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It’s always odd to me people ask this, because you see it all the time if you work on big infra. It just goes to show my experience at mostly infrastructure at big tech is just not normal.

Anywhere there are extremely large or technical company will have stellar ICs. All the FAANG have them (not everyone working there is one, but they are around and you find a lot of them on e.g massive distributed data systems). Not only do you run into stellar staff engineers at these places, but if you work on critical infra at say Google, you run into a couple 50x engineers that defy classification. Any company that produces a world-class database, distributed system, etc. will have very good, very expensive staff engineers, who really are ICs and not managers.
This sounds like good advice -- but I am also trying to figure out why I still procrastinate hopelessly on projects that I do enjoy. Is it merely that I want/enjoy the "result" (feeling of accomplishment) more than the "process"? Namely I have just become lazy?. Or is some undiagnosed ADHD tripping me up at every step I take. I intend to meet a therapist soon and hope to find out. 40s is late but better than never I guess. Grew up in a country where mental health doesnt get any air time in daily life. Still figuring out whom to approach and how.
Sometimes they come out with really cool updates, like when they first introduced the hyperscroll wheel. I'm still waiting for the vertical and maybe trackball (I forget if this has it or not) to have the hyperscroll wheel.

Other years they don't really update anything but the looks, I skip over those. I've had some logitechs for 3+ years that wind up as my travel mice, etc.
Bringing a unified developer experience to Cloudflare Workers and Pages
This would certainly be very convenient for OpenAi. Making it illegal to make opensource models that you can run on the desktop.
I use Steam Deck as a Desktop PC. I use it for coding, as ssh client, for browsing and sometimes (very rarely) I play games on it :)

Here is a link to a photo of my setup at office: https://i.imgur.com/yT8CRfp.jpg
Suicide rates have been rising rapidly since 2000. They are now the highest they've been since WWII.

Granted, suicide is also under-reported due to stigma, but it's another data point.
> I use a Mac as my main system and what frustrates me is there is no way to truly disable all animations in the system.

TinkerTool is a friendly GUI for additional advanced settings that Apple doesn't expose via System Settings, including animation settings.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14001/how-to-turn-...
I agree it violates trademark usage (also not a lawyer). But even if it is legal, it's still unethical, since they explicitly asked projects to not use their names in the doc you linked. And even if you believe it is ethical from some vaguely libertarian "'information wants to be free' means I should be able to do whatever I want online", it is still a bad idea if you actually want to work with the pandas team. If you need some PR to be merged into any numfocus project (numpy, jupyter, dask, among others) that only benefits pandas AI, I think they would be fully justified in letting it sit.
as someone living in germany this is absolutely not my impression about courts deciding differently and e.g. siding with "evil corporate side". I also doubt it's corruption, maybe just a smart pick of the district to maximise the chance of judges seemed sympathetic (and completely unknowledgeable of technology).

> Which is weird because people in Eastern Germany are more humane than those in western Germany. But apparently also more needy of money.

Also a weird statement to make
I think it's complex and hard to breakdown. Modern life may have something to do with it, but it certainly isn't more difficult to live today than it was during the great economic depression. Additionally, the internet should tell us that If you live in the US you are way better off than people in places like Ukraine, Mexico, Argentina, Uganda, etc. Now, if they are comparing themselves to the Kardashians or erroneously to pretend-rich Social media personalities, that's on them.
Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers
Hi. I heard HN likes e-paper gadgets so I wanted to share a little side project I’ve been working on with @sqfmi. We’re building Beepberry - a portable e-paper computer for hackers, designed for chatting on Beeper. My day job is running Beeper [0], but I will always have a soft spot for building hardware.

I wanted to create a ‘weekend’ device that would let me stay in touch with friends and family, without the distractions of a full smartphone. I imagined a tiny, hackable e-paper screen with a physical keyboard, powered by a Raspberry Pi, that I could use to chat around my home…and pretty much nothing else.

Before Beeper, the idea probably would not have gone anywhere. Most chat apps do not have an API, making it practically impossible to hack something like this together. Enter Beeper, with connections to 15+ chat networks. Built on top of Matrix, Beeper is fully hackable. You can write alternative fun clients [1], bots [2] and more!

Today, sqfmi is starting to take pre-orders at https://beepberry.sqfmi.com for the first batch. It’s $79 (or $99 including a Pi Zero). Specs: Sharp Memory LCD (same display tech as in Pebble!), Pi Zero (BT/WIFI), physical keyboard, 2000mAh lipo.

On top of being an amazing Beeper chat device, it’s basically an e-paper Cyberdeck that fits in your pocket. It’s a ton of fun to hack on. Keep in mind - THIS IS NOT A REAL FINISHED PRODUCT. It’s basically a devkit.

More info in the blog post: https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-x-sqmfi-beepberry, or join the Discord/Matrix channel https://beepberry.sqfmi.com/docs/getting-started#join-the-be.... I’ll hang out a bit here to answer questions as well.

[0] https://beeper.com
[1] https://github.com/tulir/gomuks
[2] https://github.com/maubot/maubot
Legal issues. Dash cams aren't allowed universally, and even when they are they tend to have restrictions (how it's mounted, how footage is handled, etc). They've just decided dealing with this pain point is not worth the purchase conversions since users can just add one themselves.

There are some brands that have them, usually as an additional package depending on where you are. Like Toyota's Genuine Dash in Canada, Tesla Dashcam, BMW Car Eye, etc.
That's right. Chinese companies see everything as a short term opportunity. The future is uncertain. U.S. companies are usually more future focused and less nimble as a result. It's an interesting difference, but I'm not sure it means anything.
I can't wait for this cult-of-the-staff-engineer hype-cycle to die. We need better managers, not the new rockstar 10x IC.
If the consumer can't afford the widgets produced by the companies owned by the shareholder class, there goes the revenue.
You are conflating technology improving lives, which it usually does as time advances, with society improving. Society has arguably gotten worse, as things have just become more passively aggressive than outright aggressive as they were in the past.
Just spitballing here, but a culture which focuses more on individualism, less emphasis on family and community. People disown their families over petty things like political differences, don't engage in their communities because they're shut up inside watching TV all day, then find themselves without social support networks to help when they're feeling down.
Usually people are more depressed if they had something and were forced to give it up than if they never had it at all and are working hard to attain it. Same reason that the American Dream is alive and well among immigrants at the same time that the former American middle-class is dying of despair.
Glad we could help. (Definitely falls into the "edge case" category for us here.)
I just think we need more coworking though and field offices. Commutes need to die.
Working remotely doesn't make you sit at home all day. It doesn't force you to not socialise either (at work or after).

The way the work is organised and other factors that make home and surroundings not social for many people may be a factor. But looking at the remote work specifically here feels like holding the wrong end of the stick.

(source: Working remotely, having nice chats with coworkers, inviting others once a week to my home for work, meeting people otherwise)
> Aside from security patches, I see nothing that prevents 7 from being used today

Security patches for Windows 7 are still released each month, you "just" have to download [1] them manually and convince Windows Update service to apply them [2].

[1] https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/c/msdownload/up...

[2] https://www.deskmodder.de/blog/2019/12/07/windows-7-erweiter...
I've not been to Africa, but several other less developed parts of the world and my take is that it's different being poor in these types of places rather than in the US.

In some countries, other people don't have much of anything, so people just kind of help each other out, others don't judge you for being short on cash and people even tolerate a bit of hustling. Kindness is important.

I find developing countries also often have a kind of homogeneous culture with shared beliefs and practices, which makes everyone feel like they're part of a community.

The USA puts money on a pedestal like nowhere I've ever seen before, ever, so not having money is bad in the USA. We can't even get healthcare without money. It's quite tragic.
I think the main problem I've faced is NOT KNOWING how much time to allocate for different tasks.

Sure, you can learn from past experience (e.g., "last time I needed to write a report like this, it took me a week"). But that means your brain must keep a memory of events+ellapsed_time, which is something my lazy brain avoids at all costs.
Cal Newport touches on this in Digital Minimalism. But the Media's need to produce incessant clickbait articles (to generate ad revenue) contributes to this. Basically, avoid News Media and social media.
From the article:

It’s important for students to stop using avoidance as a coping strategy before it becomes their primary way of dealing with problems for the rest for their lives, Dalton said.

“I don’t treat anxiety. I don’t have to treat anxiety because anxiety is temporary and harmless,” Dalton said. “What I treat is avoidance, and avoidance ruin lives.”

In other words, the experts recommend hard-assing it.

I’m not trying to comment on your anxiety diagnosis, even though the “expert” from the article apparently thinks it’s BS. I’ve known people with similar, persistent problems, and disagree with the expert.

However, I suspect there are other, non-mental illness related reasons for the uptick. Schools in parts of US have gotten a lot worse in the last few decades (especially in California), and are often run like prisons, complete with arrests civil rights violations for the poor or minority kids and shooting incidents.

If school administrators admit that, they get in trouble. However, if they say “20% of our kids have made up mental illness du jour,” then they receive additional funding.

One thing that really pisses me off about our local schools is that they’ve replaced enrichment programs with behavioral remediation programs. The latter hand out prizes for misbehaving less, so the smart kids do their best to get into remedial class.

In the past, the enrichment programs were the things to game if you wanted fun stuff to do during the day.
Well these are ministers for interior matters. Probably one of the worst government jobs and maybe the only one where you could excuse them having a pro-surveillance position or arguing for something like that by default.

Well, someone has to take that job. But they shouldn't be listend to and I think these ambitions are clearly in violation of multiple constitutions. Although those that have exemptions for security are more or less worthless anyway.
All of the recent fuss about Welsh placenames only serves to highlight that places in England, in contrast, are usually named in languages that no-one speaks any more. At least Welsh is still spoken.

Latin gives us, via Old English, the "-cester" in all of the placenames mentioned elsethread, as well as "-chester" and "-caster". Old English gives us all of the "ton"s, "hamp"s, and whatnot. The "win-" in "Winchester" is Celtic, as are the "dor-" in "Dorchester" and the "man-" in "Manchester". The "lei-" in "Leicester" means an unploughed meadow, a.k.a. a lay or lea.

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lay#Etymology_6

When one isn't a native Latin or Old English or Celtic speaker and cannot even understand placenames in England, it does seem a little silly, and missing a huge elephant in the room, to be worrying about Welsh placenames. (-:

This is why the names don't follow Modern English pronunciation rules. They aren't actually Modern English.
Probably true for people whose work is their primary source of social interaction which might be the bigger issue. Maybe it's the way we live that's against our nature, not the way we work.
I think the opposite. We should all use "gpt" to refer to this class of software, to increase the odds that it will be genericized.
Out of curiosity, do they have junior engineers too? I would love to work on docker or jetbrains for example.
I dont think either of these explanations is the moral of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" :)
An yet I've watched NPR do exactly that many, many times. It's why I stopped listening to their podcasts. It's the whole "One side says it's raining the other side says it's not, more news at 11"-bullshit that I can't stand.

They present the facts better than most (CNN, Fox, MSNBC) but fall prey to the "both sides" bullshit time and time again trying to appear unbiased instead of living in reality.
Then why do these same people complain so much about being "invaded" from the Southern border? Seeing as how I see them as both xenophobic and racist I see their real fear is the precipitous drop in white women having children. They want labor, and they want it to be white. American, at a minimum.
It won't be good for 50% of the people/countries that are already above average - it will only be good for the 50% below average.
What period of time was less "doomy"?
No, I wouldn't say that at all. I wouldn't compare working in an Amazon fulfillment center or delivering Uber eats to those scenarios either. In either case I'd encourage the individual to uplift himself and transcend those problems. To accept that the world is unfair and to do something to better their life, regardless of the circumstances. In both cases I wouldn't say it is easy or belittle their struggles, but obviously escaping slavery is more difficult than many modern laments.
"Deadlines are huge, but really what are deadlines? They’re opportunities to fail. That’s all they are. They’re actually opportunities to learn, to fail. Hopefully not fail catastrophically, but it’s an incredible data gathering moment."

Brilliant. Will use this argument with my team. I'm not even joking :)
I'd argue that if you're a staff engineer, you need to be adept at navigating the "political nonsense." A director/VP should be able to think of you as at least as senior and capable of handling ambiguity and being self-directed as any manager.
Everyone I know that has relocated (~10 people, largely SWEs) has gotten a stipend to relocate, including myself.

To me, that's not the big barrier. The social/emotional cost of relocation, along with the risk of job loss, is the main driver.
Hegel did not need to be quoted here my friend. Let him rest.
I'm staff and I don't consider Manager a vertical step at all. It's a horizontal. Completely different type of job and I really doubt they make much more if more at all money than me. I would never go manager.
No I don't live in London, but also no, I can't live anywhere that I could get a flat for 150k like you've shared below. I work in the semiconductor industry as a hardware engineer; fully remote is unheard of, so I need to live within a commutable vicinity to work. The cities with any SC companies that aren't Defence are Bristol, Oxford, London, or Cambridge. All way over 90 minutes each way in rush hour traffic to Andover. There's a reason the flat you shared is cheap - unless you're commuting to Reading, you're spending hours each day on the motorway.

In my current area of Oxford, I'd be looking at minimum 250k for a crap 2 bed flat with furnishings from the 1960s. That's not to even start considering parking, a decent leasehold, and public transport links. Closing on 350k if I dare even consider choosing a freehold house, or a place with a garden. I'd love to get a job Cambridge or London way, as career opportunities are much more abundant, but then I'm looking at nearly 450k for a half decent 2 bed.
This is a perfect example of first-world privilege in display. I'm really jealous that people live in such good places that anti-queer rhetoric is their major problem.
It's right in the article: "The percentage of U.S. adults who report having been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lifetime has reached 29.0%"

To your point on suicide, though. The OECD has some data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#/... .. It's hard to say. US is flat. Norway is up a bit. Most countries are down or flat. I don't see any particular upward trend over the past 60 years.
> Once the kids become adults who have had little agency in their lives and an intense hatred of having been forced to go to school how is that going to turn out?

As a smash double album featuring hit singles such as "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", "Comfortably Numb", and "Run Like Hell".
Yeah I'm wondering the same. I have always been looking forward to doing something fundamental and those people are the ones I look up to.
The income bracket stuff is so crazy. It's just another way to redistribute wealth, but that's not palatable to the US public so it takes weird forms like this. It would be much more practical to abandon these piecemeal, market-distorting interventions and instead just do some smallish UBI. The money saved on overhead alone would probably be enormous.
> I personally believe remote work is a net loss for workers (especially in high wage countries with good job protections)

Local remote workers do not compete with outsourcing companies, because outsourcing is about short term cost savings, not talent.

You cannot outsource talent. You cannot find skilled workers abroad by just searching in LinkedIn, and skilled workers are also less likely to work at ~~meat grinders~~ big consulting companies.
Not everyone got a raise or changed jobs since last year. Everything is still expensive, and continues to get more expensive.
I'm at a point in my career when I need to decide if I want to work for European branch of American Big Tech or try a 20 people database startup (got offers from both).

I've got 2 yoe in high performance c++, working on data processing engines. I'm really tempted to go to the startup... But big tech pays more. And I feel like I could actually learn how to use tools properly before I come back to writing them. Any opinions?
God it’s the anti-OOP hype and functional programming hype that drives me up the wall.
> People are still going to want to live in places that have services, entertainment, and so on, so this isn't going to gut cities, but it will make living in the sticks more plausible.

The mass exodus already happened.

Everybody who wanted to leave what they thought was overpriced pretty much already did.

We might see some continuation - but given that companies are trying to claw back as much remote work as possible - I'm skeptical.
Roblox, I think, though it's targeted to kids and I don't know much about it.
There aren't many orgs and people I would trust over this, but the go team gets the benefit of the doubt. They've proven that they're serious.
Used to be that transmitting data about what the user's doing without asking for permission was "spyware" automatically—that it was happening behind your back was already a sign of bad faith.

The opt-in thing is fine, but some of us are still stuck, I guess, on older standards for software ethics, and find it entirely unacceptable and alarming that opt-out was ever proposed in the first place, about as bad as if they'd proposed adding an opt-out bitcoin miner to it to help fund the project—it's disturbing they'd consider that OK to even propose.
I read a book that suggested some clues, it was a pretty opinionated and cynical book (Dark star safari). So im not an expert. The commentary he had suggested its cultural. They know what they know, kind of accepted how things are. Dont really care about getting ahead, buying, and accumulating wealth. those kinds of are effected by economies. but just one viewpoint someone had
That's rookie numbers, I still use a Citizen watch which is solar powered but is otherwise identical to an 18th century mechanical watch, with a single crown to set date and time. Beats charging a smartwatch daily or fumbling with button combos to change timezone while traveling.

Now it's true that I got a hardware update, but the author would presumably like a new desktop/laptop if it didn't force unwanted UI changes from what works for him. It's a sign that computer tech has not matured yet. You can easily get a car, or watch or a TV with the same controls that worked for you your whole life. There is no reason laptops or smartphones should be different, especially since software can easily support multiple themes for different tastes.
It's because we still have no standards as a profession. Whatever bullshit trends in silicon valley, suddenly everyone follows it, petrified that they might get left behind or are missing some important new thing.

I remember when Systems Administrator was a noble and important profession full of smart, talented people. But a lot of people misunderstood it and made fun of it, so it became an unattractive title, and instead of changing the role, they just made up new titles. Now they're cool and in-demand, and still nobody understands what they do.
You might like IceWM or on wayland maybe Hikari.
Sort of off topic but I’ve noticed that when push comes to shove a lot of people are very resistant to the notion that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The implication being: just because you have good intentions, or because you feel the positivity in your heart, doesn’t mean you’re actually doing good. “But surely”, we all think, “that applies to other people, not me. I would know.”
My dad recently donated an old ITT2020 he bought 45 years ago in Hong Kong to this one in Germany: http://blog.computeum.de/blog/
Few years ago we acquired something in Montreal related to AI, and it's interesting because when we tried to get the team to relocate to California many weren't interested. A lot of the key personel ended-up moving, but they still kept a significant presence in the city. Even today, when hiring they'll have engineers indicate early in the process they won't ever move (despite pretty much everyone considered for that office being eligible for an O-1 due to the nature of the work being done there).

What's interesting is we oppened a sattelite location in Toronto and it was a completely different experience. First thing people asked coming into interviews was about relocating to the US and if we could sponsor their visa. The demographics also skewed heavily toward recent immigrants to Canada.

The irony was, the Toronto location was opened specifically to house developers that simply couldn't pass the higher bar for US immigration.
People work twice as much for the same wage. Most households now have two full time workers. Strangers raise our kids. Affordable small houses are no longer built. There're few legal or free places to rest. The rich pay significantly less taxes than when America was in its prime.

Poverty is the cause. The US will only get worse until citizens vote for corporations to pay their historical tax rates and reduce outsourcing.