skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Kingdom_of_Ha...
Thousands of options is why I asked for a recommendation. I know Schiit has good reviews but I'm just interested in ICs. Something like PCM2707C for USB communication or PCM1794A for DAC or whatever else.
It was a little under 200k/yr total in Mountain View for T4.
Waymo’s excruciatingly gradual launch process, explained – Ars Technica
You can add exceptions to websites you visit you know..
This makes salaries and compensation in Toronto seem outrageously low. Wow.

Maybe I should be moving? Crazy.

(Sadly, family is here, so moving is unlikely)
Amusingly, the article is perfectly readable with javascript off, but with only first-party js allowed, it's blank.
Software Engineer Productivity: coding
Throughput is orthogonal to reliability. You can improve both by creating read replicas, but that doesn't imply automated fail-over.
What percentage are 'wrong'? How do you find the right ones? Ask around? What if you don't know people to ask..

Hmm that would be a great website - for anywhere, it tells you who the right law firms are for what, with user stories, ratings, etc. And links to orgs who give good advice about those things etc.
Fittingly titled "The Chaos": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
I browse with javascript blocked by default and also often need to enable a script for proper functionality. However when I enable that one script, I will almost always see numerous other blocked scripts that can remain suppressed without a problem for me. Most of these are related to tracking/advertising. For me blocking the rest of the scripts is well worth having to play around a bit when I first visit a new website.
First I'll note that I'm not agreeing with what they're saying.

They're saying that in today's Western culture, it's impossible to make an argument for controlling global population expansion because of where that expansion is occuring. Places such as sub-sahara Africa, the Middle East, India. Muslim countries, black countries, for example. That for Western culture today, the view that the wealthy first world is privileged (and should act a certain way accordingly), makes it impossible to confront excessive population growth in less privileged parts of the world, because of guilt, political correctness, or similar.
Wait, what? The “volume” of MIDI? I’m guessing they’re not referring to cc#7...?

(Also, I’ve never encountered a 9-pin MIDI connector. 5-pin maybe?)
Yes the noise surrounding headphones is incredible (pun not intended), even stranger I find the denigration of 'studio monitor' quality very odd. Recently I bought a nice pair of headphones, naturally enough I wanted the ones that colour the music the least, went looking in the headphone section at the nearest consumer electronic shop for the ones that were on their web site and couldn't find them. There were stands of beats, and Sony etc at crazy prices. I asked the guy where they were and they were poked away in the corner in a different section. I laughed - the best headphones that were cheap were hidden away and all the overpriced plastic nonsense were displayed prominently.
I see you've worked with BobX!

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/We-Use-BobX
I've been using levels.fyi and really liking it. It provides much more useful data than paysa. I strongly believe the economy needs a functioning free labor market, and price discovery is crucial to any free market.

The main feature I'd like to see is information on typical refreshers. Also useful would be a way to just get a list of companies sorted by comp at a given approximate level. Additionally, information about refreshers and career trajectories at different companies would be nice too, for evaluating medium-long term prospects of working at any given company (e.g. I've read anecdotes that Apple offers more generous refreshers than most companies).

I'd also like to see data on equity aggregated across small-medium startups, perhaps as a function of valuation, employee number, employee experience and time since last valuation. AngelList has some data about listed equity but it's very broad, and I'd like for some actual data of the sort that startups privately share with each other but keep secret from employees / job-seekers.

Edit: It would also be cool if you guys can get some companies to post job ads with compensation ranges included for the posted levels. It would be useful for everyone involved; it would help candidates avoid needlessly applying to companies that can't match their desired comp, help out companies that offer competitive comp in sourcing candidates, and add more revenue for you guys as well.
> reference to the Blue Book

So you mean ParcPlace Smalltalk-80 "supports multicore since the early days"?

I think those Smalltalk "processes" are run in the same OS thread and only use one core, so please explain what you mean.

Were you aware of Actra?
This is the usual reaction for those outside the Bay Area. Cost of living is very high in SF though, as are home prices.
Sorry, I should have been more clear: the performance gap between DRAM and SSD. This sits in between those.
The Scheme Programming Language, 4th Edition
Which is quite a bit later than the timeframe the parent is referring to.
What do you do when your Texas Instruments Silent 700 printing terminal is hslf-duplex with local character echo, which prints out every character, and you need to be prompted to enter a password? CR to the rescue!

XXXXXXXX [CR] OOOOOOOO [CR] M&%OCHIS [CR] HXNQPOUK [CR] [enter pw on gobblegook] [LF]
[LF]

Welcome to GEISCO!

Timesharing was kewl. 8 character passwords were da bomb.
0.1% of roughly 4 billion would be about 4 million. Somewhat more in pageviews.

Of course, this fails to account for self-selection, a beehaviour has encountered before, in which increasing Youtube performance slowed average load times ... because users who'd previously found the site intolerably slow now found it slow, but tolerable.

(I've looked for the story, can't find it.)

Much as those who prefer to avoid use of Google won't appear in site use metrics. And enforced JS could well prove a deterrant.
On a similar note, anybody know why you can get a very good A/V receiver for ~$500 but not a pre/pro for under $1k? Is it just the lower manufacturing volume?
This breaks the Show HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) as well as the HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), which ask you not to post shallow dismissals, especially of others' work. That's particularly important in Show HN threads. We don't want a culture where the reflex is to be a jerk and kick things.

That doesn't mean you can't raise concerns. Someone else raised the same concern that you did in a fine way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18348005. When in doubt, emulate them and ask a simple question.
Five countries hold 70% of world's last wildernesses
This is a neat idea, and could prove useful. I'll be sure to dig in a little.
Oops sorry for posting somewhat of a non-sequitur. I'm definitely not a designer (pixel art or otherwise), but Gamasutra often has solid community content and interesting deep dives across game design issues (like in the parent!).

See:

Basic pixel art tutorial: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/KennethNg/20151211/261577/Pix...

Deep dive into Crawl's pixel art https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/300004/Game_Design_Deep_...

Another collection of pixel art tips (and examples)
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/176663/5_tips_for_making...
You could rate-limit at a higher limit based on username as well.

I guess a potential problem with that however is the login-blocking of high profile accounts with known usernames.
Maybe only those accounts could be solved by a captcha to bypass the login-block. And if there is a solution like that, login-blocks will basically become useless & therefor also disappear.
Are you talking about the entirety of American history. Assuming you are due to the Mexican American war, there are a few examples:

1. The United Kingdom, and thus Canada, during the War of 1812.
2. Germany in World War I, via the Zimmermann telegram. Although rejected by the Mexican government, the threat was absolutely credible.
3. The Barbary Pirates. Protecting American shipping interests is protecting the country as well, as well as an attack on American territory.
4. Iran during the Iranian hostage crisis. Again, attacks on an embassy/diplomatic mission constitute an attack on sovereignty, especially when those attacks are directed against Americans.
> The puzzles aren’t simple if you’re blind or hard of vision. Or don’t have a US cultural background

I've lived my whole life in the US and have about 20/20 vision (used to be slightly better than 20/15), and I'd estimate my reCaptcha pass rate around 20%.

The puzzles are just badly done, it's not even a vision or knowledge thing.
They have fields for additional compensation.
This is also why, even if Bitcoin blocks are mined every 10 minutes on average, the average size of the current waiting period between blocks is 20 minutes, when averaged over all moments in time.

I wonde if submitter found this blogpost after the recent discussion about Poisson processes.
Probably. I started out at 120k total compensation 2.5 years ago out of college and now make 210k after a recent job switch. My net worth according to mint is already at 100k (Note: that includes 401k and I didn't have any college loans which helps) and I pay 100% of my nice apartment, all food, and even buy stuff for my GF who is in grad school (we have lived together since we graduated but I pay for almost everything because she is in grad school).
GAB.AI is offline
I bet that assumption is responsible for a large number of problems. I just also think it's correct enough most the time and relied on enough that if it all of a sudden often wasn't true, we'd see our carefully crafted applications for what they really are, a pile of assumptions that sometimes have little relation to reality.
I usually see midi as a 5-pin DIN, but some sound-cards used a DB-9 which required an adapter.
Fedora Enables ClearType Subpixel Font Rendering Thanks to Microsoft
I find that with Jupyter, re-running code does serve one useful purpose, which is to make sure that your result isn't affected by out-of-order execution or a global that you declared and forgot about. That is a real pitfall of Jupyter that has to be explained to beginners.

For my work, reproducing a result may involve collecting more data, because a notebook might be a piece of a bigger puzzle that includes hardware and physical data. This is where scripting is a two edged sword. On the one hand, it's easy to get sloppy in all of the ways that horrify real programmers. On the other hand, scripting an experiment so it runs with little manual intervention means that you can run it several times.
I'm on ~5 years of temp-whitelist only for JS domains. I have acquired a third sense for which CDN and assort domains are really required for what.

Sure, it does take some back and forth testing, and some sites like wix.com sites are terrible no matter what, but in general it's a better browsing experience.
Ask HN: As a Software Engineer how can I help in colonizing mars?
I've always been fascinated with space exploration but have no clue how as a Software Engineer can I contribute to this.

I'm not American.
Is your comp not tied to your level?
It's not a digital amplifier. A class-D amplifier is basically somewhat like a switched-mode power supply that varies its output voltage in response to swings in the input signal.
That's not much of a counterpoint. It's written specifically to use rhymes that appear not to be rhymes, is forced to use visually obvious rhymes anyway, and looks nothing like prose.
True. But Toronto is pretty bad too. And we generally don't have the high levels of stock compensation. That looks like it could make a huge difference.
You're misunderstanding: you browse with JS disabled by default. Random sites shouldn't be running programs on your computer. If you trust the site, you whitelist it.
Why computer skills? What about math skills? English skills? Social skills? These have been taught for centuries, yet as of now I feel these three basic skills get less and less every year...

With today's hyper parenting meme tainting everything, .... <insert something profound and intellectual here>
Prior to reading this, I'd assumed the US would be among the five (spoiler: it is). The map in the article doesn't seem to indicate any wilderness in the continental US, though (it's all Alaska). I'm surprised, since we have large swaths of land in the west that I'd consider wilderness. There are pockets in the densely populated northeast that I'd consider wilderness as well.

I wonder what their criteria are?
Google has becoming increasingly annoying. Every time I browse from work, where I have to use Internet Explorer, I have to suffer Chrome ads. They also require me to solve a Captcha every time I change the number of results per page via the search settings.
In recent decades, many large and important observatories have been constructed in the desert of northern Chile ... pretty much uncontested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Astronomical_observat...
This seems reasonable to me. JavaScript is being used everywhere and most people are okay with it. As a business decision I don’t see why Google would support such a small edge case. That being said, if they feel like explaing why they should maybe try a little harder. I assume most people with JavaScript turned off might appreciate more details so they can decide how to respond to the requirement. Then again, their current approach actually seems reasonable to me.
TPA3255 can do 75 Watts per channel at 0.003%THD+N, which is pretty damn good IMO.

3e Audio has a nice board using that as well.
Being a distributor is no better than being a producer. They have different strengths and are reliant on each other. Who holds the power in the relationship is cyclical.

All platforms rise and eventually decline. Amazon has already started going downwards after it sacrificed quality in its chase for scale by opening up its platform to third parties and their counterfeits. Similarly, we'll see ecommerce in China move from Tmall to independently owned stores that allow for differentiation, higher service quality, and owning the customer relationship. Just like offline stores are now coming back, for the same reasons.
I use two profiles of browser. One with uMatrix, which is allowing only first-party js, other without addons for special cases like banking. I do not browse random pages with the second profile, just those which I decided to be trusted ones.
I think the stats reported are probably inflated because of equity. If it includes people who had equity packages hired five years ago, that equity income is now worth twice as much as opposed to the equity someone would get if hired today.
Most engineers at Google will retire as L5; they are pretty rare.

I have only ever worked with one and he was one of the first engineers on GCS and Kubernetes.
I have JavaScript disabled by default (incidentally I also disable cookies). I do this for page load speeds, security from malicious JavaScript, disabling of most advertisements, and privacy from ad tracking networks. Best practices is to serve static content and then progressively enhance that content with browser features like JavaScript. Unfortunately many sites disregard this. I routinely encounter things like an entirely blank page, missing images, broken forms (of course if I am logging on to a site I will re-enable cookies). If I think the site is trustworthy enough and I really am interested in the content I will whitelist that site. Otherwise I just hit back.
It is but they are overlapping ranges so it's entirely possible for a level N to make more than an N+1
99.9% of users are okay with JavaScript.
Content producers trade in IP. There is no substitute for the Lion King. Now, the challenge is creating such IP consistently.
Must be the 5-pin. Been a while since I've used one of the old MIDI connections.
Consider adding non-binary genders to the comp reporting. Something as simple as 'other' or 'non-binary' would be nice. The challenges that non-binary folks face can sometimes be different, and it might be nice to see that reflected in the comp tool.

Edit: I wouldn't ask, except that the tool already asks for gender. If you are already asking for a gender, you should consider include options beyond male/female.

Curious about the downvotes without responses. Tech has people who are non-binary, whose salary negotiations may be impacted by that, and who may struggle to find data that represents them.
I'm getting tired of Google dictating how the web should work. That's the job of standards bodies.

Google is increasingly taking the place of overbearing overlord that Microsoft embodied in the 90's and early 2000's.
Considering that PNaCl was made for running untrusted, user-supplied native code in a sandbox-environment resembling that of native Linux binaries; and was used for this in e.g. Google App Engine to build the various first-generation container runtimes...

...and considering that GVisor (https://github.com/google/gvisor) is now used by Google for that same use-case...

...then perhaps GVisor (or a thin "make everything deterministic" layer on top of it) could be looked at as something like a "spiritual successor" to ZeroVM?
You can use ClojureScript on top of Node. My team started using Node for some services, and I published Macchiato based on that https://macchiato-framework.github.io/
Is there an alternative to gMail? Just tried Protonmail and Fastmail, both require JS.
If your input is balanced, it will be handled by some op-amp circuit or whatever, which converts to single-ended internal signal, like the "balanced line input module" shown in this page:

http://sound.whsites.net/project30a.htm

You can easily insert a volume control right after such a stage.
I have 16 years of engineering experience and Google has made me two offers (original and revised) for a T4 position in NY that are well below the numbers reported on Levels (in fact, below the average on the site). So, either I am getting low balled like hell or there is skew in the numbers.

Edit: there is skew in the numbers, not some in the numbers.
The issue is I have is that people are being convinced they need to spend $100's and $1000's of dollars to get the placebo effect.
If it is indeed just placebo it should be acheivable for free.

Instead what you have is not placebo effect, but perceived value effect.

After working in high-end audio for many years it became apparent that the (high) price tag was in fact the benefit.

Some people just want what there neighbor cannot afford.
There is some research available on the topic. There's a good summary of it here https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
It's Melbourne IT. A terrible company that somehow still gets large contracts despite ripping clients off at every step. I'm sure their entire staff is underpaid 457s.
Making light of quantum machine learning, using Python and TensorFlow
The US nuclear arsenal should be modernized and maintained. China and Russia have no plans to stand still as it pertains to their weapons. It would be remarkably foolish for the US to not properly maintain its nuclear deterrent. Nuclear weapons are the most cost effective means that exist to deter large-scale wars between major military powers.

$40 billion per year for 30 years would be an amazing bargain to help to continue to maintain peace between the US, China, Russia, UK, France, India, etc. Outside of the fantasy scenario where everyone simultaneously gets rid of their nukes and nobody else ever develops them.
This reminds me of the day I was told to select all taxis... took me some time to understand they meant "yellow cars" (taxis are white here)
Google is dictating how signing into their account system on their properties works, not login forms for _every single site_.
People should be reporting the dollar values they were awarded, not what the shares are worth when they added their comp.
> Why is this so different than Glassdoor?

Not sure about this, but IIRC Glassdoor is not systematically gathered, and so doesn't support generalization to any population other than “people who choose to provide info to Glassdoor.”

Glassdoor is radically out of line with systematically gathered data like BLS data.
>> It turned out Wikipedia categories aren’t strictly hierarchical at all, but are used for so many “related” things as to make them useless for determining what kind of a thing an article represented.

> This feels like a problem worth solving on Wikipedia itself.

Why would that be a problem at all? "Apple" (I assume this refers to the company) makes perfect sense in the "Steve Jobs" category. If you looked up the listing for Category:Steve_Jobs you'd expect to find it there. "Fixing" this problem would just make Wikipedia worse.

The better fix would be to realize that categories aren't strictly hierarchical, and you shouldn't operate as if they are.
Recent new version of Google Mail flat out doesn't work to any usable standard in Firefox. Ten seconds to open a new 'compose mail' window. A context menu does a multi-second HTTP fetch before showing. The previous version worked great.

Either the dev team has just given up on quality or they're intentionally goading me into installing Chrome. I'm not going to play that game -- at this point Thunderbird works better.
hm is NT a purer Unix than Unix then? After all, it has all its object in a filesystem-like tree...
I browse with JavaScript disabled (NoScript) with a few sites that I care about whitelisted. Most web sites work fine although their layout is sometimes not what the web designer intended. Some sites don't work at all... for those sites I generally hit the "back" button. When I enable JS to view "JS required" sites, I usually hit the "back" button before it finishes loading anyway so why bother.

NoScript makes a big difference with my laptop and a HUGE difference with my phone.
> If you pay a psychiatrist, you have to worry that they have a conflict of interest. If you really get well, you won't need them anymore. They have an inherent motive to help you only enough to take credit for things going better, not enough to set you free from needing their services.

Is that really different to any professional providing one to one services or what not? After all, you could say every tutor in existence has the exact same incentives; the better you do at whatever you're learning, the less you need to see them or pay them for their services.

Yet no one really thinks their music teacher or fitness coach or what not wants them to struggle for the extra money. Same goes with driving schools and instructors. The better the student and instructor do, the less the latter get paid.

Regardless, it doesn't really work out in quite the cynical way you think it will here. For professionals in fields like this, it's helping people and making them better at what they're learning or asking for help with that boosts their reputation and gets them more business in future.
[Not science:] Hmm maybe because holding the book in your hands gives you physical coordinates in addition to the visual landmarks. An onscreen ebook is behind glass, removed from all senses but vision. I just watched Bret Victor's Humane Representation of Thought talk yesterday, which is extremely relevant - wanting media (of communication, information work, programming) to involve more of our senses and abilities. Books are a huge advance over PDFs in that way. Touch them, doodle on them, argue back in the margins... Although the smell and sound of a book aren't used to deliver information, if books had no smell or made no sound, they'd be much more like ebooks.
Passwords can be hashed directly client-side with javascript, which is way more secure than sending them clear on the wire, so i dont disagree with Google's stance here and dont understand the hate
You're right. My comment is out of place in this particular instance. But there are plenty of other examples where Google does have too much power and influence.