skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Made a pretty big "down" move myself, except in my case I ended up changing careers.

1. I think the biggest challenge in making these decisions is the fear of making the "wrong" move and the fear of "regret". The reality is that there is no one right answer - regardless of what path you take, regret is baked in and guaranteed. The alternate path/s and its possibilities will always go unexplored/unknown. The question is which one are you ok with the consequences, both upside and downside. Which one are you going to regret more in terms of not taking action?

2. You are onto something in terms of money. We forget but it's only one form of exchange albeit one that we easily understand and that's why it dominates our thinking. But there are others not so obvious ones like time, energy, and identity which are of a higher order but don't get as much airtime. Obviously, you can't make decisions in a vacuum given others are dependent on you.

I've written about my experience that might help.

A collection of frameworks to think it through: https://www.leadingsapiens.com/essential-career-change-frame...

Some questions and the framework around money:
https://www.leadingsapiens.com/questions-midlife-career-chan...

More questions around mid career dynamics:
https://www.leadingsapiens.com/mid-career-mistakes/
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cf https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/23/typewriter-art-lau...
Ask HN: Could LLMs become intelligent enough to be good romantic partners?
As mentioned several times before on HN, ChatGPT and other LLMs are impressive feats of technology. These models are able to emulate patterns of human interaction at multiple levels of complexity. It's also dawned on me that other aspects of human interaction can be fluently emulated as well, namely the persuasive expression of love (or its closest statistical approximation).

For those who remember the movie Her, which will have been released a decade ago this October, the film's premise no longer seems limited to the realm of science fiction. There might be some technical or psycho-social gap that would prevent this scenario from coming to fruition in the near-future. However, many people have fallen in love with little more interaction than handwritten letters and IM. Perhaps I'm jumping to a hasty conclusion, but a well-trained LLM could end the need for dating sites/apps or even courtship as we know it.
I’m so glad I switched away from windows.
That's a limited use case that I would consider embedded. The game player isn't interacting with those files directly.
Thanks for the link. I have a question. They say:

"The energy required to propel our smallest aircraft at 200 mph for 30 minutes is 100 kWh. This energy can be provided by 26 kg of jet fuel or 600 kg of modern Li-ion batteries."

Is really "26 kg of jet fuel" comparable to "600 kg of modern Li-ion batteries"?

Thanks!
C# ?? How is an app written in C#?
> The object isn't to make something (i.e. be productive). It is to be in that wonderful state in which making something is inevitable.

In the absence of at least some reasonable system (despite its flaws) to recognize a software engineer’s contributions, you’re likely to have a situation where the team as a whole is falling short. Managers will be under pressure to turn up the temperature on the whole team, and the environment will risk becoming more akin to a sweatshop. I’ve seen it firsthand more than once.

So I’d wager the contrary to what you suggest here. The measurements are what enable management to keep some greater distance without being a distraction. Creativity might even become inevitable if the right system is in place, but such a thing is not easily accomplished no matter the approach you try. I feel that data trumps the lack of such in this case though.

Though this is a nice topic for debate and I’d love to see some more literature or studies on it.
Work at MIT main, and had job offers at MITLL.

MIT-LL is way more stringent on degrees no matter what your experience is. B.S is relegated to technician work for upwards of 90%+ of your time no matter how long you have been there. Masters is generally a step up from that, and in the engineering that could mean middle of the road in the hierarchy. But PhD is the only way to really move up beyond that except in the rare cases of the fabrication group.

MIT main campus is slowly heading in the same direction over the past decade, at least in the science staff positions. There are three major titles, research specialist (B.S.), research engineer ( masters), and research scientist ( PhD). Unfortunately in the past 5 years, they changed the requirements of research engineer to require a PhD. And honestly, I have more recently been involved in the HR/hiring side of main campus, and though with the right department there is some wiggle room... There isn't that much you can do when the office of the VP of research says otherwise.

So unfortunately to move up with Anything but a PhD, you need to shift into some type of admin or adjacent role.

To exemplify this, I had a coworker who had worked in a research group as a research specialist for half a decade, coauthored like 15 papers while there, and had a BS in physics. And said he couldn't get a promotion no matter what he tried because VPR wouldn't let his boss do it without an advanced degree (PhD). So he left for a different department as some kind of lab manager of a large research group. Which to me is crazy, you have a dedicated and knowledgeable worker, who wants to stay and advanced the research and group... But because they didn't spend 6-8 years on a PhD, their only way to advance their career is to go into management of a lab - giving up on any research work...
It's the "similarily old" ZIP comparison for me
They added explicit qualifiers to “bots” that make apparent they are referring to abuse, not “bots” in the more general sense, such as a search crawler/indexer.

Do you disagree that credential stuffing, scalping, content-scraping (to build fake social media profiles, phish, and scam advertisers/consumers) are problems and that bots perform those activities?

Your defensiveness doesn’t seem justified, to me, unless you’re using bots for those purposes.
Do you have any evidentiary support for the idea that redirecting testosterone-based emotional responses in a pro-social (protective) rather than in an anti-social (aggressive) way is "harmful"? HN is not the place for propaganda.
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I like to believe molecules dont dissappear at random so I assume one passing breath of the high concentration strains has an effect on people who are not tolerant, but maybe something magical happens so those particular thc molecules have no effect.
Ah, yes, I see, for instance, under: "R&D Nuclear Engineering (Experienced)", https://sandia.jobs/albuquerque-nm/rd-nuclear-engineering-ex...

It looks like the exact text of your copy above:

Sandia is required by DOE to conduct a pre-employment drug test and background review that includes checks of personal references, credit, law enforcement records, and employment/education verifications. Applicants for employment need to be able to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. If you hold more than one citizenship (i.e., of the U.S. and another country), your ability to obtain a security clearance may be impacted.

Applicants offered employment with Sandia are subject to a federal background investigation to meet the requirements for access to classified information or matter if the duties of the position require a DOE security clearance. Substance abuse or illegal drug use, falsification of information, criminal activity, serious misconduct or other indicators of untrustworthiness can cause a clearance to be denied or terminated by DOE, resulting in the inability to perform the duties assigned and subsequent termination of employment.
Best I could find.[1] I think he had valid concerns that still plague us today. He was a little too far on the doom and gloom side.

>Metcalfe offered several reasons for the collapse. For example, he believed that the internet’s crucial data links would be overloaded, and the “naïve flat-rate business model is incapable of financing the new capacity it would need to serve continued growth”. He contended that investor’s would be unwilling to “absorb projected continuing losses”. He thought that “another series of major security breaches will drive the rest of the productive Internet to safety and out of reach.” Yet, he was incorrect, and internet continued to grow exponentially in 1996.

[1]https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/03/09/collapse/?amp=1
Looks like the Moller Skycar. Hope they have a better time getting it off the ground.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moller_M400_Skycar
Show HN: I created an HTTP proxy through WireGuard using ChatGPT
Canadian house listing will only sell to buyers of a certain ethnic background
only those where only one party knows the other exists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction
I think the mistake is viewing the task as a dragon that must be slayed rather than 10,000 hamsters which need be stomped on in 10,000 days. If we can reframe our large problems into a sequence of small (and potentially even gratifying!) tasks, life becomes easier.
Pretty sure we're in a thread about reflashing a head unit via bootloader exploits to install hacker apps, no? "Average Joe" never even knew the HOWTO textfile existed.
Pretty much every engineer on the Windows team does this type of work. When you have 1+ billion computers with an infinite combination of peripherals and environments (what language, what apps are running, etc.), it becomes a game of statistics and prioritization.
Yes. I have been looked at with a certain amount of envy by youngsters with my "hacker looking" linux terminal at full screen typing like a madman on a train or in a cafe.

Kids are influenced by movies and they want to be cool and powerful.
i definitely think seo is a bigger killer of the web than blogs are

The Old Web was mostly blogs!
sounds like USA and it's relation to its members states
Strange how "carbon footprint" is being thought of as some kind of corporate conspiracy. It is just a number that can be calculated. If you actually do that then you can see clearly that corporate operations are primarily responsible for carbon output. But it also enables people to lower their own carbon output if they so desire. There is no rational way to make this a conspiracy, yet that is where we are now.
Sorting documents is a machine's job
Yeah it works pretty well. Italy also has a digital identity system called SPID which can be used to log in for all governmental services which also works pretty well.
Hi-Chew Pokédex
On an individual level? Probably not. As a group? Of course, just like it's been done many times before: through activism, building a movement, gaining momentum and critical mass, eventually culminating in regulatory intervention. We've beaten plenty of dragons before in our past, from leaded gasoline to women's suffrage.
If that's the intended behaviour (having those boundaries and those results), how can you ever confirm that behaviour without checking them all?
and even harder to avoid the ads
This reminds me of a conclusion I have come to in life. You have been dealt the cards you have been dealt. Sometimes, usually, it isn’t fair. Now how best can you play your hand? You still might lose, but you can only do the best you can. Being upset, feeling sorry for yourself, whining, complaining, flipping the table over, really doesn’t change anything and is wasting time and energy that could be put towards improving your hand.
I seem to recall the browsers threatening to start issuing warnings for any http, but I guess it hasn't happened yet.
I'm with you 100%. I love the lane keeping, distance keeping, lane change assist, etc. What I don't want though is for the car to use the screen for anything but CarPlay. I don't want anything in the car to be controlled via the screen, but but buttons and dials and I don't want them to provide anything CarPlay does. Don't bother me with your inferior navigation system, Bluetooth music or anything like that. Just give me a screen and audio system for my phone. Don't even give me a radio, it's not the 90s anymore!

It's IMO OK to use the screen for the rear camera when reversing, but even for this I'd prefer the rear mirror to have a picture-in-picture thing rather than taking over the screen that's IMO supposed to be my phone's external screen. This can be an actual nuisance because I cannot roll out of my garage, set directions on the phone while the gate closes and then finish backing up onto the street because the rear camera will keep hogging the screen unless I switch to a different great just to get the screen back.
Are they not subpoening Facebook?
Similar to "these pesticides are dumped far from people and definitely are not harmful." Until I see population studies I believe molecules entering the body have effects and in complex systems those effects are unpedictable. You claim there is no effect of adding these new molecules into a population of ~10M, a strong claim that would be the first time "psycoactive substance I use for the mood altering affect has no affect on others."
The modern data stack and why the struggle of enterprise adoption
If the money is going back into the public coffers supplanting other tax revenue, a fee for delivery must help prevent spam? I don't know enough about the topic but at first glance it seems there could be worse things.

I suppose it would hinge on your view of regressive use fees as well.
As someone who for much of his youth socialized with pot smokers without being one himself, I've had enough "contact highs" just from sharing enclosed spaces with these people to know the second-hand effects are present (though weak).
I'm sympathetic but remember failed start ups that too are trying to succeed[0] on their on merits are a dime a dozen. It explains somethings but not why they succeeded.

[0]...or at least until being bought out by the big players you mentioned
Yes and no. There's a large segment of students who are not 100% passionate about programming in itself and follow what looks and feels nice over what's practical. But that's their los IMO.
Regulations can work. Sometimes even something as basic as disclosure can drive significant change. In contrast the oh there is just nothing that little old me can do approach is never going to work.
>Project Fugu is an effort to close gaps in the web's capabilities enabling new classes of applications to run on the web.

https://www.chromium.org/teams/web-capabilities-fugu/
It displays this message for me ever other day...
Surprisingly, there’s no way to keep an app on top on macOS!
In my opinion corporations that lobby/bribe to harm people should be handled differently than the internet censorship issue. In those cases I believe that such entities and all related parties should be considered a domestic terrorist and anyone that lobbied for them or any politician that took said bribes should be branded as aiding and abetting a domestic terrorist. There are already laws on the books for handling such people. If the offending company is international then it is no longer just domestic.

Why domestic terrorist? Easy, they are intentionally harming people for profit. The mortality impact is very slow but there is a myriad of scientific data to prove the harm. Just type-2 diabetes alone may bankrupt most first world countries [1].

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2017/p0718-diabetes-repor... (2017) [this has only gotten worse]
I wonder what the market share makeup would look like for people who want smart appliances. This is another one where most people that I know want as dumb as possible.
No you cannot smell a person through your car and through their car. What?
For those who missed the conversation on "My bad habit of hoarding information" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272834), it’s an odd mix of people describing what sounds like a condition and others priding themselves in how many hundreds of tabs they currently have open.

Some feel like they’ve achieved some work when they have read and closed a portion of their many opens tabs. I’m not judging. I also feel good when I’ve "processed" (read) my emails even though the majority of them are newsletters. Have I really achieved something though?

I cherry-picked a few comments from the discussion:

"I usually have max 100 open, but I reboot all the time (for power mgmt reasons) and use OneTab so that seems to solve my hoarding tendencies. That and keeping searchable local notes / using history / bookmarking the really good ones that I'll also never read."

"Having OneTab makes me feel like it's ok to close the tabs, knowing full well I'll never, ever look for most of them again…"

"But, still, this is a race you can never win. As you digest more information, you consume more."

"I spend a huge amount of time collecting a never-ending stream of links, notes, and thoughts, only to never actually go back and read them again."

"If OP is anything like me, they 'manage' the old tabs by thinking "Oh that's neat I'll leave it open so I can come back to it' and...never do that."

"700 open tabs... Try 7000.... I have tabs all the way back from 2014 open right now on one of my firefox instances (probably have ~15 Firefox windows open across devices rn) which I have migrated between multiple machines along with my user profile, and I'm telling you I'm gonna get to them any day now."

"People have hundreds of tabs open at the same time?? I get anxiety if it goes above 12 or 15... The times when I just close them all and start opening firefox with no previous tabs are so relieving to me."

"I have a Python script which I can use to kill all chrome.exe so that next time the machine boots, chrome offers me to restore the tabs which where open before the crash."

"I have a real bad case of digital tsundoku. Even as I type this, I have roughly 80 links from HN opened, two dozen or so Twitter tabs, probably 30 YouTube tabs, and then a healthy heap of other miscellaneous sites. I know I will never get through this infinite backlog. Even if I were to squirrel myself away and do nothing but open each tab, digest its contents, and move on to the next, it would probably take me years. And I would be so burnt out I wouldn't be digesting well enough. Plus, most of that information is probably, at least slightly, outdated.

...Oh well, time to open up another dozen 3-hour long YouTube "mini" docs about niche subjects I have no engagement in."

"I've made a huge dent in my open tabs so far and I'm fairly happy with my progress in the past week."

"Delete all the tabs now and watch the world continue."
> many suspects in the "who killed the web" mystery

Obviously it is all the fault of Millenials (/s?)

> slap together some HTML, add a picture and an under-construction GIF and call it a day

You forgot the page counter, visitor country flags and auto playing music.
I did, too :)

For those that don't know: Datasette is the author/curator of https://musicforprogramming.net
PhD training is no longer fit for purpose – it needs reform now
As predicted in and seen as far back as 2021: [0] and even knowing that the rumours and reports of its impending shutting down were true despite the Stadia Twitter hopelessly denying it. [1] and then here we are, it is shutting down today.

So this comes as to absolutely no surprise. A complete failure for Google and saw this disaster years ago. Failing to get gamers on board even in the pandemic, means you have failed afterwards, even with a console shortage at the time.

Oh dear.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039202

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32276188
Seems possible that every individual could have similar enough capabilities if they had enough luck to overcome any disadvantage.
> You seem to believe that panics express problems which are constrained to the call stack which instantiated the panic.

Not inherently, but it's your job as a developer to make sure this is the case, that's what:

"* Make sure you support properly unrolling the stack."

means.

In case you're dealing with unknown code it's your job to find out what the connected graph of potentially tainted objects is and discard them. That's what "keep a clean failure boundary" means.

If you can't, because you don't want to (short lived process, prototypes) or are unable to (hairy ball of code), tearing down the process is indeed the only option and a sane fallback choice made by the language designers. But it's not necessarily a hallmark of robust software.

I hope I had a final shot to clear up what I meant, thanks for the discussion anyway.
I try not to attack big problems head on. Instead I ask myself, what can I change in my daily habits that will eventually, erode the dragon away? If the dragon is in a cave and I can dump a bucket of water in there every day, eventually the thing will fly away or drown.
Put 'mesg n' in your shell startup file to prevent that.
It would be really cool if there was an editor where the UI started out incredibly bare and progressively added panels/buttons/etc as you used the corresponding python features for the first time.
> They removed always on top

Are you saying macOS has this?
Fascinating Life Stories about Apple from Steve Wozniak
cf https://search.marginalia.nu
It is probably easier to give a browser a fake DNS result (ie, a MITM attack) than to do the same to the letencrypt authorizers.

Fake DNS result/MITM is one of the things that the SSL cert is supposed to guard against. Possibly the only thing that a domain-validated cert has going for it over an anonymous cert. Allowing a domain cert to be "renegotiated" from the browser would seem to defeat the purpose of having a domain cert at all.
This is actually one of the things that I appreciate from React. Because the view is synchronous you need to explicitly bail out on loading states (`return <ProgressSpinner/>`). In general you are presented the option to do something while the async work is running and other parts of the UI almost always work.
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich the Butcher of Prague
ABit took a hit hard around those times.
When the newest "latest news" story is for Google Summer of Code 2022... why is this being submitted?
> Rather than obsessing on the fact that it's easier for someone else, obsess about the fact that someone in your situation and even worse can do it and has done it. And then start.

AKA: "why don't you just have 10x more willpower?"
Thanks for your interest again folks. Sorry this year has been a bit sparse on updates due to the death of my partner Aihua, and brother-in-law.

Come chat at:

#ChrysaLisp-OS:matrix.org

Recommend element.io reader.

Chris
>"31-bit" is not a typo - PNG defines a "PNG four byte integer", which is limited to the range 0 to 231-1, to defend against the existence of C programmers.

What exactly is implied here? Silly guard against overflow?
Of all possible things to stomp you chose hamsters?
Apple Introduces the New HomePod
A fundamentally flawed idea that is the right idea at the right time.
The Power of Secrets
Reading your perspective was inspiring. It sounds like you are a more positive nowadays as well, which is great.
I was sympathizing until “I need hope that I’ll become rich.” Well, there are lots of ways to get rich, most straightforward being to get a tech job and work every day. But on the other hand if you really care about your idea I think you should write about it, join the company that is implementing it, keep researching it, keep loving it. I just can’t tell whether you really care or just want money.
I am certain you've never been to China.

https://youtu.be/uBchAUGW7Bk
What is PPM? I’m not familiar with the acronym.