skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there were always some rules for some subgroup that caused political discussions and that's fine.

The problem starts when the bandwidth gets saturated. I don't say that people just should shut the f up and follow the rules, I'm simply saying that this saturated state is very bad.
In New York City, at a large pharmacy chain, administered by a pharmacist. They're done like this, or at government run centers. The cost is handled by the government.
These people might not be tinkering with iPads or iPhone, but web development has infinite possibilities and a very low barrier to entry (you only need a computer with a web browser). Anyone interested in code will find a way to scratch that itch.
Mark Rober made some nice YouTube/device for those porch pirates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4T_LlK1VE4
These industries squeezed the blood out of US suppliers to compete on cost. I don't think a correct solution is the government building capacity and supply chains.

IMHO a more sustainable strategy is the government taxing the environmental and human rights externalities of off-shore production.
I used to work for OnSemi, so take the following for what you will.

On sells a variety of components -- some are completely commodity and are produced in super cheap fabs in Malaysia. Some are mid-tier and are (or were) made at fabs in Phoenix or Pocatello. And some are high-end and come out of the Gresham fabs that they bought when LSI went fabless.

There's value in producing the commodity stuff. Obviously they're not going to enter a bidding war with TSMC for cutting edge manufacturing equipment to make commodity voltage regulators. But they still invest in fab technology at the lower end.

I don't think ONN is particularly special in this space. They had plenty of competitors and they worked to distinguish themselves on cost, depth of their product catalog, and ability to execute.
There is a "wealth effect". If you think you are rich because you have a lot of Bitcoins that will be worth more 30 years from now you might spend money instead of save.

Collectively people doing that create aggregate demand in the economy, increase GDP, and if they use the extra money they believe they have to bid up the prices of goods and services, increase inflation.
That might make you the only person to have never misplaced your keys. It's not exactly uncommon. In the above scenario, finding of an umbrella prevents waste as otherwise you need a new one.
SF is known for sourdough, but is Dutch crunch the Bay Area's signature bread?
I have never been in a situation as a driver where I needed my speedometer to prevent me from having an accident. I also am perfectly capable of maintaining a steady speed for the 30 seconds it takes the car to reboot. I expect most drivers are. You can determine the speed of your car pretty accurately by looking at how fast you’re moving by objects outside of your car.

It’s perfectly legal to drive in a car without a working speedometer, and many people do.
AFAIK if the owner iPhone checks in with the tag, then everything's fine again.

So if you're a jealous husband who wants to track your wife's whereabouts as she goes through the day before returning to your home every night, well Apple has the product for you!

Or if you're stalking Cindy, just walk by her place every few days... until she spends the night at Peter's, but hey, your iPhone will tell you that, and where to find them.
I really liked this piece and I'm quite curious how genre fiction's overall subsidy of traditional publishing houses factors into this. The answers to all these questions are very different for e.g. genre romance authors than for e.g. literary nonfiction authors.
In Most countries, the National legislature can restructure states, impose nationwide simplification of tax policy etc within the limits of the federal structure they have. US is one of the few countries the relationship is the other way around.

In most countries, the states get their power from the delegation of powers dictated by the union/federal constitution.
In US, The union gets their power from the few matters that were delegated to them from the states.

For example, India used to have such disparity in consumption taxes (not income tax) which was recently removed and simplified. The federal govt collects all consumption and income taxes and devolves the receipts to states based on pre-defined formulae enshrined in law.

Edit: In an ideal world, instead of filing separate state and federal tax returns US should move to a common system where tax can be collected/enforced by one entity and the receipts devolved to states as per certain rules. This will remove income tax disparity between states and equalise business/opportunity costs (No more Delaware tax havens for companies to skirt taxation). This will simplify a lot of things. Most countries including mine have such a singular system.
Only because the criminal hasn't yet tried to use that bitcoin to buy something in the real world.

If they try to convert to fiat via an exchange, they can be identified the same way the husband was. If they try to buy products directly without using fiat then it is harder for law enforcement to get the records they need, but still quite possible.

They will probably be safe if they never touch the bitcoin, but that entirely defeats the purpose of using it
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Globalization has benefits too, like preventing world war due to heavy interdependencies.
> Social media, particularly to Gen Z, and particulary TikTok, has a major focus on projecting success, wealth, beauty, and other aspects of vanity

This statement can apply to LinkedIn as well.
The basic argument is that domestic production of integrated circuits isn't economical for American businesses. Having a more flexible supply chain is beneficial to these companies (e.g. when a global pandemic hits), but the required investment outweighs these benefits.

On the other hand, the government potentially has a lot to lose if domestic companies are completely unable to produce hardware needed for critical infrastructure. The government also benefits from these companies expanding their supply chain to include domestic production, so the companies are asking the government to provide enough capital/tax breaks to make domestic production viable, and they're trying to convince the government that this provides enough value to the USA for it to be worth it.

But this is being pushed by lobbyists paid for by giant corporations, so it's fair to be skeptical. In reality, the $50B number probably sits somewhere between "the bare minimum needed to make this viable" and "a handout pocketed by greedy corporations".
Mine works well enough for taking air temperature. Obviously not instant read, but if you leave it out for a minute or two before reading it, it gives pretty accurate results. (I guess that's no different from any ordinary air thermometer?)
Yes, I was using a bluetooth based tracker I found on Amazon, but the slightly clunky medallion ended up leading to issues with her being able to clean her own chest, and she got tangles under it. It can be a real issue.

So I've also been looking for a way to use an airtag unobtrusively. My cat isn't outdoors, but I have a big house and she's very old and likes to hide. I'm afraid someday she'll be sick or worse and I won't be able to find her, so something like this would make me feel a lot better.
>> Dynamic linkage by default
>> By default, the Rust ecosystem assumes that crates will be statically linked into binaries. The usual benefits of dynamic libraries are upgrades (whether for security or functionality) and decreased memory usage. Rust’s lack of a stable binary interface and usage of cross-crate information flow prevents upgrading libraries without upgrading all dependent code. Even when the same crate is used by two different programs on the system, it is unlikely to be provided by the same shared object4 due to the precision with which Rust identifies its crates. This makes Rust binaries more portable but also results in larger disk and memory footprints.

>> This is problematic for Android devices where resources like memory and disk usage must be carefully managed because statically linking all crates into Rust binaries would result in excessive code duplication (especially in the standard library). However, our situation is also different from the standard host environment: we build Android using global decisions about dependencies. This means that nearly every crate is shareable between all users of that crate. Thus, we opt to link crates dynamically by default for device targets. This reduces the overall memory footprint of Rust in Android by allowing crates to be reused across multiple binaries which depend on them.

>> Since this is unusual in the Rust community, not all third-party crates support dynamic compilation. Sometimes we must carry small patches while we work with upstream maintainers to add support.

Having a dynamic linking option for Rust would be a tremendous improvement.

It would help to solve vendoring issues and hopefully improve interop with existing systems and programming languages.

Good dynamic linking support and enhanced interop with C would make it much easier to do a piece-wise replacement of C components with Rust components, allowing for a gradual migration in places where it makes sense to do so.
At least not every iPhone reports Tiles to base.
I came to this thread a bit too late, but if you're interested in the actual signal that Stella found, take a look at the spectrum vs time on the NASA release [1] - third plot on the page, with a convenient slider that lets you flip back and forth to see the previously known plasma oscillation events and the newly discovered continuous signal. Notice the huge change in scale!

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/as-nasa-s-voyager-...
I'm not at a FAANG but am at a F500.

We're paid well because we have to shift gears a lot, learn a lot, fake-it-till-you-make it, and put up with oodles and oodles of BS.

From a technical standpoint a 16 year old could do my job. We're getting paid for patience and the ability to "code switch" in the socio-linguistic sense.
Worked in a tv repair shop back in the mid-90s. We would mostly fix aged soldering or replace dodgy capacitors, but even then newer TVs were getting less and less repairable. Just a transformer, circuit board and CRT.

They shut down not long after I stopped working there as there was nothing left that they could fix.
Is changing, not has changed. If it already had, no one would remark on it.
If the US tax payer gets a significant stake in the chip fab venture, I would be OK with this. We want to secure national security via chip manufacturing and you want billions of dollars? Give us some upside.

I don't want to hear it creates jobs, it generates blah blah blah, a real equity stake and possibly repayment of the capital. Creating jobs should be a happy by-product of subsidizing an industry that is probably more well capitalized than any other in existence.

According to (https://startupanz.com/5-tech-giants-hold-588b-cash-reserves...) Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft had 526 billion dollars between the four of them in cash reserves. They have over half a TRILLION dollars in cash. If this were life or death, they could afford anything.

But the calculus is offload risk onto the tax payer (despite being a shareholder directly in all those companies or indirectly via mutual funds/etfs), I don't want to be left holding the bag with no upside beyond the general sentiment of 'national security was secured' while private companies reap all the benefits.
The idea that AirTags are much of a step up from what a determined stalker is already using[1] to stalk people is a laughable one.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/GPS-Trackers/b?node=617650011
Also the most likely tonic to platform churn, reinvented wheels, codebase growth. The culture will flip towards lambasting anything that hasn't been put through the wringer as "untrustworthy".
Having gone through a wave of bedroom recording, phone performances(youtube etc.), modular synths, and finally pandemic, we are overdue for a folk/indie/live music wave.

This doesn't contradict Petzold's glee for yt, bc his yt is a yearning for less edited performances.
> By default devices don't send fragmented frames. This means that the mixed key attack and the fragment cache attack, on their own, will be hard to exploit in practice, unless Wi-Fi 6 is used. When using Wi-Fi 6, which is based on the 802.11ax standard, a device may dynamically fragment frames to fill up available airtime.

Why does this feel like Spectre? We're trying to speed things up in a way that eventually blows back into our face.
I'm not sure I see the problem, government is for these cases where every player individually has a cheaper option for the short term, but one that might not be as good for the city/state/country overall. I don't want Google to spend a hundred million dollars on chip production for just themselves that would add to the price of their products - but not their competitors - and also not help out the broader market situation... it's not in my interest for every company to go their own way here, either.
> Other governments are always going to subsidize though (unless you work that into the trade deals I suppose).

Often trade deals do include agreements about subsidies.

> it's not clear if there's a market for more expensive US chips - if there were, you'd think someone would build it without the need for a subsidy

They wouldn’t be more expensive with the subsidy.
From the industry response[1]:

> "It’s important to note that there is presently no evidence of the vulnerabilities being used against Wi-Fi users maliciously and these issues are mitigated through routine device updates once updated firmware becomes available.

> "Like many previous vulnerabilities, FragAttacks has been academically well-researched and responsibly reported in a manner allowing the industry to proactively prepare and begin to roll out updates that fully eliminate the vulnerabilities. This set of vulnerabilities requires a potential attacker to be physically within range of the Wi-Fi network (or user device) in order to exploit it. This significantly reduces the likelihood of actual exploitation or attack."

[1] https://www.commscope.com/blog/2021/wi-fi-alliance-discloses...
EU Lawmakers Ask Jeff Bezos to Testify About Union-Busting
I find the easiest way to make the TV dumb is to reject every EULA and ToS I'm presented with. Basic TV functionality can't really be disabled (not without making the device unfit for the purpose it was sold), and any further collection of data would expose the manufacturer to some massive legal liability.
Yeah that's something I definitely need to do... Most people really can't afford it though
Even if this consortium constructs a North American fab, a single natural disaster near that fab could wreak the same follow-on effects in the headlines today; the underlying problem isn't only that we've outsourced our critical manufacturing, but also that we keep so little buffer that any disruption could cause today's headlines.

The MBAs running US manufacturers need to scrap their JIT strategies, build some warehouses, and start keeping a store of the essentials. If a tangible good is essential to your business continuity on a 6 or 12 month horizon, then your business should not outsource the maintenance of this lifeline, regardless of whether your supplier is domestic.
Another Source - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-11/facebook-...

> Johannes Caspar, who heads Hamburg’s privacy authority, issued a three-month emergency ban, prohibiting Facebook from continuing with the data collection. He also asked a panel of European Union data regulators to take action and issue a ruling across the 27-nation bloc. The new WhatsApp terms enabling the data scoop are invalid because they are intransparent, inconsistent and overly broad, he said.
The normal sense used by statistics bureaus and such is pretty narrow and focuses only on the national currency, usually. So in that sense, given that Bitcoins are not dollars or yen or anything else, then by definition, no.

In a more general sense? I don't know. Folks are still debating whether Bitcoin should even be considered a currency. Maybe it's better thought of as an asset like gold, from how people seem to be using it. Except at least you can make computer chips to mine Bitcoin with, out of gold. So maybe it's not even quite like that. Maybe it's something entirely new and our old models don't model it quite right, sort-of-like currency, but not quite.

Now, if we do accept that Bitcoin is operating as a currency, then yes, it would be part of a more fuzzily defined notion of total global (or American) money supply, including all national currencies and currency-like instruments in use. But then, taking that very literally, so are cigarettes, given their use in black market commerce in prisons. For both of them it would be hard to measure, but it's definitely a factor in some way.

I don't know if it's affecting inflation. I do suspect that the recent rise in price is at least partly driven by people seeking safe harbour from inflation, especially those who do not have an easy mechanism for buying real estate and the other usual hedges against inflation.
Average American makes $1.5 million total during their entire 40-50 year working career. In a world where tech salaries start around $100k and quickly go higher, many tech workers in their early 30s have already earned a lifetime's worth of average wages.

Can you quit if you want to continue living a lifestyle higher than the majority of Americans? No, but that's a tradeoff you're choosing.
Why are arguments of this form so pervasive?

Cryptocurrency is bad and must be banned because ransomware. Encryption is bad because pedos, let’s ban Tor and Signal. We need a permanent surveillance state and forfeit most of our rights to privacy because terrorists bad, what do you have to hide?

Is it an appeal to emotion? Fear?
>Netflix don’t hire grads do they?

Yep, they don't even hire mid-level engineers. They hire seniors and above. But their size is tiny compared to the rest of those top tier tech companies, so Netflix could be ignored for all intents and purposes here.

>Also this is specific to the Bay Area

Not really. Seattle has pretty much the same level of comp and no state income tax. And pretty much all of those companies discussed above have significant presence in Seattle too (minus Netflix afaik). But yes, still an expensive place to live in.

>stocks massively inflate this number

How is this "inflation" or an issue at all? You can sell stocks immediately as they vest and treat it just like cash comp. Or you can hold and hope they grow in price (which a lot of times is a valid strategy). But for all intents and purposes, stock compensation at publicly traded companies is just as valid as cash compensation. It isn't some stock options that "might be worth a lot when we go public, but currently is just a monopoly money you cannot do anything with" in a privately held startup.

>it’s not ‘common’

It depends on how you define "common". Among my peers who applied to those top tier companies and got the offers, around $200k starting out of college was way more common than not. And no, I didn't go to Stanford or anything like that, it was a public state college in Georgia (albeit a very good one, but still, nothing "exclusive" like MIT/Stanford/etc.). There were a couple of people who were truly exceptional, and their starting offers reflected that appropriately (closer to $300k than $200k), but $200k seemed to be the baseline.

And no, none of those companies require some wild credentials or experience to interview. Pretty much anyone can get a Google interview at some point (everyone I know from my school who tried applying, got at least one shot at the Google interview process; I also know a lot of people with either no college education at all or those that went to colleges that no one has even heard of, and they all got invited for Google interviews), the problem is that most don't pass. But it doesn't seem to be just pure luck (even though it is a non-insignificant element of it), given that the people I know who studied the hardest were also the ones who had the highest pass rate for those interviews (as well as the highest offers).
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You don't have to include a profile picture in LinkedIn. That protects race and age. I suppose you could also replace your given name with an initial, protecting gender.
Going into the City
This is also the reason why iPad Pro will never be the professional machine Apple is pushing it as, no matter how much processing power or marketing dollars they throw at it.
We know that rats grow OK in orbital microgravity. Doesn't seem like strong gravity is required for mammalian morphogenesis to work.

"As we reported previously (Ronca & Alberts, 2002b), pre- and postflight body weights of dams and the body weights of the offspring used in these experiments were comparable across treatment groups. Within 48-72 hrs following landing, the rat dams that contributed offspring to the postnatal studies gave birth to healthy offspring."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610337/
Yes, Switzerland (cantons), India (states), and Canada (provinces), to name three I am familiar with, though the U.S. has the widest variation of tax burdens (at the local level).

Tax variation like this is generally a side effect of federalized systems of government.
They took it from you, and you’re not getting it back.
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This highlights one of my main complaints about the DS role. You are expected to have strong business intuition, sufficient coding skills to hold down a SWE role, a strong background in stats/math, know all the ML/DS specific skills and lastly, have technical depth in the subdomain you are looking to solve. All of this, while being paid the exact same as someone on the SWE or PM track.

No one can do it all. DSs that do 70% of these are the best of the best.

Mature DS groups have figured out that you have to pick your poison, and focus on archetypes rather than a 'well rounded' DS.
Here are a few DS archetypes that I've seen.

1. The NLP/Vision/RL domain expert: High depth, low breadth people. Not very concerned with business intuition. Strong grasp of math for their domain. Moderate coding abilities, but pipelining for their field is fairly well defined. What is SQL?

2. The Generalist : Comes close to the 'good data scientist' outlined here. Never publishes, solves DS problems, will probably struggle to reach principal IC level in any specific product group because they lack the prerequisite depth. Will often become a manager down the line though and can also become an excellent PM at some point. SQL is their life blood. The less business savvy people see them as MBA-adjacent. But, they are super important.

3. Mr Maths or the Statistician : Pairs excellently with #4

4. The MLE who doesn't want to be an MLE - Excellent coding skills. Sufficient ML/DS skills. Just hasn't found a way to get their foot in the door to transition to a DS role without taking a pay cut.

5. The Researcher : Hiring a researcher in the wrong team can lead to a completely ineffective team. Also, not having a researcher in a team that needs it can lead to everyone going around in circles.

Top DSs will manage to host a max of 2 archetypes in them. Trying to get your DS to host >2 archetypes, is a losing battle. This is as good as it is going get. Also, most teams don't need all archetypes.

Identify the archetypes you need. Get some coverage over them through your hired DSs and let them continue growing along their selected archetypes.