skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Treemaps are generally a really cool way to visualise hierarchical data. See also the Observatory of Economic Complexity, which has treemaps of international trade and economic statistics.

https://oec.world/profile/country/gbr#yearly-trade
> one of the things that came out of 2020 was that nobody appears willing to control the police

While I don't agree with that statement, I will clarify that I was using the term "police" to encompass all agencies in both USA and Canada capable of legally conducting an investigation at the federal level and carrying out an arrest. As far as I am aware, these agencies are all funded by our federal governments. Even though in my mind I was thinking of only the USA and Canada, the structural flaw probably applies to most governments, if not all governments ( speculating ). The flaw being that the leaders of our nations conduct national affairs as though they are shielded from the law policing its citizens. They are getting away with using our national resources ( financial, material, human etc ) in ways that may benefit their own agendas, but are observably harmful to our economy and therefore the citizens at large. If an investigation could prove that my speculation is true, then it would be in both our nation's best interest to deal with the problem both swiftly and legally. My hope would be that such an outcome would instigate reform to address the root cause. Without an investigation, we are at the mercy of waiting for the next election, but if our leaders are egregiously harming the interests our nations' citizens as a whole, we should not have to wait until their term is complete. I will add one more thing, the problem is not limited to economics. but also the abuse of the press and education to influence how we as a nation are able to learn about and understand both national and global politics.
I have no advice, but I am curious what new careers you are considering. (One successful transition I have seen was getting an MBA from a prestigious school and moving into leadership.)
I think most other careers don't pay you enough to be capable of choosing take a 50-90% pay cut mid-career and still retire on a reasonable nest egg.

I also think working for most corporations is pretty lackluster, and after the early career honeymoon phase wears off many people start to feel quite unfulfilled.

Working with your hands, or in support of helping other people, is very intrinsically rewarding work. There are reasons society gets away with paying public school teachers so little, and only some of them have to do with the public's distain for taxes, hah.

IT professionals are typically the kinds of people who are happy to learn something new, so I'm not too surprised to see the people with the financial means, the disposition, and the mid-life crises search for a new life path.
Looks like they were released in early May? Maybe we should wait for other mathematicians to validate the work?
You mean leving programming? Can't help you there.

But if you want to change subfields...

I only know data scientists who come into my workplaces from other fields, and rarely know folks who move out into other fields. So these anecdata are heavily biased based on where I've worked.

1. Robotics has a huge gob of data every test, and parsing it is basically Sisyphean. Someone who can learn about, and educate others about, building proper observers and reporters into C++ codebases, and building proper dashboards with data coming out is always really valuable. From there it's a short hop into roboticsy systemsy things itself. But beware, large shops will have these silo'd. Think smallish labs for large companies. You do not want to get stuck building reports for product teams - stick to engineering teams.

2. Manufacturing, at the highest levels, is metrics driven, so again, getting in and helping to establish data-driven process refinements, then moving "down" the stack into the software is a good way to make your pivot into embedded systems or industrial IoT. But beware, large shops will have these very much silo'd.

3. Science / academia. A good analyst for a research lab is impossible to find, because of pay differentials. But if you can take the hit, and are willing to grovel a little, you can easily become the most valuable person in a large enough academic lab. The ones I've been adjacent to are Geophysics, Planetary Sciences, and Astrophysics. All really tough data problems.
Often the case with US-based companies that have outages during "office hours in Europe". We, europeans see it going down. Communication on why, how and ETAs only appear at the start of the US day.
"Trademark" is not the correct way to talk about it, but commercial use of an impersonation can be a breach of the right of publicity, even if they don't actually say they're the person.
voice imitation is illegal?
Friends: few and well chosen.
Look for backend style work. Your infra experience is an asset, look towards cloud infra and all the programming stuff around that. Dev work ain't no panacea, there's a lot of CRUD work, and even when you get to do cool stuff like build data warehouses it's still just fancy CRUD work.
> What you might perceive as late-onset ADHD could be the cause of not being able to keep your coping mechanisms up due to stress?

In my case, taking a new job where I was responsible for everything (and couldn't delegate anything I wasn't interested in) was a key moment.

Buying a house and starting a family was another. I realized that one of my main "coping mechanisms" was to work nights and weekends to get caught up when my brain chemistry was a bit better, but that time flexibility kind of goes away when you have little kids and a house to take care of. New stressors, new sources of anxiety, more chores and work to keep on top of, less sleep, etc. That really pushed me to seek help. "My kids are out of the house from 8:30–4 and I need to be able to focus and get my work done during that time... so what's wrong with me?"
When I was a manager (25 years), I worked that way.

I’ve learned not to mention that, here, as it often results in fairly insulting attacks.

I get the feeling that people don’t actually want to be managed that way.
> they both sound like AIs because Scarlett is playing that role and so is OpenAI's voice app.

I think ISWYDT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dyytPboqvE
Back in the 90s, I read "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess," which he didn't write. It was published in the 60s. I can recall finding it strange how the author goes through the effort to explain what a program was within the context of his book, as though it didn't normally mean what I already understood it to mean.
Welcome to our incredible future where massive AI models will require us to choose between our lying eyes/ears and indecipherable collection of tensors. Nothing will be provable or protectable.
Your post is written with a positive atmosphere, but I can't help feeling like you've lost something you once found rewarding. And... while it's tempting to think about your own life in terms of opportunity cost, I would caution that it risks giving rise to constant discontent if you focus too much on that. Bertrand Russell has a good quote in "In Praise of Ideleness":

> There was formerly a capacity for light-heartedness and play which has been to some extent inhibited by the cult of efficiency. The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
I think this is basically true but I don’t know if it is good advice for most people. In the sense that the math that most people are exposed to up until the first couple years of college is the practical stuff. (Maybe I’m showing my age here, are there, like, Math Influencers now that are sending the bright kids into the really abstract stuff?)

In most cases a kid that aces all their math classes will make a great engineer or physicist, which is a good outcome for everybody involved.

And, besides, all the math I use was invented by the 1950’s. At the time, I’m sure they thought some of it was useless. Somebody has to cook up the stuff for the engineers of 2100.
Most folks change entire careers 3-4 times in their life. It's only in engineering that we somehow decide that "engineering for this team using their tool" is somehow a new "career" when we do "engineering for that team using that tool".

To an outsider, you're just a programmer. No career change at all. I think there's just enough variety in our field that we don't leave much.
If yanking the cord on a single system causes losses that are intolerable to the business, the business has serious continuity problems.

It was an employee today, but the cord was going to get yanked anyways. A data center tech who pulled the wrong cable out, a power cut, a backhoe with a taste for fiber, whatever.

So long as the employee was acting as best they could with the information they had, the resultant business implications are really the businesses' fault. Having a system that cannot be recovered is risky. Assuming that system will never die is foolish. Blaming the employee is pointless.

My vote would be to understand why the employee thought it was necessary to shut the system down, and then educate them (and the rest of the department, since it's probably a collective problem) on why it wasn't necessary and what they could have done instead or how they could have known it wasn't an issue.

That employee probably also deserves a couple days off once the system is recovered (delivered in person, by their manager). It sends a message that they're not in trouble, but more importantly, they're likely fried from trying to juggle internalizing their mistake, getting the system back up, and worrying they're going to get fired because _this_ is how the CEO learned their name. They probably shouldn't be near a prod system for a couple of days until they've come down from the adrenaline and had some time to internalize what happened.
BeOS stored mail as individual files with extended attributes holding the subject, date, sender, etc. The email app (BeMail) was used to view/compose/send email but inbox management was handled by Tracker (BeOS version of Macintosh Finder or Windows Explorer). But the Tracker window was configured to display the extended attributes instead of the file names. The actual filename wasn't even displayed. Nobody went crazy.

Example: https://birdhouse.org/beos/refugee/bemail.jpg via https://birdhouse.org/beos/refugee/ (which has some other images of Tracker organization with extended attributes)
duly noted!
People are completely missing the point in this thread. This is a civil action where the plaintiff need only prove their case based on the preponderance of the evidence.

The case law is clear and it is linked all up and down these threads so I won't reproduce here. It does not matter if it was a voice actor who sounded just like her, or if it was a trained AI voice that never used a single recording from ScarJo, what matters is if OpenAI intended to gain from reproducing the likeness of Scarjo. Intent is the key, not even how similar the voices are or the source.

Given that the Jury of average joes will be given this instruction directly by the judge, you can almost hear the plaintiff's lawyers case. "OpenAI contacted Scarlett 9 months before release asking to use her voice. She refused. OpenAI contacted her two days before release again asking to use her voice and she refused. Then, just prior to launch the CEO of the company tweets "Her" despite the fact that they could not secure an agreement with my client. The CEO of OpenAI, when engaged in a massive launch and PR campaign, referenced the likeness of my client in a clear attempt to produce economic benefit."

The two contacts before made the case 50/50 from the plaintiff's perspective. sama tweeting "Her" right before the launch is him spiking the football in his own endzone. The defense only has technicalities. At the civil level of burden of proof this is an absolute slam dunk case for the plaintiff. OpenAI will settle for a very large undisclosed amount of money. No way they let this go in front of a civil jury.
IME the tech industry attracts rather a lot of net-negative managers who fail their way upwards through lucrative careers. Hiring the net-positive managers is the hard part.
Likeness rights are a real thing, and it's not out there to have infringed on them by going to a famous person to use their likeness, getting denied, then using another actor telling them to copy the first actor's likeness.

This is why all Hollywood contracts have actors signing over their likeness in perpetuity now; which was one of the major sticking points of the recent strikes.
I'm going to rip into your examples not because I want to, but because this is the only comment with concrete examples I can use to show the fallacy of needing managers. Apologies.

> Prevent other teams from reaching in and randomizing our priorities, work on promotion plans for anyone seeking promotion, manage customer/partner team relationships, ensure everyone has balanced feedback regularly, mediate disputes, collect information to manage upwards so we can still be funded, advise on team process but never mandate it, facilitate accommodations, manage poor performance so the team isn't dragged down, try to consolidate and clear meetings from calendars across the team.

Now I won't pretend that these are not real problems that companies have, but I would argue (from my own experience) that they are not problems that all companies _must_ have. A company I worked at did not have these problems — _without_ a manager sorting them — and we had literally hundreds of engineers. Granted, this was a single company, and I've not seen it happen since, but if it can happen even once, then it proves the point.
I remember how surprised I was when ransomware really took off, that victims would pay and actually get their data back. Sure, it makes sense, that criminals benefit in the long run if they truly return the data, but I was surprised that the criminals were actually that farsighted.

To me that suggests that rational economic forces really are at work and as a result, banning payments would cut back on ransomware attacks.

This is very similar to having a "we don't negotiate with bad guys" policy, which is common at least as rhetoric if not in fact.
The performance of LLMs is going to be the big problem here. An LLM prompt triggering an LLM prompt which triggers another LLM prompt to check the other responses is going to be slow, which will make agents a poor interface.
I tried teaching skiing for a while but pay was low and living conditions weren't good for my family.

I am back to the grind being a software engineer but I don't have passion for it like I used to. politics at worked killed that. Recent AI hype like DevinAI are repulsive to me but i don't know what else to do.
exactly . when you cover an artist on your show, you have to take permission first.

I am not a copyright expert, but I do own a few of Weird Al albums and he is very diligent about obtaining permissions from artists he is covering.
> The thing is, wrap-around is not only well-defined, it's common, and EXPECTED.

No, it's really not. Do this experiment: for the next ten thousand lines of code you right, every time you do an integer arithmetic operation, ask yourself if the code would be correct if it wrapped around. I would be shocked if the answer was "yes" in as much as 1% of the time.

(The most recent arithmetic expression I wrote was summing up statistics counters. Wraparound is most definitely not correct in that scenario! Actually, I suspect saturation behavior would be more often correct than wraparound behavior.)

This is a case where I think Linus is 100% wrong. Integer overflow is frequently a problem, and demanding the compiler only check for it in cases where it's wrong amounts to demanding the compiler read the programmer's mind (which goes about as well as you'd expect). Taint tracking is also not a viable solution, as anyone who has implemented taint tracking for overflow checks is well aware.
Now I'm just sad that it doesn't respond in a flirty Gilbert Gottfried style voice.
You have no idea what they did, unless you work there.

All you know is that somebody being sued for multi-millions of dollars (and who's trustworthiness is pretty much shot) is claiming what they did. And frankly given the frequency and ease of voice cloning, there are very few people who can say with confidence that they know 100% that nobody at the company did anything to that effect.

What employee, if any, could say with 100% confidence that this model was trained with 100% samples from the voice actress they alledge and 0% from samples from Scarlett Johansson/her? And if that employee had done so, would they rat out their employer and lose their job over it?
React Component Principles and Best Practices for Better Software Architecture
In this article, we will go through:

Function Components vs. Class Components

Name of Components

Helper Functions

Repetitive Markup

Component’s Size and Length

Props

Ternary Operators

Lists Mapping

Hooks vs. HOCs and Render Props

Custom Hooks

Render Functions

Error Boundaries

Suspense
The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
Probably so. Adapting is a superpower that humans have always had.
Copyright isn't at issue here; it's instead likeness rights.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/516180
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I would not pivot unless I hit FIRE or can switch to a field that pays almost as well.
why do you consider leaving though? just for variety?
I don't know about other countries, but in Canada, you need a one or two year program to become a teacher, at least for public schools. Were you able to "drift" into this because your country has fewer regulations, or is it that private schools are less restrictive?
The few places I've worked in (some small, some largish - 2500+ people) - I've never worked anywhere more than 22 months, so ... there's not always a long time to develop relationships. But... coming in, there are already relationships, sometimes going back years, between people, and it's not easy breaking in to those, or fitting in at all. Without even trying (or specifically because they're not trying), well intentioned managers end up playing 'favorites' with some, which has seemed to exacerbate the issue of 'insiders' vs 'outsiders'.
I'm glad you love your career! I found myself getting increasingly unfit, sad, daylight-deprived and in need of doing something - anything! - else that involved me moving my body. (Bandaids like a standing desk or regular breaks or gym work or a SAD lamp couldn't really detract from the fact I was spending 8 hours a day (the brightest daylight hours too!), in the prime of my life, cooped up at a desk. After a career in live sound, I now design and install high-end A/V hardware and I love it.
This is very inspiring and just plain cool. Thank you!
You don't think being a flirtatious, newly invented voice-only artificial intelligence is a parallel?

Hm.
Newly discovered planet has almost the same surface temperatures as Earth
A team of fourty is just starting to touch the limits for self-organization. The tech leads already fill the role of providing alignment and guiding collaboration. The VP will be stretched to run performance cycles but again, leads can do a lot of the legwork. Once this becomes _really_ painful then you create an extra layer, not before.

At a minimum, I’d limit it to two or three managers (12-13 reports). Adding EMs for each 3-4 person team is overkill, and a huge morale hit especially if they are outside hires.

All I can see is a massive 25% headcount increase that will result in ten people trying to implement [latest-job-I-had] structures and “show impact”. Seems like a recipe for disaster at a startup.
I think that if ever founding another company, will definitely have corporate bylaws that resist similar strategies, as well as cap executive pay per year to a max multiplier of lowest and average salaries in the company.
How did you find the new opportunity/space? Was it an easy shift?
I pivoted from tech consulting (logging user issues, basically) to dev by taking a contract programmer role. It was in a non-profit org that didn't really understand software, and I built them a prototype in my own time which got me in the door. Then I worked up to engineering manager, a move I would not recommend (back to logging user issues).
For a case to the contrary: Midler v. Ford -- a case in which Ford hired one of Bette Midler's ex-backup singers to duplicate one of her performances for an ad (after trying and failing to get Midler herself). Ford never said this was actually Midler -- and it wasn't -- but Midler still sued and won. https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/849...
Copying likeness can be.
Nice. I find the evolutionary design, adaptation and body dynamics of the various animal species highly fascinating. With an interest in Hatha Yoga and Martial Arts i also like to figure out how the Human Body can do apparently "impossible" feats of strength. One good example is Shaolin Monks/Circus Strongmen lifting bicycles/tables etc. by biting them with their teeth which can be explained by the natural strength of the jaw muscles due to its anatomical construction as you point out. A couple more are; 1) Mountain Sherpas carrying huge loads using headbands and traditional baskets 2) African/South Asian/South-East Asian rural women balancing and carrying huge loads on their heads all with minimal energy expenditure. These all seem to involve strong neck muscles, a unique posture and gait and proper body alignment.
What kind of leadership did they move to. Most leaders in tech space don't seem to have an MBA.
OpenAI is running laps around the media and everyone is eating it up

Notice that every month or so they have a few new “scandals” with high intrigue but noticeably iron clad legal and political “cover your ass” investments/ politicking

Meanwhile they are getting deep into bed with Apple, making an admarket (worst possible case scenario for users IMO) and generally cementing all of these commercial inroads for revenue

I’d be impressed if it weren’t so destructive and psychotic

No press is bad press
Early 40s and I've been sort of backing into music with this 20 year arc:

- Full Stack Dev
- iOS Dev
- 2x Music Tech Startup Founder
- Music Tech Freelance Developer
- Currently: Studying music theory, composition, and piano.

I might go to grad school for music/media, continue to study art/music independently, or explore professional arts careers.

I'm just constantly seeking alignment between my professional work and intrinsic motivations.
Same here. In the demo it never sounded like SJ to me. After the story broke I listened to clips from Her and the 4o demo. It doesn't sound like SJ.
> Some of your engineers are already deferring decisions to other engineers

But do those other engineers want to be managers? I've certainly picked up some of that work from time to time in my career, and yet if my boss told me, "congratulations, you're being promoted to manager!" I'd have to respond with, "congratulations, I quit."
Good idea. Laggy on my android Firefox browser tho
Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors, after all.