skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking at the higher end of the scale in London, and maybe ignore the >99th percentile in US where salaries get astronomical, I reckon the hourly rate might be in the same ball park.

For example a quick search in London shows a dev job at £160K, which is $221K. You would probably have an extra 4 weeks holiday in the London job, so that's the equivalent of $240K.

In London you've got a good chance of sticking close to working 40 hours a week too, depending on the company. In the US it sounds like longer hours are more likely.
As explained in the comment you're replying to.

It's a far-right extremist tactic to normalize their belief systems.

The tactic is to put everyone together into a "diversity rainbow" of political beliefs where whatever strand of basic human decency you oppose, you can find someone else who is so extreme, vigorous, and pernicious in their beliefs that even fascism seems moderate.

For example, in the status quo of early 20th century America, a racist might say:

"Well, some radical negro extremists even think that black men ought to be allowed to marry white women. But on the other hand, some people think all the negroes should just be exterminated. As a liberal, I think everyone should be free to speak their minds and hold rallies for whatever viewpoint they like, as long as they uphold all the public order laws."

So the racist occupies an important position, sat in the middle, defending liberal democracy from two extremes. Power stays where it is, thank you very much. And if people try to get racist rallies banned, then I can fend that off by claiming it to be a fundamental attack on freedom of speech, rather than what it actually is: upholding law and order.

The fact to be obscured is that there is a fundamental dissimilarity between the "two extremes". One is just a call for basic human needs and rights to be respected, the other demands a license for some people to run roughshod over the needs and rights of others.

Edit: So yes, in that sentence he is trying to put them in to the category of "guest lecturers." But he is doing that not as a banal exercise in set-comprehension, it's part of a political argument / narcissistic tantrum.
As someone who has known Dom for years and started several projects with him, I can say he’s like this all the time and I really doubt he will change.
While this seems to be a neat thing, I am just wondering how common nowadays are door locks that actually have a hole through them? Where I come from, those locks could be seen in doors of old cabinets and other furniture. Or perhaps at the summer cottage, but even there, it is usually just an old shed or something; any doors that are supposed to keep anything valuable safe, have solid lock housing, i.e. no through keyholes.
Very neat:

> 1.2.4. Messages are Authenticable, but not Opposable.

> All Pest messages are authenticable -- a station will only process a message if it carries a valid signature from a peer (though in some cases, the message may not have been authored by that peer.)

> However, they are also repudiatable (i.e. non-opposable) -- since all packet signatures are produced with symmetric keys, the recipient of a message cannot, at any point in time, prove to a third party that he was not in fact the author of that message.
> Criss is still here, at least physically.

Got me.
Why would it be offensive just because random Americans think that "women are the ones that wear kimono"? Even if it were true.

For the puritanical American mind it might be offensive to even imagine nudity, but other than that I really don't get it.
A source worth reading: https://www.wagingpeace.org/why-nations-go-nuclear/
If you have to have root already this doesn’t buy you much though. Perhaps a hard-to-detect way for disgruntled bofhs to do bad things, that’s about it.
Right! The strong nuclear force is over two orders of magnitude stronger than electromagnetism, so it cannot be caused by it.

It has to be, in order overcome the vehement repulsion among the protons.
> It has more gotchas than most languages

Where do you get this from? Has there been any comparisons made between JS and other languages to see which ones have the most gotchas? I'd love to see the data behind this.

> since bad backend languages just stop getting adopted

What? This is obviously not true (bypassing the discussion around what "bad" means, which is highly subjective). People continue to adopt all kinds of languages all the time. New projects in PHP are still created (although I disagree PHP is necessarily a bad language [today])

> issues are less obvious as long as it appears to work

Hmm, isn't it the opposite? Frontends is what the users see, when something is wrong it's very easy to see that something is broken. And if the backend breaks the wrong way, the frontend usually breaks as a result too if the programmers haven't setup error handling correctly.

> freezing the UI for 50 ms is ok-ish in the browser

Freezing the browser UI for 50ms is as noticeable as adding additional 50ms to the processing time of all backend requests. If you're actively building it you might notice that the timings off, but if you're just using it, everything might look fine. Not sure what backend/frontend makes a difference here...
I would like to remind everyone in this thread that to call China and Taiwan separate is wrong. There is only one Taiwan, whose mainland western territory is currently occupied by an illegitimate revolutionary government.
I guess 'production' does sound better than 'mass-produced'.

I do like the look of Tesla cars, tho.
> they're talking about a factory that employs willing people

Prisoners forced to choose between harsh detention or menial factory work, are not “willing”.

This is the same argument made by people against minimum wage increases - “why do low wage workers do such jobs, they have a choice”.

The USA also has the same kind of prison labor, and inmates are forced to work for the profit of companies and the state, while receiving barely any wages in return. In fact, most of them cannot get any real work after release either.

> Someone desperate for work

I’m talking about the general global populace waking up to the fact that their goods are made by (essentially) slaves, as a result of labor shutdowns. This would be really beneficial to the worker class, and harm the ruling class.

And from the previous comment:

> importers demanding razor thin margins

Western companies that “believe” in human rights could just as well manufacture goods with a conscience and demand fair-trade supply chains; instead of just profit. But obviously, reality shows us otherwise.
Apple, you should hire me as a senior engineering PM. I will take Ashley's pay and cause no trouble. Look forward to seeing you on Monday.
>No it does not, because the state can simply borrow from its people.

Thank you. Now that we've established that restricting financial tools does not stop the harming of innocent victims, it follows that a state such as El Salvador adopting bitcoin (or for instance, an allegedly untraceable currency such as monero) as legal tender as part of its monetary policy does not lead to increased harming of innocents. Those with desire to harm others, including those in government, could simply borrow or trade fiat from the other ilk who like to harm others.

You now understanding why restricting crypto doesn't prevent the underlying crimes (now a criminal just has to steal your identity or use one of the other gazillion illegal and legal ways to move funds) to transfer his funds abroad instead of using coinbase and a cellphone. Killing the legality of crypto stops the law abiding unbanked from having a very low cost means of international transfer.

You understand now that restricting access to fertilizer to prevent bombs is stupid, because now the common man who grows food can no longer provide the grain stock for the nation. Or restricting guns from the peaceful is asinine because it disarms the innocent against the criminal who can buy a gun readily on the black market virtually anywhere in the world or failing that 3d print a very reliable one for only a few hundred dollars including ammunition out of unrestricted materials even in Europe.

> But you're gonna need to cite some sources!

You're the first person who's ever actually demanded from me I cite the fact that the US has harmed innocents in war, but here you go![1]. That's just one bombing, there's plenty more acts such as as the My Lai massacre but I don't enjoy seeing more pictures of dead 2 year olds which you say is the "will of the people" since it was done by the government. Or perhaps we are a "failed" state?

>Don't project your morality here :)

Is it even a contentious subject that the bombing of innocents is wrong? What about the killing of nuns in El Salvador by US backed regime? Why do you think discussion of morality is off limits? If there is to be a government, is it not just that it at least be used to deal with the most gravest of brutal acts such as the killing of innocents?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/29/asia/afghanistan-kabul-evacua...
do you know how many of them are unaccounted for?

i don't except that this number is greater than 0. i hope the cia and the kgb know.
Ah, who knew. TIL. Thanks
> And she's talking about unions and such on company Slack, come on now. Reckless lol.

Generally speaking she does seem to have issues, but why wouldn't you discuss unions on a company Slack?
SpaceX's launch site may be a threat to the environment
Hands-on with Facebook and Ray-Ban’s first pair of smart glasses
If he's willing to call it his house, we should be too.

> "My house was searched at 6:00 this morning. Six officers in the apartment," wrote the suspect
Your entire follow up made no sense. You misunderstood and misrepresented everything I said either intentionally or unintentionally. This is in spite of my painstaking effort to explain it to you. Unfortunately you're either not arguing in good faith or incapable of continuing this discourse. Either way, cheers, and have a good night.
Static, automated social images with NextJS
The weakness in your argument is you assume both sides are rational actors. All it needs is one dictatorial lunatic in charge who doesn't care about the people for MAD to ensue.
The better takeaway here isn’t “omg a writer of great stories isn’t a good speller?” but rather “Crowe was still writing screenplays in 1996 in a medium that didn’t have spell check”
That gun looks like a single shot carbine. Not exactly the stuff of gun nuts.
"The man was quite literally in-seine"

-Alan Partridge
> As I said elsewhere: In the last few years the US has been run out of Iraq by Iran, Syria by Russia and Afghanistan by the Taliban. I don't see much appetite for going back to any of those.

As was said elsewhere here, the Afghanistan war was won quickly. Afghanistan was also easily kept. And that's fighting against an opponent using guerilla tactics. What failed was nation-building. But that's not the goal with a confrontation with China. The goal is symmetric warfare to hold back an invasion. Defensive warfare is easier than offensive, so the cost would be far higher on China invading than Taiwan/US defending.
Well that section she explicitly states this class allows for the abstraction over the color encoding (RGB vs CMYK, etc).
I met Dom at a few of the Newcastle barcamps a loooong time ago. I'll second that he's an awesome guy, and an impressive serial entrepreneur, and very good at improvised PowerPoint karaoke...
It's not just the extreme left that doesn't like Napoleon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdM3ID4m38U

> relevant part starts at about 16 minutes, all lindy really does is point out how absolutely horrible Napoleon actually was.
Then wiki should check their sources. When you see people with kimono on the streets in Tokyo I assure you that "geisha" is not what comes to mind.
What a bunch of fragile spirits, that they are threatened by a museum.
Agreed, IMO the most likely market is vloggers
Setting up NextDNS delivers similar functionality and can be used on all of your devices.
I do care about it. That doesn't make it less petty, the same way M$ is petty.
Doesn't explain why starting a business is the best use of money. A lot of those business owners who went bankrupt regret their choice.

The idea that one must 'accumulate as much money as possible' is living in fear that you won't have enough money.

There's all sorts of other ways to use your money. Use it to travel, learn an art form, take up sports.

Someone frustrated with a 9 to 5 job will be frustrated finding out as a business owner it's more like an every-moment-of-the-day job ("actually working hard").

How does someone have "more than 16 businesses" and lots of free time? Apparently by hiring self-directed managers and talking with them once a day or once a week.

What does he do when a new manager leaves after 3 months? What does he do when his grocery shop man is sick? The story doesn't say.

For a small business, it means the owner has to take over until someone new can be hired and trained. With 16+ businesses, this happens all the time.

Unless most of those 16 business are shells for some sort of scam. That's the only reason I can think of for having the admin overhead of 16 businesses instead of consolidating.

> today there is nothing safe. And if you lost a job then you can’t do anything

This is meaningless. if you lose your company you also can't do anything, so starting a company doesn't help.

If you really believe you can't do anything, advocate for employee rights, union power, a strong social safety net, and/or UBI.
My experience with Mturk is that participants just randomly click anything, so that they can complete the task as quickly as possible. Almost none of them care about getting it right.
I always assumed it was the opposite -- mainly because of healthcare.

I think the various 'entrepreneur indexes' generally rank the US high, but I'm not sure i buy it -- just b/c of the healthcare thing.

i would think, ok, right off the top, you get rid of anyone 30+ years old, anyone with a family, any women, anyone with any kind of health problems, anyone who is not a super-high-rish-taker, etc.

So that leaves the white dudes going to MIT, Stanford, and a few other places.

Actually surprised that I don't remember seeing much/any talk about those entrepreneur indexes here.
I think if there is a spectrum in interactions between the two forces joined by this spectrum would be considered one force. Of course, there is a history of forces that once appeared to be distinct turning out not to be distinct but one and the same force instead. There is a line of thinking that speculates that all four known forces are to be joined in one.
> Wouldn’t it be easier if they just explained?

> Yet again, we asked if the SEC would share their reasoning with us, and yet again they refused. They have only told us that they are assessing our Lend product through the prism of decades-old Supreme Court cases called Howey and Reves.

I would like to think that Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer is not a total idiot, but every lawyer I know takes extreme care with their written words.

Contradicting yourself in back to back sentences makes me wonder if Coinbase are setting themselves up for a defence where their legal representatives, or management in general(?) are declared too incompetent to prosecute.
I’ll give you my 2 cents about Starting Strength. And please remember this is a sample size of n = 1. Other people (including yourself) will obviously have very different outcomes.

TL;DR - starting strength got me to the strongest I’ve ever been.

It got me stronger than I’ve ever been in my life. I’m 45 now and started when I was 32. I went from 180ish pounds to 230ish pounds in 19 months. I went from squatting the bar (45 lbs) to squatting a bit over 500 (502.5 was my personal best). Deadlift went from 135lbs to 612lbs (I bought those half pound and 1 pound change plates to carry with me to the gym just so I could say I was always adding weight to the bar).

So I think I was strong. I wasn’t competing in powerlifting strong (although I did compete. And in my age group I could usually at least place), but I was strong.

I was also completely out of shape :)

If you follow Starting Strength as written - the training and the diet - you will get strong, and unless you’re blessed with an amazing metabolism, you’ll get “fat”. At my strongest, I was obese according to my BMI. I couldn’t walk up 3 flights of stairs without getting winded.

To the Starting Strength crowd (back then; maybe it’s changed), the only cardio you needed was enough lung capacity to maintain bracing for a set of 5. Anything more than that would “kill your gains”.

So stick with Starting Strength? Absolutely if you’re getting back into it. Beginner gains are awesome. But don’t follow the program to a T. Do real cardio (not just more squats. not just high intensity. Do the slow and steady stuff as well). Do mobility work (yoga is good). Do corrective work (also known as pre-hab. I find Indian clubs and maces are phenomenal for shoulder health). And realize that if you talk to a true zealot of the Starting Strength world, they will tell you aren’t following the program and all the other stuff you’re doing is “killing your gains”.
There's 6 trillion M0 USD in circulation, and 20 trillion in M2.

Hyperinflation is defined as ~50% monthly inflation. This means that the value of money drops ~100 fold in a year. You tell me - how much money will the fed have to print, in order to hit that target, and where would it need to parachute it?
Would you store nude photos of yourself on your company laptop?
Came here to say this. It drives me nuts when people unconsciously identify all software engineering with web application design.
Germany probes claims of pre-election MP hacking by Russia
Couldn't the democrats form a coalition with him (similar to other countries)?
That's because the Puy du Fou has a different take on French history than most mainstream views in France. Which I find refreshing.

As a side note, I must say the park is a genuine wonder in itself, and I highly recommend it to anyone if you can go there.
I understand that, but at some point someone will call toRGB. It seems like for any function that calls toRGB, we have a choice of using the existential type for this e.g.

someFunc :: SomeColor -> ...
someFunc (SomeColor color) = ... (toRGB color) ...

vs having these functions accept an RGB instead of a SomeColor e.g.

someFunc :: RGB -> ...
someFunc color = ... color ...

Then of course the caller would have to do the conversion

someFunc (CMYToRGB color)
How much energy is in a lightning strike? How much can be collected and put into the electrical grid?

It becomes the age old problem of storage of electricity, but perhaps by firing a wire into clouds every few seconds, we can make mini-strikes that happen every few seconds, and then the storage problem might be solved with a capacitor and inductor bank.
Let me try reframing this.

If you were an abusive ex-husband, who felt that women are property and need to submit to you (and you regularly beat your girlfriends bloody to prove it), how would you feel about your former spouse buying a gun?

Sure, you'd do everything in your power to prevent that from happening.
In school, 25 years ago, I was taught the "circling balls" atomic model and for me physics seemed kind of boring and very stable field of science, like we already knew almost everything.

Nowadays, thanks to superb youtube channels[1], I've learnt that we are rather in the beginning of the journey of solving the mystery of universum, and the reality is much more exciting than those boring "circling balls"; actually there are no balls at all but just "fields" (which of course is also just a mental model).

[1] E.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheScienceAsylum
You do realize that kimonos are not exclusively worn by women? Hard to see how that's sexisme without that misconception.
Can I use JPEG XL Yet [1] ?

Again Image / Video / Audio Codec Support on Safari requires OS update. Unless this is on their agenda for iOS 16 and next macOS, which I doubt, it will likely be a few years before support of it becomes widely available.

[1] https://caniuse.com/jpegxl
> Emacs is not an operating system, and neither is Linux.
> Emacs is a text editor with other features.
> Linus is a kernel.

spot the irony.
It's funny because we have this discussion only pertaining to humans, if we were to produce a replica computer from computer-0, we'd rename it to computer-1 and that's that. It's just because humans want to name themselves we have issues, and we can't easily ascribe a human another name (it would mean rewriting the memory of the replica to remember being called something else).

Btw, we talk about replica's but that's only because we assume the process leaves an original and a copy, but that's not necessarily so, for example a photon of high energy can split into 2 photons of lower energy. We are not talking about originals and replica's there. One can imagine that our duplication process follows similar rules.

When copying or simply making 2 out of 1, for computers, both still have computer-0 in /etc/hostname so there's that... It's just that neither of the computers will complain when we change their designation at random.

This leaves me feeling weird about the destruction of an original in any copying process. The destruction during copying feels ok, but doing it afterwards feels very bad. It's like we want consciousness to be continuous in time. But why? Again, Permutation City goes into this in a nice way...
I had given this a try a week ago. Love the concept, and pretty neatly surprised. But it broke quite a few apps, couldn't get them to load content from the internet many times. Finally had to uninstall out of frustration :/.
This is what epistemic status tries to make explicit. There’s a difference between serious conjecture and playful speculation. The former, I think, involves claiming an amount of status for oneself. People view the latter as the former and attack speculators for having insufficient status. It’s a shame, because speculation can be a useful learning activity/opportunity.
Looks like the versions count down toward zero. Pest v. 0xFF is an older article by several days.
iRobot’s newest Roomba uses AI to avoid dog poop
Instructional videos, or even a book, which is very likely to have illustrations.
This is brilliant. As someone who tries to fight the good fight in an organisation that plays fast and loose with statistics to bias decisions towards the outcomes that everyone wants to hear it’s cathartic to read about such a hilarious proof of my point of view.

Human intuition and statistics are incompatible, and it really is a field where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The golden rule is this: your intuition is wrong, your assumptions about what you can and can’t determine from your results are wrong, and you need to ask a statistician.
> Never been to a class.

While you can certainly do yoga at home I would highly recommend trying a class. In particular I would recommend Mysore style classes. This type of class isn't lead by a teacher that you have to follow along. Instead all students do yoga on their own and the teacher is dedicated to correcting and helping students. A good experienced teacher can make a lot of valuable corrections and can help you get into positions that you can't do alone (yet).