skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in tech for 35+ years - yes, I'm old. I'm out now not because I don't like the work, I really do and I'd prefer to be doing interesting work. I'm out because I'm tired of the interview games that are played now - that and I've pretty much got my retirement nestegg saved up.

Tech has definitely changed. Having to go through 8 or 9 rounds of interviews for one position only to find out you weren't selected at the end (that is if they don't just ghost you) wasn't a thing when I got into this line of work. In fact most of my early jobs I got after only 1 or 2 interviews for maybe a total of 90 minutes.

Part of it is that companies are just so damn afraid to hire the "wrong" person that they just can't make a decision. Part of it is because there are so many people looking for tech jobs right now that companies feel like they can play these silly games. More people need to refuse to play.
> but I have kids and a mortgage to pay and I don't know how I can afford to stop receiving the income I have.

Start doing what you can. You can't make it on half of your income, but can you make it on 80%? Start trying to live that way, to build up your runway.

Can you afford to stop for, say, six months? If so, can you ask your job for a leave of absence for six months?
(As someone who often works for smaller orgs) It doesn't HAVE to be that way. None of the smaller orgs I've worked for use those systems. Only the big techy ones with a lot of bureaucracies do. They pay better, but you do much less, and push around a lot of paperwork instead of code. There ARE alternatives. Your average small town non-IT company probably still needs developers here and there, and they won't have the resources for the overhead of Agile bullshit. You'll typically have the keys to the kingdom and have to make shit work with very limited resources and a tiny team, but it's a heck lot more fun.

I tried a big corpo job for a bit, ugh, never again.
Are you able to share any data to support that?
It's a very different.

First, Los Alamos was a project of a democratic government, serving the people of the US and allies. OpenAI is a business that serves itself.

During WWII, the US was in an existential war with the Nazis, also trying to develop nuclear weapons. If the Nazis had built it first, we may have been living now in a very dark world. (Obviously, it also helped defeat Japan.) On the other hand, there are threats if an enemy else develops capabilities that provide large advantages.

At least part of the answer, I think, is that the US government needs to take over development. It already houses the world's top two, most cutting edge technology organizations - the US military and NASA - and there is plenty more (NIST, NIH, nuclear power, etc.); the idea that somehow it's beyond the US government is a conservative trope and obviously false. We don't allow private organizations to develop military weapons (such as missiles and nukes) or bioweapons on their own recognizance; this is no different.
I could not reproduce this result on desktop or Android. Any additional details to the steps you took?
>First gen still is no worse than first-gen Magic Mouse, which launched under jobs though. Which is my main point, I don’t think Jobs was solely responsible for apple’s focus on design

The first-gen Magic Mouse used AA batteries and did not have the charging issue of the current Magic Mouse. The second-gen Magic Mouse, with an internal battery and the horribly designed charging port, was released in 2015, 4 years after Jobs died.

Jobs was largely responsible for Apple's obsessive focus on design, even if he didn't design everything himself. He positioned Jony Ive to be #2 at the top of the company, no other company (other than maybe a strict design firm) is going to have a design person be 2nd in command after the CEO. He also famously reviewed each thing that was going out the door and it had to meet his standard of design. This goes far back, here is a story from when they were designing the original Macintosh, they handed the design to Jobs, because he kept rejecting all their designs.

https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html

Of course there were misses under Jobs well, no one is perfect. The mouse the shipped with the G3 iMac, while it may have looked good in a press photo, was not great to use. That said, I have a hard time believing Jobs would have let the changing of the first Apple Pencil or the second-gen Magic Mouse out the door. They are so awkward. Even the newest pencil, plugging it in with a cord is weird compared the elegance of the second-gen Pencil.
There's Chicxulub smacking Earth and turning the weather upside down instantly.

Of course, life still adapted and persevered.
I don’t think attempting to outbreed each other out of some concern about replacement is a rational or logical course of action, but alas, such is the human condition. A concern for someone else.
Management? It might even let you stick around at your current place of employment while meaning that the ever changing tech stuff wouldn't be your problem anymore. The techs under you will appreciate your experience, and you can spend a lot more time sitting in meetings, working with spreadsheets, and dealing with employee/scheduling issues.

If you think this might be a temp situation, why not just take a leave of absence and get whatever job pays the bills for a few months. Keeps the door open to come back at least.
I agree with that. Though we'd need some cost effective way to monitor on leash etc rules are followed by the owners. Around here we have native reserves to try bring back native birds, but vast majority of dog owners ignore the existing leash or no dog rules.

Most summers the reserves turn into more of a free dog toilet, and with the vast numbers of dogs going through, it ends up smelling quite bad to.
It is hardly the only way the Romans lacked respect for human life. They were very willing to kill for many reasons.

They were a slave society and were particularly harsh on slaves, and particularly rebellious slaves. The cruelty of a society where crucifixion (scaleable, low labour cost, torturing to death) was a standard punishment is mind boggling.

Then there was all the rape (of slaves, it was fine, even children) and other cruelties.

Civilized does not necessarily mean nice.
Not in real terms, adjusted for inflation the median wage has fallen.
Luckily I've never had a cat with an opposable thumb (whew!). But where I live in california there is a highly permeable interface between indoor and outdoor, with no screens. Most of the year there are doors and huge windows open all day unless nobody is home. In other words, I don't have a lifestyle that could feasibly restrict a cat to the indoors. When I lived on the 5th floor of a city building, yes. Other than that: no.
The Space Force is changing the way it thinks about spaceports
First off, that's opening a spillway, and that will still leave a substantial portion of land flooded.

> A dam not holding any water back has far more strength than necessary and will probably last thousands of years.

And, actually isn't true, there's a lot of complicated factors when building a dam, and having a consistent, low lying waterflow (like a river). Depending on the type of damn, soil conditions, etc, it can actually cause disproportionate erosion that will cause the damn to collapse in on itself (occasionally in a surprisingly short time frame, sometimes under a decade even - or in the case of heavy waterflow, hours or days).

So, engineers will sometimes do what you suggested when it's feasible. But, it's not always.
I’m sure your idea would attract some players, but people using cheats explicitly want an unfair advantage.
Also, some companies stopped including the essential data in the email itself, eg. eshops won't list the products or tracking numbers directly in the order confirmation email, but only link to their website where gmail can't extract it. I think I've seen some airlines do the same, though most do include a boarding pass attachment.
Why would you leave an easy job to take on a new challenge now when you are struggling with sleep. It's the worst time to interview. Slow your role a bit.. spend a few months practising interviews or learning a new skill. Be happy to be where you are now. Revisit in the summer
This is why it is great to bring a case to the ICJ. It means we are not just sorting out whether it is genocide or not based on social media upvotes/likes.
Markdown is too anemic for documentation without extensions. Sure, you can make do, but I would rather wet standardized on something more powerful.
I mean, learning materials can toys can’t cost that much, and classmates would just make the savings even better…
"I cannot fulfil this request" Amazon search
Using Netrw, Vim's builtin file explorer
Well, ChatGPT's English is very, very good.
There aren't gates at the base of any large dam. The only way to discharge the artificial lake behind a large dam is via destruction AIUI.

It will deteriorate with age and eventually break in an uncontrolled/unplanned manner anyways.

At least this way you tear it down gracefully with a gradual discharge of the water, and enable restoration of the environment/salmon breeding etc.
Sorry, "Sorry!" the board game. Your name contains invalid characters.
By comparison, I wanted to use opentelemetry for a series of projects, but could find absolutely no useful documentation on how to do anything else other than "send data from a webapp to a server / other cloud service that some vendor wants to sell you".

All I wanted to do was instrument an application and write its telemetry data to a file in a standard way, and have some story regarding combining metrics, traces, and logs as necessary. Ideally this would use minimal system resources when idle. That's it.
There's no real reason for not offering both options.

In the case of the TheC64 Maxi, there is no lack of internal space.
Do any games that aren't Valve games even have this anymore?
https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/spoon-river-anthology/28-fr...

...Yet at the start there was a clear vision,

A high and urgent purpose in my soul

Which drove me on trying to memorize

The Encyclopedia Britannica!
Brexit has lowered wages and killed job opportunities, though.
With all due respect, I think you took the exact opposite lesson from the pandemic that you probably should have and that your story implies.
Fups FTW!
VR Game Revolution? New VR Technology Promises Game Titles
London mayor is a complete twat
"received quickly, looks good, haven't tried yet" were always concerning reviews on ahem, darker markets. You always wondered if they tried it and died so they couldn't come back to update their review, but reviews like that were rampant.

And I don't think the FTC was up to the marketplace's neck, they were actually honest and genuine reviews someone took the time out of their day to submit.
> I don't know what the PHP docs now look like off-hand as I write this

The styling and layout changed somewhat, but the content is pretty much the same, comments and all.

Today: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php

15 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20081218125142/https://www.php.n...
> As long as there are people in Russia and China who are willing to work on such tech, it's actually ethical for Americans to work on the technology.

While that carries weight, 'the other person is doing it' has long been an excuse for bad behavior. The essential goals are freedom, peace, and prosperity; dealing with Russia and China are means to an end, not the goal. If developing AI doesn't achieve the goal, we are failing.
Does “everything works” mean that for you, close to zero effort will be required over the next 6/12/18/24/36 months?

Because my problem isn’t finding a way to be happy with a Linux setup at a point in time but finding a way not to have to do a bunch of work every so often just to keep stuff working.
Ask HN: Programmatically Creating BPMN
Hello there!

for a university project I am researching frameworks and APIs to programmatically generate BPMN (standard conform xml).

I found:

- Programmatically creating a process - Developers / General - Forum - bpmn.io

- Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler | The Eclipse Foundation

- nikku/bpmn-js-cli-modeling-dsl: A modeling DSL for bpmn-js (github.com)

- Excel-add in creation of BPMN via Add-in

The last one does not create valid BPMN.

Does the community have some ideas on what would be the best way to transform a given process description into valid BPMN?

Greetings :)
> The Cult of Mac: You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themself into in the first place.

This explains so much of how I couldn't understand the willful ignorance of folks I believe are otherwise intelligent.
Stocks are also called shares, the name is a bit of a give away. It’s a share of a company you are a partial owner of it with some rights.

I think you do endorse the company whose shares you hold, in particular if it’s public knowledge.
Thank you! That's a great idea. I created a discount coupon which is active for the next 5 days up until Jan 17th

https://www.udemy.com/course/vector-databases-deep-dive/?cou...
It turns a continuous space into a discrete space. You would first do PQ, then do KNN of the new discrete vector. This way you can compress the vocabulary to a fixed size.
Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology's credibility crisis
This reply is full of assumptions... What if this person is secular? Or from one of the other hundreds of spiritual flavors? How would you react if somebody tells you to head to a mosque because you are not feeling well?
Phasing out oil and coal production would be great, but that's a task for politics. It is still a collective action problem though since any such agenda needs to gain popular support in a democracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
As individuals we can both take some actions to reduce climate impact in our daily lives and also support movements and campaigns for actions on the political level. No contradiction there.
This is like a “sun rises again” story. Of course the mayor of London still hates brexit. Just like the rest of the ruling class and their lackeys in the media.
Not sure if you’ve looked into psychedelic therapy? It has a high success rate for PTSD in veterans. In particular ketamine, psilocybin and MDMA.

Not to call it a “one pill solution” but there are cases of people’s PTSD being cured after a single session.
Thanks. I meant “a pullback,” as in a euphemism for underperformance. The question was whether the engineers were incidental casualties.
Slightly tangential but in case you aren’t aware: there are a lot of very promising treatments for PTSD in clinical trials these days. It may be worth looking into those. Navigating the clinical trial ecosystem can be pretty grueling and confusing but if this is something you really want to try, I am willing to help (email: my first name + @ selectiq.ai)

Not a doctor, not a trial expert, but I probably have a better grasp on the system than a layperson.
Organizations don’t do that, employees do?
Does it prevent it? I thought it just required explicit consent from users.
It's crazy how accurate these are. My favorite one has to be the Presidents playing video games series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ra0KDgVbg
> I think that the right approach is that you don’t need to come to any conclusions about anything.

This reminds me of a phrase I often find myself using with people: I am not required to have an opinion about everything.
Hello, I don't have PTSD but I do have extreme anxiety and have been in the state you sound like your in now. It sounds like you are being triggered by something and your body is in a constant state of fight or flight causing your brain fog. I would talk with your therapist to try and tease out if it is definitely your work that is doing it?

I think it would be best to try and get to a state where you are sleeping properly and do not experience brain fog before making any larger changes. If therapy is not working try a course of SSRIs if you are not already one, coupled with really focusing on avoiding sugars, alcohol and caffeine, while drinking enough water.

If you experience no changes after doing the above after 4-6 weeks try to put together a game plan for long term change, that will require slow methodical thought about what you need and what your family requires. Best of luck and PTSD is the absolute worst, feel free to message me anytime.
Great blog post. Thanks for sharing it.

I am curious, what platform did you use to create/ publish your website. Sorry for my dumb question, i am not a developer, work in film industry but i have a huge respect for people who code, that is why I am here.
> To some degree the idea of a Creator is easier to wrap one's head around than the idea of nothing-->something.

Of course that's a mistake, because there wasn't literally nothing, there was just something else.
> There are new opportunities in things like e-Ink or transparent screens or IoT that can help people re-focus on the real world around them yet still reap the benefits of technology.

This assumption that only games with nice graphics are immersive enough to somehow be a problem is just wrong. Before I had gaming hardware I wasted the exact same amount of time by re-reading books and comics, and it was quite immersive. AAA graphics are not the problem.

> humanity has a variety of important engineering problems to solve, and nicer-looking graphics is quite low on that list.

That sounds an awful lot like the good old "why do we build space rockets when people are starving".
(Good quality) BD-R is a decent archival medium too
Cause the first one was faked
Thank you, I had no idea what this person was talking about.
Your app might not need it but if you want partial replication or relational querying in addition to offline-first syncing then check out https://github.com/aspen-cloud/triplit (disclaimer: I'm working on this)
Its coming as built-in function: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/43/4388/ hopefully it gets merged before the next release.
Historically, one of the defining characteristics of "civilized" peoples has been their capacity for spectacular mass bloodshed. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any meaningful correlation between the ability to create great art, poetry, architecture, etc. and respect for human life.
Ban my cat and you'll likely lose someone who does regularly vote for environmentally friendly politicians and you may get a new voting pattern out of me, and a lot of other people I suspect.
And yet humans figure it out sometimes
>Pushing thousands or millions of species to the brink or even into extinction because we

That's going to happen regardless of humanity.
This is one of those few cases where I wouldn't mind TPM solutions for online play. It's basically all proprietary software anyway.

Of course this would probably just be used as an excuse to implement things for adtech..
Perhaps you could try basic technology freelancing as a way to keep a basic income running. There are always lots of people, local business owners etc., who want basic websites but don't have the time to maintain them. As you're a veteran and have experience in the technology industry, I would imagine that you'd be pretty well-respected in your community. Keeping a Wordpress or Drupal instance up-to-date and the DNS secure is already way beyond most people's ability, but it really requires a trustworthy figure to manage, especially when their businesses' reputation is tied to their website.

If this is practical, you could gradually increase or lower the amount of sites you manage to keep an income up while you test the waters teaching the guitar.

(I'm assuming by 'tech' you're referring to software development)
You may be interested in this project: https://publicsuffix.org/
You are probably not in the right company. A lot of startups are what you are describing.
At this point why allow anyone to self inspect or self report anything? What's the upside to allowing the risk?
The modern UK state has superficial resemblances - primarily in a shiny ceremonies with colonial era Britain,
The last line of the CoC document:

"And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!"

This is Google telling ME to not be evil not Google telling itself to not be evil. Big difference. Its sounds more like "if you see something, say something" snitch culture. That's evil.
I have a lots of questions, as I find it hard for me to imagine:

1) When you read, do you ever say the words in your head or is it always more like an automatic recognition of the characters without voicing them?

2) Can you force yourself to have an inner voice, aka forcing yourself to say something like "I am thinking to myself right now"?

Also, it's ok if you don't want to answer but I'd be curious to learn more about your experience.
There are also a lot of tech jobs which pay well which don't involve programming!

(Everyone assumes a poster is a SWE here - not necessarily the case)

Tech jobs not involving programming:

- Support
- Ops
- TAM
- Networking
- Architect
- etc.
2 cents. Discourse on the web has declined markedly over the past 2 years or so, imho, whereas things were pleasant from pre-2021, (yes even during 2016 with trump and 2020 and Covid) . Everyone is on a hair-trigger, on either side of aisle (not just the woke, who are often stereotyped as being intolerant). Maybe the Elon buyout of twitter had something to do with it. Or an increased pessimism about society that is hard to nail down precisely.
Google would be lucky to become another Microsoft. As things are going now, it's likelier to become another IBM.
GDP is a terrible indicator of a country's real wealth. Of course Britain's economic output fell after Brexit - it's trading less with the EU! That doesn't mean the UK is poorer or has "cost" them anything. Sadiq Khan is constantly making bold, unsubstantial statements like this - definitely a politician for the Twitter era.
In a democracy you have to make a case for it. I don't want the government spending tax dollars so they can recommend which sneakers or USB power adapter I can buy. Curation of a marketplace is not an essential service by any stretch of the imagination.
There were a number of gladiator schools that trained gladiators for combat, there's interesting ruins of Ludus Magnus, the largest of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus_Magnus
That sounds interesting but it also sounds like a mechanism to turn an FPS into a NvM player RTS where everyone controls one peon.

(FWIW I'd definitely give it a shot on that basis alone :)
Small companies get acquired when money is cheap; the acquirer generally doesn't want the programmers just the income stream so they keep a skeleton crew around until they can hand it off to their in-house team.
Rome was not civilized by modern standards. They celebrated wars of conquest. They enslaved those who could not pay their capricious taxes. They were in Nietzsche’s phrasing acting out their will to power. A euphemism for doing whatever they can get away with.
How a tourist can survive in China in 2023
It's the only exchange without a bad reputation, theft, inside trading, etc.
China's demonstration Gas-Cooled Pebble-bed Reactor enters commercial operation
That would be a very logical step to take given their recent history, they don't seem to be able to police themselves since the bean counters are in charge rather than engineering/long-term centered executives.
This is a major plot point of the book A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, sequel to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. The main antagonist uses high quality VR to trick the brain into full reality from someone else's perspective. The effect on society is grim, and when society is being actively graded by aliens on its worth, this is a big problem.

Highly recommend both books.
What about an adjacent move? For example IT you could leverage your knowledge for a for less emotionally heavy 9 to 5? (And you would be really good at it!)