skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Second this. Have worked at several AAA studios as an engineer. I am currently hiring for junior and senior engineering positions. The number of candidates for the former is two orders of magnitude greater than the latter. The good senior engineers in the game industry don’t have to worry about work, and the compensation largely accounts that. It isn’t FAANG level for the most part, but closer than it was a decade ago and a lot higher than what you would think from the hashtag.
Thanks for this, I have a lot of medium format negatives that I thought I'd never print again or scan. I might try this one.

By the way, is the first image the Alewife T station in Cambridge MA? Looks really familiar.
Drug addict or not?

Where does the part time smoker weed smoker vs crack whore fit at your startups?

Are they all addicts? Did you notice a difference with the microdosers? Was your offices setup to foster a more productive environment with the addicts or did you put them in cub-farms.
Then grandma can get the vaccine. Why is this still an issue? Everyone in the US that wanted a vaccine, got it. Only a tiny portion of people are incapable of receiving it. The death toll dropped immediately. We don’t need herd immunity since the vaccine is so effective.
Fixing 1-2% of the errors in real world projects is nice, isn’t it? Not to mention catching the non real world errors before even running any tests.
I wasn't wondering if there was any correlation. I was wondering if there are people insensitive to whatever drives social media "addiction"
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It's even more problematic. The relationship is more accurately understood in the opposite direction: fascism in some ways grew out of futurism (a lot of important exponents of futurism loved action and violence and speed enough to volunteer and get themselves killed in airplanes etc. in the first world war).
They also say millenials don't want cars and don't want houses. I think the problem is they can't afford these things.
At best there are some studies that show patterns, but that doesn't stop people from believing it and spreading the gospel on forums - before long, it's an axiom and no proof is needed.

Omniscience has become extremely popular in the last few years as well, and I'm pretty sure there's no evidence for that at all (but I'm speculating about that, perhaps there is something out there).
> It's not a moral judgment or a be-all-and-end-all of a person's value.

But it is, even though it actually means nothing at all. Let me try and explain.

Our society prides itself on being both rational and egalitarian at the same time. Its most basic ideological paradigm basically says: "everyone is equal". Of course, that is a meaningless statement - people themselves are not quantities to be measured and compared; "everyone is equal" is just a shorthand for "everyone is just as much a human being as everyone else, regardless of the physical characteristics of their body, and deserves to be treated with equal dignity, because every person has a human mind."

Now imagine a trait, "intelligence", which basically says "this person has more mind than that person". This is in contradiction with the premise of equality; in the rationalist paradigm, this is more or less equivalent to saying "this person is inherently superior than that person". So either differences in intelligence do not exist and intelligence is a meaningless signifier (perhaps a performative role ascribed by particular situations)... or rational egalitarianism is in contradiction with itself (and therefore factually wrong by the rules of its own logic).

Either option is enough of a bummer that a normal person would be driven to ignore the matter entirely. Hence, the taboo.
Not even visas. My job was outsourced to a company working in India.

The military issue is about a lot of things, but I think it's mostly about pay and the overall trend toward the population not trusting leaders without question like they did in the past.
> But, have you seriously (as I said in another comment, if you go in expecting it to fail, of course it will fail) tried it?

I don't have to jump out in front of a moving car to know I'll get injured if I do. I've collaborated and worked with others enough to know it's not for me. Others in places I've worked tried it, and it didn't go well, in spite of strong management desire to see it implemented. I'll assert again that I've never seen it actually work, not heard from any of my peers that it worked. And in spite of the comments in the original article touting such benefits as "one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself, socially and emotionally, and it produced some great software", that sounds like cognitive dissonance given the horrific problems that it caused.
“Petrichor”

The rest of the content of this post

Come on

This guy is just too far up his own wazoo.
Because America is insanely obsessed with Working Your Ass Off and with casting hate upon anyone who might dare be getting by without making that same sacrifice of most of your waking life at the altar of Capitalism and Sharehold Profit.
There is a lot of merit to this comment. Historically many individuals would have the option to progress (or at least the illusion of an option) from sweeping floors to something greater within a company. A line worker at a plant could easily become a machinist, and from entry level skilled labor move into advanced skilled labor.

At this point most of those jobs are done as 1099's via a proxy firm. There are few options for anyone in such a position to level up in, and pivoting to another service gig isn't going to provide significant upwards mobility options.

Even starting a business is more capital intensive now relative to the earnings you can make from it thanks to cheap money.

If there is no option to reasonably advance, it's reasonable that people will simply optimize to have the lowest effort.
The other thing is this is not new in the US, COVID-19 just dragged it into sharp focus. It is a standard employment practice at Walmart to walk their staff through signing up for food stamps - which they qualify for because Walmart doesn't pay them a living wage.

Walmart costs you the tax payer more money every time they open a store.
Will my desktop and laptop survive such perfect CME ?
It is more than that, it is a different flavor of hope,
if your not having your time and soul devoured to attain the basics maybe something else will have a chance to grow.
Yes without landmarks, guides, tutors, examples, culture
many if not most will achieve the next level in some game instead as that is what they know, but some will bloom and that is more than good enough for me.
Hm, fair enough. I remember that happening with CDs before/at the start of DVDs, but the floppies I had/remember (later than '94) were just simple enough I suppose (Lemmings, Prince of Persia, Mahjong).
Just another weird circle jerk by the ultra-woke highly paid techies espousing statism and “capitalism bad”.

These things have long term consequences beyond the basic emotions of a naive teenager. Last year, many users here lauded the CHOP/CHAZ fiasco, and quickly went quiet after teens got gunned down and females got beat up and raped.

The money that’s being printed is a debt that will be paid by you and your children. These distortions and destruction of markets isn’t healthy.

911 call centers are short staffed because people are sitting at home making $16/hr. The argument here is that these people are reskilling, changing careers etc. The simple truth is they are simply riding out the bennies as much as they can, before they will head back to their old jobs after a year of Netflix and chilling.

In the interim, with shortages and magic money everywhere, the US will consume all the “cheap” but fast-rising commodities, and leave the rest of the world to starve.
If it's working out that well for me that I'm thousands, millions of times richer than them (since there's a LOT of them and they all want to buy my things) I'm still getting a lot more from them than they're getting from me. Let 'em have some of it back, I will still be obscenely wealthy off exploiting their inability to produce on their own.

Still seems like you're not quite grasping how this works.
> Be ready for trips to the PD in order to explain what tor is and why what you're doing is legal

(I am not your lawyer) AFAIK this is still up in the air for U.S. persons - many states make it a crime to help criminals, including when not in the event of commissioning the crime, so you might be
considered an accomplice to said crimes by running the exit node (or even just a relay). This isn't exactly a hot issue nor a clear-cut one so I would doubt D.A.s are interested in bringing you to court after a few times of being explained the situation.
Wages aren’t stagnant.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...

The 2019 real median incomes of White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic households all increased from their 2018 medians [between 5.7% (Blacks) and 10.6% (Asians)] Percentage change in share of aggregate income was highest for the lowest income quintile (+1.8%). High income quintile saw decrease in share of aggregate income (-0.6%)
This is the obvious answer, and downvoted for some reason.

If you give people close (or more) money than they would receive from actually working, most won't work.
> Substack is selling soap operas to people who think they’re above soap operas.

I would love to see this in Substack’s About page with the other media quotes.

I was curious to know what editorial decisions are made by Substack staff; all I could find was a couple of articles which clarify that languages other than english are acceptable, though the UI is english-only (which seems like a miss - shouldn’t take long to fix this, even if the audience is small), and that being featured on the homepage is purely at Substack’s discretion.

So - can you go too far on Substack?
This was born out of necessity as data comes from multiple systems and takes around 4 minutes per run. Now I can iterate in like 5 seconds

Not something I seen, a decorator used only for development that is deployed in production.

Thoughts?
What you're saying really boils down to whether or not you think capitalism makes sense, which is a much bigger argument, but ignoring that --

Who defines "should be earning"? You?

Currently, we let the market determine it. It's fine to say you don't like that system, but that's the argument you should make, not "Big game companies are unfair". They're just playing the game the way we set it up.

Alternatively, you could maybe argue "I believe it is possible to make AAA games, pay high salaries, and actually make profits all at the same time", which would be an interesting take, and you could maybe explain how.

But saying "this is worker exploitation" is an uninspired, unproductive argument, IMO.
Some of them might be, but a lot of them aren't. Look at all of the restaurants and stores that can't stay open because they can't find workers.
> But that's because they had a captive audience in the 70's.

They experimented more in the early years before they settled into their current business model. Since then they've shifted age groups, the creation of everything involves committees, and there's a process for everything.

Think about their early years like a startup. Then the company grows into a FAANG and things change.
Bullshit. This is about some speculation about SARS from a 2015 book. The mere fact that the book was published, in China, is probably proof that no such program existed.
Try mamba instead of conda [0]. It's really fast.

The first time you have to run it as:

conda install -c conda-forge mamba

From then on, you replace conda with mamba. For example, if you are installing dask-cuda from the rapidsai channel you run it as:

mamba install -c rapidsai dask-cuda

At this point, mamba is just so much better and faster, that it's the first package I install in an Anaconda environment.

[0] https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba
You misunderstood their point.

They were not asking for firefighters to be privatized.

Instead they were asking for people to be allowed to earmark their tax revenue.

So, someone could move their money from military spending, and put it in firefighting, for example.
> There's plenty of good UI/UX outside of GNOME.

True, but keep in mind that GNOME sets the bar very very low.
That nonverbal commune with the dumb animal has happened to me a few times. The very first time was so loud and profound it really blew me away.

I was in the bathroom early one morning and found myself staring blank-brained at my eyes in the mirror. Kind of like that sense you get when you suddenly realize you're looking into an open refrigerator, I knew I had just walked in there for some reason but it wasn't coming to me. Meds? No. Shower? I don't think so. Shave? ... ... *pokes out chin* ... man I'm looking a little rough ... and just then, as I start getting distracted with the unkempt dude in the mirror, my right arm raises without any provocation and *angrily* mimes brushing my teeth. Like three.hard.rakes across the grill and then back down.

As soon as that happened it's like someone unclicked pause in my brain and everything flooded back. Brushing my teeth! So I grabbed my toothbrush and toothpaste and as I'm dosing it up with a fresh blob I think wait...what the fuck was that? It was like my arm was possessed and tired of me being an idiot lol.
As an Australian, I hope you don't keep banging on about Brexit for the next 30 years like you did Thatcher, it's really tiresome.

For goodness sake, you've won your parliament back from Brussels, just get on with it.

We survived Kevin Rudd, twice, we wish him well but don't really take much notice of him.
Let me clarify: I meant you made a good argument that we should support the first group, but the rest of this discussion is about the second group.
This is a more complicated question. If wages go up, then goods cost less relatively. If everything is made internally, then the price of goods can be substantially lower than it is when everything is imported.

Compare the price level of Hawaii to the mainland USA. Food is expensive because it's imported, yet Hawaii has some of the most productive farmland in the world. Unfortunately that production goes to cash crops owned by global corporations, nearly eliminating all local food production.
Initially I tried to see if I could get back to zero "points" on HN without being obvious about it. My absolute failure to find a way to do so revealed the point system as some kind of buggy monotonic clock implementation.
I'd imagine there's a lot that just hasn't made it to Wikipedia:

https://springfieldmuseums.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/In...

http://twitpic.com/9b8h7x
You’re right; I’m not quite seeing how your proposal works mathematically. Perhaps you could illustrate it with a simple but closed-loop mathematical model to help drive your point home?
A self-hosted ElasticSearch and Prometheus.
If you use a Chromium-based browser this extension [0] was posted not too long ago on Show HN and I've been using it since. It is a more accurate way of seeing replies to your posts since not everyone votes before replying.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-notifi...
What I would really love is for people to start seeing the act of changing one's opinion based on evidence as something that brings admiration. If attention-seekers started even pretending to change their opinion based on evidence I think that would bring us to a better place.
The comment in general may be true but I don't see electricity costs being "much greater than CPU purchase costs over the lifespan" at least not for a data center operator.

The AWS M4 EC2 instance uses "2.3 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2686 v4 (Broadwell) processors or 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon® E5-2676 v3 (Haswell) processors" [0] so about 4-6 years old and may approach 7 years. A comparable processor Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2670 v3 costs about $ 1600 [1] in bulk. Average US home electricity price is ~ 0.13 $/month [2], this would probably be much lower for a data center operator. The mentioned processors probably consume ~ 150 W at full load, which will probably not be the case most of the time. Anyway, let's see:

CPU cost over its life time may be on the order of 1600 USD, which is quite cheap as today's top processors cost usually between 4000 and 8000 USD. [3]
The electricity cost would probably be: 24 hours * 365 days * 7 years * 0.13 $/kWh * 0.15 kW ~ 1200 USD which seems about right.

We can observe the electricity cost per CPU to be significantly lower than the purchase price of a rather cheap processor even assuming very generous CPU load and electricity price, while assuming rather low CPU cost. This of course doesn't include the mainboard, RAM, NIC, power conversion, cooling and other hardware that is needed to operate a modern data center. On the other hand, the cost of this hardware wasn't included in the calculation either.

Of course, I am not the only one to do the calculations. James Hamilton from AWS has done them too: https://youtu.be/kHW-ayt_Urk?t=333

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
[1] https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/81709/i...
[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46276
[3] https://www.anandtech.com/show/16529/amd-epyc-milan-review
If Samsung just commits to outspend Apple on the node commitment, transistor counts, and size, then the outcome of the race may not be so pre-determined yet.

Transistor for transistor, ARMs latest licenseable cores are not so much far behind.
I think I would much rather pay for their living expenses than bail out yet another board of fat-cats who gambled on exotic financial instruments and lost. I'd much rather pay someone to live than buy more bombs to go kill someone in a country that has literally nothing to do with my daily life. I'd much rather give a kid a chance to do what they want, or a person to reevaluate their career, than to subsidize carbon fuels.
From a regulatory perspective, you are saying that the FDA has done something that they did not do. “Approved”, “cleared”, “granted”, and “authorized” all have distinct meanings.
"Capital" is just faceless organizations wanting to park their wealth somewhere to get a return.

40% of US corporate equity is owned by the foreign sector

40% is in tax-advantaged retirement accounts and pension funds as well as tax-advantaged non-profits.

20% is in various taxable accounts of US citizens and US based corporations.

source: https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2020/10/25/who-owns-the-st...

It used to be that 70% of the stock market was owned by retirement funds, before we began accepting massive capital inflows from the foreign sector.

I guarantee you very few people who buy these portfolios even know the names of the businesses they own. There is nothing about "caring" involved in this equation. Nor is there anything about "loyalty". It's not a good idea to anthropomorphize capital markets, not if you are trying to understand them. People at a horse track placing bets on which horse is the fastest are not loyal to the horses, nor do they expect the horses to be loyal to them. If a horse doesn't run as fast, they just change the odds on that horse. Really, I think a poor understanding of both capital markets and banking is the main reason a lot of well-intentioned reforms end up being ineffective or backfiring. For example, you'd get a lot farther at promoting higher wages if you ban capital inflows than with unionization efforts.
‘Mostly true’, as they say. If `uname -s` is not 'Linux', then it's quite unlikely there will be a Linux-style /proc with assorted non-process things in it. If it is Linux, it's probably there; technically as it's a mounted file system it might not be present, but I've never even seen an embedded Linux without it.
The P.1 variant is extremely contagious, with an unmitigated R somewhere in the range of 6-12. That's close to Measles. Unless a very large percentage of the population gets vaccinated, it's essentially inevitable for the unvaccinated to be infected at some point, as well as a small portion of the vaccinated population.

Your choices are either get vaccinated, get COVID (and possibly transmit it), or take extreme precautions indefinitely. Unless you have reason to believe that the vaccine is more dangerous than COVID, and you're not willing to live your life as a shut-in or wear a respirator for the rest of your life, you might as well get vaccinated.
Came here to say this. My best friends daughter is 10, and non-verbal. She can barely dress herself and can't tie her shoes. It's heartbreaking.

For every Elon Must there has to be a hundreds of thousands of kids like this.
What you fail to consider is that there are a lot of people who simply would rather sit around and do drugs and watch TV than do any job that they are qualified for. They also lack the motivation to want to acquire new skills that would allow them to get a job that is more interesting to them.

My mother was one of these people and that's what she did. She eventually used her depression which was caused by her drug addiction to get on to social security disability. She spent her entire adult life living in group homes where all the other residents were also on social security disability and when I would hang out there you could guarantee there was going to be drugs and beer everywhere as the cable TV played.

The part of West Virginia where her family was and I would spend my summers was filled with people who had a way of life of living on the "draw".

People like yourself who come from culturally functional backgrounds simply have no reference point to understand the other cultural dysfunction that people like my mother and her friends exhibited.

She overdosed on oxycontin in 2015 and from the years 1985 to then she never worked a single job or paid a single bit of taxes and she never wanted to.

I understand that I am simply spouting an anecdote here, but no matter where my mom lives she always had roommates that were just like her. There's an entire subculture of people that do this.
If the only way for the business to be profitable is to pay less than a living wage, then that business is in fact _not_ profitable. I'd rather subsidize people that are between jobs rather than business owners (because I'd still have to subsidize food stamps for their employees). If the company cannot make money without exploiting workers, maybe it shouldn't exist? And then I'll happily pay the (now ex-) owner's unemployment benefit until they land a job.
FWIW I don't think the Tweet referenced is dumb. It might not have taken much effort to create, but it is funny, easily digestible and presents a situation that a ton of professionals can relate to.

Humor is situational and often counterintuitive. There is no formula for a good joke, and staying up till 3am trying to draft a successful Tweet is the exact wrong way to do it. While I am glad the author recognized the problem, writing a semi-pretentious blog post about it and posting it on HN for further validation rather than just switching off his computer tells me that he isn't out of the woods just yet.