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I was laid off in March, 2023, a victim of the startup shakeout after the SVG banking collapse. A year previous, I had a small bidding war for my services. When I was let go this March, it was in the midst of the Facebook and Amazon layoffs.

It was terrible. The market had flipped 180 degrees away from where it was in 2022. I did not, however, have problems getting interviews. I got lots of them. I also got ghosted regularly after third and fourth interviews as the companies interviewed dozens of candidates looking for the very best deal they could find.

Now, for some perspective, I am a 30 year veteran of the IT industry, with well over 20 years of programming experience under my belt. You guessed it, that means I'm in my mid-50s. Did I run across ageism in my search? Not overt, but undoubtedly, yes.

Were companies overwhelmed by the number of applicants? Unquestionably. I had one recruiter tell me they had over 150 applicants for a single programming job, and they planned to only talk to 10% of them. 10% is still a LOT of interviews to find the right candidate.

So yes, the job market is bad, although not for traditional reasons. The economy seems to be chugging along, even though it's rumored to have one foot on a banana peel. Companies are hiring. But there's a lot of competition out there for posts, and companies have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the number of candidates to choose from. They don't know how to act.

So if your resume isn't in as-expected format, forget it. If your interviewing skills reveal you're an introvert with poor social skills, forget it. If you don't respond quickly and professionally to every serious inquiry, forget it. If you're not making your job search a 3-5 hour DAILY effort, forget it.

In other words, you have to bring your A-game right now, where you might have gotten by in previous years with just having good coding skills and a halfway decent resume.

The good news is that everyone can bring their A-game with some practice and effort. I got hired after two months. It was hard-- gut-wrenching, even -- but after dozens of interviews I finally landed a good job that met my requirements.

If you are working right now and you aren't saving your money for a rainy day, you're being foolish. Fortunately, I had been saving, and my bank account wasn't destroyed. I feel bad for people in this market who don't have savings. Be prepared to weather a six month outage. And keep upskilling. Complacency will get you laid off.
This kind of hidden cultural shorthand in movies and TV is one reason I find watching foreign produced entertainment interesting. The set of tropes used in terms of cues and plots etc are different. When you watch it and something feels off, it’s interesting to think well is this just this particular show, are the cues different; am I missing some shared reference here…
People don’t trust Facebook but still use Facebook. I believe given two equally good implementations of a product the one made by Facebook will be less popular. As it stands now Oculus is the only standalone VR device and people will use it despite being owned by Facebook.
very same fpga chip alone is more expensive than DE-10 nano https://octopart.com/5cseba6u23i7n-intel+%2F+altera-88365716 Be sure to send your thanks to EC, FTC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ. Altera and Xilinx mergers clearly were super beneficial to customers and the market, competition has never been better with both competing by rising prices and cutting volume in unison.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_15_...

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/768251/0001193125153...
When you are a company the size of FB/Googs, a product that is only used in such a niche way by such a small number of users is not a successful product. So yeah, they would probably much rather the public think of it as an experiment that didn't gain traction to save face rather than releasing yet another failing product. The example you described would probably have users described with numbers in the thousands. These companies are used to numbers in the billions, so that doesn't even make them get out of bed in the morning.
> Nothing like a library could be built today.

The best and largest libraries in the history of the world are being built and expanded right now on the internet, with free and unlimited access for everybody.
I love the curious irony that, were they to be resurrected, they will enter the world penniless as their assets were already dispersed at the time of their death.

I believe the COO in the video alluded to expenses at the time of "resurrection" but I can't imagine any more than a stipend is there for the "Sleeper".
It seems like several different things are getting intertwined here and people are arguing past each other based on perceived "sides" and largely imagined positions being projected onto one another.

You can have gender equality and feminism without casual sex. Many young people today, both male and female, feel like the current system they're embedded in is frustrating and unfulfilling.

Everyone's personal preferences are equally valid. We should accept that people who express unease or unhappiness with the current dominant cultural norms pressed upon them have legitimate feelings, rather than attack and insult them by suggesting their desires belong in "the 19th century".
I was referring to this bit "OverDrive has provided users with digital library access two ways: through its website and its mobile apps"

Omitting the third way (e-readers) is weird.
A huge chunk of the responses in this post are bananas.

No wonder women struggle in tech if this is even slightly representative.
>Environmentalists want you to draw down consumption.

That was back in the day. Now they too want you to consume, just "green" products.
That makes sense. Here in NC I don’t really remember the state museums charging for base admissions, other than the zoos. You only had to pay for IMAX and things like that
Don't get me wrong, I really believe there are helpful tools out there. For instance, Notion has been one of the most genuinely useful applications I've ever used (like, it has genuinely improved my quality of life by helping me organize things for work, my personal life, household chores, side projects, etc). On the other hand, I also see how for others like me with ADHD, something like Notion could be overwhelming and therefore totally useless.

I suppose that's my point. ADHD has such a diverse battery of symptoms (many of which are also expressed in other pathologies) that targeting just one of them with an app and then pitching it as "an app to help with ADHD" is very unconvincing (if not downright lazy, if not cynical). An app made to do a generally useful thing pitched to anyone who has the need for that thing, however…
Based on what? It seems like a mostly sound idea - preserve a body such that it can be recovered later.
Maybe it’s my personal mouth biome but if I don’t brush once a day I wake up with a disgusting thick film along the back of my throat and tongue. I’m not ocd about oral health. I have great teeth. I don’t floss and brush once a day. I don’t wear fragrances etc.

I work in healthcare and I’ve smelled a lot of really not nice things, bad breathe can really really stink. It’s not a cultural thing it’s more like a “good lord, shut your mouth you smell like you have a pile of MRSA infected shit festival in your mouth”

I used to smoke and other things, I have terrible sense of smell except when it comes to festering wounds and/or shit, especially infected shit. I pick those up like a hound dog and I know when someone isn’t brushing pretty quickly.

I do believe that mint thing though, I’ve been experimenting with different flavors ginger and orange cream and etc (non minty) and I miss the minty feed back.
The repercussions have been foreseen. We are seeing it happen now, today, and the enemies of humanity/life cling to willful, even joyful, apocalypsm.
In that example, would the person not have just left a message, “Hi it’s Name, please call me back right away”?

I just don’t understand how we got to a place where the way things worked for decades suddenly doesn’t work anymore. We would leave our homes and not be reachable. Most urgent calls aren’t actually “emergencies.”
Some people are just ugly. And physical attractiveness is the number one criterion for partner selection, in both men and women[1].

I agree with you that paraplegics who haven't won any footraces is a huge red flag, Fuck those people.

[1] https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/eli-finkel/documents/E...
Most normal people don't buy new software all the time, most of them like to keep their old copies going as much as possible.

Most desktop computers still do, and in alternative there are USB stick variants.

Which doesn't change the fact regarding what drivers, for what set of OSes, are supported out of the box.
I’m obviously way out of my depth here,
But,

How is this different than a tiny magnetized piece of iron ?

Are they saying this piece showing in the video will always float the same way regardless of orientation ?

Also would this effect still work with an electromagnet ?
Peronism was virtually debt free until the coup. Massive debt started under the military.

Peronism paid off 50% of the debts since 2001 until a right wing government doubled the debt again.

I’m nut a huge fan of any of the Peronist governments but when other groups got or took the opportunity it was way worse.
I see that Overdrive is taking away a nice feature. What the author is missing is the comparison with physical books, which never had this feature. You want to recommend the library get a book? You fill out the form they have. That process still works regardless of the format.

Overdrive gave them something better than what they ever had, and then took it away. The libraries aren't left off worse than before.

Personally, I always search using the library catalog's web site, so this whole article is about a feature I never saw. I would encourage everyone search that way instead of directly on Overdrive.

I haven't looked up the numbers recently, but after a spike in ebook usage several years ago, the percentage dropped and I suspect continues to do so. Most people are over the hype and have returned to physical book usage.
Every significant museum has vastly more in reserves than what can be shown. They're not art galleries, they also have a scientific and conservancy purpose.
Neuroscience does comment on the second definition, which is impacted by physical trauma to the brain.

You will for example lose memories under specific conditions. Exclude everything that is disrupted by such trauma and what’s left is the empty set.
The only real way to understand it is to read the man page. That said, once you get the hang of it, you can sum all numbers on the stack with the following program

[ + z 1 <s ] ss ls x p

The [ and ] delimit the macro definition that's placed on top of the stack. ss stores the just defined macro in register s and removes it from the top of the main stack. ls loads the macro from register s and places it on the top of the main stack. x executes the macro and p prints the final result.

As for the macro, + pops the top two elements on the stack, adds them and places the result on the top of the stack. z pushes the stack size on top of the stack. 1 pushes 1 on top of the stack. <s pops the top two elemenets on the stack, compares them, and if the top element is less than the the second element, it executes the macro stored in register s. Otherwise, it doesn't do anything.

The macro will execute as long as the stack size is greater than 1. Once the stack size is 1, it will terminate and the p command prints the sum of all the numbers on the stack.
how would leaving the truck in reverse burn up the transmission?
> Many libraries in the US come from the hypercapitalist era of robber barons. They predate the word "capitalism". They predate the idea that there could even exist something other than capitalism.

It is very, very easy to check that this isn't true.

Capitalism was described and critiqued as such since the mid-1800s. The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, is certainly no older than "the idea that there could even exist something other than capitalism".

Very few public libraries in the US are older than this, and the era of 'robber barons' took place after this (1860 or 1870 to 1900 or 1910).
People are jumping on Argentina here but the reality is Maduro is probably responsible for most of the people in that line being there.

Consider that huge numbers of people move to Argentina because it is an improvement on where they were.
Months of set work to fold that road. I heard they are still rebuilding parts of Paris to this day.
People called the Soviet anime lesbian kitchen chemist a LARP but this is either Nobel or a fraud, personally very heavily leaning towards fraud.
> It could instantly release and take in energy.

In that case, can it be used to create new type of explosives?
> We've got a library out here where the employees can get trained in adminstering Narcan

Many employers offer this now, and at many concert venues, there are tables where they will train you and send you home with Narcan. You have to be sheltered at this point to believe narcan training is unique to libraries.
I don't care what it is if it means we destroy fossil fuel production.
What does setting up your own Nitter instance give you that the hosted one doesn't? Just additional privacy?

As for Reddit, is there another frontend?
Your explanation relies on the idea that any nudity in movies is exclusively for the purpose of gratuitous titillation. I don't think that's true, nor does it explain the decline in portraying the non-physical intimacy in relationships.

>The same way boys no longer lust after the lingerie section of the Sears catalog.

The Sears catalog wasn't replaced by porn, it was replaced by insta/tiktok thirst traps.
Xeroxing a book and selling it isn't legal, you realize that right.
Regulations suffocating progress is a real problem. It's why, aside from ASML and Spotify, the EU's tech industry has stagnated for 20 years.

The FDA should subsidize safety studies for drugs like this. This would actually make it more likely to get useful, functional drugs in the hands of Americans more quickly, ie the whole point of this article.
Chat-GPT is not capable of any reasoning, let alone “fairly complex”.
Are you suggesting that they reduce the percentage on display to more typical levels (2-4%)?
Coding the stars – an interactive constellation with Three.js and React Three F
Everyone always wonders when the Ultron scenario will come to pass but I maintain that _the AI has already taken over_. This AI doesn't run on a computer- it runs on a machine made of laws, business interactions and human brains. This AI does not have personality, and it isn't that smart, but this algorithm is very much in charge over every human being on earth, every minute of our lives from birth to death. It seems to have no higher aspirations than grinding the bounty of our Planet into bitcoin. We made this machine that turns everything into capital and it won't stop until... what exactly? When some captain of industry has _finally_ achieved their goal of _owning it all_? Because if you follow the trend, that is where the line is headed- A ever-shrinking class of Skeksis ruling over a ruined planet, with just as many slaves, or as few, as they want.
Is this a joke or are you serious?
>... when you surely knew...

What makes you so confident? The discussion in the original post was for a TechCrunch URL, not the FCC url used here, so HN wasn't going to flag the dupe when OP posted this. Not only that, but the thread for the TechCrunch article is currently post #98, all the way back on page four[1] at the time of this comment. HN doesn't have a search feature either. This[2] is all one needs to do, rather than wasn't energy chastising someone based on an assumption.

Edit: What an odd account. It looks like this user, by and large, just points out duplicate threads, rather than diving into discussions.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/?p=4

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36999524
To be clear, they are not sorting it by superconductivity. Their claim is that they are sorting it by the Meissner effect. More likely they are sorting it by it's exhibited diamagnetism.
Yup! The details of Linux networking API are often surprising.

I think if it's possible to change the ping algo to reduce the potential for wall clock change affecting the measurement.

For example, instead of using SO_TIMESTAMP to measure wall clock diffed with the send time, maybe it's possible to grab the wall clock just before recv() and use wall clock to measure the event-loop time only (which is way shorter than the ping rtt).
I tried that approach for a little bit. They ended up filling up my voicemail box within like 4 or 5 days.
> Overdrive gave them something better than what they ever had, and then took it away

But the feature still exists, so this is just untrue.
Assuming this is indeed the holy grail of superconductivity... can someone with knowledge on manufacturability of these materials, suggest a prediction of when the specific LK-99 material would be ready for mass production? Is it ~3 years from now or more like ~15 years from now?
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social media is much worse than TV though
As referenced by GP - it's a list of inventions from the podcast '50 Things That Made the Modern Economy.' [0]

The first series is my favorite podcast of all time. They're short (~8 minutes, iirc) but pack a lot of interesting info in each episode. In particular, they explore some of the second-order effects of each invention.

The disposable razor might not be a true 'black swan' like the transistor or LK-99, but some of the background and influence around the invention might surprise you! I recommend checking it out. [1]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Things_That_Made_the_Modern...
[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p04t8k2l
> a nag that users unfortunately still ignore

For good reason. Running those updates requires restarting the computer, which in turn means you have to get your working state setup again after each update. People use computers to get things done, and running updates often has the opposite effect.
It is getting crazier every second it passed. Multiple labs trying to replicate and everyone get a different result. The only thing we know is that LK-99 is something that nobody understands
I used to think the causes and clothing of the left were more founded in humanism and logic than the senseless barbarian reactionary religion of the right, and I think they actually were until around the advent of social media when adopting leftist positions required you to think through problems before you were allowed to join groups for vanity (certain 60s vanity-left organizations aside). Now it appears to me just as much an organized religion as anything on the right. Both are doomsday cults full of mostly incoherent followers who can't articulate their basic positions, but are willing to die for them, having nothing much to live for.
> Because the old product is no longer on the market, the FDA will not approve a generic. Even though the exact same product /was/ on the market.

This isn't the case, it doesn't need to still be on the market.

However if the approved product was produced with chemicals that are now banned (or the approved drug itself was banned) - then you _can't_ make a generic because you would have to use a banned chemical to do it.

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Similar shenanigans to prevent generics include slightly modifying existing generics like ketamine for example, before getting it approved for depression treatment. You cannot patent ketamine for depression, so you can slightly modify it and patent that instead.
I think this dependson the region; IIRC NYC museums have always charged a fee. They're still free in DC and NC.
> chastity, monogamy etc are considered desired attribute in a partner

You mean “female partner”.
That was exactly how I felt about the smart watch, right up until I got one. Before then, I had not warn a watch daily for decades. Previously, when I did wear one, I actually wore 2 as a soccer referee, but never for much longer than 90 mins. The charging thing is a thing, but it charges so damn fast that I can charge it on my desk while working and not even think about it. The headphone jack is still an issue for me, and is one of the main reasons I still drive an iPhone 6S+.

With all of that, as much as I hate to admit I like it, but I do like my smart watch. I keep finding things about it that I like the longer I have had it. There are a few things I wish I could do with it, but that's more of the app available on my phone doesn't have a watch version.
I’m not sure what the difference is between something like the Guggenheim in NYC or the Tate Modern in London, but you can walk into the Tate without having to pay anything at all.

Is there lots of government funding in the UK for the museum sector that doesn’t exist in the states?
High performance gas turbine blades (e.g. in the F-22 engine and apparently some electricity turbines) are single crystal now as well. It's definitely a huge challenge to do manufacture, but possible.
> One of my favorite memories as a child is browsing through my parents bookshelves and picking something to read. I hate to think that's going to disappear.

I'm not sure that advocating for pirating books is going to help that. If you don't buy books and also refuse to use libraries, you're only accelerating the disappearance of books.
> without angering and alienating a lot of the electorate

This just means that this part of the electorate hasn't yet grasped how bad climate change is. The question is not "how do we find more moderate solutions", but really "how do we get those people to see that we are going towards wars, poverty and famine globally".

All that in a context where fossil energies are going down and we don't have solutions to replace them. So the world will become much more complicated because of climate change, and on top of that a lot more complicated because we will have less and less energy to face it.

Whoever is not alarmist, at this point, hasn't really grasped how bad the situation is (or they believe that their country will be able to survive alone, with big walls and a big army, I don't know).
Just because something isn't difficult for you doesn't mean it isn't extraordinarily difficult for others. If someone's neurodivergent, was raised in a sheltered environment, or just isn't good at social interaction, then that can often be a nearly insurmountable barrier.