skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the aversion to Sydney? Not even as retirement?
He is due for a renaissance. He is well known but certainly under-read.
Strictly speaking this is only true if you start with a perfectly circular orbit, right?
iirc untyped is not incorrect, untyped lambda calculus for instance is where your value type is unknown until your runtime like dynamic type, untyped doesn't mean you don't have type in your language
What makes their lives sad and pathetic to you? What do you do that is so interesting?
Please also note that German software engineers have much less money comparing to almost any other country.

The average salary is 4900 Euro and after tax this will be 2900 Euro !!! Even software engineers in a poor country like Ukraine make more money after tax than that and they also have much lower expenses comparing to Germany.

So why someone living in Germany will spend a lot of time for study, learning all the technologies etc if you will only earn 15% more money than a cleaning guy without any education and who can spend all his free time with friends instead of improving qualification?

So Germany is a failed state for software developers.
The Success of Tether
One of the most popular EA charities [1] gives money to very poor people, with no strings attached, for precisely that reason. The people you're criticizing embraced your criticism many years ago; did you notice?

[1] https://www.givewell.org/charities/give-directly
> Which is sad given this statistic! It is a huge wasted opportunity where we could be leaders in ideation, creations, thoughts, inventions etc.

The statistic is about devs doing well on coding tests, not about any of the creative, innovative things you list.

Perhaps they are inversely related.
> But then, sometimes I think I am the sad one, because I always want more and will never be happy with anything I have.

I can relate to the concept and have to work hard on taking time to appreciate what I have - I call that mindset 'inherent dissatisfaction' and personally found it poisonous, but realise that's probably not the case for everyone.
The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
Yes. The Government fails at everything it sets out to do. For example, in San Francisco we spend $61,000 for each homeless tent. Homelessness is exploding.

If you haven't noticed, our entire system isn't working. We have massive inequality, race riots, and if you read any polls no one trusts any institution.

I do not believe we will get anything for that money. I'm completely skeptical of our failing system; all of the money will line the pockets of politically connected groups. If anything gets build at all I would be amazed.

Also the plan lacks vision. If you have all the cards, why not go big? It just looks stingy. No high speed rail for you.
I've always been a big Monokai fan. Usually Monokai Night now. I did try out this theme recently and really enjoyed it with the caveat that my @emotion/core CSS template literals weren't being highlighted correctly.

I notice some themes have more robust syntax highlighting out of the box. Is that something I can tweak easily?
That’s an interesting example, though I read it as a kind of parody of jargon rather than actual jargon. It’s a tricky case though since jargon also has multiple senses and your classification fits one of them.

I’m curious whether you would consider “domestic partnership” to be both jargon and a term of art (I would).

It’s interesting reviewing definitions of ‘jargon’: while you do find things like e.g. “ specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject” —mostly you find references to incoherent/nonsensical speech.
Haskell allows this as well. ASCII symbols are the default, while you can use the -XUnicodeSyntax language extension to get Unicode symbols. (My understanding is that Unicode characters are always allowed in identifiers.)
I have been using terraform professionally at my current workplace for a while now and I would not recommend it to anyone when building and maintaining non-trivial infrastructure.

- state management is a sad joke. Which would be fine if it wouldn't end up being an expensive joke sometimes. And by sometimes I mean right when you need to change production. Try destroying your stack with an AWS KMS key. Then create it again. Try killing apply and then try re-applying it. I have witnessed hours of developer time going down the drain to figure out what terraform was able to do, import resources, convince terraform that resources are added, write scripts to delete stuff.. A complete nightmare. Oh yeah, but just run apply twice, that usually fixes it. There is no such thing as a rollback in the world of terraform. We only roll forward!

- bUt ItS cLouD AgNoSTic. No, it's not. You're writing separate stacks with their separate own custom resources and their separate requirements and separate policies. Just use cloudformation, gdm or whatever your cloud uses and automate these using a script if you're doing crosscloud crap.

- but I want to avoid vendor lock-in. See above, odds are that you're already locked-in but still in denial.

- HCL. I get it. Declarative, nice and clean. HAHAHA, who am I kidding. It sucks, it's stupid and pointless. Awful to write, awful to read, inconsistent, no proper tooling or editor support. Good luck maintaining dependencies or comprehending a complex stack. Why didn't they just build a DSL over a language people already know? Good luck 'refactoring' your resource definitions. Oh, and you also want to test it somehow without affecting a remote environment? Again, good luck, sucker. Because 'the plan' is a lie. And error messages seem to be written by someone waging war against their customers.

In conclusion, I do not recommend terraform. In my opinion it is an overhyped piece of technology on which I would not bet my company/money on.
That depends on how the tumbler is implemented. If the transaction from sender to receiver is instant and from a single address to another single address, well then yeah it's obvious. But if you batch the transactions of thousands of users over the course of a day for example, and make sure to split the amount to send to multiple addresses with random values, now the only thing that you can correlate is that one of the thousands of senders might also be one of the seemingly tens of thousands of receivers. If the tumbler is allowed to spread it out over multiple days or weeks or even months, well then good luck ever correlating the sender and receiver.
On Common Core Math, Individual Variation, and Things You Can't Teach
She had a contract limiting how much or how long to wait for withdraws from the account, she broke the contract making it theft.
I remember one mobile operator in late 2000s charged for a call only after first second. So we used to call each other, saying something really fast and hang up to not get charged.
Sure. Sometimes the scheme is introducing a new miracle tech to the masses of poor people and it benefits them. However some additional money beyond the cost of the tech is taken from them in return.

Other times the scheme is just cheating people or restricting their access to hoarded limited resource.
US FAANG health insurance is better and cheaper than (Australian) Medicare, which doesn't cover dentists/therapists/psychiatrists/etc. Universal systems are of course better once you're too sick to keep your job.

Also, Sydney's cost of living and housing crisis is apparently even worse than SV, though I don't understand how that's possible. We're very dedicated to making housing expensive here.
Saying 400K isn't great money is indicative of the massive wealth that the tech bubble has. Y'all are priveledged. I can't wait for remote work to spread those salaries across the globe. I will out work your friend for less that half that price. And I know countless more like me.
Reputable companies don’t need SPACs. I’d guess there is close to zero chance of any SPAC landing a high quality company like stripe, Starlink etc...
Ask HN: Would you use JavaScript if you are going to build an XR browser?
Assume you are convinced that the current web browsers, which were originally built for 2D documents, are not for XR. A reason can be the current browsers being too much important for our societies that they need to be super stable, and while this is not bad itself, they are no longer a place to mess around and iterate fast. Another reason maybe the tab system not fitting XR at all but I think I'll stop ranting here.

So, you are going to build an XR browser, and you like how HTML/JS/CSS are divided into three.

The question is, would you still use a XML-like markdown language (with angle brackets and attributes), javascript, and a CSS-like syntax? Mainly, would you still use javascript or switch to something like lua? The pros and cons I can see are javascript having bunch of libraries and users vs. the reasons lua being used by game studios building those large 3D worlds.
NASA's Insight Mars Lander Is 'In Crisis', and Has Entered Emergency Hibernation
I think gp’s downvotes are a good example that most of us aren’t ready to consider that, let alone admit it.
If tumblers are a problem, why wouldnt monero be? You could view it just as a BTC that has built-in tumbler. I dont really follow this logic of Monero shills. Exchanges can ban both tumblers AND monero.
Again, read my comment, very carefully, then you migth get it.

Afterwards go learn how to create a GUI for macOS, iOS, Android, ChromeOS, Windows, WebOS (as shipped by LG) or even Fuchsia, using only their SDKs and nothing else.

As for Qt not moving away from pure C++, go use it with pure C++ on iOS, Android and embedded devices.

Maybe you will get it, but I am not so sure.
Agree with parent completely. Also, maybe this is a rationalisation for not moving to SV but our software dev salaries are more than enough to live a very comfortable lifestyle. Sure, we're not going to retire in 5 years and cruise around on our yachts, but if you're beyond chasing material goods for status then living and working in Sydney in this industry is pretty great.
Copying software without a license from the owner to do so is prima facie copyright infringement.
Yep. It's just bad. He's essentially advocating for effective altruism to become another lobbying group or NGO.
AU FAANG pay for health insurance too.
AWS provides a service that you can use as a commodity, and with appropriate backups, can easily recover from. DNS is the magic here.

Unfortunately (with the exception of SIP dialling, which is extremely niche) there is no DNS for telephony. If your provider cuts you off, you can’t transparently move away, and number porting is slow.
Looks like (from a quick googling, may be something I'm not taking into account here) violent crime is actually more common in Australia than in California.

Australia 692 violent assaults per 100k [1]

California 430 assaults per 100k [2]

So, you'd also be trading more of a rare really bad thing for less of a relatively common bad thing.

1 - https://www.osac.gov/Country/Australia/Content/Detail/Report....

2 - https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/....
It's argued that in some cities public transport systems the price of the ticket doesn't cover the cost of its own infrastructure, the machines to buy them, the ones to validate them the salaries of the agents verifying, etc. It can be more cost effective to drop the concept of ticket and make it a free public service.
I've noticed this recently among some of my American colleagues, and it's so obvious to me that at first I thought they were imitating an English accent. To my English ears, standard American pronounces the "t"s in butter and water as "d", and hadn't realised that some accents do have the glottal "t". I think it is mostly in people from the East coast.
I have been offered increase in pay to work in LA/SanFran/NY/UK/SouthAmerica/UAE and each time I knock it back because each time I have visited those places I could not wait to leave them. UAE was twice the money. The cost and conditions of life in Au are so much better.
Comps are a fundamental part of establishing fair valuation. Comparing Coinbase to the NYSE doesn't seem arbitrary to me. How likely do you think it is Coinbase becomes a household name like Visa, really? How many retailers process payments per day with Coinbase? How long did it take Visa to build its network? How consistent is Coinbase usership?

I don't see Coinbase having a future in payment processing. Not unless cryptocurrencies become drastically more stable and energy efficient. Even then, you're hoping for the goodwill of the government not to implement serious restriction.
If Youtube was to go away today, do the guys who upload videos on this platform stop being content creators?

This is myth I want to dispell.

Now to answer your question. Yes, it will be tough and disruptive should you start distributing your content through other alternatives if you were using youtube as your only vehicle. But similar issues were faced by other content creators such as musicians, journalists when the streaming era started disrupting their vehicles. They adapted. Don't see why video content creators shouldn't be able to find the same flexibility and continue to thrive. Youtube by itself with no content does not have anything to sell.

Infact, relying only on a single platform can be dangerous for creators since we've seen some of them being booted off by AI. No human explanations.

Audience, traffic, monetization, reach are all market problems. They will exist whether Youtube is there or not.
considering how much it can be abused, it might be for the better
What warzone you fucking retard?
I was actually just looking at this and our benefits in AU seem to be A$3000 a year allowance towards a private plan. That doesn't seem like a lot, but maybe it's enough.
> Why anyone rejects the code then use it anyway.

So that he does not have to pay bounty.
NYC is one of them. Still requires you relocate 10000 miles away from your friends and family, which isn't for everyone.
>I usually have a really hard time getting my money back and I can't have charges filed against the company

"can't" appears to be a deliberate exaggeration or outright falsehood. People take large companies to court every single day, sometimes without spending any or much money to do so.

Small claims court exists for a reason. If Apple, Microsoft or BigTechCo wrong you, you can sue them in small claims up to a limit.

I also don't buy your excusing of theft. If I leave a suitcase in a taxi accidentally with $100K in cash inside it, I'd rightly expect it to be a criminal action if the taxi driver took that money and bought a BMW with it.
that's cool but you can't fix all the problems in usa with triple salary.

> healthcare
> unlimited homelessness, in one day in la i saw more homelessness people then in my entire life in australia, this was only eclipsed by san fran. now i get why devs are leaving california, i wouldn't raise a family there.
> gun violence
> political instability
> terrible pre-12 education system.
> general shitty american population (why do you need to clap and chant so much)
At first I wanted to disagree as I have worked on some pretty awesome stuff and for work at least, I would rather work here than the US. That moderate economic landscape you mention is the reason working on software is so reasonable here. No ridiculous hours, sensible but good pay and a lot of mature technology choices since risk is avoided or at least calculated first.

As an average entrepreneur you are incentivised to play it safe by bootstrapping into existing industries, and because our market is so small the potential for hockey stick growth isn't there so investment isn't an attractive option either.

So I think you raise some good points but they may be aimed at people interested in the fast paced investment fueled software industries, and there are plenty of entrepreneurs and developers who much rather the moderate and grounded pace Australia offers.

I also agree that we have a lot of latent opportunities that can't be realised in that same environment, we are at an apex of cost and availability that makes it really difficult to pull off big risky projects so that leaves a lot of opportunity on the table.
Isn't the Washington Post owned by Bezos? It's a bit meta they are writing about taxing the rich....
I made the decision around 2010, when the landscape was a little different. A key but rather random factor was I'd happened to buy a book on wx, just for interests sake. I liked that wx was straightforwardly open source, whereas qt had various licensing issues and complications (still does). Gtk is really in a different category. Wx sits on gtk on Linux for example.
Only if you can keep up with the new addresses the coins are sent to, and if they decide to send some of the coins to random legitimate accounts en masse, now pools will be blocking countless legitimate accounts that have no connection to the censored address. It would require some kind of central agency that can track and immediately update a list of censored addresses.
When I was a teenager I used this to attempt to long distance date someone... got banned from the network.
Yeah but if people would mostly store their bitcoins, wouldn’t the energy needs go down?
Can concur, as an Aussie expat having spent 7 years in NYC/NJ returned to a much better lifestyle in WA before my kids ever have to go to a school in the US.

No longer have to worry about gun violence, surprise bankrupting medical bills & an anti-intellectual population prolonging the devastation of a virus that's killed >500k of the fellow population.

There's going to be better opportunities to work for mega tech conglomerates in the US but I'd expect great devs will be able to get hired remotely, although the salary for IT professionals is pretty decent in Australia as well.
100% agree. unless you get a fully remote job, you need to really really love germany to stay there as a software developer. A friend of mine topped out at 90k with 10y experience working in a bank (which tradtionally already pay higher salaries) and that is a number for which I could find exactly zero skilled developers here in California. It would be perceived as a borderline insult. And no, that money isn't eaten by healthcare. I paid far more for healthcare for my family in Germany than I do here in the US.
Yeah: it's like, the problem we are trying to solve largely hasn't changed, so the solutions are maybe a bit lacking in elegance sometimes, but they are generally fine... and the concern would be that someone trying to do it today would be like "the correct way to do this is to have some ridiculously complex stack built on top of 70 pseudo-standards from Google with a single bespoke implementation in JavaScript that no one could ever reimplement".
Maybe political change would be the most obvious remedy but it's track record of helping the poor is gives ample reason to look for change elsewhere.
I keep hearing people say this, but after years and years of working as an amateur or as a remote web developer, from my home, in the dark, using dark themes whenever possible... moving to a brightly-lit office job where much of the required software is lacking a "dark theme" has got me to the point where I find my eyes typically burning up after around 2–3 o'clock. when I work on side projects at home after work or on the weekends, I never experience any of this, using dark-themed software in a dim or darkened home office.
That’s correct and several exchanges will freeze funds when they have a “tainted history”. Thus, tokens on open ledger DLTs are not fungible at all.

Cash is more fungible, yet you can also link serial numbers on bills back to ransom payments.

In a similar fashion, if you, even unknowingly, pay with counterfeit cash, you won’t get reimbursed for the face value, if it gets detected.

Back to crypto, Monero addresses the aforementioned issues through stealth addresses, ring signatures and ringCTs, thus fungibility of the token is higher.
Nice! I'm going to review this and see what my allergist says
This guy is always promoting these moronic ideas.

I would say he should stick to making music but he’s not very good at that either.
Reminds me of childhood. We'd do this when we didn't have enough balance. Expecting the reciever to call back. This would work only within the state. Out of state we used to have something called roaming charges. Charged even when receiving a call. We don't have that anymore these days.
Unfortunately due to the abuse of civil forfeiture the "permanently only after a trial" part isn't true these days.
ASML CEO Says Trying to Control Chip Sales to China Won’t Work
That gets a good private plan here. Also that's after a large corporate discount
To be fair, the previously published genome gave a big head start - not sure how long that took though.
If you have employee shares, it's very much not pedantic since there's no lockup period.
Such can be easily implemented on top of Docker filesystem overlays/snapshots. You just run the script in question e.g. in fresh Ubuntu container and then compare overlay directories to see what changed.
Why the fuck are you worrying about "metaphysical frameworks?" The things EA mostly focuses on are people dying of easily preventable starvation and disease. There is no need to bring up highly abstract ideas about "metaphysics" (whatever you mean by that - morality isn't generally considered to be in the field of metaphysics) when the suffering is so blatantly concrete.
Ah the good old days, when people talked about Bitcoin solving too high credit card fees. It’s now $15+ per transaction in fees but it’s now a store of value so it doesn’t matter!
It used to be that you could not IPO unless you were profitable, and furthermore the point of an IPO was to raise money needed to fund growth. But today these companies have raised enough money from VC's that they don't need any more from the public markets. By listing shares and letting these insiders sell, there is more limited supply and great demand, so they can sell tiny stakes for inflated prices. It's really great for VC's and other insiders.
So this is not a general property of EA, but only true for this field, as verified by a domain expert?
NYC is the only place in the US I was actually impressed by, and if I was a single guy with no family I could consider living there. Everywhere else I traveled was meh.
And when a corrupt federal agent asks a bank to delete records, because they’re allegedly part of a secret investigation, they also comply. This happened in the Silk Road case, but the immutability of the Bitcoin blockchain revealed their transactions.
Some will, some won't. I prefer to think in terms of the expected value. Each dollar I donate might be useful or it might be entirely wasted, but (if I've chosen a good enough charity) dollars like it are probably doing a lot of good on average.
An obvious flaw is that it's comparing an entire country to a singular (and disporoprotionately wealthy) state. If you expanded the rate to America in general the violent crime rate is around 800 per 100k, and if you reduced "Australia" to "New South Wales" then you also see a similar drop - but the site doesn't provide an easy to consume summary.

The web app doesn't seem to support direct linking to query results, but it's in here: http://crimetool.bocsar.nsw.gov.au/bocsar/ under Assault - Non Domestic.

At the end of the day though - people tend to consider being murdered a significantly more disruptive event than getting punched in the face.
Tic-tac-toe without any JavaScript
wxWidgets is a wrapper over the native GUI toolkit. It allows you to write a OS independent GUI code and because it is a wrapper you get most of the benefits of native toolkit like dark mode.