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>> An excellent way to ensure passenger safety is not to share an enclosed space with someone dangerous.

US citizen? Can I ask, why is it that US citizens are so worried about dangerous people in public transport? Is it a rational concern or is it more of a -no offecne meant- preconceived idea? Is it something that's evenly geographically distributed or something you find more in certain places than others?

I'm asking honestly and curiously and hoping more to clear up my own preconceptions than to enforce them. I do find it strange; because I use public transport basically all the time (I don't own a car). I live in the UK and some years I commuted daily by train to work and back. Otherwise I take the bus when I have far to go. I have consistently traveled between the UK and Greece by train and ferry boat for some 15 years now. I've never felt that I was in any kind of danger, although to be fair some times the London trains can be a bit of a pain in the ass on a Saturday night (too many drunken brits, but they're mostly harmless, and really just rowdy).

I've been on some pretty wild lines too. For a few years me and a friend would take the night train from Paris to Venice, and back on the return. That's a sleeper train with six-person cabins. We rode it on through the years of increasing immigration waves from Africa through Italy to the North of Europe, so I've traveled with people with ... varied life histories for sure. Still, all this time, me and my friend's most memorable experience remains the time a Chinese gentleman was asked to open his luggage by border guards in Switzerland, at which point everyone in the compartment (and possibly the ones next door) was very clearly able to smell the large fresh fish he was carrying in his bag. They took him off the train because he didn't have papers. For himself, not the fish. I hope he reached his destination. I bet everyone would have been eager to fast-track him along.

I mean, it's not the boring safety of sitting in your car but it's not dangerous. Only interesting. And the night train, when it careens through the Alps you're like a baby in the cradle, swaying gently and lulled by the sound of the rails. I miss that train. I think the company went bankrupt during the pandemic and they don't run anymore. That has complicated me and my friend's travel quite a bit in the last few years.

So I have good experiences of public transit. What's the problem with US public transport? Why are people so worried about it?
> What if this is not about closing off an API. Maintaining a stable API is difficult

That's why any sane software uses a stable public API and an internal one that can be closed off or has breaking changes all the time.

> MQTT has no versioning and limited hierarchy in the pub / sub model

It's currently handled like this: https://github.com/Doridian/OpenBambuAPI/blob/main/mqtt.md.
Would it be a far stretch to add an "api_version":x field and a "internal_" prefix for some commands?
Run open-source LLMs on everyday hardware, a hacking guide
You're right, @davidlattimore seems to have answered that.
Admitting one mistake doesn't moot the whole incident, nor does it take Google off the hook.
I believe most times such responses are made in assumption that people are just lazy, like we used provide links to https://letmegooglethat.com/ before.
The New Dynamics of Strategy: Sense-Making in a Complex and Complicated World
> Here's my question: It seems inevitable that people will eventually port all LLVM's smarts directly into MLIR, and remove the need to shift between the two. Is that right?

Theoretically, yes -- taking years if not decades for sure. And set aside (middle-end) optimizations, I think people often forgot another big part of LLVM that is (much) more difficult to port: code generation. Again, it's not impossible to port the entire codegen pipeline, it just takes lots of time and you need to try really hard to justify the advantage of moving over to MLIR, which at least needs to show that codegen with MLIR brings X% of performance improvement.
> This is where a big mistake is. Always, ALWAYS phone or contact back using the company’s official channels.

The problem, and the reason why that scam approach works half the time, is that calling back is a huge PITA these days between 1) endless routing menus or some "smart" AI bot that is f*ing useless (seriously, I have never been helped to my satisfaction by one of those), 2) long long long hold times to get to a human, if you ever do, because every single company is always "expecting greater than usual call volumes" -- wtf? call volume distributions are Gaussian, ok? so adjust accordingly.
I didn't mean I dont use AI.

I just don't want to train models or do prompt engineering. I would be happy with setting up AI infra ... maybe.
NodeRed is awesome. I didn't even bother with anything beyond very, very simple automations until I installed that.

For me the flow design feels very natural and is easy to modify and monitor. And it's pluggable with custom nodes so if functionality is missing you can add it in. Like I installed a node that handles OAuth2 so I can have it log into a web service and check a status page.
YCombinator has funded an additional 4 VS Code forks:

- Void

- Melty

- Pear

- Aide
Pre 1.0 Rust also has a similar syntax for namespaces. It's hard to find examples now because that was over 10 years ago.
Nope, it's not disguised.
Reddit changes behavior depending on signup path, and is also aggressive with admin deletions, but hides acts well. It's in perception only that Reddit still has everything dirty in the open.
You can install and use any app, but true; it’s very simplified.
LinkedIn has become a waste of time.
The US revolution did not upset the foundational structures such as property rights, though. People who owned the most in US before it were still, by and large, the top dogs after. If anything, they improved their position - where previously they had to share with the metropoly, now they were fully in charge.
Yet X is still way more diverse, whereas bluesky is mostly white, upper middle class westerners. It is funny to see the least diverse community I've come across pat themselves on the back for somehow being more tolerant. And also accuse users of other, more diverse platforms of "dog whistling".

I'm sure that a platform policed by said privileged groups is somehow better morally or something. Who was dogwhistling again?
Indeed, the title given here doesn't seem to appear on the page at all, which makes this seem like clickbait. The title should be changed to 'Private jobs board' or similar.

But then no one would click on it or upvote it. I assume a lot of people vote and comment without clicking the links on HN. Would have been better as a 'show hn' post - Dallas_b below is the op and also made the site but I don't think they make that very clear in their post.
In the UK. Freelance. A major client put their project on hold and (looking to fill gap) its been a long time since I saw so few opportunities for things I used to find it easy to get work in (e.g. Django, which can be boring but has always been solid bread and butter).
Turbulence: Great whirls have lesser whirls, that feed on their velocity / and lesser whirls have lesser still, and so on to viscosity.
It’s not a God syndrome or toxic. If you are interested in a promotion at large tech companies, you optimize your behaviors to do that.

If you aren’t interested in promotion and you are less than a senior or whatever the terminal position is considered, you’ll be pushed out.

I couldn’t deal with the politics of BigTech when I was there between the ages of 46-49. I didn’t care about the money enough and I didn’t have the shit tolerance or the will power to act like I did.

You literally couldn’t pay me enough to work at any large company at this point in my life and I’ve ignored opportunities that were basically handed to me to make six figures more than I make now.
GP here. I don't want to repeat the lengthy technical explanation I already posted in another response downthread, so please refer to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817006

> The reality is that different CRT's had wildly different characteristics in terms of sharpness, color, and other artifacts -- and it also varied tremendously depending on the type of video output/input.

As a video engineer old enough to have started my career in the analog era, I fully agree composite video displayed on consumer TVs could vary wildly. I already explained the technical point about decoding the signal information properly in my other post but you're making a different point about variability, so I'll add that just because TVs could be mis-adjusted (or even broken) doesn't mean there's not a technically correct way to display the encoded image data. This is why we used color bars to calibrate TVs.

> I definitely appreciate wanting to blur the image in an emulator to remove the jaggies

But that's not my point, blur was an undesirable artifact of the composite video standard. 80s and 90s 2D pixel art was hand-crafted knowing that the blur would blend some colors together, minimize interlace artifacts and soften hard edges. However, I only use shaders that model a small amount of blur and I run my CRT in analog RGB instead of composite, which can be quite sharp. My goal is not nostalgia for the analog past or to degrade a game's output as much as my parent's shitty 1970s living room TV did. I had to engineer analog video in that past - and I hated it's shortcomings every day. When I play 80s and 90s video games, whether via shaders or on my analog RGB CRT, it probably looks quite a bit sharper and clearer than the original artists ever saw it - but that's not due to some subjective up-res or up-scaling - it's due to accurately decoding and displaying the original content to the technical standard it was created to comply with (even if many consumer TVs didn't live up to that standard).

In the 90s I worked at a TV station and after hours we'd bring in consoles just to play them on the $3,000 Sony BVM broadcast reference monitor. And they looked great! That's what I'm after. Accurately reflecting the original artist's intent in the maximum possible quality - without slipping over the line into editorializing colors or pixels that were never in the original data in the first place. I want to play the game as it would have looked back in the day on the best video output available, through the best cable available and on the best screen money could buy. And via emulation and shaders, now everyone can have that experience!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817439.
There are enough ways to do polymorphism in C++ without touching macros.

Given that Rust IO and many crate attributes are macro based, not sure who wins out.
I will check out this tool later, but given the title of the post.

I know this is something that my parents have told me before, but being on the market myself right now. It feels like there is really only so much time I can spend looking for a job. In the first week or 2 I am catching up on all of the jobs already up but after that only so many new jobs are posted.

It feels like I can spend at most an hour or 2 a day actually applying. Sure add in calls/interviews. I say this currently being unemployed. At some point there is nothing else to look at.

I am curious if people are really spending 40+ hours applying to jobs a week? I am finding I am spending most of my time brushing up on tech and working on side projects to keep my skills up.
> ADHD medications are some of the most effective pharmacological interventions in all of psychiatry.

To me, this says more about how ineffective most psychiatric treatments rather than how effective ADHD treatments are.

So, [2] only concludes a reduction in a two-year long mortality rate, which to be frankly honest, is still somewhat within the "honeymoon" phase of medication.

[3] does not state a specific duration of follow-up for participants, so I am going to assume the durations are quite variable.

I am not against medication -- quite the opposite -- but I am highly skeptical of many of the claims extrapolated research. The medications do seem to be highly efficacious in the short-term. But I have yet to see any compelling evidence that long-term benefits are consistent with short-term benefits. My personal experience, as worthless as they may be, do not reflect this, and I am apparently not alone in this regard:

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2009/short-term-i...
Huh, did you stop watching after episode 1? The HBO series was all about how it was the system that caused the accident to happen. The fact that it was a known failure mode was a major plot point.

It can hardly get more explicit than this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBwSuSuGhyk
Can you tell me one BigTech or adjacent well paying company where they don’t optimize for this behavior?
(This was on the frontpage as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42812859 but someone pointed out to me that it had been a Show HN a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42430629, so I've made a fresh copy of that submission and moved the comments hither. I hope that's ok with everyone!)
I like that all the products of Supabase are front and center with clear and concise descriptions of them and good landing pages with each of them. They all give (IMO) an optimal level of detail.

The "New to Postgres?" link I agree has a good description and makes its exact technical features easy to grok.

Thanks for sharing, awesome examples.
Interesting that there's no need to have greens around the hole. In real golf, construction and maintenance of the greens is a primary cost. I play a simplified form of golf in public parks (or any semi-open space) using one club and foam practice balls that won't hurt anyone and only go about 40 yards max. I use lightpoles and trees as targets and chip the ball to hit the pole or tree as holing out. Most parks you can arrange various holes through and around the vegetation and structures.
I still have nightmares about going back to the getting my foot in the door stage. I was fresh out of college, and over the next six months I sent hundreds of applications and did tens of interviews.

This was 2006 so the landscape was a little different. I had less direct competition here, but outsourcing was in full swing. I had actually been advised by my high school's consoler not to go into programming because "all the jobs are going to India".

One interview that had gone particularly well was a couple miles from where I now live. Everyone I spoke to seemed very enthusiastic and understood I was right out of college. They never called. Every single time I drive by I tell my wife that I am still waiting for them to call me back. I googled them a few years back and they had gone out of business.

The private college I attended had a department dedicated to job placement, and they would check in with me every couple weeks after I graduated. They were sold as "working directly with employers to place students" but they never had anything like that for me. Honestly, their pushing was a big piece of why I didn't give up. I didn't want to lie to them and I didn't want to let them down.
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Sorry, it was a bad joke, there's a phrase "don't sign your posts" used when someone ends one with an insult. I support signing your posts with digital signatures if you want.

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This looks to be the video, based on the text from the walls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MohMBV3cTbg
I switched to becoming a data analyst. It's odd, I feel more appreciated too as I'm clearly the most technical person on the team. I help them with certain hard skills and they teach me certain soft skills (and certain domain specific hard skills), all the while I feel more closely connected to society since I'm working in a marketing department.

For me, an ambiverted software engineer in Europe, it's definitely been a good move.

What helped me getting the job is that I did 2 bachelor programs at uni, one in psychology, the other in computer science with a business minor. I feel that data analysis is a mix of psychology and computer science while the marketing department is the business part. The path to becoming a data analyst wasn't clear, I simply applied to job postings that I vibed with, I didn't really care about the role. If the job vacancy itself seemed fun, I applied.

I didn't do that enough, in retrospect I should've done it a lot more. That'd be the advice I give myself: just read a lot of job vacancies and just trust your intuition about which one you vibe with (aka feel good about).
Bait and switch? Get users t bookmark the joinexample.com, and the others, and once they notice that people keep going to your side via their domain names, they will switch, make a fake "change password" and will be ripped off.
Did you find something that worked because you have literally just described what I have been struggling with all these years. Everything was great in the beginning, but that slowly started to fade away as time progressed, and like you said, the demons started to come out.
I think it's more that WebSockets are held open for a long time, so if you're not careful, you can get "hot" backends with a lot of connections that you can't shift to a different instance.
It can also be harder to rotate backends since you know you are disrupting a large number of active clients.
Illustrative examples are illustrative, not literal.
Anecdotally, one of these AI generated people made it THROUGH my company’s hiring funnel, apparently HR didn’t check references. Not the worst performer I’ve ever seen, clearly a fake and they got weeded out after a couple of weeks, but it seemed way more like a “get as many remote jobs as possible and if you get fired from one then just keep the process rolling”
I've seen worse deals offered in prospectuses. But not often.

Having two tiers of stock with the insiders having the control shares used to be prohibited by the New York Stock Exchange. Now it's common. Google and Facebook are set up that way, so they have presidents for life. So are some lesser companies which really need to fire the CEO but can't.

Then, what you're buying into is not the operating entity. It's just a holding company. Not even the parent holding company that owns many casinos; that's BALY. It's a holding company in the middle, one whose returns are totally determined by the other parts of the stack. This is much like film investing, where you can buy an interest in "Silver Screen Partners IV" and get a share of the profits from a specific film. Except that the studio and the film producer control the accounting between related entities. Those deals are generally a lose, although you get to go to the premier and meet the cast.

And then there's the leverage. When you buy in, you're under water, and may stay there. Can't speak to the tax consequences.

This is so awful it makes meme coins look good.

(Favorite worst deals: 1) being pitched on municipal bonds backed only by revenue from future sewer charges for a development not yet built, and which never was. Junk municipal bonds are a thing. 2) a San Francisco strip club that did an IPO in the first dot-com boom and went bust. SEC CIK 931799.)
On the contrary, I’ve known plenty of sites that keep their logs.

Often written to tape, for obvious reasons.
Suppose c++ is around for 100 more years (i'll take the over).

Sacrificing a couple decades in order to get the syntax just right is worth it. Just look at... Javascript.
>> FYI: It takes between 3-12 months to find a contract in the UK in the IT space now.

Is that because the market rates have changed? I'm in the US and there is definitely a rate-filltime curve. At a certain rate, filltimes become almost immediate, because it makes sense to just hire for option value. However, at 2021 rates, I can see that filltime would be long. (NOT saying that the market clearing rates are actually living wages for on-site positions, but thats the challenge of an inflationary market with employer advantage.)

Or is there some regulatory barrier (e.g. mandatory notice periods?)
Absolutely. Having so many drivers, and so much custom hardware, leads to a cascade of additional employees and expense for legacy transit systems. A transit system (self-driving cars) oriented around driverless vehicles and very lightweight support infrastructure (distributed charging, cleaning, repairs) can be much more cost efficient and agile.
it was built by someone looking for a job. see their comment.
Oooh the Adaptive Lighting Integration looks very cool, just installed it. That was my next step on my lights but I was going to do it myself via automations. So glad I found this instead.

My most recent HA journey has been replacing all bulbs in my house with smart bulbs so that I can dim them all to 1-5% by default and then use motion to bring up the lights. It feels magical walking into a room and being able to see but a little dim then the lights fading up. I have it set to use a different brightness at night so it's not blinding. The lights all stay on for ~5min then fade back down.

I've had motion lights for a few years but it's rather "harsh" to have the lights snap on from 0->100% and the "click" from my smart switches was a little annoying. This smart switch+bulb setup is the best of both worlds for me. I do not pair my switches with the lights, I never touch the switches in my house, they are there for other people and as a final fallback if HA stops working (all bulbs will go white/100% when turned on).

Home Assistant is really awesome and I encourage more people to try it out but for the love of god, do not use a Raspberry Pi. It can sort of handle small workloads but HA is going to stress it too far and you will have a bad experience.
I have to protest. A lot of 3b1b is new. Not the math itself, but the animated graphical presentation is. That's where the value from his channel comes in. He provides a lot of tools to visualize problems in ways that haven't been done before.
Related, and a good one, though old:

The book Linkers and Loaders by John Levine.

Last book in the list here:

https://www.johnlevine.com/books.phtml

I had read it some years ago, and found it quite interesting.

It's a standard one in the field.

He has also written some other popular computer books (see link above - pun not intended, but noticed).
I don't know enough about how FEMA works, but I'm assuming it operates at a federal level?

Could eliminating it force states to strengthen their own disaster relief programs?

If that's the case, some potential benefits of this might be that states get more efficient with their overall budget (in order to support disaster relief initiatives). And maybe spurs more innovation in disaster relief tech/processes.
I started the thread - Not click bait at all. If you read my comment you can see what I built etc. But, yes its got some traction, seems people are pretty fired up (me included) about the state of the job market and just how hard it is to land a interview let alone a offer
Clever tactic, info overload them, then sell the solution
People writing generic libraries need this. As an example, I've seen it used a lot in anything related to logging and monitoring, since these generally need the ability to take arbitrary data types and work with them in different ways. The same is true for database APIs, etc.,.
Normal apps being too complicated for a person is why you would use this mode in the first place. But for that purpose it’s really very barebones.
Again, 5 million people fall for phishing. This attack was magnitudes more sophisticated than most. I still get the occasional Nigerian prince scam. They still send them because it still works. Not all of the people who fall for this are stupid. Surely you’ve made mistakes before.