skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is basically how everything should work. There's no need to rush things if you don't need it [right] now.

I'm really not sure why this is so difficult to grasp for so many people in IT.

I think it stems from a desire to not have to think too hard about how to solve a problem since "someone else has already solved this."

... or maybe an inability to do so.
GitLab team member here.

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They’re out there in many places going against the Mexican Cartels. Just because you’re not aware doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
Was this a regular transaction? Was the price per unit notably divergent from other contracts? It's important to remember that graft often gets whitewashed in legitimate-looking transactions. That being said, $19 million USD sounds like a particularly insignificant sum for risk that would be incurred to the reputation of a single US tier 1 journalistic publication let alone multiple.
Don't like that it tries to mimic Github UI.
Thank you. I am interested, but am concerned by this statement:

> This is now more than a proof of concept, but still not fully stable. Expect dragons and unfinished business
I've worked with a lot of people who'd never thought about the difference between accidental and essential complexity.

This resulted in them coding things too complex unintentionally, so while not on-purpose, it was absolutely a useful conversation to have. It's a good starting point.

I don't have a good single rule for a "second step," though. It's going to depend on the details of your project, by and large, though I think some principles to try to strive for include composition, encapsulation of details, and so on - nothing new or startling, but just adding the "is this essential or accidental" lens to the decision-making process.
In many ways it was a really good first job for me - the people and dodgy business ongoings aside - what I needed at the time was to build stuff in my own way on my own terms, but with purpose. The next job was a bit of a shock, but it was another new experience.
I was reading about this the other day, but wouldnt using the Advanced Premium Tax Credit help lower dramatically your healthcare costs?
Elon Musks 5 step agile engineering process
Isn't that what Fossil does? https://www.fossil-scm.org/
My problem is, I'm kind of anti-capitalist, to make it short. Labor and capital and not just production factors, but they constitute a power relationship (and often a quite asymmetric one).

I cannot bring myself to "invest" in something or believe that "my money works for me" - that's delusional. Money does not "work".

People get all upset about the stance, but all I am saying is that everyone wants to profit off someone else' work and I do not think that's the best way forward. Especially not in an era, where labor overall will decrease in value (we will continue to automate more and more) - which just means poverty for anyone w/o capital (it's that simple).

Edit: Also, I'm not speaking as a "loser" of this system - but on track to the first million - it's just that I can imagine another world and so many people take the "capitalist framework" as a given - which it just not is. There are ways to think about society in a more nuanced way, without losing all the competitive niceties of capitalism.
The FAQ seems to answer the question of why EASTL is better than some extremely old and bad standard libraries, not why it is better than modern ones.
China also lied and is still hiding data. Taking the CCP at face value Jan 2020-Mar 2020 proved to be a costly mistake.
In South India, we call it kanjee and I hated it.
For the HN crowd, it's probably worthwhile to split "STEM" into "high-end engineering" and "normal engineering". The former is suffering from a labor shortage which is why FAANGs and similar companies are willing to pay $300k-600k for engineers with 5-10 years of experience. But for normal SWEs and other engineering fields, there is a glut of talent (https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/) so it can be harder to find an engineering job that pays enough to justify the college tuition. This article is about the latter group.

However, there is still a significant shortage of talented engineers in non-SWE roles. We've outsourced engineering jobs such as semiconductor manufacturing and other tech production to other countries which makes it hard for junior engineers to find jobs and learn enough to become highly talented engineers. And that requires heavy investment by the government in our engineering ecosystem so that junior engineers can find good jobs and learn more. Tim Cook explained this well in the context of iPhone screws: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/technology/iphones-apple-...

> “In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room,” he said. “In China, you could fill multiple football fields.”
Responding to ratings on riders and kicking riders off the platform might not be fingerprinting and background checking riders, but it still is gatekeeping their access to the system.
On the AWS side of the house, the bar raiser doesn't actually interview the candidate. The bar raiser is there as a neutral party to help facilitate hiring decisions and debriefs.

It's the bar raiser's job to make sure that the hiring manager doesn't just hire people to fill seats. More than once, I've seen bar raisers override hiring managers when there was compelling evidence from the technical interviewers.

At least in my org, you don't get the job if you don't raise the bar. Period.
This is entirely correct.

It will also depend on the proxy's ASN, the rate of requests, the ability to solve captchas and the presence of an actual js environment in the browser (as opposed to, say, curl - Cloudflare uses a javascript environment check script to detect puppeteer/selenium etc.)
The F-35 is expensive and flawed, but it's the only 5th generation multirole fighter that foreign countries can actually buy today. 4th generation aircraft are no longer survivable against modern air defense systems. Competing products from other countries are still "paper airplanes" in various stages of development, not available for actual purchase in production form.
So I should be seeing incoming lawsuits for GitLab (Who also acquired Gitorious and Gitter) GitHub, Gitea, GitKraken, Gitcoin, Gitpod, GitSense and a VSCode tool called GitLens?

Why haven't they happened yet?

Downvoters: So you have ALL sources to your claims that these aforementioned Git-related services have the necessary permissions to use the Git trademark from the Software Freedom Conservancy?

I don't want 'probablys' or 'maybes' but full sources to ALL these services that explicitly show the permission granted for using the Git trademark under license.

GitLab is covered. Evidence for the rest?
Or https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue
Some would argue that if you are using corba you probably have a pretty good idea of what you are doing and you are not doing fashion/hype driven development.
> why not Bogota? Or Buenos Aries?

Language, for one - although there are fluent English speakers in Colombia and Argentina, there are far fewer there than in the US.
Airline pilots don't necessarily know the rationale behind regulations. They may have been told one, but not the one.
Elon is one of the best people to learn from about the development speed, given how fast they move at SpaceX, so I thought I'd post it here.

My summary of what he talks about in his 5 steps:

1) Make the requirements less dumb. I.e. always question the requirements and always have a name of a person responsible attached to them (not the department), so you know whom to question.

2) Try very hard to delete a part or a process. If you are not adding things back 10% of the time, you are not deleting enough.

3) Simplify and optimize, but ONLY after doing the first 2 steps.

4) Accelerate cycle time, you can always go faster.

5) Automate.

All five only in that order, he talks about making the mistake of going through the steps backwards and then deleting the part.

Overall it's a great interview at the Starbase Factory, so I recommend you watch the whole thing, or at the very least the relevant ~12min portion.
That's something you should ask the git-bug authors, I vaguely remember some being on this very website.

FWIW I don't even use git-bug, I just know it exists :).
Basically all historians say that, including Devereaux. He's not presenting late republican Rome as an ideal to aspire to: as he described in detail earlier in the series, they were a violent, militaristic society who succeeded through constant wars of conquest.
essential complexity == simplicity. Make it as simple as it can be but not simpler.

To me it’s sort of implied that it’s unneeded complexity when we talk about it as something that should not be there and it’s making our life hard.
Inflation is very real, and it’s most apparent in home values right now. Even if you pay off your mortgage, your property taxes keep going up as values increase.
> the aim is to have the structure with a roof on it as quickly as possible

Couldn't you just build a tent-like scaffolding for this purpose? Maybe one that can be extended as the internal build progresses?
I think this argument is at the wrong level.

Dynamic langs can be static (but without the guarantee that it always will be), static languages can be dynamic but with difficulties.

If guarantees are the issue, standards, language features/structure and constraints are the crux. Take a dynamic language, and explicitly label what is dynamic, and what is static, and you can restore static guarantees, while still having dynamic features if need be. Hybrid langs, with better reflectivity will win - you can have "both".

That said, software development models that don't trust their devs are always going to choose locked down languages, and claim this is the only "viable" way - much like those companies that claiming they cannot seem to hire employees, but don't mention "at the price we want".
I'm curious about Canada. My plan is to make a lot of money in the states and retire early, then apply for Canadian citizenship and move to Canada to cover health expenses. Even if the citizenship process takes 2-4 years, would this be worth it?
Absolutely! It's what I needed at the time. An experience to learn from, plus getting paid to build something cool and prove myself a little.
Should the President of the United States have involved himself in race and restaurants?
Why isn't healthcare insurance more like car insurance? Almost everyone can afford to pay car insurance and are not worried about going broke and filing for bankruptcy if they have an accident or get a speeding ticket.

A friend got covid, almost died and then got a large five figure medical bill. They had insurance via the employer, but the hospital ER/ICU they were transported to was out of network. How is a very sick person in the back of an ambulance suppose to handle this in America?
I took me 10 years to buy an MPC again. And I barely touch it. The scars are real.

A couple good things though:

- I can finally listen to music without overanalyzing it. Which is to say I can now enjoy music.

- I find a lot of ways to use creativity in my job, and has given me an edge thus far (or so I think).
Are these people you know Americans? I admire the spirit of such a move, but losing immediate contact with friends/family would make it challenging (for me).
That's a crazy good deal. As long as the 500k doesn't get completely wiped out someone with a family likely comes out ahead on health-care costs alone (though I understand the tax implications of US citizens abroad are complicated).
That’s “Annual mean wage” not median wage.
You can read all the philosophy in the world. It doesn't automatically turn into actionable realities. Also, any philosophy is subjective, you are a human, you said something, I am a human, I beg to differ and so on and on....
There is uncertainty in everything, but your argument about inflation seems vacuous. The $80k figure is supposed to be real dollars, not nominal. A well diversified investment portfolio will include inflation resistant assets (such as REITs, energy stocks, or commodities).
How am I supposed to save important places on google maps now?
And the CDC was out there fighting ebola before the pandemic
> It takes wisdom and maturity to realize that you don't need all that stuff

This is _exactly_ what I take issue with. Look, "live below your means and be thoughtful about what spending will make you happier" is great advice. So is "plan for a future where you don't have to work".

"Get a high paying remote job from a young age with no student loans, move somewhere cheap, actually find a partner there, don't dare find someone that makes teacher or non-professional salary or has health problems or student loans, wait until you're retired at 38 to have children, don't dare have kids with health problems or special needs, and lecture everyone else about how easy it is." is perhaps not the wise and mature advice you think it is.

I'm just the right age (37) to have grown up alongside the FIRE thing. I have a number of friends who tried it, some of them to the point of being smarmy about it. 100% of them hit late twenties and realized that the combo of "making a high income while having very low expenses" involves significant trade-offs, and is super hard to keep up. All of my friends eventually abandoned it, but I don't think that's the rule.

Describing FIRE as easy and saying that anyone who fails to do it is somehow less wise or immature is nonsense peddled by a bunch of people who retired early by writing "how to get retire early" blogs.
Good mnemonic. I can never remember which is which.
Can someone explain this? How can they not know what I'm talking about on WhatsApp if they show me targeted ads?
I feel this list is incomplete without jianbing—Chinese breakfast crepes. Here is a video that shows how these are made on spinning grills.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/owexcs/mak...
Sounds like the problem is "illicit substances" and/or "PTSD symptoms", not high food prices.
I don’t understand what you are criticizing. These dolls are modeled after real people, some of whom are scientists. Are you saying these people don’t deserve to be called scientists?
> Update: Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp, has tweeted in response to The Information's report that WhatsApp is not exploring the use of homomorphic encryption. Cathcart states that there should be skepticism of "technical claims that apps like ours could see messages in "good" cases only."

There is no way to match advertising keywords in encrypted content without also allowing matches of arbitrary keywords, at which point the encryption is broken.
As another comment mentioned, they're talking about using a technique that allows you to perform computations on encrypted data, with encrypted results output - the thing doing the computation never sees any decrypted data.

So they could target advertisements but, as far as I can tell, they wouldn't be able to know which advertisements were served ... until the phone makes a request to download them, which seems to me to render it fairly but not entirely pointless.
Point is you can support any thesis by selecting supportive evidence. I could as well say they are a backward firm for not showing Barbie doing the things on my list until way too late.
Aren't there tons of books and calculators for this?the value of the dollar is irrelevant if you live in the US. Inflation does not concern me much. Real estate and stocks have generally been good hedges.
One requires 2 people in person to engage, and is usually projected in a general direction which limits sounds. The other, only 1 person has to be present and sound may go in any direction.
I don't think it is morally wrong but you have to remember that they are essentially a middleman and everyone knows middleman want their cut.

The idea of boosting consumer spending through consumer debt is weird. You boost spending in the short term but over the long term you cut back on consumer spending. Because of fees you actually end up with less consumer spending overall than if you hadn't introduced debt.
They paid millions for pro-china ads, the kind that look like actual articles. It's important to remember that graft often gets whitewashed in legitimate-looking transactions. The money, regardless of what it's for, is coming straight from the Chinese government. There is of course more money transfers that haven't been discovered. You don't have to be a genius to know that for every bit discovered there is a byte still covered..

China Daily (simplified Chinese: 中国日报; traditional Chinese: 中國日報; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
A couple spring to mind

* most every fire department
* many public school systems
* as far as federal agencies, transportation, NASA, NSF, Medicare, to varying extents.
I did some quick math and that’s about 36 weeks of round trip NY to LA. Is that really so hard to believe? My understanding is that there are jobs that are essential all travel (call it 48 weeks a year).
So if you don't invest, do you just save money in a savings account? Over a 50 year career S&P Index Fund vs stuff in a savings account is the different between... having 20k a year to pull from savings, vs having 100k a year to pull from investments. It's a pretty stark portfolio difference.
Ah, seems related to this: https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/pull/2999
UK pants or US pants?
If you aren't personally in control of the backend, you have to assume that your backend is occasionally going to have bugs or breaking changes or unexpected information. If unexpected data is going to cause your app to crash or work wrong, IMO you absolutely need to have a plan for spotting those errors and failing gracefully.
Energy Management in Home Assistant
I’m terrified of retirement. I’ve got about 30 years to go, and I’m only just now seriously thinking about saving for retirement. My two greatest fears are that I will retire and have to take a part-time job to make ends meet, or worse, there’s a health crisis that completely wiped us out financially. Our plan is to slowly develop a small real estate portfolio of rental properties to bring in secondary streams of income, as well as some investing, 401(k), and hard assets. But it’s absolutely terrifying.

Aside from 401(k), what are some of the ways that you were saving for retirement? Investments? Stocks? Assets and real estate?
100%. As long as two things are communicating they're coupled. Doesn't matter if communication is calling a function or making a network request.
Is there a point to this post other than to be nasty?
Do we still have the DNA of the original vine strand?
Any growth in the "government's portion" is yours until you sell. Also, if you sell after retirement the tax rate is going to be low if you don't have much non-investment income.
Here's some not so positive data - "recent University of Miami law school graduates borrowed a median of $163k, two years later were earning $59k or less."
In what sense are Switzerland and Singapore extensions of the US DoD?
Early Retirement communities are kind of a spectrum.

Bogleheads, inspired by Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard, leans towards topics of investing, having lots of money, and being able to afford the things you want. If you visit the forums, expect to be encouraged to amass a very large fortune to be able to handle anything.

MrMoneyMustache.com has an environmental slant, and tends to attract relatively high earners like software developers, with the message that you don't need to spend every last dollar to find happiness, and some careful allocation of your money can greatly decrease your working career and open up other possibilities for you (while lessening your impact on the planet.) There's a focus on being flexible and resilient, and many people expect to get their annual expenses in the $30k-100k range, trusting the 4% safe withdrawal rate, and thus having an investable net worth of $750k-$2.5m.

EarlyRetirementExtreme.com is geared towards someone who wants to be very self-reliant and capable, massively decreasing your expenses by decreasing consumption and paying for services you could handle yourself. Here the expectation might be that you could live on as little as $10-25k annually.
There is more systems that can't tolerate downtime than you think. And this is mostly because you treat it as fabric of everything around you and you only notice when it fails.

Mobile networks? Power delivery (basically all utilities)? Broadband internet? Factories? Payment systems? Air traffic control? Any internet services at all?

One can think that only Google or Facebook need to maintain high availability, but basically any internet services needs to do that or face possibility of loosing clients.

Smaller company may have less clients but the downtime still affects their clients and in turn them the same way. Loosing 10% clients after snafu is as painful when you have 1 million clients as when you have 100 clients.

It is also not about having absolutely no downtime -- this usually cannot be guaranteed. It is about having less downtime.
From my experience with my partner's bschool, most of the classmates were either wealthy, or very talented and had sponsorship (or both)
I once had the lovely task of turning law into code. 3 lawyers, 4 different judges, 3 officers/officials, and dozens of people the code applied to. The amount of 'law' was maybe 10 sentences. But there were books written on how to apply that small bit of law. That set was pretty solid and had 40 years of 'know how that works case law'. Then it got thrown out in court. Total rewrite. Same set of people again. But many had no idea how to even begin to apply that new law. It took nearly 2 years of wrangling with different law organizations to find out how is this going to be applied. It got so bad I was finding bugs in the law and loopholes just because I threw my hands up and exhaustively searched the whole space of actions. Even the guy who had the fun task of writing the law had reservations. I think they fixed the 'bugs' in a new rewrite a few years ago after it got thrown out again in court. Luckily I was out by that point.
The difficulty is less in the line noise and more that creating Malbolge programs is more of an exercise in cryptanalysis than programming.
Disclaimer: I am not a CPA or tax attorney.

As of 2021, a very high income married one-earner household can potentially put away $19.5k/yr pre-tax into a traditional 401(k), $38.5k/yr into a after-tax Roth 401(k) which can be optionally converted to a Roth IRA, plus $6k/yr for both the worker and the spouse into Roth IRAs, plus $7,200/yr into a family HSA (if it's available thru your employer).

That's $19.5k + 38.5k + 6k + 6k + 7.2k = 77.2k tax advantaged. $57.7k of that is not subject to income tax or capital gains upon distribution, as long as you are following the rules. Not too bad.
>UK IT salaries are really low

Maybe compared to the crazy US salaries you see here, but compared to continental Europe, CoL adjusted UK salaries are difficult to beat and also you have a lot more interesting opportunities there vs here where it's mostly small web-shops or big name consultancy sweatshops.

Wanna see low (CoL adjusted) tech salaries? Try Spain/Italy/Austria/France where they shaft you with high taxes and there are no top tech opportunities.
More than likely OP suffers from lifestyle inflation. You should definitely be able to retire with that much money.