skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's going to get tougher and tougher in this job market.

1. Layoffs happening regularly.

2. Less Senior positions and virtually no junior jobs.

2. AI accelerating and reducing the number of software engineers.

3. Job postings being reposted with less salary and equity in US, EU and especially the UK.

You might as well take yourself off the job market / stay in current job, build a paying SMB company or side project on the side and make that your third income.

If it gets better and reaches sustainability you can choose to leave your job and live off it, or choose to get funding if need be.

After applying for over 60+ jobs after graduation and getting rejected over and over, I took myself off the market and started a pest control SaaS 4 years ago now it's bringing in over $2.2M+ ARR.

While the jobs I was applying for have now either shut down or not even bringing in anything over $100K ARR.
Man, nothing makes me appreciate USA labor laws like reading the HN comments. I (unironically) love how it's easy to get a job here; since firing is easy, employers are more willing to take a chance on hiring someone. Plus it would suck as an employee to be forced to give your employer 4+ weeks of notice if you want to resign. Whereas in the USA with at-will employment we can quit tomorrow with zero notice and suffer no financial penalties.
Fun fact:
A high-quality prototype of the original PS1 Wipeout is shown in the movie Hackers (arcade scene). It was done on a high-end SGI server and allowed the dev team to try out tracks and gameplay before porting to the Playstation. There are features and graphics in the movie that do not exist in the actual game.
You can make an argument for that, but neither system does that so it's not very relevant to the choice.

I think an exponential system would do better to have a different naming scheme.
Do you advocate that students learn without the help of teachers until they exhaust their own efforts?
I think it is incredibly fascinating how easily smart people can be confused by simple, repetitive propaganda. And they are big talkers about the narrative, but can be silenced (the only remaining option being a downvote), essentially without exception, with the mere unusual usage of language.

Imagine if someone was to weaponize, and then scale, this simple trick.
By "easier to shirk while remote" do you simply mean that it'd be logistically easier for an employee to do it if they wanted, or that people are actually doing it more? I don't deny the first, but I think the second requires evidence I have not seen. Have you seen evidence, and by that I mean methodically gathered, rigorous evidence, not anecdotes?

And then the next thing you'd want to demonstrate is that shirking your work duties more at home is actually, in practice and on net, damaging for overall company productivity. I mean, it's entirely possible that enough people both work less, and get more done in a more conducive environment. For example, by working in intense, focused bursts, then fucking off for an hour, then coming back to work hard again. As opposed to being forced to sit at a desk in a cubicle all day, surfing the web, hating your life, and doing as little work as possible even though you are physically proximate to your manager. That's a testable thing. We can find that out, but to my knowledge no companies who are mandating RTO have gone to the effort.

Instead, they're going with what seems obvious to them.
> we are falling far behind in many areas, including cyber security

In terms of quantity and quality of talent, I don't think the western world would fall behind China, especially with their strict control of information. Most people there will have difficulty independently learning about cybersecurity.

The difference is that most talent is captured by the private sector with higher compensation or bounties.
Meanwhile, China can very easily compel anyone they need into the government so the % utilization on outward attacks is probably higher.
A Case Against the Placebo Effect
Comparing any country to the economy that controls the world reserve currency is a categorical error. The US owns the world, and can slowly siphon away wealth by controlling the dollar inflation rate.

I don't know whether what the democratic party or the GOP is proposing is good or bad for the people. All I know is we used to have a country where you worked overtime in dangerous unsafe jobs, for a pittance, and now we don't owing in large part to leftist policies. It doesn't mean it's an automatic communist revolution. However it does seem that both parties right now need elite backing to have a chance at success, which means the incentives are in their favor on either side, which can't be good.
There’s no proposition in the root comment, and the opinion and judgment is valuable by itself, imo.

Let them do what they do and let us say what we think. It all does something, right?
Bill Atkinson stories from foklore.org

https://folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html

https://folklore.org/I_Still_Remember_Regions.html

https://folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

https://folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

https://folklore.org/Mythical_Man_Year.html

https://folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html
> handful of arms

Well done.
Lidar would reveal your drone existence and location to the, ummm, "park rangers" when you are “delivering supplies” to “lost hikers” in GPS-denied environment.
Breaches of Voting Software Warrant Recounts to Ensure Election Verification [pdf]
I feel like you are arguing with some “bad telephone” version of what I wrote.

I am supportive if efforts being made to accommodate people’s disabilities.

My charge here - is that also offering unedited versions of original experience is not discriminatory, not insensitive, and not “ableist” as the article claims it to be.

Furthermore - the author presented facts in bad faith. I went to the petition linked in the article, and unlike what the article claims - it makes no demand to take down epileptic-friendly version, just asking to offer the unedited one. And i quote:

“ As fans, we implore Crunchyroll to try to acquire an uncut version of the simulcast as we are paying good money each month for the services they provide. Not only does it impact the fans but Toho and Crunchyroll are gravely underestimating how the lack of effort to provide clean versions is affecting the engagement and overall reception of the season, as in many instances the ghosting completely ruins or takes you out of the experience.”
Counterpoint: while high contrast requirements can make the designer rethink the aesthetics approach, it also makes text easier to read for everybody. Of course, website authors can get lazy and just crank up the contrast without considering whether it looks good, but that’s just bad design.

On the other hand, the techniques we see applied to anime releases are just that: quick low effort fixes. Of course, this doesn’t mean the show producers are lazy or incompetent: fixing those issues properly would take extreme effort as at least a lot of re-coloring. Still, the result is that now everybody has subpar experience.

I’d say just release both versions and let people decide.
Brokers have gotten more “savvy” where they’ll actually act as a de facto property manager for a small fee or even for free and absentee landlords buy in because it’s less work for them (no communication at all with the tenant). And then the landlord wonders why tenants never stick around for more than a year!
Agree. The whole world doesn't need to give up alcohol/peanuts/gluten just because some people are allergic. It should be enough to put to a warning for them so they can safely avoid those things. Similarly, a warning on a version had has potentially problematic strobing seems like enough? I've certainly seen that warning on several things recently.\\

I noticed this issue in Kaiju 8. It was so bad I thought my TV was broke. It was clear the scene was supposed to be brighter and flashy but it was at like 50% brightness. I had incorrectly guessed at first that it was the TV not liking some extra bright scene.

Turns out it was this. It did arguably ruin the scene. An analogy would be if someone walked up to the TV and turned down the volume by 50% for an action scene.
Huh? I've never seen a commercial office space lease that had rent increase terms based on "footfall". You're not making any sense.
Congratulations! This is my dream. But the SaaS thing is so challenging. Couple of questions if you don't mind. Any tips for someone starting out? Did you have any experience in the pest control business? How did you decide pest control industry? How did you market the product?
This is part of why I pirate stuff.

I spent a few years as a nomad, and the amount of shit you have to deal with when moving country is ridiculous. It's fine if you're just on holiday and have a consistent country of residence, but actually moving country seems like a total edge case for half the services.

Spotify playlists that alter strangely from country to country. Any of the streaming services radically alter their available shows from country to country. Books that you thought you bought on Amazon suddenly disappear from your Kindle.

And, of course, the language problem. Most of the services assume that if you live in a country then you speak the major language of that country. I mean, I get it, but they know that I've set my preferences to English in their app. My browser tells them what language I prefer. I don't understand why my IP address overrules all of that.

Anyway, all of this goes away if you just pirate it all. You can get what you want, in the language you want, the format you want, and store it on your hard drive so you can play it while offline. It all just gets easier and better. It's got nothing to do with the cost - I'd happily pay for the content, as long as they actually let me own it.
It was nice to see PowerShell could change the interface metric when the adapter GUI refused due to the empty IP field. I bet that check has been there since the 90s.

It makes me a little happy when a new CLI is able to do something the old GUI cannot!
I take it they plan on chartering more Boeing launches then.
Steve Jobs also had pancreatic cancer.

Quincy Jones just died from pancreatic cancer.
I went looking for my copy of Computing Across America when I saw OP’s post, so I could post about it here, then I saw you beat me to it. A really nice guy, who I met when he stopped at the company I was working at, Chips and Technologies, back in the day, in San Jose. Steve if you see this, reply here and say hi to us!
> real interaction between people where people perceive all these tiny non-verbal signals like changes in posture, gestures, mimics, breathing

I dunno. I sometimes feel like many of those things just make communication more stressful, accident-prone, and overloaded. Too much to overlook, too much to accidentally let slip, too much to process besides the content of the massage... Just too much.

Voice is pretty useful to me, but for the most part taking body language out of the picture is a burden relieved for me. I'm happy to be represented by my words and voice alone.

> you can actually point a colleague to something with your finger

That's a great thing when it works, but it's not really a given in person, either. I don't see well enough to identify most objects when someone points from across the room anymore, let alone to read someone's screen in the tiny font sizes the average person uses or cope with light mode.

A link to source code or a reference to a file and a line number is way more flexible in terms of letting people meet their own needs for contrast and sizing, clunky though it may be. Same thing for digital whiteboards; some people essentially can't participate in conversations centered on a physical whiteboard.
There are just piles and piles of companies out there trying to hire but are absolutely obsessed with having people work in their terrible SF offices.

I don't get it. If these companies really believed that working in an office was so beneficial they would invest in them. But they all come across like "I need an office to appear like a real company but I don't want to spend a lot of money". They're these millennial gray warehouses rocking the sad-bachelor aesthetic.
It is open-source so it can be used by both sides to kill each other, or to assassinate a well-protected political figure, or to inflict damage on a crowd.
Ha I didn’t. But thanks for reminding me about Hiro.
On the other side of this you have people like me who've tried and failed, and now 15 years later I have 30 days to pay my mortgage or my life starts unfolding. Hoping to make some portfolio pieces in that time to impress some hiring managers, building fun tools for myself again without profit in mind. Not everyone can build a hyper successful SaaS.
I believe on an absolute scale, the vast majority of Humans are "not too impressive".

I wonder if this has something to do with why all Humans have a strong innate aversion to discussing absolute scales outside of physics, and will not talk about the proposition of whether they do.
I've been unemployed for 4 months. While I have received a job offer, it would require me to move and either sell my house, rent it out, or just continue to pay the mortgage on top of rent. I'm torn as to what to do as I do need a job, but I don't want to leave my friends and family. My thoughts go out to everybody else out there looking for a job at this time.
I’m not sure the bar has been raised. It’s been weirded, but not raised.
As a boss you have the right to treat people like shit but you shouldn't complain about not being able to fill vacancies that way.
Given when/where you were, you might be familiar with Global Underground. I was excited to learn recently that they relaunched in the past couple years www.globalunderground.co.uk
Maybe SEO/Amazon-esque shadow work is keeping it on the front page.
Linux real-time has existed for many years, but it's still Linux. That means that it's a big, underspecified project. RTEMS is designed for high reliability embedded environments, especially spaceflight. These systems are smaller and have very high standards for reliability and verification. Linux doesn't fit well in that niche, but RTEMS is very good.
So, a virtual adapter advertises 100Gbps link speed, but is not capable of delivering that and the takeaway is "Windows kills..." ?

How do other OSes handle the situation of having two interfaces with identical routes to a given destination ?

I don't see a better solution than using link speed, but I haven't thought about it too deeply.
I don’t think this is exclusive to Windows. SMB is a crappy service for anything outside local LAN. I am not too familiar with Tailscale but from what I understand, it’s basically akin to a VPN.
Rave culture is alive and well in the UK - free parties several days a week around Bristol and south Wales. Old heads and the younguns collaborating usually.
You should write them in a superior text editor like Emacs so they are clearer.
RubyMine 2024.3: Rails 8 Support
Internal referrals won’t necessarily give you an edge, but they definitely nearly guarantee at least getting into the door.

At our company the (unwritten) policy is anyone who is referred internally will always get at least 1 shot at an interview even if the resume would been have otherwise been rejected. The bar isn’t lowered on merit, though.
> Instead, tap your social network

social network might not be great for someone who just broke out of their underclass social network to try make it big.

This advice assumes you have such a network anyway.
Did you read the linked post? It actually has nothing to do with SMB
Prior knowledge part becomes important as you realise, verifying the output of an LLM to be right requires the same too.

In fact you can only ask the smallest possible increment so that the answer can be verified to be true with least possible effort, and you can build from there.

The same issue happens with code. Its not like total beginners will be able to write replacement for the Linux kernel in the first 5 mins of use. Or that a product manager will just write a product spec and a billion dollar product will be produced magically.

You will still do most of the code work, AI will just do the smart typing work for you.

Perhaps it all comes down the fact that, you have to verify the output of the process. And you need to be aware of what you are doing at a very fundamental level to make that happen.
Ah yes, in the grand tradition of meritocracy, competition, and capitalism: “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”.

To be clear, I’m not saying you’re wrong: in a distorted market it’s absolutely about who you know and get on with. So it’s nothing personal that your (astute) observation irks me.

I just can’t see advice like this without feeling a little tick: I’ve been in this business for more than twenty years, and there have been downturns certainly in that time, but I’ve never seen it so firmly in the iron grip of monopoly and nepotism with such predictably grim results for the software outcomes.

And don’t get me started on the party line that “the economy is doing great”.
At this point, I view the job search process as stochastic rather than deterministic. I model my job search using the binomial distribution. All that you need to know is what how frequently you get interviews and offers to then explore the probabilities involved.

To me at least, that removes a lot of the uncertainty, since I now know that if I apply to X jobs, I will have a Y percent chance of getting at least one offer, etc. Or maybe all of this is just an indictment of current hiring practices that I no longer think in terms of individual positions but in terms of aggregates of them.
The real hack is you give it an example of previous work you have done and ask it to write in that style.
This is framed as a problem with windows, when it’s clearly a problem with tailscale misreporting its capabilities to the OS. If I have a 100gbit and a 1gbit interface, it’s perfectly reasonable for the OS to auto assign route metrics to prefer the much faster interface.

This is the OS working as designed, switching to Linux won’t help. Tailscale needs to do a better job reporting link characteristics.
Any middle man that extracts a percentage of a transaction is parasitic by definition.
This isn't a Windows problem. The OP would experience the same problem on Linux. I've run into this with SRs. I believe I may have even opened an issue with Tailscale to detect when a client is local to an exit and/or provide more fine grained route ingestion depending on where the client is with respect to the SR.

But... Again, not a Windows problem. It is easy to fix by just advertising a longer route. But that implies you won't clobber other things. By default a more specific route will be chosen so a longer route advertised on the TS interface won't be selected.
"what makes something jungle" -- mini documentary that starts with this clip and is packed with history and tracks

https://youtu.be/vDZHEAwDAVo?feature=shared
Yes, the US famously has breached foreign infrastructure. In Confessions of an Economic Hitman[0], Josh Perkins discusses how he knows on good authority the US could shutdown the Japanese electrical grid with relative ease if needed, which an ally. Imagine what they do to perceived enemies.

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2159.Confessions_of_an_E...

This book was on of my favorite books to site in extemporaneous speaking events.
Tangentially related, seL4 recently held its 2024 summit[0].

0. https://sel4.systems/Foundation/Summit/2024/abstracts2024
Can't help but wonder... did anyone bite?
The EU should bring Netflix into compliance as well.
Jef Raskin also had pancreatic cancer.
I would be interested in hearing a plausible scenario of how a large scale voting machines hack could potentially happen
Have had this bookmarked for a very long time and go back to it semi regularly.

Any chance you can load a bunch of stock photos into the various categories? I think there's only ~8 or so in each.
Hopefully the actual bill wording doesn’t leave this ambiguous, but I think the intent of “exclusively” here is meaning that they don’t also represent the buyer’s interest (dual agency), not that they have an exclusive deal with the landlord.
> Most people there will have difficulty independently learning about cybersecurity.

Speaking from my own limited anecdata, but since the 90s in order to use the internet in China you basically had to be somewhat proficient in "cybersecurity" just because of all the required hoops to jump through. There were definitely a lot of script kiddies, but the Chinese exploit scene (amateur and professional) has always been bustling. And just personally speaking, the most truly awe-inspiring and resourceful hackers I've ever known have been Russian, or Chinese. Like actual 10x engineers who think that walls put in place for other people don't exist for them.
> That seems outrageous though

There's a good reason oil is so hard to give up. [6.1 GJ worth of crude oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_of_oil_equivalent) costs about $70 USD.
Querying each instance can lead to availability and latency challenges. Moreover, HLL is not suited for tasks like increments/decrements, TTLs on counts, and clearing of counts. Count-Min Sketch could work if we're willing to forgo certain requirements like TTLs, but relying solely on in-memory data structures on every instance isn't ideal (think about instance crashes, restarts, new code deployments etc.) Instead, using data stores that support HLL or Count-Min Sketch, like Redis, would offer better reliability. That said, we prefer to build on top of data stores we already operate. Also, the "Best-Effort" counter is literally 5 lines of code for EvCache. The bulk of the post focuses on "Eventually Consistent Accurate" counters, along with a way to track which systems sent the increments, which probabilistic counting is not ideal for.
The simpler explanation is that LLMs are not very good.
I should point out: pancreatic cancer is not a death sentence, but the prognosis is generally very bad. I lost my wife, who was half Bill's age, to the disease.
Curious to how your getting <500us latencies. Connection pooling, GRPC?
Is it in a position where, if remote work would be possible, regardless of corporate policy?
We used to order lunch for an office of 15 people just fine over the phone. We had a drawer stuffed with local takeout menus. The hardest part was deciding where to order from but that's the same with Doordash.
> females weigh up to 600 times as much as males

But Guinness won't come knocking:

> Males [of the blanket octopus] are the size of a walnut, can be up to 40,000 times lighter than the female -- https://octonation.com/fun-facts-about-the-female-blanket-oc...