skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the landlord's contribution is maintenance and matchmaking. The problem is that the fair economic value of maintenance and matchmaking, plus construction (labor, materials, design, oversight, etc.) when amortized monthly is far less than the average SF rent of 2-4 thousand dollars a month.
I don't know why you have this misguided idea that being a software developer is as big of a jump from the median as being in the richest 0.1% is from being a software developer. Having started at the very bottom of the economic ladder, I can tell you that it's really not that different.

60+ hour weeks can really mess with your health, no matter what you're doing. I definitely have different injuries than I had when I did intense physical work. But working more than 40 hours is still not healthy. You're trading pulled muscles and joint stress for carpel tunnel syndrome and cardiovascular disease.
Turns out when you save the world from Hitler, you don't have to be a paragon.
> The secret is healthy diet, 8 hours sleep, drinking water, and limit in alcohol

It's not really a secret. We all know this, but few execute (common theme in life?).
> Our infrastructure is somewhat ossified these days: the new and exotic are not well accepted

I think that's rather uncharitable. I work in T.I. and while I can't namedrop a number of internal projects I can assure you there's a lot of deep innovation happening in our corner. Are they poised to get Spanner-esque adoption across the whole company? Unlikely. But it's unfair to knock the infrastructure and assume we're way past some innovation renaissance.
"I'd also point out that in the context of India - a country which in 1943 had around 400m people living in it - in other words .375% of the total population."

When you want to trivialize the death of 1.5 million people, it's better to use even larger denominator like the population of the entire world.
This is still one of the beneficial places in the country for Amazon to have a new HQ, but NY will be just fine without Amazon there. Why should NY have to bribe one of wealthiest organizations in the world with billions of dollars to set up shop there?
The earlier the better. None of them have exclusivity but they do have requirements on funding. If you already raised too much it can be problematic, or if you're already a paying customer them switching to credits might require extra work.

Sometimes they require you to have a VC or accelerator intro for the higher tiers but you may be able to get around it if you know the right people.
American here who just went through this process. I returned to finish my undergrad at one of the most expensive schools, in one of the most expensive cities.

I think as others said, many students aren’t doing the ROI calculations.

For me, the government loans are 3.75% which is totally reasonable IMO. One could easily outpace this with an ETF fund.

The private loans are more expensive at 6% and up but the lower end is still totally reasonable.

The real issue is that people taking these loans lack the financial skills to pay them back. A friend who is out of school for 10 years has a near six figure loan debt that he refuses to pay down despite earning six figures. Learning to budget and live frugally is a required skill to escape the debt that many don’t have.

I also know very few that have visited financial aid to get a second look at their scholarships / grants. I went every semester and walked out with something. A friend walked out with $14k extra in financial aid from one meeting. Those in the worst positions financially also get vastly more aid. I had some savings going in but still paid a fraction of the tuition sticker price.

In all, the experience worked out well in my favor with a paid research position and other breaks along the way, but given any other situation I would recommend going the state school route which is often a tenth of the cost.
The dying alone part isn’t so bad. It likely takes less than a week or so.

The sad part is the way there.
>render a gif in NCSA Mosaic on indigo workstation

You know what I would love to see is a comparison chart for all Historic SGI machines, and their MSRP from their heyday to comparable compute capabilities in modern devices.

I remember when we were moving ILM/Lucas to the Presidio - and they were throwing our massive SGI machines, which were hundreds of thousands at the time - but some of them were turned into kegerators...
That's just a case where the government is the landlord.
Just because there are kids starving in Africa doesn't make me any less hungrier.
They do. Their browser plugin grades sites both on the number of tracking scripts and the quality of their privacy policy.

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Yes, awareness of positional goods and Baumol's cost disease is usually the mark of a utopian fantasist.

You seem fixated on this schoolmarmish "gratitude" angle to the point that you don't want to think about not just the future we want to build but the actual prevailing situations in the countries we are living in now. Roping 'global' comparisons into discussions of first world disadvantage represents a subtraction from the level of understanding, not an acknowledgement of "what's real". As a cartoonish and extreme example, you can be a bum on the sidewalk in NY collecting 10x as much as an African subsistence farmer takes in, but your take won't buy you somewhere to live, health care, etc.

Excessive global/historical comparisons generally ignore the fact that you can't travel to the other side of the world (or hop in a time machine) to buy cheap goods and escape the local cost of positional goods. Somewhere in Vietnam, there's a teacher who could teach your kid computer science and math for a fraction of the cost of, say, NY. You could buy a mansion in the south of France circa 1850. So what?
Canadian here, I'm blocked as well and we don't have GDPR
In Barnsley it's a tea-cake, which to me is just wrong because tea-cakes have currants. :-)
I've worked both. I always laughed at the ditch diggers when they complained about it being hard work (try writing reports to deadlines that have to be perfect). It was mindless work, ditch digging, tough on the body, but not hard. The ditch diggers do need to retire when 55, as their bodies are burnt out. But the job wasn't 'hard'.
I firmly believe that we need to change society, a 3 to 4 day work week, with 1 or 2 days of free education. The ditch digger needs to learn a new skill for when they hit 55, the office workers need to relax and get their hands dirty doing mechanics.
My technique is to remember where the job ranks in my "give a shit about" list and it's not as high as you might assume. I am not irreplaceable, and either is my job. So I try to give a good value for the work I'm paid to do, but at the end of the workday I flip the switch, as it were, and my life is my own. I am militant about not letting my job control me. I am polite but firm with coworkers and managers, and they respect my off-hours time, and I respect theirs. We all have families so that probably helps.
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> You need to save a few million dollars to retire with $40-$80k in investment income. It should be very possible to do this with a backend developer's salary over a period of 10-15 years,

How would a few million be possible? What is your contextual salary for this position, and their expected expenses?
Good enough for Rotherham/Sheffield (me), but not Barnsley where they call them tea-cakes.
You don't have to. It's just that there are a lot of good image classification network architectures that exist already so you can more or less grab a good network off-the-shelf, then give it more targeted training examples so that it performs well in your specific use-case.

I guess it comes down to the fact that a lot of these signal processing techniques involve convolution.
Isn't the problem in SF that the wages have gone up hugely for a small subset of the population?

If that's the case, then the landlord is just following a standard negotiation tactic [1], since this is their livlihood.

[1] https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/dont-leave-mon...
Just working at home gives all these benefits. No commute saves tons of time. An hour or so at lunch lets you do most of the normal house chores. I end up working more from home, but with so much less stress. And, when I stop working I can go right into leisure time.
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I imagine they think you have tried most of them. But from experience, even if someone telling me to go do sports was getting really tiresome after a while. I was still looking for other things I could try.
'Tacit collusion' is a real concept; as far as I can tell (as very much a non-expert) it is legal in the US, but there's some ambiguity in the EU.

This (paywalled unless you have academic access) journal article looks very relevant: https://academic.oup.com/jeclap/advance-article-abstract/doi..., and there's a blog post by the author here: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2019/02/tack...
+1 for BJJ as a exercise/social thing.

2 hours a day of solo gym exercise is pathological unless you have some really good reason to be doing it and it's making someone happy. Which it clearly isn't.

It's possible to get to 'intermediate' powerlifter level on about 2-3 hours a week. There are of course many other goals, but 12 hours a week in the gym is almost certainly reaching diminishing returns for almost any of the goals I can think of (with the possible exception of really hardcore bodybuilding or endurance work).
> What about the benefit of actual living quarters for the tenants?

Would you argue that patents and copyright should last infinitely long because the world is richer forever due to the one solitary act of the inventor?

Landlords hold a monopoly over the land they own as much as copyright holders own a monopoly on the IP they own. I think it's quite reasonable to ask if that monopoly deserves to be forever. I agree with you that someone who develops property deserves to be rewarded - but maybe not an infinite reward?
Just to make sure we're thwarting off fraudsters.
F6S also has a similar list https://www.f6s.com/deals.

In particular the hosting credits really lets you play around with dev without breaking the bank.

In most cases startups utilize AWS and GCP and they are generally really good, but both DO's Hatch and IBM a lot of people are missing out.

DO is awesome for startups without really good devops since they streamline a lot of the config work so it helps a lot getting the basics set up. We have a lot our free user plans on DO because it's much more cost effective and predictable (pricing wise) than AWS and GC.

IBM is also useful in a different use case because of their easy to setup dedicated hardware servers. 10k per month buys a lot of dedicated hardware (esp GPU) if you need it which is a godsend for us since we do a lot of ML and performance is dramatically better than any of the g/p instances on AWS.
funny, I was just looking at a keyboard stream on twitch for https://ishtob.net/hadron/hadronv3-groupbuy and I was just browsing the open source code used in the keyboard here https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware
In theory, sure, sometimes?

1) The determination if an intership covers a function they would have otherwise performed is very deferential to the company.

2) Interns do not have the resources to litigate if they believe their position is illegal. Even if they did, they would likely recover less than their costs. They also do not uniformly have access to competent labour regulators who follow-up on these matters.

3) The protections offered vary by jurisdiction as well as by industry/profession.

4) Interns also require networking and references in order to gain the full benefit of their work. Sounding the alarm on a company's hiring practices is a great way to poison the well.
But "baby" (in this example) is the most common word I use. That is data too. Perhaps there is a part of the country were "baby" is more commonly used than anywhere else. Perhaps there is a part of the country where only "baby" is used. Maybe there is somewhere were its scarcely used.

Admitedtly I don't have their data set but I do see it as valid data/an answer. For example, they may have found that in one part of the country (because you can submit your location at the end) everyone uses "baby" and "sprog" and no others and that combination is unique to that area.
Doesn't matter the level of support, the CEO of Cloudflare was involved and still ended up bringing politics into infrastructure.
In the case of expensive urban areas it kind of does.

High housing costs mean that literally everything in an area is more expensive. All services and all goods require human labor - people to load and unload trucks, stock shelves, stand behind registers, prepare goods and services etc..

High rents are a massive transfer of wealth over time from everyone else to landlords. So yes, increased housing costs do make all local services cost more, at the expense of the general public and for the benefit of landlords.
This is the extremely popular "God did it" hypothesis, most frequently employed nowadays to solve white-collar crimes.
It's not as cut throat as you make it sound. People who go to "practical" schools can always switch back. I lived in Germany and have friends who got Bachelor's degree at 35+. Another good reason to make it affordable is that people will always have options.
I think we are there for some of the lower demand products even though it's not collusion in the strictest sense.

If an algorithm's goal is to match a competitor's price then it's not possible to find a better price for any item.

In theory, those item's prices don't move constantly, therefore, all prices will be the same across the board. As a vendor, all I have to do is hike my product's price and wait for all the competitors to match it and then hike it again. If I'm a large vendor like Amazon then it's only a matter of time until I can sell a product at my designated profit without worrying that a competitor will beat me.

A smaller vendor has no incentive to lower the price since it knows that Amazon can always win the pricing war so they compete on service or other ways.

Before algorithms and the net, this was not feasible on lower priced items so vendors had to set prices independently. Now, it's easy to just match your competitor no matter the price of the item.

It's not a conspiracy by definition but it has the same ultimate result of algorithms rasing prices.
I personally think landlords are skewing way too much towards rent seeking right now.

But in theory, a landlord could serve a similar function as a futures trader. They are speculators who mediate risk of rent. If renting becomes unprofitable then landlords lose money as rent_money < (mortgage + property tax)
The Israelis weren't entirely given Israel, they took it at gunpoint ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931949_Palestine_wa... ). Anti-semitism is still a real problem and there are plenty of people willing to claim that the k word is "acceptable".

What was unique was the coordination of the diaspora to achieve the founding of the Jewish state.
If you use an UDP VPN on an non-standard port it's quite a bit harder to find than SSH on a TCP port.
This is incredible, looks like an exact smaller clone of the real thing. More generally, it has to be possible since we went to the moon with much less.
What are you talking about when you say "they never said they wanted to limit this"?

This whole scandal was because the DeclarativeNetRequest API was limiting request access. That's the MAIN REASON the uBlock Origin author complained about.
The "if any" questions mean just that. If you're not there, move on.
But if you don't think the dutch auction style is a good one, what would your alternative be?

Because the problem of resellers buying up TONS of domain names is a real one, and thus far a dutch auction style seems to be one good way to combat that (since buying 10000 names and selling 10% of them for an overall profit is a LOT more risky when getting them first means shelling out a LOT more money).

A challenge or something would probably drive costs up across the board, and it would still exclude those who want to use the domains that might not be able to complete the challenge (IMO a worse situation), and other methods of "verification" would either be gameable or would exclude many devs.

I don't know of any more "fair" way of allowing people to buy domains. Why should a hobbyist be able to buy "paypal.dev" when potentially thousands of devs could use that domain at paypal, and similarly "klathmon.dev" would be awesome to have for me, and it's pretty unlikely that someone will buy that out from under me with this scheme.

Not to mention that the timeline here is literally half a month. After Feb 28th, there is no additional charge. So we are talking about 2 weeks of waiting.
I’ve worked both 3 and 4 day weeks (at 8 hours a day), and it was always really great, but it made me feel I was missing so many things in the workplace, I’m now not particularly bothered by working 5 days.

But if you want to do a lot of things beside work, 3 days is best.

It’s also a bit dependent on life situation. When I left university I was perfectly good with 3/5ths salary, but now with a family to support that would be hard.
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I'm not convinced that's true. I guess it depends on what your goals are, but I would argue the majority of devs in the American workforce don't stay on the cutting edge of anything. Getting a software dev job is still quite easy as long as you are mildly competent.
tl, dr: Because Iranian hackers were hijacking DNS records for government sites.
TOTP/HOTP hasn't changed for years. The app works perfectly for me and needs no updates.
The article is very well written, but the order does feel a little backwards to me too. Color spaces are confusing because they are not physical things. They're abstractions created by people to solve problems. You can come to understand a solution without understanding the problem, but I definitely think it's the harder way to approach learning.

There's a 10 minute overview of color theory from "A better default colormap for Matplotlib" that I really like. It's very condensed, but it takes you from light, to perception, to color spaces: https://youtu.be/xAoljeRJ3lU?t=218
Isn't the problem here Twitter? These posts were 'public' and BandsEye seems to be simply scraping via the Twitter API. Twitter enables this use case by denying users any control over how their content can be used. There will always be creepy/lame actors trying to exploit things, so if we want real change it might make sense to focus on how the platforms themselves might give users more control.

Perhaps users who wish to should see a list of 3rd party apps and be able to choose which programmatically granted access to their public timeline. Why is there no gradation between private to my select friends and public to the entire world and all of its annoying APIs?

Ask Twitter.
> I have the feeling that if I stopped working for just 6 months, my career would be over.

That's not true. There are many companies who are still writing and maintaining new code in Java 1.6 for example.

> Today I just wasted the second half of the day doing nothing at all; just watching mind-numbing videos on Youtube.

I try to do this and just can't. I get antsy. When I 'binge' Netflix is max 2 episodes and I have to go do something. Usually, I just go workout. If I've already worked out twice, then I'll read a book. Or, I'll work on the long list of home projects I have going on, etc...
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're advocating for the landlord to lose ownership of their property?

If so, question of my own. The landlord worked and spent resources (time, money) to increase his assets (develop the property). You, at your job, worked and spent resources (time, etc.) to increase your assets (e.g. size of your bank account). Do you think you should have indefinite ownership of your bank account?
Chaos Monkey does that too. We used to have a separate monkey called Latency Monkey that induced network latency, because as you aptly point out, detecting if something is down is a lot easier than detecting if it is slow or intermittently down. Netflix has since incorporated those failure modes into chaos monkey: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/The-Chaos-Monkey-...
We already have enough sleazy domain squatters holding names for years and trading for ridiculous prices. Instead of long ownerships, we should have some way to prove you're actually using the domain after a certain number of years.
> But in truth that's almost entirely virtue signaling. We look good, but there's no difference effected in the world.

This isn't true at all. The collective fiction that makes up civilization depends on this.

Saying you believe in free speech, even though free speech is a national policy decision, is not virtue signalling if enough people do it. Saying you're against racism isn't virtue signalling if that makes the community as a whole more loudly against racism.

If everyone becomes cynical and refuses to "virtue signal" as you pejoratively call it, it swings the door wide open to the government ignoring our rights since the people have collectively already decided to give up.
Disable JS and this problem fixes itself.
One of the problems with DNSSEC is that it causes the size of DNS responses to increase substantially, which becomes a DDoS vector. The response to this is nominally to use response rate limiting, but the more people who use DNSSEC the less effective that is because it means more DNS servers the attacker can use to reflect their attack through without reaching the rate limit for any one. (RRL is also not ideal because a large DNS cache can hit the rate limit by just making a large number of legitimate queries.) And the more servers that use DNSSEC the harder to block a DDoS attack because it comes from a larger number of unique addresses.

And now TXT records used for domain validation are becoming quite large as well. You add a ~hundred byte TXT record for each service you want to validate your domain against, but they all want the entry to go in the same place (at the root), so you do the DNS TXT query for the root and you get a big response. Adding DNSSEC on top of that might even blow the practical limit for UDP EDNS0 responses sometimes, never mind the DDoS potential.

There may be a solution for that one -- specify a location for each TXT record instead of everyone using the root, so Facebook uses _facebook-domain-verification.[example.com], Google uses _google-site-verification.[example.com], etc. Then you wouldn't get a dozen large TXT records in response to a single query because they're each at a different name. But that's not currently what companies are doing, and a purist wouldn't like it because in principle controlling _google-site-verification.example.com doesn't mean you control all of example.com.
You can't say for sure that any new Google product is guaranteed to have horrible customer support, but you probably should assume that any new Google product has horrible customer support until you see proof of the contrary.
Perhaps if you had introduced Chaos Monkey, those other problems would have gotten solved as a solution to the Chaos (tm). :)
There's also FrontApp.
I’m guessing you’re the type of person who raised their hand and reminded the teacher about assigning or collecting homework