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Hey HN,
I create a lot of content on LinkedIn, but I found that writing valuable posts takes too much time.

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What it does:

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Few more challenges:

- seeding a million active torrents (this is entirely possible and needed but drives a lot of architecture)

- a UI for a million active torrents

- be nice to trackers (keep-alive, batched reports; again, architecture gets tricky, iirc libtorrent can't do that still)

- correct pipelining

- congestion control on uTP

- I/O scheduling/batching

- testing all of the above

It is quite a lot.
Oh dear, that really is a poor response by the CEO. Can't wait to see the grovelling apology he comes up with when NZ media/regulator comes asking questions
Working on an app that helps you earn more credit card rewards (most people could earn a few thousand dollars worth of rewards per year) getpointise.com
Yeah, caution with GPL is understandable if you're shipping it or making it a part of a hosted service. But internal use is not the intention of GPL, so a blanket ban like that would put that shop at a disadvantage, like the other comment said, that basically rules out all kinds of things.
Thank you for the clarification. I didn’t know about the differing mechanism, and you’ve sent me off on a research rabbit hole. Always a happy result of an HN thread. I appreciate your follow up!
Millions of Americans already use GovTrack.us to track legislation in the U.S. Congress and how their representatives and senators vote. I created GovTrack twenty years ago with the idea that information in context helps us hold our government accountable and empowers us to become the best advocates for the issues we each care most about.

Now, help us expand our work to tracking the President and the White House.
I made a typo, it is a NMDA receptor antagonist.

Additionally, I can find sources supporting my claim, too.

> Results in rodent models indicate that a single dose of ketamine induces robust markers of neuroplasticity in depression-relevant brain regions, including increased BDNF release and the stimulation of mTOR signaling in the PFC [23, 24]. In addition, ketamine induces an increase in synapse number and function in the PFC, reversing the loss of specific synapses by stress, an effect that seems necessary for the persistence of its antidepressant-like behavioral effects.[1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02451-0

From Wikipedia:

> Ketamine is under investigation for its potential in treating treatment-resistant depression. Ketamine is a known psychoplastogen, which refers to a compound capable of promoting rapid and sustained neuroplasticity.

Additionally: https://www.resetketamine.com/blog/2021/6/2/ketamine-and-its...

Additionally #2: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8190578/

Additionally #3: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01656...

> Ketamine (NMDAR antagonism) and classical psychedelics (5-HT2AR agonism) trigger a long-lasting state of enhanced glutamate-driven neuroplasticity in frontocorticolimbic pyramidal neurons.
> we've gotten this far into the process

There was a linkedin post floating around a few weeks ago that went in the other direction - a hiring manager who posted "remote" jobs, go the applicant hired, and then did a rug pull letting them know that it wasn't actually remote after all, they were required to come into the office. The hiring manager proudly bragged that most of the applicants just went along with it anyway and the comments were pointing out that it didn't seem like they'd have much choice at that point since they'd have already quit their other jobs.
Other than the choice problem of deciding what language to build new features in (which needs a clear policy), I don’t see why maintaining a mixed language codebase HAS to be terrible.

In my current job, also at FAANG, my team (albeit SRE team, not dev team), owns moderately sized codebases in C++, Go, Python and a small amount of Java. There are people “specialised” in each language, but also everyone is generally competent enough to at least read and vaguely understand code in other languages.

Now of course sometimes the issue is in the special semantics of the language and you need someone specialised to deal with it, but there’s also a large percentage which is logic problems that anyone should be able to spot, or minor changes which anyone can make.

The key problem in the situation you described seems to be the dysfunction in the teams about arguing for THEIR side, vs viewing the choice of language as any other technical decision that should be made with the bigger picture in mind. I think this partly stems from unclear leadership of how to evaluate the decision. Ideally you’d have guidance on which to prioritise between rapid development and consistency to guide your decisions and make your language choice based on that.

As your codebase scales beyond a certain point, siloing is pretty inevitable and it is better to focus on building a tree of systems and who is responsible for what. However that doesn’t absolve especially the leads from ONLY caring about their own system. Someone needs to understand things approximately to at least isolate problems between various connected systems, even if they don’t specialise in all of them.
This to me was always obvious. They wanted a way to define special targets that had specific behaviour but didn't want people to get confused when they tried to call something "blank" and then it created a new window. Having a special character at the start of your name by default is extremely uncommon so you're very safe if you add a special character at the start of the name for special purposes it won't conflict with someone's actual desires. "_blank" isn't the only one. "_parent", "_top", etc also exist.
Bannon
This is an insane amount of cash to throw at any problem. They could have Apple rockets mining asteroids with $500,000,000,000. There is no way all this cash goes into AI. What will actually happen is they will take 1/10th this cash to an over-valued startup and acquire them.
What is TUIs?
There are screenshots on ente.io [0] and their GitHub repo [1]

[0] https://ente.io/

[1] https://github.com/ente-io/ente
Huh, I actually didn't know that (as a certified Old Person I use neither on a regular basis). That maybe does explain why people are doing it to some extent. Talk about unintended consequences...
Imagine also knowing that if you don't teach your language, few else can, and fewer will.
I know. What I just miss in other implementations is the live reflection in the SBCL REPL via Sly/Slime for example. And conditions.

When I do CL, I try to code it in a more immutable style and avoid things like self until I get my own version bootstrapped.
Most people don't use those libraries, nor do most libraries use those libraries. They don't help me understand most code out there beyond my carefully orchestrated app code. I'm back to reading the source.

But this long list of runtime libraries is definitely a downside of Clojure. It's people trying to grapple with things mostly solved with static typing where you can just write a(b(c())) and it fails before it hits your fancy yet-another-thing-to-learn Malli library in runtime.

They might be great libraries, but you're only seeing one side of the trade-off.

I learned Emacs with evil-mode, paredit, nrepl/cider, and Clojure in my early 20s and used them for six years, and I was pretty gung-ho about it like you. But eventually I started using static typed languages for work and decided that I couldn't go back. It's like trying to read Javascript after you've spent five years with Typescript. You just think "wow, I can't believe I did that for so long."

And I'm remembering times I've used paper and pencil to figure out how map is being transformed as it's passed through library code. I don't miss that.
Not a lot of them, but Trump accuse EU of tariffs because it has VAT. That’s not the same thing because VAT apply to domestic companies as well so there’s no real unfair advantage.
You could make the claim that it’s still worse for foreign goods as VAT can be offset with VAT from supplier purchases, but that only works if you produce goods in the same country as you sell them. But US companies have even larger advantage already as they don’t have any VAT, so in the end the playing field is kind of level.

This doesn’t stop Trump from pressuring and squeezing and making false claims to justify his standing point.
Expect an unstable trade environment due to tariffs and retaliation. This will hurt small businesses that have even more complex environment to operate in.
Reading through the article and comments, it seems like there's a lot of confusion about what is considered "a user" and what typical dosages are. Obviously, a rave fiend who used to do MDMA twice a week and coke at least 5 and then moved to K would consume, completely disregarding this health but still staying conscious enough to continue dancing on a dance floor. At the same time, a tech worker who does Yoga, goes to Burning Man every year and have a long and productive relationship with psychedelics probably does a very K every 1-2 years in the right set and setting, but consumes a dose high enough to venture deep into the K-hole to seek some mystical answers — just as he does the same with DMT and other exotic Shulgin creations.

From the anecdotal data (including the tragic suicide note that pops up on HN every now and then) and sporadical research, it's very unclear how much danger does the second scenario actually entail.
Citation needed. From my experience, being able to go two years without income is an extreme edge case.
> Interestingly, as a motorcycle and sports car owner myself, I never thought about that aspect for even a second

Right, because the car's cabin and motorcycle helmet protect the driver/rider from it. The noise they create are specifically designed to be heard by everyone but the operator. It's like me sitting in my back garden wearing earplugs, while blasting music out the front into the street.
For most LLMs, with most works, no.

If you trained an LLM repeatedly on nothing but the text of LOTR until it could re-produce the books verbatim and then tried to sell copies of that LLM, then I agree that would be blatent copyright infringement, yes.
How could you prove fraud in court, if the government has classified all the evidence and refuses to admit any of it happened? The government has gagged them, making it illegal for those managers to even plead guilty!
Looks like we have same experience with torrents :-)
Cursing appears to improve exercise performance
I was ghosted even when they were aggressive in their hiring, so it’s not just that. They even come back and try to recruit you again while you are being ghosted, it’s insane.
I'm making an OCR website focused on outputting ascii text that follows the layout of the original, so that it doesn't need to understand or interpret zones in the source: it just resembles the source. This makes proofing easier and should also improve feeding documents to LLMs.
Hey! Could you provide feedback how it did work for you?
Very nice, but why does it require iOS 17 ? Jailbreakers are stuck on iOS 16 (and some are stuck even lower than that.. )
Methylsulfonylmethane can be used in alternative medicine but we're far from Ketamine.
> You're being too strict with language and definitions.

Yeah, because the stricter the definition, the more useful it is. A "thing" has less informational value than a "yellow jacket" and that has less informational value than "white and yellow jacket, with Adidas logo".
i'm making it a point to check out alaska about once a year because who knows how long it will remain like it does
Oh, bloody hell, totally forgot about him. Has he emerged from his lair again? Would've assumed he was in disgrace after defrauding all those Trump fans.

Like, he literally did an affinity fraud on Trump supporters. Have they actually forgiven him?!
I've been using Javascript to generate frame-by-frame animations as SVGs. I composite these into big grids, then use a pen plotter to draw them with ink. Afterwards, I cut them into individual frames and do stop motion animations.

This is first attempt, working on another now: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdORIKNQ5w/
You're Eroding Accountability
our public discourse currently is a lot of what we are talking about here - let's try to "define" what school shooting is. to me, as far as that goes (as I mentioned, regardless of the definition of it) we are not 3rd but 4th World Country
I'm thinking about this for ages too.

I like the rough idea of C4 but I'm clueless why mural and co doesn't do a better job for infinity boards with boards in boards.
I do appreciate anecdotal evidence! Thanks!
I think better advice here is to say that you should plan to spend time learning enough about the field you're trying to enter that you can see whether you are working toward fit or whether you're working away from it. In other words everything that you should do when building a new product should be geared toward quickly validating whether what you're building is what people want. If you don't have a plan for market validation you don't have a business yet.
People are just going to carry a patch of fake grass around with them to bypass the checks. So I suspect the reviews will be astroturfed.
Do you have a website or link for this?
>However you have a country (China) with an authoritarian government that makes favored industries subsidized.

If things keep going the way they are going, that could describe the US just as well in a few short years.
It's not impossible, it's just hard to be better than libtorrent, otherwise a new client only makes sense as an exercise.

Arvid Norberg is hardly a "beginner developer", yet look how hard it is to make a performant implementation of uTP: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/3542
This might not be fully what it seems -- yes, certain segments of the market are "soft", but this situation could be a remote job + easy to apply tools and automation.
Could you ask to set a 780 second timer?
> Does the US have the required people, in terms of numbers and skills?

For 30 years, IT managers at blue chip US corporations have exploited the H1-B visa program by saying, "No," and then hiring a never-ending stream of barely-capable Java coders from programmer mills in India, take 5 times longer to make an app than it should have taken, get promoted, and leave everyone holding the bag with shitty web app that we all hate because it's too slow, too bloated, and doesn't work like it needs to. And the companies who can't get enough of that bullshit in-house just hire it out to sub-sub-contractors that do the same thing. Can we not invest in our native population and education systems this time around? I'm so tired of the fact that 90% of the IT staff in my Fortune 250 is Indian, and I know people who would be better at their jobs living in my home town. It hurts our community and our country, in the long run, and by the VERY same logic as re-homing our chip production.
That wasn't true in 1995, the last time I was out at 3AM in Tokyo. I wonder what has changed?
That's almost too good to be true - - that the CEO thought that Proton was the author's company
And a lot of SO answers.
A big issue with TDD is people don't know how to write tests. People tend to write covariant tests where if details of the implementation changes, then the tests fail, even if the code is working correctly. These tests are easy to write, but bring very little benefit. There's another kind of test that few people write that solves this problem: they're contravariant. The detail implementation can change and yet contravariant tests can test that the code is still working correctly. In other words, you can refactor code and still use your existing tests to ensure the refactor didn't break anything. You don't re-write your test.

Another benefit of contravariant tests? It's very difficult to create them if your architecture and design is poor. Contravariant tests lead to good architecture and design.

Bob Martin discussed these issues in his blog a few years back. https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/10/03/TestContrav...
contrast for the blood? Would have stuck in the memory
What is using AI seriously?

I’ve tried to use it as a web search replacement and often the information is generic or tells me what I already know or wrong.

I’ve used a code suggestions variant long before OpenAI hype started and while sometimes useful, rarely is it correct or helpful on getting over the next hurdle.

Any code from my coworkers is now just AI slop they glanced over once. Then I spend a long time reviewing and fixing their code.

I really don’t find spending time writing long form questions so a bot can pretend to be human all that time saving, especially if I have to clarify or reword it to a specific “prompt-engineer” quality sentence. I can usually find the results faster typing in a few keywords and glancing at a list of articles. My built in human speed reading can determine if what I need is probably in an article.

LLM seriousness has made my job more difficult. I would prefer if people did go back.
I've had that experience in a developed country too, but every time it happened it was because of CGNAT without IPv6 (or some similar setup causing millions of requests to come from a single IP).

But on the other hand, almost all of the requests from less developed countries in my logs seem to be malicious. I've blocked entire countries at times (through iptables, arguably better for privacy but worse for blocked people) when a dumb bot wave made it through the internet. I get why Cloudflare is so eager to ban some ISPs, those ISPs seem to be doing a terrible job protecting the rest of the internet from their hacked or abusive customers.
MongoDB Acquires Voyage AI
Who are we going to believe, you or our lying eyes?
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I'm not American and haven't done the calculus here. I'm just pointing out that from an outside perspective, what the American right is doing here is +EV in terms of American lives from their point of view, so it's perfectly rational.

If nothing else, the opportunity cost of a few hundred billion saved eventually, even if it's just a small fraction of US total government spending, can be used to save or improve many many many lives.

Hyperbole like "yeah murder more people its good because I can't tell what is good or bad" doesn't help.
To be fair, security through denial, lies and intimidation is the industry standard.

Leaving the passwords in clear text is double plus ungood. But my employer recently bought another outfit that does just that, and fixing it is not a near term option. So I'm stuck managing that and three of my fingers are pointing back to me.
Still mostly working on my gaming-curated newsletter The Gaming Pub - https://thegamingpub.com/

It's similar to Hacker Newsletter where I pick the most important news, features, reviews, etc of the week and send that every Friday. The gaming world has a lot of stuff going on and I always found that there was a missing newsletter to curate the important stuff from all the noise.

The challenge at the moment is growing it, I've been doing it for 5 years now and still haven't found a way to increase the number of subscribers, they come mostly from newsletter directories and referrals I would guess.
I say this as someone who was very heavy into PvP in UO. There's a reason for this. Most PKs wanted to be wolves. Very few players want to play a game where they're sheep.

I spent most of my time tracking down the wolves and fighting them. So so so many of them would run away the second anything approaching a fair fight presented itself to them. On my shard, over time there was a group of us representing the spectrum of "good guys" and "bad guys" but who weren't just trying to be assholes who bonded & became friends. When playing in character we'd fight each other. And then when some band of asshat PKs would go around being jerks, we'd out of character join forces and go stomp their ass.
All of the big PC companies had factories in Texas in the 80's and early 90's, didn't they?

And Dell became a case study of outsourcing everything (and sending your stock and profits soaring the whole time), until you have nothing.
Is there any video footage of this machine?
I'm working on cataloging open source hardware designs.

When I'm starting a new hardware design, I find myself pulling up familiar boards (like Adafruit or Sparkfun's dev boards) as often as the chip's application note. I sometimes prefer a full reference project so I can get useful context like which voltage regulator they used or how the USB port is connected.

But, it's kind of an awkward process because I'll have to download the design files from Github and open it in the native CAD software (Eagle, for example).

I've been toying with how to solve this. I made a script to crawl Github for open hardware designs, then generate a schematic and interactive BOM for each design. Now, hopefully, you can search for "ESP32"[1] or "WiFi"[2] or "Bluetooth"[3] and get a number of designs to view in browser.

[1] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/esp32/1
[2] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/wifi/1
[3] https://www.openappnote.dev/tags/bluetooth/1
Make an Instagram of tiny snowmen with different scarves
One thing - do not EVER try to connect the function of roaming for trash with getting energy from that trash. It's asking for Horizon Zero Dawn scenario.
Is that Learnfun/Playfun that tom7 made? That one paused just before losing on tetris and left it like that, because any other input would make it lose
...then it would be piped through their design-council, run through 5 more iterations to get a unique unibody case for it, accompanied by an optional proprietary Apple rack and a price-tag triple of the competition.

That's along the lines of how it usually rolls whenever Apple tries to make something purely utilitarian, it's the most considerate and "fresh" look at a product, but ultimately designed to be used and then disposed when finished.

A purely utilitarian IT-appliance without a individual end-user doesn't seem to be possible in their product pipeline, you usually end up with something "Prosumer": Impressive on its own, yet of degraded maintainability and scalability.

It's like asking Bugatti to design a public transport bus. It would surely be an impressive bus, but not one you would want to maintain over years at a scale of hundreds.
Every major business leader is stuck saying "do what we have to" a lot.

The difference between the great leaders and the crap leaders is all in the details.
Do you mean like a library, alternative to log4j2 or some sort of frontend tool to view logs?
Currently working on to auto sync Notion events to Google Calendars based on Project property. I needed this desparately so decided to do it myself.
Hubble completes the largest galactic mosaic of all-time
Drilling the deepest hole in history: Unlocking geothermal energy
Birth rates are crashing around the world. Should we be worried?
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How could you prove fraud in court, if the government has classified all the evidence and refuses to admit any of it happened?

There exist other government than the US government - in this case the UK government.
I would love to see a network effects study on this, and this is a perfect natural experiment (which does not occur often).
Earth safe from 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 'That's impact probability zero'