skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s more nuanced. It’s not the absolute “market size” it’s whether the market is large enough.

I can keep up with that from talking to former managers, former coworkers, my network of local recruiters, recruiters job listings, LinkedIn posts, Indeed job listings, etc.

For example. Let’s say from all over those sources I see the following trends.

Senior consultant positions (in my case AWS). There are relatively few jobs in my local market compared to everything else that pay enough to make me jump ship just for the money. But when they do become open. I’m building my resume and skillset to be qualified for these types of jobs. If I leave my company on my own terms, I can wait until the perfect position opens up. If I need to find a job now I can’t afford to wait and it’s too risky for me to over specialize in an area where local jobs aren’t plentiful.

On that same note, the only reason I am specializing in AWS instead of Azure is because that’s the job I ended up in. Even though the market for AWS is much larger than Azure, the Azure market is more than large enough so it doesn’t matter. GCP on the other hand...

If I take that same mentality to Java, C#, and Go, the same thing applies. Java is more popular in the enterprise, but C# is popular enough that you can quickly find a job, it’s hard to ask for above average compensation just for a developer job since there are plenty of people who can do it “well enough” to develop your bog standard SAAS CRUD app or bespoke internal app. But they pay well enough. The cost of living is relatively low in Atlanta.

On the other hand, I don’t see that many jobs for Go developers locally and when they do appear, the salary is the same as C# and Java. Why specialize in a language where the demand is lower and the compensation is the same - unlike AWS Consulting.

Learning Go would mean I am neither optimizing for salary or for optionality to find a job quickly.

Of course, it’s always good to have Javascript in your back pocket because of the web and it’s used for server side code, desktop apps, and cross platform mobile apps.

As far as my next career move, I am not sure. Extra money would always be nice, but cloud consulting/enterprise consulting doesn’t excite me. I have a decent work life balance and I enjoy my current stability.

On the other hand, I am getting bored with developing, a change of pace would be nice and increasing my savings and investments wouldn’t hurt.
> and even that 100k signing bonus won't go that far in replacing student debt

Better than "zero" signing bonus. $100k takes how many years of saving money? This signing bonus is "free money" provided you stay with the company within the agreeable period.
We're talking about just escaping the surface gravity, not returning to Earth.
There are cases in which there is no choice but to use specific corporate products

"No choice" in the sense that you lose business, lose touch with your high school classmates, or are forced to go out and pick up your own food from the restaurant down the street?

Or "no choice" in the sense that people show up at your door with guns?

What a privilege it is to be able to casually use the same language to describe such disparate outcomes.
OP mentions he pays $2400 in rent, which would get you a pretty decent studio or half of a 2br apartment in some very nice places in SF. The $11k leftover is also after taxes (and also after 'fun' spending and utilites/food).
Keybase and Stellar Foundation: Incentive Program for Hacker News Users
Keybase (.io): prove an identity without disclosing personal information, merely by enabling other users to check if the "you" on Hacker News is the same "you" claiming to be you on GitHub or other resources.

Stellar Foundation: focused on supporting the Stellar blockchain. Giving away a total of 1 billion Stellar tokens (XLM, current market value: ca. $121M) over the next two years to Keybase users able to prove they've registered a Hacker News or GitHub account before 09.09.2019 in monthly batches of 100M XLM dropped on the 15th of each month with a cap of $500 worth of XLM per user.

Instructions (amount given away per user is off yet instructions are accurate):
-> http://www.publish0x.de/everything-cryptocurrency2/free-20-worth-xlm-xeemew?tid=hn
What's wrong with being a temp employee with flex hours?

You raise a good point that labor law has an ugly bimodality regarding employee and independent contractor, where it might be better to refactor the law so that different protections apply based on some particulars of the arrangement. Working <10hrs/wk vs >20hrs/wk is one good place to draw a distinction.
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But for the fact that those dollars literally do not pay for roads and, when roads need to be built, those dollars will not be appropriated to do so. Other than that you're right of course, totally silly, what was I thinking.
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Because we continue to believe drivers are properly classified as independent, and because we’ll continue to be responsive to what the vast majority of drivers tell us they want most—flexibility—drivers will not be automatically reclassified as employees, even after January of next year.

We expect we will continue to respond to claims of misclassification in arbitration and in court as necessary, just as we do now. But we will also continue to advocate for the independence and choice that drivers tell us again and again in surveys, polls, focus groups, and personal conversations that they value most.

Uber management is not going to get the message until top management goes to jail for contempt of court.
A Paid monospace font? Whats wrong with free mono solutions?
When I had problem with charging on my iPhone 6 I've went to Apple Store with that and "genius" at Apple Store literally told me to use SIM removal tool to dig it out and then he proceed to do it on my phone as I watched. Pins are only on one side so as long as you be careful and not bend them you will be fine.
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If it comes to a point where overpopulation is equated with environmental pollution, yes
My reading is that it's not "free" because it costs the creator something to make it, even if you get to consume it for free.
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That and the number of Labour members prepared to insist every Jewish person complaining about their treatment or objecting to the disciplinary body ruling holocaust denial memes OK is part of the "Israel lobby throwing a fit"...
Are you talking about 1st party cookies vs 3rd party cookies?

Because the web people got that. The web is still polluted with cookie consent popups on 99 % of most used websites because 99 % of most used websites use 3rd party cookies.

If the law people understood the web they would not create regulations that forces every user in the continent to click a pop-up on every site they visit.
Orbit isn't a height, it's a speed. 7 km/sec for low earth orbit. A balloon floating you higher while not making mach 20 isn't much of a shortcut.
So... if one made a very aerodynamic craft, and launched at a more extreme lateral angle, do you think it would supplement the chemical rockets enough that escape would be possible?
Big companies can't fork?
As scld touched on, this "article" is really an excerpt from Sean Carroll's new book, Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime.

https://www.amazon.com/Something-Deeply-Hidden-Emergence-Spa...

If you wish to read further, you may want to consider picking up a copy. Mine is waiting for me at home, I'm looking forward to it!
We don't.

Anyone with any real predictive power over that question had a license to print money
most of the energy spent getting to that 400km low earth orbit is spent accelerating to very very fast lateral speeds. If you use a balloon to get your rocket up as high as you can before launching it you limit the weight of the rocket you can lift up there, and most of the weight of rockets is used to gain that lateral speed. The plane + rocket idea has been shelved for now, as reusable rockets have decreased the price much more than launching a small rocket from 40,000 feet.
Science is incorruptible. Scientists are not. Don't conflate the imperfections of the humans implementing science as being problems with science.

Whatever you're proposing as the alternative to science has the same problem: it's implemented by imperfect humans.

What's your alternative?
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Will the US economy experience a recession in the next...

100 years? Yes!!!!

50 years? Yes!!!

25 years? Yes!!

12.5 years? Yes!

6.25 years? Yes

3.125 years? Yes?

1.5625 years? Maybe

.78125 years? Maybe?

.390625 years? No?

0.1953125 years? No

0.09765625 years? No!
I think an important point is to make it optional, and in some cases, opt-in.
What are these fresh grad supposed to do? Getting paid less while the companies printing money? Where should the money goes?

Having said that, I do understand your point in this statement:

> as if they have no appreciation for the fact that a $300k salary is unheard of even for most people in their 50s, let alone a kid in his early 20s.

I noticed an increasing number of fresh-grad that feels entitled for a big salary. Their attitude is off the chart...
Because the problem with space is not at all the altitude necessary to reach it, but it is the speed necessary to remain in it.

So a balloon/plane/blimp/very high building will only help very marginally.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
It sounds like you've gerrymandered the definition of "social media" to exclude most of its positive qualities, leaving only the negative impacts, to be honest.

And there are hundreds of case studies like the one I linked to, and sure, it was "possible" in the days of internet forums the same way it was "possible" to send text messages in 1995.
The Pegasus rocket used to launch satellites from a modified 747 for between 1990 and 2016 [1]. It just doesn't work out well in practice because the cost of the modified plane far exceeds the cost savings from a first stage unless you're doing half a dozen or more launches per year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(rocket)
I remember the DefCon 20 talk, Bigger Monsters, Weaker Chains with William Binney - https://youtu.be/sqIz-RNUL1g

This was in 2012, 2013 was when Snowden did what he did.

I always wondered if he saw this talk and was motivated by it.
High-speed reading is a technique, and as with all techniques, it has its uses and limitations.

For reading, generally, I strongly recommend Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book, itself an HN perennial, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209446 (or all: https://hn.algolia.com/?q="how%20to%20read%20a%20book").

If you're trying to determine what to read, or want to rapidly get an overview of a book, or are "visually grepping" for specific content, then the tricks of speed-reading, especially of chunking, skimming paragraph ledes, and not vocalising or subvocalising, help.

If you're reading for deep understanding, you'll want to fully absorb the material (and work through the exercises!), though this can also involve several passes -- for textbooks or nonfiction, I'll scan the ToC, and then the chapter (especially for section/subsection titles), then read through in full.

Treating such reading as an inquiry rather than simply as data transfer helps tremendously.

And of course, if you're reading quality literature or poetry, you'll want to savour the language, words, rhythm, meter, and rhyme. Go slow. You'll appreciate it all the more.

Reading plays or dialogue-rich content is a particular skill -- try reading with different intonation or to sort out what possible alternate meanings might exist. Shakespeare is of course excellent for this, though many other plays (or film screenplays) are as well. Realise just how much latitude the actor or director has in translating from words on the page to those uttered on the stage or screen.
Edit: Removed my comment as it conflicted with the guidelines
> $100k takes how many years of saving money

According to one poster in this thread [1], it takes 1 (one) year for him to save up $100k without even trying.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20943752
This is just a PR post by Uber. Don't take any of it as fact.

No one knows the true impact of this. Companies will find lots of interesting ways to follow the letter of the law but not the spirit of it. As they always do.

If you really want speculation on it then find someone who's actually a lawyer and not directly affected by it (so they aren't biased). Which I haven't seen yet.

(Detailed writeup on why speculation on things like this is almost always wrong http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/ )
The rent might triple but almost everything else is either the same cost or only moderately more expensive. If you want to buy a Tesla or an iPhone or pop over to Prague on vacation that’s not going to be cheaper in Dallas. Some stuff like eating out will be more expensive, but not 3x more. Your total living expenses won’t go up 3x.
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Isn't it the case for most studies that we read about online? Anything that ranges from "X can cure Cancer" to "Sleeping X hours is better for you" has a sample mostly consisting of American individuals. That doesn't stop them from generalizing nor does it make us question said generalization.

That being said, this seems like a double-standard.
ok sure, let's imagine that this specific individual decides to spend $2k more on rent to have a place just to himself, which would bring his net after all expenses to over $9k. Still a lot, so the housing costs don't make that much of a difference here.
I think you might be on to something here.
> That is to say, a mainstream phone’s production is so optimized and streamlined, that the weighted average environmental impact of making 10 more (e.g. iPhones) is significantly less than the weighted average environmental cost of making 1 Fairphone.

I agree that the lack of repairability requirements and the sheer volume of production make it plausible such optimisations could have happened. But we know neither whether they happened, nor the scale of the benefits. Unless you're Tim Cook I guess, in which case bring back iPhone 5S form factor.
This is a really interesting metric but I'm going to argue that it doesn't say that much about our current situation given that our current unemployment numbers are highly skewed due to a strong shift towards low quality part time work and a large number of people opting out of the labor search (who are not considered unemployed in these statistics).

I could see an argument made that given that this is statistic is relative to itself and just tracks movement it shouldn't matter if things are different now than in the past but it feels to me like the nature of this metric is so different now than it was in the past that it's just not an apples to apples comparison.
Interesting and makes sense for someone someone like me who's a dummy for macroeconomics. Unemployed people can't afford to spend too much, thus businesses revenue decreases, they lay off more people and it becomes a negative feedback loop.

I've also seen this VOX documentary about the "yield curve" which also famous for predicting recessions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiiHjrewXNI
How poor of a shortcut is it? I'm not really clear on what the math would look like. Would it just be better by approximately the ratio of gravity's strength at the surface vs the height of the balloon?
It comes from chaos. It can be agreed though.

The US constitution came from the revolution, and attempted to correct some of the issues of the time, but without needing a dictator. Interesting that the US president gets a broadly similar role and powers to George III, just with restrictions on length of office. We've reformed all of those powers away, they kept their 18th century monarch, oops president, and added a few new powers. :)

The baby steps often come from localised chaos - riot, civil disobedience and such. Don't think we could push for a good constitution that way. We'd get a biased, subservient to the parties one. But we'd be told we got what was agitated for.
You can't do a gravity assist around the sun once you've reached solar escape velocity, because you won't be visiting the sun again.

If we could pull that trick so easily, we already would have.
It depends on how you phrase the question. "Do you want the US government to pay your health care bills" is a yes for most people. "Do you want to only have the choice of Veterans Affairs medical care" isn't quite as popular, and IMO that's what we'd end up with. (And considering the number of people who commit suicide by self-immolation to protest the VA's care... I really don't want that)
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The Nexus 5 is one of the best supported devices for running postmarketOS right now.
> The Libdems can't abide gay marriage (which is deeply ironic)

tbf even their former leader holding the infamously illiberal positions on "sin" backed gay marriage
Launching from a mountain is a possibility ( I think China does it)

Realistically, but not plausibly unless its an emergency, Thermonuclear bombs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzZGPCyrpSU
Congratulations! You are hereby awarded one “Useless Human!” badge. This is granted as thanks for being a know-nothing, like-button-coding-meta-chasing monkey who adds nothing to our race!!!

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I don't blame the grads themselves (other than the lack of appreciation for what is a large salary), it's more commentary on SV culture (and society as a whole) that so much absurd amount of money is just being thrown around to people in the bay area, meanwhile throughout America our healthcare system is in shambles, teachers have to take second jobs to pay bills, etc...

edit: and for the record, I'm one of those "new grads" making a self-admittedly absurd amount of money for what honestly amounts to a relatively meaningless contribution to society. Yea, I take the salary (and try to donate a good bit of it), but it still makes me feel uneasy that I'm being paid this much in the first place.
Ebay matches sellers (who choose what to sell) with buyers (who choose what to buy).

Uber tells drivers where to go, and when, if the driver agrees to do the work. Uber regulates the kind of cars acceptable, and regulates who does the work. Your Uber driver can't subcontract the drive to another driver.
Source on uber leasing cars? I was only able to find this: https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/vehicle-solutions/ which talks about paying for a rental car to uber people in
Hard reasons.

Forth implementations on the 6502 uses a stack and require more RAM than Co2 which uses a compiled stack.

I feel like Co2 would compile to faster code but of course I haven't benchmarked this. The reason I feel this is so is that I way I understand compiled forth is that the 'words' are still threaded so you don't escape the interpreter overhead.

Soft reasons.

Co2 takes away the chore of parsing, in Forth you are the parser. It's simpler but more error prone and harder to read (subjectively).

Forth is postfix notation which for a lot of people is challenging.
There is very little downside for the employee to be classified as such rather than as a contractor. The vast majority of the downside is for the employer.

I'm a W-2 employee at the company I work for, and they don't dictate my hours.
So you can’t add it as a second factor but not as a recovery mechanism?
When companies like Facebook make several million dollars in revenue per employee shouldn’t you be glad that the grunts writing code are getting a respectable share of the profits? Would you rather the engineers get paid 50k/year while Zuckerberg becomes a trillionaire?
These salaries don't come from thin air, they're constrained by the market rate at which engineers can be hired and retained. It's unfairly reductive to say that the engineers aren't contributing value since they work in ads. We work in all sorts of fields from the frivolous, like consumer electronics, to the decidedly less so like self-driving.

If the discrepancy between engineering salaries and research/teaching/nursing salaries is bothersome then perhaps the blame should be placed on the economic environment that has produced this result, not the twenty-somethings that are accepting great compensation.
I read it differently:

> Governor Newsom has already committed to sign AB5, which would go into effect in January 2020. Because we continue to believe drivers are properly classified as independent... drivers will not be automatically reclassified as employees, even after January of next year...

> Uber and Lyft together have already transferred $60 million into a campaign committee account, and we are open to investing more to put us in the strongest position possible to run a winning campaign... We are confident that California voters and the millions of riders and drivers who use Uber will step up to protect these important work opportunities.

Translation: "We're betting that we can get a ballot initiative passed legalizing what we do faster than the State of California can bust us for violating AB5."
>Or maybe we can actually focus on why there are more people that are causing these mass shooting

What if the answer comes back to the shortened distance between speech and action caused by certain kinds of speech via the Internet or other channels? Similarly, simply saying a right is "non-negotiable" does not make it so. In fact, all of the rights enumerated by most constitutions of the world are negotiable via parliamentary processes. Is there any reason why the right to self-defense or the right to (almost) unfettered freedom of speech are non-negotiable, but other rights (such as the sale and possession of alcohol) historically have been?

Not to mention that the US has negotiated several times on freedom of speech (child pornography laws, strengthened laws against assault and threats) and on the limits of self-defense.

Besides, there is a vast academic literature (in the fields of first amendment jurisprudence and philosophy) on whether freedom of speech is negotiable. In fact, some scholars have even found existing justifications for the primacy of freedom of speech, or a particular right to freedom of speech (as opposed to the "freedom of action" we implicitly have), such as its claimed inherent value in truth-finding or its claimed importance in the democratic process to be lacking, or even non-existent (for example, see Susan Brison's arguments).

Every right granted by a legal document, no matter how highly regarded, should be and in almost all cases is negotiable. To say otherwise would be, in the words of J.S. Mill, to cling to dead dogma.
Wait, is this correct? Doesn't 111 light-years mean even light takes 111 years to travel through? And light travels at 1c.
If they are able to consistently get job offers and perform well at companies which pay that well, why would they expect any less? Just because they are young they shouldn’t know what the market rate for their labor is?

Honesty a lot of this just sounds like sour grapes