jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree with you that it is absolutely fair to compare FAANG salaries and stock performance to that of fast-growing startups because they are the primary avenues for smart people trying to make money in this industry. But the latter clearly are in the losing position insofar as the risk (and therefore, commensurate reward) is concerned.

In terms of risk, they are completely different animals. FAANG are included in the S&P 500 index, which automatically triggers investments from many funds that have rules about this sort of thing. Many high-growth startups do not have that going for them. Further, they often fail to sustain their meteoric growth for sustained, long periods, adding further imponderables to the mix. Having been at many such companies myself, and having friends in FAANG for roughly the same period, I find that on the whole, they are doing much better money-wise, and surprisingly, in terms of career development.

In terms of salary compensation, again, growing small-mid size companies again fall short in comparison to the FAANGs. The reason is that FAANGs have good structures set for performance management, career paths, and compensation increases. The former, in contrast, are almost always lacking in having good structure in these areas. So for the average engineer who's mulling a choice between the two, the risk/reward ratio tilts towards the FAANGs.

Note that I'm mostly talking about money, and to a much smaller extent, about average career growth here. There are still plenty of other good reasons to work at small-mid size companies, but in terms of money, it is difficult to argue that going to the FAANGs leaves you worse off than the alternative.
which is weird when you think about it.
Only showing succesfull and how happy you are is not a realistic view of life, and hiring candicates who are engaged in this behaviour should be a major red flag?
Worth $28B and only have revenues of $450M a year, that should explain, this compagny is overevaluated.
Alternatively: Build your hobby project at scale
I started coding when I was 28. Knew nothing about it, didn't even know what a compiler was. I'm 30 now and self employed, built a profitable algorithmic trading system in Kotlin. There are so many free quality resources to learn programming, it's ridiculous. And all the software you need is free, OS, IDE etc... This is pretty much unique to the field of software engineering. Try to become a doctor by yourself, good luck.

Tips to start: The most important part is to just start coding as quickly as possible and learn as you go. A personal project can really help to maximize motivation and actual hours spent coding. As for the language, I don't think it matters what you pick and everybody suggests something different. I didn't like coding in python at all. Personally, I prefer languages with static typing, especially when you start out (so the IDE can help you). For me, that perfect beginner language was Java, since it's simple, structured and you can completely forget about memory management.

Just don't spend too much time thinking whether you should start or not. I wasted years with that mindset. Just do it.

EDIT: Sorry I didn't really answer your questions, I just don't know enough about web development to help you in that regard. Consider this a motivational comment that gets you started.
The Little Dog's Day by Rupert Brooke

All in the town were still asleep,
When the sun came up with a shout and a leap.
In the lonely streets unseen by man,
A little dog danced. And the day began.

All his life he'd been good, as far as he could,
And the poor little beast had done all that he should.
But this morning he swore, by Odin and Thor
And the Canine Valhalla—he'd stand it no more!

So his prayer he got granted—to do just what he wanted,
Prevented by none, for the space of one day.
"Jam incipiebo, sedere facebo,"
In dog-Latin he quoth, "Euge! sophos! hurray!"

He fought with the he-dogs, and winked at the she-dogs,
A thing that had never been heard of before.
"For the stigma of gluttony, I care not a button!" he
Cried, and ate all he could swallow—and more.

He took sinewy lumps from the shins of old frumps,
And mangled the errand-boys—when he could get 'em.
He shammed furious rabies, and bit all the babies,
And followed the cats up the trees, and then ate 'em!"

They thought 'twas the devil was holding a revel,
And sent for the parson to drive him away;
For the town never knew such a hullabaloo
As that little dog raised—till the end of that day.

When the blood-red sun had gone burning down,
And the lights were lit in the little town,
Outside, in the gloom of the twilight grey,
The little dog died when he'd had his day.
Wasn't the same true of Secret? Some people living in a certain bubble felt a buzz that just wasn't really there anywhere outside said bubble.
dolphins and porpoises.
It’s a shame to read about these legal arguments that hang on technicalities (whether previous access was tied to private parking or not) as opposed to what surely must be the actual issue: the public’s right of access to the scarce national resource of beaches.
Isn’t so that only porn consumers recognise porn stars, and/or follow them? So why is it a problem for advertisers? End user gets their ads in the context that does not offend them.
Dynamic code loading is what makes C#/.net orm's fast (see Dapper, Destrier, PetaPOCO etc.) Basically they let you use an IL generator to emit a bunch of IL operations, then compile them to a delegate. This is useful specifically for creating the methods that take a data reader and turn discrete columns into fields on a database mapped object.

As soon as we can do this with Golang the orms we use will get much faster.
They sure that's hardware related, and not some poorly written ransomware?
Beats me but I happen to have a fleet of HP SATA (not SAS) drives and they just crossed this boundary, 32813 power on hours typical. I guess if their SATA firmware had this bug I'd be having a bad week.
>Elon tweeted that even if the beds were loaded the Cybertruck will still win.

Load them both down with a couple yards of sand and whichever one doesn't break some drive-line component is gonna win. Considering nobody's torn down and reviewed a Tesla truck yet it's kind of hard to say which but I feel very safe saying both trucks have more than enough power and torque at zero (wheel speed) rpm to break things given the kind of traction a couple yards of sand makes availible.
I love how all these “terrible illegal drugs” turn out to be helping people in so many different ways.

Remind me again, which illnesses alcohol cures?
Where is the company located? I know that in some regions, 'ghosting' is a common way to reject candidates. (Which I find absurd). But maybe the recruiter is just sick/sacked/scum. Do you have the name(s) of the technical interviewer? Perhaps you can contact them directly(company email addresses typically follow the same pattern).
If you use ublock origin, blocking javascript breaks bloomberg's paywall. You can do that for bloomberg.com (and nothing else) by opening the site, clicking the ublock icon, and clicking the bottom at the far bottom right.
If I were Google's CEO, I'd build a transparent, Internet-driven political election infrastructure. Why? First, having regular, fair, accountable elections is a problem that all countries in the world face. Second, the problem I just described has a technical solution. Third, only a company with tremendous resources like Google could successfully battle the entrenched, questionable powers that control many of these elections and the vote counting therein.

What's in this for Google? Users. Data. Brand awareness with every dang voter in the world. Incredible PR. Continued support of that whole 'do no evil' thing.

Of course, there are some catches here. The system has be to completely open. As a citizen, I should be able to audit every part of this whenever I want. Second, you'd have to abstain from all political contributions. People counting the votes can't have a preference or a vested interest in one part over the other. I'm sure there are more that I haven't thought of.

It'd be a tremendous investment on Google's part, but it has the potential for some truly world-changing technology.
This is a grossly irresponsible abuse of statistics. What's even stranger is that the author agrees. In his paper (conclusions, page 15):

>The major public health effect of concern at low doses of ionizing radiation is cancer. There is clear evidence of cancer induction at effective dose above about 200 mSv. Below an effective dose of about 100 mSv radiogenic cancer mortality risk estimates for all cancers is highly uncertain. 16 It is not possible to determine reliably whether a radiogenic risk is present in an X-ray screening population because of the high spontaneous incidence of cancer and multifactorial nature of disease causation 17.

>Use of collective dose to estimate public health impacts when large populations are exposed to trivial doses is inappropriate and not reasonable. The assumptions implicit in the collective dose calculation conceal large biological and statistical uncertainties.16 If an individual passenger is not harmed by X-ray screening then the population isn’t either.

"Inappropriate and not reasonable". Yet on his webpage (not submitted to peer review), he does exactly that.
Doesn't he have bigger things to worry about, like staying ahead of Bing search quality, for one?
Name-based virtual hosting would break this. But I'll bet DNS "alternatives" will spring up, quickly.
I went and had a long, hard look in the mirror when I found myself in suddenly agreement with Ron Paul, Matt Drudge and, wait for it ... Ann. F'ing. Coulter.
Also, with GPUs, because of the additional compute power on the server, the network quickly becomes a bottleneck.
Try https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qI14xo...
Depends. English is somewhat special in that it's the current lingua franca, so almost everyone has some exposure to it - and at the same time, it's a hodge-podge of words from different language families, so it's quite likely that an English speaker can pick out some words they understand from another language, if spoken slowly ("false friends" notwithstanding). So whether you're speaking English so someone who doesn't know it, or someone is speaking a language you don't know to you-the-English-speaker, there's stochastic benefit in slowing down.

It's the same phenomenon as within language families. I don't know Ukrainian, but I can pick up words that share etymology with Polish words, assuming they speak slowly enough for me to isolate individual words. Similarly, I don't know much German, but I can route individual words through English.
Ever heard of Tor. That's incognito.
Yup, that would be fine. Driving carefully would be acceptable. Just don’t gun it. (I have a lead foot, so I’ve had to watch myself...)
The series of Arabic states opening diplomatic relations with Israel was definitely American-led.
Going to mars is something we must do if we want really long time survival as species/culture.

But it is not a solution for our relatively short time problems (100-200 years). It won't solve global warming, nor will be an alternative for mankind against what global warming will do this century here.
What I think is somewhat interesting, is that there are numerous pieces of his/her comment, like the piece you quoted, that essentially imply the need for articles like the one posted here.

The idea that you can "learn just as much about [...] the world" from things other than what, until very recently, has been the primary mode of inter-generational human communication is pure absurdity. An idea whose absurdity is illustrated by all of human history. The fact that this requires explanation or demonstration is the reason that the current "trend" of elevating reading to a "rare alchemy" exists, because it essentially is if you're coming from a place of treating all activities as equal methods of learning.
Hi merb, it's William from Google.

If I enter the following, it seems to work for me: Replicas: 1, CPU: 0.25, Memory: 500MiB, Ephemeral Storage: 1 GiB.

The result is $9.92 per month for the us-central-1 location.
I doubt it. This is only for the engine integrations, not the core software.
The media helped the Bush administration manufacture consent for the second gulf war. The infamous lies peddled on every major news channel and newspaper are recorded for all time.

Parenti wrote Inventing Reality and Chomsky wrote Manufacturing Consent in the 80's. Your examples of lies that that you believe demonstrate how especially bad media is today just reveal that you only notice certain exaggerations or interpretations of news that go against your politics.

I presume you think yourself unbiased too.
actually I was expecting a comment on that one :) don't you think the time frame narrows on predicting the future on topics like these -web, desktop or mobile applications-?

I am not arguing that Sublime Text is the best -because I am not that pro-, but I can assure you it is hot right now, all around the world. It may be wrong, but all cs students and developers I personally know in 4-5 countries use it, like it. Most of the online courses tell their students to use it. It is highly recommended, all over the web.

The word is spreading.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F01yp0m%2C%20%2...
Thank goodness for big tech for telling me when enough is enough, otherwise I wouldn't be able to think for myself. What a relief!
NYT v Sullivan is only relevant to public officials - those holding or running for public office, which adds for them the requirement to prove 'actual malice.' In subsequent cases, the requirement has been expanded to employees of public officials as well as public figures - those who "achieve persistent fame and notoriety" and those who voluntarily engage in public controversy. In either case, the owners of a small company who have not voluntarily placed themselves in the public eye would be generally considered private individuals and thus the restriction on suing the media for defamation would not apply.

In lower courts there has developed some concept of an involuntary public figure. These are people who don't go out of their way to enter the public spotlight but who are involved in an event of overriding societal importance. So for example people being investigated by a government agency major crimes can't sue for defamation after being found not guilty. If JetBrains is actually under investigation then it's fair game, but if not it likely is still a private figure and this would be a pretty good example of a valid defamation case.
What mass incarceration?

The 'Rona had been a pretext to empty the jails, I thought.
Frankly yes. A tolerant society does not tolerate intolerance.
I find it funny considering the people complaining about it claim to be “small government” anti regulations proponents.
It's a good point, but the the solution is anti-trust and open standards, not presidential perks.
I've banned this account. Creating accounts to do political flamewar is not allowed here, and will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> This represents a vast check on presidential power that exists purely in the hands of these incredibly wealthy and powerful social media executives. I don't necessarily disagree with Twitter's decision given the events of the last few days, but this undeniably strips Trump of a major source of power for him, and that merits a discussion of the role that private social media companies play in our discourse and presidential function as well.

This is the fourth estate in everything but name. It doesn't have the same protections as the press, but it's no different than it was decades or even centuries ago, when media moguls could focus the heat.
This makes sense. One would at least plan what do do in case components suddenly become unavailable due to unexpected events.

E.g. when the AKM plant recently burned down this already was havoc for a lot of audio applications. I'd guess that at least 15% of all cars in the >35kUS$ range use one or more AKM ICs. Unless car manufacturers (or their suppliers) have enough stock of AKM ADCs and DACs (or assembled ECUs), they have to either stop delivering they're more expensive cars - or adapt their hard- & software to use other ICs (or get questionable stock at inflated prices, which might be an expensive option if you're building millions of cars, and expensive again if those IC have a higher failure rate due to bad storage/being recycled/...). With the tendency to do as much as possible as jit, I doubt they can bridge the duration until the production ramped up again.
> And you don’t need to drag that into every topic that happens to contain the trigger word.

It's quite a human characteristic to not welcome gifts from the right hand of someone who acts against their interests with their left hand.

A company, however, seems to have no problems with this or similar situations.

Don't blame the human.
>How many degrees of separation do you need in order to be safe from the mob?

no one can be safe from the mob if mob behavior is a normalized practice of the society. It doesn't matter that a given mob at a specific moment in time is directed in the "good" direction. Mob is just a tool, it doesn't have any way to distinguish "bad" from "good" (by it is nature the mob forms when its members let go their own moral independence for the sake of unity, mutual validation and resulting safety and drunk high feeling), and thus it can be turned in any direction by the tool handler.
Parsing is hard, but that’s only a small part of writing an interpreter.
I wonder how much of the rise of modern "pop-sci" as a genre in writing, film, and tv is due to the current academic incentives. If you're so good at selling yourself and field why not take the pitch directly to a paying audience rather than grant committees?
Location: London UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Rust, Data & applied ML (see CV and Github)

Résumé/CV: http://finnkauski.com

Email:
Like https://vimeo.com/399120258 ?
What were their sources? My experience in finance is that physical groups of traders, advisors and analysts are prone to groupthink, a liability right now. A calm leader should still be able to enforce policy remotely.
> I am well aware that I have the privilege of working in a career that is not already obliterated by this crisis. I am very sympathetic to others who are more severely impacted by all this and the economic damage from this is immeasurable. I still have my own concerns as does everyone else..

thank you for leading with this.
Indeed. Payroll will also be significantly affected even in "rent-heavy" industries

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-to-cut-aviation-workforce-as...
> Why? It makes it easy to share a sketch with someone else while still preventing the server from decrypting the data. Anything stored in a location hash (after the # symbol) does not get passed to the server.

I'll hit the URL bar and hit control-C. That's way better than any javashit which wants to touch my clipboard.

Copying the current URL also copies the key in that case. Now I'm accidentally sharing my encryption information with another user.
Location: Accra, Ghana

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Javascript (Backend/Express)

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Co6x-N9ZozRnN42xMo9Xb5cH...

Email: Kidd.bubu[at]gmail[dot]com
This could just foster fake information. Shame to the creators
In response to your title questions, based on my recent performance... stupidly.
What if animal shelter worker develops an allergy? Should the shelter get rid of dogs?
Public service workers interact with the public, that's part of the job.
I think you're also ignoring the "transformative" clause written into the fair use doctrine in the US.

...the extent to which the use is transformative. In the 1994 decision Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc,[13] the U.S. Supreme Court held that when the purpose of the use is transformative ... is more likely to favor fair use.
The labor board may well have done nothing if Amazon had fired them for activism. But they fired them once they did start bringing up labor issues:

> Amazon has fired two employees and asked a third not to return to work, after the group organized a virtual event for warehouse employees to speak to tech workers at the company about its workplace conditions and coronavirus response.

> The two employees who were fired on Friday, Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, had in late March circulated a petition on internal email lists that called on Amazon to expand sick leave, hazard pay and child care for warehouse workers. The petition also asked Amazon to temporarily shut down facilities where workers were confirmed to have the virus so the facilities could be sterilized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/business/stock-market-cov...
Don’t forget the cliches, puns, and references to music and film titles in the headlines:

https://www.economist.com/johnson/2010/10/26/style-guide-ent...
Still pocket change for a large corporation. Throw in vendor lock-in, and the fact that the ~$25k Matlab license includes technical support and it's an easy decision.

Tech support is a big deal. Most companies would rather contract out than build an in-house team. Better to focus on what you do best and let someone else do what they do best.

Not arguing for any technical merit of Matlab (not talking about Simulink, either). Just the business side.
Seems to be based on features generated using a model similar to that proposed in [1].

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub45611/
Yeah I thought it might be resonance between two drives moving similarly in a mirrored pair, so swapped the drive order around, but that made no difference either.

I've used primarily WD drives for years but I think my next pair will be from a different manufacturer and will likely replace these golds, which can be relegated to a second machine in my shed where I can't hear them.
Tim is right in a lot of cases its old media complaining about competitors and TBH the tabloids are worse - see how Meghan Markle is being treated.
I don't know about the USA but there was a recent case in Canada where it was affirmed that drivers with severe allergies can decline a ride as long as they arrange for another vehicle. Basically it was a "disability vs. disability" thing; the customer's disability doesn't take priority over the driver's disability.

Note however that this dealt with severe allergies -- the sort which would need to be accommodated by any other employer.
I feel like this Solarwinds breach was a low effort, extremely high reward move, sort of like how Russia only had to spend 100k on ads in 2016 to get a massive reach on Facebook. I wouldn't think say this is the most sophisticated attack, this sounds more like they are embarrassed they were hacked for a year before they realized it and have to save face
"I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in non-scientists being wrong."
--- Isaac Asimov
Key phrase:

> My job involves building custom WordPress sites on more or less traditional, shared hosting.

Yep, if your target environment is "shared hosting", then docker is not going to bring much advantages: the biggest advantage of docker is an ability to have exactly the right set of globally installed libraries/programs -- and on shared hosters, this is not possible.