skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the number one opposition to Clojure I hear. I was strongly in the static typing camp and rejected Clojure at first, even compared to Java and C++. I tried Haskell and found it amazing, but still too complex. After knowing more about functional programming I returned to Clojure and it finally clicked. I feel writing extremely simple code quickly and reinvesting that time into writing tests was a better workflow than any typed language I've used. I've only had a good experience in the REPL using emacs, but when you set it up properly, it's amazing.
the great firewall is not dead. Chinese authorities with spectrum analyzers could easily locate any rooftop customer premise radios. These things need to transmit. and they will need clear unobstructed view to the sky, nearly Horizon to Horizon.

there are already a number of countries in the world where men with guns will come and take your rooftop equipment if you try to operate an unauthorized two-way, small satellite link to the outside world. Uzbekistan for example, go take a small cheap 1.2 meter ku band VSAT terminal there, and operate it...

China is also a perfect example. I could totally go out right now and spend monthly recurring transponder kHz lease money to get a small to medium amount of two way capacity on Russian geostationary satellites that have ku band spot beams covering parts of China, and set up a two way link to a teleport in Germany.

But I give the chances of being able to operate a 1.2 to 1.8m size small VSAT in Xinjiang province for more than a week or two, very low odds. Whoever does this is going to end up in a prison or reeducation camp.
> Are you confident about this? My experience as a single guy in that total comp range is closer to 25 percent taxation. The marginal rate is that high, but only a small chunk of a 200k income is taxed at that rate. In fact, Social Security caps out before there. And if you're married, it's even lower.

What state are you in? My experience is more similar to the parent post; bonuses which are part of your total comp get taxed slightly higher than base pay. After CA income tax, etc etc effective tax rate is easily 40%+.
> Are they fingerprinting the JavaScript environment of my browser?

No, they are fingerprinting YOU and YOUR BEHAVIOR so it can be tracked across the entire internet. Intelligence agencies will use this information to track you across the web as well.
Ummm... Huh?

Taxis are a different color everywhere, there's no "standard," even NYC has green taxis ("Boro Taxis"). Yellow is a popular color, because it stands out, but I've taken taxis every color of the rainbow (well, maybe not pink or purple), each area or company is different.

In my neighborhood two companies operate taxis, one has a fleet of red taxis and another has a fleet of blue taxis. From my observation, black is probably the second most common taxi color.

You identify a taxi by it's markings, not it's color.
> You can make the same argument about basically any technology that has gotten more reliable, cheaper, easier, etc over the years.
Cars is a big one.

This is really it. Kids grow up with Ipads as their computer and cloud storage. They dont see the need for local paths, desktops, memory, disk etc.

Soon, computer programmers who actually understand what a computer does will become as rare as a IC engine engineer.
A relatively successful company in the area is Shape Security. Their marketing is a bit painful, but they invented the concept of cred stuffing. Disclaimer: I worked there for four years.
> a) make that transition from SE to writer?

I just started practicing. Writing and taking photos, blogging, etc. etc. Eventually I thought my stuff was good enough, so I started pitching magazines. I probably got 1 reply for every 20 pitches I send out.. but it's getting better now!

> b) pack away enough money to cover expenses in between articles

Yep, I saved a nest egg that I'm now spending down slowly. Some months the writing almost covers the trip - and it would if I went slower. I get asked about saving money so often I wrote an eBook about it - "Work Less To Live Your Dreams" - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01G4AL8BE/?tag=trcmyt-20

> Also— what's your plan after "the money runs out"? Back to engineering or another kind of writing?

I hope I don't have to sit at a desk ever again... but if I want to own a house or have a family, maybe it's something I'll have to do at least for a few years. I'm not sure what the future holds right now, though I'd love to build a nice cabin somewhere.

> In another post you mentioned Vancouver—is that where you're from?
Australia originally, I've been in Canada for 15 years. Whitehorse, Yukon lately which is where I'll go back to.

If you have any more questions I'm really happy to help in any way I can, I love demonstrating to others what is possible if you work really hard and set your mind to it. My email is in my profile.
Cache will always stay just cache, unless it is the same size that an underlying persistent storage. You cannot read or write larger-than-cache chunks without performance degradation. Also you have a start-up cache-warming problem.
In that case absolutely carry on! I didn't want to sound prescriptive since I'm not familiar with wear patterns of GPU-heavy calculations (it's entirely possible that they're built well enough to just run pegged at 100% for a very long time), and I also don't know much about GFX card durability for a card like the 1070 -- I thought it might be a pain to try and replace, with how tight the form factor must be.

iFixit doesn't have anything on the Oryx Pro yet[0] so...

I also didn't know Hetzner sold GPU compute! Is it a package or are you going to market and searching "gpu"?

[0]: https://www.ifixit.com/Device/System76_Laptop
They have a fairly unique leveling system / culture and only have one level. Check out their culture: https://jobs.netflix.com/culture
> Suggesting that "climate scientists don't believe a whole lot in falsification and validation" is untrue, and something of an insult to the profession

I'm a quant on Wall Street. All banks have huge model validation teams. Hundreds of people at a typical mega-bank. Collectively the banking industry probably spends well north of $1 BN per year on challenging and validating models. You could say we should do that, since with the wrong models we can cause trillions of dollars of losses. And I agree. But then the climate science wants to ultimately impose trillions of dollars of carbon taxes. Why shouldn't it be subject to similar model validation requirements? Where are the hundreds of people who's job is to challenge the climate modelers? Where are the reports with the identified model weaknesses and the agreed action plans to remediate them? Oh, we have peer review? Voluntary and unpaid. Well, why are you really surprised that I'm skeptical?
Unfortunately I don't have much reading material to provide. It's a bit of an arms war, so the latest and greatest countermeasures are typically kept secret/protected by NDA. The rabbit hole can go very deep and can differ from company to company.

The most drastic example I can think of was an unverified rumor that a certain company would "fake" log users in when presented with valid credentials from a client they considered suspicious. They would then monitor what the client did - from the client's point of view it successfully logged in and would begin normal operation. If server observed the device was acting "correctly" with the fake login token, they would fully log it in. If the client deviated from expected behavior, it would present false data to the client & ban the client based on a bunch of fancy fingerprinting.

Every once in awhile, someone will publish their methods/software; Salesforce and their SSL fingerprinting software comes to mind: https://github.com/salesforce/ja3
My normative argument is twofold:

1) we don't have the time to dither around with the latest silver reflective fads. If the climate models are correct, we must act now.

2) we already have the technology to solve the problem at scale, we merely don't have the money. The technology is nuclear power. We don't have to worry about the real estate for solar and wind.

The biggest problem is rolling back the nonsense nuclear power scares from the 70s. The second biggest problem is who will fund, build, own, audit, and operate the plants.

Wrt solar and wind, they require an ungodly amount of real estate per watt. They see untenable as a primary source of power as a result.
I meant in the context of a misunderstood person who nobody knows has ADHD and possesses behaviors that do not fit the norm, he is a victim of unjust social attitudes.
Building up complex types in the REPL is hard compared to using a map...
Are you accounting for annual refreshes? It's likely that the data posted represents employees that not only have had their grant value increase, but have had reasonable annual refreshes. The initial offer would naturally be much lower by comparison.
I know India bans satellite phones altogether.
Absolutely. Solo men get kidnapped near Lagos too, so I'm not sure your story "proves" anything.
Or maybe a supply chain man-in-the-middle attack.
I first knew of this and started using it, after seeing it working in the html5 game https://airma.sh . It's a very nice library!
I agree with you. His books on JavaScript are really great. They treat JavaScript as a first class programming language and not a scripting language and teach you from first principles without naming any of the bad actors in the JavaScript world and no biases. His Books are amazingly well written. I too am surprised how less he was paid compared to what I believe would be his calibre.

The other interpretation would be that the absurd salaries that we hear of are the outliers and most very good engineers flatten out at around 200K USD
I just did an interview in Go. I think people have done javascript too.

Sounds like a miscommunication happened somewhere. You should provide feedback to your recruiter.
Me too, I've learned so many things by spending a few hours going down the rabbit hole.
Interesting that it's similar (lower if adjusted for inflation) level of compensation since 2002. Do you feel that your specialty is plateauing in terms of pay? What would it take for another compensation increase?
> and they work

... They break about as often as they work. [0][1]

There are a lot of vulnerabilities that appear in web browser protections, and almost all of them get exploited via JavaScript. Running untrusted software is not safe.

[0] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chromium

[1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=firefox
Hovered over the words with my dictionary extension to find that they're also referred to as "jabberwocky words" which I personally think is a more apt name.

Interestingly, the dictionary also gives them readings. I wonder how they come up with them?

https://i.imgur.com/14N8yo1.png
> mixed tin of Caran d'Ache pencils

Totally off-topic but I just realized as I read that that it sounded like the Russian word for pencil: карандаш (karandash)

So I thought, aha, it's like with Xerox -- the Russians took the name of the company that makes the item and named all the items of that type after the company's name.

But it actually is even more interesting. The name of the company was taken from a French satirist who created his pseudonym after the Russian name for pencil.

And then, later, a Swiss company that made pencils used the name of the French satirist's pseudonym as their name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caran_d%27Ache_(company)
> As a software engineer in the tech industry though (especially at a place like Google), you can tell your employer to fuck off and you can find a new high-paying job tomorrow.

A white or asian man can do that, sure. But that's not necessarily true for women and other marginalized groups in the tech industry. Especially if this means they won't get a reference from their current employer.
>The other interpretation would be that the absurd salaries that we hear of are the outliers and most very good engineers flatten out at around 200K USD

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Ka, as in, radar?
What's your point? Neither of your comments has been responsive to the ones they are below.
TIL LSTMs are out, Transformers are in.
Great comment! There are many countries which spends more than US like Switzerland so the only conclusion one can derive is that after some amount the marginal gains in quality of education are small. However the conclusion that marginal gains actually reduces are not correct. The fact is that quality of education depends on many more things after certain minimal spend is established. Teacher training and incentives, standards, methodology etc are much more important. For example, why are we still doing passive learning in classroom where students are expected to just sit and listen as opposed to hands on project based or Montessori style learning. Think about the difference just this will make.

I also think US system is fundamentally flawed because of government established monopoly. This prevents other players to come in and make improvements. Even worse, students in US is tied to a school based on house a parent can afford. Why can't a parent take education allowance from government and go to any school they prefer? This would allow competition, private entities, market economy and most importantly fast evolution by innovating on other factors.
First, I recommend you do not quit your job. No matter how frustrating it might be, it is always much easier to find a new job when you already have one. So if you decide it is best to move on, look for and accept another position before handing in your notice.
Sailfish 3 is here
So happy to see this mentioned here. I was able to visit David's workshop last time I was in Tokyo. Great guy and a great artist. Really love the prints I've bought from him over the years.
Even for people in this industry that follow the news, you're right. I see hardly anything about it. However, there are a few really good analysts on Twitter that talk about it, and the consensus seems to be that starlink is in trouble. Between taking debt and the questionable status of the satellites that were launched, it seems it needs to be written about more.
Yes, though two way satellite Ka is generally uses to refer to all of the bands above the "traditional" Ku band FDD frequency channels, but below 31GHz.

Not exactly the same bands as ka radar.
I had an idea like this with one differentiator. To receive feedback, you first need to give feedback to someone else. This is to guarantee that you don't just upload and nothing ever happens.
What reasons lead you to select any OCB variant in 2011? Not trying to be snarky -- I am genuinely curious, given the patent landscape at that time and lack of any open source grant.
You should look at the impartial nonpartisan data I provided and do simple integration before you claim that, moving forward, the West will be what matters WRT climate change.

WRT the past, your "baked in" argument makes no sense and is in any case irrelevant. Moving forward, if the West drops to zero emissions today, the developing world will burn the planet alive, if the climate models are correct.
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Netapp too. A quote for a new filer and a 5th year of support on a 4 year old one are usually about the same.
Yes but those people aren't exactly drinking just a little to become more productive the rest of the week. It's quite likely their day jobs are the hourly type factory based where intellect is need not apply.

I think the comment i was replying to stated that a little relaxation in the middle of a stressful hour can really help you focus more.
This is not true of most of the numbers on levels.fyi that I can tell. I know for my own FAANG employer, the numbers seem right on the dot with numbers I have seen elsewhere and my own compensation (RSUs being at time given, not current value).
Not that I understand the point you're making, but, whatever it is, the people "sitting in politics" are a tiny minority of the legal profession as a whole.
I interviewed and passed at google. Through 6 interviews I used JS, C, Go, and Swift. One of the tougher Qs was to make a pretty full-featured promise library from scratch in whatever language I wanted in one of those interviews. Chose Swift because I'm a fan of the syntax for blocks (esp when whiteboarding). Feedback was that was my best interview of the day. My experience - they wanted to know I could program, didn't care about language.
Yes. Just like Samsung can stop selling Apple screens. But they don't, because spacex is hurting for revenue, and satellite launch forecasts have slowed substantially.
Yes, the amount of Russian shills here has increased visibly in recent times

See the Assange articles for an example
Be careful or you’ll end up as Bloomberg’s next source!
My understanding was that large run ups (or downs!) in AMZN stock would result in adjustments, such that your total comp stays on target. Is that a simplistic description?
Do you have any meditation practice whatsoever? Did you find value in meditating for shorter periods (less time commitment) like 10-20 minutes a day and notice any benefit?

There's lots of shorter meditation apps offering similar times and tout a whole host of benefits.
Great post! A few observations.

- It seems like the difficulty level ramps up really quickly starting with the "So, what makes the lisp example different?" section. This was jarring enough that I pretty much glossed over it (too much effort required to process all the definitions at once).

As a more meta point, I wonder if symbolic differentiation is in fact a good example of highlighting lisp's differentiating features? One could write the same code in python/javascript with using lists and strings and recursion in a similar way, no?

Not that I have a better example to highlight lisp's differences, which I understand to be macros. I've read SICP and have written a fair amount of elisp and still have not once identified a good use case for writing a DSL nor even a macro for myself.
I actually think Triplebyte’s numbers are low because they don’t reflect RSUs and refresher grants. It’s also hard to compare ISOs to RSUs.
British English vs American English :)
This makes salaries anywhere else on Earth outrageously low.
Unfortunately for Sydneysiders their cost of living is just as high as Bay Area. At least Thailand is much cheaper.
Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to death
There are a lot of "has not been done before" going on right now in the satellite industry. Musk is the only one getting press, though. And keep in mind that the cpe cost hasn't been justified anywhere I've seen. Phased array is still far from $700, so it's not clear how they plan to recoup that.
Lol, have you ever worked for Google? When I was there, joking about how our jobs was all about moving protos around was a classic memegen topic.
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You probably don’t want to go with all users, you just need to pick matched once.
When a new user signs up, you need to take his books and genres and find users with the same or mostly the same.
I wish that you told me what kinds of things don't kids recover from. Physical muscles, check! Mental cognition, check! Emotional therapy, check. Attitude adjustment, check.

What's left? Hunger? Poverty? Love? Addiction? Depression? It's debatable whether the child really did recover or just get stronger in a different way.
It's very easy for people to say "no of course I would never do that" to a morally ambiguous situation when they're just discussing hypotheticals. When it comes to real life, and the other person is making a serious offer, and there's a good chance no one else will find out...I would expect the answers to be significantly different.
> I'm amazed how little coverage Starlink, OneWeb, etc get

Most of what Musk is doing (if it works) will strip tens of billions (trillions?) of dollars from very, very established industries.

Telco (Starlink), Auto (Tesla), Oil (Tesla), Transport (Boring), Power/oil/gas (SolarCity).

There are extremely rich and powerful interests that have no interest in him doing that, and you can bet they don't want the media telling the world what's going on.
Which is a better career choice – Machine Learning or Distributed Systems?
I am in need of a career advise, I hope this forum will help me make the most difficult career decision of my life.

My background - I have 12+ years of experience of working as a systems programmer (Linux userspace & kernel). I am currently working or a reputed MNC in India, Bangalore.

Recently I somehow landed up into a situation wherein, I got a job opportunity NLP, Machine learning - this is completely different from what I hve been doing until now (which is systems work).

Also, just week before I got this job opportunity, when I was totally confused about my career goals,
my friend who is also working in systems advised me to work on a open source distributed file systems project to advance my career.

My question is simple -- which would be a better choice to go for in long run ?
This headline is not as negative as the article (or reality):

"Within hours of landing, Musk had fired at least seven members of the program’s senior management team at the Redmond, Washington, office, the culmination of disagreements over the pace at which the team was developing and testing its Starlink satellites"

Their progress is slower than musk wanted, and of that of the competitors telesat and oneweb from what's public. He was firing because the project isn't going well.
Very different indeed!

I recently switched my phone's keyboard to Dvorak to learn the layout. Interestingly, my thumb typing speed has increased with no effect on my touch typing (using QWERTY).

It's as if touch typing and thumb typing use different parts of the brain.
Yes. Senior engineers at these companies are heavily compensated via equity. Total comp can fluctuate by tens of thousands each month. Its crazy hoe much picking a job has become an exercise in stock picking, and it’s crazy how little our individual performance correlates with comp.
All stereo components, except the amp connection to the speaker, should be ethernet. Turntable, CD player, cassette, pre-amp, everything.

Then make it wifi.

Just think, you could eliminate that awful rat's nest of cables. The sound quality would be better. You could locate components where-ever convenient. Each component could have a web browser interface.

It'd be awesome.
Look at all the replies. Everybody is ignoring the elephant in the room, instead desperately focusing on socially acceptable ridicule of OP's diatribe on security.

Wake up people.

> Of course Google wants you to enable JS, because it allows them to monitor and track everything about you more easily. Twisting it into "this will make you safer" is sad and undeniably repugnant.

What Google is evolving into, whether consciously or not, is the equivalent of IBM punch card compatible identification tattoos that were were part of the system of Jewish identification in Nazi camps. Pretty soon your every action will be tracked throughout the Internet and you will be uniquely identified at every site you go to whether you want it or not. Intelligence agencies will know exactly what you are thinking all the time with a nice RabbitMQ feed from major internet sites that downloads your mouse movement and key stroke pattern fingerprint along with your post contents and associates it with your https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore account. You will have lost all anonymity. Online access will be increasingly restricted and major sites will only become accessible to those deemed worthy by a central social credit score rating agency. Research the consequences of China's social credit system if you want a taste of the future and don't care to learn about what the Nazis did to Jews. Downvote me at your own peril. Downvoters are useful idiots and next on the chopping block. The 21st century equivalent of Nazi concentration camp gate keepers who were just "doing their job."