skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more extreme stories claim to pass JLPT1 in 6-8 months investing 6 hours or so average a day. That's about what, 1-2 new kanji an hour at about 1k-1.3k hour investment? That's 1 hour a day consistently over 4 years.

Obviously that includes grammar and other things too, but grammar isn't that big of a deal when the sheer volume of characters required to know and contextualize takes care of most.
"Eventually, I just had to leave that job, with nothing lined up, and barely any notice. They knew it was coming, and we left on good terms, but it still felt like a failure. I'm in a very priveleged position to be able to do that."

You are, but you don't mention the nr.1 reason in your article: your youth. Unlike you the author is 40 in a commodity IT position where agism is far more than endemic.

I do agree with you on the main premise of the burnaout/depression cause though.
I have written the same here in the past.
Old ones did a few things really well; they typically have the hot radiator coils on top, or better separated from the internals (at the cost of space) better insulation (at the cost of internal space), and didnt have built in defrosters (or air circulation). They also used a somewhat more effective (but worse for the environment) refrigerant, freon.

After the 50s, we demanded a larger volume, not just being larger but also sacrificing insulation and ideal hot-side placement. And we had to change the refrigerant used (and get rid of latching doors). Several features that were poor from an energy standpoint became standard (auto-defrost, air circulation).
If something like this existed for C, then we wouldn't need to learn a new language!
It's not just household appliances.

I happen to like 'On' sport shoes, for the comfort and the design. And like clockwork, after 6 months of use (walking mind you) holes develop in the fabric where the shoe bends as you walk. First pair, I assumed it was a fluke. Second pair, it became clear it is inherent in the product. Send pictures to On sports and was told it is not covered by warranty. "Normal wear and tear". I guess it is Swiss Cheese Technology (tm)!

(p.s. these are not cheap shoes. And the company must be aware of this issue since my 2 pairs developed holes in the same precise place and clearly because the material they use can't repeatedly flex.)
LoRa might be a more attractive option
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/25/long-distance-text-communica...

eventually with APRS (amateur packet radio)

https://github.com/lora-aprs/LoRa_APRS_iGate
Minus paywall: https://archive.ph/C7EPx
Properly a misunderstand. There are other tickborne viruses, and some of them have vaccines. Lithuania is one of the countries with the highest rate of TBE.
Jason Hughes probably knows more about these cars other than Tesla engineers and have reversed engineers a lot of them. He's been vocal about Tesla's shortcomings before.

Here's what he had to say: https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1557059544144044032
Yes, but the supply of certificates has been set as to ensure a soft transition to this system. When the supply tightens, prices will go up. At least that's the theory.

In the current political climate where politicians all over the world compete on subsidizing electricity and fossil fuels to combat the recent price hikes for all poorly insulated home owners and car drivers, who knows what will happen.
Yeah, that's about the best. There's a lot of college towns that are within driving distance of a major city (like <2hrs), and that really opens it up. If you want the culture of a big city but small town living, college town! Concerts will go to Portland, and sometimes Eugene, but not always, so you can just go up and see them in Portland for example.
While I am sure what you said is true, it really depends on the person. In our family we get a lot of ticks because we are outside a lot. A vaccine against Lyme disease I would get in a heartbeat. If your life is based on going from home to work, bar, restaurant, theater, movies etc. then this is really mostly irrelevant.
so when do we get to ask where they come from now compared to then?
I'm a member of CR, but they obviously have their biases and blind spots.

Sometimes they start with a premise they want to prove instead of just providing a straight review of the products. They may do this by selecting the criteria (key performance metrics), for example.

Sometimes, they just don't competently evaluate the products because they fail to take into account real world consumer needs.

The quality of reviews in CR these days doesn't hold a candle to what CR used to provide, but I remain a member because even a weak signal is better than the other random stuff out there like Amazon reviews.
True in some ways...but looking at a map of "% of population surviving the initial tsunami" would probably reveal a fuzzy north-south line. That'll be kinda important to FEMA.

(From the tone of "About 6 blocks east. Plenty of cushion.", I'll guess that actual topographic maps don't give adamhi much cause for optimism.)
Source on that one? That seems like a very strange loophole that wouldn't hold up generally in court. It'd be very easy to show during discovery that his primary incentive is profit and further demonstrate he had no intention of winning by very low vote counts.
Not true, if you can compress a real refrigerant slower you get better performance; modern control systems that can ramp up and down are significantly more efficient than older on-off styles.
I think if it's to live in, AND you can afford it AND it makes sense financially on a fixed rate mortgage, go for it. You are absolutely right on market timing, but that doesn't mean it'll go up forever, but over time, it does seem to generally go up a bit. But it's not really an investment, its a place to live, so don't pay so much on a mortgage that you are risking your financial health - think it should be about equal to rent or maybe a little more.

Just remember, turkeys think everything is great, until Halloween, when they get put in the freezers for Thanksgiving. If you look at the graph of their weight from birth to death it's always going up, so it should go up forever. But on Halloween it'll go down a bit, then level out forever. ;)
I have no idea whether this applies to your manager, but I find that a fair bit of seemingly overly simplistic management is actually, to use the terms of this topic, carefully tuned second-order thinking. It goes like this:

1. Devs are natural overthinkers, prone to analysis paralysis and to feature/quality creep.

2. If we remove nuance from the conversation about planning, this causes frustration with the devs because they're feeling unheard (1st order effect, a common complaint on HN)

3. However, it sets a culture of "just shipping", trying to find corners that can be reasonably cut, making sure that problems that are hard to explain to the dumb boss aren't really simply too small to matter (or too far in the future), etc. This increases agility in the longer term and might be worth the initial frustration (second order effect).

I'm sure many managers who stop at 2 and don't care about the adverse effect. Just ship the features so I get my bonus, you nerd. That's bad. But there's just as many who use overly simplistic reasoning as a tool to nudge a culture into a particular direction, and it's not always easy to tell at the beginning which of the two is going on. As a natural overthinker, I find this a worthy skill to cultivate and I'm impressed with people who can do it well.
Fun history: Windows actually took inspiration and adopted that way back in the day.

I believe that it still works as well.
Convert to epub and use text to speech on your e-book reader.

Not the best, but you didn't ask for the best :)
Wow nice, I had no idea
You might have missed the "or" word in my sentence.
Overconsumption enables the civilization we have. The world not being enough is kind of the point.
"Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness." - Walt Whitman
I made an app that download all news items from Dawn.com (Pakistani newspaper) [1]. The news items are basically jpgs stitched together and it's easy to have all images in one folder and scroll thru. Takes less time to read the whole paper :) The app is lying somewhere in my GH.

[1] https://epaper.dawn.com/
It is worth mentioning that there is a survivorship bias inherent to this problem. The older designs that were well made tended to be the one that lasted, and so become the ones we see today, whereas the poor quality old designs already failed.
A lot of times I face the problem that others can't grasp what comes intuitively to me. Sometimes years later they let me know that I was right. But most of of them don't remember any more.

E.g. 30 years ago I had a lenghty discussion with my fellow electronics engineering classmates. I predicted then that in the future computers will consist of a single chip that comes with everything necessary and is going to be individually configurable for each customer. The others could not even imagine something like this happening. If we look at smartphones (ARM) and modern computers (Apple Silicon) this is exactly ehat is happening. Apart from power supply, interfaces and storage, everything including GPU and Ram is on one chip.
Become a DBA. I've worked with some ANCIENT database guys by the standard of every other position
In terms of functionality - in many ways: yes - but it's weird to throw users who don't use Reddit into that crazy jungle just to get support.
The timing is actually based on seafloor cores, and finding 41 earthquakes in the last 10,000 years.
Or they got the Lyme vaccine a couple decades ago.

> In 1998, the FDA approved a new recombinant Lyme vaccine, LYMErix™, which reduced new infections in vaccinated adults by nearly 80%. Just 3 years later, the manufacturer voluntarily withdrew its product from the market amidst media coverage, fears of vaccine side-effects, and declining sales.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
Don't give up, the market is in a downturn and its much harder to get a position now. It's not you that is the problem nor your age. I can see in my current company how much choosier we became when considering candidates.

As for web dev, it's a very broad field. You can try backend if you're sick of front end. I'm a full stacker and I'm considering a move to something more low level or algorithmic...we'll see how it goes. Your satisfaction in work also depends a lot on your boss, colleagues and the amount of stress you're experiencing...the actual tools and tasks you work on matter but not that much imo.
The type of town you want was made illegal to build about a century ago, so your best bet is old towns near water that somehow survived deindustrialization.
I'm constantly amused by the regular spectacle of people being remotely interviewed, and the ubiquitous bookshelf just behind them. I bet they carefully curate the titles in view. I always want to challenge them on if they'd read any.

P.S. I have far, far, far more books than I could possibly read.
> We have more knowledge now, but are we truly more intelligent than people 400 years ago? 1000 years ago?

Absolutely. Nutrition is very important for development, and people today eat more diversely and better, on average than a 1000 years ago. Not to mention that nowadays pretty much everyone (in a developed and many developing) countries gets an education starting a young age, which surely helps too.
So Github still doesn't have an unfork button.. but they can unfork the repo using a virtual assistant https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38831301/how-to-un-fork-... .. I don't get why the regular UI can't do this

Anyway in some language ecosystems there are cli tools that make repositories from templates, and a benefit is that it prevents people from forking the template (which is appropriate if you are modifying the template like upgrading dependencies etc, but not if you are just making a new project using it)
Ironically this is exactly how we use AWS at work.

Some exec decided we must be modern and all cloud. So they closed our datacenters and moved everything to AWS as-is. Including the process to request new "servers" with 10 tabs of complex Excel forms. They just replaced the rack location tab with one about AWS regions lol. It's as static as it can be. We even have the old lead-time for hardware emulated in the cloud now because of the complex approval process taking up similar time.

When you take the agile and auto scaling out of the cloud you just end up paying more. But I'm done telling them they're holding it wrong... Nobody wants to know.

I hope being modern was worth it. /s
Ask HN: What is a tech you though would take over the world but it didn't?
> 2. Mixed language projects are problematic.

Strongly disagree with this point of view. Specific examples: php is good at stitching presentation layers, python is good at number crunching, ml and ai, nodejs is great at all things web, c++ is awesome at fast memory intensive low level programming, and so on. Use the right language for the task at hand, and as a programmer don't shy away from expanding your knowledge area. Instead of using a shiny new framework that does the same thing but different, better use the right language. A programming language is just a language and each has its own edge over the other.
Sounds like harbor freight. I bought some “chrome” sockets that worked once. The chrome fell off and the bolts were stronger than the socket metal.
My question was driven by the fact I don't have a preferred solution that would suit both technical and non-technical users.

But as for why Discord is a bad fit - it's completely opaque to search engines, it requires an invite, it has a fairly complex UI and it's basically "unstructured chat". Threads are an afterthought and don't come close to giving any proper structure.

I want chat for people that, you know, want to chat - but structured posts with topics and categories are needed for any sane, long term knowledge-base.

People on chat (this goes for IRC as well) will continually ask the same questions and you will continually have to answer them again because there's no structure.
It will be indeed web related, but not a hosted service with a monthly recurring subscription. Instead, a stand-along product that would allow you to "own" your web presense and not be tied to any specific company.
This so much. At least over here it's completely impossible to find reviews of whiteware (refrigerators, washing machines etc.), at most a handful on the local reseller homepage.
> Second, you need to get your love for technology back. It is still there, but it manifests as hate. My theory of burnout is that it arises when the amount of effort you put in is disproportionally large compared to perceived payoffs. The brain just does a ROI calculation and refuses to put more effort in. To combat that, you need some easy successes.

Just wanted to thank you for this summary. I think you're right, though it certainly doesn't feel like that. I am in a very similar situation as OP, but webdev is only a small part of what I (can) do. I literally hate all of technology right now. At least, it feels like that. Also seems to be age-related. I am 40 and I lost "my spark" about 3-4 years ago. Luckily, still able to work, but the fun is gone and I personally don't believe that I will ever get it back at this point.

Edit: May be relevant to OP: I found a small team with an employer who himself went through burnout and now approaches things a bit differently. Not sure if it helps, but I thought it might be nice to know that those exist.
What other role are you looking to try out?
For those, like myself, who don't quite know enough Greek grammar to work it out properly, I looked up the definition of _Entomophagy_ ... it is derived from the Greek words 'entomon' (insect) and 'phagein' (to eat) and it describes the practice of eating insects; particularly by humans. Good to know in these exciting times!
Security isn’t a binary ecosystem. There’s varying degrees of criteria. Performance, functionality, as well as acceptable level of risk.
Somewhat related, as history seems to be kept in the same sqlite db as the bookmarks, at least for Firefox. If you want to update the entries there (as opposed to just reading and filtering them) you will want this: https://github.com/bencaradocdavies/sqlite-mozilla-url-hash

In short, there's a FF-specific hashing function that's needed when updating and inserting new rows.
> as (I believe) is the case is for the Mesosphere project

Just to clarify, the developer is correct - Mesosphere runs natively on the switch, and now has 1:1 compatibility with Nintendo's kernel. It can run every commercial game. There have been some intents/attempts to port mesosphere to non-switch hardware, but I don't think anyone has got meaningful results there, yet.
That's true for English roots, but for the WK radical names we're talking about here, many of them are just arbitrarily chosen words. E.g. they call 歹 "yakuza" and 各 "kiss", etc. There's not necessarily any connection between the mnemonic words and the radicals they represent.

(And even for the remaining cases, a kanji's radicals don't generally tell you much about the character's meaning the way English roots do. At least not outside of a few cases, like 言 or 魚, which don't need to be memorized because the radicals are already basic kanji.)
Why are you copy pasting the same comment more than once?
Sure, I updated my bio with contact info.
Why did you struggle to get car parts shipped?
Google Titan M: Hey, Google! It's time to redeem your promise.
At that scale you might solve the carbon sequestration problem
Not necessarily. It describes 2nd order and above in contrast to the immediate effects of a decision. The 2nd order effect may be in 5s time or even immediate but not a direct consequence of the original action.
My favorite example: The cobra effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

"The term cobra effect was coined by economist Horst Siebert based on an anecdote of an occurrence in India during British rule. The British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased"
Disagree. If, when you see a book, you have a flash of insight or spark of interest, buy it right then and there. Preserve it as a pilot light.
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Is there a legal reason they can't just demand 30% of Meta's ad revenue of ads viewed on iOS and have to instead start building their own system while attacking the tech that makes Meta's viable?
Absolutely, it's everywhere, not just in tools. Brand X known for quality decides to, well like you said, drop production cost and 'harvest the brand value'. Then after a while when the reputation is sullied, the same conglomerate / holding company launches another 'upscale' brand. Rinse and repeat.
I don't understand how your skillset is lacking if you're an experienced React/Node developer. Here in the UK recruiters are falling over each other trying to hire.
I remember watching a terminally ill patient in ER writing letters to his children to open when they reached milestones or after his death. Knowing my father had done the same for me and that connection was brutal, like it floored me.

I'd not skip that episode or something like it for having emotional punch though, even knowing I'm probably still just as likely to react strongly.
Did someone just make a serious blog post to describe thinking. One that is deadpan not philosophical and supposed to (by the authors view) be helping people?

If this is new to people it would explain 99% of the most horrific security vulnerabilities I think I've seen in recent years.
There's no intro about it, but this looks related to IBM mainframes...
> I will not do take home assignments for free if they take more than 1h of my time.

How is it possible to do anything meaningful in just an hour?
I can't speak for the OP, but I've met people who "don't get it" for various reasons (me included at some point). I'm pretty sure the OP has heard this argument before.

Telling someone to use language A because it's much better than language B that the person is comfortable with is not a very good approach. You can get into the objective reasons as to why but for some it might be difficult to really understand.

I struggled with this when I was introduced to types as the entire concept was completely new to me. I had other ways I could think of to reduce errors (tests, more robust code, etc) and I wasn't sure how typescript could help me reduce errors any further or if it was worth learning a new (seemingly difficult) concept to deal with something I already felt I could deal with.
> The video comes from a guy who's campaigning for a Senate (?) seat and the only campaign issue is that of anti-Tesla.

You can be anti-FSD / autopilot and still be pro-Tesla.

The problem is how both autopilot / FSD have been advertised by Tesla vs what is happening in reality and on top of that the constant malfunctioning of this system and the questionable safety claims made by them tells us that it is is quite frankly deceptive and at as worse, a scam; including the price hikes.

This is even before the robo-taxi vapourware Elon was 'highly confident' in releasing. It was never about delivering a Level 5 Full Self Driving system. It was all about continuously over-promising and scamming their customers to buy more Tesla cars and additionally buy autopilot and FSD and pay for the price hikes on subscription.
And I promise not to skimp on controls and displays. Sure you can set up any device using only 4 seven segment displays and 2 buttons, with each button overloaded with about 12 functions. But that just means that although I advertised my cooker has a timer-start function, functionally, it doesn't have such features as they're impractical to learn and use.
I miss the 1890s to 1990s when dudes with big beards used to actually do DIY shit
In case the title prematurely swayed you, dear reader:
"Despite the challenges, many of those who have taken part in the scheme say staff already seem happier and more motivated. Productivity has also improved in many cases."

I had a bit of a dig but there's no formal results out yet.
how is that not long term thinking?
Isn’t it baked into the concept of a subscription service that you can only use it while you have an active subscription?

I don’t think that’s fine print.
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OP here. An early homepage for the (hopefully not dying) Dillo web browser provided a link to your essay (as "a MUST"):
https://www.linux.ime.usp.br/~livio/dillo/new-home/Links.htm...

Dillo, too, stands for simplicity. A browser that has remained exceptionally bloat-free for 22 years.

I figured that in the light of today's heavyweight browsers, your thoughts on the simplicity of TCP/IP and HTTP/1.0 maybe resonate with many. (I'm an everyday text browser user, so both protocols are still relevant to me.)

Another interesting thing: considering the age of the Internet, it is extremely fun to find thoughtful 20+ year old essays on "computer stuff" that have stood the test of time. I'm a big fan of longer, well-articulated writings from the 90s era (a simplicity geek, I guess), and there are probably a lot of these from that period.

Thanks for writing down these thoughts in 1998. Bookmarked.