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Datenna | DevOps Manager | Full-time | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Hybrid (2 days in the office)

At Datenna, we combine China expertise, OSINT, data and AI technologies, to create a software platform that provides the insights governments need to explore the hidden connections between China’s complete corporate, academic and technological landscape.

We are looking for a DevOps Manager who will help us shape the future of our SaaS solution. You’ll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact and improve our groundbreaking OSINT platform.

https://jobs.datenna.com/o/devops-manager
I think the new stuff is getting worse. Enshittification and such. Digital cameras don't show you ads.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Remote: OK
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies: Go, Scala, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Common Lisp
Résumé/CV: https://macrolet.net/data/main.pdf
Email: olof plus hn at macrolet dot net
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olof-joachim-frahm-6b27b2275

Lately I'm working on a variety of pieces, predominantly backend, including leveraging the Go compiler toolchain for source code transformation, but also a Scala-based graph traversal DSL. Actually looking to relocate for the right opportunity.
I read that, at least early on, many CDs were mastered with inadequate dithering, resulting in audible quantization noise.
Stimulating hypothalamus restores walking in paralyzed patients
>This presumes doctors practicing medicine 2.0 have any effective treatment. For the flu, sure there is tamiflu; or COVID, paxlovid;

don't know if you were being intentionally sarcastic when naming those two as effective treatments

>How effective is Tamiflu?
Unfortunately, the effectiveness of Tamiflu is marginal, as it cannot “cure” the illness. Most studies have shown that the medication will reduce the length of symptoms by only 12 to 24 hours, and if started after two days of symptoms, it does not help at all.
It is important to keep effectiveness in mind, as expectations for Tamiflu are often very high and, frankly, overhyped.

https://health.mountsinai.org/blog/is-it-worth-it-to-take-ta...

>Paxlovid does not significantly alleviate symptoms of COVID-19 compared with placebo among nonhospitalized adults, a new study published on April 3 in The New England Journal of Medicine found.

The results suggest that the drug, a combination of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir, may not be particularly helpful for patients who are not at high risk for severe COVID-19.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/study-shows-nirmatrelvi...

which links to https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309003 and this little nugget

>CONCLUSIONS

The time to sustained alleviation of all signs and symptoms of Covid-19 did not differ significantly between participants who received nirmatrelvir–ritonavir and those who received placebo.
Exactly, also if you don't know the basics it's hard to build advanced writing skills on top of nothing.
That's all fine - businesses can be within their right to do whatever they please. However, myself and myriad of other people will simply go elsewhere where we are not charged different for the same product/service depending on the method of payment we choose :)
> not only is the negative pursuit a nightmare to work on by itself, but introducing the positive pursuit will be a psychological distraction

You can’t distract someone who isn’t in the room. I’ll admit to tuning out a lot of climate catastrophism because it just doesn’t hold my attention. I know the outlines of the situation; it doesn’t strike me as productive to obsess over it. (Or more accurately, it isn’t fun.)

> we love feel-good stories and gravitate to them

There are people who like feel-good stories and people who like catastrophism. I’m arguing you’re never competing for one against the other.

It isn’t a coïncidence that the feel-good sectors of the climate movement, EVs and solar energy, have so much overlap with space start-ups.
I prefer my raggedy Buick[1] tbh

[1] https://schizophrenic.io/blog/driving-a-run-down-buick
I think that maybe we underestimate how hard it is to choose the right companies to “kill” when you’re a competitor. The default mode is to say that they won’t go anywhere because of many factors (they don’t have the resources, the access, the capability, etc). But sometimes they do. And in restrospect it’s obvious, but it’s not by the time you had the chance to stop it. And I think it’s probably good.
> the vast majority of the time

"wrong" and "correct" are only defined by what people actually say - if people mainly say "101% increase" to mean "new value = old value * 1.01" then that's what it means whether it makes sense grammatically or not.
Here are two examples:

https://postimg.cc/gallery/g8kzGHB

https://postimg.cc/gallery/ChSgbdd
> do they think losing small or medium customers is worth it to get 10x more revenue from its largest customers?

they'd be almost certainly right to think that, of course it'd be worth it. The pending question is whether the largest customers will actually sticks with VMWare for them to actually see this 10x revenue materialise
Wolf discovers dessert menu.
it is a newspaper. It gives no information whatsoever. Just speculations.
That's bullshit, the greatest thing about SC2 was its marketing (including e-sports money). Ok, also the first campaign is great and the polish is, as always, top tier.

But RTS was only in a slump in the sense that the apex of the popularity of that genre was around the turn of the millennium (which probably was unavoidable).

And only a few years before SC2 released we've got the likes of Dawn of War 1 and Supreme Commander 1, and, last but not least : the amateur-made Spring(-Recoil) games, which put almost every other RTS game to shame, so advanced they were in comparison (and, sadly, still are, when you look at today's player's first impressions of BAR, despite it mostly only having improved in the graphics and performance department, as the 'R' suggests).

Compared to Spring games, Starcraft 2 looked like a very solid and polished, but also very safe and almost obsolete game.
I think a big difference is that people do things in predictably stupid ways and an LLM? Who knows. That could be because I've worked with stupid people my entire life and I know the boundaries of their chaos.
People are now corrupting mpeg video intentionally. They call it "datamoshing". And of course there is glitch art, and the "vhs look" filter being (over) used everywhere.
Curious they say in the first paragraph, "didn’t speak the language" but then seemingly very quickly started attending board meetings and taking notes? With no further mention of learning Danish. Seems like a notable achievement!
> They use the same digital masters for the digital release and for vinyl.

With all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about. If the engineers you know do that, you don't know good engineers.

edit: I can't reply to tekla's comment, so I'm editing here. It's frustrating on Hacker News for an expert - like myself, who has sat in on dozens of mastering sessions - to be disputed by someone who "knows some people." I'll clarify further. Do some engineers use the same mixes for vinyl as they do for digital? Sure. They're not good engineers. Or the customer hasn't paid enough (it's usually about $60-$100 per song to master per format). Vinyl is a drastically different medium than digital - of course - and any decent engineer will 100% mix differently and accordingly. If there are artists reading this and your engineer is using the same mix, fire them. You're paying a lot to press to vinyl so do the followthrough and get vinyl-specific mastering.

Here's a good article from an engineer I have worked with many times on why mastering for vinyl is different:

https://www.oregonlive.com/music/2014/11/does_vinyl_really_s...
As a user of the Toshiba T3000 laptop and various other machines of the 1980s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_T3100) which had a similar display, this is really hitting the nostalgia button HARD. Kudos.
Indeed thanks. "Not unlike" :)
Why your employer might love for you to quit
You Couldn't Replicate Our Study Because You're Ugly
Bunbuster: Fast web, TCP fuzzer for brute-forcing directories, subdomains
I’m not that impressed with Diataxis, considering it is basically describing the approach of Django project’s docs—which (both docs and the aporoach) predate Diataxis by many years—without giving any credit that I know of.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss described[0] the approach in 2009 (he omitted the How To guides, but they are in fact part of Django docs for as long as the framework is widely used). If there was a person to credit for this, that would be him.

[0] https://jacobian.org/2009/nov/10/what-to-write/
Thanks! Which is which?

Are you saying you prefer the bottom ones?
Ahh - I think that was my issue ... I wanted to stop junk mail, but not mail addressed to me. I still wanted to be able to 'important' stuff...
I don’t like Cisco, but it’s a little much to blame them for your employer hiring and not firing support staff that are actively hostile to the people they are supposed to be supporting.
Now I have seen it all - comparing a method of payment to milk might just be the greatest thing I have ever read on HN and that is ... something for sure ...

so let's try again - I am buying a product or a service. It is exactly the same product, same "milk" if you will :) now the business is telling me that based on the method of payment I choose (who the F carries cash around in 2024/25...) I will be charge _different_ price for the _same milk_? that ... makes absolutely no sense.

of course the business itself can choose to charge me extra 3% if I pay with Visa or 15% if I bring a goat to barter with but of course I am going to pick my ass up and head on over to a competitor who won't charge me 3% or 15% extra
Need Feature Ideas for HQCSV (free, no signup, no ads)
Per the title I'm looking for what to add next to my completely client side data analysis tool. What are your thoughts?
I know this isn't really about Snake, but this implementation of snake is frustrating to play because:

1. It doesn't buffer inputs. If you are travelling Left and quickly tap Up then Left, it'll treat it as a no-op instead of moving you up a row.

2. You can suicide by quickly tapping Up + Right while travelling Left. It'll fail to buffer the input, so you immediately turn 180 degrees back on yourself and die. If you're travelling Left, then you can't press just Right, but an intermezzo tap of the Up key bypasses the input validation that prevents a 180.
Vinyl is technically worse in that the low-end and high-end frequencies need to be rolled off to cut. It's also technically worse in that it can't do low-end stereo without the needle jumping out of the groove.

The reasons that people might prefer it (subjectively) are:

* The notion that it's 'warmer' - all this means is the high-end frequencies have been rolled off

* The subtle distortion effect you get from feedback through the needle. The needle, as well as picking up the groove, acts like a microphone for any sound nearby (i.e. the speakers playing the record). This then feeds back through the same loop, creating a subtle chorus effect (very subtle).

I've played in enough large nightclubs with massive sound-systems to know that my records sound completely different in them. The feedback is more extreme, so the chorus effect is more pronounced. This often turns into bigger low end at higher volumes. It can also be problematic if you have a record that's been cut too quietly. You need to turn the gain up on the mixer, picking up more of the club speakers, eventually creating audible feedback hum.

But, by having the same 'effect' on every record played, there then seems to be a consistency of sound from one record to the next. Creating something that's more 'glued' together.

It absolutely comes across. If you know what you're listening for then you understand, but most people just feel it. It's technically distortion, but humans like distortion. Anything too clean is boring to the human ear.

So, vinyl, is not technically better. But, it has some artefacts that are pleasing to the human ear. And, I suspect, that's what people pick up on subliminally (if they're not just trying to be boring hipsters).
> If you actually have 1000 nodes worth of work, the heartbeats are not at all a big deal.

I think you’re missing the fact that the heart beats will be combined with existing packets. Hence the quoted bit. If you’ve got 1000 nodes, they should be doing something with that network such that an extra 50 bytes (or so) every 30s would not be an issue.
> Is a 200% increase 3x?

Yes. Increase means the number went up. A 200% increase means that it increased by 200% of the original, so you have the original 1x and the increase of 2x for a total of 3x.
Because they dumb it down, you pay more for VMware but then you can hire cheaper, less educated people to run it.
/shrug. He said/she said standoff is always fun, with a mix of insults.

People who are the type to buy vinyls will buy them no matter what, as long as its not obviously a bad press. Why would any sound engineer bother to do extra work for such a low volume, high chance of losing money, PITA to work with medium, unless they were some sort of super artist.
Exactly. Kodak stopped selling film cameras in 2004.

Peak film sales was in 2001!

Film sales in 2006 was the same as in 1994 ...

After 2006, the decline was drastic¹.

But the long tail of childhood memories stored on film and cheap digicams stretches far into the smartphone era. Remember, not everyone had a smartphone or even a good way to transfer the images out of there. Also, smartphone cameras were really bad in the beginning.

1: https://petapixel.com/why-kodak-died-and-fujifilm-thrived-a-...
This paragraph seemed a bit odd:

> With Pakistan dependent on bailouts from the IMF, Islamabad finds itself caught between the U.S., which wants to ensure that the Washington-based lender’s loans aren’t being used to pay off Beijing, and China, which fears that the global financial architecture is being turned against it. The most recent IMF bailouts have required hefty increases in electricity rates, leading tariffs to triple or even quadruple for many users compared with six years ago.

Why did the IMF bailouts require higher electricity prices? If the US doesn't want the IMF money going to china, why are they raising electricity rates paid to Chinese built plants?

Are they trying to cause a utility death spiral? Seems counter productive if it just leads to massive Chinese PV imports.
Have you hit any non-determinism errors keeping workflow state outside temporal?
Apple[1], for example, has performance based RSU’s for its executives. RSU’s vest over 3-4 years and the number granted is dependent on Apple’s performance relative to the S&P.

Stock prices theoretically have future cash flows built in but markets are inefficient. In this case, if Broadcom starts losing customers in 2027 and revenue declines 5%, it would get hammered in the market at that point in time, punished much more than the 5% drop.

[1] From Apple’s SEC filing:

The value received by our named executive officers in 2022 from long-term equity incentives reflects exceptional stock price performance over the applicable vesting periods. As a result, for the applicable performance periods, performance-based RSUs vested at 200% of target for our named executive officers based on Apple’s TSR relative to other companies in the S&P 500 (“Relative TSR”), which was at:
• the 96th percentile for performance-based RSUs held by Ms. Adams, Mr. Maestri, and Mr. Williams, and
• the 99th percentile for performance-based RSUs held by Ms. O’Brien.

Mr. Cook was granted an equity award with 75% performance-based vesting and 25% time-based vesting
Are the WineHQ forums also blocked due to alcohol?
Nah, as you can see with its online-only requirement (and ActiBlizz being greedy about custom made maps), it was already the new Blizzard, after merging with Activision and the changes that WoW brought.
https://archive.is/2024.12.03-123121/https://www.bloomberg.c...
> A "price hike" is not necessary an "increase"

A "price hike" is always an increase, and specifically a large increase. If the value has decreased it'd be a "price drop" and a large drop would be a "price slash".
unknown. they barely suspect this, to your question is another leap in science for future generations of researchers
> Industrialization created the world we all enjoy, the largest population of humans enjoying their lives at the same time as have ever lived.

It is indeed true that we have unprecedented life quality among more people than ever. It is also very true that industrialization has played a gigantic part in that. However, from one line of history does not come them all. We do not know that this exact path of industrialization was or continues to be necessary. If, in an alternate history, there were less humans with very high quality of life for longer and then they discovered less polluting forms of industry to reach this point, were they worse off? Are you saying we are already minimizing pollution to the level necessary for progress, or quickly working on it? If you're trying to justify the current level of pollution with the current level of progress, you have a lot of explaining to do. Cutting down plastic bag usage alone would probably be high impact for reducing pollution/environmental harm and low impact on impeding progress.
> I call BS. I know people who work in music mastering, and I've asked about this. They use the same digital masters for the digital release and for vinyl.

Nah, they don't. There is always a vinyl master. I have several here from records I have released. It may well be made from the digital master, but vinyl needs low and high end roll off and mono low end bass to stop the needle jumping out of the grooves.
I feel the same way about Prometheus, lots of interesting ideas and memorable sequences that are beautifully shot but aren't connected together in a coherent way leaving the motivations of characters unintelligible by the end.

I watched Romulus recently and its kind of just a fan service film with a few utterly ridiculous sequences. The only things that really offended me where the heavy nerfing of facehuggers and the controversial CGI character who looked bad. Mostly it was just kind of forgettable but started out pretty good.
Coinbase CEO: We won't work with law firms who hire anti-crypto ex-SEC employees
> It’s not just aesthetic. The mountains feel more like massive objects on these older cameras than they do on modern iPhone cameras.

Might be due to a combination of sensor size, focal length on the older camera, and the distance to the subject.
Why is being a minority consumer worthy of a dismissal and lack of service?
Parent talks about GMA900 from i910 series chipset.

It wasn't fully WDDM compatible for a quite minor (overall) part, but the performance were awful anyway and lack of running in the full WDDM mode (ie Aero) also didn't help too, partly because running in Aero was faster.
I see, it makes more sense now.
> It'll also make you 20cm taller, add 20 points to your IQ and grow your penis by at least 33%.

Damn, i knew there is something useful in AI, when they pushed for it at work. I just wonder, which one of those characteristics will increase my productivity.
Tangentially related, I've been doing video art, both analog and digital, and there is a quality in analog video that cannot be replicated by digital processing (at least not yet). In addition, every camera and device has it's own "look", like a personality. In the end it is more about the artistic result that one wants to achieve rather than pure technical specs.
Yes, prohibitively.
even worse than that is how the sports get blocked out depending on who has sold what rights to who.

Eg . the uk premier league has sold the rights to uk teams to sky and bt but sky and bt won't always show all 10 of the days games.

so you can be in the situation where your team are playing a game you can't get tickets to[all sold out] that you can't pay anyone legally to watch.
yet you go on holiday to Europe and every bar will have Bein or ESPN or whatever showing every.single.match. live
"Americans dominate the space industry" is presumably what they meant, and not inaccurate. On the other hand, even the American space industry uses metric.
2024 Duolingo Language Report
How I put LinkedIn to work for my career as a scientist and entrepreneur
Of course it all works. The world now has no drunk drivers, and it is impossible to buy a gun. Thanks to the loving government and caring politicians who had employed best experts, most brilliant minds they could find, to ban the bad things. bad things no-no. We're living in ponyland already just look out of the window!
The problem is the cost, in Europe and the USA the treatment is over $40,000 USD per year, which isn't realistic for regular people.
Now the login page loads. But login does not work.
Excuse your self from the table, and get up to go and ask. Wait staff should be used to being discrete, and you get to make an informed decision.
I think this was posted before when it was written.

I didn't notice that the URL slug debunks the misleading headline before though:

solar-flooded-australia-told-its-okay-to-waste-some
Well, we're probably a F10 company and my project had to move off of our vmware environment because prices were too high. Even at enormous companies, these things matter, and there's still accounting for resources at the local level.
Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-year-old 3D engine
I cannot conceive of a pay package to a single person ever needing to be that astronomically high.

It feels like the world is entering some kind of ultra-late-stage MMO economy where the numbers have stopped making any sense at all. Truly, there HAS to be a better way, right?
PrEP is not new, surely if this was common there would be studies showing everyone going off PrEP suddenly testing positive at enormous rates?
I don't think the concept of a "surrogate activity" is meaningful... the whole concept seems predicated on the idea that humans should forever be stuck on the lowest level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and there is no intrinsic value in anything not essential for physical survival.

Kaczynski was intelligent, but also a joyless, evil, and bitter person that couldn't even comprehend why people do things like love or play, so came up with elaborate but very much off base intellectualizations of why other people do things.

He is flat out wrong about why people are motivated to do those activities he mentioned. For example, I lift weights because it feels good, its fun, and I like (and find it practically useful) to be physically strong. I do it alone in a garage- no other people or society are telling me it is important, or even noticing I am doing it. I would still do it if I was the last person on earth and there was nobody to approve or disapprove of it.
Sorry, just realized the misunderstanding. To clarify Modal still uses the kernel WireGuard module. The userspace part that’s in Go and not in other languages that we use is the wgctrl library.
Here is the X thread:

https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1863774342267781222