skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unions also increase the standard pay for the few top performers. If you are worth 10x a standard programmer, than the average programmer salary doubling doubles your value too. Most unions that represent jobs with vastly different skill levels raise the rate of everyone.

Unions don't necessarily eliminate pay disparity, but they work for increased worker benefits in total.
You might read up on pure functions [1] which are unable to produce side-effects when run.

Imagine you have two methods in Java:

int add(int a, int b) {
log.info("Adding two numbers {} {}", a, b);
return a + b;
}

void doStuff() {
add(1, 2);
add(2, 3);
add(3, 4);
}

The result of add in doStuff is unused. However, add has a log statement which someone might be relying on elsewhere. The log line makes understanding the usefulness of this code much harder. ie: Can you delete this call? It's impossible to know without understanding everything that might consume the log line. The log-line is a side-effect in these methods.

In languages that understand "pure functions" there are optimizations that can be done by the toolchain (think automatic memoization, deferred computation, and much more) when only pure functions are called.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_function
Regardless, USBGuard and a hidden bluetooth device to automatically lock when it leaves a certain radius would have likely prevented any issues.
basically when you send the email it adds the blob and hash under the email message. When you receive an email the extension checks to see if it contains that info and it gives the reader a % likehilhood this is a human
And I thought we were already facing a nationwide shortage of qualified tanker truck drivers.

On the bright side, these guys will be making mega-bucks on overtime, provided they can stay awake. coffee and no-doz will only take you so far.
If my software is online and the company can make profit from across the world, why should I get paid locally?
Glide (YC W19) is hiring to dramatically simply software development
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
I went one step further: We had an old HP-UX machine with a failed hard drive that wouldn't spin up. The data on it wasn't supercritical but still nice to keep, so I was free to experiment. I removed the housing and pushed the platter by hand. It spun up, and while still open, I immediately took a full disk image with dd.

A more similar story to yours was with my 120MB hard disk on my PC when I was a, which inconsistently exhibited similar symptoms. I had no money, so always had to do with what I had (many stories sprang out of that). The hard disk was in a removable caddy, and when it refused spinning up, I simply took it out of the PC and gently bounced it on my bed right next to the desk. Put back into the PC, it then worked every time as I recall.
Many people lack the cold-bloodedness necessary to be that mercenary. Especially game devs, who are almost always in it for the love of the product, not for a paycheck. Corporate may not be their friend, but the product they're creating is their creation. Every person working on it knows a hundred things they could do to make it better, and they want to do all of them. They just need a bit more time.

Unions are about protecting everyone from predatory employers like most game publishers. You go in and negotiate? You're fired; there are 100 more people out there with a compulsion to create and share with the world.

So yeah, unions. They address the issue of the party with money exploiting the non-monetary incentives. That's strictly better than assuming the problem is that people have non-monetary incentives.
I mean, the OCC and some of the other on-chip cores are based on the 400 series cores, but what I mean is there were/are tons of SoCs from NXP almost purpose built to serve as BMC-style control chips, with reasonably powerful cores and all the peripheral I/O it'd need. These were used (AFAIK) in Sun servers, so I wonder why not in OpenPOWER.

I'm guessing cost/availability is really what it boils down to, since the ASRock chips are probably just that much cheaper and better understood.
BBS: The Documentary http://www.bbsdocumentary.com

Released for free after the DVDs sold out: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/order/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary
What is the supply of labor like like when it comes to game development?

It seems like there might be a huge number of folks who want to get into the game industry, but not as many jobs available? Could that have an impact on salaries?

When I changed careers and attended a coding camp, there were a handful of very capable folks who had failed to get into the gaming industry noting how many other folks like them there were trying to break in. They had much less trouble getting into other (not gaming) areas after they retooled a bit.
Have you seen that work anywhere, at any scale?
What you’re describing is pretty much every single chronic underperforming team I’ve ever watched. It leads to an organization where everyone is essentially “blocked”, and since work tends to expand to take all available time, it’ll remain “blocked” forever (as you remove the main lever for having to unblock yourself - inbound work)
Most of the potential improvements in that area are high-hanging fruit due to political issues in specific regions at this point, as far as I can tell. There are a lot of problems a big pile of money only makes worse.
I like s6 software but it's written in djb style c which is painful to read imo
Walking away is only powerful if you have leverage. Game devs, unlike a lot of other software, are not super in demand. You can't apply for an entry level job at EA and then pop over to Ubisoft instead when the offer from EA is crap. There are way more folks trying to break into game dev than there are jobs available.
Many modern archaeologists don't draw a direct line between agriculture and sedentarism. It's mainly a feature studies in the middle east, and in particular southern mesopotamian societies. Excavations in these areas were influential in early narratives about the neolithic, but the idea that it's the only way urbanism occurs has become pretty archaic as our understanding of the rest of the world improves. For example, we now know that all the innovations you mention predate urban settlements.

Beyond that, the "why" of early urbanism is still fundamentally unclear. Some people, myself included, argue that there's no singular concrete reason that's universally applicable. Others take that a bit farther (e.g. Michael E. Smith) and argue that we need to invoke high level concepts of feedback loops and scaling laws to explain them. Regardless, there isn't a settled explanation in the literature.
I don’t trust the EU. They want to do this so they can censor domain names more effectively (copyright, “terrorism”…)
Gen-Z as Grandma's: say words of affirmation to the water to make it happy before you drink it. breathwork moaning ensues
One assumes the idea is to make windows have feature parity with linux, then try to leverage network effects for features windows has but linux doesn't, such that the "extinguish" step will follow the "extend" step.
> it'll only read in the files that have a max_age greater than 90. Data skipping is one of the best performance benefits.

Actually Parquet files have a chunked structure, with maybe 200 row groups in a large Parquet file. The metadata is stored per chunk in the file footer.

So if that suggests you only need a few chunks with a file, your data reads can be orders of magnitude faster.

The data is stored column wise too. So if you only need a few of the columns, you can get another 10x increase in performance.

It's like magic, if your data is ordered in a way that can exploit this.
Oh wow. I still remember having to create change records in HP Service Center. You had to have split screen, with all text (change description, list of impacted CI’s etc.) besides it in notepad. Then it was quick hand-eye coordination and quick CTRL-C - CTRL-V. Too slow? You’d hit the timeout on the last screen and could start over!
US cost of living is ridiculous. You shouldn't just compare two numbers one to one. 150k in California is basically just scraping by.
The trend is real but it is also pretty innocuous. I know that design people think that these things influence collective consciousness in a deep way but really it is just another cog in the wheel.
In my personal experience, the primary reason that design teams prefer this style is that it is able to clearly represent a diverse and inclusive audience. Inclusivity and diversity are very important goals for most American companies. Part of this may be related to certain liberal ideologies but most of this is just about capitalism. America is a diverse country and most American companies also harbor aspirations to serve global markets. Having a simple way to show that your products can solve problems for everyone is just good for business.
Teacher performance is difficult if not impossible to quantify, especially given how much student performance depends on factors external to the classroom. But more to the point, most teaching jobs are government jobs, and government jobs have salary bands set by legislation. You can't individually negotiate with legislators. That has nothing to do with having a union. Most government jobs are not unionized, but still have narrow, standard pay bands that cannot reward differences in performance.
Oh no, see the mining rigs run on hydroelectric; they’re just using the coal plant to pump water into the reservoir.
“Leading causes of death” being medical incompetence, which is the third largest cause of death in the US
This is so bland and dystopian. Mutated blob people make me hate interacting with corporate products.

If you're going to do this, at least use creativity. Discord does a fantastic job of being inclusive and yet creative.
In good military fashion, Jeff Cooper (Lt. Col,USMC) developed a color code for situational awareness with respect to the possibility of conflict/combat.
White: unprepared /
Yellow: Relaxed alert /
Orange: Specific alert /
Red: Fight

Most people stay in Condition White.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper#Combat_mindset_and...
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The games industry is notorious for crunch hiring and firing, low wages and exhausting work regimes. When work conditions like that prevail, people unionize (good for them imo). If there's anything surprising about it, it's that people put up with it for this long.

Yeah, it's a good idea to learn how to negotiate and good advice to leave a failing company if you can.

But "just learn to negotiate" is really a non-solution if the goal is to transform unacceptable industry wide labor practices.
Related: Project 100,000 - Build those org chart pyramids, grow budgets, and get promoted.

The MIC is about spending as much money as possible.

Officially, it's $721,531,000,000 FY2020

"In 2018, it was announced that the Department of Defense was indeed the subject of a comprehensive budgetary audit. This review was conducted by private, third-party accounting consultants. The audit ended and was deemed incomplete due to deficient accounting practices in the department."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
> What is it about game development field that makes it so labor intensive with consistent overtimes?

I helped lead a team that built and shipped a 3D multiplayer game from scratch with a custom engine. I went into it expecting it to be harder than I thought it would be, and it was harder still.

I think the thing that makes game dev fundamentally harder than other types of software is that most software products solve a problem or take away pain. So they only have to be good enough that the user is better off using the product than not using it. And there are still many problems out there that people face for which there is no solution. So even an imperfect solution might be quite good.

Games on the other hand have to be so good that playing them is more fun/appealing/rewarding than the next best thing the player might do with those hours.

While the technical challenges in some types of games are daunting, I suspect that even technically simpler games like 2d platformers are probably much harder to develop now than they were a few decades ago, due to necessity of competing against every other activity the player has to choose from.
Given the sizable investment of time and money required to run and independent exit node, it might be worth considering throwing your support behind one of the existing non-profits providing exit nodes

https://blog.torproject.org/support-tor-network-donate-exit-...

https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayDonations
Condorcet Method
> AFAIU, the root servers still receive FQDN

This part is solved with qname minimisation.
I'm struggling with this, I can't find a formula to translate US salaries to European ones (UK, FR, DE, mainly).

On the one hand in the US if you save a lot, you can retire early and move somewhere cheap. On the other hand in Europe a lot of things are covered for you without having to deduct them from the salary.

If anyone has researched this subject I'd love some links.
I'm amazed any independent games get made considering all the skills needed, but that scene seems very rich in content... I always wonder how that is considering the breadth of knowledge required.
There is no 'should' either way in a salary negotiation though - just what can you two agree on.
Some in NJ, some in the San Diego area. If you're outside the ultra-urban expensive bubbles like SF and NYC, it's not hard to survive on the salary of a full-time skilled tradesman. People have a habit of increasing their spending to rise with their salary and then thinking it's not possible to live on less salary. In the suburbs and in smaller cities, mid/upper five figures with medical benefits is enough to buy a home and raise a family. The median US salary for full-time salaried workers is about $50k.
Had a discussion about this style with an illustrator friend a few months ago.

Illustration is genuinely better at conveying concepts than photography, and everyone is tired of lightbulbs, puzzle pieces, people in suits shaking hands and other stock photo cliches.

Problem is, commissioning an illustrator, especially a good one, is expensive and time consuming and takes excellent art direction to get right.[1]

This style however, is cheap, easy (anyone with a bit of drawing ability can do it), it’s sort of cozy and friendly, and doesn’t have any real negative cultural associations. It also wasn’t, until about six months ago, so totally overexposed it’s become a cliche in itself.

Now, there’s no excuse to use it - just betrays a fatal lack of originality. Might as well include an image of someone reaching up to a blue wireframe globe superimposed with zeroes and ones and @ symbols.

[1] Original illustration isn’t used nearly as much as it could or should be in digital products. Nautil.us do it well, but they are a magazine. Seriously, commission more illustration, it’s great.
Plus one carries a huge high side uncertainty in costs from healthcare in the US.
I admittedly have only an extremely cursory knowledge of these sort of technologies, but how does eBPF compare to NDIS filters and WFP filters? Biggest reason I could imagine for this is easier portability of existing eBPF applications.
Military intelligence borrows irony from the private sector too.
> They're replacing openbmc

The press release says they're planning to use openbmc. The "LibreBMC" part seems to be about an open HW platform (incl. created with FOSS tools) for running openbmc.

Or are you saying openbmc is planning on some major refactoring?
Liars adapt. Whatever becomes the popular method of checking the truth, they will create their own version of that tool.

There is a similar arms race in science: Charlatans use scientifically sounding language. So you tell people "to be real science, it needs to be published in a scientific journal". Then the charlatans create their own journals. So you tell people "to be real science, it needs to be supported by a meta-analysis". Then the charlanatans create their own meta-analysis. Etc.

It always takes some time to adapt, but if you tell people e.g. "always verify political statements at fact-checking websites", as soon as your idea becomes popular, politicians will create their own "fact-checking" websites. (Or take over the existing ones, whichever is easier.)

I have some heuristics that I use for myself to determine what information I trust... but if they became public and popular, it would be quite easy to subvert them.
I think you'll have a hard time sourcing that claim.
Yeah, GP is cutting their kids off from society. We aren't living in the 60s anymore, much of the infrastructure for growth and development at that age does not exist outside the internet. Just look at libraries, social clubs, etc... They're all replaced.
Why don't you just use a VPN for this (self hosted or 3rd party like NordVPN)? Especially given the additional risk of tor users being attacked, which the author refers to in the opening paragraphs of the post.
It seems like you should just be comparing pre-tax salary converted into the same currency?
This looks like a very good introduction, and it's well worth bookmarking for reference. I'd recommend it to beginners, especially those with an interest in epidemiology.
This is all true. So true infact that I wrote a huge article documenting this for people who are new to it: https://tshr.me/mypy

I'm planning to migrate this to my own blog soon.
If you want to make people feel left out start with a word X and create "X-verse" out of it. For instance I get a huge amount of spam for something called "Boomiverse" and I cannot make head or tail of what it is.
Why in the world is software money so terrible in the UK? I always look up salaries and cost of living when traveling and the UK was one of the more surprising instances of that. It seems like the only way to live comfortably in London is in finance.
I think in that case the person is a racist. I find the label and term terrorism extremely troubling as it always can be spun as "what is a terrorist in one group might be the freedom fighter to the other"

the label terrorism is usually only successful in the most homogenos and brainwashed cultures, where all complexity and nuance is stripped away. it's great for propaganda or when you need to criminalize a whole society of people.
Is this $3000 for one book or all four?
Not just actors, but pro athletes as well. Unions have been tremendously good for them, forcing owners and leagues to commit to a specific guaranteed revenue split with players. It has not prevented rewarding of outstanding individual performance or even individual contract negotiation (just like actors). Some rules are set by by the union, including at least minimum pay, possibly maximum pay (in sports that have salary caps, it's to promote competitive balance, which acting doesn't have to worry about). But you can still negotiate quite a bit within the allowed bounds.
Darebee is another nice resource for bodyweight fitness. https://darebee.com/
I believe cryptocurrency based gaming would be new level for game developers like Alice.
Not really. Kids are not adults. They’re two separate categories of people.

Maybe OP drinks alcohol but they don’t let their kids drink it.

Maybe they own firearms but they don’t let their kids wield them.

Maybe they watch movies with violence and gore but they don’t want their kids watching them.

etc.

There is a double standard, and there should be, imo.
Actually, I expected such a response, as I already stated, the reality is: I'm not interested in talking to you at all.
Don't take the lord's name in vain, or he'll refer you to the guidelines. ;)
I admit I'm not assuming best intentions writing this.

But the reply from RapidAI ([...] sorry you had a negative experience. We are happy to address this and any other issues you've had. Can we contact you to set up a time to connect?) sounds to me like the standard intro to an offer to meet the CEO on the maledives, using the CEO's Learjet, all expenses paid.

Sadly quite often this gut feeling proved true in similar circumstances. I really wonder, if the claim of the OP is true, if there is any regulation in this field.
Perhaps it is done to start the book off with a reflection – This situational awareness intentionally left blank is no longer blank.
I disagree, I get paid a lot more than anyone I know who isn’t in tech and I’m outside of London. Even Doctors in the UK get paid less than a senior engineer at a decent company
I talked elsewhere about Louis Masterson - the Morgan Kane series sold 20m+ copies in his lifetime, but each individual edition of each book sold mostly on the order of thousands over multiple printings over a period of decades.

Low selling authors have been a big thing since always, because there are a huge number of markets that are small enough that it was (and is) not unusual for publishers in smaller markets to print on the order of a few hundred books per run for unknown authors.

E.g. in Norway (where Kjell Hallbing/Louis Masterson is from), 10k sold used to mean you were a big deal, and high up on the bestseller lists.
Microwatt looks nice (though I wish it was Verilog), it has a floating point unit which most of the low-end RISC-Vs do not.

Also: "Anton Blanchard", Distinguished Engineer: IBM Total Duration 20 yrs 3 mos
How would this even work? Don't the root servers just help you find TLDs? To take down example.com, they'd have to take down .com, right?
Corporate culture has deemed it a better tradeoff to be called uncreative than to be called k-ist or j-phobic. Most of these people just want to do their jobs and go home at the end of the day, not thread the political needle at great expense if it goes wrong.
Most of the highest paid athletes and actors are union members. Union membership doesn't have to mean everyone is paid the same. Teachers having the same pay has more to do with them being interchangeable than being union members.
I used to be a much humbler person, especially in college, when I witnessed people much more capable than I.

Once I entered the workforce I became less humble and self-promoted a lot more. I think this is because how performance evaluation and job promotion works at my employer and similar employers: people doing a lot of great work but without self-promotion are given lower ratings and passed over for promotions.
I'd encourage you to read about the history of hashcash, because there were various debates and implementations that might inform your ideas.

I think it's a great idea at one level, but a huge practical problem is that given people's different levels of access to hardware resources, it's difficult to tell how much a given sender actually "spent" to produce a particular hash -- which is made even more complicated by botnets (illicitly spending other people's computing power) and dedicated hash hardware (investing capital to gain a huge advantage in hashrate compared to an ordinary PC).
https://archive.is/VhHzE
I've tried the no gluten thing, and really felt no difference what so ever. I really had high hopes that was the issue since a lot of friends also reported feeling much more energy and motivation.

I did try going completely carb free for a week one time. I had no energy crashes which was great, but, I never really felt dramatically different mentally. While I wasn't crashing, I also wasn't suddenly feeling much more focus or "energy" (motivation, interest in work).

I was just kind of, stable low energy / motivation. Rather than, mostly low energy / motivation with some occasional really deep crashes caused by carb blasts.