skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I transitioned from being a tech lead to a manager. I hated it.

I had an awkward conversation with my manager and we figured it was possible to switch back.

Once I did that, I found I missed parts of management. I had an even more awkward conversation and was able to switch back, but keeping some technical aspects.

Later I switched to a new area and found myself a beginner again, and had to build up the skills, successes and then the recognition that comes with them. Now maybe in the future I’ll be using those old skills and contacts once more!

It’s ok to feel discontent and do something about it. It’s ok to have second thoughts and course-correct. It’s better to take an active interest in your career progression than sit and hope someone does something for you.

Practical advice:

1. Good line managers often have some latitude and will to help you; you just need to discuss it openly.

2. As an individual contributor I feel you have a lot of control over your hours. Stop working so many. It’s ok to tell people no, that can only be done by X date; they don’t know anyway, they’re not the IC.

3. You don’t need to turn back time. You have learned a lot and this will make you more valuable as a future manager. Including about yourself. Tell your reporting chain you have learned enough about this side of the business and want to move back to management. Apply for management roles internally and externally. Get over your pride and hit up your old friend and see if they have a position for you. Relationships matter more than smarts.

Edit: send me a DM if you want to talk, happy to help someone else through this. It was a difficult time for me for sure. Handle is in my about page.
... and you didn't understand the underlying problem, which proves my point of people quickly dismissing "low-maintenance" applications. This isn't a Windows application which still chugs because of immense herculean compatibility made by Microsoft, this application, which was supposed to be quickly installable in Heroku... isn't. That says a lot.
Great book! Already implemented the first part with Typescript instead of Java, and still working through the second with Rust instead of C. I don't think I would ever learn to use unsafe is not for it.
Fedora + Rocky
Plug-and-Play Organ-on-a-Chip Can Be Customized to the Patient
That sounds bad, but I have to tell you that I know a bunch of devs here in Spain working through this setup.
Not sure if you can find it, but there used to be "Cyberdog". Maybe that will fit your needs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdog
> the Python intepreter has a slow startup time.

This really depends on your perspective. Sure, it's a lot slower than running a native binary. But it's still fast enough for interactive tools that you run often. If you compare that to java tools, for example, which take seconds if not dozens of seconds to start (gradle, I'm looking at you!), python is far better.
My current hypothesis is that nuclear became politically toxic in the 80s, and public will to support nuclear research evaporated, leading to everyone thinking "nuclear == light water reactor", and the entire field of research on fission-based nuclear stagnated as a result.

I'm not an expert though, just interested in the topic. I read up quite a bit on MSR and LFTR a decade ago and concluded that it was really interesting tech that can absolutely work but just never got enough interest for someone to "go big" with it. The wikipedia article[0] has a recent developments section that suggests the tech is quite viable.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...
> social media will be what fixes this. The fix to the USA falling apart is free and open discussions between the camps.

I feel like cancel culture may be your blind spot.
I'd ask for advertising to be banned. The Internet and tech in general would become so much better as a result.
Daily reminder: the comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.
If you're a renter this is squatter bait. You better know the squatter rules before ever considering doing rentals off the books like that.
I remember my first pack of cigarettes were camel menthols when I was around 16? I never got into the habit but it makes sense to me.
Sorry -- only tangentially related to the article, but what are HN's thoughts on other nicotine delivery systems (vape pens, etc.)?
Off the top of my head, $5 million USD tax-free. I’d never do a damn thing again and never worry about money again.
Where is the statistical evidence of this phenomenon?

Yes I've heard the talk points that Joe Rogan has said. But where is the evidence that these policies have led to these issues? Places like Texas have a high homeless population too, and many southern states have huge drug problems.
You could also check out Pleroma; Mastodon isnt the only microblogging software on the fediverse

https://pleroma.social/#featured-instances
https://fediverse.party/en/pleroma/
From the page:

Grammarly stands with Ukraine
We are a company with a deep connection to Ukraine. Grammarly was founded in Ukraine; our co-founders are from Ukraine, and we have many team members who call Ukraine home. The Russian attacks are horrific atrocities and have caused immense suffering, fear, and heartbreak.
performative actions, optics... no news value.
Not directly. According to github, only `github.com` and `*.github.io` links were enabled.

But one could set up an html on github pages that redirects to the 'real' URL.
I bet you know the famous phrase : "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

One thing I also bet you don't know is that it doesn't refer to IBM stock, it refers to the mainframes.

Crypto people should stop looking at marketcap as a confirmation that what they are building or are excited about is something of value. Xiaomi is a company incorporated 3 years after BTC whitepaper and it's ubiquitous in millions of people's lives.

At the end of the day people want a tangible product or a service, the model which has people trying to build a sociopolitical movement (and use marketcap as a gauge of its health instead of votes) is flawed because Power Law in a sociopolitical movement is even more skewed than wealth distribution in a company.

Just look at the US: only a handful of political roles really matter:

1) POTUS

2) Speaker of the House

3) Majority leader

4) Supreme Court Justices

5) Chair of the Fed

6) Secretary of Treasury

7) Secretary of Defense

8) Secretary of State

9) Joint Chiefs

10) Mayor of NYC

In crypto it's even worse. You have Satoshi, Buterin and Musk
> pigouvian taxes to try to drive desired outcomes

It's an attractive idea, but we're talking about the US so there are two big problems:

* AFAIK the FDA does not actually have tax raising powers, and it's not going to get granted any tax raising powers, so now instead of an FDA intervention you're relying on Congress to do something. Good luck with that.

* Most tax powers which do exist lie with States, and States are always cash poor, so a "pigouvian" tax quickly becomes a must-have revenue stream. Then one of the two bad things happens. The State encourages the sin you wanted people to stop, because that drives tax revenue, or worse the State gradually adds stuff which isn't a sin to the same tax.

You wake up and either there's a TV advert paid for by the State explaining how "A pack a day helps Maggie keep her lungs strong and local schools benefit!" or else you discover that the milk on your breakfast cereal now includes "Menthol tax" because "Menthol" now includes "Dairy products, root vegetables, writing paper and non-religious ornaments" after the State found a hole in its budget.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_theory_of_value

>The subjective theory of value is an economic theory which advances the idea that the value of a good is not determined by any inherent property, nor by the amount of labor necessary to produce it, but instead is determined by the importance an acting individual places on a good for the achievement of his desired ends.
It makes sense, if you take into account that, apparently, absorbing methane from the atmosphere depletes the atmosphere's capacity for absorbing methane. Hence the more methane that exists, the more methane is getting absorbed, the less capable the atmosphere is at absorbing methane.
Given a great many of them are repeating thing others have given them, or often taking things from other pages, without giving credit, they are hardly in a position to complain.

I know two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one so by taking again the amount of rights in the world has not decreased.
> There's "autorelease pools" in ObjC but they aren't used to move releasing to an idle time, rather it's to handle cases where nobody knows what the precise lifetime of the allocation is. Swift has a better ABI that doesn't have that issue.

Autorelease is a no-op when using automatic reference counting. (But it was a pretty cool concept back then.)
The alternative is high taxes on cigarettes. But that would also disproportionately affect lower-class people. As j16sdiz said, every law that bans stuff does this.
Digital Threats and Countermeasures: How Close Are We to a Cyberwar?
death and serious brain damage are not the same risk
>American coastal elites felt more connected to elites in other countries than to their fellow Americans in the heartland

>When the left-wing attacks the right-wing

This is part of the problem. When you casually define the left as "coastal elites who are out of touch" and the right as "Americans in the heartland who are uncared for", you are taking a real problem and reframing it as "all left-wingers vs all right-wingers". You are making people feel attacked who are not in the group you are trying to criticize. People (on both sides) do this to each other constantly (though they have been since prehistory - it's just particularly bad in the US lately).
The (food!)recipe site I find myself frequenting lately is:
https://www.tfrecipes.com/vmlinux-error-137/
Interesting! I've never heard of packs of 10 cigs, was that just a marketing ploy to make them more affordable?
And if I recall correctly, one argument for not banning menthol cigarettes was because it would affect the black community disproportionately! What if we didn't look at anything but health outcomes (and liberties)?

(I probably prefer the vice tax... as long as the public is expected to pay for the health issues of individuals who make crappy choices...)
Makes me want to work up a "home tobacco mentholation howto".

I smoke, but I despise flavored tobaccos. Not as much as I dislike the notion of the government banning their sale.

Mixing in some dried mint leaf may be viable for those who prefer flavors; but when you're making your own smoking salad you've already gone beyond the pale for most people. Like meat; people prefer the convenient package over involvement with the details of what's inside it or how it got there.
"denial of autonomy" is probably the least useful way to criticize a law, there are hundreds of necessary laws that plainly deny autonomy
I'm saying that people in the tech industry will do anything to protect and expand their reputations. The stakes are just that high--we're talking about the difference between 7-figure jobs and unemployability--and most of these people have no moral scruples even when the stakes are small. The ones with scruples don't last. Given the stakes and the mentality we're talking about, the cost to have a "reputation problem" "taken care of" is a rounding error.

The probability that someone would be intentionally killed over a single instance of a negative reference is very low, but it's definitely nonzero. Probably 0.05-0.25% at lower levels (SWE, Sr. SWE, entry-level manager) and 1-25% at executive levels. Thus, what the OP is advising could get someone killed, and since there is also nothing to be gained by it, I argue that it's a bad idea.
We fly most of our drones for the Middle East out of Sicily. We maintain bases all throughout Europe as part of our NATO commitments.
Ask HN: Why Use an URL Shortener?
After reading about the `git.io` deprecation, I see that Github recommend using another URL shortener service.

But I'm wondering, why would you use such a service? I know Twitter and LinkedIn automatically shortens the URLs you post with a service they own that is completely integrated with their social network.

Twitter do this because the length of a tweet is limited. LinkedIn do this for tracking I guess?

But let's assume you're not Twitter or LinkedIn or any major social network. What are the pros to relying on such services?

The cons I see are:

- hide the real website behind an URL
- adds an extra redirection/DNS query
- hard to remember URL based on a hash

Scientific papers referencing shortened URLs is pretty shocking to me for those reasons. But, I must just be missing the pros, right?
Running in the wild: Energetics explain ecological running speeds
Using Marginalia always reminds me just how much we have lost since the golden age (2000-2010) of the internet. Thanks for bringing it back in a small way.
> Bandcamp, which Epic acquired in March, has used its own billing system on Android since 2015, and was able to do so because of rules exempting digital music from having to use Google’s billing system, according to a blog post from Bandcamp co-founder and CEO Ethan Diamond. “However, Google is now modifying its rules to require Bandcamp (and other apps like it) to exclusively use Google Play Billing for payments for digital goods and services, and pay a revenue share to Google,” Diamond says.

Didn't Google just said they allow Spotify users to choose between Google vs Spotify payment system? Why are they now requiring Bandcamp to "exclusively use Google Play Billing"?
I think "providing a valuable service" is secondary to the fact that he stands to profit from it.
Yes! That's the motivation I've too. Bringing all these experience to browser without downloading anything.

More planets, more space stations coming soon. Stay tuned!:)
> Thinking about it, Wikipedia should maintain their own index and archive of cited sources, instead of or in addition to relying on archive.org.

Why? Wikipedia and the Internet Archive are partners, each working to their comparative advantage. If Wikipedia has archival needs, they ask the Internet Archive to facilitate those needs.
I think some things are falling apart but not everything. If you had the foresight/luck/guidance to get into a stable white collar career, find a partner, and buy a house before 2022 I think you're on "the train". This train is currently pulling away from a burning station containing everyone else who hasn't done those things yet. It's still possible to escape the station by running down the tracks but at this point the train is picking up speed so your odds aren't too good. Obviously this is a young single person's perspective but I think we're by far feeling the shifts in society and the economy the most right now.

Alternative, darker analogy: everyone is on the Titanic. It's currently breaking in half and about to sink, but people like the author of this blog post are on the upper half looking down.
What helped me to stop smoking is the realization that governments are the real drug dealers.
The constant theme since the dawn of civilization threaded through all of history is that everything is falling apart. Change is continual. History is more like the seasons. Nations rise. Nations fall. Sometimes there's revolt. Sometimes there's peace. There's a continual game of King of the Mountain being played at all levels.

So what can we say? Situation Normal - all effed up!

Enjoy this phenomenon called life. You only get one.
> I'm much more of a fan of using pigouvian taxes to try to drive desired outcomes but let people who really want to engage in a behavior do so, as long as they pay the true cost of that behavior.

How do pigouvian taxes address the problem, which is that Big Tobacco is using flavored products to target kids and people of color?
And also disproportionately help them, whether such taxes are regressive are not are tough to tell in the aggregate given a large portion of the people who quit will be lower class and have both financial/health benefits but a large portion of the people who don't will be doubly punished (although given these people are likely to be recipients of government aid partially funded by such taxes means it may also be a partial wash)
> This is what Elon is planning to do with twitter.

The only things Elon is planning to do with twitter is to silence his critics, become a Rupert Murdoch style figure, and keep manipulating stock prices.
The space pen vs pencil story is a classic example of a story that catches on because it sounds great, except that it isn't really true when you look more closely. Another classic is the historic tulip bubble, which was far more contained in reality than people tend to assume (there was a price crash, but the financial fallout was largely limited to a few families who could mostly afford it).
> The framing begins with appreciating how closely intertwined the divisive and unifying effects of information technology can be.

The author speaks as if "unifying", as opposed to dividing, is the redemptive quality of information technology. I don't see it as an unmitigated good and, somewhat ironically, the story of the tower of Babel is about how their single-purposedness (?) was the source of the problem altogether. Genesis 11:6: "And the Lord said, "Lo! [they are] one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have commenced to do. Now, will it not be withheld from them, all that they have planned to do?"
What the law says and what you can get away with are different, yes.
I beg to differ. Those look like the "default" rules. For the example of Poland (picked one of your two examples) it's not so simple.

The "default" rules for tax residency are superseded by a convention between the two countries, and there are a bunch of them, with many countries, on the site of the French government. There are specific conventions with Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, for example, that apply only to people living close to the border and working in the other country. If you take the train from Paris to work in Geneva, it doesn't apply.

Basically, it can be debated. It says that if you have a "permanent home" in both countries, you're a resident of the country "with which you have the most attachments". So for the hypothetical Polish worker who's "detached" in France, it could be argued that the "attachment" is to Poland, because their family is likely there, among other things. In the case of a freelance moving from country to country, who is likely unattached, this can probably be easily argued (though I'm not a lawyer).

Concerning remote-working freelance: For "independent workers", you're taxed in the country where you do business, except if you have a "fixed base" in the other country, from which you conduct your business. In that case, you're taxed in the country where the base is, but only for the part of income that is attributable to the work done from that base.

Source, in French: https://www.impots.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/media/10_conv...

Conventions directory: https://www.impots.gouv.fr/les-conventions-internationales
I’m not convinced social media will fix things. IF we could have conversations with each other, and discuss nuance, it would help. However, it’s turned into a tool to just shout knee-jerk memes at each other and demonify the other side. I don’t see any honest real discussions happening among people who disagree. It’s just fanning the flames that will burn us all.
Whelp... you just killed this tech by linking it to the Devil's number. hope you're happy.
/s
This is an underutilized solution in general, but is actually not even close to one at this point in time. Construction is incredibly hard at the moment (at least in the US) due to supply and labor shortages. It’s actually not clear when or even if these will be alleviated.
Every Frame is a 1,536 digit prime number
But new phage strains would evolve head to head with the resistant bacteria, right? With antibiotics you have a fixed molecule, which becomes useless if the bacteria develops resistance.
I think in that case, it’s OK to punish them.

What the OP was trying to convey is that always lead with empathy, communication, and love. But, if after doing that your child is still willfully misbehaving, then they know it’s wrong (you talked to them, calmly and respectfully) so now it’s time to start leveraging punishments (groundings, taking toys, etc).
When I want symmetric-key encryption which can even be opened by average Windows user, I just use `7z a output-file.7z input-file.txt -p"password"`
Europe is shutting down nuclear power plants because apparently a lot of people (and many politicians) believe they will cause us to glow in the dark.

Insanity.
So, you know your DNS infrastructure deliberately has this limitation, but instead of checking yourself you asked the author on a public comments thread? Seems rather lazy, especially given the “check yourself” option is so quick and produces an instant result.
> The subjective theory of value is an economic theory which advances the idea that the value of a good is not determined by any inherent property, nor by the amount of labor necessary to produce it, but instead is determined by the importance an acting individual places on a good for the achievement of his desired ends.

In short: "Stonk_price_bruh!"

Elvis-mania, Bealte-mania, Backstreet boys-mania...they all end at some point.

Positive strong emotions are strong but they burn fast, or can even turn into negative strong emotions.

Unlike Elvis nobody became hysterical or collapsed to the ground when they saw a young Warren Buffett, people to this day think he's old, boring, doesn't get it.

Then they look at the scoreboard. 40 years in the Forbes 400, and not only that, in the top 5.

Let's see where Satoshi, Buterin , Brian Armstrong, Binance guy are in 40 years.

The one who is best positioned financially to be still there is Elon but he's inherently unstable mentally.
You are missing bias.

Elons "graph" only shows the left moving away, like they were running away from the globalists lovin satanist-migrants. Or maybe just climate scientists?

This entire "blaming wokeism" is just identity tribalism form the other side. How come you fail to realize ...
What software do you all use for screen sharing? That seems like something that could be done in a fairly trivial manner in teams. Teammate calls you (1 click), shares screen (1 click), and then you tell him where the couple of buttons he needs to click are.

Personally I've worked remotely and in person, and I'm much more productive at home than in the office. There's a plethora of tools that enable us to get as much done if not even more without all of the distractions that exist in the office. This has been true in my former career working in sales and marketing, and is true now in my career as a software developer.
DIO should be the same as GPIO in uC world. At quick glance it does seem to provide 8 GPIOs