skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was considering sales engineering because I get along with both engineers and salespeople and I hear they actually make more money than either, if they're any good, but someone discouraged me, saying that if you crave the creative portion of the SWE job, sales engineering is not going to cut it for you.

I'm still fascinated by the idea for some reason. Closing a big deal (and making that commission on top of a regular base salary) while understanding all the technical sides of a product sounds like a neat way to get that "dopamine hit" wave going. (you know, motivation -> work -> success -> enjoyment of success -> motivation) Building out big software features often seems like yet another lesson about ever-receding goalpost lines.

I will say that a work situation DID show me that I DO need the creative element though- I worked for Deloitte once, building out some enterprisey software for clients for a time and due to business reasons outside my control, they halted all new development on the product and switched to pure support/bugfix mode. My job satisfaction absolutely PLUMMETED.

Another side gig I found fun was... and I don't even know what the name of this job is because I only did it a couple times but it was fun both times... "objective technical performance evaluator". Basically, there are situations out there with nontechnical businesspeople who have hired offshore software engineering labor who end up jerking them around a bit to the point where they suspect they're being jerked around (you can't fool people forever) but they cannot point to anything in particular, so they hire YOU to sit in on calls and call out the BS. I can't tell you how shamefully fun it was to call out other SWE teams on their BS while the businesspeople on whose side you're advocating for are grinning next to you. Essentially, businesspeople hiring offshore SWE teams ALWAYS need an advocate on their side who "talks the talk". It basically works like this- you get github access, you sit in on some calls, you ask some very pointed questions, and then you write up a report about the code, the time things are taking, the designs being proposed or created, etc. With ChatGPT help, writing up such a report would be cake- you could basically just brain-dump a bunch of observed facts into a text file and ask it to create an organized professional report for you- you can even ask it to make it strongly-worded, etc. Easy money, everybody's happy!
> It seems parasitic in a kind of way to demand that right.

Third parties bring value to the platform. Try to remove all the third parties from the Apple Store and see how people react.

Apple's sales of iPhones benefit from the third parties, but they use their dominant position to take a huge cut of what the third parties sell.

One could say: either Apple gives access to third parties in a decent way, or they just don't. Apple needs the third parties (otherwise they would not give them access in the first place, obviously), so they should give them decent conditions.
it also depends on which luxuries market you're targeting.

South Korea is making a big splash in cosmetics, for example, but has never been a particularly large textile hub.
I'm sure you are right but it didn't use to be this bad - I remember a couple of years ago I tried to familiarize myself with the old fantasy classics, most of which certainly weren't considered respectable literature back then.

By far the worst offender of the bunch was Lin Carter's Under the Green Star - in which the sickly protagonist has his mind transported into a body of a powerful hero of legend, in a faraway realm, and rescues a beautiful princess who falls madly in love with him - at which point the teenage boy pandering became so unbearable, that I had to put the book down. This is exactly the tier wher most RR books stand at.

Other books, such as the Elric books by Moorcock, or Leiber's Fafhrd books would still qualify as genre fiction, but have far more depth and nuance to them and I thoroughly enjoyed reading them.

I wonder, what other sites are there for online fiction?

I only know of Wattpad, which seems to largerly focus on romance for teenage girls, and AO3, which seems to focus on smut/fanfiction.

While all 3 sites have hidden gems, it's too much of a bother for me to wade through the typical faire to bother looking for them.
Indirector: High-Precision Branch Target Injection Attacks Exploiting the IBP [pdf]
Burnout is very common for CS and IT folk. I'd recommend looking at the Ikigai diagram to identify possible career choices:

https://amit894.medium.com/ikigai-simplifying-the-intersecti...

The problem with contracting is people often end up locked into a perpetual support role, as IT market saturation drives down earnings.

Could look at a union job, and set yourself up for a soft landing into retirement. There is also the CS dream job of Plumbing... =3
Dude, nobody wants the instability of a gig job. It’s just all there is at the bottom. Uber will actually pay you something, unlike other taxi or driver jobs which have dried up. It’s folks fighting over crumbs: I bet you Uber drivers would love a stable taxi job, there just isn’t one.
Reading this reminded me of ntpsec, anyone actually use that?
I’m not sure how to figure out if there’s a profitable market I can tap with the thing I want to make.

As an example, I created a modified level so that my wife could set tumblers up for full wrap laser engraving. I’ve been trying to figure out how to sell the tool but maybe there is not much of a market to sell to.

I’ve tried my own website, a free DIY version as an email collection tool, becoming active on laser forums, the finished level on Etsy, and now a DIY kit on Etsy. I can’t seem to sell them. I’ve met similar issues with other items I’ve designed. So, “scratch your own itch” doesn’t seem to create a market fit for me or I have trouble finding that market.

Halp!
I wish that worked on echo show. That thing is infuriating. Don’t get it unless you’re cool with ads in your home.
I think a company, without my permission, copying my personal files to their server is the definition of not a good decision
Or randomly generated bits.
The data they collect for the AI and the advertising opportunities enable more profits and more revenue to keep infinite growth happening. Even with Azure, even with Github and everything else. If you're not using all the profit opportunities, you are not delivering enough. The economic system doesn't reward or demand stable profits or sustainable growth, it demands compound growth.
To your last point, that's basically what I did. I get a lot of satisfaction from being the technical consult for customers, working alongside Sales and CS, and still having that link back to engineering. The kicker is that I get paid about the same. The right company will highly value a competent customer-facing engineer.
Uber was created because taxis blew due to corruption. It should not cost 100k to become a taxi driver, that was absolutely insane.
Spy, accomplice, ghostwriter
Why Men Are 'Rawdogging' Flights
Seeing this: https://profile.typepad.com/rgable

made my day. Thank you for chiming in!!

So good to know there's at least one other Typepad user.
How is that an economic justification? It's about safety and consent as much as economics.
The Nvidia experience on the beta channel is shockingly good now, too. The big sore spot for gaming on Linux was trying to convince Nvidia users the experience was worth their time. Using 555-series drivers on GNOME Wayland right now is pretty much flawless.
> Then it forced me to give it my birth date

Forgot what it was (not Ms for once) which started discriminating against 124 year old people since you could not enter 01/01/1900 as a birthdate. Usually it's cut at 100 (I always say I'm born on 01/01/1900, there is no legal reason other than the "are you an adult" question)
I was working on a failing startup in Hawaii Kai, and left for Haleiwa due to a woman who was stalking and gaslighting me. Landed in a Haleiwa house and was stalked, hacked and and gaslighted by the owner’s family help. Ran into a man who engaged in state sponsored grand theft and lied to investigators, ruined my life. Witness to corruption, perjury, misconduct.

Tried investigating the hacking and stalking and was met with a serious coordinated threat of murder. Was blackmailed to stay silent about the murder threat.

Couldn’t work on code much more.

Went homeless.

Media blackout on the trial (would have been a salacious headline in Hawai’i), perhaps due to my reports of receiving the coordinated murder threat and the status of the social circle who issued it.

Took the NSA’s college level codebreaker challenge and did pretty well. Bad idea. They call them spooks for a reason.

Met a wealthy man here in Haleiwa who gave me side work and pushed various hard drugs on me, so I tried getting away from him. Endured criminal violence, harassment, discrediting and defamation, obstruction of justice from a judge, and more shenanigans.

Tried getting back into coding. Even got a donor laptop from a nice ex Amazon employee here on hn to try to rebuild.

Took another NSA codebreaker challenge while homeless and while dealing with the ongoing violence, harassment and discrediting campaign from the wealthy party with a lawyer. Couldn’t handle it. Laptop gone. Sorry to the ex Amazon guy who donated it. It was a tiny little i5/8GB, enough to participate in the NSA CTF.

Met a guy into data engineering at the coffee shop who gifted me a brand new M2 MBP 24GB. Tried getting back into programming while homeless. Hasn’t worked. Gave it back to him new in box. Was being targeted yet again at the time due to being exposed homeless on a bicycle in public. Couldn’t handle it and can’t deal with the constant lack of dignity due to experiencing long term homelessness and destitution.

Still homeless seven years later and in a far worse predicament. Not very optimistic about my future. Scrapping for food money. I live on a bicycle with two backpacks outdoors on public assistance for food, which helps a bit. Bicycle has irreparably broken down today; trying to find a donor replacement locally so I can make it to my gardening job for food money tomorrow.

It’s bad enough to be ruined with lies while others enjoy lack of accountability. Far worse is to be discredited and met with skepticism about reports of criminal behavior.

Software development has stopped completely for quite a while now. Fighting off the dread of the entrenched, persistent desire to end, mid life. Failed career, non existent, now with a ruined rep and trauma.
"We used to build our code with musl-cross-make."

Wish there was something like musl.cc, i.e., static GCC less than 250 MiB, for cosmo libc.
Will services make the world rich?
The amount of effort put into all the porting and reverse-engineering is impressive. Especially, getting the toolchain working. That's usually where most of the hair-pulling comes in.

For those wanting to hack their own tracker, for slightly more money ($5), you can get one with a Nordic nrf52832 which has lots more documentation and support, including Micropython:

- https://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?t=6498

- https://github.com/fanoush/ds-d6
I can share some real examples I've seen/heard of from trustworthy sources (I'm not there yet myself):

- Open an independent bookstore in a medium-sized midwestern city's downtown

- Get into the jewelry business (not sure if there was family business experience there);

- Open a coffee shop, this person had someone else manage it (must be nice);

- One past tech PM switched careers to become a traveling nurse and was loving it still ~5 years in;

- Wive's friend moved to montana and opened a dog grooming franchise

Note that virtually all require some money to either invest in opening a new business or re-train yourself in some new profession (college/grad school prob just means loans). Doesn't mean it's true for every option, but worth noting how often that's the case.
This comment would have made sense in the late 90s.

Today we have decades of experience that the majority of users are not capable of making informed decisions when it comes to topics like app permissions. Especially the flow on implications e.g. allow the app to record the screen could mean your bank details are exposed.
Aerospace. It's been a real "blast"
I was able to save around ~$800k over 6 years while living in the Bay Area, that's now at $1.45mil two years later. But I consider myself extremely, extremely lucky.
That's because in 2020 she said it was vapor intrusion from the Superfund the apartments were built on.

None of the rest of us got sick, including the people who worked in that building and the one next to it (we have 2).

I'm not an environmental policy enforcer or scientist, but I can read from this report that the issue was mislabeled/unlabeled containers and haz waste treatment w/o EPA-required permit. None of that is going to make 1 single person in the entire area sick.
https://archive.md/gsqLo
Here's several people saying it doesn't work any more: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...

It tried it, it didn't work.

I even disabled wifi in bios.
Uber and Lyft underpriced their car service for years and years, killing off a lot traditional competition, i.e., independent taxi and limo companies.

Now, both Uber and Lyft seek to be profitable... so they are squeezing every possible penny out of riders and drivers.

If it looks, smells, and tastes like a Doo-Oh-Poh-Lee, it probably is one.
ELI5 why they are using helium instead of something else that's cheap and inert and easier to handle like nitrogen.
Linux and macOS is a great combo. I recently bought a full-spec UM790 Pro (Ryzen 9 with 64GB RAM), installed Ubuntu and colocated it with my router. I run vscode on my low-spec Mac Mini (M1 with 8GB RAM) with all the grunt work handled by the Ubuntu server thanks to the Remote-SSH extension. I saved several thousands of dollars by not buying a Mac with a decent amount of RAM, get the great macOS user experience, and develop on the platform (Linux) that I’m deploying to.
As an early career I agree with almost everything you say except doing it to quit and not work in industry

I mean, I save quite a bit (more than a third after taxes) just because consumerism is annoying. But at the same time getting paid to write code and learn how computers work seems like a pretty sweet gig to me long term. Especially because there's a compounding effect, the more you know the easier it gets to learn new things

And big company bullshit isn't that bad, at least to me. It's a bunch of convenient things to complain about
Give sales a try. I despised sales before I moved into a Sales Engineer role. Once I saw what sales really was, and how good sales people are not slimy, I now love it.
Im sorry but a basket is absolutely useless when we’re talking about basic needs like housing.
At least a Mac alllows you to have a local account without iCloud. We are not allowed iCloud accounts on our work lappies due to the risk of client data leakage. It seems to me, unless the Microsoft cloud is 100% trusted you would not be able to use it at many places.
(We do have centrally managed computers and accounts).
It's present on loads of systems, it's a very common service to offer, it's a reasonably well-constrained use case, and the fact that nobody thinks about it might be a good reason to think about it. They can't boil the ocean but one service at a time is a reasonable approach.

I'll flip the question around, why not start at ntpd?
> excluding [...] Booking.

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https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/commission-designat...
Agree re: Windows 10 (Pro). Though even with all the crap I’ve turned off, I can’t help but wonder what Microsoft is taking from my machine without my knowledge.
I prefer me a excellent condition pre-loved Crumpler bag from ebay :-)

almost zero prestige so reasonable prices
But there's a GIF in the very first section of the README showing a bunch of different effects. What else is it missing?
Really interesting, answered some of the questions I had on watch market economics and seller and buyer incentives. Is there a place where I can learn more (e.g. a youtube channel that explains how all of this works, the roles and incentives for the various parties in the watch market)?

Thanks
Have your wife do a youtube promo on it, and sponsor some laser engraving videos?
Is it though? Death is an inevitability. Impossible to optimize the world for zero deaths. It’s a fools errand.
Ratatui – a Rust crate for cooking up Terminal User Interfaces
the EPA actually does monitor the area's residents because they we on Superfund site
Not quite the career choice I'd recommend for someone about to start a family (and whose spouse is not independently rich).
As a (perhaps not-so-young) consumer of several RR stories in those exact genres, yes. It's a fun genre that really tickles the same part of my brain that building munchkins in D&D does. Progression fantasy is just very satisfying to read.

(In case anyone is looking for recommendations, Mother of Learning is the best all-around, Delve is probably my favorite, and Worth the Candle is incredible if you can stomach how much of a crapsack world the protagonist is dragged through)
I was using what I seemed to be the standard with other encoders, storing the ratios is roughly the same cost compared to other compressors, a few extra bits for exact counts. But I do see how this isn't i.i.d. so I'm fixing that.
I believe it's rooted in agreements that content producers (including Netflix I am sure) insist on for distributing media. My impression is that all anti-piracy measures are intended to "just" extend the exclusivity period for official sources for that media. So almost anything you can do to delay high quality rips appearing will be worthwhile for the company financially.
I'm all in on Linux at this point - it's been usable for a long time.

My comments not really about whether it works, as we know it does, it's about how we go about getting the word out there.
What do you mean? This is literally how Apple advertises their store: "a big part of those experiences is ensuring that the apps we offer are held to the highest standards for privacy, security, and content". Maybe you want Apple to advertise more effectively?

https://www.apple.com/app-store/
And QuickBooks Enterprise, and CAD, and Windows-only CRM systems, and Windows-only internal financial programs in banks/credit unions, and Windows-only programs in government environments...

It's a lot more than just Office that requires Windows.
Glad to see people realizing that a lot of content doesn't need the complexity of React/other front-end frameworks. I feel like people use front-end frameworks even when their content doesn't need reactivity.
You're being downvoted but I mean this does work for some people. I definitely have coworkers who treat their work as purely transactional. Their goal isn't to be promoted or get frustrated at their job, it's to receive a paycheck and health insurance and get home to their families or hobbies. That's certainly a valid approach in any job scenario (not just SWE.)

I'm not quite at the level you've described, but I certainly have elements of it. I've been in the same role for ~10 years and have pretty much maxed out the expected raises/promotions of the role. It's not as satisfying as something brand new, but my pay to effort ratio is pretty ideal and I can work on side projects and learn new things on my own.
Hetzner didn't even provide a detailed info on why they deactivated my account
This sounds like a detailed account of burnout. Take some time away from it all and find your thunder and curiosity again?
Lol says you. I've broken two feet and an ankle. That's three separate injuries on three separate occasions.

None of them were when I was doing something actually dangerous. The ankle was in a Walmart parking lot. The first foot was on the steps of a hotel.

Admittedly I'm a big dude so these injuries might not have happened to a smaller person. But people get fragile as they age anyway, and lots of old people have broken hips from tripping and falling.
Likewise, I disagree with the author's viewpoint but I think the conversation as a whole is an interesting one.
Aviation does but the road to it is challenging and you can end up like me where you end up having to do something else if you get sick
iCloud Drive, and actually the entire iCloud ecosystem is opt-in
Do you mean TLV (tag-length-value)? I can't figure out what TSV is.
It seems to me that "market inefficiency" is a euphemism for the dystopian hyper-capitalist hellhole concept of extracting as much money as possible from your customer, all other side effects, both short and long term, be damned.
I think we're defining markets differently which is where this is debatable.

If you say that the App Store is an extension of the iPhone and you're buying into that when you buy a phone, sure I can see the argument that the App Store by default has no competitors on the iPhone and people are agreeing to that when they buy an iPhone/develop for the iPhone, and so the competition is Google (and by extension the Play store.

I just don't think we should accept the tight coupling of hardware and software distribution by default though.

Even then if you do, the strongest argument for Apple gives us a duopoly that both exhibit strong anti-competitive behaviours.

I do have some sympathy for Apple here though. When Nintendo takes tight control over distribution on the switch is that also a monopoly? When your product essentially becomes a utility though I think some form of regulation ends up being good for society as a whole.
It’s a Jeep Thing.
> What struck me was how many people on that trip could not swim and only relied on buoyancy aids and snorkels

I get the relationship between buoyancy aids and being unable to swim.

But snorkels? If you can't swim, a snorkel doesn't do anything to help you. What a snorkel helps with is making it more convenient to see things that are underwater.
The US has bizarre funding rules that made it effectively impossible to have a through ride from municipal public transport to the airport until recently.
convincing hermes that you should be allowed to buy a bag isnt exactly easy. Bragging that you did it is exactly the point of these bags, not holding shit
My mistake, misread you.
No matter what kind of interesting questions you want to pose, shutting down ~90% of tax revenue is worse than shutting down 10% of one source of energy. It’s frankly very silly to hypothesize otherwise.
Apple pauses East Coast campus in N.C
Why don't you keep this thread on-topic, and reply to:

> "Shouldn't it be very easy to vote to fix that in a democracy?"
How old are you? Do you have any dependents, a partner, children? Do you have any health issues; what do you do for coverage? What are you going to do in 'n' years when you're older, less relevant and broke?

I too am a saver, and over the past 20+ years we've been suckers. The problem is I grew up as a child when a savings account, essentially a zero-risk asset, paid well over 5% interest. That hasn't been true for a long time, with inflation & taxes grinding away at any marginal gains. I wish I'd financed and leveraged more, not consumption goods but investments. The other problem with being a saver is it's very hard to be one, then flip and be a consumer of your savings. The thing that makes you able to save is also what holds you back from spending. There are a lot of baby boomers who have a lot of assets yet still live very thrifty lifestyles; especially if they grew up blue collar when you could "save yourself rich".
Of course. It certainly depends on context. Maybe some children need a respite from safe places. Others, an invite into them