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Ask HN: Getting back after multiyear life project
Hello Hacker News!

I'm a 45-year-old software development manager with 15+ experience as a manager in major AAA tech companies, currently employed at Google. My resume has many of the right buzzwords, as I have a good list of successful projects behind me - some of them working in products of broad recognition.

After having amassed a "war chest" that would allow me to go ~5-7 years without any income, I'm planning to take a 2 year break to focus on an art+software project. The exact nature of the project isn't terribly important, but like anything involving "art", risks are significant. Let's assume a 95% chance of failure, and by "failure" I mean that the project wouldn't be able to provide enough revenue to sustain me and my family in the long run.

Please note that unlike the normal "left work to try my startup" question, this is about a project that, well, doesn't look as good on the resume as my previous projects. It would be (for example) "spent my two years developing software for composing music" vs my previous projects, which were more like "led the team that launched this major Gmail feature".

My project is NOT a buzzword project! Other people might even think that I'm a bit crazy or got fired for trading Google for this. I already made the decision so, whatever :).

I currently live in California but would relocate to a mid-tier software market (let's say Houston) during my project. Don't want to get in an argument, but I'm not happy in California and I never will be, so this move is part of the project.

If everything fails and I need to go back to the market, a 100K/year salary would be fine - and no problem if it's not AAA with free lunch. My family is frugal so that's more than enough!

QUESTION: anyone here in a similar life situation? How does going back to the software management market at ~50 looks like? Will my resume hep me to overcome ageism in a mid-tier market?
We just ran into this also. We're seeing comments left in the future, and floating out-of-order in comment threads as new comments are made.

Can't really find anyone talking about it, is bizarre.
Countries have emerged out of poverty even with strong democracies. I'm not sure why the world thinks that a strongman regime like the CCP is needed for economic growth.

In that sense, China is (IMHO) actually an outlier, an exception where a Communist regime used fully capitalistic economic policies and foreign investment to bring people out of poverty. This could have happened even if there was a different form of government there.
For more on Ingress, I thought Tim Bray's blog posts about Ingress were always good reads. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/ (search for Ingress)

If you find this sort of thing interesting, I'd also recommend checking out Empires of Eve (https://www.empiresofeve.com/) about experiences in Eve Online. I played Eve for several years (including during the period covered in the book) and thought this was a well written 'history book' about what happened then.
An analogy: Why complain to BP when one of their employees hits the wrong button and blows up an oil rig, spilling massive amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico? It's the employee's fault.

The reason to hold an employer liable for an employee's actions when acting in the course of employment is that this creates good incentives for the employer to institute good policies and procedures, and proper discipline of employees when they are on the job. This is a well-established legal doctrine called "respondeat superior."

Now, the $100 question: are Uber drivers employees? And in either case, how much liability flows up to Uber for a driver's malfeasance? I believe that's still unsettled, but I don't think it's just as simple as "if you have a problem with a driver, that's on the driver, not on Uber." Uber should have some responsibility for establishing standards for their drivers, and they should be held responsible when they are breached.
Interesting. I'm an American, and once sustained a bloody but minor scrape of my knee when playing basketball in China. I went to the campus clinic/dispensary to obtain some bandages, since I couldn't find any that were the right size at the nearby convenience store; there, the staff practically tried to admit me, telling me that I had sustained a very serious injury and that I needed to take it seriously and start a course of antibiotics. After an awkward conversation concerning my refusal to take antibiotics without (what I deemed to be) sufficient cause (being mindful and wary of the resistance risks of an unnecessary course), and their belief that I was being disrespectful of their medical expertise, I left with a bottle of antibiotic pills that I never took. My knee was as good as new in a week or so.

Point being, medical cultures can differ quite a lot, even from locality to locality, and the differences can be seen even in the handling of minor scrapes.
In the Loop – May 8, 2019
That's weird. Even with VPN, different locations and different computers, I get pretty much the same result sets: lots of media sites with articles debunking it, the eff weighing in, some people documenting how they tried it and what they found etc. You get facebook.com a lot in the top 10?
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This feels like bait, but I'll answer anyway.

No. You should decide whether to give your personal data to organizations on a case by case basis, depending on whether you trust the organization in question, and the value proposition they offer in exchange for your data.

If a company is able to share your data with whomever they want, you don't have that choice anymore. Which is why something like GDPR would be good to have in the US.
The site clearly shows it as a web app - how is that “desktop native”?
If the person is able to tell you that they have no insurance, this by itself means they're able to talk reasonably, this means they are conscious and can breathe and so (absent heavy ongoing bleeding e.g. from a gunshot wound) they aren't dying right now - so urgent emergency healthcare isn't really required.

If they can move on their own, then they can get to the clinic of their choice themselves if and when they choose to; if they can't (which can be caused by anything from a sprained ankle to a fractured hip) then they still may prefer to be delivered to the hospital by family&friends or a taxi instead of paying thousands for an ambulance delivery.
> Who in their right mind would give $50/month to someone they've never met, that has no real worth, and is peddling a free software suite as the real deal to get away from Google.

Someone who doesn't know how to configure that free software. There is worth here for those people, but I do think $50/year is far too much considering that gets you a probably far better service with Fastmail.
That's great news -- both of those make sense.
> much more than ... US citizens do in their lifetimes.

And what was it he did?

Here's an article about their testing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/vw-wvu-diesel-vo...

This article makes very clear Dan Carder initiated and was in charge of the project. The article also gives shout outs to the grad students Marc Besch and Arvind Thiruvengadam for driving, and quotes Hemanth Kappanna as saying that they they attributed the discrepancies to technical defects or design flaws in the cars rather than deliberate wrongdoing: "It was interesting, but we never thought it would blow the lid off Volkswagen. Never, ever." This now has become a thriller of a hero unmasking a fraud through diligent insight and breathtaking research. Who devised this study, directed it and did the key research?

Mentioned in today's article is that Kappanna helped fill out the grant application. OK, that's something. And that is "more than US citizens do in their lifetimes". I am not convinced that is true. I will agree though that most US citizens don't in their lifetimes do 12 years of college followed by a brief undistinguished 4 year career, all by age 41. Most people in the US who are 41 have worked more than that. Most people in the US don't have the privilege and opportunity to attend college for 12 years. Wouldn't you agree? Is this what you are referring to when you talk about US citizens doing far less? You clearly have sneering disregard and contempt for US citizens, which is a common position these days, particularly from people raised racist societies based on hate and systems of entitled generational privilege such as the caste system, in contrast to the US's culture and legal system which repudiates all of that, instead being the land of opportunity, with nearly all of the population descended from recent immigrants, coming from every nation and ethnic group on earth.
> Or what happens when you can't get a bank account? You're locked out of the ecosystem.

Cryptocurrency is totally impractical without a bank account. Meeting random people in the street to trade cash for bitcoins is about the shittiest and most dangerous UX I've ever heard of.
Look at Chinese imports / exports: https://globaledge.msu.edu/countries/china/tradestats .

If the Yuan collapses, that's good for exports, which is good for jobs. If house prices collapse, it only matters if you're trying to sell your house. You won't need to sell your house if you have a job.

It's only bad if you're leveraged on real estate and dependent on prices increasing -- a speculator.

You know who is the most leveraged on Chinese real estate? Local governments and the mega rich.

The vast majority of Chinese spending is on domestic goods and real estate. If those things become cheaper, that's good for the average Chinese person (and for importers or Chinese goods -- I.E. everyone else in the world).

China's growing dependence on imported oil could be problematic. But they're being really smart about their unbelievably fast growing electric bus fleet.

It is important to note that a huge portion of Chinese jobs are related to real estate / construction. If the market collapses, a lot of those jobs will go away. But these aren't particularly high paid or specialized jobs. The growth of factory jobs should absorb them. The only thing that would stop that is if the U.S. increases tariffs farther.

I think it'd be more like Dot Com in the U.S. Stocks dropped like a rock, but the average person in the U.S. hardly noticed. I don't think it'd be like 07 -- even though it seems more related.
The corrective action would be that Uber pays for the dress, obviously.

Where does this philosophy of yours end? "Well, yes, that cop did kill your son, when your son was unarmed and innocent. Why complain to the police department? It was the officer's fault. What would be the corrective action, anyway? That no police officer ever makes a mistake?"
≥ 10% of Delaware C-Corps are getting founded by Stripe Atlas
We have been using it for a few years. Its a complete solution for deploying apps (with logging, monitoring, rolling deployments, etc) and it has a pretty nice UI. Once you have it set up its as easy to use as Heroku. Can't really imagine a better solution for medium sized projects.
>spite is a great motivator.

This is exactly why spite is a great motivator - it encourages people to do better game theory (in the context of the ancestral evolutionary environment, at least). If you never go after the $25 someone owes you just out of spite, people will repeatedly take advantage of you in ways that aren't worth remedying.
Thanks. We are doing some enhancements. Here is some initial screen: https://mondaytest.datacabinet.systems/ system but the page inside is still the same. We have an elaborate design done.
Governments have a history of ignoring their academic advisors in the face of potential popular revolt. Falling asset prices have a history of causing popular revolt.

The world is crazy. Best to build that into your models.
You're the one who brought it up.
San Jose Escorts
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station

Worth a visit https://www.visitcruachan.co.uk/ and if you go by train it's discounted
I don't have any domain knowledge on CO2 monitors, but I use this one: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FYWU2IS/

It's a greenhouse CO2 monitor, which is the most common kind. I've heard that they're not as accurate as CO2 monitors that are designed for humans, but those tend to be much more expensive.
Biggest? Nah. Like so many tech companies, Docker didn't have a business plan. Or,well they did have one, which they mishandled, based around container orchestration. But, then along came Kubernetes and that was that.
that is a version of the story I never heard before!

Can you share some links?
It's a good problem to have but it is still a "problem." Nuclear plants have huge fixed costs in security (due to international treaties and so on), even if the reactor never runs, let alone the cost of operations and maintenance, so if you overbuild, it drastically increases your energy prices due to the ratio of fixed costs to production - unless you can sell enough electricity to other countries to make it economical for your own population.
Exactly. 90% of just US market doesnt understand how to run their own domain let alone setup a linux mail-server. Appreciate the feedback on the $50/year. We will see what the market will bear. Does fastmail offer cloud storage included in the $50? I used to use them way back in 2013 but have been running my own mailserver for 6 years now, so I need to update the competitor landscape a bit. I garuntee with Fastmail you dont get the same level of one-on-one support you get with this ;)
Isn't fracking the opposite, blasting water into the earth at high pressure to create fissures?
I wasn’t really making a criticism, just a light-hearted joke. I had to do a double take when I read that part of the response. Best of luck to living past 100, if you do I am sure I will be long gone.
Yeah I like that.

I'm cool with bringing people over to work if there is a real need. I really just want it to have an upfront cost that is tied to the need... some way of proving that need and skills would be nice.

I'd be ok with permanent residency, anything that disallows the employer able to kick you back home at a whim kind of threats.
I think you are espousing an "ADS ARE INHERENTLY BAD" mentality that just doesn't resonate with people. I want to know about the best services that are useful for me. I do not want to be advertised women's swimsuits on Instagram (I'm a male with no interest in purchasing said item). When I see ads that are useless its infuriating. However, when I see an ad for Allbirds or a cool new leather jacket, I feel very much inclined to explore or purchase a product that I will genuinely be happy with. So, ads aren't inherently bad, they become bad or unfulfilling when they aren't personally relevant or become overly invasive in experience or content.
> Yeah but that's annoying

Yes it is annoying. My point is if you want to be annoying, you should be annoying the user when they visit ANY external links as trusting the link text isn't a practice that should taught/encouraged.

> almost every one who isn't "techy" for lack of a better term won't even bother reading it and just press ok.

That depends on how short and well worded the alert is. However, there is certainly an attention budget that can be used up with pointless / low value alerts (which is why I would assume that Apple did not go this route).
How can I return all my Nest products in the United States? Any EU-like laws apply here?
Yep. This is why you never click on ads, period.
Why should they get a break on property taxes? You don't get to mooch off of society's infrastructure just because you don't try to make money.
Islam will prevail unreformed. Forced conversion is both unnecessary and invalid.
yeah I'm tired of that guy. Stirring peanut butter with a drill is for the birds.
Ansible does require that some flavour of Python is available on the target hosts. Without a Python interpreter, you're basically restricted to using the raw module (which, of course, you may use to bootstrap Python by invoking the package manager).

Still, I guess most people don't bother with that and just assume the presence of Python (at least on Linux, the bootstrap-using-raw approach is already required on FreeBSD and others).

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/raw_module.h...
Well yes it does... if you lie about examples when proving your point you don’t think it detracts from your arguments credibility?
Central Washington, right in the middle of Iras.

I realize there are places in Canada that are much colder than that, though.
> Dr. Kellogg and his brother

More importantly, Dr. Kellogg and his brother started two rival companies. The brother believed that sugar should be added to the formula Dr. Kellogg has been using to treat his patients.

Dr. Kellogg refused, believing sugar to be awful for the body.

Needless to say, we all know which of the two rival companies became the corporate giant, and which of the two rival companies disappeared into history. There was a big court case between the two rival brothers over the "Kellogg" name. After that, the two brothers never talked with each other for the rest of their lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg#Breakfast_...

Since the two were brothers, it is somewhat ambiguous to who really invented modern cereal. But Dr. Kellogg was the health-fanatic who would have been studying "healthy breakfasts" and other such stuff.

EDIT: It should be noted that 1890s / early 1900s medical science was downright awful. So definitely take any health claims from that era with suspicion. Be sure to look up "sanatoriums" and how awful their medical practices / beliefs were. There's probably a nugget of truth somewhere in Dr. Kellogg's research, but you've gotta look at his claims through the lens of history to really understand him.
A many others have said... getawair.com seems to have different monitors for this. DHH swears by them. They also just look better imo.

More comprehensive - https://www.amazon.com/Awair-2nd-Invisible-Quality-Chemicals...

Cheaper (smart plug version) - https://www.amazon.com/Awair-Glow-Breathe-Quality-Monitor/dp...
I like that this essay points out how the bell curve is NOT about nature over nurture — the authors concede that nurturing can work wonders, instead their argument is that environments that can help children advance are only worth it for a worthy few.
Doesn't that heavily depend on the design of the AC system? I know nothing here, so this is heavily a question.

I ask because I have a heat pump for cooling/heating, but the furnace is the blower. I thought when the fan ran, it pulled from the outdoor intake which is in a very different location from the actual heat pump coils.

Thoughts?
Thank you for taking the time to clarify. So if I understand this correctly, the system can allow an individual to verify that their vote was counted but not validate that the vote was counted correctly?

From that perspective, it seems analogous to the system in use but perhaps more efficient. In other words, does this actually introduce any new features or just translate the existing features of the current system to a new medium?
Ayr Saline Nasal Gel.
Do these have any actual impact on health? Like, if I get a house plant, am I going to live a year longer? Two years longer?

That’s the whole problem with all this “health science.” It’s completely disconnected from expected outcomes that you can use to determine whether this is something even worth caring about.

EDIT re: sibling comment debunking impact of indoor plants. See, this is exactly what I mean. When you don’t tie observed correlations to concrete outcomes, all you do is confuse people. It’s not quite junk science, but it’s not helpful reporting of the science.
Using HashiCorp Nomad to Schedule GPU Workloads
This manifests in the training time + cost for imagenet in the stanford DAWN benchmark. The (partial) TPU pods win on training time, with a clear exponential speedup as the pod fraction increases. (How do you use more cores? Increase the batch size.)

https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu//2018/04/30/dawnbench-v1-result...
When 4,000 people are laid off, it's much more than just this one department that is not worth of funds.
Why are you acting like that's a good thing?
It looks bad. Especially after a few months of being abused or the first rainy day. Same problem with the white Birds in their current fleet. There's nothing wrong with pink, but it makes more sense for a Google Home Mini than a mode of transportation. Bird selected pink because it's an "in" color. The product is going to outlive the color trend, which will result in further branding confusion in the future.

See Jump for effective use of color. Take note that they only use one…
This is really cool.

I tend to do a lot of exploratory work in Jupyter stuff, but find the whole process really annoying and cumbersome to set up - just been playing around with this VS code extension and it seems really neat!

I've been using nteract a lot recently but I'm gonna switch to VS Code now, at least that reduces one Electron app eating up my memory
Amazon Hit by Extensive Fraud with Hackers Siphoning Merchant Funds
This developer, Gerhard Lazu, states otherwise regarding Kubernetes as he describes the infrastructure that he built for changelog.com based on Docker Swarm rather than K8s: https://changelog.com/podcast/254
This is a really good idea, and I've been planning to write said guide for a while.

I think there is a lot to do with organising and formatting the notebooks, and the %run command works a treat for me when breaking a project into multiple notebooks
> Containers used are small and get shut down on inactivity.

How do you define inactivity? If I do

$ nohup ./computational_intense_and_runs_for_100_hours.py &

Do you just kill the process (or stop the container)? In essence Jupyter is a graphical rich shell, so you providing free *nix machines - don't underestimate how this feature can be exploited (e.g. CoCalc limits at least internet access for free instances).
I can also recommend that talk and the Awair unit seems to live up to the praise. I know some might suspect shilling by DHH for this product, but given I owe the last 10 years of my career to him, when he speaks I listen a bit closer than normal.
Pore not pour
Distributed Consensus Revised – Part II
> Why? If you don't want to be tracked it is pretty easy to avoid.

If you want to track clicks, why not use a subdomain instead of something.weird3rdparty.com? And why would the link text look like a URL? I don't see why

<a href="https://possiblephishing.com/n1bfsd?j1h7d8Sda">www.ebay.com/viewOrder</a>

makes more sense than

<a href="https://www.ebay.com/viewOrder">view your order</a>

.

> Even if it is a password reset email or a email verification email?

Why would you want to share password reset info with a third party? I get the "easy tracking" argument for newsletters (but I'm pretty sure most are not GDPR compliant), but for password reset emails? why?

> Would you be happy if the link just failed to open

Why would it? You can put a working link in the email directly - you've proven that by putting a different link in the email than the one you pretend you're linking to.
You sound mad, which undercuts your message. Please, you are not my target market, and also please go ahead and run your own mailserver. Anything is better than Google IMO, I dont want to be a product of a free service. Each one of us needs to decide how much privacy and eyeballs to ads they give up per “free” service they use. Also Google for business is $60 year per person so my service is actually cheaper at $50 per year with personal cloud storage that is not in Google’s servers. Some percentage of the population wants that alone because even being associated with Google and having data stored on their servers are their main pain points and would pay $50 per year to ease that pain.