skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Five years ago, when unemployment wasn't at all time lows like they are today, I heard stories about Amazon warehouses that simply could not hire anymore.

CHA1 in Chattanooga needs thousands of employees to function. But Chattanooga is around 180,000 people total, likely less than 100,000 working age people.

Friends of mine based there told me that the site had already hired and turned over every willing potential employee in the region. They were calling people up saying "I know we fired you two years ago because you weren't fast enough but maybe you should come back for an interview".

Sites that couldn't meet goals had their leadership fired too. Hit your rates or you're out, at all levels.

I can't imagine how bad things are now.
Retired generation tend to hoard their wealth to live off, not spend it, by the time they pass their kids are retiring, the wealth never goes back into the economy as investments or purchases. Or of course you end up with an aged population that depends on taxes to survive.
I suppose Figma is a meme company sold for meme dollars?

https://twitter.com/figma/status/991697942070333447?lang=en
Those are all consequences of urban planning decisions that "anti"-car people are arguing against. Your comment could be transplanted into r/fuckcars and look right at home because they view your experience as the avoidable consequences of bad policy.
The 2009 academic year runs from Fall 2009 through Spring 2010, so it may be a bit later than you're thinking?
Can't both models for work exist at the same time? At my job there's a 'work as much remote as you want', but for similar reasons mentioned above, I tend to work more at the office. Am I forcing others to join me? No. I simply assume that those that come to the office, enjoy being there. Whatever their reason might be, doesn't matter. The fact that you are referring to what to me seems like a basic human need as some kind of a service is frankly a bit absurd. John Doe wants to be a cashier because he enjoys seeing and talking with different people. Do you send him a bill after coming back from the grocery store?
This describes a mainframe with dumb terminals.
Murmel: The Simplest Social Media Aggregator Out There
I see issues all the time with external power cubes. Devices goes wonky, look up the spec, find it's DC 12v @ 2 amps or whatever and replace the power supply. About 90% of the time the device is happy again.
I'd like to see a CA constitutional amendment that requires all other amendments to set percentages of revenue instead of fixed dollar amounts, and require every proposition to state what other program will lose their percentage to maintain the total at 100%.

Force people to consider the tradeoffs of their proposals.
I'd like to see the distributions. Is it a general shift, more pronounced around the pass/fail mark, or at the top?
Nice... I've built a very similar toolset in the past. Cool to see it open-sourced. Nice work.
https://archive.ph/JrvlQ
The iPad boots up in just 1 second. I can do 90% of what I do on a computer on it, at a much more adjustable angle, and it's a lot more portable.

A tablet is integrated into my daily routine to a degree a laptop will never be.
Would it really be so hard to plant a mix of seeds? I can see a monoculture if the intention is to harvest the wood or fruit later, but if you're only planting to capture carbon or restore a forest then a mix of trees seems like a healthier option and shouldn't be any more effort. You don't need to be precise with the mix either, a just random chance should be fine.
The three keys piano at the beginning is so responsive and nice that I was stuck playing with it for 5 minutes, that's how you hook someone to read an article
Great point.

Chromebook's cost less than some of the keyboards Apple sells for their iPad.

https://www.apple.com/shop/select-ipad-keyboards
This may be unpopular on HN, but that's what Allan Savory has advocated for, along with rotational (holistic in his words) grazing of ruminants.
In addition to other good ideas here - identify and reach out to recruiters.

Engineers, like most professional jobs, are either hired through the team's professional network or otherwise recruiters because no hiring manager is going to spend the time sourcing unknown candidates themselves.

Therefore identify the types of recruiters who work with the types of companies you are most likely to work at, and contact them. They need to bring candidates to their clients and so you are mutually benefiting each other. They may also be able to calibrate you for the types of roles you are qualified for and how your resume stacks up against what they are seeing in the market.

If you don't know any recruiters, ask friends who are hiring managers at startups and mid-market companies who they use (esp if it's outside recruiters). Identify via LinkedIn inside recruiters at big firms if you want to work for a big firm (note that most are not hiring, however).

If you need to get new work reasonably quickly be realistic with the types of companies you are most likely to get a job with - ie similar space, type of eng work, etc and identify those companies and ask who they use for recruiters.

Pretend you are an engineering hiring manager at a startup - how would you identify those recruiters for your role? Search for good recruiters, create a hit list, reach out to them, etc.

One of the startups I work with has about 4 open roles right now, two are eng, and we are working with 4 different recruiting firms to fill those - so there is activity but it's now an employer's market given the shifts in the market.

Good luck!
Many uses use an iPad as their version of a laptop.

Apple's own promotional materials show folks doing that.

I think this is all but certain.
I think you forgot to put an asterisk there. Microsoft doesn't fully support such old devices anymore: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/which-surface-de...

It might still be getting some updates, for now, but it can't be updated to the latest version of Windows. I guess you could install Linux on it.
But that's not official support. That's like saying that my 10 year old Nexus 7 can still be flashed with latest versions of custom ROMs so it's the longest supported tablet out there.
I don't know about efficient, but at least it sounds reliable. I'm at my wit's end with trying to figure out why KDE's Dolphin can't reliably watch a directory for new files, frequently (but not always) forcing me to F5 to see new files.
Objectively, no, as it is an imprecise question. Want is subjective, mercurial and potentially infinite, and the precision level has not been specified.

As an engineer, I'd say sometimes they do. Depends on the person. It should be well known to people here that you need to sit down and interview clients to understand what they do and then see what they really want when building software and collecting requirements.

I think it really depends on how deeply the person has thought about the need. Do they understand the problem domain? How far from the problem are they? Abstract understandings of want (e.g. "I want to be happy") are far less useful than more specific ones (e.g. "I want to make $30/hr to cover my living expenses comfortably").

Do you know what you want? I suppose, in abstract, people want an infinite amount of novel pleasure, doled out over eternity, tempered by an infinite amount of comparable but possibly also novel discomfort and waiting to provide context for said pleasure, eased by a condition where they forget their past experiences so that they may enjoy things they liked again as if it were the first time?
I think you may have misinterpreted what I was saying. I'm not arguing against moderation, I was saying I believe the self-reinforcing bubbles of social media on e.g. Facebook and Reddit have been a big driver of polarization and extremism.

Before social media, most people didn't get their info from books, they got it from TV, and you had a couple big channels that essentially led to most people having some sort of consensus on the few versions of reality that were broadcast by the media.

Whether that was a good thing or a bad thing is another discussion, but at least we didn't have the degree of balkanization and polarization we do now.

I was saying that having social media function as is, but doubling down on tools to help people screen out what they don't like, which is what the person I was responding to suggested, would, I think, just accelerate that balkanization. So I don't know that it's a good solution.
NO! They do not!

People are self deceivers.

Obviously they know what they want in the first degree context. However the more layers of abstraction and distance from familiarity, this awareness breaks down and at some point is self contradicting even to the point of hypocrisy.
Yeah I've never used a laptop and wished I could touch the screen to do something. I don't want to lift my hands off my desk to move something around on the screen. I might not be a good representation though because I don't even like moving my hand off the keyboard to use the mouse
IMHO the biggest reason for Rust is that developers NEVER get enough time to write perfect code. All this takes time and management usually doesn't grant you that allowance.

In a perfect world where developers could tinker with the code until it's perfect we wouldn't need Rust. This is not that world.
I'm always a little amazed when major tech platforms just now manage to get API tokens that are as configurable as MMOs from a decade or two ago.

Glad to finally see it.
Are you talking about cryptographic signatures? That's a different thing - one that I expect very few people care about (or even know about, for that matter).
Anyone have a suggestion for a tagging filesystem that is maintained? Or if not a filesystem, something that at least works? I still feel like this is the best way to organize personal photos and media, and while https://www.tagsistant.net/ is pretty good it hasn't been updated in 6 years and is fairly buggy.
If Taiwan is taken off the board for semiconductors, or if all semiconductors have to go through China, that means the entire US military (and all western militaries) are dependent on a geopolitical rival. To allow that would be nothing short of giving away the game.
> I can't find anything on how to design and implement anymore more than the barebones basics of a system.

All of this stuff (horse/horses etc) is extensively discussed, maybe look under "taxonomy" or "ontology".

Now, whether you want to use any of those solutions or not or find the discussion useful or not... if you aren't finding anything about it at all, you aren't looking in the right places.

(I learned about it in librarian school)
It's easy to go from non-sedentary to sedentary. It's harder to go back. So some didn't go back - they remained sedentary after Covid concern faded.

I don't know what fraction of the population went sedentary, and what fraction of those remained sedentary. It could be enough to matter statistically.
When possible I try to buy from companies that make a product, as opposed to just name/market/make cool stickers.

ThermalTake is just a reseller, Season is an example of a company that makes power supplies. Seasonic sells to others for relabeling, but also sells direct to consumers.
Clearly people who want to go to an office should join companies/teams that go to an office and people who don't should join companies/teams that don't.
Thank you for this link. I’ve been looking for a good discussion of the browse vs search argument and this is very, very good
Your job should be your identity. You do it 8 hours a day. Your growth is extremely important. Ideally your job aligns with your values. If you haven't found this job yet you should keep searching. Do not complicate this with "economic arrangements" - you're just afraid.
You don't understand my point. It's not about equating criticism of Israel with anti-semitism. The point is, once you do criticize Israel, you'll attract actual nut jobs who actually hate Jews. And criticizing Israel without acknowledging the other side's culpability can quickly cross over into actual anti-semitism.
Anxiety is not a component of being introverted.
...said the music industry about samplers in the 1990s.
Brown is not yellow though.
Ah that’s a great suggestion! I didn’t think about it even though I use kustomize a lot.
I wanted toys, could afford them, and I know myself. For example I have a Switch that was used a lot in its first month that now gets picked up maybe once a quarter for a few minutes.
Do you feel the boycott is unwarranted? "The cool kids" is often a negative, mocking phrase.
I was actually thinking that would probably apply to Windows support as well!
This viewpoint is pretty modern (mid-20th century onwards) - historically, many 'pure science' pursuits were the hobbies or obsessions of the relatively wealthy aristrocrat classes, and they really were motivated by curiousity (as their basic physical needs were already well-provided for), with the exception of rather small groups that found funding in other ways (Royal Society of Britain), who even then tended to rely heavily on things like royal patronage (see Euler, Kepler, etc. for example).

Even now, in the era of federal grants provinding the meat & potatoes, a lot of scientists have multiple motivations, as in 'this line of research really is quite useful to industrial progress/understanding nature/fighting disease/etc and thus human civilization' as well as 'hey, I can make a decent living and get a fair amount of social prestige by doing this'.

The internal bureaucratic politics of the modern science world are pretty nasty though, it's like bad office politics on steroids. Possibly the most extreme example of how it call all go wrong is seen in the legacy of Trofim Lysenko in the Soviet Union. Comparing Anthony Fauci to Lysenko might seem a bit extreme but recent events show how these types can utilize their power to protect their position, even if the kind of 'science' they're promoting is either reckless and dishonest or just manufactured ideological nonsense.
That only applies to about the top 20 families in the state. The rest of the wealthy people like it here because of the weather and services the state provides as well as the strong markets.

Keep in mind that VPs at FAANG make more than $2M a year (which is where this tax kicks in). A VP at Google could pick up and go to another state, and some have, but most of them like it here.
I've had a Macbook with a touchscreen

I installed OS X on my old Asus Zenbook and the touchscreen still functioned... but yeah not once did I ever think "wow I want to apply my fingers to my laptop screen instead of using the large precise touch surface within easier reach" besides for novelty
The US spends more per student than every other OECD nation save Luxembourg[0], but it's students are not anywhere near the top of the list when it comes to academic achievement[1][2]. Where did the money go if not corruption?

[0]https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm

[1]https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-student...

[2]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/us-students-c...
Even with UX studies, it's very easy for people to get the answer they want or draw the conclusion they want to.

Worked for a company that went full circle multiple times on its UI for what was ultimately a very large form between a single page with collapsible modules and tabbed UI layouts as the UX feedback oscillated between "Users don't know all these options are there and we want them to discover them because they keep asking us to implement features we already have" and "Users are overwhelmed by the number of options on screen"
Node.js 19 is now available
not fully: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/which-surface-de...
You’re right that the 2018 iPads are great. But people buying their first powerful ipad really don’t want a 2018 machine so Apple keeps improving them. Software improves as time goes on.
> There are over 200 distinct viruses that cause the illness we call "a cold."

Probably far, far more than that if you count the inevitable mutations that occur during replication.
How large a piece of the chip is that 16 core Neural Engine eating? I'd rather have a more powerful CPU + GPU or am I missing the point a bit? Anyone care to shed some light?
Coincidentally CDE dropped its support in this very release.
> This distinction between informational asymmetry and security through obscurity seems artificial.

It is. What is meaningful is how much entropy you are hiding from your wanna-be attackers and what costs you pay for it.

Experts call it "security through obscurity" when the information content is low and the price is high.
This is part of a whole series[0] that I am reading and finding quite insightful.

I think the "pull quote" for me, was this, from the immediate article:

Establish team working agreements at all levels. Ensure every team member knows what role they’re playing

I think this is a real problem not just in scale ups, but in a lot of engineering organizations. There's no working agreements on what roles that each part of the company plays and expects others to play, its often weighted against some preference of higher up management (often VP / executive / director depending on the size of the org and influence each layer has) that creates these silos and break downs.

I think its uncommon to think of start up environments like this, but it is entirely true, once you get past a certain number of employees and start having more delegation layers (directors / VPs) you start to run into these silo problems quickly if you aren't aware of them or don't actively do something about preventing them.

Whole thing is worth reading though, very insightful to me at least!

[0]: https://martinfowler.com/articles/bottlenecks-of-scaleups/
Purism. You can debate all you want about some of their more than questionable business decisions.

That being said: they’re making phones that run an unmodified mainline Linux kernel.
I have a bunch of iPads in the house including the 4th generation one from 2012 that is still get used randomly to watch content. It' 10 years old and still works without any issues. It's the oldest piece of tech that I have in the house.

You can always recycle them with Apple if you are worried about the waste footprint.
Also, even in nature most saplings don't make it. It's easy to forget that trees release hundreds or thousands of seeds every year and only a small handful will even germinate, and few of those will make it to maturity. Most every plant takes a quantity over quality approach. Exceptions may include stonefruit trees, but even those produce a lot of fruit, but only dozens instead of thousands.
Coming from Europe, I was very surprised in Vegas when I needed to spend 10min crossing a road with a taxi, because it was hell to do those few hundred metres by foot.

I think that there is a lot of work that can be done for public transportation (and pedestrians) in the US. At least in dense cities.
God damn thank you. This interaction used to be triggered by deep pressing on the keyboard and it drove me insane when they got rid of it, I couldn't find any settings to turn it back on but this works!
Touchscreens on a laptop are kinda silly, especially if it isn't convertible. I will say though, I use touchscreen gestures to navigate my desktops pretty frequently. Blindly reaching for a three-finger swipe feels a lot more natural than pausing to look down at my Touch Bar and figure out what the hell I want to press...
It doesn't get OS updates though, does it? Awesome tablet if it wasn't for that, battery like new on mine after 10 years.
Workers strike at Apple’s core in unprecedented industrial action
Meta Developers: What’s New with Data Portability and Transfer Your Information
Imagine moving across the country for a great job, selling your house, etc and a company lays you off because their growth wasn't "as much as expected."
This happened with my six year old MacBook. I’m so mad.

It works great and still has plenty of power but I can’t seem to upgrade the OS. And one by one the apps I use stop supporting my OS.

Really feels like such a waste and makes me wonder if I really own it at all.
You didn't fail. You just found half a dozen things that don't work. Work on yourself for a while.
> They claim it is covered by fair use

they claim the training of their model is covered by fair use, but they did not say that was the justification they were using. They don't need to claim fair use.

It's pretty clear from the Terms of Use that they can use code hosted on github.com to provide any service they like, so long as it is a GitHub service. They don't need fair use, they already have the rights to do what they are doing.
I am sure such system would never be abused or tempered with even.

Queue in gerrymandering.
This is true, but even today bit flips per GB/hour are still really low.

However failures in the memory chip -> chip pin -> dimm -> dimm connector -> motherboard -> CPU socket -> CPU pin -> CPU are pretty common. Sure ECC helps with random bitflips, but it's also very useful to diagnose something is broken in the CPU <-> memory chip pipeline. It's very frustrating to debug something when the main sign of the problem is a reboot.
> Also ad blocker support is limited.

Try 1Blocker or AdGuard Pro. And similar limits (for similar "this shouldn't run that there" reasons) just arrived for the Chromium family.

> needlessly slow

I tend to find that when I notice slowness, I have several hundred tabs open, approaching the 500 tab limit. Save all tabs to bookmarks, close all tabs, and I find it's as "snappy" as the new iOS meme. (Related? New device, no tabs? Hmmm...)

Super annoying this hasn't been resolved since introduction of cloud synced tabs.
That would certainly be one solution.
No, it means that it is reproducing the original work and is not producing a new original work. It is basically a really fancy Instagram lense, but it is still 100% derived from the underlying works and therefor derivative instead of a newly created non-derivative work.
Hey, works for me. I flash a lot of my devices with custom ROMs after EOL, and they work great.
Ceres is one that I know about:
https://www.ceresimaging.net/customer-stories
Chiang democratic? Sheesh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek#Mass_deaths_un...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Republic_o...:

Following the ROC government's retreat to Taiwan on 7 December 1949, the Temporary Provisions together with martial law made the country an authoritarian one-party state despite the constitution. Democratization began in the 1980s. Martial law was lifted in 1987, and in 1991 the Temporary Provisions were repealed.

ROC has been democratic since the 01990s, but it was an authoritarian dictatorship that killed millions of its own people at the time the Communists drove it out of the mainland (only to exceed its atrocities with their own) and for decades afterwards.
It's more than that. Even if planting gigantic monoculture "works" it's not exactly a healthy forest. Ignoring what the locals need/want will also just bring it to status quo sooner than later.
seriously, while I understand and agree with the sentiment in general, you're a clerk at a small store, sweeping the parking lot doesn't seem outside of your duties.
> National defense is becoming increasingly important

Is it? How? Who's planning on attacking the US?

I do see lots of posts about planes though and space rockets.
What's old is new once again. It's the old RSA SecurID token generator, but now it has water-resistance and an LED! I'll buy one.
I don't put them on my CV. I generally explain gaps on my resume as working on side projects or doing some consulting looking for a good long term fit.