skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from what it sounds like, you have done 3-5 years at your current place (which is your first job out of college). Reading your post, it sounds like your job hasn't really given you a whole lot of proper software development experience (build out proper software systems, productionalize your product/solution and then do support once it goes live, etc.).

Frankly speaking, granted I don't know the exact nature of your work - but it seems like your years of experience won't really reflect quality of work expected from an engineer similar to your work experience (number of years).

It happens - I have been in similar situation at the start of my career (doing part-time MSc that took few years to complete).

My advice to you - since you haven't mentioned programming / personal dev. projects as your hobbies...likely this isn't a hobby/habit you will pick up soon so unless you are naturally gifted, I wouldn't bank on you landing a FAANG position (or a similarly high paying Dev job). Therefore, if I were you, if you have substantial savings built, pay off your debts (if you have any) and after that, either invest in real-estate (buy and then rent property) otherwise get training for some trades career where you can eventually have a shot at running your own company when you hit 40s (HVAC, plumbing, trucking, garage door installation, etc.).

Why do I say this? 10-15 more years down the road, your lifestyle and the mind-and-body would have changed. What is the guarantee you will still enjoy sticking around in IT given you already feel bored? Better build out something for yourself that is non IT related.

I would have advice you for something that involves government / filmmaking but those are activities that IMHO involves a ton of good luck for you to make anything significant from it.
The nature of an internal psychological experience is that it is deeply personal. The best analogy I can provide for you is that of the religious conversion. A strong psychedelic experience is like Saul being called out to by Jesus from the heavens or Moses receiving the commandments from the burning bush. In a moment, an experience once thought impossible shows them they have a humble place in a bigger picture. Psychedelics are similar, for reasons not fully understood.

Common experiences during psychedelic therapy include the sensation of having died or feeling the boundary between yourself and others or yourself and the world dissolve. You are correct to note that there is no evidence of either such things occurring during any psychedelic experience at any time to any person. It's the deeply personal quality of the experience that induces significant changes in behavior for the users.

Another great analogy is that of new parenthood. You may just see a wailing lump of flesh, defecating and crying out for nourishment. The parents themselves often see their own reflection in an endless chain of reproduction, and feel a new responsibility having been forced to really consider their place in this ongoing process.

I think you are right to be skeptical of psychedelic drugs. If you have doubts about the efficacy of the drugs as a treatment, I encourage you to skim a few of the most relevant studies. Under quantifiable circumstances, psychedelic drugs produce reliable and positive benefits to the mental health of certain types of individuals.
> If there's money leftover, we give it back to causes

I grabbed that quote from the web site. With State Farm if there is money left over they give it back. While donating to causes is great, since you want to avoid doing that it just looks like marketing.

We've really bad fires in CA in the last few years. I think claims were in the $12B range from the 2018 fires. What happens to Lemonade when there is a mass causality like this and many insured make claims at the same time?
Design is more complicated than just 'give content some air'. Here[0] doing that would be a recipe to disaster. I'm a user of this tool and it really works like it is. I doubt that making it look more trandy would make it more functional.

[0] https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/assets/img-bru/mainscr.p...
FWIW, I just commented on the Ask HN about career advice and my comment landed about 2/3rds down the page. Seems like a data point for the "ranking of comments does not look at karma" point of view.
I use DDG for all my general searching, but I've found that Google is better for searching for technical things. So I haven't stopped using Google Search completely :(
*privileges or immunities clause, sorry (Not to confuse this with Article IV of the Constitution). And I guess RBG wants to use the equal protection clause directly.
This has been my experience. It's particularly egregious when looking for anything in the academic literature.
Founders often get the opportunity to cash out some of their stake in the company in mid and late VC rounds.
Reasons to Hate Linux
I believe DDG used other solutions pre-Bing...

DDG used the Yahoo Boss API [0] originally. It was pretty good, but Yahoo shut it down and Bing now also powers their search engine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_BOSS
Dutch protesters demand end to fur farming after coronavirus outbreak
That academy doesn't result in a revocable license, managed by some external body (like the state Department of Health, in my case)
Mundays* ;-)

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment!

...for 10 hours: https://youtu.be/oFwkL1WgD_0
100% Agree. My first startup job, I learned a ton but the second one was pointless. Target strartups with superstars - those who have a track record of winning. It makes a difference.
Neuropod was created at Uber ATG (not AI Labs) and powers hundreds of models across the company (ATG and the core business). It's been used in production for over a year and we're continuing to actively work on it.

The blog post I linked above goes into more detail, but here's a relevant quote about usage within Uber:

> Neuropod has been instrumental in quickly deploying new models at Uber since its internal release in early 2019. Over the last year, we have deployed hundreds of Neuropod models across Uber ATG, Uber AI, and the core Uber business. These include models for demand forecasting, estimated time of arrival (ETA) prediction for rides, menu transcription for Uber Eats, and object detection models for self-driving vehicles.
Don't serve your posts from someones database. You can still use a CMS, but make sure the content is rendered statically. Static web sites are 100x faster, more secure, and cheaper to host.
Sure. Which tells you which company M$ considers the more central threat.
Others have pointed out that other threats may have seemed just as likely, and that hindsight may be essential to pick out this one.

Now that we have hindsight about that, maybe the lesson is that it's worth it to find the money to research the hell out of every top-20 or top-200 pandemic threats.
Spray-and-pray.

Another pandemic will come. With luck, it will be another century from now. With bad luck, it will be next year. We must be better prepared.
ISWYM but I did carefully call it "an intelligence". I strongly agree what you say about it not being like, or obviously related to, or an aspect of, general intelligence, but I'm happy to call it 'an' intelligence. There's a risk you're defining something out of existence so as not to encroach on an existing definition. Or maybe you're right. This isn't my field.
"Best Catch" and "One That Got Away" are the only good questions here, and "Best Catch" is the only one I ask every single time.

This is one of the most important question because it reveals the "soul" of the tester; the flavor of brokenness that excites them most.

For every once in a lifetime "you won't believe it, but..." answer there are dozens of boring "one time mysql went down on prod" answers. It's not a golden snitch or anything like that, but I find it to be indispensable in the interview process.
Yes, this seems very similar to the ONNX Runtime https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime. I'm not sure why they needed to reinvent the wheel here.
When blatant misinformation is part of a flamebait or trollish comment, not feeding takes priority over correcting. Otherwise trolling would work.

I don't remember why I replied to your comment and not the others. It may have been that the reply was less substantive and more flamey. It may also have been that I didn't see the others. I certainly wasn't singling you out.
This is how I cook them.

It's pretty common knowledge for professional cooks[1], they just don't realize what it's called.

[1] https://youtu.be/CB-SCA1reqE?t=58
My experience with psychedelics was unpleasant and gave me anxiety for months. I don't think "everyone trying them" is a good idea. They can be great for certain people in certain situations, but are not without dangers.

Especially for ones as strong as salvia or DMT.
Absolutely. EVE today is a much better MMO than UO ever was. Of course, the space setting is a hard sell for those who are looking for a game with the all the Tolkien trappings of old school RPGs, but as an MMO it is the most sophisticated game available today and is unparalleled in terms of how player driven behavior impacts the game world. Most notably Eve has managed to succeed in keeping veteran players satisfied while also providing a path for new players to have a meaningful impact on the game world. This is a major problem WoW was never able to overcome despite its commercial success and has instead relied on periodic invalidation of veteran player progress every 8 to 16 months to keep things fresh (a well-worn strategy for most blizzard games).

edit: tough crowd, I'd be interested in the details of the dissenting opinions
"So far" meaning "might save more later" or "only postponed, not prevented"?
ReasonML serves no purpose whatsoever. The syntax is worse than OCaml's (though, more regular) and the editor tooling is really awful. OCaml compiles to JS just fine.
This article seems to completely skip the question in the title.

Regardless, the concept of "cultural appropriation" is absurd and dangerously ignorant.

Thinking about it makes me want some Korean Street tacos right now. Which are amazing, by the way.
What's the tech stack for the site?
When I was a teen and couldn't afford the latest magazines,so I came up with an idea of buying them up, scanning and putting online for a small fee. I neither had skill to build nor a clue how would I go about dealing with publishers though..
What causes Saturn’s strange polar cloud hexagon?
> he chose modern solutions that went a bit out of the companywide envelope.

Did he ask if his tech choises were ok before he started?

Or informed you what was on his mind, although maybe didn't ask explicitly?

(I suppose maybe it's not so easy to say no, if one is worried that he'll then leave)
I think this is pretty much the standard interpretation of Scrooge, those who know him best - Bob Cratchit, Fred (Scrooge's nephew), and Belle (his former fiance) - all feel pity for him.
I've noticed this too.

There are a number of common-phrases I'll hear like "everything is connected" or "everything is alive/sentient."

However, not everything is connected, effective thinking is very much about identifying independent problems. Also I certainly don't believe everything is alive, and I certainly don't think this opinion should be held on the basis of chemicals rather than scientific data.

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Edit: And what's most disconcerting is that they seem to think these phrases "mean" something. If they said "Well, there's really no way I can articulate it, but it's changed my emotional outlook on a lot of things" then I'd be much more receptive.
Study suggests, not finds. Simulation models can't "find" facts. Observation finds facts.
The existence of the effect does not mean that you're using it as a technique.

I googled this and this thread comes up on the first page, and the results do not show this effect being used for cooking, only for verifying temperature.

Why would you even want to do this even if it worked the way you claim? If this worked the way you did, you would be steaming the eggs. If you wanted to control temperature, you could just...lower the temperature to the proper level.
Just wait a year or two and you'll find that somebody with influence on the decision gets a well paid cushy job in the private sector. Perhaps one of those 200K-per-appearance type jobs as a "senior advisor" for a bank.
If DDG gets big I would argue Google will still be in play, and by that time I think the discussions around search engine options in the general populace will make it such that the space is more competitive.
Yeah I would be in support of everyone trying them in a supportive setting with some professional oversight. Definitely would not recommend going it alone.
I get the snark, but the comment I was replying to was talking about per-language IDEs, as has been common in the past, and I was saying I don't care about an IDE developed specifically for Haskell and in fact don't want anything separate.

I've never been able to productively use HIE with any editor despite claims here in this thread that it works and is ready for general use. Whenever I have managed to get it mostly working, it breaks as soon as I try to use it with a different Haskell project.
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You really think so? Take for example, kdb+/q. Not exactly widely used, but engineers who specialize it are making top dollar, it's not unusual for total comp to be around a million dollars, or sometimes a lot more, if you're the principle architect of a new system.
And some years back I use posenet in node.js, just for its head tracking, while exploring 3D UIs. Because it was fairly robust, at least as long as an eye was visible. Even now, it degrades more gracefully with heads turned away than some face nets. Though its positions are a bit noisy, which hurt multi-camera-parallax 3D pose estimation.
It's fairly common, in a strong series C round and beyond for founders to take money off the table, especially when the VC appetite demands it. Typically, founders can sell as much as 10-20% of their vested shares, which can be worth 10s of millions of dollars or more.
Turns out only one of those was necessary!
I've nearly been a murder-suicide victim due to esketamine, so yes, it definitely exists. In fact, they screen out people out of the trials with psychosis due to this known potential side-effect. They also remove people from the trials for things like that.

It's too bad, because other than that side-effect, it was doing a lot of good.
If I understand what you're saying correctly, you would need to pretty much be medium-to-intermediate at multi-threaded programming + C++.

Capturing screen/webcams and adding extra layers can get really complex. If you can't simulate and easily test it, it's a recipe for disaster.

Using MF API is quite old (relies on DirectX 9 as far as I remember).

C++/COM/multi-media is not such a good match - I always felt like puking when having to deal with COM interfaces.

I would strongly suggest you switch to C# (note: I've programmed 13 years in C++, and the last 9 in C#). There's pitfalls in this too - namely, not sure if/how easy you can easily do multimedia without UWP (Universal Windows Platform). That's a big can of worms, really hard to grasp, big learning curve, but well worth it in time (if you want to see what you can achieve, you can take a quick look at www.phot-awe.com - that's UWP).

Having said all the above - I highly suggest C#/UWP, but DO NOT expect an easy ride. It will take quite a while to be productive, but that will be time well spent.
So, not sure if you used to watch The Movie Channel, but Joe Bob Briggs has a show on Shudder.
$800 commission for a $50/mo life insurance policy. You have to pay the commission back if they cancel within a year.

Can’t really offer a source but I heard it from an insurance broker personally.
Project install should be one command. That's probably going to mean a script. Local setup options should be handled by either taking a config (with an example provided) or interactively. This doesn't count the commands to download the archive/clone the repo/etc, but that should be one step anyway.

Building, both artifacts and tests, should be single commands. That might mean you need to write a script that does the "cd into a directory, cmake .., make, make install" dance, but it should be handled.

Dependencies should work, should not conflict with system dependencies, and should be fetched if not already present. Hi Python!

Good IDE support: IntelliJ has some great features, I'd like to use their stuff. But some people want to use other IDEs or editors. Maintain project files for common ones.

Self-contained PRs. Keeping PRs small is all well and good, but having PR A depend on PR B and C and D getting merged in the right order makes review much harder than if they were all just stuck in one.

Must work on Linux, Windows and Mac, at least. Preferably also some BSDs.

Documentation, with all of the following: An introduction saying what your project does, tutorials on how to do intended tasks, how-to guides on solving detailed issues, explanations with examples of how things are used, and a comprehensive reference of what can be done. Divio has a good article[1] about this, though it misses the need for an introduction while providing one itself.

Strong types, with good type inference. Dynamic typing is nice for scripts, but not for full-on programming.

Good safety around memory issues. GC or Rust-style ownership based will depend on application, of course.

Interoperability with different languages. Especially an issue is building multi-language projects.

As an embedded dev, the hardware should be debuggable. Provide a damn JTAG or SWD port. Provide a GDB server or OpenOCD plugin. Provide test points, and a dev board with a damn schematic!

Have your datasheet actually describe the function of the chip and how to communicate with it. LTC (now owned by Analog Devices) datasheets tend to be great examples, try to be like LTC/AD. For example, see the LTC4015 datasheet[2]. It provides example application circuits, clear pin configurations, detailed typical performance info, a nice detailed block diagram, I2C protocol info (because that's chip specific), functional descriptive text, equations to calculate the needed supporting component values, operational state flow charts, detailed component selection procedures, PCB layout considerations, a full register map, and a recommended solder pad layout. Too many datasheets lack too much of this info.

[1] https://documentation.divio.com/
[2] https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...
Can't answer that question, but it's worth mentioning they also add their affiliate tag to Amazon product links and possibly others to get some revenue.
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Blame is for incidents. Discipline is for patterns.

Also, just a bit of friendly Internet advice, this isn't the best way to interface with people:

> Despite all of this the logical correctness of my statement stands and you have inadvertently agreed with every aspect of my statement.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned https://flashforth.com/

There is no intriguing backstory for it, like for CollapseOS, but it's a ~6 kiloword, practical 4th environment for Microchip PIC microcontrollers, which are a lot simpler than Z80, btw...
The source code is trivial to understand too.
My father is still using it daily to replace/substitute Caterpillar machine electronics or build custom instruments for biological research projects.

We started with Mary(Forth) back then, when the first, very constrained PIC models came out, with 8 deep stack and ~200 bytes of RAM. Later we used the https://rfc1149.net/devel/picforth.html compiler for those, which doesn't provide an interactive environment.

I made a MIDI "flute" with that for example, which was fabricated from sawing out a row of keys from a keyboard and used a pen house as a blow pipe and a bent razor with a photo-gate as the blow-pressure detector...

There are more minimal Forth OSes, which might be more accessible than a Z80-based one.

I would think those are more convenient for learning, how can you have video, keyboard and disk IO, an interactive REPL and compiler in less than 10KB

I remember, I played a lot with https://wiki.c2.com/?EnthForth

But if you really want to see something mind-bending, then you should study Moore's ColorForth!
I found it completely unusable, BUT I've learnt immense amount of stuff from it:
https://colorforth.github.io/

There are more usable variants of it, btw.
Also worth looking into Low Fat computing:
http://www.ultratechnology.com/lowfat.htm
I think it's still relevant today.
That is a very retro raspberry pi :-D
Not really, I like to keep my HN account sep from reality. Happy to reply on here though :)
How is DuckDuckGo funded?
That video only references it as a way of verifying temperature, not a cooking technique.

I don't understand the claim that cooks wouldn't know what this would be called.
U.S. Navy test shows 60 percent of carrier crew have coronavirus antibodies
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Parent comment is about kanji and you’re talking hiragana pronunciation.

Words that may contain kanji that naturally has pronunciations are sorted by pronunciation, yes, but individual kanji never even had an inclusive list and thus no logically defined linear order existed/exist.
People are happiest when their needs are met, where they can self-actualize, help and work with others. There are a lot of options these days as virtually ever industry needs software.

With respect to starting a business, it sounds like you have a role where you analyze the latest tech trends and to see if your company can use them. That skill is valuable and you could do that work as a consultant for other companies etc... That is one startup path. As you gain experience and clients, some product opportunities may arise. But it might be boring though if you find your current job boring. I can tell you though that the big consultancies charge big bucks for whitepapers and research into the current market leaders etc...

If you want to continue with a software career in politics and film making, then I would advise you to work in those areas to find the market you could develop software for. Is that something you want to do? What do you find interesting about those fields? In film making there are a lot of custom software pipelines for rendering etc... For politics, I don't know. I imagine there is some push for data driven politics but is that viable.. no idea? Maybe going back to school to study public policy or politics is a way to go. Maybe join a political campaign. There seems to be a lot of activity around FB ads and data analysis etc... So some of the tools you research now could be useful in political campaigns. Keep in mind that political campaigns have limited lifespans so you might want to combine that work with consulting work.

Also, it's your network that is going to get you your next opportunity. You get a network by working with other people. What field do you want that in?
This is one reason why people dislike working from home because these opportunities become more limited.
> However, not everything is connected

This assertion is just as unfounded as the opposite.