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Ask HN: How do I improve my current situation?
Hi everyone.

I have been working as a software dev for the last 3yrs. This is my first job.

I am not sure why, but for like almost 80% of the time (last 3yrs) in my job, I feel like leaving the job. I don't have a plan or maybe the risk appetite to follow the plan, and that's the only reason why I am still continuing with the job.

It's not that I don't like software dev. Although I don't consider myself as one of those people who does it as hobby and are super awesome developer. And sometime thinking about that competition also makes me depressed. I might be wrong in interpreting my feelings but for now I feel like I don't like the job because its a large organization and the work I do I don't see it getting used by the public. For me its only a job where I spend 9-5 doing the work, and once workhour is over I don't feel like thinking about it. I kind of dread waking up in the morning knowing that I still have to do the same job. Not sure if joining a early stage startup will improve the situation.

Also, I hardly have anything to show in my resume or github. Another reason why I now a days feel like wasting my time doing the job, and badly want to improve the current situation of my life.

Apologies if it feels like a rant or it's too long. But it will be very helpful for me if you guys can give your point of views and suggestion.

PS: This is my first time posting to HN, so I might not be aware of some rules/guidelines of posting questions. Sorry if that's the case.
The article says: "nuclear power produces very little waste"

Is that true? Does it take into account all the nuclear waste that takes millions of years to fade out?

Wouldn't it be fair to calculate "waste produced" as "amount x (duration to be fully recycled)"?

Example calculation based on my amateurish guestimates give us then: residual waste takes maybe 500 years until it's organic earth for planting again. Nuclear waste takes 5 million years, so does a nuclear plant really produce 500 years / 5.000.000 years = 1/50.000th of waste than comparable powerplants?
As a kid of the 70s personally I like the 70s colors.

I also like when you get out in Spandau, you leave a big city underground station and enter a small village. Surreal to me everytime.

"The name of the station is written across five separate tiles, making it easier to replace in the event of damage."

Berlin in one sentence.

And because Gneisenaustrasse is mentioned, stumbled into a drug deal there last weekend, awkward moment.
>Currencies have to be less valuable over time, otherwise no one would ever spend the currency.

Isn't this only true with the removal of the gold standard?
Did you try pandas? Anything that requires cffi?
This same approach (assume only trusted parties) is fundamental to SCADA systems (the industrial control protocols for power generation, wastewater systems, and other big industrial machinery). At best you get a firewall in front of it.
I'm curious if anyone outside of Wolfram has weighed in on the new ideas.
> Reddit front page is too political.

Simple solution - just skip frontpage & go to bookmarked sub-reddit, for example /r/SpaceXLounge[0].

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/new
"I checked the server logs and saw the traffic and was like, ‘holy shit. this might cost me a lot of money to run this thing.’"

excuse me? running a (mostly) static site that just makes API calls to third parties is costing you lots of money?

i swear, everyone's obsession with running things on per-instance resources that charge fractions of a cent that add up astronomically. run this on a $5/mo VPS in ovhcloud and save yourself the headache.
It's not about throttle. It is incapable to run faster at the moment.
It's hard to prove that someone does this on purpose. Some lecturers indeed don't bother to go down to earth. But it's not necessary because of their ego. If a "high" presentation has a meaning and a reason, then it's justifiable.

Though some people indeed complicate their lectures for no reason.
I’d contend that money(any fiat), like Bitcoin, like gold has no intrinsic value.

Historic precedence doesn’t exist... till it does.

No one wants to carry around chickens to trade.

The value of a monetary asset is in its interoperability, and backers of Bitcoin are working to enable that to a high degree.
rqlite creator here -- thanks for the good words.

You might be interested in checking out https://dqlite.io/ but also review this FAQ entry:

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/DOC/FAQ.md#how-...

How is it different than dqlite?

"dqlite is library, written in C, that you need to integrate with your own software. That requires programming. rqlite is a standalone application -- it's a full RDBMS (albeit a relatively simple one). rqlite has everything you need to read and write data, and backup, maintain, and monitor the database itself.

rqlite and dqlite are completely separate projects, and rqlite does not use dqlite. In fact, rqlite was created before dqlite."
Right. But we don't get new fake money very often. Fake money becomes real money when people agree to it. People try all the time and fail. Someone succeeded.

This time without even a chunk of dirt, which is usually required for a fake money to work. The people on the same dirt agree to use that fake money with their neighbors, usually as part of an agreement not to beat each other up. It's not necessary, and in fact anyone can make a new one at any time. And they do. It just usually doesn't work.
Fair enough if you don't like Brutalism, but please tell me that you have at least as much dislike for some of the abombinations that have replaced some brutalist buildings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Library_of_Birmingham_(32...

https://stjamesquarter.com/
Is there a reason the HN title is so flagrantly different from the title if you jump to the link?

"Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network" in the original sounds a lot less incriminating than "Huawei eavesdropped"
He’s just a pathological narcissist that functionally aliterate traders think is a philosopher.

His books are mostly unoriginal fluff that could be expressed in a few pages.
yep, 100% agree with you. This also became a lot more common after covid were more companies were suddenly 'remote' but not silicon valley remote
Good luck with accessibility and compatibility with browser plugins.
>Stocks have dividends

when was the last time TSLA paid out a dividend?
My colleagues who do intrusion testing (for operators e.g.) tell me: We have not seen SS7 attacks in Europe for long time. The remaining attack surfaces are in the middle-east and north america.
> I've noticed no issues (iOS app on phone and tweetdeck.twitter.com on laptop).

Yes, its expected for all apps (official & unofficial) which uses Twitter API directly.

Actual issue is NOT a Twitter API issue — it is highly likely Twitter site frontend issue instead.
Today I'd choose a Pentium 4/Athlon with SSE2 and 512MB of RAM as the minimum.
Not only was Chrome much faster, it also didn't leak memory (which was my biggest gripe with FF at that time).
Very interested in following this over the years. Worker organized businesses can work well but they seem to require tons of commitment to the idea and hard work. You aren't just doing the work your customers hire you to do, you have to work a lot of the management fundamentals of your business in a way that traditional don't; the path forward for them had already been paved and is well traveled by countless other companies.

Also, I don't know a single org. that has a truly flay hierarchy because management tends to require its own expertise and dedicated work. Any thoughts on this?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-556...

Burying bitcoin in a garbage pit hasn't paid off yet but given time and patience. Who knows?
> just right on mobile

If by "just right" you mean sticking out like a sore thumb on iOS, then sure.
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I seem to remember a blog post one day about someone interviewing for several "Big Data" positions - where the data turned out to be some Excel sheets. Or fit on a thumb drive. The hiring companies that thought they had "big data" really didn't, was the point. The blog post was widely shared around my office at the time and I see it as the origin of this idea.

Edit: I think it was https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html, HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398650

But the idea wasn't that data was big as soon as it didn't fit in Excel anymore - Excel was a reductio ad absurdum. If it still fits in Excel, it's laughably far away from being "big". That was the idea.

Big data was about the problems you get when you need to join data together that you can't fit well in one database server, not even with the amounts of memory and disk space you can get these days. It was Google type problems, the stuff that map-reduce needed to be invented for. The kind of problem that most companies just don't have.

So the term mostly disappeared from job descriptions, "data science" became popular instead, and people keep using Excel because it is great.

(that blog post is from 2013 so it can't be the source of that quote from 2012. But please don't define big data in terms of Excel in a 2021 MSc thesis)
Groq Closes $300M Fundraise
Good for you that that's your usecase! I myself would like to have a secure backup of all my messages and attachments.
How's the trial going?

If it works, LA would be a nice cheap prophylactic.
I work in a team that created 5G. And around ~2014 it was clear: operators want to go away from own HW.
Typical coffe-shop APs have disabled UDP all together, mostly because it is not needed for HTTP and "intended use" of a WiFi provided at a coffee shop.

I would say they disable it deliberately to prevent VPN tunneling, its probably a sane decision to disable anything not needed for the intended purpose (or not putting effort in enabling it).
Well, I don't know if they really meant rack-mount gear, but sure it costs a little extra to get it usable with a general-purpose computer.

Specifically, you can get that Microchip HSM in a form factor that plugs into a click shield, then plug the click shield into a Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins. You now have a PKCS#11-usable HSM from a Pi. Including the click shield still puts the cost at <$20.

(I have a few such setups lying around because my $dayjob includes a PKCS#11-consuming application that runs on such setups.)
Google, please, leave the Flutter back and create a GUI for GO based on Inferno or an enhanced (dumbed down for the causal user) Plan9 UI with pulldown menus for the user, micking allegro or XAW and a simple file dialog a la TK.
"Queue status, in case you’re waiting: 70 in queue, 6 reviewed, oldest in queue: 2021-04-15 13:30 UTC"

Guessing that queue is getting deeper now. Maybe he should add a nominal fee to jump the queue ;)
Couldn't the newest generation of a device not remove what are considered standard features from their device especially when it costs more than anything on the market and it's big selling point is that it "just works"?
Yeah haha, this is somewhat intentional!

We thought it would be tedious to write tons of code to make sure users don't take the easy way out for each problem and language, so we figured we might as well allow it. We can't force users to solve the problem our way.
If the repository is of an application, I strongly recommend people include a screenshot of it.

It blows my mind when someone has spent hundreds of hours to make something that they'd like others to use, and didn't spend the 5 minutes needed to increase its use by (my estimate) at least 5%.
Yup, Excel easily interacts with SQL databases, some of which can handle really big data pretty nicely.
Don’t purchase anything if it isn’t for live play by play feeds. That can run you almost 500-1k a year per sport (so it will add up).

A personal solution I’ve been considering is a scraper that knows how to scrape across a few different sites (so you have fallbacks). This can be used to
scrape real time data and distribute data fetching to avoid rate limits or reliance on one site (let’s say cbs sports).

For historical data, you’ll have to get attuned to wiki or specific sports sites that have archives (they are out there). Perfect job to outsource to anyone really if you don’t feel like doing the tedious work.

I’d say scraping is the way so long as your scraper knows how to get the same data from multiple sources. If you got the cash then just google a sports data api.
It is neat. The inline math formulas are not displaying right (unless raw latex is right...). Compared to Euler I think perhaps the early problems are a little too easy...
No one expects a brand-new hardware platform to have different capabilities from other devices in its class?
> How about "no" to all of that nonsense?

I agree, but I'm not sure if we can stop it.

I think it's desirable to ask them to be transparent about it though. Knowing what's is place and how it works seems like a basic right.
There are definite practical limits in Excel. Even at 100k rows, some of the more complex financial models we have made get very difficult to work with. We’ve spent days learning and trying new ways to speed them up (never use Vlookup or offset, etc) and they became usable but still frustrating.

I guess the biggest upside is that it’s forced my team to go out and learn SQL, Python, etc. However that has it’s own downside because we are the only ones in our division that know these tools, so we get stuck maintaining stuff that we shouldn’t!
You can't argue with greed using rationality. Dear Zuckerberg needs Federal law that breaks down his company into tiny pieces. I don't think "urging" is useful here.
Some countries might allow this but not all. I can set my number as secret (not shown when calling someone and not included in any lists) at my telco userpage and I can (also for free) set everything, incl. name and my address as secret too on a national webportal. Doing so hides the info from domainname look up etc. and in most governmental systems as it is made to help protect privacy and stop sstalkers This is in Denmark btw.
Their 2020 survey has: “About 55% of respondents identify as full-stack developers, and about 20% consider themselves mobile developers.”

I always took that kind of a breakdown to mean most website developers where full stack with embedded etc being their own categories. With majority full stack teams including various specialists as needed, which fits my experience over the last 20 years.

However, Android is Java and is frequently used as a front end. As things grow I normally see teams split by system, so I can see mobile being split off as their own team becoming more common even if it’s the still the minority. That said, it’s teams managing the backend teams which would be considering Java vs NodeJS and based on that 55% I think most teams are familiar with JavaScript.
They do, there are more C++ compilers out there than gcc with glibc.
you absolutely have a say in the matter of having your name included in any publication list. If a paper was submitted with your name and you don't support it, let the PI know, and send a letter to the editor asking for the paper to be withdrawn or retracted.
A fun-to-troubleshoot "stupid Excel trick" that I ran into, arguably "caused" by the increased row limit in >2007 versions:

User typically drags formatting and "default" values down to row 65535 in Excel 2003-based "data collection" spreadsheet. Does the same thing in a >2007 spreadsheet, except they drag it down to row 1,048,576. The file size doesn't take a dramatic "hit" (since XLSX files are really ZIP archives), but performance goes in the toilet.

Knowing enough to unzip XLSX and DOCX files any eyeball the XML directly can often identify fun corner cases. (There's probably a ton of fuzzing fruit to be picked in the Office products using "malformed" documents, too.)
I'm sure it happens all the time from a logical perspective without the user even knowing what a shard is.

Example:
Too many rows? Okay let's just break it up into monthly sheets and then change this formula to look up the value based on the month. Maybe just use a drop-down for the sheet selection.

I think most people could arrive at this answer intuitively who have enough excel experience.
A pity CP/Mish is not more developed.
Who cares, why is this news?
FWIW (and, anecdotally); my company just started rolling out XPS 13's and had to stop as they are overheating constantly.

Instead, people are going to be getting latitudes.
That framing makes sense. I've always thought the document model was poorly suited for modern applications. I'm still not sold on canvas itself being the solution - I'd rather open up the underlying accessibility/i18n tech so that developers don't have to reinvent the wheel. But yes, otherwise agree with you.
That's not really true. You could bury a bottle in the backyard with the address and private key written on paper and still have the bitcoins in 20 years. If no one is running the blockchain software you could get the most recent copy of the chain / software and start it up. With both gold or bitcoin if there are no buyers then you won't be able to sell it for much.

It might actually be entertaining to bury a bottle with $10 worth of bitcoin - it might be worth quite a lot when dug up like that guys hard drive in a refuse tip he wants to dig up. Or not of course.

("A man who says he threw away a hard drive loaded with 7,500 bitcoins in 2013 is offering his city $70 million to dig it up from the dump" https://www.businessinsider.com/man-offers-council-70-millio...)
Well noted! Thank you for your feedback! If you are interested, feel free to download and try it out - the app is free anyways :)
2030 is easily way past due date, and fossil fuel deployments have increased lately too.
Very nice curated set of problems with an extremly low entry barrier!

Just would appreciate golang support, but i guess you will get feature requests for all languages anyways :)
"it has never been established in all years that customer data was stolen by Huawei from our networks or our customer systems, or that it has been tapped."

Isn’t this basically the position that Ubiquiti took in the last few weeks?

What’s this called? Plausible deniability?
If you are using USB-C in alternate mode, it means that you forego everything else: with USB-C cable, you can basically use USB2, power delivery and (USB3 or alternate mode) at the same time.

Funny things happen when the alternate mode is Thunderbolt. It allows to tunnel DisplayPort and USB3 traffic, so when you are using TB alt mode, you still have usable DP and USB3, not USB-C natively, but packetized inside TB3 traffic.

For 2x20 GBit TB3 traffic, you need much better cable than what the average USB3/USB-C cable can handle (that's the reason why they are sold as TB cables); if it is anything above 0.5m, it is usually active one. And to make things even more interesting, there are USB-C cables than cannot handle even USB3/alt modes... so it is important to check the specs, not only price tag.
I fear that you're being downvoted for pointing out the even bigger threat of our national media's exceedingly more dangerous acts of propaganda, presumably because readers either don't recognize it or are wilfully blind to it because it reflects their own biases.

The SolarWinds hack was a devastating attack on our sovereignty.

And so is the other.
I think you’ve misunderstood me.

Gold has its niche applications where you need a malleable and nonreactive metal (like dentistry). If this was the only use for gold, it would still be at least 800-900USD an ounce, because it that’s what it costs to extract.

The market cap for gold would be like 1 billion USD, rather than 11 trillion USD.

Ironically in a world where gold wasn’t ‘lusted’ after, it might even be more expensive because the market would be illiquid. And a small oligopoly of suppliers would be able to gouge buyers.

This is what happens in the rare earth metals market.
There are many, many people who would happily put you and your family in a gulag or concentration camp for your political beliefs if you have any, whatever they are. There are lots of people who believe that achieving their utopia is worth a lot of dead men, women and children. This is true whether you would pick the fascists or the communists given a forced choice between the two.
I use signal to not be spied on by facebook or telegram or w/e. That is entirely orthogonal to having or not having backups.
works on latest stable safari on big sur arm
> I strongly recommend people include a screenshot of it

Related: if your project has a website, include a screenshot on the front-page, not buried somewhere. A clickable thumbnail is fine, just don't make the reader work for it.

Might also be worth having a video of the application in action.
A lot of people weren’t aware that multiple displays through single DisplayPort connector is hardware, not software, capability
Wikipedia bans editor from British politics and punishes the messenger
check out his twitter feed: https://twitter.com/jjstyles0001
or his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvC2V9ixUHwJLnCEoOZgItg
Publication mentioned:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6517/725

They are currently fundraising for clinical trials.
This is worth a read.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1382408549343580161.html
That's promising! It's now 5 years ago, but Telenor had a fairly big outage caused by malformed SS7 inbound signalling. Not sure if there's been anything since, but it certainly was an issue relatively recently.

Hopefully with the (slow) move to 4G and IMS calling, we can turn the page on SS7 attacks soon.
With external contractors arriving to work on a foreign code base just for a couple of Jira tickets as per department budget.
I wouldn’t have taken the J&J one anyway after all the baby product issues they have had.
Chuck Geschke, co-founder of Adobe, dies at 81
I like some things full-screen, like my browser, but vim (ok technically full-screen itself, but split) always 2-3, probably most other things 2 side by side.

But I don't have a square monitor (I think it's 16:9) I don't see why that would be an improvement. If anything surely we want it wider for side by side use, so more 'lanes' can fit?
Nitpick: you don’t need a car to get a DUI.

DUIs typically refer to being in control of a vehicle, where “vehicle” can include horse-drawn carriages or bicycles.

https://www.colorado.edu/police/crime-prevention/safety-tips...: “if you bicycle while intoxicated you will be held to the same standards as other motorists and may be issued a DUI”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ore-skateboarder-collides-with-...: “Police say Becker was believed to be skateboarding under the influence”
Are we just supposed assume that global superpowers engage in espionage against their enemies? As other posters say, where is there proof China would spy?
One of my bots [1] encountered an “Over capacity” (130) error while trying to send a tweet this morning, but that was all I noticed.

[1]: https://twitter.com/earthacrosstime
It’s miss leading. Everyone who collects personal data (IP Addresses for example), is required to have a privacy policy and to be complaint with the GDPR.

At least when you have EU visitors.

There are free generators for policy’s. For personal use they are enough.
Maybe I'm being pedantic but it seems to me that inflation properties are separate from (though related to) total supply/printing. If prices denominated in bitcoin go up (e.g. because bitcoin crashes), isn't that still inflation?

I always have some difficulties with the "printing is limited so it's a store of value" argument: it's only a store of value if people keep assigning it value. That property doesn't purely come from supply but also from demand.
They apparently haven't started a trial yet.

https://globalbiodefense.com/2021/04/15/university-of-bristo...