skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how Google is doing it, but the difference at some other companies is not that much. You're probably not getting sent down from 600k TC to 60k, even if that's the going rate for developers in Nowhere, Montana (if there even are any developer jobs there).

Then, consider that much of compensation at higher levels is RSUs you've already been allocated for the next four years anyways.
Wouldn’t it be easier for you to manage what you expend your battery on?
Not quite what you asked for, but the creator of oilshell is often here and has given quite a bit of thought to what a shell is and why create a new one:

https://www.oilshell.org/
4.3%, like I said is making two huge overestimates: one, that home prices increased nationwide by far more than what they actually did, and two, that all other things inflated by an average of 3%. Plenty of things even saw negative year over year changes. TVs have gotten incredibly cheap. Software is basically free (whether you pay for it with your privacy or go with FOSS.) Furniture, clothes, lights, toys have gotten far cheaper than they were even a few decades ago.
> Wow, it's almost as if the modern economic system itself is the problem

What makes you so sure that it's our economic system (inb4 "let's blame capitalism for everything") and not all the other aspects of modernity that make is isolated, atomized, and nihilistic?
Tech support jobs are good for bootstrapping when you don't have dev or sysadmin experience. For the OP's friend, though, who has programming experience, this would likely be an unnecessary detour.
Chabudo _IS_ why China is able to rapidly progress towards full potential.

Fast, cheap, good. Pick two. Deng wanted poor China to develop fast. So ChaBuDuo. The original Life of Mr. Cha Buduo was an essay on the inability to adapt to modernization. Good enough + Chinese scale / population means = enough occasional, actually good outcomes to reach global competitiveness in ways that matter, fast.

Modern Chinese ChaBuDuo culture is the maximal embrace of it for specific development goals. ChaBuDuo culture can be reigned in if the government really wanted to i.e. Chinese aviation safety used to be dismal, now it's one of the safest in the world. Same with high speed rail safety after the very public Wenzhou train crash. The question is whether PRC space program is guided more by "ChaBuDuo" vs world class quality due to political costs like aviation safety, or HSR, or rocket force etc etc. In terms of meeting results / goals I'd wager the latter.
Thank you so much. I would love to see the visualizer you made!

Really glad to hear the docs are working as intended too.
This targets "early-career" folks: https://careers.google.com/programs/eng-res/
I will not defend Urbit, though I count myself lucky to read fossuser's posts where I find them. I would argue about digital land ownership and what the internet's users (and possible future users) need though. I'm interested in what the internet is for (like everything else). Would you like to have a serious conversation about that? That does seem a worthy topic, even if Urbit does not address it effectively enough (I'm still not convinced it won't centralize power). I suggest the workers must own the means of production. What do you think?
The tech field is one that requires constant and ongoing self-development and learning, or you're just going to be left behind and gradually become all but unemployable (those who are able to carve out a niche by becoming an expert in an in-demand ancient technology like COBOL aside).

But how do you get the energy and motivation for constant learning and self-development when you struggle to get out of bed every day, or are burnt out on tech altogether?

Even if, against all odds, a depressed person manages to get a job, it's likely that doing it will feel meaningless and overwhelming, leading to a struggle not to quit, poor performance, and possibly firing.

If you screw up at work because of depression, of course you're not going to make a good impression on your colleagues, making getting hired or recommended by them in the future even less likely.

If one is out of work for extended periods of time, not only is that a drain on your savings, but also an economic drain on whoever helps you (whether that's family, friends, or society).

Then there are the secondary economic effects of all that lost productivity that the depressed person could have contributed to the economy but didn't because of their depression. All of the deals that could have happened, all of the innovation that was missed, the people that they might have inspired, etc, have economic consequences that are difficult to quantify but that are real nevertheless.

This doesn't even go in to the potentially drastic economic consequences of suicide, both to the family of the person who takes their life who might have been relying on them for sustenance, and because of the knock-on economic effects of depression and trauma of those affected.
> Freedom of expression only protects you from the government, like freedom of speech, no?

No. In the US, the first amendment to the US Constitution only applies to the government. "Freedom of speech" is a concept with general applicability. People opposed to freedom of speech often intentionally conflate the two but they really are separate things. There may be a genuine argument about what any particular actor should do w/r/t speech - should they adopt a permissive, "freedom of speech" attitude, should they restrict speech, etc. But "freedom of speech only applies to the government" is not a genuine argument, because it's not an argument at all, it's a conclusory statement (and false).
Not my experience at all - prior clearances and NDAs preclude me from going into detail, but I personally saw a number of people who wasted a lot of time going through the process and getting denied for things in the same category as the first part of your statement.

It's true that almost any randomly chosen member of the DoD can get a regular 'secret' clearance for things that aren't especially super sensitive (I've met some very immature 20 year olds who only had Secret probably by virtue of the fact they were too young to have made any major mistakes in their life yet), but when you go beyond that, the requirements are greater.

Re: being flamingly out and kinky, the key part there is out. This isn't the 1950s were getting blackmailed over being gay is a super high risk to somebody if they're already voluntarily flamingly out.
My friend's father works with COBOL. Apparently it's quite lucrative. It isn't used much, but it's also hard to hire people for those jobs so they tend to be well paid.
> As your quote noted, most cows are slaughtered earlier, so generations could be infected without any detection.

They couldn't be detected by those tests anyway if they don't have symptoms, or at least not until shortly before symptoms become apparent.

> Again, it's like when the CDC & Fauci were assuring people that there was no significant community COVID spread when they were also blocking any testing that could detect such spread, by limiting tests only to those that fit their preconceived notion ("only recent returnees from Wuhan").

There are a number of differences here. Most importantly COVID tests can detect if you have COVID even when asymptomatic, but BSE tests cannot detect BSE before it is symptomatic.

> How much, if any, random surveillance of older asymptomatic cows happens that gives you such confidence in the current testing? How many meat cows live long enough to get a good read? Are you sure mild symptoms of ill health might not just get them culled before enough symptoms-to-test by ranchers who, like the USDA, "would rather not know"?

> Your last paragraph seems to reduce to, "we'll only know if there's a lot of it if and when there are a lot of young people with BSE".

First, the testing is of symptomatic cows, not asymptomatic cows, and it is deliberately not a random sample, but a sample of the population that is most likely to have it.

Second, my point is that the lack of any cases of young people with vCJD in the US, let alone widespread cases, indicates that it simply isn't the case that we have some phantom population of cows with BSE that are being let through by the USDA.

> Or at least not block those who want to try it.

I agree the USDA shouldn't block it. However, it isn't unreasonable to prohibit marketing based on the use of such tests if they give an unwarranted impression of safety; allowing that would be misleading advertising. When Creekstone applied to do testing, it was precisely for this reason that they applied, and for this reason they were denied.
Being able to teleport in GW2 ruined any sense of where I was in the game. In WoW classic the flight system was incredible. You had to actually fly to the different flight points. Like OP it created a sense of the world you were and grounded you to the zones. Not only that, it was an incredibly unique system that to this day hasn’t been rivaled. No other MMO that I know of has a similar travel system.

I remember going on flight paths through Ashenvale with the full moon and was struck by how beautiful the game was.
We don't need to invoke "capitalism" to discuss the psychic distress involved in repetitive work schedules and, more generally, the expectations surrounding labor and wages, i.e. the modern economic system. The term contains too much, although I do personally agree with many critiques of capitalism.
I think the very fact that reading those descriptions is confronting, if it is to you as it is to me, is evidence that you do need exposure to understand that horrible things happen in the world.

I understand it academically, but every time I see or read something like this I realise that I don't really understand it.
Indeed the team of software engineers, no matter how big and competent, is: 1) Difficult to manage because you have to convey what you want them to do, often across a gap of domain knowledge; 2) Hopelessly overbooked.

And often the easiest way to try a few things and communicate the idea is by prototyping it with a spreadsheet.
> the gov’t

Can you please define what/who you mean by "the government"? The CPI changed in the 1990s after a Senate Finance Committee report said it was over-estimated (i.e., too high):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskin_Commission

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Consumer_Price_I...

If you don't like how BLS (Executive Branch) reports the CPI, perhaps talk to the Senate (Legislative Branch)?
> The number of US adults with MDD increased by 12.9%, from 15.5 to 17.5 million, between 2010 and 2018, whereas the proportion of adults with MDD aged 18–34 years increased from 34.6 to 47.5

If about half of young adults suffer from a disorder, it makes me question if it’s a disorder at all. And the noted impact of economic factors and things like Covid highlight the “nurture” aspect of the disorder instead of “nurture” (e.g. the “chemical imbalance” internet myth).

I’ve been diagnosed with MDD, GAD, ADHD, and bipolar type 1 but after I suffered a manic episode while on psych meds , I really dug into the research of psychiatrists and now have the controversial opinion it’s very weak science riding on the coattails of the rest of Western medicine and is obviously influenced by the for profit pharmaceutical companies. The DSM 5 wasn’t even created in the open.

Both as societies and as individuals, we need to introspect on how we can be so relatively wealthy yet so often so fundamentally unhappy. And the idea that half of the population has a brain disorder rather than is in a bad environment and conditioned by circumstances to feel that way seems hard to believe.

I’m very interested in the anti psychiatry movement which includes a small minority of medical professionals, and I’m more open to sane ideas that I used to consider “new age.” But more than anything, I think many aspects of mental health are like losing weight - very simple but difficult especially in the wrong environment. Close family relationships, diet, exercise, time outdoors, a sense of community, less time on social media - we mostly know that this is the key to feeling better but we desperately want an easier answer in pill from someone in a white coat and our profit driven medical system is more than happy to oblige.
I strongly disagree. Out of sight out of mind.
The attractive nuisance doctrine applies to the law of torts in some jurisdictions. It states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by an object on the land that is likely to attract children. [Wikipedia]

In my view, the driver is still liable (and that mustn't ever change) but Snapchat should have to prove to a judge that they shouldn't also be found liable.
I don't see any evidence that "regulation" has ever meaningfully improved the security of software. This is one of those exasperated utterances that people make when they see a hopeless situation - for example a big legacy codebase - the equivalent of "someone should do something!".

Yet software security is a hard problem, and throwing more bureaucrats at the problem is not how you make progress.

That's not to say that better solutions have no governmental component. For example, it would be nice if CS schools taught actual secure programming patterns and anti-patterns, and provided practical advice to developers to teach them to write secure software that is relevant to their work in production systems. I mean, it's nice to learn about the worklist algorithm in your compiler class, but I have never met anyone who graduated with a CS degree that learned how to write secure code in college. That's shocking. The principles of secure coding were developed in the 1970s, yet our CS graudates have never been taught what a security kernel is or why its important to design your software with a security kernel rather than sprinkling authorization logic throughout the codebase. Yet they can implement the worklist algorithm. Just a shocking lack of giving our college graduates the tools they need.

It would be nice if companies could not have EULAs that disclose all liability. Lots of things like that would be nice.

But that's not what's on offer. What's on offer is some bureacratic process where if companies adopt an expensive kabuki GRC ritual and hire lots of process people to do paperwork, then they are said to be "compliant" and so shielded from responsibility for their software architects designing insecure systems lacking proper authorization.

If we look at this history of attempts to legislate security, we can start with the orange book and end with common criteria, which are incredibly bureaucratic processes involving certifications by third party labs, yet I don't think the software libraries that have been certified are more secure than those which have not. Rather, Windows got EAL 4 certification because they could afford to get it, not because windows is a more secure OS than competing OSes that can't afford to get the certification. That's what happens when you point a lot of non-technical lawmakers at a hard engineering problem and hope that regulation will solve the problem.
A lie would require that both 1) batteries can't scale, and 2) I know that they can't scale but am knowingly asserting a falsehood.

Neither of these are true. We are current at 200-300GWh of production per year, and consistent with recent history are expected to grow capacity 10x every five years, so that by 2031 we will produce 20-30TWh of new batteries per year. That's 500-750GW per year, at a 4 hour duration.

In contrast, the idea of scaling nuclear production to 100GW of new capacity per year by 2031 is simply inconceivable.

In 2021, with current technology, nuclear simply can not scale as fast as storage, or for that matter solar or wind.
the YouTube moderators I've met at Google can get a bit of a faraway look when talking about some of the things they'd seen
Not what I'm seeing here with a version of VLC that's slightly older than yours. At 11:41 in the video, the video feed from starship to ground does freeze, but video continues normally with the overlaid time clock counting seconds.

VLC media player 3.0.12 Vetinari (revision 3.0.12-1-0-gd147bb5e7e)

I used the default youtube-dl options which downloaded the video as VP9 codec (See above link to pastebin for ffmpeg's info for the file), not H264, so how it's handling a hiccup in the stream may be part of that.

available formats show as follows

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250 webm audio only tiny 66k , opus @ 70k (48000Hz), 5.98MiB

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251 webm audio only tiny 153k , opus @160k (48000Hz), 11.40MiB

278 webm 256x144 144p 73k , webm container, vp9, 30fps, video only, 3.60MiB

160 mp4 256x144 144p 78k , avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only, 3.57MiB

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Serious people do believe capitalism causes mental illnesses. I’m one of them. So is Gabor Maté.

https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/gabor-mate-how-...

Edit: another good link with Gabor Maté talking about how capitalism harms our mental health.

https://patch.com/california/berkeley/ev--an-evening-with-dr...
To what extent are these films either dubbed in English or have English subtitles?
good.

Human suffering should not be monetized.

Perpetrators must not get any audience at all and must have no outlet for showcasing their acts.

If you must watch gore to see the "real world" then you're part of the problem. Empathy doesn't require seeing someone getting dismembered.
Compared to what? There are very few places in the world with the kind of violence that has been commonplace for most of world history. Yes, violent things happen everywhere, but most people in most places don't have to worry for their physical safety most of the time. That's a relatively new phenomenon.
Agree. I've been playing DPS a lot since priority passes came out, and every time I do I wish I was playing tank instead. (I think I have the most fun playing Echo, copying one of the tanks and making a play. Ever eaten a grav as Echo? Very enjoyable. The enemy Zarya is going to be mad at the game for the rest of the afternoon.)

The problem with DPS is that you can either pick a fun one with a ton of weaknesses that loses your team the game, or you can play hitscan. Pro players and people with a background in other games really love the hitscans, and Blizzard obliges them, to the point where it's kind of throwing to not pick one. (Have you ever been upset to have a McCree on your team? Stun the dive. Cancel ults. Two tap someone across the map. Flank around and McRightclick a support. The dude does everything!) That's not to say you can't win games with the off-DPS -- there is someone out there streaming how you can pick Symmetra or Bastion every game and win 60% of them against the pros.

Support is a fun role. I've always said that Ana is the sniper for people that think Widowmaker is too easy. There's a character where if you play perfectly, you win the game. You make a mistake, or your mechanics falter, you lose the game. (Does anyone ever watch ML7 play and not want to play Ana immediately afterwards? You can do so much... if you're good.)

I'm pretty happy about the current state of tanks. It wasn't always this way, but you can pretty much pair any two of them and not instantly lose. Both players can pick "a fun one". Shields were once pretty much mandatory, but people got better at the game (and they shields got nerfed into the ground), and they have less effectiveness than they once did.So you can get away with the weird combinations. Ball/Hog was meta for quite a while. Winston/D.va has always been good with the right players and coordination. Rein/Zarya is of course a lot of fun for the Zarya player. I've even lost some games to Hog/D.va, though I'm not sure I'd personally pick one of those if the other was already locked in ;)

Anyway, I keep reading that nobody wants to play tanks, and I don't get it. You can spend 15 minutes in DPS queue, pick Widowmaker, get one sick kill for your montage, and then spend the remaining 8 minutes of the game being chased around by some Wrecking Ball spamming "Ho ho ho!" with a D.va in tow that shows up from time to time to remind you that it's the perfect weather for a hotteok. I'd personally rather spend 30 seconds in the queue and be able to switch between 8 dramatically different heroes depending on the situation that unfolds.
> You're probably not getting sent down from 600k TC to 60k, even if that's the going rate for developers in Nowhere, Montana (if there even are any developer jobs there).

Yeah. Anecdotally, the adjustment in pay within the USA at Big Cos is much lower than the differences in housing costs between SFBA and everywhere else.

(Between countries is another matter though; several years ago I've heard of folks in Europe making 2x/3x less than their American peers. Not sure what the situation is today.)
Exactly. I would trade career progress and comp for “ability to work from a low COL state and not have my 4.5+ hour commute” any day. Bring it on!
Steve Blank's One Question for Elon Musk (His Former Intern)
Were you using excel to translate their data to the map, or some external script to create the file? If it's the latter, why not use a plotting library? If it's the former, how did you acquire this unholy power?
Could it be “the economy” is broken? Maybe it has been for a long time.
Thank you! It started as a somewhat speculative personal project so I'm really grateful to hear that it resonates with you and others.

I'm building another library on top of this -- it's moving at a very slow pace so hopefully I can release it one day :D
Yeah, I read about some roles paying upwards of $200k, but I think they were in California (OP is asking about NY, which I don't know much about)
Video over Tor is not likely to catch on.
Prion caused disease is indeed terrifying on individual level but, from its impact over the species' survival, it isn't that menacing. The decay takes decades, which is enough for breeding the next generation. Human life expectancy may get shorter, which sucks, of course, but humans lived shorter lives for most of their history. So no, it's not that bad. Even assuming that the entire human population will get infected from young age with no way to avoid it, it won't be that bad. It would come with a bit of adjustment, like having to raise kids sooner because the luxury to postpone (for life enjoyment or other pursuits) won't be there, but things will go on.
I hope that before dismissing you, any critics would lend weight to the fact that you have been diagnosed with several disorders and been through the psychiatric system. You have some skin in the game here. So even though your advice is certainly not universal and many perceive great benefit from psychiatric treatment, there is some truth to be had in your argument.
Hosting video with lots of views probably isn't cheap.
Screw blizzard. Years ago they threatened Wow addon authors with legal action for asking for donations. Addons made the game much more fun and playable. Let them die.