skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you check my links? "Collapse" may have several definitions; generally for a complex society or ecosystem it's a rapid simplification, reduction of exchanges and population.

Here is our situation: as you may have heard, every year around August we reach the "Overshoot day". That means that we use more resources (even renewable ones) than the Earth can produce (its carrying capacity), i.e. we're actually "mining" renewables resources such as oceans, soil, forests, etc. That means that the quantity of renewable resources globally available tends to go down while our resource usage still goes up.

At some point, our resource usage WILL fall down UNDER the line of globally available renewable resources. The longer we wait, the LOWER we will need to back down.

See https://www.sustainable.soltechdesigns.com/over-carry.html for a relatively detailed explanation and real-life examples.

Also I don't really get where you're going with your fossil fuels example. We switched from renewables to fossil fuels back in the 18 and 19th centuries because they're so much denser, easier to use and powerful than renewables. They enabled the "great acceleration" by providing almost limitless energy, and doing without them is a tremendous, unprecedented effort.

Human history is about getting better energy sources: our ancestors got bigger brains by eating meat (more energy). Then they invented fire (more energy) to make their food more digestible (more energy). Later on they invented agriculture (more energy), then burned forests for more energy, and switched to peat and coal by lack of wood (more energy), then oil and gas and nuclear (still more energy). Notice that we never "switched" from an energy source to another: we piled them up. Coal usage nowadays is higher than it ever was during the 19th and 20th centuries. See
https://jancovici.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/energie_gra...

For the very first time in 300 000 years, we'll have to go from a dense, easy to transport and store energy sources to more diffuse, harder to transport and store ones. We'll have to go from an incredible abundance to relative (or maybe not so relative) scarcity. It's literally an unprecedented challenge, particularly at the global scale we're talking about.
Can you perhaps link to some of said criticism? I'd be interested to read it.
I disabled Windows Defender, which is the only AV product I have installed.
> In the past the outsourced teams were clearly second class teams behind the primary local teams.

> That won’t be the case if the entire company is remote first

This assumption is based on the idea that outsourced teams were the second class teams because they were remote.

They weren't. They were second class teams because they were outsourced.
I have never seen a formal definition for a technologist. How exactly is that position measured? Are we including IT workers in this STEM crisis?
Maybe there's a different word than 'compression' that means 'to cause an increase in pressure'. It seemed like the logical choice, but I'd love to know what other word is preferred.

Because I'm pretty sure wings cause an increase in air pressure.

I guess the idea of 'dynamic pressure' is 'pressure that is caused by colliding with air just because you're moving relative to it'. But surely in the moving reference frame of the wing, that looks, locally, quite a lot like compression...
They weren't cross-bred initially. (theres only a few hybrids) They were grafted (and most still are!) to the roots of American vines. The part of the plant the bears the fruit should be similar to the way it once was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting#French_Wine_Pandemic

https://grapes.extension.org/grafting-grape-vines/
We are cheating our eyes and brains with 3D goggles.

Don't you think you are too enthusiastic saying 3D facial authentication cannot be fooled?

It is basically an exercise in projecting right image, something that already a large number of people are working on.
> normal SWEs

Could you clarify what qualifies someone as a high-end SWE, and what would relegate someone to being a normal SWE? Is it just dependent on employer?
I think the difference between k-Collector and an RSS reader was that there was a public feed for every topic.
Well, if we are going to talk about nominal growth, I'll throw this in.

Our money system does need endless growth just to function properly but it only needs endless nominal growth. If inflation is high enough then real interest rates are negative. No need for real growth.
Ironically if you put the money in a savings account, someone much richer than you is going to be investing it on your behalf and taking the lion's share of the interest that you're leaving on the table.
uBlock origin.
To be entirely fair, with BattleEye it's 100% clear to the user it's being installed. They have a pop up for every game that uses it that states it's to be installed if they click 'OK'.

But not all anti-cheat software does this, even those that install drivers, and it's not always clear.
Immigration to Canada is notoriously difficult without family ties: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
From what I've seen and experienced that is not true. Apple support is great and help me always, Apple store is great and I always get treated nicely. So I guess they care about me and my experience which translates into the platform they have built for ME - the user. I doubt they built a platform for the sake of building something.

As for Apple owning the user - elaborate pls. I don't see how they try to even own me. I made an educated decision to use that software and hardware BECAUSE of things like ApplePay, SignIn, App Store, etc.
> If advertisers are getting information out of encrypted data, that means the encryption is broken.

I'm just suggesting that Facebook wants to use homomorphic encryption to tell your phone which adverts to download. It won't know which adverts it told you to download or why ... but it will know that you've downloaded them once you do.

It could in theory serve the adverts through homomorphic encryption, but then it wouldn't be able to invoice people based on how many times their adverts were served. I don't see that happening though.
You're wrong that low-skilled immigration is a net loss for the USA. Low skilled immigrants contribute more than they take out by a good amount. They increase demand and grow the economy. Additionally their kids grow up and out earn them drastically being huge net-positives.
How dare they try to make money from their business
tell me you're not that bright without saying you're not that bright
I can not comment on the amount of money, but you do get that the question to be tested by this proposal is the main unsolved question that bothered Schroedinger, Bohr, Einstein, and others, right?
This seem pretty nice. How does it handle things like websocket reconnection?
I mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption : )
He was elevated to The House Of Lords. I doubt that enhanced his humility.

I don't know anything about his humble origins, and I don't care about people's origins. He has a (rather weird, to my ear) northern accent, but being from the North doesn't make your origins 'humble'.

[Edit to add:]
There's a word "chippy" that's used in England primarily to refer to Yorkshiremen. It suggests that Yorkshiremen all have a chip on their shoulder.

That's not my experience. Firstly, Northerners are much more accepted now than they were in my childhood; perhaps back then more Yorkshiremen were "chippy". Secondly, I've lived in Yorkshire, and I have never come across a sterotypical "chippy" Yorkshireman, except in TV dramas and comedies.
I also went on the same podcast (Mark + co are great hosts!) and talked about some of the challenges of scaling in the real world: https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/051-live-auction...
> V and it's creator get a lot of flack here on HN and the criticisms are probably warranted.

Hi fellow Penguin :D!

I'm impressed by the creator's dedication here too, but he's clearly biting off more then he can chew - he's been saying that he's making a

* Web framework
* GUI framework
* SQL ORM
* A language that has a lot of promises - seriously checkout their list.
* Github alternative
* VIM alternative

This stuff is awesome as a project, but each one of these have teams of dedicated engineers sponsored by many companies to hammer out issues and make them as robust as possible. And while he certainly has working demo's of each, they're demos. There's a huge difference between a POC and a robust framework.

A half baked framework is useless sadly, I think he's spreading himself too thin while have a roadmap that looks like a programmer's christmas list.
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Hello, what range does compensation fall in? Do they hover around average Italian software engineering salaries? (From a search, I see 30k to 40k Euro, not sure how correct that is.)
> Can you as a human sell things to another human for more than you paid for them in a situation where you are both happy with the price?

I would be really interested to understand how someone can exchange a good for someone else's labor (which is what you're describing above) but they can't invest--which is merely paying someone's wage in exchange for a share of the profits. In both cases the participants in the exchange find the agreement to be mutually enriching, so it's not like either is particularly inherently exploitative.
Great chart from Cathie Woods 'Ark Innovation Report' showing project costs per kg to LEO https://seekingalpha.com/article/4418916-arkx-space-etf-top-...

1. We are utilizing highly efficient electric propulsion that eliminates the need for refueling to make money, but when refueling in orbit does become available you bet we'll be at the front of the line at Space Chevron
2. YC has been an enormous help with getting us started. They drilled the single most important thing into our skulls for really any startup - talk to customers. Besides their amazing network, the group partners have really helped us focus on what is important in order to make our vision a reality. If you are considering, apply to YC!!
If a man is physically fit to work in some capacity, and has learned to live on little income, that man has little to fear. By all means learn to save and invest, but it's not as important as staying healthy, and learning what things you spend money on that are unnecessary to your life, health and happiness.
ops, my bad. that's exactly what I meant. Thanks for the correction
Cellphone service at light aircraft altitudes has gotten progressive worse over the last decades. It is because of the increased number / decreased size of cells. To prevent cross-talk between antennas, cells are more tightly focused. Less of the antennas point up enough for aircraft. If you do get reception it is probably from a more distant tower, one far enough away that you are low enough for its antennas to be pointing at you.
This article does not support your claim. It says European viners grafted their vines to the roots of American vines. Grafting is not cross breeding. I don't know much about the wine industry, maybe they also did cross breeding as well, but that wikipedia article doesn't mention anything like that.
> There is no way to match advertising keywords in encrypted content

Complete tangent, since this has nothing to do with what Facebook are looking into here, but:

If you control both ends of the connection (like Facebook does in WhatsApp), you can match on advertising keywords securely. By doing it client-side, after the text is decrypted.

As I understand it, this is essentially what Apple's iAds framework does: all possible advertising content that could be run in an iAd view gets pre-cached on the client; the iAds framework—running inside the client's address space—then chooses what to show the user, selecting ads based on demographic/interest information it has available locally on the device, never leaked outside. The iAd framework then collects just the impression metrics — how many times each ad was shown to a given user — and then every-so-often batches those metrics out to Apple's servers. Apple then reports re-groups and anonymizes these metrics, and reports them to the advertiser / charges the advertiser for them.

Of course, this means that advertisers need to be able to trust Apple's impression reporting; and to do that, they need to trust that Apple has set up iOS devices so that iAd selection + reporting is basically inviolable, such that nobody on the client end is generating false impressions. (Or, at least, that devices generating such impressions can be detected as being jailbroken through some mechanism, and so their iAd impression reports culled from the corpus.)
This assumes all of your income comes from a traditional 401(k). As an early retiree that's unlikely. It's likely that a significant portion of your income will come from a taxable brokerage account. A significant portion of that income is your basis (what you paid for the investment) which is not taxable.

There's a lot you can do to "engineer" your taxable income in early retirement.
This aligns very closely to my understanding of the issue.
I think the key missing piece here is the content of the offensive political cartoon.

Out of curiosity I went looking for Taiwan and HK political cartoons. The first hit I found was:

https://twitter.com/hkguy1988/status/1294855101631180806/pho...

Now, I want to be clear: I have no idea if this is the actual cartoon in question, but I could see it being criticized in all ways the mystery cartoon in question is criticized, while also being fodder to someone who is deeply frustrated with the PRC government w.r.t. its handling of SARS-CoV-2 and has no particular bones to pick in the domain of anti-Chinese racism.

So, yeah, in terms of this individuals experience and treatment, I think it's critical to know what the comic was. Especially, if we're going to choose not to trust the judgement of the publisher that this person had been treated unfairly.

The details of this series of incidents notwithstanding, I believe that The West needs to come to a consensus about how to deal with PRC influence on scholarly thought and debate. Further, I expect we're going to have to come to terms with it being costly to do so, with international subsidies being required to ensure no aligned institution is forced to compromise its scholarly criticism for survival.
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He teaches occasionally at Harvard, usually a short course. This is covered under the subsection "Teaching might be the answer."
This should not be possible, or must be considered crypto analysis right away. An encryption is build by design such that it is not possible to obtain any knowledge of the content of the encrypted message (or series of consecutive encrypted messages). If I can make some assumptions about an encrypted message (i.e. its content, the authors interesets etc.) the encryption is flawed by definition.
Please add "contributions in the last year", thats the one thing keeping me from using GitLab:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/22578
License and distribute a commercial Node module using a private NPM registry
I tend to agree here. There must be top performers in pool B willing to invest time and effort to move to pool A given how lucrative it is.

Anyone working on high-end engineering, could you please give some color here? Is it very hard or impossible to make a move from let's say a web developer to a high end engineering role?

What are the some examples of those roles?

If the jump is doable, there should be some training available for anyone wanting to make that investment. Are there any?
No, it was neither recorded nor transcribed.

Some of my observations on complexity were touched upon in this interview, however:

https://console.dev/interviews/rsync-john-kozubik/

Specifically:

"rsync.net has no firewalls and no routers. In each location we connect to our IP provider with a dumb, unmanaged switch.

This might seem odd, but consider: if an rsync.net storage array is a FreeBSD system running only OpenSSH, what would the firewall be ? It would be another FreeBSD system with only port 22 open. That would introduce more failure modes, fragility and complexity without gaining any security."

... and I recommend these console.dev interviews in general - they're usually very interesting.
This and HSA is nice to have as well. Max that out. Pay out of pocket for everything and keep records of it. When you retire you can pull all that out tax free. Irs says you can can do it. And it is pretax. Any left over money will turn into IRA when your old. But if you have family and can cover the out pocket cost HSA are really nice extra amount. My plan is use my taxable and withdrawal medical expenses from the hsa tax free. So I can convert 401k funds to Roth using the ladder. Ideally the normal Roth I have had for years never gets touched for a long time. Also you can also do a Roth via backdoor.
There was only one kid in my middle school that went to the regional tech school. His parents were both PhDs and he got into MIT. That’s probably an outlier, because many if not most of his classmates were only there because they got expelled from their local school. Regardless, he said it was awesome.
I’ve noticed this sort of thing from Antirez before and it makes his comments seem dubious unless they come from his specific specialization.

He made some claims about Lua here some time ago, and if you read his code, it was clear he didn’t know how to use its C API and was criticizing it out of something he could have just read the manual over.

Software is hard, though, and there’s always someone who is more right, so, oh well.

Maybe a good strategy is to openly ask others if there are better solutions the reader knows of and to share them.
Don't be disingenuous. PE teachers and football coaches are not the same at all and you know it.

Football coaches bring in literal millions in revenue, your Alabama example costs 8MM/year in salary but returns around 150MM in sponsorship/ad revenue/donations/etc.

https://www.businessinsider.com/schools-most-revenue-college...
> I am surprised compilers don't magically optimize the code and remove the size-remembering variable if it is not needed.

the problem is that technically anyone can come and do

auto lib = dlopen("my_lib.so", 0);
auto sym = dlsym(lib, "_ZNKSt7__cxx114listIiSaIiEE4sizeEv"); // std::list<int>::size()
auto func = static_cast<void(*)(std::list<int>*)>(sym);
std::list<int> some_local_list = ...;
(*func)(some_local_list);

and that is expected to not crash - template symbols are generally part of your shared library API (at least that's been the default, however bad it is, on Linux, for a very long time).
If compilers were optimizing the layout of individual list instances, then the above wouldn't work anymore (unless the compiler would inline / create new symbols for each individual cases in your code which would make the object sizes go through the roof).
It's in quotes, which I think is appropriate as Malboge is designed to be extremely cumbersome if not impossible to build practical programs in.
Does the 4% withdrawal rate include dividends and the average 6/7% estimated growth rate? Napkins calculations for 2m at 6% is 120k.

As OP said if you don’t have a mortgage then you’re going to have a lot more extra money than someone with an 80-120k income and a mortgage.
Interesting formulas to take my spreadsheets up a level.

For anyone interested, I made a Google Sheets template that I share with my friends. It has been well-received.

The crypto section can be ignored for those not involved with that sector.

If it's useful, would love to hear your feedback.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qYLOAjzaIIcFLFw_j-P4...

Of course, much can be automated using Google Finance and relevant pricing APIs to auto-update position values.
The Federal Reserve has 2 missions: stable dollar, low unemployment. That's all. They have a powerful and limited set of levers to do this.
There is no need for any of that. It's only when humans fail to self regulate that nature has to step in.
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> Another problem is that just because a person graduates with a degree in X, doesn’t mean they are any use at X

Perhaps true, but this:

> I know a bunch of CS degreed people who got out of virtually every coding course in university.

is arguably a different problem, because CS isn’t Software Engineering, though the right focus within CS study can be a good preparation for work in software engineering.

> They are technically part of the group of potential employees for technical work,

If they aren’t working as software engineers and aren’t seeking jobs as software engineers, are they really?
> But why the hell is the Touch ID sensor _not_ in the top right corner there?

It _is_? What am I/are you missing here?

> apple design is in the tank right now

There have been a diverse group of trolls screaming this for about 40 years. Meanwhile they are only the best by default. Don’t like it? Make something better
What I've observed is that virtually every science grad student is aware of the academic job situation, unless they are deluding themselves or have their heads in the sand. In fact, my dad (chemistry PhD) told me this was already common knowledge in the 1950s.

Disclosure: Physics PhD.
You raise an interesting point. I think most non-FANG engineers would say that that the leetcode culture is getting out of hand, and the FANG's quest for the 10x engineer leads to both (a) rocket high salaries+competition from the people who can pass leetcode, and (b) passing on lots of smart engineers who could not or did not want to run the interviewing gauntlet. What is the economic sense to not lowering the bar rather than constantly attempting to raise it?
TypeScript is not really big and complex, it's just a type system. The only real pain with TypeScript vs. a language with native static types is that TypeScript requires a bit of extra work to fiddle with the compiler, otherwise when it comes to the code it's flexible but can be used in a very simple manner.
Yeah JSON parsing in statically typed languages is usually at least mildly awful.
I don't think people generally point to tradesmen as someone you don't want to be, but rather the trades are never considered because a four year college degree is seen as an absolute prerequisite for class standing.
Hey all, founder here. The internet seems void of articles on how to do this -- so, in celebration of getting version 2 of my distribution API out, here's an in-depth article on how to license and distribute a private Node module using a private "npm registry." :)
The average energy usage per person in the USA has been going down in the past few decades as appliances and electronics get more efficient. It will continue to go down as more things electrify and shift to renewables. We can decrease resource consumption through smarter growth policies like building denser, public transit while growing our population for economic benefit.
other links:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/3/cdc-issues-new-evict...

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/president-biden-announ...
a rebuild of Haskell that got rid of the dynamic exception system and put laziness/strictness in the type system as an effect is my dream.
If you have a Facebook account, which I don't, you should post this kind of article to it to counteract the garbage that usually gets put on it.
Cookie banners are utterly ineffective.

The websites create the problem in the first place, that's obvious, but lawmakers are apparently too incompetent to come up with effective solutions.
Many IT people are tech-fetishists and only solve genuine problems incidentally.