skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple of thoughts:

1. Skillset: I think other people have brought up ideas on how to get fast-gain skills that may leverage your existing experience. A lot of options, you need to know your location/market/opportunities to make best judgment. As others have mentioned, beyond tech, look at generic bureaucracy but also leadership and management and supervisor positions. There's a myriad places whose primary need is an adult, responsible, diligent, intelligent, thoughtful, serious person who takes responsibility and personal ownership. (For one of my teams, those are literally the primary pre-requisites; I just need a serious person who will take serious things seriously; everything else I can teach you; unfortunately, we are in Canada)

2. Presentation: I want to highlight that for many companies/recruiters, there's no upper limit to gains you can make by having your Social Profile, Resume, Cover Letter, and then email/phone/in-person discussion made better and more specific to the target position. Look hard at your experience working and I would be absolutely shocked that you don't have many valuable skills you may not be aware of or you believe are common (but aren't) - look for soft skills, organizational skills, people skills, management skills, process and procedure skills, documentation skills, judgment skills, leadership skills, quality assurance, etc. Look for experience and knowledge and skills you have gained that somebody in high school would not inherently have.

Btw, I'm NOT saying spend months making perfect linked in facebook web page, or go bananas on your letters :). Quite the opposite - distill, distill, distill. Make it TIGHT where every word hits subconscious keyword in recruiter's mind, rather than having them read meandering thoughts. Others may disagree, but have an easily-discoverable social/internet presence that is slimmed and specific and generic enough to be inoffensive to absolutely anybody. Your website is personal, which I love; but you should have an entry page which is more generic and more attuned to random recruiters who might want to skim it quickly for any redflags. I like Derek Sivers' idea of "About/Now Page" [1]. Here's mine [2].

FWIW, and this is the harsh reality: 45 second scroll of your page, and there will be SOMEbody who'll be scared off by mentions of Masonic, Probiotic, Religion Course, Carbon Footprint, Poetry, and the APril 6 2021 photo :D. NOTHING wrong with any of those, but your goal now is not to fight for causes you believe in or defend yourself as a person, but get a better job; pass through as many filters as possible and don't get any inadvertent red flags. Laser focus on that :). Don't hide your page, but have a front landing page that gives random people the most succinct image of yourself that you want to put out there. My 100 Croatian Lipa :->

1: https://nownownow.com/about
2: http://nikolanovak.com/
I interpret the GP comment as like "we" are going to find a vaccine for one STD, and later for another, an a few months/years later a third one, and later ...

It's not like that someone will go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection make a list, prepare a vaccine combos for all of them and release it in a big announcement.
Which is why you have to leave. There are plenty of companies desperate to hire right now. Most of them are not willing to increase pay to get people. They are living in yesterdays world and haven’t caught up yet. Don’t work for them. Keep applying until you find someone who pays better. The best part is that people who pay you better also tend to treat you better too.
>> My colleague's point was this: if saying X is totally unpredictive of Y in reality, why react so strongly to saying X? The reason is because it's not really about preventing Y -- you can't -- it's because it legally and morally absolves you of responsibility.

If it's actually unpredictive, then shouldn't committing someone -- taking full control of their life -- make the doctor more responsible for them and not less? Responsible for them not being able to work, pay their bills, etc. and ultimately making their life situation more precarious, thus increasing their mental stress.
the capacitive one yes probably, the two other i doubt it. sure you can always use a conductive coating as well as a material that mimic optical propreties of skin. the question is not IF a system will be spoofed, the question is WHEN.
Without more details on the stack ranked list (exits, size of rounds, etc), this list is thematically about geo-based opportunities and alumni networks (i.e. where the money lives and gets distributed). Having a brand name university does help with opening doors and raising rounds, especially your first one. However, one can also acquire brand association by working at a FAANG company or going through a top startup accelerator like YC.
Its a funnel which hasn't been considering the subset that just doesn't want them. It doesn't quantify the size of that subset. It takes the answer with the most externalities (economy, debt, cultural ability to provide) and elevates that as the answer.
He might even resort to stealing catalytic converters to get by.
I thought I wanted a frontlight too, but after trying a number of these types of devices and purchasing three of them (Remarkable 2, Kobo Elipsa, and Fujitsu Quaderno Gen 2), I'm convinced that the compromises aren't worth it for a notetaking-focused device. (For an e-reader, it's a different story.)

With a frontlight layer, there's a greater gap between the pen and the e-ink layer, and it makes more of a difference than you'd think in terms of pen feel. (Even the Remarkable 2 isn't that great here because the non-frontlit protective layer feels thicker than it needs to be; Fujitsu did a super job with the Quaderno Gen 2; the pen feels like it's actually in contact with the e-ink surface.) There's also a subtle loss of contrast with the additional frontlight layer.

As much as a clip-on reading light feels hokey, I think it's a better compromise for when you need to read in the dark.
I think your parents meant subscription gives recurring revenue to sustain a ongoing cost which is software development.

It is not an incentive, but a criteria. I often wished Remarkable would be brought up by big companies with more resources to work on it. But most companies these days aren't interested in making better products. Not to mention the possibilities of ruining it.
How does this work? Are you crawling the stores or do you have a relationship with the stores to display their products?
Fire+newspaper = Newspaper showing the world on fire

Fire+pig = frying pan cooking bacon

Fire+bird = phoenix

Fire+Cake = burnt cake
Do they also have a division researching the black orchid, Orchidae Nigra?
Love the idea! And congratulations for the release. Going to give it a read!
I know
Came here to hear about that
I hope you take the time to read the whole series, Domen! It's like a perfect test case to drive the kind of docs you've put so much effort into— an extremely detailed experience report
The "low density" of the US is deceptive. It's true that there are vast expanses of desert, and even that New York has a forest in it the size of the Netherlands, but when you compare the density of individual US states to European countries, you see it is no excuse for us not building broadband infrastructure and otherwise being sensible about things.

California, in particular, has a population density of about 100 people per square kilometer which is about the same as France. Most of California is either uninhabitable, factory farms, or military reservations. The population is highly concentrated near the coast.

People who haven't been there imagine that Los Angeles is "sprawl" but the truth it is very high density that is "sprawling" over a large plain that is boxed in by mountains. Millions of people have a line of sight to the Hollywood sign.

(I grew up in Southern New Hampshire which is based on Buckminister Fuller's diabolical geometry of airports and subdvisions -- where getting from one subdivision to the next is like going from the right side of your left lung to the right side of your left lung all the way up to the fork in your trachea. That is a self-inflicted wound that has nothing to do with how dense the population is.)
knowing the cost of a bullet train railway, and the fact that freight trains don't use them, I'm skeptical, as far as I know, it's tax money and debt that "pays" for it.
"Improving the user experience" by making them download extra data that is useless to them unless they pay additional fees? That's a weird definition of "improving" for me. In places where "unlimited" mobile data is not common, this raises costs for people to get the base product, and then they still have to pay to unlock data that is now already on their device.
If they are flagged b/c they are unlikely to result in "good faith" debates, isn't that effectively the squashing of debate? Because the alternative is allowing the post, and down-voting individual, bad-faith comments.

I'd also note that there are a lot of articles about FB, privacy laws etc that arguably are about "politics" (if not distinct from "law").
And this is also contributes to people deciding to steal catalytic converters to get by or get their fix.
Ask HN: Have you ever been boreout? If so, how did you cope/fix it?
Have you ever been at a job that has caused you boreout [0] and if so, how did you cope with it?

Context: I am currently working at a startup that I believe is causing me boreout.

The people are really nice, but I was hired to do a very specific type of work, which is not what I've been assigned to do for the last 12 months, even after bringing it up to my manager several times.

Instead I've been doing miscellaneous stuff that has nothing to do with the original project I was hired for (and the reason I was interested in this job in the first place), and although I did switch "projects", I feel like my work is not aligned with the whatever the Product team wants, so it feels pointless.

What worries me is that even studying interview problems to be able to switch jobs is becoming extremely hard, I feel zero creativity when trying to solve them and thus self-esteem problems are starting to appear. Same goes for side-projects and other things. It feels like my brain is rotten and can't produce anything of value.

I feel trapped and I am not sure how to get myself out of this rut.

Any advice is appreciated.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreout
I wonder if this would work with something like Guillaine-Barre syndrome (to wit, an autoimmune disease where the body attacks its own nerves, causing demyelination)
I know :) But its a useful visual metaphor
Serious question here... but, are you sure that's a cruel method of killing lobsters? (I'm 100% with you on the pigs but here me out on the lobsters.)

I think when you're evaluating killing methods based on how humane they are, one thing to keep in mind is that how something looks to the executioner is NOT a good metric. As an example: Consider the oft repeated anecdote about how being hanged is only "humane" if you break someones neck during the hanging. If you don't, the subject with jerk and spasm wildly. HOWEVER... I have been choked out in jiu-jitsu.... it's like going to sleep. However, I can only imagine the uncommunicateable horror of having my neck broken and then having to endure 2 minutes of consciousness before I succumb to not breathing and pass out. One looks distressing but is suffering-free. One looks great, but is probably terrifying.

For a lobster, there are a couple of metrics I'd be concerned with:
- time experiencing a sense of alarm
- time experiencing what is likely pain

If I take a lobster, and I suddenly plunge them into fully boiling water, full submerged, how long do you think it is before they succumb? Keep in mind, that movement isn't necessarily a good cue here, because the physical structures will move in response to heat even if consciousness is long gone. Smaller animals have a high surface area to volume ratio. The heat transfer is likely pretty fast. I have experience cooking dungeness crabs, and I can say from experience, the time between putting them in the water and when they stop moving entirely is quite quick... I'd say no more than ~5-10 seconds. The last part of that movement seems uncoordinated as well so may not represent conscious effort.

For lobsters, would you prefer they be decapitated first? There's likely some consciousness that will remain for a similar time period in the head, so you should probably behead them, AND plunge the head into boiling water. BUT... then you also have to consider the "time experiencing alarm"... Wrestling them still to behead them will undoubtedly be alarming.
The vast majority people will never encounter a circumstance where that will be an issue. To withhold a (n optional) feature from the masses based on the hypothetical actions of an agency who can abuse your fingerprints but will stop short of torture doesn't really make sense.
Still weird, still offensive.
> I have no idea how people write whole browsers and operating systems in this language.

They are software developers.
Knock Knock Stuff Stationaries
Parent said "don't cook them alive," not "don't cook them."

It's not hard to kill a lobster before you drop it in the pot - slip a knife into its neck above its carapace. This was a test on one of those Gordon Ramsay shows, so if he can kill them first and still make tasty food, I think we all can.

But really, if there were an animal that I could only eat by inflicting pain on it first (i.e. causing pain and not striving to minimize its suffering), I wouldn't eat it.
Crime Boss or Tech CEO? Encrypted Phone Co Sues the Government to Save Itself
Under reporting maybe, or possibly doing everything within ones power to avoid catching it.
Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals (learning) you are aware of?
Specifically looking for learning materials (books, courses etc) and software tools/services. Any subject is cool. Know of any deals?
I strongly suspect I'll want like, the 3 or 5th iteration of this device
Would it be possible to do something like this for Netflix?
Agreed. Tweaked the headline
Enums aren’t a code smell.
It seems Microsoft Teams is also down according to the site you posted:

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/teams/
Digital Assets Can Be Safer
In a functional language like Haskell or O'Caml, it feels like half of what you write involves enums (sum types). They're fantastic in those contexts and I really miss them in python. But OO is a different approach to data and I suspect the "code smell" advice comes from not wanting to mix the two paradigms. For example

Functional:

data Switch = On | Off
function flip: Switch -> Switch
flip s = case s of
On -> Off
Off -> On

Object Oriented:

abstract class Switch { Switch flip(Switch); }
class On : Switch { flip(s) { return new Off(); }
class Off : Switch { flip(s) { return new On(); }

Weird mixture:

enum State {On, Off};
class Switch {
State myState;
Switch flip(Switch s) {
if (s.myState == Off) { s.myState = On; return s ; }
if (s.myState == On) { s.myState = Off; return s; }
In my opnion focusing on ethical farming is more promising (under an utilitarian perspective).

If the focus is to reduce suffering and exploitation of animals the best action is to ban the most cruel practices by law pushing stricter ethical standards.

People will continue to eat meat everywhere they can afford it (maybe less, maybe more) veganism is not going to change that.
Right, but like everything else in the US right now, the split is obvious along political lines. People who like cities are left, people who like suburbs/rural living/driving everywhere are right.
Highways are a complicated graph problem I guess, which I'm not very good at, but I wouldn't be surprised if the true bottleneck was some offramp later. So, increasing the throughput of the road leading up to it shouldn't really improve things, right? And leaving rightmost lane less heavily populated might make it easier for cars to do the off/on ramp thing which might make things easier around the bottleneck.

I dunno. People pack in as tightly as possible around here and we still get traffic. I think it is just inevitable.
Your computer will not work without the IME. It's a necessary part of the system.
I’m not sure why you think current public opinion is opposed to space exploration? It’s definitely opposed to space tourism for the rich, but that’s a separate thing.
Thanks!

The cool thing about Cheerpx is that it's not limited to interpreters at all, it's a more general framework that can be used to run many Linux tools out of the box - we are currently experimenting with bash and some common commands, for example.
> Those who quit their jobs without anything planned. How did it go?

I was planning to quit in the fall of 2009 to do a startup, but things turned sour in my job so I quit earlier and worked on my side project.

My side project / startup was a disaster, but in early 2010 I was able to devote my full time energies to my job search.

In general, I prefer looking for a job when "it's my job to look for a job." It makes it easy to compare different opportunities, and I don't need to sneak around on the sly.
Somehow I knew it must have been a dependency injection advocate who came up with the idea that enums are a code smell.
And, in some cases, not considered protected by law, which overlaps well with #2 and #3.
Precisely. Since there's no equivalent of the Power ISA in "x86 land", it's hard to make a direct comparison (I don't believe that formally Intel or AMD consider themselves to share an architecture, and they both have slightly different instruction sets), but the closest comparison would be if AMD or Intel released the source code for PSP or ME respectively, along with all other ancillary firmware and documentation for the bring-up procedures so that, without an NDA or business agreement, a third party could design a motherboard around a Threadripper or Xeon CPU, provide that to a customer, and allow the customer to make modifications to the firmware running on that motherboard.
I even think harm is as harmful for plants as it is for animals.
Yes, as usual, name a language feature and it is probably somewhere in C++ :) (mind, I'm not complaining).
Understood. I wouldn't generalize this as "the real world" though. If you've been in the same place for 13 years, you probably don't have a ton of experience in "the real world", and because of that, you think where you work is the norm.

There are tons of non-tech companies that don't have rigid pay scales. Almost any small company (under 100 employees maybe) might have targets, but they don't have defined 'pay bands'.

I read in another comment that you're doing data entry (that wasn't what I expected you did). Data entry is probably considered a bit of a commodity, as companies are probably confident they can typically find someone to quickly learn how to do it and be effective. So there wouldn't be much room to negotiate a higher salary when they know they can easily replace you. But if they truly need the work done, and they are losing people and unable to replace them, eventually you'll see salaries go up. It's simple economics at work.
I fear you'll have to back that up with something else. VMWare thrived under Gelsinger.
Obviously if your bank asks you to "verify" yourself after they've called you, it is 99% chance of being a scam and you just tell them you're going to call back and if they get desperate sounding it is 100% a scam.
I think there's something to be said just for reaching out to people.

About 10 years ago I got one of my first gigs out of college by emailing someone I found here on HN. I just said "Hey, I'm interested in what you all are doing. Here's how I might be able to help. I'd love to chat." It was a contract position and only lasted a few months, but I probably would not be where I am without that experience.

A couple years later I just decided to start hosting interviews. I had no experience. I initially reached out to friends to chat, then people I didn't know—largely through email and Twitter. I thought nobody would respond, but may of them said yes! I haven't done interviews for a while, but you can find some older ones here.

https://solomon.io/portfolio-category/interviews/

My advice would be to figure out what you think you want to do—reach out to some people that are already doing that for a chat. Even if they can't help, maybe they know someone else who can get you where you want to go.
Do I want to know how they get mice with severe spinal cord injuries to test on? I'm guessing it's exactly what I think it is, but I'm wondering if there's another way that it happens.
I think some established will do just fine. Volkswagen and their sub-brands seems to be doing fine here in Europe. They are quite competitive with Teslas more "affordable" options.

Super cheap EVs from Chinas companies will for sure disrupt in the lower end but not everyone will want something like that.
NASA's planetary defense: shove an asteroid
Impossibility check?
It sounds like https://github.com/jonringer/nix-template might be helpful to you. You can generate a nix expression to build an autotools package, and you can even pull the package info straight from a public repo. In the case of nix, most C-type things fall under stdenv, so that is the template you would want to use.

I barely write any C, but I've gotten very good at building C/C++ applications over the past couple of weeks by fixing broken derivations ahead of a release.
I still remember the video with the doctor explaining what he had done. Made me feel in a gattaca-like sci-fi movie. Shame that governments try to stomp over such people instead of embracing innovation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th0vnOmFltc
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But doesn't Starship dramatically reduce budget needs for exploration? The whole point of the essay series is to try to get institutions and researchers thinking about the economics of exploration with a steady cadence of reusable Starship launches.
Also let's not forget Wright's law:

https://twitter.com/skorusARK/status/1309225390494420996

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606382
Additionally a little social engineering would get right past an attentive guard, just strike up a little small talk to distract their attention.
Oh yeah for sure. I’m not talking about volunteering for stupid bullshit at work.
As a Nix user who has recently taken some time with Guix, I envy the Guix CLI but not the language. The Guix DSL seems totally fine, but imo the Nix language is very well suited to its problem domain.

For simple configuration, you can just leave 95% of the Nix language's power on the table and it feels really simple, like it's JSON or something.

You can work your way to to all the real features at your own pace.
Here's a list of hundreds of funny examples.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/09/29/gboard-emoji-kitche...
Someone could probably make a huge table of all of them on one page.
One thing I particularly enjoy traveling by public transport within European countries is the use of a "travel card" - Rejsekort in Denmark and OV Chipkaard in Netherlands. They work as a simple card that you can "beep beep" whenever you use public transport and it works out the payment from attached bank account/card. It makes travel by public transport hassle-free. I only wish in this digital age, all EU countries co-operate and make these systems inter-operate so that for example, one can have a Danish Rejsekort, and travel to Netherlands by train, and go around the town in public transport using the same "beep beep". Now, make that acceptable in long distance trains as well, and imagine how convenient that would be!!

EU can clearly make a nice case for this because it will improve efficiency and usage (thereby netting profit) for member countries. There needs to be leadership and will to make it happen!!!
Show HN: Spherical display prototype for kitchen counter w touch/gesture.$100BOM
The probable reason is that they only rarely test vaccinated people.

https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/the-public-health-agency...