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Ask HN: How to stay current with engineering during an extended hiatus?
Hey all. I'm about to graduate my undergrad program with a degree in computer engineering, and I know that long term I will want to pursue engineering as a career. However, right now it's looking like my world line is taking me along a path which will keep me out of engineering (both in industry and education) for at least around 10 years. Does anyone have any thoughts or recommendations as to how I could continue to keep my skills current and employable during this time?
> when the group is based on literally killing of Jews (Not even just in Israel).

This is literally bullshit.
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Can't speak for anyone else, but for me the electronic lock was enough. At least after I'd used it a few times and got a feel for how reliable the indication was.
In my case it is my remote garage doors.

Sometimes worry that I did not press the button on the remote to close them when I left home so I would drive pass my home again after dropping off the kids at school.

Fortunately distance to school/home/freeway to work is within a few minutes of each other.

Later installed an IP camera - told the wife it was for home security and not monitoring the garage doors.
Oh, I don’t know. I was assuming they were some kind of fixed point number.
The one I actively use and have benefited a lot from is PlanetFinance.io

You can easily get 50%+ APY a year on various stablecoins and crypto.
This was with IOHK (iohk.io) on Cardano however due to relocating and work visas etc I'm currently working on my own projects in the Eth/Cardano ecosystems
The joke went over your head
As I’ve learned in response to this thread, apparently some (but not all) Unixy OSes will run a file marked as executable using /bin/sh if no shebang is supplied.
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If you're interested in comparing notes, I'd love to hop on a call with you. (We've got some bookable slots linked at the bottom of the blog post, but I can make time elsewhere if you'd like.)
I am already working full time remotely in the middle of the woods where there is "no cell service" getting 6 mbps up and down on an unlimited plan with a super high gain antenna aimed perfectly at the tower through several miles of trees. Once 5G modems come down in price my throughput will only increase. Coverage is already amazing on the under 700 MHz LTE bands even with carriers that traditionally have had a reputation for terrible coverage - even when the tower cells are aimed in the wrong direction! (They are aimed at the town and highway nearby, away from me.) High gain antennas are the most important component of my stack.
It's a little like asking "what is this tech good for in the first place" when the internet started becoming a thing. And many people did ask such a question.

There are almost limitless possibilities. For example, if such a device were good and sensitive and accurate enough, I bet you could create some software that would let you quickly compose and produce music in a DAW via thoughts. And perhaps also even something more abstract like semi-implicit or subconscious "intentions" or notions. And if you might ask "okay, but what would that be good for?", I could write a whole essay I suppose.

(Disclaimer: I've been waiting for years for something to come out that would let me try to build something like this. I'm sure it'll likely still be a while before it's possible to make and practical for consumers to buy and use, but I think it could potentially happen within our lifetimes.)

It'd be much harder, but I think you could maybe even program certain things via thoughts. Maybe only a limited subset of things to start with, like visualizing a web page and having the basic skeleton, shapes, and colors quickly filled in, but if you look on the span of centuries, maybe eventually full programs, too.

I'm not sure at all if this would actually be the case, but maybe some people could potentially achieve a very high WPM if their thoughts were converted into text. Much higher than anyone could type by hand. Especially if it were something where you were reciting text/speech from memory, so that it could happen at your raw speed of thought, rather than writing an essay where you have to think about what you actually want to say as you're doing it, in which case it might be fairly close to your typing or handwriting speed.

Maybe this particular iteration of it won't be that great or that useful, but some future thing definitely will be.
English Is Mine
You can determine if a program halts by running two copies in lockstep, one at half the speed of the other. If their states are ever the same after the first step, they're in an infinite loop.

That was actually used in an early batch system for running student jobs in an interpreter. A successful student job ran for under a second; one in a loop ran for 30 seconds until it was killed for taking too long. So detecting simple loops, even with substantial extra overhead, was worth it.
I think we're conceptualizing entirely different theaters of conflict here and talking a bit past each other.

In your naval combat scenario, I think you're absolutely correct and the proliferation of autonomous drones will not cause a seismic shift in the battlefield. Unless we go mad scientist and throw in autonomous mobile mines that with a nuclear warhead that lurk around until they home in on the acoustic signature of a CVN's screws from the SCS to Guam. But we already have attack submarines.

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I've always imagined autonomous drones as having the most impact in urban combat, or 'traditional' divisional level fights. We've seen the early impact of this technology in Crimea and most lately in the Armenia and Azerbaijan conflict.
Having grown up here I think a lot of people would freak out if you had to use computers for services. The town I grew up in doesn't even let you pay taxes online in 2021.
It literally has invoked a wow from everyone I've shared it with in real life.

I'm glad you've had a much better experience, but lol this doesn't mean this is bad.

The pretentiousness in your comment is outstanding.
Not technically a fed responsibility. Taxation and spending is fiscal policy.

The fed can affect money supply by raising interest rates.
JetBrains: Early Access Programs Now Come with Login
The thing is, I'm pretty sure 15 to 30% of the population experience depression. Severity varies, but it's difficult for psychiatry to draw a line between melancholy and depression.

I'm pretty certain there are depressed people who are somehow functional and have unhealthy ways to cope and are able to go through it.

But it doesn't mean that people who are functional can give lessons to those who are not.

Talking about depression is okay, and medicating is good, but in my view there are way more people with depression than we like to admit. So talking about it it'sy okay, but it's more about being able to admit weakness.

We don't like to show vulnerability and weakness, but we should.
It's hard to avoid not wasting 8000$ when spending billions...
Meant to be: https://elemental.medium.com/the-absurdity-of-peer-review-1d...
You will get an error for that upon submit. The application can then buffer the submissions somewhere else and wait for a few completions to finish.
> And so I direct people away from Microsoft solutions because that's going to make my life easier.

Ah, so that’s why Microsoft’s financials have been tanking.
You're not strictly allowed to decode and read pager messages.
That's how i speak when i'm talking in my third language. No snark intended, i have a third language, i can't really communicate in my second language but still....
I like this new direction but the stated power dynamics don't align with their history. The most popular kids in the room (FAANG) define the hiring process and some of them outright refuse to skip steps, which hurt Triplebyte's reach. If those co's get hidden on TB don't you think a ton of engineers will ignore the platform?

In addition, as my username suggests, I really like the idea of a representative for Engineers during the job search process, but I also want to make sure I'm the customer of this representative. If I'm paying TB then I think the incentives are aligned. If they're just a job board then their new stance is opposed to the interests of their
true customers (hiring companies) and that won't work out too well for them.
What made you switch to tailwind in the first place?
Not exactly relevant to your post, but I'm dismayed by the number of people who refuse to believe that water is blue. I don't mind that nobody knows that, it's an obscure fact, but the fact that they refuse to believe something that explains a bunch of everyday phenomena (like the color of the sea) makes me sad.
The big thing that people get caught up on is the fact that the space is essentially permissionless and because of that there is no regulation meaning everyone is entirely responsible for themselves, a level of responsibility that is foreign to most people. Anyone can make anything they want, which will inevitably lead to projects that outright scams, or fail because of bugs or misaligned incentive structures. Of course these are the projects everyone here loves because it reaffirms their belief that the entire space is a scam.

I think the real story is the insatiable appetite for get rich quick schemes in today's world, because without that many of these projects would simply not be used. IIRC they had some insane yields of like 50k% apy on their token, anyone with any sense would know to run away from anything promising that.
"Is it even possible to be a responsible Heroin user?"

Many years ago I read of a long-term study which followed heroin addicted doctors for 20 years, in a society which guaranteed them a supply of clean heroin, and found that as long as their supply was clean and uninterrupted these heroin addicted doctors actually performed slightly better than their non-addicted colleagues, and there were minimal if any negative health consequences.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the study since[1], so take that with a grain of salt.. and heroin is not really my subject of interest so take the following with another grain of salt, but my impression has been that pure heroin is actually not that harmful, especially compared to something like alcohol or cigarettes.

The main problem is the potential for unintentional overdose, which really shouldn't be much of a problem with pure heroin (or not much more than many other prescription drugs, whose use doesn't have any negative moral stigma attached to them). If people know the purity and dosage of the drug they're taking they tend not to take so much that it would kill them... not accidentally anyway. It happens, but it also happens plenty of other prescription drugs.

There's also addiction, but if you can get a pure, cheap supply (which should be the case where heroin is legal) and it doesn't cause any serious health consequences, then what's the problem?

[1] - If anyone else can find this study, I'd be eternally grateful.
Supercomputers Help Supercharge Protein Assembly (2019)
Comparison of the Average Weather in San Francisco, San Jose, London, and Bogotá
So, as a thought experiment, because of the nature of the bug that $272M is locked until such time as TITAN becomes worth > 0.

And TITAN is printed by the system itself, whenever IRON is < $1?

Outside of abusing the oracle, that seems like a pretty pickle.
Most consumers are okay with it and tolerate large doses of advertising.
Definitely not an economist so reading stuff like this makes me think "heck just give everybody a million dollars".
"Hundreds of pneumatic pistons are then used to compress the plasma until the atoms fuse, generating massive amounts of heat."

Huh? Pneumatic pistons?
ad 1. there is a very interesting Ted Talk making exactly the same point by contrasting it with the situation of women in India.

https://www.ted.com/talks/yasheng_huang_does_democracy_stifl...
Do you find it increases the maintenance burden? Since now a previously 1-character change requires a massive recompilation, and updates to Python (which happen frequently...) also require recompilation.
Would you apply the same reasoning to caffeine and nicotine? Should we ban both? You're also seeing the world as a competition between people ("keep up with their coworkers") but I believe most people are actually trying to make a living (no need to take adderall if you are already satisfied with what you have).
While it is true that Goedel's theorem applies to weak systems such as Robinson Arithmetic (and any decidable extensions there of), The proof of Goedel's result itself requires at least some amount of induction.

As a consequence the minimum system that Goedel's second incompleteness applies to is stronger than the minimum system that the first incompleteness theorem applies to.
Micro-Habits of Effective Managers
This is how ALL of Crypto works. A decentralized ledger means that you cannot call the CEO or CFO of the ledger and have a clearly fraudulent transfer revoked. That is the tradeoff.
This is about something that happened in 2018?
In our case, it's more just an intermediate state between "crushing it" and "failing". We had a product that was working for a subset of engineers, but was running into structural and scaling problems. Simply put, it was (sort of) "crushing it" but was foreseeably not going to keep doing so.

At that point, you can either keep going with what you're doing (and run into an inevitable wall later on) or you can foresee the future problems and pivot before they become unmanageable (which is what we did). Relatively few startups find their final model from minute one.
Having worked on BCI tech a little bit as a student assistant (which were not fNIR based though) there were a few directions:

* Medical settings in which patients are slowly losing the ability to move or communicate, being able to look at a keyboard to type messages to your loved ones or perform basic actions (e.g. turning music on) make a terrible situation a tiny bit better.

* Entertainment/gimmicks: you go to Disneyland and you put on a cap/helmet and suddenly you can interact with objects just by looking at them (they have a flickering light next to them that pulses in a certain binary pattern) - it's like magic.

The second usecase is very difficult today though, the tech that I worked with (+5 years ago) needed to be trained for every new user and a training time of 10 minutes was considered very short. That of course makes the Disneyland usecase more difficult. Also you need to make sure you don't move or blink too much - maybe fNIR has less issues with that.
That's an interesting point. The beauty about SQL is that behind it, it has really good backed theory of Codd's Relational Algebra. Whereas Document Based, Column Based and GraphQL, don't have that. It would be interesting to see research on Graph theory as data sets and how to represent them as a formal query language. The majority of Graph theory I remember taking in my CS classes (granted, that was more than 15 years ago) was about graph traversal and path-finding.
Which antenna are you running? I've got a proxicast yagi that's good but I'm always interested in expanding my toolchest.
Context: Why I no longer contribute to Racket. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27531508
I just did this in like 5 minutes in Python. If you send me $5 of bitcoin I'll send you the .mobi

;)
The blog post this is in response to was posted in June 2021.
But byte arrays would work?
It relates to this discussion on Racket, [1] which was on HN yesterday.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27531508
Not really. States can choose their electors however they want, including following the National Popular Vote. At least, that’s the theory behind the NaPoVoInterCo [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
Just gotta throw this out there: Bob Seger went to the same high school as I did (and Iggy Pop), and that high school is in Ann Arbor.

Which also had quality music instruction at all levels of education, at least through the 90s, and had Detroit just down I-94 for somewhere to go and become a pro at it.
There's a very helpful method for being confident that you did something right, and while it may not be enough for people with compulsive disorders, it's great for many situations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

I think it works by recruiting more of your body & brain to the task of attending to something.

Maybe the anxious could video themselves doing it, and watch it back later.
I just read on the Gemini mailinglist that Thunderbird 78.11. 0 recognizes gemini links, so it's a start.
https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/006627.html
I think the reasoning is that people who need affordable housing are unlikely to be able to afford a car and the parking for it, so they have to live near public transportation. If the people in the affordable units can't afford cars, it doesn't make sense to require developers to build parking for them.

The foot traffic from public transportation makes areas near public transpo appealing to businesses. Then the area becomes "hip" and affluent people want to live there to be close to the businesses. They don't want to use the public transportation, they just want to be close to where the restaurants/bars/shops are. Then prices in the area rise, pushing out the poor. So now the poor, who have to take public transportation, get pushed away from public transportation.

You could try to fix that by building public transportation to the areas where the less affluent live now, but eventually the same cycle will likely happen to that area as well.

Forcing units to be affordable if you don't build parking for them forces developers to rent to people who have to live near public transportation. Otherwise, the units would be full of affluent people who don't drive, but also don't, or at least don't have to, take public transportation. If you push the affluent out, they'll buy cars to get back to where the stuff is. If you push the poor out, their backs are against the wall; there isn't a fallback plan.
Scamcoin hit a $70 million market cap within an hour, and PonziCoin absolutely would have hit a multi-million dollar market cap if the dev hadn't pulled the plug.
> How is PHP remotely comparable to Python

Faster.

> Perl

More readable and writeable, and probably more popular in the past fifteen years.

> Ruby

Again faster.
A new release of MOSP: A tool for creating, editing and sharing JSON objects
Ken Ross and Paul Laughton Demo the IBM 1401
>With the settlement, WD would agree that the WD Red NAS HDDs with SMR tech aren't suitable for NAS and RAID usage.

wow, a settlement where party admits guilt? seems rare

> The negotiated terms come to $2.7 million

ah, because it was cheap

>with complainants receiving $4 to $7 in cash for each drive purchased

wait, $4 to $7?

> with a maximum pro-rata adjustment of 85% of the retail price possible. That means the maximum damages per drive in the ~$160 range

so which is it? $4 to $7 or $160. I dont understand this at all.

> You won't need proof of purchase to make a claim.

how does that work? I claim to have purchased million of those drives pay me?

>The settlement value comes as the culmination of 10 weeks of negotiations and also includes lawyers' fees and other costs.

oh, so its $2.7 million minus lawyer fees ... This is the source of the news, https://lawstreetmedia.com/tech/consumers-present-2-7m-settl... Here is actual court document https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_Northern_Distri...

>Class Members can receive between $4.00 and $7.00 cash award for each Subject Product
the Claimant purchased during the Class Period, subject to a maximum pro rata adjustment of 85%
of the Subject Products’ retail purchase price (i.e., 85% of $69.99 for the 2TB Subject Product, $84.99 for the 3TB Subject Product, $94.99 for the 4TB Subject Product, and $145.99 for the 6TB
Subject Product)

>The affected WD Red NAS hard drives have the following SKUs: WD20EFAX (2TB
capacity), WD30EFAX (3TB capacity), WD40EFAX (4TB capacity) and WD60EFAX (6TB
capacity)

> No proof of purchase is required to submit a claim, and Claimants may submit
claims for each Subject Product purchased.

still dont understand how that is supposed to work? submitting serial numbers?

Whats fascinating:

>3 The maximum pro rata upward adjustment amount was the subject of dispute between Plaintiffs
and Defendant. Plaintiffs advocated for a full refund, whereas Defendant insisted on a cap of $36
per 2TB and 3TB Hard Drives, and a cap of $63 for 4TB and 6TB Hard Drives. Pursuant to the
parties’ executed Class Action Settlement Term Sheet, this issue was decided by a third-party
neutral, Hon. Elizabeth Laporte (Ret.). Judge Laporte received written submissions from both
parties and issued a decision of 85% of the Subject Products’ retail purchase price as the maximum
pro rata upward adjustment. Judge Laporte’s decision is attached to the Kopel Declaration as
Exhibit 3.

So plaintiffs wanted full refund, WD proposed $36-$63, and Judge decided right in the middle will be $4-$7? Unsurprisingly there is no mention of $160 per drive, like there is no mention of admitting any guild, just WD agreeing to "correctly label its product for 4 years". Document calls this "significant injunctive relief" HAHA.

in other news WD seems to be in a settlement mood, here is another one for sex discrimination from January, with each class participant receiving ~2.5K while lawyers pocketed 2.5mil

https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/01/08/215...
A strong AI would need a theory of incompleteness in order to save time when solving problems, and that's not as simple as saying "this program is taking more than a second to finish, I quit!". There must be some intuition to make the decision.
the word astroturf doesn't matter

this post is marketing with commenters associated with the company
How many of the other backers are as widely known and regarded for their technical foresight as Bezos?
So basically a Ponzi scheme where only the earliest adopters get paid and everyone is remarkably open about that?? :)