skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is like spending $1B to pile up dirt to test the size of the biggest pile of dirt that can be piled with $1B. How can anyone know for sure that the laws of physics don't change when the expense of the pile crosses the $800M threshold?

Obviously, the laws of physics do not have a dirt pile expense parameter. Just because some non-absurd ideas have been called absurd does not mean that no ideas are absurd. The idea that quantum mechanics stops working when too many particles get together is likewise absurd, because just like there's no way for a particle of dirt to "tell" how much money was spent piling it up, an atom does not "know" how many other atoms are in the macroscopic crystal it lives in.
Yeah, you have this stereotype that you have partners at white shoe law firms who all went to Harvard or Yale and all the other lawyers doing real estate closings from an office in a strip mall.

In practice, there are plenty of lawyers who are in-house counsels for large companies, own successful law practices in smaller cities and large towns, etc. who make decent money often in moderate cost of living areas.
I've worked with python for 17 years. I maintain that given your arguments, you haven't tried a properly set up static language.

I know how to make python safe with TDD. It doesn't even sort of compare.
Once again, your point hinges on "unseen value" of liberal arts. People in STEM, including the trades, don't have to do such shell game tactics.
Yes, but... should employees be able to access data that they'd get fired for accessing to begin with?
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I also lucked out with my first job. It was a part time gig at a small company of about 8. Had I saw a job listing for it, I would have been sure that it was a scam to exploit university students looking for experience. The saving grace was a classmate who worked there as well.

Their idea was to have 1 or 2 senior developers with a few part-time university students. They'd negotiate contracts with clients for websites or apps. Their rationale was to give students more experience than a summer internship while having some quality control in place with a few experienced developers and engineers. The pay was great too.

I recommended a classmate a year behind me as my replacement when I left.
Would you mind participating in a thought experiment?

I have a magic wand. When I wave it you will be reborn in any time of your choosing, past or present. You will be randomly assigned a race, gender, IQ, sexual preference, family wealth, health status, and country. What time would you choose?
Monoliths pros:

Way easier to debug
If you do a little algebra and make some simple assumptions, it turns out that "years of work required for retirement" is a function of your savings ratio only, that is savings/take-home pay.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...
Not sure why you are attacking a poster specifically talking about Google, Bing and Baidu doing massive scraping. What you are talking about is something entirely different.
Low compared to the US - that's true of most places.
Low on a global scale? Absolutely not.

You're making it sound like we're living on minimum wage.

The average Java developer in London is within the top 5% of the UK in terms of salary.
This is gonna sound harsh, but I have never in my life met or seen a wealthy person become anything more than a dilettante in some new hobby / passion calling AFTER they acquired their wealth. There's nothing wrong with that, a lot of people enjoy being so-so at something they enjoy, as long as they get to dabble in that.

To become top-tier at anything, I believe you need more than just the lust. It take a mix of raw talent, discipline, passion, and drive - at minimum.

(Yes - there are probably numerous examples to disprove this, but I'll bet that the ratio is extremely skewed)
Quoting the readme:
> What is inside the zip file?
> The release bundle includes interpreter binaries [...]. malbolgelisp-v1.1.mb is the source code for the interpreter.
I still have access to email accounts from previous educational institutions for 5 years. It's not uncommon at all.
You can still porting those algebraic structures to day to day software construction.

https://corecursive.com/050-sam-ritchie-portal-abstractions-...
"Systemic racism" is also wishy-washy.
Super excited for this launch. What a fantastic team, and honestly capabilities that have been missing from the space ecosystem!
You don't start out with a mortgage, unless have some unusual circumstances.
Anecdotally, after participating in some mentoring programs I believe most junior developer jobs in 2021 are actually quite good. At least among the mentoring cohorts I’ve mentored.

I think developer salaries have risen a lot since many of these negative anecdotes took place. The higher salary expectation for local developers has pushed a lot of the sketchy small shops to look for outsourcing opportunities for their tech work rather than trying to hire in house.

I’ve started noticing the inverse of this situation: Some of the juniors I’ve mentored end up working at ultra-cushy jobs at overfunded and undermanaged startups where they’re paid a lot to do very little. After those experiences, it’s hard for them to go back to a regular job where they’re paid normal comp to do normal amounts of work. Once they’ve had a taste of working 2 hours per day on projects that will never actually get shipped , it’s hard to accept the types of workloads, expectations, and accountability that come from a normal job at a well-managed company.

On the other hand, people who start in bad jobs tend to thrive when they’re hired into a normal, well-run company and realize just how much better it is.
I retired at age 62.5, tired of working long hours and high stress as a lead programmer in a huge company. Now I write code all day I want to write. Much more fun. I miss being involved in the (non FAANG) companies business, but I don't miss the hours, stress, frustration or exec indecision at all.
Obviously an unsupported pc will not auto update to Windows 11.
Just because you wrote user input code or an HTTP client does not mean that the results of it are trustworthy. So no I would not agree that even your own code is trustworthy.

If it's your own code that does no IO then yeah it's more ok to trust TypeScript.
It's not that they get paid explicitly. Their PR knows journalists and just casually suggest that if they have some space, how about this {article}? We'll even do most of the writing for you. That frees up your time to investigate real things.
> Is there any place for monoliths in 2020?

> Is there any place for monoliths in 2021?

maybe one year we'll get our answer!
> Cherry picked.

The dolls were available to buy. Would you prefer they stopped selling their other models, to focus on these?
Wait until your nest is empty.
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If you have an “authentication” micro service. I can just reuse/deploy the service for my new app. No coding (maybe some configuration)
You can still have an apple ID even if you never ever had even a single app device.
Who has a mortgage without interest payments?
Of his catalogue, I like Blindsight best probably, it's one of those fundamental science fiction novels that asks a new question and stays with you for a long time, without being too cerebral.
> I've had managers that wants a CDN

I'm hoping that the purported CDN is not for an internal, company-only application.
As far as a few months experience goes, that really sounds pretty amusing, colorful, and not all that terrible.

You wouldn't want to continue there, but some good life lessons learned about those types of people.

Got paid, cost a few months, have a good story to tell. Not bad.
Okay.

"Sorry, we're only able to support Apple ID on Apple devices at this time."
There was no copycat doll in that episode. Malibu Stacey gets a new hat but is as sexist as ever.

https://comb.io/RHnRVl
I suspect most people don't even put their phones on aeroplane mode. And nothing bad happens. This is just a rule to enforce and maintain authority over the passengers.
A Postmortem for a Time Sharing System [pdf]
Something that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else in this thread is what to me is the killer feature of Signin with Apple: I now don’t need to remember which of the (sometimes >6) SSOs I used to log into an app. If SSO is present, it’s Apple, if it’s not, it’s in my pw manager.

Privacy is a nice plus but for me, the best part is precisely what is pissing this guy off.
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Segregation is immoral.
They'll do something like FLOC but right before it's being sent lol
Thank you for writing this. I was worried that I was planning to retire soon but never made a $250K salary, will not have $7M.
I agree. You may get the odd exception, but seem to be rare.
> My girlfriend runs macOS, but it's way more reliable to just nc files to each other over wifi than deal with all the cloud and airdropping bullshit.

I'd never though of that, so simple!

# On the receiver
nc -l 9000 > output.file

# On the sender
nc 172.17.0.7 9000 < input.file

My only issue is that it seems to hang after it's done. What am I missing?
@belorn:

> You can pass a LoggedInUser to a thing expecting a URL in a dynamic language if the LoggedInUser has the same methods as defined in the interface of an URL. It called ducktyping. In the same line of thought, you should even actively avoid checking if LoggedInUser is of the type URL because a different type sharing the same interface as URL should be equally accepted as URL.

You can do that in statically typed languages as well (though not in every). See C++.
Rust actively decided against it, and makes it the users responsibility to say "yes I indeed want to give this type to this function, because it satisfies the trait like this".

Is a type, as defined above, required for all programming? No. Interfaces? Yes. Interfaces are also more similar to customer requirements in that they define behavior. Do the object has an absolute path method. Do it has an UUID property. Can it be used to call open on. Those questions are not type questions, and so I do not think about type when answering them.

Interfaces in TypeScript just describe sets of types, so yes you are still thinking about types (about types of types).
I'd like to know why you think either one is (syntactically) required for programming (as we know ASM doesn't have either of those)
Further, I'd like to know how you don't think about basic types in JS.
Finally, I'd like to know why you couldn't fall back to (mostly) duck typing in statically typed langauges.
I looked at the code - it downloads a .reg file from the web and modifies your registry with the content of that .reg file in admin mode. At the moment that .reg file modifies the registry to allow bypassing TPM checks, but at any future time the author can replace that .reg file with something malicious. I wouldn't download that program.
I think I'm against this argument, and instead present of Warren Buffet's. If you think gold is a good hedge against inflation, a consumer staple with a safe position (ie. Coca-Cola) is a better inflation hedge.

The same argument would apply to a whole lot of companies in the "necessities" department. They provide every bit of inflation hedge value Gold provides, but also provide dividend and stock appreciation.
Judging by the language used in the post (e.g. "prisoner" or "Give them your money, your will, your worship") it seems like a reasonable assumption that this developer doesn't care about Apple customers.
I've made my argument against wild animal suffering and explained why and how we should end it, when we have the ability to do so.

Now you are changing the topic to try to implicate me as anti-human.

Stop and think about how you are debating with ill intentions - how you are trying to invalidate my previous arguments through ad hominem by painting me as someone who would destroy humanity. Extremely disappointing.

What do you have to say about the solution to wild animal suffering other than that some people will be sad?
Go deep into one thing

Sounds like you have a lot of breadth, likely that means great overall instincts. This is a great asset!

So you feel you’re out of date in your skills? Don’t boil the ocean. Instead go really deep into a specific new, marketable thing. As a side effect you’ll learn adjacent skills. It’s more time efficient and helps you gain confidence.

You’d be surprised how many people actually have very shallow skills in modern things. They put “AWS” on their resume, when really they pointed and clicked a few times to start a server.

While you’re going deep freely give away what you learn. Write, speak, whatever. This both better reinforces knowledge you’ve gained as well as advertises your skills to others.
I read that. When a hedge fund blows up, the pension funds that invested in it lose all their money. That's all there is to it.

The linked article presents a straw man that the only two hedge fund investing options are "risk-free" and "occasionally blowing up", and since we can't have the former we have to accept the latter.

But the Archegos-Credit Suisse case shows clearly that there is a middle ground, that much can be done to prevent blowups. The big banks just don't bother. Proper risk management by banks would help pension funds much more than simply negligently letting hedge funds blow up.
I did this for the longest time, testing with SQLite and running with PostgreSQL, until I discovered that this was completely unnecessary extra complexity. It turns out that setting up and starting a fresh PostgreSQL database takes about one second, so it's just as easy to just spawn a Postgres for the unit tests. And now I get to enjoy some immensely useful Postgres-specific SQL syntax like "FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED".
No one needs to do anything, but most families living in silicon valley are probably spending more than 5k a month. 8% is also probably too high. S&P historical returns are 7%, plus 15% tax.
I have a church and spend some chunk of my active off-hours doing various activities there - maybe 10 hours a month. If I were to retire, I imagine that time would double or triple.

That's how I'd recommend viewing non-profit work in advance of retirement. Is there a non-profit you're spending effort on now? Spend more effort there. If not, it's probably a good idea to examine your values and find some organizations that advance them and start helping out.
See also: Facebook Wanted NSO Spyware to Monitor Users, NSO CEO Claims

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28001207
This is a different kind of innovation. The issue is not every improvement will be to the consumer.

Better weapons will enable you to kill better/faster/harder. Tech improves the "can", not the "should" - you still need politics to reign in control.
And people say studying humanities is useless...

Before you can even begin to approach questions like this, you have to get a lay of the land at least... read an article on philosophy and religion in the encyclopedia.

These aren't new questions. They've been dissected and applied to the furthest reaches of our understanding. It's all written down and at our fingertips 24/7.

They underlie the primary question in the article. Retirement is irrelevant. In a very roundabout way it seems like that is what Mr Greenspun is trying to say, but it kind of comes across as (the illustrious Gordon Lightfoot put it) a "rich man's spiritual".

> In olden times, the average person didn't expect to be happy.

How can this even be proposed? Maybe I just read way too into this. Is it a joke?

edit: I don't like leaving such negative comments. I envy Mr Greenspun. I'm not 37 yet but I'm not too far off, either. If I could retire at that age and spend the rest of my life exploring philosophy and leisure... well I could hardly think of a finer place to end up in one's life. Starting to ask the questions at all is how to start. Kudos.
Geo Satellites don’t decay in 38 years, do they? (2020)
I don't get that impression at all. The author is annoyed at being strong armed into using Apple ID, on Apple's terms.

They speculate about why Apple are so keen on people to adopt Apple ID - not say they actually want to do those things. I think they're probably correct about why Apple wants more control by sucking tech into it's ecosystem.
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> Do you think they can or want to code?

Judging by how popular Powershell has become in these 'GUI-only' ecosystems: yes, a lot of them can and want to.

But I'm not saying everyone always should code. I'm saying that not only wrangling Ansible and Terraform is already programming, it's a difficult kind of programming (no tests, no debugger, usually directly on prod), and that we should stop pretending that it's not. That the industry should stop it with the self-fulfilling myth that sysadmins don't want to program by continuing to build 'DevOps' tools centered around lame DSLs. Give sysadmins real programming languages, libraries and guidance on how to program, not shrink-wrapped tools that pretend they're purely configuration driven yet implement a full-blown programming langauge on top of YAML.
By dictionary definition, you have to have left your position of employment and left work.

But there's still some meaning in "not being stuck at work" and being financially capable of choosing what you do with your time. We don't have a single word for this, but we have some phrases, like "financially independent." Once you've reached this point, you might choose to do something that people will pay you for, or you might not. Either way, you're not obligated or chained to employment any more.

Using the term "retired" for that status is not a huge stretch.
You seem to have missed pipewire.

While it supports the same APIs as Pulseaudio, it's still a new audio (and video) daemon.
T-Mobile is definitely not trying to charge you $10 more
The CDC, like the NYT, has become too politicized that it’s impossible to trust what they say. Unlike the NYT, the CDC can be reformed with the right leadership so that it can begin to earn back the trust of the people. The placement of this op-ed in the NYT smacks with irony.
Apple is a capitalistic company, they are not saints. But part of their business model selling hardware and software is partly based on at least maintaining a minimal level of decency, far above what Google and Facebook practice.
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The greatest expense for me in retirement is now health insurance so it makes sense for me to instead work for insurance coverage and put my wealth towards an inheritance for my children. I used to naively believe once I paid off my mortgage, had a substantial retirement account and savings - a couple million dollars - I'd no longer work. It's also very difficult to get off of the treadmill of spending a lot of money on products and services - requires a massive life change I haven't been ready to perform.

It helps that I love to write software; I'd just continue writing software in retirement. I tried to retire once and I ended up writing software anyway, so might as well as get health insurance coverage.
This reads a little like taking your competitive work environment forward into retirement. You have to learn to let it go, and that takes time...maybe years...maybe all of them.
Everything that becomes work you will hate.

I think when it is no longer your job you might begin to enjoy it again?

My career turned out to be software engineering because I liked writing software as a hobby. The job does take the software-writing energy out of me. But from time to time when I have started a little project of my own I have found it to be enjoyable again.
>The audio unmutes weirdly so you may not have heard it.

Yeah that was it. Thanks for the correction.
There is plenty of research to suggest that people go into cognitive decline after entering retirement. Whether that translated to a change in "happiness" is perhaps a different metric, but it certainly is suggestive.

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/03/cognitive-de...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191029131506.h...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6153553/
Agree with your point.

It reminds me though, that are some industries that frankly know more about you than they should (e.g., mortgage loans). I don't think the politicians have found the right balance of not creating another housing crisis, and requiring your neighbor to know virtually everything about you just to get the keys.
In the cons of monoliths: "High coupling between components" is listed. I think this is a misconception, and a popular one: some people apparently believe that if you take software, and introduce some RPC form at "component" boundaries, things are magically decoupled. I.e., just because execution happens in a different process, it is decoupled. And this fallacy is what leads to the distributed monolith.

Or am I missing something?
Spending $1B to build an unmotivated device is not a suitable project. There is no reason to build this thing, not a single one has been suggested.
Because the narrative has morphed from Satoshi's vision as a 'A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System' into digital gold by the Bitcoin fans and that is why they hold it and never sell it or use it to pay for anything given how terribly slow, expensive and unsuitable it is as a replacement when it can lose half of its value very quickly.

> So when does this grand financial revolution happen? Or can we conclude that if it hasn’t happened yet, then it likely won’t happen at all?

What grand financial revolution? You mean CBDCs?
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You can judge my post as a tantrum, and I won't even take offense, friend

Now I ask you this: how far are you willing to go to further a good cause? Watching from the sides feels more comfortable, but we are being decimated and doing nothing won't change a thing. We need to act now, or watch our profession/hobby/passion be used to fatten the already morbidly overweight big tech companies
CDNs are a great example where, if you don't have the problem they solve yet, using them correctly might not be worth your time.

You may now have separate asset domains, interactions of cache expiry headers across different servers, custom header forwarding through your front-ends, new separate asset packaging and deployment steps during shipping, and a slew of other "new stuff" to think about during every deploy, that can all break, and that you ought to have multiple people on the team really understand to use properly, or to debug if it's not working.

If you have <100 users, growing to ~500 by the year's end, you maybe don't need to spend time on any of that stuff yet.