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Ask HN: Possible to work in “managerial” roles part time?
Hi all,

I'm currently deciding between doing my PhD in an unrelated field or starting a career in software engineering (currently interviewing with 2 large European startups that seem to have a great work culture.)

One of the biggest advantages of working in software for me would be the possibility to work 4 day weeks (32 hours) and still make a decent living. I'm not super passionate about it so I would see a career in the field more as a means to an end. After a few years, I would like to work in a more people-oriented position.

1. Are those goals (working 4 day weeks and working in a "managerial" position) mutually exclusive? Wouldn't a company expect it's "higher ups" to commit full time to their work? I.e. is there a glass ceiling in terms of salary/title for people who don't work at least full time?

2. I like going to the office regularly but I also LOVE the idea of working remotely for a long period, say 1-2 months every summer (currently doing it and it's amazing.) I'm sure it would be possible for a dev role, but does the same apply to a position like engineering manager?

3. I would also be interested in taking extended sabbaticals now and then (like unpaid time off.) I would imagine that would not be possible once you have a lot of responsibility at a company, except inbetween jobs?

I understand that a lot of these are absolute first-world problems. I'm just trying to weigh the pros and cons between tech and academia as accurately as possible. Thank you for any input!
If you have a good WiFi signal, you can try VoWiFi (Voice over WiFi) if your phone/carrier supports it.
Being bald has a negative effect on reproductive success, so I don't think it's trivial. All things being relative, sure, other more important things could have been researched, but not wanting to be bald isn't pure vanity.
I'm starting to see 1000-slice scans more often, but I hear 100-400 was more common back when size was a pressing concern.
> To regain trust with enterprise customers (that's where the money is) it would take at least a decade of cleaning up their act very thoroughly.

I disagree. It is much easier to regain trust with enterprise customers than with end users.

Enterprise costumers have contracts and lawyers on retainer. Google can draft a contract which binds them to performing a service. They can write in penalties with bite which shows to their enterprise customers that they mean it.

That is assuming that they really want to.

On the other hand this trick doesn't work with end users. They don't have lawyers to evaluate such an offer, and they have lot less of a chance of successfully suing google even if they would have favourable contracts.
Looks blue to me.
That's the sad case for most camping sites nowadays. I don't get the appeal of this hotel theme park thing where instead of rooms you sleep in a caravan or tent. Fond memories of fantastic simple camping at the south French border.
That's different than not reading the code. Technically, that's applying tool assisted reading techniques to quickly determine what subset of code to read.

I still find seniors are terrible in that they assume they know what code is going to do without having read it, or they refuse to learn the domain first.
LogiSim is for simulating digital logic only.

LTSpice is for simulating analog circuits, particularly power electronics.

KiCAD is a schematic design and layout tool, it's for designing printed circuit boards.

So it's a bit of an apples:lettuce:walnuts comparison. They're all for different categories of thing, though all deal with some sort of circuit in some sense.
Oh, there definitely were obvious failures of execution. Not on the core streaming tech side, but on the business and product aspects. The product should have been quite compelling: a way of playing current gen console games with basically no up front hardware investment and no ongoing subscription. That's what the "free" version of Stadia was.

But then they muddied things up with Stadia Pro, making people think it was actually supposed to a "Netflix for games" subscription service, and crucially making Stadia Pro the only SKU for a very long time. So rather than the really appealing entry point to console gaming that people could have easily tried, they ended up targeting the exact people for whom Stadia was the worst fit (hardcore gamers with existing console owners and large game libraries).
Dilithium is a compound comprised by molecules of two covalently-bonded Lithium atoms, and Kyber is a romanization of the greek root for "cyber", so they are relatively safe from litigation. "Droid" was a deliberate alternative to "android" coined specifically for the Star Wars franchise. At least AFAIK, so the argument goes.
I knew it. I predicted it some time ago. As if it was something hard to predict. If it's from google and it is not about search or ads, then it will be shut down for sure.
I've just dug through my email to be sure - I also had a 901! The 20GB version version, running Linux.

I was just about not a student at this point but still doing a lot of Theatre touring. The EEE PC was great for what I needed which was to be portable enough to carry around all the time in Edinburgh, check my email in bars, and even be solid enough to run the sound effects for a show!
In his jurisdiction (NYC), probably. Not everywhere, even though in places where this is technically prohibited (e.g
Canada), it is poorly enforced.
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I believe Valve has promised to unlock all games purchased through their platform in the event that they go out of business. Whether they stick to that is another story, but it should happen for at least some games.

They've been operating Steam for 20 years now. So the company has staying power.

Plus, the most likely thing to happen to Valve is a MS acquisition.
I don't track it EVERY DAY, obviously. Just have keyword searches on Google Alerts.

And yes, if you were talking 10 years ago, when I started that keyword search, Alcubierre drives were seen as "not implementable even if we could use all the energy in the universe and it would have to be exotic matter with negative mass".

That's since been refined to "Only implementable with all the energy contained in a solar system, but still needing negative mass" about 5 years ago and then "Implementable with the energy contained in a gas-giant planet, like Jupiter, and not needing negative mass exotic matter".

So, you know, maybe not remain impossible forever?

There seems to be slow-but-steady progress happening over the decade scale, and I'm happy to be alerted to that when it happens.

The only downside to Google Alerts with this is that there are a lot of pop-science sites that trot out a "warp drives: might they be real?" article whenever it's a slow news week where they get an intern to gather up a bunch of links from wikipedia and google and regurgitate it into generic meaningless content. I don't have an answer for how to weed out those false positives. Keywords are a poor tool for the job here.
The game won't run on another machine, at best you have a two weeks time window before the DRM checks start to fail.

There's this family sharing thing though, where you can share your Steam library between 5 accounts and up to 10 computers:

https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing
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For those looking for a more up to date alternative, with a non-hardcoded DB file path, try https://github.com/greenbender/sqlfs (not affiliated, just had a look in this area a few weeks ago)
I think state of the art can work with something different than Gaussian distribution, either in the input data or the predicted one (which, with non linear models can be very unregular). Isn't that the point of the unscented kalman filter and all the ones that generate lots of hypotheses to check the target distribution. I probably don't use the correct vocabulary here... Sorry.
>People believing a baseless rumor so easily is sad.

There is an incredibly long list of precedents:

https://killedbygoogle.com

Scroll through that and once you get to the bottom tell me people are still being unreasonable...

I am glad to hear (anonymous) confirmation that it isn't getting killed though.
MLK for Atlanta checks out.

(But then the most famous person from my town is Ryan Seacrest. That sounds about right but I don't have to like it.)
Because even small towns in eastern Europe still have better internet than most part of US or Germany
To add, if you need some structure in setting up a budget, there’s a tool to help manage this and track expenses against that budget called YNAB (You Need A Budget).

I find it incredibly helpful for making sure I’m spending money the way I intend to. It’s very easy to otherwise forget how much is going where.
Along with "Major breakthrough in battery technology," this is a headline I read at least once every six months yet never actually see any tangible evidence of.
Gaming rigs don't cost 3k.

You can get a great machine for under the price of the latest iPhone.

And at least for most games - I'd MUCH rather deal with lower graphics than latency. Latency makes games not fun. And I'm not even talking about intense actions games... I mean any game that's not turn-based (and sometimes - even those are not fun if latency starts hitting ~200-500ms).

Assuming your rig lasts 5 years, you're almost certainly better off just buying it outright at $800, than paying google $10 dollars a month for 5 years for vaporware. Plus at the end of it, you likely still have a perfectly functional computer, more than capable of handling basic mail/web/videos, or serving content (I have machines going back 18 years sitting on the dirt in my basement serving content).
Ha, I'm an American who's reasonably proficient in Spanish and my brain did quickly see "Magic Culo."
Nobody has a big enough test set to A/B test every combination of elements for a web page, a product feature set, or even a conference presentation. The combinatorics are just unwieldy.

Someone has to have multiple good ideas and the ability to carry them out properly before an A/B test is even valuable. Otherwise you're measuring one uninformed random change against another. A/B confirms whether you've succeeded in improving something. It can't really suggest what to try next.
This is why I don't sign on to anything new google does for a few years now. It's going to be buggy but promising initially, then be poorly supported, and then be cancelled leaving you high and dry.

If I was a large shareholder I'd be yelling to ditch Sundar everyday. The guy is a total idiot just floating by on ads dollars. Google could be so much more if they reorganized into conventional dedicated teams and stopped trying to cover their shortcomings with political virtue signalling.
If they do this, they're probably hoping that developers of the games themselves will hand out free Steam keys to their now-angry customer base. More than likely this would happen for several titles, and they're probably counting on it.
The globe is blue…?
because of not understanding its meaning
If they're used well, they could enable non-site-specific custom stylesheets. Imagine if you could view all sites with the same design instead of the author pushing theirs on you.
Sadly, the FKK seems to be in decline in Croatia. According to Slovenian newspapers the formerly FKK camping sites are slowly transitioning to clothed ones.
No. In fact, the incompetent people at the head of those projects fail upwards. Take Phil Harrison, who is at the head of Stadia (not Stadia Games and Studios):

- Worked at Sony Entertainment, handling the software side of things, was there to help for the massive fuckup that was the PS3 launch.

- Got fired (or "resigned" in C-level speak), joined Infogrames (soon to become Atari) and majorly fucked up, saying that single player games would become increasingly rare as well as contributing to running the company into the ground while taking massive dividends.

- Got fired from Atari and joins Gaikai (another game live streaming service that failed miserably and was picked up later by Sony for Playstation Now).

- (Most likely got fired from Gaikai, but no news from this anywhere) and joins Microsoft, just in time to utterly fuck up the Xbox One launch and making the branch he was a director of produce... absolutely fuck all ?

- Got fired from Microsoft and gets named vice president at Google, before heading the Stadia team as a product manager, utterly fucking up its launch, closing down Stadia Games and Studios (that actually managed to build up a pretty talented team), and soon, closing down Stadia.

This clown just gets paid to fail. He's got the reverse Midas touch, short anything he touches.
> For example, in countries bordering Russia, science nobel laureates are missing, but racist pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are listed.

Maybe those pseudoscientists and UFO theorists are more "well known" than the Nobel laureates? Also, these are not opposites: there are various examples of Nobel laureates that later became pseudoscientists (see Luc Montagnier [1]).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier#Controversies
>Being purely data-driven without good intuition and long-term bets (that can't be "proven" with data), and the product loses its soul.

This sounds like post-hoc, anti-intellectual rationalization.

How do you place long-term bets without a model to measure expectations versus outcomes? How do you know what good intuition is? There is a ton of research on "gut" calls that demonstrates it's random.

>But data is not a substitute for good judgment

Good judgement requires data.
Just the messenger! :)
Fluff article that seems to be just a dark pattern/undercover advertising for the boot camp. Not a whole lot of actual 'how' other than the basics of anything. Show up, do the work, and out effort into it. But mentions the boot camp six times.
> What should the consumer to do?

Don't use cloud streaming services and purchase your copies if you don't believe in cloud streaming services. It is as simple as that.
Use it for longer and it will eventually learn what you like. It’s full of small communities, like Reddit.
Hetzner does not provide colo services in the U.S. according to their website
Most famous when viewing USA while zoomed out is Donald Trump???
It's very much western lense. It's what would a foreigner know in this part of Asia
Hunting to extinction and/or out-competition from humans for resources is also cited by some sources as a factor.
There’s also Xbox Cloud Gaming.
Fascinating story. Pat Martino is another (jazz) guitarist who relearned to play after a brain injury
I've lived in about 15 different locations, and the only names I recognize are in very major cities, and one 2nd-largest-in-state city. I have the impression that I've heard of famous people coming from the other towns in the past but I can't remember the specifics.
> Neoliberalism insists that things have never been better

well, i think its true though; it just doesn't apply to people like you and me thats all...
I wouldn't think that 3 months is enough time to decide if success has been reached
It would be difficult from a security perspective, but if they provided their own flash drives for backing up games it could be the best for consumers and the manufacturers.

Nearly all software produced currently ships out with the assumption that updates can easily be pushed out. As a concrete example, twenty years from now I don't want to play the original Mario Kart 8 that shipped when the switch was released, I would want to play the Mario Kart 8 that has double the levels that they are currently slowly dropping over the next year. The ideal situation would be an ability to write that information back to the card.

Couple that with another law that enforces consumers ability to roll back updates to any previous version they desire and you're fully protected with the ability to play your games essentially forever
Why Can We Only Be Honest When We’re Anonymous?
They could offer something you can't get anywhere else that would force consumers to come.
I mean game exclusives, not technology.
In the end it's all about games
>Data is useful for proving my decisions once I have made them

I can't figure out what this means, but I have a feeling it's the exact opposite way you should be incorporating data into your decision making.
Why? Are the people that drive trains(original engineers) going to be upset?

If he writes code he's an engineer.
As a non-computer "real" engineer - what is the actual designation between these two terms in the CS world?

In my experience the title "Engineer" is a legally protected one, and those using it without proper licensure can suffer penalty - take a look at the Strongtowns case for one example. But those in the programming world seem to be able to throw around the title on a whim. Any discussion/history/insight would be appreciated.
Easy to get in. Hard to get out.
I think you’re agreeing with OP?
That’s not really as true as you say, I remember in the mid-00s when I had trouble with the internet at home, that I couldn’t play offline games without logging in to steam.

There was a “remember password” option, but the session would still expire.

There would have to be some effort to unlink those games from the auth services.
> Does anyone else think the future of personal computing is 100% arm?

Citation needed. VIA made power efficient X86 processors.
The first thing to know about Microsoft documentation is it's almost always wrong.
Show HN: I made an API for web scraping, PDF generation and screenshots
It really does feel like the company isnt being run by humans but a rudimentary AI somewhere.
Hey there's all the interactive multiple model fancy, where you can run (and make compete or merge) several models together, and for some kinds of tracking activities, the 'the thing doesn't move and is just fixed and noisy' is part of the constellation of competing models.
But it has positive reproductive success for other not bald people
That's a pretty negative attitude to purposefully instill in your child. I pretty much agree with his view on birthdays, but pushing that view to a child is so wrong.
Hard agree. I like the converter idea, but having used similar tools in the past (Avocode and others), there are always some kind of minor but annoying issues. Having a preview or a trial would be good to have to avoid surprises later.
I'm sure George W. Bush would love to see his name in Connecticut.
Just like "male birth control" news that come out once a year and disappear into nothingness? This site just needs their ad revenue.
Ambient temperature effects on a photodiode.
For anyone interested, the picture Figure 1 [0] - as one would except - is quite messy but yeah, Equus (most recent common ancestor) node 1 and node 2 (3.9 - 7.8 mya (~5.6 mya)) and the divergence (node 3) to caballine/non-caballine Equus @ ~4.0–4.5 mya; those bifurcations - based on the found fossils - all originated from North America (orange color).

[next @~1mya (the lower orange (North America) caballine arm from node 3): leading to E. caballus (green: Eurasia) --> domesticated [1] horses]

Regarding the causes of the Late Quaternary extinctions [2] it is pretty hard to pinpoint a single cause e.g. climate change etc. and there are a lot of hypotheses floating around (probably the most curious/spectacular of the bunch: younger dryas impact theory).

But at some point regardless of the causes - approx. 10.000 years ago - there are no traces found of (wild) horses in the Americas, anymore; they only reemerge again with the reintroduction by the European colonists in the 15/16th century.

[0]https://elifesciences.org/articles/29944/figures#content

[1]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/horse-dom...

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8654998/#!po=32...
If you have to download a pirate's crack to play a game, you may as well download a pirate version of the game in the first place. I don't see much substantial difference between these two scenarios.

Steam is a DRM system with good branding, that gamers treat as special because it comes from Valve. Anecdotally, a lot of gamers believe and trust that Valve would free their games of DRM if Valve ever went out of business or otherwise shut down Steam. Of course this isn't true, they wouldn't have the legal right to do that with any game that wasn't their own (which is the vast majority of the games on Steam) and whatever informal promises Gabe made years aren't worth a damn. Nevertheless, this sort of mistaken expectation affords Valve/Steam a lot of good will they really don't deserve.
Strongly disagree on distraction being the cause.

I spent a lot of time around potential geniuses growing up, and what sticks out to me is how many of them had their lives all planned out by the adults around them before they were in middle school. If anything, I think the lack of those people is because we've decided original thought isn't a virtue in our geniuses: We'd rather stick them in labs and use them tweaking models than give them the time and resources to explore on their own.

They're also identified and sheltered early enough that some of them don't develop resiliency + become dependent on the accolades they get, which also pushes them towards taking safer options. Big, creative genius disrupts things, and we train our gifted to not rock the boat. Even trying to found a unicorn company and going the VC route to become rich has a 'set path' at this point.

I also would doubt our young Newtons and Einsteins are spending much time on TT, unless they're studying it. It gets repetitive pretty quickly if you have the insight to start figuring out how it works, which those kids would. Genius kids' hobbies tend to differ from their peers'.
Is that really so surprising? He has been world famous since the 80s and was dominating headlines during his presidency.
Nit: Nukes are under the Air Force. So the Air Force Academy would be the one to worry about. And they are having similar problems to West Point. But yes, any nuclear 'go/no-go' would go through the joint chiefs and would include all branches.
First we see articles making the HN front page about Facebook copying Tiktok in an attempt to stay relevant, and now this.

Is the writing on the wall?