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Ask HN: How do you get a job in 2024?
Hey HN,

I have been trying to find a new job for the past year and I have been struggling a great deal. I have managed to get a handful of interviews, but none of them resulted in an offer. In a couple cases the only feedback I received was "you seem great, but we need something different right now".

I don't have unreasonable salary expectations, but I expect the salary to cover my living expenses at a minimum. I don't live extravagantly, I'm in a 450sqft apartment in a bad neighbourhood, but I do live in Manhattan FWIW, so rents aren't cheap.

I am quite accomplished at 38 y/o: I have worked at several top tech companies, have done a variety of roles, founded my own companies (which didn't work out in the end), and I have multiple GitHub projects with over 1,000 stars and thousands of open source users. I have also published 2 books with great reviews, but the royalties only amount to a couple hundred dollars per quarter.

I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong. I have tried a variety of different strategies with interviews, faking it extra hard with positivity and excitement for whichever company it is, and yet I only receive rejections.

I have applied to well-over 500 jobs/companies, many of which I applied to multiple times, and the vast majority of the time I receive an auto-rejection or no response. I've mostly exhausted my personal network at this point, so begging for people to refer me to jobs doesn't help and it stinks of desperation.

While I've made decent money in tech over the past 25 years of writing software professionally, I've also had my share of ups and downs, and the downs were very costly. My savings are dwindling, while my expenses keep rising. So I'd be much happier if I could get some income and health insurance.

I would appreciate any insights if anyone has them. Or perhaps others can vent and share their experiences as well.
Have you done independent research to confirm that Boeing is an anomaly before developing that opinion, or was that opinion handed to you?
Its definitely worth interacting, the throwaway is more authentic and I do post in local subreddits, I’ve garnered sycophants and unsolicited interest from attractive women that are in to “bad boys” whom I’ve subsequently met in person

Its been far better than whatever else I was doing, I kind of feel bad for everyone else
Is there an argument in your comment?

For my argument not "all large" companies need to be dumb, as in the strawman above. It's enough to make more sense for the average company to do so. And there are tons of companies, large, SME and others, with big data to store, that have no ops or IT department as such, or just a couple of people.

They're not going to build datacenters of their own, distribute them globally, research into reliability and failover solutions, add some custom or adapt some third party stack, and so on. The salary for just an extra person could tower their AWS costs.
I think this is just rationalizing behavior (which humans are really, really good at), and it's exacerbated by the psychological distance from those who bear the actual cost. If you read through some of the discussion above, people are making the case that the consequences of scamming are worse than human trafficking. That's a really, really weird perspective and demonstrably false. There is no cosequence in scamming that doesn't have an correlary in human trafficking that is worse. Even as tragic as it is, a suicide driven by a scam is still less bad than a murder of a trafficked victim. The latter has less agency than the former. I would also argue that the probability is higher for those being trafficked. So if both the severity and the probability are higher, the risk is higher. That means people are trading a lower risk for a higher one. Why? I'd say it's because it's more about the gratifying feelings of self-righteousness of the act than actually improving anything. And that's a feeling deeply rooted in our evolutionary brain, so we will go to great ends to rationalize it. Humans are going to human, and we bring all kinds of weird biases that don't really make much sense upon inspection. Add a sprinkling of tribalism, and people get really weird about their justifications. (e.g., even though scambaiting is done under the guise of protecting a stranger from being scammed, people here still use the justification that protecting a stranger being trafficked is less valuable on account of them being a stranger)
Poland was dealing with similar brain drain problems, but now that economic opportunities are there educated people are returning.
I thought the VIA license was only for Intel IP, which makes it kind of useless. Especially given a lot of patents are expiring soon.
I agree it's not a good idea to have that power.

I wanted to highlight that the user experience is better than SMS. For example when I add a phone number I have a higher level of trust that it's a verified business. Having read status feature is also good. Last online tells me if this is an active business number.
> Untargeted advertising pays 90+% less than targeted advertising.

Perhaps if this kind of targeting is banned, the advertising budgets will be spent of untargeted advertising instead, raising the prices of non-targeted advertising?

Perhaps advertisers (at least those with useful products) will find that less invasive targeting is good enough, such advertising e.g. knitting-related products next to knitting-related content?
If anyone wants to dabble with (HPC) compute clusters, ElastiCluster is a handy tool to spin up nodes using various cloud APIs:

* https://elasticluster.github.io/elasticluster/
Google never had a problem working with content that was blended with it's visual presentation. They literally doesn't care. They crawl anything even pdf and other non-html content.

The semantic web was born from a belief that it would enable a peer to peer web that never materialized. Accessibility was better solved by aria annotations a long time ago and the semantic web was never going to properly solve it.
Any more information on this?

I heard so much about the Kevin Roose stuff, is there a breakdown somewhere of what actually happened.

From the way that podcast presented it, Microsoft had the bing bot untethered in a way that it kepted taking in more and more context and was just taking it correctly.

This is against my current much less virgin, but very much simple, understanding of how llms/gpt works.

What actually happened there?
check out https://github.com/tembo-io/pg_vectorize - we're taking it a little bit beyond just the storage and index. The project uses pgvector for the indices and distance operators, but also adds a simpler API, hooks into pre-trained embedding models, and helps you keep embeddings updated as data changes/grows
One of the main issues, if I remember correctly, is that the more we wait, the more the change is hard and the incentives to make that change are lower.

For instance, we are in dire need of elements such as lithium and cobalt. But mines are not quickly set up, it takes years, sometimes decades to open a mine.

This difference between the urgent need for alternative energy sources and the inertia of some of its needed compounds creates a shortage. This increases costs in production, which further delays projects, which in turn make the issue more pressing, which increases the delta between what is needed and the current capabilities, and on and on (from a book I am currently reading)

I did not finish reading his book though so maybe there are pointers in the end about how to avoid this.
Unlikely that they want it hot or even warm. That data almost definitely went to Gkacier while they worked out what to do with it.
Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit
I'm sorry, but windows itself, let alone applications are anything but consistent. There are still corners of the UI that have a look and feel dating back to NT4/Win9x. And some of the new functionality is oddly worse UX.

In terms of fragmentation, gnome and kde are the vast majority of configurations. Even other DE are likely using the underlying graphics library.

Given the level of customization that System 76 has to do with gnome for every release, it's probably easier for them to just create something more congestive for their designs.

And given that they actually sell and support hardware, are far more likely to make better choices for more general users than a lot of other DE in my opinion.

I do wish they'd make a deal with framework to get it with Pop as an in the box option supported by System 76... I'd pay a bit extra for that.
You have it backwards. None of these tech companies are candid about how they monetize. I'd imagine that all but the bottom 10% of users at this point understand what is going on. So the problem isn't entitled corporations, the problem is users are willingly using these services.

It would be way more fruitful if you redirected your anger towards the users who continue to just shrug and hand over their data. Or the ever growing contingent of people who are ad-blocking everything anyway, eating the fruits of garden while keeping their wallets taped shut. For them, the system as it is now is best.
This is a pretty bad take, borderline disingenuous. Spotify is certainly not a "gatekeeper" -- I don't think Spotify is comparable to Facebook by any measure really. Is Der Spiegel a "large online platform?" I suspect not.

It's actually quite simple: they have to not violate the rights of their users. They proposed legislation explicitly targets large online platforms that offer users no choice but to pay to uphold their rights. It's practically extortion.
> This really is starting to sound like all the hysteria from the 80s, 90s about Doom, baggy pants, gangster rap music, punk rock music, satanism in the woods, I could go on and on.

With the exception that none of these is proven to fry the teenager mind.
Most import rule is to never do your own drywall. I still haven't learned it.
Because nails and hair are produced at a fixed site. The nail itself is dead cells and do not grow.
@dang Hard paywall
Well it is not going anywhere near my eyes.
Definitely agree with you! When building I fully expect to learn and become comfortable with whichever auth system I'm using, just to start I need one with everything included to avoid attempting to build one myself.

Thanks for the link, will definitely check that out
The guide to Git I never had
I’ll wait until it gets crash-safe filesystem.
> FRCOphth Part 2 questions were sourced from a textbook for doctors preparing to take the examination [17]. This textbook is not freely available on the internet, making the possibility of its content being included in LLMs’ training datasets unlikely [1].

I can't believe they're serious. They didn't even write any new questions?
@tommycollison: What’s going to be very important in 5 years’ time that we’re not thinking enough about now?
Interestingly, I can’t see a single line from the US to Russia or China (not sure about the latter).
I hadn't made the connection between Pesach and Yom Kippur but they share this asceticism, and the atonement of Yom Kippur echoes the humility of the Passover "cleansing of the soul" ritual. I've explicitly used the Yom Kippur fast as a tool to chip away at addictions. As a profoundly irreligious person I can still value these ceremonies for secular reasons.
You overestimate the enterprise.
I always find it funny that Netflix is considered a poster child of "all cloud all the time." If you look at Netflix's architecture, it actually uses the cloud in a very cost-effective way. They mostly deploy containers rather than using "cloudy" things like serverless, and Netflix's data plane is actually mostly their own CDN (Open Connect CDN), deployed in colo facilities around the world.

By data volume, I would guess that only 1% of Netflix's traffic (measured in gigabits per second) actually hits their cloud, if even that.
Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024
Just make "personalized" advertising flat out illegal without opt-in --- due to the fact it is built around privacy violation.

Problem solved. The EU is just trying to dance around doing this.
My stab: A Mac Studio will have 400 GB/s or 800 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Not that you can't get there on x86 e.g. a 12 channel Epyc Genoa setup can do 460 GB/s or 920 GB/s total when doubled up but now you're talking about buying 2 latest gen Epycs and 24 high speed dims to get the raw bandwidth back all while ignoring the access is a bit different.

Curious to see if there were other reasons.
Interesting, but I could only find the information I was looking for on the wikipedia page for the game: it's a single-person game, not a multi-player game (like Elite Dangerous).

Btw, an Oolite is a kind of sediment composed of egg-like stones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolite

Like a coprolite, but with eggs instead of ... ugh... you know.
The CEO of Intel when it lost its lead was an engineer who specifically came up through the foundry side of the company.
I was recently looking at porting a cool OpenBSD feature to FreeBSD and was wondering how the locking could possibly work in terms of ordering. It turns out that all the OpenBSD locks boiled down to a global netlock rw lock for the entire IPv4/IPv6 stack.
Yes, it's common that people don't really distinguish between ads and other things that show up on their screens. Many also hook up their accounts to shady companies that quiz them and tell them what kind of wizard they are because they think it's fun to have the screen tell them little stories where they are involved.
I’d say existence precedes essence, and meaning is what the living do. If we make efforts to increase the footprint, robustness, and extent of life then we increase that meaning. (Existentialism, but more.)
that's not what the cameras or journalists are showing.

Was it also them who shot the World Central Kitchen aid workers?
Why, precisely? Larger volume?

Don’t know about you, but over the years I’ve met a lot of humans that can’t obviously outthink a higher-end chicken.
Sure on all these - but basically I think putting all this on credit for 4 years is a bad start to life.
I stopped after the first 3 slides, since the information density is too low and the animation too slow.
Is that limitation specifically defined in the law? I.e. does the law granting power to require this spell out how segments are defined and that only the largest by a specified metric can be regulated this way?

Short of that its just a current norm for how the law is enforced. Nothing stops the next regulator from expanding that power.
That still seems like a very unequal application of law. Newspapers -> disable JS, Meta -> even if you consent, it's illegal
I agree with you - listening is very important.

I worked in an ophthalmology practice when I was quite young many years ago. The head of the practice often had over 50 patients a day (one of my responsibilities was pulling the folders for all daily patients from the wall-o'-folders; this was in the age everything was on paper).

50 patients over 8 hours gives you less than 10 minutes per patient. I suspect a nontrivial part of the problem is being rushed.
The case involved an 11 yr old accused of 1st degree murder with a shotgun.
Are you intimating that an octopus is more complex than human cognition? Or just that an octopus is complex?
IndexedDB only, creating local-first apps with import/export and webrtc sync options and no backend, real serverless.
When we were building our house I built a tool[0] for exactly this problem so I could visualize how tiles would look w/ different arranging. Worked really well for both floor tile and tile on the shower walls

[0] https://tilelayoutwizard.com/
Hey it’s more functional than a Humane.
amusing

anti-money laundering controls are a waste of time when it relies on a complete ringfence globally between the cash economy and electronic one that a single link can undermine

foreign criminal groups can get financed and terrorism isn’t expensive enough to warrant this effort, as thats ostensibly the purpose of AML controls

once again for whoever needs to hear this: the only reason people aren’t flying planes into buildings is because they don't want to
I'm pretty sure any card accepting POS is going to need an internet connection.
> Isn't it up to consumers and the company to find the equilibrium price?

Remember, Facebook’s users are not the consumers. They are the sources of surveillance capitalism’s crucial surplus: the objects of a technologically advanced and increasingly inescapable raw-material-extraction operation. Surveillance capitalism’s actual customers are the enterprises that trade in its markets for future behavior.
The lack of top economic opportunities/companies is not strictly a EU problem, it's a everyone except China/US problem. Japanese workers were earning 2x as much as American ones in 1990. Now they're earning less than half.

I think this comes down to USA/China being big countries with a huge and homogenous consumer and stock market. This allows to scale fast to a point where you can simply crush the competition. The other small countries are all protecting whatever they already have to not be completely crushed, which makes it even harder for them to scale.

For example I am working for a successful startup in Belgium. We have a hard time entering our neighbour's market because of existing players, protectionist policies and just how different things are there, and so is it for them. Maybe with a huge capital we could make it happen, but in the end everybody knows we'll all get crushed by an American company, so nobody really wants to invest.

This could be solved with more EU integration, and with less economical protectionism at the national level so that national champions can leave place to bigger European ones. But everyone is blaming EU regulation for this situation and we're moving in the exact opposite direction.
Gruber has been wildly out of touch for years now.

He's claiming remote work doesn't work when he's worked remotely his whole life.

He's raging against the EU even though it gets us concrete results that we would've never had otherwise, the very least being Emulators and Game Streaming apps.

He has a lot of "old man yelling at cloud" energy.
Fascinating technology - if I interpret it correctly it looks like you're replacing lots of manual pipetting with a surface that can scooch little drops around using electrostatics. And then do a bunch of stuff you can't do with a pipette like controlling temperature, mixing.

Have you found an increase in throughput from the device vs a human with a traditional wet lab? Or is more about saving bio-chemists some serious back pain?

Are there new experiments we can do now?
It is also used as a coating for window panes, as it‘s great at reflecting infrared radiation (reducing heat loss). My father‘s house has such windows.
What level are you interested in scripting? In KDE Plasma you can interact with the desktop UI via JS: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/scripting/

And then for something more sophisticated there are extensions like https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth.

It does all feel a little disorganized/wild-west-y compared to say, a .vimrc with a list of plugins and bindings, which is something that makes a system like Nix (or a fully containerized DE of some kind) appealing
Small Habits, Big Futures
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Ego, dignity, self-worth.

They are all nonsense.

If they happen to be some of (or god forbid, they are all) your primary motivations, odds are, you will never succeed.

Ego-driven decisions lead to a lack of objectivity, as well as making you less receptive to criticism and constructive feedback.

Being overly concerned with your self-worth and dignity, you might focus too much on winning or maintaining your personal image rather than prioritising business outcomes.

This applies to leading a company, as well as in sales.

Sales often feel like a form of rejection therapy. Getting used to hearing no is a part of the game.

I could list here every rejection letter I’ve ever received — from job applications to business deals. However, it would make this newsletter over 100 pages long and no one wants that.

The word no really divides people.

When you hear it, you can either stop in your tracks, accepting it as the final say. That’s what most people do. They hit their first no and give up.

But not you. For you, no isn’t an endpoint — it’s where the negotiation process begins. Just like most of the famous people ever did.

Before Starbucks became the coffee giant it is today, Howard Schultz, the man behind its transformation, faced repeated rejections when he tried to raise funds. He was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially approached, with many unable to see the potential of his idea to turn coffee into an experience, rather than just a drink. Schultz’s refusal to take no for an answer eventually paid off spectacularly.

Read the full article either at the medium link (https://foundersfuel.medium.com/small-habits-big-futures-eee...) or here (https://foundersfuel.beehiiv.com/p/small-habits-big-futures)
That last sentence is not entirely true :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025198
With the largest packet size? Not very fast then.
Some news outlets A/B test their headlines.
Well, if they made the bizarrely uneven application of law explicit, it's all cool...
“The first submarine cable, strung across the English Channel in 1850, survived for a single day before — in what may be apocryphal cable industry slander — a French eel fisherman accidentally hooked it, sliced off a piece, and came ashore bragging about his discovery of a new type of metal seaweed.”
> It’s not particularly addictive either

Cocaine is highly addictive though.
display:table was never really evangelized for tabular layout. They were pretty much ignored and the literature and documentation missed the point. Tabular layout is really just another word for grid layouts. Grid layouts took forever to arrive. Tables were the only reliable way lay things out in a grid for a very long time and yet were discouraged regardless. There were people who knew about display:table and used it and some of us were nevertheless told we were doing it wrong because people got hung up on the word table.

Like many things in CSS features that should have been present in the original 2.0, when it became clear that the web wanted to be laid out like a magazine, Took multiple decades to actually appear. As a result we are still seeing the fallout of those failures in our ecosystem.
No, I don’t realise that, because I’m not using the product and hear about it maybe 3rd time. That’s great they’re quick to implement, the Rust initiative, etc. But as a user of Gnome (since 2, idk if that’s forever) I don’t see much of a difference, and see only an inferior (at this point) product. I don’t mean it’s bad, I haven’t used it. Visually, it looks less polished / clean. Functionally, I don’t know, looks similar, more like a replica. Hence, my comment.
Show HN: Django-image-captcha, a simple captcha application for Django forms
Can use some feedback
> the information density is too low

You failed the marshmallow test [1]. There is a traditional, long-form article that presents a rewarding read.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...
I believe it was a hn or reddit post, I remember it also.