skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a W2 employee for a consulting firm. They pay me a salary with some benefits and some vacation time and bill be out to clients.

I'd say it's a cultural thing why we don't use it. Working hard and making big money is the dream. I'm not saying my company forces me to not take the vacation time. Heck they try to tell us all to use it more! (PTO is a liability on the books, FYI). But culturally, it's just not a priority (as in our countries culture, not the company itself). I realize it makes no sense. I need to make it more of a priority. My original point is my friends who are ex-pats on the EU seem to have a culture of using that time being more important than working.

Edit: I'm not sure why I'm being down voted. I'm mostly sharing what I see and feel. Your milage definitely may vary and I hope it does!
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Except I don't think they all would have piled on if not for that unmissable event
We could have 1. Done a real lockdown, with strict, nationwide enforcement, trashing the economy for a few months but beating the disease. Or 2. Done nothing and saved the economy, shouldering massive loss of life as the virus ran unopposed through the population.

But, no, we somehow managed to do the worst of both worlds: 3. we implemented uncoordinated, half-assed business closures and widely-ignored “stay-at-home” schemes which both trashed the economy and resulted in widespread death. Great job!
I would LOVE them to be an American TSMC. Would save so much pain.
From your link, GINI of Canada and Tajikistan is the same or Finland and Azerbaijan. Totalitarian states like Belarus or Kazakhstan have one of the lowest GINIs in the world, now I question gini usefulness even more.
A lot of times on pieces like this I'd prefer there not be a point. The piece is thought provoking and doesn't demand I really learn anything. Really it just inspires me to introspect and I think that's just fine.
No, the other way around. Inequality is low because the distribution of salaries across roles, across industries is tightly clustered. I suspect it's true of the managers too. The point is there aren't high earners.
- RAID 5 NAS for primary storage

- Daily rsync of NAS to an external disk

- Periodic encrypted/compressed archives in S3
Orders of magnitude more cases, for one.
I know a homeless guy. He wasn't always homeless. Had a good job had a good house to live in. Then the stress got to him (not a lot he had a low threshold). Now he doesn't want the stress of work or a home.

He eats well and gets enough money from the government that he could pay rent but he doesn't want to.

I'm not sure how to help him. Or if he wants help.
I really appreciate your honesty, awareness and most of all dignity. Thank you.
> Also, not a lawyer, but I feel like conviction after impeachment would make conviction in subsequent civil suits a slam dunk.

No, unlike a criminal conviction, I don’t think it would.

OTOH, any evidence gathered and publicly presented against Trump in the impeachment trial could be a valuable gift to those with substantially-related civil claims.
Why is it not an issue? They have to compete for the same ~65K visas/year as everyone else.
Definitely worth waiting till you hit that date then. I'd have no issue giving a short notice to make sure I got that grant. Get your grant, give notice and be on your way. Just double check all the details in your Agreement.
The SWEs will buy more stuff and eat out more, increasing the demand for retail and restaurant workers. It does trickle down, but due to continuous influx (because qualification requirements are low) of new potential retail and restaurant workers you don't notice on an individual level but on a globalized level it matters because those new retail/restaurant workers have improved themselves.
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Come on. Link to the actual artical? https://ofdollarsanddata.com/why-ive-changed-my-mind-on-bitc...
Salaries are only raised when workers are chasing the money, why else would companies raise salaries? All threads about salaries in Europe are full of people telling us how happy they are with what they got, that is the wrong attitude if you want things to change.

Edit: To expand further, think like this: The easier it is for companies like Google to hire good talent in Europe the more they will hire talent in Europe and the more development they will do in Europe. They already do quite a lot of development here as is, there is no reason that couldn't be expanded.
Authoritarians frequently rise to & remain in power by claiming "they are out to get us and only we can stop them!"
I assumed you realized we were constraining ourselves to places with a High or Very High HDI.

If nobody has any money at all, would you not say inequality is low? If everyone in Tajikistan has $5 except the president, Emomali Rahmon, is inequality not low?

I suspect you are looking for a pairing of HDI and Gini, which factors in both the development (and hence the standard of living) and the inequality.

Sweden: (Gini: 0.25, HDI: 0.933), France: (Gini: 0.31, HDI: 0.901), Canada: (Gini: 0.33, HDI: 0.926), USA: (Gini: 0.48, HDI: 0.924), South Africa: (Gini: 0.65, HDI: 0.709).

Now, Tajikistan has an HDI of 0.66 ("medium"), and Azerbaijan 0.756 ("high").

Kazakhstan might surprise you, the HDI is 0.817 ("very high"). The standard of living there is actually good, in spite of what you may have seen on Borat - incidentally filmed in Romania. Almaty's been on my list of places to visit for a long time :) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaty
Belkin was bought by Foxconn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys#History

However modern WRT routers are also affected by NXP buying Marvell.
Unlike Parler, Facebook hosts its own metal. Beyond that it even owns its own domain registrar, CDN, and CA authority. There's no feasible way to deplatform it. (A good thing IMO, I just wish that same rock solid resistance to censorship was available to everybody.)
"martial law against protestors" suggests violence against protest. What was actually suggested:

an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers

If lawbreaker = protestors in your book, then maybe we differ in what constitutes valid protest.

Also, Cotton pre-emptively disagrees with your characterisation also:

This [law] doesn’t amount to “martial law” or the end of democracy, as some excitable critics, ignorant of both the law and our history, have comically suggested
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The normal burden of proof: is there evidence of crime? But maybe the system needs to go further than that, and demonstrate that it is sound. Outreach? Meet and greet the counters? Count watching party (in the sense of cookies and soft drinks)? Some conspiracy theorists might never be convinced, but this is more than that.
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Competition. The only way a company will pay you more is if you threaten to go work for the one across the street. European labor laws actually work against the interest of employees in this case, since everyone there has longer term contracts, long notice periods and strict non-compete agreements.

I also don't agree with your second point. Salaries of software engineers in the US aren't "skewed" or "inflated". If anything they are underpaid. Up until recently there was a lot of illegal anti-poaching collusion happening among the big tech companies which kept salaries low.
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Facebook is more analogous to the publisher or distributor, though.
Facebook invented Trump. Twitter was his big broadcast medium, but the “movement” was born there.

Bernie was similar but didn’t have the appeal to the dumb and old.
Since the parent is running on GKE, they’re already doing that. Postgres in a (kube) container on a (GCE) VM in a (borg) container on a computer.
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
is simply by spinning a penny.
No - not so that chance shall decide the affair
while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
you suddenly know what you're hoping.
-- Piet Hein, "A Psychological Tip"
No, FSA and HSA are similar but different. They both exist, the use-it-or-lose it variety you're talking about is called an FSA. HSAs, on the other hand, can carry over year to year, and doubles as a source of income in retirement.

The downside is you must have high deductible plan to contribute to an HSA -- the idea is that you put aside enough money to cover the high deductible just in case, but are now motivated to price comparison shop for MRIs and whatnot, since any unspent money is now yours to keep.
Definitely feel, not evidence based.
Facebook self-hosts and answers only to themselves. Parler could have done the same if they wanted to host questionable content
I believe it is likely that global IPv4 routing goes away before universal adoption of IPv6 at clients.

Transitional technologies allow IPv4 holdouts to have "working" Internet despite an increasing proportion of IPv6 nodes, there's some device somewhere which is mapping your connection to some IPv6-only service as an imaginary IPv4 connection. Such things wouldn't scale with 99% of users and usages, but can handle say, five thousand IPv4 users on your ten million customer ISP who mostly visit Facebook and check email.

Eventually the long distance traffic for IPv4 is tiny, because there's a transition device nearer almost all remaining IPv4 users and that's turning their traffic into IPv6 for the long haul anyway.

At that point if you're a backbone provider, IPv4 is a sizeable cost (the routing tables for it are horrendous) for negligible benefit (hardly any of your traffic) and its future only looks more dismal. So you start deprecating this service for your customers, and they don't bother to buy a replacement because they have a transition device to help any residual IPv4 users.

And so one day, without a fanfare, there just isn't really an IPv4 Internet any more, and the RIRs will just deprecate their management of the numbering for that network because it's obsolete.

Ideally this is an obscure nerd event, like a leap second, which your friends at first don't understand, and then when you explain it they realise it's boring and they don't care.

I hope to live to see it.
I'm not sure they really can do both (because doing the TSMC model well intentionally excludes the other).

Part of TSMC's offer is that they won't do design, they won't compete with you on design etc.

They specialize in the best possible fab and service for your design and that's it.
Calling all cops ‘racists’ indiscriminately and promoting an image of police as violent trigger-happy thugs who kill innocent black people is exactly what set the stage for violence.

The aim of propaganda is to elicit an emotional reaction. WaPo and other media did a great job at inciting violent reaction, riots that lasted for months, fed primarily by the media and amplified by facebook and Twitter.
We don't use Kubernetes (or even Docker) currently.
> Because WaPo weren't encouraging people to go and "riot".

Maybe WaPo wasn't (although I doubt it). Other media certainly were: https://twitter.com/slate/status/1268415955937513473?lang=en

Or will we keep justifying direct justifications of violence, while ignoring the calls to peace spoken and written by Trump.

Honestly, I'm done at this point. I hope people like you keep saying what you're saying. You'll just convince more people, just like y'all have convinced me.

EDIT: more justifications of violence:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178...

Here's vice interviewing a man who just shot a trump supporter and killed him. They did this after he had done so, but before he was turned over to police. Harboring a criminal is illegal: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7g8vb/man-linked-to-killing...

EDIT: and just like I thought, from the downvotes, people actually agree with the direct calls to violence issued by these mainstream outlets that led to over 30 deaths this summr]er, and $2billion in damages, mainly to small businesses all over america. The lack of moral convictions on this forum is pathetic.
I understand where he's coming from, I've felt that desire to just escape into work too. But what he did was not healthy, because it also hurt his wife who was left to deal with something extremely difficult alone. That was selfish.
One of the reasons I personally don't want tech industry unions.
I guess my point on vacation is more around the culture of using it. As a senior level engineer/architect with maybe a small team leading role, when was the last time you took a solid 2 week off without anyone calling you for work? Heck, look at the number of unlimited PTO companies out there where employees never take a day. Just as an example.

The experience my friends have in the EU seems to be pretty good over all with healthcare. The US healthcare system give fantastic results at a phenomenal and often strange price. It's a trade-off I'm sure.

I agree that having savings helps. And I have quite a bit of savings. But I still wouldn't feel comfortable being laid off .

Over all I'm here in the US and I love it. But I'm pointing out that there is give and take to everywhere.

Also everyone keeps talking about working for FAANG but.... The vast majority of US engineers don't work for them.
They still have a lot of money in the bank (and more coming in). I see no reason why they can't turn things around if the right people are in charge.
This is a very complex topic and there's a bunch of reasons for that.

And no, software efficiency isn't even the main factor. Not even close.

Just a few pointers: polling on peripherals instead of interrupts (i.e. USB vs. PS/2 and DIN) introducing input lag, software no longer running in ring-0 while being the sole process that owns all the hardware, concurrent processes and context switches, portability (and the required layers of abstraction and indirection), etc.

It's a bit cheap to blame developers while at the same time taking for granted that you can even do what you can do with modern hard- and software.

Everything comes at a price and even MenuetOS [1] will have worse input lag and be less responsive than an Apple II, simply because you'll likely have USB keyboard and mouse and an LCD monitor connected to it.

[1] http://menuetos.net
Did you tried to speak with Oracle or IBM ?
Yes! Thank you! And now the same politicians and reporters who said that are pretending to care for the police hurt in this riot and talking about how important law enforcement is.

Forgive me for believing that law enforcement protecting family businesses is 1000x more important than law enforcement protecting politicians.

EDIT: love the downvotes from people who believe torching family businesses, often immigrant ones, is cool! I'm telling you guys keep downvoting. You really look like the good guys.
> more dynamic economy that results in more people actually becoming wealthy

This is exactly the other side of inequality: if there is a big gap, someone must be taking advantage of this gap. The problem is that most people are losers in this competition.
Well, IDK where I fit on the skill curve but... my total comp is personally well above that line. There's definitely a bi-modal effect with tech companies issuing RSUs that appreciate dramatically vs. random insurance company or telco.
> Keycloak supports multi-tenancy natively with realms. There is a fixed memory cost for each, but it’s not like you have to spin up an entirely new instance for each.

Yes, I know. I use Keycloak in production. All realms sit on one instance. As do all clients. It can get really heavy and really slow really fast, especially with resource servers. I am aware of replication but that is basically replicating the whole instance.

The other not so nice thing about the SPI is that custom providers are loaded into the main Java process and that comes with all the pitfalls of class loading, shading, uber jars. It’s a mess. Try building a log adapter to push data to Kafka or over grpc. Dragons.

Keycloak is nice for out of the box stuff but integration can get pretty messy.
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> Even though today’s vote showed that they still think the Trump side will win out in the medium to long term, otherwise I can’t explain why they chose to face the media storm directly and voted against impeachment.

Personal fear of the people whose affection for Trump led them to erect a gallows and storm the Capitol with weapons, restraints, etc., screaming “Hang Mike Pence!” when Pence merely wouldn’t steal an election for him could also be a factor.

While I think it would be cowardly to withhold action on that basis, I don’t think anyone in their position could fail to have significant fear that betraying the GOP base by supporting impeachment would be painting a giant target on themselves for violent domestic extremists who are often more even more hostile to betrayal from “their side” than they are to the other side (to whom they are plenty hostile to start with.)
Probably doesn't feel like a good thing when you're hiding under your bed, hoping the angry mob will tire of searching, and move on with their machetes to the next village.
Because it's not necessary and pointlessly inconvenient for most people? If you could store your food and clothes in the cloud, we wouldn't have fridges and closets either.
Why didn't the whales just dive??
Blows my mind a rowboat of sailors could even catch up.
That's the speech I'm referring to... he doesn't actually quite concede that he lost to Biden. As some people have pointing out "a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20" could mean "my second administration" and not "Biden's administration." I realize that's splitting hairs, and I don't think that Trump is so clever as to rely on such a level of plausible deniability, but there are several among his supporters who will hold to that interpretation.

And after he put out that video, he went back on Twitter to complain about election fraud, which rather undercuts his message.
I love Elixir (former Ruby dev) but I do find many Ruby devs will turn to macros when regular functions will do.

I haven't tried LiveView but it looks very interesting.
I don't particularly blame mail carriers either. I blame the people who sent the mail.
It has been working for over a century up to today. What will change that it "wont work" any more?
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Apple and Google can remove it from their app stores. The content peddled on Facebook is vile and, as this article points out, dangerous.
I would love a RISC-V laptop, but only if the vector and matrix extensions can be used for training and inferring neural networks. Having separated vectorized processing for CPU (SSE) and a neural engine doesn't make sense to me.

I want to be able to train NNs with a laptop that can normally last 20 hours.
But they don’t because having an average pay in Europe is still preferable to having a high pay in America.
I have an only barely related story involving McDonalds and social behavior, but if he can meander, so can I, right?

Back around 1990 I was working in a (then industrial) part of Hong Kong called Tsuen Wan. I would regularly go to McDonalds for lunch around 11:30 in order to watch an amazing crowd behavior. Above the McDonalds was a large elementary school. At noon sharp they would break for lunch and huge numbers of little kids would come down and crowd into the restaurant to order lunch. Almost 100% of these kids ordered exactly the same thing: a Filet 'o Fish.

I remember this McDonalds having a very long row of those diagonal slots where hamburgers were slid down and stacked up: except for one slot, they were all pre-filled with Filet 'o Fish sandwiches in preparation for the onslaught.
Consider how quickly Nadella turned around Microsoft. It's not impossible.
"but laws and norms of good behavior are always a balance between rights freedoms and safety / efficiency."

You must be not from the US. In the US, our freedoms come first and our founders constrained the governments` ability to interfere with those rights, even in the name of safety.

A popular Benjamin Franklin quote:

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
While I think that lower salaries are a result of multiple factors, one interesting data point is that governments actively disincentivize high salaries for workers through taxation, and low salary requirements for visas.

For example, the "high" salary tax income bracket starts at £50k in the UK [1] and at €54k in Germany [2]. More or less, these rates are similar across western Europe (except for Switzerland). In the US, tax brackets are far more permissive [3].

Also, in the UK a £25k salary is fair enough to guarantee a visa [3], or €40k [4] in the Netherlands, hinting that these governments think that such a salary is high enough.

Most policies enacted by governments, I think more through ignorance rather than malice, assume that workers making ~€50k have enough and shouldn't need to get increased.

While other factors (lack of big companies & lack of VC investment) probably have a higher impact on the low wages, I think that government policies also have an affect on it.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates
[2] https://www.academics.com/guide/taxes-in-germany
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51430811
[4] https://www.iamexpat.nl/career/employment-news/2019-income-r...
I don't think most people can stop buying comcast if they want internet, as a counterexample.

I would say this - there's a good argument that our representatives are WAY WAY out of touch, simply because we don't have enough of them. In 1790 there was 1 congressperson per 33,000 people, and now it is per 800,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap...

If you had a congressperson with 1/20th of the constituents, they'd probably pay a lot more attention to you.
I used to think the same thing! Turns out you can buy them directly: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/accessories-and-monitors/keyboa...
I would imagine women who are buying menstrual products are very likely either about to begin their period or are in the midst of it. Also, things like midol are probably strong indicators.
My long term bet is on M1 and ARM/RISC5 for the future.

x86 is on the way out and can't compete on power or performance. In the end RISC won, it just took a while to get there.

As things trend that direction AMD and Intel don't really have much to offer, they're competing on legacy tech.

With TSMC providing fabs for designs from anyone, the serious players don't need AMD or Intel. Apple has a massive lead here, but others watching this will follow it.
if you want a distributed key/value data store, you want to use what's already out there and vetted. It use to be zookeeper, but etcd is much simpler and that's what Kubernetes uses and it has been a big success and proved itself out there in the field. Definitely easier than a full SQL database which is overkill and much harder to replicate especially if you want to have a cluster of >= 3. Again, key is "distributed" and that immediately rules out sqlite.
I don't really think they are in the same category.
What you're talking about is price elasticity, which is not the same thing. Here, I'll paste in a definition of inelastic:

Inelastic is an economic term referring to the static quantity of a good or service when its price changes. Inelastic means that when the price goes up, consumers’ buying habits stay about the same, and when the price goes down, consumers’ buying habits also remain unchanged.
What is the strongest magnetic field possible? Is there a limit? (2014)
Seems to have spread beyond just BTC
Twitter allowed Trump to speak right up until the moment it no longer benefited them. The hypocrisy is clear regardless of which side of the argument you are on.