skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can certainly get a lot of semantic information crammed into a short piece of text, but an interview gives you the cadence of someone's voice, which may be important in its own way. Audio can be very dense, but in ways that aren't strictly linguistic. People also tend to express themselves differently in conversation than they do on the page, and listening to an interview with an interesting person may actually tell you more about them than their writing, or even a cleaned-up version rendered in text.

Like, which conveys the situation better, "Oh the humanity" or the audio as recorded (you can in this case ignore the video, which was recorded separately)?
https://youtu.be/pUVDmXvXcbk?t=39
> I find I am at my best when things are not going perfectly and I am backed against a corner.

I would suggest that such a situation makes you happy. Happiness does not imply the lack of struggle or difficulty. In fact, I think most people need struggle and difficulty in the mix in order to be happy.
LiveStream with Apache JMeter Contributors
"...an underlying sense that their work isn’t worth the grueling effort they’re putting into it."

Just because you've become wealthy doesn't mean that you find meaning in your work. Or, conversely, non-wealthy people can also fall into this syndrome.

There is certainly another population of people who started out and continued doing what they love and in the process became wealthy. It'd be interesting to identify and interview both groups and look for what makes the difference. For example, what about the Harvard MBAs who took control of a struggling company, turned it around and grew the workforce, putting more people to work and winning the allegiance of their customers. I'd guess that group would find much more meaning in that result than the bulk of the hedge fund group.
"Money can buy happiness if money could buy happiness"
The funny thing is when you move from making $1mm to $5mm you pick up a different set of friends to keep up with.
You think the environment will continue to be relatively hospitable to humans while we go "through" China, then India, then Africa/South America?
Making $1.2 Mil and probably spending already even the future raises that may not come. Your lifestyle adjusts to your salary.
Could be a sales gig, commission can push total comp quite high, particularly in enterprise sales gigs.
For many readers here, and adherents to the FIRE philosophy, sure.

But to most people who actually make $1.2 million per year, it means giving up all kinds of status symbols and creature comforts. Many of which they are locked in to via mortgages, leases, etc.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Communications pro tip: if you've got bad news to report, just lead with the bad news, don't try to soften it by wrapping it in a bunch of unrelated positive-sounding stuff. All that does is leave the reader with a feeling of whiplash and a vague suspicion that you were hoping they'd miss the bad news inside all the fluffy packaging. It's better to just report the bad news up front so the reader can get past it and then you can both move on.

(How this advice applies to this post will be left as an exercise for the reader.)
It seems her family connections had a major role in convincing people to go on board. In retrospect , her public appearances, including the turtlenecks, the deeper-voice-training, her public talks where she pitches the 10000 hours bs, should have rang a few bells about not only her intelligence, but about her sanity. Makes one also wonder what was the quality of the engineers she employed. The one who eventually spoke out was the nephew of one of the investors, i.e. someone who could afford to do so (and who presumably cared about his uncle).
How about generating better ones using deep fake tech?
It makes me smile that the janitorial staff at some large hospital can be so satisfied with their job.
Belated footnote: When the military run low on TNT and other "safe" explosives, sometimes they switch to stuff that's far more shock-sensitive, ages faster, and becomes very hazardous over time. So one key thing is knowing which types of munitions are ~safe to play with, and which are deadly.

Also, TNT releases NO2 when it burns (or detonates). Plus a bunch of ~toxic and ~mutagenic aromatic hydrocarbons, which end up absorbed on the soot. Some of which is respirable.
I wish I could do more than just upvote and favourite your comments...

Yes you can do more. Speak the truth. Pick your battles wisely, but be forthright and speak up!
The original WSJ article is far more definitive:

Apple, Goldman Sachs Team Up on Credit Card Paired With iPhone https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-goldman-sachs-team-up-on-...

Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plan to start issuing this spring a joint credit card paired with new iPhone features that will help users manage their money.

The card will be rolled out to employees for testing in the next few weeks and officially launch later this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The companies hope to lure cardholders by offering them extra features on Apple’s Wallet app, which will let them set spending goals, track their rewards and manage their balances, the people said.
This looks brilliant ! Keep on !
I hope they throw away the key. He's done more harm to the downtrodden than any Klansman ever could.
"As long as vendors are free to offer different pricing based on payment method, it should resolve itself."

Credit card companies do everything they can to block this.
Sounds like a great story for investigative media. Are there none in the region?
I just don't understand this at all. If you can earn a million a year, do it for 3-5 years, never have to work again, and pursue your passions in life.

I think the problem for most workers is the lifetime of toil, not the meaninglessness of the work.

I'd happily dig ditches for 8-12 hours a day for 3 years if I knew I was completely financially independent with millions in the bank that. Actually, I'd rather do that than write code. At least I'd be getting a workout.

As it is now, I write proprietary software for much less than those featured in the article, work is miserable, and I've still got maybe 10-15 years to go.

Am I in the minority here?
Perverse incentives. China is driven by profit motive when it comes to black market organs, and will happily steal them from prisoners in order to sell them to the highest bidder.
Examining Social AR's Network Effect
You raise a valid point, Brazil may be an interesting test-case for the point you have raised. The new government shows strong interest in cutting down the Amazon (at least partially) for the sake of Agribusiness, Cattle & Logging. Now will they use Amazon and the way the world perceives it as a way to exchange concessions? It remains to be seeing.
Unless we have a diaspora. Believing in the future of humanity is a thing.

Not all higher callings are religious.
US Coast Guard Officer Hoped to 'Kill Every Person on the Earth'
BTW, I think you do need to consider materialized views. ClickHouse materialized views function like projections in Vertica. They can apply different indexing and sorting to data. Unless your query patterns are very rigid it's hard to get high performance in any DBMS without some ability to implement different clustering patterns in storage.
There is a link between money to happiness according to studies. The trick is that it stops after you have enough. Basically its terrible being poor, that will effect you happiness in a negative way. Once you have enough you are happier. But even more doesn't effect it that much.

These things are hard to measure.
well if there was a device you could buy to do the tests at home i d buy it for sure
The thing is I don’t think a lot of these people actually work that much. If you’re in a mid level engineering role at a FAANG you’re not usually working 50-60+ hour weeks. You’re actually probably underutilized and working on uninteresting tasks.
It's true, the coke dealers don't really hang around until you reach a certain income threshold.
Someone who felt insecure about the matter decided this premature damage control was necessary. Why? I suppose we can only guess.
Personally, I think the question is: "Do You love Me? Will You seek Me?"
I think cryptocurrencies were an attempt at this but apparently it's actually quite hard to make a resilient network that also has robust features and convenience
Trump Hints at a Softer Stance on Huawei in a Bizarre '6G' Tweet
Well in that case, since the universe itself is ultimately doomed, why not delude ourselves into believing that there is, in fact, meaning in our lives so that the remainder of our life isn't spent in misery?

I submit that the "fake" subjective meaning and some "real" objective meaning are indistinguishable.
AMEX has historically had much higher fees than Visa or MasterCard. Depending on your age, you may remember a time when AMEX was not accepted everywhere. The fees are why.
My all local *.dev test servers stopped working even though hosts configuration points to local IP.
As it's currently formulated, it's easier to publish stuff about public figures than private individuals. The bar for showing defamation of private figures is lower.
doesn't even mention the closed form O(1) solution..
So this dovetails with what I think is the most fascinating topic in evolution: the demographic transition in humans. If you're not familiar, demographic transition is the term used to describe what has happened to the demography of nations as they become developed. Which is that, rather than producing more children with their material abundance, people in rich nations have less children. This is not, at all, what biology would predict. More resources should lead to more offspring.

My personal hunch as to what causes the demographic transition is that we have an evolved system for determining whether we are doing well or doing poorly and that system calibrates itself by examining the people around us. But, because our current economic and social system sorts people by income and status (talented people migrated into the cities from farms, even more talented people moved into more expensive neighborhoods, etc.), and because advertising constantly shows us higher levels of consumption to aspire to, even people who are, in an absolute sense, raking in obscene amounts of money are surrounded by a peer group that are roughly at their level. So it never really feels like you're rich; even though you live in a $3 million dollar home, you live on a street with $8 million dollar homes; even though your kid goes to a $30k/year private school, you can't afford to spend $200k vacationing in France during the summer like some of their peers, etc.

Interestingly, this parallels my own experience. As a senior developer, I'm now making roughly 3x what I made before becoming a programmer. Back then I would have imagined that all of my wants would be satisfied by 3xing my income. Yet somehow I still yearn to make more.
I think it goes like this: You make $X. You'd like more, you see there are things that you could do with more money, and so you're kind of unhappy. But you don't get your hopes up for those things, because you only make $X, and there's no point.

Now you make $(X + Y). Now some of those things become possible that you didn't dare let yourself dream about before. The problem is, you gained $Y in income, but the amount of things that became possible is 10 * $Y. You could do any one of the things that became possible, but you can't do all of them. So now they're realistic dreams, but you still can't do (most of) them.

For many people, this makes them less happy then they were, because the gap between dreams and reality got wider, even though they actually can do at least one thing more than they could before.
Mind elaborating? I just search for a podcast and click play. Never seemed to need much more functionality than that. What am I missing?
Agree with you here, but how does communism give meaning?

For me, I've grown up in a capitalist society, with parents from a communist one. My sense of meaning in life comes from navigating through this environment (our laws, rules, societies, etc.), and trying to make the most of it (and earn a healthy living) to provide for my family, and make sure that I and everyone I care about have long, healthy, enjoyable lives together.

If we were in a communist society (and not one that's post-scarcity which seems far, far off), I wouldn't be able to do this... and I don't know how you can argue that there's no meaning to the pursuit of a better world for everyone (with small exceptions, creating value is necessary for making money in a capitalistic society), reaping the rewards of that value creation, and making sure that it benefits and protects those I love.
nonsense i've done origami with well over a hundred folds and it wasn't quite as big as the universe,
It's not condescending to call someone out for their behaviors.
> where minor increases in living space/amenities can end up costing large amounts of money.

It is pretty crazy how little extra money buys you. E.g. in NYC, the only differences between a $2,000 month apartment and a $20,000 a month apartment are going to be things like location, granite countertops, a well-designed bathroom, and better windows. But in most cases the actual floor space and layout is going to be almost identical.

Clearly those things are worth something, but it's easy to see how the work and stress of paying for those accents is to result in a net negative happiness for many if not most people.
What % of that million are you spending
> Are people who make more money less happy/equally happy/more happy than people who make less?

This has been studied comprehensively over the years, that the results seem very clear: there is an ideal income level in terms of happiness. If you earn below or above that, you're probably sacrificing happiness.

The ideal income level depends on cost of living, but on average, in the US, that income level seems to be a bit north of $100,000/yr.
The first subheading in the post is 'Progress Report' and various details of progress in various areas are provided..

doesn't seem like spin to me.
Uber, Lyft, AirBnb....500k+ for Sr & Manager roles.
What bad news are you talking about? The overheating that was solved by NXP releasing a new software stack for their chosen CPU?
Lots of Questions Unanswered.

1. This isn't really "news", it was reported previously ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17040266 )

2. This isn't the first Apple Credit Card, as noted else where, Apple had one with Barclaycard.

3. So What exactly is different between this one with Goldman and Previous one with Barclaycard.

4. This is US only. Much like Apple Pay Cash, is still not available anywhere else.

5. Why Doesn't Apple double down on Stored Value Payment Method? Where your Apple Pay hold "Cash" inside it and could be used for Apple Pay.

6. The Apple Wallet Implementation still sucks, 5 years after they announce they want to get rid of your Wallet. Nothing has Changed, nothing has been done. Those Discount / MemberShip Cards are still in my Wallet.

Basically I am not entirely happy with the progress of every Apple Services. Apple Map, Apple Music, Apple Pay......
Can't we make fines high and give anyone that reports fraud a cut of penalty?
Showing that system X has characteristic Y in no way requires showing that systems P, Q, R, S do not have characteristic Y. They may or may not.
I'll go out on a personal limb here and say that I mostly failed in my guesses, with perhaps 80% incorrect.

I have some degree of faceblindness (often can't recognize someone I know well if they've changed something like makeup or hairstyle or clothing), as well as difficulty in picking up nonverbal cues. I wonder whether brain differences like this might affect image recognition?
> We need drugs, but it’s another thing to take normal people and muck with the DNA or chemistry to improve them

In a sense, don't drugs do exactly that sans the mucking with DNA?
Or stress at work maybe thats a big cause of depression
That the ship date on the Librem 5 has been delayed (sorry, "adjusted") to Q3.
And how do you know that the black of our heat death isn't the white of more universes and civilizations than there's ever been before but which we'll never see not that it matters except in an absurdly selfish way? :3

That's what a Nine Inch Nails song taught me once.

(But, given that we don't know what most matter or energy that makes up the Universe is, it feels a little silly to anchor meaning to current cosmological knowledge. Maybe a nice meaning to adopt is to improve that knowledge because we might discover ways to insulate against heat death indefinitely or something. Although you likely won't be doing that at the salaries in the OP.)
You having seen it doesn't mean it isn't awful. Never mistake "common", or even "not rare", with "good"

It also doesn't sound like everyone found out at the same time.
Meaninglessness creates the toil. It's not toil if it's meaningful, it's merely physical or stressful or whatever the hard part of the particular job entails.
To expand on this, many people who make this much as employees have a great deal of anxiety about the future of tech, and a reasonable doubt that this level of income cannot continue indefinitely. From that point of view it seems foolish to walk away from the opportunity.
Hey Ian! :)
Beginner Learner, Overwhelmed by Programming Resources
I want to be able to program web apps. My goal isn’t really to find a higher paying job; I’m just fascinated by programming and want to create apps that accomplish something, like a simple bookmarking tool.

Have been trying to organize my learning process for a long time and I still can’t make sense of what I’m trying to achieve here. There are a wealth of resources out there for beginners like me, but it can be so much noise that it gets overwhelming and discouraging for me.

How to go about learning web apps development? I don’t have a preference for a particular language. I just want to tune down the noise and stick to one thing.
is it something using a safer language like Rust would have prevented ?
> Even though, in theory, the investments he makes each day help fund pensions — and thus the lives of retirees — it’s pretty hard to see that altruism from his window office in a Manhattan skyscraper. “It’s just numbers on a screen to me,” he told me. “I’ve never met a retiree who enjoyed a vacation because of what I do. It’s so theoretical it hardly seems real.”

Helping other people is meaningful. When the work is alienated from the people you're helping is when a job feels empty. It seems particularly common in high-paying jobs - or perhaps certain jobs are high-paying precisely because they're so alienating.
I am yet to see an example of corruption-free model converting environment impact reduction (or increase) in to monetary credit or (debit).

"..

To offset their own carbon emissions, European companies have been overpaying China to incinerate a powerful greenhouse gas known as hfc 23.

And in a bizarre twist, those payments have spurred the manufacture of a harmful refrigerant that is being smuggled into the U.S. and used illegally.

…"

https://e360.yale.edu/features/perverse_co2_payments_send_fl...
> But it's very misguided to think that having a lot of money is how you become happy.

still applies
Maybe. IMHO much easier to give a homeless guy $20 to buy a SIM card for you than to get a homeless guy to mail order an obscure radio module on Digi-Key for you :)
To consume $100k a month we need a $10-20 million dollar mortgage (50-100k/mo depending on years and rate). I have to assume a few cars, dining, etc would probably end up being $10-20k/mo so the mortgage is probably around $15 mil. So in NY or SF you are looking at something like a 1-2k sq/ft 2 bed 1 bathroom shithole apartment. Not so luxurious after all really.
Statistics about income not making people happy are common. I wonder how wealth/savings affects it. If the $1.2 million worker hadn't inflated his lifestyle, he'd be free to take any job he wanted, or even perform his own job the way he thought best, safe in the knowledge that he would be financially fine if let go.

It seems that a lot of people who reach high incomes never maintain slack in their lives. As much as possible I've tried to keep expenses lower as my income grew. And to watch in advance what the big possible causes of such lifestyle inflation are: expensive real estate, expensive car, private school, large vacations or purchases made on debt with no plan to fund them, etc

The janitor study cited here is interesting, but I wonder if they controlled for disposition. Cheery people may simply be good at finding meaning in what they do, no matter what they do. And the opposite.

For instance, the fund manager could think "if I do my job well, I am allocating capital well and helping companies succeed and helping the economy grow faster than it otherwise would." I am sure that some content fund managers do think that. But is it merely dispositional, in the same way that not keeping your expenses low may be dispositional?
The average UK private pension pot is £100k ... this implies that either people with £1m should be retiring earlier, or we'll have a generation who can't afford to retire.
Yup. The golden rule: don't ratchet up your lifestyle when your income rises and you'll be far happier in the long run.

Also don't give a damn what people think about you. Typically people get trapped in that mouse wheel because "look what they have."
My iPhone has a screen and I’m fine with it. And it isn’t even the top model! I don’t need a solarium display.

Apple will release phones with foldable displays when they invent a real use case for it. Apple wouldn’t be able to rely on iOS if they released shitty phones. But they don’t.
Is there a tl;dr on why and how it would hurt the US Mil the most?
As it says on the wall at Jimmy Johns, "The gap between 'more' and 'enough' never closes."
Great article, as always, by Dave Cheney.

I took a lot of his advice when designing V [1].

It's very similar to Go, but it has

- No global state

- Only one declaration style (a := 0)

- No null

- No undefined values

- No err != nil checks (replaced by option types)

- Immutability by default

- Much stricter vfmt

- No runtime

- Cheaper interfaces without dynamic dispatch

[1] http://vlang.io
I sometimes wonder if the problem is that we don't believe in anything in this country. Religion is on the decline, but we as a society haven't replaced it with anything meaningful. Nationalism is a swear word, jobs are performed with no loyalty (not to blame workers, we're treated pretty expendably), marriage is no longer sacred (don't like your partner? Just divorce and move on to the next!)...

What meaning can someone find in such a life? Good times create weak men, and weak men live in existential crisis. Perhaps we need hard times to grant the cure of purpose for our collective depression.
It’s cheating (or at best misleading) to allow arbitrarily expensive operations to be considered “constant time”.

Raising a very-high-precision approximation of an irrational number to a large integer power will get slower and slower as you handle larger numbers.

You might just as well call the matrix version O(1)
Seriously, it was hard to feel much sympathy for the person earning $1.2M/yr when they could very easily retire if they just stopped somehow spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
Overcast seems to bug out on me everytime I try to play episodes in the order they were released instead of most recent first.

It also never removes played episodes no matter what my settings.

Seriously these should be simple things.
5 years at a million a year, after taxes in a High COL state will be about 2.5M. A healthy sum indeed, but not enough to retire on, especially with a family.
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