skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm only 26 and feel exactly the same. I don't have a wife, not even a girlfriend, not a single obligation. But I still wake up every day to go to a job I hate, and come home to nothing, feeling empty, like I am only wasting my time.

Why don't I switch jobs? Why don't I do this or that? Because I've been "switching lifestyles" (switching jobs, moving in with the GF, switching GFs, being single, etc) for the past 8 years, and every time I end up with the exact same feelings: overwhelmed, confused, depressed, stressed. So I've decided to go with the flow for a while and see what happens.

Bottom line is: sorry I can't give you any advice, but I guess life is hard no matter your situation, so I hope this can give you some consolation.
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Mainly because it is really hard to measure work ethic over any short period of time. College being 4 years gives a pretty good proxy.
It's 4chan, I promise you
Wow, massive Gell-Manning effect going on in these comments.

I've taken one of Jacob Beningo's courses after working for a long time in embedded and I know exactly where he's coming from. Granted the title is a bit clickbait.

The fact that he's "selling something" doesn't mean he's shill. It actually underlines his authority on the matter.

In this short article he only had a short space to address the state of embedded engineering. But of the key trends, IoS is only one of them. The other important one is the abundance of CPU cycles. It's hardly required to be close to the metal these days. In some cases, yes, but things are hardly bound like they were 10-20 years ago.

Also, perihperals are standardizing. This means the skills are more abundant. Plus, education is widespread, so many things that were mysterious aren't anymore. Next, product cycles are shorter, so shortcomings in products can be fixed in the next rev when better HW is available. Also, SW engineering practices are getting inherited from the rest of SW eng industry, so quality and predictability are increasing. Also traditional CS people can be very effective in embedded areas.

However, there will always be about 10% of the market that is difficult enough or requires enough expertise that only highly experienced people can achieve. These embedded engs can't be replaced any time soon.
They do it all the time. Got rid of all the Photo apps for example and just one.
The World’s Dominant Crypto-Mining Company Wants to Own AI
This is complete c..p.

Frameworks have existed since forever, the same as in desktop, server and UI software.

There is a) nothing new here and b) an assumption that the frameworks provide something valuable.

Very poor quality article based on false assumptions and lack of experience.
That's a fine and fair principle. I understand where you're coming from, and getting this mainlined is important to me too.

But for the record, we're maintaining meticulous compatibility with all kernel.org kernels back to 3.10 and up to whatever the most recent RCs are (at the moment, 4.17-rc5). We also support the frankenkernels from ubuntu, redhat, and suse. We have a build and run-in-a-vm CI box testing all these kernels for every commit and on a bunch of architectures: https://www.wireguard.com/build-status/ And because we're actively working on upstreaming this, you can be sure that this is going to continue working with upstream.

Also, this isn't a "company releasing their own modules" situation, providing some kind of throw-it-over-the-fence corporate crap code. I'm a kernel developer with a decent amount of upstream code, and the work I do is nearly always for upstream kernels.
I think medically, most mental disorders are characterised by a kind of normal functioning and quality of life metric.

So you're only delusional if it impairs your ability to function normally within the context of your society. Or if it negatively affect your quality of life, like, say it prevents you from sleeping, makes you overly anxious, etc.

In that sense, I think most common believer of a religion aren't affected in their normal functioning within society, and don't feel negatively affected by their beliefs. But some are, and those could be called out as having mental disorders.
If you prefer, look at the classic traffic ticket example: In court, prior to talking to the judge, you can have a conversation with the prosecutor to change your moving violation to a non-moving violation that is a little bit more expensive. Then the insurance company doesn't get to raise your rates for the next X years.

It's ultimately the very same thing, and you will find examples of it in an overwhelming majority of US traffic courts.
Where is here? They mean completely different things.

(we have joules for this.. but that's a lost battle)
> If I create the same web site without the option of paying to have a mugshot taken down, is that legal?

Yes. From TFA:

"Photos of criminal suspects taken by law enforcement agencies are public records and are generally releasable under state open records laws. Publishing them is not a crime, but Becerra said Mugshots.com broke the law in demanding a fee for their removal."

> In general I think extortion should be defined as threatening to do something illegal unless paid.

Nah, threats/coercion are enough. Think of this as blackmail.
Can someone illustrate how the misdeeds of these awful people makes the crime of money laundering?
You should be able to communicate clearly with a non-technical audience.
5 tiny customer support automations to save your team tons of time
> There is seemly at least a Director of <insert title here> for everything.

I would argue some of the things you list as causes of increasing tuition are the effects of tuition surpluses from additional income from a trillion in student loans.
The problem is usually getting the first couple opportunities. You don't need a degree if you've been in the industry awhile, but if you're trying to get a prestigious job it gets really easy to be filtered into thrown out stack of resumes.
I find this the height of arrogance that Google charges for this and it enrages me on a level I freely admit is irrational and pointless.

But just the gall:

1. Get FREE creative work from musicians, film types, tv types, and tons of bright friendly ordinary people

2. Monetize the hell out of it (fine)

3. Allow a sewer community of racists bullies and other terrible people to develop in comments section (negligent but ok it's gotten a little better)

4. Make it hard for visitors to extract original media even though you're purporting to be a hosting service (lame but I can live with it)

5. Cripple playback in basic ways for petty reasons (you're starting to really suck)

6. Try and CHARGE people to undo 5 (Gah!!!!! Die!!!)

I pay for a lot of things. I pay Hulu extra for the ad free version. I pay HBO for HBO Now even though I have a pirated Go login. I buy tv shows on iTunes. I'll even buy movies off friggin' Amazon if it means not pirating them. But I will never pay Google to achieve BASIC playback capabilities on other people's content just on PRINCIPLE. Never. Greedy greedy little leeches. YouTube is a great thing but the people who run it have turned Bad.
Back when they were super prevalent on Elon Musk's tweets, I'd look up the wallets and sure enough people were dumb enough to send it coins.

What gets me is the stupidly obvious fake replies saying it works.

Honestly the best solution is to open verification to everyone, not just notable people, anyone that actually wants to hand over their ID and prove they are who they say they are and let us filter out non verified users. If they don't want verification to look like an endorsement, that's what they need to do. Otherwise it is an endorsement.
Because, of course, your experiences are universal to all of humanity.

My own personal anecdotal evidence is contrary; I had to get a college degree before anyone would give me so much as a callback (and the one time I got more than that, it ended with a pathetic offer - with the justification given that "You don't have a college degree"). All of this despite having years of proven open source contributions.
Looks like Cricket will give personal information to AT&T:

"Cricket is an AT&T company and we share your Personal Information with AT&T and other companies in the AT&T family, commonly referred to as affiliates, for a variety of purposes, including the marketing of products and services to you." https://www.cricketwireless.com/privacy

The "variety of purposes" is what concerns me, and is why I have learned to hate trying to understand Privacy Policies. There are too many potential loopholes. Of course, I am not a lawyer, so my interpretation may be incorrect.
Mind sharing an example? Not that I don’t believe you, but I’m fully IPV6 on my (admittedly small) home LAN and have IPV6 upstream to my ISP (thank you, Comcast), and everything I need works well. I’d love to know what you had trouble with, simply to verify for myself that I’m not unknowingly broken!
This, in my country mugshots are only revealed after conviction or in exceptional cases (like when they're after armed criminals still at large).
I think that's the case too with some US states like Florida.
Man that’s good to know. I want to move to embedded development. And hell, the rise of ultra low power IoT should require more devs, you’d assume!
Could you please explain what #!/use/bin/env bash does?

Why is it better than the other statement?

Thanks!
As one of those embedded softies in Cambridge, I can confirm that.
I found that my full-time job as a student allowed me to test lessons I learned in the classroom, or to at least see their application in real settings. I never met anyone in college who used their free time to ponder. People fill up their free time, one way or the other. Then they ponder during their busy time.

Having to grind to get in the game sounds like real life. An education that does not prepare you for real life is of questionable value.
The description is an oversimplification; it's not simply a “pay a fee” thing, and there may be assistance available for the fee portion.

See, e.g., this description (from a law firm which represents people in the process):

https://www.shouselaw.com/expunge-criminal-records.html
> "I feel like a little bit of me is lost every day, as my mind just spirals out of control."

I can relate to that sentence. I've been there. Sometimes it still feels like I am there.

Like others have said, I would reach out to a therapist. While I'm biased because my wife is a therapist, I saw one in college for 2 years and it changed my life. I had many of the same thoughts you are having now. Allowing myself to open up with what I was thinking and feeling was the only way I was able to get myself out of that cycle of feeling powerless over my own life.
I was going to suggest that they hook the AI up to QWOP.
It sounds like you have no idea what you want. That's a common affliction, but you can't really satisfy your desires without figuring out what they are.
Yes this question has appeared here too many times. :(

As someone who went through depression/burnout/divorce at 40 I really feel for what you are going through.

I wish there was an easy answer. The bottom line is don't go through this alone - get professional help.

That said, I've been through a couple of periods of burnout/depression (I'm coming up to 56 now), here's what has helped me:

1) Long walks in the fresh air every day (don't underestimate this one!).
2) CBT.
3) Taking six months off work!
4) Travel and a new hobby (scuba diving).
5) Friends and family, especially my awesome brothers, and my partner of 12 years.

Take it one step at a time. Good luck!
Vets can easily make 100k+ in rural areas where the median wage is in the 20s or 30s. You could double the number of vet grads and vets would still be able to make a comfortable living.
Tried and tested. Doesn't use a shitload of energy.
Some satellites do run higher level code on the payload side. My company also uses it for our open source telemetry package. That code is typically very isolated though. If it crashes entirely, you can't exactly send someone over to hit the reset button or re-upload the image so you need some sort of hardened supervisory code running on radiation tolerant hardware. The big gotcha though is that space-capable hardware is frequently at least a generation behind commodity stuff so you don't really have a lot of overhead to deal with interpreters or VMs. This is less of an issue on cube sats where you don't care (as much) if it doesn't work and the mission is very short and non-critical.

On the bus side (the part that controls the satellite's support systems, thrusters, etc) having garbage collection kick off while making orbital adjustments is no bueno. Don't really have to say much more than that.
Not sure if joking, but I agree, in a general sense. For skills above a certain level/specialization, I don't like the idea of a "full time, career teacher". In order to really ground the lessons/advice they're giving, they need to be a practicioner[1] too -- otherwise, your questions will get answered with "... that's what the book says" or some rationalization of some idiosyncratic ritual they favor. That doesn't impart a real understanding.

For a HS counselor, that would mean they also work as a career counselor outside to tell people whether or what jobs to change to, or to stay at their current one.

I wouldn't apply that to core education, as there are no e.g. professional adders, but you get the the picture.

I could go on, but that's a topic for another day, I guess.

[1] a retired or former practicioner would suffice here too
Just keep the same periodic oscillator around for all of your experiments? Of course, if someone else wanted to reproduce those experiments, she would be using a different oscillator than you, but the same one for all of her experiments. She's probably dropping things from different heights anyway. The theory doesn't actually depend on units of time. The specific value of a constant like G does depend on that, but by the time engineers need to use that they have probably built real clocks.
Yes. But not available in the UK so I use patreon etc for few and the rest I complain to my friend at Youtube in the hope it will arrive here! Background play and offline is essential...
Queue the "but Microsoft really has a sinister plan, don't trust em" comments...
When I was at University of Waterloo in the 80s, I went for a couple of talk therapy sessions with a very nice, empathetic woman employed in the Psych department. After a session, she said, "would you like to see something?"

Just adjacent to her office was a "trip room", probably constructed when the building was build in the 70s (?). It was round, completely lined with acid orange fabric, upholstered like a pasha's tent and filled with cushions in every colour imaginable. No doubt it had a superlative quadraphonic sound system installed. It also had a large, smoked glass window, for "observers." Not ideal for mushrooms perhaps but for other things...
Try playing Paintball. You'll likely meet new people and you get to shoot them!
More like coerced, there is no option.
Embedded jobs are very geographically clustered.

You have to have either existing engineering/industrial area (such as Reading in the UK) or a h/w startup & high tech area such as Cambridge (UK).
Scholarships. That's the concept you're grasping for.
The scene where Andy Dufresne told the warden he'd never tell anyone about cooking his books
Smoother ride isn't as high a priority for cargo. Better fuel efficiency and ease of operations are more important there.
It's not unprofessional at all. It's the standard. Nobody on the receiving end likes it, and many on the hiring end don't like it either, but it is what it is. For a company the size I imagine The Atlantic is, you're lucky to have even gotten a no from the recruiter. Many companies just drop you without further contact. (That is a bit unprofessional.)

Sounds like this may have been your first job interview ever, TBH.

Move on.

At your next interview, ask the final tech interviewer before you leave, what their impression is. I wouldn't do this with every interviewer because the response (good or bad) will change your psyche and affect the rest of the interviews through the day.

Don't bother asking the HR person (usually they are the final person you speak to before you leave), they won't tell you anything useful. For smaller companies, where the HR rep will have some useful feedback for the hiring manager, do make an impression on them before you leave that you like the company and the folks you met and hope that you'll be a good fit, etc. A compliment about some aspect of the company wouldn't hurt either.

And look at it this way. It doesn't matter what the feedback is. If you're not a good fit, you're not a good fit. If you feel the reasons are wrong, you'll just get mad about it (and frequently their reasons are wrong, but the interview format doesn't allow for deep exploration of any candidate). If they are right, they are right. You shouldn't change your presentation of yourself based on some company's personal, biased impression. You should find a company that wants to hire you.
> It's not actually a requirement, it's there for formality.

This simply isn't true a lot of the time. It is sometimes, but there are plenty of jobs that require highschool level skills but will filter out those who don't have a degree just because they can. It's not that big a deal if you select one candidate over the other because the former has done a 2 week internship that made no difference in the qualifications, but did signal some small extra thing that gave the candidate the edge. It's not okay if a diploma gives a candidate the edge structurally, despite being useless for the required job skills, and costs $40k for the individual to get. That's an insane price we expect people to pay just to compete for a job.

> No respectable tech employer cares

It's not just that. It's the fact the vast majority of jobs are obtained through your network. Class and race are just proxies for the probability that a person has a weak network within a high-socioeconomic-class industry like tech or finance. It's not necessarily a claim of blatant classism or racism by the employer, but rather that your mom not knowing an uncle with a position for you, or dad not showing you you need to do this internship and that volunteer project and apply to that program to get recruited, or growing up with friends who became plumbers and whose parents were plumbers too, is not as conducive to landing a job as others with similar intelligence/credentials but a different class background/upbringing/network is.

That having been said, I agree with your other points. These articles get a bit tiresome. As always the answer is, it depends. College can be worth it, but not for everyone and not by doing anything.

It sort of amazes me sometimes to speak to people who just never ran any of the numbers. It should be mandatory for student loan applications to be data-driven. i.e. any college in a state should be able to go to the state educational board and obtain annual data for every accredited program or at least workfield, and use that for the loan programs. So for example, the state could track the average salary at 1, 5 and 10 years for an Art History major. Plug that into a loan calculator. Then plug in the loan payments. And then offer a comparative view, compared to not going to college, community college and other majors in college. And then a student has to read through all of that and make a conscious decision that yes, I'm going to borrow $50k, have an estimated payback time of 45 years old and earn no more than minimum wage and be expected to have a >50% chance of not being employed as an art historian in the first place. I'm seeing this kind of data take off a little bit, but it's still pretty poor and some universities skew the numbers. Government should do more to standardise these things and mandate universities and students use them.
Heaping on more activities is probably difficult in the OP's situation.
Sure. But I am still looking forward to seeing it in the kernel tree before trying it out.
Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.'
A better solution would be for upstanding citizens do do a "civic duty / national service" of getting arrested and going through the experience, so that everyone mug shots are together, and everyone understands what sort of violence the State perpetrates on their behalf.
We'll have a Windows client in due time.
They don’t owe you anything.
Bill Gates has talked about this general concept before. Here is one of his Annual Letters titled " Accelerating Impact through Measurement": https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Why-I-Write-an-A...
CSS-Only Components for Pure CSS
Reduced complexity and higher reliability.

Instead of your apps having to detect if they're local or remote to the device and then implementing a different protocol based on locality, they instead just always call out to a cloud based location.

They don't have to devote resources to maintaining 2 APIs for every product and can instead focus on reliability and robustness of the one interface.

> it's just a crap design from a usability standpoint.

I would argue the opposite. By having to support both cloud and local communication, you're introducing complexity and the possibility that APIs could diverge in functionality and reliability.
Privacy Considerations for Protocols Relying on IP Broadcast or Multicast
Anytime the word "coding" is mentioned: "No, you mean programming. Coding refers to developing only codes and ciphers."
In general you seem like an absurd sort of creature. Neither here nor there. Bragging about your facility and business velocity. Everything you claim to do sysadmins were doing in 98 and with equal velocity and adequate coverage.

There were guys like this that were there before and helped everyone along: https://www.computerhope.com/people/don_libes.htm
WireGuard is simpler to set up (it's hard to imagine something being simpler to set up than WireGuard, since its configuration is literally the minimum amount of information you'd need to build an encrypted tunnel), should be more robust in practice because of its transport model, is much faster, and is optimally secure by default.

I understand why people like OpenVPN --- their alternative before OpenVPN was IPSEC, which is a nightmare. What we're telling you is that there's something even simpler than OpenVPN, and it has the virtue of being materially more secure.

People should stop using OpenVPN as soon as they can.
I have the same path. There is the small opportunity in crypto space. But it's enormous work to make it stable. I would like to chat.
IMO the reason to do embedded is it's super cool. You can actually hold something up and say "I made this". I don't really care for web because it's so ephemeral. I want to be like the previous generation that could point up at the sky at Hubble and say "My code is running on that".
This is Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

http://bulletin-archive.kenyon.edu/x4280.html
There's a significant difference between a fee being a necessary condition and a fee being sufficient. A court system where paying a fee is truly sufficient is a corrupt one, just like the website.

Equating them only works if courts are all corrupt. While corruption is obviously a possibility in court systems, we expect the decision to expunge to be based on justice concerns, even if we do also require a fee for the process.
My complaint is Namecheap bundles useless junk services with the domain for free the first year even though I never asked for them. Then come the second year, they charge you for it without sending any notifications about renewing those services as well. I have had this happen to me and it is really annoying since I had to argue with their support for a few days to get a refund