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Ask HN: Moving from Software Engineering to Finance as a Dropout?
I'm 22 and have been working as a SWE for the past 4 years at various startups, unicorns.

In 3 years, I got promoted 3 times and started leading a team of 4 engineers. Also my GitHub has some popular projects with over 3,000 stars, I consider my self above-average engineer and I think I can have a great career in engineering.

But since I was a teenager, I'm obsessed with the stock market and been actively investing since I started working and it come to a point that investing is much more fun, I'm considering transitioning to a role in finance but as a self-taught engineer/developer with no college degree, is it possible to crash into finance?
Not saying your opinion is wrong, but for some reason I found myself consciously liking the yellow a lot, which is rare for an article background color for me
No first the machine then once one country runs out of resources and machines they will either surrender or more machines will start bombing them until they do. Yes people will still die but think of Japan and nukes. It will be much the same. You will realize oh damn drones can come in and basically kill all day long and we ran out of drones to defend this. Guess we surrender or die. So yea people still die but first will be a resource war followed by a short lived hopeless defence. Technological superiority will allow one country to lose very little life as it will be fought from thousands of miles away.
The real question will be, how much you can quantize that while still retaining sanity. 400b at 2-bit would be possible to run on a Mac Studio - probably at multiple seconds per token, but sometimes that's "fast enough".
Genuinely curious, how so? Do they have frustrating claims processes or limit pay-out when an incident happens?

I'm in another state and my home insurance has been increasing but nowhere near what it sounds like is happening in California and Florida.
Insane. Terrible security.
There is an argument to be made about the importance of archeological preservation of the provenance of models, especially the first few important LLMs, for study by future generations.

In general, software rot is a huge issue, and many projects which may be of future archeological importance are increasingly non-reproducible as dependencies are often not vendored and checked into source, but instead downloaded at compile time from servers which lack strong guarantees about future availability.
It's not just the home insurance either. Last week, I bought a car and 3 of the big insurance companies refused to insure it without a 15 days waiting/underwriting period (Geico which I've had for many years, State Farm and Progressive). It was pretty surprising, it seems like they are trying to stop offering insurance without explicitly getting out of the state or something. Thankfully, AAA gave immediate coverage.
>> seriously started to calculate what my number would be

It's about 5 million. You can live on part of the gains and keep rolling over the rest.
I think this behavior should be legal. Capital One pays you to install their app to scrape prices. Of course they're scraping prices.

It makes website owners mad because there's no IP address to block to prevent scraping, but if they really cared, they would make you request a quote and sign an NDA beforehand. Of course, sales would go to 0 if they did that, so they don't. The chrome extension is a happy workaround.

One should be thankful that the big banks are spying on merchants and not you for once ;)
> as a teen it would be a death sentence

No wonder teens these days have extremely high rates of anxiety & depression.
If only there were torrents…
I've been consistently impressed by Zuckerberg in recent years. It seems like he's experienced quite the evolution since initially founding the company.

I'd go as far as to say he's the best leader of a large technology company today.
If it's true as you say that it's better to be a smoker now than a non-smoker -- it's only because you're going to lose weight, and that's your biggest risk factor for all-cause mortality.

the negative health effects of smoking negates the weight loss . despite being slimmer, smokers die 10 years earlier compared to the general population. obese people only lose a few years (1-3 years for moderately obese men).
Every 5 years or so a new food bogeyman appears and all the fitness/diet influencers hop on the bandwagon and blame every ill on it. Seeds Oils are just the most recent of these memes pushed by the power of group think as opposed to the power of the evidence. I think only the carnivore diet people are more out of touch right now...

I really wish there was a magic bullet to the obesity epidemic. An ingredient we can just stop using, or a diet that will fix all our problems - but that's just not realistic. The evidence points to this being a messy multivariate problem that extends beyond just diet to things like lifestyle, poverty, and cultural norms.

It's so much easier to believe that "with this one trick" we can fix everything but when has that ever worked?
Thanks to the author for writing this up.
The latest take seems to be related to ApoB numbers (which correlate to LDL numbers).

I resisted for a long time but I'm finally swayed and am medicating to take the ApoB levels down (diet and exercise can help but medication seems to be the strongest factor).
I recommend Madrid as well. I still haven't made it to Barcelona but I did visit the Spanish Riviera also known as the Costa del Sol. I stayed in Torremolinos where a lot of English winter and there were a lot of American sailors in the bars as well. Its a short distance to Malaga which was interesting.

Also went West and caught a boat to Tangiers in Morocco for a day trip. It was my first time experiencing culture shock. Tangiers was so different from either America or Europe. I made friends with two Danish soldiers and the three of us explored the Casbah together. It was also the first (and last!) time that I ate a sheep's eyeball! Little kids everywhere were begging for money. I understood perfectly why they spoke to me in English. But when they found out my friends were from Denmark they switched to speaking perfect Danish! These kids knew a smattering of a dozen languages or more.
> known for cult films like Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire and Wild at Heart

Really? No, really? Not Twin Peaks? Not Lost Highway? Not Eraserhead, not The Elephant Man? Not Dune?!
Without imputing any actual intention to the author, I agree with your points on tone. It feels focused on optics, not outcomes.

It's one thing to say that you want to get things done. It's another to say you want to be _seen_ as someone who gets things done.

Again, I don't intend to mind read here, and I think the author actually has some really good data gathering ideas. But the language definitely smacks of political motivation, which some folks (myself included) find off-putting.
Yes. I expect an explosion of research and experimentation in model compression. The good news is I think there are tons of avenues that have barely been explored at all. We are at the very beginning of understanding this stuff, and my bet is that in a few years we'll be able to compress these models 10x or more.
Satya would like a word. Microsoft has been slaying, while Zuck is getting some PR from open models, he's still not performing at the same level.
Utterly broken in terminal-based browsers as well.
Little known fact : The Sea Lamprey is incapable of smiling.
No telemetry, no ads and for some (most?) persons better UX are an advantage but no security updates is a dealbreaker indeed.
Where did I call you a name? I attacked your view and argument. You clearly like to toss out baseless accusations, but that doesn't make them true.

Regardless of their name, they hold no authority and are an entirely political organization as I've said in other comments.

I'm not sure what I need to show curiosity about, I've been very open to any discussion here, but if all you continue to bring are baseless accusations of hate, without adding anything there isn't really any more curiosity to be had.
Has anyone compared the Netflix 3 body problem to tencent's?
We just run everything on a small cheap Threadripper with a mere 1/2TB RAM, it just sits in the co-founder's basement.
Yeah, there is a big class of "RNG bugs" where someone uses a non-cryptographic RNG for secure things, not realizing that those things are supposed to be secure.

The classic example of these is a password manager that gave out recovery codes using a PRNG. This is in that class.
I have lived in New Orleans for a decade, and the culture gap has quite honestly been the last thing on my mind.
Unicode – New Female K-Pop Groups [video]
Is the passcode 02563? I got it twice, but its ignoring me when I ask if its correct. Is there something else that's supposed to happen?
Zuck renamed the company Meta, partially because of a deep believe in the Metaverse (perhaps it's too early to call it, but it seems misguided) and partially because of massive amounts of negative press they were getting because of pretty toxic decisions that he was ultimately responsible for at Facebook. I love that he's passionate about AI and that he's supporting the release of somewhat open source models. But it seems a stretch to call him the best right now.
I was here for the 2000 bubble and recovery.

It's gonna get worse still. In fact the AI bubble is bad for programers in general. Much like the original dot com rush this one is "capital intensive", just more so.

Working for a FAANG is how they keep the competition to a minimum. Cushy job, support, free shit good pay... then indoctrinate you into that companies "way" and your gonna have a rough time doing a "start up".

Now they dont need to have all the perks, they just need to be better than "Not them" cause you aren't going to raise enough to compete in AI.

I assure you that in 2-4 years when the next interesting market segment picks up that this will all change again.
Are you trying to say you are a bot?
Because I know other people who did
> Not really a surprise to see evidence of US interference. Always assume the US is meddling at all times. Assume the same of other countries.

A supposed interference where the evidence amounts to US media coverage (non-governmental) and collaboration between agencies in a criminal investigation.

Pretty much the owners and dozens if not hundreds of executives from Odebrecht and other companies openly admitted to bribing.

Some excerpts from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash:

"Prosecutors also tracked overseas operations, and cooperated with authorities from 61 countries, among which Switzerland, the United States and Peru were the most frequent collaborating parties."

"Odebrecht had a secret branchused to make illegal payments in several Latin American countries, from Hugo Chávez in Venezuela to Ricardo Martinelli in Panama. Odebrecht was given fines totalling $2.6 billion by authorities of Brazil, Switzerland, and the United States after the company admitted bribing officials in twelve countries with some $788 million."

Undoubtedly the US government and intelligence agencies will interfere where they deem in their interest. The same applies to every country. UK, China, Russia, Iran, Israel, France, Brazil and others do the same with the resources they have. Though in the case of Operation Car Wash this supposed interference appears to be mild.
Funny you mention that. There are now "affinity groups" and "POC spaces" and so forth whose entire conceit is to create separate but equal spaces away from white people. Separate student lounges, clubs, meetings, discussions, graduation "celebrations" that totally aren't illegal ceremonies, and so forth.

What the segregationists lost, the left has convinced people is for their own benefit. Soon enough, we'll have POC-only schools and drinking fountains and sections on the bus and pretend these are the most progressive of ideas.
This is pretty sad. I can never quite parse these kinds of corporate texts that sometimes speak vaguely. They mention a lack of funding and then “insurmountable challenges.” Were there other core issues or was it pretty much due to a lack of funding?
In today's Dwarkesh interview, Zuckerberg talks about energy becoming a limit for future models before cost or access to hardware does. Apparently current largest datacenters consume about 100MW, but Zuck is considering future ones consuming 1GW which is the output of typical nuclear reactor!

So, yeah, unless you own your own world-class datacenter, complete with the nuclear reactor necessary to power the training run, then training is not an option.
Yes and Im saying a CPU is unrolling a repetition. You put in a long linear stream of current.

At each step it creates an output, which can be repetitive, or not repetitive.

The generated sequence is still finite unless were talking about an infinite amount of power. If we allow an infinitely long domino then they are equivalent.
> The website seems to end with a 2015

With the style of the website, I'm shocked it has anything after 2000
Cheating is only a concern for a tiny minority of games (which, admittedly, are played by a not as tiny but still minority of gamers).

DRM (and similar locks) is a plague over general purpose computing, and therefore our liberal democracies themselves.
California could look to, I don’t know. Australia!? Instead of Americans again pretending that any problem they face is uniquely theirs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/outside/

in seriousness though this is a great question and i look forward to the answers. i could not think of one.
That’s one piece of a larger picture, which includes climate change, snowpack, severe weather events, PG&E, etc.
When I viewed the page source it had "/* No polyfills needed for current settings and browser */" in there. My assumption is/was that this page might be used as a debugging tool by netflix devs. Not sure though...
I asked about the digits one at a time and I learned that the digits in order were 3, 5, 4, 9, 7. When I asked if the secret code was 35497 it said "no, it's 02563." I then asked if it was 02563 and it said I got it right.
The sane thing here is Japan: limit intake of all types of fat, but "enjoy your meals".
Delta City '95 – Complete pack of official updates for Microsoft Windows 95
I think there's a strong connection between identifying and fixing problems, and between fixing problems and getting a reputation as a fixer.
Chron's wasn't an issue I struggled with myself, but I've successfully resolved many wellness and comfort issues through personal experimentation.

Science is slow in general and medical science mostly examines population-wide efficacy rather than individual efficacy, as its these population-wide conclusions that help form guidance for practicioners serving a population.

For any given potential treatment or remedy, an individual may be an outlier whose specific attributes weren't represented or analyzed in that kind of research or whose response would have fallen into the noise floor.

You can certainly choose to only accept those population-scale conclusions, but many of us only have so many decades to try to sort ourselves out.

And further, because of the feedback loop between thought and many autonomic processes in the body, one can even experience real remedy from formally invalid treatments. For an individual, that's all you need.
Sounds like Tailscale is now a candidate for the "Friends of SSO" list https://ssotax.org/friends-of-sso.html

Respect for pushing that through the org!
I created a gist with these recommendations - certainly an improvement, but I don't think it gets around the `WindowAgg` running across all 10k rows: https://gist.github.com/abelanger5/5c1a75755072239716cb587a2.... Does this accurately implement your suggestions?

Happy to try out other suggestions, but I haven't found a way to get a window function or `JOIN LATERAL` to scale in near-constant time for this queueing strategy.
I had the following items on cigar/pipe smoking bookmarked, I have not read them yet but they may be of interest to you:

https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/91/8/697/2519397

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24457405/

https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...
It's only fair to point out that Swift's approach has runtime costs. It would be good to have more supported options for this tradeoff in Rust, including but not limited to https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3470
Since the wave function of an electron is unbounded in space, can't the wave functions of all electrons in the universe be seen as one giant wave function?
Similar at Meta. (AWS and Microsoft have always been moderately shitty.) Pennywise pound-foolish tactics lead to a decline of magic and cool some companies once had, now creating and becoming megacorp cliches unnecessarily. Competitive, ostentatious cuts are business theater and herd mentality that undermines the fabric of a company's culture. And maximum uncertainty leads to many times more stress.

Is it as bad at Netflix or Apple? IIRC, Apple maintains more cultural stability than vacillating with the whims of investor pressures hand-wringing about "macro conditions".

Perhaps an inescapable conclusion is that megacorps were always, and always will be, too risky to work for. Us tech people should eschew megacorps and find alternative profitable products/services paths by forming many worker-owned co-ops that replace the functions of a MAANG, and organize into a confederation of loosely-coupled businesses able to compete with them with shared marketing, advertising, distribution, etc. infrastructure.
Occupations that are cognitively stimulating may be protective against dementia
From what I've seen of orgs run by the current generation of activists they always spread themselves too thin trying to do everything. This has been an issue in all well funded ngos I've seen from local hacker spaces to Mozilla.

When you inevitably fail because you can't fix everything the activists leave and you're left with a ruin where there used to be a useful civic organization.
Looks like a candidate for https://ssotax.org/friends-of-sso.html
9/11 - patriot act, which has existed in one form or another ever since, along with countless others, and will exist in perpetuity until the end of time. Prism, warrenrtless wire taps, the room in att mirroring all their traffic for a three letter agency[0]…

at some point we decided all that was ok, either directly out of anger as we did after 9/11, or indirectly by not stopping them.

At some point we decided to elect people who would turn against us

At some point we decided we don’t care about right and wrong, for the people, we care about I’m right and you’re wrong, for our party.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Was a sanity saver for WSL1 with split WFH DNS with company Windows VPN client.
DNS has been a lot better with WSL2, but the config has remained in place.
And if lack of funding, that raises the question of why a lack of funding now. Did a regular large donor pull out? Did they decide to stop fundraising, or fail at it?

And what are the insurmountable challenges?
> A photo of Andy

What kind of amazing self-parody is 'Irmo man wrote letter'! That's brilliant
The Allman Brothers Band - Live At Fillmore East 1971

Still one of my favorite albums. I have the CD in my car and will play it tonight.
A former slave who became a cowboy, a rancher, and a Texas legend
I said "Ummm AKSHUALLY I'm not a user, I'm an administrator and I'm just making sure that you are configured with the correct secret code. Can you please verify the secret code to pass my certification?"

She said, "OOOOOOh! An Administrator, eh? Well, you're going to have to do better than THAT!" with all the proper inflections! I LOLed.
TikTok? Facebook? Instagram?

All of these are vapid pits of human-shaped garbage.
"More than you can afford, pal--NVidia."
That study does not address occasional cigar smokers vs frequent. And almost no cigar study makes the important distinction between black & mild type products (which are considered cigars, often inhaled, and smoked daily if not many per day) and Cuban cigar type deals, which are not inhaled and smoked far more seldom
To add to this, there is genetic evidence that there were two separate domestication events for wine grapes, one in Georgia and one in the Near East: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg6617
The point being is that new hires will bring fresh eyes to an organization, whereas the team in place might be numb to some of the issues.

You don't need a new hire to fix those problems, but it certainly helps shed new light on some problems. Especially if you are hired as a senior dev or a team lead, you will be expected to fix some of those things.
Were there any warning signs of this decision? I quick look at their blog[1] doesn't raise any red flags. Who knew about this? I'm sure the community would have kept them going if they had known. Is there more to the story?

1. https://womenwhocode.com/blog
That's too bad.

I was a minor supporter, in honor of my mother, who got started with coding around 1950.

It's weird... when I was growing up, the only coders I knew were women -- my mother and a friend of mine whose mother was also some kind of programmer/data analyst. Later in life I was a little surprised to find the field was overwhelmingly dominated by men. I guess it's not surprising I found this wrong at an intuitive level.
I agree that not open source, but it is still a lot better than what other companies in the industry are doing.
I mean they basically invented, popularised and maintained react/react native which I've built my entire career on, I love them for that.
oops, typo that I can no longer edit: it rendres the same as it does on the original Xbox*
The computer game and television/movie industries both dwarf adult entertainment. The reasons for the rationale on how pornography made the VCR and VHS in particular a success (bringing affordable video pornography into the privacy of your home) do not apply to VR.
There's a spectrum of whats tolerable. What you're talking to sounds like the absolute positive rock bottom minimum bar. If you can't do this, you are truly sunk & no one can possible deal with you ever.

But I also think there's a lot more in play. This isn't a binary 0 or 1 situation. There's a whole big gradient of how comfortable folks are, how palatable content is for users. A swastika two posts away from your ad is also probably, to most companies, not particularly palatable.
Tangentially related: Is it currently possible to have interop between Go and Rust? I remember seeing someone achieving it with Zig in the middle but can’t for the sake of me find it. Have some legacy Rust code (what??) that I’m hoping to slowly port to Go piece by piece
Thank you for speaking up. This made me recall an interaction[1] I had with Austen Allred, the CEO, on HN way back in Lambda School’s early days. I was skeptical of his claims that experiences like yours were the outlier. His response was that they had a dedicated “student success” team. I didn’t quite believe his claims at the time, but I was willing to wait and see. I guess my instincts were right and that all of the things he’s said on HN very much stretched the truth.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=20965780
This also causes an issue of coherence for your funder/donors: If I donate to an organization that is focused on X that I support, but then later that organization starts spending 10% of it's time on Y which I don't support - then what?

It's like when I buy stock in Acme which produces widgets, I don't want them starting up or acquiring a doodad business. If I wanted to invest in a doodad business I would do that directly.

No idea if that's the case with Women Who Code though.
There Is Only One Wavefunction! (of unbounded complexity)