skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my attempt at shame of not being able to ramp up quickly enough:

2007 - 0 YOE - 2 lakhs INR (3000 USD) - Software Engineer - UK Company

2013 - 6 YOE - 11.5 lakhs INR (16500 USD) - Technical Consultant - Australia based company

2014 - 7 YOE - 14.5 lakhs INR (21000 USD) - Senior Engineer - Mid Size American Software company

2018 - 11 YOE - 30 lakhs (43000 USD) - Staff Engineer - Mid Size American company

College - Tier 3 college, I actually dint even have a job after graduating, not even Infy/Wipro/TCS etc. It was mix of circumstances and some hustling that I landed my first job.

What I am working on? Plain old ERP systems.

How many hours I work each week? 3-10 hrs max per week with projects taking maybe some more time. I manage people well and ensure that they are able to do their jobs effectively lessening the burden on me.

For people looking for advice on how to get these kinds of salary - I have a colleague who left the UK company along with me at same salary. Currently he is drawing 20 lakhs (29000 USD) after the same amount of years. One of the reasons is that he went to work for Tech Mahindra.

And even though I referred to him at couple of companies like JP Morgan his interview skills weren't great.

And, he has changed only 1 company since 2013, while this is my 3rd job.

Lastly, different technologies not only mean different salaries but also that your competence might differ. Hence the difference in salaries.
I believe that the technology in the book must be viewed through the lens of The Butlerian Jihad events of the Dune universe, and the commandment of not making a machine in the image of the human mind. It isn't retro-futurism, it's human-centric technology.

In the later books, shigawire is also mentioned as a data storage method, so I don't think it was a lack of imagination.
Odds are they've been hacked. Too big a target. We just don't know it yet.
* gain.
While I understand what you mean, many here will not. Cheers!
And as I replied there, also in Zeran: "It would be impossible for service providers to screen each of their millions of postings for possible problems. Faced with potential liability for each message republished by their services, interactive computer service providers might choose to severely restrict the number and type of messages posted."

This 'Impossible Burden' element continued to expand the use of section 230, until the most recent protecting against child trafficking legislation.

Also, it was protection of self-regulation of obscene and/or libelous content, not general content.
An Introvert's Guide to Small Talk: Eight Painless Tips
Confused, why is this downvoted? Is it wrong?

Update: Funny, now the comment is upvoted and my question is downvoted :-)
I've pretty much stopped using Monzo after they removed the card topups.

I used to use it all the time while traveling, and usually top up on the spot when the funds on the account run out and I needed to pay for something.

Bank transfers really doesn't work for that use case.

Now I'm using Revolut for the same purpose (they still allow card top ups), not much difference to Monzo although I really, really like Monzo customer support.
As much as I think the tariffs are not the right solution, something needs to be done to punish Chinese aggression towards the West. They've been playing very dirty without any real consequences. Trade should not be conducted through industrial espionage or intelligence agencies as a standard approach.

The blurred line between Chinese intelligence and Chinese businesses is a dangerous one as it can turn IP theft into a real escalation.
It said ‘MR’ rather than ‘CT’ when I commented, and now it’s a completely different photo with a new caption.
These are the kind of honest discussions we should have.

> South Park put it quite well: "Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but… well, son,

> pot makes you feel fine with being bored. And it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative.

>If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything".

All high school weed smokers are not equal. There are many occasional smokers.
For the sake of simplicity, let me put a number here.

High schooler between 9th to 12 grade who smoke weed at least 10 times a week all four years will settle in LIFE below 50% of his potential (compared to how he would have done without weed)
It's now fitting a pattern of anti-Chinese submissions and anti-Chinese comments on this site. Don't argue with someone when they say your behavior is racist just because you are willfully blind to it.
you could ask him yourself. these days he goes by the name "ron garret," and he commented right here on this site only an hour ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lisper
Managing secrets when you have pull requests from outside contributors
The Origin of Witches Riding Broomsticks: Drugs, Plus Shakespeare (2017)
Primitive – recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives
Smyth-sewn bindings lay flat.
web.monzo.com - enter your email and they'll send you a login link. Not sure it'll cover everything you need but might be worth checking out.
Embedding is the ML term for a non-linear projection.
I'd love to do exactly that, but right now I get my popularity stats from English-language Wikipedia pageviews, which is majority-influenced by the US but also has significant traffic from India and the UK.

If Wikipedia ever breaks down its pageview stats by country, so I can generate different quizzes per-country, that's the first thing I'll do!
There isn't any. It's a very obvious attempt to divert from the subject of the discussion (China stealing tech from the US) by using an aggressive cover (racism) that is heavier than the focus subject.
The JPG format ignores data that comes after the EOF marker, and the zip format ignores data that comes before the first file entry.
Replacing Redux with ReactN to reduce complexity and bundle size
I know that I’m “underpaid” based on what I could get if I were willing to trade a relatively stress free job to either be a team lead (been there done that) or work for a consulting company.

If I made an extra 20K to 30K right now, it wouldn’t change my life significantly. I could reach a few long term goals quicker but I’m really in no rush.
Replace “Trump” with “gay marriage” and pretty much nobody would agree with your argument. It would be viewed as hate.
On one of these I like the comment "You sound like an English speaker claiming that English is easier for people to understand than other languages. "

well yeah of course english is easier, else there wouldn't be these kind of tables : https://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/lan...

There's no equality amongst languages. Japanese students have to get up and do one hour of kanji learning every year from 8 years old to 18 years old in addition to normal language classes for instance - there's nothing comparable in english.
A friend of mine is volunteering for someone's campaign.

He said as soon as it was semi public that he was involved his personal email lit up with fake emails. His email wasn't even listed anywhere in association with the campaign and he didn't use it for the campaign. Presumably they just guessed it (could have done that easily) or they found a list or something.

So just getting involved, now you're personally involved all the way.
There is a pattern of anti-Chinese submission and comments. Don't argue with someone when they say your behavior is racist just because you are willfully blind to it.
cough dwarf fortress cough
Nature seems to cover you for 3 days after smoking, but what about longer times?
What is the use case for this? (And this is a general point for AI cloud APIs)

Specifically, I am trying to think of an example where the user cares about a vector representation of something, but doesn't care about how that vector representation was obtained.

I can think of why it would be useful: the ML examples given, or perhaps a compression application.

However, in each of these cases, it would seem that the user has the skill to spin up their own, and a lot of motivation to do so and understand it.
Yes free speech means the government can't limit what you say (with some specific exceptions). It doesn't mean you won't face consequences or backlash or insults or derision from those in the civilian world who disagree with you.
Based on other's comments in the thread about having their advertisements not approved by FB, it sounds like Facebook does have an approval process that is greater than just "literally not Mark Zuckerberg".

However, Vice got around this by getting an ad approved and then editing (changing entirely?) the name and other properties of the ad. Maybe Facebook should re-approve ads when certain properties change? It's definitely impersonation... I'm not sure what officially constitutes stealing an identity.

I'd be curious how this experiment of impersonating a senator and buying advertising would go across print/billboards/reddit/other platforms. Maybe Vice will try some more experiments.
The President, and some partisan media organizations were pushing a narrative that the mainstream media was covering up a conspiracy. I'm assuming the people down-voting believe the conspiracy theory.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/feinstein-chinese-spy/
I was using F#, and before that Haskell, and before that Scala.
Bank transfers are pretty painful, especially when you need the top-up right away. I would happily pay for the card transaction for the convenience, if it's an unsustainable cost for them.
Wikimedia 'controls' the software and infrastructure, but is relatively hands-off about the content. There is, shall we say, some give-and-take between Wikimedia and the various projects' communities.

The communities overlap between Wikipedia and Wikidata to a large extent, but are distinct.
This is very cool. I wonder if Central Asia can work closely with the Indian startup scene - it is closer physically and culturally as well.
> There is a difference between a function `f` and the expression `x + 2` in your example. In fact, `f` as a function completely hides the expression from which it was defined. Usually functions are considered equal if they have the same values at every point. The upshot is, you can define a function from two different expressions and they can end up being the "same" function. This is indeed the hiding of some information.

It's hiding the differing constructions, but at that point I don't see that as a true difference. (\x . x + 2) . (\x . x + 2) seems to me to be the same value as \x . x + 4 in exactly the same way that 2 + 2 is the same value as 4.

> In the composition of functions, f . g (x) = f(g(x)), that there is a result of g(x) is hidden by the composition, which only allows examination of the first input and the final output.

> There is nothing special about OOP here.

Having mutable state hidden/encapsulated with a bundle of functions that may be entangled with that state is unique to OOP; as I said in the side thread, hidden structure is not the same as hidden state.
"it's like a musician who can write lyrics, but can't sing and play, or someone who has excellent chops on the guitar, but can't sing and write lyrics."

That's an interesting observation, because that's how a lot of the music industry works. Lots of songwriters who aren't good at performing, great performers who can't write well, instrumentalists who can't sing etc.
Probably not, board game states are different for different games, so I doubt this will be a big enough niche.
Sort of, it's extremely misleading. It suggests that there is no evidence of espionage because charges were never pressed, but consider:

>According to four former intelligence officials, in the 2000s, a staffer in Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco field office was reporting back to the MSS. While this person, who was a liaison to the local Chinese community, was fired, charges were never filed against him. (One former official reasoned this was because the staffer was providing political intelligence and not classified information—making prosecution far more difficult.) The suspected informant was “run” by officials based at China’s San Francisco Consulate, said another former intelligence official. The spy’s handler “probably got an award back in China” for his work, noted this former official, dryly.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/27/silicon-v...
Facebook has strict controls against impersonating Zuckerberg in ads for a very good reason. Facebook has had those controls for years and they have nothing to do with politics. This is the reason you can't impersonate Zuckerberg in ads:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/technology/fake-mark-zuck...

Banning ads mentioning Zuckerberg is easy, so it makes sense that system works well. Imagine building a review system to combat fraudulent political advertising on Facebook, how difficult and complex that would be.
Just ordered one for dev work. Hopefully it’s enough.
Sort of depends on how late "later" is.

In the very-long term, I want us to literally have embeddings for everything people want to embed, which will probably include the states of popular boardgames.

I'm not sure how we'll get there. Maybe we'll have community embeddings, or an embedding marketplace, or we'll abstract away the process of creating an embedding so well that we can create simple embeddings just by pointing our code at a dataset. But I'd like to get there eventually.

In the less-very-long term, we're still focusing on embeddings that are either very general and useful across a lot of domains (e.g. images, text), or embeddings that have clear and immediate business value (e.g. resumes), since running GPUs is expensive.
Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M
What are you using now for business banking? I would like 1) and 2) also.
Is ASP rising faster than the cost of goods sold?
Thought that's what e-readers were for.
I published a technical book a few years (going on a decade) ago. I put a lot of work into it, and everybody who has read it has had good things to say about it - at least, it has a couple dozen five-star reviews on Amazon. Now, to be clear - I enjoyed writing it, I'm glad I wrote it, I hope to write another one, and I learned a lot through the process. However, I can't think of anything I've ever done in my career that's been _less_ consequential, career-wise, than publishing a book, even a well-reviewed book. I've never been invited to speak anywhere (although in fairness I haven't put any effort into trying) and although it's on the first couple of lines on my resume, the only time it's ever come up in a job interview was this last year when somebody said, "you published a book about computer security a while ago? Cool, can you do anything besides computer security? Because we're not looking for that."
> I imagined a world of apps designed with xaml /me shudders

Mmm...XAML/WPF has one thing going for it though...you can be assured that a code-base you haven't touched for year will still work :)
Why does 𓂸 render correctly in Chrome's address bar, but not anywhere inside a webpage rendered inside Chrome?
I was promised dicks, but all I see are boxes. https://imgur.com/rTf521N

Mildly disappointed.

(Chrome 70, OSX 10.13.4)
> Apparently the ancient Egyptians were not aware of the comedic value of this symbol to future generations.

I wouldn't be so sure about that...
Well, the experts do at least.
Adults don’t have to go that route though. I learned all the kanji from daily use through college level (some 3,500 or so) in a few months of study. You might as well point to the massive number of root vocabulary English has and make the same argument that English would be crazy difficult to learn (and you’d be equally right).
Male, top 5 CS school, grad 2000

2000: $55k, non-dev role, 50k-ish options, Florida company
2000: Same role as above, given $20k raise, +25k options two months in
2000: $75k, $10k signing bonus, 30k options, junior dev, Bay Area company
2001 (crash): $40k, university, research dev, Penn
2002-2005: Freelance $80/hr, Florida
2005-2007: Grad school, shit pay
2007-2010: Freelance, $100/hr, Florida
2010-2012: $68k, senior dev, Florida
2012-2014: $20k, 10% equity, head of engineering, "startup", Bay Area
2014-2015: $125k, 10% bonus, senior dev, Bay Area BigCo
2015-2016: $130k, 9% bonus, $20k RSU/3 year, same co and role as above
2016-2017: $144k, 10% bonus, $20k RSU, same co and role as above
2017-2018: $155k, 16% bonus, $20k RSU, same co, eng manager

I'm underpaid, conservatively, by at least $70k. Will probably fix that next year.
Yeah, sorry, that's what the parenthetical about "this particular case" was supposed to allude to; that in this particular context, there were a number of reasons why this book took the form that it did
How are you embedding images?
I find it annoying that the site nags me to sign up. This is driving me away immediately.

I also ask myself why the images of the designs are so tiny. Not really able to see any details. It seems especially pointless on the shown webdesign screenshot where I can't make out anything at all. Or did I miss something? As the images are important here they should be shown as large as possible and also be zoomable.
People harmed by peanuts generally aren't interested in eating peanuts and don't do it except by accident. That's not true for drugs.
As an ethical Chinese myself, I'd like to reiterate that this type event is government-backed. And I am confident that HNers respect the boundary between Chinese people and the government.

I do want to point out that general Chinese people in mainland China view these type of activities negatively as well. It should not be thought as the general people endorse such activities, they were mostly made unaware of these, as always.
How do I view this without logging into Google?
Chrome's address bar uses OS fonts, whereas webpages use Chrome's fonts.
But the fact that CDA § 230 was expressly adopted (and has been repeatedly upheld in broad application on this basis) permitting self-regulation and editorial control of third-party content without exposing site operators to strict liability for unlawful content that they miss means you can't use it to defend the argument that self-regulation and editorial control are inconsistent with CDA § 230, and that site operators being able to establish content policies implies that they must be deprived of the safe harbor.

That's the opposite of the safe harbor rationale.
I don't think anyone aims for perfection but a 90%+ true blocks and less than 5% false would be a high standard.
> Peanuts are also not (mentally) addictive, and neither do they alter your mental state.

That is exactly why weed and peanuts should be treated differently.
(Apple user disclaimer) Apple isn’t really offering just a CLI, it exposes the UNIX on which it is built. My understanding of Windows is that it just offers a runtime and abstraction layer.
Some Advice for New Server Users from a Self-Taught SysAdmin
Do you have family or friends in the trades?

I always get called elitist/out-of-touch when I point this out, but it's really true that most people working in trades do $50k with mediocre benefits.

Everyone always lashes out at this with anecdata, but both the hard data from Labor and the 15+ datapoints I have personally all seem to agree that $60k is "really good", and that's with overtime. Statistically, for every wealthy plumber/small business owner pulling down 100k+, there are a lot of folks pulling down $50k or less working for the man.

Other downsides: The trades are extremely sensitive to certain types of recessions. And most trades are hard on your body. Plumber is actually one of the better trades from that perspective. Even stuff like welding and machining, which outsides think of as less hard on your body, are usually brutal. If the setup was such that they don't need you carrying stuff, going up and down stairs, etc. all day -- ie. if you could just stand in one place and weld/cnc without doing back-breaking labor -- then they'd have automated the work already.

This might all be specific to the two labor markets I know most well, but... sigh for smart kids, going to college for an in-demand STEM degree is still a great life choice and probably much higher ROI than a trade. And saying so isn't elitist.

Driving truck also seems to do better over the past two decades than most trades. Still sensitive to recessions, but much less so. None of my trucker relatives/friends have had bouts of unemployment since 2008, but all the construction and manufacturing trades have been in and out of work pretty much continually since 2009 (maybe things got better around late 2015)

If college isn't for your kids, have them also consider healthcare. Might be more stable during recessions and less hard on their body. The only downside is that there are fewer options for entrepreneurial endeavors than in the trades. Also, outside of large cities, there's only one or two dominant employers and that holds down wages. But the same is true in tech and trades.
Lower fees for more or less everything, better feature velocity, bill splitting, monzo.me links, a CEO I actually trust, supporting a consumer-first company, better payment authentication (their 3D-whatever sends you a tap-tp-authorise notification), instant card freeze/unfreeze if you misplace it
1998 - $39k - Consultant - large co

1999 - $60k - Sr. Consultant

2000 - $85k, 5k options - Sr. Consultant - startup #1

2001 - $90k - Sr. Engineer

2002 - $95k, OTE $130k - Sales engineering

2005 - $110k, 10k options, OTE $200k - Sales engineering mgr - startup #2

2007 - $80k - own startup

2010 - $400k - acquisition, $200/hr consulting

2012 - $450k - $215/hr consulting

2015 - $500k - $225/hr consulting

2017 - $400k, $100k starting - eng leadership - bigco

2018 - $200k, $500k OTE, stock rsu - sales - bigco

Net - more salary growth in sales, also more risk. technical sales (sales engineering) roles are hot commodity if you can code and do devops. good intro to carrying a bag. consulting is a good option if you move from technical sales and have a good network.
Like others have said, US is big market. For revenue I think Monzo's plan has been to become a financial hub/broker for anything from consumer loans to mortgages to utilities, without offering the services themselves. If you have enough users that can be quite profitable.
When creating an initial outreach list it helps to have an ideal customer profile to look for rather than a general ‘job role at company type’ search.

In the early stages, creating this profile might be an iterative process until you start having conversations with people. If you want, I can send you a guide for how I build these types of lists.
I know a lot of people who tried out marijuana as a medication for depression. (well, illegal / no prescription) It helped in the beginning, but most of them just became addicted, paranoid and incredible slow thinkers and figuratively numb.

Depression is hell, but it's not worth giving up your sanity and intellect.
In the fierce competition for science funding, even a typeface glitch is fatal
Monzo offer the inter-bank rate when making transactions abroad, calcuated at the time of the transaction. When I use my card abroad, I instantly see the transaction in-app, along with the associated cost in £, with no additional fee applied. On top of that, you can withdraw £200 a month from international ATMs with no extra charge.

There are some credit cards which offer free international transactions, but the rates are almost never as good.
> Because driving around the world only costs something around $1500 - $2000 USD /mo

If you're in a smaller vehicle like your Jeep I can see it being under $2000/m. The retired people in giant Unimog overland trucks can spend hundreds per month on fuel alone. Maintenance on those trucks is expensive too.
Really capable of working at all 7 OSI layers :-) many "full stack" developers don't know that databases have a CLI.