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https://natwelch.com

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icco··on Lobbying
Normally what you were doing is flagged as advocating, while if you were lobbying you would have been a registered lobbyist. Not always, but usually.
icco··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
It and Frontier were the only affordable airlines.
icco··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://natwelch.com personal site with a wiki and blog.
icco··on US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication
I mean this is bad, but also there are silicon fabs all over the bay area, and have been for decades. Hence the whole "silicon valley" thing.
icco··on Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity
I use `yq` for this stuff and it handles most of this pretty well.
icco··on HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
I would migrate off fast. If they are willing to do this with their oldest and most popular tool, I have no doubt they'll change the license of all of their code soon.
icco··on Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
I am not a lawyer, but https://explore.zoom.us/docs/doc/Zoom-hipaa.pdf reads like as long as they don't disclose your information, they aren't in violation.
icco··on Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out
Definitely, but so does every advertising play. While AI companies are more egregious, this isn't anything new.
icco··on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
With all of the layoffs, we're seeing about a 50-100x increase in number of applicants for open rolls, so the market is definitely more flooded. Also I'm regularly finding applicants were over-lelveled in past roles, and so usually have about one or two titles higher expectations for level than they actually are capable of having.
icco··on If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython
Just rewrite all of your Python in Go. Python in 2023 is a mistake.
icco··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://writing.natwelch.com
icco··on Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself
If your service needs to survive a global aws outage, you just can't run with any saas. So many of these companies are single regioned in AWS. Auth0, Okta, Datadog, many others put customers in a regional box, and if that region goes down, all of those customers go down.
icco··on Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?
This is also why you shouldn't take GPA or alma-mater into account when considering resumes. MIT grads are just as worthless as any other 21y old.
icco··on Hi again @elonmusk
That's not surprising. hn has been home to anti-worker, pro-techno-utopianism for a very long time.
icco··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)
Laurel | Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform | REMOTE (North America) | https://laurel.ai

Full JD and application form - https://grnh.se/19ed4d612us

Laurel is a time tracking application for lawyers, accounts and other knowledge workers. Our infrastructure / cloud platform team is small but we build, design and manage the platform for our product engineers to build our product!

icco··on Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
There is no cloud provider that is large that wants you building hobby apps. Google, AWS, Azure, Heroku, etc. all want you to build large apps, small apps are not their market and they actively don't want you.
icco··on Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?
Pretty much all of the books at newline do this: https://www.newline.co/
icco··on CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI
Layoffs and outages at Circle. software supply chain attacks becoming more and more popular.
icco··on An M1 for Curl
While this is great, there are so many more FOSS projects that OSX relies on that Apple doesn't support in any way.
icco··on Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?
Hiring Devops contractors to put together any piece of infrastructure. Infrastructure is so core to your business, you always regret and have to rebuild. Tried twice now and regretted it both times.
icco··on Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage
Beowulfs were huge hacks back in the day, but are similar to most super computers. The main difference from how many think of compute clusters these days is it is managed as a single machine, so historically needed identical hardware. Parallel processing and concurrency used to be more rare :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster

icco··on Ask HN: What software do you miss that no longer runs on modern hardware?
I miss the original sim games. Simtower being my favorite.
icco··on Ask HN: What software do you miss that no longer runs on modern hardware?
If only they had open sourced it, it could have lived on.
icco··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)
Time By Ping | REMOTE (US, west coast preferred) | Full Time

We are time tracking software for professionals, and our mission is to return time. You can learn more about us at https://timebyping.com

We're mostly a Typescript shop, but we have some Golang, Python, C# and Swift.

we currently have the following open rolls:

- Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning - https://www.timebyping.com/jobs?gh_jid=6169150002

- Principal Engineer, React - https://www.timebyping.com/jobs?gh_jid=6361179002

- Principal Engineer, Backend - https://www.timebyping.com/jobs?gh_jid=6357592002

icco··on Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?
Specifically small agriculture too. Most investment is in huge farms, very little investment in making small agriculture (think less than 10 acres) more affordable and accessible. Most of this is policy problems in the US, but globally its also a problem.
icco··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
Most big retailers use this tech already to track how customers walk through their stores.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264822934_Mining_of... https://www.aislelabs.com/blog/2022/04/04/combining-camera-a...

There's lots of other examples, this was just a quick google search.

icco··on Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots
I thought this trend was a joke, did not realize people were actually using bots to deliver food.
icco··on Poll: Where do you live?
TIL about console.table. Thanks for sharing!
icco··on Dgraph’s Future
So much spice. A continuation on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30119165
icco··on Quitting Dgraph Labs
woofta, what a way to go.
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