skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Order-preserving dicts were added as a side effect of an optimization in CPython 3.6 [0]. They were considered an implementation detail of CPython in 3.6, it wasn't until Python 3.7 that is was declared an official part of the language [1].

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#whatsnew36-compa...
[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/1...
I would imagine if someone had the desire and ability* to get a job at a FAANG they'd have a job at a FAANG.

FAANG jobs are, quite frankly, an insignificant fraction of the market. The overwhelming majority of developers are like the OP.
Maybe I'm just naive, but I find this insanely exciting. Particularly the analogy of Youtube vs TikTok. Having the source code right next to the executable, right there in your browser seems very powerful.

If it pans out right, the next gen of memes could be games like the ones showcased here, and then people "fork" it, and change some of the code and make it their own.

I have nothing to do with repl.it, just really happy to see this.
We'll see how to provide alternate markdown parsers. Can ASCII Doctor be rendered by React?
The top US bracket of 37% + 13.3% in CA (for example) will get you roughly there. NYC has an even higher tax rate.

Of course, this doesn't take into account that it's a progressive tax, etc., but I regularly take home only about 50-60% of what I make, after benefits.
> And with the girls be handy

I'd never really given much thought to what this line meant but knowing the context it's pretty gross.
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"In a society that emphasized individuality, it is not hard to imagine that they became folk heroes of a kind—and that many of the people who laughed at them felt a tug of longing for the freedom with which they lived."

This is similar to the canard that "your bully is just jealous of your <favorable attribute here>." It's codswallop: more like to be the normal reaction to a trend taken "too far," as it were, and something like the backlash one thinks of regarding the grunge, goth, "emo", and "hipster" fads. Nobody was jealous of the supposed freedom that these people had, so much as they were amused (or appalled) at the absurd lack of introspection and awareness they exhibited by latching onto a played out trend.
That argument doesn't always work. GM had the EV1 "on the road and working" in 1996. Then they decided that electric cars could never work. Then Tesla happened.
50% effective at $72k/yr. I genuinely cannot figure out the geography for this.
Very cool.. Thanks!

I always want to do more things with Wasm and actual demos are the best ways to know how to start

Your Github library looks super interesting as well!
@ both parents - sounds like a challenge to create a robot to be remotely controlled from home to allow you guys move electronics in the real lab in order to do your job.

Eager to read about it here on HN top in a few months Dmitry!
How would you protect (non-SaaS) software against copying or reverse engineering?
(Should be characters rather than words.) Very impressive; I wonder if future versions will eventually even exceed the speed of speech or typing.
What does security mean when there is no ad unless it is shepherded out of the blob? Once it's out of the blob, there is no security to bypass.
Related: this is a very well produced video on the Dyatlov Pass Incident

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RigxxiilI
Yeah but is someone making $6k a month in the top bracket in these places?
I'd love to have a good answer for you, but I learned the basics all the way back in the '80s. Seems like I've seen references posted occasionally on HN, hopefully someone has a good link.
... a miserable pile of secrets.
This is madness! I love it. I'd thoroughly enjoy an addition to the demo where you play back audio the mouse has captured – I think many would be interested to hear what kind of fidelity gets captured.
You’re saying we should be in favor of fossil fuels because it will.. prevent war? Gotta imagine the Middle East might have some experience here with regards to the peace bringing properties of oil.
I love the notion of co-located processing and data, but most of the data stores dont quite embrace it. Well actually Riak does quite well if you're fine with a dynamo like kv store. The riak library is actually pretty nifty for distributed computations. But with Basho out of business it's harder to justify. Plus KV stores really aren't as usable as good ole sql. In that realm there's ActorDB, but I've not been able to figure out how to run it inside my own beam cluster rather than standalone.
There's now an attempt being made to start an exploration into this: https://open-ui.org

I wouldn't hold my breath though.
So are liquid hydrocarbons as easy to synthesise as gas ones? (I genuinely have no idea, just wondering)
Meh. Most contracts are day rate, and effectively fixed-term salaries.
Any details? :)
Not if you want it to be accurate.
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> You're suggesting negotiating with a hard sell, but the benefit should already be obvious to a good employer

In a theoretical world, everything would be obvious to everyone. The real world is not like that, because different people see things differently, because they have different vantage points, different interests, and different constraints. Most importantly, they have different pre-conceptions, because they have different experiences.

Selling a proposition that makes sense to both parties is not about exerting will over someone. It's the opposite. It's about searching for ways to do things differently that results in mutual benefit.

Traditionally, employers in all industries have conceived of their role as commanding and monitoring employees to ensure they do work, which, they tacitly assume the employee wants to shirk. It is the role of an enforcer, and it is based on a simplistic paradigm that's now officially out of date.

In 2021, the pandemic has shed new light on that relationship.

With no choice but to work from home, and with new tools such as Zoom and Teams, workplaces in all industries have found new ways to do things, and changed their conceptions about what works and what doesn't work.

The first thing people noticed is that some people are more productive working from home, and experience greater satisfaction. They are able to balance their roles as homemakers, family members, employees and change agents better because they can slice time more effectively.

They regain all the hours lost to commuting.

They gain some of the hours lost to unnecessary interruptions from colleagues.

For responsible employees who don't shirk work, the reasons for productivity gain aren't difficult to explain. What percentage of employees is that? It was already more than 0, and it's only growing higher with better tools and more knowledge of remote work experiences.

The next thing organisations learned is that not all employees had the same experiences. Introverts welcomed the isolation. Extroverts felt diminished in the absence of the energy they gained from interactions with colleagues.

The longer the pandemic went on, the more we learned. Institutional learning is still occurring because it takes at least a year for some metrics to even be accumulated and derived. The impact on the bottom line of the change in real estate requirement e.g. CBD towers will be profound, but it hasn't even been calculated yet, let alone analysed by accountants and executives.

What ftf meetings are necessary, and what meetings, virtual and ftf, are a waste of time? We started to learn that only when ftf meetings were impossible for an extended period.
Great point. His loss is bigger than the GDP of the bottom 80 countries in the world.

113 Laos 20,440
114 Afghanistan 19,938
115 Mali 19,912
116 Lebanon (2020) 19,126
117 Zambia 18,955
118 Burkina Faso 18,853
119 Botswana 18,726
120 Gabon 18,362
121 Benin 17,327
122 Albania 17,138
123 Palestine[n 7] 16,481
124 Malta 16,476
125 Guinea 16,339
126 Georgia 16,163
127 Niger 15,899
128 Brunei 15,278
129 Madagascar 14,746
130 Jamaica 14,600
131 Mongolia 14,233
132 Mozambique 13,957
133 North Macedonia 13,821
134 Chad 12,531
135 Nicaragua 12,283
136 Armenia 12,251
137 Mauritius 12,212
138 Republic of the Congo 12,022
139 Moldova[n 8] 11,998
140 Equatorial Guinea 11,726
141 Bahamas 11,706
142 Namibia 11,381
143 Rwanda 10,633
144 Malawi 9,268
145 Mauritania 9,239
146 Kosovo 8,810
147 Togo 8,627
148 Tajikistan 7,825
149 Kyrgyzstan 7,470
150 Guyana 7,255
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192 Tuvalu 57
That’s what I’ve done on personal projects. The benefits of dropping support for the old version are large enough to outweigh the tiny drawbacks of not supporting it.
ok but he's only making $72,000 a year pre-tax. He's not even close to being in the top tax bracket in the US.
I tried dozens in the space and it sounds like you have too.

I settled on mkdocs for perfectmediaserver.com but hugo was up there too. mdbook is another great contender.

There are lots of almost what I want options. In the end mkdocs-material was close enough and I needed to ship.
They're self employed, so 12% FICA, 25% fed 10% state would be my very rough guess.
unless you store them in a black wing shaped bag and let the sun lift the fuel for you
I for one would love a molten salt reactor in everyones backyard. https://www.forbes.com/sites/llewellynking/2020/10/13/new-de... Maybe a scaled down version that could be deployed in communities thereby decentralizing electrical generation and distribution.
A bailout is a discrete event.

It happened, it's over. Citadel still exists as a company thanks to the AG bailout. That does not mean everything citadel ever buys is now a government bailout.

That's just silly.
That's really cool!

But why does every car look like it's been freshly waxed? The newspaper boxes have a bit of rust and grime on them. Those look really real.
Help me understand this. So it looks like Vitalik sent "$1 Billion dollars worth" of SHIB tokens to the relief fund. He did this because he got 50 trillion SHIB tokens airdropped to his personal Ethereum wallet.

So how in the world is he going to get taxed on such an event?
Are those pre-tax and post-tax numbers correct? That's a tax rate of almost 50%, which sounds nuts.

You should definitely be getting more than 37 USD/hour as a contractor. That's wildly low.
Yeah, you'd be looking at 80 - 100 here in TN. You might be able to get 150, but if you only have 6 years of experience you probably wouldn't be considered senior here either.
I was adding more info about Switzerland's referendums, as compared to California's. Maybe I did not understand your comment on California.
Thanks for your feedback and actually trying out the app in the first place.

I will get the bugs fixed.

I have also noted down the suggestions on column name and Keypress. We will implement them soon.

Pricing restructure is also on the cards.

Once again, thank you!!!
> "I wanted to let you know that I'll be staying remote from here on out. This last year has been a huge improvement in quality of life for me, and honestly I couldn't imagine working out of an office again. I'd love to stay with you guys (this is a great team), so let me know if that's an option. If not, I'm sure I can wind down my projects by next month."

I'd leave out the last sentence, it doesn't add anything and just makes the threat to quit more in your face thus confrontational.

Also instead of finishing with "so let me know if that's an option." I'd go more like "so let me know what options we can explore to make this happen." The first one is a take it or leave it, the second says you're flexible on details as long as you get to be remote.

The point is that you communicate that you are very interested in staying, love the team and willing to work with management to find any reasonable solution to make this work. If you make it an ultimatum the more likely response is "Sad to see you go, ok bye."
You are paid a pittance (assuming US). I have 4 YOE and earn 1.5x your hourly rate, and I don't live in a coastal state. (disclaimer: I'm only backend; I don't know which way that should sway things).
You probably have hardware that watches ECC flags. For a correctable one-bit flip, it triggers a read-and-then-write. For a two-bit flip, it might just kill and restart the process, or reset the whole machine. As long as it doesn't happen too often, it's fine: the whole system (constellation and ground nodes) are designed to accommodate such events.
The most pessimistic estimate I've seen paid for by the cable industry is here: https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/10208168836021/FBA_LEO_RDOF_Ass...

Only if each subscriber is using an average of 15-20 Mbps during peak times will about 50% of subscribers see some throttling.

Interestingly they only showed a single graph of average bandwidth over time from a cable company to estimate needs for SpaceX. No clue if they actually separated it out by time zone for each coverage area in their actual analysis.
I'm pretty excited about these. It takes nuclear in a new direction. What disappoints me though is that of the people doing this research that I've contacted, none of them are reaching out to the "other side" (things you would pump the heat into) here. A packaged closed cycle steam turbine system for electricity generation, for example, would be an excellent add-on here.

The Navy has some great small turbine systems (although they typically use the ocean as a big thermal sink for their re condensers), and the folks who design geothermal plants could have a role here if they wanted, but so far not much work there that has appeared in the sources I tend to scan.

As a result I'm concerned that these things with hit the market with no "shovel ready" plans to put them into production, and the lag between that and when you can put them in production will kill the reactor developers. I have seen it in other industries and it hurts to watch it unfold.
"Most designs will require fuel with a higher concentration of uranium-235 that’s not currently used in today’s reactors"

The problem with making such tech mainstream is you'd need impossible levels of security to prevent even one store of such material from being stolen.
Yeah but the money supply is an instrument of the Fed to control inflation. The fact that it has gone up indicates the Fed is attempting to increase the inflation rate, which makes sense because the rate is below the 2% target. So, I'm not sure what this argument is trying to tell us...
Candyland, maybe. There's no jurisdiction in the world that I am aware of where you can both 1) be a remote developer, 2) pay a 50% effective rate on $6k/mo. Even marginal rate is pushing it for that low of an income.
> When schemes like Archegos blow up

Archegos isn't a "scheme". Its a private hedge fund for Bill Hwang's family.

I mean, it really sucks for him and his family to lose $20,000,000,000 in a couple of days. But... this dude was playing with fire.

And yeah, sucks for Credit Susie who was left "holding the bag" on Archegos's margin calls (all other banks liquidated ahead of time and got out safely. Credit Susie was slow on the uptake and was left with a $5 Billion bill).

But guess what? Lending $Billions to reckless billionaires sometimes causes your bank to lose money. That's well within the risk-reward calculus. And a "big wall street bank" losing single-digit $Billions on a bet happens at least a few times each year: its not even that rare of an incident. This is literally the business they're in. (Indeed: banks like Credit Susie lend money somewhat recklessly because they know they can afford the loss if the bet goes sideways. I doubt anyone at Credit Susie is going to even get fired over this incident, its really not that big a deal.)

Honestly, this implosion is great entertainment because everything happened correctly. The damage is almost entirely isolated to Bill Hwang and his closest associates (family members, and some unfortunate church-members who got roped in). But it seems like Bill Hwang was a relatively honest fellow: so he didn't really screw anyone else over aside from himself.

Pretty much everyone in this story got "what they deserved". They played with fire, and then they got burned. This isn't a 2007 or 2008 situation where the fire spread and hurt someone else: this disaster is almost entirely "contained" to only the circle of reckless players.
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Dependence on imported energy would be a key factor in a South China Sea conflict. It was a driver of Japan's expansionism in WWII.
I was curious about this too and looked around a bit. I see he has to do some inspection of python interpreter -- so maybe that, coupled with demos already within in python2 are enough inertia to stay back on version 2.
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Toptal gets away with massively underpaying Sr Devs by hiring them from relatively cheap countries where that money goes a long way.

A US-based Sr Dev contractor working remotely, making 75/hr, is being massively ripped off if they're capable of working with any even remotely commercially viable technology.
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No way, you guys really like this movie? It's a good idea, terribly executed. The worst acting I have seen in a long time, gaping plot holes that makes you shake your head in disbelief. I was very disappointed.
If you are paid hourly and it is that low why on earth would you want to be a contractor?
Yes I just came to put an addendum on for characters not words. But as you said very very impressive. This could massively improve patient’s quality of life by being able to communicate much quicker
Grunge, goth, emo, hipster “fads” still exist and have, to a greater or lesser degree, been absorbed into mainstream style and culture. Maybe there’s more to the argument than simple “codswallop.”
Usually the buyer company paying this rate is paying for immediacy in addition to the expertise and there’s an agency or consulting company taking a spread, as a market maker would, for providing this immediacy.
I doubt it would be more economical. I strongly suspect someone did the analysis, determined that at five 9s they earn $X, at six 9s they earn $Y, and the difference between the two is large enough to be worth funding the projects to get there.
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Computer Modern isn't primarily designed using "skeletal forms"; that's one way of using Metafont, but not heavily used for the CM faces.

While it's true that Knuth is a computer scientist rather than a typographer, he has worked pretty closely with typographers. And in creating CM, he relied heavily on pre-existing (and professionally designed) Monotype fonts as a model. (See for example https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/monotype-modern, which looks quite reminiscent of CM.)

Computer Modern is not to many people's taste today, partly because it doesn't reproduce all that well at low resolutions, but also, I think, because it is an older style that is now out of fashion and not commonly seen.

(The term "Modern" for this type of design dates from the 1800s -- see https://www.toptal.com/designers/typography/typeface-classif... -- so it's hardly surprising that "modern" faces like Bodoni or Monotype Modern or CM feel rather old-fashioned today!)
LTCM wasn't bailed out, all the investors in it got screwed. Banks took 90% control of all of their assets, and the 10% that was left to the original capital managers was still far less than many of the debts accrued.
> Archegos Capital was largely Bill Hwang (and his family's) money.

You make a good point. I completely forgot that part. Kindof important too.
Any reason why you went with GPL.

Unless you only want to encourage open source video games, this is much more restrictive than an outright commercial license. Have you considered dual licensing at all, maybe I send you $1,000 or so and I get to use this in a commercial project.

I absolutely love rts's , I love looking at a project like this but I don't know if I'd be open to developing an Open source One
It seems like WebGPU is the next thing:

https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status
It’s also worth remembering that CM was designed with some very specific goals in mind in terms of clearly distinguishing a much broader character set than was the norm at the time, even at very small sizes. It is still arguably the most successful font family ever created within its intended niche. Very few font families can be used to typeset serious mathematics as legibly as CM, and even then, few authors will make the effort to set everything with the attention to detail Knuth has.
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Hmm, on the other hand cooks in this study were the number one occupational role for risk of death by covid. I wonder how much of this difficulty hiring for the food industry just from reduction of trained workforce via deaths, hesitance of survivors to return to an occupation where there would be many first or second hand experiences with colleagues passing on.

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2021/02/10/covid-job...
> If the cost of carbon is the cost to rip it out of the air then everything works out let them fly as much as they want

The "let people do whatever as long as someone else picks up the externalized costs" is exactly how we got to the situation where the US was exporting plastic waste to China only to realize we now have a microplastics clusterfuck in our hands. So you'll have to forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical about the assumption that carbon offsets work 100% efficiently by merely looking at the amount of money transferring hands.
Which country are you in?
Which country is your client in?

Your salary would be low in most markets for software developers.
What app are you developing?
Not being able to dance is another thing the medical literature says people in your position can't do, along with orthography. Have you considered that willpower is uncommon in people, due to how willfulness is traditionally punished and killed by centuries of war? That seems to be why autistic people usually don't change and why neurotypical people usually don't innovate.