skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My girlfriend is an opera singer and voice teacher who's pivoting to primarily online lessons. She's working on establishing an online presence and is offering free consultations and promotional rates. If you're interested, email me at the address in my profile. She has substantial experience teaching people with technical backgrounds (such as me) and is fluent in communicating concepts accordingly. I'd suggest at least the consultation so she can guide you in the right direction, if anything!
First, you need to actually value interesting work in relation to other job values (like compensation, good working hours, low stress, making a difference, family friendliness, good management and many others). Generally these will be a tradeoff, but you might find one where the tradeoff suits you. For instance I had a job I really enjoyed at an Earth Observation startup geeking out about maps and space, but the comp was pretty mediocre and the management abysmal. But it was enough for my needs at the time and I'm reasonably good at managing up so it didn't bother me too much. Many of my former colleagues left that job dissatisfied, since the tradeoff wasn't to their liking.

Second, always be looking. You are right in observing that 99% of job ads seem totally boring. Partially this can be helped with some filters on job boards, I tend to just filter out "Finance" and "Advertising" since I know that I have basically zero interest in those domains. But the chance that you'll find a great interesting job where you skillset is even vaguely compatible at the time you need it is pretty low. It's better to keep looking well before you need to.

Third, if you meet someone in your field who's working at a place that seems interesting, ask if they're hiring. Even if not, there's a chance that next time they are, the person will remember you. Or perhaps in their next company...

Finally, cultivating a broader skillset rather than a highly specialised one can make this easier, since many interesting companies are probably not doing the exact same everyone else is, so they might need someone who seems more adaptable.

Good luck!
Okay but I specifically asked what is wrong with it, can you cite any sources?
The best paying jobs are generally the most scalable jobs, as you can derive income from/add value to more revenue streams with minimal time cost on your part.

That doesn't automatically correlate with parasitical roles, but there is an overlap.
How was that place not somewhere you called looking for it?
For many years, I was a devoted FreeBSD user. The lack of basic security hardening found on FreeBSD as compared to other systems vexed me somewhat. When the HardenedBSD project got going, I was thrilled. "Ah-ha!" I thought. "Now I can keep using my favorite OS without feeling like security is taking a back seat."

Then I found a bug (in the base FreeBSD, not Hardened-specific) that had prevented ipfw from being used on big-endian systems for several years. Years, mind you- ipfw went for years without working on big-endian systems and nobody had noticed. That was too much, and I ran for the hills.

Now, on OpenBSD, I very much miss ZFS... but that's a small price to pay in my book.
Do you have the specs (for the bluetooth use case) on how long a fully charge battery would last before a recharge is needed?
As you noticed, the involved banks must accept SEPA for that. And it's another dimension to do that across many country borders and so many local banks, while in India everything happens in the same jurisdiction, I assume (same for USA for that matter)
And yet many hosting companies are only handing out a /64 to hosts, which some software has issues dealing with less than /64 (if running a vm). Currently companies are buying/selling huge blocks of space, just like the early days of ipv4 (like Apple owning a whole /8 still).

Yes, you logic of "there's plenty to go around" works, until the feast is over and everyone owns something because it is so cheap.
+1 for ortholinear
Very true. I try to stay humble but at work I definitely have lists of people I always listen to and a (longer) list of people I generally never listen to. Maybe they have a good thought from time to time but I don’t have enough time to listen to all bad ideas to maybe find the one good idea.
The future of startups, VCs, and the economy
If you don't journal your ideas and thoughts then I suggest you create a GitHub repository and begin journalling in markdown for minimal friction.

Then do it everyday. You'll think of something interesting, or a problem that needs solving, or pain you see in the world around you.

You have criteria for what you find interesting, you need to dig deep inside yourself to unearth what you're keeping bottled up inspiration.

Then revisit your journal frequently, add to it, remix it and begin sideprojects.

See my profile for my journal, I have 450+ software idea and startup idea entries.
How to Write Unmaintainable Code (Roedy Green)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32497889
Ironically, Chrome still wastes slightly more vertical space than an appropriately configured Internet Explorer did.
"Feeling like your job is rewarding to you" is part of the compensation, and to a certain extent trades off against actual money.
Firefox Mobile on a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G with 8GB of ram, I've now been waiting for over 9 minutes for the gallery.platform.uno to load... The bar pretty much stopped moving at about 55% - 60% at minute 2 or so...
THis is where I give up.

Edit: I reloaded right after posting the above, and the gallery loaded immediately as a result. Something's wrong with the loader.
I believe the fn row makes it more of a 70%. Ive been using a Nuphy nutype F1 for the past year as a 60% keyboard.

I didn't particularly seek a mechanical keyboard but the smaller size enabled having a 13" raised tablet 'ergonomic mobile computer' - https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/vzs8mm...
I like the quote in its use of sarcasm to emphasize a point.

I completely dislike that its apparent value also comes because it's a quote from a comedic character in a comedy film. I mean, that diminishes its value as sarcasm, and it becomes just a canned answer.
I experienced same as OP, but I was using iOS safari. Maybe you got lucky?
Agree 100%. I actually tried to go without a numpad on a new keyboard. Couldn't make it a week before I returned it. Up to that point I didn't realize how much I used it on a daily basis.

I can't help but think how inefficient a programmer would be using the standard number keys. Reminds me of my dad hunting and pecking with his index finger.
Some of the comments here discuss humbleness in general, which is different from what this post is about. The article talks about being intellectually humble, and defines it as the ability to self reflect and accept the possibility that you are wrong.

It is different from the standard context of being humble, which is usually to avoid bragging about own's success. Being able to accept own's mistakes, even when you're sure you're right, is another, big, step forward.
No, it has arrow and F keys.
I got as far as "HyperThreading is insecure so disable it".

There are some absurd recommendations on here (disable TCP SACK, use TCP BBR) and the weirdest of all is why anyone who hates FreeBSD security this much would still use the OS?
Then that's not an "email service".
I tend to vote mostly conservative, but on this issue I applaud the Biden administration and Senator Warren.

There is great benefit to having strength on both sides of the political aisle. The pendulum swings back and forth, and sometimes we get benefits from the side opposite the one we are on. This appears to be such a case. Thanks to the admin for this.
Making a chip for your own use should be more optimal than a chip made for a wide range of customers. Also, you don't need to pay the hefty markup for NVidia. If you need a lot of chips, there's a point on the curve where it becomes more economical to design your own chip.
Not visible - he probably took part in the last battle against Morgoth, but that was as one of the many, many Maia that also took part.

Istari are sent after the events of Silmarillion end, after War of the Ring.
Kraft Dinner pulled off a real marketing coup here: they removed artificial flavors and colors, and some other less popular ingredients, from the recipe for Neon Orange Macaroni Powder, and quietly pushed it out to markets for a few months.

Followed by an advertising blitz along the lines of "Will your kids like the new Mac & Cheese? They've already had it!".
Are you hiring for customer service or engineering roles by any chance?
So another proprietary messaging service? :)
Noted. Thanks dang, this is still the best moderated forum around.
I think that the stalker AND Apple is evil in this case because Apple is tracking ALL I-phones, so that you can find your keys...
I don’t think you can use the epson ink because it is pigment based opposed to dye. the pigment-based ink require a specific medium for suspending pigment that differs from color to color.

dyes on the other hand can mix. mixing takes experimentation.
"Between 2001 and 2005, CIA officers captured an estimated one hundred fifty people and transported them around the world.[12][13][14][15]

Under the Bush administration, rendered persons were reported to have undergone torture by receiving countries. Journalists, civil and constitutional rights groups, and former detainees have alleged that this occurred with the knowledge or cooperation of the administrations of the United States and the United Kingdom."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#:~:t....

"A Wedding That Became a Funeral
US Drone Attack on Marriage Procession in Yemen"

https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral...

"5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff."

https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/

Plenty more where those came from, also enough to fill quite a few books.
Agreed. To state the obvious, they established an unsustainable burn rate on this project, hyped it to hell, then Apple cut their runway by an order of magnitude.
Ask HN: Why is Apple Music lightyears behind Spotify from a technical POV?
I used Spotify briefly on an iPhone 13 Pro and I immediately felt how responsive everything was. Loading playlists, playing a track, searching, loading other types of content. It's shocking how good Spotify's streaming tech is. Then I went back to Apple Music again and I immediately felt how slow and unoptimised everything was in comparison.

From a technical perspective, how is Spotify, which has a 100 times smaller market cap, able to completely demolish Apple in streaming technology?
An 1000% tax on sugars would have a huge effect on the U.S.
> Governments should not just fund drug and vaccine research. They should employ most of the researchers and own most of the labs. Problem solved. Give a hundred billion to vaccine research and then release it to the public with a mandated price - job complete.

That seems... a spectacularly naïve idea.

Governments could have done this for fifty years, but by and large they don't, because governments are generally capricious and short termist, and don't value R&D.

Heck, the UK government just sold off it's vaccine development centre even after Covid happened. https://researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-innovation-2...
I agree about the services that keep getting shutdown and I also use the moral equivalent of a command line utility to store bookmarks but there are still benefits to "social" bookmarking, no?

There's the potential of discoverability and seeing what other people recommend that can't really be done with offline bookmarking. In one sense because there's no company (other than pinboard?) that does "social bookmarking" maybe that means it's not a very large niche? Did places like delicio.us and pinboard succeed just because of the convenience of having a managed bookmark site?

I know it's not very popular, but there is the possibility of a 'persistent' bookmark service through some combination of web3/blockchain/ipfs/nft. This would solve the persistence problem but I wonder if the premise that social bookmarking is valuable is flawed to begin with.
SARS-CoV-2:spike protein mutational analysis, epitope for broad neutralization
How many months/years until this can be approved and actually curing the sick?
That's interesting. Been getting the same behavior from my Gigabyte M32U monitor from things like disconnecting a different monitor's HDMI cable to my Switch, even though the Gigabyte is only connected to my PC. This seems like the most obvious explanation.
Ah, I don't actually know, the new tab should show it at least the first seconds or so. The search tool, I don't know if it requires some specific amount of points to be searchable.
Intersection of supply curve of people able and willing to do the work and demand curve of people able and willing to pay.
> How do you find interesting gigs?

Get really good in a specific field you care about - for me that was platforms and programming languages but you might really enjoy other stuff.

When I say really good let me emphasize that's not exceptional, I am in no means a great programming language designer or web platform person or developer in general.

Once you get beyond a threshold - you'll find a lot of people who deeply care about the technology and the conversations become a lot more "here's this cool thing". That often unlocks connections and opens the door to work on platforms and interesting startups.

My work history before going to Microsoft was 3 technical startups - before that I worked on automagically generating and auto-healing E2E tests which was a bunch of algorithms and chromium internals on a technical product, before that I worked on a distributed p2p CDN over WebRTC which was also a bunch of algorithms and code, yada yada.

I believe my open source work unlocked these opportunities and not my fancy CS degree.
This looks so, so good. I'm weak to all things minimal + chic.

This looks like a mini mech keyboard done by Teenage Engineering, in the best kinda way. I'm not saying it looks derivative, but I wouldn't be surprised if they saw this and wish they made it themselves. They don't hold a monopoly on this look, need, and aesthetic penchant to go in this direction.

I'm more of a "full-size keyboard with numeric pad" typa person, due to my need for hot keys in After Effects. If you (and your team?) ever made one of those, I'd be on it. I bet a buncha other designers would as well.
I've got that, totally.

In my case, I believe it's from operating a stump grinder without ear protection. (Doh!) I've been tested, there is a narrow range where my hearing is impaired. Otherwise, I hear very well.

Put me in a restaurant, I spend about half my time lip-reading and context matching to figure out what the person across from me said.
I like the idea but for me it needs to be an impulse purchase once a year. $39/year or something.
I used to use Shaarli (https://shaarli.readthedocs.io) to accomplish sort of the same thing that you described. And, shaarli worked great for me *for years*! But then, when i delayed migrating from my VPS (where i self-hosted shaarli, and needed badly to update version of ubuntu on the VPS) and i failed to upgrade to a newer version of shaarli, i sort of got myself stuck, and never set it up again on my new VPS...sure, i still have all the bookmarks (they're just saved in plain text within php easy to get), and you know what? I sort of abandoned all those bookmarks from my legacy shaarli setup, and have never once needed to look up a bookmark! Meaning, i guess i was saving these things for pretty much little/no reason, so i never set up shaarli again. This is by no means an issue of shaarli. Its simply that i came to a realization like folks going through digital minimalism must feel, that "hey, i guess i don't need X after all".

Lately i have the need to save a couple of bookmarks again (though only a few)...so instead of using shaarli, i just saved them within firefox and set up the firefox account syncing, and it seems good enough for my needs. But, going back to my original point, yeah shaarli fit my need quite weel as far as saving remote bookmarks. If you ever don't want to maintain your own php setup, i encourage you to take a look at shaarli; really fast, stable, crazy low on resoiurces...all around great utility!
It most certainly is several orders of magnitude.

You can just look at the budget of the NIH versus private and corporate investment in drug development. What the government spends is a fraction of what private companies invest.

To get a drug approved you're looking at $5k-$15k/person/year in a Phase 3 trial (depending on the monitoring needed). You can call up an CRO and ask for a quote. I did this several jobs ago.

Just to give you a sense, the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine was 47,000 patients [1]. These patients were followed for 2 years. For a rough estimate, that's $5,000 x 47,000 x 2 years = $470M.

Half a billion dollars, just for one clinical trial.

That's already 3 orders of magnitude larger than a typical $500,000 grant for basic lab research like this paper.

And that's just the clinical trials. It doesn't include the trials leading up to the pivotal trial, the manufacturing development costs, the health authority submissions costs across 130 countries, etc. Then add on top the cost to make the actual drug and put it in a vial and ship it around the world.

And sure, "they aren’t paying for all the projects that don’t make it to the “works in a lab” stage". But conversely, the government never bears the risk for later development that fails. I remember Pfizer a couple decades ago spent $1B on a new manufacturing plant for a drug that never got approved.

[1]https://www.pfizer.com/science/coronavirus/vaccine/about-our...
Completely agreed. Mainly, I wanted to make a distinction between "cannot be updated" and "can be updated but isn't". The former is a design choice that removes entire classes of vulnerabilities. The latter is a usage choice that keeps vulnerabilities open.
> With more than 220 ongoing game development projects, our well-invested development pipeline is now maturing. It includes more than 25 AAA games under development to be released until the financial year 2025/26.

Embracer is basically buying up the whole indie/small dev scene

https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-publishes-interi...
Ask HN: An app that will teach men to understand and manage their feelings
Check out the Digital Services Coalition.

https://digitalservicescoalition.org/#/story

Like others have said, it depends a lot on what you find interesting, but these companies are doing good work trying to improve digital services for people who are in or interact with the government.

Sometimes the projects are greenfield and you can choose your stack; sometimes you'll be dealing with legacy code, skeptical stakeholders, and government bureaucracy. Culture tends to be supportive and inclusive, most of the companies work remote, pay is good--but not top of the market--and consulting isn't for everyone, but most days you feel like you're doing something worthwhile with your skills.

(I work for one of these companies)
Every single one of your points applies at least as much, if not more, to US - from human rights violations, to “saber rattling”, to spyware and backdoors. I could also add forced labor (https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-wo...), world’s highest percentage of population in prisons, and protecting war criminals from justice (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_massacre, where the proven murder of civilians was punished by three months in jail; but it’s a recurring motive, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes and follow the sources.)

So once again, how is China hostile, while the country that’s provably worse offender isn’t? Other than racism of course.
Everyone is different, but when I got my first 60 percent keyboard, I started using the SpaceFN layout through the TouchCursor tool on Windows and now I can't live without it anymore, even on full size keyboards.
All that effort, the modern components, the slim design, the monobody, the Bluetooth, the rotary encoder. Beautiful.

And it isn't ortholinear.

The layout is designed to 1880s specifications.

Will you share plans for self fab with an alternative key organization?
I keep hearing this, and I keep thinking it's quackery (mostly based on how much of a fad it's become, and on the less-than-reputable sources making the claims). I'd love to hear some more reputable takes on this.
I was expecting a quiz :(
Excited for the upcoming retelling of the whole trilogy+++ from Sauron's point of view?
Nice experiment, but that's it.

One of the worse population pyramids in the world, Japan, is only slowly shrinking on the base. They are not inverting, but squaring, like Finland, turning a pyramid into a column. Which is good: newborn has almost a guarantee of living at least 60-70 years.

Here's another thought experiment: assets are currently in the hands of the baby boomers. Young people don't have access to those assets, and there are a lot of boomers. Once the boomers get cleared from the population, a lot of those assets get transferred to the younger people, which now have all the incentives to have kids.

So plenty of hypothesis there. Are we in an Universe 25, headed towards complete collapse? Or just purging the boomer generation? Time will tell.
As an outsider with no insights (but owning a PineBookPro and considering a PinePhonePro), it surely looks like Manjaro is the king of the mountain - and that Martijn's blogpost is likely close to The Truth.

Listening and doing your own things anyways is the time-honored way of ignoring people...

Even as an Arch user (that hence "gets" Manjaro) that is sad :(
That sounds excruciating. I've had those various pieces but never all at one job. I hope you grind that twerp under your tires while driving away after quitting in some epic fashion.
If the author kept all the detail in the rendering, there’s a risk the client wouldn’t like and ask to change, even though it’s not part of the architecture’s office job.
I personally use ntfy.sh. How does this tool compare?
Headline is slightly inaccurate. They've blocked the website. It doesn't look like they've made the software illegal.
Though it is less visible than the changes in the blog post, I'm also happy about the possibility introduced in 1.8 of removing LLVM from the runtime to create a smaller Julia runtime.

Not to mention the new effect system, which allows for quite aggressive constant propagation and constant evaluation.

Then there are a few small things: The new `eachsplit` function, for example, or the ability to read a file line by line, backwards, the introduction of "lazy strings" that makes writing informative errors more performant and the ability to match regular expressions to error messages in tests.

The real big one is the latency reduction, though, and the promise that it brings in the future for caching native code - perhaps in v 1.10 or even 1.9
Looks great, but I'm not sure about the height difference between the keys. But definitely worth to try
I literally run on Windows insider for two my laptops - primary one is on beta channel and auxiliary laptop is on alpha channel. Both running Windows 11 and had 10 running before. Auxiliary one lives on insider for I think 5 years of not 6 and definitely had issues, like Intel wifi stopped working and some other minor ones, but main one, had, I guess 3-4 BSODs over 2 years and around 10 times not waking up from sleep. That's pretty much all of the issues.

For me it's impressive and I cannot complain on stability.