skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a great tech job market generally. (Was talking to someone knowledgable yesterday and we basically agreed it's not dot-bomb nuclear winter but more like 2008, although different.)

However, the scenario described in the post (that's somewhat backed in some of the comments here) is that it's become easy enough to apply to hundreds or even a thousand or more jobs that companies are forced to apply very simple heuristics or "AI" filters (which is pretty much the same thing) to deal with the volume. This means that, for a given job, you have a near-zero chance of winning the lottery to even talk to a person.

Therefore, your only chance is pretty much to have a direct path to a human (but, because it's not a great market, that's far from a guarantee either).
Economies are ecological systems and behave a lot like systems of organisms.
I think the term "theatre" implies "is meant to achieve X but fails to", rather than "achieves X in a slightly flamboyant manner".

Like all the COVID-prevention theatre: sitting in restaurants and only masking when you visit the toilet. Hand-washing often whilst in unventilated areas with no masks. That's all "COVID theatre" IMO, as it fails to actually prevent the thing ostensibly being tackled.

My favourite one FWIW was wiping down the seat padding in the gym where nobody was masked - I mean who came up with that??

A creative hardware source of legit randomness is not the same as security theatre, and arguably has some useful educational aspect - it's certainly a talking point!
If you regularly use GPT4 for coding this isn't so viable, it gets pricey with the amount of context you need and the default GPT4 chatbot is decent with code. The GPT API is best hit with questions that don't have a lot of setup, can leverage its excellent general knowledge, and can be answered succinctly.
I mean, go off Dudley Doright, but there's not much that the Flipper Zero does that can't be done with off-the-shelf microcontroller hardware that is getting better and better every year. There _will_ be a replacement.
I imagine a lot of this comes down to personal preference. In the early days of Mountaineer [^1] (gee, almost two months ago at this point), I played around with the idea of embedding html into python instead of needing a JS layer. Eventually my consensus was:

- The most flexible shim approaches typically end up wrapping JS/React components anyway (like Reflex/Pinecone)

- We really need better IDE support for html strings that are within python strings. The editing problem is a big setback.

The ergonomics of Python + JS in separate code files won out and the user experience has been better than forcing them both into a common language would be.

This has the benefit of leveraging whatever the two languages are best at, in native code, so you have access to all the native APIs without having to learn a shim on top of it. Way more longevity to that approach too. Context switching between two languages isn't that bad if you minimize the glue layer that you have to write between them.

[^1]: https://github.com/piercefreeman/mountaineer
Don't worry, programming remains very unattractive. Where and how one gets their money matters. You can literally watch the "ick" reaction happen within fractions of a second of mentioning to them that one is working as a "software engineer".

I find that if it's not an ick, it's resentment. Normies are catching on that huge amounts of tech bros are "overpaid" (working ~10 hrs a week at a rest and vest retirement home like Microsoft), and they're becoming luddites over the impact of AI in their industries.

They call San Jose "Man Jose" for a reason. Women don't like tech-bros, and it shows.
When CEOs and politicians speak you have to listen to what they say but also listen for what they don't say. If OpenAI had GPT-5 almost ready to go, sama would have clearly hinted towards that. He wouldn't talk about a model being maybe "a little bit worse than". That's not the language you use when talking about the next leap forward in AI. When asked about GPT-5 he immediately deflects and talks about the "other cool things" they have in the pipeline.

When a CEO deflects when presented with an opportunity to hype the next major leap forward in AI that's not a good sign. He talks about "iterative development" to give "the world [...] time to adapt". He's telling people to temper their expectations.
Upvoted and completely agree.

Bans of Flipper Zero are ridiculous but Flipper should have run this by a "lay person" (sales, PR, marketing, an intern). Stripping a wire, showing a schematic with a diode and resistor, winding wires, soldering iron, etc just further proves the point of the regulators.

Meanwhile in the beginning of the video they show decoding the signal with the pocket-sized Flipper Zero with the push of a button in a few seconds. Easy, portable, easily concealable.

Ordering a $20 SDR from Amazon, plugging it in (even an Android phone), and clicking/tapping around in one of the many SDR GUI programs available would have demonstrated:

1) This functionality isn't limited to the Flipper Zero and has been around for years.

2) It's still "plug and play" and relatively low skill level.

3) It's actually cheaper and uses a device everyone already has in their pocket.

They shot themselves in the foot with this and only gave regulators more ammunition to call for bans.

They seem to have combined a sales/marketing video for Flipper Zero with a PR video for regulators.

Frankly it's incredibly stupid on their part.
1. no waitlists on Show HN

2. so its literally just an illegal crypto casino
Right, but those roads were useful enough to be worth then effort to build for the Romans. However they were not enough more useful than a dirt track to be worth building in general. There were much less roads built after the fall of Rome, as Rome was able to find the labor to build them at get enough benefit. The rest of the world wasn't connected enough that great roads made much a difference to enough people that they were worth building. Once roads exist the rest of the world will use them, but they wouldn't build them.

In the US some roads were built in the early days, but canals and later the railroad had enough advantages over road transport (both can haul far more bulk) that for most roads were not worth building and the dirt track was fine. Towns would build roads in town because mud was annoying enough, but farmers (the majority of the population) didn't travel often enough that the cost (labor) to build a road was worth it - they just stayed on the farm when it rained.
That was more because they put a gun to people's head though wasn't it?

Docker on windows is pretty painful without docker desktop. You can certainly get it running without docker desktop, but the polish isn't there. As far as I know there is no way to install docker on windows manually and get integration with 3rd party tools. The closest I've come is using podman desktop. I think it has a way to go before it can be considered a drop in replacement
I agree, there's a weird culture barrier almost at times.

My wife was in grad school and pregnant. Some of the instructors seemed completely confused on how to handle things. Others seemed to handle it in stride.

It's like there's an expectation that "you're relatively poor, young" and some other expectations that when that's not the case the system starts to fall apart.
Once upon a time, you have to have a second installation of WordPress just to get an "About" page along with the main Blog.
It can if they have time to get up to speed but if they're thrown right at clients/customers probably not. I consult and develop on a very complex platform, both in breadth and depth. I routinely have to correct their sales/marketing people and account executives on platform capabilities and even pricing/licensing. I try not to do it in front of clients but sometimes have to. You're right in that it doesn't go well.

edit: actually, i've seen this work. The marketing person has to be honest and upfront about being new and take down any questions they can't answer and then follow-up. I've found clients/customers to be sympathetic, everyone has been thrown into the deep end at some point in their career. A humble and honest approach can even endear them to the customer. So, it can work but the you have to upfront, honest, and absolutely follow-up.
Strictly sure but the quote more addresses the experience that visitors, residents and prospective residents have.
I covered this in a recent issue of a career newsletter I write [1]. Some snippets from it that I think would help new joiners (not only those joining a new industry):

1. No-one’s going to go out of their way to guide you. Esp at smaller companies, the fact that you’ve been hired means you’re joining a time-poor company, and there likely won’t be a formal onboarding process. So...you’ve got to onboard yourself.

2. Adopt a mindset of personal responsibility. This isn’t going to be a passive process, but an active one.

3. Don't meet everyone for the sake of it. The goal isn't to set-up endless meetings and become a burden. Limit yourself to a few, and make the most out of them. Make your ask clear when you ask someone for their time — e.g. 'I'd like context on X and what's been done so far'

4. Get some small wins on the scoreboard. Although your priority is to learn the key skills of the job, you also want to make a great impression during your first 60 days by showing you’ve made an impact. To do that, identify some smaller projects you can knock out to get a few small wins under your belt.

5. Be ‘seen’. Make your presence known. And communicate upwards so people know you’re busy. How? Tell your manager, “Can I send you a list of 5 things I think I need to hit the ground running? I’ll then set up a 1-1 and we could go through that.”

the full essay's here [2] (and plug: the newsletter I write is called Coached. If occasional career strategy is your thing, feel free to check it out)

[1] https://coached.com

[2] https://careersupplement.beehiiv.com/p/cs233-onboarding-hard...
If they'll dehumanize you in the hiring process, what would it be like to work there?
> The rest of the time is occupied by bipartisan wars that we couldn't afford and lost anyway.

Started by Bush I and Bush II.

> There was what? 5 years in the past 50 that there wasn't a deficit?

My observation was in the rate of change of the deficit, generally since the 80s Democrats seem to work for lowering the budget deficit while Republicans increase it. Which is quite absurd given the demagogy coming from the GOP about public spending, "welfare queens", austerity and so on, they are mostly the ones responsible for pushing future administrations (and generations) the burdens of their overspending.
To be somewhat cynical, they're big companies. Big companies have lots of process, layers of management, fiefdoms, etc. etc. Doesn't matter if you're Google, Facebook, or a big bank.
predators hunt, humans farm
The question is whether we can trust these numbers at all since the CCP raids businesses who analyze these numbers.
They throw their weight around to influence geopolitics.

EDIT:
There really does seem to have been this mindset in the 80s and 90s regarding China that they were going to liberalize once we shipped them a bunch of our industry and IP. You can only really believe that would happen if two things are true:

1) You have a woeful misunderstanding of Chinese politics

2) You think that the West, and the US in particular, have some sort of magic that will invariably keep us ahead of the Chinese. Maybe it was racism, maybe it was underestimating the power of collectivism, but there were people who really saw China as nothing more than a workforce that would happily do whatever Western companies wanted them to do, while providing absolutely no competition, forever and ever.
OK, then: sue car drivers, consumers, and everyone else who touches the fossil fuel who can be shown to have read about climate change and continued to use fossil fuels anyway, despite the harms.
His Zones of Thought series, especially, A Deepness in the Sky, remain some of my favorite science fiction. This one hits hard.
The perspective is the problem here. Looking from the angle of "investor" (ie, someone with capital) twists everything into a horrific hellscape. For example:

Suppose I own you, my slave. I can work you for ten years, collecting the profits off your labour - or I can sell your kidneys, liver, eyes and heart for a large up-front profit. One approach is long-term sustainable, the other is not.

But looking at it this way entirely disregards your perspective on the situation. Perhaps you would like to have a say in some of the decision making? Perhaps the owner's profits aren't the be-all-end-all of things?

You can pretend to have a billion dollars and show great concern about how to turn it into two. Or you can accept that for 99.999% of people this is an exploitative system that destroys everything of true value, in the end leaving the one biggest capitalist with a giant bag of money and nothing left to buy with it.
Anyone know of any good multi site options other than Wordpress? Say you were running 300+ sites by your lonesome, what would you pick, Wordpress or something else?

I’m asking because for this use-case Wordpress Multisite seems to be the only option, but I’ve also always despised its structure and inner-workings.
On the one hand, this is extremely cool science.

OTOH, English really needs another word, meaning "like intelligence, but it could be simulated by an analog computer with a good handful of of discrete components".
Finding printable characters in some archives or even machine code can be done without decompiling anything. Unix tools like strings[1] are usually used for this kind of work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_(Unix)
If you read between the lines, it would seem no one was keeping the place clean.
I've been overall very happy with:
- Arch on BTRFS RAID1 root, across 3 dissimilar NVME drives (about 7 years, 3 drive replacements for hardware failure, I don't think ZFS supports this configuration)
- numerous low-power systems (like Pi3s) on BTRFS root (also going on 7 years for several of these, lighter on resources than ZFS)
- Asahi NixOS on BTRFS root (kernel doesn't support ZFS)

My NAS and several larger datasets are on ZFS based on reputation alone, but honestly I've had more data loss scares with ZFS than BTRFS (drives that have disappeared for no reason then reappeared hours later, soft locked and unable to unmount indefinitely, several unfortunate user-error issues with automounting datasets overlaying necessary top-level directories and preventing successful boots), and I find the BTRFS tooling more intuitive.

For my hobbyist-level homelab type needs, I would say I'm overall pretty happy with BTRFS. The only issue I've never been able to resolve is regarding lockups when issuing quotas -- another reason I stick to ZFS for my spinning rust storage drives.

Oh, and the ZFS ability to mount a zvol as a foreign filesystem (words?) lets me `btrfs send` backups to ZFS, which is nice!
Canada walks back ban of Flipper Zero, targets 'illegitimate' use cases
Sure a soldering iron raises the bar. Sure Flipper Zero lowers it considerably.

But Canada is fighting a lost cause to strengthen "security through obscurity".
Sites like yours are a welcome addition to the web. Thank you! I've been using a similar one:
https://www.darkpattern.games/
> My additional recommendation would be to try to identify limited-scope projects that contribute to your role and where you can start delivering some value.

If you are in a leadership role over a team then having a pre-chewed problem ready for new members of your team is a very useful thing you can do. I'm talking well defined problem with a clear path towards success. This helps the new member become use to the team and processes, and gives them an easy win to put some wind in their sails. Also, this can serve as a litmus test to their on the job performance.
Interesting videos that explain how the radiometer works:

- https://youtu.be/t-JN2U4jHgk by Applied Science

- https://youtu.be/r7NEI_C9Yh0 by Technology Connections
They consume 50 to 100 tons of fuel per day. So that's 3% to 6%. Not insignificant!
A good bike today costs about half or maybe a third that, not a 10th. You can buy bikes for a 10th (many do), but they are low quality bikes that are 10th the price, but the quality is lacking. If you want a bike made by hand the way the wright brothers did it would be far more than that price (but the only people doing that are serious racers who demand much high quality and other custom things so I'm not sure this is fair)
Nvidia clearly thinks that their driver and SDK is part of their moat and they are mostly correct
Carriage Return (\r) - move to start of line

Line Feed (\n) - move down 1 line

Essentially, when you're sending commands to teletypes, that's how you'd have to do it.
The complexity and ingenuity in the Tesla heat pump system is the octovalve, not the heat pump. 8 different places to source/sink heat, with different set points. Keep the battery, motor, interior each at different optimal temperatures with a single heat pump.
Access is great for small companies if it's schema'd properly. The problem is when those small companies outgrow it; it's a complete rewrite. I believe you can point it to a MSSQL backend, but it's been a couple decades since I've used it.

It's certainly a step up from Excel.
I wouldn't say always. The way the "confidently wrong" answers make sense to me are in the context of asking people trick questions that seem to have an obvious answer but actually require more deliberate thought to get right. What happens in that case is you are engaging the part of the brain that has simply memorized a fact or developed a quick but not always accurate heuristic which it then applies to the question that seems to meet the criteria and it results in a confidently wrong answer given by a real meat and bones human. LLMs right now are essentially a big collection of facts and heuristics with the ability to find the often right association between input and the applicable output. Everyone is working on building the other thing that does the careful step by step reasoning and error checking, the so called System 2, and if brains can tell us anything about the implementation of such a system it is that it's made of the same stuff that System 1 is but arranged and controlled in such a way that it produces more reliable answers.

*edit: I should specify that when I say LLMs are a collection of facts and heuristics I mean they are a collection of those things encoded as language which itself has been encoded as vectors of floats which in turn have modified the weights of the network to produce yet another encoding. I don't mean that the facts and heuristics are stored in a lookup table or as procedures.
Better link to Rancher Prime 3.0 release: https://www.suse.com/c/meet-rancher-prime-3-0/

Multi-Cluster: With Rancher Prime you can automate processes and enforce consistent security policies across all clusters, regardless of their location.

Support: Rancher Prime lifecycle provides an 18 month lifecycle complete with support, security patches and maintenance updates.

https://www.rancher.com/products/rancher-platform has more details on the complete Rancher platform.
Most likely, it will work. You may need a few tries in case the connections aren't super tight. And it may stop working rather quickly due to corrosion of the contact surfaces.

However, in particular in headphone cables, the wires are often isolated using coating, which is hard to remove without applying q significant amount of heat.
There's also this longer-form article about the parrots learning how to read, request music, etc.: https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/28/magazine/cockatoo-p...
Ok so now that this has been widely reported, we know that glassdoor are rolling it back promptly and publishing an apology and confirmation of this on their website, right? Right?
Glassdoor have a GDPR Data Deletion Request Form here: https://help.glassdoor.com/s/privacyrequest
OpenBSD RCE to be released at t2.fi
I reached a point where I had to install Bludit in ./blog in order to add a decent blog to a Wordpress website. I'm serious.
Even for code I wrote once and then never have to fix, I end up reading it multiple times while I create it and the lines around it. I think it really is always true.
Thank you! Dark Pattern Games is great as well.
Nearly every large company is completely dysfunctional due to being captured by the professional managerial class, a group of people who's only skill is to resist all change that brings value to shareholders, customers or employees while allocating resources to things that are harmful to shareholders, customers and employees.
Its a pity more FLOSS software isnt AGPL. That would keep shit companies like Amazon from plundering and never providing back.
Don't forget FreedroidRPG, Pingus, SuperTuxKart, Neverball not to mention countless FPSs like Sauerbraten, Nexuiz (also in TFA) and a million clones of iD software games.

And that's only open source and freely redistributable games - on the commercial side there was also iD, Loki Games, LGP as well as a couple of indies even before Steam for Linux.
Implementing a UI for Spatie Laravel Permissions
Not sure if this is wayy to off of what you ask: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFS90-FX6pg
there would be an absolute small, at planck scales (from what we know)

there's also an absolute big, known in cosmology, far beyond the scales of galaxies, galaxy clusters, etc... it's your mom
companies create all of these products that can’t be recycled and then blame consumers for not recycling
My niece was in this situation. Surprised me to learn from her, that she got all the pay when it was over. No lost income. Just delayed. Puts a different aspect on it. For instance, a three-week shutdown means we pay government employees three weeks pay for doing nothing.

Not a good situation, and should be avoided at all costs. But sheesh.
In my cab driving days I hauled around a bunch of people to/from medical appointments and they talk on the phone a lot...

Some people are absolute experts at navigating the bureaucracy to the point I expect they know the rules better than the people that work at the various government agencies. It was quite impressive to be honest.

One example off the top of my head; this lady was talking on the phone with a friend (or whoever) explaining how their benefits would be impacted if they declared the father of the children resided in the household and how it was much better to just lie and claim to be a single mother.

No judgement from me as it was quite the education on governmental programs.

As an added bonus I also learned a bunch of methods on how to steal groceries from walmart since people are surprisingly candid on these things when they're just having a conversation with some random cab driver they probably won't ever see again.
Interesting to see the same trends happen with multiple companies recently.
e.g. Mint, Twitter, Glassdoor, etc.

It must be that once a company gets beyond a certain size, management turnover reaches a critical point, board / share-holder pressure becomes too influential, or some other X factor, companies become unable to make sensible decisions and destroy themselves.

Reminds me of the famous quote from Anna Karenina.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

The Microsofts are the exception, not the rule.
All these suggestions are great but I would add two more:

1. find a good text book in the field as narrowly construed as possible, and just browse the table of contents.

This will give you a quick map of the field, and a place to put all the info you gain.

2. Read the management discussion in the 10k of a public version of the company you work at and 2 leading customers, and the transcript from the earnings call.

Fastest way to get up to date on challenges.
These ribbons look a bit like wires, transforming the information of an attached molecules through the membrane through physical tension