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My wife believes that our success is due to her “manifesting” and “vision boarding”.

Meanwhile, I’ve work my ass off for what we have.

end of an era

linear.app seems ok

probably discussed in the bitcointalk thread, but how do we know it's not just the creator of the puzzle reclaiming his own bitcoin?

Quite a few projects in the home automation space would be well-served by open-source projects.

Where I live I get extreme lightning storms that take out some of my electronics quite often. I've replaced the boards that control my swing gates twice. They're like $400 per board. This year I got tired of paying that and I replaced them with DIY esp8266 + relay modules running esphome. But this could be wildly improved with custom open source PCBs.

Another example: I've spent a lot of money on robotic lawn mowers. There's a lot of room for a good open-source contender in this arena too. Some of the top of the line commercial mowers use RTK for gps positioning (no more boundary wire) and try to incorporate computer vision algorithms for planning, but they're not super amazing, and they're also not very hackable. If the entire stack was open source then I am sure a big community would sprout around it and I think the open-source robot would quickly become the best available. You can leverage other open source projects like ardurover to get going pretty quickly.

If you take on either of these please let me know and I'll be a happy customer #1.

Go read the papers on automated RCA. The algorithms are designed to suggest top K candidates for RCA. By definition at least k-1 are going to be wrong.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10638

FTA: "If we offload the RCA learning/categorization part to the LLM (whatever that means), we wouldn't be able to make much progress in the enhancing reliability and safety part."

But you don't offload it in the sense that you expect the tool to completely take the wheel.

You ask it for suggestions to inform a human. If the suggestions turn out to only be a distraction in your environment then you abandon the tool.

For plenty of environments the suggestions will be hugely useful and save you valuable time during an ongoing outage.

I've been working on similar lately. Changepoint detection over our metrics time series, and using that to inform automated root cause analysis.

I think your work was mentioned on our team channel this week.

I found these papers to be pretty interesting:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10638 https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02357

Anything else I should be reading?

remember Denthor's tutorials in Turbo Pascal? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8837545

http://textfiles.com/programming/astrainer.txt

would be fun to get an old dos machine going with Pascal IDE and run through all those again

Companies operate on a high level of fear and trust. This is the security vendor, so in theory they want those updates rolled out as quickly as possible so that they don't get hacked. Heh.

Seems like a modern operating system would have an automatic rollback mechanism for cases like this.

I guess after mapping the services used you would find the accounts worth going for and those become SIM swap targets

Maybe unpopular. I definitely would work there for the right role.

Besides all of the negative attention the company has drawn, they've also done a lot of good for the world that mostly goes unrecognized. I wouldn't be with my wife and have my family if it weren't for Facebook.

They're also invested in future tech which has great potential to be a net good for humanity. A lot of their open source and research gets released for public use.

I rejected a down-level offer from Meta a couple of years ago and I sometimes wonder if that was the wrong move.

nah, 30 years after writing my first line of code I still get excited over my projects.

You described nearly exactly my little place here in the countryside too. I noticed property taxes were up this year, and the electric co-op cut down two of my favorite trees while I was on vacation because they said they were too close to the lines.

There’s always something. sigh

LaVague https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698546

skyvern https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700013

Ithaka

As you set out for Ithaka

hope your road is a long one,

full of adventure, full of discovery.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops,

angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:

you’ll never find things like that on your way

as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,

as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body.

Laistrygonians, Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them

unless you bring them along inside your soul,

unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.

May there be many summer mornings when,

with what pleasure, what joy,

you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;

may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things,

mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,

sensual perfume of every kind—

as many sensual perfumes as you can;

and may you visit many Egyptian cities

to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.

Arriving there is what you’re destined for.

But don’t hurry the journey at all.

Better if it lasts for years,

so you’re old by the time you reach the island,

wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,

not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.

Without her you wouldn't have set out.

She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor,

Ithaka won’t have fooled you.

Wise as you will have become,

so full of experience,

you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

BY C. P. CAVAFY TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY

I wanted to be a Disney imagineer or an inventor.

I guess it's similar-ish. On a good day. If you squint, with the lights off.

it's pretty awesome that we got to live through a period where it still required a human brain to do the programming.

welp. onward.

31131211131221

see you there!

I think still not too late for an MD or pilot if that is your passion. Just that ROI may be effected because of total working years remaining.

thanks a lot buddy now you got the Highlander theme song stuck in my head

I think a https://www.windmill.dev/ workflow could handle this

It’s been quite a long while but I used to make use of codementor.io for some quick jobs. My strategy was to keep rates low until I had enough ratings to slowly raise rates. You might look into that site. I don’t know if they’re setup for non-US though.

jealous

nodered (https://nodered.org/) for APIs with node-red-contrib-cron-plus (https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-cron-plus) is another

need midjourney for ansi now

Walmart and the Waltons dump gobs of money on Northwest Arkansas. It doesn’t make much sense to compare it to the rest of the state. Bentonville is a pretty nice place to raise a family. Public museums, schools, parks, bike trails, all really nice.

Traffic getting kind of nuts though.

tl;dr

I really like your blog theme though so I cut+pasted it into my own blog but there's some kind of css issue. I msg'd you details. Take a look when you can, hopefully soon, I have a big post going live tomorrow.

I think it’s silly to pretend that human programmers are emitting a lot of code with a high degree of originality either. We’re all remixing some long-forgotten influential code laying deep in latent memory just like the models.