<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: steve76</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=steve76</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:55:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=steve76" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by steve76 in "Are We Really Engineers? (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>(a) If it's regularly expected that you ship bugs, you might be in a discipline that is distinct from engineering<p>A software bug means you can't drag and drop, or have to wait to import your contacts.<p>An engineering risk means the hood of the car decapitates you above 30 mph, or the diesel fumes give everyone cancer.<p>>(b) If you can usually reach for an abstraction to save you, you might be working in something that isn't engineering.<p>Everything's rated. You open a catalog from a supplier. If there's any question, go up in size. A lot is skids now. There are also trade associations. Dust settles. Products turn from novel invention into utility. Existing capacity is built around one thing a shop does right, especially the knowledge from the workers.<p>Software is much harder. Go. Just go. Get it done. Get it out. Who cares if it's awful code. We need to make money now.<p>Engineering is the applied science. Applied means you use it. You don't create it. If you do create it by chance, it's not your responsibility. Ma Bell didn't go into the business of the Big Bang when they discovered cosmic background radiation. Their job was telephones. Science means consistent observations regardless of the environment. Everyone thinks of scientists as people in lab coats. Nothing like that. Lot's of reading.<p>Software is much more focused on engineering. In other disciplines you are a cashier at a grocery store. Software is much more like Menlo Park. You have a fixed commodity in server cost and bandwidth. Add value to it however you can.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2022 22:16:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30001122</link><dc:creator>steve76</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30001122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30001122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by steve76 in "Are warp drives science now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My understanding of gravitational waves is that very large objects try to move. It's easier if the universe sees more or less of their particles than if they moved. So the universe sees more or less of their particles. Instead of creating a warp drive, do that. Find some cosmic structure big enough, and manipulate it until the universe sees more or less of it's particles in a way that you are now where you want to be. Very difficult to do, but it happens:<p>> After years of producing null results, improved detectors became operational in 2015. On 11 February 2016, the LIGO-Virgo collaborations announced the first observation of gravitational waves, from a signal (dubbed GW150914) detected at 09:50:45 GMT on 14 September 2015 of two black holes with masses of 29 and 36 solar masses merging about 1.3 billion light-years away. During the final fraction of a second of the merger, it released more than 50 times the power of all the stars in the observable universe combined. The signal increased in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz over 10 cycles (5 orbits) as it rose in strength for a period of 0.2 second. The mass of the new merged black hole was 62 solar masses. Energy equivalent to three solar masses was emitted as gravitational waves.</p>
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<p>> people from around the world hungry to pull themselves up from the bottom...<p>Foreign countries are poor like the Rolling Stones or Motley Crew are poor. They are actually very wealthy. They see nice peaceful lives as something for fools and cowards.<p>> meanwhile in NYC and Oakland, high school students are on "strike" and walking out of class over bogus covid hysteria (aka a legit excuse to combine virtue signalling and goofing off)...apparently we must grovel to their demands as the world owes so much to, and depends so much on, the American teen<p>Awful to see people turn their backs on their own. Big tech would be gone without bailouts and cheap consumer credit to buy their junk. Despite all their prestige, they don't do anything. People still die horribly. Their charity is not enough. The problems, such as neurological disease, are much more difficult than they thought. "Disruption" or "don't be evil" didn't work.<p>We gave them the luxury of a lot of resources while we fought some very bad people and took care of the sick. First chance they get they leave for Cypress and Brazil for people who really do hate them.<p>>fast forward twenty years, who will have risen, who will have fallen<p>I work from home and am only in tech because of family care-taking. Twenty years will be a sad time for me. Everyone will be gone. I'll be all alone.<p>Despite that, I kept up on my skills. I managed to have at least some real workplace experience. I have nothing but free time, and I am going to be incredibly angry at and have very little remorse towards the people we trusted with all our wealth and who chose marxists and drug gangs and terrorists over their own and burnt and looted my home.</p>
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<p>The recent porcine kidney transplant, in which a hog did all the computations for you, was done on a patient in a coma. Vascular endothelial growth factor is being tested with CABG procedures. Find someone who needs a hail Mary, and do your best. That will always be faster.<p>Genes are not the end all be all to medicine let alone biology. There are places where medicine won't go, such as the delicate structures of the brain. Much too unethical. Neurotransmitters fire across synapses. You will always be uncertain of what temperature or charge you need. No way of telling what's really on the inside. And that's with an incomplete model.<p>You also can't just zap or plunge in medicine. If you are going gene by gene or protein by protein, yet alone cell by cell, how long is that going to take?</p>
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<p>> The very idea that there is some measusable "utility" to compare in the two cases, independent from your moral values and sentiments, is inane.<p>There's philosophical charity, in the sense of your ability to put aside your judgments to listen and gain knowledge. That can be measured. Simply ask "You know this?" and count how many no's. There's some things we will never know that are very important, like dying or being created. From those you can get to real altruism. Caring for others is the natural state of humanity and makes humans strong, nice and beautiful. Selfishness is unnatural, weak, hateful, and ugly. Whatever created you cared about you and helped you, gave you the capacity for joy and happiness. Sooner than you think you will be abandoned by everything and those will be taken away and you will be in need. It's better for you to help others than just helping yourself. Personal sacrifice is not needed. It's not okay to be hurt or be a victim. Interior motives are irrelevant. It's better if everyone in the world is cured than just you while everyone else dies.</p>
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<p>The worst is when you have to onboard a new developer. No matter what it won't deploy and just hangs and you have to start new. You have to include that .amplify directory and set up everyone on aws version control.<p>Netlify and Vercel read directly from your repo. I left them because they did not have pg npm and build failed. I also had to open up the database to the public.<p>I've found if there was an easier way to do it, the original software would be written to do it that way, and the fundamental unavoidable unit commodity will always be a server you ssh into it.<p>I wonder how fast 1,000 components render? And if effectful components that call network requests create race conditions?</p>
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<p>What worked for me:<p>1. Move front and surround and height if you have them speakers to full range.<p>2. Set center speaker cutoff a few hz higher than normal, like 80 or 100<p>3. Turn up level going to sub. Turn down volume knob on the sub. This prevents auto off<p>You get a lot of the low end effects off the sub, and the center and sub is just for dialogue. You get that depth effect without the dialogue being muted. I feel filmmakers do this so their movies don't age. Supposedly they're going to have a laser speaker, and the flat panel tv will be a speaker itself with the sound shot across the screen. All those movies get a new release for that.</p>
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<p>You can put traefik in front of it and cache. Then setup a max limit on query execution. I don't use REST. Everything I need I write out as a postgres function. The other side is monitoring. Setup logging and run fail2ban, or an alarm to kick the user and require manual oversight.</p>
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<p>From the article:<p>"yet it doesn’t seem to be important for normal development"<p>Gene space is huge. My cancer is cured, but now I'm dying of mange. So that's why that mouse kept licking itself. Big ask for someone else. They have trouble getting blood thinners, statins and beta blockers right. And there's no genetics there. It's stuff people ate out in the woods for hundreds of thousands of years.<p>> There are so many people close to dying in cancer  finding volunteers for a Phase 1 test should be easy<p>I take the opposite approach. These people have few days left. It's a time to make things nice. It can get much worse quick. Cancer, which can be managed, is nowhere near as bad as it can get.<p>Disease tends to hit all at once. It's really just dying. Cancer, strokes, heart attacks and infections all tend to gang up at once. The trial will kill these people no doubt. If you have a ticket out of the hospital, take it! Don't squander it trying to wash mud.<p>Also the patient pays a lot for clinical trials. Hundreds of thousands of dollars.</p>
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<p>SEEKING WORK<p>I start for free. No commitment required. I launch quick with a focus on profitability, earnings, and converting users to customers.<p>References with significant budgets available upon request. I found great success with Next.js and Relay.js. Great community with former professionals from Microsoft and Facebook.<p>Please find me on the graphql discord job-board. I'll be sure to reply:
<a href="https://discord.graphql.org/" rel="nofollow">https://discord.graphql.org/</a></p>
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<p>> Scott Wlaschin’s fsharp for fun and profit is one of the best functional programming resources I know across all functional programming languages.<p>Hey! Someone else saw this. Very underrated resource. Also Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming needs more attention too.<p>Things I would add:<p>1. Start off with what types you need, not functions. Creating your types like the tools you need to do the job. Then build combinators. Convert one complex type to a primitive. Then a primitive to your type.<p>2. Once you have your types, it's not that difficult to make them functional. You just make methods for "of", or "chain", or "map", or "ap". Now you have monadic and applicative interface.<p>3. The functional part is just like when a shell drops to a program's prompt, like >ftp and >mysql. You setup a series of commands like that, with Either or Task or Fold. Provide input, prepare a list of commands, and then run them when everything is valid and ready.<p>4. Bundle size is a problem for web. Until tech improves and bandwidth prices lower, 100 KB on a high volume website is a problem. Nothing wrong with taking a proven solution, like wordpress, and caching it.<p>5. Property based testing is for under the hood, your types and combinators. It's not something you do with Cypress or units. All that input is type unknown, and needs validation before going to what's coverage under property based testing.<p>6. One fault that always occurs is trying to use Runtime encoding to build some extensible modular program. Don't do that. Types are for build. Validation is for runtime. If it doesn't validate, show a user a message. Don't try to build some hot swappable modular program, where types are read from input. If they want to program the computer, they can install the IDE.</p>
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<p>I wish movies would respect their audience. They tend to dumb things down. It would be fun to see someone really go after it, and let the public catch up. Here's what I think when I see this:<p>Interesting to see the edges of a black hole. Nothing gets more powerful than that. Why build bigger and bigger colliders if you can get accurate data with something on a cosmic scale.<p>Interesting to see what particles of spacetime do there. A string is a particle with one dimension. Why is it constricted like that. And what applications exist in manipulating that constricted degree of freedom.<p>If we are imaging black holes, and manipulating instruments in the plasma of stars, and there's no consequences, at what point is everything out there a refraction pattern controlled by our actions. A star or a galaxy leaves our ability to view it. We still know about it through black hole imaging. No way nature could do that. We manipulate that distant celestial object to rely on our ability to image a black hole, and then suddenly stop. What happens?</p>
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<p>Faraday was a book binder. Einstein a patent clerk. Susskind background helped advance theory. Professionals have their problems. Citation gaming. It's possible to get a degree relying on a jargon and learning by wrote without a true comprehension.<p>It makes you not just rely on particle or gravity field. People starting from scratch have to really explain themselves.<p>Dark matter, you have gravity forces with far less visible mass. If you want a dark matter particle, it has to absorb from the surroundings without changing its surroundings, while not radiating light.<p>Gravity, heat transfer through the changing of relative clocks works well enough.</p>
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<p>How many executions in 2020?<p>17<p>How many people murdered due to the Reign of Terror 2020?<p>4,000+<p>Wow, your trendy pet activism of the bailed out rich killed more people than bin Laden. How about a study on that?<p>You also mention Jim Crow. May we look at the slavery you commit today, far worse than any other time in human history. Where do you think all your drugs, and sex workers, and cheap clothes and cheap electronics and child soldiers come from?</p>
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<p>How about murders? Look at the murder rate. You just killed more people than bin Laden.<p>You can't stop the murders. But you can land me a dream job? Puh-leeze.</p>
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<p>Our community is sadden to announce the tragic loss of a local computer hobbyist who tripped and fell in front of a municipal dump truck due to untied shoe laces. Contributing factors to the accident are believed to   be a loss of focus from recent life stress including a failed rap career, repressed homosexuality, chronic tardiness, and talking back to elders.<p>In unrelated news, we congratulate Sergeant Yang of the Benevolent Retirees Association Metro Police for winning the "face up, face down!" raffle. Also of merit is the National Penalty Battalion, who successful accomplished the release of a genetic bio-weapon targeting the financial profiteers of international narcotics trafficking. We ask for no money. Please simply change your ways. In response to your hardship and efforts, 100 billion dollars has been deposited to your accounts by the federal central bank at 0.0001% interest.</p>
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<p>Let's look at big tech's track record:<p>- Don't hire anyone<p>- Notorious interview process<p>- Took everyone's money with bank bailouts and inflated stock prices<p>- Dump problems on everyone else. Debt, price inflation, job loss<p>- H1B visas only to win foreign contracts from hostile nations.<p>Now, not only do they hire no one, their product keeps people from getting any job.<p>Their recent activism doubled the murder rate. That's more people killed than bin Laden, who we just launched a two decade world war against. One day the doors of those luxury buses will open, and charging out, nothing but monsters, ones of their own creation. funny.</p>
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<p>> If you can't be bothered to prepare, study, and brush up coding skills for interviews, I do not want to hire you.<p>If you can't be bothered to hire people, earn a profit, and not turn traitor on everyone, I do not want to bail you or your failing bank out.<p>Next market crash, burn m*<i>f*</i>er burn.</p>
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<p>The death camps opened up again. They're called fentanyl. This time they figured out a way to charge admission. How about reparations for that? More people enslaved today due to ignorant foreign unchecked ambition than anytime in history, and in far worse conditions. The past has its brutality. You're worst, for far less, and you do it because you like it.<p>No, the world doesn't need a autocrat. Too much knowledge for one single authority. The world needs you to learn how to live your life without bothering other people. Try it please. It's really easy to do.</p>
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<p>You just blew an undercover international federal investigation on terrorism. I would say that's a bad idea.<p>Won't terrorists go after you now? Close the exploit, or be mortared. You go to the feds. They say: Oh! I can't get to that now!!! My phone says I need to update!</p>
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