> Mong is offensive everywhere

Mong is the height of slurs - simultaneously racist and a reference to 'mongoloid', a cringeful historical term for Downs Syndrome. Hundreds of years of racial elitism distilled into a single syllable.
Stop the car --- then use a touch screen backup for these *NONESSENTIAL* functions. Stopping is inconvenient but so is an accident.

Using a touch screen phone while driving is illegal in most areas for a reason. Building the touch screen into the car doesn't negate the logic.
Tcl for web development was great and AOLServer ahead of its time
The inner platform effect intensifies.
This is textbook whataboutism and once again irrelevant to my argument.
Torrents can use webseeds, which results in an HTTP request. Torrenting now includes HTTP requests as a result.
I live alone so no :)

If it was bothering other people around me I'd listen with my airpods.

Interestingly, my parents who are in their 60s, have no problems getting to sleep early, and they both fall asleep together to TV all the time, mostly watching reruns of old shows like Columbo
Solid-state batteries enter pilot production, costs expected to drastically drop
Because the code is the entirety of the process. Any graph can be wrong, but the code cannot, because it is the implementation.
The purpose of a graph is to allow the visualization of the process in an understandable manner. If it doesn't abstract away much from the code, you might as well look at the code directly
I am dying to ditch Adobe and Lightroom (both Classic or CC) but none of the alternatives (Photomator included) seem to have the same quality of library management features as Lightroom (metadata editing, rating, keywords, face recognition etc.). Have any enthusiast photographers actually found a decent replacement?
Fact [pdf]
Abstract
Real-world cryptographic code is often written in a subset
of C intended to execute in constant-time, thereby avoiding
timing side channel vulnerabilities. This C subset eschews
structured programming as we know it: if-statements, looping constructs, and procedural abstractions can leak timing
information when handling sensitive data. The resulting
obfuscation has led to subtle bug
I learned that there’s no umbrella weather. Either rain’s too light, or the damn thing snaps/flies away but the street’s basically a river anyway.

The galaxy brain is to wear flip-flops and care less (or, if you are a local in Bangkok, move by car/wear one of those thin plastic raincoats, depending on your class).
Whenever I have trouble sleeping, I like to imagine myself floating in the air with clouds underneath and I slowly drift into the clouds. Just keeping this in my head crowds out the other stuff and I drift off pretty consistently.
It’s the same thread, and a fairly short one. I read it again looking for new insights, as I often do, found someone criticising Wikipedia, and looked at the user name. Calling that stalking is delusional. Or, dare I say it, intellectually dishonest.

My initial response was different, and I even thanked you for the correction, but I deleted it and posted a new one after suspecting (as per the above) that you might not be arguing in good faith.

Please don’t try to play the victim when you’re the one who initiated the conversation with personal attacks.
Which team did I accuse? I said "usually".
hmm surprising because I had mentioned how to win friends and influence people book by dale carnegie in some other comment on this post and one of the most sticky / remembered lines of this book is that even in a highly technical post , much of the success (approx 70% IIRC) can be because of having people skills.

People skills matter , But I suppose in large organisations. I don't think people skills matter "that much" in open source (other than documentation and hey not messing up like attomatic and being a little bit nicer in general)

Hell we should all try to be a little nicer in general , not just in open source.
I'm not saying either did this, just that that's what most fine tunes tend to do.
Finally, the highly reputable science publication LA Times provides proof that LLMs are in fact large language models, rather than large math solvers or large fact models.
That would be good I guess, especially since it looks so good that there is no need to hide it : )
Bingo. Uncommon for a company Apple's size, but they are trying to Innovators Dilemma Adobe. Either by releasing a pro version of Photos.app or adding pro features to Photos they will continue to move up the value chain into Adobes market of LR/PS. Adobe charges $20/month for the LR/PS bundle. If Apple can add some of the prosumer functionality and say increase Apple One by $5, they shift some of the subscription revenue over to them.
It's probably time for me to upgrade.

I bought my budget Samsung phone in about 2018 (a J145 for about $150). It has 16gb and struggles a bit these days performance wise.

Edit:

We use my wife's iPhone for photos and stuff like that, mine just for texting and so I can receive spam calls (wouldn't want to miss those).
I don't know how to convey that the thing linked is a book, or that it concerns programming in general with Emacs Lisp as the language, or that it is aimed at non-programmers, without changing the title.

That's really easy, you put it in a comment and use the original title. You can't use titles for commentary on HN, it's in the site guidelines under 'In Submissions' https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder if those top conferences need updating their process and have stronger verification of submissions. China took fake it till you make it to fake it while you can keep getting away with it.
Their flagship models are available for free for everyone: aistudio.google.com. You have the option to enable "search grounding" to get the same thing as ChatGPT Search.
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Being a data professional, I have consulted with a couple of start-up companies as a data scientist for up to 2 years and delivered project solutions according to the company's needs. I'm driven to transform raw data into meaningful insights that drive decision-making. I'm currently looking for opportunities in either data analytics, data science, or machine learning roles.
You are correct. The daily volume is ~300,042,864 x 135.