United Airlines loses customers' bag due to check-in agent tagging the the bag with wrong passenger's details, customer forced to back to the airport to retrieve it because their customer service refused to believe that it was still there.

The airline said her bag was lost, but her tracker said otherwise. So she flew to get it    

Built this today: <https://codefire.dev> (work in progress)

Plan is for it to be a no-BS site for useful code snippets, boilerplates, and dev resources. No unnecessarily long-winded tutorials and SEO whoring, just straight to the point.

Backend API will be powered by my other app <http://mindgarden.app>, so it's simultaneously an excuse for me to battle test my own product + serve as a demo.

Currently just my content, but down the line will be publicly editable (eg. like Wikipedia) 

Tech stack: Next.js, Tailwind, MindGarden (API), Cloudflare Pages

Will post updates here

Build In Public - CodeFire.dev

Hi I'm Jeremy. I'm building this site because I'm not satisfied with other online community type websites and their lack of innovation (see the /about page). The goal is to make a superior, more open, and more decentralized online community.

The site is still in early stages in active development (see the dev masterthread here: https://zsync.xyz/p/zsync-dev-update-masterthread)

Join us if this sounds interesting! Feel free to send me any feedback or reach out directly!

Threads users down by more than half

9 years ago this man went to a Magic the Gathering tournament and documented all of the buttcracks

*"I’ve spent nearly twenty years blogging, giving talks and releasing open source code. It’s been fantastic for my career, and a huge amount of work. But here’s a useful secret: you don’t have to put very much work at all into public creativity in order to stand out as a job candidate.*

*I’ve interviewed hundreds of people, and screened hundreds more resumes—mostly for tech roles in San Francisco, an extremely competitive job market.*

*The vast majority of candidates have little to no evidence of creativity in public at all. The same is true for many of the best engineers I have worked with.*

*As a hiring manager, this means you have to learn how to source candidates and interview effectively: you don’t want to miss out on a great engineer just because they spent all of their energy making great products for prior employers rather than blogging, speaking and coding in public.*

*But as a candidate, this means you can give yourself a big advantage in terms of standing out from the crowd with a relatively small amount of work.*

*Start a blog. Post an interesting technical article to it once or twice a year—something you’ve learned, or a bug you’ve fixed, or a problem you’ve solved. After a few years stop bothering entirely, but leave the blog online somewhere.*

*Build a small personal project and put the code on GitHub. Accompany it with a README with a detailed description of the project and screenshots of it in action—almost no-one does this, it only takes a few hours extra and it massively increases the impact your project will have on hiring managers who are checking you out.*

*That’s it. One or two blog posts. Maybe a GitHub repository. Believe it or not, if you are up against a bunch of other candidates (especially earlier on in your career) they likely won’t have anything like that. You will jump straight to the top of the hiring manager’s mental list, maybe without them even noticing.*

*There’s plenty more you can do if you want to put the effort in: build an audience on Twitter, start a newsletter, make videos, give talks (ideally that get recorded and published online), release open source packages, publish [TILs](https://til.simonwillison.net/)—but honestly if your goal is to get through the interview process more easily you will very quickly hit the law of diminishing returns.*

*If you’re going to do that stuff do it because you want to develop those skills and share with and learn from the world—don’t just do it because you think it’s a critical path to being hired."*

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36843484>

It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

This thread is for everyone to introduce themselves. I'll sticky this one

Hi, I'm Jeremy. I made this site last year out of frustration with the comment quality on sites like Reddit, and the anti-crypto rhetoric and lack of "subreddits" on HN. At some point I got tired of complaining about those sites on those sites and figured I'd just make a better version myself.

I'm a software engineer from the U.S (Virginia originally near Washington DC, but moved to NYC after uni). Majored in math in university. Been traveling the world for the last 5 years (47+ countries). I'm writing this from Seoul, South Korea.

I've been a pretty staunch advocate of universal basic income and remote work for about a decade now, ever since I worked my first office job. [This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_YMxx095As) I made on wage slavery got 121k views. I think within the next decade AI and automation will wreck havoc on the labor market, leaving governments with no choice but to embrace UBI and stronger safety nets, ultimately resulting in greater freedom and higher quality of life for all.

These days when I post online it's mostly on Twitter ([@jeremybernier](https://twitter.com/jeremybernier)) and occasionally this [crappy Wordpress blog](https://jsavage.xyz/). My personal website is <https://www.jbernier.com/>

I'm ENTP and love debating and discussing controversial topics. My favorite courses in undergrad were the proof heavy math courses and philosophy, and I love applying logic to real world problems.

In my free time I like to play piano (when I have access to one), listen to and make music (there was a phase where I wanted to be an electronic music producer), play soccer, work out, read, write, and occasionally make videos.

Curious to learn about the other visitors here. Also curious to hear your ideas on what it would take to make a better Reddit / HN / Twitter alternative, and how to improve this site.

*Past threads: [1](https://zsync.xyz/p/introductions-june-2023) [2](https://zsync.xyz/p/introductions)*

Introductions

*"More than three years ago we founded Worldcoin with the ambition of creating a new identity and financial network owned by everyone; the rollout begins today. If successful, we believe Worldcoin could drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy, enable global democratic processes, and eventually show a potential path to AI-funded UBI.*

*Worldcoin consists of a privacy-preserving digital identity (World ID) and, where laws allow, a digital currency (WLD) received simply for being human. We hope that, where the rules are less clear, such as in the U.S., steps will be taken so more people can benefit from both.*

*You can now download World App, the first protocol-compatible wallet, and reserve your share. After visiting an Orb, a biometric verification device, you will receive a World ID. This lets you prove you are a real and unique person online while remaining completely private. As the global distribution of Orbs is ramping up, you can find the closest one and book time to be verified with World App and at [worldcoin.org](http://worldcoin.org).*

*Worldcoin is an attempt at global scale alignment, the journey will be challenging and the outcome is uncertain. But finding new ways to broadly share the coming technological prosperity is a critical challenge of our time. We hope you’ll join us.*

*Alex Blania & Sam Altman"*

Twitter: <https://twitter.com/worldcoin>

News: <https://www.reuters.com/technology/openais-sam-altman-launches-worldcoin-crypto-project-2023-07-24/>

OpenAI's Sam Altman launches Worldcoin


      ‘Once in a lifetime’ fossil reveals a dinosaur and mammal locked in mortal combat
    

Around 2,000 penguins wash up dead on Uruguay coast

Show HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813086>

GitHub: <https://github.com/primocms/primo>

Primo - Visual CMS with Svelte blocks, code editor, and SSG (open source)

TypeChat uses the type definitions in your codebase to retrieve structured AI responses that are type-safe.

TypeChat

IRS moves forward with a new free-file tax return system, supporters and critics mobilize

Darwin: A framework for evolving decentralized web apps

Enable it by going into account settings -&gt; Beta features -&gt; Code Interpreter

> *"Try a version of ChatGPT that knows how to write and execute python code, and can work with file uploads. Try asking for help with data analysis, image conversions, or editing a code file. Note: files will not persist beyond a single session."*

Can upload files up to 100mb, and zipped files work

Latent space did a nice podcast episode covering Code Interpreter: <https://www.latent.space/p/code-interpreter>

Have you used it? Thoughts?

OpenAI Code Interpreter Beta Available For All ChatGPT Plus Users

Being a software engineer in 2023 is knowing that 95% of everything you're doing now will be obsolete in 5 years. By 2028 app creation will be a commodity &amp; coding will be writing prompts that update themselves Tech was always fast-changing, now we're supercharging exponentiallyHumans cannot compete with AI in the long run. Now is one of the last moments in time where as a human you can still have an edge. In a decade, that will mostly be gone. Human labor being obsolete to AI would be something to celebrate if we had a UBI (basic income), but we don't10 years ago I thought it was obvious that implementing UBI would be an enormous net-positive for society, especially since it was obvious AI was automating labor. Now you'd have to be an idiot to not see the writing on the wall, yet I don't see much talk of UBI.Anyways, the golden age of human labor is coming to an end. We can embrace &amp; applaud this, implementing a UBI, freeing the wagcucks, etc. Or we can cry &amp; deny it while desperately clinging on to the last remains of our own waning relevance like luddites &amp; boomer politicians

Being a Software Engineer in 2023 is knowing that 95% of everything you're doing now will be obsolete in 5 years

Yesterday, Sunday, December 3, 2023, a referendum was held in my country (Venezuela) and I had to be at one of the polling stations which was in a basic education school.

At some point when there was little influx of people, I wanted to take a tour of that school, which I had never entered before in my life. As I walked inside the school, I realized the horrible state of the facilities. Curiosity made me want to enter the school. girls' bathroom and I asked a classmate to go in with me, when I entered I couldn't believe what I saw, I asked the person with me several times: Is this really the girls' bathroom? And her response was the same “Yes this is it.”

Then I had to look for one of the teachers who taught there because I honestly couldn't believe what I had seen. I was lucky (blessed) that one of the members of our polling station was a teacher at that basic education school and her The answer was the same "Yes, Sunday, that bathroom is the girls' bathroom" and I couldn't believe how deplorable that bathroom was, I couldn't believe that girls had to relieve themselves in such a place.

Then I finished reviewing the entire school (I can't reveal the reasons why I had so much time to review the entire school) and ended up frustrated. During the rest of my activities in that place I only prayed to God and with tears I said, “You know that I am asking you for money for a house because of everything I suffer living in someone else's house, but I don't need a big house, provide me with enough.” money that I bought a small house and the rest I am going to donate to accommodate this school because I cannot bear the idea of children receiving classes in such conditions.”

When I finished my activities in that place, I went to the place where I live and asked why the mayor of the city did not help that school and they answered that that school is not the responsibility of the mayor, but my mind could not accept how someone could enter that school. school and not feel moved.

Then I started thinking about the hardness of heart of people today and I remembered two super hard times that I went through in my life and I went into some Christian Facebook groups and asked for help and what I received was insults, some people from Christian church groups Reformed and of sound doctrine insulted me and repeated “This is a place to share the word of God, not a place to ask for donations” other groups simply deleted my publication.

I also remembered a publication that another brother made saying that Christians should be people who help those in need and a response they gave to that publication was: “I do not agree with this publication, it should give more biblical basis.”

In the end, thinking about how hard-hearted people are, I realized how hard-hearted the Christians themselves are because not only the mayor has entered that school but many Christians have also entered and in this city there are churches that boast of be the largest church in the city, but nevertheless they have not dedicated themselves to being a light and the sad thing is that surely many of their children will attend that school, but if we do not help each other among the Christians themselves (as they did with me who rather insulted me) much less with the people outside.

I have known several pastors say "Every church has a vision and the vision of our church is not to help those in need." The truth is that it is one of the stupidest things in the world but you cannot imagine the number of pastors who think the same. same.

Other pastors give only as a strategy to attract people to congregate in their church.

Thinking about all this today, I reflected and told myself: “the church today also needs a referendum, the church today needs a recall referendum, to revoke these hard hearts, to revoke hearts of stone and pray that God establish hearts according to the yours because otherwise we will continue to be like a cymbal that resounds on a cymbal and makes noise and nothing more (1 Corinthians 13:1-7)

The Christian church urgently needs a recall referendum to recall these cold hearts who only want God for them, but who dare not help others.

THE CHURCH ALSO NEEDS A REFERENDUM.

Kisses, I am Professor Bubba.

Deuteronomy 15:10-11 (TLA)

If you have the power to do good, do not refuse to do it to those who need it; Do not say to your neighbor: “Go away, come back again, tomorrow I will give you something,” when you have something to give him with you.

Proverbs 3:27-28 (NKJV)

Serving the poor is making a loan to the Lord; God will pay for those good deeds.

Proverbs 19:17 (CST)

God blesses the one who is generous and the one who shares his bread with the poor.

This also needs a referendum

This track is [🔥🔥🔥](https://emojipedia.org/fire)

Disco vibes

Here's the track played during the [Kaytranada Boiler Room](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EQIiabJvk&t=395s)

SebastiAn - Arabest

Just recently I was using ZPaq to perform a daily backup of my home folder (which is around 40GB decompressed). ZPaq uses the Paq compression algorithm [1] which is one of the best ones. While <code>xz -9e</code> compressed my homepage into 17 GB (around 40%), ZPaq got it to like 11 GB!!. And it also has archiving capabilities, so if you run it every day, it will only add missing files and remove files that are not there anymore. It has "snapshot" capabilities, so you can uncompress the files at a specific version, to restore deleted files. I combined ZPaq with Par2 to add 15% of redundancy (to recover the zpaq file in case of corruption). Everything looks great.<pre><code>cat ~/.local/bin/homebackup.sh
#!/bin/bash
FILENAME="/media/myname/TimeShift Backup/backups/home_myname.zpaq"
DIRNAME=$(dirname "$FILENAME")

if [ ! -f "$FILENAME" ]
then
 mkdir -p "$DIRNAME"
 pushd "$DIRNAME"
 zpaq add "$FILENAME" /home/mhname/ -m4
 nice -n 15 par2 c -r15 "$FILENAME"
 popd
fi
</code></pre>[1] <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ</a>

ZPaq: Incremental Journaling Backup Utility and Archiver

Está interesante este sistema, me gusta que trata de limitar el spam y comentarios de bajo esfuerzo utilizando criptomonedas. Ojalá que si progrese.Ah si y ¡Que Viva México Cabrones!