skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software Engineers getting richer is the least of your worries. I'd like to talk about billionaires. The impossibly wealthy.

We need to have a society that pays well for high demand jobs. Please don't shit on Engineers. There are millions of people out there that are sitting on real estate old money, rich families, etc. They're not doing shit. They're not building the world around you. One mega billionare would dwarf a crowd of Engineers.

I want to live in a society where science and technology jobs are paid well and even fine with absurdly well. Same with doctors.

I also want to live in a society where shitty jobs such as cleaning gutters and driving a trash truck around should also be paid well because no one wants to do those. If you're stuck flipping burgers, you have the onus to do something that's worth while and in high demand. We need to make sure we give access to those people who want to learn and get educated.

Google's employee base making $450k/year is a miniscule part of software engineers. My guess would be US-wide, the average software engineer earns less than six figures or very close to it. Not "Rich" by any means.

I am tired of the marxist bs. I barely make six figures and that's after years of toiling through shitty code bases and mentally exhausted everyday and raising a family. I do boring software and anything that's thrown at me. Not what you have in mind as "Rich". Rich is relative.

Leave engineers alone, bang on billionaire's door. I've added more value to the society and I demand an equivalent pay. The real disconnect is with the mega billionaires playing golf at the Hamptons. Anyone with a salary is by definition unleveraged and not "Rich" in my view.
That's definitely true, but would be a significant additional cost. I'm just supplementing the gas furnace, which is controlled by a single thermostat. I could bump up the temperature for the whole house, but my room just happens to be particularly drafty, with 3 older bay windows which need to be replaced.
In journalism, things like price/earnings are usually given dimensionlessly, even in quality newspapers like the FT. E.g.,

Tesla was a red-hot stock even before the coronavirus crisis, boasting a forward price/earnings ratio — a common measure of the value the market puts on a business’s future profits — of 75 times at the start of 2020.

in https://www.ft.com/content/0158a15b-52e7-4270-9ab3-4f6934b93...
Yeah. But still - key rollover over here either :D

That vs gaming keyboards comparison is just out of place.
In Sublime Text I actually use a quick Undo-then-Redo to navigate, of all things.

I'll be typing some code and realise I need to check whether the imports at the top of the file are correct.

So I'll Cmd+Up (go to the top of the file) and see that yes, they are correct. Now I have to get back to where I was.

A quick Cmd+Z,Cmd+Shift+Z does the trick - Undo (takes me back to the code I was editing, and undoes some of it) and Redo to put it back to how it was. Works well, but would mess up this researcher's statistics.

(I absolutely do also use the undo stack for looking at the last few minutes of history too, that's really valuable)
I’m not assuming anything, I’m talking about what you could reasonably expect today of your company if you made this tradeoff.

What you were able to do with that cash is a separate issue. Over time it could become better, sure.
The HOPE GPA does add 0.5 for all AP/IB classes. It doesn't apply to all honors classes, which is unfortunate, but they do recognize that some classes are harder.
In practice it's vastly more cost efficient for me to build an enormous solar array and install batteries. So I'm doing that.
Another article giving the general idea a bad name. If it works for him, fine, but "How and why I stopped buying new laptops", as an article, should not be about this idiotic level of self-flagelation. This author is promoting a likely-to-be harmful path, one unsuitable for almost everyone.

The energy efficiency of an Intel Haswell (June 2013) is off the wall better than the rusty dusty antique this joker is suggesting as an ok workbook. There's so many incredible semi-modern used laptops to consider. You don't have to be a weird retro-compute freak who loves stupidly slow machines like this guy. You can buy really nice used laptops that perform wonderfully, & get great great deals on them.

Incredible what a dis-service this article does, how much of a turn off it would be, to most sane people considering whether to buy used. It ends up serving as propaganda for buying laptops. In no way do you have to sacrifice your quality of life, like this dude, if you buy used.
While it might get out of hand from normal undo/redo code flows, Drama (a design prototyping app similar to Principle) has an awesome history UI with branching.

https://www.drama.app/documentation/history
Clubhouse reaches 8M downloads on the iOS App Store
I agree with the qualities that make a good logo, but it's also very much a product of its time. SF Muni adopted a worm logo around the same time, and it looks equally gimmicky and dated.
I have a blue collar factory job. But I know who all these people are
I noticed the teeth issue also, and it seems all teeth are the same across characters, which draws attention. More variation in teeth settings would probably help this to not stand out (which contributes to the "uncanny valley" reaction, I think).
Man what makes you think we'll be social distancing for another two and a half years?

And what is this 100% mental illness vs. 5% physical illness coming from? Do you really believe those numbers?
Would other states be able to provide it? I saw a post a few days ago showing that wholesale electricity prices are up 10x in nonimpacted states (California)
not if total payrolls stay constant.
On the weekend when there's no traffic, it's easy enough to drive to a park, sure. During the week, when I would want to relax outdoors after work, all the parks you mention are a 30+ minute drive in stressful rush hour traffic.

(it's also worth mentioning that for my first 1.5 years in Atlanta, I couldn't even afford a car, so my options were limited to Piedmont Park and the Georgia Tech campus)

In rush hour traffic from the Atlantic Station area, according to Google Maps:

Grant Park: 26min drive
Centennial Olympic Park: 15min drive (I did go there all the time but it's not really a park? plus tons of car noise nearby)
Freedom Park: 34min drive
Candler Park: 28min drive
Chastain Park: 28min drive

I'd occasionally go to the park along Collier Road or to Memorial Park (both 15-20min drive in traffic), but both are surrounded by deadlocked rush hour traffic for most of the afternoon.

I think the lesson is maybe that I should've chosen to live in the Little 5 Points area or somewhere east of Piedmont, but that would mean sacrificing my ~5min bicycle commute to the Georgia Tech campus where I was going to school at the time.

In the end Atlanta's car culture really grated on me, so I left.

That said, I think Atlanta is on a positive trajectory. I'm excited to see how the Microsoft campus impacts the western part of the city. I imagine in 15-20 years it could be a really appealing city.
Running 2011 macbook as mostly daily driver, was daily driver for much of its life, has run linux most of its life.
Another work-around: right-click URL, copy, and paste at https://www.getlinkinfo.com/ to get a report about the link including a list of redirects and the site's Google Safe Browsing status.
The educated guess for the last 50 years was 20-30 years away
Using 3rd party Debian repository keys with apt
It's been split up into two tiers. The HOPE scholarship has a 3.0 requirement, and pays approximately 80% for public colleges. The 3.7 requirement is for the Zell-Miller scholarship, which pays 100% for public colleges. It's obviously not as much as before, but I'd hardly call paying 80% of tuition neutering.
In CoCalc, one of the foundational ideas is that it should be very easy to see code and Jupyter notebooks from 5 minutes ago. Hence every editor in CoCalc includes a TimeTravel button, which you click on to get a side-by-side view of your file (or notebook) and a slider that lets you go back and forth in time at high resolution. I designed CoCalc this way because when I taught data science classes, I would walk around a classroom while the students were doing an in-class exercise and they would often say to me "I had this part figured out 5 minutes ago, but I messed it up." Some people (including me!) who get used to working this way get very addicted to it, and can hardly imagine working any other way. This is vastly superior to depending on undo/redo, and I use it all the time when doing deep coding projects. It's also useful for collaboration, since it makes it easier to figure out what somebody else did with a file or notebook.
There is still a lot of hydro potential left in the US. And there is no generation should be anywhere near that centralized.
Unused ram is wasted ram.
>Except, wind lost generation capacity in the cold, just as all other forms of energy generation did.

They don't in Iowa, or North Dakota. Or anywhere north, where they spend a few extra dollars to make sure they can handle the cold
Well, @Autowired is necessary for DI because there is no way to ensure the dependencies are injected globally, because Spring Boot automatically creates a control flow.

What are the annotations doing and how do other languages do DI and stuff like that?
Cryptography, error coding, and lossy compression are particularly concerned with what the author identifies as Jane Austen's concept of information but also have a very close relationship to Shannon entropy.

Basically in cryptography the problem is that plaintext messages reveal important information, and the probability distribution of plaintexts is roughly known. While "attack at dawn" and "attack at noon" may have a lot of letters those two messages may be the only expected messages, and they each may be close to 50% likely, reducing the Shannon entropy to nearly a single bit. Parties wishing to communicate secretly would like to obscure their communication by revealing no information about the actual probability distribution of the plaintexts, so Shannon entropy is maximized (with respect to tractability) when generating a ciphertext.

Successful cryptography transforms a message channel into one where e.g. 2^N ciphertexts are all equally likely, hiding the semantic content of both the actual plaintext messages and their probabilities.

On the other hand error codes strengthen the semantic meaning of the underlying message by significantly increasing the distribution while adjusting the probabilities toward favoring the important messages.

Lossy compression (images, audio, video) is kind of the inverse of error coding. A reduction in the distribution by choosing which parts of the message are least semantically important and removing the distinction between them and making them indistinguishable.

Roughly, Austen-information is limited by the Shannon entropy as an upper bound and also by a computable, tractable function of the available Shannon information (which we might as well call the semantic function which translates between bits and useful human representation). In cryptography's case P = D_K(C) is the particular function that turns an N-bit ciphertext from 0 bits of Austen information into N bits of Austin information with the proper key. Lossy compression turns an N-bit message into a semantically useful approximation of an N+M-bit message, excluding the production of a large class of semantically indistinguishable resulting messages in the process.

There's another layer that maybe the author was getting at, and that's the human (or any agent) interpretation and response to sensory inputs. At that semantic layer it's again a function from inputs to experiences, responses, or actions. Information theory suggests that such functions are probably most useful if they can extract the most efficiency from all available channels, e.g. distinguish between important states of the world with the fewest bits possible. Going beyond that is a digression into intelligence itself where we have to determine what the most important states of the world are and how to respond.
It was also a plot arc of the underrated great movie "Until the End of the World".
Absolutely, and I am grateful for your detailed analysis here. These kinds of spot checks on subjective quality for usability in a domain are a critical part of scoring "are we there yet?" and providing solid exemplars that are motivating to the researchers. It's not hard to imagine a GPT-5 recap in a few years with very different outcomes.

Some of the motivation on my side is judging at which point it becomes appropriate to explore having an algorithm provide a summary of a medical conversation, since my day job at Medcorder is building a system that acts as a patient advocate to help them better understand what their doctors are saying. The universal feature request from day one has been summaries (which are fraught if you get them wrong!), so I'm keen to develop a sense of when we're going to get there.

(As for the downvotes on my comment above, I'd bet they are, appropriately ironically, from people who themselves didn't actually read the article, since the comment was made with a wink to the fact that the article explicitly evaluates the appropriateness of "tl;dr" summaries and found them wanting.)
It is the fifth rover... But still super impressive feat, with years of detailed planning. I boogles my mind thinking about all the bits of engineering put together to make this happen.

I can’t wait to see what it sends back. Always celebrate your successes.
I think this is somewhat tongue in cheek, almost a form of gallows' humor. Sometimes people deal with this sadness, pain, and isolation with humor, others create silly shit as a way of distracting themselves.

People are still people, we are just being told that people are unsafe, with an invisible enemy attacking. I think these lockdowns are too far, I think we can't hide from danger. Most people disagree with me. I can't say I've found a way to deal with this. I am depressed. I take medicine, but that only worked when things were normal. I am more depressed than I can remember, but it feels numb. When I was depressed in the past, I was actively sad, actively self-harming through excessive drug use. Now I am just, existing, like you said. But there is hope. We can get out of this mess, things are getting better. Hopefully things will be better soon.
Elon Musk says he wants the new Tesla Roadster to be able to hover
> the wrong way is not constructive.

Well, open minded people can try other ways. Mine is sitting back and thinking instead of racing the keyboard to try out stuff until it works. Both ways (as I compare to my exclusively younger colleagues) reap results in about the same timespan, but I hardly type more than the actual code I need to type while my colleagues write and delete books ('iterate fast') in that time. It both works, but I have several converts who now work like me and actually enjoy it more (not to mention far less chance of RSI).

Whatever works for you I would say.

What is a bad thing though is that it also has to do with the pressure put by WFH in some companies and sites like Upwork => a lot of 'managers' (and sorry, I cannot say anything positive about these people, but their number increased rapidly during Covid in my experience) measure productivity of an employee by keystrokes, screen changes and # of commits. Even though I finish more tasks in a day than most of my colleagues in our projects, according to those metrics, especially keystrokes and screen changes, it looks like I'm doing 'nothing'. Whatever.
I recently watched an interesting video* on the phenomena of extreme cold events increased by climate change. To massively simplify, one theory is the jet stream around the Polar vortex is being destabilized by climate change. While the North Pole is warming faster than ever, it is still very cold air, and moving that air further south means unusually cold weather. The jury is still out of course as you mentioned.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W84bi9YEGY
Also cars.

But in the greater scheme of things, this is the big problem of environmental self-whataboutism. Do what you can, even smaller things. For example, if you do decide to have a kid, doing the other things will instill better values on them and will mitigate them getting angry with you for making their world unliveable when they develop thinking capabilities.
The Universal Warrior, Part III: The Cult of the Badass
F# has this + static SQL query string checking at compile time using type providers
I am still not clear at all how "cycle time" is a meaningful measure without correcting for size of the feature.

I'm also confused as to how you can look at "mean of one week, with a standard deviation of two weeks" and not wonder about the asymmetry of the distribution, and if mean/sd are really the metrics of choice here. (I'd think 1st/3rd quartile are a better choice, because it gives some clue as to skewedness)
How much performance are you expecting moving data over usb that should be moved over sata/sas
War can be a necessary evil. But even when needed it's still evil.

What often appeals about WWII is one side was clearly good, and one side clearly not, that moral clarity is often lacking today.
Agreed; they're both really dated. There's potentially more to worth with when redesigning the meatball because it's not just a wordmark, but it has too much going on, and simplifying the elements doesn't give you anything meaningful.
My 2011 MacBook Air still works fine.

My Windows-using friend is on their third laptop in the last decade, not including the Chromebook they inherited from work.

If you want to find the "new shiny every year" people, look for the ones buying gaming rigs. There are very few games that run on macOS so there's very little pressure to upgrade to the latest greatest every year.
Warning – TeamViewer trial morphs into a subscription and then debt collection
Remotion – a framework for making videos in React
At least in the US I would be unsurprised if hacking your way around it was federally a DMCA/CFAA felony.
is it still invite only?
On the other hand, they also sold one of their core competencies away (managing complex financial transactions) and it just cost them half a billion dollars and who knows how much they've lost since to other errors, let alone lost productivity.
In the java-world there are libraries like JDBI, which makes it possible to write interfaces with SQL-annotations and have serialization, connection setup etc. done for you:

public interface UserDao {
@SqlUpdate("CREATE TABLE user (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR)")
void createTable();

@SqlUpdate("INSERT INTO user(id, name) VALUES (?, ?)")
void insertPositional(int id, String name);

@SqlQuery("SELECT * FROM user ORDER BY name")
@RegisterBeanMapper(User.class)
List<User> listUsers();
}

This is great because it's explicit. No hidden queries.
there's also no such thing as a startup that can puke a product and have 20M+ users in a week.
How did they use those kauri trees to figure out when the flip happened? The article mentions radiocarbon dating and counting tree rings but those seem like 2 different ways to date the event, not what they actually looked for in the tree to signify the event. Also, TIL about kauri trees.
Funny, when the rant is about issues with Google support then the critisism tends to focus around it being really hard to actually be able to talk to a human being.
this!
Indeed, JetBrains IntelliJIDEA had this feature for decades, I use it very often. It’s just a lifesaver.
Just, remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

- Monty Python.
Huh, I guess so. Looking over the study it looks like they had issues by looking at dirt in scoops and being unable to tell whether it's Martian dirt or a shadow.

I have a feeling I'd be the angry guy in the meeting who wouldn't accept the consensus. "but what about latency! what about the descend and landing!" shakes fist
he also links to a conference talk about this. "you can make a claim that estimates are based on past behavior, but the fact is that what you're implementing is something that hasn't been implemented before. So any kind of measurement that you've made of something that has happened in the past is not going to impact what you're doing now" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVBlnCTu9Ms
The point is that nothing is as simple as it seems. Using a renewable sources has their own side effects.

Solar? It heats the atmosphere, because it captures solar heat which would bounce back.

Wind? Obviously it slows winds down, and who knows how it affects the existing ecosystem. We know how important the gulf stream is, you wouldn’t want to slow that down..

Etc..
A Review Of Commission Hero

https://onlinecosmos.com/the-commission-hero-review/
Texas's separate grid dates back decades, and was driven by a conscious desire to optimize for the needs of manufacturing. It doesn't have anything to do with climate-change denial or the current governor. By allowing your evaluation of the situation to be influenced by that sort of thing, you are engaging in a kind of recency bias -- imagining that the future can cause the past.
Definitely agree on the Hubble Space Telescope! Total hero.
I live in Houston and I only knew 1 person who had electricity the whole time.

85% of the people I know plus myself had over 24 hrs of contiguous down time.
I don’t know if I do care that customer is or isn’t a supplier. I have been using Nominal type systems in C++ and C# for a long time and I’ve started drifting into an architecture style that leverages interfaces as my types which I just learned is structural typing. I really liked the concept in Golang and then I really started using it in TypeScript and got hooked. It makes so many programming problems easier to implement, maintain, and understand. I now mix and match nominal and structural types in my projects, using them where they best fit.
Vertical farm in a city fits in economical sense, as their market is there, while farmers have to haul their product to consumers.
For me it's the skin. Although it has gotten much better with the subsurface scattering, it's still looking a bit plastic-y.
Rich get rich by paying software engineers to develop applications that deliver efficiencies. Efficiencies usually mean getting rid of workers.

Newspapers used to be big local employers, newsroom employees, print workers, packaging workers, delivery workers. Software engineers developed news applications for rich people and many newspaper workers lost jobs.

The increase in legal and illegal immigration has cause labor supply increase, while jobs have fluctuated, resulting in stagnant or decreasing salaries.

Offshoring manufacturing and services to China also led to decrease in employment opportunities.
Not in the 10 months we’ve existed. We’ve had a few backend devs in that time. We make sure everything is written down, and I make myself very available for questions - mostly async, but I’m not opposed to a call if it makes things faster.

It helps that our tech isn’t that complicated - python/Django backend, slack app and react frontend.