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Hernan Dominguez

Dedicated Fullstack Web Developer with a strong background in Systems Engineering. Skilled in designing, developing, and optimizing scalable web applications. Expertise in database management (SQL & NoSQL) and automation processes. Proven ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams, adapt to industry trends, and implement innovative solutions that enhance performance and user experience.
A Non-Tech Guy's Mesh Network Experiment – Looking for Testers to Find the Bugs
I’m not a tech expert, just someone who got fed up with VPNs dropping connections all the time. So, I teamed up with some developers to create Credant, a decentralized mesh network tool that’s supposed to fix that mess. It’s built on solid tech (WireGuard, I think?), but I’m not the one to explain the nerdy stuff – we’ve got a whitepaper for that on our site. My job’s simpler: I’m giving away 100 free licenses for a year. If you’re into networking and want to try it out, please jump in and tell us what sucks or what works. I need your help to make it better!
I didn't say it wasn't interesting, but I'll take the bait: the article is light on details and misleading.

Light on details: the article is almost 3000 words, filled with vague and low-effort content: a lot more "We're so big and global!" and not nearly so much "Here's the problem we faced because we're so big and global, and here's how we solved it."

Misleading: they use the word "democratizes" twice: "we have crafted a scalable solution that ... democratizes access to advanced production tools across the globe" and "we’ve taken a bold step forward in enabling a suite of tools inside Netflix Content Hub that democratizes technology: the Media Production Suite" -- do you really get to say "democratizes" when you're describing an in-house system?
I find F# easy to use with AI, mainly because it's statically typed (which results in compiler errors when the LLM generates non-working code) and it's very expressive, which allow me to more easily comprehend what the LLM is trying to do.
The IT admin at my high school was a prick and from what I’m told took it very personally when my friend was caught mapping network drives.

The closest thing we had to a computer class was graphic design where you played with Photoshop and Premier for a year. God forbid we learned to write code or whatever.
The problem with spam isnt the content, its the quantity.

Lots of spam emails are for genuine services. But its generally accepted that because the speech is unwanted and the quanity of it lowers the quality of the platform, that its fine to filter it off.

Free Speech absolutism should incorporate it, but doesnt. (Which sort of indicates its mostly about broadcasting their opinions rather than being in favour of all speech)
Shopify is Down (including Status Page)
Correction: https://github.com/rsms/llvmbox/releases/expanded_assets/v15...
I wonder how many people will never be able to use his work because their router/other firmware is proprietary, GPL violating or otherwise non-upgradable.
I'm an industrial physicist, and the post put a smile on my face. And indeed, it's not fiction. It's a blast. You will go through times like this, I guarantee it.

I've been wrestling with a cantankerous experiment for a couple of weeks. It produces reproducible results, but they don't make sense, and the work is not in a domain where discovering new physics by accident is likely.
Why I'm Building a Climbing App (& Why Knowing Your Community Matters)
I would imagine as in the professional world, there are certain school jobs that attract sociopaths/narcissists/psychopaths. Yes, I’m talking of course about vice principals. My elementary, middle and high school principals were very nice. The VPs were mostly unapproachable hardasses. It may have something to with the principal vs vice principal responsibilities in the U.S. I’m not sure how it is elsewhere in the world.
Multiple files with a single LLM call.

I have a prompt which works for a single file in Copilot, but it's slower than opening the file and looking at it to find one specific piece of information and re-saving it manually and then running a .bat file to rename with more of the information, then filling out the last two bits when entering things.
works on my iphone 13
Lex Fridman did a good show with the authors last week. It just sounds like supply side economics?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTPSeeKokdo
Not really -- the videos have brief glimpses of UI, but are mostly film clips and vague and pointless diagrams.
> With Steve Jobs in exile and the Web’s billionaire boys’ club still a few years away, the Valley in the book is “a bland anarchy,” a kingdom “with a thousand princes but no kings.”

Yet it was the happiest time I remember in the whole saga.
My mom is amazing.
University of Michigan: Great course

https://open.umich.edu/find/open-educational-resources/infor...
Absolutely ridiculous that scrollbars are disabled for this page. The kids are too cool for such pedestrian web parts! Grow up and stop forcing your shitty UX on people.

Edit: Found it - it's black on black - even worse!
Sporting of them to inform potential pen testers that they're running nginx/1.25.2.
Very very many of the non-upgradable and proprietary routers use Linux under the hood. As long as they aren't stuck on an ancient Linux kernel, they would be able to use fq-codel and CAKE.
Thank you! Generally Turso has focused on operating more like a traditional network attached backend. Although that has changed recently with libsql and embedded replicas. I think at this point the main delta is they use traditional wal based physical replication while Graft is something new that permits trivial partial replication. Also, Graft is not exclusive to SQLite. It’s just transactional page addressed object storage with built in replication. I’m excited to see what people build on it.
There’s thousands of us!
Fortunately, HF is as safe as NaCl. Or so I take you to suggest, this otherwise totally failing to follow from anything anyone has said...
There's this old amusing book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook[1] in which Dennis Ritchie has written a funny "Anti-Foreword."

"...Your sense of the possible is in no sense pure: sometimes you want the same thing you have, but wish you had done it yourselves; other times you want something different, but can't seem to get people to use it; sometimes one wonders why you just don't shut up and tell people to buy a PC with Windows or a Mac. No Gulag or lice, just a future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the Hedgehog. You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in whining..."

This seems quite relevant to Klien & Thompson's new work, which is basically advocating for and co-opting many of the core economic ideas of the current administration; ideas that would be difficult to imagine anyone would else in the government class would be qualified to out-execute them on when the rubber actually meets the road, despite their reservations and the differences they have at the margin. End of the day, somehow they wish they owned the agenda, which is understandable: they are peddling an ideology and it is difficult to see the competitive one win on merits.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/TheUnixHatersHandbook
Most common training of American politicians: Law

Most common training of CCP membership: Engineering

Face it, we are a litigious nation that values due process (with one exception of course) over making things. An influential idea or book isn't changing this, it's in our DNA somehow
Set aside the cleanup for a second: for pure power generation, nuclear is the ultimate clean energy source. Massive amounts of power, extremely cheap when amortized, liked by all political factions (except old-school '70s-era environmentalist liberals), a great source of jobs from blue to white collar, and no pollution or greenhouse gas emissions.

Turning back to nuclear waste: it's a solved problem. At least, very good solutions already exist. For example, see WIPP in New Mexico [0].

As with all energy sources, there is no perfect, one-size-fits-all solution: use a diverse set of energy sources based on what makes sense for the specific locale you're targeting. Nuclear will make sense for some areas (perhaps dense metros), while solar would make sense in others. Geothermal and natural gas as well.

We live in the future. Act like it!

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant
I was thinking of Milton Friedman the whole time I was listening to that episode :)
This refers more to tracking, not security directly, though I suppose there is some overlap

This is also doesn't explain why the browser would constantly need to redownload the same files assuming the original requester was the same.

The browser could also introduce an ersatz delay to throw off the tracking.
And what they say in the industries that need to take this ultra seriously (Banking and Insurance companies, for example) an untested backup is not considered a good backup. And the only way to truly test a backup is install a fresh image of the entire OS (using checksums on the image too), so that you can read the data and make sure no clever ransome-ware software is secretly encrypting EVEN your backups.

oh, btw. "Blockchains solve this" haha.
God, I miss Grantland. It was some of THE best writing on the web at the time. ESPN killed it and Bill Simmons went on to create The Ringer, which he then sold to Spotify. The Ringer pre-Spotify was good, but not as good as Grantland was.
Seems interesting. A very challenging problem to wrap your head around. Anyone working on this is exactly pushing the field forward.

I'm thinking to give it a try in one of my React Native apps that face very uncertain connectivity.
So they are just at Phase 2 of developing prototypes with the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory? Ok, that explains why I've not heard/seen any deployment plans for these things within the next 5 years out here....which probably means if we do get them, we'll get them too late to influence the war with China over Taiwan.

Other comments are correct that the Corps isn't even close to solving the contested sustainment/logistics problems here in the First Island Chain, or in the South China Sea.

These seagliders are a nifty solution to the signature management issues, but their payload is tiny. We need the ability to move pallets of munitions or other cargo.
no experimental verification even possible in most of those, and/or the theory had been more or less fixed before ~1990

Many such cases. Very boring stuff now, not worth spending the money.
> And it would’ve sold like hot cakes.

I still don’t think it would have. It’s useless for anyone who’s pretending they might haul stuff. It’s worse than useless off road. And it’s too small to appeal to the dudes who buy dualies to take their kids to elementary school.

Your first sentence is 100% dead on, except that it also completely failed to solve any of the problems people actually have (or, at least, problems they think they have).
I'm aware of merchant transaction fees, but they're insufficient as an explanation. Just run the numbers. Say that a hypothetical consumer spends
$10K/year. The person who carries that as a balance will pay $2700 at 27% interest, plus $300 from the 3% transaction fee, for a total of $3000, and they might get $200 as cashback. The person who doesn't carry a balance will pay $300 and get $200 as cashback. It's pretty doubtful that all the other services a credit card company provides - fraud detection, chargebacks, billing, recurring payments - cost < $100/year. Maybe if you never submit a chargeback and your card never gets stolen, but at best we're looking at them breaking even on their non-balance-carrying customers and making all their profits off the customers that carry a balance.

When you're providing a service to one group at or below cost and making all your profits off another group or another service, that's the definition of a cross-subsidy, even if you do get a token amount of revenue off the first group.
SEEKING FREELANCER | MorphMarket | FULLY REMOTE (all countries) | Designer FE Engineer | 20 - 40hrs/week ongoing contract

I'm the CTO of MorphMarket.com. We are an online marketplace that connects breeders and keepers of lizards, geckos, snakes, frogs, spiders and other pets. Our users passionately love the least loved animals - e.g. here's our COO's TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@brittniszoo/video/706572491190134711...

We're looking for someone who has web design skills and ALSO enough front-end programming skills to help implement layout changes etc. into the site. The ideal candidate

- has a spider-sense for design inconsistencies (e.g. poor alignment, font mismatch etc.)

- is able to use _some_ tool to produce quick designs for feedback (we're agnostic about which one: it could be Figma/Sketch/PhotoShop/some random WireFraming tool)

- can write and debug CSS to help us implement the design into our codebase -- and also knows enough React to help move things around.

- can help our team identify our canonical UX components and our visual language and spearhead a project to produce a design inventory to help the team coordinate better on design in the future

- has opinions about what makes a good UX and notices good patterns on other websites and apps

Work culture:

- Mostly async and written communication. Our team is distributed across Europe, Asia, and USA. We don't have common working hours, but you will need to find a way to sync up for perhaps 2 hours per day with colleagues for communications.

- Emphasis on learning and team education (e.g. here's my own YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@semicolonsons) I try to keep things fun and engaging for the team.

- About 15 people on the product team and perhaps 10 staff in other roles.

- Friendly and social on Slack

- We devote every Friday to tech debt / sharpening the saw

If you're interested, fill out this form with a statement of interest, your billing rate, etc. https://forms.gle/KmgNYP3rB3xGbU7RA
Why is it "Shared DNA" if all rappers do is sample and totally rip-off music (Logos, artist names etc) before them?

The concept of "DNA" with music goes much deeper than some lucky nobody who sampled someone's life work so they could pollute it with lowest common denominator poetry and a Roland Drum Machine.

I submit that oogling over people who steal music by sampling is not that deep, and there's deeper methods of musical analysis than "This band sampled this beat, this means they're a natural progression of art".

Every example I skimmed over was some hiphop artist who ripped off music before them.

Other artists have some shame and just copy chord progressions, but rappers went so far to just completely steal parts of the song.
‘Regulations are written in blood’ has another meaning - until there is a lot of blood, there isn’t regulation.
Surprising as it may seem, avalanches are easier to avoid [1] and easier to handle it comes to communication[2]. To an extent of course[3].

[1] I used to be terrified of the concept of an Avalanche. However, at the end of the day you're only exposed to an Avalanche if you choose to be or live next to a large mountain in the winter. It's not even like Hawaiians living next to an active volcano. All you have to do (in terms of living) is to move away during Avalanche season. Hawaiians atleast have the excuse of "it hasn't erupted in 10 years"-maybe. THe other example is if you're a skiing/winter-sport enthusiast (like me). And you simply balance your chance of an avalanche vs the reports and "how much fun it sounds to ski with your friends"

[2] If you find yourself in an avalanche situation, you need/must do your best to "swim" to the top of the avalanche. There is gear that can help you do so outside of beacons or "signal based" notifications. Once you've established all those unfeasible, you're left with the same tools a "sudden earthquake victim" is up against. You still have the upper hand because a simple handheld transceiver (from like Icom, Kenwood or Yaesu) will have 100x the range through snow vs one through liquid water or concrete.

[3] Physically speaking: ice is eventually going to behave like water under enough depth. I think.

[4] Avalanche Gear example: https://alpenglowsports.com/collections/avalanche-safety
> If you compile all GUI apps statically, you'll end up with a monstorous distro that takes hundreds of gigabytes of disk space

And yet the original Macintosh toolbox was 64 kilobytes. Black and white though, and no themes out of the box.

Even a 1MB GUI library (enough for a full Smalltalk-80, or perhaps a compact modern GUI) would be in the noise for most apps.
Nah, it's even better. "These messages were printed on a variety of different printers on three separate dates, but all of the printers were in an Office Depot during that time. Now we just need to go through the footage of those days to see who was in that store on all three days." Meanwhile, you're in another state on those days, doing crime.
That's exactly what I did first! I ran a CPU torture test at full clock speed and measured the power draw at the plug, then repeated the same test with the lowest clock speed setting. For the Epyc system, there was about 225W lower power draw at the reduced clock speed. Even at idle, capping the max frequency reduced the power draw by about 20+%.
What really blows my mind is not the fact that all these songs borrow from and remix one another, but the overall "problem of universals" from metaphysics. In the realm of music, how do we even identify specific characteristics that lead to properties of resemblence? How does your brain know "Oh, that's the Funky Drummer beat" when it's played on a different drum kit or at a different tempo, etc etc.

edit: Would love to see an AI driven project where you drag a slider to "mutate" a sample until it's no longer that sample but another piece of music. A "boil the frog" type thing.
> I have a hard time finding concrete examples, but I always envisioned an example detachment being roughly platoon sized. Basically, imagine being able to man a NMESIS launcher or two, ISR, and a squad or two of infantry for security.

Most of the scenarios I've participated in have involved reinforced companies.
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But you compared two different things. CCP membership is like Republican Party affiliation: it is not reserved to politicians. The most common training of CCP politicians is... politics. The most common training of American members of the Republican Party is... whatever is trending and useful today in the US.

Your premises are so wrong that it is hard to argue with your conclusion. Ofc politicians, or policemen, or lawyers, train in law more than engineering. The US is more litigious than many countries because... it works better to litigate there, maybe ?
On the contrary, I think the one and only thing that really enabled such widespread advances in science over the past few centuries was the same thing that initially enabled such for the Greeks - people were able to pursue things with near to no limitations, no taboo, no dogma. And it seems that perhaps such things are inherently liminal in nature. The Greeks would then go to on to execute perhaps the greatest thinker in humanity's history for wrongthink, and we ourselves are already well into the times of where not only is there taboo and dogma, but it's even overtly stated.

When you get into population stratification issues you're already again flirting with taboo depending on what is being studied. So yeah - low sample sized, poorly controlled, correlation exclusive GWAS studies are the gold standard in genetics publications. I'm so completely surprised that such, alongside the rusty hacksaw that's CRISPR, failed to live up to even a zillionth of their 'potential'.
Many edge-cases can be found with regards to casing! Like title-case characters.

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/cha...
> The legal system doesn't require you to prove your innocence

Only in criminal cases. In civil suits, you'll have to prove your innocence.
> which is basically advocating for and co-opting the core ideas of the current administration

How on earth do you come to this conclusion?

Trump is famously NIMBY, both in real estate and in infrastructure. He objects to solar and wind purely on the basis that "they ruin the view". He's anti-dense and pro-suburb, he hates zoning except when it actually comes to residential zoning, where he has pretty consistently tried to leverage it to destroy dense housing projects (other than his own presumably).

Aside from that "this administration" has no real consistent policy objectives other than kicking out immigrants. Not even cutting taxes, because tariffs are taxes.

DOGE barely even pretends to be a legitimate effort to make government more efficient as opposed to simply cutting things they don't like or understand without concern for the actual ROI. You don't slash the IRS if you care about government efficiency.
> if we dole out UBI to everyone to cover basic living costs, will that simply result in the cost of rent going up to absorb the whole amount?

For that to be true, rent-seeking would have to literally capture all surplus. In which case UBI wouldn’t be an option in the first place.

The marginal increase in the purchasing power of someone who went from having $0 to $n would always be greater than the increase in purchasing power for someone who went from $1 billion to $1 billion + n - even with inflation.
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There are echoes to discussions a few months ago about IMG_0001.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314547

The site displays random, ancient videos uploaded from the early iPhone YouTube app, often without people understanding what they were doing.

I tend to err on the side of caution: I don't expect most people to be tech savvy, and I think those of us who are must exercise restraint to avoid trespassing.