skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small dose of reality: $125K is only "good" pay these days and that's only if you aren't living in the Bay Area, NYC, or Chicago. The reality is that half or more of that disappears in taxes--state and federal, Social Security, and every little fee and tax you pay on everything else you do. It gets whittled down a lot and most people aren't even realizing how bad off we are as workers as compared to how things were in say, 1965. Before the end of the gold standard, before the massive inflation and before liberalism spread like a disease from sea to shining sea, a waitress, yes a waitress, could own a house in most cities.

But what is so bad is what is said in the comments--only about 15% of Americans even make six figures these days. We're a nation in deep denial about our future as things stand.

Btw, my CEO made over $21,000,000 last year. I make about .6% of his pay. He flies in private jets and gets to live the life we all want. He is really nothing special, though. Not a genius or anything, just a player.

The ultra wealthy have conned us good.
You see evidence of decline everywhere, but I'm curious where you might see evidence of ascent.
Agreed 100%. It's insane the practices that fly in our industry. It's as if we didn't know any better.

One day, there's going to be a colossal compromise, and that might finally change where we place security in the priority chain.
Quantum Information Meets Quantum Matter
I'm not going to lower my expectations for myself or for people in my field who have valuable skills just for you to feel better about yourself.
That's too bad.

Personally I dislike this trend towards a plurality of chat "services" and "apps." Now each project I interact with has their own chat service. I have to maintain accounts on all of them and install several applications to interact with each. It's a pain to manage.

Not to mention that most of these services use Electron-based chat clients which exclude a bunch of people who cannot afford the kinds of machines required to use them or they have to suffer a poor experience on lower-end hardware. It also excludes people who use accessibility software or automation that doesn't integrate with web-based clients.

The user experience on IRC scales better. Anyone can write a rich, easy-to-use client or server. If you happen to be a programmer you can write your own tools to manage your own user experience. The drift from casual user to power user isn't stopped by a walled garden of a tightly-controlled user experience that doesn't integrate with anything.
STEM is such a broad category that anyone promoting STEM fields as a solution to the college debt problem is obviously just repeating what they heard from other people. There are a ton of underpaid and overworked people in STEM.
Curious... did you really ask candidates about their sleep patterns?
I read your comment, not the paywall.

Read my previous one about the tax-scheme ( with source) and redo the calculations. Also, you mention a loan and I mention inheritance.

So he seriously underperformed the S&P 500 all of the sudden.

Edit: his father died in 1999

Edit 2: One particularly interesting fact is that the Trump Organization, according to its chief financial officer, made a profit last year of somewhere between $275 million and $325 million, on $605 million of revenue. That's pretty good!

Stopped reading after this. It's not based on facts, but according to the Trump organization, which... Are not facts. I only trust numbers ( eg. Tax filings) to see someone's performance.

Let's let this rest ( no use / benefit for this discussion) + I'm going out.

Last edit: like I mentioned else, I want to see tax filings to see if I'm correct and if he really is "successful", all the rest is guessing.
Here's what bothers me.

When I see Data Science in industry, it means an analyst. When I see Data Science in academia, I see Michael Jordan and Alex Smola. I think this is the core disconnect.
I think it is worth noting that the word gossip has been painted with negative connotation in our society.

The moment humans realized that the world is full of information asymmetry and unknowns, they started to gossip. Gossip is a tool to transfer knowledge of others/things to someone who may not have the means to confirm it themselves. In theory, a private reference from a friend to a potential employer about you is gossip (E.g. @ARandomerDude is a trustworthy individual, you should hire him) even thought your friend may not have a full picture of who you are.
Note that there is quite a big difference in goals between the MINIX versions that were current when Linus started writing Linux (i.e. MINIX 2.0 and earlier) and the MINIX3 project.

For early versions of MINIX the goal was teaching. Many limitations were left in place, both to keep the system simple and leave space for assignments for undergraduate students.

Many people in the MINIX community went to the Linux community because Andy Tanenbaum would usualy reject patches and Linus would welcome them.

Way later the MINIX3 project was created as research project. It has many cool ideas.
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I have a series zero Apple Watch from the day it was released and still wear it now.

I have figured out how to use it to track my sleep: charge Apple Watch less. I charge Apple Watch twice a day, once in the morning, once at night, for about 15min each time.

My Apple Watch has enough energy for me to use all day and track my sleep using the Sleep++ app.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep/id1038440371?mt=8

I _sometimes_ have to charge it at work, but in general, this charging method has worked for me.
This is either a low effort bait post or exactly the kind of bullshit tech-worship I've come to despise. There's more to life and learning than STEM and whatever rides the current economic wave.
Asking my girlfriend questions about tech
Money is not the only thing in the world, or even the most important. It’s a means to an end.
"It's because email is open. If we lose an open, healthy ecosystem with many providers"

Don't you see? This post on HN means you have created the CLOSED unhealthy ecosystem. You built what you just spoke against when you shut out email from small providers. Shame on you for speaking idealically and not confronting the reality of the situation.
What other textbooks would you suggest?
>No individual citizens or even organizations

Isn't that exactly what a lobbyist is??
The distance between New Zealand and Tahiti (the approximate origin of the founding population of NZ) is around 2600 miles, longer than the minimum distance between Africa and South America.

You’re not wrong about island hopping but the last hops in the Polynesian expansion - Hawai’i, Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and New Zealand were incredibly remote.
> I was just repeating something I heard from someone else. I thought it was true. That family has a lot of debts.

Advanced nations have systematized, normalized and sanitized these ancient behaviors to the extent we don't even realize we're doing the same thing on an industrial scale.

How is gossiping about a neighbor's debt morally different than a credit reporting agency?

How is a mining company giving a bag of cash to a provincial governor morally different from campaign contributions from lobbyists?
Imagine (John Lennon) by World Leaders [Canny AI Ads]
No More Orphans (Scala)
> I found funny what you said about this being a tabu. I don't feel that at all here in Brazil. On the contrary. Brazillians I know acknowledge [...]

do not mix up the current Brazil with the Brazil from a few years ago.

under the worker's party Brazil had great recognition of native cultures and new museums. under the current, elected under a parliament coup (the preferred left candidate just left political prison last week, after a year without trial), all that is gone, and the biggest two museums with Indian artifacts burned to the ground in under three months, one barely showing in the midia.... so go figure.

> I can see the 85 government willing to do that

the current government has a general as vice president (and the president is a failed military career turned professional politician), and everyone in the education ministry are career military, just like the 60s. I find it odd that you can see the problem clearly on the previous coup but not on this one.
There is more to life than bills.
On slack it shows whether someone is active or away. It also guarantees they'll get the message. You're not praying that you picked the right bouncer to direct your message at and that it's configured to let them know when they get back.
Pancreatic cancer has very poor survival. 5-year survival for stage 0 to II (i.e. early detection) is 34%. Most pancreas tumors are KRAS mutants - undruggable and aggressive.
Yeah cause global power outage is such a legitiment threat in this day of age... muh electric cars, muh bitcoin, muh gold... a loss of power large scale would most likely be end of the world; trading wouldn't even matter at such point. Did you forget countries are moving to electric for a greener future? _electricity is not going anywhere._

>You accuse the parent of being s victim to fake news and then make a wildly unsubstantiated claim as though it were fact.

Bitcoin has _ALWAYS_ surpassed it's all-time-high, it's only a matter of time. But it's those people that don't believe in it that end up buying the top and get burnt cause their lack of conviction, then you hear the 'cryptos is scam' bs. Autonomous blockchains and Cryptocurrency is in fact the future, hence why there is so much money in this space. You can't ignore this infancy.

There's plenty of scam projects for sure, just like the plenty non-crypto scam companies in the real world...
And about the legit exchanges like Coinbase, Gemini, and Kraken that do follow the US regulatory process? Some of the best exchanges like BitMEX don't even work under US jurisdiction and is yet successful. Those exchanges you specifically mentioned are straight up scams (BCC) and has dealt with sketchy 3rd parties to process their withdrawals, hence why they were shut down or under fire.

As for Tether and BFX, this is the same FUD getting played out again, along with the "X country bans Cryptos", wall street looking into crypto BS. They've already built positions long time ago.
How time flows: Gutenberg press time vs. Internet time, and predictions
I feel like you didn't actually read/understand his comment. He stated they were worth $0, implying that it doesn't matter how many they give; they're still worth $0. It was cheekily pointing out how worthless stock options in a pre-IPO startup are.
Just another confirmation the Philippines has descended into fascism.
You need to ask for a pay rise. $125,000 is nothing these days. A regular developer makes that much.
We created a new material that could revolutionise batteries and electronics
You should try posting all this with a different username. It costs you credibility as it insinuates an agenda and its something you can ill afford for this conspiracy theory to gain mileage.
My guess here is that fixing those syntactic "mistakes" really means changing the code so it does the same thing, refactoring if you will.

I catch myself doing this sometimes when I'm tired or disengaged - spending my time on pointless refactoring or gold-plating. Presumably because these things are easier than what I should be tackling, but trick me into feeling productive.
Ah, interesting. I was replying to the point about rebooting disabling biometric login, and glossing over the "only". (This probably explains the downvotes on my comment.)
Imagine! Video Dialogue Replacement for "Fake news".

[1] https://www.cannyai.com (Canny AI is an early stage startup in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The company’s two founders are both ex-Israeli Army members.)

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ba59da/d_v...
Like grad students or even just anyone not in the C-tier in many places.
Slack to IRC is what a library is to a bulletin board.
Political radicals don’t evaluate their own errors–about anything (2018)
Nurture Alone Can't Explain Male Aggression
Yeah, like food and shelter.

I get that "bills aren't important" is a thing if you don't have trouble paying them, but that's not the situation for everybody. "Hey, lighten up, have some fun, you don't need to work that hard" is cool if you're wealthy. It's an insult to somebody living paycheck to paycheck. They do have to work that hard.
What would make this ultra killer is to have a VR component. Imagine being able to walk around a design (obviously you'd have to be in a large enough space—basketball court, warehouse, empty parking lot, etc…). You would be able to experience the design at a human scale.
In my mind, Mozilla is an open source company though. One of the preeminent open source companies. Didn't they create Bugzilla?

It would be really strange to me if they used a closed source community messaging platform.
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I agree we should separate stem into maybe 3 areas. 2 are doing pretty well. programming-related fields (dev or software engineering type jobs, there's spectrum that goes to data scientist), other engineering jobs, other stem.

The third category isn't as fortunate in the job market, like say a biology major. How about Dev OE, OS. Doeos? Wow, that almost works. But it kind of reminds me of nxivm though :-)
A major which the labor market doesn't need in the quantities that are being churned out by colleges, such as the classic "would you like fries with that" English major.

It's not "bullshit" if you're independently wealthy and can pay to "study" for "fun", or as a second major to something that's in demand. But for everybody else I'd consider more in-demand professions, even though they're usually much harder.

For an example, take a gander at this list: https://www.washington.edu/students/gencat/degree_programsTO.... All the bullshit majors are very easily identifiable. Most, but not all of them have "studies" in their name.
Microsoft makes a profit by charging for secret patents on Android, and by pushing the use of patented FAT and exFAT filesystems, instead of patent-free alternatives. Google makes a profit through pervasive spying. Pharmaceutical companies make huge profits by forbidding the import of medicine from abroad, even when it's the exact same medicine they sell. Or by selling HIV-tainted blood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_haemophilia_blood...). Tobacco companies made billions by pervasive advertising to convince people smoking is cool. Banks profited by re-ordering payments so they could charge more overdrafts (https://medium.com/@harvestplatform/re-ordering-transactions...).

And all companies make a profit by paying their workers as little as they can, while charging as much as they can for their product.

There are ethical and unethical ways to turn a profit, and large companies tend to ignore the distinction. So it's difficult for me to imagine the degree of willful blindness required to say that the interests of people and corporations are mostly aligned, or that that is "what the people want".
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I had a read up upon LIN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interconnect_Network

Was introduced as a cheaper alternative to CAN, and to be used for non-critical aspects of cars (intended). Though seat controls are listed as common use for it. Which with some occupants and cars with the seatbelt - would enable the seat to pull the driver away from the controls. So whilst not directly deemed critical - certainly a vector of concern in some permutations of seat/driver position (thinking large 4x4's driven by small people who end up having the seat fully forward and raised, as an example).

My initial concern was the main lights, though as you cleared that up to just internal lighting - that again could prove a problem as dark roads, a sudden change in internal lighting would from internal glare reduce visibility.

Biggest take away is that the LIN bus has no form of encryption and the only verification would be checksums upon the data packet.

I'm sure we will read more about LIN over the years as the ability for car makers to cut-corners is not unheard of and as LIN is cheaper to implement than CAM, can see how that may well play out.
Turns out that a lot of people would rather live comfortably. Same with me, I'm making more than triple what I would make if I had pursued my original studies into a career. My only regret is that I didn't study computer science so I could be making more than I currently earn.
“Everyone” is too large of a group. And way too anonymous. The group would be one in which you value your membership and the opinion of others.

In the past, it would have been a church, a social club, or in a small town, the town itself.
You can also buy plenty of development boards with an ESP32 and a CAN transceiver. Small, fully programmable, with Wifi and BLE, for less than $50.
I think the Americas are more than several days travel from Carthage.
Just want confirm that vehicle security is a trash fire.

The CAN bus [1] has no security, you just put packets on it and read packets off it. Like "tell me the speedometer reading" or "activate the brakes" and CAN bus does it. You and I might think, gosh those are radically different things. Well the CAN bus disagrees.

Did I mention that there is no encryption? There isn't. To the CAN bus, the packets from the GPS tracker that say "tell me the speedometer reading" and the packets from the manufacturer created by pressing the brake are treated with the same authority.

Does vehicle electronics firmware use a weird 20 year old non ANSI version of C? Well of course it does. Does it require signed firmware? Hah!

Do most vehicle electronics suppliers not have the top quality security people they need? They do not. Do they have management support for making security conscious decisions? They don't.

Anything that can put packets on the CAN bus can completely control the car. So anything that connects the the CAN bus, through bluetooth, wifi, cell service, or a plug needs to be completely secure.

I'm a little distrustful of On Star and the like, because I don't think GM is security conscious enough to manage it perfectly. I'd be very distrustful of a company that let you keep a default password for your GPS tracker. Instead purchase the GPS tracker that does NOT read info about the vehicle, the only plug should be for power.

Here's a story about hacking Chrysler's Uconnect, with good details.

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

If you are writing software/firmware that will control a vehicle, you should hard code the packets it can write and never include dangerous ones. Even though it might seem cool to be able to "stop the vehicle" in an "emergency". If you want to use dangerous commands, you need to level up your security org to google/facebook levels. If you are talking to management that means spending $50 million a year just on security.

These are not attacks that require state level NSA/Chinese/Russian attackers. This is well within the reach of an advanced individual. It is very lucky indeed that there is no monetary or other advantage to this, if actuating brakes in cars produced social security numbers we'd have hundreds of excess deaths a year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus
> Some explicitly allow people to fake/hardcode their status

That's not an issue with the tech, it's an issue with the people. I'm not shooting off messages with no idea of whether they'll arrive, I'm at least trusting the person's intended availability. If they're just being an ass and marking themselves as perpetually unavailable, that's an issue I'd take up with their manager.

In my experience, modern systems like slack and discord (and even hipchat) work well enough with their availability indicators. Chat apps five years ago I would not trust as much.
I see that Linux and MacOS run Unix dervied kernels.

I dont see how Windows does so. Its heritage is more
along the line of VMS.

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/windows-nt-and-vm...

Unless he means the Windows Subsystem for Linux but it is
my understanding that it is not runing a Linux kernel, but
mapping to the Windows (NT) kernel.
Because his one belief is questionable doesn't make his other not worth considering.
You speak as if FF was a niche product that is a sacrifice to use. There are markets such as Germany, that were always more seceptical of IE/Chrome where FF is still in second place at around 25% and recently rising again while Chrome has fallen back below 50%.

Chrome is definitely the dominant browser, FF is far from irrelevant.

I also echo the content of the sibling comment: on mobile u block origin is really a God send.
My username is not to project any ideology as superior, but to project my identity of the civilisation as it has come into threat lately.

I will refrain from making any comments on your user name though.
Tastebuds. The big crunch.
It's not. But the news is full of people who got degrees and giant college debt and it's a terrible anvil hanging over their entire lives. They can't buy a house or car (or its tremendously harder), the need to service the debt is a central part of their decision making.

If you want to look at it in another lense, it hurts our whole economy because many younger people in this group aren't able to help our economy grow through buying stuff like previous generations did. When I went to college long long ago it was really cheap, like $1000 a semester. The states stopped subsidizing it so much. I was a beneficiary of this.
whiteboarding is such an interesting cultural issue. I'm only surprised how resistant Developers are to this skill. the best developers I know can think on a whiteboard in a group.

it's not an everyday task, but it's a very good measure of communication skills.

syntax may not be as important, but it is a measure of your Comfort Inn on language or system. asking any Junior developer to be syntax correct I would find inappropriate appropriate, but for a language specific expert I do not see this as a high bar