skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, okay. We have a problem. Climate change likely with an significant anthropogenic component. I hear a lot about magic solutions like electric cars whose batteries are incredibly polluting to produce, solar farms that are super expensive and require crazy amounts of acres per watt, wind farms that kill birds and have toxic materials inside to operate. The problem, almost certainly, is mostly fossil fuels and to a lesser extent the meat/dairy industry. Let's say, hypothetically, I accept all of this. Let's say the USA and Europe do everything, everything that climate advocates suggest.

It won't matter.

The vast majority of carbon emissions and almost all of the carbon emission growth over the last 50 years has come from the developing world. Thats right. CO2 emissions haven't grown in the West for 50 years. They've shrunk in fact. [1] Seriously. Are we really talking about crushing the energy production of the poorest, most disadvantaged places in the world?

My point isn't that we shouldn't do anything. My point is the problem is way, way, way bigger and more complicated than is commonly phrased. We have to stop the developing world from accelerating out of poverty, and fast--if the climate projections are indeed correct.

This, my friends, is what we call a tragedy. The next time I hear something about the West harming the planet disproportionally, I'm going to collapse into a neutron star.

The only solution I see with any chance of working is if we start a global project to flood the world with nuclear reactors. Everywhere. Nothing else will deliver the gigawatts in time to stop the developing world from burning the planet alive.

Assuming, of course, the climate models are correct.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
The IBM ranks are inaccurate. Fellows are not above DEs. Both are the highest ranks indeed, but of two different tracks. DE is the highest rank of the engineering track, while Fellow is the highest rank of the research track. Fellowship have also be granted to non-research people over the past 20 years, diluting the merit of the title IMHO. Examples of fellows are: John Backus, Gene Amdahl, Ken Iverson, Benoit Mandelbrot, etc.

Both levels may reside in different pay bands, but they are both at the executive level. And DEs cannot become fellows, and vice versa (some exceptions to the rule may have existed).
Already trying to do that.

However, I want to be more proactive against the climate change, got tired of just do my best to improve my emissions, I want to actually help to fix what we have done.
>They would need to quite a bit conservative so that pretty much any new update would be towards faster warming

The new updates are subject to the exact same bias though, it's not like you should expect it to start biased and then just immediately track towards "honest" results. Think of it as slowly reducing the bias over time, not pegging a starting point and then immediately jumping to "honest" where you expect the changes to fluctuate in a normal-distribution sort of way.
Thanks for the comments. I have been buying GPU compute from Hetzner, GCP, and AWS. I am comfortable working in SSH shells and running aJupyter server on rented compute, but there is a lot of convenience of just using a local computer.

I really don’t want to be encumbered by a desktop computer, so a sem-portable laptop with a GPU makes sense to me.
>> so writing an incremental parser in the form of a Tree-sitter grammar is much simpler than modifying a language's compiler toolchain in order to make it incremental

To be fair, incremental compilation is way simpler than making the support of incremental X where X is part of the toolchain. Also, although the Tree-sitter approach taken by the Rust plugin for IntelliJ seems like "the right way forward", I think in the long run having the compiler do that for you is a way-way easier-to-manage approach.
Short answer: No. Guitar amps are weird, not like hi-fi amps at all. In a hi-fi amp, distortion is the enemy. In a guitar amp, distortion is sought after. Driving the pre-amp section of a guitar amp into clipping is extremely common and desirable. Doing the same with a hi-fi amp is not. A hi-fi amp will be typically connected to speakers with a woofer and a tweeter and maybe a mid-range, trying to accurately reproduce all frequencies. A guitar amp typically has nothing but 12 inch speakers. A guitar amp is literally half the instrument. Plugging a guitar into a hi-fi amp is faithfully amplifying 1/2 of an instrument. You'll end up buying a guitar amp anyway. Just get a guitar amp.
Meilleur meuble bureau
Would love to work there, I don't think I've either the expertise or the contacts to get a job there.
I live in ssh, vim, Linux command line. I also have Chrome running at the same time. Much faster and more powerful for me, and I can work from anywhere. Freelance programmer.
Yah, but what if I want to be able to log into my account using a script? I know I'm in a tiny minority, but I have on several occasions had to use selenium to automate actions on a web app. For this reason, captchas are similarly annoying to me.
There could be issues around how to interpret this data, especially around stock. Those with a few years of experience are probably reporting a significant vested stock as part of the comp. Alternatively, there could also be cases where folks added the whole stock options that they were granted, even if they've not vested. The package that I got at Amazon as a fresh grad school graduate more than 5 years ago would've been $360K if I added everything... but that was not my ANNUAL comp. When I talk to folks at Amazon, they typically don't report the annual number, which is lower.
Already got one, not planning any more.
I'm drunk as shit, and this is f*cking funny. Happy Halloween! 48617070792048616c6c6f7765656e <--- Hex
I can't believe how terrible the Finder interface is. I've never understood why they don't fix it. Are there people who like it?
Being charitable doesn't require taking "the entire world's burdens upon your shoulders". And it's been awhile since I got my black belt in TKD, but martial arts aren't much of a solution for malaise that isn't in the form of physical direct combat.
Not really. The 200GT/year is about 0.008% of the total mass of the ice sheet in Greenland. At this rate, Greenland will be ice-free in about 12500 years. The last ice age ended 11700 years ago [1], and at the time the Greenland ice sheet was many times larger than today. What that means is the average annual ice loss since the last ice age ended was higher than the current 200 GT/year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
Every drug is not heroin or meth. In fact, with the exception of cocaine, the overwhelming majority of recreational drug use (weed, MDMA, LSD, even ketamine) is relatively low risk for addiction.
>Manufacturers usually painted their pencils if they were looking to cover up imperfections in the wood. Accordingly, typical paint colors were dark: purple, red, maroon, or black.
But Hardtmuth was looking for a way to advertise the caliber of its graphite rather than its wood.

Bright color to stand out, as opposed to dark colors hiding imperfections. Another stretch, perhaps.
Without taking a position either way, my understanding of the skepticism is not that warming is not occuring, but rather the degree to which things that humanity can control influence that warming (0% to 100%).
Makes working with audio great again: works in just about every browser I've come across, including in the Chromecast. Highly recommend it.
How do you define "pans out"? What performance and price differences between it, flash, and DRAM do you have in mind?

Because I'll keep reminding people that putting a DRAM cache in front of some flash can very closely approximate a large persistent memory. If people wanted to build software for that kind of system, they could do it today. The hardware is not the blocker.
It might not be comcast that dies, but rather a couple of the cell phone vendors. Those are the businesses that are making bank on what is basically low bandwidth wide area coverage. Given the transmission path is going to be going up, it seems that a lot of the existing problems with topology and buildings getting it the way will be reduced.

Anyway, I'm in a town with google fiber, but can't get more than a 30Mbit uplink on spectrum (which is actually faster than AT&T) because the only places in town with competition are the areas already served by google fiber.

It won't take much to kill these lumbering giants that refuse to invest in their infrastructure. Particularly given the ill will most people feel towards them.
It's fun watching everyone learn the other freedom in the 1st amendment is the freedom of association. (Even though that doesn't matter for the non-governmental entities here.)

Also, good riddance
How did you determine that you haven't seen many bad actors / reporting bias?
Would be nice if people from Toronto would enter more data points for the more popular startups I.e. shopify, instacart, unata, ritual, league, top hat, wealthsimple, freshbooks, pivotal, ada, etc
Maybe we should teach kids to type by having them copy simple computer programs. They could progress to correcting errors in those programs, or adding minor features. It wouldn't be full blown programming, but it might spark an interest and teach a little bit by imitation without being frightening.
I'm the same, someone was using my Macbook recently (which I got primarily for iOS development) and discovered I had never used Spotlight (in 2 years of ownership).

I will say spotlight is ok, but the finder interface can still be quite painful.
Most websites work fine, you have to be truly incompetent to make a text+image heavy website that doesn't work without JS. Web apps are a different story.

The ones that do break tend to be the ones invading your privacy.
I moved from the UK to the US six years ago. The short answer is yes, but the nuances are interesting.

The US has higher income variance, if you're on the 90th percentile of the income distribution you're going to be earning a higher multiple of the median than in the UK (about 2.6 in US vs 2.0 in UK, source as below.)

Software engineers in the US are also higher up the income distribution than in the UK. In the UK in 2017, the [1] median salary for full time 'Programmers and software development professionals' was £41,314 vs £28,759 for full time employees. In the US [2] it was $97,770 for full time 'Software Developers and Programmers' vs $37,690 for full time employees. This puts UK software developers just above the 75th percentile and US software developers just above the 90th percentile.

Then there's another step up when looking at big Silicon Valley tech companies, particularly for senior engineer roles and especially the post-senior engineer roles which don't really exist outside of the the big tech companies.

Another big difference is that the GBP has depreciated significantly against the USD over the past 10 years. It went over 2.0 in 2007 and is now down to 1.3. Working at a big tech company in Silicon Valley now feels a little like working for a bank in London before the 2008 crash.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm
Companies usually like to downgrade when hiring. Amazon does it a lot. So even if you qualified as an L7 they may hire you as an L6 (sometimes with L7 pay) and you need to go through a promotion cycle to get back to L7.
It's not just a any single coherent opposition to global warming. You get everything, including I am sure a non trivial group of people think the climate is cooling due to man made effects to people who think man made warming exists, but it's not going to have a meaningful impact.

It's not a question of evidence at this point, it's a question of the limitless realms of ignorance.
Good reporting is becoming a bit rare these days, glad to see the Atlantic being precise. It's still a worrisome report but it is important to not misstate what that 60% figure really means.
> Every time something like this happens, confidence on the security of all "provably secure" schemes is undermined.

Put in an other way, provably secure schemes only guarantee what had been proved.
There is an incentive to overstate one's salary and no down side. In fact everyone should just double their salary when self-reporting that information to anyone that won't keep it in confidence.
A fine point, there definitely transitional jobs like you've described and a healthy economy needs that much the same way we need some level of unemployment.

However, should 62% of all jobs be transitional?
I'm not personally familiar with that game.
Typing "333333 to buy a R2H!" repeatedly led to my initial discovery of copy/paste in my younger days. +1 for nostalgic smiles.
Amen, I am in a smaller city in Central Va. If you go more than 10 minutes outside the city no Comcast. There is a local cable company but it is 3x the Comcast price for half the speed. I can be 15 minutes outside of the city and have no internet options.
So what you're saying is that this tool is bad because it makes you sad ?. Information is empowering use it to make informed choices about your career. If you're taking less money, make sure there is some trade off you're happy with.

Also, most Google jobs are language agnostic. You can code in pretty much one of C/C++, Java, Python, Google hires for generalists. Your Ruby experience is not what's holding you back, so don't get bogged down.
I’m not trying to step into the discussion, but analogies usually make for weak argument tools IMO. High quality textiles cannot be copied and distributed at almost zero cost.
I wouldn't exactly call these problems.

For (1), I agree that you might have trouble getting startups (if that's what you mean by pre-IPO) to equal the total comp that big tech offers, if for no other reason that startup equity just isn't as close to cash as big tech equity is.

For (2), I'd say that depends on your mindset.

For both of your points, the argument is basically how does this sort of transparency affect things? While salary can always be a touchy subject, I'm generally always in favor of transparency.

Having this information can make it easier for one to decide whether it's worth the effort to pursue getting a job at a big tech company, and also allow you to spot BS when some other company's recruiter says that they pay "top of market" for software engineers.

So again, I wouldn't see these as problems.
If you want to avoid ad-hominem attacks, maybe you shouldn't present an unsubstantiated speculation about the motivations of climate scientists as your only hypothesis for 'explaining' what turns out to be (as others have pointed out) a faulty intuition?

Here's another motivation-based argument to think about: the organized, often irrational and sometimes threatening campaign of denial might have induced a tendency to discuss only the most bulletproof predictions, resulting in lowball estimates that will most likely rise as more evidence is uncovered.
Actually in ancient Egyptian in many cases there are multiple ways to write a given word as multiple characters could yield the same sounds.
There is a reason platforms decline.

Biggest one is when platform gets too fat and lazy and then torn apart by competition (Myspace, Aol).

If competition is too weak (AMZN) or platform is too strong (GOOG) - the decline is afar.

That said - I think the biggest and quickest riches are made by connecting supply and demand (platforming) instead of owning either of these.
Thanks for the correction! We'll update this soon.
> Calling TensorFlow API is probably easier then calling Basilica API 99% of the case.

Maybe, but training/curating data appropriate for your application isn't. It's not in that state right now but I think this service could save you some time if they had a domain-relevant embedding ready to roll for your application and it performed decently well -- that would save you a lot of time gathering training data and help you focus on the "business logic" ML needs that accept the embeddings as input.

That said, they'd need to be more performant than, say, GloVe 2B, which I can get for free off of torchtext, meaning they have to do the domain-specific heavy-lifting.
One more question, please. How many lines of code you are committing daily?
buh bye and good riddance
If you enjoy that kind of retro-futurism I recommend Asimov's Lucky Starr. For example the main character had the fastest spaceship that can go through the outer layers of the sun to take a short cut, but at the same time every output from the ship's computer gets printed because a computer screen was unimaginable. Also Venus is covered in water.
This is not true. There are many many interesting projects at Google. And mobility is very easy compared to other big companies. Please do your own research before falling for the HN dogma of "FAANG" jobs == boring.
There are some there... yea. We haven't changed that much. What did Chie ever do?
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This is what makes me so uncomfortable about numerical computing (e.g. CFD): how do you know you got it right? If you implement a fluid simulation, it might look right... but is it right?

Of course, there's proof assistants etc that can construct an implementation, but even in this cryptography context, where it's desperately worth it, they're too difficult/too much work.

Unless you really understand the maths deeply, it's difficult to be sure you got it right (and even if you do). Especially when it's not easily decomposable into independently verifiable modules.

The funny thing is, when you write straightforward code, and try it a few times (even, enshrine those as "tests"), you will feel that it is right. But there's not really that much certainty that you really did get it right.

Leading me to believe the crucial thing isn't how difficult it is to get it right, but how much it matters. Software "bug reports" are ubiquitous. Not so for cryptography!
Are you an SDE?

Btw, which office you’re in can make a gigantic difference. Amazon employees in India make a LOT less than in Seattle, for example.
I've been an L5, L6, L7 and L8 at Amazon over the last 10 years. My experience is that once you've been here a while the total comp is a rollercoaster that follows the stock price. I haven't had a salary increase since I was L6 (and don't want one!) ... so for me it all comes down to when I got stock and how it performed over the next few years. Personally I've done very well that way, as it's nearly always outperformed expectations. I think that tenured people like me skew the comp distribution because of that factor.

In general though, although it's human and natural, I wouldn't focus on what I make vs my colleagues or try to measure worth quite like that. It's simpler to think about it terms of "What would I make elsewhere and would I really be willing to leave and go through the disruption and risk of a change in jobs for that".
i advocate for computer education being complementarily folded into the current math curriculum

i have interest in changing the math curriculum as well, but for people who like the current math curriculum I think there are enormous benefits of teaching computer skills.. science.. through implementation
It's a hardcover, iirc from the year it came out. The paper and typography were fine, but the difference in binding is really obvious next to the volumes printed in, say, the 80s. I don't know just when it changed.

Nice to hear that a better version is available. I wish the online listings made it clearer what you'd get.
> Because you want to learn about new products in some way, don't you

Since when is somebody shouting about their random product the only way I can learn things? Active discovery is still a thing.

Make something, make details available. If people need it, they will find it and buy it.

> You also want companies to create new products, don't you?

No, I want better products that I actually need, not more, or just newer.

> They quite clearly say that it's a correlation. The causal link could even be the other way around.

We're reading different things if that was your takeaway. You sound like an asbestos salesman in the 50s.

You seem to hold your own mind in pretty low disregard, needing to be spoon fed to discover. You can be more than an idle consumer.
The really fun thing is that my Dell Precision on Ubuntu runs our test suite twice as fast as a latest model MBP
Show HN: Looking at rulers and skin through old microscope [video]
no hax0r, no soup for you!
> If you want to avoid ad-hominem attacks, maybe you shouldn't present an unsubstantiated speculation about the motivations of climate scientists as your only hypothesis for 'explaining' what turns out to be (as others have pointed out) a faulty intuition?

Why would that warrant an ad hominem attack?
Being given more stock during annual appraisal
It doesn't need to be that more complicated, but build systems inevitably have a way of needing at least one full time engineer to get them to the point of being that nice to use.
If you talk to a recruiter at any of the big tech companies they should put you in touch with teams that are looking for someone with skills like yours. I frequently have phone calls, coffee, and lunches with people that are considering interviewing at the company I work for. The whole conversation is just answering questions like yours.
sidenote seekingalpha is semi popular in investment/finance circles
If £37k (47k USD) is meant to be a decent salary for engineers in the UK, then the answer to GP's question is "yes". It's common for new grads to pull in significantly more than that. Engineers with a few years experience could pretty easily get twice that. (Yes even outside coastal cities, even though coastal cities would be a fair comparison if Goldman's UK presence is in London.)
...and Iridium famously resulted in the largest US bankruptcy ever, nine months after launch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_Communications#History

Initial investment ~$6B, sold to US gov't for $25m. Here's hoping Spacex has better luck.
Just curious, how do you feel about the Schiit Stack?
Read that at a glance as "taco bell heyday". Now I'm wondering if the phrase still applies.
That’s not the DAC.
I remember seeing this site being posted by an indie hacker / startup guy(s?). The interface feels very familiar. Was this acquired by Triplebyte? Did Triplebyte acquire levels.io?
For anybody else wondering about the reply to that tweet:

mosh is using AES-OCB, but seems to be using OCB3 from what I can tell:

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/blob/944fd6c796338235c4...
Neanderthal teeth reveal lead exposure and difficult winters
They probably don't like it but also believe that the walk out doesn't _do_ anything.

To clarify even further, there's been a lot internal messaging internally from execs condemning sexual harassment and assault since the news cycle. If one believes this messaging, then walking out adds almost nothing more to the situation. If you think the execs are lying to you at all, but especially on this topic, you probably already quit (most google employees don't have problems finding alternative employment)
It does not support sharding writes across multiple nodes, but we do work with streaming replication so you can set up read replicas (and for failover).
We'd love to add more roles but we don't have enough information yet. If you can help us with leveling information for sysadmins please email us at hello [at] levels [dot] fyi

Edit: Is DevOps the same as sysadmin? We have some salary data (click 'View Compensation' on main site) for sysadmins but it's marked as DevOps in our compensation form.

You can add your own here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349421
can you compare career level for https://www.adc.com.au/