skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't make it clear in the article, but presumably the top 10 percent of salaries includes most/all developers?

It's not really surprising that the heart of the tech industry (which drives a large part of the modern economy) would have very wide disparity between service workers and highly skilled specialists working for companies making massive amount of revenue.
In my case, most engagements came from head hunters, and only some from my network. Also, I have a somewhat nice looking vita, which helps.

Right now, it's mid size businesses with 50-75 FTE product development departments, but when I will be 50+, I want to get also projects at bigger companies :)
It's also prohibitively expensive due to the hardware you need to legally own before you can even use it, and is _only_ supported for that hardware instead of allowing you to use whatever you can afford?
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Picking a random example:
https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCbx1TZgxfIauUZyPuBz...

100k daily views, £17 - £250 estimated daily earnings.

Game of thrones has an estimated 10 million viewers per episode. So, scaling up youtube earnings: £1,700 - £25,000 per episode. The actual per episode budget was around £4 million per episode.

See the gap here?
Ethical and environmental debates aside, I chose to be a vegetarian 10 years ago as a way of forcing myself to have diversity in what I consume. It was too easy to fall into the trap of eating junk.

Giving up meat doesn't ensure health by any stretch, but it does force you to consider and plan what you eat. It's worked out well for me.

aside: dietary preferences aren't an affront to someone else's lifestyle or eating decisions. I don't judge meat eaters, I hope you won't judge those who choose not to.
Here's my unpopular opinion, and I'm making some assumptions for the sake of discussion.

For most of the history of civilization, people would stay in the same place, with their extended family and interact with the community through a church, temple, market, etc.

In the past 100 or so years, 2 things have happened.
1. Career and capital have become prime directive for most people, supplanting family, community, church, etc
2. Transportation is cheap and easy to move away from the few acres you lived in your whole life.

Note that I'm not saying that there is any greater virtue or value to any way of life, and the modern world is certainly more comfortable. But we evolved for millennia in these small (overwhelmingly rural) community units and perhaps our minds still crave that.
That doesn't seem right?

https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/gameworkslibrary/p...

Says:
The GPU rigid body feature provides GPU-accelerated implementations of:

- Broad Phase

- Contact generation

- Shape and body management

- Constraint solver
A roadblock to productivity is the smartphone on your desk
I subscribe to Tom Siebel's view of taking customers calls -- unfortunately I have to paraphrase it as I don't remember the exact quote:

<< If they pay us enough money for me to notice when they no longer do, I will take their call at any time and so will you >>
I am not surprised at all. I am from India. Most people I knew in my childhood were vegetarians. I knew a few wrestlers who practiced in the "akhadas" of Varanasi. Big guys, all "Hanuman" devotees, celibates (Brahmacharis) and vegetarians.
Sushil Kumar the wrestler, Olympics medal winner, is a vegetarian: https://www.petaindia.com/blog/sushil-kumar/

EDIT:
People are getting triggered left and right. Man, this is the truth in the East. We were\are mostly vegetarians. Only recently did we start eating western food. Only recently did we see people getting terribly obese and chronically sick.
Abacus -> Calculator -> Excel -> Bare Metal Server -> VM -> Container -> Serverless -> Deploymentless -> Codeless -> Humanless -> Machineless -> Godless

Hope this helps, thoughts and prayers!
After about a year or two of using these scooters, the scooter riders will have about a year or two of practice.
How useful is the info gathered from an attack like this? Does it depend on the specific method (e.g., contactless card versus something like Google Pay) how compromising the information is? I was under the impression that by having virtual cards and the service itself to contact, Google Pay had something of a buffer from attacks like this.
One thing that block my migration to firefox is the zoom thing. In chrome I can zoom pages and it stick (I need bigger fonts everywhere). Can't replicate the same with safari or firefox.
Yeah no, you are supposed to do marketing. No app store is going to do much for an unknown title. Run some facebook ads, see what happens.
i could argue with you here, but i rather skip
As described above, to me it came sort of naturally. But generally, you just have to find your first project :)
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My takeaway is that the people in the middle get screwed the most (in terms of wages vs. inflation). The poor are still poor, the rich are still rich, and the middle gets thinner as those within the group are either pushed towards the poor side (higher probability) or rich side (lower probability).

I'm not an economist, so feel free to enlighten me further on my speculations.
Hacker Launches Hack Campaign to Raise Awareness for Security and PewDiePie
Global Startup Program – Singularity University
Land taxes are politically unfeasible: it would increase taxes on americas favorite setup: the single family home.

Economically speaking, Land Taxes are a consented tax by economic left and right: the consensus has been in for decades. LVT is a great tax.

In my opinion, this is San Franciscos best chance to get out of its spiral it got into: remove sales tax and put LVT. It would change the face of the city in 10 years.

But go vote that: the SF city spends 2,600U$S per household in the city. If they removed all kinds of taxes and put it on land, a single family home would have to pay that just intaxes every month. And single family homes are the politically most represented.
Meat was expensive, grain was cheap.
Maybe Mozilla should remove about:config, so users can't hurt themselves on it. I'm sure the telemetry shows its rarely used, and when it is, it often breaks the browser in ways that are unfixable for the average user. Malware is also able to modify these advanced settings to hijack the browser in nasty ways, and slow down Firefox, and make people switch to Chrome faster. If they don't remove it Firefox is going to continue its user count slide into irrelevance.

(This is in fact sarcasm before you get too eager with that down arrow)
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DevOps / Python guy with a decade's experience building, hosting and tuning applications.

I work with engineering teams to make their products as scalable and robust as possible. AWS, Kubernetes, load testing, CI, deploy systems, monitoring, config management, security audits, dev projects of my own - you name it I've done it.

Recent projects include:

+ Re-hosting a large microservice node.js + RethinkDB web application on Google Cloud. The resulting stack (serving a busy news site) is deployed to GKE with a set of Helm charts and a minimal amount of custom tooling for CDN & image serving. GKE has turned out to be low-maintenance and rock solid; I'll be glad to work with it again.

+ Rewriting a Python big data stack for a bioscience client. Result was a robust, scalable system deployed with Terraform/Docker to spot instances managed by AWS Batch. Benefits included better resilience, higher resource utilisation and vastly reduced cost/processing time.

+ AWS/Kubernetes/Docker deployment to support a large distributed (15 microservices + persistence layer) application. Updated a sprawling Django/Postgres app to fit modern containerised hosting, resulting in a stack that makes great use of k8s' scaling & resiliency features. Templating via Helm for multiple, namespaced stack instances & continuous integration.

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That makes more sense, but the energy function isn't really a feature of molecular dynamics, anything that does molecular optimization or modeling will have this information built in.
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From the article, we know there is a problem with the algorithm change because the "other product pages" graph stops matching the other graphs, see the orange line here after the start of October: http://greyaliengames.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/RegencyTra...

> every time his game was being promoted, somebody else's wasn't

This isn't necessarily true. Imagine a recommendation list of 4 items being shortened to a list of 3 items... Or 4 small promotional thumbnail links being redesigned into a single larger image link for a single game. That larger image isn't going get 4x the traffic + clicks just because it's 4x bigger.
1) A test that tries to mimic what the developer would be doing in the actual job as closely as possible. This is what most interviewers fail at - they seek out stupid proxies like whiteboarding rather than simply trying to mimic real life.

2) > 45 min < 3 hours long pairing test or test otherwise done in the presence of the interviewer.

3) Minimal setting up development environments, frameworks or test environments. No boilerplate should be required during the test.

4) The test is improved iteratively. Catch bugs during each interview process and fix them in subsequent interviews.
"Jeff Dean once shifted a bit so hard it ended up on another computer."
Rene Girard: The Prophet of Envy
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It's not just AWS that competes with its customers, it's Amazon in general.
> If everyone around them is eating meat, where's the motive for them to abstain?

Presumably as a gladiatorial slave you wouldnt need to worry about abstaining from food choices.

I’m a marathon runner and my best runs are in full on ketosis. I’ve experimented with a vegitarian ketosis diet but never did a full marathon while eating like that, but felt pretty good otherwise.

There are some UFC fighters who eat vegetarian, paleo, keto, some trying the “warrior diet” (which I think is like paleo with some intermittent fasting...but not entirely sure what those athletes are really doing daily). It’s also worth noting most of the recent studies on gladiators also suggest they were not lean and resembled more of the strongman contest physiques.
This is extremely interesting, and I was pleasantly surprised to see Marx and Engels in a footnote, even though the content of the paper wasn't quite what I was expecting. There has been significant debate about gradualist approaches to reforming society, even assuming common goals.
Location: US

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Databases

(PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Cassandra/various NoSQL)

Email: segmond AT gmail.com
See also https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LPC2018-...
That might be true for a technical user, but is the average user going to know that discord is broken because they disabled webrtc? Also, resistfingerprinting is going to significantly increase the difficulty of recaptcha challenges you encounter.
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We're seeking to fill two roles in our Digital Operations Group:

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"I needed a biography of somebody, so I went to the library. Unfortunately, the biography was not where it was supposed to be, but next to the spot was a biography of Lev Davidovich Landau."

This is why we have and should continue to keep (physical) libraries and why I love visiting them (along with second-hand bookshops and large scales used book sales). I discovered and bought probably 80+% of my books in this serendipitous way, king to the usual example of chaos in kneading of dough (https://books.google.com/books?id=GvnxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA148&lpg=...)
Helpful! This kind of encryption is required to make relational data secure. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.03498.pdf
This was the dream of C#, Managed C++, F# and VB.Net on the .Net runtime. It worked out OK for some people, but IMO not all that great -- all the languages trended towards being syntactic sugar on top of C#. The hard part is rarely the language, but learning the semantics of the platform the language runs on, and those languages have very different opinions of what that platform should be.
The article is literally about Apple's Echo competitor.
Personal opinion - the lack of a "innocent until proven guilty" judicial system when it comes to sexual harassment claims is what has caused much of the fear of women. Colleges, businesses, and online communities almost always simply believe the victim, and even if a trial should occur and the accused is vindicated, the accused has already been fired, expelled, or crucified by public opinion. The records of the accusations remain online forever, with little or no followup.

Innocent until proven guilty with a trial by peers. We enshrine these in our public justice system; it needs to be spread to private companies as well.
I like Gilbert Strang’s Introduction to Linear Algebra (there are videos too: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra...). The book has answers for some, but not all, of the problems.

I think Strang does a good job balancing intuition and rigor, without too much mindless grinding. Other books I’ve used either leap right into “Let F be a field....” or have you learn a bunch of matrix manipulations but don’t really explain why these are interesting or useful.
This should be an "Ask HN:" post.
I used to run Firefox with resist fingerprinting enabled. I believe it was causing chat time stamps on websites like WhatsApp to be incorrect, which was annoying but I don’t know if you consider that broken.
That's actually a great move. Ex-devs as Product Managers / Product Owners are the best.
I will answer short and complex technical questions but I will not do technical tests anymore.
Managers who are too lazy or not technical enough to know my skill level based on a conversation with me are not the kinds of people I want to work for.
I've worked for a lot of companies and the most successful ones didn't make me do any tests. There's definitely a correlation.
https://influencermarketinghub.com/how-much-does-pewdiepie-m...
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Sleeper is looking for mobile engineers to join us on our mission to connect people over sports. Our fantasy leagues are used by families, friends, and co-workers to compete and stay in touch with each other.

The main requirement for this role is that you have the ability to bend user interfaces to your will + make complex interactions feel natural to the end user.

On the job:

- Feature ideation with founders + designers
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- Coding features for our mobile + web apps (iOS & Android)
- Improving app performance across mobile + web
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Technologies we use include react, react native, and graphql, although prior experience with this stack is not required. Bonus for experience in Obj-C, Swift, or Java.

We’re a small team of 8, and well-funded (recently closed our Series A with tier 1 investors).

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Or ProbTorch https://github.com/probtorch/probtorch
This is the whole point. Indie devs don't need a CDN that can handle 50gb games, or most of those other services you listed... Yet we're stuck paying the full 30% that those mega studios that actually use those features are paying.
Reading the description of the submission process is pretty interesting: http://predictioncenter.org/casp13/doc/CASP13_Abstracts.pdf. There were multiple submissions and manual synthesis of different model results in some cases.

I’m curious how this competition works exactly — it seems like a set of label predictions are submitted and some form of accuracy result feedback is provided (a single accuracy score for the whole prediction set?). And that there are a certain number of allowed submissions ...? How much of the ultimate strategy for playing this game at a high-level ends up being around optimizing for receiving as much leaked information from the test set as possible — is best guess at this point that this result is likely to be a good indicator of a true increase in prediction capability ...?
VR Entertainment Catching Up to Gaming