skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most jobs don't actually require, expect, or even provide opportunity for you to learn new skills all the time. And that actually can be part of the burnout problem.

You'll have to learn a few when you start. That's okay. What you're feeling as senioritis is basically "I've been doing this same shit for the past 4+ years", and by this point, even in a 'new' class, it feels largely the same, and it's a bump on the road to the outcome you want, and no longer interesting.

Remember how you felt as a freshman though? Coming in when you knew nothing/comparatively little, and having to actually learn something, everything ahead was just one big mess of possibilities?

Well...that's what getting a job offer for the first time is. For about 4-6 months. After that, most of the time, the rose tinted glasses come off and you realize "oh. I know what I'm doing at this point. I've learned what I need to learn. And there's not really anything left except for me to come in, work toward a known outcome, and then go home". Companies don't adopt new technologies if they can avoid it. They don't care about you learning new things. They just want you producing, so they can capture the value you generate and pay you a part of it. What's left to learn is the business domain and the specific combination of decisions others made in the past that you now have to navigate.

Which, if you have a rich enough life outside of work, the job isn't too demanding, and are paid enough to be comfortable, can be fine for some people. The feelings of security a predictable, well paid job provides can fund what they actually care about in life. For others, it feels like they're spinning their wheels on the activity they spend the majority of their time on and they want something else.

How you, personally, respond, is going to be something you figure out as you go. And it can change. I was a lot more "I need fulfillment from my job" when I was younger; now I just need a good enough paycheck and enough freedom in hours and such (WFH is a must) to be able to do the stuff I actually care about and find value in.

So my advice is don't worry too much about it. Mentally prepare for the process of applying all over the place and potentially not getting an offer for a while, but once you get something you'll almost assuredly be excited and eager to prove yourself, and you can start figuring out what is important to you.
I suspect we're unable to do anything until we understand the brain better, what defines addiction (at a very measurable, concrete way), etc.

The one thing that does scare me about addiction + money is that, like Diablo, the companies incentive seems aligned with getting players to spend vast quantities of hours and money. Regardless of what it is right now or what value it offers for free, that seems to be their incentive.

Simple buy models without MTX seem an easier model to keep company incentives aligned with player incentives.
The most convincing arguments for not having a blog, however, cannot be found in a blog post.
> During installation, a new mail management account was created that was used to run the mail services on the NT host. Because all files (and not just the services) were owned by this account, I was unable to explore and maintain the mail database files using the NT system account. Changing ownership of the service and directories to the NT system account was possible, although I experienced some management problems after making these changes.

That's how security holes get bigger.
Dunno, I've worked twice as a unionized worker - and both times the unions were very hidden and non-intrusive. The only times they became visible, were when:

1) Discussions around raise.

2) Discussions around working hours and workplace conditions.

3) Stuff like insurance.

So, all in all a very positive experience. And I worked in a white-collar profession both times.

(Should be mentioned that I lived in Scandinavia, where unions are the standard - and very integrated)
The Woes of Being Addicted to Streaming Services
And yet I have many, many App Store "apps" that are mere webviews, and the only reason I keep them is because the website can't send me notifications (e.g.: order status).

Plus, web notifications means I can scrap all of those "send notifications through me" apps you'd use for scripts, which all ended up costing subscription fees.
So what? The topic is San Francisco.
It's funny I had a lot of friends move from NYC to SF and swear that they would move back to NYC and then completely flip after a year and wouldn't leave. If you came 3 years ago it sounds like you experienced pandemic SF which isn't really a fair shake. Glad you found your place to be though.
I don't know how RetroArch is architected in regards to interacting with the cores, but if it does so by calling a `run_frame()` function or something similar, then all it has to do is delay calls to that function. I imagine it is a bit more complicated than that though.
The expected value clearly is different. The mob primarily destroys and extracts and at most provides a token amount of real protection. The government provides advance warning for them to handle things on their own without further intervention and pursues a net-positive goal of reducing emissions and dependency on foreign fuels.

It's not a threat, it's a statement of preferred outcomes with a "we truly prefer not to do this" fallback in case the preferred solution is not achieved on their own terms.
That basic sentiment animates some of the arguments against diversity-oriented hiring.
I've seen this recommended, then criticized, back and forth for ages. But your description makes it sound practical as a beginner, so I think I'll just finally check it out. thanks!
There's also an argument that it's unethical to intentionally bring someone into the world when there are so many problems and a fair chance that their life may involve a lot of suffering
> Certain common stereotypes of older people – as creatures bewildered by technology and outfoxed by ordinary packaging – have at their root this resistance to pointless change. I have decades of experience in getting the lids off things, all of it rendered useless by these new lids they have now.

Packaging gets more infernal every year, and I don't understand why. Fine, put the safety seal on the Tylenol, but I'm routinely forced to commit violence with a box cutter to win prizes that aren't ingestible at all.
Why report crime if the police don’t do anything and they make it difficult to report.

All my SF network stopped calling the police when crime happened. That includes violent crime such as street fights.

I was walking in SF and saw a guy holding a machete. He looked at me and said “don’t worry I’m not going to hurt you.” He then pointed down the street and said, “This is for him”. I called the SFPD and they never showed up. Later on a death was reported.

That told me all I needed to know about SFPD. you dont rely on them.

A peer once told me if you want the SFPD to show up, state you have a weapon and will use it in a public setting if necessary in defense of your life as the law permits.
It's just function approximation.
There isn't massive government subsidization of wind power any more. It really is very cheap.
I saw an interesting idea floating around a while back: Put in a screen instead of the trackpad. I can see it being useful for drawing as well as picking emojis and so on, but it couldn’t be always available like the touch bar can.
> Because no powerful lobby financed by media conglomerates exists to defend the environment

This is false. The climate 'change' movement is 100% financed by these sort of entities -- to what end is an open question but it's not to save the planet and definitely not to save you or me.

> privacy

You are correct in that nobody fights for YOUR privacy but you will find all sorts of companies and governments protecting THEIR privacy with your money.

Privacy is essential for sanity like the saying goes but the current plan seems to be to deny people privacy and make them crazy, meaning led around by their emotions, and consequently more easily controllable.
It kinda is the whole solution though. If you’re generating power cheaply intermittently, companies will buy cheap night power, store it, and sell it at peak for a profit. It doesn’t need some magical government body, it’s literally easy business to buy low/sell high and there’s a ton of storage tech out there, ranging from cheap batteries, exotic batteries, pumped hydro, flywheels..
This site makes my eyes hurt
If you use Chrome I recommend the tab group feature. I group all of my relevant tabs into a group and close out the entire group when I'm done with that task/project (or sometimes never, but at least things are organized).

But I wholeheartedly agree with OPs idea in concept.
Manufacturing at scale. Though these are medical - not consumer - devices so we're not talking hundreds of thousands of units. Think high-quality, injection molded, moderately sophisticated devices. Typically hundreds and up to several thousands of units, depending on the project.

We use all manner of sensors; temperature, pressure, cap touch, photodiode detection, cameras.
I don't know, I have never put in the same sacrifice/money to charity.
My cpu isn't anywhere near the top energy consumer in my house.
> NIMBYism

Can't blame them though, a landscape filled with wind farms is hardly enticing.
SoftBank Agrees to Buy Boston Dynamics from Alphabet (2017)
Now that is development time we can all get behind

>I've been working on it for the past couple of minutes
Interesting; so aside from the cost of supplies, do you think it's reasonable to achieve some level of skill just by self-studying with those videos? By skill here I mean drawing/painting something that suggests some level of artistic skill, rather than the usual results from somebody (like myself) who obviously has no artistic experience lol
Most come to read tech news. This is the most interesting story today. If you want a different story checkout the new section and vote.
On my device the line break on the headline makes it easy to read it as „Germany to Introduce Bill to Accelerate Wind“.

I chuckled.
And storage sometimes isn’t even needed. Just overprovision renewables and throw away excess generation you can’t store physically or economically (curtailment). The sun throws off enough energy every two minutes to power humanity for a year, we’re not running out of fusion at a distance.
We're not talking about functions, rather about larger programs where most of the code has to be imperative.
There’s no such thing as “giving power to the people.” This is grossly naive in both basic economics and society. There is only giving power to different people and under different terms.
where is the scanf call? Is it obfuscated in the macros?
I read a biography of Robert F Williams recently and one of the things that really stood out was how early the FBI got involved in his life and how late it was when he really understood that.

He spent years not understanding why he couldn't get a job despite being a decorated veteran and having several valuable and in-demand manufacturing skills. He left the south for detroit and fared no better there, eventually coming back. The FBI was proactively contacting every employer he talked to telling them not to hire him.

He later became the kind of figure the FBI would unquestionably be keeping an eye on. But at that time he was in his 20s and his only activism had been trying to get the local taxpayer-funded pool integrated because black children were regularly drowning in the rivers.
It depends on the job market.

In France, engineers usually have 3 months notice period. So if you hire someone who already has a job, you have to wait for 3+ months for the new hire to leave the previous job. If that's a bad choice and you have to fire, you have to start again for the next candidate.
TikTok executive to ‘step back’ following FT probe into aggressive work culture
Especially for prototyping.

Here I am working on a widget, it takes some sensors and runs some output. Well, I can prototype basically the whole thing using adafruit boards, quic i2c connectors, and do it relatively cheap.

Chips are cheap!

If I wanted to actually mass produce this, we would make our own PCB, integrate all the sensors onto a single board, and so forth, but for playing around with a concept? Yeah, I'll take adafruit and some adapters any day.

(Currently doing this right now for a pressure sensor that predates standard MAP sensors but operates similarly). If the concept is right... then we can think about making it for real real
It has a headline named "Levelized Cost of Energy Comparison—Unsubsidized Analysis" on page 2 and I hope you can draw your own conclusions from that.
Yeah, I may have messed the terminology here, depending on the dataset, the dimension tables can be close to the fact table in cardinality, for true flexibility, it degenerates into a fact table with just a record id and dimension tables with a FK to the fact table and a single column.

If the DB is a true columnar store, there's no need to do that, but most are record based.
I wish we could move away from using postmortem. I know how the term is used in tech is a bit different but I've been chewed out for it (worked adjacent to pharma where postmortem has different connotations). Retrospective. Please.
We expect eager prosecution in the courtroom, but DAs should exercise discretion about when to bring charges at all. I have not followed this story close enough to have an opinion about its application in San Francisco, but nationally I feel pretty confident we should be dialing the knob down not up.
> (ultra?)sound

Well it's not ultra I'd say, that screeching is quite audible. Very similar in sound to an old phone modem.

I think the system it uses is the same as for Moneta, which can be used in much the same way but gets billed to the sim account instead. I'm sure other countries also use the same principle for some services.
Let me throw in a personal anecdote. I live pretty much in the middle of nowhere, in a city you've never heard of, in a relatively poor country. (The typical dev salary here is around $1k per month, 3× less that for juniors). Even around here, practically every IT person I know has some Linux experience. System administrators of various sorts have loads of it. Meanwhile, most have never heard that the BSD family exists at all, and almost no-one has any experience with it.

Of course, it isn't representative at all of what happens in places that actually matter (like California..), but still.
Any new data technology that can manipulate relational data will 'sound like' a lot of things. A Tesla sounds a lot like a Honda if you never look under the hood.

All I am asking is for people to approach this technology with an open mind and take a few minutes to watch a couple demo videos or download the software and try it before they dismiss it out of hand because it seems at first glance to be similar to something else.
If the law is a moving goalpost that depends on the color of the sky, then yes, it's the textbook definition of extortion.
Honestly, given that it's only $1.16, I'd probably try mailing a check with the account name in the hopes that someone figures it out. Though I suspect they wouldn't and would just mail it back or lose it.
Some of the dark sides f blogging.

I recently added my newly re-re-re-redesigned blog to my HN profile, haven't linked it anywhere else or told anyone and already I'm getting tons of bot traffic trying attack it as though it were a wordpress site.

Write a blog, but understand that the interwebz isn't as naive as it used to be.
To each their own; I think they look cool. Solarpunk, even.
It's still kind of wild to think that these platforms just accepted and displayed user entered HTML. I'm sure they did some input validations, but I can't imagine anyone wanting to run that kind of platform these days.
Not a site, but it may be worth a mention anyway. Minecraft has done an incredible job getting the younger generation into coding. Creating your own server starts off fairly straightforward, but gets very technical very quickly if you allow it to. From dealing with and editing all the files needed, setting up databases needed by some plugins, setting up websites, communities and shops for your server, all the way to eventually writing your own plugins. On top of that, Redstone and Command Blocks in the vanilla game, as well as mods like ComputerCraft in the Forge world have done a lot to get people excited about tech.
> Any abstraction layer will add overhead and probably present a lowest common denominator interface. The audience willing to accept those costs is small.

Eh ... lots of people use Tensorflow or Torch.
It’s built by the creators of Vilvadi before they sold it to a Chinese company.. which seems like a good reason to avoid both of the browsers.
Here is a nice graph: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20201019_Levelized...
is web3 a way of transferring storage and transfer costs to the user?

i guess web3 apps will exist on some blockchain with its own token and fee mechanisms.

companies already dump their giant js apps on the client side, wouldnt it be great if further requests could be paid by end user also.
Any country. This is not specific to Paraguay. Basically you have a personal tax-free allowance (which is pretty low, but I do not know the exact amount) for items brought into the country and everything beyond that has import tax applied, which will vary according to the kind of items you are importing.

This is not different from many (most?) countries, except for the fact that the typical import tax in Brazil is probably way higher than the average country.

https://www.gov.br/receitafederal/pt-br/assuntos/aduana-e-co...
The following is based on US law. Criminal law in a large fraction of other jurisdictions is broadly similar in this regard.

When it is Apple v Microsoft or similar it is generally not willful infringement. Whichever side is being accused of infringement generally believes that either they did not copy from the other company, or that what they copied from the other company was not covered by copyright, or that their copying was covered by fair use, or their copying was covered by a license agreement they have with the copyright holder.

Willfulness is an element of criminal copyright infringement.
If the UK built enough wind turbines, it could power itself using nothing but wind energy, without any storage.

The wind doesn't go to 0, ever. You would need a _lot_ of turbines, but that is a solved problem. We have the space and the resources.

Obviously this won't be the solution, nor would any reasonable person want it to be (because there are better solutions available), but I am quite tired of hearing 'but wind is not always available'. It's a true but pointless argument to make (because of the above point).

To clarify -- if you massively overprovision for peak demand, then in times where wind is low there would still be enough energy generated even in peak demand. We could then even sell the extra energy for times when wind is high to neighbouring countries.
Ask HN: What has to change? I'm sick of it
4 days ago(a Saturday!), I received a completely cold email from a Chewy.com recruiter telling me "we're seeking passionate and driven engineers to join..."

As far as I know I've never expressed any interest or given them any of my information outside of being a customer for several years. However, they continued in their email asking me to provide them with lots of information about myself without actually telling me a single actionable piece of information about any role.

Regardless, I replied (on a Sunday!), telling them (paraphrased) "I did find it strange as to why they were reaching out to me specifically. But even so, I do like Chewy from my experiences with them as a company. So I would definitely entertain the idea." I gave them some basic information about myself(YoE, Education, Tech focus) and asked the following questions (with some personal information removed)

- What are the pay ranges on your senior positions?
- Is remote a possibility?
- What does your overall interview process look like?

Days later, no response. What's the rationale with doing this? Especially when you're cold-emailing candidates whose information you got from.. where? I already have a bad taste in my mouth from what the norm is for modern hiring practices. But, this simply goes above and beyond what could be construed as an opinion. This absolutely should not be tolerated. Why would a company be so shortsighted as to actively sabotage their image by behaving this way?

And unfortunately, Chewy is not the only company behaving this way. They were just my breaking point from seeing this happen multiple times.
More like regulation allows government to pick winners and losers, and which ever company remains obtains the highest marketshare by default.
I see the value of drawing every day, and I did that as a kid, but the two main issues I faced were (1) I had no idea how to expand my technical skills and (2) I had no idea how to draw more 'realistically' (quotes because my real goal is to draw fantasy/sci-fi subjects).

For example, I actually have charcoal in my art supplies, but I have no idea what to do with it. In my hands it's basically the equivalent of a massive pencil. On top of that, even using it as a large pencil, whatever I draw just looks like a doodle rather than something with any kind of artistic quality
How clever. If we're being maximally pedantic, not paying the fine could be a different crime, and the fine could be structured such that it is impossible to pay off before the taxes. Or it's just all part of the fine. Whatever.

> if you never really go to prison

Yeah, I didn't say "never".
> End cars

I guess those of us that live in rural areas should just bike 100s of km everywhere then.

It's always amusing to see these hyperbolic, clearly unrealistic statements on here. I wonder what's going through the head of someone like you...
Just, to close this out, being "confident" or "sure" that "it is possible" Apple industrial designers could do this or that, is not an argument. Demostrating that it is possible is.

Those arguing here that they are confident iDevices could have the same sleek, lightweight design; keep the price point; and in addition have them be easily user-repairable should demonstrate how, not just assert that it is possible.
It's important to point out that nothing in this regard is popular with zoomers, because they don't do traditional web development, they use pre-existing social media.

When they do, my zoomers and their classmates are using jsfiddle.net as a scratchpad type situation, although you can save code and share links.
While Congress as a whole has a net approval rating of something like -50%, in general everyone likes their own representatives and hates everyone else's. It doesn't matter what 330 million Americans think about Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnel. It only matters what the 780,000 people in CA-12 or the 4.5 million people in KY think about them (well, the majority of voters within the populations in question).
Qualcomm will beat M2 chips, claims CEO, with the help of former Apple engineers
The frequency isn't actually that high in the tech industry at large, just in the trendy areas everyone blogs about (and discusses on Hacker News). There are a ton of people out there making a very happy, comfortable living maintaining Java/C# codebases. They learn about the new features in the latest language release and that's more or less it.
I Miss it All (2021)
It's part of the `arg` macro.
Oh boy, thousand line Perl script. Here we go again...
It's also just bad English. It's both more verbose and less precise than what it replaces. If I walk down the street in SF, I've experienced homelessness. But I'm not necessarily homeless.

Unfortunately the same people who will chastise you about your insensitive language will also vote down every housing project.