skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed the tight grouping as well. I'm in the very low end...of the job level below me.
Of course part of the problem is that finder is absolute and utter garbage as a file manager and the mystery of the save dialog is complete nonsense. I've been using Macs since MacOS8 and I still can't figure out how to navigate in finder or properly save files maybe 20% of the time.

I think it comes from some kind of pathological belief inside of Apple that people can't possible learn how the file system works and try to hide it even as it exists in reality.

Even in your example the students managed to figure out how the filesystem hierarchy works, but only through a saner interface so I believe it really is the software that's the problem here.
(not parent, of course)

IIRC: T4 (it wasn't called that internally. it was the "SWE III" smaller text on the box), 100k/yr salary + ~15k stock / yr, don't remember bonus, in 2011. ~$114k adjusted for inflation.
It's strange to single out macOS when the vast majority of these issues (as stated in the original article) stem from users not using traditional personal computers at all anymore as primary computing devices (i.e. growing up on Android/iOS).
Nope, occurs even just on battery.
L5? Which location? When did you join?

Did you receiver refreshers? Your stock growth alone should push you into upper bands if you stayed long.
> Hacker News works perfectly fine without Javascript.

keyword being "too".

> In fact, I don't think I've ever enabled Javascript here on Hacker News.

I mean, that's super, but it's just one more point in the column of how HN's population is out of touch with any regular person. It's really annoying to wait for the page reload on even a fast network, and good luck finding your place again if a thread is even moderately busy.
Work from home is prevalent in India in some companies. The policy or the practice around it varies from no WFH at all to 1 day of WFH per month to 1 day of WFH per week to WFH whenever you like.
I don't think most do, I don't.

But, I don't think China is somewhere I would want to live and it has nothing to do with the people. Then again for the same reason ok wouldn't want to live in the US right now
And to the "outsiders" from outside US, it should be written that 40-45 percent is taken away as taxes. So, if someone is making a total comp of 200k, it is basically 120k. This should be written in bold on this website.

Actually i would say, instead of having these charts which compare total comp, its better to have a survey on how much people save after rent, taxes, and basic living expenses (not including loans etc.)
Note that Linux often has GNU Midnight Commander, a clone of Norton Commander (Far is also a clone of NC.) So, whenever you're in Linux and wishing you had Far, check out MC!
The survey opens with:

"Welcome to the largest survey ever of Java developers ... The survey was conducted by publishing its availability to the Java community at large (via social media primarily), to Java User Groups around the world, including the Virtual JUG, and to subscribers of Java Magazine, the Java bimonthly publication from Oracle Corp."

So the sample is heavily biased and doesn't include the population of JVM users who have never touched Java.
I'm all for rewriting things into safe languages, but I do like the battle-tested nature of C things, like unbound. For example, I'm interested in replacing my smtpd daemon with something better. I'm most tempted to go with postfix, because it's very supported, does lots, is totally battle tested, and has a good security track record. However, the hip kid on the block is Haraka -- https://haraka.github.io/ . It's written by smart people with a long history in the problem space, and it does things in a new and modern way. I'm inclined to like it. But several things make me hesitant:

- Will a hipster javascript thing really be as reliable? Are these new runtimes really sufficient for totally essential things like email? What about filesystem stuff? I'd think a battletested thing like postfix will be much better off than this.
- Do I really want to deal with javascript or whatever other hipster language for deployment? With most essential utilities, it's packaged in my distro with minimal dependencies. With hipster stuff, it's usually a fast pace of development, which doesn't lend itself to packaging, and uses something awful like npm. Is this something I really want to depend on?

So I'd wonder the same thing about sdns. The "rewrite it in ${safelang}" trend tends to produce immature and unreliably deployable software and that makes me worried. How's sdns fare?
Watch this little robot transform to get the job done
Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian, also makes this point.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I think it's very likely you are right. Also thanks for the link to the data. I tried in the past to get access to actual raw data so I can play with it, and draw my own conclusions, but all I got was always many levels above the raw data.

Your point about politicians in denial is 100% on. And as a skeptical guy it bothers me that people perceive me as being somehow in the same boat as them. It is my perception that those guys are not really trying to find truth, or what's best for humankind, or anything beyond what will get them elected in the next cycle. However, that being said, I'm still skeptical.

To give you an example, how many times did you not read in the media that Greenland is melting. Well, here's the real time data about the Greenland ice sheet mass [1]. Have you ever heard that the mass accumulation for the 2017-18 year was way above the 30-year mean?

Edit: Also, thanks the Hacker News community. This is the first time I express my views on climate change without using a throwaway account, and I fully expected my karma to take a huge hit. So far it didn't, it stayed about flat. I expected to be destroyed in the comments. Nope, all comments have been respectful. Well done Hacker News.

[1] https://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-shee...
Well... I dunno about that. Digital has gotten really really good. I bought a Helix about a year ago and sold my tube amps a few months ago... not that they were BAD, but I could get all the sounds (and way more) out of the Helix.

But obviously a new player isn't going to want to drop $1500 on a rig like that.
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I mostly do JavaScript and Go. But also Scala and Python somewhat longer ago.
Hyperpartisanship is a phenomenon we can see in societies far predating the invention of movable type, and it has had a class trigger (the Gracchi revolts in Rome), a religious trigger (Arian/Orthodox in late antiquity -Iconoclasm/Iconophile in Byzantium), a sports trigger (the Blue/Green civil riots in Constantinople) or traditionally an intra-elite trigger (Guelf/Ghibbeline or White/Black Guelf in medieval italy.) Niall Ferguson is not a rigorous historian and, like Malcolm Gladwell, should be considered an entertainer not a thinker.
So like, 30 seconds ago? :)
At a large company like Google or FB, responsibilities for the same role may vary widely between orgs or even teams within the same org. So I don’t really think that you can define “responsibilities” in a way that allows you to compare between companies.
I also liked QNX, when I worked with it.

You really did access devices through the /dev/ system, and device-drivers were userspace programs that created files in /dev/.

If your driver crashed, you could kill the userspace driver (which deleted the file under /dev) and restart it (assuming hardware blah blah blah).
In the US, there is no salary verification. They ask, but you can lie, refuse to state, or answer. It's just a negotiation tactic.
Microsoft also noted that the best way to avoid false positives is to publish apps on the Microsoft Store as it scans for viruses or malware before publishing the app for the users.

The overwhelming desire to lock people into their walled garden is so blatant.

The first method to prevent a false positive is to ensure the software is digitally signed.

To someone looking to make money from malware, the cost of code signing is probably insignificant. To someone innocent and just wanting to share some software for free, it's not.

It shows that MS is clearly not interested in actually improving the detection accuracy of their AV much, but more interested in converting developers into a revenue stream.
The security bugs found during Pwn2Own are usually kept under embargo, and only published later by the browser developers. Here's an article about a Chrome bug found in 2017's Pwn2Own:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3186686/web-browsers/g...

and it does involve JavaScript. Could you provide some recent examples of the sort of browser exploits you mean, that don't require JavaScript? (I assume you're not including exploits in extensions/plugins like Flash or PDF viewers.)
I wonder if Windows is slower. It isn't terrible, but waiting 8 seconds after typing in "using JuMP" is kind of long.
The first comment in there is really gold. Get rid of sysvinit, but please do invest efforts in advancing init systems. The problem is clearly not "solved" and we need diversity.
An amplifier like in this article does just one of the many things a normal combo guitar amp does.

1. Preamp with hi-Z input from guitar to line level

2. Ability to drive into distortion

3. EQ of some sort

4. (Sometimes) reverb

5. Amplify line to speaker level (this article)

6. Midrangey speaker+cabinet that sounds nothing like a normal flat speaker cabinet used for HiFi/PA/keyboard/etc.

However, as others have said, you can use a guitar modeler which performs steps 1-4 outright and simulates step 6 leaving only a need for step 5 and a "normal" speaker.
Books that aren't currently in print occasionally see their used price spike on Amazon. As far as I can tell, the spike is meaningless and doesn't reflect that there are any sales occurring at that price point (so you probably shouldn't hustle over to eBay). You just have to wait for the price to go back down.
I wouldn't know, I have a self-hosted calendar. From the little I've seen, though, the calendar part of Fastmail is very good too.
I try hard not to be a luddite as I age, but this level of automation and machine learning is so concerning.

It is SO frustrating to accidentally appear as a bot and get stuck at the mercy of an automated system. I was on some random site the other day and spent 3+ minutes solving Captchas until it finally let me through. I thought I was losing my mind. I don't spam, I don't automate queries, I come from an IP that has two residential users (netflix, xbox traffic dominate everything). Who knows what I did to offend the algorithm.
No, they don't always work. We have bullet proof vests but it's still not safe to put one on and have someone start shooting you.
Really? I found Skia easier to compile than actually use.
And indeed it's time to give up on the web being a document format only. The internet is about loading remote applications in your local sandbox. That's what it is. It sucks, but it is what it is. As part of loading remote applications, we now might be asked to compute whatever anti-abuse puzzles are required. So it goes.
How close did the US actually get to using nuclear weapons in vietnam in 1968?
The XNU networking stack is complete garbage in general. Have you ever seen all the crazy hard-coded stuff they have for different types of network mediums -- wifi vs cellular vs etc -- and in the kernel? It's bonkers. Plus a weird evolution of firewalls and ugh.
I'm gonna wager that 0.1% of users who don't or can't run Javascript aren't very valuable to Google.
worth noting that homes are expensive because compensation is high, not the other way around.

expensive housing does bring up low wages, but does not increase top level wages.

while savings rate stays the same despite CoL, total savings increases.

all else being equal, living in the bay is worth it despite the CoL for most developers
>audiophile circles
>They mostly want to listen to something that 'sounds good', with all the psychoacoustic baggage that comes with such a statement

TL;DR the technology is so good and so cheap now that what you get from a $150 set-up today rivals stuff costing much more from a decade ago. I still recommend spending 90+% of your budget over a few hundred dollars on better actual reproduction equipment, be it speakers or headphones.

Not in my audiophile circle (which is mostly head-fi). There are all different price points, and different goals within those. Most reviews I've read in the past decade talk about if the headphones / IEMs are more targeting accuracy or a "fun" sound, but most of the reviews I've ever read on head-fi are very concerned with accuracy and true-to-recording representation. FWIW I'm very much not alone in my interest in things like super low distortion class D, solid-state headphone amps with digital volume control (so you don't introduce a potentiometer / stepped attenuator / LDR into the signal path), ear measuring mics (e.g. https://www.minidsp.com/products/acoustic-measurement/ears-h... ), digital parametric EQs to adjust for not-perfect frequency response, room correction, etc.

The technology in modern decent (decent = what most people would call "high-end", but I'm talking few-hundred-dollar Class D for amps and something along the lines of a properly-engineered ESS 9018-based DAC, maybe $100-200, OR a ~$200-300 headphone DAC+AMP combo, think Oppo HA2-SE level) equipment is so good IMO that headphones / speakers / IEMs make a MUCH MUCH bigger difference than jumping to equipment 10x the cost at the DAC or amp level does. $200 headphones are not bad, but $1000 headphones are damn amazing comparatively. I've owned a dozen pairs of IEMs, and while my gaming 'phones are Shure SE215s, they're not in the same league as my Westone ES60s. Even with that said, most people who have never owned any serious music gear would likely be blown away by just how good the SE215s are, coming out of something like a Fiio K1 or a smartphone / laptop / desktop with a decent DAC+AMP.

Tube amps are still fun to play with, but maybe aside from some 300B snobs, I don't think many people really believe that they're more accurate than modern solid state. Some people also still like vinyl, and will happily spend $10k+ on a record player.

There are also the high-sampling-frequency crowd and the high-bitrate geeks. It's fun to think about, but I personally can't hear a difference between 192kHz/24bit and Spotify "high quality" 44.1/16 with an RME ADI-2 Pro and HD 800S headphones or the ES60s (both balanced, which does sound slightly better to me in both cases). I actually showed up to a headphone meet in Tokyo and pulled out Spotify to demo some flagship IEMs with, and the guy was trying to explain to me how that was like ~eating caviar on a donut.
> Matt Damon (who rents luxury yachts for solo use and flies jets across the ocean for convenience

To be fair, someone like Matt Damon would not get any privacy if he traveled with other people.
Heck I am in middle of a migration to Azure from AWS right now. It’s not huge ~50k/mo but it adds to the story.
The UI is absolutely smooth unlike any laptop!

Coda has a local server/browser pair you can use for simpler things. But usually the kind of web work I'm doing barely exercises a single core, it all runs on a $2.50/month VM.
I saw an interview with climate scientists and they discussed this issue. They said that the numbers they report to government agencies and other authoritative organizations are typically the more conservative end of margins in their studies due to political pressure.
Thank you! I've never read those threads but will be on there!!!
This reads like an April fools joke.
> Being allowed to pay for services with money, rather than being required to pay for services with your personal data

One possible big disadvantage for a site owner in letting people pay with money instead of data is dealing with taxes.

I'm not actually sure how most jurisdictions tend to classify it when someone comes to your site and you charge them to access your content. My guess would be it would be taxed the same way they tax digital goods such as downloadable software that does not include any physical components.

For such goods most jurisdictions that tax them seem to base the tax on the buyer's location rather than the seller's location, so the seller has to deal with charging the appropriate tax and filing returns for potentially a large number of jurisdictions.

If the seller is providing the content for "free" and making their money selling visitor data to advertisers then their income will probably only be subject to taxation in their own jurisdiction. It will simply be ordinary business income.
Finance pays similar rates as this in lots of places (Chicago, New York, Austin, Houston, Dallas).

These are just jobs I know of in my network. I’ve heard that these pay band exists in other industries as well (consulting, specialist niche, etc).
[Edit: OCB in general] is almost entirely unused due to the patents around it. Instead, people ended up using GMAC (e.g., AES-GCM mode) for the most part.

(Another good AEAD alternative today is Chacha20+Poly1305, standardized in IETF RFC 8439 (née RFC 7539).)
1. There's more than 3 samples. And they picked the locations for taking these samples very carefully.

2. They're measuring different things, obviously. One is measuring the mixture of gasses, the other is pure temperature.

The gas measurement is good for getting a picture of the entire system because it allows us to use basic chemistry, which is well understood, to gain a picture of the overall temperature change by looking at how much gas has escaped the ocean.

The ocean temperature data, while very useful, can still be subject to both sampling errors and problems with the analysis as far as how to interpret it in aggregate. Especially since you have to put overall weather patterns, like El Nino / La Nina, etc. into your analysis. There's always going to be uncertainty into how you should do analysis of the data over so many disparate points.
Not quite: the technical equivalent to director is Principal SWE (T8).
So the proof is erroneous, or it doesn't prove what it was thought to prove, or the attack uses a technique that doesn't fall within the scope of the proof - or else the attack doesn't actually work.

Still terrifying. What other proofs of security and/or correctness are false and/or don't prove what we think they do?
I don’t see why compiling XNU needs to be more complicated than 1. install the compiler (easy to do just by typing ‘cc’ on a pristine Mac) 2. Type ‘make’
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no, its WebGL - see http://disq.us/p/1wv9zek
The correct URL is: https://blog.github.com/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domai...

It's a repost of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16969111
Here is the link to the actual opinion http://www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SCO...

The HSC held that Native Hawaiian rights would not be substantially impacted by the TMT, which was an issue in the administrative hearing that took place from 2016-2017, and what was being appealed in this HSC case.

What was procedural was the previous administrative hearing was ruled invalid because BLNR granted the permit before convening the hearing, so those that wanted to voice their grievances weren't given a real opportunity to. HSC said that violated due process and remanded the case for a second administrative hearing. It is this second hearing, regarding the TMT building permit, that this court case deals with.

The judge in the administrative hearing, a retired state judge, found that there would be no substantial impacts to natural resources, most importantly water resources, but also cultural and archaeological resources. The University of Hawaii brought in a hydrologist with expertise in local (Big Island) water resources to demonstrate why and the hearing officer (the administrative judge) accepted that based on the hydrologists scientific expertise in local water issues. It was then found to be a valid conclusion when appealed to the HSC.

If you want to read the conclusion of the hearing officer in the administrative hearing, her findings of fact and conclusions of law can be read here https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/mk/files/2017/07/783-Hearing-Officer... (long: 305 pages). This was what BLNR used to grant the permit. And as a matter of it being so thorough and as a matter of everyone being a chance to voice their opinion, the HSC upheld the permit and the conclusions of the hearing officer.
>>for practical purposes you're fully tied to the JVM and the java runtime libs.

That's more like a positive thing about Clojure. Java inter-op and targeting the JVM gives Clojure a great chance of adoption at large enterprises.

These days no one really has a issue installing jars on a production machine.
Do you wear a bulletproof vest every time you go outside? No? Interesting.
I've been here 4 years. I'm sorry, I'd rather not divulge much more than that.

Stock growth did result in a higher than expected TC, but the number of shares I have vesting will drop substantially over the next 2-3 years. If you're curious, every year I've been here my manager has given me great annual reviews. My base pay is substantially lower than the others on the list.

What are refreshers? Perhaps it's something I know by another term?
The Firefox Pwn2Own...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3183264/security/mozil...

...is also JavaScript-related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1348168
The amendments are part of the constitution.

Case law, as you linked, is not. It also keeps changing without the underlying documents changing. I don't know how you can look at all those dates marking times high courts had to get involved and still say it's clear.
The plural of "bus" is "buses".

"busses", refers to kissing.

That is all.
> Sorry -- do you have a citation on that? If popping party balloons could disable iphones, I think we'd hear about it more often. (I can't find anything about it on a quick search, and I hope I can be excused for missing an analogy that depended on an invalid premise!)

Some of the tests were just plastic bags with tiny amounts of helium in them. Unless you're asserting some exceptionally strange gas physics here, you can break an iphone with some balloons.

> Regardless of your preferred terminology, it seems odd to take an attitude of "oh, it only deleted everyone's second-brain for week, in a way that was hard to root-cause, no one died, no big deal" and therefore balk at the use of "disturbing".

> I mean, do you consider undetectable, inexpensive phone-bricking techniques to be generally "non-disturbing", or just this one?

Hang on. You were calling the calibration of the air quality sensors disturbing. That's what I objected to. I wasn't making any claims about the iphone bug itself.
One in three college students believe physical violence is justified
I would go with one of the new generation of solid state guitar amps like the Boss Katana. These are Class D amps like the one in the article, but voiced for guitar, and with distortion and reverb effects built in. They're very reasonably priced, and get good reviews from enthusiasts (much better than the solid state amps of 10+ years ago).
“How” to take derivatives is not the education that people need.

Why to take derivatives is much more important.
So it turns out that the attack "was possible due to the discrepancy between the proof of OCB2 and the actual construction" (according to the paper). That's a scary thought.

I wanted to learn a little bit more about progress towards verified implementations (i.e. deriving the implementation automatically from its proof) and found a nice summary here:

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/34304/formal-veri...