skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've taken time off between jobs without taking on any meaningful projects, and I generally haven't found it to be an issue. When I tell recruiters I just wanted time off to relax, they're sometimes skeptical, but hiring managers more often than not either respond with some variety of "Oh yeah, I did that too and it was amazing" or "Oh man that sounds so great, I'm jealous."

I do apply almost entirely to smaller startups, so that may skew the response vs. what you'd get in the more process-oriented recruiting flows of a larger company. Also it probably helps that my resume has a couple of jobs where I was a very early employee at startups that went on to be extremely successful.

I also really like to just be left alone and read books, so it's something I enjoy - I recognize that many folks need the structure of work, and that's fair.
It's a generalization of B-splines, called U-splines (splines over Unstructured meshes). If anyone is interested in the math behind it on the level of a journal article, the last two links here go into the technology in detail: https://docs.coreform.com/latest/html/coreform-public/index....

(Disclaimer: I work for Coreform, developing U-splines)
Doesn't seem to work very well. I just tried to generate an image with default settings. A progress bar starts to show some work. Once it gets past around 50%, an image starts to form and gets a bit better as it goes on. Before it reaches 100%, the image is gone and the whole process starts over.

I left it for about 15 min this way. Then, started DiffusionBee while this app was still trying to render my image. I copy-pasted the image prompt into DB, set it to the same 30 steps and it rendered an image that resembles my prompt a lot better than the partial one from Amazing AI in less than a minute.

Amazing AI is still on the same loop. I'm killing it now.
This is a variant of ad hominem attack. He must be "motivated" to disagree with you. It's "reflexive."

Maybe he just disagrees. If you didn't present "the best nor even a representative" link, why don't you contribute to the debate and present it?
Also working nicely both numeric and symbolic: https://smath.com (3MB windows binary or cloud version, russian freemium)
I can see skipping APL. Also, Rust could be frustrating if you only had a day. It like saying you are going to learn a new sport every day and skipping snowboarding because while you can always kick or throw a ball badly, just standing up and falling down continuously for a day does not actually teach you anything about snowboarding.

Forth would be a good one though. Both simple and different.
I think that's why I've never shifted from vi to nano, it appears to be a regular editor but ignores all common key bindings, ctrls+s doesn't save, ctrl+f doesn't find, ctrl+h doesn't replace, etc.
>"so if you've been looking for X months, surely there's something wrong with you - and anyway, we've already signed a contract with someone else in the 5 days since we last spoke."

I think letting them know you are currently unemployed is a mistake. Frankly your current state of affairs is not their business. You can always tell them that you are ok but looking for a better job. Very simple and understandable. Yes it is a lie but it is the only reasonable option. Telling perspective employer to sod off and not to stick their nose into your internal situation is not going to do you any good. Telling that you are out of job and looking will immediately put you into unfavorable position. Treat yourself as a business in this particular case. Businesses have zero problems lying to each other / their employees for as long as it does not break a law.
The book Wanderlust by Rebecca Solnit digs into this -- I'd recommend it
It's not a personal problem--you're making that up; the purpose of Push is getting native app features in your web app which is good for consumers--especially those on less popular operating systems as almost all have some form of modern web browser (and some, like FxOS and its successor KaiOs, fully banking on the web as competent, common-denominator application platform). Opt in is perfect too because it's not hard to clearly communicate what notifications will do and making it the result of a consensual user action and not page load (if page-load-pop-up is still the case, that sucks though).

Not every user needs to be coddled. Not every use of Push is malicious. Folks build real apps on the web.

You didn't even bother to explain how getting real-time chat notifications isn't a real-world demand. And running through the comments are just as many folks saying PWAs are a real need to them and that this rhetoric is alarmist.
Exxon sues EU in move to block new windfall tax on oil companies
I think it was a combination of a lack of both a proper d-pad or right joystick. With only one missing, I would have recommended it more, but with both missing, it only works great for a certain sub selection of games, and while most of the rest are playable, they aren't a great experience with it.

For the games I used it with, it was great, probably the best Dark Souls controller I ever used by turning the right track pad into a simulated trackball. But without a d-pad it ruins it for most fighting games, joystick FPS are kind of shit without a second joystick as there is no more muscle memory to rely on, and it lacks the speed needed for any serious RTS games.

That leaves racing games, and surfing the web.

It does make an amazing remote mouse for watching shows and stuff from my computer while not sitting at it, but that certainly doesn't drive sales. And the one joystick is has is absolutely phenomenal, the smallest deadzone out of any joystick controller ive used and it is super sensitive and precise, which would have been really great if there were two of them. And the haptics was pretty great in my opinion for racing game.
I think a major dofference between a bicycle of mind and our smartphones is that many people feel like their smartphone is riding them, not the other way around.
I agree with the author. I don't think that all purpose tools like modern computers are good for single purpose things like writing [ https://coral.hashnode.dev/computers-are-not-for-writing ]
This is exactly what happened to me when I quit.

“Now I’ll have time for my projects!!”

Instead it’s been “Grokking Algorithms”, “The Competitive Programmers Handbook”, Alex Xu’s “System Design”, and enough leetcode that I’m actually doing more than I did at work.

What sucks is that there are still lots of medium problems I cannot do. Hards are right out. Dunno what I’ll do.
TV Ratings Road Map: Where, When and How Viewers Watch in the Streaming Era
> The article makes the point that the number of SWE job openings are way down, -50% YoY.

I wonder what percentage of those cut job posts were actually needed by the company versus being vanity job posts or a “we’re always looking for random superstars that may apply, but we don’t really need anyone right now” posts.

Obviously some slack has been removed from the market, but I don’t really get the sense that a lot of postings in the “hot hiring market” were serious about filling the position with a market clearing candidate (i.e., the quality of applicant that would work with that specific company at the offered salary).
My house uses a NatGas boiler and in-floor radiant heat. It also has wood stoves for those -20F (or worse) nights when I need a little supplemental heat (or the power is out and the main heating system is offline).

A heat pump would be a waste up here in Alaska esp given I don't need A/C. Just opening the windows and running some fans in the summer tends to do the trick for cooling.
Counter opinion: You're going to be one of many applicant because everyone else is embracing WFH trend too, so you are competing with everyone, especially with some much experience to show, or a portfolio of trending technologies.

It might be that a dev that has a money cushion and is willing and able to relocate can compete on a level others can't because competition would only be localized.

OP was unemployed a year. Time adds up, that's a lot of money.
I've been debating getting a SteamDeck. On paper it's a perfect linux 'laptop' replacement. I get to game if I want. Connect it to a dock, KB+M, monitor and you have a portable computer. However, I am never 'away' from home.

I don't have a commute where I spend hours sitting idle wishing for something to do. A possible usage; when I take the kids to the park I spend a decent chunk of time interacting with them. So out of a 1-3 hour excursion, I'd get maybe 0.75-1.5hrs of usage. And that's not every day.

I WANT one. I just can't justify that kind of expense.
COBRA is outrageously expensive. If you have no (or little) income, the ACA is a no-brainer I think.
5) Most halfway-recent PC games that are any good to play on a gamepad are made with X-Box controllers in mind—button maps readied and all, truly plug-n-play—and 360 or XBone controllers are readily available and even very cheap (in the case of used 360 controllers, especially). This has been true so long that they're practically the "standard" gamepad for PC gaming, if you're gonna bring a gamepad into the mix at all, with the main kinda-successful exceptions being retro controllers for use with emulators. If you want the boring and relatively-cheap thing that's also the least likely to give you any surprises or irritations in the next 5+ years, you just get an X-Box controller, so Valve's controller had a real uphill battle.
- Reversible: Important feature everyone asked for. One of the main application for a device-side USB connector is to plug the device in to a charger at night. That usually happens in a dark room, where reversibility is incredibly important. It was literally touted as the main reason why Apple shouldn't switch to micro-USB. But more importantly, micro-USB is a garbage connector even for being non-reversible, it's harder than necessary to insert without looking, it breaks way too easily and seems to take very few connection cycles before it stops making a good connection.

- DisplayPort alt mode: Every laptop uses this. It's what lets us have docks with display outputs.

- Symmetric: Every laptop has host-side USB-C.

- USB3: The micro-B "3.0 appendage" is ridiculous and huge, and no device which uses micro-B ended up supporting it in practice (except for I believe a couple Samsung phones?)

- Power delivery: Qualcomm QuickCharge is proprietary garbage. It could have been standardized yes, but is there any reason to believe Qualcomm would have wanted that?

- And it turns out it's incredibly useful to have both Power Delivery and DisplayPort and data transfer in one cable. It allows the world we currently live in where you can have one dock connected via one cable which handles video, power, USB, networking, audio, etc. (And yes, docks are generally too finicky, there's a lot to complain about in terms of implementation. But the idea is solid.)
A lot of companies don't want or need strong engineers, even ones that claim they do. They want cheap worker bees to do the Jira tickets without question.
> This isn't the only piece of work on this subject nor the best nor even a representative one.

Then why did you post it?
I can't recall any recessions / downturns that were known in advance with such certainly. I question if it will really materialize for this reason.
Ask HN: Y Combinator China?
I saw an ad for Miracleplus today, billing itself as "formerly YC China". They have a YC like site and identical program for Chinese as well as foreign startups. Is this legit?

https://www.miracleplus.com/en/faq/
Demand and genuine need is the issue, not production. Better that production is in Western democracies with high environmental standards than elsewhere.

The issue is using those fossil fuels to reduce how much we will need them in the future and using them to transition to green energy.

Cigarettes are a bad analogy. A necessary life-saving drug we all depend upon with bad side effects is more apt. Ramping up production of a better life-saving drug is the solution, not stopping production of the old one.
What's a 'req'?
The problem is that if everyone comes off of fossil fuel heat and switches to heat pumps, you need a grid that is capable of delivering enough eletricity to power simultaneous resistive heating to every house... because every house is going to need resistive heating at the most dangerous time to not have any heat at all.

These cold snaps tend to also coincide with extreme winds and other weather events that can take out power lines, so a stressed grid just compounds the issue.
Ask HN: Advice on building a house?
Any advice on financing, timing, materials, architecture, heating, choosing contractors, architects, etc.? I'm interested in any and all insight and wisdom people have gathered on the subject.

Live in Europe, 4 season climate, with temperatures ranging from -25 to 40 degrees celcius.
Work is exclusively a method for me to exchange labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter.
There were banner shaped popovers in the 00s, but to my memory they weren't for cookies. Any chance you're a European? We may have been visiting different slices of the internet in that period.
It was $400k to $250k. Significant, but given the recession, it’s a nice position to be in.

There’s a fella on TikTok named Frank Niu. He made $500k at Netflix, and his job was basically to run around fixing things when they broke. It was a nice reminder that the good times can be very good, and the bad times are worth scaling back one’s expectations appropriately. I doubt he’d still be in the $500k bracket if he were still working, but you never know.

Also, don’t scale your living expenses! It’s tempting, but my current employer almost didn’t make me an offer because they assumed I was living at a $400k lifestyle. In reality we were just paying off our house and driving the same old car.
I don’t think the customer base was actually meaningfully shrunk by his shenanigans on twitter but I think the perception that it was matters more. I could be wrong.
I think this was a reason for C’s success back in the day.

Nop, more like the other way around in the 80's. Before, there were two reasons: lack of a standard (Pascal was a learning language, not intended for professional use) and the VM fever: very often so-called P-Code systems were the quick and dirty way to have a programming language for a new system. The result was slow, incompatible, cumbersome access to machine resources.

C was always compiled and had a clear standard that included direct memory access. Also UNIX.

But in the 80s, TurboPascal was $50, had everything that C had + an IDE + compiled x100 faster. Later there was a nice text-mode GUI (TurboVision), then Delphi. Microsoft defused it poaching most Borland talent.
Well that installer cutoff was likely waaaaay too high. Your heat pump should be fine to 30F, maybe even 25F before needing gas.

Modern systems are 24 SEER and good to -5, and these research units take that to the next level.
> This is an area where I have to give tptacek lots of credit.

Any specific thread that might be particularly enlightening/interesting?
Log4Shell Still Has Sting in the Tail
I keep wondering how these civilizations might have developed if we'd discovered them in, say, 1900 instead of 1500s.

Or what if Columbus did land on the American shores, but never made it back to Europe, and the native Americans got their hands on European technology and figured out how to recreate it.
I think you will enjoy this video breakdown from Skip Intro: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rwhUpu9MfZ0

It’s a superb video essay and absolutely worth the watch! But to be clear, it’s also playing into the meme that paw patrol is copaganda, so take it as a mix of comedy and serious analysis :)

The gist of the video is that, while paw patrol is not copaganda, it is problematic for parallel reasons. It’s also a terrible tv show as you noted.
Had? What happened to it? Is it not still useful?

I have one, but only used it a couple times. Don't remember it being a game changer for me but it's been so long since the last time I touched it that I can't remember now what it was like to use it. I'll have to find it and give another try
This 'dissident opinion' was clearly a 'just asking questions' bad-faith attempt create confusion where there isn't one.

Starving or freezing to death or being reduced to poverty is not a defacto outcome of climate change measures, but purely politics.

The article doesn't even discuss specific policies or measures, so it's 100% bad faith.
That makes sense, but GP was calling resistive heating inefficient compared with propane or wood heat, which doesn't make sense to me.
A mini split is usually a heat pump system although some of them use resistive heating. They have been getting much better in recent years.
Depends on your targets. I got laid off in 2020 and got a job right away. Within 3 months, and that was because I took a month and a half off afterwards.

There is no crunch right now if you have a degree and can program. Companies are tightening their belts and recruiters are not aggressively spamming you. This does not mean jobs aren't there. The only thing an environment like this changes for me is all extra expenses are cut hastily and I begin hoarding money.

Companies with infinite VC money are certainly slowing down hiring. FAANGs are slowing down hiring because they used PPP money to overhire and are now trimming down the fat. There are PLENTY of companies that fit in neither of these categories. The work may not be pretty, but it'll keep you fed and insured. I have friends in outsourcing jobs and they have have gone gangbusters the last two years. If there's one thing I fear it's not this alleged "slow down" it's that every job is slowly being filled by foreigners working for pennies on the dollar.

The article gets their data from Indeed. I do not use such a site, and I know of no one who uses such a site. I generally only take jobs through my network of friends I've made and only after that exhausts do I begin the process of asking recruiters whats up. I don't believe job-farm sites are a good proxy for actual industry jobs.
About $10k for the heat pump. NPV is positive for 10 years compared to a propane boiler. This doesn't include installation, but it is doable for the advanced DIY homeowner.

The entire system cost $25k + installation. Not cheap, but in our climate we heat 7+ months and it is worth it. The extended federal tax credits help, but our state does not do anything in terms of rebates.
What were those niche skills, if you don't mind?
Is shutting down flights to/from China that hard to do?
That isn't true and hasn't worked on numerous great languages, which are now often ignored entirely.
This example was already being used in cases before the original study was even published for exploratory review.
I wish there was a way to tell Youtube to not show me crap like that. I subscribe to a few channels and watch content from a handful of others. Can YouTube just show me shorts from those channels, or similar channels? That way my shorts feed wouldn't be clogged with crap that I inevitably skip.
The fact that you can play it resting on a couch vs desktop gaming on a home office chair justifies the expense for me personally, but you might not be that lazy.
Duration of Shedding of Culturable Virus in SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (BA.1) Infection
Oh yeah, Richard Trethewey and Tom Silva are definitely MIT guys:

* https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21071273/richard-trethewey

* https://www.thisoldhouse.com/21071309/tom-silva

* https://www.thisoldhouse.com/cast
This 2008 paper seems to describe the mechanical and manufacturing side of a 2DOF spherical joint, not a fully-realized actuated 3DOF spherical joint.
I don't see why that has to be the case other than mathematically it looks like QM "infects" everything as the theory stands now. But nature doesn't have to play along. Also, I forgot about spacetime. Is it quantum mechanical, relativistic or something else? And saying the universe began at al low entropy doesn't explain why it started out in that state.
Redistribution (Short Story)
For 99% of the roles out there, needing to drop into algorithms all the time is an anti pattern that demonstrates lack of knowledge of your tech stack. I’ve had to clean up a lot of code written by people who wanted to show off their algo knowledge to solve a problem that should have been addressed with a few lines of SQL.
My first gen iPad Pro and iPhone 6s Plus say otherwise.
it appears that there is a new pathway to murder hole beach, according to the article:

https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/pathway-to-murder-hole-b...

and it sounds like an amazing place to visit, thanks for the mention of it!
This is why people do LC problems daily and interview regularly. You will find that you need to constantly play the game if you want to stay in the game. It's a sliding scale of preparedness. Those out of step with the interview meta and out of practice will find it more painful.

The biggest mistake is losing your job, then having to prep to get a new one.
Unix efficiency is all about saving time and paper on a teletype. It just happens to have side benefits on modern computers.
Lazarus has, imo, the best wysiwyg GUI editor you can get. Enjoy it a lot more than fighting with qt.
We’ve had heat pumps that work down to -5F for years. If you’re installing one that can only go to 20F in 2022(3?) something is very wrong.

Backup heat methods increase the complexity and cost.
> Lost Restaurants of Seattle

Nice.

For some more local flavor, you might also enjoy Seattle Justice (eg SPD started as a protection racket) and Woodland for the "stone soup" origins of a local institution.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/seattle-justice-the-rise-and-f...

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/woodland-the-story-of-the-anim...
Copper is (very) effective for conducting heat. Aluminum is also pretty effective but obviously has different material properties than copper. It might be a good fit here; I don't work in the space.
BTW, I really enjoyed reading your article. There's some good advice there.

Tech skillsets are in demand because there's a huge backlog of unfilled positions at non-tech companies (take a look at US DOL JOLTS reports for November). Non tech CEOS talk about talent shortages and flyover states have government funded programs to repatriate tech workers. The tech worker shortage is really hitting the bottom line for many non-tech companies who can't bring product to market, can't complete integrations or can't keep up with business demands (the problems at Southwest Airlines are what happens when you understaf IT for an extended time). If the DOL's numbers can be believed, barring GPT-4 making tech workers obsolete, you are still in a market where even with layoffs, demand will remain high for skilled tech workers (and not just SWEs).

All businesses are becoming tech companies, or are dependent on tech and looking for talent to move them from on-prem to the cloud, looking for talent to integrate SaaS tools with their existing systems and in many cases, looking to launch new tech enabled products. Most companies hire slowly (my company makes software to fix that), and so yes, if you get laid off, the average company will take 43 days to go from "Hi" to "Offer", so expect it to take at least a few months or more... but the prospects of a .com era style labor market collapse are minimal because the labor market is actually shrinking while demand for workers is growing (US DOL says this will be the case until 2045).
You specifically mentioned TLS being enforced in mobile apps. For non-mobile apps such an enforcement either happens through an app store vetting process or the operating system restricting access to non-secure API calls.

I also didn't say a VPN is an alternative to proper TLS validation. It just prevents public WiFi networks from trying to intercept (improperly validated) connections.
What we can learn from this is that if we build a dam across the Pacific with a single opening 1 plastic bottle wide, we can easily fix the problem of ocean plastics.

I will not be taking questions at this time.