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It's OK to realize that the path you're on doesn't fit you and isn't going to make you happy, and to chose to get off that path and pick another one that will fit you better. Really! It's OK!

But...

There also is no perfect life. Nothing on earth ever perfectly satisfies. Your dream job won't pay enough for all your other dreams. You may find a wonderful person to share your life with, but they won't be perfect. Some of their dreams will clash with some of your dreams.

When that happens, don't throw out something really good to try to reach something perfect. It's only perfect in your dreams. In reality, it may not even be better. "Take time in your pursuit of happiness to just be happy."

So, yes, you can ditch a path that doesn't fit you. But no path fits perfectly.
Don't destroy something good in order to try to reach an unattainable amount of perfection.

Where's the line between those two kinds of advice? Aye, there's the rub...
What's different from Imagus, that works on 90% of the sites I visit?
I don’t think everyone wants American values.

I don’t think you can run a successful international organization without respecting the local law and customs.
My vision of the stereotypical HNer is not A at all, but a single person somewhat just out of school, renting a shoebox in a HCOL area.
I think I saw a test somewhere that showed they're extremely sensitive to charge rate, the cycle life is way better at lower rates, which might explain why some people say they had them die in just a few hundred, while they're actually supposed to give thousands.

Manufacturers mostly seem to test and say they don't explode until above 4.4-4.8v, and they're 70% to 80% charged by 3.6v, so there's the possibility of of using them with LiFePo4 chargers and LiPo protection chips.

There are even 3.7v LiFePo4 chips that should get them 85% charged.

I'm currently working on a dev board with selectable 4.05, 3.6, and 3.7v charging, to cover all the common chemistries except LTO and ultracaps.
> The utility company fuse between the property and the 240 V distribution system should prevent overcurrent. If the frequency or phase of the inverter is wrong the inverter might die first unless the network is already down.

To put it more simply: if the phase is wrong, the effect is the same as a short circuit, which fuses and circuit breakers protect against. If the frequency is wrong, the phase will become wrong after a number of cycles.

> There isn't really any practical way to prevent overvoltage though. So a rogue controller in charge of all the solar systems in a street might be able to do quite a lot of damage to consumer devices.

There is, it's called a surge protector or surge protective device (SPD). It converts any overvoltage above a certain level into a short to ground, which then trips the fuse or circuit breaker. It's often used as a protection against lightning-induced currents.

> A problem from the utility point of view is that they can no longer guarantee that the 240 V side of the distribution system is safe to work on just by tripping a breaker on either side of the distribution transformer. So all work on the 240 V distribution system has to be done with the assumption that the system is live.

From what I've seen, the utility workers usually ground the wiring when working on it (they have a special-purpose device for that). Once it's safely connected to ground, it's no longer live.
reversing the protocol can be done in advance, if they order your product
For real, though. The web is a cesspool without an ad-blocker.

Vampiric preload JS scripts hoovering up bandwidth and stealing system resources. Autoplay video/audio ads that are the equivalent of attention-seeking injury lawyer billboards that should have been outlawed FOREVER ago. The whack-a-mole bad ads on seedy websites (p0rn) that deliver malware. List goes on.

Can't wait until Goog^H^H^H^H the "keepers of the open Internet" decide that the web can be made "more efficient" by using same-origin ad delivery and "more secure" by blocking extensions that can be updated out-of-release, like, oh, say, ad-blockers!
Imagine your data points look like a U. There's no (lineral) correlation between x and y, you are equally likely to have a high value of y when x is high or low. But low values of y are associated with medium values of x, and a high value of y means x will be very high or very low.
I would have expected the finetuned model to perform much better. Would be curious to see the performance with other models
Of course it's possible, that's my point. Both the maintainer and the requestors should avoid that word. The real questions are. Is it reasonable? Is it worth it? Is it along the lines of the problems the software set out to solve?
> Good lawyers and good judges allow bad laws to be taken advantage of. If the law says it, it should be allowed (for leniency to the accused) or the law should be invalidated due to a lack of strict construction.

A mom hears a loud noise coming from her kid's room and she goes up to find her kid is jumping on the bed and the mom comes in and says "Stop jumping on your bed!", so he does. Five minutes later, she hears the same noise, and comes in and the kid is jumping on the bed again, and tells the kid "I told you to stop jumping on your bed!" and the kid says "I'm not jumping, I'm hopping!" and starts to argue about the difference between jumping and hopping, and mom says "Just stop hopping on your bed!" and goes back to the living room.

Almost immediately, she hears it again, this time the kid is sitting, but bouncing up and down, declaring that he's not jumping or hopping, but bouncing. Again, the mom tells him to stop it.

A few minutes later, she hears jumping again, only this time, it's on HER bed. Finally, the mom says "Do not jump, hop, bounce, spring, leap, or otherwise propel yourself upwards from any bed, couch, chair, or any other furniture."

--

I disagree entirely with your opinion.

It is often that intent is crystal clear, but a lawyer is able to weasel their way into convincing a jury that there's a slight ambiguity in the law.

The problem of course, is that then lawmakers have to write incredibly verbose and difficult to understand legalese in order to ensure there are no loopholes. Of course, in the spelling out of the law, it's easy to accidentally create a loophole.

A rule that states "No jumping on the bed" is clear of intent. Mom shouldn't have to include many near-synonyms of "jumping" and specify that it means ALL beds.
Well, ditching the tech life for med school is, maybe not "weird", but it's at least a bit of a curve from where F seemed to be headed as a sophomore. (Presuming that I correctly interpreted the not-very-explicit statements in the article.)
To be super clear you’re trying to buy ads or serve them? I had a pretty bad experience with buying ads in the past as they kept flagging my account because I was using a virtual CC. I had to reach out to one of my ex-colleagues over there to get unblocked…
TypeScript Sudoku
Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker complains about mistakes.
Cool Stuff. Sounds like you're following your dreams and doing something that needs doing.

It would be very cool if you could do an open house for bay area
geeks to come and just ooh and ahh at the gadgetry. Even a
virtual open house would be cool. Something less than a full
demo, and more focused on the story behind the gestation and
launch of the project (and then a demo.)
> However, the app has remained available but not fully functional in various places, leaving customers wondering if they will still be able to access content they bought. This development, however, mostly squashes any remaining hope of salvaging those purchases.

If you depend on an online service (and or/app) to consume content that was 'bought', you don't really own it and this shouldn't be a surprise. I don't suspect anyone is shocked by this, but rather how soon this happened which they likely estimated would have been much later.

e.g. I use cloud storage services for backup only, I don't delete my local data assuming the service will always be available to me.
I think your reasoning is flawed. When you are aiming for targets with a gun, there is no utility in that. That's like saying a basketball is a tool. Neither guns nor basketballs are tools.

Also, I never once implied that killing is bad. For example, killing animals for food is not bad. Also, killing someone who is trying to kill you is not bad.
The Return on the Bicameral Mind
I think you got it in your last paragraph.

Absolutely NOT social consensus as axioms, as that will result in stagnation and tyranny.

Instead we must progress gradually one axiom at a time through reasoning and experimentation.

Truth is not what we decide it is, truth is what works. The universe decides what is true, not people.

Re your comment: "but these are, I think, not enough". I both agree and disagree depending on what you mean. Fundamentally this approach is enough, but practically we haven't developed our understanding enough to map out absolute truth. It's probably something we can only approach but never reach.

But in theory the right AI system could allow us to approach the faster
Neat! And you can do those purchases inside the iOS app?
> "Are the number of racist idiots just much greater amongst Gamers™?"

You have clearly never read the comments on newspaper websites back when they still had them. Sturgeon's Law applies to human beings in general.
The point is about instant power injected, not energy, the point is that keep an AC grid at the right frequency it's a tricky business because energy production and consumption must match.

Too much from production the frequency skyrocket, little production the frequency plunge.

Now classic grids are designed on large areas to average the load for big power plants, this way those plant see small instantaneous change in their output demand, let's say a 50MW power plant see 100-300kW instantaneous change, that's something they can handle quick enough. With massive p.v., eolic etc grid demand might change MUCH more for big power plant, like a 50MW P.P. need to scale back or power up of 10MW suddenly and that's way too much to sustain. When this happen if the demand is too much the frequency plunge, grid dispatcher operators have to cut off large areas to lower the demand (so called rolling blackouts), when the demand drop too quickly the frequency skyrocket and large PP can't scale back fast enough so they simply disconnect. Disconnecting the generation fall and the frequency stabilize, unfortunately most p.v. is grid tied, if a p.p. disconnect most p.v. inverters who have seen the frequency spike disconnect as well creating a cascading effect of quickly alternating too low and too high frequency causing vast area blackouts.

Long story short a potential attack is simply planting a command "at solar noon of 26 June stop injecting to the grid, keep not injecting till solar noon + 5'", with just "1 second or so" (due to eventual time sync issues) all inverters of a certain brand might stop injecting, making the generation fall, a bit of rolling blackouts and large pp compensate quickly. Than the 5' counter stop, all inverters restart injecting en-masse, while the large pp are full power as well, the frequency skyrocket, large pp disconnect causing most grid-tied inverter to follow them, there are large change an entire geographic segment of a grid fall. Interconnection operators in such little time do not know what to do and quickly the blackout might became even larger with almost all interconnection going down to protect active parts of the grid, causing more frequency instability and so more blackouts.

Such attack might led to some days without power.
Is explosive decompression of a human occupied area of a space ship ever actually a concern then? Seems like the pressure difference could only ever be 1
microtransactions
OR. takes advantage of a natural phenomenon to fake own death ("missing," meaning body not found, no identification and confirmation of death), uses ill gotten billions to start a new life. Also has option of upgrading to a new model of wife.
>Is it time to move jobs, or time to move careers?

Split the difference and try a new stack/specialty.

I remember being burnt out and tired of all the shit and I decided to try a new stack/language and development got fun again. Then, I was able to get to company that also treated folks better. It didn't happen over night, but it really made me happier and in the long run I ended up making a lot more money.

If you can hang on for a while longer, try transitioning to a backend stack, to data engineering, to data science, to something else. Maybe even just doing full stack with a different framework at a better company.
Achieving Fusion Ignition
This sounds like super interesting and meaningful work. Are you hiring, or do you have any advice for your average software engineer on getting into this space?
You should find abandonedware games for him to network play on.

Right around the time of the mobile phone gaming took a very, very sharp turn to pure sociopathy. It had always been flirting with it, but now the mbas are full on putting as much sociopathic addiction rigging, social bullying, and manufactured demand as possible.
Yes, we need multiple providers and the proper way to do that is not by bailing out poor designs by incumbents.
Instead, we should be setting lucrative incentives for new entrants.
> It's OK to realize that the path you're on doesn't fit you and isn't going to make you happy, and to chose to get off that path and pick another one that will fit you better. Really! It's OK!

Up to a certain age it's totally possible. Having commitments and people depending on you decreases this possibility that to a great extent.
> In 1981, weather disasters caused $3.5 billion in damages in the United States. In 2023, that number was $94.9 billion (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/time-series).

Does that surprise someone? I think I would not have guessed this growth to be on such a scale. The chart suggests that severe storms are the main culprit.
It's because the standard way we develop neighborhoods does not lend itself to people being able to leave their homes. My parents just bought a condo in a newer development in a rapidly growing metro, and while they can walk around their complex, there's no sidewalks to anywhere else, and even if there were, the city zoning laws means there's no corner cafe, bakery, or small-scale store like there really ought to be. It's so stupid and such an easy thing to fix: just require that each adjacent complex have a right of way and sidewalks and zone for cottage businesses every few blocks. Makes everything more pleasant, and people have something to do when they leave their house without having to get into the car.

EDIT:
This [1] is the kind of neighborhood i'm talking about. Growing rapidly, cheap housing -- great, but they're setting themselves up for real heartbreak because the complexes don't connect. To walk to the park that's not even a mile away requires walking on a huge, busy road. All they need to have to make it not feel dangerous is a dirt path and a required gate between complexes. That's it. [2]

I'm honestly not sure why we think this kind of development is even normal. Roads really ought to connect. It also makes the traffic so much worse. I live two miles from downtown Portland and my street outside my house gets significantly less traffic than my parents.

I fully expect to move my parents somewhere near us as they age. It's just not possible for them to leave the house when they get older without having to drive, whereas older people in my grid-based, sidewalk neighborhood can walk for miles and achieve their entire life.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Clark+County+Fairgrounds/@...

[2] Meanwhile, our park is technically farther away (about a mile) and we walk there almost everyday and know all the neighbors down the street. We just went to a party at one of the neighbor's homes and the only relation we have is that we wave at each other as their kids play in the yard and mine ride their bikes to the park. I want to leave the house half the time because I have friends outside. That's all you need.
I consider Aristotelian logic to be a category. It is the Newtonian physics of the logic world; if your fancier logic doesn't have some sort of correspondence principle to Aristotelian logic, something has probably gone wrong. (Or you're so far out in whacky logic land you've left correspondence to the real universe behind you. More power to you, as long as you are aware you've done that.) And like Newton, being the first to figure it out labels Aristotle as a certifiable genius.

See also Euclid; the fact that his geometry turns out not to be The Geometry does not diminish what it means to have blazed that trail. And it took centuries for anyone to find an alternative; that's quite an accomplishment.

If I have a backhanded criticism hiding in my comment, it actually isn't pointed at Aristotle, but at the school system that may teach some super basic logic at some point and accidentally teaches people that's all logic is, in much the same way stats class accidentally teaches people that everything is uniformly randomly distributed (because it makes the homework problems easier, which is legitimately true, but does reduce the education's value in the real world), leaving people fairly vulnerable to the lists of fallacies they may find on the internet and unequipped to realize that they only apply in certain ways, in certain cases. I don't know that I've ever seen such a list where they point out that they have some validity in a probabilistic sense. There's also the fallacies that are just plain fallacious even so, but I don't generally see them segmented off or anything.
Not to be that guy, but the DOE is arguably one of the most important federal agencies in the US, and they treat the problem with the correct amount of focus, research and dedication. It’s just a very hard problem.
The grid is no less secure or less resilient than it was 50 years ago, the main problem is that people are more dependent on it.
Almost no one buys a personal generator before an outage happens anymore, despite it being one of the cheapest ways to get resiliency.
Someone should start a fourm for connecting above-board, legitimate businesses with xooglers the way special interest groups connect corporations with former congressmen who want to become lobbyists. You'd hire them as "marketing consultants," and they would be able to represent you.
Of course. In 10 years, AI fueled big tech will be ruling the world.
They are not building something for profiting today.
They are building world hegemony of tomorrow.
Billionaire Carl Icahn settles for using company to secure personal loans
I am not really into tracking radiosondes while they are in air. What I do, is like a radio "fox-hunting" when they come back on the surface, using a directive antenna.
How is forking related to overcommit?
Yah, but Roblox weird money dynamics is that he's showing up and is overpowered in the games because he's paying to win, but fellow kids likely view him as exceptionally skilled :P
Wow, thank you. I'm in Texas and I was aware their was judge shopping. I'm aware of the 5th Circuit being ultra business friendly, but I didn't know the rest of that!
Am I missing something or would it just use the most recent one?
> that misuse the `Accept` header for unwanted behavior

Is there any other "misuse" to be aware of apart from just serving formats you don't prefer?
Totally - especially when people are incentivized to try to find loopholes, it's extremely hard to find an airtight definition of anything.

Three wheeled cars used to be made to bypass the definition of what a car is and avoid needing to be subject to crash testing and other safety regulation. My parent's home is a complicated 'single-unit condo' which is as far as I can tell, basically a lie to get past regulations on building new houses.

I guess my point is, if you agree that the law is good then you should not want the definition to be easily bypassed with a loophole, and having something that's flexible helps a lot with this. And if the law is bad then you'll be glad for one though it makes things silly compared to repealing the law.

And if you see someone using a loophole for a law you like, especially if they are doing so in a cheeky way like the billionaires playing games with shell companies to avoid taxes, it's fair to be mad at them even if it's not "technically illegal".
I don't think the quality of the home factors in, but I think you make an excellent point about HN'ers being highly self-motivated in terms of personal projects.

They're less likely to be spending their time at home just watching endless TV or Instagram scrolling.

So I think you're right, it doesn't generalize to the larger population at all.
Nord Stream Revelations Ignite Dispute Between U.S. Allies
The point is that you can't see from the outside. F's life is weird, too, in ways that only F knows and understands. (IDK, maybe he taxidermies mice he catches in his backyard. Point being, we'd never know)

The article's not quite reaching that conclusion, but trust me, we're all strange in our own ways. And it's not an artist thing.

The "career path" and the "rules and customs" that the article mentions don't actually exist. It's what lives within one or two standard deviations of the average, but... in individual things, we're all far from the average. It just, well, averages out in the long run.

To stick with the example: I can name large amounts of FAANG folk who do well, and who never majored in CS, or got that internship, or went to grad school, or started at FAANG. I can name large amounts of folks who followed exactly that path, but either didn't go to FAANG at all, or left quickly.

"Normal" is a facade. For all of us. The only thing to keep in mind is that people will complain if you don't keep up the facade (because what does that mean for their choice to keep it, for decades?).

But, facade or not, the true average human being has slightly less than two legs. They don't exist.
> engaging hobbies

It's an important point. To use a nutrition metaphor, there are many new easily-available empty calories at home these days, that weren't previously available. The web. Online gaming. Social media. Streaming.

Yet venturing outside into a social environment delivers a higher minimum level of nutritional value. You see other breathing humans, experience empathy and nature, and move your body.

And critically... exercise being comfortable with being uncomfortable. (Aka, life)

One of the quickest paths to crazy these days is becoming too comfortable in a stable, static, self-reinforcing life. You don't get any feedback that you're drifting pretty far off the median. (I mean, has anyone actually seen the Earth's curvature...?)

Reality has a well-known bias towards reinforcing common sense and reminding you when you're wrong.
Many people mention the loss of third places as a contributing factor in these threads. Lower church attendance, the death of shopping malls, difficulties in accessing nice parks, etc. I am sympathetic to this idea. However, it is a very US-centric point of view as well. Many countries don’t have car-centric suburban sprawl that North America has. So I’m wondering if places seen as more walkable have the same trends of time spent at home, and if those trends are as strongly tied to quality of life problems.
If the west for some reason starts to vigorously argue with China over something, we're all completely fucked. They'll just tell our cheap EVs to forget how to brake, melt the firmware in our cellular towers/chips, and toggle our PV inverters off and on at a shitty time.