skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a year of unpaid sabbatical leave. If the company you work for actually wants to keep you around, they'll give you this opportunity to take a career break to really have a go at something different.

It works for you and for the company. You get to go out there and see what it's like for startups, the challenges, etc. And then apply those lessons internally.

I know lots of people in their 40's and 50's who have done this, with exactly the same golden handcuffs you're talking about. Some of them came back, and rewarded the company's trust with a revitialised vigour. Others decided to leave and pursue their chosen option.

Example: A guy I know was a senior Account Manager at a major telco in Australia. He decided to start a scuba diving business in Thailand. He took 6 months to 'test the waters' (sorry, that was a terrible pun) and decided that was his dream.

Life is short. Live it to the full.
They're basically regular bikes, but with an electric motor that helps you with pedaling. Unlike a moped or motorcycle, you still need to pedal an e-bike to get it moving.

The Jump bikes in SF use 250W motors, which, when going uphill, is similar to having an extra person helping you pedal.

People should be a little more careful on these because these bikes can go pretty fast. That said, from my own experience using Jump bikes in SF, people on road bikes still zoom by me regularly on streets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
Eventually they’re either going to lobby and change the laws-they will always get their way-or eventually hiring will slowly shift out of California. If the Bay Area had built more housing and kept housing prices in the realm of affordability I doubt Austin, Denver and many other cities would have half the tech scenes they have. One city’s loss is another’s gain. California is the real loser though in the situation which is why the should fix the housing restrictions on a state level and step in to overturn some of the stupid laws we have (like capping homes to 4 stories).
You've never had problems? You're lucky. I guarantee you will. It took me less than a month to lose significant data with it, under normal usage patterns.
There's no way to keep that kind of thing secret. Too many people involved in building commercial satellites. Plus commercial comsats are either too small, or in the wrong orbit.

US intelligence agencies do purchase some imagery from commercial photo satellites. It's lower resolution than spy satellites but helps to fill in for coverage gaps.
It seems the project company had a functioning sales and lobbying department...
Archaeologist turned embedded dev here. It's not limited to software. But dating is one of the things we understand very well. The key is an immense, globally consistent data set collected by thousands of idiots (like me) who trekked to the ends of the earth for a sample or two. That data came from dozens of sources (soils, charcoal deposits, rocks, lake cores, tree cores, ice cores, bones, literature, oral histories, artifacts, etc), each with their formation processes and interpretive challenges. In some cases (such as radio- or thermo- dating), the process depends primarily on fundamental physical processes. If these models are wrong, We got incredibly lucky building computers and space probes on the same concepts. But we can compare cross-check that data with processes observable today (like erosion, sedimentation, dendrochronology, cores... etc). Those data sets are globally consistent. But, we can go a step further and cross-check both of them with ab initio computer models and human sources with all the context that implies. As expected, they pretty much all work out.

Virtually every area of science has contributed to the modern understanding of dating. If something is fundamentally wrong in that understanding, it would be exciting to put it mildly.

And yes, there are issues as well. I could go on for hours about them. But archaeology is both an old field and a highly self-critical one. Any idea that's survived awhile is probably either "close", wrong in some very subtle ways, or extraordinarily attractive to our particular, western academia.
The thing holding me back is that I don't think it's sustainable to have small single-family homes going for >$1m in tear-down condition. It might not get hit with a huge correction, but I can't see these properties being worth $5m in 2028. No one can predict the future, but I don't see how it can keep going at anywhere near the pace it's currently going.
I agree, the situation with law school a few years ago is a good analogy. Just because you got a degree from a random law school school doesn’t mean you are going to cut it in the real world.

My girlfriend is a lawyer who is transitioning to become a UX researcher via a bootcamp. The general standard of people in her bootcamp clas is quite high. On the young end you got recent grads from top tier schools (UC Berkeley English) on the older end of the spectrum you got a VP of marketing who’s worked at reasonably high profile consumer brands and who has a pretty good undergrad degree. Some of these bootcamps can be quite selective and aren’t easy to get into. They want highly motivated people who are smart. Those kinds of people are in short supply.
I spent two years on a self funded hardware startup. It failed and I spent all but 10k of my money (including retirement) by the time I paid off debt that would have trashed my credit for years. (Thanks partner) It was hard and painful and I’m not sure I’d do it again. Certainly not that way. There is something to be said for capital preservation.

On the other hand.. my absolute worst case was losing all my money and getting another six figure job... which I did.

(36, two young kids)
They might not be able to. But popular doesn't mean necessary or good.

We'll survive without Facebook or YouTube.
It’s both. There clearly is a bubble. The Fed has essentially dumped easy money into the economy since the dotcom bust. 2008 saw another crash and again the spigots were opened. It only seemed to flow to certain areas though as top down economic policy tends to do. Now as the Fed raises rates, people can borrow less and thereby afford less. We may see zero percent interest rates forever and the government stepping in to prop up asset prices like Japan, but who knows for sure. [1, 2]

But California also has a unique factor, proposition 13. [3] This drastically disincentives people from moving. Palo Alto has the lowest property tax rates in the state.[4] Why move when you will pay significantly more monthly. This is especially pertinent to retirees. So no one moves which destroys market liquidity. Combine this with NIMBYism, an over abundance of protected lands, rent control, affordable housing measures and piss poor public transportation, and you get the shit storm that is the Bay Area housing market. Tech is simply a convenient excuse. There’s a reason California is building a bullet train between SF and LA, but no public transportation from the east bay to the peninsula which would help an enormous number of workers and the environment. Despite lofty rhetoric, people vote their self interests.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/bank-of-japans-50-billion-quest...
[2] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-11/wtf-chart-day-boj-...
[3] https://medium.com/@michaellevinson_64108/landlords-and-heir...
[4] https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/01/high-priced-californi...
Always a fun place to buy back something you'd worked on previously!
The world did evolve with the development of nuclear weapon, but between 1945 and 1949 US was the sole nuclear power and could preemptively attack USSR as John von Neumann proposed. That's 4 years! I suspect such window will recur with AI.
Very interesting. The Mata Hari the article likely alludes to was the stage name of a Dutch exotic dancer and spy who captured both the eye and imagination of the western world in the 1920s, after being executed by the French in 1916.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari
Hint: "There is no physical evidence to the contrary" isn't really a proof.
The one thing I have never seen yet of any of that large group is a move to the east coast. It’s as foreign as can be though some have spent a bit of time in NYC for work. I think the cultural “west” is still where these people will stay for the time being.
That is exactly why cap rates are squeezing.
Life is way too complex and it's hard to generalize. Telling people that by following their passion they will be starve is dangerous advice. So what if people fail? Why is everyone so afraid of failure? And then telling people to replicate instead of innovating! I do agree the passion thing is oversold but now people are going too much in the opposite direction, especially after Cal Newport's book.
Yes, you were informed when you signed up. Your failure to read TOS, but agree to them anyway, is nobody’s fault but your own. This whole culture of “well yeah, I did it, but obviously that doesn’t mean I am responsible for it” is ludicrous to me. We are all responsible for our own choices in life.
Yeah I get that but where is the line? Can I put a 10hp electric motor on a bicycle and ride it through a park? If so why can't I do that with a small gas motor? Are there actual regulations on this? If they go fast enough that people "need to be careful" where is the line where we ask them to prove they can be careful?

In Seattle you have to wear seatbelts in cars and helmets on motorcycles and bicycles. In the case of bike shares and e-bikes we seem to just ignore those rules. If we can ignore them in one case why not ignore them in all cases?

It strikes me as a double standard that benefits venture capitalists more than the public.
Maybe the wars between the robots will see with less casualties, but then again the only use of the atomic bomb on civilians is hearlded as saving lives, so I doubt it.
Pretty awesome talk. Many of his business insights are applicable to 2018.
Lots of software jobs in places you wouldn't expect. Not with the big companies, but the world runs on software, so jobs are out there. No shortage of jobs here in the midwest. Nice cost of living too.
We need to build much more dense places that people can actually own.

The housing situation is not sustainable. Many people end up living on the streets because affordable housing isn't available. There is too much demand and we aren't building dense enough to utilize the land available.
I used to see a guy harvesting wheat next to Intel's fab, or walk through the bean fields where Google HQ (before Google, SGI's and Alza's respective HQs). Oh yeah, and I remember when all the houses in Palo Alto were underwater (prices had fallen so low the houses were worth less thant their mortgages).

Times change.
My experience is, stuff you love is best done as a hobby, not professionally unless you can’t live without doing it professionally. I have ended up doing what I love professionally twice, and hated it both times, because guess what, if you do it professionally you don’t get to do just the sexy parts, you have to go whole hog and do the unpleasant ones as well. And worse, you can’t lay it off for a while if you’re bored. This kills the “love” part right there and then.
Prop 13 doesn't exist in Seattle, yet prices are rising as fast or faster than the bay (on a percentage basis). There the lesson is supply/demand - there is only 1 month or less of housing stock available, when 6 would be a historically median market. Everyone is going crazy to buy something as fast as possible before they get left behind.

Absolutely though Prop 13 hurts liquidity in California though. There's a lot of factors, nobody can agree on them, so we're stuck with this massively overheated market.
Sources? I'm pretty sure you are significantly overstating the uncertainty. The word "guess" is very misleading here.

Direct, completely unmediated observation is not the only way to acquire knowledge. It is definitely a very good method. However, we humans are also incredibly good at finding clever, credible ways of inferring things from indirect clues.
In English, it would be per se, not per sé. (It's borrowed from Latin.)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se
This seems to be a little bit of coastal elitism. Do you know what the largest market is right now for Bike Share?

It's....Dallas! We have over 20,000 bikes in the city now.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-bike-share-regulat...
or, "Remnants of Prehistoric Adam's Family Production Gives The Finger To Paleontologists"
Sounds like working for early stage startups... There are plenty of good enough engineers willing to work long hours, often with low pay and minimal equity, on the romantic idea of changing the world and the promise of getting rich.
I don't have a problem with the content (I found it interesting myself). What I have a problem with is users who keep submitting the same stories over and over again. I'm pretty sure that's against the HN TOS.
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Right but I guess I’m asking if they COULD be or if you’d need like a FPGA for that.
“we deal with it successfully enough in TLS and SSH all the time”

Not quite. Downgrade attacks has been a huge problem for TLS.
The growth management act seems to engender a similar effect. It primarily limits new construction. I think Seattle’s charms also make it sticky for its permanent residents.
Sounds like the case of a $5,000.00 motorcycle deal on Saturday afternoon still isn't handled "instantly" in the same way a check would be. At least not until the real-time system arrives.
Electric bikes are usually limited to certain speed and output which is lower than a 50cc moped and more equal to bicycle speeds. Most countries don't require helmets, especially not for inner city rides in bicycle lanes or footpath.
They are, but the zoning rules and tight geographic constraints hurt it a lot. There is also a WA law that greatly increases Condo liability - nearly every new building in the city in a midrise or above density building area is built for apartments, not condos. Go look on Zillow - the number of units and houses on the market are EXTREMELY low and have been for a very long time.
Here is a humorous and accurate blog post about testimony:

http://neverusefb.blogspot.com/2018/04/accurate-reponse-to-f...
Yet the median house price increased by $50k last MONTH. They have a lot of new apartments on the market from the midrise and highrise construction, but almost nothing to own.
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This is an indicator of your conditioning.
Most company can’t leave a position open for 1 year. If they can , then they probably don’t need this person anymore.
https://www.google.com/maps/search/avocado+toast+denver/@39....

Thats a lie! :P
i am very for dockless for a couple reasons

- fan out / fan in. in the morning commute centers (bart, caltrain) will have X bikes in the dock and many times that riders that want a bike. in the evening commute centers will have X dock spots, but many times that riders trying to drop off a bike

- building docks is extremely expensive and time consuming. they should be designed into cities? sure, i agree. but you are talking about doing a public construction project that has to get approved by a planning committee, funded, scheduled, passed all kinds of environment and safety checks, and then a few years and $3,000,000 later a 10-space dock appears on some streets. having the space for docks is not the problem
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The simple, unqualified answer is no.

BTFS is official Linux and apparently "ok" for simple use cases, but there are no end of reports of failures when non-trivial RAID modes are used, demanding work loads are applied, device replacement is attempted, etc. and there are performance problems under a variety of conditions. There are enough qualifications on the BTFS status page[1] that I, for one, do not consider it 'stable.' ZFS is a thing on Linux, but it's not in the kernel and _when_ it breaks the kernel developers don't officially care, except when they happen to have a foot in both camps. This situation naturally limits the size of the ZFS on Linux user base; you're one of the few if you're doing it and that's not where most production users want to be. LVM can snapshot logical volumes and produce `crash consistent' volumes independent of the type of file system. That's been my go-to solution given no other alternative.

The fact is Linux has trailed far behind its contemporaries in advanced file systems for... 10+ years now? Not terribly flattering.

I suspect the reason is that most production use of Linux occurs in environments that provide many enterprise storage functions independent of the operating system, so there isn't much pressure to, for instance, harden BTRFS until there aren't major deficiencies. I can snapshot/clone/restore/whatever my EBS volumes any time I wish and I can do similar with my private cloud powervault volumes as well. I trust either of these mechanisms far more than _anything_ Linux has ever provided, including LVM.

[1] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status
That's the squeeze I'm describing. If you want a "new economy" job you must be in a city. It feels like the only people doing well are the blue collar workers in the suburbs or rural areas who are mending to the retired or retiring boomer's homes. New blood has no money or resources.
There are a lot of them from an old tv show called Almost Live. Here's a good spot to start from '97

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr5-Obhi1pE
> while trying to pay down a mortgage

I don't really get this. I just recently bought a house. Paying down my mortgage is just a bit more expensive than renting my apartment was. Leases are a year long, I think I could sell my house within that period of time, and we wouldn't need to ask our landlord's permission. Why is a mortgage strictly worse for living off of savings?
> I think the current maluse of AI is about as likely to produce AGI as finger painting of a toddler is to produce a Mona Lisa

YES FELLOW HUMAN AN APT METAPHOR
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I've seen the sabbatical option working out for some people, but in my case it won't because a number of reasons, including the fact I haven't been there long enough.
It's not hedging, it's being industrious. Imaging working on your passion just 2-4 hours a day seven days a week? You get really good, FAST!

My day day job was at Nuance, (I quit the end of January) and I was UI designer there. "Plan A" is doing fine art and I got really good at it for I was always doing something art related 10-12 hours a day. http://www.gkaustin.com/
A lot of the inventor tinker stuff has moved to other countries. I mean, you see children build solar power plants for the watering cleaning system and micro farms that they’ve also build in Africa.

I’m sure things are even weirder in Asia.
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That sounds good, and is true, but comes with blistering caveats. First, the general case as he puts it, covers every macroscopic objects on and including Earth. It also covers microscopic objects until you reach particles, again on Earth, because of the energy scales involved. Everything from molecules to mammoths fit into this general case. If you charitably interpret “standard physics” [1] to include Relativistic and Quantum physics, then you cover everything in the universe that isn’t a black hole or less than or equal to 1.6x10^-45 meters, or at energies associated with the Planck epoch of the Big Bang.

We’re talking about archaeology, which is notably unconcerned with black holes or anything with a detectable de Broglie wavelength. I think that if were not going to be pedantic, and accept that we’re talking about physics as applied to Classical objects like finger bones, he’s right and there is little debate to be had. It we want to be a little pedantic we can say that QM is just about the best tested theory ever, and the rounding error left to quibble over isn’t a factor here.

If we want to be super pedantic we can point out that the “common” case on the scale of the universe is ultimately quantum-gravitational and therefore subject to physics that is not understood. Of course that majority is at distance scales we can’t access, or at energies or seem since the first second after the Big Bang. In that very very pedantic case you’re just as wrong as he is, but I think you’d rightly argue that it’s a pointless distinction in context. I’d agree with you.

[1] Standard physics isn't really up for question. Newtons Laws still apply in the general case.
Well, now we know that significant portion of that facility are 1+0 for power systems. In a true 1+1 setup with air gap between A and B side power systems this wouldn't have happened.
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He's just giving you your daily dose of Republican bashing. Remember who the bad guys are.
That class was so many careers ago. Glad you enjoyed the notes. I wonder if I taught it today: maybe I'd start by having students use a simulator, or maybe trying to write a simple simulator themselves!
I got the same basic memo when I was a PhD student in science, and I think I would have quit sooner if not for the emotionally coercive aspects of this advice. This advice replaces the rational question of "is this going to get me to the economic future I want for myself?" and puts it into the emotional space of "do I love this enough?". It implies that if you quit, you didn't really love it. It makes it easier for those who benefit from this exploitation to rationalize it when you leave, saying "Well, they must not have been cut out for this anyway." For the young people making these do-I-stay-or-do-I-go decisions, it means that in order to quit they must not only be ready to give up their dream but also signal to their community that they never really loved it anyway.

As an external observer of course it is ridiculous to say someone can't love something and also recognize the disastrous financial implications of pursuing a particular type of career. The turning point for me was recognizing that the "expected value" outcome of the path I was not going to get me anywhere close to a middle class lifestyle.
Not everybody starts a family. In fact, in terms of the “traditional family,” it’s not even a majority anymore.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/17/1-the-american-fam...
> people that have spent decades+ in an English-speaking environment, yet still speak in a stilted manner

Again, the standard you're applying is unreasonable. English doesn't have any One True dialect - it's spoken natively in various ways, some of which sound stilted to you. I went to college with a guy from Malaysia whose speech you'd likely find highly stilted (or I did, anyway), yet English was his first language - the only language he used with his parents, the only language he ever used in school, etc. That is what it is - a person can be fluent or native and still sound stilted to you. You may well sound stilted to them!

This is why the rankings you linked don't use such language - they talk about whether someone can use complex grammatical structures clearly and without effort, and so forth, and when judging someone's fluency that's the sort of standard to apply. Saying they sound stilted just says that their English doesn't sound the way you expect correct English to sound, which is neither here nor there.
That article was written over 10 years ago
Related, The Eternal Flame, AKA. God Wrote in Lisp Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjTPj7K54.