skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently switched from being a manager back to the IC ("individual contributor") role. It's not an uncommon switch here where I work (Square). It wasn't an easy decision, and it took many months, but I became much happier with my job almost overnight.

We're in a window—not sure how long it'll last—where the FAANG's and mid-size tech firms have well-defined and well-trodden paths for being a senior developer and _not_ managing. Take advantage of it if you can, while you can, if that's your desire!

I would guess (just making stuff up here) that there's some chance you'd be able to get your company to hire a manager, and some chance they'd be good. But in that small agency-type world especially, you'll be running a risk that if you're not there vetting proposals to make sure marketing didn't promise the moon, you're going to bear the burden when they do .
The content of the message gave away that the speaker was missing knowledge the real person should have.
Page visits or leads / sales would be the primary ones.
If I interpreted "man-child" correctly it is meant as an insult towards a person behaving immaturely, like a "child". Not quite sure how this relates to the "toys" in the background of his posted image.

Though personally insulting Elon Musk is not really productivie criticism anyway. Neither is insulting the author of the post.
Lisa in Emily in Little Paris
@anonymouskimmer: I just held my nose and did as you advised, search the article on "sciencebasedmedicine.org" for the phrase you quoted.

I think this is what UncleMeat refers to as "insulting the physical appearance" of grad students who disagreed with him on twitter:

At that time, the name of the Twitter account owner was not obviously visible (the photo showed an unrecognizable figure with big glasses and a cat), but Meyerowitz-Katz seemed to use the Twitter account prolifically to promote his own work and criticize work contradicting his work. The identity of the Health Nerd Twitter account has become transparent now, since the owner has added a photo of him (wearing a T-shirt that writes “Trust me, I am an epidemiologist”).

In summary, what Ioannidis said was that the twitter account showed an image of someone with big glasses and a cat, and that the owner posted a photo of himself wearing a t-shirt with a slogan.

I would like to say that I struggle to find how that is insulting, but in truth I don't struggle at all. That's all happening on twitter where anything anyone says is insulting to someone. I mean, if he had said something along the lines of "what stupid glasses" or "what stupid t-shirt", yeah, that would have been insulting in the real world. But "an unrecognizable figure with big glasses and a cat)" is an insult- how? To whom? The unrecognisable figure? The cat?

So it's just as I said above, as expected. That whole thing was something inconsequential that social media made a huge todo about because it's social media and people are on it when they have nothing to do. I'm on it right now, I guess, and I actually do have things to do, so ttyl.
Even if they only did this with the maintenance schedule costs, with breakouts for major possible maintenance incidents, in present dollars. That would be extremely useful.

Companies like consumer reports should do this sort of thing.
It’s mostly lowest common denominator music.
I ran medium sized teams for a long time and decided I didn't want to go that direction. I'm much happier as a regular SWE again, maybe looking after 1-2 people. However there are some downsides; The money isn't as good, you will get managed by someone younger and less experienced than yourself which can be frustrating. Finally looking for a job as a 40/50 YO you feel much harder to get hired than a 25/30 YO hotshot that everyone seems to want.
My money is 2023. Eben never announces releases early so what he did/didn't say in that recent interview is meaningless. With the added bonus that this time he can also screw over all the scalpers. Let's see!
This is an unconventional but excellent option:

https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/commercial/cmc850.ht...
They should probably use GOPRIVATE[1] instead. GOPRIVATE doesn't disable the module cache globally, it just disables it for individual domains or paths on domains. This is mainly used with private repo dependencies on GitHub.

[1]: https://goproxy.io/docs/GOPRIVATE-env.html
How many of those have exterior stove vents? Probably a disproportionate number given the installation cost.
Nice work. I was going to basically cover the same topics in my second part but it looks like you beat me to it. If you'd like to collaborate with me on the next portion feel free to contact me on Discord (veritas#0001) or email (f@nullpt.rs)
Ahh yes, switch everyone to electric power when everything is going green and the rolling brown/blackouts are spreading across the nation and world.

No thanks, let's keep our gas.
Or this: Morgan Freeman reads you all of your audiobooks from now on and they sound so much more profound and relaxing now.
Or whatever the key shortcut is that puts gnome-terminal in "read only" mode, that I kept doing by accident for years, before I found out how to undo it (right-click, toggle "read only"), thinking it was an obscure gnome-terminal bug.
> Is there any significance of a beautiful painting of a magnificent sunset over mountain meadow with horses grazing?

Yes, but it was designed that way. By a person. For other people. Its unlikely to be perceived as "beautiful" by a whale or an oak tree or whatever.

But if things that weren't designed to do computation, or even designed at all, nevertheless appear to be capable of it, what does that tell us about computation? Given that the fundamental physical behaviour of the universe can (maybe) be described computationally, is computation special in some way?
What you're describing goes _way_ beyond what I think most would consider to be the responsibilities of a Lead Developer.

I wouldn't say your attitude is childish- you're allowed to have personal preferences. I don't think you have to give up on having development be your profession, although you could maybe "scratch that itch" with projects outside work if climbing the ladder is ultimately more important than doing what you'd prefer.
I can think of one... podcast cleanup app:

1. Speech to text

2.fix up/edit text with GPT-3

3.text to speech in the original speaker's voice(s), preserving prosody and inflection with Vall-e.

If done with every participant's consent I don't see how it's not legitimate.
I agree that copyright sucks, but I don't see, in copyright-free world, what would prevent a hardware manufacturer from making the firmware impossible to modify for example by using hardcoded signature verification.
That looks really cool, though for me it's the language and API that makes it awkward.

A really good LSP could do wonders for user experience.
Looking to Ditch Twitter? Morse Code Is Back
Yes, statistically speaking “everyone I know” is unfortunately not a good sample. :-)
Salesforce ‘Ohana’ in doubt after Marc Benioff avoids questions about layoffs
How to Use Clashing Fonts
Or maybe it will be like today - if it's reported by Reuters/... it's trusted, if it's reported by DailyStar, maybe not.
NJW posits that Real Numbers and Set Theory are based on the notion that it is possible to do an infinite number of calculations which he considers disingenuous.

He highlights in some of his Youtube videos that in respected Math textbooks the definition of real numbers is left vauge.

In his opinion set theory has the same kind of holes the we are expected to accept that we can add an infinite quantity of things to a Set by describing a function or simply having a desciption of the elements of the Set.
How to Measure Ripples in Spacetime
So they won't let you do eval but don't mind a whole VM? This doesn't sound right, unless eval touches something deeper and might pose a security risk, while the VM runs inside the normal sandbox. Can you elaborate a bit, or hint at further resources? It sounds fascinating.
Danger, Will Robinson!

While your statement is true in the sense that we wouldn't see them if they had all previously starved, it's not true that they don't reproduce too fast _because_ they would starve if they did. Evolution doesn't have lookahead, it can't predict consequences and avoid them.
The Webb Telescope Is Just Getting Started (2022)
Huh, I had friends complain that it was overly long and focused a lot on its setup and setting up bits and pieces like the kids' relationships and the new culture.
this is a proposed ban for the US.
> I like sitting down and solving problems with code, getting a brief and build something cool.

It's a huge problem in tech that companies traditionally try to force engineers into management positions to allow their careers to keep growing. I have had more shitty managers who were just Individual Contributors who were told they needed to manage to succeed past a certain point.

> I tried telling myself that it's a childish and idealistic way of thinking and that it's all a part of career progression regardless of where you work at

The above, however, is no longer true. I work in a smallish tech company (~250ppl) that has gone through a major shift in the past few years to support the career advancement of Individual Contributors; the message being, "You don't need to be a shitty manager if you'd rather be a kick-ass engineer, and we will still provide paths for promotion and advancement."

As other comments have noted, it sounds like maybe your company is just not at a stage of their development that can support pure engineering career paths past a certain point. You do NOT have to be an unhappy manager to succeed in tech. And frankly during a time of economic contraction I feel safer as a valued IC than as a manager whose role could always be 'absorbed' by someone else's position during layoffs.
They meant algebraic in the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_operation.
A bunch of nerds whinging about laws and rules for protection?

Where are the real tech solutions?

The autofocus jammers?

The ultrasonic microphone overdrive scramblers?

The infrared iris scramblers?

When did we lose control over the space around us?

Take back our personal space!
In it's current iteration I go to it before I go to google for a lot questions(mostly coding questions)

I like that I can ask specific questions and get specific answers to my questions. Not samples that may or may not be close to what I'm looking for.

if it it's wrong I can try to clarify it. Does it work 100% of the time no. But I feel like it adds value.

The big question is what can GPT4 do.
nope, it's this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30040029-object-oriented...

i was basically reiterating my comment from there.
Fuzzing is a powerful technique for identifying vulnerabilities in web applications. In this article, we’ll delve into the basics of fuzzing and how you can use it to uncover security issues in web apps.
Show HN: Buy domains from the confort of your CLI
Hi all,

I thought it'd be fun to create a CLI app to buy domains from the terminal...

Good and interesting idea ? Bad idea ? What so you think, would you sth like that ?
This comment[1] addresses counterparty risk better than I can: the risk is just that, in a crash, the collateral backing the USDC loans can't be liquidated fast enough. But remember, you're already borrowing 80% of the collateral and turning it back into USDC. Even if all of crypto dies tomorrow you keep that much, that's just a 20% loss. Further mitigated by however much of the collateral for the USDC loans can be converted into USDC.

(The author reduces this value by levering up a cycle, but that's optional.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34302128
iOS version is $3/mo or $50 for non-subscription. Cross-device sync via WebDAV, Dropbox or iCloud. Pricy, but they are an indie dev team who have been around for ~20 years, provide email support by competent humans, continuously add features, and most importantly, have been reliable with large databases (e.g. 75GB) on iOS. Web scraper can optionally convert to plaintext, markdown or PDF.
This points out the most dangerous part of ChatGPT. It's a highly confident idiot. When I told it was explicitly wrong, it basically responded with "I'm sorry it wasn't clear".
Small businesses collect more than half of their money late
Spain’s digital nomad visa will be implemented by the end of January 2023
Wildberger is an ultrafinitist
Will never use one unless I’m forced and I know others who feel the same. Induction are for people who don’t cook. So what’s the point. You can not cook on the older stoves and save energy used in swapping out for a new appliance. Think if the energy cost in replacing a large fraction of American cooktops, for no good reason.
Effectiveness of motor practice in lucid dreams
New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window
Drowning is the leading cause of death in national parks and recreation areas. It's scary how powerful water is.
This applies to the salaries as well :) What do I need to do to get 10x salary this/next year?
Part of the utility of rational trig seems to be that it can work in any field, while functions like sin and cos only work for reals. I.e. you can use rational trig describe the "geometry" of a "triangle" whose points have coordinates in a finite field
The regulatory impulse seems to be going the opposite direction so far, China recently banned deepfakes etc.
I agree. Now that I'm older, I've seen kids 30 years younger than me try to get their parents to use modern popular slang, and it feels super cringey.

James Cameron would have been 36 when he was making Terminator 2, and he's a polymath with an eye for detail, so I'm sure he deliberately went for that layered meaning.
That's not what "ad hominem" means, and you don't seem interested in discussing any systemic dynamic. I am disengaging, have a great day!
Descript already does this.
Yep. I first read that when I was twelve. I wouldnt say I understood much back then, or even now after a number of re-readings. But its an amazing book. "Sprawling" is one word that I would use to describe it.
First off, there's this weird thing about management - "you're good at your job, let's give you a completely different job to do."

It sounds like your company is more worried about someone's work product than the person, which is a shitty thing to manage. You shouldn't have to "check on others to ensure they're working as they should." You shouldn't have to "..sit with someone for a couple hours to explains how I'd like things done, or having to fix something they've done wrong." That's a sign that you either micromanage, or you don't have good employees, or both. Daniel Pink's Drive is a good starting point - give people Autonomy, Purpose and a desire for Mastery, they will give you good work. It's not the be-all and end-all, but it's a good place to start.

I didn't like management, until my company offered a management course. Now I actually enjoy it. To me it's about making people the best versions of themselves. It's about learning to listen to people, and see the situation for what it really is rather than the words coming out of people's mouths. For the company, it's so you get the best work out of them, but "getting the best work out of them" doesn't have to be your focus as a manager.

There's a lot more I can say here, but for now I'd suggest reading this article which was on HN yesterday: https://longform.asmartbear.com/docs/fulfillment/ - and ask yourself if this is really what you want to be doing, regardless of any financial incentives to do so.
Worked at a consulting firm with just under 1k employees, when I started they only had like 40.

At one point they had a meeting about creating a "technical track". I was in this meeting because I was interested in it. We went around for a while but they basically came back a couple weeks later saying that they don't have the resources to commit to having this track, and admitted they don't really know how it would be sustainable with our business model at the time, nor did they have anybody on the team who had experience with maintaining that kind of track and so it was killed.

We did have the "stronger engineers" who occasionally may still get paid/compensated at a manager level even if they stayed at a slightly lower level not requiring management, but that was about it.

They were also our "big hitters" when it came to putting them on the highest priority projects, and while by nature of consulting most of us were skilled in many different stacks, these people had a specialty that if a project came by that needed that skillset and was high visibility or priority, they were first pick to be on it.

But you had to start managing if you wanted to continue to move up there. I actually ended up leaving because of this, even though they were honestly a great company.
I think there is some truth to the statement, although many VCs that I've met are really sharp and thoughtful. Not at all the caricature of greasy tech illiterates that sometimes gets thrown around. You kind of can't generate good returns if you aren't able to think about the long-term trajectories of industries.

But I think that with the bubble times of 2018-2021 a lot of people entered the industry or changed their behavior because it was trendy and cool, and they have been way more down to ride the hype cycle rodeo.
....10x worse, gas pump handle.
The problem is that over time the atmosphere would vaporize into space from the hot side so you will get a barren rock like Mercury.

There's always a liiiiitle rotation, so even any frozen gases on the cold side would eventually rotate into the sun and be heated to escape velocity.
I would rather assume that this technology exists unfettered by any regulation and instead figure out how to deal with the ramifications.

Guns are regulated, but we still have metal detectors.
Drowning Machines (2020)
I'd have some concerns about the idea of a paid Mastodon or IRC account, in that it kind of produces a perverse incentive for moderation; if you have a misbehaving user who's paying you, well, what do you do?

Though, doing the SomethingAwful approach ($10 one-off membership fee, extremely strict moderation, if you get banned that's another $10) would be an interesting experiment!
God yes, a dubbed European film without the naff American actor.

Or for games where you can get the language for the NPCs all sorted out and change dialogue right up until it goes gold.
I don't think it's a problem of legislation as much as forgetting to repeat the message that danger is everywhere.

A car can easily crush you, electricity can stop your heart. Don't be paralyzed in fear, but still think a bit of the worst plausible case.
How long would it take, do you suppose, for ~~Disney~~ $ProductionCompany to simply get rid of the voice actor altogether. Now there's another person without work.
Raiders of the Lost Ark turns 40, and is still an unqualified masterpiece (2021)
My great uncle hated John Deere (for what reason, I'm not sure). His grandson runs the farm now and there is still not a John Deere in sight. If more people hated John Deere, they would be out of business. You can't survive if nobody buys your product.

I own some John Deere equipment on my farm, alongside equipment from all of the major brands. I find no measurable difference in experience across dealing with those brands, and they are all great compared to other products in my life. Repairability in everyday life is actually quite horrendous compared to farm equipment. My broom broke the other day and I have no idea where to even begin looking for parts to fix it. I'm going to have to buy a new broom to replace it.

When my farm equipment breaks, the parts department at the local dealer will bend over backwards to find what I need.
I’m continually amazed how enthusiastic people are about burning fossil fuels in confined spaces
‘How Much Damage Have My Colleagues and I Done?’ (2021)
How do you feel about the new Dune? Curious to hear your thoughts.
I really appreciate you sharing this. It solidifies how much I love doing lead work. I do not enjoy line management but I LOVE servant leadership and operations of a team / org.
Here's a different article that links to sources to support the claim:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602...

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Lower-income households are more likely to have more people living in smaller spaces, with less ventilation. That puts them at greater risk of unsafe NO2 exposure, as does the heartbreaking practice among low-income homeowners, uncovered in several studies, of using their gas stoves as a source of heat to supplement weak or broken furnaces.

Lower-income, African American, and Hispanic children already suffer asthma at higher rates than the national average, mainly because they are more likely to live near sources of outdoor air pollution (like roads and industrial facilities), which makes them more vulnerable to sources of indoor air pollution. Another 2018 study found that asthma costs the US $82 billion a year in “medical expenses, missed work and school days, and deaths,” all of which fall disproportionately on the most vulnerable.
Why? He can't criticise his critics, unless they're scientists of his own standing? I don't know who wrote those rules but I don't remember reading them.
Eval touches everything in scope where it's executed. The VM will only have access to what it is given.
> Seems crazy to imagine a giant McMansion

Are you under the impression that most Americans live in giant McMansions?

Gas ovens are common and so are electric, but I didn't have a convection oven until I owned my own home. It's not really worth it for most landlords to make this upgrade.
But... why would one need an accout to use a freakin gadget!?
I'm kind of new to this, but isn't VR helmet just a werable display with a few sensors??
What's to stop them? A wallet is just a keypair.
Also The T-1000 murders people prior to the reveal, while Arnold doesn't.
Articles/blogs are hampered by SEO requirements, and padding to induce scrolling to display ads, IMHO.

Also, Books have chapter breaks and flow based on that, which "long-reads" articles don't match.

OP, do share which books you have been reading.
> and the staff engineer track. It sounds like you simply want to do the latter - so no, there is nothing wrong or unusual with what you are wanting.

I could be wrong but it sounds like the OP doesn't even want to be a staff engineer (if my understanding of staff engineer is correct).

https://davidxiang.com/2021/01/19/staff-software-engineer-re...

I'm pretty sure you're still expected to guide other engineers (co-workers/teammates), speak almost as a buffer with management, etc.

If you want to be heads down coding and not dealing with people, I don't think staff engineer is the right track?
My understanding is there’s something of an ambiguous situation:

Electric/magnetic fields in the galaxy are known to play important roles in its structure; but where the “plasma cosmology” tends to go wrong is asserting that EM is the dominant force that explains the galaxy or larger structures.

Personally, I think this is somewhere we’ll need a unified theory to decide: we’re seeing effects that look like gravity and look like EM, depending on how you squint. Which is unsurprising, as they’re happening around a black hole.
Git "won" because of Github and the user friendly tooling and PR process for collaboration on projects. Had it been MercurialHub I think Hg would have won... and I kinda wish it had.
I see. That makes sense. On a related note, I recall that when Gmail came out another domain (Gamil.com) had a funny banner on top saying:"Gamil is not Gmail, but we're glad you're here!".
Sure, humans are not obsolete just yet! People are needlessly freaking out about losing their jobs or even reason for existence to AI. The reason for employing developers or designers is not that we need someone to write loops and draw lines.

It's a tool that makes some things significantly more easier and it does have risks. It will replace only people who are doing jobs not suitable for people.