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Ask HN: Lost My Software Engineering Job, Now What?
I've always been passionate about coding. I earned my BSc in Computer Science, thrived in university, but struggled to find software engineering opportunities in my developing country. Freelancing kept me afloat for a while (mostly website development), but the pay and project flow were terrible.

To make ends meet, I became a programming tutor. It wasn't my dream, but I was good at it. After two years, I finally landed a remote software engineering role at a US startup. It was challenging, well-paid, and a fantastic growth experience... until the startup failed, and I was laid off.

Now, finding another job feels impossible. The market's brutal, especially for someone like me – aiming for remote work from a developing country. Plus, all the buzz is about AI. I'm at a crossroads:

- Pivot to AI? Web development feels saturated, but is an AI shift the answer?

- Get my Master's? But what's the plan after the degree? The competition is fierce.

Honestly, I'm lost. Any guidance from you would be hugely appreciated.
It also probably increases the odds of total ruin... think a Katrina or an Andrew but a bit worse. On a smaller scale, it's never gonna be just one car in a town with hail damage.
Looks like Brazil and the US have an extradition treaty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradit...

Even so, in the US being rich seems to triumph over everything else so it's unlikely to matter.
My biggest gripes, summed up:

- The requirements are arbitrary, undocumented, and largely depend on how the case worker feels on a given day. Common wisdom is to bring far more documents than asked for, just in case.

- Everything is paper-based. You are expected to act as a transport layer between offices that won't talk to each other. Everything is mailed, because digital communications are distrusted and digitalisation lagging far behind.

- Everything takes far longer than it should, partly due to the above, and due to chronic understaffing of government offices.

This is a problem in all major cities, and many of the smaller ones. In this case, n is a pretty big number backed by the many relocation consultants I work with. You got lucky, and I envy you.
You can create a UG (haftungsbeschränkt) with all the lability protection of a GmbH with 1€ capital.
which issues?
Google Chat is underrated. My team uses Google Workspace so we’re experimenting with using Chat instead of Slack. So far so good.
Like decode the next token, then adjust what you're paying attention to, then decode it again?
Currently using a Sony 40" which I got for free, before that a 37" LG, also free. There's plenty of people who for some reason want to get rid of their "old" television to get one of those newfangled "smart" things, have a look around the local classified ads/Craigslist/Freecycle/and you're sure to find plenty of options. As long as it has HDMI and a big enough screen you're set.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk
He stole a $4k suit out of a store, for one thing.
This makes sense. Disliking something is the same thing as being disabled. For example, disliking posts critical of billionaires is a hallmark sign of being disabled by fantasy
FL here. Florida was hit by a wave of roofing fraud. They are changing out the laws (which will make sense).
I also made it once. The electricity for boiling all that liquid should be what makes up most of the manufacuring cost. Hm I should ask Fjällbrynt how they cope with that.

If I remember correctly the trick was in the stirring. Either not stir at all (with the risk of burning), or stir all the time to keep it from crystalizing.

Edit: and yes geitost is the goat-whey version.
This article details why they require such a resolution (1). The first few paragraphs talk about elevation, but then they dive onto the topic

(1) https://www.lroc.asu.edu/images/379
I personally think that's a reading comprehension issue on your part, but maybe submit feedback with specifics about what's confusing to you/what you'd like to see instead?
One thing I really miss is a standard way to block any copilot/ai code completion tool from reaching specific files.
That’s particularly important for .env files, containing sensitive info. We don’t want leaking secrets outside our machine, imagine the risks if they become part of the next training dataset.
That’d be really easy to standardize, it’s just another .gitignore-like file.
Replace ‘defects’ with ‘miracles’ and/or ‘science’ depending on which makes more sense.
What are the redeeming qualities of Germany?
Is it that they don’t think you’re qualified to have gotten in there or it’s an HBCU so they denigrate it?
Mine too! My residence permit expired in February, and my appointment is in July. I expect to have a valid residence title again by end of August.

Mind you, I applied in December. I will not be able to travel out of the country for most of the summer as I wouldn't be allowed to reenter.

They refused multiple times to issue the temporary permit that I'm legally entitled to. I'm having a lawyer ask again, this time with the threat of a lawsuit.

It's such a common problem that I had to write a detailed article about it. People miss weddings and funerals because the immigration office is months late. The number of lawsuits due to inaction is growing exponentially since 2019.
I suspect we're going to find plenty of food items to put on this list.

Are we planning to jail or bankrupt the peddlers of sugar water? Sugar itself? Refined flour? Non-nutritive sweeteners? Fast food? Fast casual? Buffets? Potato chips? Chocolate? Beer? Wine? (Stop me when we get to some pseudo-vice that you sometimes enjoy.)

At some point, I think you have to say "society decided at the time that selling Coke, Pepsi, fast food, potato chips, and wine was okay, and the people who sold that aren't subject to retroactive punishments for selling something that we pretty much knew was damaging to health of millions of people, but they chose to eat it anyway..."
I was a but optimistic on my wording, But in the US they are not government employees(they are not paid any sort of salary) just citizens who are authorized to verify signatures(a governmental duty, which is why I called them minor government officials) and are are allowed to collect a small fixed fee for their effort.
I didn't consider that aspect. I admit that does sound frustrating from the perspective of the site owner.
Europe is a continent. They're not in the EU. If being in the EU is a requirement to be in Europe: that means Switzerland is not in Europe?
Others have mentioned the Societas Europea, which I think is the correct way to do this--provide an option to use a pan-EU legal form. The other way--mandatorily replacing member states' legal forms with one or more pan-EU forms--would simply be too disruptive. You'd be forcing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of companies to change their legal form. Even if you tried to make the conversion process automatic, there's no one-size-fits-all approach to converting every company that won't end up with some companies automatically adopting constitutions that don't make sense (for example).

Some particular aspects of company law are partially harmonised at EU level, for example insolvency law. But that's mostly about ensuring that cross-border insolvencies don't become hopelessly complicated and bogged down through parallel proceedings.
Makes opportunities for smaller companies to innovative/experiment to offer solutions / acquisition targets where tighter inference compute requirements makes or breaks the experience but larger training cost is less of a concern (such as embedded or local runtime use cases)
The Kingdom of God has no interest, debt is discouraged, loan forgiveness after 7 years, and community reset every 50 years.
is murder the only bad thing in your mind?

can things be bad without being the worst possible thing?

what i'm hearing: its bad but it's not bad because there are worse things that are bad and also I'm "looking the other way"

whether or not it was made up was irrelevant to your initial claim. the proposition is identical in either case.
What would prevent anyone making off with the money owed if they didn‘t require that?
Chinaski was working for a living, this guy would rather cheat and steal, as he thinks labor is beneath him (he described a regular cleaner's job as "demeaning").
> someone at Bell Labs

"Kernighan and Ritchie then joined forces to develop the original m4, described in “The M4 Macro Processor”

Those nobodies. What were they thinking?

> for no other greater purpose than to scratch a personally itch

"The Brian Kernighan and P.J. Plauger book Software Tools, Addison-Wesley (1976), describes and implements a Unix macro-processor language, which inspired Dennis Ritchie to write m3"[1]

"Originally, the Kernighan and Plauger macro-processor, and then m3, formed the engine for the Rational FORTRAN preprocessor, that is, the Ratfor equivalent of cpp. Later, m4 was used as a front-end for Ratfor, C and Cobol."[1]

If the m3/m4 folks wrote a whole "Software Tools" book and then used m4 as a front-end for multiple languages, it sounds like it served a useful purpose.

[1] GNU M4 manual section 1.2, "Historical References"
Neither country extradites its own citizens.
I took a week off in January. It was much needed and I did feel refreshed, but that feeling was temporary and things haven’t really improved.

I feel awful asking for more time off. But maybe I will as a last-ditch effort.

Appreciate the reply.
Sorry but how? They can't reliably tell the difference
Get peak prices of your favourite cryptocurrencies (another one?)
With "non-repressive attributes" you're continuing to dig the same hole I was talking about. I mean, come on.
What you are actually saying is that speed is only for criminals and anything honest must drag out for a long time. Neither are true.

Starting this process should only require that they know their responsibilities, have identified themselves, and have fulfilled any obligations like payment. With government having our ID’s and login/sig/payment tech, each step should be done in seconds. Then, some fraud prevention spotting obvious issues might add a bit more time. It should still be quick.
Yep: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048
This is a weekend project, sorry my bad UI skills
Disclaimer: I work on GPG and I am one of the KMail core developer.

The standard way to use GPG is via the gpgme librairie which then communicate with the Assuan protocol to the gpg deamon. Gpgme has official bindings to C++, Qt and python. In KMail we use the Qt bindings and it works fine.
Is the US really "bracing" for this event? Girding their loins to brace in anticipation of this event? Bracing their bodies or their minds? Will the Walmart people make runs on toilet paper? If I want to properly brace, what do the experts say?

Brace, brace, brace. Brace for bugs.
This is smart - minut sensors are also doing the same (afaiu).
Have you tried sorting a list of names by hand? Once it reaches a certain size, it’s nearly impossible.

Also, ballistics. Modeling/simulation. Data storage and retrieval (think DMV, social security, IRS, banking).

CNC machining and general manufacturing/design.

If you think computers have not dramatically improved nearly every major field of endeavor you interact with, it’s because you were born after they’d already made many major improvements. Or at just ignorant.

For instance, it’s still entirely possible to do manual machining and drafting, but there are very very few situations where it makes sense. Hobbiest and one off jobs, mostly.

Are there areas where they aren’t really helping? Sure.

But they are outnumbered by dozens of ways they are.
My friend was a contractor for Hindi TTS at Google https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech
Debitcards, not girocards. I have no girocard since years, and still can easily pay everywhere. But to be fair, the pandemia really pushed this even the small shops.
Last November, DeepMind released the results of a generative AI model that created theoretical molecular structures for over 2 million undiscovered synthetic materials. Within days, materials science researchers were able to confirm 700 of them. The sheer number of these new potential materials discovered is greater than has been created in the rest of human history combined. These are materials that can be used in manufacturing, energy production, and other objectives that are critical not just for advancing human society, but avoiding the impending crisis we are already facing.

Similar AI endeavors have been underway for medicine and human health.

The author is making extremely shallow, flawed arguments that hinge on an ignorant (or possibly, deliberately narrow-minded) understanding of what generative AI is, how it is already being used, and the magnitude of what is already being achieved with it.
Well, the US wouldn't be winning "the space race" for starters.

Whether or not that's viewed positively probably depends on how you view the US though. ;)
Are there people who studied in UKTC here? Maybe we could connect.
> Read literally, no execution is described in the story in question

If you think that their deaths were a coincidence, then I hope you never sit jury duty in a murder trial.

Nobody says they died of guilt, either. The modus operandi is simply not mentioned- all we have is means, motive, opportunity, and a pretty strong implication.
What is the hole in question? You're complaining the article calls a repressive regime repressive. What's the actual objection? That it wasn't repressive? It was really repressive!
Why not just use .gitignore itself? It's also unlikely they want to train on build files and such.
It's more subtle than that IMO. They haven't necessarily "failed" - they just don't have the "superpowers" that the metrics used to evaluate such systems are aimed at. E.g. no such linear method devised so far (that I know of, at least) is able to do very high recall point retrieval in long context _and_ effective in-context learning simultaneously. You get one or the other, but not both. But as far as the metrics go, high recall retrieval in long context is easier to for the researcher to demonstrate and for the observer to comprehend - a typical needle/haystack setting is trivial to put together. It is also something that (unlike in-context learning) humans are usually very bad at, so it's perceived as a "superpower" or "magic". In this case e.g. Mamba being more human like due to its selective forgetfulness is currently playing against it. But whether it's "better" per se will depend on the task. It's just that we do not know how to evaluate most of the tasks yet, so people keep trying to find the proverbial keys under the lamp post, and measure what they can to make progress, and thereby keep their efforts lavishly funded.
I use health auto export and it works pretty well.

https://www.healthexportapp.com/
We squeezed it too hard. Resource limit hit.
Did the system somehow forced this man to avoid working for a living?
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For anyone reading, here’s a URL for the paper they are taking about:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...
Something I really like in the Clojure data science stack that isn't mentioned is Clerk* — an interesting take on notebooks. I think it's a good gateway into Clojure for those coming from a Python or R background.

*https://clerk.vision/
Look at something like typewriter. It’s abandoned, but it does exactly this
> Throughout the years, apple consistently delivers great design.

I personally would rephrase this as "Apple consistently markets their design as great". Apple is probably the best example of how far marketing and PR can get you with fairly run of the mill design.
Don't Make the Same Embarrassing Mistakes I've Made in My Journey
Doesn't git use GPG to sign commits?
How did this argument work when talking about locally run LLMs?
Yes, it's going to excel at understanding programming languages, which have rigid structures and clearly defined commands whose inputs and outputs could never be misunderstood by a computer. And more power to ya if it saves developers a bunch of time, but it's being built and hyped as something that can do everything for everyone, which it very clearly can't. It has already pushed the customer service industry into a far, far more irritating direction, for example.
Depends if this can be spend. On things like equipment, services and wages and so on. It is not actually that much money as runaway for most fields.
Is there sample audio of the fire alarm, when it is activated? Is this alarms to US standards ? It seems so,
It seems different countries have some different requirements for this audio sound? ...... There is also commercial fire alarms and residential smoke alarms. which in my country have different signals ( if my recollection is corrct )
So for example, do programs 1 and 2 compute the same thing? In general this is quite difficult and unsolvable. But then, if so, is the complexity of 1 less than 2? What is the minimum complexity of any program that computes the thing? These are relevant problems we want to solve. They involve considering isomorphism, orderings, limits, etc. - structuralism - but in many cases the maps are not there to support it, or there is no way to find them. The relationship between two complexity classes, or even two binaries.

At an elementary level what we deal with are representations. In CS this problem is severe, for example almost all boolean functions have exponential circuit complexity - but we cannot offer even a single example up. It's an open question how powerful graph isomorphism even is.

I don't mean to knock the structuralist insight, it is a powerful "imperative" as the article says. There is just incompleteness everywhere, in less mature fields especially, where they work in spaces that can barely be classified as of yet. The knowledge is generated there, and then organized within a higher scheme. Topology sprung partly out of Euler's attack on the Königsberg bridge problem (I suppose structuralism overall does to). It is a revealing perspective, but it seems the insight comes after the large amount of work, not usually before.
Eh - I'm not really interested in rehashing this old argument. I'm just trying to point out the flaw in Searle's plane analogy.
That makes sense but not everyone uses git. A new file that you can point to your gitignore in would probably be a good idea.
Oh for sure it could be much better in Germany, and I hope that rapidly becomes the case. Definitely digitization needs to come faster.

My complaint is simply people imagining it is perfect elsewhere. Really that is not the case, no where is perfect. All the people chiming in about the US being so easy, yes, wonderful. Now let's talk about healthcare and how your health insurance is tied to your employer. Everyone who is extolling how simple the UK is, that's lovely. What a shame about brexit though.

The point is there are major pains absolutely everywhere.
So give the a reviewer a rubric of things you care about. Race conditions, security, etc.

The point is, an image of a gorilla is literally completely impossible and has no relevance. That’s why a security vuln is not analogous
Good luck getting academics to adopt anything they don't know about, and all they know about is Python.
this is horrifying
My family and I just arrived in Dallas to see the eclipse since it’s on the same day as my son’s 5th birthday.

Where should we travel to see the cicadas?
I know it's a trivial observation but Fig 1 really shows how huge these blades are: that relatively tiny winglet tip is nearly 3 metres long, much taller than an adult. The rational side of me supposes it's not surprising that a single blade that can pull 3-plus megawatts out of thin air would be rather large!

Also, if the power output can increase by anything near the claimed amount (8 and 4 percent for different sizes of winglet), why don't current turbines use them? They're heavily used in aviation, and turbine designers are huge on geometry tuning via numerical simulation, as well as wind tunnel testing and so on to squeeze every last joule out of the device. On a proportional basis, at 8 million per 10MW turbine, every 1% is worth $80k per unit. Surely one of them tried winglets by now? Is there a patent minefield or does it make the blade manufacture infeasible or expensive or damage the blade's reliability or maintainability?
Questionable benefit until things go wrong, anyway.

Or when you consider the alternative.

Filing expense reports certainly sucks, after all.

Allowing everyone in the company to spend money without tracking or justifying it? Yikes.
Keyword would leave you with semantics of word definitions but lose sentence meaning/context right?
Highly recommend The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya. Talks about this time plus many of his other contributions to e.g. game theory.
Be more careful about spreading misinformation, as both that story as well as the original contain posts from mods which explain it was bullshit.

https://www.vultr.com/news/a-note-about-vultrs-terms-of-serv...
They’ve been thinking about the problem continuously for the past year, can run experiments across their user base and thus have a lot more context and insight than someone whipping up an implementation.
Try pivoting to MLOps, where you can get a taste of systems programming plus a bit of high-level machine learning.
As it always has. Doesn’t change anything I said though. Though we have gotten better at doing it at scale, eh?

‘The wheel’ turns. It’s what it does.

Trying to stop it just results in being crushed under it.

Trying to break it, or change it, just results losing any ability to steer we might have had, and uncontrollable direction with more resulting damage.

Realizing that, working to understand it and perhaps help steer it instead of stopping it, can sometimes produce better outcomes and less pain.

No guarantees though. In the end, existence is what happens, not what we wished had happened.

Delusion has a very, very strong draw though. In many cases, it’s the foundation that society is built on.

Trying to control existence causes pain. Trying to deny it, causes pain. Life always includes some pain - it has to. Pain is reality trying to teach us something. It rarely goes away if we refuse.

If we like that or not, does not matter to it, and never has.
That E3 was crazy. Anyone remember the video that Sony posted on "how to share games with friends" while the Xbox debacle on locked discs and always online was in full force? (it was literally a guy giving a game disc to another guy)

This is why I am still against the MS acquisitions. Imagine that whole debacle happening but you're still forced to buy an anti consumer console, because God forbid you like to play CoD, Fallout, Starfield...
Very true. Also, while I agree that Clojure is solid for web server stuff, it wouldn’t be my first choice in the context of general purpose web apps or APIs.

The “do-it-yourself” mentality that is at the core of Clojure dev culture results in a less rich library ecosystem. Not only you often end up writing custom code for a generic feature, the rest of your team cannot reuse their past experience but has to learn your custom code and maintain it.
This is a great article. Wonderful easy explanations about something that is somewhat complex.