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Ask HN: Best way to explore career trajectory as a mid level engineer
Hello,

I'm currently working in a medium-sized AI startup (which is picking up steam). I'm currently a mid-level engineer in one of the product teams and I find myself in a bit of a search for meaning situation.

I've had a bit of an eclectic path:
Degree in Economics -> Data Analyst -> Data Engineer -> Backend Engineer

As a data analyst, I got bored of making dashboards and went into data engineering since it was a growing field and, I believed, more challenging, after a while however I found myself a bit bored of making the Nth data pipeline and decided to try my hand at backend software engineering which I like a lot, but lately, I've been feeling that all I ever do is implement CRUD endpoints (data pipelines all over again) because I came in into an existing code base and there was nothing really left to do, but maintain it. I have an odd challenge here and there but life's become pretty dull, and looking at the senior devs their days are pretty much the same, except for a few more meetings.

Now my director has started asking me about what are my plans in the company and if I want to go the staff engineering route or the management route. I love engineering and would not want to take the management route, but also do not want to be making GET/POST API's for the next 15 years. Since the start of my journey into IT I've always known what the next step is and what I need to do to accomplish it (data analyst -> learn SQL, python; date engineer -> cloud, spark, kafka; backend-engineer: K8s, Go, CI/CD, DS&A, API's). But now I feel a bit stuck, I'm still reading a lot of books, but I feel like I never get to use the more advanced things I've learned.

I know that it might be a limitation of my company and I should probably try and find another position, but I am a bit afraid that going to another company would just be more of the same with a different flavored stack.

Has anyone else been in a similar position, and how did you deal with it? How did you find a way into something more interesting? Or is it just Airflow pipelines and CRUD endpoints all the way down?

Thank you
Hoo boy wait until we get to Lipka and Crimean Tatars (the former of which have been integrated in the US for over 100 years now)
JaxMARL released, x12,500 speedup for multi-agent reinforcement learning
Similar item submitted 2 hours ago [0], recycling my comment:

> TLDR: "Tested a relatively cheap/clean way of making very tiny particles of carbon from what would otherwise be food-waste. Checked to confirm that those tiny particles are still antioxidants just like larger particles are. Nobody knows yet if/how-much antioxidants actually help with all those scary diseases, but... maybe?"

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38368792
Will this be available on the browser version?
Seems like having a browser monopoly is bad no matter who's in charge. It's also interesting to see how each company used its power. Microsoft wanted to keep people in the Microsoft ecosystem, so they crippled the web. Meanwhile Google wants you to use the web, just not modify it in any way to maintain the profitability of its ad business - so we get a feature-rich rendering engine and proposals like "Web Environment Integrity".
Actually it was already done by sentdex with GAN Theft Auto:

https://youtu.be/udPY5rQVoW0

To an extent...

PS: Video is 2 years old, but still really impressive.
NSA analyst?
One point: if you are re-reviewing, other platforms (e.g. Phabricator, Gerrit) have much more developed ways to compare changes relative to one another.
dnscrypt.org will shuffle between multiple encrypted resolvers. So no single party has your info.
Infrequent use is an interesting use-case. Assuming no friction (no sign up, no tracking, etc - completely hypothetical) - would you pay 5 cents, or 25 cents, to watch a video once? Ignore the details - just in sprit, would you do it?
They re-enabled browsing access, so I believe it has the ability to search Bing again now.
This is all buzzword soup.

Take a step back and think hard about what you need the stack to do.

If you are very proficient in a stack and it will do the task with dependency he’ll or too many junk layers, that is the best one to use.

If you care about what is sexy or popular or cool, you’re doing it wrong
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe YouTube's new strategy requires frequent filter list updates but with MV3 the filter list is embedded in the extension so the extension itself would need to be updated (and Google controls the speed at which extensions can be updated).

For a long time I assumed Google's approach to hampering AdBlockers with MV3 was going to be the rule count limits imposed by MV3 but I think now it's more about controlling the speed that filter lists can be updated.
Didn't browsers decide to block unsigned extensions back when Microsoft decided to automatically add the silver light extension to every browser on the system? I think at least for Firefox you have to download the nightly build to bypass the signing process. Side loading extensions Google doesn't want you to have will probably be as painful as possible.
Same here but still waiting the request model access button is now "Use case details submitted". Glad you had success this route.

This is why we have enjoyed using OpenAI. Easy signup and access.
How is Mozilla worse than Google?
This has been done to some degree at Green Park station, which still very much is quite warm in places, for ~£9M about a decade ago.

But when TfL has had its budget slashed, and such projects are competing for financing with other projects with more direct operational benefit… it's hard to justify. And it's still not necessarily easy to drill at all!
One huge advantage for them compared to GitHub is that they offer an on-prem version. That is much more relevant than Hg support of all things.

It also gets bundled with Jira and Confluence.
Modernizing Our Royalty System
The Future of Artificial Intelligence [video]
It's only in recent decades that media has begun to adapt itself to increase captivity of individual consumers. That feels like a qualitative difference between your time horizons.
It's about access and command & control. I could have the same sentiment as you, since in high school, friends & I were in the habit of using our knowledge from chemistry class (and a bit more reading; waay pre-Internet) to make some rather impressive fireworks and rockets. But we never did anything destructive with them.

There are many bits of technology that can destroy large numbers of people with a single action. Usually, those are either tightly controlled and/or require jumping a high bar of technical knowledge, industrial capability, and/or capital to produce. The intersection of people with that requisite knowledge+capability+capital and people sufficiently psycopathic to build & use such destructive things approaches zero.

The same was true of hacking way back when. The result was interesting, sometimes fun, and generally non-destructive hacks. But now, hacking tools have been developed to the level of copy+paste click+shoot. Script kiddies became a thing. And we now must deal with ransomeware gangs of everything from nation-state actors down to rando teenage miscreants, but they all cause massive damage.

Extending copy+paste click+shoot level knowledge to bombs and biological agents is just massively stupid. The last thing we need is having a low intelligence bar required to have people setting off bombs & bioweapons on their stupid whims. So yes, we absolutely should restrict these kinds of recipe-from-scratch responses.

In any case, if you really want to know, I'm sure that, if you already have significant knowledge and smarts, you can craft prompts to get the LLM to reveal the parts you don't know. But this gets back to raising the bar, which is just fine.
Because you never wrote it. The curse of open source.

By the time github came about, git already had a lot more mindshare than hg. While hg wasn't yet clearly an also ran, it was clearly the less popular solution, and many open source tools started supporting git but either not supporting hg, or if they did it was an afterthought and often the maintainers broke something hg without noticing and then releasing with broken hg support.
I'm wondering which part of this link I should focus on: (1) ChatGPT Voice is now free for all users (2) Greg Brockman is retweeting an announcement from a company he left
That’s a good point. In turn I’d ask why the parents don’t leave the house? Because of screens…?
... that again seems like a very useless model of the world. regulations change, sometimes for the worse sometimes for the better. of course we know that when populism flies high and the wolves are elected to keep the sheep safe, well, you know, we have always been at war with Oceania. Supreme Court justices were always allowed to accept gifts.

social movements, radicals come and go, trillion dollar industries can too.
If not removal then at least a clear split into two separate (for-profit and non-profit) entities with no parent-sub relationship. Then have an agreement where the for-profit entity commits to a specified funding level for the non-profit in exchange for a license to commercially use/resell the IP.
It's much better than IE6 in 07, but that also makes it much more dangerous. MS stopping IE development was a major strategic mistake (and unintended gift to free internet).
I haven't seen any ads actually try to exploit browser vulnerabilities (although I do believe many are engaging in illegal fingerprinting attempts - see how some web sites suddenly pop up a video DRM prompt if you aren't allowing DRM by default, even though they contain no DRMed video content).

But the amount of social engineering (trying to trick users into installing malware), scams, and obvious misinfo (the "you won't believe what car Greta is driving" ads for example) is mind-blowing. Even shopping ads often turn out to be worse-than-Temu "sell the worst piece of undersized crap China can crank out, promising a money-back guarantee that turns out to be worthless" scams.

Making sure tech-inexperienced friends and relatives have an ad blocker makes a night-and-day difference in the amount of damage control and cleanup you'll have to deal with.
I want to avoid being killed, which conflicts with your desire for mystery and unpredictability.
> What are the chances:

Higher than you might expect--with some obvious downgrade due to being an "influencer".

Reporters used to book flights on routes to SF and SJC before major conferences to eavesdrop. I once was a random fourth in golf in with a judge and two lawyers who talked about how to take advantage of the Chargers/Qualcomm Stadium deals. etc.

People like to brag. People get busted for crime all the time because they can't keep their damn mouth shut.
I understand (and could use) Anthropic’s “super safe model”, if Anthropic ever produces one!

To me, the model isn’t “safe.” Even in benign contexts it can erratically be deceptive, argumentative, obtuse, presumptuous, and may gaslight or lie to you. Those are hallmarks of a toxic relationship and the antithesis of safety, to me!

Rather than being inclusive, open minded, tolerant of others' opinions, and striving to be helpful...it's quickly judgemental, bigoted, dogmatic, and recalcitrant. Not always, or even more usual than not! But frequently enough in inappropriate contexts for legitimate concern.

A few bad experiences can make Claude feel more like a controlling parent than a helpful assistant. However they're doing RLHF, it feels inferior to other models, including models without the alleged "safety" at all.
Does anyone actually find it desirable? Or is it just an easy way to squeeze more money out of a mattress sale, considering they probably sell your data.
I feel blown away and creeped out at the same time. It sounds so natural that's it's creepy. Only question I have now is that is audio being streamed or generated on device.
LMFAO I refuse to believe this comment was written by an actual human
Why is this? Memory usage?
The article references Hugo Gernsback - and one of the best literary criticisms of the techno-optimist utopia ideal can be found in William Gibson's short story, "The Gernsback Continuum".

As far as the 'ideological divide' at OpenAI, the fact that they're all silent about the military contracting arm of their partner Microsoft as well as potential applications of LLMs to the military arena should be proof enough that their 'do-gooder' PR operation is nothing more than a branding and marketing game.

I suppose you could argue that military dominance of the planet in the name of do-gooder agendas is just what we need, but that's always been little more than a justification for robbery of others, ever since the dawn of recorded history.
Having adblocker that can monitor all https traffic is very effective, and works on the level of the whole machine.
Obviously variable interest rates are lower over time - fixed term mortgages have a premium over variable and in stably changing conditions thats baked into the rate.

The danger of variable rates is not that you might end up paying an extra 50 grand by the end of the mortgage. That's almost impossible.

The danger is that you won't get to reach the end of the mortgage because at some point an interest rate spike makes you insolvent. A short, but sharp spike, that wipes out your savings.
I rarely take this kind of posts seriously (whether it's about veganism or something else) because most often it's shameless propaganda, and badly hidden too.

> According to a report by NielsenIQ

No link to source provided, might as well be made up

> approximately 2.7 million households in the UK have a vegan or vegetarian living on the premises

which is a rather different thing from being vegan or vegetarian, as some other commenter correctly noted

> and 10.5 million households replace meat-based meals with vegan or vegetarian alternatives at least once a week[2]

I drink soy milk because by getting old i stopped properly digesting cow milk and some other dairy products. Also, tonight I had pasta with tomato sauce and no meat. Would this article count me as a vegan?

Does that remark even makes sense? vegetables aren't exclusively for vegan people's consumption.

And there goes my attention, I won't bother reading further, can't get any better given the premises.
Soon the hollywood strike won't even matter, won't need any of those jobs. Entire west coast economy obliterated.
This is all such a 2005 Techcrunch vibe the last few days.

Michael Arrington, where are you??

(for all the youngsters reading this: this kind of cool-kids-club silicon valley drama was daily back then)
That's what I tried using before and I had even less luck / had to do more fandangling, but thanks for the suggestion.

Like I said, these are libraries whose "build" before was just `tsc`, there's nothing funny going on.
It's just a retweet. Probably just a reflex action.
> Are you going to have your user

What fucking user, man? Is it not painfully clear I never spoke in the context of deploying applications?

Your issues with this level of prefilling in the context of deployed apps ARE valid but I have no interest in discussing that specific use case and you really should have realized your arguments were context dependent and not actual rebuttals to what I claimed at the start several comments ago.

Are we done?
my parents thought I was a combination of introverted and not social

I just could not be motivated to travel 40 minutes to an event, and Xbox Live was an equivalent surrogate

Move on campus in the middle of things and I’m out almost every day. Keep everything in walking distance and I’m very social in person. We’ll see if suburbs ever appeal to me, more likely would have to be a reimagined version of the concept.
They need gargoyles.
There are seemingly no large tradfi bank or organization left that are untouched by criminal convictions. So then what?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37836932 by a Mozilla employee
There are so many people who do not want to show up in the US (or elsewhere) and are living in Dubai that I would not be too worried. There is a full spectrum from former businessmen to current warlords.

Dubai has a lot to lose by damaging its reputation as a safe haven for wealthy exiles. My 2c.
What I find interesting is that Flipboard has close to half a million followers on Twitter. Yet their announcement post from a couple of hours ago has only 13k views. That's despite it being retweeted by people also with thousands of followers.

I see the same thing with, say, BBC News. 40 million (!) followers - and their posts rarely get above 100k impressions.

Traffic appears to have cratered across Twitter. On the rare occasion I post there, I hardly get any interaction. A year ago it was still a significant driver of traffic. Nowadays, nothing.
Is there something like an IOMMU to provide secure access to the NIC?
Yes I cannot believe CZ avoided jail time.
Show HN: Open Source Cloud Costs Monitoring in Docker
OpenCost is an open source implementation for Kubernetes cost monitoring and now cloud cost monitoring for AWS, Azure, and GCP. The project makes all of this data accessible via an API and user interface. While discussing the idea of running OpenCost on platforms besides Kubernetes we realized that with this new Cloud Costs feature there are users who want API access to their cloud billing data without needing to run on Kubernetes. I opened the Issue OpenCost without Kubernetes #2268 and as luck would have it, we had our internal Hackathon last week.

If you're not familiar with OpenCost, it's the open source CNCF project for monitoring Kubernetes and cloud spending. It's a Golang implementation of the OpenCost Specification for monitoring Kubernetes cloud costs. It has an optional web UI and you can also run it as a Prometheus metrics exporter. The code is all at https://github.com/opencost/opencost and you can learn more about the project at https://opencost.io
Coucou ;)
The Stockholm area looks like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@59.3284101,18.0369884,11.71z?au...

There are plenty of places where the water route is much, much, much faster than the land route, and there are plenty of islands that are only accessible by boat.
Who do you want to live your life? Is it really your life if all your choices are being taken from you and other entities pretend to know your needs better than you?

This is about autonomy and protecting civil liberties. Surveillance should be viewed through the lens of "would this be okay if a person was in place of the machine?"

I do not want someone watching my sleep so they can tell all their friends.
It really just seems like the board isn't OK with OpenAI becoming a Microsoft money-machine. Isn't that the obvious interpretation?

Once they made that gigantic deal with Microsoft and became a closed, for-profit company "Open"AI created a direct conflict of interest with itself with a board whose mandate I guess was to prevent the inevitable pull toward resource accumulation.

The board is trying to exercise its mandate, and OpenAI the for-profit company is at odds with that mandate. Is that because of Sam Altman's leadership? Does that qualify as "wrongdoing"?
THIS. Back when, I walked to/from kindergarten & elementary school daily. In pretty much whatever weather there was. Usually alone. Mostly along a main-ish residential street. Those walks added up to ~12 miles/week. Pretty much all the other kids at my school did the same; I'd guess the maximum walk was ~15 miles/week.

(Also - this was back when all the kids went home to eat lunch each day, then came back to school. "School lunch" for the few oddballs, who had no housewife mom available, amounted to a few folding picnic tables in a dead-end hallway, and BYO sack lunch.)
Mononoke
>Why would machines be interested in rivalry over resources or territory? Like a pond of water? Or women?

Which one do you consider “women” here? Territory or a resource?
> nobody has to follow up with the same offer

Yes, different companies have to follow up with the same offer in order to break up the talent bloc. Otherwise the bloc will move en-masse to one firm.

> How is any of that "sacrifice their children on twitter"?

It's called hyperbole
The classical financial system has much less CO2 per transaction and more features.

It's the perfect finetuned and still optimized PoS system.
Not true. I looked at the complete list of hosted projects on Bitbucket just when it was shut down and I recall that at least 10% of all repos ever created on Bitbucket were hg repos.
Pihole blocks stuff for everything on your network. No need to train your family or do anything to machines are devices. While it does not block everything, and sometimes too much. It does block a lot.

By blocking too much, for one of the banks I use blocking their app telemetry causes the app to crash. And sometimes I do want to click on an ad Google serves up when it matches my search and I am buying something.
If BTC would always increase in value than it's doomed from the start as it means people starting late have to pay much more than an early person.

This means rich late people will never migrate or buy BTC ETF ever.

It's like always buying at the increase
Rumor is that FTX is not that awful financially right now, because of their Anthropic investment.
I like that you're framing this as if it was between python and lisp and not python being the language of choice by a huge margin followed by a dozen other languages, then lisp.
Existing Home Sales Declined 4.1% in October (First Trust Portfolios)
bitbucket is worse, reviewees can resolve reviewer's comments (github has this too turns out), after file changes, comments disappear
UK Supreme Court rules Deliveroo riders are not employees
I've been using it for the last 5 or so years with no real issues (Linux, Windows and Android).

I'd say the Android one is probably the weakest link but still usable and of course having ad-block on mobile is a huge quality of life improvement.

Other than that I don't notice any slowdowns compared to Chrome, the UI is very similar anyhow and the addon ecosystem is decent too.
woah, filters work now! i am 100% firefox at home and 95% at work, i keep (kept, yay!) chrome for meet so i could blur. thanks for mentioning this!
I’d love some walkable neighbourhoods in my suburbia. Automotive industry invested heavily to ensure this was so. Dependence on a vehicle in most North American cities is not an accident
Interesting to see that the semantic chunking in the tools library is a wrapper around GPT-4. Asks GPT for the python code and executes it: https://github.com/NeumTry/NeumAI/blob/main/neumai-tools/neu...
Not really.

People can sue anyone for anything and do all the time. Being sued by powerful people is worse than being sued by random people. These are truisms and meaningless observations.

There's not really much of a case for the premise that you can sue the board of a charity for a hiring/firing decision. What's the rationale?

There isn't one. And the law professor quoted in the article basically said yeah I can't really think of one. And you haven't stated one here.

Look at this in the reverse. If the board of Microsoft fired Satya tomorrow suddenly would OpenAI have cause of action for a lawsuit against them? Of course not, what would even be the premise for that? It's literally the same fact pattern though.
So, a for profit company that has the sole purpose of taking taking money from people and sponsors in order to create "think pieces" about walkable cities, pushes a propaganda piece with a major premise being that our suburbs are bad for kids because of our reliance on cars.

However .. the entire premise instantly falls apart when you ask why we didn't have the same problem in the past when we were even MORE based around cars than we are today.