skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who can make $500k/year through connections they make contributing to opensource projects could most likely just apply to a FAANG company directly

This vastly overestimates the efficiency of FAANG hiring channels.
There are "good" French companies where you can grow a career and get a good salary.

What surprises me is that these companies seem to either hide their French roots, and are often ignored by the academic world. When I was student in engineering school, the only companies we would hear from where the big French corps like Orange, Cap Gemini, Thales and co.

I'm sad to see that these French companies don't get the support and publicity they deserve. I hoped that the French tech thing would help these companies, but I only ever hear about startup with vague pitches founded by business school graduates which don't know a thing nor care about any "tech".
This could just be a coincidence. There are multiple people in the thread claiming they set their password to the same thing and have suffered no consequences.
Password length rules are enforced at form submission time, before the account is opened - whereas the twitter post says the account was opened, then permaclosed.

If that's their password length checker, they've got the maddest password length check design I've ever heard of.
Fair enough! I wasn't really thinking of the remote use case which was indeed X's main use case when it was conceived (and which is not very relevant today for the majority of users).

In any case, this was just an example. The Handbook is peppered with complaints which haven't been relevant for ages. It was written before Linux got user-friendly UIs and was widespread to almost every appliance on Earth. It was written before Linux could run AAA games. It was written before Docker. It was written before so many people knew how to program simple scripts. It was written before Windows and Apple embraced Unix.

If some of these people are still living, I wonder what they think of the (tech) world today. Maybe they are still bitter, or maybe they understand how much they missed the mark ;)
There's another humorous aspect about the British rail system: It really is mostly state owned and operated.

Just not (mostly) the British government (though the UK government also regularly has to step in to take over for failing operating companies...)

E.g. the Dutch, German, Italian, French, Quebec (via Keolis; a joint venture between French owned SNCF and a Quebec pension fund), Hong Kong governments all have significant ownership in UK rail franchises. Only a handful of franchises are run by purely privately owned operating companies.
Yes it does. The clue is in the name - prototyping. A prototype is only supposed to prove the concept works; it doesn't need to be good.

The problem is that most companies can't do prototyping because they don't have the resources. They build a prototype, and then they don't throw it away and build the proper version and they use as production.
The Signal Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. They're funded by Brian Acton (former co-founder of WhatsApp, net worth ~3 billion), donations, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They are not owned by Facebook not sure why you said that.
> 3rd world country

That might be your advantage. You know the language, companies and culture.

I'd look into cloning something that international companies overlook or poorly optimize for.

It can be really boring stuff: can you build the best site in the following niches?

Classifieds, auction, product search engine, travel location aggregator, real estate search engine, used car website, etc.

Do you have beaches? Focus on tourism.

If done right, over time you can have your $x000 and many more.
Meaning localities that have an outbreak follow a progression. If someone goes from one city to the next and carries disease, they're effectively seeding a new outbreak. By the logic you're saying, we're all just Chinese case numbers? It'd help to watch the video, cause I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding what I'm saying.
Hopefully there are situations where the leadership has more information available than the engineers.
> It is true what you say and demonstrated by where the TBM will inevitably start - at the London end.

The only significant tunnelling is at the London end, and in the Cotswolds. It doesn't really make much sense to begin in the middle.

The approach to Birmingham will be almost entirely on the surface.
A Standalone Linux Kernel Module
These objections don't seem as strong to me as they seem to you.

> you'd only have enough money for $10k/yr for 5,000 individuals

5,000 out of the 80,000 total individuals seems to be a sizable number, no? Even 2,500 seems like a lot when your population is so small. Nobody claimed the problem is solvable by a single city, but it seems like you could easily make a difference at the margin.

> lots of people from neighboring cities would want to move there to claim the subsidy.

You could have some process that gives preference to existing residents of a certain period of time, I doubt many poor people living in the area would move to a city and live there for a certain time just for a chance to get a rent subsidy.

This problem of "people moving here to claim benefits" is both generally overstated and pretty easily solved by a number of cities.
I can imagine that this 'formal' definition would evolve to an informal language, where things are simplified and symbolized into a new 'character' for which the meaning is generally agreed on.

See also: regional / cultural slang, internet / text speak. You can say "n00b" instead of "new person", or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ instead of "idk" or "I don't know".
Yes there are, in your case, it is a language specific article, which I tend to not keep, but your previous article would have been included for example
Reading by the HN comments the salary difference in IT is 100-200% though, so there you start getting some difference.

A medium/median salaried person would be much better off in Western Europe for sure.
Creating a personal wiki with Vimwiki and Gollum (2017)
> Prevents retaliation for disagreeing.

Or it just incentivizes them to click on your profile, click through to comments and down-vote everything not in direct reply.

Arguably that's a higher bar of caring but once that bar is exceeded it's far more damaging to civil discourse because then you've got factually correct technical comments down-voted into oblivion because that person happened to also commit WrongThink(TM) in the comments on an unrelated contentious subject.

You could also argue that it's an incentive to wait a day before taking a minority opinion on a divisive subject but I'm not sure that's something we want to be incentivizing.
Shipping goods should be done underground.

It'd be nice if PEOPLE could remain above-ground.
Probably business reasons. Just like Google did with Windows Phone. In that case, Google did browser sniffing and Youtube didn't even work over the web.
In the case you get arrested, you'll be made aware that if you don't have a lawyer, one will be appointed to you.

If you're not arrested, you should be able to just leave the interrogation (emphasis on should, of course).
Man, that's so clear I have to make a tattoo with that
I think you missed the main point. The most important part of root comment’s advice is networking —- to meet and work with other devs. If you start your own open source project there’s not guarantee people will work on it with you.
The French minister of economy (and finance) is very clear on the goals of GAIA-X. Just watch these two minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9kJrwkfNp4&t=1320
It seems like it would be pretty easy to make a REPL mode that did the big conversions automatically. Not sufficient to protect a naive user, but arbitrary precision floating point is never safe.
UPMC doctor says Covid-19 has become ‘less prevalent’isn’t making people as sick
Thanks! Just gonna need your phone number (for plausible deinabality) ;)

... And just hope there are no records that I've been using it since the days when it was 2 apps,- Red Phone & TextSecure, before becoming Signal.
First of all, if you are over a certain age, the phrasing of this question might feel surreal. Because before a not-that-long-ago date, everyone did this all the time.

That said, a few years ago I was forced to do this because I was on a beach in Mexico with no service.

It took several days for the addiction to wear off, and I had been already ‘on vacation’ for about 2 weeks previous, just I was still plugged in.

I highly recommend detoxing from screens regularly. Many Orthodox Jews I believe do this every week, and I have often tried to get myself to do the same.

I also have rules I never break: like never answer the phone during dinner.

There’s no good way to ‘moderate’ per se. Moderation will take the form of setting small strict rules and adhering to them.
I recently wrote a golang code for fetching rss feed and displaying gist based on requirement.

Looking at this code, I am tempted to reimplement this using pipes but saner mind took over and said "don't fix something that is not broken"

I probably would be still do it and get some benchmark numbers to compare both.
Learn to write well. You can make 1k-1.5k/month starting next month if you can author good blog posts for businesses. Writing content, like coding, is something where the time investment cannot be "hacked." For a 1200 word blog post someone has to sit at the computer and actually write the 1200 words. That takes time. In many cases there is no content writer on staff and someone has to do the work.

I'd say 90% of the posts you read by a company CEO, CTO, or COO are in fact written by someone else and at least half the time in those cases they were written by someone that doesn't even work there. My first professional writing gig was for a German industrial paint company entering the US market. I earned $50 for a 600 word post and wrote them 3 posts per day. Related: I nearly failed chemistry in high school and know nothing about paint.

Until about a year ago I had been blogging for others for close to a decade. 4 or 5 years ago I surmised that I probably had someone in the neighborhood of 4 million words out there on the internet, mostly applying to subjects I have no training in. I just like to write and people will pay for that. I've easily made $400-$1000/month writing posts for businesses as I have a beer in the evening and my wife makes dinner.

Businesses of all types will pay between $500 and $1000 for a well written, well researched blog post between 800 and 2000 words. Can you create a technical whitepaper or even an eBook/lead magnet with citations and some science in it? That STARTS at $2000.

That means companies (like mine) that have those opps are more than happy to farm them out to someone else for a few hundred bucks. You can easily command a dime per word if you are reliable and write with quality. In fact, I don't have $1k of budget for you/anyone right now but I'd be glad to pay a dime a word starting Monday for someone to start pumping out all the posts for my business that I've been meaning to write but - wait for it -simply cannot find the time to prioritize the work.

THe content creation/professional blogging space is still full of opportunity and based on the short post you have here it looks like your English is just fine.

"So where do I find the work?"
Craigslist - tons of opps, tons of competition
Fiverr
Blogmutt and similar
Content co-op sites
Cold approach - send me an email I'll send you the exact instructions for doing this.

Good luck.
I took the comment to mean that a dollar price hides the moral cost by masking it with a material cost.
You can subscribe to Dragan Djuric's deep learning book [1].
He is using the subscriptions to fund work on Deep Diamond [2], a fast Deep Learning framework with GPU support for Clojure.

[1] https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers/
[2] https://github.com/uncomplicate/deep-diamond
Students Are Employees
New CKA exam outline published by Linux Foundation, we summarized the difference
Walmart wants to turn rags into riches
40 hours for 5 dollars is well beyond working peanuts that's just robbing people... Even Fiverr isn't close to this rate
One command to start your React Native Web project with Fast Refresh
Share more than 90% of your code across iOS, Android and the web !

If you want to run React Native on the web here is a simple starting point which you can use. We use React Native Web in a few production apps and it's also used in the new Twitter web-application so check it out.

You only need to run this (it will run the latest cli tools of react-scripts and react-native cli)

npx create-react-native-web-application --name=myapp

https://github.com/web-ridge/create-react-native-web-applica...
Quest for Web Developers
Doesn't seem perplexing to me either. Humans are tribal and their survival depends on teamwork of about ~100 people or so. This is natural on intimate scale.

What perplexing is to think about how humans can cooperate effectively on a scale of billion people to solve humanity biggest problems.

As we can see, empathy for humans outside of the tribe is limited and so different gangs fight each other, let alone different countries.

Maybe we can think about techniques to create empathy among strangers.
Isn't the problem that it was so far used in a quite different dosis? The covid applications seems to increase the limit 14x. That's reason enough not to carry over the established safety status.
For freelancing sites, you need to focus on stuff established businesses need and shy away from anything catering to individuals or startups.

Payment is all relative. Someone with an idea for a new social network might think of $10,000 as a lot of money, even if they want an entire app with lots of features built from scratch, which could be a months' long job. They will vastly underestimate how expensive this will be, particularly if they don't have technical backgrounds.

Meanwhile, an established business might pay $1000 for something that takes a few hours and think nothing of it, because they are thinking in terms of value to the company, not "I don't want to blow through my personal savings".

I hired freelancers at my last job. When going through candidates, I didn't look for the lowest bidder. I looked for someone who charged a reasonable amount who looked like they knew what they were doing. For example, one guy we hired charged us $400 for something that probably took him two or three hours. Considering that he was working out of Russia, this is probably a pretty good wage. Some of the bids were for $50-100, but from my company's perspective, $400 was nothing anyway, so I looked for someone with great reviews and who seemed like they knew what they were doing. I think we found the guy on Upwork, but we ended up hiring him directly to do a bunch more work after that.

I think that if you are targeting well-paying work, look for things that appeal to businesses. Businesses use Excel, so work on your skills in integrating Excel with your favorite programming language. Lots of businesses want web scraping, so learn that. Businesses might have old code written in language X. If you find the right opportunity there, it could be a long term partnership that can be fairly lucrative.
This thread is great, every suggestion has a reply that says "This is terrible advice."

Might I suggest people stop giving advice if they haven't actually done it themselves? Just spewing what you think should work, or what you think you've seen people do could be super harmful to this person's career. Let's hear some first hand stories of what worked, not second/third/imaginary hard stories of what people think should work having never been in this situation.
You are absolutely correct, I stand corrected!
Back in my freelancing days, everyone was doing php3 web development. I did, too, and it worked out extremely well for me.

A very popular market might be saturated, which is a downside. But it might also mean that customers already know that they want/need exactly this, which makes finding projects extremely easy.

If you want to have the best possible salary, go for an obscure niche where you can be the best in the world.

If you just want an OK salary with not too much work, go for the most popular project categories.
I think open source projects are a good avenue of fulfilling income if you live in a third world country.
Quite a nice article.

However, I'd absolutely change the order of things to pay attention to. The first one of the mentioned ones should be 'Stress Management'.

If you get this one right, you'll have better sleep, more time (and willingness) for exercise, as well as less of a need for any substances to get you through the day.

Also, he doesn't mention metacognition at all. Paying attention to one own's thought processes is a big part of staying sane in the long term.
Not true. One of the people I'm referring to was under 25 when he landed a $500k USD remote job at a FAANG company. I'd share more, but too many people would figure out who it is. He didn't get that offer by applying directly.

The point is not that OP is going to make $500k a year. The point is to be smart about the language and project that you pick and to be reliable, professional, and open to learning quickly and delivering. He's asking for such a paltry amount that even if he only gets an $80k offer it's still leagues better than what he's asking for.

Or he could grind it out on Upwork and land a $30k offer after finally hitting a client that likes him and has long term work.
Is there not a consideration for the act being beneficial for the group (species) and that considerations have been elevated beyond either of the individuals concerns subconsciously? Ants are the obvious comparison, being very quick to sacrifice themselves to maintain a path to food for the group.
By quite easy i mean, when you have global surveillance in place. All tor-nodes are public all tor-exits are public, if your system can track connections from one node to another node and then the exit-node everything is clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance#Infiltrati...

Edit: And that from netzpolitik (highly trusted german source) under 'A global passive adversary' that's the interesting part:
https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-...
I love learning new things about commands I've used for years.

--output-delimiter ":"

Very cool!

However it does require the GNU version of cut, not the Mac OS X supplied BSD version. In zsh at least, you can do:

alias cut='/usr/local/bin/gcut'
Interested to know who is paying you $1k for a blog post...
Pensions vary per state. In California, police pensions are mostly aggregated in an organization that specializes in administering public sector state/local employees (except teachers) called CalPERS.

The department pays into the pension for the employee if I have my facts straight. Some cities have gone bankrupt because they chose not to do this.

Police unions largely exist for setting the employment contracts, lobbying (err “bribing” if you aren’t in the US) legislators for favorable legislation language, and to assist union members if they get into administrative problems (like being caught on camera killing an unarmed civilian) or if they are disabled/killed.
> The fallacy hidden in the article is that each of us is completely in control over our physical and mental well-being. That your well being isn't an inevitability but a choice. If it's a choice, then this implies that making the right choices is 100% your own responsibility.

This is nonsense. The author makes no such argument, you're just projecting it onto him.

"Here are some things you can do to proactively manage your mental health, rather than ignoring it until you have a crisis" is in no way putting 100% of the responsibility on the individual.
They should also focus on better pricing/storage tiers. I see 2TB and 3TB as too much for your average consumer.
> the password is always in the clear when you're attempting an login or you're setting it.

Not anymore. Modern logins should use something like SRP, which doesn't send a password over the wire on every login.

http://srp.stanford.edu/
It’s an absurd argument. Either everything is translatable because language allows for any arbitrarily complex construct that lets you circumlocute your way around, or nothing is translatable because everything is steeped in a unique cultural context which you either are a part of or aren’t.

What OP is ranting about is websites glorifying certain words as “untranslatable”, imbuing them with esoteric cultural meaning. As a polyglot and linguistics enthusiast it frustrates me too but we all have to come to terms with people being wrong on the internet some day.
here is my guess:

One thing you need to understand is that when you start generating your passwords and not knowing them, you need to have your password manager everywhere or else your are stuck. And it turns out many people use browsers and OSs from different makers. So for example keychain might be fine if you have everything Apple, but if your work computer is a Windows one, then it doesn't work anymore. And I'm pretty sure apple is not going to make a keychain for windows any time soon, just like Mozilla isn't doing Firefox sync for chrome and safari.

(I work for a company that makes a password manager)
>Isn't that because credit cards came later to the EU, so they had better standards because they didn't have to worry about supporting huge quantities of obsolete technology?

In New Zealand, credit card machines are basically required to be replaced every few years as security standards improve. Is this not the case in USA?
Well, there is a difference. With 5 bucks per hour the OP is almost in his target range.
Dow rallies more than 700 points after record surge in U.S. jobs
The language should remain unsophisticated; it's meant for coding at scale, for reading at an even larger scale. Sophistication is not a target, and expressing logic in a more compact form will mainly make it harder to read and understand, which for the kinds of things they write with it, the code that still has to be understood 30+ years down the line, is super important.
Maybe those you can meet in Europe... But on Hacker News, Europe is (most of the time) a laughing stock for Americans.
By half a second I obviously didn't mean 0.5 seconds but rather a very short duration that I didn't bother to measure.

Edit: Now I bothered to measure. You were saying?

~ time julia -E "1+1"
2
julia -E "1+1" 0,59s user 0,14s system 153% cpu 0,476 total

~ time julia -E "sum(sin.(rand(1000000)))"
459807.21199623536
julia -E "sum(sin.(rand(1000000)))" 1,01s user 0,17s system 125% cpu 0,948 total
The One Powerful Habit I Cultivated That Skyrocketed My Sales
The Rise of “Worse is Better” (1991)
Personally, if Go takes a bad turn, I'm likely to just go back to JVM languages.

Not Scala though, they went overboard with that one.
In case you are interested in open source stuff, check out these pages, especially the internships, which are a good way to build contacts with open source companies, especially if you pick the right projects (like the Linux kernel).

https://www.fossjobs.net/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
> I'd share more, but too many people would figure out who it is.

Feels like your example is very specific and would not generalize to the average programmer.
> many of the swear words/expressions cannot be translated

"...with the same cultural meaning into a different culture."

But that's a truism, surely. The words and expressions themselves can be translated as you demonstrated.
Because having multiple researches about the same subject but with different biases is the way to eliminate bias with meta analysis studies.
Chrome and Firefox store and sync my passwords across devices.
Hmm I disagree, Go is a language that should have workload that is CPU bound, Go is not Python or Ruby it's more C++ in that case. It can do heavy computation, I think it's just a balance of compiler optimization vs compile time.
May sees biggest jobs increase ever