skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other issue with implementing sabbaticals is that it's really hard to do so retroactively at a large company that already has a lot of long-term employees.

Now you have a bunch of people who suddenly get a benefit at the same time at least somewhat at the expense of everyone else. And, as you say, like defined benefit pensions, they're inherently designed for at least relative long-termers.

But, yeah, it's hard to take a big chunk of time off otherwise. Unless you hit it big, it's risky to say I'm not going to even job hunt for 6 months. COBRA (and the Exchanges) does cover health insurance in the US to some degree but you're still taking a financial hit if you're without a job for a year--very possibly at a point in life when your financial needs are greatest.
Thank you. My son began school 3 weeks ago and I’m beginning to go a little stir crazy. It’s been far too hot to work out in the yard so I’m presently redoing my portfolio site and working on a unique full stack project that is relative to the construction industry.

I told myself that I’m not employed by the end of the year I’m going to go back into construction management.
Mid-40s here. I do contract work and it’s fine. I take 5 or 6 months off every few years and am planning to take a full year off to travel in the next five years.

We could die any given day so try to enjoy them.
What would have been a better alternative?
iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
Wife (and siblings/mother) has retinitis pigmentosa so I’m very interested to see how regenerative therapy progresses.

Hopefully in a few years time, there will be a way to improve their vision which will give them back some of their lives again…
> Tim Ferrell, from SpaceX's security team, for sending us a testing dish with root access.

They probably had a NDA or something that prohibits them to release the firmware publicy.
It's not. Name another industry/market where you can't know the price of what you're buying (even an estimate) before you buy it.

Every other developed country has a better system than ours. Every one.

And for those who say "oh, well wait times are so much higher" - well you can get supplemental insurance in many of those countries as well - so the baseline isn't abysmal, but wealthy can get even better.
Say I left my car unlocked and it starts spewing smoke – is it scary if the fire department break in to put it out? Or if my abandoned building is housing rats, is it okay for the city to break in and deal with them?

The FBI is far from perfect but this is the kind of thing they _should_ be doing, using their unique privileges to help with public menaces. Anyone on the internet could compromise them, too, so I’d prefer a public cleanup.
What OP probably means is not releasing benchmark data to the public so you can't train/fine tune your model based on that data.
It might be interesting for a security person to try to come up with ways to hypothetically assure a trustworthy bridge game, assuming no limits on costs or inconvenience (i.e. if a trustworthy bridge game takes three months to play, or requires launching a satellite into orbit, so be it.)
A friend of mine at Intel got a sabbatical after a few years. IIRC, they are the “default” path, at least for engineers, although I don’t know if everybody does it or what.

It seems like an awesome perk.

A well run company shouldn’t have a big problem if a single engineer vanishes. If management has trouble getting you time for a sabbatical, it would seem you are in a position to ask them for a ton of money.
Is the 'e' suffix in use anywhere else?

Will be interesting to see what kind of availability there is. I'm not in this world but I've heard repeatedly getting access to TPU hardware is very hard; now one comes along offering 4x the value. Good luck keeping that in stock.
Gang of Four: Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides; authors of Design Patterns.
I just kept going, did what I needed to do, stopped doing unnecessary shit and hit the pavement running. I never had enough self consciousness to not believe in myself.

It took a while. Day to day I worked as hard as I could then stopped after work hours and did little on the weekends (though I don't know how that would work these days, I was cold calling people).

I ate as cheap and healthy as I could and exercised as much as I could, lots of walks.

This was back in the early 2000's so the internet was shit and I couldn't lose myself there. These days I'd advise 0.00 leisure internet. No news, no forums, no social media. No fucking around.

This is an existential moment, very thin margins, high speed, no guard rails, this is adult shit.
Sandy Island, New Caledonia
The Tyranny of Collaborative Ideation
"One time, on first use, where absolutely necessary, and changing password immediately afterwards" seems a reasonable interpretation of "approximately never".
Agree. I love the vision (and their podcast) but when I tried to use it in my day to day, it fell short and got the feeling that they were focused on the wrong features for me (I.e. implementing cool and interesting features and forgetting about the boring but necessary ones).
Python got Numpy very early on, and other languages never got an equivalent.

And then lots of things were built on top of Numpy - image processing, reading GIS raster data, scipy, pandas, etc etc - and they're all trivial to combine because it's all just Numpy arrays.

Python also had a very friendly and approachable community from the start, and great docs, while Ruby had its documentation in Japanese only for some time.

Django is also top quality, imo. Similar to Rails. But it always seemed Ruby was only good for Rails, whereas Python combines with everything.

So as usual, it's not about the language, it's about the rest.
WSL is basically an attempt from Microsoft to avoid the encroachment of alternative Operating Systems in big corporations starting from the software development teams.
As more and more corporations are using open source development tools instead of being tied to the Microsoft Eco-System, Microsoft decided that they needed to turn the experience for those developers less miserable, so those corporations could stay firmly entrenched on enterprise windows licensing contracts.
Also, Azure didn't stand a chance if it was a Visual Studio only deployment destionation, so this is yet another reason to provide better compatibility for open source development tools in the windows desktop.
I don't wish to minimise your frustration, nor to imply that the following is easy.

But, unless the job search has consumed all of your free time, 18 months off work to pursue your passions is quite a gift.

The lack of income is a downer but if you can compartmentalize that, along with your fear of the future, then that time off could be spent taking up new hobbies, developing new skills, helping out family, working on fitness, etc.
Wrong abstractions make the abstraction configurable, and it is a slippery slope. Keep adding more arguments, configuration options, and there is no end to it. Sometimes duplication is indeed cheaper
There are so many things wrong with this argument that it will take me a while to list every one of them.

>And if you eventually can solve a problem by treating it as a black box, who cares

When the inevitable security bug gets introduced because you decided to be lazy, you will care. Black boxes make spaghetti code that is inherently buggy and insecure from the get-go. My current job is to clean up from programmers like you who don't give a crap about the code as long as it "just werks." Am I glad to have the job? Yes. Does it piss me off to see such blatantly terrible code? Also yes.

>It's not though, it's to illustrate that you can have a real-life impact using code that you don't understand at the time

Guess what? Programming lifted me out of poverty as well. I never use black boxes and never have. If I can't understand the stack overflow post, I don't use it. I find a solution I can understand. It's irrelevant and a logical fallacy. "well using shitty code helped me not be poor so it's good lmao!" Just no.

> That is irrelevant though, because no matter if it sucked or not, it worked and solved a real problem, which is the reason we (I at least) write code in the first place.

If writing spaghetti code causes more problems than it solves, it's not irrelevant. And guess what? It does. It might be years before these problems are revealed, but when that code gets exploited over something simple that a cursory understanding could have solved, then yeah. That's on you. It "just werks" is not a valid excuse.

> You seem to fall into the classical programmers trap of thinking that code has to be beautiful just to look at in order to be valuable, and anyone who disagrees is a shitty programmer and it's their fault you have to refactor some shitty code right now. It's not, they're not, and it's not their fault.

For one, ad hominem. Second, Beautiful code =\= good code. I have seen terrible code that was written beautifully sticking to a single programming style. I have seen great code that looked a little messy. I can tell when the programmer behind the code knew what they were doing or not. I like beautiful code, but I prefer secure code.

Also

>and it's their fault you have to refactor some shitty code right now.

It...literally is. They wrote it. If they write shitty code, and I'm the one that has to fix it, the blame falls on them for writing it in the first place without any quality in mind.
I get that defining an endpoint Tom all and managing a token is some overhead but is it that much to manage that using Google offers that much benefit? my point is that this is trivial to setup
This thread (or lack thereof) proves out the adage that a lie makes it halfway around the world while the truth is putting its shoes on.
I’m 39. I’ve taken a 2-month-long sabbatical this year, and it was one of the best things I ever did for myself.

I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD/AS just before Christmas, after having seen a psychiatrist complaining about chronic fatigue (cf. my Ask HN from two years ago [0]). The medications initially helped, but it was obvious to me that I also needed a substantial amount of rest. So when my company instituted a sabbatical policy soon after, I was first in line to take advantage of it.

I split it in two parts. The first one was a long-distance cycle trip that I’d been fantasizing about for years but never had time; I did it this June and thoroughly enjoyed three weeks of exercising my body physically and letting my head rest for a change. After that, July was pretty much a staycation, do-whatever-I-feel-like month. I read books, met friends, played with my pet projects, started learning Rust.

I also read more about ADHD and had some key insights which turned into some new habits after I returned to work this month. It might have been my most productive ever, even more so than January after diagnosis. Most importantly, I’ve been maintaining an emotional balance throughout that time; I don’t feel the weariness growing on me anymore.

I think all that would be impossible had I not taken the sabbatical. This is just a datapoint, but I highly recommend it if you can afford it.

As for the article, I’m not sure what I think about replacing retirement with sabbaticals. The idea is certainly interesting, but to me, while the two can supplant each other, they are not necessarily interchangeable.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29768418
Musk Doxxing Double Standard: Okay to Reveal Zuck’s Address Since It’s on Google
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I can understand that certain situations come up that require an all hands on deck emergency, but in such situations I would argue that the last thing you want is an AI generated failsafe presentation, but to get the necessary people on to fix this situation.

If it's part of the business to have people craft this regularly between 5pm and 8am then there is a systemic problem where AI will be a band aid at best.
I could feed my family with part-time odd jobs, not a “real job”. Still working, but less and with more freedom.

Health insurance and healthcare bills would be what made it impossible, even with no debt.
For the vast majority of projects this makes no difference. If you are at Facebook scale? Sure. But then, you do what they did, write a VM to speed things up.

Dynamic typing doesn't cost much more money on average and thankfully the cost of energy itself is a motivation for companies to do rewrites. If they are paying a lot in server costs and electricity then they do typically rewrite to reduce the amount of servers.

For companies they primarily need to worry about running at a profit and getting to market quickly which dynamic languages do extremely well, and the costs in electricity and carbon aren't very high when your scale is small.
Very nice site. The northwest Sacramento, CA page has Natomas Field where I used to hang out all the time and fly amazing planes from. The flying club had a Decathlon for acrobatics, a Piper Cub for cruising low and slow, and a Bonanza for taking trips, plus many other aircraft. So much fun. It was so sad when the houses were built there and they closed the airport around 2000.
are they offering citizenship for these skilled immigrants who enlist?
Think it's way more about detractors trying to push a negative narrative on the language, than it's any kind of reflection of the community, who are elsewhere.
[Author] OpenAI uses Ray, the open source version of Anyscale Platform, for training their models (video evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqiL5QQnN64).

Ray (https://github.com/ray-project/ray) is available for anyone to use. You can also use Aviary (https://github.com/ray-project/aviary) to serve any of those models yourself.
Cool! Any thoughts on how HCT compares with https://www.hsluv.org/comparison/? (Similar with HCT, the difference in "L" here makes picking contrasting colors more straightforward)

On the same topic, any thoughts on https://www.myndex.com/APCA/ and approaches if this becomes a standard? The color contrast value between a pair of colors depends on which color is the foreground and which is the background, so just comparing the difference in "T" won't be enough now?
> This was because of the monetary denomination of the Indian rupee at the time, where 16 Annas made a Rupee, 12 Kanis made an Anna and 4 Dammidies made a Kani.

I had a vague idea about Annas and never knew about the other two, but I realize have encountered shadows of all of these growing up.

My vague understanding of annas came from 25 paisa and 50 paisa coins being a thing, and being called நாலணா (4 annas) and எட்டணா (8 annas).

Kani I assume is காணி, and finally I understand what Bharathiyar was asking for when he asked "காணி நிலம் வேண்டும்" ("my wish is for meagre land worth a mere Kani").

Dammidi must be தம்படி, and survives mostly as an insult: "தம்படி பெறாது" = "this thing is not even worth a Dammidi".
Also some buffets that give discounts based on how small of a hole you can fit through

https://traveltomorrow.com/this-restaurant-makes-discounts-d...
I'm just trying to picture anyone at Booz Allen trying to get a hit squad together, lol. It'd be like a bunch of 20 year old kids out of a two-week American Ninja Warrior bootcamp.
I'm afraid I'm just unclear on exactly what part of this you argue is crossing a moral line.

I.e. what is being stolen without attribution? I'm genuinely not getting what you mean in this specific case.
The/one problem is it's not predictable. It might take a year. You might get an offer next week. When I was a month between jobs in the dot-com aftermath, it would have been nice to have known that I'd have something like 6 weeks between jobs. But, of course, at the time it could have been either a very long time or I'd better take whatever was on offer.
Well my challenge right now is I'm getting rejected after coding challenges (most recently a 4 hour coding challenge final interview and a 1 hour take-home test + 1 hour coding challenge), but I have no idea why I'm getting rejected because I'm completing the (trivial) problems asked of me and getting zero meaningful feedback (one company just said "lacked attention to detail" without being specific about anything, while the other ghosted me). In the past I always knew when I'd failed a coding challenge, but now I have no idea why I'm being rejected.

I've done a lot of work that I think qualifies me for these jobs and have a public portfolio with side projects that took hundreds of hours and I think involve a fair amount of complexity, but I'm getting the impression that nobody really takes any of it seriously because they don't have thousands of users and I didn't scale a bunch of distributed servers to serve millions of requests per second in throughputs for live users. I want to keep working on them and hopefully be able to monetize them because I think these tools I'm building could potentially be successful with more work - but then a part of me feels like I should be working on something more "technically impressive" because interviewers don't seem to be impressed at all about your "CRUD" web app unless it's got a lot of traction (though if my apps had that traction, why the hell would I even be interviewing lol).

Good point on it being harder to showcase backend work - that actually does make me feel a little better. Backend work I think needs to be accompanied by an article explaining all the technical challenges, at which point I think many will still consider it more respectable than typical frontend work even if the former isn't any more challenging than the latter.

I'm also full stack btw, just more confident in my frontend because my "big company" experience was on the frontend. I redid my resume today. Will see what I can do to make myself more attractive. I never had any trouble finding work in the past, so I've been surprised at how much more difficult it has been this year.
Thank you for the information!

Sometimes it’s worth pausing a moment when seeing a “It’s well known that…” to check the timeline because the construction of Arecibo might well have taken place (or planned) before it was known (let alone well known).

Edit: a bit more searching suggests that this was studied in 1947 (Andrade’s Creep Law and the Flow of Zinc Crystals, by AH Cottrell)
It probably wasn't the situation in your case, but I often give straightforward hints if the candidate is struggling with something that I don't want them to spend time on so we can get to the significant material.

E.g. in an algorithms interview they get stuck on an unrelated python issue (many people interview in python but don't use it day to day), or in a system design interview they get stuck on designing extra-credit subsystem C when they haven't finished subsystems A and B.

If they aren't getting it after a couple hints, I'll just tell them the answer or tell them to come back to it later.

Anyway, I would be very careful if you aren't going where the interviewer is pointing you. If you think it's a trick or you want to practice Active Ethics, then I would call that out in the moment since you might be messing up the flow of the interview at best and come off as hard to work with at worst.
I think it’s more a result of affluent professionals’ changing political affiliations and the need to reshuffle the line between good guys and bad guys.
Personally I find this a whole lot clearer. It's a table lookup, instead of a series of sequential checks (especially if you listen to your linter and have the elif version with the conditions and values on alternating lines, vs the conditions together in a vertical column like this).
Read The Defining Decade

https://megjay.com/the-defining-decade/
We need plug-in sandboxing in Obsidian.md
It (sadly) makes sense :(
Google/Chrome can't even be trusted with you bookmarks.

https://strangeobject.space/@silvermoon82/110969122337810598
I found this discussion of working at the national labs to be very interesting. Maybe that’s the kind of thing you need?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34414527
https://youtu.be/4q2OiOLJSBo?si=IsHLq4s0f4TNlOv7

Look at the video and judge for yourself
[Author] I acknowledge this and the article does as well. What I would say is that -- at the very least -- you could apply factual verification as a post process (so stage 1 is create the summary, stage 2 is validate the summary is factually accurate).
This feels like the facility was in operation for so long, that the people who knew about this potential problem all retired and with them went that knowledge.
They wouldn't need to do any redirecting if they had direct access to the computer, they could just directly install the patch/fix.

Sounds like they hijacked a malware proxy server and had it forward the traffic to their own server.
Things will certainly change. However, I don't think professional studio productions will go away.

In the age of MP3's and streaming services, "anyone" can put their music out there. And while many do, the most popular and successful music still comes from major labels.

With Amazon's distribution platform and tooling for self-published authors, "anyone" can write a book. And while many do put out some great stuff, the overwhelming majority of books that don't come from major publishers are shovelware.

As shitty of a curator as Hollywood might be, for most people there is value-add in curation.
"your choice to homeschool me harmed me" doesnt have to mean the social skills alone. I never progressed in some academic areas as much as I would have liked until college/after college because my parents were not great teachers in those areas.

Did they know they were not good teachers in those areas? I'm sure they didnt. Did I know that at the time? Nope. Would public school have taught me that same subject better? Who knows but my peers seemed to generally have a better understand of it than I did.

yada yada road to hell is paved with good intentions.
100mb per file and supports 1000s of files.

I keep long blog posts that I converted into epub in another account so that I'm less likely to hit the limits.

You can switch accounts with two clicks
> Would love to see parternity/maternity leave for non parents

Do you mean for an individual supporting a new parent, or something like that? How would it be particularly different than a general family medical leave? (other than getting appropriately paid, which we definitely need)
Personal attacks arent really called for. I disagree with op but really?
The Sidewalk bandwidth limit is 500MB/month. Per account not per device.

Also, the LoRa bandwidth is shared. It isn't 50 kbps per device but everybody within a mile or two. Also, the 50 kbps rate has a pretty short range. The normal, long range LoRa bandwidth is more like 5 kbps.