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Ask HN: Ways to progress career wise as SWE?
I work as a software engineer and make an Ok salary (market salary). However, it seems like I'm stuck at my level. I have no managerial experience, hence I can't get any leadership roles (either people or software), and I'm not a good enough software engineer to do complex stuff (think: very high load, distributed, etc) - so I can't pass interviews to all the FAANG move-fast-high-load-distributed-world-changing-do-our-7-round-dfs-bfs-interview style companies.

My only option is to jump between jobs and swim in somewhat the same salary range, until AI will replace me, which is far from ideal. I have a SaaS that generates pennies, and I have no idea how to scale it further. I don't have the skills or time to raise money and start my own company. I tried to bootstrap some projects, but most of them are hit and miss (more on the miss side).

I would love to switch to being self-employed either via consultancy or having my own business, but I can't seem to figure out how to make the switch.

Anyone got any suggestions how I can take my career to the next step which will provide me with (1) more autonomy over my time and my work and (2) more money?
Timberborn also does this.
Bruce Schneiers thoughts :

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-nat...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/ai-and-civil-...
Is the demo using real data?

And if it is, is there that notable an influx?

Zoom out to 90 days, and then today doesn’t seem much different from any other day.
It certainly does not come as a shock to him. He knows what he is doing.

The funny thing is if he was Russian he would be called an "oligarch" in every news piece. Since he's American he's an entrepreneur :)
Indeed there is administrative bloat everywhere, and I can sympathize with your hope that tearing down the current system will leave room for building anew.

However, it's hubris to assume that everything is bloat. There is the adage of Chesterton's fence, which reads: "...reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood." Many things that appear to be bloat that serves a useful function, and tearing them blindly is going to do irreparable damage.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
bsky still lacks basic security features like 2FA (beyond an email code) (andOAuth implementation), which puts me off from actively using it...
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Not to mention you're not blowing money up Bezo's botoxed arse.
This hits so much harder 15 years on.

Additionally Xtranormal missed out on the generative video curve
This isn't that surprising. Each new version of windows that came along had great effort put into allowing existing users to upgrade each time.

Rather than one big hugely impressive thing, it's less than ten pretty impressive things in sequence.
> Security researchers at Mysk first noticed the issue on Sunday night, Feb. 16. They reached out to me via DM and we were able to confirm the various different ways (DM, post, profile bio, etc.) that X was blocking “Signal.me” links.

From the article, no they can't.
Is Musk the IRS? Why do him or his cronies get to see people's salaries and net worth? BTW any news on DJTs tax return? Maybe we should ask Elon?
Only the initial purchase matters for buying the cars from the point of Musk and Tesla's value. I think the revenue for repairing the cars during their lifetime does not bring that much money back to the Tesla.

So ideally, we want to reduce the purchases of new Teslas and bring the stock down.
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They rely on a number of inefficient proxy systems, like the UK: making employers keep track of the tax of employees, and making all the banks report "suspicious" transactions.

The US even tries to make its overseas nationals pay tax. As a result, everyone everywhere in the world who wants to get paid by Amazon has to sign a US tax form saying they're not a US taxpayer.
How do you backup a file like that?
So then 0 and 1 would indeed satisfy "using the US military against US citizens".

(When the National Guard is under the command of the federal government, rather than state governor, they are, obligation- and restriction-wise, the same as the US military.)
If everyone supported it, IPv6 wouldn't be hard.

Working with IPv6 if you are not entitled to switch out every vendor, every piece of hardware, every piece of software that is lacking.. that's the hard part.

In short: reality is hard.
The author is a "Chat GPT operator". Sadly, there is more and more such content hitting Hacker News.
Not related to you, but from a description in the first link, in the description for Plausible:

> Because it does not use cookies their is no need to show cookie banner for this service.

This is IMO a rather fundamental misunderstanding of the current situation.

I'd be hesitant to using a product from someone who I think have misunderstood completely what the rules are about. (Again, IMO and also IANAL but I have followed GDPR more closely than most people.)

GDPR is about collection information, as far as I can see, the technical detailsbof how you do it doesn't matter. It could be pure magic and would still be illegal.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer.
I thought you were talking about Wanjiru at first. Who knows how fast he might have gone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wanjiru
> business idea anybody?

How do you make money without skewing the results?

And can LLMs be subtle enough?

Last time I picked a restaurant via reading between the lines, it was a negative review that made me decide to go there. The person leaving it was either used to fast food like service or was in a real hurry, but between the lines the food was great, they just took a while to serve it. I was in no particular hurry so I was happy with the place.

Can a LLM figure that out? And what about the day when I am in a hurry and I am looking for fast food like service?
Until your phone battery runs out.
Isn't it fucking crazy that the world's richest person is also moonlighting a public office with massive conflicts of interest and virtually zero oversight? What the fuck is this timeline, is nothing serious anymore?? It's really not so long ago that this would be considered completely bonkers and something you would see on a "banana republic".
Would be very interested too.
I'm not even really seeing the short term gains here. It seems like despite making grandiose claims, the administration and the "broligarchs" are relying on cheap political wins ("owning the libs/woke") to placate their base in place of even pretending to accomplish anything that helps their constituents. This honestly surprised me. I'm not a fan of the MAGA set but I genuinely expected there to be some upsides here and not just an immediate private equity style looting frenzy
"If things were different for a lot of people, it would be easy".

So it's not easy.
Kobo in my experience has all the books from big publishers, the publishers that publish paper books too. What they do not have is the stuff from Kindle Direct Publishing. This is stuff people have self-published on Kindle, I think Amazon requires exclusivity when you do that too?

In my opinion this is actually more of a blessing than a curse since I consider 99% of that garbage I don't want to sift through.

Sometimes multiple store headaches are still a necessity depending on region. Even on Amazon.
The reason absolutely matter : a mistake can happen to anyone, and be fixed within a short time, while censorship is deliberate and will probably not be fixed
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The point would be to still use SF's money to do this, I assume. The point was that SF's money would be better spent on park rangers in a smaller city than in SF itself.

Now, I think there are otherajor issues with this idea (mostly that having a 0.1% population of assisted people is much more workable than a 10% population, as would happen if SF moved every homeless person to a smaller city).
They also enforce secure shit boot for 25H1 and forward. I don't see Windows being successful aside from office environment. But even here some already look for alternatives because the costs for very buggy software have become substantial.

What a shitty policy by them.

Given how hard notebook maintenance is for simple things like accessing the HDD, an UEFI password is probably just as safe for many users.
Interesting take! Is this suggestion for performance cars only or were you omagining this would be an imporvement for every car?

Personally, I wouldnt love having needing to have a lift to swap my brake pads, or to dissasemble my suspension and pull apart the half shaft to replace my rotors
It's correct, but it doesn't support the point they're trying to make. The National Guard cannot be used for domestic law enforcement when under command of the US federal government. They can only do that when directed to do so by their state's governor.

So Trump wanting to deploy the National Guard to stop his imagined election day interference, or to deal with rioters, would fall under the same rules as if he were to try to deploy the US Army for those tasks.
At the very least Social Security should try to get the correct birth dates and verify these folks are alive. Because it sounds like no one is checking and fixing this. If you were running social security and you see people have no date of birth and they come up as 150 years old, you fix it. Apparently that basic thing is not happening and Elon musk is calling this out. I see no problem with fixing it.
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Were you in orbit, on a high mountain, or something like that? Otherwise I doubt you have actually succeeded.
I will go with "legitimate f-up" too. Elon Musk has been pretty vocal about Signal in the past, mostly positively. If blocking Signal URLs has been intentional, he would have probably have mentioned it somewhere.

Shortened URLs are dubious by default. It is also possible that there really is a lot of spam/scam happening on Signal right now with signal.me URLs as an entry point. I mean, why not? Every messaging platform can be used for that, even more so if end-to-end encrypted as it makes spam detection harder. In fact, one of the first messages I received on Signal was an obvious scam from a user pretending to be Amazon.
Meanwhile there's a quid pro quo to avoid prosecuting Eric Adams for bribery if he changes his policies. Absolute banana republic stuff.
Trig Js can be used for simple triggers of animations when on screen to accessing scroll positions in percentages, pixels or degrees. v3.1 separates these out to make the minimal changes to the DOM unless needed. Making Trig JS the lightest and simplest way to access scroll information within your CSS, using nothing but data attributes.
how do you calculate the session duration? is it the delta between two page hits or similar events?

i tried a couple of the smaller analytics tools, like plausible, simpleanalytics, umami etc... and one thing that i always disliked was the way the session duration was calculated - i have a lot of longer articles where the visitor stays for a long time and then leaves. most of these tools will count that as a bounce, as there is no two hits to calculate the delta between. but for me it is a very important metric to get accurate numbers on, which is impossible with that implementation for sites like mine (very few but long page visits, not a lot of navigation between pages).

do you handle this the same way? that would be a feature i'd be willing to switch my current tool out for.
It is about immigration. The mainstream parties can't fix migration because Germany's political system makes it almost impossible to form majority governments. Coalition politics and the cordon sanitaire force the CDU to work with the left and seemingly the left's only consistent political position is opposition to migration reform.

The AfD aren't fascists and the attempts to win elections by just screaming slurs until they lose all meaning has stopped working. People have realised that calling everything "racist" or "fascist" or "Nazi" or whatever doesn't mean it actually is, and the left's entire political strategy is just labelling things it doesn't like with bad words.

And yes part of the issue with immigration is national identity. Germany is a nation-state and always has been, just like France and Poland and Italy and Spain and Portugal and Czechia and Hungary and Ireland and Greece are. There are still some non-national states in Europe like the UK (which contains multiple nations: England, Scotland and Wales, arguably part of Ireland (although some claim Northern Ireland has been separate long enough to have its own national identity) and arguably Cornwall if you listen to Cornish nationalists which you probably shouldn't).

Economic migrants, falsely claiming to be refugees, from Somalia and Syria, aren't German. Or French. Or Italian. Or Greek. They are Somalian, or Syrian. To pretend migration policy debates don't raise issues of national identity is fucking insane.
There are also the onyx boox models, many run android, and it seems like you can install whatever you want. I have no experience with them myself, but I am curios.
> Office of the Inspector General looks at this stuff.

I wish that were the case, if it was these date of births would have already been fixed. Sounds like they fired 17 useless employees and can split the work of the 17 amongst 150 other employees.
Yeah, not using cookies is irrelevant if you use other means to track user. Also people like to think they need to show the "cookie banner" for all cookies regardless of how they are used.
> rather terrible for supporting authors ... scifi from small authors who self
> publish on kindle ... I would rather they get my money for their work.

I would suggest you write them (each of them) a letter, or email, which:

1. Discourage them from publishing on an Amazon platform, explaining how Amazon, and DRM-laden reading, is terrible.

2. Suggest that they publish with a link allowing readers to pay them directly, or at least via a payment platform (see here for example: https://www.mightynetworks.com/resources/patreon-alternative... )
This is why I buy an android e-ink tablet.

My needs are unique, all of our needs are unique I suppose, but I want epub but also want to use the Kindle app (in cases of them being the only place to get a book).

I worry about firmware updates(security), but also my needs do not require the tablet being online constantly. So in a case like this, not a phone, not online, I only bring the wifi up to download books from Amazon via their Android app.

Otherwise, I copy epubs over via USB.

This is the middle ground.

I've been quite happy with the Meebook E-Reader M7.
Do you really need concurrency? My understanding is read are like… picoseconds, because everything happens in memory. You don’t have a separate server to call.

This guy is great: https://fractaledmind.github.io/2024/04/15/sqlite-on-rails-t...
>Hi, connections through the proxies are encrypted multiple times to prevent Google from being able to access browsing data. In particular, the connection client-website is end-to-end encrypted, and so are the client-proxyA and client-proxyB connections. Because of this, the proxyA (operated by Google) will only be able to see the client IP address but won't be able to know which website is visited. The proxyB (operated by a partner) will be able to see the hostname of the website, but it won't know which client IP is accessing it. Neither proxy can see the URL nor the data due to the end-to-end encryption. With this design, no one - not even Google - can see who visited what website. Regarding log retention for the very limited information that we do have, let me confirm things internally and circle back.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection/issues/34

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on IP protection.
You meant utilization not capacity. Your other points are similarly confused.

Argentinians disagree.

"The percentage of Argentines who say their standard of living is getting better (53%) has inched above the majority level for the first time since 2015."
https://news.gallup.com/poll/654089/javier-milei-argentina-c...

"Argentina's monthly inflation rate dropped to 2.2% in January, its lowest since mid-2020 after libertarian President Javier Milei took office just over a year ago ushering in austerity measures that have helped stabilize the embattled economy."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-inflation-r...
>Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors?

The Arab spring was a populist uprising. It's not clear that there were actually positive outcomes; just increased geopolitical instability. Twitter has always been a social media platform, and definitionally it has therefore always increased extremism and populism. I find it incredibly disheartening that people think Twitter has only become a malevolent force under Musk. Musk's changes to the platform are certainly unsettling, but Twitter was _never_ a net positive for anyone.
Who owns bsky? What prevents a random billionaire to buy it and use it their election platform? Mastodon just feels as a safer bet...
Or make the "turned off" state block all traffic, just like closing a water valve, or a road gate. I never understood why network firewalls did not default to this.
Correct, it's not so much about Cookies, but how data is collected and what is stored.

We have done a privacy risk analysis with an external lawyer and data protection officer, and concluded that Pirsch is in line with GDPR as we do not collect nor store personal identifiable information (PII). Processing stuff like IP addresses for example is legal as long as they are not stored and only cached for a reasonable amount of time (a few milliseconds in our case).

If you're interested, we have extensive documentation on this. You can reach out to support@pirsch.io to get it :)

If anyone is interested in doing something similar. This did cost us about 8,000 € in Germany.
Department tasked with reigning in bureaucracy finds out where bureaucracy comes from.
Poverty statistics are showing an improvement
I'm also equally confused how essentially a list of boxes with colours gets 476 points.
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I tend to agree with your sentiment since there are a number of other 6502 compilers available to compare with - I'm most familiar with KickC for example.

A decent recent summary here showing a lot of various approaches over the years (doesn't include NesFAB though)

https://8bitworkshop.com/blog/compilers/higher-level-6502-pr...

A possibly interesting comparision of KickC vs CC65 vs VBCC vs 6502-gcc

https://sgadrat.itch.io/super-tilt-bro/devlog/219534/benchma...
France has spent half a century being like “Look at me, I can offer nuclear umbrella, and also sell modern weapons, who need the crazy US when you can have me”, and is finally hoping to score !
It depends on your perspective. If you internalize God mode, where you spin your disk world while leaving the sun in place, it's very intuitive.
I think the pattern leading up to this situation anywhere in the world is the accumulation of power.

A society that is able to spread power as much as possible is more resilient in the long run.

How to maintain a wide spread dispersion of power? I have no idea.
A Windows Server VM on a self-hosted Hyper-V box, which has a whole bunch of 8TB NVMe drives; this VM has a 4TB virtual volume on one of those (plus a much smaller OS volume on another).
Proposed rework of React docs
The Presidential Pardon being the underlying legal basis of everything. With that power, everything is legal.
Of course it does :) The two games are decades apart and 1800 was known to require quite a beefy PC to run good when it came out.

My point was 1602 holds up visually in a sense of doing it’s job assisting the game mechanics, something most modern games often fail and over complicate. Also.. nostalgia.
You're spot on (I say this as a lefty). Big social media like fb, instagram, twitter, et al are bigger and more important than any physical public square that ever existed. They are way way WAY past the point where they need to be treated as such and regulated as both a public forum for 1A purposes and as a utility like phone or mail for privacy protection and non-discrimination purposes.

Just don't pretend that trying to censor people on social media is somehow a trait of the Left (in fact, in a thread about the right doing precisely that!)
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once... shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again!
The finances of Argentina are probably unfixable, but the sad thing is that the United States is now collapsing to Latin American standards of governance. I expect there to be Brazil-style duelling sets of corruption cases after every future election.
> Also, uh, “I have to do what my boss says” doesn’t make you a blue collar worker.

No, but it does make you a non-professional. The distinction between professionals and non-professionals is that members of professions have ethical obligations above and beyond their obligation to their employer.

You will not find lawyers willing to perjure themselves, accountants to cook your books, or civil engineers happy to sign off on deadly designs.

In contrast, software "engineers" are not professionals, we are hired goons and you can easily find a software monkey ready to build whatever atrocity you want for the right price.
Do they believe free in free speech, or will I also be banned/blocked from saying things there?
It will get more affordable as the amount of infrastructure that is outside of Earth's gravity well — and any other steep gravity well — increases. The thing with the Starship is it allows us to expand that infrastructure rapidly, so we can soon have a sizable industrial base that can access low-gravity resources like asteroids and moon regolith.
I read that as a preemptive counter against any argument involving upsides; even if they are there (possibly only for or in the eyes of some of the beholders), the division and abuse of power are a(n immediate) problem (and that's putting it lightly).
Can you share some link proving that Universidad de Belgrano is a third rate university? I believe it has a good reputation in the country
How do you know if they SAY jail or gaol given they're pronounced the same, being alternate spellings of the same word?

Nobody writes/uses I can concur. The pedantry here, is somewhat apposite surely?
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> Oops, turns out I was given a /64.

Is that really the case though? I very much doubt it.

I get a /56. Dynamic configuration mechanisms exist. I literally do not have to anything except flip a switch. My router even supports Prefix Delegation, so a downstream router/access point can do its thing.
Flood the zone. Propose ethinc cleansing and sell Ukraine to Russia and manipulate the German elections and censor twitter and cut usaid and pass inane stuff about transgenders. All in the space of a week. How can you even process what's happening, let alone resist it?
Rugby in New Zealand is a good example of this. Our small country with a small population is (and basically always has been) one of the top teams in the world.

Not only at the elite level, but our junior teams and even school teams perform well on the world stage.

Like you say, that social factor plays a huge part in it. Support, funding, etc etc
So why are you on a platform OWNED by a "state actor"?