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Thank you for introducing the Temeraire series. It sounds very interesting.
I'm in my upper 50s and I resigned from the corporate employee world in spring of 2024. I've been working my handyman business since then. I don't have enough business to keep my schedule full (and not enough income), so I decided to get back into tech on my own terms. I've started developing a software product that I hope to launch soon. No idea how any of this will turn out, but it's the best plan I've got at the moment.
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The older browsers that would run on these devices have known exploitable security issues. The newer browsers are very heavy because they support navy features and expect that the hardware is newer.

The problems begin accruing before the user even types in your URL.
This is an interesting project but there are two sticking points for me:

1. Given the option, I would rather have NTFS access so I wouldn't have to rely on an external disk to store documents created on it, especially if I considered them particularly sensitive.

2. Are all the included programs truly freeware? I see they have been found on official sources online, but that doesn't always guarantee that the company behind them intended for them to be used as freeware.
What is the point and purpose of the body shops? What's the value proposition for people contracting with them instead of a more straightforward offshore contracting arrangement? Who is hiring them?
Go and C++ have pretty decent standard libraries, for example.
Django admin also has various ways of filtering, search, navigation including menu's, pagination, permissions, custom actions and change tracking out of the box. Most importantly, it also includes ways to easily deal with relations (inline admins).

Last time I programmed with rails was many years ago, but none of these things are included in the default scaffolds right?

I understand the comparison with scaffolding, but I don't think they really overlap too much. You'd typically throw away a lot of the generated scaffolds from rails for a production app. They are more of a tool to avoid having to manually write boilerplate code, increasing productivity and (maybe) reducing errors. But django admin interface is meant for production, though often more as a backend tool than a customer facing interface. Different purposed. I miss the scaffolding in django and the admin interface in rails.
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These tools and many other from the HR handbook are mainly meant as communication tools. For some employees it's easy to talk about their motivations and goals within your company. With other employees you'll have to pull an answer out of them and it'll be a "yes" or a "no", I mean, it's obviously not that bad but some employees are really bad at talking about these things. Some managers are also very bad at it. The tools help frame the context for 1-on-1's where you need to talk about what sort of path an employee wants to go on over the next year. Sometimes these tools are misused, for some people here on HN, that will probably even be the only way they have interacted with them.

As far as your personal motivation goes. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be an engineer. That doesn't mean you have to be stagnant though. A career path could be there to make sure you don't get bored, and then revisited to keep up. That is if it's done right. I'm not sure this dropbox engineering career framework is really very good. I glossed over the SWE part and it's so ridicilously vague that it will likely depend completely on the manager applying it. So in some cases it'll probably be a good communications tool and in others it'll be used as for employee metrics. A good manager would allow you to do what you want to do, while keeping you on course with what the company wants. If that means leaving you to do whatever you do for a while, then that is fine. Bad managers will not do this, but at least managers tend to change often enough that you can mostly just tell them what they want to hear and then wait for them to be replaced.

I personally wouldn't pick a company like Dropbox to "just do" engineering though. Too many hot-shots, too much bullshit, it's much easier to get some real work done in boring industries like banking or energy.
No it's not! These are probably imposters anyway. Apparently, you can buy HN upvotes... I find it hard to believe that honest researchers from frontier labs would behave like crypto scammers.
Most people don't need more than a Chromebook has to offer. I can't imagine why this wouldn't eventually take off there and become the main CPU that people spend time on. Especially as margin tighten, the ISA-license will be will something that has to go. "Your margin is my opportunity".
I heard first hand accounts from multiple people of running into a different set of problems (from academia) publishing papers in corporations. Publishing is never simple or easy. If you have concrete examples, or better, generally recognized studies that show there is an objectively better way to do research, I'd very like to know that.

Because, as an PhD who knows dozens of other PhDs in both academia and industry, and who has never heard of this magic new approach to doing science, it would be quite a surprise.
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Has there been any plans to build a “reasoning” llm using RWKV? With the increase in inference token count caused by such methods, the muhc lower footprint of recurrent architecture could really make a difference for such a use-case.
> If it were just a website, you wouldn't have a little picture of their logo on your phone

You can install web apps on the home screen since iOS 1.0. The fact that you (and many, many others) don't seem to know this is a thing, says a lot about how effective Apple is at hiding that feature... :(

(Chromium browsers support an API where a website can show an install button if certain conditions are met, making it a one-click experience. But alas, for some reason Apple doesn't allow browser engines except the one they control :thinking: )
Possibly, but it takes a while to find those humans with sufficient information (edited to add) and time, sometimes years.
I think HAR export consumption lets you avoid the whole MITM part if we are talking about website API detection
If you're studying for the SAT, just do timed practice tests until your score is where you want. This is probably more efficient than using a LLM, because it trains you in all ways (time management, etc) to perform well on the test. Either LLM chat service will be fine for explaining answers you don't understand.
Don't know about Chromebooks; I have some Chromeboxes, all unlocked, and all of them show the Coreboot splash screen before booting but no nags or warning signs. My Pixel7, however, since installing GrapheneOS shows a very detailed screen on boot indicating the operating system has been swapped. not a problem for me, but surely It'd raise alerts if I wanted to sell the phone. So it's not like phone manufacturers lack ways of telling the user that something happened. To me it's just the old security by obscurity mentality paired with greed: a lighter and open OS on the phone translates in less user data being exfiltrated, longer device life and potentially fewer sales of newer phones.
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For light, I'd have one or more glass or glass block domes on top.

I kind of like the idea of the conjoined egg-shaped rooms, but not the practicality of cylindrically- or compound-rounded walls.
just nabbed his midi to csv gadgets! seems like an awesome guy!
if you used to stumble across things like this on google, then google wasn't very good at being a targeted search engine.
stumbling across things you didn't know you wanted to know is for discovery sites, aggregators, etc., not search engines where you already have an idea of what you need.
I don't think it is. One could say that getting hit by a car is the continuation of getting hit by a person, but one is much more powerful than another. AI allows mass creation of much more complicated works at a speed much greater than before. the PLAY instruction might create some music, but it won't be the sort of music that can compete with human-made music. AI music is very close to it.

Speed is important, strength is important. There is no obvious qualitative difference, but qualitative differences emerge due to a massive increase in complexity, just like consciousness emerges in us but (probably) not in a bacteria due to the massive difference in complexity, even though we are just a scaling of the former.

Your text generation with Perl wouldn't be able to write an article, but ChatGPT can, and the magnitude difference is precisely what we cannot handle, just like I can't be hit by a speeding car at 100km/h and survive but I'd probably walk away from being hit at 2km/h (and once this actually happened to me, without injury). Would you say there's not much difference between the two?
well said, this debate is too emotional to have a balanced conversation. Overall h1b issue is a dichotomy - like with many such hot-button issues - with both sides right about the other side, but wrong about themselves.
Is there any similar content for ML/Deep learning?
Absolutely prefer nothing here.
In case you like these sorts of things, I think Micro Journal from last year is really neat device. Small portable linux computer with nice mechanical keyboard, and boots directly to wordgrinder, a small terminal-based word processor to offer distraction-free writing environment.

These sort of things are popular diy projects, but this is one of the cleanest executions that I remember seeing.

https://liliputing.com/micro-journal-rev-2-revamp-is-a-compa...
No, we can openly debate the issue now. https://youtu.be/oumNS_ORzd0?si=g2yJaz4u4iznt4KH.

We need to have an honest conversation about not only the economic aspect, but the cultural aspect as well. We know that key cultural traits like social trust persist for generations in immigrants: https://www.sup.org/books/economics-and-finance/culture-tran.... What is the effect of importing H1B workers, who are mostly elites back home, into the U.S. where many of them or their children attain positions of power over Americans?

My extended family has been extremely successful as immigrants from Bangladesh to Canada, the U.S., and Australia. But temperamentally, even the second generation folks are still basically Desi. They lack the egalitarianism and conscientiousness of Anglo Americans, and retain much of the “everyone for themselves” from back home. Ross Douthat wrote a fascinating article about the ramifications of this change: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/george-bush-wasps...
Your understanding is wrong, though I do generally share your concern about the state of healthcare in the USA.

Reposting something I wrote elsewhere in this thread:

> I'm in my 40s and I (and the entire team I worked on) was laid off in 2022. After taking a week or so to relax, I was able to find a new position within about 4 weeks, which I'm still at now, and has turned out to be one of the better roles I've had in my career.

I'll add that I had zero connections in my personal network (C-suite or otherwise) relating to the new role I took in 2022. I found the posting on a job site and applied, went through their standard interview process, and they made me an offer.
I agree with other posters that this is most likely a degree of title inflation, and a nice pay-bump. Likely worth the jump.

But I'd like to add a bit of nuance into it too. Be very careful about the real job description and expectations. Being in a VP position without actual institutional support to do your job can be burnout inducing (been there, done that). Make sure to enumerate your duties and your tools. You don't want to be caught managing a metric you can't budge.

Ah, and follow the money. If you can't manage your own branches' budget (at least to some extent), then you should refuse accepting responsibility at that level.

Wonders of middle management, eh?
A lot of the criticism from OP is assuming that the slides exists in a vacuum and that the slides are the presentation. Short bullets? Yeah? It's just a reminder of what was presented in the main talk. They are not supposed to contain the complete content. Now unfortunately, a lot of presenters do the same mistake, get nervous, forget what they were supposed to say and let the nerfed bullets do the talking. Worst style is when they know beforehand that this will happen and add more and longer bullets to compensate for it. Death by powerpoint, guaranteed.

That's not to say bullets are great, the 6 level columbia slide is absolutely horrendous and bullets should not be the first tool one reaches for, contrary to what powerpoint easily invites for. Prefer a good graphical visualization of the raw data and annotate it with insights to back up your main argument, then let your slides back up your talk instead of being driven by them.

There is also the argument that slide decks tend to outlive their verbal presentations, because we are too lazy to create both a slidedeck and a properly written paper. Resulting in confusing low density bullet-lists being shared around. Here, a information dense presentation help, but it's usually not enough and often forces compromises to the main presentation.
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The AI interpretation can be folded into a multidisciplinary approach. We wouldn't merely take AI's word for it. Does this interpretation make sense given what historians and anthropologists have learned, etc.
n00b/serious question - What's the point of these ports?
First you got to get through the HR process.

Now when I interview you, I’m not going to ask you to reverse a btree on the whiteboard. I’m going to ask you questions to see if you can “handle ambiguity” and work at the scope I need you to work at.

I’ve spent the last decade mostly as one of the early technical hires for a major new initiative and then leading cloud consulting projects (3.5 years at Amazon and now at a third party company both full time). I need to know I can throw a vague set of business requirements at you and you can take the ball and run with it.

I actually did a thumbs down to a very smart guy who had been laid off from the AWS EC2 service team because when I asked him behavioral questions, I didn’t get a sense that he could handle the type of green field initiatives I was going to throw at him.
My main motivation for impactfulness is just making my job more pleasant: Nothing is more soul-sucking than fixing the same kinds of issues over and over because the powers that be are convinced they're doing it right, and you're the one stuck fixing the issues they create.
The senior needs to figure out that the next best inference engine or the next best distributed database are what needs to be built in the first place (or beating about the bush as you said). That’s hard. Lots of conflict to be explored.

Once it’s been captured what needs to be done (spec) enabling the rest of the team (execute) is comparatively easy.

Fail to spec, and the team can’t execute. They don’t know what needs to be built.
I'm a line manager and tech lead at a big company. I have both direct reports and mentees that don't report to me but I'm helping with their trajectory who have that attitude ("I'm fine where I am") and it's mostly fine with some caveats.

One: you may actually be doing really well and deserve a promotion (or it would be relatively easy to get) but your imposter syndrome is blocking you from realizing this.

Two: you may not even be doing that well at your current level- promotion is out of reach, but we actually need to make sure you don't get out on a PIP or something. Not everyone is good at recognizing this in themselves. (Similar problem of metacognition, I suspect to point one).

Three: there is usually not enough L+1 work to go around on any given team, especially one in big companies that have been slowing down hiring juniors (if all the level 1 get promoted to 2 and not replaced, eventually the system will be too heavy). So this is mostly good, but if you don't communicate active interest in promotion to your manager, you're likely to get the least interesting (for some value of interesting, let's say at a minimum least promotable) work.

You may be fine with this, and as a manager I'm okay with it- someone has to do it and if I have some reports who aren't striving but are still solid, I can give them stuff to do and worry about the promotability of the reports who are likely to leave if they feel their trajectory is slowing down.

EDIT: the fourth caveat is, I'm just a line manager at some place. I don't speak for leadership (they may want to lay off all the non strivers, who knows) or even other managers.
Class action law suit is what I say… if I share my opinions or just a factual story in public.. no jerk wad is gonna have the nerve to make a sarcastic or hateful comment to my face… I’m 47 and it’s still never happened to this day… one innocent post on Reddit and I’m getting banned for “reacting to the harassment “ that should be dealt with or disallowed to begin with. They are providing an open forum for harassment which makes them criminally liable no matter what their policies say ,as you cannot contractually give up or suspend your human rights.
Looking for a "right" answer here is a lost cause. These are preference- and value-based policies, and we just have to cohere around a set of values that drive our policies. If it was framed in terms of "I value this" then the moral defensiveness would probably subside a little.

It is my opinion that any argument against a native birthright to work and collectively demand the peak wage you can get is a fools errand. It just seems a natural extension of labor unions to have the whole country itself block access to jobs for foreign workers, to the extent that it does not subsequently drive ourselves out of a job through non-competitiveness. USA (arguably!) does not have a competitiveness problem yet in tech. But it also fits with the value of competition to have foreign workers enable our own businesses to succeed, such that they enable it through irreplaceable innovation, rather than wage suppression. Stealing scientists makes sense. Importing cheap labor does not.

So, on paper, it fits with my values. In practice, that's another problem, and that's where we can change it.
Desert Storm was about six weeks from start to finish. That’s not enough time for outside aid to make much of a difference.
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> Save me from my free tier GitHub pages / Netlify / SaaS hell.

Depends on how you like your hell: Now you're on the hook for security updates to the full stack.
It's kind of his schtick. He pitched himself as an AI expert but hasn't really contributed anything much to developing AI, but gets a lot of coverage for saying this that and the other won't work. (see https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ajemjc/spoile...)
Lots of doomers on here, yet somehow I keep meeting highly technical people still working on interesting things that are in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and older. I think HN probably skews really young and tech tends to fetishize youth, so this is the mentality you get.
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The security team cares about minimizing risks to the company and to their own careers.

Deviating from what everybody else is doing makes it so that the burden of proving that your policies are sane is on you and if anything bad happens your head is the first to roll.

You use CrowdStrike and the company lost millions of dollars due to the outage? That's not your problem, you applied industry standard practices.

You don't use CrowdStrike and the company got hacked? You will have to explain to the executives and the board why you didn't apply industry standard practices and you will be fired.
I should have remembered to mention "in addition to all the other gold currently owned by other parties."
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Marketplace… somehow they took over the marketplace for used stuff and killed cl. OfferUp was always crap so it doesn’t count.
Excellent joke explanation!
Teletext is still used in several countries.

Also, I have seen ascii art on telex-type machines. These are limited by using only five bits, and so you can only use lowercase characters (or uppercase, but not both).

There are some examples here:
http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/RTTYCOM/
Such is the nature of pro-consumer & competition-enabling legislation.

There's so much I already know my devices are fully capable of but they are artificially nerfed and likely only because it would empower competitive products emerging.
Software for the construction industry is uniformly terrible, Autodesk and Trimble are the big players and I’d be grateful if someone disrupted them.

There is a small amount of good construction software, Procore (project and document management) and Bluebeam (amazing pdf editor) are wonderful tools but the estimating software I use by Trimble is awful. Inconsistent UI, they use their own custom GUI elements instead of the built in Windows GUI elements, unclear interfaces, every UI/UX crime is present in it.

Autodesk isn’t going anywhere tho, basically every architect/engineer uses it (in commercial construction).
They don't need to. It's "very few developers who could actually handle coding complex features and applications" job.
This is actually where the AI concern arguments seem to get misunderstood in my opinion.

I've never heard anyone raise serious concerns over fancier ML and generative algorithms - maybe concerns over job loss but I don't think that's what you had in mind (correct me if I'm wrong).

The more serious concerns I hear are related to actual artificial intelligence, something much smarter than humans acting on a time scale drastically different than humans.

I'm not vouching for those concerns here, but I would say its more fair to keep them in the context of AI rather than ML, LLMs, and generative tools.
For me it was management. I was an SDE who started caring more about the users of my code than about the code itself and that led me to a team lead position and that led to management at a small company and that led to management at a big company. I found I really like mentoring junior engineers and I'm a good sounding board for senior engineers. I got to spend a lot of time saying variations on "Hey, let's not do that thing that won't work, let's do something easier that will work." I also focused a lot more on my career and making money rather than most of my life which I spent focused on cool tech and that got me to a place where I could retire easily when the time was right. Now I code for fun and I still chat with former colleagues from time to time and get to say things like "Yeah, but you know option B is the right choice so go do that." None of it was clearly planned, all of it was stressful but in the end it sort of worked out.
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I don't know who they were or who they were targeting. I only remember their #TeamTrees annoying nonsense from 2019 and the popular Youtubers who fell all over themselves trying to celebrate this greenwashing nonsense without using their brains first.[0]

0. TeamTrees vs REALITY!! https://youtu.be/gqht2bIQXIY