skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The minmax solution is to not take a 100k job because of opportunity cost (you won’t get a chance at the 1 mil job next year). So you have both 40% unemployment and massive labor shortage (56 openings but only 10 viable candidates).

>These salaries represent value produced to company and cannot be raised.

This means the company needs one employee at minimum. If it loses that employee it will not produce value. Therefore it is in the best interest of the company to hire two people, the first position is compensated as much as possible, the second is compensated one dollar more than the lowest competing position that got filled.

Thus, the top offer becomes $899999 and the lowest offer becomes $100001. However, there is a problem. We have 12 positions but only 10 people. The companies will have to outbid each other on the lowest position until all salaries hit market rate, which is the average of the top ten original positions (6 times 1 mill 4 times 100k) that market rate is $640k for everyone.

The 100k jobs never get filled and they shouldn't get filled ever, because a lack of customer demand will never be a shortage. (the assumption in your scenario is that training costs exceed $1000k and therefore it never makes sense to increase the labor pool)

The mistake you made in your scenario is that you did not mention price controls enforced by the government. In a free market companies will negotiate and adjust their salary. The lack of training is acceptable for a thought experiment though.
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Woah, that is fascinating. Hmm that whole wiki looks fascinating. Thank you!
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Why would they need to leave the "boutique" tag?

Their whole philosophy is that you don't need to scale or sell out for VC money, and everything they did (and didn't do), is consistent with that.

Hey is just another service, like Basecamp, for those that want to pay for it, to sustain a profitable business. Not some Gmail-level wanabee.

I also happen to agree with that philosophy, considering eyeballs/VC/exit-oriented companies that aim for world domination poison and detrimental to consumers, to society, and to software.

I'd also like to note that what you call "boutique" is what, for the most part of capitalism, and even in IT up to the late 90s, we used to call a regular business.

Suddenly running a business with 10M-100M of revenue and a hefty profit is somehow an insult, and it's "boutique" or "lifestyle"...
writeall() comes from http://nacl.cace-project.eu and there it is used in a networking program. I removed poll() but only see a very small speed increase so far.

fsync() can be removed too but I'm not seeing any resulting speed increase.

Alas, input is not always a file so mmap() is not an option.
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> If we want things to be different, it’s not enough to play semantic games with licensing terms. We need a sea-change in not just software development but in our society as a whole.

This "all or nothing" line of reasoning doesn't convince me. No, the legal system is not perfect but that doesn't mean the only way forward is to refuse to participate in it and adopt a radical system that totally reimagines the fundamental idea of property.
It would certainly simplify the structure. At the moment it's all contracts and metrics and fines and lawyers when things go wrong.
Perhaps the end to the ultimate metric for whether operators get fined or not being whether trains are on time which leads to bizarre situations like trains switching platforms at the last minute and leaving empty due to all the passengers being on the wrong platform.
IMF has a very american centric view and if you understand what it has been doing to the world, mainly third world countries, you would really question all its authority on anything.

Come to Germany and see if it is really unequal with your eyes. :-)
We had ones which smelled like the seats had been left in a damp garage for a couple of years.
Seconded, this article is quite misleading. The UK fares always seemed quite unpredictable to me when I used them, with variances similar to those you see when booking flight tickets. Maybe the fares have an extra component based on demand? If I look for second-class tickets from Edinburgh to Montrose (which I went on semi-regularly) @ scotrail.co.uk on 1st June I see prices that fluctuate from £9.30 to £24.60. Maybe the guy only looked at the lower-bound on the London-Sheffield route?
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Austerity literally kills, and often leads to neoliberalism. “The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills” by David Stuckler MPH PhD and Sanjay Basu MD PhD is an excellent read on the subject.

The British, in no exaggeration, get taxed to death. You get horrible value for your tax dollar. I am saying this as an American who lives in Croatia, who pays quite a bit in taxes. However, I prefer to pay Croatian taxes (in addition to my US taxes) as a dual US|EU (Croatian) citizen, just for a stable, relaxed society.

There is a very high baseline level of stress and anxiety living in America. It’s not worth living there again. Seriously, Croatians have a great lifestyle, with perhaps the best lifestyle in all of Europe. Also, if you die of coronavirus in America, it is nothing more than a statistic to both the government and the American population, which is not only unbelievably disgusting, but downright sadistic.
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See the first comment below the article.
What really happened is the trains continued to run the same way they always had, but the Ministry of Propaganda said they were running on time and people believed them. It sounds cynical, but that's only because it worked.

Perhaps also because it's still working.
I will give you a lot of money if I can see it, but you must give me a lot of money if I can't - do we have a deal?
Anything less than a 500 mile range makes this a nonstarter compared to ICE models. Although from what I've read elsewhere they are putting nearly a ton (1800 pounds) of batteries in the thing. There are people who use trucks as commuters, but there are also people that are on the road or out in the puckerbrush actually working out of them. Charging infrastructure is not good, and not likely to get better overnight.

I think it would make a lot more sense to build a hybrid diesel to fit in this niche. Particularly if it had enough excess output to run some jobsite equipment. If you don't need to buy a Lincoln generator to run compressors or welders, that would be a tradeoff that would be beneficial.
They knew he got the domain name, not that he claimed to own the rest and the users data. They had his promise that he would not involve himself in the governance.

Said promise is in writing, but only has a few chats message, nothing official (they are a bunch of volunteers doing that for a couple decades as friends, hard to fault them).

Christel seemed to sell out, and when she got kicked out of her op at freenode by other staff Lee came out of the shadows.
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I don't know if getting Itanium to more people would've saved the platform because of their architecture. The first models had trouble with their memory performance, which was fixed in hardware. The compiler also needed to watch the instructions it outputted, as not putting out the right combination of instructions in order would leave CPU hardware underutilized. Instructions were very wide, causing more frequent cache misses as the cache was full of instructions that were shorter in other architectures. Furthermore, the compiler needed to emit certain hints for the branch predictor and other speculative execution units to function well.

I think the lack of availability certainly didn't help, but the architecture itself was probably the biggest downfall of the IA-64 platform. When it was introduced, the hardware was certainly advanced, but relied too much on software to get proper performance out of the chips. The product was doomed from the start.

Ampere will likely have entirely different problems bringing their architecture into the market, but I don't think Itanium ever stood a chance even if they'd sent out free chips to as many influential people and companies as possible.
> moderation should consist solely of communal inputs to a function that operates solely at the discretion of the individual user.

Exactly, Slashdot works because of its transparency; the user can see, what was moderated down, and thus whether the moderation was done to something he doesn't want to see, or whether it is something that someone else doesn't want him to see.
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>If I want to travel from Birmingham to London I have a choice of 3 different train companies

Great, now talk about literally any other line in Britain
Japan is completely privatised, extremely efficient, huge network, fastest trains in the world, and is profitable. One of the many ways they did it was by converting stations into mini-malls and charging rent. Also, a strong partnership with the state helped.
yes, ok, that is probably a more reasonable interpretation than mine actually.
Fiduciary duty to shareholders perhaps. Non generic and too-honest messages might rattle share prices.
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> 500 mile range makes this a nonstarter compared to ICE models

Why?
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Japan managed to do it just fine. Completely private, excellent service, fastest trains, huge infrastructure.
I’ve been in the industry since the 90’s. It’s been taking a pretty hard pivot into ‘devsecops’ and related merging of a variety of software engineering and development practices and traditional security domain practices.

I still love it. There’s a lot of interesting challenges and equally interesting people to work with. I do agree there is a perception problem, however, most of which is self-inflicted by a small minority of the those that work in the domain.
https://i.imgur.com/bvviAcJ.png

£17.60 on the 12:05 departure on Jun 16th on trainsplit with one change - 10p/mile.

And on the well-advertised and more expensive trainline on Jun 17th

https://imgur.com/ymtzPhw.png

£31.50 on the 12:37 direct. £43.50 first class
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The 11:22 SNCF Paris-Dijon on the same date is €31, or £27. The 12:22 is €40 (£35). One way.

https://i.imgur.com/1Zs0APR.png
Basecamp is the kind of company whose products I would happily pay for, but $50/year is too much for this service for me.

In .fi there's a non-profit that's been running from 2006. For 40e/year they give me 550GB space, email (SMTP / IMAP), shell and a good Matrix homeserver.
If Facebook delete a video the author is not being punished because the author has no claim on money they haven't earned yet. It's just the end of a business relationship. Arguing that you're entitled to post on a platform, and to earn money through it, is nonsense. Think of it like this - if I never buy a Starbucks coffee again I am not punishing Starbucks. They don't have any claim on my money, so I am not denying them anything. It's just the end of a business relationship. Facebook are choosing not to buy this guy's videos any more.

Arguing that Facebook has a near-monopoly on online video is also nonsense - the guy we're talking about posted on YouTube about this. Clearly he has other options.

The number of people who here to argue that they have some sort of 'right' to upload content for Facebook to publish, and that they're being censored and punished if Facebook chooses not to, makes me hope that HN readers never choose to start video hosting platforms. They'd be completely awful.
The white paper extols their open data promise which will allow (for example) "Personalised travel offers, like free coffee when a service is delayed"
It's a classic tactic: underfund government services, then point to how they don't work as a pretext to privatise.
For the Chromium-relevant configuration changes applied automatically by Ungoogled Chromium: I would never have discovered them all by myself, and, now that I know about this article, I'm not convinced that I would be able to stay on top of any future switches and configuration changes in future versions of Chromium.

That said, the "binaries built by anyone" thing is pretty suspect.
Yeah this is largely accurate but there are more options than that.

There's e.g. product security, which can be a bit less nihilistic. You take your security knowledge and use that to influence application design and implementation process so the result has fewer issues. At the tippity top end this can mean adding e2e, differential privacy, suppressing harmful features, OS security improvements - work that can meaningfully improve security or privacy for millions of people.

There's all sorts of forensics and IR, malware analysis and RE. Exploit dev, scanner monkeying, bug triage, just all sorts.

A lot of pentesters manage to not hate their lives by doing #3 and focusing on the interesting problems while not caring that the customer just wants a compliance input.

Suck levels vary a lot by firm. Just like dev jobs can be meaningful and intellectually fulfilling OR meaningless ticket punching.
> The thing is, you still have the scale problem even if you break up Youtube into a hundred different video streaming sites.

No, PeerTube is a decentralized video platform with independent servers, which can work together.
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It's IT via checklist. I can't imagine a more depressing way to go through my life. Talking to the cybersecurity people I know they all frame it like they're elite warriors who are locked in a titanic struggle with cunning adversaries. My take is...you followup on tickets generated by third party tools by filling out web forms. Yes you're getting 'probed' by Russia and China all the time but thats from botnets looking for ancient vulnerabilities. You're not single handedly keeping the barbarians back from the gates. You're paper pushers.
Does every company > 10 employees have a security guard?
Not from Pharmacy, but from shop.

In Berlin `lsd.shop` is run relative of Donald Trump. You can just walk in order it. :)
The size of it, how it's off the books and outside of oversight.
>Likewise, if "market rate" is above "value produced by the employee" it doesn't make any sense to pay that much.

It also means that somewhere out there is a business that can actually produce enough value to pay market rate and you should work for that company instead.
That sounds interesting, do you have a link for it?
It’s a good side hustle and a fantastic way to develop your skills, but depending on it for income is extremely stressful and leads to an array of pathological behaviors that spoil it for you and those downstream of your efforts.
If you have any questions, I would be glad to answer them :-)

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Yeah, I've gotten into it recently. Ignoring the nearly impossible problem of game balance, the actual software is not well engineered. The non-game client is chock full of bugs. They do have quite a legacy problem: 11 years is forever in computer game time, but still, with their resources you'd expect the big bugs to be fixed by now.
Please take this in the constructive way it's intended. You might want to consider that your stance of withholding your full effort is very probably the reason you've never experienced a healthy relationship with your employers.
I have lives in 3 coubtries and never seen a government preventing anyone from building private roads, railways, etc. Somehow essential infrastructure is not a popular business investment

Also by that logic stopping people from dueling or stabbing each-other on the street is coersion . Stopping coersion by mafia is coersion. How is this a usefull concept?
Wish I had the downvote button
Amistore in Germany has closed its doors
What is the minimum certification(s) to have.
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Same. It’s phenomenal. Every time I open my work email gmail), I’m reminded of how good Fastmail is. Also, I love the wildcard support.
If they're way late, they'll skip stops too, so they don't ruin the schedule for the whole network for the day.

A few people in one town having to wait an extra 20 minutes ensures hundreds of thousands have a predictably on-time system.
There is only 1 way out of this: start your own company.
Exactly. Its shocking how bad most audits are. The standards they're trying to enforce were obviously put in with the best intentions but instead of the spirit of the rules, the letter is being followed. When the letter of the law is being enforced by people that don't know anything about the industry or how the technology works, you get truly asinine decisions.
A concession means the private company operates the railway for a set fee and a set operational standard, the state owner will retain ticket revenue (and risk). This is how the London Overground concession works.

A franchise basically gives all operation responsibilities and ticket revenue to the private operator, in return, the private operator gives a lump sum bid for the contract at the beginning.
This is conflating so many different problems.

The work you do at a FAANG is generally much simpler than what you prepare for the interview. If I were them I would just split the streams: hard interviews and high pay for incredible talent and just pair programming / entry level pay for entry level developers.

I have senior engineer friends who got hired at Google for basically doing overpaid crud API all day. You could have that for a fraction of the price and without wasting a senior's time on that crap.

FAANGs complaining about lack of developers have only themselves to blame. I rarely heard it's a problem for them, though: the high salaries attract a never ending stream of talent willing to prepare for whatever interview they can think of.

Smaller companies with lower compensations and less valuable stock have much bigger problems. Finding people who are able to code is not trivial if you don't have FAANG's money.

You have no idea how many people I've seen coming to mid / senior interview (no algorithms, just pair programming) lacking basic programming skills.
Thank you for the interview link. It was rather surreal reading an interview from the non-allied side. Even more surreal, the amount of respect he had and has for his enemies. Very interesting.
I don’t think the legacy automakers can. They are in too deep with dealers.

Up to a new wave of automakers to take over.
I presume that the performance segment that Itanium was intended for is Intel's most profitable. So everyone who proposes to make server chips targets that segment, pretty much to the exclusion of everything else.

Having seen this play out a number of times I don't think targetting that segment and only that segment is a great idea.
If it was a real insurrection it would have been significantly better armed, more violent and more effective.

A far more logical explanation is that an unexpectedly large group of demonstrators showed up and when faced with a tiny police presence ended up overrunning them. After that they just took advantage with no thought -- Hey lets proudly get on camera committing a crime. What could go wrong.
> My retirement is based on paying ~25% of my gross income into a retirement fund, which is then spent on current retirees, and hoping that in many years, there will be enough people working to be able to pay my retirement.

This is how most state pensions work, but most supplementary pensions do not (I at least have never heard of them, and I have some experience in different EU countries). They invest your money and grow the amount, and pay you out based on your personal 'investment' or that of your cohort.

Where in Europe do you live if I may ask?
No it isn't because you can train 900 more engineers. If companies aren't willing to train 900 more engineers then demand is only 100. Willingness is expressed by the price. If the price is high enough people will train themselves even if the companies themselves aren't providing training.
Have a 300 mile range EV. Drive it all over the country. Tesla will sell a million of these things in the next year. We must have missed then 500 mile requirement.
Sorry, is this an advert for fastmail? Cause it kinda looks like it.
I feel like cybersecurity is undergoing an AI/ML like buzz at the moment, where basically every company is going all in on it, but the value is really being provided by a small concentration of talented people who really know their stuff.

I've found it frustrating being in the DevOps space, because the hype bleeds into other decisions and sometimes I swear people forget we're actually running a business and believe everyone should really be focused on security over everything else.
I once read on HN that Apple gets ARM ISA and designs for free by virtue of being a founder. So the closed proprietary nature isn't enough for them to move to RISC V.

I'm not sure that's true though..
Um, I was flagging to dang that the URL was broken. Thanks for the nice down votes tho!
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Stories are compressed representations of complex spatiotemporal patterns. We use stories to make sense of the world and to share our insights with others. And if you think about it, stories are essentially containers for if-then relationships. So they're not as far removed from logical reasoning as you might imagine.

I don't understand why you'd find the use of the term 'parrot' offensive. Language models extract linguistic patterns. GPTs generate patterns based on those which they have been trained on. That's a process that can be described as parroting. If you find it offensive because you think it implies that the researchers coming up with these models aren't worthy of credit, I think you are reading something into it that isn't there. At least not from my perspective.

When I mentioned updating cultural beliefs, I was referring to the traditional way of going about it: through cultural products. My point was that the "PC crowd" would be better off if they relied on this strategy rather than attempting to halt the development of language models. I was absolutely not suggesting that language models should be used to "train" members of society. That's a dystopian nightmare.
Free-to-play was by far the biggest reason, but other reasons are important.

LoL is a far more forgiving game for newcomers. Easier return to base and self-minion hitting are the big differences.

It also has a more cartoony art style which attracts a wider audience.
What is the EU's reason for that rule?
The image of Guts holding his giant sword is iconic. Of course, Berserk was the original fantasy epic anime and influenced everything that came after: Final Fantasy, Castlevania and now Demon Slayer. Respect.

Berserk: Ending Theme "Waiting So Long"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlYBcRr-dU
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Hmmm... 1nm... Ironically this is technically a quantum machine but not a quantum computer.