skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the baseline becomes irrelevant at around 50k, maybe up to 100k-150k in some areas, but in those areas it's not hard to make 150k as a software engineer.

I make 75k and save almost half my income while having all the material items that I want. Granted I don't want a lot, but I actually believe quite strongly that not having that constant desire for more and nicer material items makes me much happier than those who are stuck in that cycle.

Not to sound douchy but I think that kind of materialism that is so extremely common across all levels of society seems to me like such an enormous and obvious problem that most people fall into for some reason regardless of how smart they are, and they would almost all be significantly happier just not caring about such sh*t. It's a crutch and prevents people from finding real meaning and happiness and for most it lasts their whole life or at least until they are too old to change.

I know this isn't a novel idea, any slightly rebellious teenager can and will point out the obvious harm of this kind of mindset, but that only makes people disregard it even more. It's such an obvious problem, and most people even agree when you point it out, but then those same people live out the rest of their lives without doing anything about it.

I blame social pressure and peoples tendency to not wander to far from the norm, combined with some conditioning and of course the addiction-mimicking dopamine effects
I guess I am better at writing libraries than marketing. So that is definitely on the todo list now.
In related news: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/12145739830871080...
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It’s definitely an issue of perception. Call it a guild instead and gamedevs will flock to join.
How many mathematicians are working for NSA? How many public research cryptographers are there?
I must have misremembered that detail. But I believe the point of what I had read was that a direct tax would be unconstitutional. A carriage tax was found to not be a direct tax apparently. But a general wealth tax likely would be.
The price seems very high for the category.
Wouldn't that be the GPU (VideoCore IV/VI)?
Agreed - I had been looking around this thread like, "<slow blink> - surely I'm not the only one that finds git to be a rewarding exercise in teamwork?"
The reason I liked your answer is that it shows that the selection of Arduino vs Pi or Mercedes-Benz vs Hyundai is "application dependent."

Ultimately they're both computing platforms used for control purposes. In some cases, the predictable I/O performance of the Arduino is an advantage over the Pi. In others it's not. In some cases, the built-in network access, CPU speed, UI capability of the Pi is an advantage, in others it's not.

If Bezos actually does drive an Accord (with an entourage of security around him I imagine) then all that tells me is that for his "application," it's sufficient. It doesn't say anything about the merits of other cars.
>From what I can tell, Zurich beats the Bay Area.

Not really. Out of all FAANGs there's just Google in Zurich with a significant presence. They pay well above almost all other swiss and european companies, but are not really the top paying employer in the Bay anymore.

Not being able to job hop among FAANGs is a big risk to your compensation here in the long term and will make you eventually lose out to Bay Area, even despite lower taxes.
The concept is called solidarity. Workers with more leverage should have the backs of those with less rather than seeing them as an anchor.
I'd bet Moore's law has outpaced inflation.

The value of high-demand domain names should increase on the secondary markets. But, the price of unregistered names should be decreasing.
Public sector unions are a completely different ball game than private sector unions.

I whole heartedly believe in worker organization and believe that tech workers should unionize, but it is also true that in a lot of different pieces of this country public sector unionization has been an unmitigated disaster.

In any niche of our society that is not legible to the average person, public sector unions + the morass that is local politics in the US creates a downward spiral between public sector union workers and the politicians they bring into power.

The subway in NYC for example is broken for a number of reasons, but high on that list are the efforts of the transit worker union to block improvements in operational performance and their lobbying for Andrew Cuomo who might be one of the most transit hating governors in the last 100 years of New York politics.
> we need to examine how other countries do unions

The biggest difference is that in other countries, the employee can pick any union they want, while in the US each employer is locked to a single union.

That single difference has a HUGE impact.
> If they do feel exploited, then the union will be a good thing.

For them, perhaps. But not so much for future would-be game developers, who will likely have a harder time finding a game dev job.

> What barriers to entry do you foresee coming out of a union?

Even if union membership does not become a requirement for a job, merely reducing the number of hours worked will increase the cost of making games, even if pay doesn't increase under a union. If games become more expensive on average, consumers will buy fewer games, all else being equal. Fewer games made = fewer opportunities for new developers = studios can be more selective in hiring.
You're misguided. Newsweek is not a summarizer. They make stories up. They push lies. They are right up there with CNN.

Townhall is Conservative news, not right-wing like someone else said.

Here is one from Townhall calling out Newsweeks recent lie: https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2020/01/07/news...
All of this stuff is so new so we'd expect to see churn. Many people involved in the discovery that asymmetric crypto was even possible (Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, etc) are still alive. If the people that first invented bridges were still alive we'd be running into all kinds of failures in bridge building techniques. Bridges have been built in the last 100 years that the wind blew down!
Beyond that, you can’t really compare US unions to European ones because of the virulent anti-communism of US politics. In Europe, following the war, left wing coalitions of socialists, communists, and left liberals secured major parliamentary victories for workers. In the US, by contrast, sector-wide bargaining was banned, strikes were limited, and anyone with vaguely Marxist sympathies was purged from politics, the labor movement, and many industries through state intimidation and violence. Any comparison of unions across countries, and the shortcomings of American ones, has to be understood through this historical lens.
You claimed on many occasions to have you your possession the keys for the first 9 coinbase outputs. Signing with all of those, particularly block 9 since Hal claimed that it was Satoshi's-- would be exceptionally influential.

Sign "Gmax, Wright is Satoshi." with all those and I'll leave Bitcoin forever and never bother you again.
Buzzfeed also does solid reporting. When they announced that they would start doing so nobody believed them.

I don’t know the relationship between the two sides of the business.
Not to mention their acquisition of possibly the only mature local-network voice assistant (Snips) followed by immediately removing the local-only option.
I have very similar experience. I'm 42, spent most of my career in startups / small companies in CTO-level positions, but last year took an engineering position in big tech (at one of the companies you mention).

My suggestion for someone with a lot of experience is to focus more on networking your way in to the company than on skills brush up. Find contacts at the company(s) you are interested in and try to set up direct meetings (in person, video conference) to find out more about positions, responsibilities, etc. at that particular company. Each company has their own unique philosophies and growth paths for individual contributors vs. eng. managers, so I don't know that there would be one generic piece of advice to follow.

Feel free to reach out to me at <username> @ gmail if you would like to talk more specifics.
It's not the most discoverable thing, but according to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Platforms/Android this link will always download the newest version: https://download.mozilla.org/?product=fennec-latest&os=andro...
Staring at Hell: The aesthetics of architecture in a ruined world
I find it interesting that the article makes no mention of why the hack was possible in the first place and how good or bad the security practices of Travelex were.

Don't get me wrong, the criminals who conducted this should be tracked and brought to justice, but - to use an analogy - if your bank kept your hard-earned cash in a big pile next to the entrance door, wouldn't you feel a tad unhappy with the bank if it got stolen?

And shoudldn't proper reporting paint a slightly more rounded picture of what actually happened (as in: how easy was it for the hackers to circumvent security measures at Travelex?)
Hello. I am a man. I cry.

And it's not always at the right time or the right amount. I'm a person who buries his feelings, but they can't help but come out. I used to bury them deeply, and didn't cope with them at all. This was seriously unhealthy and as a result, my mental health suffered.

Then I learned how to cope some, and things got better. The more I coped with my feelings instead of burying them, the more I cried. That's not to say I cry all the time, but if a song hits me the right way, or even a good dance routine on World of Dance or some other show catches my heart the right way, I'm crying. Not just weeping, but holding back deep sobs. Those deep sobs are an overreaction, of course.

Why do I have to fight deep sobs at something as simple as a touching dance routine? I think it's because I have a LOT going on in my life, some of them quite troubling. Serious health issues in my family which have altered our life significantly, and will cause damage for years to come- for a life time for my daughter and I. My wife is dying and doesn't have much time left. And while I try to be brave for her, she knows how much it troubles me- despite that I have a firm hope for the future and I know it'll all be okay in the end- it still troubles me. For her sake I try to hold back my tears, but this backfires. What was a suppressed weep here and a stifled weep there is suddenly gushing forth right in the middle of a less serious discussion! It's not the right time.

Why do these inopportune things happen? Because I've not learned to be okay with crying. If I could manage to be okay with having many smaller sessions of crying, at the right times, then these outbursts of crying wouldn't be there. As it is I hold them back enough that they'll eventually come out in a more dramatic scream sobbing fit that lasts several minutes and usually leaves me without a voice for a week.

Weeping isn't manly. Weeping isn't for women. Weeping is for humans.

Hello. I am a human. I cry.
See also Coca Cola union killings in Colombia.
You don't think that if I made copies of Disney movies and sold the copies on the roadside, that would be a form of theft?
I certainly got dopamine bursts when working in food service (I was a line-order cook). Crank up the rock music, make dishes quickly and well, talk to interesting coworkers.
You control every clock cycle on an embedded controller.

You are at the mercy of the OS on a Pi.

For somethings that doesn't matter at all, for others it really, really does.
Another big advantage is that the wire format is a byte stream and not a bit stream, so parsing is so much faster.
It's the difference between weeping "at a distance" versus weeping out of emotion. All the situations you mention involve a man weeping at some tragic part of the world, which I agree is broadly accepted. Same applies to, e.g., crying at a sad movie.

However, it ignores the reality that the most important kind of weeping isn't where you weep because you're recognizing something is socially coded as sad, but where you weep because you're feeling sad. Maybe you lost a job; maybe you feel like a failure; maybe you got your heart broken. And for all of these there's a substantial stigma, in that to be a Real Man(tm) you are forced to embrace your agency and act instead of feel.

A single controlled, manly tear is celebrated; messy weeping is deeply stigmatized, and many women would consider a man who does so weak and unsuitable for a relationship.
Thoughts on Colocation Providers in 2020?
Most of our infrastructure is hosted in AWS, but we have a few applications that require connections to 3rd party MPLS networks where our integration partner literally mails us an LOA for the ISP and a physical router that we are expected to connect through. For these applications, we have maintained a couple of servers in a colocation datacenter. I'm not in love with our current provider. Does anyone have a great colocation provider they can recommend?

Things about us:

- our colo footprint is small, as most of our infrastructure is cloud-hosted. Looking for someone who will provide decent service to a small customer
- we have a pretty small mixed engineering/devops team and don't have a lot of resources for sysadmin. Ideal level of abstraction would be that we specify a network topology and provide some VMs for application servers and they configure the network and keep the physical servers running the hypervisor (w/in some SLA).
This is the point of government and regulation. We're not going to get far relying on willpower and rational thought in individual decision-making. So we use government as tool to help use out.

I can't stop myself from eating an entire of package of Oreos if they're in the kitchen. So I don't buy them. I don't give myself the choice, because I know I'll make a bad one. Instead, I choose to restrict my choice (and the choice of the rest of my household) for our overall well-being.

This feels pretty bad if you're a 10-year-old and just want some freaking cookies. Sorry you weren't able to make your own choice there. Our overall well-being took priority over your individual liberties. I get why that is unacceptable to some folks, but there has to be some balance, and sometimes that means restricting personal liberties in order to maintain the health of the overall system and community.
Does it mean we could translate languages like Ruby and Python to Rust?
Yeah, I know this feeling. I finished school with a teaching certificate in '09 when not even public schools were hiring, and took a series of manual labor temp jobs until someone was willing to hire me to clerk in their warehouse.

I'm making about 5 times as much per year now than when I started(I'm incredibly lucky), but I still remember what it was like to have to live frugally on $10.00/hr to $12.00/hr. I had to change oil and do repairs on my old GM truck myself, buy anything I needed from the Goodwill and fix it up, and generally try to make ends meet. Luckily rent was really cheap and the grocery store and a parts shop were in walking distance(~.5 mile one-way). And having the truck meant that I could move bulk items like a couch and a coffee table.

Living like that is why I don't buy new cars and have avoided trying to buy a house. Because at any time my luck could run out and I'll have to use my wits to stretch my means again.
You have a point, but I think what actually happens isn't so sure, because there are still market forces putting downward pressure on barriers to entry. So either:

(1) The profit from abuse/exploitation gave a pure surplus, and the barriers to entry will remain the same but the surplus on the back will go down

(2) There is no real surplus, the profit from abuse/exploitation was the only thing keeping barriers to entry as low as they currently are, and they'll increase.

So we'll see what happens.
Good journalists are bright enough to get enough information from enough people, assimilate it, and write it in a clear way for the rest of us.

They might do a 'human interest' story on crackpots like flat earthers, but good ones wouldn't "both sides" that issue, just as they shouldn't with other issues where there is strong scientific consensus, or verifiable facts demonstrating the veracity of one side's claims, and none on the other.

This isn't a new problem, and good journalists are capable of handling it.

Will they get it right 100% of the time? No. But the important thing is that there's a process and they're trying, and they'll admit it if they get it wrong. People get fired for getting things egregiously wrong.

None of that is true for propaganda outlets.
This poster is correct - “just” takes away from yourself, it’s an idea.
No. http://matt.might.net/articles/counting-hash-collisions/
I would say it’s better to use and adapt an existing framework than try to build your own from scratch.
Sadly they might actually be. It's game theoretically an efficient strategy because they can extract so much before the workers unionize that it'll still be cheaper than compensating them fairly all along.
Depends on a lot of factors, I have made that on a single property (short term vacation rentals) but more typical is like what you say where it can take 10+ properties to clear $2k/month for long term rentals. Right now my best property is clearing two hundred (or so) a month, which isn't horrid but far from great. I only have long term rentals right now though, so that's ok.

IMO: Rental property is best looked at as a long game, not a short term income stream. It is a solid way to gain wealth, just won't happen overnight.
But isn't that a sinister side of it too? Burn out and disengage those of us who are rational and reasonable.

Only 150 more years till we can apply to Starfleet...
I believe he was referring to licensing a car, since the following sentence referred to "simple licensing."

> regardless of size or capacity

Vehicles of different size/capacity do require different qualifications to drive. Certain classes of vehicles require a CDL for their class. See https://driving-tests.org/cdl-classification-licenses/.

You also have to be 21+ in may states to even apply for them in many states.
Crash course in nootropics: Everyone has to start with experimentation
There's an MC Frontalot song called "Secrets from the Future" and the refrain is "You can't hide secrets from the future." It's something of a useful mantra to remind oneself that if "the future" is a part of your threat model, yes your encryption likely isn't enough because on a long enough timescale it is likely "the future" will crack it.

As with any other security issue, the question is "what is your threat model?" You can still justify encrypting your backup today if your threat model includes today's actors, however much you worry about "the future".

> 10 years from now, it might be as good as plain text.

Or 10 years from now it might be the next Linear A tablets to confuse cryptoarcheologists, unreadable and untranslatable and entirely foreign. If "the future" is in your threat model, don't forget the other fun forms of entropy beyond encryption being cracked such as encodings changing, file formats falling out of service/compatibility, "common knowledge" about slang or memes lost to the ages leaving things indecipherable, and so on and so forth. Most of those things are probably unlikely on only a 10 year time horizon, but you never can tell with "the future".
China's Jiangsu Province only has 17 people remaining in poverty
OpenNIC looks like the easiest replacement, they mention some other TLDs they're peered with on their front page such as emerDNS which is decentralized.

That doesn't work for anyone who wants their site accessible to the public though, since it won't resolve. Maybe once a few ISPs switch and Google, OpenDNS etc. change their resolvers it'll be a possibility.
You're correct, PAMF is sutter.
In addition to all the other suggestions posted, compete with the domain. Register the same name with a different TLD and post content, perhaps a blog, with better SEO to obscure the other domain from search results.
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>- Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let's move on.

Maybe there should be standardized interface for accepting privacy policy and cookies, all managed in browser UI so you could set default settings and give exceptions for specific sites without cluttering website with various popups... oh wait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
Do unions decrease employment? I wasn't aware of that.

As I said in a different comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21982787), I don't think it's 100% sure that games would become more expensive. But if they do, I think it's a tradeoff we have to make in a humane society.
Securing MySQL with TCP Wrappers Can Cause an Outage
For Windows systems use AppLocker to prevent any unauthorized applications from executing. Thus even if a user's account is compromised they won't be able to run the malware. Of course this doesn't protect against malware that executes inside an approved application (like a web browser or MS Office) but it closes off many potential attack vectors.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...
Microsoft Releases NNI v1.3 for AutoML Algorithms and Training
Yeah I don't get why people bring up Hollywood in union discussions. Virtually every position in the film industry is unionized, even the semi-obscure ones like storyboard artists.
Well said. The definition of intelligence is bastardized for virtually all current AI applications. They are glorified statistical heuristics / stochastic descent as has been mentioned before. The key to approaching actual intelligence as we know it, will be a system that can dynamically model its environment and actors in it, since even insects are able to do this to some extent.
I used to do the follow to learn more about linux system and how various sw components worked over long period of times on a personal server:

1) Create git repo, add all /usr/* /bin /sbin /etc to git.
2) Use utilities to monitor all TCP out going connections to see which apps were connecting to network.

It was a fun exercise to see what components, config files were change over time.
> something P != NP might imply can be done... hashing algorithms just have this problem where if you glance at the information theory you would have guessed they couldn't be possible until someone shows you one that seems to work

I'm confused what you mean by this? Why does the info theory suggest hashing wouldn't be possible? Also, you can easily derive a secure hash function from a secure symmetric cipher and vice-versa, so why would one seem to be possible but not the other?