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Ask HN: Revitalizing a career: how do I escape CRUD hell?
My career has stagnated after almost 9 years and I find myself pigeonholed into working as a full-stack JavaScript CRUD app code monkey.

I’ve been burnt out for a few years now and I despise corporate CRUD development. I find it incredibly tedious and boring, and working in the JavaScript ecosystem is maddening for its own reasons. But these are the only roles I’m hirable for at this point.

At the senior level, people expect expert knowledge of whatever the role entails, so companies seem unlikely to hire for a language stack I haven’t already been using professionally for years.

It seems that escaping upwards into software architecture or management is a common path, but I don’t want to manage and I’m at least a few years out from having the creds for architect.

Has anyone here revitalized or pivoted their career after finding themselves in a similar spot, without leaving tech entirely? If so I’d love to hear what worked for you. Thanks in advance.
People interesting in this might be interested in Silicon Second Nature by Stefan Helmreich, a pretty brilliant MIT anthropologist/historian of science. It’s all about the Santa Fe Institute and the science of emergence, from both a technical and social level. One of the best books I’ve ever read I think!

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520208001/silicon-second-na...
Candu reactors are cool, but there are some reasons not a lot of people use them outside Canada.

The main one is that a certain reactivity feedback loop is positive. Meaning as things go bad, they tend to get worse. There are numerous feedback loops in a reactor, and the others are negative, so overall the reactors are safe. But inherently they are less safe than pressurized water reactors. Details here [1].

Another problem is the amount of waste. Because CANDU reactors use unenriched uranium, they extract less energy from the same amount of fuel. Put it differently, they need more fuel to get a certain amount of energy. About 10 times as much. After the fuel is used, it becomes waste, and you need to handle it somehow.

Yet another problem is that deuterium is not as good a moderator as hydrogen. It does not absorb neutrons, and because of that it results in much better neutron economy, but it takes a larger volume of heavy water to achieve the same amount of moderation. So a Candu reactor tends to be bigger. It is also much more complex, because the heavy water and the regular water move in different circuits. All in all, a Candu reactor is a bit more difficult to maintain. For example, it needs to be overhauled after 30 years in order to get a life extension of another 30 years. A PWR can go for 40 years before an overhaul. That's not a huge difference, but it's something.

Of course, the other thing is that you need the initial investment in the heavy water. Last time I read about it, that heavy water added about $1 BN to the construction cost. The idea was that over the life of the reactor, one would recoup that in the cheaper cost of the fuel, which does not need enrichment. Still, $1 BN is a big number.

As for the spent fuel. You are right, Candu reactors can use the spent fuel from PWRs. But that's just in theory. I don't think in practice they do that. Reactors are complex enough. Dealing with the uncertainty of using a different fuel that the one they've been tested with is not something operators like to do without a very good reason. So in practice Candu reactors don't use spent fuel or thorium, or even MOX fuel (a mix of uranium and plutonium).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_coefficient
It is pretty limited. It only affects ads on sites controlled by the city itself. So ads on private property are allowed, and of course it has not effect on ads in any sort of publication, broadcast etc.
ARC: Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus
I think you did misunderstand their point. Browser native doesn’t just mean DOM, there’s also Canvas and directly reading mouse offsets and various other approaches. What they mean is don’t transit a mouse click through an OS emulation layer through a hardware emulation layer to the simulator, just directly read input from the browser and skip all the intermediate layers and inject the value directly to the code. Imagine that the mouse is simulating a PS2 hardware device with input polling and interrupts on top of a whole simulated OS and all that crap.

The approach suggested is assuming you have access to the code to modify how it gets input data, or you’re willing to update the memory directly when input happens.
I don't think so - if you needed GPIO on a small x86 the easiest way would be to hook an Arduino / RP2040 to it. That seems like it's still the sweet spot for RPi, esp. the Zero W, if you need small, low-power, full OS and GPIO.
Wise move. The "car obesity epidemic" in the last ~20 years scares me as a pedestrian. It feels less safe to walk the streets. The average car I see in the streets got noticeably bigger, taking a lot of space. To see drivers navigating narrower streets today is like watching a tetris game, with vehicles barely fitting side-by-side, requiring curb climbing and/or a lot of skill. Rearview mirrors and tire caps get damaged very often. In the arms race for driving the largest car, everybody loses.
New peeve dropped!
Sure, but do we really need pilots anymore?
I was able to drag details out of HR, and I would have some significant grounds for a discrimination suit.
A tragedy of the commons can only be solved top down.
No other experiment in the year before or after did close to as well. So yeah, a whole 1%. :-)
A negotiated letter is worthless.
Whenever Maxis comes up I always imagine some government simulations running on refined models but still using the SimCity 2000 interface.
Anything truly valuable is of course classified. This is to reveal no new information while showing something to the taxpayer about what billions are spent on. It's a delicate and awkward dance.
My wife and I refer to the latter as "Smile F'ing"
First pass gpt?
"Helmet-Mounted Displays:Sensation, Perception and Cognition Issues" - https://usaarl.health.mil/assets/docs/hmds/HMD_Book09.pdf
Wow! Thank you, rmini! Your generosity in taking the time to scan and upload the manual is incredible. You have truly made my day!

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By the way, I took a quick look at all the scanned pages and I noticed a couple of duplicate pages.

* Page 3-18 is followed by pages 4-11 to 4-14 which are followed by 4-1 to 4-14. Therefore pages 4-11 to 4-14 are present twice.

* Page 8-8 is followed by pages 9-3 to 9-4 which are followed by pages 9-1 to 9-10. Therefore pages 9-3 to 9-4 are present twice.

I just wanted to bring this to your attention. This is no problem though since no page is missing. I was able to remove the duplicate pages using this Ghostscript command:

gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=out.pdf -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=68 in.pdf -dFirstPage=73 -dLastPage=120 in.pdf -dFirstPage=123 -dLastPage=246 in.pdf

This removed the 6 duplicate pages thereby reducing the number of pages from 246 to 240. The size of the PDF reduced too from 93615247 bytes to 92671554 bytes.

I really appreciate your effort in scanning the manual! Your help with my question has been fantastic! Thank you!
(Long shot) I really would like to USA a spare machine for web serving a Jupyter Notebook server, but I did not found a single resource that blocks everyone except a single IP or something like this. Supper annoying to pay some cloud providers to have a resource that I already have.
Article doesn't say anything about banning advertisements for SUVs. It only talks about banning advertisements for gas-powered vehicles. Kind of a strange bait and switch title.
> There are multiple red families and they are more like china’s aristocracy, controlling vast swaths if the the more boring parts of the private economy (like sanitation, taxi, real estate agencies, jewelry, etc…).

Yep! There's a reason why I linked that specific reunion.

It was a who's who of the Red Families in 2011 (including Xi's), and it was there that Xi Jinping's leadership challenge to Bo Xilai truly began.

"参加纪念活动的有：叶帅之女叶向真、叶帅的侄子叶选基、胡耀邦之子胡德平、华国锋之子苏华、彭真之子傅洋、习仲勋之女习乾平、陆定一之子陆德、王若飞之子王兴、黄炎培之子黄方毅、肖劲光之女肖凯、张爱萍之子张胜、纪登奎之子纪坡民、苏振华的子女苏承军和苏承业、张鼎丞之女张延忠、谭震林之女谭径远和女婿虞大江（江华之子）、耿飚之子耿远志、杨成武之女杨俊生和杨杨、张廷发之子张鹏、马文瑞之女马晓力、罗青长之子罗援、彭冲之子许海星、严佑民之子严小江、李琪之女李海文、包惠僧之子包楚弓、齐燕铭之女齐翔延、李鑫之子李赤子、贺炳炎之子贺陵生、王诤之子王苏民、程世才之子程力、周希汉之子周泰阳、史进前之子史小刚等。周总理和叶帅等人当年身边的工作人员以及当年执行逮捕“四人帮”命令的8341部队的部分老同志也参加了纪念活动"

> Li Keqiang wasn’t a Xi ally and was constantly sidelined by him

Towards the end that's true, but Li still had plenty of autonomy in his role and a lot of the social reforms and poverty eradication policies that happened in Xi 1 and 2 were really similar to the policies Li promulgated.
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>The AI-based system can track the Volvo’s battery life cycle, prove the origin of battery materials, and show its carbon footprint and recycled content.

Can someone please tell me how "AI" made it into that? Seriously I can't fathom the idea. You want trustworthy, accurate information about measurable, objective quantities, why is AI involved?
Had a reddit clone. The amount of Russian spam coming in was nuts.

Blocking the ru language blocked all spam. And since it didn't have Russian users, it was an easy choice to make.
Ask HN: Best terminal to use for multitasking? im falling in love with it
with tabs, browsing without the bullshit, also how do anything that displays pictures? I want my profile picture to be on the left when im doing commands. emails too <3333
Ah, I see. In my opinion, this is OK, as otherwise a 4-year gap in a resume might telegraph a union affiliation and make people unhirable. The spirit of the law is that you're allowed to lie to hide union affiliation, so that's fine.

I would be against people making up experience, but replacing one company's name for another might be OK, if the companies are of roughly similar caliber (no saying you worked at Google when you were an IT for a shop).
I think the proliferation of SUVs in America is almost completely due to environmental laws. There are different fuel efficiency standards for cars and for trucks. Since the standards for trucks are so much looser, someone had the bright idea to build a car body on a truck frame. That way they only had to meet the truck standards.

Later laws were changed to recognize SUV as a separate class, but the standards are still just a gradual improvement over truck standards, and not near where car requirements are.
10 years ago was 2014. What python code are you talking about? Deprecated, sure, and some things have been taken out of the standard distribution because nobody would maintain it(or there were reasons to not maintain it.) 2->3 conversion was 16 years ago.
Many such cases, I got affected too a year ago.
Really? How? Mine is an order of magnitude more than that.
Very thought provoking, thanks for the detailed answer!
Why "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" matters (2011)
Why bother when you can get a complete X86 mini pc for less?

Just pick up an N100 with 4x2.5G ports.
I never said make a decision off of a resume. When I said "your technical expertise", I meant as assessed by interviews, code screens, etc.

I've never even been asked for references at any technical job in my life. HR departments generally do make some attempt at verifying employment, doing a background check, etc.

So no, in these cases it's not harder. There's no leverage either way.

Because what do reference letters even mean? How do you know the person writing the letter is even telling the truth? This is somebody you've never met and don't know at all. How do you know they don't unfairly hold a grudge against this ex-employee because they took it personally when they quit? Or how do you know they don't just write glowing references for everyone because they know "it's tough out there" and "everyone deserves a second chance"?

I always assumed this is why I've never been asked for references in my professional career, because the companies I applied to knew that references aren't worth the paper they're written on.
This business history would add valuable context to RPi wiki, or a public reference on the history of SBCs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
>It's sad that SUV's proliferated,

Sales for true "SUVs" (ie. cars that are built on top of a truck platform) have stayed relatively stable, and most of the "SUVs" you see are actually crossovers[1]. This might seem like a pointless distinction, but crossovers are closer to cars than SUVs, and aren't as bad for the environment as you think. The best selling crossover is the Toyota RAV4[2], which gets 30 mpg. The best selling sedan (Toyota Camry) gets 32 mpg, or 6.7% more.

[1] https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/research/the-rise-of-th...

[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g43553191/bestselling-cars...
100base-Tx is specified for shared media (hub rather than switch), but I think you need some electronics to make a hub, you can't just do a passive connection, and so you probably end up with a hub IC and may as well use a switch IC instead.
Before I retired (in the US), that was the policy where I worked.
I became familiar with this term in the mid 2000s and took it to be a Britishism, though I may have been wrong on its origin.

Usually it was used in the context of some devious ladder climbing political hack manager in corporate that we'd refer to as a "smile f'er" as he (always he) would be smiling while he secretly f'd you.
What does the original author do with the extra time gained in a day from removing 5 letters out of a word?
Hmm, so it includes the entirety of Swift's standard library? Isn't there an option to tree shake/trim it? That's what .NET AOT compilation does (standard library is always included, sans the dependency on glibc or musl, which you can statically link into the binary as well should you need that)
Are you livestreaming coding, by any chance? I'm sure there are lots of useful things and goodies you could share with the rest of the world.

Also, this could give you an opportunity to escape the corporate CRUD development by teaching yourself new technologies while sharing your adventure with us.
Whenever I negotiate prices with SaaS companies they give you a price and then they say this offer is valid x weeks – and "after that we cant guarantee the price". And I always reply the same thing, "I'm in no hurry – let's see what the price is next time. If it differs greatly then I can not trust you, and it's better to find out now than in two years when we are locked in to your product."
Powertop is a great utility for identifying wakeups and CPU C states, but for tweaking power management flags in Linux, I find TLP (https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html) to achieve greater power savings at the "cost" of more configuration.
> Let’s set asside the fact that the document wasn’t written by the CIA.

What do you mean? The CIA has publicly stated that the document was written by the OSS, its wartime predecessor. [0]

[0] https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659003
There we are, we enter the area of values and 'good taste'.

It's easy for a tech company to say it's not their responsibility. There is a disclaimer and some 'terms and conditions' so you meet your legal obligations.

Spotify is allowed to fill kids heads with dirt, dirt which no record label would ever publish, and no kid would ever hear without streaming media.

Legally it's fine but it feels shallow and poor. I guess it's the reality of stream and social recommendation algorithms.
>they're developer kits for manufacturers that need a CPU running a well supported mainline Linux in their products

It's not a great choice if you're hoping to productize from it, for various reasons.
72% of U.S. high school teachers say cellphone distraction is a major problem
How The Economist’s presidential forecast works
Most of the RK3588 boards I test support OpenWRT, and some are purpose-built for it.
images can be done using something called sixel.
They have paying customers in France/they operate their business in France for a profit. Just because their headquarters aren’t there doesn’t make it a non-French related business.
Figure out what you'd be doing if you didn't have to earn a salary, spend six months doing a side-project and/or contributing to a related libre-software project in this area.

Chances are you'll make new friends in the process and, in my experience, chances are that new friends will lead to new job opportunities.

Caveat: This is not a lucrative strategy, but it is a sustainable strategy.
I have found myself feeling similar things. Something that I've done that has helped me is to find ways to nudge people further along the path of "hold[ing] themselves to high standards". That's easier said than done, but I hoped the thought might help you a little.
Since you have thrown ISO/IEC 8877 out the window, which is referenced by 100BASE-TX, you surely can't call it an "ethernet switch."
First, Elon Musk has proven he will spend his profits to help his companies, so those tens of billions of US dollars will be invested somewhere. He is not going to just buy himself drugs and McLaren cars.

Second, always take Elon Musk at his word. He says Tesla's greatest opportunities are their Optimus android and their Robotaxi. Neither of those is a car Tesla will sell. So cutting back on producing cars as unsold inventory might be piling up is a good move. Most people could not imagine pivoting Tesla away from selling cars, but Elon Musk would do it after a few hours consideration.
Automakers spend anywhere from $20-$30 BILLION annually on advertising, largely on TV and internet. Good luck to Edinburgh trying to shut off that firehose.
As it turns out choosing a simplex instead doesn't change things much from the hypercube. I think the arithmetic mean also still works. In stark contrast to the sphere.
Java is much worse. You can learn embedded, but it's a different world and doesn't pay much.
Very cool. One day I would like to become a data science / engineering consultant. And I can see the upside of building a co-op business.
They know what gets clicks!
Presumably that was an increase like “conversions on carts older than 5 minutes went from 5% to 6%”, not “5% to 5.05%”?
It depends. I am also testing N100 (and N97) machines, but for other reasons. Pricing will vary a lot depending on the number of interfaces, case, etc.
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To be noted is that Stripe or banks are a little bit overzealous on that kind of case but the main assholes resulting in such a situation are central banks, their governors and government that force banks to spy on your transactions and to assess your risk level.

The main culprit is regulator that so far never even thought about having a legal framework forcing bank to respect privacy and ensure that you can use your bank account freely for all legally allowed purpose!
you might be interested in https://www.kadoa.com/use-cases/jobs if you prefer to fully automate the process of job boards scraping
I'm curious why he is so bullish on AI. The page lists many traditional and actually useful tools like Coq, but much space is devoted to deep learning.

My experience with CoPilot shows that it fails at the most simple logical tasks:

When presented with an integer sequence it often does not even recognize the number of elements given. It just claims that we are looking for the 10th element when the current sequence only has three. Results are also wrong all the time.

Spatial reasoning of CoPilot is not very good. I wonder if early expert systems written in the Lisp era would outperform it.

It fails at tasks that require textual awareness like palindromes.

What it does very well is confabulating bland short stories and poems. It is great at understanding the input questions.

All in all, I am more impressed with Wolfram Alpha, which looks more like a traditional expert system.
Because I use them for testing, so I generally want to uniformly generate samples within a particular size of tree.

(generating random trees the naive way tends to produce the occasional huge tree amidst huge numbers of tiny trees)
> But as usual, we shall adapt and overcome.

I don't believe this is a problem we can "overcome". We will need to learn to live with the "alternative facts" being more prominent than now, but I'm not looking forward to it.
But that reason relies on a presupposition that human language is categorically different than animal language, which is also a claim that relies on presupposing a categorical distinction which must be disproven, rather than starting from the assumption that human and animal communication exists along an evolutionary spectrum.

And how did we arrive at this categorical distinction becoming axiomatic? As you say, by way of Descartes, who was a devout Christian who famously tried to derive the existence of God from the fact of his own consciousness.

Far from being a separate and distinct reason for downplaying animal consciousness, my sense is that animal language is downplayed precisely because it would imply consciousness, and we're working within a system that axiomatically believes animals are not conscious.
Raspberry Pi is mostly an expensive toy at this point, it costs 60-80$ and it's pretty hard to buy one to begin with. You can't use it for most electronics projects because it's overkill and also it's not as powerful as a n100 or a second hand pc. If you are lucky, you can snipe a bunch of ryzen 3 hps or dells (if you don't need a lot of performance) for 60-80$ or ryzen 5s at 120$ (if you need a bit more).
> US law as written is entirely reasonable and doesn't try to claim the law applies to US citizens anywhere in the world.

It absolutely does.

The USA has laws that govern what it's own citizens do abroad like. You aren't allowed to have sex with minors or pay bribes when abroad.

The USA also recently passed a law that allows it to prosecute foreign officials who solicit bribes from USA entities. https://www.ropesgray.com/en/insights/alerts/2023/12/us-cong...
Respect might not be the right word, but during their meteoric rise to popularity in the past decade they have consistently shouted “we don’t moderate content, we’re just a dumb pipe, don’t take this up with us take it up with the publisher!”

In the past 3 years or so they have repeatedly proven that to be a lie; they weren’t able to have their cake and eat it too. But their old reputation still sticks around amongst people who don’t follow the space that closely.
Wikipedia Pain
Wow! EMO is impressive. Do they plan on open sourcing it?

The page has a link to github[1] right at the top but the repo is basically empty.

https://github.com/HumanAIGC/EMO
> Like for instance how China banned single serving plastic usage.

Even that probably isn't sensible. Banning single-use plastic leads to a shift to single-use paper, single-use wood, or single-use metal - all of which are even worse for the environment. The problem isn't the "plastic" part, the problem is the "single-use" part.
N3350 is nearly ten years old and I suspect a lot of the ultra cheap "new" systems using it are actually using salvaged parts.
$700? Here's one with 4GB RAM, 128GB eMMC and Linux already installed at $87,49. New.

https://t.ly/S-OW6 (shortened Amazon link)

Now the 4020 isn't certainly a monster, but I can assure you it's way more performant than a RPi. Also, bear in mind that, as is the case with many Chinese products, those mini PCs are produced in huge quantities and sold under at least a dozen different ever changing "brands". Don't let the name "Wo-We" make you think this is something deemed to disappear in a few months; the name could certainly be thrown away but the product will most certainly reincarnate under another "brand".