skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to say exactly and varies widely but I'd guess something like $120-160k range for a senior person even at most places that aren't the top 5. Stats I found say median pay is closer to $105k though (in 2017). Front-end/UI/UX seems to be in pretty high demand, so there aren't as many senior people to be found and most places that I've seen have been happy to hire junior people.

Median pay at Facebook is $240k. Median pay at Twitter is $160k. That would be all-in with stock etc.
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That’s an interesting question. I have no idea how much China owns in Treasury debt, but it’s substantial.

So China has some disincentive to pushing down the value of the U.S. dollar lest that debt be worth less in the future, in addition to its desire to keep it up so we can afford to keep buying Chinese products.

Complex interrelationship. I think it’s safe to say there are no important issues that don’t play a role in this calculation, except human rights and environmental issues since there’s no indication that Trump would push on those anyway.
The price of housing is a self-generated problem?
I'm working on this very thing. Albeit only on AWS currently https://github.com/massivekube/massivekube

Edit: Forgot url -_-
It has also avoided security issues, some of which get created when people get the idea that every strncpy must be replaced by strlcpy.

The strncpy function writes to the entire buffer. This is important if you will be passing the buffer across a security boundary, for example in a network packet or as a struct copied into a publicly visible file. If trailing bytes are not cleared, then secret data (which happened to be sitting in memory) can get leaked.
We have raised, around 700k, with a core team of 15. And every month has been our best month for the past 8 months. As we gear up for our A round (or US seed round) we'll try our best to maximize our chances to get in front as much investors as we can and YC will def be a great bonus for this part
China holds a lot of bonds. But there's not much there as far as leverage goes with that. Buying up those bonds let's the US and their consumers keep spending and that includes on Chinese goods.

Both nations are tied pretty tightly together in trade.
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Wikipedia says you'd need to process 4 million tons of lunar regolith a week to produce enough He-3 to power the world.

Wikipedia also says that the World Trade Center pile was 1.8 million tons.
It is if you also get a new car, and can't properly afford either.
Knowing what tools to use and how to put them together. How many times have you seen posts about what blogging frameworks to use? So many of these stacks have out-dated documentation on the hosting service too (i.e. one click install Pelican blog on Digital Ocean)
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This seems like something that would be obvious to a seasoned interactive programmer(video games, animated UX, etc) or somebody in that mindset. I would be extremely surprised if some form of this technique doesn't have prior art going way back.
Even with your food taken care of, how do you survive on $100/month? Is your housing subsidized too?
if it's being sold in a store, that store has real estate, and presumably the real estate costs for business locations may be somewhat tied to other real estate-related pricing (individual housing, primarily). Those prices would affect the bottom line of the retailer. $21/sqft vs $80/sqft would probably have an impact on the margins many businesses would have.
The data comes from the Housing and Urban Development's FY 2018 Income Limits Documentation System, and is for a family of four.[1] The HUD explains their reasoning here[2]. Basically, it's all about housing costs.

As a side note: I really wish news articles would link to the data instead of forcing me to go on an expedition.

1. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il2018/2018summar...

2. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il2018/2018ILCalc...
Like a lot of these article's about China... there's very little here to know what their actual leadership thinks or doesn't think.
What makes it more appealing than say arch, gentoo, debian, etc...?
What is a rock though? Is it not just a construct? A piece of dead skin on the surface of a living rock? Is it not like saying a synapse is not conscious because it doesn't have a brain?

The issue is not with the op's argument, it is with the nature of (our) reality. We are not saying anything because we are talking semantics. This is about definitions, not reality. The differences between a rock and a human mind are semantic constructs built on sensory constructs. Semantics are all circular.. and we lack the philosophical construct to understand circular argument.
Oh the irony. I updated to iOS 12 after reading this post, and now I cant paste quotes into the response box from reply view on HN from my iPhone SE. It's pretty obvious the smaller phones have been abandoned at this point.
There are both sexual and asexual genetic algorithms and people have experimented with constrained breeding.
Compilers are free to delete global variables, if nothing references them, just like local variables. That said, if you don't declare them static or some other form of private variable, then compilers generally need to assume that some unknown entity can refer to them, which generally prevents their removal.
According to this, it's far less than $10 trillion:

The U.S. debt to China is $1.19 trillion as of March 2018. That's 19 percent of the $6.29 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by foreign countries. The rest of the $21 trillion national debt is owned by either the American people or by the U.S. government itself.

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-debt-to-china-how-much-does-i...

Also:

China held around $1.17 trillion of Treasuries as of the end of January, making it the largest of America's foreign creditors and the No. 2 overall owner of U.S. government bonds after the Federal Reserve.

from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-treasurie...
"Trillon-dollar". Right.

- We can't even do deuterium fusion as a power source, let alone He3 fusion. Despite half a century of trying. So this is way premature.

- He3 can be made by making tritium in a reactor and letting it decay for a decade or so to He3. This is where He3 comes from now. Current price is about US$20,000 a gram, which is higher than usual due to declining tritium production. Tritium is viewed as an annoying waste product of nuclear power today. Most of the cost is extraction from radioactive waste.

- The concentration of He3 on the moon is low. Optimistically, 20 parts per billion. So it takes a lot of mining effort. The numbers do not look that good.[1]

[1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014cosp...40E1515K
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I'm a bit hazy on the practical difference between PIC/PIE and ASLR binaries, in terms of both security and what is required to build. Would anyone care to remark on this?
All the time. The worse is at a high level people don't even realize it, because very quickly the entire workplace becomes "mediocre", and you don't even realize its lacking in "good people" from lack of reference points.
> Code generation was just too wonky.

What do you mean? Is code generation for the 6502 unusually difficult, even compared to other 8-bit processors (e.g. 8080/Z80)? I'm sure code generation for an 8-bit processor is difficult compared to a 32-bit processor.
I don't have enough long-term Linux experience to understand why systemd is so hated... All of my recent experience has been with Debian Stretch which I think uses systemd by default, and I don't see any obvious issues with it.
Lightweight, simple, no systemd, quite a big selection of up to date packages, like Arch.
I've been using Alpine recently on my X200, and while it does require an arch linux chroot for some applications (due to some slight musllibc/gnulibc interop problems), overall it's one of the most pleasant, and stable distributions I've ever worked with.

As a regular user of systemd (I use arch linux as my main and therefore was one of the first adopters of systemd) I am subjected to irregular and weird irreplicable bootup bugs and timing problems. Alpine reminds me of a simpler time when my computer's bootup was deterministic, and a hang at boot was only ever caused by a disk problem, rather than something trivial like having to wait 3 minutes because it can't connect to the network.

I totally understand the reason for there to be 'bloat' in projects like systemd, GNU libc, etc. And I understand that often that bloat is needed, to cover the edge cases in the thousands of use cases for which they are deployed. However, it's only really when I moved to Alpine that I understood just how much of it there was, and how much of an impact it had on not only my interactions with the computer, but other concerns like my energy usage, etc. It was a like a breath of fresh air for me, and it reminded me that computing could be good, again.
They way you get rid of cancer is an evolutionary bottleneck. Distill a whole animal into a single sex cell that is then cloned and cloned again to make a whole infant. This forces the cell to follow the Categorical Imperative: however it acts will be universal law.

Heads and that cell is healthy and the healthy cells win.
Tails and that cell has cancer and is stillborn and cancer loses.
I just added triangular hover regions based on the comments. Debug outlines showing the open paths to the submenus: https://vgy.me/nBfeiA.gif
Amount of traffic in a store in a popular location usually makes up for the increased price. Plus a lot of companies run some retail stores at a loss just for the advertising.
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Doesn't Bloomberg identify that their users can click on play, when it's needed.

It's annoying and it's wasting my data.
"If you owe the bank $100,000 the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100,000,000 you own the bank." Not a perfect parallel to this situation, but a nice aphorism.
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The price of housing is a product of too many people wanting to live in too small an area. The huge salaries, probably driven in part by venture capital mardi gras, also certainly work to keep driving up prices. If somebody's willing to pay $4k a month for a modest place, then there will certainly be people willing to charge $4k a month for a modest place!
120-160k sounds low for a senior role. kids out of college get offered 120k now for entry level roles.
>everyone wins or every one loses an equivalent amount

That's not a factor WRT the law in question.

The law states that if you take money or some financial consideration for a chance (that is not based on your skill) of receiving something of value, then it is effectively an illegal lottery. It doesn't matter whether everyone wins or loses.

This is usually addressed by allowing people to enter without making a purchase (entry form, postcard, etc). But, here, that obviously would be an insane offer, so doesn't really apply.
Yes, that's exactly my own experience. Moreover, we are forced to use ROOT [1] to compute histograms and create graphics: its weird
use of OOP makes the students think that they have to use classes even to implement simple functions (e.g., printing a list of values).

[1] https://root.cern.ch/
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Correct, this strategy has been best practice for a while now.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258 (Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack)
They had a big event about this for the media/vfx industry today: https://cloudplatformonline.com/LA-Cloud-Region-Launch-Media...

The data all lives in the cloud, only the models and specs are sent back and forth. Zync is their rendering tech: https://www.zyncrender.com/
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There are different kinds of illusions. The world we see around us is an illusion created by the brain's sensory processing. But this illusion is good enough to allow us to act in the world. We don't call it illusion, we just call it the world.

If I think "I think", it is a vast simplification of processes going on in my brain, but it doesn't mean that there's no processes corresponding to my thinking "I think".

Most of the time I act as a single intelligent agent, not as a bunch of subsystems with no unifying goals. So this "illusion of consciousness", while being simplification of brain processes, falls in the category of things we usually don't call illusions.

And that's why Dennett's wording seems misleading to me.
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Yeah pretty much. What he said, up-to-date packages mean I don’t need to build my own ruby / elixir / python / node, I just reference them when building my application package, and it’s done. The way I’m using it now is I just build alpine packages and host a private repository. When I get a fresh alpine install I install my package and I’m done.
Here's an article that reverse engineers Amazon's implementation; http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-... - not the first implementation by a long shot, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, but perhaps the first implementation for the web.
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Nice job. To add to the test db, works on Firefox 60.0.2 (64bit) on Ubuntu 18.04 too.
The license seems a bit odd. It refers to software, but I can't see any software in any of the downloads - just data. Clearly the license is intended to cover the contents of the downloads, but the wording seems wrong then.

I'm not a lawyer, so maybe someone with more expertise could chime in...
It's what I meant.
Snow does count, although I assume it's tracked as water equivalent instead of snowfall depth (10mm of snow is generally equivalent to 1mm of rain). Antarctica gets very little precipitation, particularly on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The Z80 is definitely a substantially fancier ISA. There were many more Z80-targeted compilers.
I’ve gotten proactive emails from our account manager when they release new/cheaper instances and they offer us the option to transition and get a credit for our existing RIs.

We aren’t a huge account (less than 30k/month) so I thought this was a nice gesture on Amazon’s part.
Thanks. I was reading and listening to Chuck Peddle's talks last hour about his work at Motorola and MOS. At the age of 81, he still gives talks. Very inspiring stuff.
In the case of the Bay Area, it's the case of building commercially zoned areas without residential units which can bear the capacity of the available jobs. Palo Alto is the poster child for having many more jobs than residential units.
I'd expect that to have nearly all the disadvantages of cloud (other than virtualization).

One is still locked into the provider's pricing structure.

One is still locked into the provider's ISP choices.

One is still locked into the provider's internal network architecture choices.

One is still locked into the provider's limited hardware choices.

The last one is the biggest one, if only because there are so many opportunities in so many components to maximize performance and minimize cost, with a little forethought and customization, all while staying well within the commodity market. The "one size fits all" model does many people a disservice.

This is especially true even at fairly low scale, where the issue of obtaining certain components in large volumes doesn't come into play.

I understand why some people insist it's just too hard to deal with hardware, but I find it disingenuous to advocate that opnion without at least a more comprehensive understanding of what modern, commodity hardware is capable of. I think most of the claims of difficulty are coming from those without this knowledge and have primarily software backgrounds (and are relying on hearsay or other second-hand experience).
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As were the connections between energy, time, and mass not so long ago.
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> All things considered that DSL works at all is a small miracle and it took a good bit of engineering and some changes to the infrastructure (mostly the removal of the boost coils in the lines) to allow it to work.

Indeed, brings to mind DSL over wet string[1] that was posted here a while back[2].

[1] https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15908107
No offense but I reckon that on that budget you could exist just about anywhere...but only because you have to.
In fact, you were closer to the truth than the person you replied to.

The new standard uses a PAKE (password-authenticated key exchange) protocol. This type of cryptographic construct is similar to an unauthenticated key exchange protocol (such as Diffie-Hellman), but in addition succeeds only if both parties know the same password, without leaking any information about the password to a party if they don’t know it. At least one of the best-known PAKE algorithms, namely SRP, is quite similar to Diffie-Hellman in structure, although it’s not the one being used here (which I don’t know anything about).
Once you enable testpilot, you can see the experiments. I think the page opens by itself after enabling. Select page shot and click a couple of buttons on different screens.
Anecdotal: Arthur W. Astrin, sort of father of WiFi, hired by Apple to develop and incorporate 802.11b into their products, died of cancer in 2016.

He spend most of 1998/99 flying West Coast-Taiwan twice a week (coordinating iBooks/iMacs manufacturing), got diagnosed with cancer in 2003.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj5NNxVwNwQ
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Keeping up with the Jonses? Maybe others parts of the country but not so much in the Bay Area. More like NIMBY's protecting the insane value of their dilapidated 2bed/1bath fixer uppers offered at $1M+ and selling to all cash buyers offering 20% over asking and 7 day close. [0]

[0]http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/06/09/overheated-market-eas...
Well, clearly stores couldn’t charge much of a premium for items that aren’t impulse purchases and can be shipped from elsewhere in the country, because people would just have them shipped. Relatively small expensive items like phones and laptops would definitely fall into that category.
It's not that it's too small an area yet, it's that higher density building is being hamstrung, which prevents housing from meeting demand. If I recall correctly, for every new housing unit that's been created over the last (I think 10) years, 9 jobs were added. It's incredibly low density for such a high priced area, with many tiny, single story ranch-style houses, but a sizable contingent of very noisy residents fight tooth and nail against increasing the density.

In San Mateo, for example, there's a law on the books that prevents any new buildings above 55 feet, as well as any building with a floor area greater than 3x the land it sits in, which condemns the area to an average density of 3 stories or less, even in downtown, where there are some existing 150 foot+ buildings. That law is sunsetting in 2020, but there are already citizen groups agitating vigorously to get a renewal on the ballot, even as the current council was elected on a platform of more building. This would tie the hands of the council and prevent them from doing what they were elected to do.
What do you figure the demand curve looks like? If you could bring back 10kg of He3 would it crater the price or could you actually hope to clear anywhere close to $200m?

I assume not.
If this were a feasible business model a multistate / multinational company would have already tried it and succeeded.
> Don't start a conversation with an opening generalization like that if you want something constructive. Especially when the rest of your post is clearly based on the single anecdote of your experience.

You are doing as much, if not more generalization by way of the assumptions you're making.

> >Running your own hardware is AWFUL.
> Maybe for you. Not for any sysadmin with even just a couple of years of experience.

Sysadmins aren't real estate attorneys or facilities managers or security personnel. A lot of them aren't even tech ops who physically manage the DC hardware and are oncall 24/7 to fix problems on-site if needed. You need all of those things to run your own DC, and potentially a lot more if you're physically building the center itself (architects, contractors, civil engineers, etc.). And if you're serious about latency, availability, and durability, you're going to need those things in multiples for however many datacenters are needed to meet your targets. How many organizations have the millions of dollars of capex needed to get that off the ground and keep it all running?

> Netflix doesn't run 1/3 of the Internet traffic off of AWS, only a tiny subset because of the aforementioned shitty economics.

To how many organizations do the economics of serving 1/3 of Internet traffic apply? 2? How is that a counterexample to his point about datacenters only making sense for the very largest?

Even if you sidestep all those costs by renting instead of building and even if we take for granted that your "shitty economics" are still shitty down numerous orders of magnitude from Netflix-size, you're still burning money making your devs design and operate your system twice - once for the DC, once for AWS, and however much work it is to glue the 2 together. The end result may be cheaper infrastructure-wise but it will also be unavoidably less reliable and more complex purely by virtue of having more than twice as many moving parts.

Let's say implementing things this way takes a single dev time-and-a-half compared to just doing it on one or the other. Let's say (very conservatively) you pay your dev $100k a year + $50k benefits. You're now $75k in the hole from the get-go. That's enough to pay for roughly 83 m5.large EC2 instances on-demand (no RI) for a year. Your company has to be very large for the marginal savings of using a DC to outweigh that kind of deficit.
That part I totally agree with.

I’m really tired of people declaring other browsers “broken“ because they don’t implement the future-of-the-minute that chrome has already added.
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They have 15 months, I believe, to prove that they should merit a 5 year licence. If nothing goes wrong, then they would have succeeded in renewing their licence. Presently they are under probation.
This isn’t a popular place for such a viewpoint.
For me it's that the things I install are deliberate. I have to opt into installing every extra package, so I am more thoughtful in expanding the base image.

I liken it more to my fond days with FreeBSD and OpenBSD. A narrowly scoped base image and userland, but easy access to a vast array of packages/ports, but each explicitly listed and installed.

It's "batteries included" but "pick your batteries" vs "here's a kitchen sink full of batteries."
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