skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most hunting species are only active a few hours, because most prey species are only active a few hours a day, because there isn't exactly an excess of food or personal security in nature.

Gathering also doesn't make sense as a full time occupation, as most plant species only fruit / produce edibles infrequently, and even then you are competing with wild animals (birds eat far more from the local wild raspberry plants than I do, even when i think to try picking some).

Farmers, conversely, often work from before sunup to after sunset. Whether it is sowing, harvesting, animal husbandry, or maintenance of buildings, fences, equipment, there is no shortage to be done.

All this is to say, hunter / gatherers didn't have some secret to a life of leisure, they minimized energy output to deal with food insecurity and general difficulty actually hunting amd gathering.
Explaining Proof of Work in Simple Terms
LinkedIn turned to real-time feedback for developer tooling
Even 25 years later I see Seinfeld is on 11 times tomorrow with my cable package.
That's what gl.inet is (weird name though).
Horcrux Encrypted Messaging combines multiple messaging options to protect you from all sides.

https://horcruxencryptedmessaging.jperla.com/
Perhaps Parler did not realize that being aligned with conservatism was grounds for deplatforming. I am sure they will learn as will the whole world.
Obsidian added Roam style block references a while ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=oqx2O0aXZjQ
Yes! In uni I had this idea for a program that would triangulate where lightning struck by having multiple computers across campus listening for thunder, then measuring the difference in arrival times of the thunder. Like GPS in reverse.

Soon I realized I’d need the computers’ clocks to be as in-sync as possible, which in turn requires one-way latency calculations. I spent an hour diagramming with pencil and paper until I convinced myself it was mathematically impossible or I wasn’t clever enough to find the solution.

Looking back, I was more worried than I should’ve been about this (wired latencies are usually far less than 5ms, which for sound is ~1.5m) and less worried than I should’ve been about the fact that thunder isn’t anything close to a point source of sound.
> I calculated moving to Europe as a SWE would lead to a drastic lifestyle change for me—even with retirement, healthcare and children's education considered (with 2 children, Europe wins at 3 hands down).

Curious - Can you explain your calculations and did they include a difference between price vs value?
It's probably better to be a publicly traded REIT, which is more diversified, or better yet VNQ, a Vanguard REIT ETF with an annual expense ratio of 0.12%.
They're only advertising to one peer. It's possible they have other peering arrangements in place they're not advertising to. Or maybe they're single homed. They also only have a single IPv4 /24 from ARIN. No IPv6. Not terribly robust or impressive.

I've never used Gab or looked at their infrastructure before. A quick look shows they're behind Cloudflare. No clue where they're actually hosted or what the infra looks like but I wouldn't be surprised if they just snatched up this /24 "because they could" and are just sitting on it.

I doubt this is where their backend actually is. Single homed isn't a great idea in the first place and if HE pulls the plug they're lights out until they can get new peering arrangements in place - which usually isn't a quick process in the best of times.
This is the exact reason working on video game mods stopped being fun for me
There Google explicitly said that they were recording calls and that the calls would be used for service improvements. Maybe there would be trouble if the recordings were sold (although the recordings are Google's property), but training neural nets like Google is presumably doing falls within service improvement.
According to their site, they claim that you'll "buy and sell real estate with as little as $5 per share. Few questions come to my mind:
1. How do they make money on this?
2. How are they able to break shares of houses and make them so cheap?
Overall, super interesting. If they claim they are doing this and they do it, has great potential actually.
Taking a $200k pay cut to get a couple weeks of extra vacation, government healthcare (which is only a marginal upgrade if you already have high quality private insurance) and better job security seems like a raw deal to me.
There are parts of the OTP that really struggle with erlang's "purity". The best example I can give is the tftp module, which I wanted to use to do pxe booting. After about 2 days of trying to track the spaghetti callbacks back and forth between the tftp, tftp_engine, tftp_lib, and the callback module to fix a bug and commit a change to OTP, I gave up and wrote my own TFTP module in Elixir. With a very conservative amount of `use` macros, to help organize calls it came out beautifully: https://hexdocs.pm/trivial/Trivial.html

My point being, is that sometimes some patterns (in the case of tftp, a really awkward java-esque factory pattern) do not do so well in erlang's pure functional system and if you instead pass behaviours with `use` you can do much better and have saner code.
> all the protests becoming violent is less fine

Wich all protests are you referring to? IIRC most Trump rallies were overwhelmingly peaceful until now...
> This whole report makes me question the sanity of everyone involved.

It's very unlikely that a highly trained professional military pilot, which operates a incredibly sophisticated machine costing millions of dollars, suffers from mental issues.
Cloudflare maybe (although they did ban a few websites for wrongthink in the past) but domains can be cancelled more easily and even censored by governments (requiring ISPs to do DNS blacklists; that’s how France censors various websites).
If I recall, that wasn't the DB of Parler, but of their wordpress blog.

It's still sloppy, but it's not on the same level.
For those interested, first-hand accounts from the survivors as collected in “The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale”, and they are gripping. Edited by the same author as above.
Warning, this post is a bit cynical. Okay, it is a LOT cynical. Sorry.

I suppose this is obvious but the traditional way of increasing prices is to lower the supply. If you want SWE's to get more money, first pass a rule that a SWE has to have some EU certification, and make the certification something reasonably expensive and not easy to get, say a certificate than can only be granted by accredited authorities after some number of years of study/testing/work.

Back in the day that was the role of guilds. They trained and tested individuals and at some point granted and individual "master" status. Consumers paid a premium for goods and services provided by a "master <xxx>."

These days, 6 weeks of "coding boot camp" or maybe spending your days hanging out on mailing lists and watching youtube videos can give you the illusion of being a "SWE." I say it is an "illusion" because while a person doing this can write code it doesn't really mean they can write code that will be durable. Much like someone who considers themself to be an automotive engineer because they grew up doing their own car maintenance.

That said, there are a LOT of programming jobs for which someone who learned coding casually is perfectly appropriate. Just as there are jobs where such people would be completely inappropriate. Unfortunately we call both sets of people "SWEs" when the job requirements are quite different.

An interesting exercise would be to survey jobs and salaries for software engineers an see if you could correlate salary with job responsibility. For example, does a web site "front end" engineer make more or less than a "operations/infrastructure" engineer? Does an engineer writing embedded software for modem chips in phones make more or less than an engineer writing embedded software for a toy. Do engineers writing software for vehicle control systems make more or less than software engineers writing drivers for USB peripherals?

My point here is that because software is eating the world "SWE" has grown as a category to span jobs that are trivial and those that require years of study and experience to do.

I would not be surprised at all if the "simple" jobs were much more prevalent than the "hard" jobs and so your dataset's salary numbers would be more interesting to look at as percentiles rather than as an overall average.
This sounds like double speak. Can you elaborate?
obedience is not the same as respect. a child who is merely obedient will only follow the rules when there is a plausible means of enforcement.
This is an interesting idea. So many of the problems with American politics seem rooted in the Presidency, either its powers or the politics and system of election, etc.

So why do we need a President? Other than "Because the Constitution says," why not a Prime Minster, or no one at all?
I think what parent meant was not to say "arrive at this location at this time and do this criminal thing", but I could be reading it wrong.
How? (Not a trolling question)

Edit for clarity: How did the president give marching orders?
There are few growth stocks, so I'd expect compensation figures are not strongly skewed by stock bonuses, and are a function of market and fiscal environments much more than profit. When they are raking it in, it will be mostly going to US investors' pockets via buybacks.

Mind you, there are exceptions. The CEO of a certain hotel bookings company makes €17M/year. Technically an american company though.
Or, more charitably: your stance on information and freedom simply isn’t absolutist.
> If hypothetically every engineer at Apple hired in 2017 got $100k/yr

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Apple&track=Software%20Engin...

ICT2: $165k

ICT3: $214k

ICT4: $315k

ICT5: $440k

ICT6: $681k

Point: $100k/yr total comp is pretty low for Apple's standards.
Major US tech companies earn a profit-per-employee of $200-400k[0]. That's across every employee, so depending on how you attribute value the profit-per-SWE is much higher. That gives a lot of headroom to drive up salaries when competing for hires, and in part sets the market price.

I suspect that low European software salaries are just a function of low profitability of European software companies. e.g, spotify is (at best) around $44k per employee, SAP is $41k.

[0] https://fortune.com/2020/08/24/apple-microsoft-facebook-amaz...
Sorry about that! That does sound like a horrible experience :( Let me look into it
The Advent of Computing [1] podcast recently put out their episode 47 which I think provides a sort-of explanation of this line of thinking. The short answer is that the context in which Emacs was originally developed (a contemporary of Unix, and not Unix itself, which was something I wasn't aware of before) emphasized user power and lack of restriction to a much greater degree than much of the current computing landscape does. Why would you lock users or developers into a fixed, defined plugin API when you could write the application in such a way that they have access to whatever they need?

Excluding maybe NodeJS, most of the Javascript you encounter is going to be executed by a browser which has a whole ton of sandboxing and mitigation mechanisms to prevent the big bad web from abusing your computer. I don't blame it for working that way given how few trustworthy (I mean really trustworthy, as in "free range within $HOME") actors exist on the web these days, but one wonders how far we could take the web ecosystem if we tossed the idea of granting special access through WebGL or WebUSB and just gave the browser full access to calling C or executing processes on your system.

Don't get me wrong - it would be a security nightmare, but there's a cost to trying to guarantee security through mechanism rather than trust.

[1] https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-47-its-open-com...
> Some paths are quota based by country of origin

Yes, but that has little effect on H1B visas. European applicants are in the same pool as everyone else.

> getting a green card is exponentially harder

Nobody mentioned getting a greencard, which is a problem in itself. Just a work visa. Which, if you're a European citizen, is dependent on a lottery.

Yeah, it's easier for an AU citizen to get a visa (because there's a special program for them), but you haven't said why it's easier for an EU citizen to get one. Please back up your claim.
Which is an atypical position for a member of his party, nor does it contradict the rhetorical and political hardening that had taken place since the 90’s.
I suspect you don't have any evidence for this claim. Looking at immigration numbers, a far higher percent of Europeans move to America than Americans move to Europe.
I've been impressed by Gab
They give you free shares of real estate? How is this possible? I might invite like 200 people lol.
Another question that just came to my mind is that what are their returns? 10%.
I don't think I have ever since something like this thats why i'm so curious as to what it is and if its too good to be true.
You are taking a risk. The risk is that you assume your government will be able to provide you with a comfortable life even when you can no longer work. And when the time comes for your children to get higher education and retire themselves eventually you hope the government will also be there to step in.

It works, until it doesn't. In America you can compensate yourself for this risk by simply getting a job where you are paid a higher salary than the average. Then you don't really care what happens with the social safety net, you've already hedged against it by saving and investing for yourself, and possibly becoming very rich.

Personally I'd be stressed if I were in your position. Government welfare isn't some liquid asset. If you decide you want to go live in some other country with a higher standard of living, such as the United States, is your government going to give you $100k or more to go start a life there at the same standard of living you're used to? I doubt it. You'll have to start from scratch, little to no savings, no real credit history, and paying much more for things that were a lot cheaper back in your home country. And if you were to retire in the US, I have a dim view of your future if you have no savings for retirement. If you are already close to retirement and haven't saved anything, you simply will not be able to retire.

Basically you're locked in to your home country, and have no realistic options for leaving unless you become richer. If the country goes to shit, so do you. This is not the case somewhere like America, where how well off you are is decoupled from how the country is doing as a whole. Government risk is eliminated, your cash flow and net worth is all that matters. That's much easier to understand and helps you sleep at night.

Be careful.
Check out Joplin, Dendron, Notable, BoostNote, Roam Research.

For wiki style check out Agora: https://anagora.org/node/agora

Honourable mention for Notational Velocity which pairs well as a lightweight quick interface with any other md filesystem based note software.
The White House Launches the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative
> Part of TSMC's offer is that they won't do design

That's kind of a hoax. GUC (Global Uni Chip) is huge, and a nearly-wholly-owned subsidiary of TSMC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Unichip_Corporation

TSMC has a large design operation. It simply is part of a subsidiary rather than the parent company, that's all.

There are a lot of shady links between TSMC and GUC. I was once pressured to "collaborate" with GUC as an explicit condition of getting access to the then-bleeding-edge 16nm PDK. I turned it down. A competitor of mine (with whose chief engineer I am friends) had the same screws put to them.
> First, what Trump actually told the protestors on the 6th was to go peacefully. His plain language has been analyzed by qualified legal scholars and they conclude it does not meet the very high threshold of “fighting words”. [1]

1. Language doesn't have to be illegal for it to break Twitter's TOS.

2. Language requires context. When Michael Corleone says "I don't want anything to happen to him while my mother's alive" everyone listening to those words understand exactly what they mean - that his brother's a few weeks away from ending up with a bullet in his head.

The context in this case has been weeks of crying from the rooftops about how the deep state is stealing the election from you, and that your boys should go to Capitol and do something about it. Meanwhile, your lawyer is shouting about how it's time for 'Trial by combat.'
My mom would love to be able to use the same apps on her phone and her computer. I've been thinking about suggesting her next computer be an apple one since she got her first iphone and this makes it easier. Your Mom May Vary.
Its downvoted because a large portion of HN users prefer alternative facts that allow them to feel superior as opposed to actual reality.
I don’t think x86 is on the way out. Apple won’t dominate desktop/server market anytime soon.
Your freedom to drive on any side of the road is constrained for the general safety of all citizens.

Just as your freedom of speech is constrained to call out "fire" in a crowded space when there is none.

I wonder why Benjamin Franklin used the words "essential liberty".

I'm sure you and I would disagree on whether not wearing a mask in a crowded room is an essential liberty, or one that should be temporarily given up for the greater good. I would argue Benjamin Franklin would have a lot of faith in science and would be happy for citizens to give up that non-essential freedom for a while.

I have the freedom to continue burning carbon and eating steak .. but I wonder if those freedoms might now begin to encroach upon your freedoms to have a livable planet that isnt too warm to support our current population.
Well, it's possible to be pessimistic and uncertain ;-)
He’s a good idealist (not dogmatic), and he’d likely be better than a Cuomo or a Wilhelm, because I see him addressing issues rather than busy placating corruption.

NYC needs a good mayor. I wish him luck.
It seems they generally make the effort to explicitly call for nonviolence and the like.

I'm sure these "left wing riot" groups you mention crossed the line before, too, and had comments and pages removed.

Hell, notice that Parler got away with it, too until they didn't?

There's always a line, and sometimes it gets crossed. Pretending like nothing bad ever happens to group X, and everything bad always happens to group Y, and furthermore, insisting their behaviors are equivalent is, let's say, lacking in proof.
Costs don't scale linearly with size when you're a tech company that doesn't make physical objects, so large tech companies are insanely profitable because their revenue goes up a lot faster than their costs as their grow. Even small companies can raise a ton of funding if investors think they have the potential to become very big. Some of this money trickles down to the engineers.

It's a lot easier for US companies to become large because the domestic market is huge and there is a common language and regulatory framework. The EU does have a common market but there are still more language/regulatory barriers to expansion than in the US. The EU is also much poorer than the US. France has a lower GDP per capita than Alabama, and they are one of the wealthier EU states. This means it's harder to make money selling to European consumers.
The fact that you can advertise these things at all is kind of shocking to me. I’d expect psychiatric drugs to be prescribed by a psychiatrist on their medicinal merits rather than purchased on an advertising-driven whim.
1. The culture around equity should be changed. There are too many companies where employees are only offered equity if they ask for it, and people don't understand it. We can educate the SWE community about matters of financial literacy and normalise equity for all full time employees. I personally will not accept a job at any company without equity.

2. Focusing on salary. We need a european alternative to glassdoor and it needs to become popular. People need to know what they are worth. We are quite shy when it comes to discussing salary. TC info is more readily accessible in the US.

3. Europe needs to grow tech giants that demand top tier talent. That's the main problem with Europe, there isn't a huge amount of ambition to home grow 100bn+ companies that attract the best talent globally. Europe is at a disadvantage because it takes fewer risks and it's also more likely to sell out before reaching tech giant status. We are all using Google, Facebook (or some product of) and Amazon (in countries where amazon can effectively avoid taxes). And the UK sold off ARM, though there is ongoing discussion about that.

If you look at industries that are world leading (i.e banking in London for example), you'll find opportunities to double or triple your salary. Turns out that enough of us are turned off by the idea of working in the banking sector that it doesn't appear to translate into pressure for talent. We are also very well educated so it's not as hard to find people
Equity is not really as thing, most companies you end up working for are not publicly traded and if they are of that size they're generally not offering equity to hire you.

We tend to say: stock doesn't pay the rent.
Looks like some form or perjury actually, but the article didn’t list the charge.

Money quote:

“ Meyyappan concealed this work from NASA and the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, and falsely told investigators in an Oct. 27 interview he was not a member of the Thousand Talents Program and did not hold the professorship in China, prosecutors said.”

NASA is a government agency, and the United States has a legitimate interest in ferreting out applicants who may be compromised by a foreign adversary. So from this description he essentially lied to law enforcement or some equivalent and/or checked the box on some form the affirmed whatever they wanted him to affirm under penalty of perjury with all the typical legalese attached to that box.

The Thousand Talents program essentially a foreign espionage operation, or at best, a theft operation, so that caught up to him.
Elixir code out there is much cleaner than erlang code bases. In terms of organization, picking names. And there's much more dedication to testing and documentation. I think these software habits are very important for newcomers, and so if you are truly dedicated to the craft of software you probably should want them to learn Elixir even if the language is 25% more cumbersome in the small. There is something about the terseness of erlang that I think carries over to a mentality of not writing tests and not documenting. It doesn't help that it is less of a part of the culture (probably since it's an older language, Elixir is a post-"software-testing-revolution" language; Erlang is a pre-testing-revolution language).
> Twitter and Facebook for eg. They don’t impose a cost on the public in the way railways do either.

That's an interesting take after the last couple years...
The margin on routers is lower than cloud subscriptions.

Hardware with margin to support open source is available from companies like Netgate but pricing isn’t competitive with consumer products.