skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same situation, 41 and just folded a startup in November after six years and looking at what to do next.

My concern is if I jump on another startup and it doesn't go well, I will have even less chance to land a decent gig afterwards. Who knows what AI capabilities will be five years down the line?

I have some friends that work in government that could help me get a job there where you are basically unfireable and even get a pension, but the work is not very technically interesting. They all say it's soul-killing but stay for the stability and benefits.

Is a large tech company a better bet? I consider my self a very good developer but not sure if I can pass through all filters and the leetcode gauntlet either.

Deciding which road to go down is giving me more anxiety than ever before.
Which country has job title as a criteria for whether or not you are an exempt employee? In the USA, it is not:

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime
The featured article demonstrates that good review may not be a function of the number of reviewers available. I personally think that with a glut of reviewers, there's a higher chance an editor will assign a referee who doesn't have the capability (or time!) to perform an adequate review and manuscripts will be rejected for poor reasoning.
> Birth rates tend to be higher in less wealthy societies with high child mortality, yes.

You are correct that this is the case.

> I don't think that means what you think it means.

I am not sure I follow you logically. You are making a completely separate argument. Many things influence birth rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_factor_(demography)
>a discovery ... made by experts on taste.
Don't you think I thought of that?

1. The reputation and business license of my local compounding pharmacy is on the line, so they cannot afford to sell anything fake.

2. Buying from China is likely fake crap, with fake purity tests.

Why would I gamble with my life to save 20% when I have a trustworthy source given to me from my doctor (who is not receiving any sort of kickback but is familiar with this specific opportunistic workaround)?
Right. So the unlock cost is now the cost of a burner SIM at the convenience store, and a bunch of hassle.
Whose quarterly goal is quarterly goals?
So that means that the stated reason for further rate-limiting boot loader unlocks (to prevent unlocked, compromised phones from being sold as clean) is BS.
Was about to comment something to the same effect.
He's got 341 million subscribers on youtube (on his english channel). If we imagine that there's 1,35 billion english speakers worldwide (the figure that came up on Google when I searched), that means that 25% of english speakes actively follow him on Youtube.

While I agree that a 13 y.o. is probably more likely to follow him than a 30 y.o., his reach is anything but limited to the teens & children segment.

Chamath Palihapitiya have have worn Mr. Beast merch on multiple occasions on the All In pod as well - which I find kinda funny :D
The old one device policy
But you can argue with LLMs which will at least motivate me to understand the topic better and also learn new perspectives.
> Not necessarily. I'd bet that the fraction of $ microsoft makes from selling windows licenses _retail_ is a rounding error away from zero compared to what they get selling bulk/volume licenses to corporate / OEM.

Corporate customers already have a VLK which will cover Windows 11 [Pro/Enterprise]. The hardware is the only cost for VLK customers -- Windows licensing is already covered under the existing Enterprise Agreement. EAs often have current version and current version - 1 covered, thus a VLK will entitle one to both Windows 10 and 11 as of today.

It would be odd to think that corporate customers haven't been using BitLocker w/ TPM since at least Windows 7, if not Vista. FDE has been a Corporate Security Checkmark(TM) since it became available.

> I suspect that TPM is about making the PC less open than it traditionally has been.

By traditionally, do you mean prior to 2006 as that is when we first saw and started using TPMs?
If the website is a PWA, it can be installed to the home screen and look and behave just like a native app. You just tap the icon on the home screen. It will remember your login.

And the upside is that you only have to develop one website (instead of a website and 2 separate native apps for iOS and Android).
Thanks, I'll probably look into getting that, since most of the rest of my flat is ikea
I read this (or similar) article when researching how to better crimp dupont connectors for mini arcade wiring.

I settled on the Hozan P-707 recommended in this article. A bit more expensive than other options, but it has worked really well for me. Every crimp is just right. Worth the extra money for me.
Authy is nice because it takes care of replication, but once you have all your devices synced I'd disable adding new devices, otherwise it'll expose your 2fa in case of SIM card breaches
It's cool but damn the UI is ugly looks "old" makes sense

One day I hope to dive into this world too (osdev) but don't have a reason yet.

Edit: looked at ApolloOS link from other comment
Minor nit. Some SQL databases allow you to return multiple tables. IIRC, SQL Server stored procedures can do that. Agreed its not a language feature of SQL.
I expected a proof of concept for this statement:

_That is enough to distribute malicious code though, at least in certain scenarios. Someone might create a setup where reviewers check/sign one version of the source code, and what gets distributed is another version with the same hash._
> will take much longer to build so would be lower ROI

This one is funny because my experience has been that ekeing out the issues in this sort of thing is enormously complicated and unreliable and takes an inordinate amount of time. Often the 'bugs' aren't trivially fixable. One we had was the LLM formatting URIs given in the prompt wrongly meaning they're no longer valid. Most of the time it works fine, but sometimes it doesn't, and it's not reproducible easily.
Corporate IT security seems to be mainly about checklists and compliance, not about actual security.
GrandView is a fantastic outlining program! I think it’s a great idea to have it installed.
That's the thing about a '69 VW beetle, or a '32 Ford, or any other "classic" car. The cops will mostly leave you alone regardless of the law because you don't fit the profile of people they want to apply threat of state violence to.

Now, if you were driving something from the 90s the cops would be all over you because you'd get profiled as exactly the sort of white trash that the police's stakeholders want to see lots of jackboot applied to.

That said, even in the "classic" car you're accepting the risk that any given cop can choose to screw you on a whim and the more you expose yourself to such risks the odds of getting unlucky just keep going up.
What is the benefit of DOS over a Linux live CD, with wifi and notifications disabled?
AI-generated phishing scams target corporate executives
Doesn’t sound like you are ‘in the same boat’.

The OP said they don’t care about promotion to the next level they just want to keep getting paid to do the same job.

You seem to want to be recognized for your contribution with increased responsibility.

Those aren’t the same thing, even if the way both of you are reacting is with a similar kind of cynical dismissal of the idea that a ‘career framework’ can help you with your needs.

Which is weird because it honestly sounds like both of you are looking for a clear career framework. Either one in OP’s case where it’s clear what ‘coasting’ looks like - meeting expectations for a level year after year and not striving for promotion; or one in your case where it’s very clear to you what you need to do to reach the next level.

You can object to the implementation of the promotion policy under a framework, but your problem is not with the concept of a career framework - if there were no guidance for job levels you would be in an even worse position when it comes to complaining about your promotion prospects.
It took much more than 24 words to achieve the final result, and also had to use emojis to convey what I wanted lol

Even still I couldn't quite get the result I wanted

Image link

https://chatgpt.com/share/67769bef-537c-800f-90ac-35a44747f0...
"AI"(-companies)-operated systems, the busfactor and 'Mafia'. Your thoughts?
The Galaxy S24 is a popular phone that has a very easy to unlock bootloader and published kernel sources, yet next to zero ROM development.

The SafetyNet war is over, Google won and custom ROMs now just make you loose too much.
The design world is evolving fast. Companies are no longer hiring experts in just one narrow skill. Instead, they want generalists — designers who see the big picture, connect the dots, and align user needs with business goals.

These designers don’t just make things look good. They solve real problems, create systems, and think strategically. With modern tools speeding up workflows, designers now spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time focusing on what truly matters.
You're at an industry conference. I want the data on your laptop's hard drive. You leave your laptop in the hotel room. Which one is easier:

1. Go into your room and screw around with the boot loader to somehow give me unencrypted access to your laptop after you login next time.

2. Go into your room. Take your laptop. Put an identical looking laptop in place that runs software that boots and looks identical. Have it send me all of your password attempts over WiFi to my van in the parking lot.

I'm going with option 2 every time. I have your original device. I have your password. TPM, SecureBoot, or whatever is irrelevant at this point.
I think the main thing is that the downsides of SPA frameworks are significantly mitigated in a dashboard app.

Typically dashboards will be accessed on a desktop in an office setting with good internet, so initial load and asset size isn't a huge issue. Then you get benefits like client side routing which feels snappy, and live updating widgets is pretty simple. Of course it's a matter of opinion though.
> For example, Stable Diffusion was originally released with a filter that refused to generate porn. There's your scientist thinking of social consequences

We would have to know their internal conversations to know whether that filter was being driven by scientific concern over social consequences or any number of business goals/concerns. We can't assume the reasoning behind it when we only have the end result.
The problem isnt the interface it's the access, having everything in one place vs fragmented across different systems, different departments

I built a chatbot under the same assumption you have for a large ad agency in 2017, an "analyst assistant" for pointing to work that's already been done, offering to run scripts that were written years ago so you don't have to write them from scratch

Through user testing the chat interface was essentially reduced to drop-down menus of various categories of documentation, but actually it was the hype of having a chatbot that justified the funding to pull all the resources together into one database with the proper access controls.

I would expect after you went through the trouble of training an LLM on all that data, people using the system would just use the search function on the database itself instead of chatting with it, but be grateful management finally lifted all the information silo-ing.
You can also argue with humans, who can motivate you to understand topics better and learn new perspectives. That has been happening since the dawn of humanity.
It doesn’t matter how good you are as a developer, you can only have so much impact coding 40 hours a week. I wanted to move up both to increase my autonomy and my vision is much larger than the amount of work I can physically do with my own hands.

As a 50 year old who has been doing this for awhile, I can and have:

- spent time on zoom calls and flown out to customer’s sites to gather requirements and help close a sale (cloud consulting).

- developed and managed implementation plans

- been both a dev lead and a lead for cloud architecture projects

- can be your standard, experienced enterprise developer

- I know almost every type of database out there and best practices for each

- can set up a “Well Architected” AWS account from an empty account including pipelines to deploy to EC2, Lambda or Kubernetes (EKS).

But I can only do one at a time. My “impact” comes from companies knowing that I can credibly speak to all of the individuals involved and they can fly me out to a customer’s site without me embarrassing them
Yeah

> The new policy signifies a key change in Xiaomi’s way of handling things and now raises several questions over how developers, enthusiasts, and other users will be affected.

I don't know any human who speaks or writes like that.

> Although not explained by Xiaomi officially, the following could be some of the reasons for this update.

Likely LLM, but will give it a pass

> Allowing a limited number of devices that one can unlock reduces for Xiaomi the possibility of misuse of an unlocked device by performing some unauthorized or potentially harmful activity.

Exactly how ChatGPT would "enhance" your writing.

> The new limit will indeed be a big problem, especially for those working with several devices for testing and development purposes.

"a big problem" sounds too unprofessional for ChatGPT, and this part likely was revised by a human writer.

> To the Community of Custom ROMs: This move will delay the development of third-party ROMs, kernels, and mods for Xiaomi devices.

A confusing claim without any context/explanation/evidence? That's LLM.
Different plot/game mechanics but armored core 6 is great if you like mecha
A great team of people building things is useless to a company if what they are building is the wrong thing.

In order to bring thousands of engineers to bear on a business’s problems you need people figuring out what everyone should be building.
Thank you for your patient and specific suggestions. I will optimize my prompts in this direction.

Another way to implement name generation is to pre-generate hundreds of names and then randomly select one when the "Generate" button is clicked. Just like this blog does: https://www.imagineforest.com/blog/purple-dragon-names/

However, I want to add a feature to generate dragon names baesd on one's own name. Of course, a simple way is to select a name based on the initials of the name. But I think this is not smart enough, so I introduced an LLM to achieve this function. Due to my lack of experience in this area, there are indeed many security vulnerabilities that have not been fixed yet.
Look on the bright side. Locking bootloaders has the potential to break the duopoly by driving more people towards Linux phones or other unlocked devices. The more people that move, the stronger those communities get. I've been daily driving a Furi for 3 months now and am glad to have options outside of the duopoly.
I feel the same way, and a good follow up book about more general communication is Trees, maps and theorems by Doumont, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2016/12/05/review-of-trees-maps-a...

That said, I think it is possible my refusal to do cheeky ppt slides with smart art and fill them with graphs of real data instead has stunted my career growth into management.
Am I the only one still getting e-mails from recruiters all the time? My LinkedIn profile indicates I’m not looking for new work, and yet they still come to me in both personal and my work inbox. If I change that setting on my profile I know I’ll be absolutely inundated by them. Most of them I’m sure are non-starters, but occasionally there is one that is promising.
100% agree. Except it would be nice to have a notification, reminding you that the meter is running. And on iOS, you need to install a web app before it can send notifications, defeating the point of not having to install anything.

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2023/ios-web-push-requires-...
Probably . But can it say No when you turned off networking services in prior?
It's EU law, 12% hydrogen peroxide is the highest you can get in EU without being cleared to do so (say by showing government authorization, proof of end use, proof of academic education or certifications, ...) [1].

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:...
I'm in Europe and had endless ads on my Xiaomi phone - normally for Xiaomi crap, like themes and games. I actively had to go in and turn off notifications for various Mi apps to stop them pestering me with notifications several times a day, but there are still full-screen ad interruptions in the stock apps like the file manager and notepad.

My Redmi Note 13 Pro Plus is nowhere near as good as my last Xiaomi - the ads seem to have increased, and the battery life has gone to shit after <1 year of usage. I won't get another.
It's much better to have _nothing_ than the wrong _something_, since with a wrong _something_ you build assumptions on wrong premises.
Much better to accept that we don't know (hopefully temporarily), so that people can keep looking into it instead of falsely believing the problem is solved
Musk, Ramaswamy Can Target Inefficiency by Closing the Tax Gap
..not sure I want to ask my kids for help...

I shiver at the thought.

Culturally, as a Filipino kid, everyone knows that kids are indebted to the parents for them being born. Wtf.

I do help my parents because I love them, they dont ask but they don't need to.

But I will not ask help from my kids, they dont owe me anything.

We live in the UK now, but my wife and I will just have to retire to the Philippines where everything is a whole lot cheaper.
Have you consider to release it as saas?
__declspec(non_user_code) for those wondering about MSVC
One more thing I forgot to mention on the "Con" side is the noise.

Treadmills aren't completely silent; there's always some level of sound from the engine. Over time, you tend to get used to it. Personally, I wear regular headphones to listen to music, which helps mask the noise.
Grinch Bots strike again: defending your holidays from cyber threats
I'm not saying you're an imposter... but you're making it really easy to assume that; it doesn't seem you have learnt much while you guys were there. Are you sure you weren't hired by mistake?
It is quite expensive, isn't it? I've especially been upset that they've sunset the Pixel phone benefits with regards to Google Photos.

Used to be free (okay, that was too good to be true), then it used to be discounted... and now it's nothing, really.

My greatest pet peeve with them is the fact none of the applications allow you to filter videos out of the sync. So any automated tooling will quickly balloon your Google storage out of proportion with smartphone video... and give them a reason to pressure you for upgrading.

Enough ranting, though. On the topic, due to storage being so cheap...

I've personally set up SyncThing on Android and my home RaspPi (and my desktop, and a backup), so I'm having an auto-backup without real limits (3 USB sticks for redundancy, an hour of work) - that also doesn't train AI models with my face. It's worth the effort, IMHO. Plenty of guides online, and I've had literally zero issues with it so far.
They use a camera array to capture more details, then solve for depth/angle and reproject.
If you're referencing the $200 laptop I'm thinking of, it doesn't review well[0]. Personally, I would rather search out retro hardware that would be considered high-end for its time, compared to devices that brand themselves as retro but tend to use cheap components both inside and out.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/a-few-weeks-with-the...
I have a guy at work that is senior in everything but title. His manager uses "framework" to extort him. This has been going on for at least a year.
Any State can unilaterally decide it will withdraw all debts it has ever contracted, and ta-da, no-one changed the definition of a debt but there is no debt anymore (which most likely wouldn’t be free of social consequences though).

On the other hands, if a group of humans want to declare that there is no tree or no star in the universe, the only trick they can leverage on to shrink the count is to change the definition of these words (ta-da, good bye Pluto).
Wish I had a witty URL for this, but a check for whether the am-i.online service is online, or not: https://onlineornot.com/website-down-checker?requestId=hcuFr...
I do think it's a bad thing, but not for the reason you think.

Promotion is an inherently political process. "Impact" is really short for "impact on the business leaders' opinion of me".

I think it's a bad thing when a promotion process that is political, pretends to not be political by dressing itself up with flowery language. What it leads to is engineers burning themselves out trying to deliver real value, then getting passed up because they didn't make the right appeals to the shadow council.

If we all know the process is political then we should at least work toward transparency, so that people know that it's not enough to work hard and deliver results, you also have to advertise and network yourself.
Yeah, that's what I got out of the page, too. There's a lot of information on that page, and someone looking for "how to crimp dupont" is going to bounce off that pretty fast.

I bought a few different ones, including some that seem more automated, but I ended up liking a simple Hozan P-707 ($44) in the end. I get better crimps from it than anything else I've bought. It takes a bit of practice to get good at it, but not too long.
Sitting on a Swiss ball hurts me less than a chair. For the first few days it even enforced perfect posture, but that effect went away pretty quickly.
I CAN'T tell you how much I felt your comment. This about drove me wild in my career - dealing with the "need to level up" and having different rotating Ems who each get differing pictures of what that should look like. I just wanted to be left alone (career/rank up wise) to do great work.
It's not hard to have multiple, but it's hard to have on-demand throwaway ones.
I grew-up in a stucco-clad (like concrete, about 3/4" or 20 mm thick) tract home in California. Replacing a termite-damaged sill joist was insanely laborious just cutting through a little bit of stucco. Now imagine a building that's completely made from concrete. Yikes!

OTOH, imagine a home that's not prone to termite damage. That would be awesome. Makes me want to build any sort of house, underground or not, with any material that's not wood.

PS: I left ATX last year for the rest of the triangle by hill country and right around the 100th meridian west that's much less expensive and less prone to storms.
lets test this: watch two videos, one from joe rogan, like rogan clips, etc., and one about anything vaguely military, like the history of guns or something.

you will see nothing but jordan peterson, preger u, etc. clips for ~2 weeks in your feed.

at this point i don't even attempt to test the waters or do some sort of good-faith attempt to understand the ideology / hear what they have to say, since it will, immediately and aggressively start spamming me with hard right content for months.
My current org is the opposite. Loads of Very Smart Developers all building supposedly brilliant stuff in isolation for their fiefdom without any regard for how it fits into the bigger picture.
>It sucks that companies have so successfully trained an entire generation (or more) of people who treat their phone (and computer too) like an appliance.

Just like how most of us treat cars and stovetops as appliances?

Look, becoming omnipotent is an admirable pursuit, but time is a finite resource and by fuck most of us simply do not have enough of it. We can choose to become potent in something and most of us are in fact potent at something, but that isn't necessarily going to be electronics or computer programming.
I would be interested in a fine tune on OpenZFS:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs