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Ask HN: How can reset my career while still providing for my family?
I am a 49 years old software developer, working for an online gambling operator. The job pays well and it is not far from my home. Other than that it is simply the worse job I’ve ever had. I had to take this position due to financial pressure after moving to a new country. Given an alternative, I would have preferred an industry other than gambling. To make matters even worse, the work is boring and repetitive. Most of the “development” I do now days is filling up C++ structures and sending them off as messages to other components via an antiquated communication layer developed in-house 15 years ago. The primary reason the company needs experienced developers is to keep at bay the multi-headed spaghetti monster which is their code-base.

The common perception among my colleagues is that this is a good as it can get at our age: yes it’s a life-sucking, mind-numbing job but it pays the bills and leaves you some time to watch television at the evenings. I simply can’t accept that this is not the kind of career I’ve signed up for.

I have been spending a significant portion of my free time keeping in pace with the latest developments machine learning and image processing which I find fascinating. It something would have loved doing as my day job. Which brings me to my question:

what should be my escape plan? If I didn’t have my family depending on me to put food on the table I could have just find another job, compromise on my salary and rework my way up. However, It's not something I can easily do with mortgage payments and getting a child through college.

What are my options?
> Without a doubt, the company is founded on Biblical principles. Even so, I have never seen any expectation placed on the employees to conform to any particular religion...

Very frustrating to see that line "biblical principles". There's a hell of a lot of principles people can derive from 'the Bible' (which version?). Many times I see/hear that line, and the majority of the behavior is mostly "be nice, honest, etc" - not bad things, but there's not much inherently "biblical". Really, not much is, or what might be considered to be isn't generally exclusive to the Bible.

"Eye for an eye" is certainly a principle laid out in the Bible, as is ownership of other human beings as property. These aren't generally what people in modern western countries are meaning when they say they hold to "biblical principles".

Is there a list of the 'biblical principles' Chick-Fil-A abides by the OP can provide?
I got nothing out of reading meditations after reading Aurelius' quotes. I feel like the whole back can be summarized "Focus on what you can control, don't stress over what you truly can't." Same with ALL of Buddhism.
> It never tested a malfunctioning sensor, according to the three officials.

That one popped out to me. Man. Lots to learn.

> Boeing continued to defend MCAS and its reliance on a single sensor after the first crash, involving Indonesia’s Lion Air.

Also...how? So many non safety critical services use a load balancer and at least a couple of servers because who can trust just one thing working perfectly all the time?
Just to clarify by USB SSD, I mean a 2.5" SSD with an USB adapter and not the expensive USB-SSD like Samsung T5.

Reg the cheap SSD, yes also the benchmarks show the cheapest SSD (Crucial BX 500) on the top. I'm not certain, why this is so; I think it is because people put the cheapest SSD due to RPi limitation but then again Samsung SSD in those benchmark score less which scored high in actual SSD benchmarks for PC.

I think the conditions in the RPi doesn't bring out the best performance from Samsung's controller but does so with Crucial/JMicron. SD cards are supposed to be much more reliable than SSD, it is our improper application that's causing it to fail especially in the OC RPi.
Totally true. It also gives rise to echo chambers, people just keep circle-jerking around those of approve of them reciprocally and thus keep themselves in constant denial.
Use Vim as a C/C++ IDE
> We will likely never know since these things are so far beyond our ability to capture or analyze, but my theory at least doesn't break physics.

I’m not sure about that. For sake of discussion assume they are self replicating Von Neumann probes [1] from an ET civilization, interesting something serious scientists would predict we might find as first evidence.

We do now have working high energy laser weapons.

I would vote to shoot at them.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft
I mean that is obvious. Here you own the market basically. Your competition is other content providers.
Why fiberglass plastic and not steel?
IOCC ASCII fluid dynamics render
> But yeah, a cat sleeping near you or "ignoring" you means he likes you enough that he thinks he can afford to chill out in your presence. He really likes you if he takes over your bed to sleep in. The highest compliments a cat gives are often understated.

Not unlike humans.
Immutability, the way I think the author means it, doesn't mean data can't be changed ever, in any way. It just means that modifications(e.g. corrections) cannot completely overwrite previous values without leaving any trace, but instead have to appear as amendments, visible alongside the previous versions of the data.

If it was entered wrong, you can issue a correction, but a trace of the first, wrong value will stay available.

That means nobody can just say something was never what it was, just that it changed(and then have to justify why).
I'm just here to shamelessly shill for Notion (not-ion), though it is probably the furthest tiling WM from this guy's wants (ease of setting up shiny things). I swear there are still dozens of active users.

It's tiling is like i3 except it uses manual layouts instead of dynamic. So when you create yet another xterm window it does not rearrange all the other tiles on your screen, it just creates a new tab in the current frame. If you want a new horizontal or vertical split, you create it explicitly. I open shells like browser tabs, so if the default was to somehow find screen space for each one, I'd be looking at hundreds of 2x2 sized xterms. Honestly if I could get i3 to behave like this I'd probably switch (and I've tried...I realize you can set a pane into tab mode, but I find it's still too easy to totally mess up your layout if you are not careful in i3. Anyone got tips?).

I also once used Awesome, and the constant reshuffling of the screen layout drove me crazy. Did not really care for the fixed layouts either.
So, what is interesting is that not only are they not free but the vastness of options create some fun compatibility issues which further escalates costs to bridge and work around issues.

My view is that we are in a dark ages of sort with how to write code, and we are still figuring out a great number of details.
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As someone who has worked with Chinese made IoT devices, I have seen this problem many times. The issue is a bad architectural design of the system where a camera is “bound” to a user account and even if the user returns that camera it’s still bound to their account, and adding it to another account afterwards doesn’t disassociate it from the other user. It’s just stupid things like this that are not well thought out that pop up in the multitude of cheaply made Chinese IoT problems that have flooded the market.

Believe it or not, this is the smallest security flaw in some of these systems/devices...
Why PWAs?
All we can say from the F-18 Pilot's accounts are they're 'out of this world' type of UAV!

Jokes apart, my rationale is if it is really an alien space craft then U.S. Govt has no reason to keep it quiet especially when its NASA is spending Billions to find some bacteria in neighbouring planet.

More over, 'Alien revelation' would come handy as an effective distraction for ongoing issues. Not that it hasn't been done earlier.
I'm not putting them on a pedestal. I'm exaggerating the situation to make my question simpler to communicate. I think the complexity of an audit holds true for the FAAN in FAANG. I think it likely also holds true for other large companies as well.
I assume you mean suburbs of New York City, as the suburbs in the rest of the state are not nearly expensive. Rent for a 1 bedroom apartment will be much closer to $800 (and I'm not so sure the job prospects in a NYC suburb is substantially better than a Rochester/Buffalo/Syracuse/Albany suburb given how expansive, and thus difficult to commute into, the city is?).
What he says doesn't matter what he does matters. And so far his administration has been removing transgender rights everywhere it can. What makes anyone think he's going to stop with one minority group?
Write tests to be deterministic from the very start (mainly: learn to use synchronization primitives to synchronize events rather than trying on timing coincidences) and then you'll realize there's no such thing as a flaky test.
I made an extension and needed to be able to quickly validate whether js was enabled. Surprisingly, there weren't any stupid simple websites to do that so I set out to make one. A few hours later https://isjsenabled.com/ was online.

I had a lot of fun carefully picking the colors, coding the site from scratch and stopping all work to solve a very tiny problem. It reminded me, there's nothing better than the feeling of having made something, no matter how small it is.

Thought it would be fun to share.
>All politics is identity politics.

This is probably as true today as at any time in the past. What has changed, for the worse, is the definition of "other" identities (those that are not our own).

What did "rural america" mean to "city dwellers" in the 1970s? What does it mean now? I'd guess the definitions most of us carry in our minds have narrowed.
I dont think its corelous (is that a word?). It's not really a lift and shift to new platform.

However the analogy to "rewrite all this" politics is good I think. Often you could walk into a building and say "all this needs to go" but truely the costs of doing so and starting from scratch are hidden in code and engineering design that's survived a trial period.

No matter how nice and neat everything might look, that's only because it doesn't yet account for 10,000 other edge cases you're not able to simultaneously consider...a system as complex as a commercial plane is still going to care about these.
That is a lie, but charitably I assume you’re deceived and not a liar. Up until the early 20th century the US was overwhelmingly Christian and overwhelmingly American, which is an ethnic group of British origin. This is a scientific fact easily verified with modern genetic profiling. These are simple matters of historical fact, 1984 style history rewriting notwithstanding. I’m aware that in contemporary usage American means anyone who manages to reside in the USA, which is of course intentional because erasing the former dominant ethnic group’s identity is necessary to displace them.

The Education of Henry Adams is a wonderful autobiography by one of the old Americans who saw his people were losing their political power at that time.

Edit: yes I’m aware there were Germans, Dutch, Jews, and West Africans, among other ethnic groups present in the USA. They were however tiny minorities and not at all comparable to the post 20th century mass immigration populations. That was when the USA became a multi-ethnic and eventually multi-religious state.
Device manufacturers knew all about it, even though very few customers knew or cared.
Consider the existence of good people with bad parents. Should those bad parents be credited with the success of their children? It seems perverse to assume parents deserve full 'credit' in either scenario. There are many things other than parents that may influence that child's direction for better or worse.
One of the niche subreddits I subscribe to had a post hit the front page a couple weeks ago, and ever since it's been constantly spammed with dumb jokey posts from one-day-old accounts. Reading this article makes me suspect I am seeing karma whores at work, hoping to come up with just the right dumb garbage to make this subreddit hit the front page again. It's so annoying.
Knuth is subsidized by Stanford (and maybe book royalties); not everyone is so lucky.
Best-stated comment so far. We seem to forget that this whole problem exists in an edge domain only.
DigitalOcean: Back to Linode for Me (2013)
Winning Bid to Have Lunch with Warren Buffett: $4.6M
And the media rails on them nonstop for no particular good reason other than 'That darn younger generation!'
Vernor Vinge does a great job with this in A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. I do wish that he had written more about Pham Numen and the Qeng Ho, back in their Slow Zone heyday.

Alastair Reynolds also does a great job with this in his Revelation Space trilogy, with his lighthuggers.
fwiw in this case, without jit took slightly longer: 36.5 minutes cpu
Are Stocks as Expensive as Shiller’s Measure Says?
I didn't turn on the purchasing option. Seems pointless anyway, I always want to comparison shop things.
Maybe only for those who are bad at math.
Houston and Chicago put the bay area to shame with populations over 2 million, high growth and super cost effective housing. The secret is no zoning laws in Houston
Painful Sex During Pregnancy
I did a pretty deep survey of the various translations (there are a lot) and landed on Maxwell Staniforth's as the best balance between readability and faithfulness to the original language. It's a fairly straight translation rendered in modern-enough English, unlike some of the older ones which add difficulty due to the age of their language, pointlessly, since it's a translation anyway and they're (obviously) so much more recent than the original that they are in no way contemporary so there's no claim to be made on that merit, as one might for, say, a 19th century translation of Jules Verne.

I think the only hardcover is from Folio Society, so medium-pricey as fine books go, but his translation's also the one used by at least some editions of the work from Penguin Classics, so, cheapish paperbacks. I'm having trouble verifying which editions of theirs are his translation, but it may be all of them.
> Which is good, otherwise web pages might look like lisp.

(what-is-p wrong (with 'that))

More seriously, there's also the security angle with browser, that using an independently developed engine has certain advantages.
Yeah. But dopamine injections seem quite random. Maybe I just want to roll a dice.
Which ones do you recommend using?
The business side is easy: subpoena email, documents etc... Google has to cooperate within reason. Then add in lawyers etc, all external communications etc... They will run the discovery through analysis software which is pretty standard plus whatever else the gov't has developed.

And the business is easy: Ads, ads, ads.. plus maybe Google Apps / Compute. Using android unfairly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
I had hidden this post because of D.O.'s response to me and promise to do better, even though their status page never reflected the problems.

I re-enabled it and am posting because it's apparently still relevant, seeing the poor customer service here:

"Digital Ocean Killed Our Company"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
These are the bullets from the article:

It takes open-source code produced by others, runs it as a commercial service and gives nothing back to the commercial entity that produces and maintains the open source, thereby intercepting the monetization of the open source.

It forks projects and forcibly wrestles control away from the commercial entity that produces and maintains the open-source projects, as it did in the case of Elasticsearch.

It hijacks open-source APIs and places them on top of its own proprietary solutions, thereby siphoning off customers from the open-source project to its own proprietary solution, as it did with the MongoDB APIs.

Check, check, check. Remember RMS' screed? "Only the writing of software should be paid for, the using of it is an inherent right of everyone and should not make any remuneration requirements on the user."

Back when he wrote that he was mad because companiies wrote code and charged big fees just to use it. He felt that was unfair. But now the shoe is on the other foot, and big companies are just "users" they aren't writing the software, so why should they pay for it? And while RMS was happy to have an architect use CAD software that someone else paid to have written, to design the houses that they sold for big bucks to their own clients, I don't think he thought it all the way through.

The missing bit here is that the "using of software" has a value. Whether you are using a better C compiler than your competitors so your compiled code runs faster than theirs, or you are using a distributed database to offer a scaled up database service that is impractical for an individual to equip and maintain. The whole reason people paid for software in the first place is because it accelerated the value they could create. And when that delta in value, that was worth significant money to them. Still is. That is why electronic CAD software still gets big bucks from its users, the same with packages like Adobe studio.

And guess what? When you use someone's software, and you are getting additional value that is accruing to you, if you didn't pay anything to the person who created it and maintains it, they feel cheated. Surprised? I am not.

When the software manufacturers of old found people that used their software without paying for it, they called them Pirates, and Crooks, and all manner of ill names. They turned to technology, and licensing legalize, to create ways they could pursue those people to make them pay. Not unlike the folks at Redis changing their licenses to make it harder for people like Amazon to "pirate" their software. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

There is nothing "free" about Free Software as RMS envisions it, it is just a structural way for the users of the software to rip off the people who wrote it by capturing all of the value gained by using that software to develop or provide a product or service.

It has always been true that software vendors were often extortionate in their pricing while escaping all liability by disclaiming the software did anything. If you fixed that problem, then we will be in a much better place.
I'm still not sure exactly what they'd be handing over that would be of note. Confidential sources surely wouldn't meet with journalists in the office, it would be a crazy risk to have them walk through the front door and keep them in view of the entire newsroom.
RPi is overkill. It could easily be done with an Arduino--including wifi if you wanted. The tough part is building a business around it. But maybe if you focus on sustainability rather than growth and exit, you could do it without VC money.
It's not complicated. The only thing is that the market might move on before the govt does... An example is Microsoft that missed the boat on the Internet. That doesn't mean that Microsoft didn't violate antitrust law though.
When Futurism Led to Fascism
Early puberty certainly seems like a negative if by "early" we're talking about seven year olds, which happens.
For whatever reason local telco monopolies seem as much tied to state and local setups that protect them and their access.

I don't know how that would play out with a federal anti trust setup.
An interface should avoid unintentional mistakes. Easier to detect invalid signature or hash paired with other signature or hash versus an incorrect name or other ID.
Sure, but what if they... don't do that?
There is some confusion about what a "publisher" means.
A publisher is either an SSP (a platform where publishers are aggregated by flat contract fee on a time or traffic basis with guarantees) or a singular site.

> There is no "ad tech tax"

That is correct. You might get better revenues (as a publisher) dealing with SpotX (an exchange) over say...Viant (a reseller who acts as a publisher to SpotX), but probably won't do better on volume, which directly correlates to payout. Then again, SpotX may not pay you as much for your average demographic and volume as Viant, who wants your business more than SpotX. None of this is supply chain. The chain is not a chain, but more of an amalgam of situations that is affected by the market, as much as personal relationships. Conceptually, an ecosystem where anyone can consume from anyone (as a publisher) and feed from anyone (as an exchange).

> The issue for publishers here is lack of scale

You don't know that. In 2009, the economy was still recovering and ad-tech had been slapped hard in 2008, leaving banner ads at fractions of the previous years. They have slowly floated down a few more cents to where they are today, primarily due to better targeting, ad fraud, video, mobile browser support, and clickbait (er native) ads.

> no cookies

This was the comparison that led to the 4% revenue bump. If platforms do not pay forward to the publishers (because why bother, the platforms set their own cookies anyway), it suggests that publishers shouldn't bother with targeting. That's exactly what has happened. No platform consumes publisher targeting data in arbitrage, because it might be faked. Using something like Zvelo for context and your own cookies, you get a much better view of the client.

> 2nd-price auctions, meaning they don't get enough high bids and don't get the full price for those bids

Whatever "high bids" or "full price" means here, is nebulous. How an exchange decides to run auctions is often negotiated up front but is, ultimately, black box. What this has to do with publishers is confusing. Publishers rarely get paid off what the platform makes. You sign an order for a set period of time or slice of impressions unless you have traffic that is hundreds of thousands per day (an exeedingly small number of sites). In the case where you run a Real Time Bidding auction (header bidding), you might make some variable money. It's rare and wasn't even seen in the wild (ie IAB) till well after 2009.

See this more recent breakdown:
https://www.emarketer.com/content/why-tech-firms-obtain-most...
Unless you limit yourself to flying very near the ground and very near sea level, the speed of an aircraft is more complex than a single number. In fact four different speed numbers are commonly used: indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, true airspeed, and ground speed.

* IAS is the raw airspeed reading from the pitot tube.

* CAS is IAS corrected for instrument errors, e.g. if the plane is at an angle that disrupts air flow around the pitot tube.

* TAS is basically CAS adjusted for altitude and air pressure. It’s the aircraft’s speed relative to the air around it.

* Ground speed (or speed over the ground) is TAS adjusted for the wind. This is the number that GPS is going to give you.

IAS and CAS are particularly important for describing performance characteristics - if an aircraft stalls at 100 knots CAS, then it always stalls at that CAS. If you try to describe the stall speed in terms of TAS you go from a single data point to a graph of speed and altitude.
Many people just use it for emphasis.
The composition of the house is nearly-irrelevant, and the vast majority of states are straight red, or straight blue for their senators, the same exact way, year after year.

Municipal elections are somewhat relevant.
The original iPad had 4x the resolution of the original Mac yet the iPad was full screen only and now supports some kind of tiling. Based on some historical writings I wonder if overlapping windows were a gimmick that became the default.
So, I think they way we try to educate our young is messed up. I was in special ed as a kid, and now I am an engineering leader as an adult.
I used XMonad for very long time. I briefly tried i3, but I didn't like it.

I actually prefer manual tiling WMs too. So I settled down on StumpWM. It's really good and easy to configure.