skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since then, and after my skills no doubt became somewhat outdated, it is absolutely impossible to find work.

This seems like the obvious problem here. You need to make sure that you have skills that are relevant for the current job market. If you're an experienced developer then it shouldn't take you very long to get up to speed, but you can't expect to just not learn anything new and walk into a job.

I would recommend picking a technology, spending 4-6 weeks learning it (in this time you can also produce some sample project code that you can use to convince potential employers of your skill), then start applying for jobs.
None of these are infectious with a doubling rate of 2.5-4 days.
An idea just popped into my head reading your comment:

What if you could take the (binary) data file of your DNA and use it as input in the (recently remastered) Monster Rancher games to generate a monster?
Apparently those games use external user-provided data (like music CDs, game discs etc.) to generate the monsters the player would then train and use (something I only recently learned about through gaming livestreams).

I'd actually like to see the level of jank that would come out of something like that.
same! oh the stories i could tell...
> They'd probably provide the people in those countries with Facebook-only smartphones, or Facebook-only Internet connections, or something else horrible and dystopian like that.

Have you heard about internet.org[0]?

[0]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... (there are so many articles on what's wrong with it / public outcry, I'm just going to link the search results.)
Yesterday's top secret radar tech is today's telecom infrastructure. If we send goons to shut down every garage lab, we're hobbling ourselves and hitching our bandwagon to the ossified and crusty companies of yesteryear, the Ciscos and IBMs of the world that have degraded until they are ready to tip over the moment they get any real competition. Better to tip them over ourselves, so that we own the strong replacements, rather than let someone else do it for us and eat our lunch.
How many applications are you sending out and who are you applying to? Are you contacting recruiters? That's important information missing here.

I suggest looking at startups as I imagine the number of applicants is much less and interviews are less "leetcode"-oriented. Also as someone else suggested, you can look for consulting work, then if you want to transition to full-time you will have up-to-date experience.
~30% of the NYC area is still probably running steam heat which just uses physics to get where it's needed.

Depending on the system size a car battery and inverter can run a forced hot water system for a pretty long time.

Forced hot air is gonna be worse than that but the electricity to run the blower is still peanuts compared to a heat pump system.
We know vaccine doesn't stop you from getting infected, we know vaccine doesn't stop you from spreading the virus.

This is absolutist nonsense. It takes the truth and makes it imply something false.

Vaccines make you less likely to become infected, and decrease viral load if you do get infected. So, even if you do become infected, the infection is milder and you are less likely to pass it on. In all these ways, (less likely to catch, milder infection, less likely to transmit) they provide protection to you and those around you.
But Homebrew is first in the metric that really matters, availability of the packages that people want to install. Like I just don’t care about the minutia when all I ever have to do is add some lines to my Brewfile every now and again and run brew bundle to completely set up my system.
What was so revolutionary about 10.4?
> condemning speeders, drunk drivers

Yes, absolutely, 100%. There's a reason we have laws against those things: to condemn that behavior.

> obese people

The causes of the obesity pandemic in the developed world are too complicated to blanket say that all obese people are "reckless". Certainly some are though.
Thanks for posting that! I was actually thinking about that quiz my aked the question but it's been several years since I've even seen it in didn't bother searching for it lol.
> In fact, I'd love for you even to make the first necessary point in that argument: that hospitals in the U.S. are currently widely running out of capacity to treat patients

Don't be fooled by bed availability. They put more beds, sure, but AFAIK they still haven't found a way to mass produce more medical staff.
I did too, though I have to say it was painfully slow on my Beige G3, and only became actually usable at about 10.3 or 10.4 as the comment above said.
Yeah, you just have to deal with sunk costs and an IP rugpull. Great.

I bet they don't even refund the patent fees.
Talking to kids about the 'zoo in their poo' could inspire healthier food choice
+1 learn, build and show.
I am happy to be proven wrong here (not an expert) but IMHO there is not much hope or solving the open decentralised communication problem with email at all. It seems that something like Matrix.org presents much more promise in this area. I also host my own Matrix server, but sadly not everyone I need to communicate with uses Matrix....
Felt like watching fan fiction.
Tell us more about what you want to do. There’s a lot of people on HN who hire developers.

Do you have anything you want focus on or do you pride yourself on being a generalist?

Architect, team lead, or pure development of a system from day to day?

And business domains that you’re especially familiar with or interested in? E-commerce, SaaS, aerospace, business systems, data engineering, etc.

Give us a little more and someone here might take an interest and be able to help directly. The start of the year generally sees an uptick in hiring due to some pent-up demand from the previously 30-45 days when a lot of business processes slow down.
It‘s not a traditional Might & Magic game (maybe it just carries the name for brand recognition) but I love „Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes“ it‘s very simple the extremely fun. I would love the have a browser version with online multiplayer for that. The mainline titles were always too tedious for me.
They are starting to pay more. A Walmart near me in rural Midwest is offering $18.50 an hour for someone to stock shelves. That’s the supply & demand of the free market at work, efficiently determining the price of labor.
This is my understanding too. That the types of crops being grown in a given place (like almonds) is a problem and water use could be much less than it is but we do absolutely need California to grow things because it’s an important agricultural contributor. Other states wouldn’t be able to pick up the slack in California’s absence. Such is my understanding.
Losing fat inherently raises blood lipids (the fat has to be circulated), which is bad for the heart long-term, but not an acute danger. The body is evolved to live on body fat, it's fine and normal.
Anything except Ubuntu or RedHat is a statistical anomaly anyways.
> The interview skills required for FAANG-like companies and startups alike are very different from the skills required to work as a typical software engineer.

What are those start up skills?
Tech unfortunately moves at a blistering pace. Perhaps see where you'd like to pick things up and do a crash course of some sort (Udemy, etc).
>Bad editing, bad shots, bad fight choreography.

Is it bad or is it just different from original Matrix and on a higher resolution/framerate? The cinematography reminded me of Jupiter Ascending which wasn't bad imo.
Ubuntu, to quote, "values your privacy," just like what Windows does. The straight-up Debian, on the other hand, does not have much to say about this, for some reason.
So good you can only watch 15 minutes before moving to something else?
I see it as more realistic to just accept that practical use for an average user requires redistribution and do it regardless of what the law may say otherwise, possibly from a location where such awful interpretations aren't enforceable.

You have the implicit right to the proper operation of the hardware you purchased. Such rights historically trump the rights of IP holders upon conflict.
In other words, with some luxury features, small sales numbers (easy to take a small margin when you’re selling next to none) and a massive $7500 Federal subsidy it compares with the ICE on affordability. But I would prefer to save those valuable $7500 tax credits for vehicle designs that can actually be built and sold at scale. That’s the problem here: PHEVs are supposed to be a bridge to full EVs, but this thing is an obsolete dinosaur that will barely move the needle on electrification. It’s also fairly obvious that within the extended warranty lifespan of this vehicle, BMW will ditch this design and completely replace it with a platform that is a good EV first, rather than an ICE with some expensive bolt on electrification.
Real time shadows on N64 hardware
People in California who are interested in actually improving things should read up on what Fresno county does and see what lessons they can borrow.

Fresno county is where a lot of California water law was hashed out more than a hundred years ago. It was basically a desert with a river (or rivers) running through it and they built a series of irrigation canals. The history of those canals is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. Fresno county then turned lush and green. It is a modern Hanging Gardens of Babylon and I never hear about that. I only know because I spent a couple of years there while homeless and read some local history.

Following the creation of the canals, they began having problems with low lying areas turning into ponds and they began creating recharge ponds. In some years, they have actually raised the water table.

In addition to the history of the canals, there's a book called Salt Dreams that I highly recommend that is about the history of water stuff in Southern California, basically.

The Salton Sea is both kind of a manmade accident kept alive by agricultural runoff and a recurring periodic feature of the region historically. It would turn into a body of water for some reason and then slowly dry up over a period of years or decades because it wasn't getting recharged. The current version was predicted to dry up but hasn't because of recharge from agriculture.

If you are actually interested in understanding water issues in the state, I recommend those two books. I don't think this is hopeless.

Edit: Water for a thirsty land is the history of Fresno water development

https://www.worldcat.org/title/water-for-a-thirsty-land-the-...

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A nice approach is to staff a DevOps team with people from diverse backgrounds; some more towards the system side of the spectrum and some more towards the dev side of the spectrum. As long as everybody knows a little bit of the other side. This helps ok avoiding a culture where devs "throw some code over the fence" and sysops people just moan that devs are careless and/or that they should do things differently, but without a clear way of showing exactly how differently things should be made (and also without a clear understanding of what devs ended up choosing the way they choose)
Drunk and other reckless drivers are already breaking laws, for which many do suffer the consequences personally.

As to the obese and immuno-compromised also ending up in hospitals, many were born with a much higher than average risk for their conditions. Getting vaccinated is likely much easier than maintaining a healthy weight in this age of industrial "food" or being born without a high risk condition.
Well, according to Roy Fielding...
LC?
Wix, Squarespace already do this pretty well, and some alternatives like WordPress.com have free hosting and (sub)domain.
Angular and React were a response to the problem of abstraction-less frontends: spaghetti jQuery, piled ten miles high. I appreciate the concern for over-abstraction introducing unnecessary complexity, but there's got to be a point on the continuum of spaghetti-jquery to react+redux+node_modules that's the sweet spot. If you're choiceful in what tools you use, you can have that in 2021. It doesn't have to be overly complex (though you certainly can make it that way).

By building apps using 100% client-side rendering with GraphQL and Rest APIs, I can use tools like Storybook to build a user interface that are easy to automate testing and ultimately, and consistently, ship enterprise-grade UIs. All my apps are behind auth walls. If need SSR, there's tools like Next.js.
> It would have only been of interest to the freaks and geeks in the Unix/OpenStep community.

Guilty as charged. And it is a community.
Years ago I used Ancestry, then requested the .txt file and asked them to delete it from their records. Uploaded it to run a report at https://promethease.com/ that cross-references your SNPs against the existing body of genetic research.

The results have been pretty astounding. I found markers that pointed to poor response to a specific blood thinner my grandfather was put on before he passed. Currently I'm researching the cluster of Bipolar / ADHD / SAD symptoms I experience that all seem to trace back to a certain genotype of circadian rhythm genes I have (thank you, Sci Hub). To boot, some of the studies I've come across have been done on Han Chinese populations that match my descendance.

Perhaps going too far down this rabbit hole poses a self-diagnosis risk, but the correlations to my family history and my own life experience working with doctors to diagnose and treat symptoms are pretty undeniable. And given that your run-of-the-mill psychiatrist is going to treat you off of a DSM checklist, I feel much more confident knowing there have been genomic studies to back things up, since my doctor isn't up to date on this research, and finding one that would be will be difficult and expensive. I've shared the papers with my doc and he's been supportive, sometimes I feel like I should be getting a discount on services rendered.
Imagine insurers refusing to give you a service due to your predisposition to certain diseases...
As others have mentioned, setting up SES is straightforward (as much as anything AWS) and for the rest of my setup I just use mailu.io containers. The config for setting up the relay is here: https://mailu.io/1.8/configuration.html?highlight=relay#mail...
I agree. As a follow up, the OP might benefit from posting the skills they emphasize on their resume and maybe we can confirm whether or not they are indeed outdated, and make suggestions on what new technologies they can learn.
Our biological eyes can only see about 0.0035 percent of the EM spectrum, our biological brains can only process so much incoming data and can only hold 7~11 items in working memory.

We suck at visualizing large numbers, perceiving probabilities or feeling intuitively anything that hunter-gatherer primates weren't designed to intuit.

An AR/VR set isn't just goggles: it's a wearable computer plugged into your eyes, which are plugged into your brain.

Our greatest leaps were made by people who could visualize things others couldn't, simulating them in their heads in 50 complex steps that build upon one another, then coming back down to Earth to explain it to the rest of us.

Give Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, or Srinivasa Ramanujan an AR/VR set and see how much further they could extend their vision.
I have two suggestions. I'm 75 with 54 years programming experience. I got a job because the employer (a university) couldn't find anyone to do the work at a pathetic salary. That's suggestion number one: find an employer who is desperate. The misconceptions and prejudices of the employment system would prevent my resume-application from ever reaching the person making the hiring decision.

The second suggestion is present yourself as a solution to an employer's diversity issue. You would have to lean very hard on this diversity angle to get past the recruiter and the HR office. Once you reach the actual decision maker switch to the benefits offered by a long and diverse career.

Good luck
That's a 200MHz spacing at a 4400MHz working frequency. For some sort of physical filter this stuff tends to work in terms of percentages. That is only something like 5%. So pretty close.

Normally you have lots of space to waste at higher frequencies for guard bands and you can allocate compatible uses for next door bands. Still, when you get a powerful transmitter right next door there are often problems. The previous tenants of that spectrum (C band satellite downlinks) used to have a problem with interference from radar altimeters. So I suppose there is some sort of karmic process here where the service that used to cause interference is now the service that is getting hit with interference.
Compare Fourier (O(NlogN)) and wavelet (O(N)) transforms. Both can be used for similarity (correlation) search through projections.
Cost/benefit analysis may dictate that, as other posters suggested, you'd be better served to get raw fastq files from a sequencing lab. Even better if you can send the lab a sample and they'll process the extractions for extra $$.
therealdavesky I'm over 60, became employed recently for the first time in 11 years. I've been independent 1099 for about 1/2 of my career. My history is mostly in C language embedded systems.

Just keep hammering on indeed, or whatever other site you're applying on.

It took me 6 months to get employed. With many many multi-interview companies not offering in the end.

Just keep at it, you'll find a match...
This is all ridiculous, there's still a 200 MHz band guard between the FAA band and the 5G proposed band.

Here is what a $1 ESP wifi dongle has to follow:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

"The mask requires the signal to be attenuated a minimum of 20 dB from its peak amplitude at ±11 MHz from the center frequency"

So 2 dB/MHz filter.

I let you do the math.

FAA is just ridiculous here if they let old junk radio hardware handle safety landings for airplanes, but well after 737 max what do you expect...
> As such, good or great interview skills (i.e. algorithms, data structures, time & space complexity) are a pre-requisite to getting a job.

This is so wrong. Headhunters are acting like typical bureaucrats and instead of adapting their approach to make it better at finding the actual talent (the whole point of their job), they push for developers to fit their stereotype tests better.

Just like back in the school when we had to learn what professors want to see in essays, instead of learning to actually write better...
Constant dopamine novelty seeking. At least broadcast TV would get boring. What defines our age is how it’s algorithmically seeking your attention, be it through likes or swipes, the system knows what is novelty to you and will turn it into a feedback loop. The same is valid for content creators who try to adapt to whatever trend is going on. This is how we got to Elsagate, it wasn’t some Pizzagate conspiracy (well mostly) it was an algorithmic dance between consumers and producers creating ever more despicable productions for children (similar to what happens in free porn).

PS sorry for the rant
I guess I've seen it all now.
These two points are in conflict: the mass electronics market is the stupid tchotchke market, which you’ve correctly observed is hot despite decreasing unit costs.

Edit: This can be explained by the disconnect between unit price (which is indeed decreasing for consumer electronics) from unit value (which is relatively stable for consumer electronics, especially post-Moore). Consumers don't care if their laptop is "worth" 40% less YoY if the laptop they hold off for is only 0.5% faster. So it's not clear where the deflation is.
The second film will probably stand forever as one of the most monumental achievements in practical action and stunt cinematography. Look into the making of the highway chase scene, it's unbelievable and what they did building an entire highway for all the stunts. Kind of like the real chariot race in the 50's version of Ben Hur, there are some movies that do something so spectacular it will never be done again.
I don't disagree, and yes I am choosing to optimize for early retirement. Another reason that may not be obvious to non-US people is that PTO in many cases is cash money, especially if you can accrue and roll it over. If you used before you hit the cap you're leaving money on the table. Twice when I quit my job I got an extra month of salary.
>followed a nerve gas attack playbook for a respiratory illness with a 0.2% fatality rate

>I'd love to see you illustrate with numbers the DDOS that you believe the unvaccinated population is visiting on hospitals.

There are only about 2.5 hospital beds per 1000 in the US.

0.2% is already 20 per thousand. Plus a lot more need(ed) hospitalization and proper medical care and oxygen in order to survive. Not to mention that hospitals have a high occupancy outside of covid, so not all beds are available just for covid patients.
Keep in mind that the EM field described in that study is quite strong and the transmitter is very close (actually in contact with the patient's skin). They talk about field intensities of 0.6V/cm. That means that if you put the two probes of a multimeter in the air separated by 1cm, it would read 0.6V. That's quite a lot. I'm not sure how to translate that to RF power, but it is many orders of magnitude more intense than what you could ever expect to receive from a mobile phone tower. Radio receivers are basically very fast and very sensitive voltmeters that work with field strengths on the order of microvolts per meter.
Heck no. BeOS was a tech demo that looked great because you couldn’t do anything complex with it. The list of missing features is endless. The longevity of the platform is unknowable. And there is no reason to think the injection of BeOS would have abated the steady decline of Apple’s relevance.

NeXT gave Apple a mature platform which has withstood the test of time, underpinning multiple architecture changes and adaptation to dramatically different devices. And more importantly, it gave Steve Jobs back to Apple, who orchestrated its recovery from a decline into irrelevance.
Question to the audience:

Given the prevalence of Stackoverflow, Reddit, &c, and the launch of https://repost.aws , has anyone gotten on there and demonstrated enough technical heft to turn into an interview?

I get the occasional ping on LinkedIn, but haven't really followed up on that.

Answer to the author: You probably know the deal about cleared work as government contractor. Relatively stable gigs, but nearly impossible to stay cutting edge. You may need to take a "murder" job for long enough to kick-start the resume, but you'd have to satisfy yourself as to why you'd eat the indenture.
But it literally results in genocides (Rohingya) because those people aren't technically literate and Facebook can't be bothered to hide moderators for exotic (non-english) languages.

The benefits are great, but it's not among the things that should be done by a for profit company, let alone one that lives on "engagement".
Indeed, thanks for the hint.
Both of mentioned links send top stories of HN. I'm specifically looking for thr top "Ask HN" threads of week.
> > One possible reading is you were actually intending to defend the laws in the article

>Of course I am. To me it doesn’t make a difference if you’re legally allowed to say something but then immediately face legal consequences from saying that thing, and just not being legally allowed to say something. It’s one and the same.

Then why deflect for several posts to talking about threats?

I get that you’re probably trying to cover for any legal consequences to your racist post (yes it was racist, tell it to the judge) We could’ve had a more fruitful discussion about the laws in the article otherwise. But my attention span is strained.
That's usually a niche feature. Core IP and fabrication have become so cheap that it is preferred to get a Cortex-A part and real DRAM. What usecase do you have for larger memories on an embedded controller?