skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! I worked on things that had value for my team and was interesting to me.

I bounced ideas around with coworkers, but I never asked for approval. As long as you’re doing your assigned work I don’t think your manager should care. This will depend on your company/manager of course; I was lucky to have ~3 managers during my tenure who were hands off
I believe France has a higher birthrate than the us
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Why? He was lying to them as well.
> In Go you would have to use a pointer to represent Option<T>, which makes code really awkward.

This sounded surprising to me, then I remembered Go doesn’t have generics. I imagine this won’t be as much of an issue when it does?
Which is the point I'm trying to make. To think that only FAANG companies pay that much is incorrect. Multiple companies are now competing to hire great talent and the only way forward is that they pay competitively.

I wouldn't want any engineer to ever consider a job which doesn't pay them a fair market wage.
I hope we do eventually and specifically outside this solar system, which has a clock that’s shorter than the heat death master clock.
I am curious what state takes hunting licenses and does not take college ID as an ID for voting? This seems ridiculous as the hunting licenses are just receipts on paying a fee and usually don't even have a picture. Please let me know which state does this, if this is an actual example.
People in power seem to confuse actual security designed to prevent unauthorized access with security by obscurity, and are shockingly willing to believe that calling a system secure makes it so.

Remember when the state of Florida labelled an epidemiologist, who they had previously fired for not cooking the books on covid cases to make the state look less bad, a "hacker" because she sent email to a state-run mailing list? https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/12/07/florida-poli...

The mailing list was claimed to be "secure", but there was nothing secure about it. Other than the fact that merely by convention only certain people were supposed to know about it and use it, it was completely unsecured.
> just don't but their product

What alternatives are even available for standalone VR? Vive has something that's about 4x the price...
We have a _national_ freeway system in the US, states get money from the government for the interstate freeway projects.

I am all for a national ID (please, PLEASE end using Social Security for this), and migrating to a national standard for driving that generalizes most of the 'how to drive' and 'how signs must look'; ideally also some minimum of how roads should be designed (less enforced, more of a guide).
> During the 2020 election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out likely Democratic voters.

> The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes.

Encouraging people to vote is buying elections now? What in the world?
Why should people have a basic knowledge of their tools? The world would be a better place?
He does go to school at UCLA, and said he was in NYC for the test, so he may be just a frequent traveler to high COL areas.
Plastics are terrible for there planet and for us as humans. However, they’re cheap, made everywhere and easy to make, can be made into whatever shape you want for an endless set of use cases, and weigh little.

At least for humans, it’d be great if we could somehow remove all the chemicals or find magic ones that are totally non-toxic, cheap, and easy to produce. Seems unlikely. We’re also not going to a world filled with wood and metal for all the reasons listed in the first paragraph. Seems like an untenable path unless someone invents something that is way better on the points that matter, or it’s regulated out of existence at great pain.

I’m pessimistic about the future of plastic.
"may play role" is such a vague phrase, it makes the rest of the sentence meaningless.
If for some reason,now or in the future, I prefer my peripherals to be connected to cloud. Your law deprives me of this freedom. Just a thought.
A very good question, thanks for asking! I think about that a lot. This answer is going to get a little bit deep (for me) so please forgive me.

My career later took me to Los Angeles in 2009 and then to Seattle in 2018. Both my wife and I gave a lot to our careers. My wife also worked at Apple, but had a huge change of heart and went back to school to get a masters in social work. She was also an Army Reservist and was deployed to Iraq a couple of times and various other spots in the world. Regardless of ones opinion of America's foreign adventures, she felt that she was making a difference in the lives of people (she was in Civil Affairs) when she deployed.

After a few years in Seattle at Amazon, we both decided to step back from the fast pace of life. We moved to Tucson, AZ, she worked with veterans and I did some consulting and taught programming to adults wanting a career change for Startup Tucson. Life finally seemed pretty good!

Sadly, my wife passed from cancer a few weeks ago, so I often reflect on our thirty years together. How much time was consumed with the frenzy of startups and Apple, etc? If I could go back in time and spend every possible moment with her rock climbing, camping, skiing, holding hands, working with the homeless, enjoying a slow Sunday reading by the fire, etc. I would do that in an instant.

She was 51 and I am 53. We both thought we had a lot of time left! As for me, I am entirely unexceptional. I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time for a lot of things. My advice to anyone who may be in a similar position to what I was in a few years ago is to take a pause, zoom out and look at the big picture. We love to talk about IPOs, exits, deal sheets, cap tables and more. This is all fleeting. We only really have each other and the most important capital is human capital, especially when provided by the ones you love and who love you.
> They will be doomed to repeating the mistake of the 737 Max.

This article is about the 737 Max.
If we interpret "ever increasing number of mouths to feed" as "more people", we can imagine the following:

I sell a product. The more people buy my product, the more money I make. The more people there are, the more people will buy my product. The more people there are, the larger the labor pool I can choose from. The larger the labor pool I can choose from, the more the workers' wages get depressed, so my profit margins get bigger. So the more people there are, the more money I make.

Obviously this is highly reductionist. Also, I don't think saying capitalism "demands" increased population growth is quite right. We can certainly imagine individual businesses who would not like population growth (e.g. mom-and-pop stores who know that increased local population increases the likelihood of a Walmart being erected and putting them out of business).
But on the whole, I think the presence of capitalism trends towards increasing population.
It's also a cultural thing.

In EU, traditionally, business people are paid much more than technical personnel. Prominent engineers are valued, but only to some extent. For example, mechanical engineer salaries in top German corporations are not that high, and they are bringing in a lot of value.

Let's not forget most FAANG founders were computer scientists, plus there's a shortage top talent. Electrical engineer salaries at Intel, AMD or ARM are, as far as I know, nothing to call home about.

With that said, we are starting to see some IT positions with really nice compensations. Mostly in CH, NL, DK and UK as far as I can tell.
Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
> Voter ID generally isn't supposed to be proof of residence, its proof of identity

Super convenient if you would like to vote a few dozen times in different places, I'm sure, but that's not what it's "supposed to be" at all. I want people voting exactly once, and _only_ where they are residents, and _only_ if they are US citizens. That's the law.
Not enough negativity I think. Positive feedback loop without a reality check is not confronting the real issues. Ubuntu has many.
I don't even have words for how much of a dystopian idea this is. How do you even come up with this idea and think it's worth following through in any way. It's like a parody idea I'd expect to see on the Silicon Valley show.

Then for YC to back this and basically give their stamp of validation that it's worth continuing? THIS is what we're pouring money and resources into?
Not to mention big companies buying out all the small ones and shutting them down or perverting their products. Facebook and Oculus beinjg a perfect example, with added bad taste due to Oculus being propped by a successful kickstarter campaign, only to be sold for billions soon after to Facebook.

Another less known example could be Kolor, the maker of Autopano Giga (IMHO the best panorama creation tool so far) being gobbled by GoPro, likely for the talent, then shut down without replacement.
> And this is how it should be. Money should not be good store of value in long term.

LOL. If money isn't a good store of value, the market will find something else that is.
Companies must grow, simple as that.
Maybe they're starting with an easier goal and then work their way up from there? Maybe that allows the scientists to calibrate the instruments or whatever

I don't know the first thing about how any of this works, but that would be my first guess.
Color lasers also have yellow tracking dots. You're only safe with a B&W laser or a 20+ year old color printer.
That's true. Pernosco has lots of serialization code and compilation is slower than I'd like. I feel that it's still easily worth it.
There are many reasons something can break. I'm not sure how you got the impression I believe otherwise.

There are many reasons someone may not be able to access.

Furthermore, some of those reasons can be known ahead of time, and some cannot even be predicted before they happen.

But the ones I do know of, I try to accommodate, just like i try to accommodate visually impaired, those with slow devices, etc.

And I have found that the more known scenarios I accommodate, the more unknown scenarios are also accommodated, just from raising the accessibility bar.

Of course, this is not something everyone cares about. You probably won't gain many profitable customers with deep pockets accommodating the edge cases. They're all using the latest and greatest.

But if you care about allowing access to as many as possible to your resource, serving both HTTP and HTTPS is the way.
OK, I did a quick Google (uggh, I wonder what adverts I will targeted by now!)

There is scientific disagreement over impulsivity, and the distinction between impulsive and planning is so blurry as to be not that useful to a non-specialist. Also my quick skim of the topic was somewhat confusing because there is a different topic about whether impulsive personalities are more likely to suicide (probably not). And my case personally I am middle aged, and my peer group appears more likely to plan, which affects my anecdotal experience.

I think my problem is that the word “impulsive” is odd. Someone who has been thinking of committing suicide for months, and then one day “suddenly” decides to go through with it, seems to be considered by the literature to have made an impulsive decision. That definition doesn’t fit my usual meaning of the word impulsive (e.g. I don’t think it makes sense to say: I have been looking at cars to buy for two months and then I impulsively bought one).
to calibrate our hopes we can just look at VW dieselgate
Any way to sign up to get notified when it's in ap-southeast-2?
Not only that, but in Russia you may be slapped with the fine for the 'propaganda of suicide' (I shit you not it's the real law) if you even discuss suicide on more or less popular platform.
> Snaps pollute the df/mount points with per snap lines.

My biggest complaint
How does an ID help with that? People can move without updating their ID right away. And, heck, I don't remember there being much, if any, that I had to do to prove my address when I got my (non-RealID) license.

Really all the address proves is that I was able to get mail at this address when I got my license.
Boeing were idiots selling this new model into the markets they did right out the gate. It was greed and bit them hard.

Poor maintenance. Pilot skills in hand flying and unusual flying and recovery so different (overseas they don't always come through a normal US style GA background).

If they would have looked more closely at the US, they would have found that this system was triggered (and resolved) I suspect pretty frequently by US pilots - ie, the pilots in the loop compensated for the design weaknesses which was the boeing thinking historically. US pilots have played that role on many planes, usually mfg then fixes the issues as well.

If they are going to continue to sell internationally in the markets they want to they actually need to think about doing more automation and flight protection stuff - more computers - not less.

This may never have been the major issue it became if they had focused on a major carrier like Southwest (very experienced crews).

The whole MCAS thing was garbage, interesting they are pinning it on this guy. He does say internally he lied to FAA (unknowingly) as they weren't fully familiar with MCAS modes and edge

Edit: Appears I was wrong - good maintenance in US seems to have been key saving thing.

"Following the recent events in Indonesia and Ethiopia, U.S. flight data was analyzed to understand whether indicators may have existed that could have been addressed, and potentially preempted the accidents. The data showed zero incidents of runaway trim on Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in the U.S. system,” says the report from the special committee.

Good job A&P folks!
There is a balance to achieve. It might be better than facebook forcing a cloud account on everyone.
>>>This culture of fear is what the Republicans want and its what they need to hold on to power amid changing demographics. They will strip the government of every last thing they possibly can on their way out of relevance.

You do know that there are Republicans who aren't white, and that some of them are very much in favor of improving voter registration?

https://www.facebook.com/KimberlyNKlacik/videos/303559960671...
It is desirable for any country to have laws that limit the ways how legal or government entities collect data.

Some of the strictest privacy laws existed in Germany for a reason, because the country new what an SS or a Stasi would do with the data once it gets its hands on it.

Some of the laxest privacy laws are in the US, the country whose businesses supplied the SS[1] and nowadays the CCP[2] with surveillance technology to facilitate genocide.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

[2]https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/us-tech-products-080...
Getting $3K from people who switch jobs every 1-2 years can add up to a lot of money.

How do you make money?
We take a 30% fee of the amount paid out to either your backers or the company.

EDIT: make that $6K, the payout for the hire was 2x of the 10K
The example with facebook is quite different from Gov. Your interaction with facebook is 100% voluntarily, you don't like facebook then you can say bye! With the government you have no room for flexibility.
Ugh. why do people keep posting stories from the NYPost. It’s a Murdoch owned paper that has a clear anti democrat leaning.

Not that we cant post things on all ends of the political spectrum but can we try to stick to sources that at lease try to be balanced.
If anything, if there are unions, they keep the engineers salaries down. At least that was my experience in Berlin, Germany.

Unions don't want "privileged" engineers to earn much more than average office worker.
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That's a good point!

It seems very hard to weigh the cost/benefits of something like this especially when the evidence for the possible health costs are so difficult to collect. Think of all of the possible confounding factors that could result in these health outcomes, the fact that not all plastics are the same (phthalates are not the only compound of concern), and the fact that most probable adverse health outcomes are not acute (we have pretty strong evidence plastic packaging isn't acutely toxic), but would take a long time to develop which further increases the difficulty of forming any type of causal relationship between plastics exposure and health outcomes.
Is this surprising? If Covid kicked my ass once, and I see it again, I'm going to fight it like hell.
Other comments are talking about how Missouri will spend millions investigating this "hack". I don't know how to reliable mask my identity against a million dollars worth of criminal investigators.

This was many years ago, a few years after it first happened I looked again and it had been fixed.
> org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations

Yes, but it does not disable the fades, nor all the gratuitous animations I see in the GUI of gnome-font-viewer (one of the very few pieces I can try not having uninstalled it). Those animations must have been hardcoded in the software, it must probably be recompiled - and I do not take it for granted they can be disabled through a configuration flag.
Residency isn’t citizenship.
Aspirin lowers risk of Covid: New findings support preliminary Israeli trial
Eh, I helped several people job hunt this year, here are the offers accepted (total comp, not salary, which tends to cap around 200k). None of the people listed have more than 5 years of experience:

200k (fresh grad)

352k

452k

507k

412k
For reference (for anyone curious) presently ~10% of US jobs are unionized. 40 years ago it was around to ~20%.

https://usafacts.org/articles/labor-union-membership/
> 'Aztec' sounds super old

It rather sounds super primitive and savage. With human sacrifices and stuff. And yes, that stone mirror was polished by slaves.

Oh, those columbus day inspired pages...
Its Valve's responsibility to make sure all dev's on their platform are treated fairly.

Do you think this would happen to a major publisher? That support agent would never pull this kind of thing with a major publisher as they would be afraid of losing their job.

They are picking on a no-name indie because they know we have no agency on their platform.
Agreed, there are plenty of people, clearly, that are doing significantly better. My data comes from my own experience, and it may vary. I have been in management, and with that I had access to comp information for a variety of engineers in our organization located at offices across the U.S. I also have a network of former coworkers and friends throughout the Pacific Northwest and we share (roughly, not specifics) how we're doing for comp.

I'm getting old enough to worry about ageism myself (mid-40s) and my total comp is just a bit over 200K this year. That's not bad for Portland, but when I see the numbers tossed about on HN it makes me want to take Facebook up on their interview requests. Probably amount to nothing, but I'm thinking I really ought to open up and start renewing my interview experience before it gets any harder.
Reread my comment. I cited a source indicating college students have the right to register to vote where their school is located.

Neither a school ID nor a drivers’ license says anything about citizenship. They’re the same in that regard.
High taxation creates a perfect environment for corruption.
i dunno. honestly it looks like a regular intel laptop made to look like an old macbook with bays for inverted usb-c dongles.

the whole "it's modular! here's your screwdriver! you can service your laptop by yourself and replace the ram! don't forget your coveralls, you're a hardware technician now!" thing seems a bit.. theatrical? but who knows, i've never owned a laptop with fixed storage and ram so maybe i'm not in the target demographic. also, who knows, maybe their inverted dongle thing will become a standard?

i've always just used thinkpads. they do a pretty good job of picking the right ports in the right quantities and have almost (excluding the ultra-ultralights) always allowed for replacement of ram, disk and sometimes have had a modular bay for cd-rom/dvd/additional disk/etc. quality seems to have dropped a little recently, but overall, still decent.
Technology for doing so does not exist. Before we can terraform other planets we'll have to learn how to terraform this one. Global warming is actually a great challenge and overcoming it would mean developing the technology that would help colonize other planets, e.g. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/myco-architecture.
Yeah, the format independence is amazing. In Pernosco we use bincode for IPC payloads and when we want to log IPCs we just serialize the payloads to JSON with zero developer effort.
I agree, it's far worse.
Some kind of uglier Halite clone?
What keeps these hypothetical people from just fraudulently getting a second state's driving license while they're already fraudulently registering to vote?
AI/ML is wayyy bigger
I think B would be blackmail?
> Pay is location-adjusted

This is why I'm not responding. I have a feeling their Canadian offers won't look anything like the article suggests.
The best thing I did for my career was leave Boston for an entry level FANG job on the West Coast 10 years ago. I currently make more than 10x what I was making in Boston. But it has been a grind no doubt. And probably some luck.
That probably does make things tricky. Personally I think that we should accept all IDs but vary their impact based on what they provide. For instance, a voter ID verifies residence, so you can vote in elections. If you have no residence, maybe that's a broader state or federal ID but you can't vote in local elections.

A bit of an aside, when I moved to California I wasn't able to vote in the primaries because I refused to pledge loyalty to the Democratic party, though registering to vote was rather easy. In Texas registering was rather easy and I could vote in primaries.
I think she should have become a Dutch citizen. Why was it necessary to hang on to her American citizenship when she reasonably could be assumed to have no intention of returning? I’m surprised some countries don’t require a longterm resident to apply for citizenship.
Eh yeah but their actions have been hostile to minorities since I started paying attention near the end of middle school. The fact that you have a small handful of public figures that try to put on a happy face for the party don't really jive with their actions. Furthermore are you really going to make this argument that the party apparatus operates in good faith after Trump? You could barely make this argument after Bush.
I worked on Sync. It's staffed with a skeleton crew. We had 3 people on our team and 5 bosses.
What about their comment on the lack of non-smart TVs?
I work in the bay area at a large company.

Generally, people at big companies work less than at small companies. Most software engineers I know making more than 400k work ~30 hours a week.

Things get different at the super senior levels making several million, usually a lot more meetings, hard to speak to their specific hours. But on the other hand, they get to retire after two years if they want so...
I recently set up Game Backup Monitor (http://mikemaximus.github.io/gbm-web/linux.html) for GOG games. The backup location is in OneDrive. I do have to import the backup manually, but the combination eases the pain.