skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the market value of such incompetence if FAANG salary, how can I do good work and get paid preportionally?

Asking this question shows that you do not yet understand how compensation and pay works in the world.

Roughly speaking there are two different kinds of jobs. The first kind of job is offensive. This job involves creating systems or value where it does not already exist. It is probably what you thought all engineering and development was. Surprisingly though these jobs do not always pay very well because they are high risk. Especially for unestablished workers who do not have a track record of successful value creation.

The second kind of job is a defensive job. Roughly speaking this job exists when a company already has a big Cash Cow Monopoly and can print money. These jobs pay very well because there is already a ton of money flowing in the value chain. For these jobs you don't actually have to create anything. You just kind of have to be around to make sure that nothing goes wrong.

Faang jobs have over time become more defensive than offensive.

Don't expect your current view of proportional pay for work to apply to other positions.
You can get unfinished cabinets of furniture grade plywood. I wanted mine to look like a nice piece of furniture (wife approved for living room), and it does, after much sanding, staining, and sealing. Extra modifications too, replacing plastic with glass and aluminum.

https://youtu.be/rl0-a76yN0M

I don’t see how a RPi is going to work that well. I’m running a 4k monitor at over 60 Hz (freesync) with CRT emulation, and it looks gorgeous. The bezel artwork looks like it was painted.
I think this a much more nuanced question than a yes-or-no answer can cover.

Looking at LinkedIn or indeed.com with just a simple search for Clojure with no geographic qualifier (in the US), we see a very small number of listed openings - 252 over the last month at LinkedIn or 44 in the last 14 days at indeed. A plain google job search on Clojure jobs in the US returns an even smaller number.

Some of those job listings will almost certainly have Clojure listed as part of a "laundry list" of technologies and the actual job will probably not be Clojure oriented.

So just from a raw numbers perspective, the job sites to suggest that there aren't a huge number of opportunities. Comparatively speaking, there are like 60,000 Java job postings on LinkedIn in the last month.

However, if you attend a Clojure/conj (one of the "primary" Clojure programming conferences), you will find that many attendees are part of some (not super-large?) number of companies that use Clojure.

My best advice on building a Clojure career (that I failed to follow) is that a programmer who wants to make a Clojure career path is to be prepared to spend a significant amount of time trying to make connections inside the Clojure community. On top of that, you probably need to build a portfolio of project experience that you at minimum blog about and preferably speak at Clojure conferences, user groups, or meetups.

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I would gently observe that long-time Clojure developers are maybe too close to the tree to see the forest when it comes to judging Clojure career opportunities.

But I would love to be wrong about my impression of Clojure job opportunities! Perhaps fellow-HN readers could post (anonymous?) numbers of Clojure job openings for their company to give us a better idea?
> Ebola was/is a big deal for the past 45 years off an on.

But never a pandemic (if Ebola retained it's deadliness and gained characteristics that allowed it to become a pandemic that would be, to put it mildly, very bad.)
The word "research" in the preceding paragraph is a link to said research, and the full text is available here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5990315/

That article also only gives percentages for Japan and Spain, but lists the raw numbers in Table 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5990315/table/T... , so the missing percentages for China (10%), South Korea (10%) and United States (6%) can be calculated.

They don't measure fleet size by displacement but by number of vessels: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5990315/figure/... There doesn't appear to be a monotonic relationship between total subsidies and fleet size by that measure (e.g. Taiwan appears second by number of vessels after China but before Japan, despite their subsidies only amounting to 6% of the total).
Depending on what that phrase "universal banking" entails, sure. It is the case that some good loans are not being made because of the perceived risks of particular potential borrowers. I don't think free electronic wallets are going to help with that, however. Lots of bad loans are also avoided due to the perceived risk of the potential borrowers. An electronic wallet isn't going to help differentiate this.
Almost all of these (including the example on QI) are just poor editing. There are some examples in those results where it's been done properly, with symmetrical lighting, and the results look... almost exactly the same as the original. Unsurprisingly.
> The "cascade" was, for sure, a mistake.

Aren't global styles only possible because of the cascade and the child elements inheriting from parent elements? Without cascade, wouldn't you have to re-declare your font size and font family, and line-height, etc. on every element of your markup?
Isn't that the case by definition?
Recursive, a free variable font for code and UI, now on Google Fonts
You can also learn more about Recursive & configure advanced Google Fonts API calls on the Recursive minisite: https://www.recursive.design/
Police is there for ascertainment... nothing much...

If someone wanna split the shell from the kernel...

You'll get splitted... unless you are as crazy than the splitter :)

Take it easy... it just an imaging of the real reality...
Lawyers Demand the Military Stop Violating Free Speech on Twitch
> the hardware store will accurately cut wood to sizes you specify for a small fee.

Home Depot and, I think, Lowes will cut for free here in the US. But I wouldn't rely on that for any kind of precision sizing. If you need tolerances within, say, 1/4", you're rolling the dice if you rely on a near-minimum wage employee who couldn't care less doing the cutting for you.
Would love to hear what you learn from engaging on any expectations you have for roadmap. I wrote separately that I see a bright (very bright, complete game changer) future for the toolchain in finance, but finance is a special ecosystem where general purpose languages with goofy syntax become niche- sometimes very large niche, but still niche.
I agree, but assert is a pretty bad tool to accomplish that. It's much nicer to have signal handlers that will run on a crash so that the user gets some useful log output, etc.
Satellites have very constrained transceivers. This is not only for regulatory reasons but efficiency. It's a literal waste of power to leak noise into non-target bands. Everything from the transceiver electronics to antennas are tuned for target bands. Satellites broadcasting stray signals is rare enough to not be a thing.

Interference with GPS and other signals overwhelmingly comes from ground based sources.
Each starlink group is inserted at a low orbit, booted up and tested, and then they boost themselves to a higher orbit over a period of a month or so. During this boost, they orient their panels horizontally to minimize drag. Once they reach their final orbit, they rotate their panels vertically, at which point their visibility goes way down (mag 5 (prior to the new coating) down from a mag 0).

I've seen plenty of people saying some variation of "there are only 600 of these now, imagine what it will be like when there are 42k of them..." If I understand correctly, the number of bright satellites will be proportional to the launch rate, not the total quantity in orbit. Going off Wikipedia, they have launched about 1/8th of their 2024 goal, and the majority of the remaining satellites are destined for much higher (and dimmer) orbits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Constellation_design_...
The frosted glass is a great idea! We'll definitely give it some thought.

Regarding portability, we were actually pleasantly surprised to learn that a lot of our users took Sidekick with them when they found different homes to shelter in place. We're thinking about adding some software companion apps to help with this as well.

edit: yes it's always-on, but you have the capability to turn it off easily with one button click.
I have this one[0] that works great.

Wendell at Level1Techs does good work and there's even newer ones that can do 8k30.

[0] https://store.level1techs.com/products/kvm-switch-dual-monit...
I explained in another post why Apparmor/Selinux are not nearly as effective as the Chrome sandbox.
Interesting, where can I find such post?

I'm excited to see wasm come to the browser.
Yeh but it doesn't have native binding with the browser APIs
nor does it have multilanguage interoperability, hence the added values of graalvm over wasm.
I suppose a question for you would be how has your business supported clojure(script)? It seems to me to be a case of a business that has benefited from clojure - and wants to be invested in its future - doing something about it. It cost something to provide what you built your business on :)
The Navy Says It's Not Recruiting on Twitch. This Handbook Shows It Is
My Backup Plan and Lessons Learned
All the things that the article mentions are true, but the conclusion that the author comes to is not. Yes, the landlords have all the incentives in the world to try other shenanigans other than a straight rent reduction, but it feels like everyone is so used to housing increasing forever that the thought of an actual market correction is so foreign. The incentive to lower rents is to get a renter to move into the unit.

The threshold of where they'll lose more holding the unit off market do to trying to squeeze last years rent price will be equalized quickly.

This isn't 10 year business leases. If a renter moves out and the rental market recovers they can go right back to their preferred number.
The moon will be a good source of water for spacefaring endeavors of the future, due to the large quantities of ice it has at the poles. With 1/6 the gravity of earth and the appropriate infrastructure in place, it will likely be cheaper to get that water off of the surface of the moon than from the Earth. The most promising use here is actually for producing methane fuel from this water. An industrial base of sorts could develop around this.

The other potential industry will be moon tourism. It could become something like the new Mt Everest. Obviously only for the very rich at first.

Once it becomes a real possibility and not some crazy sci-fi project, governments may start competing, so as to not get “left behind”, even if it is not immediately profitable.

One way or another, unless we destroy ourselves, it will happen eventually. There’s a percentage of people who are just absurdly curious and adventurous, and want to go where no one has gone before, even if the cost is immense. Hell, for some, I’m sure even just desire to get away from their situation on Earth will be a big part of why they go for it. People like this will build the first settlements and bases on the moon and elsewhere in the solar system.

Edit: sorry for the constant edits. It’s a bad habit — I don’t always get my thoughts out on the first try.
We don't have herd immunity to ebola, MERS, SARS, AIDS, etc., yet those are still diseases whose incidence is still pretty small, globally speaking.

It's not true that herd immunity is the only endgame. Reducing the size of the disease reservoir, in combination with testing and tracing, is a very effective tactic that has worked against many communicable diseases.

The only acceptable way to get herd immunity is via a vaccine. Reaching for herd immunity without a vaccine is just another way of saying let's allow most of the vulnerable people die; whoever is left at the end will have herd immunity. Yay for them.

It's like saying the solution to war deaths is to fight a huge war to its conclusion. Whoever is left at the end won't be getting shot at anymore--problem solved!
Did you try something else before? We are all sitting in a Jitsi Meet conference all day and it works fine so far. We even added a "private call" button on the video tiles in order to quickly initiate a 1-on-1. How is the "select person to talk" feature working for you?
Pretty until the web showed up, says the website with 25 different domains linking Javascript alone.
I remember when I lived in London there was a time when it seemed like there were more and more police sirens everywhere, this made me feel like there had been a big increase in bad people doing bad stuff.

But, it turns out, what had actually happened was they had changed the standard for sirens on emergency vehicles. As vehicles were modernised they all started to sound like police cars. At the same time a new system for medical emergencies was introduced that involved a first response by motorbike paramedic followed by backup a bit later from an ambulance if necessary, again all with sirens blaring. Suddenly it sounded like the police where rushing everywhere all the time. Whereas before you could tell the difference between a fire engine, an ambulance and a police car from the sound so you could tell what kind of incident was going on.

I'm sure that contributed to a sense that there was a big crime problem in the 90's when in actual fact it was starting to tail off.
They still do that; I have one set up on my router.

The main problem with it is that the tunnel server is hosted in Sweden, and while sometimes it's actually lower latency than my IPv4 connection (due to better routing, I guess), every geolocating website (eg. YouTube) thinks I'm Swedish :/
Yes and no. Yes, there is not real peace, and there is not peace even within such nations. That difference (between authoritarian and non-authoritarian) matters.

But no, even with authoritarian regimes in existence, there is a difference between "shooting war" and "no shooting war". That difference matters, too.
> yet the polar bear population isn't struggling to say the least.

What do you mean, "to say the least"? The polar bear population has just barely remained stable since hunting was ended. They should be growing -populations are increasing in places that are cold enough- but because their range is shrinking quickly the bears are just being forced closer together instead of reproducing.

https://arcticwwf.org/species/polar-bear/population/

> Glaciers were supposed to melt by now, and when they didn't, the signs that said they would were simply removed.

You are specifically referring to Glacial national park; nobody is saying that about all glaciers because the 40m sea rise would be, uh, noticeable.

124 of the original 150 named glaciers in the park are gone. It's hard to see how that's really a failure. Inaccurate yes, but far from wrong. The fact that you see it as a boondoggle is due to messaging and sentiment, not because it was untrue in any important way.

https://glacierhub.org/2019/08/20/new-signage-at-glacier-nat...

> Some cities and small islands were said to be at risk of sinking into the ocean by a decade ago, yet they remain dry.

You started by talking about "public educators"... this claim originated with a 2003 pentagon report that was nonscientific and opened with the phrase "The scientists support this project, but caution that the scenario depicted is extreme in two fundamental ways. First, they suggest the occurrences we outline would most likely happen in a few regions, rather than on globally. Second, they say the magnitude of the event may be considerably smaller."

https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2004/02/abruptclimatechang...

The report was very explicitly based on a scenario with no scientific justification- they basically said that the Younger Dryas event happened suddenly after a period of warming, so maybe something like that could happen again. Then they tried to estimate political ramifications. It has nothing to do with predicting warming, yet people and notably the press just ran fucking wild with it. It's lunacy.

> Public science communicators can start by no longer making predictions like "By 2020, there will be no more glaciers here."

While there are obvious failures of messaging, the vast majority of misinformation originates with bad actors. Small signs that you don't see unless you physically visit Glacier national park? Sure- bad messaging to a tiny population. National news about Europe being underwater, twisted from a thought experiment that was itself fully fabricated? Nothing to do with scientists or even popular science.
"since code is just text" . . .

No. It really isn't. I haven't gotten to play around with GPT-3 yet and I am sure it is very advanced, but code is extremely fragile in a way human language is not. I only say this as someone who started a company trying to use AI to generate code and banged my head against the wall until credit limits and negative bank balances forced me to quit.

I estimated we could write 7 PhD theses if we solved the technical hurdles that would get us to code good enough for a product someone would pay for.
Anec-data, but in my shots of the comets there were 0 satellites and about 12 airplanes with flashing lights that I had to remove. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I get the frustration, and no doubt I'll be pissed when I have a shot that's more affected, but amateur astrophotography seems like the least-important reason to be concerned about Starlink.

But then, the photo is going to get more attention, for sure.
As Joe walks in wearing underwear... (I'm serious, I code in my unders half the time, esp in the summer (no a/c)). That could get awkward.
This guy has apparently never heard of lynx browser. He wasted $40 and a lot of time because of that!
A subset of these messages could be leaked to produce very different optics. Say, only leak the wildest messages sent to certain celebrities or politicians in order to create the perception that their fanbase is purely of that kind, while holding back the more reasonable messages that may make up the majority.
The first time you plot using Plots.jl it will take a long time as it compiles the package, and maybe even has to download things. But subsequent plots should be fast. Unless each time you run the script you are starting over again—but that's not the best way to use Julia.
And a second article for the price of mobile data
> It is nature of the problem space which requires you to produce high quality code.

Would love to see any actual data or studies showing that functional programming implicitly produces "high quality code".
You're right - there could be value in a local worker - but I'm assuming we're comparing two remote workers.
That's a great point. We actually haven't run into that issue yet, but it seems like it could very easily happen. Thanks for the idea!
My work laptop is a T460S, and it has the worst build quality/reliability I've seen in the past 5 years. The case is definitely light duty, to the point where one of the batteries swelling deformed it. The battery swelling also causes intermittent disconnection of that battery and of the screen, which is frustrating on a laptop.
Or that there are social measures in place that prevent crime, rather than better policing of the crime that occurs.
I think everyone focusing on the "always on" aspect is missing the point.

This is a standalone device which takes care of a major part of the headache in transitioning to remote work -- a second monitor and webcam, a whiteboarding device, and a "who's online for me to talk to" visibility feature.

It's like paying $25 to bring the social experience of an office to your remote work environment without worrying about technical details or availability issues.

"Someone has their camera on? Cool, I can ping them, no worries."

The only feature I'd like to see is a "camera off but still pingable" mode, but honestly, I'd probably put a piece of tape over the camera and it'd work just fine.
SGML was a thing before RIP. We might have skipped from SGML to XML though, and something like `<rip>...</rip>` might have been a thing.
>I think that's a maladaptive way to think about this.

It's by definition very pro-adaptive. Many if not most of our emotions and behavior is merely in service to passing on our genes (at some higher-order analysis), which you seem to claim is pointless. If being concerned about your lineage is pointless, so is everything else you presumably have no objection to, e.g. feeling sadness from being rejected by a romantic interest.

>And evolution isn't a game.

I'm sure you've heard of a metaphor before.
Do you have one of their rentals, or your own hardware? It should be automatic on the former.
I agree. Especially with the part about cheating yourself.

Have some integrity and self-respect. Otherwise, you will just become miserable and cynical.
This isn’t a bad choice:

https://wiki.52pi.com/index.php/DockerPi_4_Channel_Relay_SKU...

It’s $17 for four relays, expandable to 16. If you wire it “normal closed” then the relays will only draw power while it’s resetting the other machine.

However, the relays are only rated for 3 amps. (360W at 120V). Also, the board is labeled backwards so, the NO port is normal closed, and NC is normal open.

Has anyone found something that’s similarly plug and play with a higher amperage rating?

Edit: this would work as a switched AC outlet (to replace a four outlet PDU) or for hot wiring the power / reset buttons. You could do both buttons and the AC line and have a relay left over.

I’d feel funny running AC that close to the lower button wires though (if cross those wires, it will certainly let the magic smoke out of your motherboard).
I don't get it.

HWe use an RTC room on existing PC, with an alert and PTT mode. so we have always on listen-audio. Its like a web-based walkie-talkie (remember Nextel?) It's rigged to our Mattermost too

Ours cost like $500 to build - this would cost us over $500 every two months at discount price.
You might also be able to use the "standard" radio kit metal boxes - tap some standoffs, carefully drill some holes for wires etc. Dunno which works out better for the world - ordering a pre-fab metal box that you have to do some work on (or perhaps use https://www.frontpanelexpress.com/ to get a customised enclosure), or printing something from plastic. Might depend on production volume, metal used etc.
They are all very low res. Not sure there is a networks out there producing a few hundred megapixels needed for a good large print.
Using Cloudflare DNS with AWS results in increased latency
Microcode is loaded when the OS starts though right? At the very least it's not persistent.
How long before someone (probably in Asia) decides that their IPv4 address is worth more than the few customers who get there on IPv4?
> the people who write the software are not fully aware of how it all works.

Is this much different from now? I have no idea how most of the libraries I use are implemented.
This is a great idea for a product. I have worked remotely for the past ten years and not having easy interactions with team members has always been a problem.

Lately, I've had a laptop in my office's cube with Skype and VNC set up so I can connect any time I want and leave myself virtually present for hours at a time. I like it. I'm sure that a dedicated product could offer more features and efficiencies than I have with my jury-rigged setup.

Best of luck to you.