skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say even with undercutting, Google is still likely to significantly pay more than the greater majority of companies out there, especially outside the tech sector.

I work as a senior SWE equivalent at a non-tech company. Pretty much any mid tier tech company is likely to pay me significantly more without any negotiating at all. Junior engineers at the top tier companies probably make close to what I make as a senior (if not more).
What are you spending your company's personal development budget on this year?
Curious what everyone else is planning on learning this year.
Examples of Substack being used for spam links
There's a lot of soft-ish or meta skills that don't get taught, mainly because most orgs don't place much value on them (as you have noticed), but also because it's not a well-studied field. I'm different enough from those I work with at the day job that I don't feel a one size fits all approach will work for everyone. I don't want to be a square peg shoved into a round hole.

I do take a very eclectic approach to productivity systems, and tend to pick what works for me while leaving behind anything I consider fluff. I've built almost, but not quite, TDD teams this way (organically from the ground up), and it helps us stay lean and agile.
I just ran Kerbal Space Program on the Air, in addition to being smooth and having no discernible lag. Htop says it's only using half of one core.. and the laptop isn't even heating up.

This is the dream laptop. It's the one product that is 5 years ahead of everyone else, like the iPhone 4.
Yeah, there have been a few interesting cases of soccer players betting on their own transfer results (I.e betting that they will be sold to a specific club), which of course they would have inside information on

Interestingly, it seems players are often wrong

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/02/daniel-stur...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/3506009/england-star-bet-own-...
i wonder will italians get stabbed and have their grandparents burned and beaten and have their restaurants trashed and have italianflu enter the lexicon and glass italy become a casual joke

wait a minute no one even knows any of this happened to asian americans? weird
> In the mountain village where my uncle and father were born, a single deed could mark or stain your family’s reputation for generations, placing you in a hierarchy that, if only enforced by gossip or shame, might still decide the fate of your progeny. I am not sure that’s still true, but my father held on to that notion until his death, in part because it was taught to him by his father, who had learned it from his father. This is why they had to leave the ancestral village and move to the capital, my father would say. Though neither he nor his siblings had committed shameful acts, they longed to start over in a new place where the generational burden was less weighty.

I’ve often reflected on this reality that seems to have been lost for most of humanity. At least urban dwelling folks, although I’m sure it persists in a lot of rural areas. The desire, need, instinct to be in the “in group”, not excluded was a matter of life and death for all of humanities existence. Bullying, cliques, and tribes (political parties, sports fans, programming language zealots, ...) make more sense when viewed from that angle (imo) and not likely something we’ll easily overcome.
In an old house there is always listening,
and more is heard than is spoken.
And what is spoken remains in the room,
waiting for the future to hear it.
And whatever happened
begins in in the past,
and presses hard on the future.

The agony in the curtained bedroom, whether of birth or of dying, gathers into itself all the voices of the past, and projects them into the future.
Extractive is more about the relationship than money.

It's extractive because the service gains power by becoming the platform. Users go to the app to view food items and order. The app becomes the experience of the restaurant. The service also becomes a major centralized competitor to everyone in the region. How are you going to compete with a service which is fighting a war of attrition backed by millions from Softbank? Rather than many restaurants having delivery drivers, all the drivers then become gig workers. And perhaps this is just the beginning. Where else might this service expand once it has a solid logistics platform in your area?

I don't have to think much about winner take all in the social media space. Services like Door Dash, Grab, Uber, etc are taking winner takes all economics to your home town. They have the power to become transformative and we're placing a lot of trust in them to do things right. And they're doing this with questionable transparency, as the article pointed out. How do we know this isn't some massive scam which threatens to upend communities by imploding after they have transformed the way we work and our daily habits?

It's too much power IMO.
Interesting. Thanks for linking this.
I think DDG is mostly fine. It does sometimes give results for the wrong location or older results, so if you want specific new information for your location you should use Google (easy enough, just use !g in the query and it sends you to Google).
I guess it depends on how many bucks you have
I've been working on remote teams for almost 20 years. The key to success is overcommunicating.

In other words--don't assume people have full context or share assumptions. Write emails that lay out assumptions explicitly and detail problems completely. As a manager I sometimes feel like a Habsburg bureaucrat buried in the Chancery offices sending painstaking messages to a far flung empire. Come to think of it, remote work is not that different.
I used to be in a trio of "hackers" as a kid. We were the ones who were always learning new stuff about programming. We picked up javascript before anyone else in our community at an early age, and we also explored Digit magazine CDs and discovered Ubuntu earlier. This was a time when most people didn't even have an internet connection (oddly me included)
The two others who were with me were better at it than I was. One is at Broadcom, if you have a Samsung phone, your Bluetooth works because of her. Quite literally. She is the best at the drivers.
The other is in some silo at IBM. He's been there forever, and he says he's found his peace there.

These two wrote their own music player in VB during high school, called it FireAMP. They used to do things that I couldn't understand. Right now, neither of them is even writing a blog. They're in their silos and I'm praying someone gets them out and helps them share their knowledge with the world.

They're the best programmers I know, and I've been at several conferences and spoken at a few. I wish they'd not sunk into their corporate holes so hard.
Late 2020 Mac Mini: Apple Silicon M1, Thunderbolt 4, USB4, PCIe 4.0
From which we conclude that they are gullible idiots. They certified it on the condition that there will be an audit. There's not going to be audit if county has certified already. This does not change my point. With 70% of precincts showing unexplained anomalies, there are serious questions about fairness of this election.

Here's why it was certified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6BFYOuCY_c. Race card, fire and brimstone, you're going to hell, he threw at them everything he had without disputing any of the facts. They folded like cheap suits.
Trump fires Christopher Krebs of US cybersecurity agency
It's insane, I've been playing games where on the previous Macs it would go full jet engine, but now it doesn't even heat up.
To be honest, this fetishization of writing is very Anglo-centric. I don't think that people say this for example in Germany.
An inside look at the dangerous tactics by India's Edtech unicorn
One thing to note is that the JHL8040R is a TB retainer not a controller. The difference is a controller “speaks” the TB protocol and exposes USB, PCIe, and DP signals to the (typically) PCH and/or Intel CPU. They’re typically 10-20W and, from personal experience, absolute shit to work with (buggy firmware).

A retimer is a < 1W part that just strengthens the TB signal coming from the outside world and cleans it up so the controller (integrated in the M1 here presumably) does not have to deal with a weak or noisy signal.

Important to note that Intel plans to integrate a TB4 controller in their future (mobile?) processors but seems like Apple beat them to it. Also it’s unclear if M1’s integrated TB controller is TB3 or TB4 (you can have a TB4 retimer drive only TB3 signals).
40 millisecond bug
You might be putting words in my mouth. What I am advocating for is not merely “access”, I’m literally advocating for giving money to people that are unable to afford healthcare. That’s effectively what SNAP is.

No doublespeak vagaries here.
> Here’s how I would design it.

The harder question is "who and why is going to pay for development?"

Open source means you can't sell ads, any sane person would search for a fork without ads.
You can fix Error 12 by using an eGPU loader in UEFI (you can just put it on a USB drive). The problem is that Windows sets the PCIe address space wrong and then it can't properly talk to the GPU anymore. It happened during one of those large Windows feature updates last year. You can find setup and documentation on egpu.io, goalque is the author. (it's called something like automate-eGPU EFI)
Thanks for the great links / resources. Those machines look insanely complicated. I can just imagine how they get shipped to Taiwan and elsewhere (they apparently cost $120M each in 2010 [1]).

A bit offtopic but I've always found it amusing that a form of lithography, of all things, is fundamentally powering our tech revolution for decades. Especially after a girl I knew learned lithography in an art class, watching her do it in a primitive form, which inspired me to read about it's history in art and professional uses (signage, etc).

That combined with vacuum tubes (which also rank high up there in the revolution thing) are the two things I one day wish to learn how they really work. Not just surface level nodding along.

[1] https://www.eetimes.com/euv-tool-costs-hit-120-million/
no charger at school but you're expected to use a computer to learn..

That's kind of weird.
Yup, and a strong analogous policy in healthcare would be for US government to spend billions of dollars subsidizing medical education and hospital construction.

It's also not the same as price controls.
Never had this issue, but then again granted I stay with the nicer hotels typically part of a western chain.
> Slack needs a mode that debounces messages so they're delivered en masse once per hour unless a box is checked that the message is urgent.

This isn't Slack's fault or a software issue, it's the cultural expectation that once you receive a message you must reply immediately. Just don't do this. Same as if someone texts you - it's up to you when to reply. Set the expectation that you'll reply when you get around to it.
How is this any different from using a typical static site generator and posting links to your blog to your preferred social outlet? Local setup for a static site repo is trivial if you use an existing repo as a starting point.

Most static site gen templates include RSS feeds (removing the need for the "built-in newsletter") and are light enough to run circles around AMP pages. Given the easy setup, all that's left is deployment: a problem with a million simple solutions.

I notice this is targeted at developers. What does this offer for a developer capable of posting to HN, Reddit, the Fediverse, etc.; running `make` to generate their blog; and combining `git push` with their preferred deployment solution (rsync in CI/CD, Netlify, GitHub Pages)?

We already have the ability to blog in markdown on our own domain, with a copy of the content in a git repo. Am I missing anything?
The scenario in which both China and the US are trying to minimize escalation to avoid all out nuclear war while still countering some regional moves or proxy wars.

US wargaming had repeatedly found that escalation to nuclear exchanges is all but a given if serious attempts are made by either side to destroy naval and air base capability, and it's safe to assume their PLA counterparts reached similar conclusions.

As an example, in a Chinese move against Taiwan or Japan, anything that crossed into attack range would get destroyed, but there would be no counter-attacks against Chinese facilities and bases. Does that play out in reality? Let's hope we don't find out.
I really wish Google would prioritize English results for English searches consistently. I'm living in Japan as a native English speaker, and have my OS, browser and logged in Google account all configured for English only. Despite that, Google search results always prioritize Japanese language content. Every now and then (though not consistently) it gives me a yellow popup asking if I'd like English results instead, which is a bit disappointing given they already have all the information they should need to make a judgement call about that. Maybe the individual experience here depends on the languages and regions involved.
And which position of the people is that? The half that wants less censorship or the half that wants more?
FDA authorizes first Covid-19 test for self-testing at home
I got tired of forgetting so many things, so I started keeping a diary.

So far have not yet gone back and read it though, so I don't know if it's actually going to turn out to be valuable.
Oh wait I didn't out across what I wanted. I meant how do I do a simple "attack" on a http website that's at a mall as OP said. I know how to use certbot for the certificates, (thank you Digital Ocean docs).

I was wondering. If I run a simple http page on my home network, how can I, from another device, change it or make another client get a modified page with the same address?
What's wrong with wind farms? They literally take no land, you can graze cattle / farm right under them.
Yep, oddly enough they made the game engine themselves like they did with almost all of their other games; apparently this time they didn't make it cross-platform.

Pretty strange considering the other (arguably more complicated) engines were supported from day 1, even their unreleased FPS (Ghost?) was going to be launched like that.
Interesting. What made you pick Notion instead of a free WP site with default everything?
This is not working for me.
I wonder what is going on at Intel. A resurgent AMD has more or less surpassed them in COU offerings already, and now so has Apple. They have fallen so far. Can it just be institutional complacency? I don’t get it.
Async audio messages seems like it would cut down on the meetings? Something like Yac?

https://www.yac.com/

* Not a customer, investor, or the janitor. Just looks like a good solution to a wall of meetings.
UCS-2, actually, but for practical purposes, everyone treats them as UTF-16 as long as they are also valid UTF-16.
This is how it is at my company (100% remote).

Having Zoom on stand-by is key for us. Anytime things get complicated, we just hop on a Zoom call.

All of us can communicated well in writing, but I don't know of anyone on my team who prefers it. For me, in particular, I'm an incredibly slow writer, so it's just painful to write too much.
IIRC it was't purely a post-release-port, they did have parallel development tracks before anything was released and for some titles they didn't want to risk the upfront cost for the relatively small percentage right away.
AFAIK during Plato's life no more than about 40 thousands citizen lived in Athens (along with up to ~3 times more non-citizens). Plato's Republic was about politics in such a city-state, never about a bigger human group (for example one of our current huge nations).
Twice a year an active ICBM is picked at random from the mid-west, the nuclear warhead is removed, and the rocket is taken to VAFB where it is launched at Kwaj. The entire purpose of this very common event is to make sure that ICBM's work as expected. I live in the area and am woken up by these tests. If you live on the West Coast, you can see them. You can also Youtube them (VAFB missle test).
It sounds like the word you’re looking for is ‘pedantic’.
My guess is "I use Notion for a lot of stuff"
“Propaganda is communication that is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.”

Social Media literally turns every important, nuanced discussion into propaganda. Until we all realize that and decide to collectively reject it at an ideological level, it’s gonna be a rough road.
of course, but debugging ansible YAML is exceptionally hard on account of the difficulty of decoding its quasi-declarative, quasi-imperative nature, the difficulty of knowing what the variables to be interpolated are (they could have been changed by other playbooks!), etc. You'll want at the very least a sane set of debug tools to figure things out when they go wrong.

The other alternative is to just give up and rewrite the ansible script, which has been what I had to do on several occasions.
You are right. Honestly, it makes me severely question the judgment of the leadership. I can just imagine the kind of difficult tech personality heading such an operation that refuses to change the name. All of the replies disagreeing with you are filed in my "engineers aren't socially normal" mental folder.
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You just gave a whole bunch of examples of various courts caring, but disagreeing.

And SCOTUS declining a case doesn't mean they don't care either, their decision not to accept the case is a choice in and of itself and a reading of the law.

More so than "not caring", IMHO, what you are describing is disagreement.

Now, you may disagree with what I just said, but that doesn't mean that either of us don't care ; ).
How DiviPay utilises Sentry Performance
Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs. Placebo on Hospital Length of Stay
I think there’s something different about real time conversation (whether typed or spoken) for certain problems, especially ones that just need to be solved ASAP with a good enough solution.

Too much overhead or something with asynchronous communications, or having to “spin” up your thoughts regarding the issue every time feels taxing. As opposed to a quick back and forth chit chat that addresses any concerns that come to mind and then closing that task out.
You sure about that origin? I checked and the origin of the word seems to come from the word for earth.
The other thing working remote forces me to do is to actually think before I assign a task to someone or ask a question.

It's a lot easier to casually interrupt someone with half a thought than to write a poorly thought out email.
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I fear that is all pretty much true. I suspect a downside of the mass market game business becoming so generalised and generic. Business goes where the money is, and apparently it's not in the niches of old (which is what PC gaming was tbh - we thought it was big but it was nothing compared to where we are now)
> The east coast had a very high lethal rate while California / Oregan didn't.

It's been talked about, and loosely assigned to:

- people in NY being indoors more, with HVAC circulating virus droplets

- entombing patients in ventilators for a month, killing them

- SF and LA getting 50,000 airline passengers from China per week, thus contributing to herd immunity.
Apple deprecated direct access to system-provided interpreter installations, which is a good thing. Interpreter support was not and will not be a problem, the implication of the deprecation is you should install your own copy of those interpreters instead.
Disaggregation and Smarter Chips Shift Liability for Security
It is really only charge my AirPods Pro every week or so. I much prefer having a bulkier case with battery I can forget about to a smaller case but more frequent need for charging.

It’s actually revolutionary for how I use a computing product. If i had to charge them everyday I assume they’d be dead 1/2 the time because it’s annoying to have yet another thing to plug in.
I had one and I loved it as well.

> The nail in the coffin was Google refusing to write a Youtube app for Windows Phone and THEN blocking the app that MS wrote themselves.
There were at least 2 great third party youtube apps and youtube worked well in the browser as well. Including background play support which seems not to work on other platforms easily.
Lol yeah I just didn't feel like putting in the time to set anything else up.
> The government can throw you in jail, seize your assets, raise your taxes; AT&T can't

The irony being that, if there wasn't a government (of the people) enforcing law, then, AT&T would have zero issues/problems with doing any of those things.

I'm not saying our government works great. I'm just saying it's, flawed as it is, run by the people. While a company is not.
Replaced by drones being launched from cruisers and destroyers? Might as well.
that repo is 13% C according to github though?
This is a strange comment.

>this fetishization

What part of Mr Tien's post implies that he fetishizes writing? I read it twice, the logic behind prioritizing writing skills in a remote-first world is reasonable. Why is it suddenly a fetish?

>I don't think that people say this for example in Germany.

What experience are you drawing this statement from? Are you saying people in Germany don't prioritize good writing skills wrt remote candidates?
>Krebs had put out a statement concerning the election

>The statement read, in part, "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

>Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said in an emailed statement that Krebs' firing "is a gut punch to our democracy."

For those keeping score, 11 months ago, Amy was calling Dominion voting machines a hot mess, along with Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren, and others.

https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/H.I.G.%20McCarth...
Personally I don't trust either which is why I think it's important to have a democratic government, on the federal level, with robust consumer-protection laws, which is progressive, and ideally where it's easy for everyone to vote - voting holiday, etc.
I can't speak for the other wars he's trying to withdraw from, but the outgoing Syrian envoy lied about the number of troops remaining in Syria. Initially Trump wanted to withdraw entirely, but they recommended keeping 200 soldiers there to avoid that power vacuum you're talking about. Then they proceeded to lie about it.

Which will be very convenient for the upcoming conflict in Syria once Biden gets into office!

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-en...
"Come on Richard. Yin and Yang? Pretty sure it's Ying and Yang." - Ron LaFlamme
Being the “best” programmer isn’t going to get you talked about at the bar
Do we already know if it has native AV1 decoding capabilities?