skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow a 10 hour version...

Thanks for the recommendation - Ill check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYnA9wWFHLI

Downloading it with Youtube-DL - Sadly, I forgot my headphones at home and am about to board a plane...
I want to pay $20/month for something like highscalability.com
It hits 80% of the stories I cared about during the week and I get them in 30-40 minutes on a Friday. I don't think this type of service exists because it would have to intentionally limit the growth of the company. When someone asked for a daily update / hourly update / or news feed you would have to say no. And a competitor may emerge that makes more money and eventually tries to buy you.
By definition, the "web" is HTTP. Of course there were files hosted on servers prior to the WWW. Including direct predecessors such as, as you mention, Gopher. But they weren't the web.
I'm sure those things would help some people, but probably not as much as you would think. I always see "access to education" as if lack of good teachers is the main thing holding disadvantaged kids back and not their trainwreck of a family life where the single mom working 2 jobs and didn't graduate high school herself has no idea how to help her kids and lets them slip into truancy like she did.

Making the public school system take on all of the roles 2 parents used to take on is not sustainable. We need to fix the problem at a more fundamental level.
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I dunno seems like 90% of this is mostly caused by a need to reduce complexity. In my old job I basically talked to alot of startups about what they were building etc... Alot of teams get free aws credits and use lambda as their process so they can serve data for low to no traffic websites, save on a devops team to get things going. It's because the scope of things you might have to do is so small and the traffic served is also really small. So in the beginning you'd probably rock such a system. When you or if you ever scale out where you are dealing with multiple concurrent requests ( most things are not like they were in early 2000s server logic heavy requests). In fact we've moved to fat clients vs. the old paradigm of thing clients. Now caching layers ship entire heavy weight clients to an app and the server does more mundane things like handle database writes that are shipped off to probably another hosted solution. Additionally actions that require a db write are probably few and far between. Login/ if you're gdocs maybe a periodic save on 15second interval.

Again probably the focus should be on scale and scope. If things are easy water will flow to the path of least resistance. I've done all kinds of deployments over the years (private data center, vps, aws, gcp, etc... with all kinds of deploy management and configuration tools. Having a well maintained permissioned, monitored up time sync'd, has the right packages on the right machine, machine has a non trivial upfront cost. That if someone is going to give me 50-125k of AWS credits (as a startup) then why not. Alternatively if I have a low traffic website and want to dogfood building a product then why not especially if the use case for a db is maybe tracking payments ocassionally handling a login.

My two cents there.
Municipal broadband is an interesting idea but physical infrastructure inevitably needs maintenance and I'm not sure tax dollars should be used to maintain fiber optic lines to residences. Maybe governments can build the initial infrastructure which can then be leased out to ISPs who will also be responsible for maintaining it.
It's not ironic, such dystopia is particularly liked and promoted by capitalist scumbags, because it lets them justify exploitation, inequality, overwork, etc. But of course for any thinking person it's obvious that it's an awful awful idea, as if a kid raised by well educated parents who can therefore do really well in school deserves more, than a kid raised by uneducated parents who have no idea how to teach kids to do well in school.
Comcast's ahead of this in Illinois. They gave a significant discount for using their modem / router for "unlimited" internet. I'd rather not use their modem. I already gave my own, but it would cost about $500 more per year to use my own.
It's great for those engineers that they are so far up Maslow's hierarchy that they're willing to bring significant risk to their employers in the pursuit of self actualization. However, there are a lot of engineers in the world (outside SF and NYC) that are still concerned about lower levels like physiological and safety needs. I wonder if the world getting more accustomed to remote work will change the cost benefit analysis on hiring those engineers instead.
Well this is how ARM has always been though, you can license an ARM chip and produce your own. That's why you have ARM chips from different companies. The difference with Apple was they are a majority share holder so they probably were able to fully retain rights. Seeing how successful Apple has been with their own chips, I guess Microsoft's taken it as a green light. What's sad is Microsoft's been pushing towards ARM for what feels like forever but it hasn't been up to part with x86. If I can honestly buy a Surface Book with ARM and still get a beefy laptop for a fraction of the cost I will happily buy the most expensive model. I also kind of hope this inspires them to work on Windows Mobile again in the future. They just need it to not lag too far behind Windows 10's core, which I heard was an issue from Windows 7 Mobile to Windows 8 Mobile (there was 0 upgrade path / it was a mess to upgrade).
I've always equated "web" with HTTP, but is it correct to define it more broadly, inclusive of things like GOPHER? Basically anything with hypertext?
Your best bet is to run this in a VM somewhere in the cloud. Each stream is going to consume bandwidth, and you'll quickly run out if you do this at home.

About 10 years ago, I did a live stream to about 200 people, streamed up via a cellphone link (it was new stuff back then), then to a Windows Server instance on Amazon ECS, and out to all the users.

It seem you should be able to handle similar numbers these days.
Someone must have done a cabbie vs. satnav challenge surely?

Does Google definitely not account for future events? If I plan a journey for London Marathon day, say, does it not even warn me of delays?

Does it take in warnings of engineering works (eg for rail travel)?
Nice work. V is coming along nicely. How would you say the autofree engine works, is it RAII?
Reputable sources have widely reported that North Korean men on average measure several inches shorter than South Koreans, and many defectors come across the border with signs of malnutrition and intestinal parasites.
We nearly got a grid after the great fire in 1666. Sir Christopher Wren had a plan[1]. In any case, the fire caused a major redesign, so not quite medieval, but not far off.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/magazine-3...
Canada is even more puzzling. You can cross the border from Vancouver to Seattle and triple your salary, pay less in income taxes, and live in a city with less rent.

All over less than 100 miles.
In what world is this or any salary increase worth (constantly) working at night? Also if you work for a foreign company there are other things to consider in Germany.. health insurance will be different, taxes will be even more complicated..
Examining it critically, we see (in addition to it clearly referring to the northern border) a couple of claims that suggest actual observation: people "lying in the sun near the river in the spring awaiting the return of energy", and "women would reportedly illegally cross the river to prostitute themselves in China before the winter to obtain rice to survive." The river might be the Yalu or Tumen, and if the latter occurred, the women could quite plausibly be sources of additional information.

So yes, it is anecdotal evidence, but not, IMHO, entirely implausible at that.

> Did he conduct a census of North Korean villages beyond the border...

Are you consistently as skeptical as you are in this case? For example, have you personally verified that the earth is round (or flat, according to what you believe it to be?)
As a Russian software developer, these articles are just sad. US literally develops its own software and hardware.

If we can exploit it, it means the systems are badly designed, plain and simple.

In other words, a well-designed system should not permit unauthorized access.

It's not the same as breaking into the house because you can - well-made software and security-in-depth policies make it impossible to enter. And if the software is not well made, it can fail at critical stages, intentionally and unintentionally, it can and will be exploited, not just by us, but by anyone.

Case in point: Boeing 747 max software. I would rather have hackers show that the system is crap, than to have it fail by itself.

So in other words, Russian hackers are uncovering incompetences (or negligence) of US developers. Which is fair game, pushes technology forward IMO.

And let's not forget, that security is one of those "hygienic" factors, rather than a motivational factor.

In other words, better security doesn't increase amount of users, doesn't make software ship faster, doesn't raise user satisfaction, until the disaster strikes.

So it just exposes natural tendency for people to take the path of least resistance + asymmetry of information (principal agent theory), since the software looks ready on the surface, but inside of it is a rotten mess.

In other words, guys, if we can get into your government systems, you have bigger structural problems. It's only a symptom. Blame government servants, not us.

The only hacking that I'd consider to be fully non-ethical is phishing, since it involves deception, than exploitation of the algorithms. But seriously, gov't employees are so stupid to click on a phishing link? What does it say about the rest of their abilities?
Go freelance is my answer to stagnant European salaries. I make around double what I’d make as perm doing the same jobs, with long term contracts that usually last about as long as I’d stay in a perm position anyway. (I’m in the Netherlands but I think it’s pretty comparable)
But how does he do it?
Remote work is a good bet. Especially Rails programmers can fetch quite a bit.
Vincent Woo solving AOC 20
> It seems unbelievable that there could be such a massive difference in bugs just based on different hardware.

Most of the bugs I've seen recorded can basically come down to failed animation triggers, or animation interacting poorly with physics, or behaviour trees breaking on animation cues.

Animation isn't just character posing, it will be many scripted behaviours.

And that animation logic? Usually it's quite sensitive to timing issues and race conditions in complex, many-agent interactions.

That makes it quite sensitive to cpu differences.
That's wild... As much as I love to complain about the bay area, being able to go upwards of $500k for an individual contributor keeps me here. Even taking into account of increased medical costs and crappy public transport, still very much worth it. Don't think there's any place it on Earth that pays this much
I don't know enough to decide with certainty if the post in question is right, but it definitely seems earnest. I believe the poster sincerely holds those beliefs.
That sounds low. Booking.com can do ~€150k TC for senior engineers, and several finance places including optiver will do >€200k
High taxes, but on the other hand you receive: a top-notch public healthcare, arguably one of the best standards of living in the world (good ratio of earnings vs. expenses, strong labor law, relatively affordable rental prices).
> Having been in a sector of fintech that many sex workers used, I can say with confidence that the majority of the women within were single moms who simply couldn't or didn't have access to the social net to feed their children and aren't doing it because they want to.

This is crazily important.

However ... it still doesn't get to the question of why anyone would consider being on OnlyFans (I'm not discussing in-person sex work) to be more problematic than having to do some other sort of low-paid, low-status, boring, dead-end, exploitative job (and remember, OnlyFans is a classic long-tail situation: for most people on it, it is low paid).

The big picture is that we live in a society which despite occasional flowery words from a senator here and there does not actually value and care for all of its members. We continuously and repeatedly place our neighbors, family, friends, colleagues in situations where in order to survive they have to take options they do not really want to take.

We could take much better care of each other. We could make the bad options much better. We could do both.
Imagination is making you unhappy
Just adding some numbers for reference: I'm a Swedish developer, senior, and with over 5 years logged with my current employer. I earn €52000 per year before taxes, netting €3200 per month after all taxes are paid.
Additionally C# and Java have been getting better AOT compilation story, value types support and native memory handling, so metaprogramming is the last big feature standing.

Which is quite unfortunate, as the language is quite appealing and the community always has interesting discussions.
Yikes... thanks for the update.
I don't know about Berlin, but outside of finance in CH, basically you need to look for US companies to have that kind of money in Europe.

You have Yelp in Hamburg, Uber in Amsterdam, Datadog in Paris etc. which are paying this kind of money to experienced developers (Uber in particular pays well north of 100k to experienced backenders).
Waze does a much better job of accounting for traffic than cabbies. It's true that sometimes cabbies will drop you off at a better door - is that worth 30 pounds?
Houthis (backed by Iran) control it. Good luck.
I answered the author's question and provided a path. May not be the only path. Whether they want to do it is their decision.

We highly encourage relocating to Canada so the engineer doesn't have to work at night and we take care of immigration. But staying in Berlin is possible.
But... why are you excluding the top 5% of companies? That seems like it's precisely the answer to this question, there are several large companies with engineers in Berlin that pay in this range. levels.fyi shows numerous data points of L5 engineers at Amazon's Berlin office getting
~€110,000 for example.
I’m a senior engineer at a large Berlin company and I make 82k. We have a program to share salaries between employees internally, based on that and conversations with my lead I understand that I’m not at the top of the salary band. You can probably make 90k before you’d need a promotion to principal engineer or switch to management.

Our company is also not aiming to pay above average salaries, as explained company wide by people on a VP-level.

Context: 4 years of work experience.
Unfortunately it may be later than sooner. So far Trump is downplaying the severity of the hack and implying China was behind the attack instead of Russia via a tweet. The White House hasn't even released a statement yet and so far refuses to acknowledge Russia was behind the attack.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/13403336186910023...

>The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control. Russia, Russia, Russia is the priority chant when anything happens because Lamestream is, for mostly financial reasons, petrified of....

>....discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!). There could also have been a hit on our ridiculous voting machines during the election, which is now obvious that I won big, making it an even more corrupted embarrassment for the USA.
Whenever I see people defending the game it’s basically like “I’ve got x hours in and I’m having a blast” and they seem to ignore or not care how obvious it is that huge swathes of the game were clearly cut or left unfinished. The story particularly has signs of some very last minute changes.
So an entire blog post on a game he hasn't tried yet? That's in the spirit of cooking blog posts where the author has cooked the dish once.

I'm reminded of most proposals to defang Lisp of its parentheses.
Nope, you mix that up with WWW.

I browsed the web before CERN published their HTTP server and clients. E.g. the newsgroups were called Internet long before. The Web was the abbrevation of Internet.

WWW was the multimedia enriched variant of the web, with a XML format and a state-less server. State-less on purpose, in constrast to the existing stateful servers those days, with proper login and the server keeping each clients state. This didn't scale, so the worse and simplier WWW technology succeeded. Cookies had to be invented to catch up.
How much of the Canadian salary is taken in taxes?
Several finance companies will pay on the scale of £400k TC for very strong engineers in London
Or alternatively, the piece doesn't move if the move turns out to be illegal? Would have to try both options to see which works better
Why would they want you to pay less to use hardware they provide?

Is it to force you to provide an Xfinity hotspot?
Creating a React component library using Storybook 6
Non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders have a Māori proto-lexicon
It's not just software developers, generally people don't make much more or much less money than one another. There are exceptions of course but in general the low level job earns you the min wage and as your career improves you earn 1.2X, 1.5X, 2X, 3X and if you are a big deal you may earn 4X-5X and that's it as employee.

It's not even about the taxes and I don't think it's about the supply and demand too. In Europe, including the UK, there are not many high growth VC funded companies, so most companies operate on thin margins and there's not much room to wiggle.

That said, even 200GBP/EUR increase on your salary usually goes long way.
You have completely missed the mark and your comparison to drugs just shows how far off base you are. Largely people that are anti-drug have such a stance because of how addiction especially to "harder" drugs can completely consume and ruin people's lives. In the larger societal context addiction leads often to increased violence and increased crime as someone who is addicted and employable will do basically anything to get their next fix. In large part society sees the addict as a victim moreso than anything else.
Lol worth 100k?
There are no diagnostics you can perform from the web interface. You can't tell how the VLANs are configured on the other side of the network. There is nothing of value on the web interface. The only times I have looked at the web interface was during initial evaluation of the platform -- everything that matters is on the OLT and is not accessible from the ONU.

By break it, I mean that people who poke around at the ONU are likely to break something on the fibre side while satisfying their curiosity. Every time you pull the connector out you run the risk of getting dirt on the fibre, and if you're $joerandomenduser you're probably not going to clean it. Or you won't push the connector all the way in, or... there are more ways for you to break things than fix them when you don't know what you're doing. Please don't touch the fibre, as I don't want to have to charge you for a $200+ truck roll caused by your cluelessness. And yes, a truck roll really does cost more than $200 when all the travel time, fuel, tools and equipment costs are accounted for.
Also reflects my experience. There are big companies in Germany where you can basically stay forever and auto-progress into the ~100k range even as a "plain" software engineer. However while still holding this title you will have more tasks that require leadership.
I know it’s not meant to be taken 100% literally, but it was as big an eye opener for me as watching Office Space the first time.
Can second this. Bank or fintech in London and a senior dev can do 100k+.
look like, you get an inspiration from https://tinyprojects.dev/guides/tiny_website

How do you plan dealing with charge-backs?, and how often do users get paid after selling product?
Hate this tiresome retreading like some literary diarrhoea. Some late middled aged white man quoting some dead white men back when white men held all the aces through physical means. The future is women, if we are to exist beyond 2100.
At least, after referencing a load of men, the living middle aged man suggests a woman at the end.

Tiresomely ignorant.
Starting Sunday, Cable companies can increase your main charge or institute some other new fee that doesn't fall under this exact stipulation.
They have. Just search on YouTube. The ones I could quickly find were about 10 years old unfortunately and not exactly extensive experiments.
I would guess that GP doesn't feel qualified... Earning a shitload of money once you've joined FAANG is the easy part, hard part is getting hired by FAANG in the first place.
Third party vpns like nord or express vpn or whatever are trivial to install.

I’m not commenting on whether they are a good idea to use, but they are easy.
I suppose that people really value being in Canada.
@dang Someone flagged my comments. I think they were very normal, about the value of a MacBook air M1 compared to buying parts and assembling a PC, but perhaps they were against the rules.
Legitimate question: are the differences in standard of living something you could buy somewhere else if you had 2x or 3x the total income? Or is it more intangible?
Employers pay half of social security, health insurance and stuff like that on top of the salary. The costs for a company to hire one employee for 60k gross is about 75k. US dollar does not equal Euro. 75k Euro is currently around 92k USD. The difference is not that big.
What is amazing with black cabs in London is their ability to find ways other than the normal one to get you where you need to be. This comes with experience from times where Google Maps wasn't so ubiquitous, and that insane Knowledge test.

However, everything else I dislike with black cabs. I mostly use Uber and when the main route is problematic, the driver focuses on his phone more than on the road, and that's alright. At least they are polite and don't try to rip me off like too many black cabs tried to.
I've been telling friends that it plays more like Saints Row than GTA, and it's certainly nothing like Pillars of Eternity.
"We all know about the big meteor showers such as the Geminids and Perseids"

Nods sagely
I like to rephrase questions and suppositions like this using E-Prime. For me it helps reveal the underlying dynamic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
There's another angle we're not discussing too.

Serverless functions are usually free. This is a huge boon for learning: I'm a college student with limited resources, and even spinning up a $5/mo VPS takes some thought and budgeting.

I learned web dev with free web hosts & free VPS services back when I was 13-15. Further democratization will only help newer generations explore & tinker with confidence (scale-wise and tech wise).