skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have it, hide it.

Never tell anyone you're rich: it makes you a target and it infects relations with other people. Warren Buffett-style Drive a Toyota and shop at Marshall's. Yes you should have surveillance and protection people shadow you at a distance for kidnap and other threat risk mitigation but never too close or obviously.

People with an abundance of money are prone to be being swept away by a gradient vector field of ego and accumulate views that diverge strongly from other's reality due to a lack of equal inputs and situational concerns. Also, other people tend to treat them differently (dishonesty) as well.

It's like I don't understand how a former colleague was able to transition from grad student to wife of decabillionaire. Maybe it didn't register or make a difference to them, which I hope is the case.

In reality, money cannot buy happiness, real love, or real friends directly, it only increases options and freedom.

If you want a glimpse into the Chocolate Factory, find someone in ASW who goes to the events and read Felix Dennis' most popular book. Or startup exit and join it. :)
> If you think there are not strategists taking the best available information an d making 30 year plans then you are quite mistaken.

So they planed all of this then, 30 years ago right? This is what the strategists wanted? Pretty lame strategists if you ask me.
It’s in Westchester, NY - built mostly around 1920-1940 or about that time as train commuter suburb. I think it not unique - Palo Alto and Menlo Park in Bay Area are very comparable and very walkable/bikeable too.

For us closest grocery is 0.8 mile away which is borderline walkable but we bike quite a bit (highly recommend Radwagon - great for shuttling 2 kids around and light groceries).

Town is still car centric so still lots of driving but we carve out enough for us by biking/walking to not need car every day.
- my responsibilities didn't change in years, kind of good because I am trying to be better with what I do

- salary grown slowly, my colleagues got way more than me

- I enjoy mentoring and leveling different team members, and also growing them and delegate task. It left me with so little (high level decision making) that I don't feel motivated enough for.

I don't know what exactly I am looking for. I am happy, I am not saying otherwise, but I feel that I need to grow my knowledge where I will be able to provide more value in future

the growth rate that I've been going through in the past few years is slow and I would like to learn more and be able to provide bigger value to the people/companies I work with
They actually never even tried.

The computer planning system that was suggested, GAS, in the 50s, included an internet that would automatically gather/collect and send data. The most that was ever done was to apply the algorithm manually to a few industries and see if it outperformed manual planning (it did).

The planners weren't stupid. They were aware of the data quality issues. That's why they basically wanted to build the internet in the 1950s to avoid that. Even Lenin knew this well hence the NEP.

The issue is that this threatened the bureaucrats so they invented problems to stick to the old ways of doing things that were easier to fraud.
Supporting experiment on rat doesn't necessarily mean supporting experiments on live humans.

We can arbitrarily draw the line between human and the non human.
You are right, thanks for the correction!
No, sorry, I was not clear. I'm talking about what you did with Ask HN. "Give me feedback and I'll give you feedback". This is an extremely valuable exchange for both sides. It should happen more often.
It's predictable that a portland cement + rebar building will need repair in 40 years.

It's not so predictable what financial markets will do.

Retrospectively, financial markets performed very well from 1980-2020; had they set aside $X a month per unit and invested it in stocks and bonds it would have been easy to accumulate $20M, so long as they didn't draw down during 2000 and 2008.

Had they actually tried they might have asked for $2X or $3X a month and wound up with too much money and the question of what to do with it (build a bowling alley, pay themselves a dividend, ...) -- which could put them right into "too little money" territory.

Condominiums themselves were an answer to financial instabilities at the time. In a conventional apartment the developer is going to raise money to build the building and get one or several bank loans for 20 years or so. That kind of person easily gets overleveraged, goes bankrupt, etc.

For the condominium the developer gets construction finance for a year or two and then gets a huge chunk of cash and the bank is made whole. The owners of the units have mortgages with many different banks so the risk is spread out.

It might be good "long term thinking" for some of the parties to structure the deal so that they don't need to think about how the economy is going to go over the next 40 years. It's not good in the long term for the owners because the governance structure isn't adequate to what it governs.

The apartment building would concentrate risk in some respects but also concentrates responsibility. A real estate developer who owns 20 apartment buildings will have some that need more repairs and some that need less; that developer can go to the banks or government for funding to make repairs and raise the rent to pay back the loan. If the developer gets over their head the bankruptcy courts can keep the business a "going concern."
> a TV that can watch any TV program or movie ever filmed

> a library with every book

LOL. Reality wants a word with it's licenses and DMCA-s.
Of course we can trust all people that claim that they were doing nothing illegal. Because they are lawful citizens, we can take their word for it.
Between the official documentation, blender stack exchange, and YouTube I've never had a problem finding what I need.
Hey, who said anything about paying?
We should not have ignored Venus. Its easier to get to than Mars and the top of the atmosphere has reasonable temperatures. Why would a certain type of life would not be possible under 400 C or acid sulfuric environments ?

It might be very different from what we have on Earth, but
is there anything specific to Venus current environment that
makes us believe it is not possible, with the exception it
would be very, very, different from what we have on Earth ?

I find the Venus images more interesting than Mars. Even more surprising, 30 years ago the Russians were flying balloons for days on Venus atmosphere !

"Soviet Balloon Probes May Have Seen Rain on Venus"

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/vega-venus-rain/

"The two 3.5-m-diameter balloons floated for nearly two days in the Venusian atmosphere around 55 km above the surface. Unlike the hostile terrain below, the cloud layers at this height are a veritable wonderland. Temperature and pressure are comparable to Earth’s average and there is ample sunlight streaming in from above. If not for the sulfuric acid clouds and hurricane-force winds, the atmosphere of Venus would be a comfortable living space."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_program
> The main reason why you shouldn’t host your own mail server is that mail servers are a nightmare to maintain, and we don’t want to deal with that.

Really?
Not a Soviet mission, but Magellan, built by Hughes Space & Communications Group in the 1980s, did an extensive survey of the surface of Venus using RADAR.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/magellan/in-depth/

Edit: The Wikipedia page says; "The spacecraft was designed and built by the Martin Marietta Company,[5] and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) managed the mission for NASA." It has no mention of Hughes other than partial credit under "Manufacturer".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft)

Hughes built the Synthetic Aperture RADAR payload.
There are informed people who know policy issues, tradeoffs, and concerns. They're few and far between, and they rarely have a voice unless a corporate agenda decides to allow it.
> he lost me in the first few minutes by assuming the moment some problems start the society will turn on each other like in some zombie apocalypse.

You're not convinced this is a likely outcome while watching footage of it actually happening?

The zombies are set dressing in that sort of fiction, the tension comes from taboos and mores being shed by the survivors adapting to new conditions in ways history has documented a million times
Many SMBs are wary of the cost of software development, and avoid it. The "magic of software," that you can just write a program and have it start printing money [0] for you, is in most cases a pipe dream. Instead, software is usually just like any other business activity, in that it could be a net asset or liability, often depending on how it affects other parts of the business. In addition, if you don't understand software development, you can't manage it, and it can eat you alive.

[0] either through sales or increased productivity if it's software for internal use
Did you read the article? It sounds like a fantastic way to get full time engineering devoted to software that will stay free and open source, by a company that has a track record of making free and open source software for music professionals.
Interesting new use for existing tech, somewhat clickbait headline. Also, the term is "Jerry-rigged". [Edit: I stand corrected.]
I'll take this chance to ask a fork bomb question I always had: on Linux, is there a way to stop a fork bomb once it gets going, other than turning off the power?
> the technology can’t exactly identify a car or person. “You can say if it's a car, or if it's a truck, or it's a bike. But you cannot say, ‘Oh, this is a Nissan Sentra, 2019,’” says Stanford University geophysicist Ariel Lellouch, who uses DAS but wasn’t involved in this study but did peer-review it. “Anonymity of DAS is one of the biggest benefits, actually.”

Good.
I love Bash too, but using it daily is probably more inertia than anything else. Some things are just downright horrible (for the life of me, I can never remember associative array syntax off the top of my head) but it's just so good when it comes to other things that it's worth sticking to.
This is a common issue in large free software projects. For instance Godot has hired some contractors specifically to write documentation.

Personally I usually end up using Youtube when I need to do something with Blender.
This is wrong (not that ears are self-cleaning, but that you never have to clean your ears yourself), or else ENTs wouldn't pick earwax out of ears and doctors wouldn't do ear flushes.

Like me, I have Tinnitus in my ears, and when the earwax builds up it gets 2-3x worse. I was starting to get real distressed about it, then went to an ENT, and he picked out a bunch of ear wax, and now the Tinnitus is manageable again. Still there, but quieter and easier to ignore.

I agree (and have been told by doctors) you should never use Q-Tips, though. That often does more harm than good (pushes ear wax further into your ear).

But there are other things, like Debrox, that can help you remove earwax without sticking Q-tips in your ears.
Had OGAS been suggested at other times, it would probably have been implemented.

After the October Revolution, the CPSU were so open to change and so far from being ossified and giving up power that they basically implemented Keynesian capitalism until Stalin came about.

But the longer you wait until after the revolution, the longer bureaucrats and egomaniac get to consolidate power, and the more difficult it is to change things. That's one of the major issues with Marxist-Leninist government structures.
It’s much easier to build a machine to give your factory workers an electric shock when they slack off, than to build a machine to do the actual work..
From what I can tell, a person very high up at Youtube, probably Susan, decided that the policy will be: shut down people who say things that youtube hasn't defined as completely 100% correct about COVID.

This is a mistake, and the moment you shut down the person who discovered a molecule that is a widely used drug for saying something which isn't completely unreasonable, will ultimately tar Youtube's reputation (worse than it already is) as anti-science.
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The entire problem could have been avoided if they had just trained their models on code with a permissive license.
> There are also many junior developers outside of big cities who have salaries more in line with the $60K range you listed. These are not talked about often on HN but they exist.

I was one of these for many years in the late 2000s when I first started using Hacker News. One of the things that I think people in the Hacker News bubble seem to miss is that programming/software engineering is a passion for some and just a paycheck to others. There are a lot of fields where a job being just a paycheck to you aren't looked down on - a lot of people in the Hacker News bubble look down on that. My work at that company was just a paycheck while I gained skills on the weekends and eventually started my own consulting company. I credit reading Hacker News for showing me that the best way to start a company is, well, to just do it.

I worked for a company that needed a developer to keep their pile of ETL logic and server code working as the data formats they acquired from various government agencies and the requirements of their downstream customers changed. I joined right out of college with a salary during my first three months of $48k with the understanding that it would be increased after the first three months - it eventually settled at $56k for the first year. It was a small company that fluctuated between 3 and 8 full-time employees, not counting management. I made a respectable living during the recession in 2008 because my work still made the company money - I was the only full time programmer there at the time. My ending salary with the company in the mid 2010s was $72,000 in a large south-eastern city where that was above the average salary in the area - in line with CoL.

The flipside of making money in a recession when there are still paying clients is when the business loses out on a major contract to a competitor when there's no recession on. Despite riding out the entire recession (with only a small cut to salary due to a four day work-week instead of a five day work-week), the loss of a major contract by my employer meant that the previously stable funding source that allowed me to continue working dried up there. Less than a month after that I was let go, and had to move cross-country to find stable employment as a software contractor. I eventually joined that company full time and my consulting activities have slowed down significantly.

More to the question of this topic - after they let me go, they had two people at the company - the owner, who was the president of the company, and the owner's wife, who was the business manager. The president of the company, who was previously my boss, started maintaining the things I worked on, and offered me some 1099 remote consulting work when occasionally overwhelmed as a way to pick up some of the slack. That's how his small business handled having a software engineer when needed - occasional contracts to fill the hole.
It's not "fair-use classification of ML models". If the ML black box:

- produces an output

- that output is the exact same thing - text, code, image, et c - that went in

- that thing is licensed

- fails to fulfill the requirements of the license

than it's breaking the license. I don't see how it can be wiggled around.

The black boxes that produce entirely different outputs, or the ones that slurped billions of photos without even blinking at license but never vomits actual images are, at least, not reproducing the source material.
Both are actually fine. https://www.dictionary.com/e/jury-rigged-vs-jerry-rigged/
Yep. For me, I always “dealt” with Windows at school. Computers were just a device you were meant to wrestle with to get a job done and that was just an immutable truth.

Then I moved to a new middle school that would bring in carts of iBooks for us to do work on. Some things were weird (lack of a right click for one), but other things just felt incredibly natural and the design didn’t scream “soulless device for office drones.”

When my parents got me my first computer the next year, it was a Mac, and I’ve stuck with Apple for 17 years since then.
Well, what's "smart?" Native of Australia were not considered smart 200 years ago; but now we appreciate their lifestyle and culture a whole lot more. Which attitude is "smarter?" What will we think about it in another 100 years?

Merely bringing everyone along doesn't ensure "smart"; look at Japan in ww2. They had an admirable unity of purpose, or at least a lack of vocal internal disagreement... Did that improve the characters of their actions?

I disagree that any individual human has much need to consider "humanity as a whole" in their decision making; i don't think we are smart enough, or can see enough, to hope to think logically about such scales. The best we can do is be the best we can be in our scope, and let the things out of our scope happen as they will.
Strong statement, I know. It depends on the software you use, but in my experience, it has been a nightmare.
We did the same in my EE program, though we were allowed to use a ROM for the microcode and some 8-bit registers from the TTL family. I never had time to build it either as it’s too much for a single semester class.
> But you cannot attribute it to a specific person

Until someone figures out how to do gate analysis from the data :).

This is a very cool seismography technique though. Could be using fiber while it’s “dark” to perform a data gathering use for other sciences. Like a trans oceanic cable to get a new picture into our oceans with multiple data points.
I just fed some web pages I wrote about Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad into GPT-3, and it admitted it was an evil machine!

https://donhopkins.medium.com/gpt-3-riffs-on-stanislaw-lems-...

TLDR: Trurl built an evil machine that would look at all the websites on the Internet, and then it’d take all the information and compress it into a single website!
Anyone interested in seeing cosmic rays visually should check out a cloud chamber. One can be made at home with isopropyl alchol and dry ice. Once you see it, it makes the need for ECC more visceral.

Here’s a video of a cloud chamber. The very long straight lines are muons, which are the products of cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere. Also visible are thick lines which are alpha particles, the result of radioactive decay.

https://youtu.be/i15ef618DP0
Aggregating and processing enough fiber data might be able to work towards identifying mass, contact patch size and shape, position, and velocity.
That's pretty much what I assume is true of any software I use these days, and it doesn't bother me.

As long as governments need a warrant to access my data, I'm okay with their ability to do so - it's incumbent on me to be careful about the information I allow into software.

Product usage telemetry and crash reports from an open source audio editing app is an obvious whitelist from me.

If they start scraping the contents of my hard drive, that's another thing, but Occam's Razor doesn't indicate that motivation here.
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Linux irritations that don't happen on mac:

- laptop wakes up randomly when lid is closed, fans spin up, drain battery

- wifi is flaky

- trackpad drivers/trackpad behavior in general are inferior

- battery life isn't as good even with obsessive levels of tweaking
Five years?! Wow. I was thinking that long running was like a week or two.
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For which code did they use copilot. If it was just software for internal use, there is no real problem with the GPL. That only starts when you distribute binaries based on GPL-ed code.
That has been used 8 years ago at least to get info on Hamas tunnels across the Gaza-Israel border: https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-the-tunnels-in-gaza-are-du...
makes sense, especially that I like to plan my moves carefully. Not saying that I don't take risks, but I take risks knowing where I am heading.

hate surprises
Are you just conflating "no reason to move" with "moving doesn't always solve a problem" for rhetorical effect? Because I find no value in that. Find another target.
When I was at FB, there’s no PR as defined at GitHub. Each independent commit was a separate review. So in that sense, all of the 10s of thousands of engineers at Facebook daily review “PRs” at the commit level.
As a freelancer who has worked for several SMB's, I feel qualified to answer. For the most part, they don't. They may hire someone like me for a project, for a few months, and then perhaps an agreement to do a few hours/month of maintenance afterwards. But they don't normally hire a full-time, permanent employee who's a software engineer.

In cases where they do, it is because that is fundamental to their business, i.e. they're a software company or something similar.

There are also SMB companies which provide IT services for other SMB's, which also bill on an hourly basis. It essentially is several SMB's each paying part of the bill, and that IT services company works for several of them.

I should note that, for small companies, something similar often happens for accountants, payroll, and other HR functions; they contract with a company that does this kind of thing for several small businesses.
Yep. Modern software in a nutshell.
I actually rather support the OP's position - all my comments above were on the likely processes inside GH rather than the merits or otherwise of their position.
It’s not a strange argument. Read the discussion again, which starts with the thesis

> All overland passenger transport should be rail.

Then it was claimed that this is impossible. My argument is saying it’s possible to have rail replace rail, for example if air travel was severely restricted.
Youtube is best I found. Just find tutorial for your area of interest and do the basic tutorial a couple of times till you get fluent in it.
I don't think there's a consistent definition of "software engineer." At one place where I worked, you automatically got the "engineer" title if you had a bachelors degree. This was also true for the distinction between "designer" and "engineer" in the hardware engineering disciplines, and "manufacturing engineer" in the plant.
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> But there are many, many competent people in the US who aren't willing to move to one of these major cities, who can't pass the FAANG hiring bar, or don't want to.

The flip-side to this is that, if you're in the middle of nowhere (and demand on-prem), it's harder to attract junior developers for the things that they typically cut their teeth on to move up. This often makes maintenance activities, smaller design and development work, and adding a few extra coders to a project more expensive than they otherwise would be because senior talent is more expensive.