skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> She was making more money not working.

This has actually often been the case I live, because the social welfare system gas a cut off threshold rather than a sliding scale, so if you have, for example, commute or child minding costs, you can easily make less net than you’d get if you stay on social welfare (for minimum wage to low paying jobs), so there isn’t much incentive for unemployed to seek those jobs. I personally know people who gave up on trying to work because they ended up with only €10 or €20 more per week, while being away from their children.
> You see it all and you'll get it all, so why the fuss?

Because people are afraid that they won't be able to command 350K a year salaries anymore. The fear is that the "good old days" of SV salaries are over is being materialized.

Imo its overdue, but I also am perfectly happy making an average salary in a HCOL area, with aspirations to move to a low or middle COL area.
The police haven't been doing themselves any favors by actively attacking members of the press though. If you don't want a narrative about police brutality to spread, perhaps you shouldn't beat the people responsible for generating the narrative while they scream that they're 'Press'.
Why should an engineer be paid that value they produce when they assume none of the risk? If the company goes bankrupt, will the engineer be willing to bail the company out?

The engineer is paid less than the value they produce because they don't assume any of the risk. If the product they produce turns out to be worthless or break, they don't have to pay their salary back.
A freak accident would work better. They gotta mix it up.
I feel like there has been a welcome proliferation of styles, at least in my area. There are multiple breweries concentrating on lager styles and multiple breweries concentrating on sours. (Everybody has their styles that they don't get the popularity of, and for me, it's sours. I like a few from time to time, but it mystifies me to see shelves and shelves of them, and I rarely feel like trying a new one.) My favorite development in recent years is that there are a variety of dry stouts available to me, instead of just Guinness.

Regardless, sorry to tell you, but IPA has long since passed its initial fad stage. New styles of IPA can take over the IPA niche in an annoying way once in a while, but IPAs as a category have reached a stable level of popularity that seems to be sustained as new generations of beer drinkers enter the scene.
It's funny how everyone always misses the point Marx was making, in that he was thinking about post-capitalism, not a replacement for capitalism. There are 3 components to the economy (simplifying a bit) - labor, capital, and resources. What does society look like when the ongoing cost of labor nears 0 and so requires minimal human participation. He was just a century or two before that would be technologically possible (with automation). Sure, some work will need to be done by humans, but with near 100% automation there's basically two kinds of possible societies (utopia where the means are shared amongst humanity, or dystopia where only a few control all the means). Which way does it look like we are headed?
If you are correct, Poettering doesn’t understand how to configure the last resort fallback.

He says the easiest way is to recompile systemd from source.

Presumably he knows more about systemd then the average Linux user.
Maybe I should check out what's going on in some of the newsgroups I hung out in, and if anything worthwhile comes up, get back on. I kind of quit bothering after Comcast killed off their news servers.

I don't want to bother with the binaries groups, though.
Yes, and the game has a lot of aim assist when you play on mobile. The game does the core gameplay mechanic of the entire genre for you.
dark mode before it was cool.
Small size since it does not need JRE, fast launching time, it's good for short living app, something like pay as you go cloud computing...
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The criminals are smarter than you're giving them credit for. I'm sure having cash flow helps but then you need to be smart enough to be the person who can co-opt that cash flow and put the organisational structure in place to hold onto it. Modern day criminal organisations are basically multi-national conglomerates.
I feel like this happens because engineering teams get too big and unfocused. This size creates communication overhead (ala mythical man month) and little fiefdoms. The easiest solution is to outsource the jobs. The harder solution would be to streamline the business and the focus.
That career criminals are career criminals, not ideological "prohibition is bad, therefore I sell drugs" hippies? Are you serious?
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They have not bought anywhere close to trillion dollars worth of corporate debt. As you can see in the breakdown [0], most of what they are buying is our own governments debt (the same debt used to fund the CARES act) and US mortgage backed securities.

[0]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.htm
not true. Eastern Europe has great engineering talent, India, southeast asia all have great engineering schools and talent.
If there is a scale, it is outside US, it just requires some footwork to find and hire people - which most managers are too lazy to do. Because they are nog saving their own money, it is shareholders money so who cares?
If you define it as someone getting something while not working vs others getting nothing while working, yes, thank you NPR. That's how unemployment benefits work. That's why government handouts are damaging, especially in the long term. They inherently incentivize not working and punish those who do work.

More importantly, government rarely does anything efficiently. I'm gainfully employed and don't need any "help" from the government, yet I received a debit card from the IRS containing my "relief" money. As much as I appreciate the government giving me back my tax dollars, why did I receive this and not someone who's recently unemployed?
What Accomplishments Sound Like on Software Engineering Resumes
Does 300k buy talent and experience, or 60 hour weeks and people with no outside interests?

The best engineers I've ever worked with were definetly not making that sort of money, mostly because they were the sort of people that didn't like going to interviews and were more interested in tinkering with their side projects and hobbies than competative careers.
Blackball? Do you mean blackmail?
Why should the internet cost orders of magnitude less than the value it generates?
"several dozen guns"
Congress didn't give the Federal Reserve $4 trillion. They gave the Treasury Department $500 billion, which the Federal Reserve leveraged to give out about $3 trillion in loans.
The personal is very much political, pokémon.
> We should really divorce politics from this discussion.

I have come to realize that the only people who ever say this are people with no skin in the game, i.e., who aren't in the gunsights. I suspect (actually, know) you'd feel differently if you were training your own replacements just prior to your unemployment.
> These wealth gaps historically lead to populism, which is how we ended up with our current president.

Yet our current president is presiding over exactly what you’re describing.

Also, as the other commenter explained, there are several problems with your understanding of the Fed’s operations and what they mean in terms of long-term budget. It’s not correct to compare cash payments to individuals with counter-cyclical quantitative easing.
>It was also controversial from the beginning, with the Right raising moral hazard arguments that it would encourage people to become and remain unemployed, as if that were an option for most recipients.

I don't get it -- you're talking like the concern was dubious, even as we see that prediction came exactly true.[2] And yes, not seeking re-employment, or not asking to return to work is an option; see all the stories about employers being unable to get employees to return to work because they'd take an income cut [1].

And, to be sure, that may be the desired outcome, that people stay away from work while receiving some income, so as to mitigate the epidemic risk, while preserving financial security. That's a fair argument to make. But the moral hazard concern was 100% correct, that it would layer on an extreme disincentive to work that overcorrects well beyond the incentives we might actually want.

>Federal spending doesn't come from money laying around, in the first place, it comes from money the government decides to have because it wants to spend it. Even if you buy into the mythology of the fisc, marginal spending comes out of borrowing at, typically, very low interest rates (currently, IIRC, at negative real interest rates),

It's true that the federal government can borrow on favorable terms and so it's probably prudent to borrow now for epidemic mitigation -- especially at negative nominal rates! -- but that doesn't make it "myth" that the federal government is not some infinite pot of real resources that will be able to indefinitely cover these expenses; eventually they have to hit a wall. We can debate where that point will be, but it's not mythical.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/baltimore-restaurant-owner-cant-get...

[2] Even on HN, it was like pulling teeth just to suggest this was a real effect to worry about; see this thread where I tried to point out the effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22640082
Like others have mentioned, the current political atmosphere is one that seems to have embraced xenophobia, thus making it harder for talent to emigrate. If you can't move the talent to the work, you can move the work to the talent. In that sense the internet is a great equalizer.
Random example:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/d/san-francisco-green-j...

It is furnished so you can't claim rent control [not a lawyer - but they wont win]. But a true SF gem (the view is everything).
I believe this is true also, but is changing quickly. Anecdotally I know of some pretty good engineers that are moving back home because the quality of life difference (having a cook, housekeeper, driver), and because salaries have gotten a lot better than say 5 or 10 years ago.
What do you mean with won't do what they're told ?

Disclaimer : am Dutch.
BTW Linus also used to be pretty insulting, but somehow avoided being smug, AFAICT.
There's a difference between "let's try to figure out the best way to do something" and "let's sell the solution we've settled on". That's not an argument for avoiding politics, but there's nothing wrong with veering in the other direction either.
They weren't does the encryption themselves. If you encrypt something yourself, that is different than relying on some apps endtoend.
Why is this not optional default deny in settings?
Would that translate into a "40k in your pocket" salary? I have heard Germans mention 50% tax before, but no idea how it is implemented.
But that’s exactly the point. The majority of reporters don’t get beat up, but it’s presented as a routine thing to happen when more often reporters get beat up by protesters —but even that is a minority of interactions.
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People in this thread who are engaged in rapidly shifting the goal posts to fill the vacuum left by the race-based narrative, please stop and consider why you and many in the US were so incensed by widespread beliefs that were easily disproved by clear and available data. Consider what else you believe on this topic that may also be wrong. This is a teachable moment.
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bring out the tinfoil hats
Last 75 years of foreign & drug wars: https://i.redd.it/b4rgt6ovw7k31.jpg
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> $80k salary would mean costs of nearly $100k for the employer

Closer to 150..
Sure, he doesn't care, and so then this happens. We happen. Drama.
There’s also the CLOUD Act, which compels them to share the information with law enforcement in the US and abroad. (The latter don’t have to have any due process around the data requests they issue, unless they have other laws requiring it.)
Nitpicking a bit, it's not a death spiral if they don't die in the end.
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I am a US citizen with a bunch of civil engineer friends who are Professional Engineers (the capital letter, licensed kind). For a good number of years I had a roommate whose job was literally designing bridges. We've talked about this very comparison. Bridge building is not as boring as this author thinks. It can be pretty stressful.

There are a few factors that make bridges very reliable (but not perfect) in the US. A real engineer can probably describe this far better than I can.

1) Physics and material science are pretty well known quantities.
There is innovation and new materials come to market, but by the time they are approved to be used in real bridges their qualities are fairly well known and tested. They have solid evidence of the capabilities of a material or part. (Tensile strength of an item under various environmental conditions, for example).

2) Standards & Very Firm Requirements (Where waterfall works!)
They have a set of strict approved industry standards to rely upon. Not the "industry standard by convention" kind that you see around IT a lot, but the "tested, reviewed, approved, published by a standards body" kind. When a civil engineer is assigned to build a specific bridge they reference these standards that tell them "given this type of ground do this", "given this length of span do that". They know the lengths and widths, they check the traffic patterns, they know the desired weight limits. Challenges do come up, yet they have fewer unknown unknowns. Something changed from their expectations, maybe the ground is different than expected, but they still have standards that guide them in what to do in those cases.

3) Reviews, reviews, reviews.
Other Professional Engineers have to sign off on the work of the initial designer(s). Deep reviews. Not what typically passes for software architecture and code reviews I've seen.

4) Legal responsibility. Professional Engineers have an amount of personal accountability at stake because real lives are at stake if something fails.

5) "User" common sense and intuition
Nobody builds a 100,000 ton vehicle and then tries to drive it over a bridge. Most any human that thought about doing this can probably reason that doing so would break the bridge. In my experience software users have no idea that trying to push a 1TB file into a system that was designed to only handle 1MB files will cause it to fail. They often have no idea when their data volume increases. "I'm doing the same thing I did last month!"

All that and more, yet bridges still go over budget and over time and fail and people die.
Translates to "vernieling' which probably means vandalism is this context. but most likely its just aggravated robbery. its a bad translation for sure
With that allowance, feudalism would be considered capitalism though. The problem isn't just a skewed concentration of capital. It's that most people do not have any capital and their situation is denominated by debt.
They are paid based on how much other companies are willing to pay the same worker.
It used to be super slow. Like, you cannot imagine how slow it was.

The usual example I trot out is when I was writing a client-side pivot table creator in the mid-2000s, as far as I can remember, with just 100 items the js version took 20-30 seconds. I then tried it using XML/XSLT instead[1] and it was instant.

I haven't checked recently, but even a few years ago javascript is extremely slow with large datasets, I was mucking around with Mandelbrot generators and js compared to C# was like a bicycle vs a jet engine, they weren't even vaguely in the same league performance-wise. Just had a quick look at some js based versions looks like it's got a bit faster, but still slow.

[1] Awesome performance, super hard for others to understand the code. XSLT was great in some ways, but the learning curve was high.
I don't think moving tech labor form US workers to Indian workers will have the desired effect that corporate decision makers are hoping for.

For one, good tech workers are hard to find anywhere. A candidate needs a range of attributes to be effective at this type of work. That type of talent is hard enough to find in the western world, it will likely be just as hard to find in the east.

Two, Indian tech labor isn't that cheap, a conclusion I draw from my own anecdotal experience. My first job was working for what you may call a "body shop" that was US based with US only employees. The owner started the business after doing sales for an off-shore, India-based "body shop," and he did it bc cost of labor was approaching the cost of labor of US workers, and the US workers would tend to produce higher quality (less defective) work (his words, not mine). No idea what the details were, but he has a thriving business.

Finally, there might be a lot going on right now, but why haven't companies outsourced sooner when there was nothing stopping them (even visas were easier to come by before Trump)? I believe they have contemplated it, and changed their minds for good reason.
She hasn't exactly been in hiding. I'd imagine she felt somewhat untouchable.
> How not to interact with your community 101.

Give Poettering a break! You have no clue what is to be in his shoes. ;)
> They inherently incentivize not working and punish those who do work.

Do you have any evidence of this claim?
We just hired an engineer in India who so far seems really promising. As a start-up sized organization I think you can do really well if you look in the right places. If I had to build a team of 100 people in a limited amount of time I would probably be less confident.
iirc, she settled at some point with an accuser too...

anyways, i am impressed by how much conspiracy the whole story has garnered so far. even hn does not seem immune to this one.

this is just weird!
Just wondering why they don't want to outsource to europe. Here in Germany you will get good engineers for $80k. Or east europe is even cheaper + better cultural fit.
Observation: You're using the same kind of approach as the "I almost found a vulnerability" and "but I won't be disclosing them, since that will land me in a lot of trouble" as the submitted post does.
Get the fuck outta here with that
>Everyone I know would choose their entire retirement fund over a one time check of $18,000

I am assuming you don't know a single person in the 40% that don't have $400 saved up for emergencies.

>it does feel like we got less that we deserve, but stimulating the stock market was absolutely the right move.

It isn't without merit...until you look behind the curtain at OZ. The stock market was already in a bubble and we just inflated the bubble even more. P/E ratios in the public markets are beginning to make revenue-less tech unicorns look reasonable.

>a majority of Americans have a 401k

Ok, so they have a conflict of interest in the matter (25% of Americans have no retirement). Of those with a 401K aged 35-44 the median balance is $22k (so its pretty much a wash for them). Then on the very harsh side of things, the free market side, you risked your money by investing, if a portion of your portfolio includes stock in overvalued companies with runaway P/E ratios that didn't have cash reserves to whether the storm, you invested poorly and you should expect taxpayers to bailout your poor investments.
> This is a people issue and not an economic issue.

Take it a step further: All economic issues are really people issues, in one way or another.

The economy exists to serve people. We do not exist to serve it. Whenever there are measures that are "to help the economy", but which are detrimental to ordinary workers, they're not really to help "the economy"—they're to help the people at the very top, at everyone else's expense.

We need to refocus on what helps actual people—what helps the most people—rather than on the misleading abstract of "the economy."
you can order almost anything with a custom image printed on it, and that's become my go to for thoughtful gifts. i got my old boss a jigsaw puzzle, my mom a pillow, a shirt for a friend, a desk nameplate for another friend. think of something that will be meaningful and print it on something.
But the logic of the article seems to be the Easter Island inhabitants stopped building platforms, so their civilization must have collapsed. I criticize exactly the faulty logic you describe.
Thanks, but that's simply not the case.

The socket is clean, lint was the first thing I checked when it started happening. The uneven wear on the socket sheath is clearly visible under a magnifier. (This is a 6S.)
> politics permeates society

No, it's a pitfall people fall into when they read politics into any topic.
Yes. Travel nursing (high pay, short-term contract) has been a thing for decades.
>Those who know me know that I am a bit fan of the oldschool Lenovo ThinkPad laptops

May be just me, as I was expecting oldschool to be IBM Thinkpad.

Anyway you could get $100+ worth of performance simply by using better thermal paste. Unfortunately most Laptop Vendors refuse to do it for whatever reason. May be it is trade off between how long the paste would last?

And while we have trillion dollar worth of silicon improvement in the last decade, are there any recent innovation in thermal paste or thermal cooling?
Have you heard of the podcast Darknet Diaries? Jack Rhysider (the host) does a pretty remarkable job of documenting the answers to your questions by interviewing guests (in story format) who often come from the more murky areas of the internet.

In particular I recommend the episode freakyclown or OxyMonster as that seems to fit what you're looking for.
The way google & now Apple manage to run these on device is pretty neat. Google has a blog post for the same too.

The recently updated Mozilla Voice dataset still lacks non-EN languages sadly.
In more normal times, it makes sense that unemployment should not be lucrative, and workers should be encouraged to take any job at all rather than be unemployed. But the calculus changes in a pandemic, because you want people to stay home, even if they have nothing productive to do there. Low-wage work is almost never remote, so a person working a non-essential, low-wage job is likely not providing enough value to offset the harm they do by spreading COVID at their job site or on public transit.

Of course, this is not the function that UI was meant to serve. If it were designed to “compete” with the low-wage job market, it would be paid out even to workers who resign voluntarily or refuse to seek any employment while receiving benefits. But given policy can’t turn on a dime, raising UI is a reasonable way to discourage non-essential work specifically — to the extent work is essential, workers are unlikely to be laid off and made eligible for benefits.
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> white collar crime is as old as deregulation.

white collar crime is as old as civilization - how do you think kings and nobles got their positions back then?
Her Dad was a crook as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell