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> got burnout and disgust at the modern tech hiring practice.

In my experience it's even worse outside of tech.

Because I really need a job I've just been applying to everything. Minimum wage: I don't care. In a way I'm actually looking forward to just show up, do my job, and go home, without stress.

But I get almost no response on those. And I actually spent MORE time for cover letters for those than the tech stuff. On tech I get a response (interview or rejection) for about 1 in 4. Outside of tech? About 1 in 30.

I guess "15 years CV as software dev, that guy is too smart for us" or something like that.

I keep reading about "labour shortages" for lots of low-skilled jobs... Hmkay...

Also not eligible for social security because I'm technically homeless (as in: renting "unofficially").

Might be properly homeless soon... No idea what I'll do.

I don't have a right to work in tech or a high salary, and fine, there's a downwards turn. No problem. But that I have no options beyond "burn all your savings and go homeless fuck you" has left me rather ... disappointed.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is: it's not "tech hiring" that's the problem. It's just "hiring" or "companies" or whatever.
By having better things to do with your time?
I've found myself using the browser version of apps (as terrible as they are) in replace of deleted apps. I'm very used to the Chrome -> search bar -> "y" -> "youtube.com" series of taps now.
well.. its actually a bit more complex than that. The TLDR is that the slack of nuclear was picked up by renewables (mostly wind). the slightly more complicated reason is that wind often was kept off in favor of non-throttle-able base-loads like coal and nuclear. Now with the latter out of the picture the slack has to be taken up my either expensive NGAS or wind. NGAS can be throttled somewhat quickly so if there is wind its now used.

This suddenly reveals the true capacities that were there all along.
Yes, yes, and a thousand times yes. People usually says "so what, RAM is there to be used" (I even think I saw it in this thread).

But when 3 of these bulky apps are eating the whole RAM and no more software can run because of them, it's the user, especially the not very savvy user, the one who usually assumes their computer doesn't work any more for modern software and they need to incur in the effort and cost of acquiring a new one.

Electron is a fine way to test a market, but it is only financially viable to use long term (such as done by Slack, Discord or Spotify) because it externalizes the actual cost to its users.

For an app that is open-use-close, it's ok and I see no issue. But for apps meant to be constantly running in the background (like a music player or a chat app) I think Electron is almost a sin against its users.
However, in 2023, Germany has for the first time produced most of its electrical power (52%) from renewable energy sources [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germanys-2023-renewa...
Yes, it's doable. Your model won't be as large and as performant as a real large scale model, but you could train something. You could watch this for a start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY&list=PLAqhIrjkxb...
The first is a pretty extreme, inflammatory claim. I think it requires very strong evidence. Also, it would help if you dropped the hyperbole.
What's the benefit of Dillo versus, say, NetSurf?
Does this actually result in a routable design when used on a real FPGA?

Optimizing for the lowest value of a distance metric isn't necessarily going to be ideal - a highly compact placement (like the results shown) is going to require a lot of wires to pass through the center of the design. Some FPGAs may not have sufficient routing resources to support this, especially if there are many wires that cross over the center without interacting with it.
The US also has got enormous and inexhaustible (all together) coal mines, and oil fields of course. The price of natural gas is negative in some parts of Texas.
It's pretty easy to interpret "from the river to the sea" as the extermination of Israel. It's also easy for those who define Intifada at face value when they say that only with the death of every Jew will the Second Intifada be complete.

This is like people stating in 2000 that when Bin Ladin said Jihad against America, it didn't count - he was talking about Big Jihad and not small Jihad.
> You mean that the Bojiadafast adapters work fine?

I have no experience with this particular vendor/brand but the adapters are not complex. If you're concerned, verify that it has 11VSB before you plug it into the motherboard. Otherwise it's entirely passive (passing through PS_ON#, PWR_OK, and 12V)

> If so, I wonder if there is a hit in efficiency because of the required step-up / step-down converters in that adapter.

It should be quite nominal. The boost converters have a very high efficiency (>85%) and standby power is typically below 10W max.
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Yeah preview app is everything. I take screenshots now for deliverables.
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The extension system[0] seems interesting; it reminds me of w3m's local CGI
scripts. (From what I can tell, w3m's local CGI came first, but I don't know
if it influenced DPI and/or if w3m's system had a predecessor too...)

For a short description of what w3m local CGI scripts can do:

* They can be used for implementing a man page viewer, as in w3mman. It
seems Dillo has a similar plugin[1].

* w3m's bookmark system is implemented using local CGI; it seems Dillo's
bookmarks are implemented as a dpi plugin too.

* w3m can use urimethodmap + local CGI to implement additional protocols. I
guess DPI can do that too? (At least the custom man: scheme in
dillo-plugin-man seems to indicate it can.)

I had no idea any browser supported this besides w3m. I mostly imitated w3m's
design in my own project (which includes the twist that support for every
protocol, including HTTP, is implemented on top of a similar plugin system);
I guess I have a second reference point now :)

[0]: https://dillo-browser.github.io/old/dpi1.html

[1]: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-man
There was no mob justice here. Congress (Stefanik) is not a mob, and the plagiarism was real (and sent in the form of an amazing letter to the board/research integrity folks at Harvard).

If anything, the Board resisted the mob pressure until it was clear that Gay had plagiarized.
I don't know the current state of the art, but I learned software development on a Chromebook with Linux and I didn't need any special cable. Originally I used Chrouton, but later switched to GalliumOS.

That said, sometimes the computer would get in a weird state that required going into regular Chromebook mode to fix, so I think you'd at least want to have a throwaway Google account for managing it. Doesn't have to be something you actually use.
Interesting context I would like to know
Or what about plain ordinary web sites? I’d say that most of the time a brand has no business making an app when they just want to get a message out to people. For instance McDonald’s has an app to order food but why don’t they just make a web site you can order food from? Can it really be easier for end users to use an app that requires an extra installation step? I mean AMZN and Ebay had sites you could order all kinds of things in 1999 and they didn’t even need React.
It’s unlikely the relative position of Griffiths Observatory and the Chinese Theatre would change though, both may shift north by 74cm relative to Las Vegas sure, but I’m not aware of any faults between those two points
Exactly, they worked out the numbers just like you did here, and showed it would cover principal in a reasonable timeframe. Instead of blindly building it without thinking about revenue and return on investment. It wouldn’t have been built otherwise.
Really well written article.
[dupe]

More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844980
A New Year's resolution for tech companies: knock it off with the CAPTCHAs
Aside: has anyone actually got value out of "Who wants to be hired?" Because when I posted a few months ago all I got was spam and nonsense. I haven't bothered posting since (well, I did this month).
I use both svelte and WinForms at my day job.
The designer works quite well initially for laying out the groundwork but after a while it becomes a burden:
- components randomly disappearing but still being there when running the program
- designer crashes
- Small changes that require you to manually drag around 60% of the form, to add or remove one field

Svelte ain't perfect and it requires more scaffolding initially but you get:
- actually good data bindings and state management (in many places you would need event handlers for winforms)
- hot reload (very big win)
- the ability to do greater layout changes with a few css lines (in combination with hot reload quite pleasant to style)
- mass styling without selecting every component every time you want to change something
- native async/await integration in the ui framework

plus the rest of the benefits (not DX oriented)
- gpu rendered instead of cpu rendered
- runs on any OS (including phones)
- advanced responsiveness via CSS

(sorry for the poor text layout, didn't yet find a way to insert line breaks without them being removed)
Probably but my guess based on the state of the web is that this a rabbit hole without end
I did notice that many Mac apps, including Safari and Preview and Notes, do OCR on images automatically. It's pretty neat that I can easily select text in an image and copy and paste it somewhere else.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38844980
Well that’s condescending and profoundly unhelpful
It's striking vs the France chart, though I wonder how this reflects electricity import / exports
https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...
What is ”bulge bracket 2”?
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I have personally seen people become dependent on nitrous oxide. Take it away from them and they have no problem stopping, though.

Money + no responsibilities + nitrous shipped to your door is a very very very very bad combo for some people.

I've personally used all of those substances without having mental breakdowns and know many people that have as well. But I do know people that have went down dark paths with nitrous. More intense than the worst alcoholism, imo.
For me it was a similar game, Stars![0] I got the shareware demo along with several other games on a floppy included with some computer magazine I randomly purchased at the mall. Got my brother and across-the-street neighbor hooked on it and we'd have days-long hot seat games during the summers. Later on I discovered the actual boxed version and bought it on the spot.

It is probably the oldest game I still play occasionally (it runs fine in Wine). In a weird coincidence, in the 201Xs my best friend and I were reminiscing about old games and it turned out he played it in his youth as well, so we fired up our respective copies and got several PBEM (well s/email/Google Drive) games going.

One of my favorite things about it is tweaking scripts to optimize the game economy each time I get another round of obsession with the game. It will dump detailed game data into TSV specifically for parsing by other tools.

If anyone is interested, you can still get legit software keys for it [1].

[0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!>

[1]: <https://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Get_Stars!>
> a BSc. or MSc. degree in Computer Science / Software engineering is required

How stringent are you on this requirement if someone meets the rest of the criteria (including the 10+ years of experience requirement)?
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You have to (attempt to) quantify those productivity increases. There are an unlimited number of nice things government could spend on, but limited budget. It happens that fiber passed muster. Other things don’t.

(The productivity value of fiber can be estimated with a revenue model based on subscriber fees)
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> There was confusion and no evacuation was ordered by the crew over the PA. The passengers managed it themselves.

Here is an in-flight video. It appears that the passengers did not manage the evacuation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2AgoKvh-mU
Crazy to think if plan9 had been MIT licensed from the start it would probably be running the world right now.
> I study and read actual stuff on my phone now

What do you study, that works well on a small device?

My attempts to learn/study usually lead to opening a web browser, which leads me to dozens of tabs of tangents.
For Japan, I saw this: https://petapixel.com/2023/06/05/japan-declares-ai-training-...
I was laid off (for the first time) 9 months ago, and I still haven't found a job.

I don't live near a major city. This wasn't a problem when remote work was the norm, or when I could wait for the right remote job to open up. But in the current environment it's a major headwind.

I'm also starting to get concerned about how employers will perceive this long of a job gap.

And the psychological aspect of this long of unemployment is no joke either.
Web Apps don't require an extra installation step, they merely allow the user to "install" the app -- to pin it to the homescreen and have it open without the browser UI.
This is a good starting point: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/business/bill-ackman-harv...
but he basically says all of this in his tweets.
I think some lamps used for cinematography are a type of arc lamp (Xenon long-arc-lamps), and range to around 100kW apparently! Curious about the safety of those as you mention ozone + UV (I guess if it's sealed you don't get ozone?).

e.g. - http://www.luminyscorp.com/index.php/100k-linear-2/
Keep in mind this thread is heavily affected by selection bias; Those who aren't affected have very little reason to contribute.
The problem is never whether Nazis should be banned or not; the problem is who the actual nazis are. If it were just about banning the few idiots waving swastikas and shouting "heil Hitler" we would all agree.
Germany renewable generation capacity is relatively new, France will have to pay the bill to replace their legacy nuclear fleet as it approaches end of life. France is coasting on old capital investments that will eventually come due. Cost of renewables and batteries continues to decline, the cost of nuclear does not.

Pencil out what it would cost to replace all current French nuclear generation at today’s nuclear build costs. It’s astronomical.
If we put aside the alt-realities of political polarization, that seems like a very unlikely explanation to me. Why would we believe these people are antisemetic? Is there any evidence otherwise?

I know that at least one of the universities (Penn?) they otherwise suppressed pro-Palestinian speech, including banning groups and presentations.
> state-space models make transformer based models obsolete

We will see whether they work on a large scale pretty soon. I hope they will, but they might not be. There're models which might outperform more advanced models on the smaller scale, and I haven't heard how Mamba performs on GPT scale.
I left a FAANG last year right before some massive layoffs for a smaller and more stable company. My income took a hair cut but my stress is much reduced.

I feel bad for everyone who didn't get lucky with the timing like I did.

Best wishes for the new year.
>> Given the cocktail above

I really don't think he meant these combined in anyways. I don't think it'd be very ideal to mix any of them.
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What is so up-to-the-minute about PWAs? They were somebody’s side project from 8 years ago which Google inexplicably didn’t kill. Despite controlling the browser, Google never came out with a reliable and sensible scheme to store files so it’s just another own goal like Windows Phone.
And because of the mild weather in the winter season 2022-2023. Also, private households are saving on energy as much as they can because of high prices.
It's easier to just disable them all by default, really, then I don't have to bother with micromanaging on an app-by-app basis. This is particularly true given that the majority of push notifications are spam.
In theory, we're expecting big things and putting big money to make it happen.

I am hoping to ride the wave. I'm doing far more than I am qualified because of LLM.
It means uprising. Not killing jews. - On the other hand Israel‘s cabinet (Netanyahu, Gallant, Herzog, Ben Gvir, Smotrich) actively call for genocide: Netanyahu by comparing Palestinians to Amalek, of whom the Old Testament says „kill them all, men, children, women, babies, unborn“. Herzog said: „no innocents in Gaza“, meaning justified to kill children. Gallant: „human animals!“, cuts water, food, medicines for over 80 days. These and more statements and the actions of IDF are documented on a 85 page[1] accusation of South Africa against Israel accusing them of Genocide in Gaza.

So while you insinuate „intifada“ means „genocide“, Israel is apparently engaging in genocidal acts.

[1]: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192
For anyone wondering about the best times to apply, conventional wisdom is that January is the best time, since it's planning season for the whole year, and then around August, to get some quick help to reach the end-of-year goals. Of course this is anecdotal and applies in normal circumstances, which I don't think the industry is at.
I think that fails to appreciate the needs and skills of most users. App stores shouldn’t have a monopoly but they’re still necessary. They provide a consistent location and format for finding, installing, updating, and reviewing apps.

Saying “we have Hacker News for discoverability” is especially revealing of the lack of understanding and empathy tech people can often have for the majority of users.

It’s also simply a foregone conclusion. There’s a demand for discoverability and consistency. Whatever fills that demand we could just call an App Store.
I don't think anybody has established that the "average palestinian on the street" (or what's left of it) believes this, and given it's such a hyperbolic claim, I'd recommend you support your claim with more data.
Wow, that looks complicated. I ended up implementing the 32 bit ethernet CRC in Verilog for use on a Kintex 7 a few years ago, but I never looked at the mess of wiring that ended up generating. The code had to work with an arbitrarily wide bus as the PCIe core required a 256 bit wide bus to close timing at an achievable clock speed that was able to fully utilize PCIe x4 gen 2.
Natural gas isn't so terrible for the environment, despite not being renewable.

But coal? Yikes. As you've said it, as gas is so cheap, perhaps use lots of gas and invest in renewables. But go coal-free.