skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is of course why DNSSEC is crucial anyway. DNS is the foundation under the Web PKI, a secure Web PKI on top of insecure DNS doesn't buy you very much. It's impressive we've got this far in fact.

It was most fun in the old days, before the Ten Blessed Methods. You'd get this contrast between the wild imaginations of anti-DNSSEC people who imagined every certificate application is investigated by some combination of Jason Bourne and Sherlock Holmes - and a reality where it's just somebody got a blurry fax from a law firm in another country and so they pressed OK because everybody knows lawyers are honest.
This incidentally seems roughly around the income needed to afford a mortgage on a single family home in the Bay Area.

Basically, only the top 1% can buy homes in the Bay Area.
A class of risks that the normal financial system doesn’t have. My bank doesn’t expose me to “double spend” attacks.
There are various calculators that can do this for you and you can easily try different scenarios. https://btc.com/tools/mining-calculator https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/bitmain-an...
Not a conservative, more of a third positionist myself. Even in places where conservatives are comfortable, I've still got opinions they'd hate.

So I shut up.
Yes, the fraction is 1/100.
Next thing, you will claim your stress level is lower .. jk
I figure with the ramped up marketing blitz they’ve been on we will be hearing about their IPO soon.
> Is there any more to discuss on the topic of Bitcoin being outrageously wasteful? Or is this pretty much the final word?

Its not the final word, but it is something to vigilantly monitor in case the following changes:

Most bitcoin energy use is from mining, and that mining uses renewable energy or energy waste byproducts. Source: my experience with mining companies that don't publicly disclose how they do this profitably.

So for now, try to corroborate it yourself. I would say that 70-80% of bitcoin mining is not a wasteful use of energy and that merely estimating the energy numbers doesn't tell you anything about the source. What I mean by "not wasteful" means that it isn't pulling away from another use of energy that was ever going to happen.

This wasted energy is usually in the form of byproducts around other power facilities that cannot be economically converted and transported to residential and commercial areas. This is where bitcoin mining shines: Bitcoin mining does not need a robust internet connection and does not need to occur in residential or commercial areas. A computer with a satellite connection can submit hashes to the bitcoin network, and pools further make it practical to have lower latency, because they merely pay out based on your contribution to the pool.

So miners that use energy waste byproducts (converting those byproducts to electricity at the source and taking transformers there) often times are doing a favor to the power company or whoever is there.

What to monitor: if nation states start competing over power of this network, they may disregard the economic feasibility of doing so, and then it will be incredibly wasteful uses of electricity.
I've followed GraphQL from a distance. Besides the typing part (which it seems like you can get from OpenAPI to some extent), the other big benefit seems to be being able to cater to many different and unpredictable use cases. But I haven't really had a need for that yet.
You're gonna get yourself shadowbanned bud.
Don't forget, this is HN. I'm with you: where I live it's very typical for a software developer to cap in the mid-$100k range. I would wager that the eye-watering numbers you see from FAANG developers is atypical for _most_ software developers in the country. And that's totally fine.
> unless they started to select and/or moderate that content, at which point they would lose the carrier status

But since the homepage feed (or any medium really) displays contents in a certain order, some selection must take place.

Typically some algorithm (usually a recommender system together with some business logic) is used to determine which contents from all that's available to you are actually shown to you and in what order.

Bias seems to be an unavoidable part of the design to me.
> all that renewable energy could have been used to power something that actually adds value to society.

If the miners are using excess production, then by definition, that power could not have been used for anything else; otherwise, some consumer in the grid would have used it!
> Fixing the lack of women in tech is a multi-century process

Why does tech take longer than other professional fields like medical and legal? Harvard law started admitting women in the 1950s. MIT started admitting women in the 1870s. Yet the gender balance in the legal field narrowed much more rapidly.
In my perfect workplace, people would be able to have political discussions by mutual consent, or opt out of any political discussion, and not get penalized for either.
There is no such thing as doing "everything right" a capitalist society is a zero sum game.

You only make money by taking it from someone else. Sure the reserve can print more money but that only leads to currency devaluation on a macro level which on a whole reduces purchasing power of the society.

You can't really address income inequality without fundamentally reshaping society.
Facebook owns Instagram - the 2nd largest social network - as well as Whatsapp which is ginormous in its own right as well.
Off topic but does it seem like this link deliberately doesn't load any of the Youtube UI details, just leaving in grey hints? I thought the rest hadn't loaded but it's kind of a nice experience.

It looks like this on my end: https://imgur.com/F65dvgX
Too bad lightning network requires bitcoin at the on and off ramps to function. Those transactions alone would kill bitcoins pathetic transaction rate if the ecosystem ever took off.
I get the sense that those numbers might include the value of stock increasing, but that's the only site that's had numbers within 10% of the offers I actually got after negotiation.
Autify raises $2.5M seed round for its no-code software testing platform
The same people mad at ICE are fine doing business with China. Gitlab is making the right move, as the people who all of a sudden are pretending to become ethical, are mostly just posturing for their friends, otherwise ICE would be far down their list of business concerns.
Whoa, so I have about 20 years professional experience (19-39), 10 years non-professional (ages 8-18), what should I be making right now? Because it's not 250
I think most of this discussion has missed the point. The point of the memo is that Gitlab isn’t sorting customer into morally “good” or “bad” buckets and choosing to do business with them.

The decision making process required to do that will necessarily be filled with politics and value judgments.

He’s right, that is a huge distraction from the business of making money.

The important question is whether that distraction is worth it.
I think this is it:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRkRHAyI2xHN6UUD53X7...

I think it's really hard to get natural with it. Just like any new language, it takes years of immersion to speak like a native, and there's nowhere in our society to get that kind of immersion in NLP.
In this case, it's likely that Nazis would be labeled a terrorist organization, or a wartime enemy, and would be subject to federally-enforced economic sanctions. It actually would be illegal for Google to do business with Nazis.
Maybe to sign up, but to actually make trades it's just taking orders off the book.
Space itself is actually growing as well as celestial bodies having some relative motion that on average moves away from a common point. The growth in space itself is called inflation. Last time I studied cosmology (university) this was an accepted fact although the precise mechanism that explains this inflation was not agreed upon (scalar field, dark energy etc). I think there is some debate about whether inflation is speeding up or slowing down or how long it has occurred for but AFAIK the concensus is that it is a real thing.

To make an analogy, it is as if you had an elastic sheet with objects moving on its surface. The elastic sheet can be expanded which causes the distance between any two fixed points to grow.

(it's been many years since I studied physics so any corrections to my comments are appreciated)
Haha, damn nice job. I actually thought about this 1 yr ago and started working on something very similar, though it was more interactive. Even started an LLC and got a good prototype, but didn't have the time to work on it.

Great work! This is incredibly useful stuff and can't wait to start trying it out
Nah I won't go there, I'm always stressing about things :) That's why I need to be surrounded by trees!
Let me put this in a way that a HNer can understand:

It's bad because happiness has a logarithmic dependence on income. A system that permits this amount of wealth concentration is isomorphic to one that actively creates misery.
This mirrors my experience at Salesforce, to a large extent.
It should be possible to build watchtowers into the protocol itself. A lightning node could elect some number of random nodes as watchtowers at bootup, similar to how many clients now elect random channels.

Being a watchtower is extremely low cost, it only requires a small amount of memory. Every full lightning node is watching the blockchain anyway so it is easy to watch for some extra transaction ids with a certain prefix. Transaction IDs are sufficiently long that only part of the txn ID (half) needs to be shared with the watchtower. The tower can only decrypt and send the revocation txn once the malicious txn is broadcast, and the watchtower reward can be built in to the revocation txn.
How big is stock though?

In NYC a senior dev makes that much or more in finance, and in a startup probably closer to 140-160 with bonus and fuzzy-numbered stock options. I don't count my stock options ("units") as anything worth anything at this point, not because I'm cynical but because there's no clear valuation.

All things considered I'm suddenly feeling underpaid - I know many quite senior folks barely breaking that.
Be a nice slave, asian! be happy!
Social networks bring people together.

Advertising sends a message to groups of people.

Roads allow people to travel by car.

Roads are being uses to bring people to places where murders happen. You can't pretend that roads have no role.

So many things had a role.. power, internet, the company who made the computer they used, teachers, friends (or lack of), parents.. why decidd that social media or ads is the problem.

Social media has reduced the number of cults.
Average junior devs in Bay Area.
There's a famous Charlie Russell painting of a dying cow from the winter of 1886-7, a version of which is here: https://www.nps.gov/grko/learn/historyculture/winter.htm
My normal minute-by-minute email checking is REAL BAD right now.
Which portion of my comments suggests nonparticipation in government by citizens? It suggests exactly the opposite.
I don't own any Bitcoin and never have, and am not especially fond of it.

> Setting aside the non-trivial ecological damage caused by dams..

I don't think anyone is claiming that the dams were built to mine Bitcoins. The power generation was provisioned to power towns, but it is generating more electricity than the towns can use or profitably transport away.

> all that renewable energy could have been used to power something that actually adds value to society.

There is a market to buy the energy. If anyone wanted it for basically any other purpose, the price would increase and the miners would presumably go anywhere else in the world with overprovisioned renewable energy, so that their profit can be preserved. Mining doesn't have many requirements: it doesn't even need to be on-grid. It's created an arbitrage market for cheap electricity, and people will search out the cheapest electricity in the world to use for it. By definition, the cheapest electricity will be the least wanted.
Top 1% of income is a red herring too - Top 1% of wealth is what everyone is focused on. Top 1% of household wealth is more like $10M in net worth. Almost nobody earning $500k will ever amass $10M in net worth due to income taxes (vs. capital gains for those with substantial wealth) and living expenses. It really is a separate stratosphere.

https://equitablegrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/table...
It is only cheaper today because the price of those traditional transfers are set artificially high. Make no mistake if banks had real competition for inter-bank transfers you’d see the price drop to near zero.
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That's not Bitcoin's fault though.

Otherwise, we could also argue that iPhones are a humanitarian disaster.
Juniors definitely don't make ~250k. Mid level, maybe. Senior, definitely.
>All I have to say to this is a deal's a deal. Doesn't matter if it was 184 years ago.

It doesn't work like that when you make a deal with the government. Just ask a native American if you don't believe me. :)
It is sad indeed, that we lost the ability to discuss difficult issues. But it is true nonetheless, it is impossible to discuss politics unless we all pretend to be on the same page, and yes, in tech for the most part that is the left page. Silence makes for a dull workplace, but it is better than living in abject hypocrisy.
https://i.imgur.com/s7IiHO6.png
https://i.imgur.com/V6QzKdT.png
Run these scripts with python2, as it uses print statements.
Also

pip install natsort
My PhD research is on how to use space and aerial networks to serve the unconnected and undeserved. I have been studying these networks (and things like Google's loon, mmwave, etc) for the last 4 years. I have simulated these networks in detail, assessed their capabilities, and ran a lot of financials myself.

According to my analyses, there needs to be a disruptive change in how we receive broadband Internet to close the business case (that's why I keep talking about Displacing ISPs). The unconnected and undeserved broadband market plays great in the US and Canada, but in the rest of the world, there is simply not such a market. At best, you are going to try to provide backhauk for a cell phone network or some other kind of access point. The whole 3B of unconnected people rethoric is very slim. Those people can afford to pay very little every month for connectivity, so it's very hard to make money out of it (even to offset your marginal costs).

In terms of performance, there are diminishing returns on each extra satellite that you launch. The ones already up there are already satisfying a lot of the demand, so each newly launched satellite is active for a shorter and shorter percentage of time.

Starlink is a (in my opinion) very oversized system. I do not think they will launch the full 4,409 constellation (as it stands today), and I am pretty confident they will not launch a 30,000 satellite constellation.

Finally, LEO networks are not the most cost effective space networks. GEO HTS and MEO networks have lower CAPEX/GB.
>" It's far worse there especially when you look at how poor the construction is there and how high the pollution seems to be. You can see that city has suffered immensely economically."

Interesting. I found Liege to be a charming little city. The Calatrava train station is one of the most interesting stations in Europe in my opinion. The bike path along the river is quite nice as well. I didn't perceive the town was suffering economically. Would you mind elaborating? Genuinely curious.
> In coastal cities, a two income household making 250k each is not absurd,

In the San Francisco area, a bit over $500k is the mean income of the top 5% of households, so while it's not too 1% locally, it still in a fairly narrow slice at the top.

https://statisticalatlas.com/metro-area/California/San-Franc...
Then the requirement to not discuss politics at work must be illegal too.
TM cost a very small fraction of what a metro system would have cost, it is not that they 'felt' that way, it simply is like that. They also did it pretty quickly and are expanding all over the city.

What drawbacks there are are mostly due to its success, overcrowding and so on. It's also not the safest place, but it being Colombia that not exactly news. Still, something like the TM would work just fine in many West European and American cities.
Yeah, same here (nowhere near 250). This thread is depressing. ;_;
This is at Silicon Valley/software companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Facebook, etc. Most developers will be above 150k-200k there, especially accounting for bonuses and stock which are considered as part of compensation.

But this is actually rare across the industry as a whole in the US, and extremely rare when considering other countries. It's nowhere near as common as the heavily skewed HN comments will make you believe.
New Dark Forest theory: The universe is teeming with alien civilizations that have survived The Great Filter ...but they all built Dyson spheres around their respective stars to harness the maximum amount of energy for mining cryptocurrency.

Now they pass the time counting their money until their stars burn out.
Yes, of course. It would be useful to include some of that information on the slide to help justify why the session is three hours. As it, I think the author loses credibility as this is an irrational, non-data driven conclusion.

Using evidence to support statements is even more important when introducing a new concept to an audience.
I think it's helpful to consider. You'll definitely need the cash to ramp up infrastructure
> Mundane factors like whether or not the interview is after lunch have a major impact on pass rates.

[citation needed]

If this is just inferred based on that observation about judges and meal breaks, then keep in mind that this is just a factoid, and a one that fails the sniff test. C.f. http://nautil.us/blog/impossibly-hungry-judges.
What is "Blind"?
If it was non-political, then you would expect to see no debates on the issue. Given that there was a post here on HN [1] about an initiative for women devolving into flamebait and arguments about reverse sexism, I think one cannot say it's non-political. As most things are political.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19464269
Is it possible that the universe stays the same size and everything within it shrinks?
>fuzzy-numbered stock options

We aren't talking about stock options, we are talking about concrete RSUs with real valuations.

A Staff Engineer at Google can easily be vesting $200k in stocks alone each year.
At Google the top metric used to be relevance for a long time (until Amit Singhal was kicked out) for a good reason: it's a metric that kicks out spam, but doesn't pick sides.

Times and leadership has changed since though.
Doesn’t work that way. Bitcoin’s block reward system is designed so that the systems energy consumption costs are basically some percentage of the price of bitcoin. The higher the price, the more energy used. Drop the price of energy, and all rational miners will just buy more hardware. Why? If they don’t, their competitors will and the odds of them getting block rewards will go down.
It’s not necessarily absurd, just rare. 1 in 100 rare to be precise.

It’s not really relative. $500k HHI in Manhattan is a ridiculous amount of money that lets you live a ridiculous life of luxury, whether you realize it or not.

Wealthy elites really like to make this false “relativity” argument, where $500,000 isn’t “that much” because everything in New York is so expensive… but they ignore the simple fact that they get to live in New York and have access to everything that entails. Being able to live in New York at all is something many fantasize about. It’s part of why so many TV shows are based in New York. For most, it’s a fanciful life beyond their reach.

$500k is $500k. It gets you $500k worth of stuff. That $500k of stuff may be in the form of material items, access or lifestyle (e.g. weather). The fake relatively argument comes in when you only compare material items and selectively ignore everything else to make a false argument and appear like less of an elitists than you are. But $500k will get you EQUALLY absurd lifestyles in Manhattan or Kansas. In one, you get to live the high life in the middle of New York, with access to basically everything. In the other, you live in the midst of nothing, but with a pool that might qualify as a theme park and a fleet of exotic cars.

In either case, these are lifestyles only available to the 1%.
>In coastal cities, a two income household making 250k each is not absurd, and can certainly happen with two doctors, lawyers, or even software developers.

This is why the 99% stuff misses the mark. That 1% is the best of us; our doctors, lawyers, successful small business owners, etc. People who drive the economy and create outsized value through specialized labor that is rightfully compensated. The true problem in our society is the 0.01%. There is a tiny portion of these that are the Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerbergs who are self made. But the vast majority of them are the intergenerational wealth holders whose fortunes have simply continued to compound and provide them with an unnatural amount of power influence that is completely undeserved. It's why a wealth tax is so neccessary in this country, and if properly implemented could completely absolve the need for income tax.
This is a different metric akin to mining a bitcoin. Making a transaction with gold can be carbon neutral, it would seem to me.
Yeah that parent comment was highly delusional. That’s not Sr. Dev money in northern Virginia / MD / DC which is definitely above median across US.
'Tis a point. Should I give a direct link to the PDF then?
> without basic spam filtering, something like Twitter would be absolutely unusable in the face of endless crypto and malware spam

I don't understand this argument at all. Is it so difficult for users to curate the list of accounts they follow?
my family makes more than that but we still can’t afford a single family house where we live (DC area, within beltway)
It reminds me of the same question asked in this book, "The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe" by John Gribbin. The bottom line was that the calculations always have some approximations, which can throws off a number by a large factor.
Ok, I'll bite: how is increasing income inequality a good thing?
there is no thinking you break through. you either see a portal open and jump through it into another universe, or you don’t.
I'd guess mostly WeChat/Alibaba/TikTok, and a few tiny players that ebb and flow in impact.
I hope that ends up happening, it will be a bigger innovation than all these constellations!!

I don't think it will happen in the next 3 years though. I think that most of the manufacturers are focusing on the high-end market, and first terminals will be in the thousands of dolars.
You could easily touch around 250k total comp at one of the FAANGs. Depending on location and company:

~150k salary

~15k bonus

~100k stock

Good 401k match

This is the average of anecdotal evidence I have seen from friends and acquaintances with around your experience.
In the same vein, language is constantly in flux, so defining a thing as "just so" is at best a temporary accuracy.
The Blind app used for anonymous work discussions: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blind-anonymous-work-talk/id73...
Sadly sometimes I think having lower ethical standards gives an edge during competition.
I don't know what you're on about with this "Sherlock Holmes" stuff, but the last several CA kill-shots occurred after Google and Mozilla detected misissuances. And Google and Mozilla didn't just revoke the certificates: they killed the CAs themselves.

Are you not watching CT logs for domains you work on?
what does buying power mean? like, you're able to buy some house on your not 1% salary in your rural area, and a person on a 1% salary in nyc/sf could not buy an equivalently nice house?