skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) If you are a US-born citizen and qualify for a security clearance, jobs aren't as scarce as you think.

2) You are right the pay is worse in the public / government side. I will say - you might not believe me now, but it really is true that once you make enough money to pay all your bills, suddenly more money is less motivating than the ability to work on interesting problems.

What I just said above supposes that most lab work is interesting, which is not not the case, but I still think it's better than the average SWE's workload at your average tech company, just based on my personal experience having done both at different times in my career.
https://doc.e.foundation/easy-installer

Every Samsung device on the compatibility page is the Exynos version only, so, that tells me anyone in the US hoping to repurpose their Snapdragon-based Galaxy phones is out of luck.
From the hiring side, a (reasonable) expiration on the offer helps be fair to the other people who are interviewing, too. If I have a single position open and multiple people interviewing, as a hiring manager I really need to know whether my top choice is serious once we're having a discussion about signing a contract - because if they aren't, or are still trying to land better offers from other places because they have concerns about my offer and aren't raising them, I have other candidates just hanging out and waiting. Its not fair to the other candidates to say "you're not my top choice from this round, please hang on just in case we need you", or to just stall while we see how things play out - nobody feels good about that.

Granted, if you're getting very short exploding offers from big companies who are almost certainly hiring for a role continuously or in bulk, that would leave a bad taste in my mouth too. But if you're interviewing at the kind of company that may have budget for just a single new hire, and multiple people are interviewing, a reasonable expiration makes sure we're both mutually serious about eachother. I want to hire you enough that we've put together a (hopefully) compelling offer, you want to work on the team enough that you (hopefully) either feel good accepting the offer quickly or raising your concerns so we can discuss. If the offer isn't right for you, sitting on it as a backup in hopes that you can find something better is detrimental everyone involved.
It's a magical feeling. :)
I’ll leave Naval Ravikant’s reasoning why UBI is a terrible idea since he should have much more clout here on HN than me. I am honestly dumbfounded that HN always seems to be so absolutely pro-UBI, like it’s a magic bullet that will end poverty and all of human suffering. People want to earn their money. It feels better, it promotes self-confidence and also is part of the ethos of America.

“The moment you start having a direct transfer mechanism like that in democracy, you're basically doing away with capitalism which is the engine of economic growth. You're also forcing the entrepreneur out, or telling them not to come here."

"People who are down on their luck, they're not looking for handouts. It's not just about money, it's also about status and meaning. The moment I start giving money to you, I've lowered your status and made you a second class citizen.”
Another way of fixing that particular problem would be to move to Sweden. Or most countries in Europe really...

(More difficult to earn 7 figures though...)
UBI fuels local economies, in long term this is actually more beneficial to economy and recovery from some market crash.

Even if the increase of UBI would be used to get votes, its better then what we currently have - lover taxes for mega rich. At least this way I get something.
I remember being in an interview, with a very respected figure/researcher in the local ML/AI scene - had seen some guest lectures/seminars he held at the local Uni., which were excellent.

He was glued to his phone for about 95% of the interview, completely focused on something else. It was quite the letdown.

But I understand that a lot of people really, really loathe doing interviews. Probably stipulated in their work contract that they need to attend to stuff like that.
$0.02/gb compared to $0.005 with b2. So not really in the same ballpark as far as price.
>Not enough clarity about your role

This is true at large organizations as well, it's not like there is some jigsaw puzzle waiting for the candidate that's a perfect fit.
Then we will refer you to Midori powering the Asian nodes for Bing, until Microsoft management decided to pull the plug.

Or how F-Secure is shipping secure USB keys with bare metal Go firmware.
D and Zig have dynamically typed generics (templates/"comptime thingy"), while Rust has statically typed generics. A lot of people confuse this for Rust having less powerful generics. It's simply a different approach: the dynamic vs. static types distinction, at the type level instead of the value level.
Maybe I explained it badly. :)

SQL essentially forces you to first define your data schema, then write data according to that schema. This works great for reading a user profile given an email; or read all comments of all users who are born before 1995. Since you have a schema on write, you can add indexes to optimise these queries.

In contrast, if you need to do "anomaly detection" over an opaque dataset (where the definition of "anomaly" moves faster than you can rewrite your schemas), then it's better to just do a full dataset scan and create a schema on read.

My 2 cents.
I think a similar question worth pondering is: Is increased development of pay-for-privacy ethical in similar extremes?

Extending the authors arguments, it would be unethical to develop pay-for-privacy if it reserves privacy for the few and ends up hurting democracy. I wasn't a fan of CA's prop 24 precisely because it wasn't clear enough on this question.

Offcourse, most people aren't worried about ads, but about their boss seeing something they want to keep private. I imagine once the ads and tracking get invasive enough, there will be more outcries if there aren't enough already. Anyone can setup a Pi-hole, get Signal, and at least try to use alternative privacy-respecting platforms, but even that may not be enough if ISPs and other lower-tier providers also track you and offer opt-outs to only those who can pay more.
Don't push to production on a Friday, but Thursday at the latest, sure...
Extortion, blackmail, stalking, credible threats of kidnapping or robbery due to pattern of life exposure, et c.
I'm jumping in as soon as a robust 3D game engine uses it as a first class language.
> What should I do?

Don't feed the trolls and instead read both of the replies to your original comment that focused on constructive advice.
Everything from the hiring company's perspective also applies to the candidate.

The company is investing a lot of time and effort in the interviewing process. The candidate has been preparing for weeks for an assessment that has nothing to do with their actual job, and is being assigned multiple take-home challenges that take 4-8 hours of their time, etc.

The company wants to feel free to shop around and spend as much time as they want to hire "the right candidate?" The candidate is entitled to the same, shopping around for "the right company."

The company wants to avoid a bidding war to get the candidate for the least amount of money they can get away with? The candidate wants a bidding war so they can get the most amount of money they can get away with.

The company asks the candidate what salary they are expecting. The candidate can simply ask what the range for the position is, since the company has that information.

The company spends the entire interview assessing the candidate, and maybe asks if they have any questions at the last minute? The candidate is entitled to know just as much about what they are potentially getting themselves into by accepting an offer as the company is by hiring a candidate.

etc.

The process is a 2-way negotiation between equal parties.
I believe some of the original proponents of UBI tended to be for balanced budget amendments. This perhaps yields some sort of equilibrium. Although I can think of some states with balanced budget constitutions that act only nominally to constrain spending, as they are based on abusable projections, so the impediment is not firm.
Would be nice if the scrollbar weren't replaced by a worse one.
>"What would the damage be to the people who come to rely on UBI as part of the general economic system, only to have it rapidly reduced or removed entirely?"

I think removing UBI if you already have one in place would simply cause mass revolt. It would be a suicide for any politician. So unless there is something like mass starvation caused by some catastrophe removing UBI will be off the table.
Writing is an imperfect technology for moving thoughts between minds. "Writing simply" is valuable if it communicates your thought more efficiently and accurately (and it is indeed a common peccadillo to write thoughts in a bloated and inefficient manner), but like you're pointing out, some thoughts are not compressible beyond a certain point. For example, here's some Ovid quoted in a book I'm reading. I'd like to hear how you could write this "simply" without losing resolution of the thought from which it originated:

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There is no greater wonder than to range

The starry heights, to leave the earth’s dull regions,

To ride the clouds, to stand on Atlas’ shoulders,

And see, far off, far down, the little figures

Wandering here and there, devoid of reason,

Anxious, in fear of death, and so advise them,

And so make fate an open book…

Full sail, I voyage
Over the boundless ocean, and I tell you

Nothing is permanent in all the world. All things are fluid; every image forms,

Wandering through change. Time is itself a river In constant movement, and the hours flow by

Like water, wave on wave, pursued, pursuing,

Forever fugitive, forever new. That which has been, is not; that which was not, Begins to be; motion and moment always In process of renewal…

Not even the so-called elements are constant… Nothing remains the same: the great renewer, Nature, makes form from form, and, oh, believe me That nothing ever dies….
The ergonomics of using a laptop 8 hours a day are pretty horrendous. It may be hard to notice in your 20s but it will wreck your body. Using a proper desk and desk chair, or sit/stand desk, will save a lot of wear and tear.
Isn't that like at least 3.8 trillion per year?
Citizen, you have watched a video featuring Benjamin Shapiro. Your UBI has been deducted by $1
Also here’s an unboxing of one of his NFT artwork

https://youtu.be/PSm1rdd1ywc
Thats incorrect.

When you buy art at auction, unless specified, or a print, you own the rights to all of it.

Its the same with a company, if you own all the shares, you can asset strip, pull apart, and generally do anything within the law to it.

unless explicitly specified in the contract of sale, the artist will retain the rights to the original work. Nothing in the NFT explicitly states that you own the original thing that you've generated the token for.
lrzip :-D
Tolkien both claimed that LOTR was allegorical and that it wasn't. Probably he was using the common definition of allegory in one context and the literary definition in the other.

When Tolkien said he disliked allegory, he meant he disliked literary works that map directly onto some external meaning that was necessary for understanding the story. He thought a story should stand on its own, and, further, it wasn't good writing to try to force a story into allegory rather than let it take its own direction. But we also know from his letters that he purposefully incorporated religious (specifically, Catholic) metaphors into LOTR, which most people would call allegory, including Tolkien on some occasions.
Sounds like a needlessly expensive standard. It is not that hard to quit without destroying your career.

Personally, I am satisfied with two weeks notice money.
LTSpice is my go-to circuit simulator, but I have spent weeks of my waking life waiting on it to run simulations. My current demon is simulating a 1 MW DC power supply to validate current output smoothing solutions in low load scenarios. The topology is a delta-delta and delta-wye transformer, each feeding a summing bridge rectifier, the two rectifiers have their negative legs tied together and the positive legs are the outputs.

I only simulate one pulse (about 3 ms), but the simulation takes minutes to resolve the inrush. Tuning circuit impedances to match measurement is a real pain. At this point I'm just going to take many more direct measurements. If it was quick I would have written a script to scan through unknown parameters to maximize correlation with measurements, but that isn't reasonable when the simulation fails after several minutes of trying for most values.
Do you keep a journal though?
So... "far-left" is anyone who disagrees with you, then? That's a rather bold attempt to push the Overton Window; I don't think it will work, though.
market will eat ubi by adjusting prices, and politicians will abuse ubi by promising more ubi
This has been so many times in so many ways. Go with what holds your attention. Galloway's version does it for me:

Rich = Passive Income > expenses

https://youtu.be/uNrjrDV9-YQ
> It's the only reason I can think of for paying inflation linked £92.50 per MwH for 35 years for Hinkley point c when the UK can build wind or solar for £35-40 now and probably less in future years.

Really? Intermittency seems like a very good reason.
You may be reading into things I didn't say.

First, I didn't say I was financially independent (at all) let alone based on my current spending.

Second, I didn't mention my current spending, nor did I call it "minimal."

Third, I didn't say I couldn't afford to do things based on the money I do have.

FIRE means literally "financial independence, retire early." None of that prescribes spending the absolute bare minimum just to survive. You may be thinking more along the lines of earlyretirementextreme.com, which embraces a whole different level of independence and capability and minimizing expenses and resource consumption.

But you can reach FIRE simply by accumulating and investing about 25x your annual spending, whatever that spending may be.

Personally, we live in a big house, have a somewhat expensive pet, drive two late model (albeit economical) cars we enjoy, travel, eat well, have nice laptops, etc. We just did and do all spending mindfully and somewhat optimally. Often you can put the Pareto principle into play, and get almost all the enjoyment of something for a fraction of the cost. Sometimes you can simply avoid waste.
By that logic you shouldn't allow tourists either, as far as I know they don't pay for emergency services, or most of the roads, or whatever else public costs there are.

(And in addition, nothing is stopping you from charging them for the average possibility of them using it)
This is spot on. Advertising companies like Facebook, self-optimize for one thing only: user engagement/impressions.
Have had live production data on there for a couple of years and it's been very solid outside the maintenance windows.

(The exception being the recent outages GoDaddy caused for them, but since they've moved to using Cloudflare as their registrar, I don't anticipate further issues there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119619 )
There is a book on ANSI SQL that I've used: https://www.amazon.com/SQL-Complete-Reference-James-Groff/dp...
Thank you for this. I was looking for exactly something like this. People post there stuff on all kind of media including blog, twitter, projects, github etc. It's hard to follow someone's work by going through each platform of their choice.

This solves it. Thank you :)
There is also a model in and around the natural history museum in Gothenburg, Sweden. Some of the planets are close to some really good MTB trails in the nearby forest Änggårdsbergen!

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6teborgs_Naturhistoriska...
its only fraud if you try and sell it as anything other than what it is, a hash.

People assume that the NFT is the rights to the actual work. But its just a hash. So selling something as an NFT of "x" is perfectly legal.
The term hacker significantly predates keyboards.
Upcoming Oppo Smartphone has almost a microscope for a camera
Totally agree...these are some nice ways to learn and practice. So to make sure I follow your initial need back then what was your main goal when you were solving such tasks as writing a script to automate data entry? Like what was the main and most important goal back then?
Money by itself is useless, it's like a tool in a toolbox that needs to be used in order to be effective. Un-allocated capital translates into options: things you could do, if you wanted to. And that in turn translates into less stress and a safety net.

But once spent it is no longer available in that role so the big trick is to ensure that your 'stash' doesn't diminish in an unsustainable way if you should ever have to tap into it. The rate at which you can tell people to get lost has a pretty hard limit unless you reach a really high level of independence and even then: what goes up can come down. So be careful how frequently you tell people to get lost, it's a small world.
All that happens with UBI is that prices meet demand and rise. Dollars are worth less. There is never going to be a situation where we just hit the printing press and everybody gets to live a leisurely good life. Living a good life really comes down to national production and logistics more than money distribution (the rich have piles of money but they dont typically consume in line with their wealth, like Jeff Bezos is not taking up 50 nurses or buying 100 single family homes or eating 100x his share of food).

For example if I gave everyone 250k and told them to all go out and buy a ferrari, its actually impossible. There are not enough cars and prices would rise substantially to box out people again. The same principal goes for homes, healthcare, education, etc. The best way to increase standard of living is to increase production and efficiency to meet everyone's needs in all service and product categories.
No one wants to hear the rich complain about the burden of wealth, the loneliness of power and the ennui of endless opportunity. Even if it's true. Let them eat cake.
Hi Kickscondor, I've seen you on HN before. Love your aesthetic!

I urge everyone to check out Kickscondor's website for some 90's era web design nostalgia

https://www.kickscondor.com/
I think he is indeed arguing for clarity, which is why arguing for simplicity undermines his own argument.

Nietzsche is a lucid writer (well, Zarathustra excepted). Rewriting Nietzsche to be more "simple" would certainly be a gargantuan mistake.
> This is simply insecure. “It is easier to cut holes into a solid block than to patch something that looks like swiss cheese”. What reason does a random app has to see each keypress, when it doesn’t have focus? Do you trust eg. the teams app or the million other app to be a good citizen?

Up-thread I was asking why X.org doesn't simply firewall apps off from one another, and ship with an extension to control this firewall. Adding this capability to X.org (or any X11 implementation) could be done without throwing X11 away. Having a unified way to decide which programs get to see which events would be lost in a transition to Wayland, since each compositor would ship with its own incompatible way of doing this.

> Screen capture is implemented with pipewire in a better way than before.

It also requires that the given Wayland compositor works with it. So, you're SOL if the window manager you're using happens to be welded to a Wayland compositor that doesn't. This wasn't the case before with X11, where screen capture was handled by the X server.

> Fonts: noone uses the old font API of X, even under X. And third party libs like cairo work on both wayland and x, so nothing is lost here.
> Drawing APIs: show me any app that uses it and was upgraded in the last two decades. Feel free to use a CPU only drawing API, I prefer not watching the line getting rendered.

I wonder why the server still has them, then. Surely the X.org developers would have simply deleted old code without throwing the whole server away if they were as certain as you are that no one uses them?

Also, I see you haven't addressed the other points I raised (Xrdb, clipboard, ICCCM, NetWM, xprops, window management, etc.).

> Also, as I already mentioned XWayland is important for exactly this reason - it is a completely backward compatible X implementation, on top of a better display protocol. What’s the actual problem, because I still don’t see it.

It's not 100% compatible -- things still break. Distros are up-front about this (I have a sibling comment with sources).

> There is no need to have incompatible implementations of each, and just look at the three main wayland implementations: they share many of the work.

So now if I want to go and build a window manager, I have to go and re-implement a whole crap-ton of extensions myself that the X server used to do for me? And I have to do it perfectly, so apps written for other DEs won't just break? Sounds like a walled garden to me -- it raises the barrier to entry for new players.
It is hard for me to think of a situation where UBI would have be decreased that could not be handled better by simply taxing people more. One hand giveth, the other hand taketh away.

My biggest concern is inflation. Adding more cash without also increasing productivity can cause inflation. UBI might improve productivity in a number of ways, but it might not do so enough. I know that proponents of the job guarantee argue that this is the fatal flaw in UBI; that instead people should be guaranteed useful work to do, which in theory would increase productivity to offset the government expenditures to send them paychecks. I do agree that there is a lot of useful work that could get done under such a program (cleaning rivers and streams, etc.), but I'm not convinced that we'd see productivity gains reliably either.

But opponents also complain about wage growth getting too high, almost as if capitalism depends on a class of exploited poor ...
I think most of the time it should be cut out, the times you leave it in should be intentional and rare.

If you read stuff that's doing that kind of thing all of the time it makes it harder to read and the writing is often worse. It's something newer writers tend to do for some reason, I'm not sure why.