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Ask HN: Where did my interest go?
I’m 32, living in Silicon Valley, and have about 5 years of experience in full stack web dev (3 years at a bigger tech company, 2 years at a startup I currently work at)

I have a degree in EE and decided to switch into web dev because I was so amazed at how quickly ideas could turn into usable products that almost everyone could use, and the best part was it seemed like almost every company could not hire enough for SWE!

Back then I remember seeing things like ordering Philz coffee through an app that the company Square made and daydreaming about how much fun it would be to work on something, anything that provided someone somewhere value of any kind.

Fast forward to today after working in the industry for a few years, it seems like almost all of my interest has disappeared in the space. Now when I see someone order their coffee from an app on their phone, I imagine working late on a UX redesign because the order ready popup on the app doesn’t quite animate like the PM wants it to, sitting in the post mortem meeting after the backend went down for 5 minutes and 78 people were not able to order coffee via the app that morning gasp, etc…

I am having a much harder time getting excited about almost anything that people are working on here, there is so much hype and so little substance, and the cherry on top is having to LARP your way through the day acting like what you are working on is going to end world hunger. Oh ya, and don’t forget to grind leetcode for months so that you can actually pass the technical interview and be given the opportunity to work on the most exciting opportunities like a React wrapper over OpenAI.

I’m not sure if I’m just burned out, need a career change, or just frustrated with the circumstances but any advice would be appreciated.
Orca: A New Tool for Tracking OSS
This is a tool put out by CSET's emerging technology office to collate and track all of the OSS software repos from "Github Archive, ETO’s Merged Academic Corpus, and many other data sources" by some standard metrics to identify trends. I use their Map of Science a bit to see around the corner. This should be a great addition.
I’ve been using this regularly on arch linux and found out the hard way that the profile included for Firefox disabled hardware acceleration. To get it re-enabled I ended up creating a custom profile that extended from the main Firefox profile. Overall I’m impressed with the level of granularity. I haven’t bothered to look more into why that profile had hardware acceleration disabled. I guess as a way to protect from crypto mining exploits using your gpu.
There are things that change about war and things that don’t; von Clausewitz captures a lot of the latter.
Oh I see. Not Chrome v8
I don’t know what made you think this was somehow the only factor in their ranking algorithm or even a particularly heavily weighted one.
But every decent OS must have a GUI toolkit!
This isn’t a cogent argument. You’re identifying troubling behaviour. But it’s not being stitched into anything cohesive. Hiding bad rhetoric behind post-modernist nihilism is in vogue, but unproductive.
Why not do num1.add(num2)? Or str1.append(str2)?

Like with many things in C++, its another grenade, but when used appropriately is pretty great
Both, he tried to tell us…

Brian: I'm a **in' idiot because I can't make a lamp?

Bender: No, you're a genius because you can't make a lamp.

Brian: What do you know about Trigonometry?

Bender: I could care less about Trigonometry.

Brian: Bender, did you know without Trigonometry there'd be no engineering?

Bender: Without lamps, there'd be no light.
I like your list, but it's also very depressing. Can't say it's wrong though.
Nobody is moderating that. That's part of the strength of a federated system.
Obama was the head of the Harvard Law Review before getting active in politics, and almost certainly was a decent writer.

You're also assuming that Putin actually wrote this himself. I don't think it's impossible -- he was in the KGB and FSB, analysis could be something he's trained heavily in -- but if I had to bet money it's not his writing, just his byline.

Furthermore, even it it was his work it missed the mark pretty hard, and a lot of dudes are dying due to terrible assumptions made about Ukraine and it's military.
> > no one writes software for metadata

> They didn't used to because there was no incentive to do anything but a good job.

Whenever I'm leaving a job, I keep a look-out for opportunities to change lines that rarely change. Things like doctype declarations, blank lines, closing braces, stuff like that. If I can change them, my name is memorialized longer in the `git blame` of projects.

People will find ways to gamify everything. It's quite often a release valve for stress or boredom.
A more suitable comparison might be this: envision yourself at a Michelin-starred restaurant, placing an order, only to have your meal instantly served. This leads to a crucial question: would you prefer to represent the immediacy of a fast-food establishment or the meticulousness of a Michelin-starred restaurant? Ultimately, HCI aims to create solutions that mirror the conceptual models of the real world.
If we're nitpicking, that fact doesn't make the first statement untrue.
Nonfunctional programming doesn't give you that either, so I don't see the problem?

If you use the iterative / recursive form, runtime performance isn't great. If you use a lookup table, performance is great, but space might suffer (but then, how many values do you really need?). If you want to use something better, you've got to write it yourself. Maybe one day an optimizing compiler will figure it out, but it's more likely to figure out you never call it with N > 10, and precompute, and that's fine.
If you want to DIY, you'll probably have success with Amazon KDP which is good for eBooks. If you go through KDP, you can sign up for the
Amazon Prime Reading selection program which helps your book gain more opportunity to be noticed though your limitation is the fact that you can't post more than 20% of your book online or something like that while enrolled.

As with most authors, they find themselves procrasinating so keep to your points, write your outline, and stay with it. Depending on the length of your book, you charge what you want, but just know that you'll sell more at $0.99 or $1.99 than you will if you set them at $9.99. Depending on what you are writing, you may even want to keep it under 100 pages or make it into a series of short reads. The hardest part of writing your book is marketing it and getting people to be interested. You can hire someone on Fiverr to design several book covers which is a huge part of the attraction to get people to even notice anything you've written.

Write it. Edit it. Be confident and comfortable with it. Upload it. Market it. Sell it.
I always wanted to like these, but they seemed consistently overpriced by like 30%. I'd price one out with all the necessary parts, and by the end it was always like, why am I not just buying a mac mini (or an RPi, for lower-intensity applications)?
You get far more exercise. If by “scooter” you mean something like a Vespa, it’s cheaper, doesn’t require a driver’s license, grants access to bike paths, and could have greater cargo capacity. If you mean a push/kick scooter, a bike is faster and has far more cargo capacity.

There isn’t a right choice for everyone but e-bikes hit a sweet spot for a lot of people in cities where you convert travel into exercise but can still carry all of the children and cargo you need. Where I live you tend to see heavy scooter use for younger people living in hip areas (short distances, not buying crates of groceries, etc.) but shifting towards bikes for older people who need to go further or carry more. It’s common to see a parent with 1-2 kids and full shopping bags, for example, because the kids are too young to carry groceries or go fast enough.
Biggest acquisition failures by technology companies over the last 20 years
It's become common practice in B2C software to distill the UI down to an insane degree (eg. basically an infinite scroll feed). Since the job to be done of most B2C software is basically: placate my existential angst with various forms of content, this works. Consuming content is not a complex task.

However, it's become en vogue to apply this same design logic to B2B software, where this approach is bound to screw things up.

In B2B software, the tasks are often much more complex (eg. help my large organization collaborate on bespoke long term projects and juggle hundreds of stakeholders, while offering cascading permission management), so any software suitable for this task is going to be a nightmare to use no matter how good the design is (because its a nightmarish task).

The same goes for front-end website builders. Wix has a simple UI because it only lets you do simple things. Webflow's UI is super complex, because it offers all the powers inherent in coding HTML/CSS by hand. So you essentially have to learn HTML/CSS to use it.

The UI of any tool must match the complexity of the job to be done. This doesn't mean UIs can't make things easier/faster. It just means UIs can't remove steps unless you remove requirements.

Often when a tool is lauded for "good design," its because it encourages removing steps that were unnecessary all along, but people were still doing out of tradition. The tool then gives people an excuse to stop doing the stupid tradition, because "X doesn't allow that."
Give it some time. I think it's possible that sometime down the line you'll get asics the same way you get PCB's ordered now.
Isn’t there a limit to this when one requires an account to be tied to a phone number? Perhaps pseudonymous posting is on a countdown clock.
>> certain length it needs to exist before it can be torn down without judgement?

It comes down for scrap the day after the last creditor gives up trying to get a return on their investment. So long as a foreign investor is holding onto their note, unwilling to sell for pennies on the dollar, the project will remain in perpetual limbo. But eventually all the property rights will be bought back by whatever prince started the cycle. Then it can be pulled down and a new eyesore commissioned.
Really? I can see reviews just fine.
> Plus, It’s Not HDMI

This. HDMI and its cartel that profits from its patents are super annoying.
Bad UI is Bad UX
Elon Musk Blames the Lawyers
I don't think the police typically ticket you for going 30mph when the speed limit is 25mph, or for going 65mph on the highway when the speed limit is 55mph. I live near Boston, and if you drive at 55mph on I-93 or I-95 when you can drive faster, you will just irk other drivers. The de facto speed limit is higher than the posted speed limit, and city officials, the police, and drivers know it.

"During the 10-day study period, we observed vehicles speeding up to almost half (47%) of the time, including instances of extreme speeding with cars going more than 25 mph over the posted speed limit. This shows a disturbingly high percentage of people ignoring the posted speed limit and putting themselves and others at risk."
Microsoft, Activision defeat FTC’s bid to block $69B deal
Falcon is an open (Apache licensed) replacement for LLaMA, with a 40B version that's competitive with LLaMA 65B on benchmarks.
which is exactly how it has to be! I can't imagine a world where 50 states have 50 different sets of wireless bands, regulations, etc. It would be impossible.
Works no longer.
And yet… this is a real thing they do. https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-on-how-it-handles...
Personally not sure, but it does seem this way. But it might also just be because there seem to be so many more Cruises than Waymos out on the road. And/but Waymos seem to have more drivers shuttling their cars around as well.
I had such high regard for academia while I was in school. Glad I didn’t end up going down that path, it seems like every day recently there have been stories like this posted to Hacker News. Behavioral economics especially seems hard hit.
Most network and local news is junk now anyway.

Local stations may have some cute human interest stories but most of it has become incredibly biased with a predetermined narrative.
> we observed vehicles speeding up to almost half (47%) of the time, including instances of extreme speeding with cars going more than 25 mph over the posted speed limit. This shows a disturbingly high percentage of people ignoring the posted speed limit and putting themselves and others at risk.

No, it shows speed limits have been set improperly and / or roads have been poorly designed. People don't obey the speed limit because "it's the law" and there's no moral obligation to do so. If drivers need to be driving slower on a road, traffic calming measures should be in place, along with better options for through traffic. Otherwise, speed limits should be set according to how people drive - there used to be discussion of setting it at a certain percentile.

Making absurdly low speed limits to appease special interests and then whining when they ignored is a terrible option and probably makes people drive less safely overall.

Also, inappropriately low speed limits are great fo racial profiling and the like because it creates instances where everyone is breaking the law so police can simply choose to enforce it when they want.
Nobody said that it is Sony's fault. The fact remains though, that it is Sony, not Microsoft, for which there are monopoly concerns on the console market.

Given that Sony has an overwhelming lead, it really is not a problem for microsoft to do this acquisition.
That was the release date of Rust 1.0. Not the first appearance.
I've been looking for such a home firewall, but the power usage of an Intel box isn't competitive with the dedicated devices.

Something like this seems nice: https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/vpn-router/er...

But I don't actually have >1Gbps service yet, and haven't needed to use my backup connection, so I have so far not taken the plunge.
I wanted one for this purpose to replace a Dell Optiplex SFF running Kodi. It's dual-core CPU and cannot decode x265 efficiently.

The NUCs are a bit too expensive though and plenty of x264 content still available.
> He remarked that high-density UIs confuse and overwhelm most people

Except the Japanese?
In some ways I prefer the older interfaces to more modern ones because, even though they were ugly, it was often more obvious what was clickable, what workflow was expected, and if you needed something it would probably be in the horrendous menu tree somewhere. Nowadays it's often impossible to determine what is clickable and what is not, but things look much prettier. I don't really need pretty, it's just a nice-to-have. Of course there are newer interfaces that are easy to understand and older interfaces that are borderline unusable. It's just been my experience that an older interface will be easier to use, though probably more annoying to go through. YMMV.
Being harder to parse is not a trivial detail, it's the whole ballgame. Written language has a lot of redundancy. That's one of the things that makes it work. The redundancy makes it an error-correcting code so that the information doesn't get dstryed by miner errers. That is what allows you to glean the meaning of a message even without whitespace. Y cn d th sm trck by lmntng vwls (u o eiiai ooa).

Just because you don't completely destroy the message by eliminating whitespace doesn't mean that the whitespace wasn't semantically significant.

[UPDATE] Whitespace is actually a pretty modern innovation, and it is not universal. In old manuscripts the text is often allframmedtogetherlikethis. Also, even in modern German it is common to compose verylongcompoundwords.
Are you sure the rook wasn’t blocking your line of attack?
Great feedback!

Excel specifically seems to have the most attachment among our users.
Redhat debranded RHEL for CentOS. It was one of the things CentOS compalined about, so RedHat made it easier for them. Maybe it saved RedHat money overall by avoiding trademark protection (IANAL).
These Werke never a good market fit. They couldnt compete with normal medium Form factor builds on price, couldnt compete with chinese small nuc like computers in the low end (ironically using Intel chips) and raspberry pis for the SOC Space.

They ended up being bad competitions for high end gaming PCs giving you notebook like power for desktop gaming prices. I'm surprised they survived this long.
Wait until you hear how much money the US military has lost.
Show HN: Face Stickers, Fun and Festive Gifts and Memorabilia
Hi Hn,

We thought it would be fun to do something a little different with image background removal, and focus on people & pets' faces.

This part of our site lets you quickly create a face-only cutout, that can then be used to create all sorts of fun crafting projects (think collages and such). They also make for great gifts and memorabilia with custom printed mugs, t-shirts, hats, etc.

We've partnered with Zazzle for quick product creation in this initial release. If they give you too much trouble you can always download the raw result image and do whatever you like with it.

Would love to get your feedback, thanks!

(See also the earlier post & discussion on our traditional image background removal offering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064639 )
Here is the actual package used [1]. I thought it would have been similar to serverless-pg[2] with initiation outside the handler as with the node implementation. Any insights into how they achieve connection caching (similar to pooling?) on the edge?

[1]: https://github.com/neondatabase/serverless
[2]: https://github.com/MatteoGioioso/serverless-pg
Not sure if this was their motivation, but hardware acceleration also enables increased opportunity for fingerprinting, to my knowledge.
Same question for the decorator tf.function ?
They are already sufficient for high level classification... its just a question of cost.

It's getting tiring reading all the LLM takes from people here who clearly don't use or understand them at all. So many still stuck in the "predicting next token" nonsense, as if humans don't do that too
>There's a weird interaction with BIOS power on. The boot display drivers I have freak out if they aren't the active display and fail. I solve this by switching the KVM before I turn the computer on. After everything is booted into an OS, it works fine to switch.

Do you have an AMD GPU by any chance? I have the level1tech 2-head DP 1.4 KVM, with an AMD RX 560 on a Linux host, and after updating to kernel 6.4 recently my computer now boots fine without a monitor attached.

I had a similar issue where a display had to be _on_ and _connected_ (i.e: active on the KVM) at boot time, or the GPU wouldn't work at all. I could get in via SSH, so I tried various amdgpu recovery options, poking the device to reset it, reloading the kernel modules, etc., and never had any luck. I just lived with the quirk. It was problematic because if you left home with the KVM selected on the Windows guest, and needed to reboot the Linux host remotely, you'd come home to a non-functional Linux desktop.
>avoid contract penalties

I expect the maximum profit sweet spot actually includes a small amount of penalties. If you don't get any penalties at all, you are probably leaving money on the table re service cuts.
Show HN: Magic Leadgen forms – Single field, data rich
A quick and dirty PoC. Marketing and data people want tons of info in leadgen/data capture forms (I work in marketing, this happens all the time). But longer forms put people off.

I've played with web scraping for years. But I think there is something really interesting and actually reliable in a new approach I am trying here.. Bing search and GTP4

- Using GPT4 to extract names and company names from email address is kind of interesting to being. Regex is always limited and making sense of domains as company names is actually hard (major words, minor words, abbreviations, acryrnoms)

- Conducting Bing API searches for info on a person or company ("What job does Chris Wright do at Fifty Five and Five?), then using GPT4 to read the whole set of search results and surmise an actual answer

Like I say the demo is quick and dirty and a lot of work to be done and accuracy. But in theory it works and is extensible.
https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/
You’re conflating the doomers, with their apocalyptic forecasts, with the more prosaic concerns of measuring and controlling the behaviour of the models outputs.

It’s reasonable to measure and control tendencies to counsel people into hurting themselves or others. It’s also reasonable to measure and control the tendency to present harmful stereotypes as fact.

Maybe these mitigations go too far for your taste. The power of these tools and the diversity of a mass audience indicate a thoughtful process.
I just performed fan-replacement surgery on the one I gave to my mom about 7 years ago. Still works great for her other than the fan that died. Not extremely easy to replace but not bad and it only cost about $15. I looked into replacing it but a quick search didn't turn up anything comparable for less than $500.
How to Use ChatGPT's Code Interpreter
HN as a forum is no better than a pub or bar in a wealthy city. You cannot spout off an extremely common layman misconception and expect people to recognize that as a joke. Most of us are laymen in this area.
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