skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I'm already a Nova beta-tester... Surprise! :-)
Google and the OP are failing in different ways.

Google is failing to identify and extract more valuable labor from OP.

OP failing to manage their emotional engagement is a separate criticism.
Most research at universities are held afloat by incredibly cheap yet fairly capable and specialized student labor: everything from post docs to undergrads. I'm not sure how you get around that unless you can nationally and efficiently provide central administrative services associated university research institutions provide.

You could of course lower compensation for academics to incentivize other professionals to support research but you'll find academics fleeing to other opportunities in many cases.
The max I negotiated in Europe was $125000, an ok start up salary was maybe $80000 and I am currently - with lots of non-money benefits at around $70000.

What makes me most sad is that fostering the web tracking industry - tech + marketing - is so lucrative. I have such a hard time understanding this world - it does not make much sense any more. This lying and scheming around collecting all your data and activity for the next VC funded ad playground.

And I'm kind of irritated, how people can spend their lives working for mostly investors, who benefit much more than every (even well paid) gear in the machine.

Aren't we as a society smart enough to start treating humans with a bit more respect and not just seeing them as wetware to extract value?
Ah, thanks. As in Expired (date). Where date is every day from the day it expires until forever. Not Expired on date, but currently expired. Makes sense now.
Yup, once I saw that I noped on out of this nonsensical framework. Someone is missing many clues about who is tracking what for whom...
I really liked Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book, all his short story collections, Coraline...and Stardust is probably in my top 5 favorite movies (so much to where I'm scared to read the book). I'm not a big Sandman fan...it is just so dark.
A moderate amount. Some of the frequency curve involves the thermal diode, but much less so when TDP capping is used as in the paper.

But the temperature of the silicon itself has a lot to do with the performance you get at a given power level.
> In a word: biotech.

Can you explain way? People keep saying this, and I really don't see it, despite having done my graduate work in biology.
This seems only change the subject of question from children to spouse. Does this change the nature of the question? I mean do your spouse automatically own your data when you die?
Crayon is a really solid company. They focus on sales enablement, Rival focuses more on market and product strategy.
And the other unfortunate problem is that leads to people despising the activist as well.
Most people are looking at never retiring at this stage. Retiring in your 40s puts you in a very exclusive bracket.
"The small town conservatives I know dont talk about politics, they talk about business, hunting, hobbies and macro economic trends that impact their lives like interest rates and commodity prices."

A good friend talks about those. And he likes to go on long rants about the evils illegal immigrants. Pointing out that the lack of those workers would put a number of his best friends out of business doesn't help.

You're right, it's complex.
Thanks for sharing. However, the paper the Wikipedia article is quoting is not publicly available, and therefore I can't verify how they establish causality between inequality and those outcomes. Furthermore, even if there were a causal relationship, that doesn't mean the US is doing anything worse than these other countries. For example, countries like Japan or Finland may have different health outcomes that could wholly be due to genetic traits, eating habits, lifestyle choices, and other cultural elements. A statistical test wouldn't be able to easily introduce a qualitative variable like culture into the study, to separate the effect of such a variable relative to another input variable like income distribution.

But the point I was originally making regarding communities is slightly different. Even if there is variance in income locally, I feel like I belong to a community and city. Most people around me would likely say the same thing. It doesn't make me feel like a "community" is being "torn apart" due to variance on income or wealth. The definition of "community" or what it takes to say that it is being "torn apart" is going to be inherently subjective and personal, and so such a broad claim doesn't seem reasonable to me.

Lastly, I think every choice has a tradeoff. It is worth noting that America has produced the bulk of innovations in the last 100 years, both from the work of public agencies and impactful private organizations. Other countries simply have not produced the same output in recent times. It is easy to claim that some other locale has a higher HDI but those same places are benefiting from the output of the American system as it exists today, with the very same tax structures that Gates is criticizing. For example: Washington State, which is specifically called out by Gates, has produced Microsoft, Amazon, Cray (supercomputers), Starbucks, Real Networks, Redfin, Tableau, Costco, Nordstrom, REI, Valve, Bungie, Expedia, Paccar, Boeing, and numerous other globally impactful companies that I have left out. It certainly seems like the impact and benefit on quality of life is there, and it is cultivated by an environment that has the right traits on multiple dimensions. Those socialist democracies you are referencing are not anywhere near in terms of their value add to humanity as a whole, and I think if they were isolated (not benefiting from global export of American outputs) they would definitely not have the same degree of development.
If you’re going to do this, transducers let you avoid the intermediate sequences and are nearly just as readable:

(into []
(comp (filter :admin?)
(filter :mod?))
people)

As a side-effect, they are also more generic so you can reuse the transducer stack if you decide to use core.async or something.
For anyone that's used both, any impressions on how XC compares to BitWarden?

I've been looking to switch from my older copy of 1Password - I don't care about cloud support, beyond letting me keep the encrypted data in Dropbox or similar, but I really appreciate a good browser extension and mobile app.
> I would consider “ability to be evicted” to be a great moral wrong, and that access to comfortable housing that doesn’t cause an unreasonable commute to be a basic human right on par with free medical care & education.

These two ideals of yours are contradictory. The right to not be evicted (in order to better develop the land) can directly prevent the availability of housing with the qualities you require. With the help of zoning boards, which are really just an embodiment of their constituent land owners, isn't this more or less the sum of the housing issue in the bay area? You certainly cannot say that there's any semblance of comfortable hosting with a reasonable commute...
This would be a fun experiment to run at Google, much bigger data set would be available.
The current undergraduate university market is almost entirely a reputational marketplace -- people are shopping for reputation/prestige.

It turns out that prestige has very little to do with undergraduate education quality.

This used to make lots of sense -- for centuries, college was more important as a place to meet other people as it was a place to actually learn useful skills -- and so you were primarily trying to go to the highest-class place you could get yourself in to.

In this day and age, though, I don't think that's the right way to approach choosing a school.
For those that are interested, I gathered in a gist some functional combinators I have been writing over the years.

As a personal name convention, I use '|' (the piping character) as a suffix to name any function returning a function, which includes function combinators. Thus the naming of these functions becomes straighforward: 'every-pred' becomes 'and|' while 'some-fn' turns into 'or|'.

Example:

(filter (and| pos? even?) nums)
(filter (or| neg? odd?) nums)

More: https://gist.github.com/TristeFigure/acd689f3c57e840ebb9f8a6...
clojure.spec + orchestra for nicely integrated pre/post spec checking

https://github.com/jeaye/orchestra
I'm not sure recursive CTEs simplify things. Yes, they allow you to express Turing-complete computations in SQL, including indefinite and parallel iteration. But if you weren't going to express those computations in SQL, you'd probably express them in Python or Lua or JS. Is doing them in SQL really going to be an improvement? So far I have not impressed with the results.
Yeah, MS have (very cleverly) melded Visual Studio and Office 365 with Azure into the total cloud footprint.
I’ve never had much trouble finding an interesting thing to spend my work time on. The biggest problem is usually deciding when to look for something new and what I want to do next. Getting the opportunity to do that usually comes quickly from there, even if it’s not always the pathway I expected. :) I’ll admit I’ve got advantages that maybe everyone doesn’t have (a deep set of experience from a variety of areas organizations value) but I firmly believe that the world and our field would be a better place if more people fought for meaning in their work and didn’t accept roles where they weren’t finding it.

(Also like, to be clear these roles aren’t all high paying if you’ve adjusted your life so that without 300k/yr you can’t function then like, I agree you have boxed yourself into a harder corner. That said, I currently have found a combination that is both impactful and lucrative. So that’s super cool when it works out. I am desperately trying to structure my life so I’m not boxed into needing this to be true in the future because meaning in my work is still more important to me than money from my work.)
The entire study seems to presuppose that most of what is measured is processor manufacturing variation. There's further recommendations about removing the variation with processor binning, etc.

It's an interesting set of measurements, but the assumed source of the variation is dubious, and it's not clearly what, if any, actions it really supports.
A marketplace by definition has to be a "market", e.g. have some form of prices and supply/demand. The currency doesn't have to be dollars -- it can be an imaginary videogame currency, for example -- but there has to be one.

So no, Reddit isn't a marketplace, any more than a library or editorial magazine or "letters to the editor" are marketplaces (which they aren't). Upvotes aren't currency -- you can't buy and sell them.
Some of what I want to send and receive by email might be considered illegal in Russia, so that's a hard no. I don't trust Russia's legal system to interpret the law in my favor. Does, for example, this email receipt for a book about a bi football player figuring out his sexuality count as propaganda? I wouldn't risk it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_gay_propaganda_law
I do think you have a point here, especially in the last sentence. The original blog post also could have been more constructive in how it worded its criticism. As usual, this could be accomplished by being more precise. "Spin locks experience high latency under the Linux scheduler" would be a fine title for a blog post. Whether it would have received any upvotes is another question though. Maybe we, the voters, in our crow-like attraction to shiny titles, are as much to blame as anyone for the poor communication here.
I'm never sure what base Firefox is targeting. Sometimes with changes like these it seems like the casual user base but then you look at the changes they advertise (e.g. built in privacy) it's not stuff casual users care about. In the end the statistics show it's not attracting either side.

It's gotten to the point non-Google Chromium based browsers have higher usage share than Firefox. It makes me wonder how much longer Google will keep shoveling cash over to Mozilla as the numbers drop.
I'll remember that. Thanks
> as income level goes up, people are more likely to be a blue voter than a red voter

Could you elaborate on this? I'm having trouble reaching the same conclusion from the link you provided.
NOR flash is also slow. That is why a lot of microcontrollers that run at hundreds of megahertz have very strange flash accelerators that read slowly in parallel (STM uses a 128-bit-wide bus for example), and then dispense data/code to the CPU quickly in 16 or 32-bit pieces. Most ROMs can be read very quickly.
I've seen your site and I think it's more of an aggregator or even a hub. It could be a marketplace but instead all of the $ is escaping to the vendor sites. It's akin to the difference between amazon and google shopping in my mind.

(admittedly google shopping probably gets a referral fee or something but maybe you do to?)
> Try to look for news sources a little more diverse than Reddit, please.

Have you used them? These are mainstream subreddits, and the stories aggregated there aren't substantially different than the stories linked to to the similar Google News categories.
Love their work, but the new website sucks. Let me look at things on my own time. But I guess a person who's tired of being worshipped for things they did twenty years ago would prefer you don't pore over them.
But why? What problem would that rebate seek to solve?

If the concern is that poor people might be unable to afford to stay in their homes, why not target poverty or house prices directly rather than adjusting the tax?
> Software engineering just isn't that hard. Tedious yes, but not remotely difficult.

I find doing it well constantly really hard.
We deploy A/B split tests through Bitbucket Pipelines CI
See my comment above. Basically, this would be challenging to do even at Google depending on the level you get promoted to and requires total dedication to the above, i.e., saving aggressively.

I think the advantage of getting into Google right out of school is that you can start on that path right away.

I didn't get to Google until working for over 10 years at other companies and as such and I wasn't really planning for such a goal so, for me personally, I will be lucky if I can retire when I am 60.
Honestly..how would you know they are “pissed”? From the same people that brought you this story?

As with all presidents, a very large room of people that have an expertise in these matters made suggestions, recommendations, and offered of evidence (whatever that may be) for any president to take action on a particular subject.

With any type of media related to political matters it’s important to be objective, gather information, and come to your own conclusion.
Thanks for sharing, but if I might nitpick for a moment:

> Put smart people in a hypercompetitive environment and they will quickly identify the traits that are being rewarded and optimize for those.

This is true for anybody, not just "smart" people. It's basically human nature.
You can say the exact same thing for Zoloft. If you took a single 100mg dose you will notice the effects. But the line that crosses therapeutic to recreational (yes SSRIs are abused recreationally but are very short lived) is somewhere between 0 and 100mg and differs based on your biological makeup. Clinical trials and reports from prescribing psychiatrists helps find that hard distinction..
I think it is just an optimal solution for large companies with disposable income.

A company I worked at hired smart engineer with a masters from Berkeley, and then tasked him with breaking down cardboard boxes and other mundane tasks. The fact that they were grossly overqualified for any of the tasks was a advantage because they were flexible, and reliably needed no oversight.

If money isn't an object, why not get the best tools possible.
See my comment above. I think this might be rare even for most Googlers, but it is possibly doable depending on on the person.
Anyone can pick up the syntax of the language. The ecosystem surrounding the language is a different story. I might be able to pick up Swift in as little as two weeks that doesn’t mean I could be a competent iOS or Mac developer. The same applies to Java and Java + iOS.

The number of shops that still care about native desktop software has been dwindling weekly.

Why would someone hire a developer who has no history of the ecosystem that the company is targeting over one that has the same experience and knows the ecosystem?
GCP is fantastic! I've been especially pleased with their network (the GLB is awesome!), BigQuery, Bigtable, GCE live migration, and of course... GKE. I cringe at the thought of having to run Kubernetes myself or settle for an inferior managed solution from Azure or AWS.
> Molecular biology of the Gene

I really, really wish this book would stop being recommended. It doesn't teach any biology, just a lot of random facts disconnected from reality about a fictional average eukaryotic cell. Nowhere in it do you build an intuition about working with biological systems.
“Manyverse is a decentralized social network... The developers of Manyverse can control the source code to build the app and ship new features, but they have no access to user data... The primary goal of this project is to make social networking independent of internet connectivity.”
Yes, but if this were a Democrat strategist NPR certainly wouldn’t have covered it.
Definitely, and I also think that many of the "sociopaths" are simply grownup geeks.

Most people outgrow their subculture, they have full time jobs, families, or simply lost interest. What remains is nostalgia. But some of them don't quit, and they too have bills to pay. And the best way to do so is to use their deep knowledge of the subculture for profit.

They are exceptions, sometimes the skills of the subculture are highly marketable so there is no need to be a "sociopath". And some people can manage the impressive feat of having a good job leaving them enough free time and money for their hobby.
The Georgist movement (or Single-Tax movement) had a lot of momentum at the beginning of the 20th century. Major political leaders like Winston Churchill, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Sun Yat-Sen were all Georgists. There are various reasons for why the movement lost traction but I think it can mostly be attributed to:

(1) the automobile which increased the accessibility and productivity of formerly-marginal land, lessening the problem of equitable access to land, and

(2) the introduction of the income tax as an alternative to land value taxes. Notable, land monopolists preferred income taxes because as long as their land is unused or underused they are not producing as much income. The Georgist movement then split between those who thought that income tax was a good enough replacement and those who "knew" it wasn't.

There's also a kind of conspiracy theory which claims that (to a certain extent) neo-classical economics (which developed at about the same time that Georgism become popular) was promoted by wealthy and biased land owners and monopolists at the time with an intent to discredit Henry George and obfuscate the role of land in the economy, folding it under the definition of
'capital' to reduce the factors of production to just two, along with labor.
I met two FB engineers a few years back. They seemed average, at most. But one quality stuck out (we spent half a day together at an event): They seemed to be excellent at following company rules.
That is a very strange article.
I hope that principle does establish itself among users of the web, but I suspect that if a bank says "You have to use one of these supported devices to access your account online" people are not going to change their bank because of it.

Similarly, if China mandates a government-approved (backdoored?) device when accessing Chinese websites, I don't suppose Chinese citizens are going to boycott those. Other countries might reasonably retaliate by forbidding sites to accept authentication by devices made in China.

Do you think that if Apple decreed that you can only securely log in to Apple websites with an iPhone (or some other device made by Apple) people would switch to Android? It's hard enough to get people to boycott Facebook despite repeated scandals that are much worse than having a whitelist of supported authentication devices.
Quality post + discussion, thank you.

Unbiased question: What’s your advice for the 50% of Americans who make less than $30k/yr? How are they supposed to afford health care + housing + transportation (let alone preparing for retirement)?
When black Americans vote for Democrats at rates above 90% how could you draw districts without racial implications?
Because he thought he understood it fully, but, turns out, he didn’t. Which is exactly why he asked the question and then apologized when he got corrected.
The others are good to read. This is good to have on a shelf to impress whoever you know who would be impressed by that sort of thing. Or at least expose them, so you have have them suitably removed from the premises.
Writing good test plans and building testable code is actually a skill with some underlying theory. It's just not usually taught that way.
An Excess of Operating Systems
Can you expand on why you think income brackets are broken?
> From Wikipedia's numbers, it services ~110 million people annually.

If you look at [Note 2], that number only includes NJTransit, LIRR and Amtrak. It doesn't count NYC metro ( which is bizarre since Penn Station is a major stop on the NYC metro and NYC metro handles much more people than NJTransit, LIRR and Amtrak combined ) or the PATH.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_railway_statio...

I have hard time believing that zurich or many of these european stations handle more traffic than penn station considering how much larger NYC, NYC Metro and the tourism to NYC is compared to any of these european cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_railway_statio...

I can understand Shinjuku Station being #1, but zurich handling more people than penn station? I'm not sure about that.
I don't disagree with you but that's probably some survivor bias there in your original post as maybe the finance IT bubble in the region you're in pays well but that certainly that doesn't apply to most dev positions across Europe as you originally stated. To put it another way, you're probably the exception, not the rule. :) But I agree with everything else you said, thanks for sharing.
It has a lot to do with psyche. If you have anxiety, it is entirely possible to even fail the most basic questions. And unfortunately, you can't just say "Sorry, I'm having a panic attack. Could we do this tomorrow?".

I think the best course is anxiety management. But unfortunately, some people get dependent on drugs just to calm their nerves before something important. I know people that can't hold meetings or presentations without taking beta-blockers and the likes.
I laughed so hard at this and then realized this was probably the source of my SLI woes way back in the day.

But for real, I recently replaced the thermal paste on four 10 year old servers and performance improved by 20%!! A full core of performance by ensuring proper heat transfer
I mean, maybe if you aren't progressing, but an L6 who was hired from college and has been at Google for 12 years it's probably an asset.
I wonder if her mother knew that there was interesting stuff on those devices. Or if she just didn't have any use for them.
These links are unrelated spam, I think.

Why this comment? I don't see a report button.
Apollo – Simple and reliable up time monitoring
None of you sound talented. You sound like lazy pieces of shit.
i dont know if textmate has this deep level of support, akin to an IDE (with autocompletion, parameter checking etc).