skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How to find a less stressful position?
I don't know where to go from here.

A life changing (and semi brain-altering) event happened to me around 2-3 years ago. The gist of my current situation is that i'm trying to fix my mind and body while also trying to catch up professionally. I've been in the software industry as a programmer since 2014, though I don't have a CS degree. In terms of my skills/resume, to a company's eyes, I have an in-demand technical skillset ("Web UI") though I feel like i've been stagnant for the last 3 years due to being demotivated about my physical and mental state during this time. I did not work on very successful projects at work (unsuccessful due to business, not developers), and also did not work on any side projects. I do not have any public examples of work.

I second guess myself in technical interviews to an embarrassing level. My current position has me as senior level, but I just don't feel "senior". I would say my actual experience level is that more of a mid-level, with how my skills have degraded over the last few years.

I'd like to return to a product company rather than continuing being a contractor.

Has anyone felt like they needed to take a lower salary role for less stress?

Reading over how disjointed my thoughts are just really set in how much work I still need to do. I would honestly really appreciate any and all advice I receive on anything i've mentioned in this post.
Anyone that might have to fight China in the future, such as India.
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I'm getting censored on HN just for linking to the new fork. Thanks guys. Very Democracy.
If not, can we call them "subjects"?
There is something about corporations that everyone forgets from time to time: corporations are not faceless entities, they are made of people. There is a CEO, a board, a handful of executives running the company. These people set the culture and direction of the company.

Some PR is a trick, absolutely. You don't have to watch Mad Men to understand that. But not all CEOs are profit-motivated robots. Tim Cook probably actually believes in promoting privacy. Satya Nadella's son has cerebral palsy. In some way, that impacts how Microsoft is ran. Leaders are humans that can be persuaded. Morality has a place, not everything is fake or second fiddle to profit.

PR doesn't exist in a vacuum. Like you said, "the young people" believe it. Those young people include leaders and future leaders and CEOs. Sometimes the PR becomes the truth. Such as when Google employees strongly protested Google's Pentagon/military contracts - and Google dropped them.
It does. I am trading off decentralization, privacy, security, ... with (for Bitcoin) more than how much energy I would use in a year and CO2 I would use in a life, per transaction.

They do offer a comparable product, and you need to compare their upsides and downsides.
Audacity was friend of mine for many years.

It's a fucking huge loss.

To turn on the light, we can create a robot to remove data collectors from the main upstream to release free versions automatically.
Ya. Not simultaneously detected. These are days where one sensor sees something, then another sensor sees another thing, then a pilot goes up looking and sees something else. That is not confirmation. Multiple sensors seeing things in sequence, not all seeing the same thing at the same time. Once the word gets out, everyone starts finding things on their screens to report.
> forcing you to use some utterly terrible forum software with limited searching, visibility and a shockingly poor UI

You mean Fossil? We use it, it works great for us, doesn't get in the way, doesn't require constant rtfm. Also you could just clone the repo if you want to test. It exports to git.
I've always just assumed that they were an NSA front to begin with.

What would be better for them?
I've been rewatching the X-Files with my kid on Disney+ and, wow, the restoration is amazing. It looks wonderful in 4K. It has brought new life for me as I originally watched it on an analogue broadcast or VHS recording of!

Weirdly there's some stock footage scenes that aren't HD. This led me to finding https://www.reddit.com/r/XFiles/comments/3w3lxl/the_blurays_... which is a great thread with lots of info on how the restoration was done.

I seem to remember the later parts of the series going a little off the rails. But so far it's great family watching for the right age.

I think you'll find better UFOs and conspiracy theories rewatching this than grainy fighter jet videos.
Kinda on a related note I found myself needing to make a bunch of these sorts of scraped feeds. The problem for me was the lack of date parsing support which I sorely needed (and it doesn't appear like this option supports it either)

I ended up writing my own CLI tool that similarly supports CSS selectors for feed generation: https://github.com/dayzerosec/feedgen

I did write it specifically for my use-case so there are some "warts" on it like custom generators for HackerOne and Google's Monorail bug tracker. But perhaps someone else might benefit from its ability to create slightly more complicated RSS, Atom, or JSON feeds.

Example config with date parsing: https://github.com/dayzerosec/feedgen/blob/main/configs/bish...
Its better to make it constexpr.
I really do not understand the stigma behind UFOs. There is evidence of sightings for millennia all over the world, even before the invention of aircraft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over...
It's already happening. Intel design now are significantly influenced by Google and Amazon's data center needs.
Imagine some gorillas deep somewhere in the jungle pointing at the Jeep the naturalists have driven up in.

ape #1: You see that thing, holy crap what is it?

ape #2: Oh yeah, that's just a bunch of rocks.

ape #1: But, it moved!!!

ape #2: Must be some animal from another part of the forest.

ape #1: I've seen it move faster than any other animal in the forest!

ape #2: You've been eating rotten bananas!!

ape #1: But the big chief apes said they saw them too!

ape #2: <This thread, but with gorillas>

Anyway, that's my pet theory. We are way out in the middle of nowhere Milky Way Galaxy and the ETs have sent a few guys out to check on us, learn about us, etc. They don't get out of the Jeep because they know they'll get their arms ripped off if they startle any of us, the gorillas, so they just watch us from a distance and speed off if there's any danger.

So even if these are E.Ts. They don't want to talk with us, or invite us to join the federation. They don't even want to destroy us. They might as well be on the other side of the Galaxy, except we occasionally get to see them zip around.
Its better to make it constexpr than const or static.
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This is what they claim, in the March 2021 report:

"US Dollars held in custody accounts are the total balances in accounts held by the Company at federally insured US depository institutions and in approved investments on behalf of the USDC holders at the Report Date."

Note the "and in approved investments". Not cash.
If you're familiar with The Princess Bride, "to the pain".
Just to add on in here, it may be fixed now but the most recent time I tried to use ray on my on-prem cluster, it was quite difficult as everything assumed I was in one of the clouds or on a single local laptop. I had used ray pre 1.0 release maybe 3 years ago and it was trivial to setup this use case back then.

I dont remember the specifics right now, but my problem may have been related to having a local kubernetes cluster that wasn't a cloud. I'd be happy to dig through details in my notes if its worthwhile feedback, just reach out.
How old is your kid? Feeling like it’s early for my 8 yo, but curious when it might work.
I'm talking about just socially randomly knowing people from other countries.

It sounds like what you are talking about is more family\immigrant diaspora networks.

Different definitions of "knowing foreigners

Based on the way the parent said "a Lebanese person“ without mentioning a relationship I implied the former.
While irrelevant to the topic at hand - with the recent info of Trump's daughter literally sitting in the Kremlin's chair, Trump tweeting that picture was likely his hilarious way of getting one of the US's best spies murdered...

Also, keyhole fidelity has been known of for a very long time now. Any civilian expert amazed by that picture not only isn't an expert, but also has you hilariously duped.
The usual advice is to pick up a hobby like sports, weight lifting, woodwork or martial arts. Definitely do that.

You haven't mentioned your location but I assume you're in the US. You were great at your job in FAANG and have a large amount of savings. Consider moving to continental Europe and work for a FAANG or similar company there to improve your work-life balance and reduce cost of living.

Take a look at Germany, Netherlands or Sweden. You don't have to learn the language before moving there, you get more vacation days a year, longer parental leaves (in the case of Sweden you may qualify for the paid parental leave even if have a small child who was born before you moved to the country), and good public transport, no need to be stuck in traffic jams. Free healthcare and education are also a plus.

Good luck finding your mojo again!
If Audacity branded itself as as an "offline audio editing program" I would agree with you, but its headline is (and has been) "Free, open source, cross-platform audio software." I think using the internet to check for updates and report crashes is perfectly within that mission and, on balance, not using the internet in those situations seems to go against the mission.

Should there be a way to disable that communication? Yes, and there is.

Beyond all that - if you are seeking the level of anonymity that would require evading program update checks or crash submissions - then you should probably lock down your network as your biggest worry is probably not your open source audio software.
Sounds like Star Wars to me.
I'm not sure I agree with his assessment that if it was near peer they wouldn't cagy about it, if it's genuinely paradigm shifting technology that has real world socioeconomic consequences, I can think of a lot of reasons for caginess.
There are quite a few ways to map aspects of points outside the set to colours or other variables. It’s been a long time since I looked at Frax but I seem to remember it maps iterations, the direction in which points are escaping, and a few other things to a height, colour index, speculative index, etc., and then renders the set by rendering that surface.

It’s not as fun as the four dimensional construct that is all the Julia sets, but probably easier to explain to people.
Thank you so much. You changed my life.
For people voting me down who don't know any better. Tony agrees with me and even himself calls it a great mistake:

Speaking at a software conference in 2009, Tony Hoare apologized for inventing the null reference:

"I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. At that time, I was designing the first comprehensive type system for references in an object oriented language (ALGOL W). My goal was to ensure that all use of references should be absolutely safe, with checking performed automatically by the compiler. But I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years."

You would think that a logical statement standing by itself and alone would lead to a logical reaction, but no. People respond to authority not to logic. So instead of listing why null is bad here, I just reference tony himself.

So yeah even Tony wouldn't like null listed there as an achievement.
> On the other hand, the argument that the outputs of GitHub Copilot are derivative works of the training data is based on the assumption that a machine can produce works. This assumption is wrong and counterproductive.

Wow, what a bunch of, ahem, logic of questionable quality.

"On the other hand, the argument that the outputs of Copilot are works is based on the assumption that a machine can produce. This assumption is wrong and counterproductive. It just moves electrons and hums a bit."

This is a reductio ad absurdum. The argument is bogus, because what matters is the result of a person/other legal entity using the machine and its software.
Also, have you read the report they issue?

This is what it says, for March 2021:

"US Dollars held in custody accounts are the total balances in accounts held by the Company at federally insured US depository institutions and in approved investments on behalf of the USDC holders at the Report Date."
> Again, distribution has to do with a transfer of ownership

You're mixing sub-threads here, but you're still confused. Distribution is a transfer of ownership of a copy, it does not grant copyrights or ownership of the work. You can buy a book that was distributed, and that does not give you the right to make copies of the book.

> Github can show your code to others but it cannot give (as in ownership) your code to them.

In the digital world, showing is "distributing", and copyright law is clear about this.

You should perhaps read the definitions that are in the copyright law itself, and try to understand them:

"“Publication” is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the
public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The
offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes
of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute
publication.

To perform or display a work “publicly” means—

(1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place
where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family
and its social acquaintances is gathered; or

(2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the
work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device
or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the
same time or at different times.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/title17.pdf
The appropriate way to mark something as known compiletime is to make it constexpr, nothing else.
No, there are claims of sightings for millennia.
Critical theorists constantly refer to these very few white supremacists in the exact same way, with the exact same tone and exact same language that Hitler talked about Jews.

Sure there are a few out there, but hyperbolizing, drawing up massive conspiracy theories about the ever encroaching threat they pose to the fabric of society and the conspiracy theory that white supremacists are trying to take over the world, then making everything focus on that is typical tactic for propagandists.

This article is yet another drop in the racial divisiveness bucket of CRT which seeks to undermine racial cohesion in the melting pot experiment of the United States of America and create a hard dividing line between people of different skin colors.

Like Morgan Freeman said: (paraphrase) you want racism to end, stop talking about race. You stop calling me a black man and I'll stop calling you a white man.
> Fedora uses telemetry

Which is why I don't use Fedora and am moving away from Ubuntu: telemetry is fine as long as there is 100% transparency about every single byte of data transmitted from my PC to a remote server, and I have full control to review all information sent and when it is sent without having to go through hoops to research arcane commands and read fine print.
Appendix A defines a "UAP event" as "A holistic description of an occurrence during which a pilot or aircrew witnessed
(or detected) a UAP." And "UAP Report" is the documentation for a UAP event. The DNI document says that 80 UAP reports have confirmation from multiple sensors.

The UAP event spans the time where a pilot or aircrew witnessed the UAP. During this time the UAP was confirmed by multiple sensors.

There is no language in the report to make it seem like the "confirmation" happened at different times or on different days. If that is what is meant, then the report is very misleading, but I don't think that is what is meant. What language from the report leads you to this interpretation?
I somewhat disagree with that comment. It’s mostly reasonable, except there are other explanations for why they only show up over training exercises.

First of all, these training exercises have the highest concentration of military-grade sensors in the world. In the history of the world. And I don’t mean that in the cliche way that military-grade sensors are good per se. Just that civilian sensors designed to detect hiding aircraft don’t really exist.

And you only get these concentrations in training exercises because the world’s most cutting edge military hasn’t had a war against a technologically advanced opponent in decades. Decades during which those sensors have become increasingly sensitive and networked with a greater quantity of supplementary data sources and somewhat complex algorithms for blending data from many sensors. All of which means of course it’s a military detection, and of course it’s a training exercise (DOD would also almost certainly not release operational information, even in summary, so we can safely assume any detections in an operational environment remain classified).
Having done a serious amount of Python memory profiling work in the past, both Fil and Scalene are useful tools. Add them to your list along with runsnakemem and the high level memory-profiler.

On the time profiling side I highly recommend py-spy and pyflame (a little less updated).
Ah, that makes sense! We use https://docusaurus.io/ primarily because dbt uses it as well. :)

It would be great if we can team up to build an open specification for the metric definitions though.
Does anyone have a non-subscription pay walled version?
It depends on the implementation.
e.g: this is not a requirement for optical QCs
No, its C11 too
Hi D., thanks for the advice on tlp, I had never heard of it. I noted it down for my next tryout.

For Suse, I will be honest, I am not brave enough to switch to another distribution now that I have learned my basics on another one. If tlp works well, I could give it a try though.

thanks!
Actually, I was mistaken. This is not even what USDC claims to be. What they claim, at the moment, is this:

"US Dollars held in custody accounts are the total balances in accounts held by the Company at federally insured US depository institutions and in approved investments on behalf of the USDC holders at the Report Date."

So the money is not in actual dollars. It is in entirely unspecified "approved investments".
OLAP Cube is not dead, as long as you use some form of:

1. GROUP BY multiple fields (your dimensions), or

2. partition/shuffle/reduceByKey

and materializing/caching the result of this query for later reuse, you are rolling your own OLAP Cube with whatever data processing ecosystem you have on hands.

The technology itself has clear use cases and incredible business value on a daily basis, only implementation details differ depending on surroinding ecosystem
Only 50 feet? How tall were your hangars?
For text I like http://termbin.com. It just accepts text on port 9999, no HTTP required.
Considering TSMC's share of chip fabrication business, it would be fairly disruptive. TSMC does have the dominant position in the sub-7nm cutting-edge processing nodes, used primarily by companies like Apple, Qualcomm and nVidia, but at least some of them, Qualcomm and nVidia, have been diversifying their sources (primarily to Samsung) while Apple seems to have everything in one basket. But then, who cares about Apple?
> This sounds like an on-off controller with a predictive model.

Well, not exactly. At the startup, yes, but that's because the goal is to get to stable point as soon as possible. Think of this move like suicide burn made by SpaceX boosters coming back to Earth:) The most efficient burn would be done at 100% of thrust with minimum margins. In case of heater obviously the fastest way to get to temperature is to use 100% of heating power immediately and calculate when exactly to turn it off (or to transition to idle power).

But later the controller switches to maintain the temperature by producing power setting for the heater. The controller produces the desired power level as a value between 0 and 1 and this is then mapped (dithered) to turn the heater on/off for half cycles of AC power. The heater is only turned on/off on zero crossing to reduce emitted interference. For this I built a separate controller board equivalent to a solid state relay. I have actually used SCR diode pair + opto isolator + mechanical relay for safety (because SCRs may fail causing dead short).

> If you're doing predictions, I'm not sure the estimator is technically called an MHE since MHEs only estimate the current state, not future states (it cannot because one technically cannot know future measurements).

I guess this is why it is called estimator. Not only it estimates future, but also a parameter that cannot be directly measured.

I test the controller against modified portafilter with a precise temperature sensor in it, but in normal operation, obviously, I don't get this. In some sense this is an open loop controller.

Yes, I am using MHE to estimate current state (including model parameters) and use it to feed predictive model.

The current state of the system is quite complex, and it is possible to describe it in many different ways. I like to think about it as various pulses of energy traveling through the system.

One of my approaches to build predictive model was to measure effect of step pulses on the system (for example with the cold machine I apply 10s of full power, then measure the change over time). Then I tried to divide the operation of the machine into separate pulses (for example 1s of 70% of power) and superimpose predicted effects of those past pulses on future evolution. This is quite easy if you are just heating but quickly gets complicated when you also try to move water through the system. But I found it fun and gained some understanding of the thermal system.
When I see these videos I think of a cat chasing a laser beam dot on a carpet. The dot looks like a real object, it shows up on video and probably even has a heat signature. It also moves erratically and disappears whenever. Is it so inconceivable to us that humans can create a localised atmospheric effect in three dimensional space with some form of phased array that reflects radar and emits heat and light so as to be visible? Just like a laser pointer can disappear behind a couch or be stitched off, so can this thing.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the benefits of a strong well kept body will improve your quality of life in almost every single way. I'm speaking loosely in terms of mobility, mood, relationships, health, creative expression, and mental capacity. The pillars of civilization were built on strong moving bodies. The human body was not built as a vessel for the brain to sit in a dark room behind a computer to clack away at a keyboard
The mission of SpaceX is basically to create a breakaway civilization. Since there’s not enough reaction mass on earth to bring even a fraction of the human population into orbit, it was never about democratizing space. It’s about giving billionaires a safe place to ride out the fall of civilization far from the hands of any potential adversary.