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Ask HN: I'm a PM, and I want to go back to coding
I'm in my mid-30s and I work as a Senior Product Manager at a software company (not a big one). I'm not really happy and I'm wondering if I should go back to coding. Albeit, I haven't been in a coding role in almost a decade.

My entry point into tech was web development (teens/college) but found myself intrigued by design and UX challenges, so I went from a front-end developer in college into product/UX design and did that for some years.

What I know now that I didn't know then:
- Every role / skill set has its challenges, especially when you get into the more advanced tiers. In my early 20s I thought that "coding wasn't for me" because I was hitting seemingly insurmountable walls. Now I know those are simply the challenges that help you level up.
- You can be good at anything and get whatever job you want if you set your mind to it. Surely some of us are more right-brained or left-brained, but I feel like there is an argument to why coding is creative and how PM/design is technical.

I guess I just miss coding. I miss not dealing with people problems. I miss the incremental feeling of achievement with shipping code. I don't like that my work performance is dependent on politics, ambiguity, and people stuff instead of things working or not working.

Product management doesn't have that same joy for me and I'm not sure if this is right for me.

How do I get back into a coding job?
Will my trajectory / resume be a hindrance?
Copying React's JSX would be sooo cool (like Rust's https://dioxuslabs.com/ ), or something like phoenix liveview for elixir.

I don't like the "^"
This is one of those objections that sounds good at first. But upon closer inspection you find out that the practice of using one truck for two different sorts of jobs has been commonplace for decades and it works out fine.
There's a sort of zen pleasure in putting pre-designed Lego sets together, especially the more sophisticated ones where you discover along the way the little building tricks or "easter eggs" included by the designer.

Lego bricks certainly aren't "useless for actually creating things." You can make lots of cool things with Lego, and there's lots of creativity to be found in the Lego community, beyond just following the directions.

I do agree with GP that the listed ages on LEGO sets are absurd if taken as difficulty levels. My elementary age kids have no trouble with "18+" LEGO sets. I think the ages instead serve a marketing role: the 18+ rating gives adults permission to buy a toy.
Thanks - Miller test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
One thing that I am noticing about the round of layoffs in the last month[1] is that it seems like they are cutting a small fraction, around 10%. There are outliers of course.

I don't know how to interpret that in terms of the bigger economic reality, but it seems encouraging. Small cuts are companies trimming down a bit and planning to keep going through 2023. Probably realized things were not right around the yearly financial projections. If the economy picks up, they will probably get right back to hiring

[1] https://layoffs.fyi/
> And even if he was, doctors push pills for commission, so don’t trust them too much either.

Can you cite sources? Otherwise please don't post such claims. It's unworthy of Hacker News.
"Multimedia" apps (anything image, video or audio-related, and even my e-book reader) are probably another large fraction (and since I don't have all that many separate game apps installed – mostly a few emulators only – they're actually the largest fraction of apps with native libraries on my phone).
I guess even in web development it might be a bit of a vicious circle. The tools are maybe short-lived due to a lack of understanding of fundamentals and concepts - leading in turn to more „on demand“ learning and so on.
Strongly depends on how much they weight in the end and what is the price of weight loss. Loosing too much weight makes you less healthy, sometimes very damagingly so.

It also depends on what is the price of that weight loss. Quite a few diets make you loose weight and simultaneously make you much less healthy or less fit - because your body is missing nutricients it actually needs.
Yes: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mh40616/mac

> If you try to open an app that isn’t registered with Apple by an identified developer, you get a warning dialog.
Those are mostly just second-order symptoms of hypoglycemia/running a severe caloric deficit.
Via Paul Hudson's videos, probably start with SwiftUI.

https://www.youtube.com/@twostraws/videos
I wonder if she voluntarily contacted police.

Somewhat reminds me of this horrendous story [0]. Aiming for sympathy and police attention.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-64150026
If you right click then click open you can skip going into system settings.
It obviously all comes down to Calories In < Calories Out. Here are the things that worked for me

1. Prioritize convenience over optimality.
I spend several weeks exploring what I liked and disliked. I was drinking way too much soda and not enough water.
I found water "boring" so I switched to sparkling water + lemon
I am too lazy to cook vegetables properly (it's easy for a few days, harder when you need to do it for months and months). I buy a lot of high quality frozen vegetables (it's probably a bit worth in terms of nutriments, but at least I can stick with it).

2. Eating healthy 100% of the time is too hard. I make a high income and go out quite often.

But intermittent fasting is quite easy to do. And after a week or two, you reduce your appetite.

3. I have no problems eating the same thing over and over.

I love eggplants. I eat a lot of eat.
I did not eat a lot of fruit. But I like banana so I eat a lot of it as well.

4. Eggs are the best source of protein (your body can use 50% of the protein from eggs)

If you are used to eating shitty breakfast. Switch to eggs. Poached eggs or whatever.

5. I have read a few recent studies saying that exercising does not really help to lose weight (because your body finds a way to cut down calories expenditure elsewhere.

It's probably true. But the thing I notice is that people who workout 3-4 times a week are never obese.

So I exercice as well.
A warning dialog is different than being "blocked" as OP suggested
"Great" is far fetch especially "you shouldn't use Go for production services", which does not make any sense, also the same author works for a compagny that uses Go in places, which is kind of funny.
You are correct - this is not new.

It's the HHS reaffirming what the law says as written. way too many companies got loosey goosey with this stuff. The mental gymnastics we'd hear from healthcare companies "oh our legal team said it's okay to have Facebook installed here because [convoluted and totally not kosher reasoning]" was crazy when you'd review the law as written.

Startups, hospital systems, payers...doesn't matter how much resources or the company's particular compliance stance. You'd be amazed where these companies are sending data to Google and Facebook data without consent and without BAAs in place. HHS here is specifically going after larger health networks and hospital systems (typically way more compliance focused than your average healthtech startup).
Web development has a monopoly on software, but what about the other subfields?
The digital gold rush generates fortunes for compagnies. As a byproduct, it also creates jobs for their subordinates. The most common example being web developers (front end, back end, full stack, mobile).

As a result, this profession has gained a mystique distinct from others. An endless amount of videos and articles are advertising the career benefits. Coding bootcamps are selling the dream of a better life. Sometimes, it’s hard to distinguish the honest merchants from the snake oil salesmen. Some buyers win big, others don’t. Either way, the Recruitment Industrial Complex goes on.

So, if the web is creating a lot of jobs that are well advertised, then of course it has the most developers.

For example, here is the result of a survey done by JetBrains. It shows the platforms developed by the participants:

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/#Main_for-which-platforms-do-you-develop.

Long form version of this essay:
https://the-assembler.com/2022/12/26/web-development-has-a-monopoly-on-software/
We're targeting databases of 1 to 10 GB right now and those seem to work pretty well overall. I'm sure we'll expand that target over time as LiteFS matures though.

Most of the requests I've seen have been to support a lot of smaller databases (e.g. hundreds or thousands of 1GB databases) rather than one huge 100GB database. You can do interesting things like sharding. Or if you're a SaaS companies, you could do one SQLite database per customer. That has some nice isolation properties and it improves SQLite's single writer restriction as your writes are spread across multiple databases.
I've certainly met people as confidently incorrect as chatgpt but they are the exception rather than the rule.
New Linux gaming milestone: HDR can now be enabled for real games
> I rarely get sick

You have rarely gotten sick thus far in your life.
We didn't go that deep, so the legaxy spaghetti didn't hit us.

The client was filthy rich and needed to transform core business processes.

Time to market on changes we wanted was nearly always "before lunch". And anything custom we were able to do too.
I mean, the article's not wrong. This fab is a hedge against China invading Taiwan. Which will almost certainly happen because of the West's weak response to Russia invading Ukraine. China will invade Taiwan and the US will need semiconductors. Taiwan is a better US ally than the US is a Taiwanese ally and will supply them. That's what this is about.

Globalisation is still a thing, ish, but it's doomed. We thought the rest of the world (cough Russia, China and their rag-tag group of dictator allies) cared more about economic well-being than expansionism and petty grievances but guess what, we're the idiots and they don't. They want to dominate the world with their shitty dictatorships and we are too naive to see it.
"Local conforming to the remote case" will be slow and have a lot of overhead, unless the "remote" abstractions are carefully designed to scale down efficiently to a single node. You can view the SSI (single system image) approach as trying to do exactly that.
> I can't think of another major city where there are piles of garbage bags on the sidewalks everywhere.

Other cities have alleyways.
Even back then, you did not have to grow as fast as VC made you think. It was a choice by Zuck to grow fast and take a lot of investment, he did not have to grow that fast.

This is Zuck's interview in 2005 in Stanford:
>So, I mean when you’re 16 running a site and your core people are the kitchen table, your operating expenses are relatively low.

>[...] we just kept our operating expenses low so far and by doing that we’ve been able to stay cash flow positive for basically the entire system’s company

>[...] we decided that it was ok to go a few months in cash flow negative while [...] like you know, using like $100,000, not like millions. So, um and then but, now were back. We do a lot of page views.

See page 26:
https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/cyberhijack/2005-10-26-Zucker...
I had one of these in the 90s, an F4U Corsair.

It's weird to think that these are considered so unsafe you can't have one anymore, seeing as by that time people were well into complaining about how the nanny state and/or lawsuit-concerned companies wouldn't let anyone have fun anymore.

(it was, to my memory, an annoying and silly toy, like everyone else is saying)
Power is also centralized when most supposedly independent actors buy ads from the same large advertisers, and utterly depend on their income from those ads to do whatever they're doing.
I have a bone to pick with LEGO. LEGO destroyed Erector sets. Erector sets were great because they were metal parts that you screwed together, and the machines you built look like machines. (My mom was reluctant to get me an Erector set, assuming I could not handle the tiny nuts and bolts. But I had no difficulty with them.)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/133855778156

Lego machines look like cheap plastic crap with all those bright colors.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/airbus-h175-rescue-helico...

Sorry I just gored all the Lego lovers, but that's the way it is.
No, but on the consumer side I heavily rely on books. I have much greater confidence in the material of a book that someone has dedicated months or years to creating versus your average blog post. SEO spam has ruined our ability to rely on the web for quality information. It is out there, but finding it is the real challenge.
Doesn't basically every city call itself the greatest city on earth?
Cops chase Tesla driver 'dozing' with Autopilot on
Fox, News Corp. sign 20-year lease renewals at New York headquarters building
> They can use this proof in the future to default to "no" without possibility of opt-in.

Maybe that's their strategy, but it's manipulative and a sneaky way to obtain what they want while avoiding [SOMETHING]. Where something is lawsuits? regulations? outrage? No idea.
Good read.

The one time I've seen this situation has been as a board member of a small non-profit. This was ages ago but, as I recall, there were two well-qualified candidates for an editor-in-chief position. It seemed a case where if we appointed one, the other would walk. So we made them co-editors and it didn't go well.

But I can imagine circumstances when it can work with the right people and circumstances.
My apologies for not meeting your bar. I guess you missed the parts where it's faster in a lot of other cases too, and not slower in any.

To me, the fact that it's not slower at all is the big win. I didn't anticipate that the results of this are going to say "this is 5x better". The stereotype is that if it's over HTTP, it must be slower.

And by every measure, it's not slower. In cases, that may be edge to you, or don't care about extra latency, they're still improved. Why would you not want something that's generically better?

There are many other things that are beneficial with using HTTP as a transport that haven't even been discussed here since this was entirely focused on performance. Without at least matching in performance, not many of the other things would matter.
Strontian to Laga Bay
We can fix the SUV visibility issue with cameras all around being required.
This isn't a one dimensional problem where diesel smoke is the only factor at play.
You really need to suppress appetite rather than avoid hunger.

How many have of us have eaten despite not being hungry?
It is actually blocked. The program is prevented from launching. You can go into the security settings and approve it and then relaunch it (which last I saw, the error message didn't even tell you how to do anymore), but it's not just a "approve/deny?" skippable screen.
Communicating with any large company.

Try to tell Google, Verizon, Microsoft, American Express, et cetera, that there's something wrong with their servers, or some security issue with their site, whatever, and you'll either not be talking with real humans (Google) or you'll be trying to explain email servers to first level phone support who think that if it works for some people, then the problem has to be elsewhere.

The same goes for companies that have no way for humans to contact them yet have, for instance, old people who need to use them. They ignore ADA requirements for TTD contacts. They have no way to skip their automated phone systems or voice activated systems. They have outsourced people who know nothing about the companies' products and no way to escalate anything. These problems are getting worse over time.
It's so classical, it can be done without a digital computer at all, using fourier optics! The true fastest fourier transform, done at the speed of light.

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

At the focal plane of a lens, an image is converted into its spatial fourier components. By adding blocking elements at that focal plane (eg. an aperture, or a piece of glass with marker dots), unwanted frequency components can be cut out from the image.
Success in adjusting diet does not require '100% compliance for the rest of your life'. It requires serious changes yes, but even frequent slips as part of a largely altered diet won't discount it. This perspective - as well as being factually inaccurate - feeds into shame spirals and negative self efficacy. It's also true that virtuous circles can be built on diet and exercise, replacing the endorphin lift provided by sugar / carbohydrate load; and in the longer term homeostasis can be achieved at a healthier weight. It is difficult, but it's absolutely not as impossible as this comment implies.
What’s interesting is how much of that will likely be true once humanity eventually sticks people on mars. It will be a significant milestone, it’ll be probably the first time, and people will probably be selected on those same criteria.

So this false thing is extremely reasonable, even likely. Which casts so much doubt on why it’s correct when it’s correct. Maybe from a certain lens it’s never correct, only extremely reasonable, and it just happens that extremely reasonable and correct happen to match up a lot. (and of course looking back, it’s exactly what you’d expect with next token prediction and maximum likelihood training)
Here in Massachusetts we just removed our streetcar power lines (MBTA 71 and 73 trolleybus) because the wires needed to be removed during construction. This might be a logistical issue for NYC.

https://www.mbta.com/news/2022-01-27/beginning-march-2022-mb...
The case for his support for HBD-flavored racial supremacy is somewhat strong

I don't think this is accurate at all. The case for his belief in HBD differences is strong. But I don't think you'll find evidence of him translating that to supremacy or any kind of racial ranking, especially across all dimensions. In fact, I think you'll find that he disavows any such conclusions.
Tesla files paperwork to make electric motors for airplanes, boats, and more
Living with Wolves
Well, C++ has lambdas with explicit capture list. A captureless lambda is basically a function (it even converts to a function pointer), otherwise it's a closure.
"Stop being poor"
There are lots of Japanese and Chinese companies with substantial presences in the US. TSMC probably realizes it's a learning process and they need to get on with it.
I'm sure it's possible to formulate a headline for this story that doesn't sound like gutter-tier clickbait. Nature must be doing a poor job hiring / directing their editors.
My 2022 Self Published Book Earnings
Would you share your source for that?

https://reason.com/2020/04/06/why-you-shouldnt-trust-anyone-...
Dragon’s Egg is my favorite hard SF novel. I remember attending a session with Robert Forward at an early 1980s World Science Fiction Convention and was amazed at how much detail science and math Forward put into his books.
How E-Bikes Conquered the World
The SYNCHRONOUS pragma is great but I'll mention that there is a durability trade-off. In "NORMAL" mode, there is not an fsync() after every transaction so you could lose recent transactions if you unexpectedly shutdown. The WAL is append-only so you don't risk data corruption (which is great).
The Kosmos All-Chemist set was pretty much a Germanized Golden Book of Chemistry.
It's not really a "warning". It's an alert that says macOS will not open this app. You _have_ to open it via Finder and Control-click + Open or there's no way to get into the program. The first alert does not tell you how to do this, and other methods of launching (e.g. Launchpad) cannot be made to work.

So unless you know Apple's secret knock, it's functionally blocked.
They didn’t say calories are addictive. They clearly said certain foods are addictive. Those foods should be more regulated like cigarettes and companies take more responsibility as a first or at least concurrent step to everyone taking more drugs.
Patients wrongly told they've got cancer in SMS snafu
Garbage is absolutely not as big of a problem as it is in NYC though. You don't get to blame the fact garbage collection is awful on entropy when other cities very visibly do not have the same issues.
Ida plugin which queries OpenAI's model to speed up reverse-engineering
Does the EU have jurisdiction over Meta? What happens if Meta.. just doesn't pay the fine?

If Meta has datacenters / servers / offices in the EU that can be physically seized, or employees who can be arrested, presumably the EU will do just that. In that case, the EU does have jurisdiction and there are real consequences if Facebook doesn't comply.

But what if Facebook doesn't have that European presence? What if Facebook is entirely based in the US, or moves all those seizable assets and arrestable employees out of Europe before the payment deadline? Does the EU have a way to order all its ISP's to block Meta? What if Meta actively deploys countermeasures to make blocking difficult, e.g. encrypting DNS, regularly rotating rented IP addresses, and having its official app send people to a Tor endpoint based on their geolocation? Would Facebook executives be at risk being hauled away in handcuffs to a European jail if they ever go on a European vacation? Would the US arrest and extradite people for violating privacy laws that don't exist in the US?
No, I think you just fit my definition of non-technical about blockchains in general
The Gatekeeper checks still apply to direct downloads. If you don't get a warning (that's intentionally a little difficult to bypass), the dev still signed and notarized the binary via Apple.

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/security/sec5599b66df/...
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US regulators warn banks over cryptocurrency risks
Being a well-informed amateur in everything is pretty impressive though. ChatGPT will be extremely useful if it ever figures out how to say "I don't know".
Really? I had legitimately no idea what he was talking about there. Other people really want to just stay home and do nothing? That’s a personal hell for me.
It's not defense in depth because the curve you using failing means you're compromised and the fact other one exists in lib changes nothing.

This is not extra layer but a side entrance, especially if used protocol allows one side to pick what primitives to use, so attacker can make it use the vulnerable one.
Kids and music lessons: why do many promising players quit early?
Anything is possible with computers.
A rudder might have worked. Also, at the time I had a pretty poor understanding of stability, and no understanding of "oversteer".
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One of my favorite science fiction authors is (regretfully late) Iain M. Banks. In his Culture series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series) artificial intelligence in form of drones and Minds in ships are essential citizens in this imagined society. In fact, Minds by virtue of being so incredibly intelligent and fast pretty much run this Culture, with humans just along for the ride, and largely spending their time in leisure and idleness.

The stories (great stories!) explore the worlds as they collide with the Culture, and in some books (probably most in The Hydrogen Sonata and to a degree in Excession) the exploration of what it means to make art as a human vs as machine intelligence. In Iain stories, advanced Minds are far superior to humans in everything and they can and do create works of art and yet strive carefully not to completely obliterate humanity's desire to make the same. There isn't a competition between human generated vs Mind generated art or science, they collaborate, because if they had to compete, Minds are just overwhelmingly better/faster at everything.

The current GPT situation is not AGI, and the Minds are just a cool thing to read about, but if you want to have a fun yet deep-though-provoking read, check out these books.