skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how you included your own speculations right besides a scientific (sounding - haven't read it) example :)

Wealth accumulation as many have pointed out is a very short term problem. In a way it is necessary as well if you want alternatives to depending on all powerful governments to move technology forward. In the process of the wealthy trying to multiply their wealth, they will use their current wealth as a giant amplifier. They may or may not succeed, but we can't deny that humanity moves forward as a whole with them.

Also to remain wealthy it isn't enough to just rest and vest: it is entirely possible to slip very quickly from the 0.1% to 1% to 10% to regular folk without actual tending. And no, how much ever reddit recommends it, I don't think s&p mutual funds are the answer if you are and want to keep being a part of the 0.1%. This is why I believe greed is a powerful motivator.
More generally, it's worth asking older athletes about their health issues, to really appreciate what it means to have constant pain and physical limitations due to wrong use of the body. I learned what kind of an ordeal is to have, say, knee surgery. I came to appreciate the value of mobility and strength excercises, and am sceptical at the general state of health of elderly people in the west.
Is there a list of similar or bigger issues than this nuclear disaster?
Sorry, I meant to write "voltage regulator" about which parent asked about, not sure how I ended up with "linear regulator".
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Of course it does. However, Indian representation is disproportionately high (for multiple reasons)

https://www.germany-visa.org/number-of-blue-card-holders-in-...

https://www.thelocal.de/20180109/one-quarter-of-eu-blue-card...
The question was precisely much more specific than "data over internet".

They indicated that they had UDP packets, which is the specification of the application layer, it means that they have an application that already works with UDP and they just want to send them over the radio, bypassing WiFi protocols/cards etc, from an SDR to an SDR directly. It means that whatever solution is, if it can work with UDP, if the underlying layer translates data into UDP, it will work with their application. That's a very precise specification.
A similar argument applies to our President’s political approach.
But can it also undo the undo?

Anyway, shouldn't git just come with a "undo" command?
I sometimes wonder if it is too easy to get a Blue Card in Germany, and in turn will push down tech salaries when so many people show up willing to make slightly above the €42k requirement.
High stakes/low reward (reward being the benefits of exercise).
> Yes, because economies of scale greatly benefit big companies.

I don't think software engineering in itself benefits greatly from the economies of scale. Yes, tech giants have developed some nice internal tooling, but the cost of implementing a feature for a google engineer is probably in the same ballpark as for a startup engineer. User acquisition OTOH seems substantially cheaper for the big companies. So, economies of scale in marketing and distribution?
It took me a long time to realize this, but now I recognize that which I think most of my fellow Europeans already know: yes, you're the baddies (I knew that already), but you're the best baddies of the baddies available. Our other options are to associate with eg China or Russia, and between those the US, even with people like Trump at the wheel, is splendid.

Naturally, I think that the US should do a much bigger effort to be less evil. But at least in the US, people can wonder what you're wondering. There's a chance that one day the US will be less bad, while staying a superpower. There's freedom of speech and a generally functioning democracy.

Yes, you're the baddies, ish, and you can help make it better. That's super cool.

EDIT: obviously we (NL, EU, etc, are evil in many ways too. This bothers the shit out of me and I try to do my part to fix it)
>Western countries are the benevolent benefactors is tainted by stories such as this, which shows a brutal, callous disregard for other sovereign nations.

The US took control of the Marshall Islands in 1944. From Japan. After Pearl Harbor. There was no sovereign nation.
I agree that the game is clearly rigged in favor of corporations at this stage.

If money is what you're after then joining a big company is by far the most rational choice. Eventually, big tech companies will realize this and start significantly lowering wages until new engineers are paid the same as blue collar workers.

The reality is that new startups do not disrupt corporations; they feed them.

The only way I can see to end corporate dominance is with blockchain tech because it can disrupt the incentive structures that feed corporarions. The new generation of developers can build a new financial system using cryptocurrency as the decentralized foundation in which to store value.
> George VI didn't have access to millions of books at the palm of his hand

He had access to any book he wanted within short order (less than day for anything in the UK, probably less than two for anywhere in Europe - and multiple massive libraries who would not refuse him access to any item in their collection). If your goal is "better books" rather than simply "more books" this seems preferable to my case where I can get any book one of a half-dozen retailers want me to have instantly.

> George VI couldn't get a Chevy

Uh, why not?

> or a flight to Tokyo

He famously died after postponing a flight to Australia, I'm pretty sure he could've made it to Tokyo if he wanted.

> he couldn't get decent anesthesia or a quality tooth implant

Neither of these is readily within the means of much of the US population, so weird example - but osseointegrative implants were available since the early 20th century. Anesthesia also becomes recognizably modern shortly after WW1.

Between this and the Chevy, I question if you have any idea when George VI lived.

> couldn't play a video game

This is absurd.
Not arguing with it. However, choosing a point in time to check a language's age from is somewhat arbitrary, and first release seemed good enough.

The main point was comparative age of languages. Like OCaml which is more than two decades old compared to Crystal which is young.
True that. Both my parents grew up near a POW camp in Malaysia during WWII. They said that yes, when the Japanese occupied Malaya, the treatment of the allied prisoners by the Japanese guards was brutal and cruel. But they also said when the tables turned later in the war, and the Japanese were prisoners in the same camps under British and US guards, the treatment dished out was every way just as bad.
Only IPOs where banks give all the money to the company and try to push shares onto all of our 401ks get respect around here, but more companies should consider public market exposure this way
The article you linked is more than two years old. Is this next-gen search bar still not enabled by default?
> Internal activists is a fairly novel concept - at least activists with the power to make changes like this.

There's nothing novel about activism in organisations like the WHO, nor in the media which report on the activities of these organisations. It is actually quite hard to find truly objective studies which are not tainted by people-with-a-cause (political or otherwise) on the one side, people-with-financial-interests on the other.
For the first job, people are accepting this level salaries but after 21 months (if you have B1 level German otherwise 33 months), you can get a permenant resident permit. At that point, a lot of people change their job and find a company which pays better salaries.
listen this talk by DHH you might get an idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M&app=desktop
You don’t need to be able to do your subordinates’ jobs in order to be able to lead or manage them or to take responsibility. In a big company like Boeing you can’t possibly know the job of all your subordinates so your elitism is never going to work.

How do you think for example the President of the United States effectively line manages people as diverse as defence and national parks without simultaneously being a soldier and a geographer? How do you think he judges qualification and competence of these people in globally significant safety jobs and how does he manage the buck stopping with him?
But not all engineers want to work at FAANG, there are some that are entrepreneurial at heart and would love to work on their own idea as a founder/co-founder.
Can the swastika ever reclaim its original meaning?
> In other words, ideally the racial and gender distribution of a team would be as inconsequential and unbiased as blood type or handedness, in that the aggregate demographic ratios on your teams would at least match that of the residential population in your area, and ideally that of your broader geographic location.

Ok, I don't know about race, but for gender look up the "gender equality paradox". In countries with greater equality rights for women they show less of an interest in STEM subjects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-equality_paradox

Like I say I don't know of any similar studies done for race, but it would indicate that you shouldn't necessarily expect outcomes that "would match that of the residential population in your area, and ideally that of your broader geographic location".

In my opinion we should be pushing for equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome (you appear to want the latter).
Can fasting help athletes hold their breath longer?
For this kind of questions, it's better to make a pool https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Add a link here after you have created the poll.
> Well, arguably that's true in the webcrap space. (...) crap on top of crap

Not that you're wrong per say, but personally, I think you should take a look at the HN guidelines. Like don't be snarky, and don't post shallow dismissals.

Just categorizing the arguably most popular way of building software as "crap" doesn't seem like thoughtful or curious conversation.
Yup, Vancouver can be more expensive than LA, with way lower average salaries.
It isn't just the Crossfit brand that turns me off; it's the Crossfit mentality. When these people can't get to their "box", they come to a regular gym and tie up multiple pieces of equipment at a time doing circuits.
I'm lainon. AMA
FCC Sandra, können sie sich bitte zu Wort melden? Ich weiß, dass sie hier mitlesen.
Multi-Threading and Multiple Process in Node.js
it's kinda sad european programmers get pushed out of entry level positions by typically more experienced indians willing to work for some premium above indian wage. this ensures programming is not a very well paid job in west europe. europe has problems in the education system which makes sure people only start programming after college further putting eu workers at a disadvantage versus indians and russians. which isn't to say i'm against economic immigration completely, but if countries are going to be imposing migration restrictions, they should not make an exception for programming when they do for similarly paid professions, like chefs or hairdressers.
Why IPv6 is not gaining traction despite depletion of IPv4 addresses globally?
> I frankly found the idea that any and every quantum collapse spawned a "new world" to be absurd, regardless of the arguments

Appealing to human intuition may not be the best strategy either, as whatever the truth is need not conform to any ideas of human intuition or aesthetic.

I'd be more surprised if the answer is something we can easily make sense of.
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Yep, getting h1bs has gotten a lot more difficult.

One of my friends at Microsoft in an ML role was rejected for "non relevant degree" despite having studied applied math at McGill.
I'm not sure what you're looking for, but https://startupstash.com has super nice collection of resources. Check them out.
AMD employs 10,000 people, yet they are spectators watching NVIDIA rake in monopoly profits on GPGPU year after year. And you're saying it's because they can't afford to get 10 good engineers to work on framework support because their shares may crash at some point in the future?

I'm sorry, but this makes absolutely no sense at all. P/E or corrections have absolutely nothing to do with it. Salaries are paid from revenue, not from profits, and their revenues have been growing for years. They don't need to pay engineers in stock options.

This is about priorities and execution. Getting 10 engineers to focus on an obvious multi-billion dollar opportunity that leverages existing investments is not "throwing your weight around". It's basic management competence.

And it's interesting work. I don't believe that engineers need low P/Es as an incentive to work on a key part of AI infrastructure that only very few people get to work on.
Remember, this move only came about after the FTC fine and is a result of a follow up to the $5Bn settlement. I wonder if this is enough though.

Meanwhile,

> Before the latest change, Facebook conducted a review to ensure “the system updates supporting our privacy statements were done correctly,” said Protti, which “adds more layers of process and rigor to the vetting of our technical work to make sure our public statements match our operations.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-idUSKBN1...
Did you change how you packed while it was an issue?
This is terrifying and so sad. Here they're talking about plans to resettle the displaced local population back to the location of a nuclear bomb test:

"""
U.S. government documents from the time show that officials weighed the potential hazards of radiation exposure against “the current low morale of the natives” and a “risk of an onset of indolence.” Ultimately they decided to go forward with the resettlement so researchers could study the effects of lingering radiation on human beings.

“Data of this type has never been available,” Merrill Eisenbud, a U.S official with the Atomic Energy Commission, said at a January 1956 meeting of the agency’s Biology and Medicine Committee. “While it is true that these people do not live the way that Westerners do, civilized people, it is nonetheless also true that they are more like us than the mice.
"""
It's funny because in France, we are loosing french tech talents to the US.
Would you say the majority of Chinese people value formal education more so than people from most other cultures though?

This may stem from the Imperial Examination which has its origins in 605 CE. (I am not a historian, so please correct me if you have better information/evidence.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination

From my observation, the focus on and respect for education seem true for most of East Asia as well as their diasporas.
Yes, but the damage has already been done. It pushed more people on the job market exerting downward pressure on salaries.
Thought it was satire. Pretty good.
> most Western countries are the benevolent benefactors

Did you miss out on the world events of the past 500 years? It has been 500 years of war, genocide, rape and theft by the west on the rest of the world. I don't recall anyone using benevolence to describe what happened in the past 500 years.

There isn't an ounce of benevolence in the west or east or south or north or wherever. Human beings are brutes. This isn't really a western trait, it's a human trait. When one group gets the upper hand, you get brutish behavior. For one reason or a another, the west got the upper hand for 500 years. And it's been a relentless and horrific series of genocides, slavery, conquest, mass rapes, nukes, etc - not benevolence.
Good job, Russia. Many of us are rooting for you.
How does the blue card work? Is it only valid as long as you work for the employer that sponsored you to get it? Can you change employers after some amount of time and still retain it?
I've said on here before that Monsanto had bad lawyers and they never should have lost those two cases. I was an agronomist for twenty years and remember when Roundup was first introduced on the market.

I worked with the first genetically modified soybeans that could be sprayed with Roundup. One of the biggest selling points was that Roundup was measurably safer than the herbicides it replaced with far better results.

I see all these ads now on late night TV recruiting plaintiffs for new Roundup lawsuits. I seriously think these lawyers think this is like asbestos and they will be proven wrong. Just compare the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) and the LD50 for Roundup compared to other common herbicides.

The fertilizer dealers I know are totally baffled this hasn't been reversed already. They don't understand how Monsanto ever got into this position. Hopefully Monsanto's new owner Bayer will hire better lawyers to protect their investment but it's going to take years before this ever gets rolled back.
Great ideas, thank you!
Hi! On Wikipedia it says it‘s a trilogy [0], Misspent Youth being the one you didn‘t mention. Would you recommend starting with the 2nd book in the series?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Hamilton_bibliograp...
CIA is well funded
I wish EU work visa restrictions would be as high as the US ones. Tech salaries in Western Europe are low enough as it is and the whole developer shortage the employers keep crying about to the media is a scam to justify lax visa restrictions for cheaper workforce from abroad.

Under current conditions EU companies can hire pretty much anyone across the globe. Do you think SV salaries would be as high as they are if they could import any workers hassle free?

My ex employer was low balling everyone and after failing to recruit anyone locally due to low pay he the focused on hiring exclusively Indians and Chinese who were just happy to be in Europe accepting any wage citing the good air quality and social services compared to back home.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for them, and glad they're happy here but flooding the market with people who are happy to earn anything as long as they're allowed to live here is not a market I'd like to compete for work in as it increases the inequality putting all the gains in the hands of the employers.

We have enough skilled workers in the EU. Importing people with wages under €50k disincentivizes employers from paying fair wages and investing in local workforce and increases income inequality. If we're talking about a shortage of truly highly skilled people we have to import then probably we should be talking about setting the bar way higher than €50k.
Just send an email inviting Iran to come and get the plutonium. Before the email even left your server, US money and people from three letters agencies will start raining ....
Technically this waste became the problem of the Marshall Islands when they became independent in 1979. That was the time to negotiate with the US about the remaining waste. This is similar to how Chernobyl is a Ukrainian issue.

That said, the islanders still have a lot of options. As a free and independent nation, they own the waste with all it's problems BUT also with all it's advantages.

Call the Iranians, the North Koreans, the Indians, the Pakistanis and anyone else with cash and ambition (ISIS, the Saudis?). Tell them you have 30 olympic sized pools worth of plutonium-containing waste and you're holding an auction for it on April 1st next year. More than enough for 1000 dirty bombs or maybe even a few high yield A-bombs if they can be bothered to refine it.

Then watch the western world beat a path to your door to talk about how much they want to take the same material for "safe keeping" and how the "global community" is "excited to help".

What was it Churchill said: "You can rely on the US (the western world) to do the right thing; once they have exhausted every other option".
Doesn't seem like it. Article is dated 19th Dec, and has this:

> Early Friday, the company plans to launch its Starliner capsule on its first ever uncrewed flight to the space station.
Wikipedia tells me that they ...

> ... are proposed to be the direct ancestors to several human species, such as H. heidelbergensis, H. antecessor, Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans.

But by the time they vanished, I gather that those other species already existed.
Just saying, while Singaporeans do out a lot of weight on educational degrees and many locals have 3rd or 4th generational roots to China, Singapore is mainly English-speaking and definitely not a part of China.
Well you never know what these wrappers and aliases do, and ultimately need to understand what goes on under the hood.

Intellij has a "shelve" command, I decided to stick with "git stash". Magit has the "i", that does "ignore" but also cleans up already committed files, something like "git rm -r --cached ."
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Cheap labor to make the rich get richer
Well, this Reuters piece doesn't sound like non-sponsored either...
Tough Mudder co-founder gets £9m for gaming venture
Hardy Littlewood Rules (2010)
Did the Entwives Survive?
we had exactly the same idea ...
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Escaping San Francisco
I follow this a bit in the news industry: it's a business that's been deeply changed by the internet and there are no easy answers for how to fund good news reporting in the future.

Yet media executives have demonstrated an unlikely talent in not just missing out on opportunities to make working online platforms and re-claiming some ad revenue from social media companies. Instead, they've been jumping onto any technical innovation (VR, video embeds, blockchain, ...) with not the slightest bit of strategy, just hoping to get some disruption fairy dust on them that might magically save them.

So, instead of working on business models, you can regularly see media executives at conferences with Oculus Rift on their head and wildly flailing arms. Beautiful metaphor, if you ask me...
Boxing/fighting seems to be pretty popular and I wonder about the head shots . . . how frequent and intense they may be in casual fighting. A lot is still unknown about the brain damage that can result from this kind of activity, particularly the subtle injuries that don't have an obvious single cause. I think the effects are a lot worse than most people think and it's NOT worth it.
It wasn't supported by the conclusions they originally included. That doesn't mean the data didn't support it (although that might also be true – I don't know).
I am a great supporter of open source diversity and ambitious projects, but the rationale behind this one...leaves me skeptical.
What would you like to see happen instead?

Let people break the rule and take the items in their carry-on? (in which case why have the rule in the first place?)

Pay people when they take the items? That is going to be an administrative faf all because people can't read and follow rules correctly - do you want to pay for that admin in your ticket prices?

Allow people to pay for the items to be stored until their return? They'll be accused of profiteering there too because again the admin work will need to be paid for, and there is a logistical problem when people don't return to the same airport.

Just send the confiscated items to landfill?

You might argue that a lot of the security theatre around air travel places a hindrance on the passengers and that you consider it unfair, but the rules about carrying sharp objects are very clearly documented (at least they have been when I fly around Europe, are the US processes less organised?) and well known even if you don't bother to read the documentation, so having such items taken off you if you do bring them in pockets or other carry-on luggage should be no surprise.
> Is it only valid as long as you work for the employer that sponsored you to get it?

Whenever I got mine, the person at the Ausländerbehörde said that the card was tied to my job title, not employer.