skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're trying to maximize income, you should focus on understanding finance/business and building soft skills. You're probably over the threshold of how much you need to know about computers. Maybe get some training on how to work better with others, or how to negotiate effectively. In other words, soft skills are going to be the value you have over your peers that have been cramming CS for the last 4 years.

This. Outside of FAANG(-alikes) and some finance software work, the real money remains on the business side. Managing others. Presenting & selling ideas. Communicating. Knowing some computer shit is a big bonus but isn't what'll get you the big bucks. It'll usually get you the medium bucks, though, before topping out, which ain't the worst.

You'll also need that to go independent (start a business, start a consultancy, high-end freelancing) which is a third way (pure Tech in a handful of businesses; tech + people skills anywhere else; be your own employer) to make real money doing this stuff.
In my own experience sysprep is not necessary anymore. In fact, we abandoned it because it seemed never to quite work properly anymore which leads me to believe that MS forgot it existed and broke it in some Win 10 update (Thanks guys! [I hate you]).

On modern networks and storage hardware, reimaging a PC from scratch is sometimes faster than rebooting Windows after an update (and always faster than a "feature" update).

Anyone looking into mass image deployment should check out Fog[0], because it is free and works pretty well.

[0] https://fogproject.org
> The benefit of higher coastal salaries only works if you can somehow contain the overall cost of living from eating it all.

When I worked in NYC, I literally saved more, after taxes and all expenses, than I could make in total before taxes (or any expenses) where I live now.

Even a zero cost of living wouldn't begin to make up for that. People simply refuse to understand this, though. They just keep on repeating "but muh cost of living!" even though it's clearly not relevant.

It's their prerogative I suppose, but the thing that gets me is that these same people are constantly complaining about how they can't hire anyone!

Have you considered paying more, I ask?

We pay more than enough already!

No, you obviously don't.
No, individual cells don't understand Chinese. Neither would individual transistors if strong AI was possible. But that's not what the argument is about. The argument refutes the notion that you could have a complex (in terms of both hardware and software) system that implements an actual mind. This complex system could act exactly has a real mind on the outside, but would have no semantic parsing (i.e. understanding) on the inside.
> Email has hefty overhead per message. Chat allows for faster and easier communications

I'm not sure I understand. Are you talking about the SMTP/LMTP format, or clients or what? If anything email lacks overhead - a proper thread meta data field that actually works across implantations (in-reply-to is a start, but not enough).

It's not like "xmpp overhead" made gräll unusable, is it?
"Bummer of a birthmark, Hal".

Although my all-time favorite is probably "Midvale school for the gifted".
re: lawyer one. I am not biased and I am not against unions, but I live in a country where as some others mentioned, they are basically political tools for some small group (or in public unions, actual political parties). I am pro-union, but I believe that outliers or top-performers will be fucked in a union world. (And low performers will be safer). I make about 7-8 times the average salary for my country, and 5 times the average salary for a senior software developer. This is due to my years of developing connections and the fact I deliver quickly and well. From my experience with unions, I might even be at the top of the scale in their 'grades' but I would never be able to get to the multipliers I am making if I didn't have the power to negotiate my contracts myself. Sure it sucks for others that don't have this possibility, but I won't sacrifice myself for that.

That is perhaps a better analogy indeed, but still lacks a bit since each 'soldier' has different goals and capabilities, which may be curtained by if they organise. And the 'enemy' still requires you to cooperate with them at the end, to come to their side and help them achieve their goals, which again, would probably mean you would be fucked if you were fighting alongside, and midway decided that the 'enemy' was actually right and you wanted to work with them.
The back half of this bloomberg video has hardware startup guys going to the market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLmaIbb13GM
> However, Amazon still has an excellent return/refund policy,

My experience with Amazon's return policy has been consistently bad. My experience with eBay's has been consistently great.
> If you think there's nothing else to be found in physics, sure, we can stop. But plenty of people in the ancient world thought there was nothing left, too.

To the contrary, I think there's an infinite amount of things to be found out, across all sciences. However, for all I can tell, CERN is out to prove hypotheses for which no one today can conceive of any use whatsoever.

By contrast, there are many relatively low-hanging fruits in science and engineering that aren't long shots at all.

I'm not gonna say the billion-dollar budget of CERN should be re-appropriated, but it does seem overblown.

In any event, I'm not at all worried about CERN shutting down because helium gets to expensive.
Like in most govt project, I'm sure they found a good excuse for why they were off budget, and thus needed more money.

I presume too big to fail works everywhere!
"The next chapter of Google is likely to be how Sundar Pichai leads them to the brink."

Damn, that's dark.
It shouldn't be controversial to say that I value everyone on the planet having a higher quality of life more than I value a small subset of people's worry over losing privacy to a company that they not only willingly gave their DNA to, but also opted in during the signup process to use that DNA for health research.

If they feel fooled for whatever reason (I assume because that research is being done by another company instead of 23andme directly) and are now claiming they've lost some semblance of privacy over deidentified data they already handed over, that pales in comparison to lifesaving cures that are enabled and made more likely by sharing such data.

Quality of life for everyone > pedantics of what exact things you're opting into when you give your DNA to a genetic research company that dedicates a whole page in the signup flow to using your DNA for lifesaving research and cures.
Large commercial lawsuits are like investment, you invest precious resources into a lawsuit that may or may not pay off.

It's entirely reasonable for a company to decide that it's not worth the investment and not pursue.

And to refer back to this article, it's the French AMF fined Bloomberg, Vinci only had to file a complaint, not a full lawsuit with teams of lawyers.
You can also tap shift a couple of times and a pop-up appears with all possible options (a superset of cmd shift a)
We Forked Firefox and Not Chromium
I could never think of why Mozilla and friends are so aggressively pushing DoH, but I think you nailed it when you pointed out they can tie a specific device's DNS requests to its other data.

I run Unbound and Pi-Hole to do my own recursive resolving. Like a normal wireless router doing all the DNS lookups for its DHCP clients, Mozilla has no idea which particular device on my network is accessing duckduckgo.com. Once each browser happily sends requests to Mozilla, then on to NextDNS, there's a whole lot more data suddenly available to commingle in a data lake... The efficacy of browser fingerprinting means they won't even need cookies to distinguish between devices in those HTTP headers.

As far as I know, good ol' Insight Communications (then Time Warner, now Spectrum) made money from selling me access to its high-speed internet service, and running ads on failed-to-find-your-website DNS hijacks. Heck, most of its money probably came from upselling people to buy bundled VoIP landlines and premium cable packages--whatever tiny slice of revenue came from those lookups surely pales in comparison to tens of thousands of unused phone subscriptions.

For all the commenters here who think that Google and the other major tech companies are somehow more trustworthy than your ISP? Yeah, I just can't agree with those opinions.

Edit: Less trustworthy should have been more trustworthy.
Boomers discovering one more way to screw the next generation. Hey, they go theirs.
> But this app alone doesn't do a good job of convincing anyone of anything.

I don't believe it's meant to. This is not targeted at convincing climate denialists.

This is aimed at policy makers, and people who talk to policy makers, and people who vote on policies and policy-makers.
What about the confidence in the result? Math is never done willy nilly, and without the ability to show how it is done, this will go no where. That said, this is a exciting result
I'll give you better weather. More things to do? I'm not sure. Less conservative? Well, my reference point is Austin, TX, in which case I'd disagree.

Fewer hot (HOT! HOT! HOT!) tech jobs? Probably.
No, I don't think he ever makes it sound dutiful. There's a whole lot of other people reading this article and commenting on it both here and the original site and no one has read it the way you are reading it.

In no single point does he talk about employee mistakes.

The entire point of the essay is to analyze where and how the employee was actually lost.

You know Star Trek, when an unknown ship pops up, and they raise shields, etc? Then they turn out to be cool bros and want to talk? That's the metaphor that I read it as. It's a little wonky but fits the situation.
> Haskell though, I couldn't grok it

If you know OCaml it's within reach. The advantage is that you have better lazy data structures with GHC.
I gave up on mice after a few years with Logitech ones, and went 100% trackpad. Their scroll wheel is always too far from where your finger ends, making you curl your middle finger back in order to use it.
The same thing happened to Radioshack[0] in North America. Then it became The Source[1] in Canada.

You can still get some parts at The Source these days, but not all of them, and not nearly as expansive a selection.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack

[1] https://www.thesource.ca/
Realistically the FCC has __very__ little enforcement capability/interest right now. The views you see on the internet are from a very vocal group that is worried about maintaining the status quo and not losing access to any bands because corporate interests decide they need the spectrum.

If you want to go off and be a pirate you can probably get away with it, given that the top selling walkie talkie on amazon is an incorrectly marketed ham handheld that can also broadcast on public safety/police frequencies, with or without being set to them. I wouldn't advise it though because if you do get caught they tend to make an example of you, and if you know enough to not get caught, you can easily pass the tech test and beyond so just get licensed for the cost of a happy meal and enjoy.

Personally, I actually support having encrypted sub bands like we have for everything else, with the exception that station ident should be in the clear and I would like to see the tech test be easier.
Blade Runner is back! It's on GOG! You can buy it! It works!
How Accurate Is This? – What Single Pilot Looks Like
Yes, it is. They got a good deal at our expenses following these outrageous privatisation.

Meanwhile, some Spanish highways eventually got paid off and are becoming toll-free.
They already are making the same mistakes as other vendors. They think the managed openstack/k8s services are something that big people use. The reality is tools like kops or aks-engine support a much more stable cluster.
Is this brain drain or the result of some sort of legislation?
I say this supposedly major critique isn't represented in the data. The everytown article you seem to be mentioning recommends tighter gun controls.
Sure, such statements exist. But would a mathematician consider one of them true without a proof of some sort?

(Nope.)
This has to be some of the thinnest gruel I've read in a while. The entire premise of the article is that the "dark side" of WebAssembly is that "security" products can't do string matching against compiled code.

Case 1: People can write scams that "security" products can't block because WebAssembly somewhat obfuscates the code. The comparison to scanning WASM in a "security" product is like opening an executable in a text editor is laughable.

Case 2: People can write website keyloggers in WASM and it will be obfuscated against "security" products. Alternatively the bad guys could just obfuscate plain old JavaScript, or any number of other techniques to exfiltrate data. If people are executing malicious WASM on your website you're already owned.

The only one of their points that has any merit is that WASM implementations increase the attack surface of the browser. This is ostensibly true, as do all new features. Fortunately the major browser vendors have competent engineers dedicated to testing their software for vulnerabilities.
It depends on what you want to do with it. I bought a Yaesu FT-60 (which I'd recommend to start with) and the first upgrade I got was a much nicer antenna and some equipment to charge it in event of a power grid failure, and I'm probably at around $500 all-in.

If you want to get into satellites, you'll want to a specialized antenna for that, and then it helps to have a computer setup or a fine-tuning dial that can help deal with the Doppler shift and tracking, etc. Then you're easily getting up there in price, probably well past $500.

The other thing I've seen people do is set up extreme long-range setups. They'll get the General license that allows them to use frequencies that bounce around the atmosphere better and build their own antennae, get higher-power transmitters, etc. and their rigs are easily into the thousands of dollars.
The default String type is a linked list of characters, which means various things are slower than they should be.
The LastPass founder made his stash during the acquisition, it was for $100M or so in cash. But what about the LogMeIn founders the IPO was a decade ago but did they still have a position in the stock, and were they still with the company?
We are by far the prettiest horse in the glue factory. Our biggest problem is too much taxes for middle class.
I'm trying to push the agenda to switch our comms between developers fully to Keybase, but it will be probably rejected.
But arguably Webassembly is also dumb and has no reason to exist, so there's that on top of it being a great way to obfuscate malicious code.
Google Colab for Reproducible Research, WebApps, and Data Science
I still use 3 MX518s. One in my backpack, one at home and one at work. They’ve been used and abused for the past ~ 13 years and although they‘ve got some visible wear, they work as well as the day I bought them.
> they will essentially not let me create features that I think can be done better using my product, because they exist in some other product

sounds like you created a competing product and made it open source. that spells trouble. Get a lawyer. IANAL
I agree with you that the issue doesn't have to be labor rights. I agree that the emergency rapid push seems like a slight misuse.

I'm questioning the double standard of being able to use the tool to display company wide messages ("Happy Birthday Sundar!"). Why was the "Happy Birthday Sundar!" poster not held equally accountable? Seems like any topic management doesn't like is political speech.

Edit: The "Happy Birthday Sundar!" message didn't happen.
I completely agree with you.

The “negative PR argument” has become an indicator to me that someone has an extremely immature world view. There are anecdotes that reflect PR events that are catastrophic (Theranos). But most companies completely recover from PR bumps because most consumers only change their behavior in response to costs.
Kate from KDE Running on the PinePhone Under PostmarketOS
Also, (hugely important!) software that can't be used from the keyboard is almost certainly not accessible.
Advanced Persistent Threat Groups
Damn sounds like the dream place from a cyberpunk era
We are at a very warm part of a very long cold trend. The idea that human increases in CO2 is a bad thing is completely divorced from historical observation.

The earth has been much hotter than it is now and at the hot parts was peak life here on the Earth. Additionally, the climate models by the IPCC omit the effect of the Solar wind's effect on the thermosphere. If this was included, then many of the climate models would be saying the following: "the Sun got hotter, the Earth and all the planets in the solar system followed."

Conversely, the sun has entered into an unusually cold period, signified by a lack of solar spots these last few years. NASA confirmed this in 2017 when they announced that the Sun had entered into a Solar minima and would continue.

The Farmers Almanac also confirmed this with predictions that there would be extensive rain that would destroy crops. This prediction panned out and for a great summary of the crop failures going on around the world you can follow "Ice Age Farmer" on YouTube. Ice Age farmer was calling out extensive cold a year ago and now it's happening.

Given the full history of the Earth's temperature, it would make sense for world leaders to come to an agreement to dig up as much locked up carbon in the ground as possible, remove the impurities and then clean burn it - simply to get the CO2 back into the atmosphere where it belongs so that we avert a future DEVASTATING ICE AGE.

Hopefully one day the "Global Warming" hysteria will be taught in schools as an example of how a mass of people can be deceived. Much in the same way that "flat-earth" was commonly accepted as reality in Spain prior to 1492, and peak oil was pushed in the 1970's and beyond.
> Is it worthwhile to 'counterfeit' cat food?

Let me direct you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal.

If people are willing to poison milk with melanine to make a dollar, why wouldn't someone do the same to cat food? In fact, it's already happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls
100% agree. I am especially bothered by the implicit agism in the study. PhD students tend to be in their early to mid-20s. There is a much larger pool of older engineers in the United States who can be re-trained as AI specialists. Instead of a call to keep AI talents in the United States, we should be re-training existing talents in AI technologies.
> OCaml's module system is very powerful and has no counterpart in Haskell.

Is this taking into account backpack?
That is pathological nonsense. FDA already provides its Expanded Access (a.k.a. “compassionate use”) program for exactly this purpose.

You know what’s worse than dying of cancer? Dying sooner, poorer, painfully, and with negative quality of care. Families robbed of precious time with their loved one, left destitute, and even more miserable and guilty for knowing they were all had.

And you know what’s even worse than that? Knowing your kids, and your grandkids, and your great-grandkids will still be dying of those diseases. Because you, in your desire for pleasing lies over difficult truths, destroyed all the checks and balances and quality controls, leaving future generations not with better treatments but with the 19th-century snakeoil that was happily peddled as the cure to every ill until the development of modern medicine called those dirtbags out: Evidence or GTFO.

The hard truth is everyone dies, and not always of ripe old age. The ugly truth is that gloryhound nerds with underdeveloped responsibility and “I’ve got mine fuck you” libertarian sharks want all the money and glory with none of the legwork or accountability, nor any duty to their victims when it all goes wrong.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/right-to-try-laws-create-tr...

You do not play with people’s lives like that, not unless you’re a malignant narcissist or stone-cold psychopath. Or if you are, go drink bleach. There are plenty of deluded loons and scamming quacks only too happy to sell you that shit as The Cure To Cancer That Doctors Don’t Want You To Know About. So it goes.

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TL;DR: The reason we have trials is not to save the people who are sick today, but all of their children who get sick tomorrow.

Get your priorities straight.
All retail includes B+M stores no? Not necessarily a fair comparison. Same article says they control 49% of US E-commerce.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/13/amazons-share-of-the-us-e-...
I did it on the sly because my parents didn't want me doing it. They were pretty angry with me when they inevitably found out.

What I did was order greeting cards through the mail and sell them door to door.

A couple years later, my family moved to Germany, and lived on a US base. I discovered that German candy wasn't available in the US, and vice versa. So I contacted my best friend in the US, and we'd ship each other the missing candy and sell it to the other kids at school. If I'd been less of a dimwit, I could have made quite a bit more money at this than I did.

> There's this pervasive idea that those who are entrepreneurs are better than the rest and therefore justifies their wealth and status.

It has nothing to about being better. It is about entrepreneurs are willing to take the risk and make the effort, and that justifies their returns.

If you're not willing to take the risk and make the effort, that's your choice, not your lot (at least in America).
Acting from the motivation of CYA as you described it is not a part of a healthy mode of operation in any relationship, personal or professional.

An approach that has some form of checks, however formal (for purposes of quality and accountability), is entirely reasonable, and especially where there is a notable risk of exploitation (historical or likely potential.)

But I've worked full-time essentially non-stop for a quarter century in a wide range of organizations (in an employee context: 3-person small business up through several thousand people enterprises), and default distrust is a red flag regardless.
Same. I'm holding out with a regular licence until they force me off but it's clear that they will, and that they'll probably use the mobile apps as the vehicle.

I've paid for every upgrade for myself and my family so I'm aggregately paying _more_ than I would have paid for the cloud service. But I don't want a cloud service
How many people do you know that would be pleased to learn owning a gun actually makes their family more prone to dying of gunshot wounds? It is not possible to have liberty when you are dead.
We’ll see how it works out, but my guess is the end result is going to be the same as with every other platform flutter has integrated: it needs to perfectly replicate the behavior of every native UI component on every mobile os / browser otherwise it’ll feel something’s wrong. For example scrolling, right clicking, resizing, zooming, button click, link colors, css animations, are all behaviors that could have various subtle behavior variations depending on the browser and its content (not to mention extensions such as ad blockers).

Also, integrating with other js components will likely be impossible as well ( try to integrate the google maps js component into your layout... good luck)

And browsers update way way more often than mobile os.
does it though? Kubernetes is a complex system, and many if not most providers have a "okeish" setup at best.
> Why are the talent moving to those cities? Because they want to pay $4000/mo rent? Or because that's where the jobs are?

Because even after paying $4,000 they have more left over than in other places

Also job security in numbers with their being more employers in the area