skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't want to climb the ladder. What made you think you had a shot at all of those companies? One had a thing going at IBM/EA, you are much more hireable having a current job.

Unless you got an idea for the equivalent of a flamin hot cheetos, my advice is go climb it.
Morrowind was the first and only game I had on my Xbox for the first couple years I owned it. Definite bias and rose-tinting due to that, but here's what I would suggest:

The magic of Morrowind is in the discovery of the world. Modern RPGs like Skyrim might give you an arrow to follow that points directly to where you need to go for a current quest. Leading the player to ignore most things outside of that objective arrow. Morrowind instead says "Go Northeast of the village to find this cave". By doing this, the player organically stumbles onto things and events that build out the world.

A good example of this is the early mission to travel from the starting village (Seyda Need) and head to Balmora. One option you have is to walk there, which takes a bit of time and offers multiple encounters along the way. One that quite literally falls into your lap. When it happens, the game doesn't explain anything. You have to piece it together. That discovery is part of the intrigue.

Even if you're not interested in the characters or culture, the game offers a lot. You could alternatively delve into the empty steam-driven ruins to find who built them and why they are empty. Perhaps instead you see an unknown cluster of plants to pick and practice your alchemy. Maybe you stumble onto a wrecked ship full of pillows and want to track down the owner listed on the shipment invoice.

If you feel like you're walking from point A to B to C, you may be following too close to that arrow. Trying to find what you're pointed to without seeing what else is happening around you. Stop and look around every once in a while. There's probably something or someone nearby. Anything that catches your interest should be investigated. What may seem like minor events often become the most memorable moments.
Ugly and obnoxious.
Given the relative lack of experience and lack of education I'm wondering how OP managed to get interviews at the likes of Google, FB, etc.
Location: San Francisco
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Javascript, Python, Ruby, Rust, PHP and associated frameworks
Résumé/CV: desmondw.com
Email: resume@desmondw.com
> A 'store of value' is something that maintains it's price, not something wildly volatile, with regulatory unknowns that could affect price.

As Nassim teaches us, "long term stability is only achieved via short term volatility"

Also "stability=stasis"

> Yes - it's clear that you're not a 'builder', but thankfully there are a lot of people out there not distracted by Ponzi schemes, who are actually 'doing things'.

You are the one who is against and adversarial towards btc. People who are secure about themselves, they just ignore something if they don't agree with it, they don't hate on it and call it in a derogatory way.

If you are sure and secure about your strategy of increasing your net worth by doing things vs. trading, then why are you attacking btc with such vitriol?
Getting a degree is only partially about learning. A degree signals that you were able to complete a curriculum that, frankly, will almost always have parts you don't like.

So some perspective for you to consider. The first is that as I have advanced in my career (its been solid if not extraordinary) the core curriculum stuff I thought was going to never apply working as a technologist has ended up being suprisingly useful. I wasn't a fan of linear algebra in undergrad, but now I'm using it on a data science related stuff. My politics concentration has ended up very useful at understanding the group and organizational dynamics. Even my forced sociology course lets me understand the reasoning of some my peers/superiors who buy into that line of research far more than if I was coming in blind. Theory of computation... remains useless, but they can't all be winners.

The second, and more important, perspective is that as a person who does some indirect hiring (interviewer plus technical lead, but not people manager), I worry that someone without a degree has trouble driving to completion in the face of disinterest, or is self sabotaging. My projects are mostly enjoyable, but sometimes I (or someone on my team) needs to spend 3-4 weeks writing up a government mandated security document. It sucks, but it has to be done. If I think you might be the type of person that will have trouble completing that independently because there is always more fun stuff to be working on, I don't want you on my team.

A degree is a noisy, loosely correalated signal that you won't be that person. However, as others have mentioned, your writing here indicates you MAY be that person, and not having a degree is a correalative signal that doesn't help your case.
1) you sound very intelligent and capable even though you don't have much to prove it apparently

2) I get a weird vibe from the way you write/speak

3) I've been cold rejected from almost every one of those companies you listed, and I'm a senior engineer with a decade of experience making SV money and doing just fine. Look for smaller companies that people haven't heard of, there are thousands. It took me years of working at small startups before I broke into the big corps.

4) someone mentioned "tainting" your rep with non-dev jobs and sadly this is true. You need to get dev experience on your resume no matter what, the good news is that it's never been easier. Come up with an idea, build something, buy a $2 domain, and bam, you are now a fancy Founder of Tech Project and have dev experience on your resume, not manual labor. Bonus points if you actually stick to the project. Speaking of which...

5) Build projects. Like as many as you can. I aim to build a new project 1x a month just to keep in the habit. Anytime I need to interview, I have tons of live, production software examples to show off. HMs love to see someone who can ship code. It is the #1 thing I would do if I were you to get a job. Build anything. Just build stuff and put it online. This is the next best thing to having formal W2 jobs on your resume.

6) totally random and I'm not affiliated, but check out usertesting.com. I sent this to a friend the other day who is also struggling to break into tech - they will apparently pay $10 for every 20 minutes of testing. Better than being homeless and at least it's in tech and seems relatively accessible.

7) some of the best dev gigs and jobs I found early on in my career were diamonds lost in the Craigslist rough, just sayin’

Wishing you the best of luck.
Dealing with internet/web saas stuff is the sort of thing I don't want to deal with more than once a year, so I wouldn't interpret that tendency towards 1-year plans as any kind of statement about prices. Honestly, I would replace the 1-month plan with a 3-month plan (no discount) just to discourage short-term customers, but that might discourage some customers.
Seeing forests disappear and Iceland's ice having less and less ice was quite saddening and eye opening.
> with subsidized resources from municipalities

Is it subsidized? Adding Fiber lazily when repaving roads and re-doing sewers is easier for a city. Their crew is already on the ground! And all they have to do is sell it at a price where the city doesn't lose money. No profit to squeeze.

There's a lot more houses where decent internet is possible, if you accept that 0$ profit.
Hmm, maybe it is covered in the article (paywall) but what do they do for customers who live in MA if their license is revoked? Move them to another exchange at no charge?
I got my first bay area job through Triplebyte -- they were pretty perfect for me being able to demonstrate technical ability without a deep resume. Their process has gotten more cookie cutter over the years but the resume-blindness might be an asset in OP's situation. They're also much better positioned to give feedback on why you're struggling in interviews than an HN thread.
I'm not 100% sure what you're getting at, but I don't think it really addresses my point. Much of what you've said could be read as just a descriptive reason why the human world is the way it is - no objection there, except to note that I'd hope for better from an "advanced civilization", regardless of what mechanisms were at play. Preferably, a super-majority would be aware of the issues and willing to coordinate extensively to mitigate them for the greater good, but I don't think anyone would argue that we're there yet.

As a stylistic choice, I also have an aversion to dressing up human decision-making in such abstract and flowery terminology. We've invented lots of cool tools for thinking and doing, but we're still simply advanced primates with lots of baggage.
And yet, would the rail corridors have looked drastically different, or stopped at different cities? Or would it still have run between the same major metro hubs we have now?
> they still never bother to get a decent mic.

one more damn thing to get

one more damn thing to research

one more damn thing to fit into your budget

one more damn thing to acquire that you maybe hope to never ever use again after the Year Of Videoconferencing is over and will have cluttering up your life forever after unless you find someone to pass it off to

(if you are really passionate about it: cut the gordian knot of all those problems by convincing whoever holds the purse strings that it would make all these interminable meetings much better if everyone had a nice mic, and get the company to buy a bunch and send them out.)
For making sure it never expires, I recommend (1) initially buy it for multiple years, (2) every year on your birthday (or on Christmas, or on some other date that is significant to you) add another year, and (3) put a recurring entry on your calendar a week or two after the date from #2 to check to make sure you remembered #2.

I'd recommend for #2 picking a date that you do other annual preventative stuff on, such as changing your smoke detector batteries. That way you build an association in your mind between that other stuff and extending the domain, making it further unlikely that you will forget.

Generally, you can start out with 10 years. Some registrars offer even more, but the underlying registries generally only support 10 years. The registrars that offer more do so by doing 10 years with the underlying registry and then automatically extending that every year transparently to you. If they go out of business more than 10 years before the end of the term they purported to sell you, those remaining years will go poof.

Also have on your calendar reminder for #3 a reminder to check to make sure your contact information still works, particularly email. If you own domain X and use it for email, you probably don't want to use an @X email address as your contact address for the registrar you registered X from. If something goes wrong with your account or domain at the registry and they try to contact you, you don't want their email to you to get eaten by whatever problem they are trying to contact you about.
I suspect the budget went mostly into having 1 TB of NVMe storage; still shipping with spinning disks had become the big bottleneck on the One/PS4.
If you're not currently working, I'd recommend a staffing agency, Uber Eats, Taskrabbit, Instacart, etc. There are ways to start making money right now that might keep you from being homeless. And being homeless is going to set you back.

Don't put any of the above on your resume.

What are you looking for? You haven't really elaborated on what your skills are except for alluding to a possible penchant for security research. If that's really what you want to do (and you think you have enough knowledge of networking technologies and security practices that it's really your best path forward), do that!

If you hunt for bug bounties, and blog about your findings (even if you don't hit any), that's going to be a really good way for potential employers to audit your capabilities.

If you're looking to get into software development, publish some work on github or get involved with an open source project. Even filing issues is a great way to showcase your ability to work within a team and contribute. QA is often a great stepping stone into the world of software engineering, and (depending on the type of QA), you really just need to be computer literate, dedicated, and capable of working with a team. Those are things you can demonstrate on github.

It's not going to be an easy path forward, but getting some income you can live off of right now, then pouring all of your energy into working in the open is going to be your best path to getting hired. You don't have the resume to get the kinds of jobs your looking for, and it sounds like you haven't even had the kinds of jobs that would look impressive to potential employers
It isn't. If you look at residential income properties, they trade around the rents that they command, sometimes with some development potential sprinkled on top.
The point of syncing is that you leave it overnight. It’s simply not designed for syncing while you wait. The settings app makes this clear too. Moreover, how often are you syncing a totally different musical catalog to your watch? It sounds like you have a nonstandard use case (needing instant syncing of large amounts of music regularly) that Apple intentionally did not design for. I imagine most people leave the default settings to sync recent and frequent music, or pick a few playlists and leave it at that.
> It's no surprise my generation spends so much time on social media, and nobody can blame them.

While I get the point, this is a dangerous precedent to set. We are the final arbiter of what we do, this cannot be forgotten or thrown away. People do bear responsibility for their own actions, all of them.
I mostly struggle with the docs to be honest.

But yeah, SSHing in is great. I miss that from Circle using GL & GH.
They're not lagging behind. Based on my experience, companies in the bay area using PHP often pay just as competitively as others. There are likely a large number of "PHP" jobs available overall though which could bring average pay down, the low-end is low because there's such a low barrier to entry for something like WordPress development.
With the very subtle shade of gray make it seem like second tab is active. On poor screen quality one wouldn't be able to see the difference.
I wonder if this is signs of troublesome financial forecasts. They’re pushing a huge focus on digital transformation now and have just hired an ex-Amazon guy to be their new head of design.
When 7.4 was released, with FFI now available, I had the crazy idea to make a cli text editor in PHP[1] (based on kilo[2], and since 8 has come out, with the addition of the PHPToken class, highlighting PHP with PHP has gotten easier.

1. https://git.timshomepage.net/timw4mail/php-kilo
2. https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
Sen. Wyden proposes limits on exportation of American’s personal data
Strong disagree, people tallied it basically from the start, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick
"In the end I don't think python's core developers and steering council want to make your experience of python worse. They just haven't realised how important this is. (Even Larry hadn't heard of pydantic or FastAPI until yesterday when he emailed me, I guess they don't read the python developer survey wink)"

Yikes should a steering council that doesn't even understand the needs of the general community through common sources like that survey really be the steering council? That's a really strong signal that they're out of touch and can do more harm than good.

Personally given the drama over the last few years regarding BDFL and then some of the peps that have made it in in recent time, as a heavy user I've had various concerns over the direction of the language and this further drives those.
Yes, this was literally the mantra drilled into us...

"reduce, reuse, recycle".

in that order
I have a general question related to OP's situation:

How do you make a resume look better when you have many short stints on it?

I'm 30 and my average time to keep a job is less than 6 months. I always get overwhelmed and quit. When I start a new job I promise myself I will stick it out for just one year, but usually I'm white knuckling it within 3 months. I've been to doctors and therapists and have a clean bill of health. How do you develop grit and "sticktoitivness"?
Meh.

While bridging to IRC does make you a guest, the amount of hand-wringing IRC people do about differences in formatting always felt disproportionate to me, especially in that IRC doesn't actually have an officially sanctioned experience. It's fine to DM a password to a Nickserv and set esoteric channel modes, but apparently looking bad to irssi/erc/BitchX/WeeChat users is a big no.

The long message -> file behavior is a bit silly and understandably annoying, especially in a help channel, but the amount of complaints I've seen of people not following <my-IRC-client-of-choice>'s highlight pattern is just silly. People get uppity because you appended the IRC network's friendly name in parens to their actual name? Oh no!
I went to college and did a bootcamp.

College - 212K tuition (current) - 4 yrs - no job guarantee

Bootcamp - 18K tuition - 3 months - money back if no job within a year

Can you spot the scam?
If you are your brain then embryos aren’t people.
I switched to fastmail from migadu last year. My killer feature is being able to use a custom email address per company without having to provision one (ie, a catch all that you can do send as x from).

I left migadu because they repeatedly demonstrated they were neither professional nor reliable enough to host my email (that is bargain basement pricing for you). I looked around and trialled several services on my other domains; I settled on fastmail as they had a proven track record with recommendations from people I trust who know email, every feature I wanted, and decent pricing.
hire them then
I was an rss junkie back in the early internet era. I had all my feeds and didn’t worry about unread count.

Nowadays feeds are harder to come by without being prompted to sign into the service or being directed to their page to read the article.

I wish there was something like Castro or a ranking system for RSS feeds for me to look for.

I think rss is so niche in this day and age you couldn’t monetize rss curation.
My problem with every single.elder scroll game kind of ends up boiling down to, why am I doing any of this. Skyrim was the worst of this for me. Every dungeon followed the same pattern and featured a convenient shortcut back to the beginning at the end and inevitably nothing you ever find is worth it.

Oblivion's level scaling made nothing you found or did worth it at all.

Morrowind was very large and pretty and fairly amazing for its time, but its world is empty and pointless.

I dunno, somewhere along the way, developers seem to forget, sure we could add every single random real world item to every random house and sure it's realistic, but it's not fun.

Finding piles of dishes and foodstuffs, exploring random building after random building to find.essentially nothing that adds to the game, go through lousy generic quests that add essentially nothing to the game and basically...

I dunno, last time I played oblivion I played as a naked punching cat, because why not nothing you do matters anyway. And sure enough, the gameplay experience was about the same as when I actually tried playing the game properly.
All of this requires initial investment. Probably new loans that will have to be repaid. In the end Google will just get to use the infrastructure free and clean. It is the Uber of internet access.
Can’t fault them for it, but it does feel a touch petty — falling below the high standard that Matrix has implicitly led us to expect.
No, the FAQ is devoid of substance, it doesn't give any concrete reason for the fork, much less a technical reason. The fork also predates Rizin's new Projects functionality.

> Moreover, there are a lot of different technical decisions to improve stability, packaging experience, user experience, etc.

Such as?

From my minimal experience with the project, it was obvious that interpersonal conflict existed for some time between some of the R2 hackers, so I guess the charitable interpretation of the fork is that you guys for some reason couldn't stand hacking together with Pancake (the creator). I think that being honest about that would have conveyed more credibility than the shady way the fork was executed, full of corporatey PR-speak and overproduced Web pages.
If you have a microcenter near you you can find out when they get shipments and show up the minute they open (like 6am around me) and get a card.
Here's a video with all the Mac startup sounds and chimes of death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwmtvrdJlQ

I've gotta say, I like the Performa startup sound best, and the later Chimes of Death are pretty amusing. :)
Interesting, I hadn't appreciated that Matrix was switching from fully open source to an open core model.
HOAs are a scourge. I’d love to see more states scale back the power of HOAs.
> Google, Facebook, Dell, NSA, CIA, DoE (E=Energy), Airbnb, Palantir

Maybe try some less big-name companies. Google is not the easiest place to land a job.

> Reading Meyers, Knuth etc

As in the art of programming? If you read the entirety of that, and understood it, that's a huge accomplishment. Probably not something that will get you a job (i know everyone complains about having to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard, but its pretty rare to actually need to do that). Anyways, its something you should be proud of.

> and wrote a detailed e-mail to the VP in charge of the anti-fraud system

I don't know how it works at amazon, but usually VPs aren't the right person to contact about bugs.

> I tried cold contacting executives at a few companies. Got meeting with SVP at Dell, CISO etc. was fruitless though. Spoofed number to bypass contact whitelist etc.

Definitely don't do that. Any plan for getting a job that involves tricking people or being obnoxious, is a bad plan.

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I think you need to work on demonstrating your value/selling yourself. Like just from this paragraph (i appreciate its not a resume), its unclear if you have very good hard skills (no degree, no work history. You don't have to have a degree or work history to get a job, but if you don't have those you need something else to demonstrate you have those skills. You need to be able to say something to make the interviewer think you can do the job). Its also sounds like you have weak soft skills (e.g. how to negotiate the politics of an office environment, what is and isn't appropriate in a professional environment, how to get along with others, etc). My understanding is that often people who go to therapy for other reasons often need help with that sort of thing, so a therapist might be able to point you in the direction of resources to help with that sort of thing.
When I saw this headline, I immediately hummed the three tone do-dee-duhhh to myself, snorted as I realized I still knew it, and then was surprised to find it missing from the article. It's shown for the first 3-4 computers in this video :) Thank you!
My beef with PHP is not so much the language itself, but the weird community that surrounds it.

The FIG standard that forbids TAB for indentation (which is perfectly legal in PHP), the notion that classes should be either abstract or final, the micro-optimizations (thou must use single quotes, things like that).

I don't think anyone can tell anyone how to write PHP, because nobody knows how to get it right (myself included). Yet in my many years of coding in PHP, there's been more and more tooling and so-called "standards" that do exactly this.
> Probably new loans that will have to be repaid

Cities can borrow at rock-bottom prices. Not only that, but municipal broadband will lead to higher property values, so it indirectly profits the city.