skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transitioned from a data analyst to a SWE at 34. Its worked out well so far, but there are definitely aspects of SWE that I still play catch-up with. Much of any good advice would depend on the career path you are switching from/to, but for anyone switching from analytics -> SWE, I've found that I (personally) should have invested more time in learning OOP and reading more production code. I don't write a ton of OO code on a daily basis now, but coming from an analytics background, most of my workflow revolved around FP where my goal was to just get something to work they way I expected to.

I also wish I reached out to my network a bit more and talked to other SWEs prior to accepting my role. Not that I would have changed my decision, just could have leveraged friends to get a sense of the day-to-day.
To be lovingly snarky: HN in aggregate is incredibly skeptical of academic research, claiming reproducibility crises everywhere, misalignment of incentives, brutal working environments whose results can't be trusted, only in mice, etc.

Unless it either confirms their existing beliefs, or is so technical that they don't understand it. Then the research must be ok :)
Looks pretty cool. Can anyone comment on how to hack together the opposite? That is, going from 2D object image to 3D rendering with in-painted background? Or is that not possible right now.
It’d be ideal for traveling and would also allow them to make something with a bit more of a book form factor.
Shenzhen made all its busses electric in 2018, and transitioned its taxi fleet to EV by about 2019-2020, while mopeds were also largely moving over in to EV in early 2019.

It's the future.
How many Hitler paintings do you own?
I don't think that's a super useful number since if you're somewhere where it's easier to earn that amount, homes are likely gonna be more expensive.

It would be much more interesting to know how far short the median income falls of median income needed to afford a home in that same region the income is earned - I think that's more insightful for an overall picture of how affordable houses are and you could do region by region comparisons.

I would hypothesize that even though the median income might be above that threshold or close to it in some regions like Manhattan and parts of the bay, the affordability gap would actually be greater in a large number of those relatively higher income regions than relatively lower income regions elsewhere
Why does a simple site like this need more than even 5 employees?
I'd always rather see employees get payouts on shutdown compared to companies, especially things like billion/trillion-dollar cloud companies and commercial real estate.

That being said if you're burning $30M+ every month in the current financial market I really hope you cancelled all your catering contracts a long time ago.
I found Calibre clumsy to use. I ended up with a program called Epubor, which so far has worked flawlessly. I'm a strong supporter of software freedom, and think it's ironic that one of the few non-free programs I have actually enhances my freedom to read.
Google did negotiate exactly that, a lower rev share than Microsoft would have to pay, according to Microsoft.

Via https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-considered-investin...

> Because Bing was far smaller than Google, Microsoft would have had to offer Apple a far larger percentage of the revenue than Google and would have lost money on the deal, at least initially, Tinter said.
Discard everything that does not spark joy (more profits).

\s
> District Attorneys deciding property crime is selectively enforceable for social justice engineering, and a knock-on effect of the police not bothering to do their job while having the gall to collect a paycheck they didn't earn.

Many police departments in big cities are severely understaffed. Seattle is at 60% where it needs to be, and has the lowest number of officers since 1992 (while population is much larger than then).

Couple that with just being a bad job: you get blamed for not doing enough, doing too much, and...really, there are just way better jobs out there these days that offer as much money for a lot less stress.
I'm so confused why this is news, and why this is news worthy of hacker news? am I missing something?
Screengrab vs. Screenshot
I was looking for the etymology of these two terms which I had thought to be synonyms. As an avid screenshotter myself, I never knew the subtleties that differentiate it from screengrabbing...
I went to graduate school at 30, and became and industry researcher at 35. My main advice is to realize that there is a lot of work in the transition, and your co-workers/advisor/etc will not care much about your previous accomplishments. You'll need to prove yourself again, but being comfortable with having to do that is worthwhile.
Since I missed the link, here's his blog post about how to improve video calls: https://www.benkuhn.net/vc/
Why do people keep buying low quality products such as teslas? Is it a status symbol or something? They feel like buckets on wheels. I dont get it.
Trying to become a unicorn when you are a miniature horse
Cheaper alternatives. Not superior ones.
Especially when you're only doing it so you can pay your employees 8 weeks' severance when the alternative is 6 or 8 weeks' pay while working.
I was told the battery is supposed to be fully water sealed. According to Elon, "it can serve briefly as a boat." Are such statements completely worthless? Consumers are buying these cars based on these kind of statements, and Elon knows it.
> The compiler emits this for you automatically as a .swiftinterface file

It's so incredibly slow, though, which is frustrating. It would be ok if only this were as instantaneous as checking a header file.

Ironically, almost everything about "Swift" is slower than Objective-C.
And let’s be honest about Thiel. He was in the glass closet. Literally everyone in SV knew he was gay. He didn’t hide it. He just didn’t want it published so he could more easily raise money from Mohammed Bonesaw al-Saud.

Then again, since when MBS care about staying in anyone’s good graces?
In a gold rush (mental health crisis society), sell shovels?
OTOH who stayed until the end for nothing is often more bitter
Judging from SwiftUI uses in macOS: various things will become noticably slower for older devices for no apparent reason. This is bad for the planet and consumers but great for Apple.

Edit: I see much interaction with this comment, but no response.
I'm trying to break into SE (at 32 from an accounting background), but not having a US/EU passport and living in a third world makes it hard. So I will say that depending on where you are from, things can get tricky. But the usual still stands, you get jobs by knowing the right people.
> Are such statements completely worthless?

Yes.

And no there is no enforcement on ensuring these statements are true.
How did oncall/operations work?
Effectively, you need to be earning nearly twice the median household income[1] to afford a house.

Our economy is deeply broken.

[1] Just under $71,000/year as of 2021.
I bought a Model Y. It's solid. But my next car won't be a Tesla
C3 Brilliant. Absolutely the best vacuum I've ever owned

House has a central vac, but we never use it, preferring the Miele. I've been thinking about putting a much bigger unit in the garage to actually get some aggressive suction, but the Miele is more than good enough, so why fix what isn't broken
True, particularly when you consider what fMRIs tell us about a brain’s state of knowledge
Tesla has sold 5 million cars. I think a good proportion of those will have been driven in heavy rain at some point. If this was a common problem someone would have some stats.

Speculation: I suspect somewhere inside the car they have markers that let the engineers know whether the car has been submerged. If those markers have tripped then you're out of warranty.
Yes, I'll earn $114k in NY to be able to afford a home in Alabama.
Did you find the Connector tool? (hotkey O).

It's by no means a full replacement for the sorts of tools you'd get in Draw.io but it's not nothing.

It lets you create a two-node SVG path with a bit of extra metadata. One or both nodes connect to a special node at the centre of a shape.

Inkscape automatically makes that be a straight line trimmed to the edges of the shape(s. You can move the shapes and have the line move too. If you move the path itself it turns back into a regular path.

The path is just a straight line as mentioned and there's certainly no routing logic.
And I understand the advantages over exceptions, but we've made some nice progress since the mid 2000s. Sum types and error unions aren't rocket science and even the assembly line programming model that Go seems to have built to enable could adopt them up in a day.

You could even have `catch` capture only the last value in the result tuple and it would still be big improvement.
From here[1] in 2016:

> We *def* don't recommended this, but Model S floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time. Thrust via wheel rotation.

And here[2] in 2020:

> A Tesla works as a boat for short periods of time, as an electric car has no air intake or exhaust to block & battery/motor/electronics are water-sealed. Submarines are just underwater EVs.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/744551674082136066

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1221176639339425792
why on earth do you eat with your nose? don't do that! even for science, really just don't.

I don't either. in the name of science.
My first exposure to Thiel was from his revenge campaign to destroy Gawker.[a]

Two lessons became cemented in unbreakable stone for me.

1) Enough money will eventually bend any justice system to your will.[b]

2) Threats to news orgs' existence will bloom after press gives a pass to the previous threats.[c]

[a] https://www.techdirt.com/2016/06/13/peter-thiels-plan-to-des...

[b] https://www.techdirt.com/2016/08/16/billionaire-backer-palan...

[c] https://www.cjr.org/first_person/amazon-roy-price.php
I have forwarding already set up from before it was locked. I get all the email that comes into the account. I can't get them to do anything with this, though :(

I had exactly the same though -- if they could just send me a link or something to verify!
The way I would rephrase OP is "what is the most useful abstraction for the mechanism of action of these drugs". It might be that limiting yourself to neurological phenomena gives you a much longer, more unwieldy model of what's happening here than an equally predictive model that centers on subjective experience.
Happy to see my company Elestio is mentioned in the article as a way to deploy Penpot :)

https://help.penpot.app/technical-guide/getting-started/#ins...
The "no going back to combustion for mobility" is already passed, and Tesla only sped the transition up slightly. The real cause is a 7%/year improvement in battery tech.

Don't believe me? Pick up https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Revolutionary-Chan..., and read the chapter on electric cars. Starting with the first edition back in the 1990s, it correctly stated that 2020 would be about when mass market electric vehicles would start to make economic sense, and the transition would be inevitable a few years after that. Tesla was only slightly early to that party, and now basically every car company has acknowledged that electric is the future.
Lots of people said this about SpaceX and Tesla. Besides, our towering intellect did destroy millions of years of Small Pox evolution.

Turns out some people are smart. Other people who do the same thing are stupid but it isn't a marker.
I don't know if this is feedback on the challenge per-se, but I was a little saddened that I couldn't add dependencies to my `Cargo.toml`; I wanted to solve part of the bencode challenge using nom (perhaps overkill, but it was for fun), but I can't.

If this is a concern of load/execution times on a remote builder, it would be cool if I had some way to run the testcases locally to avoid this concern
>Consider that the reason their software is so much better than the rest is _because_ they charge this much and can reinvest it in to the software.

LOL!!
This is a different Charles Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_C._Johnson

He’s scum!
A typical home in Wyoming or Iowa, yes. In bay area, LA and nearly all metros where >80% of people live, no.
Therapy is not necessarily a bad form of shovels :-)
> The whole point of the technology is that you don't need a classically trained actor.

I consider it the other way: the hope for ai tech in film is that we don't need to find the "best looking" actors/actresses available. Instead, you could find the best actor available regardless of what they look like, make your film, and _then_ overlay a generated face/body.
From the abstract: "The resulting Δ14C record exhibits an abrupt spike occurring in a single year at 14 300–14 299 cal yr BP and a century-long event between 14 and 13.9 cal kyr BP."
The CCDs might be the same but several of the Threadripper models have to be "perfect", e.g. the 7975WX has 32 cores from 4 CCDs:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21092/amd-unveils-ryzen-threa...

EPYC 9334 has the same config, but it's clocked lower and has a correspondingly lower TDP.

Whereas the 7965WX has 24 cores from 4 CCDs, so the 7965WX is presumably made of CCDs where 2 of the 8 cores were defective, i.e. it's a 7975WX made of "defective" CCDs. But so is the EPYC 9254. Or they could have used the same four "defective" CCDs to make a pair of the 12-core Ryzen 9 7900, or four of the Ryzen 5 7600.

The EPYC "F" processors are apparently made entirely of "defective" CCDs, presumably because it gives them more L3 cache per core and helps with heat dissipation by spreading the heat load across more CCDs for the same number of cores.
I find mermaid is simple enough non tech people can use it, and has fairly broad support. PUML can obviously do more, but mermaid is there, which helps out tremendously
The long term viability of the company you bought a car from absolutely matters when it's such an expensive purchase that is reliant on Tesla not only for service but also for charging. You don't know what thing you rely on might get cut when the bubble pops and they need to find cash - frothy markets hide weaknesses and make it easier for companies to pile up weaknesses without people paying attention (e.g. svb).
The conversion is required to properly support indexing for any index != 0. Optimizations are only possible if iterator-style APIs are used so the runtime can iterate as well. However, it might be still more efficient to convert the whole string and be done with it, depending on its length. Languages with a proper WASM backend could offer optimized runtime libraries and/or optimize such code.

The issue is not new. JavaScript runtimes frequently use multiple optimized string types for various situations:

https://github.com/danbev/learning-v8/blob/master/notes/stri...
If Musk actually placed an order for 7m Teslas, how much would that increase the valuation of Tesla and how much would it increase Musk's wealth.

Tesla sold 85,000 model Y in 2022. This would be an 8200% increase in Model Y sales. That must merit a significant bump (let's say 10x) in Tesla valuation. Let's ballpark and say this quadruple's Musks wealth. Now Musk can afford to buy 28m Tesla Model Ys which would be an 32,000% increase in Tesla sales!

Did I invent infinite money? My logic is at least as sound as the quote from that article.
I'm not laying interest-rate hikes on the administration. I'm blaming them for neglecting to take sufficient action against monopolies, and their failure to communicate with the public on the issue.

Apparently their "strategy" is to sit back and let the Fed flail, instead of admitting that it's not working and proposing another approach.
And yet, no automaker building them in volume except BYD and Tesla. Again, to be clear, not a fanboy. Show me the volume, that's it. I disagree we are at the inflection point where an EV future is assured (although I would agree we are close). Further dismantling of existing combustion assembly supply chain must occur before this can be stated as fact (imho). Until this is done, lazy humans will walk back their commitments. You must lock the future in.

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/uk-pushes-2030-combus...
> If you want something that works, pay for it.

That’s literally what they’re doing, with proprietary software.
I was a network engineer and after age 40 did a bootcamp and now happily work as a web developer.
Yes, but this tracker did not offer any such things. The only reason the mean ratio of active members was > 1 was because of the steady stream of users being banned for low ratios.
I know of two companies with >$1B exits that were running on fumes when they turned it around. One had 3 days of runway remaining; one had 16 hours to get a wire in to make payroll. Today these companies employ thousands.

FedEx famously (allegedly) came down to a hand of blackjack in Vegas to make payroll & avoid bankruptcy.
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A Metrics Driven Guide to Raising a Series B as a Developer Tool Founder
> But surely there is a legal basis to prevent you from leaving the store with groceries before you have paid for them.

There isn't really. The store can call the police, and when they show up, they can stop you from leaving. But...ya, that doesn't work out very well.

I imagine in Europe you would just become a social pariah and might get a knock at your door by police (at least in Switzerland...), while in the states...they can't do much, there is no social pressure.
It can also be harmful. I know someone who went through this treatment, they had an out of body/ego death experience, and were convinced that's what death felt like, and they really liked it. They had a suicide attempt just a few days later. It isn't the type of treatment one tries unless they've exhausted all other options. It's saddening to hear a lot of depression treatments seem largely reliant on placebo effect - for someone with decades of dysthmia, it's really disheartening to hear.
>I can't really object to rationality on its own, but it may be worth considering non-rational, transcendent experience as a fundamental psychological need.

I couldn't agree more, you've made really great points that allowed me to reflect on my own approach to my mental wellbeing. I honestly needed to see this comment right now. Thank you!
https://archive.ph/9hmxF
>If qualia are not different that our “neurological machinery” (and all available evidence shows this so far, not least the incoherence of definitions of qualia that try to exclude such) then medicine is already considering such as a major parameter.

No, they are definitely not. I don't see anything in these studies to the effect of "hey, it's the feeling that they feel that's making them better". They're looking for some mysterious mechanism, usually on the cellular or molecular level, whereas "numen" and "transcendence" are not even on the biological level of analysis.
Wikipedia cites the Jerusalem Post saying that there was one fatality, and the Human Rights Council saying there were zero, on the Israel side. The same HRC report[1] reports 183 fatalities. This is a case where there is a broad gulf between "truth" and "not false." And I'm inclined to think that "fatalities," plural, was a one-sided affair.

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/HRBodies...
Wire fraud is quite a common problem. It's pretty standard practice at least where I am to require written wire instructions from the settlement agent, and then the bank will call them to verify that is indeed correct before sending funds.

But if an email looks official and came from an official address, I can't imagine the settlement agent wouldn't be liable for the loss. (And often they now have cyber insurance to cover such losses.)

I know some title companies are moving away from wiring funds out and only issuing checks to prevent having this problem themselves.
Left SWE for administrative side.

All of my experience was mainframes and cobol anyway, and leaving that for a more modern SWE is a radical path change as well.

Anyway. Working as a SWE sucked all of the fun out of it. Now I get to enjoy it as a hobby again.
Never heard of that one, so I was interested and checked it out. Turns out they do have a github repo but it plainly says: "Since Photopea is not fully open-source, this repository serves as a place for bug reports, feature requests, and general discussion."

Looks like a nice product, but I would not consider it a FOSS alternative to GIMP.
Attempted possession of an illegal item/substance is absolutely a crime.

Source: decade in the criminal justice system.
FCC greenlights superfast Wi-Fi tethering for AR and VR headsets
> And a store is not going to ban someone unless they are completely sure they have stolen something.

That isn't true. Just being rude to staff can get you banned from many stores. If you don't like their policy of checking receipts, they can ban you, although they can't really enforce anything without a trespassing order, at best they can just refuse service.
yeah it makes sense, but if you’re already offloading everything to replicate.ai it makes less sense

just extra stacks to keep track of and keep up with
https://archive.ph/9hmxF

That number seems really low. Here in Seattle, the median home price is $804k, and a third of that is about $268k. I'm ignoring the down payment, but you get the idea.

And we're not the most expensive market by any means. If this number is an aggregation, I guess that's somewhat better news for people outside the cities.

And by outside the city, I mean 2-3 hours by car. Just moving to the next county isn't enough.

I also wonder what they mean by a "typical" home. Do they mean typical in terms of price, regardless of square footage or unit type, or do they mean "typical" in the sense of a 3/2 single occupancy dwelling with a certain square footage and yard size, etc.?
I changed from being a system software engineer (working on device drivers) to applied research engineer (ai).

I worked for small startups for 2.5 years in order to gain relevant experiences.
What % of ICE cars would be covered by warranty if there was moisture ingress causing electronics failures?
Nit: my feelings are closer to "we are ignoring one of possibly many useful abstractions", but otherwise yes.

If I'm being pedantic here, it's that I really don't want to downplay the importance of the pharmacological level of analysis. It's a very useful analysis. It's just not a complete theory of life well-lived.
No one gets killed for screwing up traffic haha. And where Cruise operates, no one goes to jail for screwing up traffic. What does happen is people kill humans, and no amount of jailing the killers brings anyone back.

So let's make human driven cars safe before we let them on the road. When AVs kill as many people as human driven cars, we can switch.
On Stewart's Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China
Stumbled upon your post as I’m scouring for Clojure related content.

It feels very ADHD related and I’d recommend checking yourself out. Procrastination/catch up loop is very common.

And if this IS ADHD often there are no other ways than getting on the treatment train, cause trying to fight it is just as effective as fighting gravity.

Good luck!
Since 1965, home prices have increased 7.6x faster than income: https://www.realestatewitch.com/house-price-to-income-ratio-...
Another issue is the variability of depression as a diagnosis itself. An admittedly anecdotal set of my encounters with people who take or have taken anti-depressants is most are on changing set of prescriptions because nothing works continuously and a high percentage of them are ones which no anti-depressant drug worked and were fixed by a different diagnoses for something like adhd.

How does one evaluate if a new drug works vs depression when there isn’t a consistent diagnosis or presentation of the symptoms.