skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. I'm sure Google is paying double the salary of some companies, but there's a huge number of companies in the middle of the two as well.
Ding! That’s what I want!
I'm talking long term, if human civilization lasts for thousands of more years. Then it becomes more reasonable. I agree that this century it's a much harder sell and largely out of reach. We should focus most of our efforts on Earth for now, without abandoning some space exploration. Space programs, telescopes and SETI are good things we should continue doing.
URLs are not secrets. End of discussion.
Safety nets provided by European countries are intended mainly for not ending homeless.

If you are running business, your loses are opportunity costs. Eg. you have already 100k EUR yearly salary and you decide to try running startup. If it fails after 5 years, so you didn't get any money from it (eg. you had to paid debts at the end), you probably lost 500k EUR in opportunity cost.

Progressive taxes incentivize risk taking in lower and lower-middle class, because you are protected from "total failure", but disincentivize risk taking for upper-middle and upper class, because expected rate of return is lower.

At the end of the day, there is no single "right way" to run a state. You have to make tradeoffs, decide what you value more and what you value less.
This is similar to iOS or Android. You can stand on your soapbox and preach to the choir, but at the end of the day there is only so many choices.

I like this solution because you still get to use the hardware and use the apps, but it denies the overlords of the thing they want the most.
Inflation spurs economic growth. And people shouldn't save for retirement, they should have pensions.
Linking your demo of VS Code Notebooks cause it was great: https://youtu.be/_QnbV6CAWXc?t=1298
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Any chance your repo is public? Care to share a URL?
I'm just getting curious about Nix, and would love to see this specific use case in the wild.
> It isn't stupidity.

Hard disagree. If you're arguing that it's malice, and not stupidity, on the part of governor and others that put out this nonsense, then at least they are surely depending on the stupidity of their constituents at large for not laughing them out of office.

And to be clear, I'm not at all taking the position that people who don't have a deep depth of technology are stupid. But pretty much everyone in the US knows how to use a web browser these days, and believing people will buy the governor's completely lobotomized argument [1] is totally embarrassing, either for the governor or his constituents that elected him.

1. https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129
A beer seller looks for a birth date to verify age. People too young to vote can't even register. So a poll worker just has to verify identity.

The US federal government and at least some states accept school ID to verify identity.
I've never read this book but I think if you read it, you should take it with a grain of salt. There's a lot of self aggrandizing and making your own myths in tech these days since personal brand is important at their level. What you do with your book is up to you though - if I had it I'd read it just to be aware of what's being said. If you keep it or not is your choice.

>Would you have an opinion on VR being the next computing platform?

Not any time soon, but maybe once the display technology improves. I like VR and don't get VR sickness, but when I take off the headset after a long session I can tell I haven't been focusing my eyes on distant things for a long time and the whole world feels a little unreal. I think the more time you spend in VR the more likely you are to cause short sightedness, but I don't have any scientific evidence of that so its just my opinion.

>Despite the troubled past, do you suppose Oculus Quest 2 could become THE standard?

I have many friends who own the Q2. It's an affordable device with a lot of good ideas. But sadly I think oculus was run by toxic people and being acquired by facebook can't have improved it. Them requiring a facebook login and their privacy policy preclude me from participating.

It's a neat device but I wouldn't call it the standard. The index is the gold standard. The quest 2 is the subway or taco bell restaurant of VR headsets - ubiquitous, affordable, but not better than the competition although the competition costs more.

We'll what happens in the future but I'm not betting on VR/AR computing being common anytime soon. If it is I hope facebook isn't the primary supplier because oculus and facebook are both unethical companies I dont' want to deal with.

But what do I know? I'm just a guy who loved the idea of it and paid attention during the development of the recent VR revival. I think the biggest barrier is resolution, and then graphics silicon need to run it at good framerates.
Yes but unfortunately most startups can't afford to compete with monopolies. As the OP mentions I'd recommend anyone considering startups to value equity at $0 unless it's a late stage company with a lot of traction and top VCs backing them.
Much of the unreality of modern recordings is collateral damage from the loudness wars.[1] For noisy environments like cars and for casual listening, lots of dynamic range compression helps. Most recordings are made for that market.

You can get more dynamic range from the hardware than most listening environments support. This is a problem for serious music. Even for serious loud rock music.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
This was a huge problem in Texas last year, but it really points at another problem with these laws. The difficulty largely wasn't even intentional. The requirements for address verification and citizenship verification were far more onerous than they used to be, to the point I saw no less then three people get sent home with nothing when I was at the DMV, but that wasn't even the state's decision. It was a consequence of the Real ID ACT happening at the same time. And office closures made it take months to get an appointment. I was barely able to get in ahead of the election, in mid October, and I made my appointment in April! But that wasn't malicious, either. The office closures were due to Covid, which wasn't planned by the state of Texas.

But it points at the ways in which any additional legal hurdle at all can become far more burdensome than lawmakers expect it to even if no one is intentionally trying to make it hard. It's all levels of government plus nature itself all adding new hurdles at the same time.
Totally agree, this is just a new underpowered feature phone that looks nothing like it's "inspiration".
This is god damn hillarious. I am laughing in tears while alone on the train here, people are looking at me as if I'm a wierdo.

"The moral of the story is that no matter how hilarious you many find them, don’t install extensions that screw with text replacement in browsers. It’s just not worth it."

Bahahahahahahahaha
Could you post all of your interactions with steam in regards to the build that got your game retired? That would probably help people to know what they are fighting for, if they choose to fight for you

I see two staff responses, and an escalation in progress, is that correct?
Hi Andy.

First of all, congrats for the project.

As you probably know, you and any other user can indeed manage Postgres configurations, in any environment, via an API. See the "MANAGE" section in https://postgresqlco.nf/ Essentially, a hosted "Git repository" for Postgres configurations.
Americans living overseas generally go by a different financial year, for example, in Australia the financial year is July1-June 30. All income and business records need to be made to fit the US financial year. We also have different much more complex forms to fill out and have far more to report than the American citizen living in the US. All our bank details and highest balances must be reported. We also have to file forms with regards to our retirement investments. If you own your own business here it’s literally days of compiling and working out amounts. And if something is wrong, look out. The trust reporting form, 3520, (which most businesses must file) is due before your tax return, and if you don’t realise this it’s a 10k fine. Even for a trust with a balance of $0. Then another 10ks every month you are late after the fine is assessed. (It’s also worth mentioning that the IRS only communicates through snail mail and sends us letters out of some strange places, such as the Czech Republic, and they take 4 months to arrive) meaning you have tens of thousands worth of fines before you even know it. I wish this were a joke or I was exaggerating. For years accountants filed that trust form with tax returns, until the IRS suddenly realised this could be a money maker and quietly introduced the fine.
There’s so much more I could write but I have to go to work. I’m just trying to say it’s a never ending nightmare, and in most cases too complex for the average person.
My informal poll last year of my friends suggest a 50-60% drop rate. I asked about 30 friends who are still coding for work. Almost 20 of them said they would not code anymore if they can find equivalent salary.
Easiest thing to do is quit your job and get a minimum wage job. For nearly everybody, consumption closely tracks income.

Cutting your income is the easiest way to cut consumption.
Yeah no kidding. I was shocked at the numbers in this article. A 15-year engineer in aerospace gets you ~120k.
Using a Container Registry as a Chat Server
I'm shocked to not see divorce mentioned once in the entire article. Millennials are a generation from broken and blended families. It seems to be the norm to have separated parents, an event that is usually traumatic and expensive. Why get married if you are most likely going to get divorced? And for those with married parents, they often see their parents as unhappy and only together because of religion/money/young children.

If you talk to children of divorced or unhappy parents about why they are unmarried, you often hear "I don't want to end up like my parents" pretty close to the top of the list.
Nothing, and I mean nothing could give me a grimmer impression of cops' abilities to deal with tech. I guess all of the technically capable cops are busy installing government surveillance systems.

About 12 years ago, someone smashed the window of my car and grabbed my messenger bag, including my cheap prepaid smart phone and shitty laptop— I was a line cook at the time, and those were my most valuable possessions except my knives. Filed a report and moved on. Hours later, I later saw a picture of a person I didn't know standing next to a car with a visible license plate automatically auto-uploaded to my Facebook account from my stolen phone. I called up the detective assigned to the case, but as soon as I said "uploaded" he said I needed to talk to the "computer guy," who called me the next day. After— no shit— 15 minutes of back-and-forth, this expert absolutely could not understand that I wasn't trying to report the new crime of someone accessing my Facebook account without authorization. He had no clue how it possibly could have been related to a telephone. In 2009.

Before I cooked, I'd worked in support from entry-level call centers to code level third-tier support. I am completely confident in my ability to explain WAY more complicated technical ideas to folks who've never used computers before... but I just had to give up. I didn't know what else to do. He was possibly the least technically capable person I've ever encountered and I used to help 90 year olds remove spyware from windows 98 machines. I said never mind and hung up the phone. Depressing.
Thank you- yeh the steam "support" process is very frustrating 0_0 If we can't get through to Steam we'll just release the "game" for free on internet archive or something. This isn't about money for us but we know a lot of dev's who we don't want to have to be treated like this.
“I can cost-optimize anything with nipples.”
Once Blender becomes dependent on the money, Apple can make them change the license into anything they want.
Eat shit and don't die?
> It suggests perhaps that they should exercise better judgement.

I have a feeling many of these decisions are driven by internal politics than proper analysis. The first question when you decide to go your own way is whether others will find this more useful than the competition. Build better tools is not sufficient if you don’t invest in evangelising and great branding.
Why ask a question if you don't care about the answer.
Cheaper than hiring one engineer to work on custom improvements on it.
Pure clown gold
> Isn’t it insane to change your types to accommodate this?

Welcome to Go! This was a real pain for us at my last job, where we used go-swagger to generate REST API code. All the generated structs had pointers for _non-optional_ fields so it could also check that they were populated. Meanwhile, optional fields were not pointers because they could use the default value.

So then we ended up with lots of code doing checks for `is X nil` all over the place. Many of those wouldn't be needed in normal usage, since a nil value would be rejected by the validator earlier, but we also sometimes needed to make these structs by hand and pass them around.

All of this is necessary because of the lack of generics. With generics you can solve this with things like an `Option<T>` type, like Rust does.
The addressable customer market is one big difference. American companies sell to the world. Eastern EU companies are largely stuck with eastern Europe or EU at large.

The other difference is that smaller addressable market also means fewer problems to solve and thus fewer companies.

As an example, engineers in China, India and Indonesia are making way more that $18k these days because there are many problems to solve, many more companies competing for the same engineers.
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> After 6 years, my old laptop starting having other issues with the screen, and ssd. Everything about the laptop was out of date, low resolution screen, comparatively slow processor, bad webcam, not a lot of memory, keyboard started having issues. So it make sense to buy a new laptop.

These are all things you can upgrade or replace as time goes on, instead of waiting 6 years or less to replace them all.

Right now, if you want to upgrade even just the memory in many laptops, you need to buy a whole separate machine to do so. I have a laptop that's about 6 years old. A couple of years after first buying it, I would have benefited from a RAM upgrade and not much else. I didn't do the upgrade because I didn't want to buy another machine just for more memory. I would have had a better experience during those 6 years if I had a Framework laptop that I could upgrade the memory in after only 2 years.
Or are labor unions in Europe just that much less effective at bargaining?

Ah yes, the famously powerful US software engineer's union.
Texas Government Code, Sec. 617.003. Prohibition on Strikes by Public Employees.

(a) Public employees may not strike or engage in an organized work stoppage against the state or a political subdivision of the state.

(b) A public employee who violates Subsection (a) forfeits all civil service rights, reemployment rights, and any other rights, benefits, and privileges
the employee enjoys as a result of public employment or former public employment.

(c) The right of an individual to cease work may not be abridged if the individual is not acting in concert with others in an organized work stoppage.

Quoted by the TCTA, another Texas teacher association: https://www.tcta.org/legal-updates/what-happens-if-texas-tea...
Nah, not like it is in Rust. For the vast majority of projects, serde makes parsing / serializing something they don't even have to think about, without having to sacrifice type safety to get there. Until you experience that in a large project with a lot of moving parts and developers, it's hard to appreciate just how many developer cycles you were wasting before on stuff that can be totally automated. It's format-agnostic, it's really fast (not the absolute fastest, but fast enough for most situations), it's insanely customizable for even the weirdest use cases, it's absolutely everywhere, it incorporates proper error handling, and adding it to your own types is trivial.

Is there any actual reason something like serde couldn't exist in other languages? None that I know of, but it doesn't, at least not when you consider just how pervasive serde is in the ecosystem (almost every library that stores things you want to serialize will have it). I really hope every language can standardize on something similar; it just makes development so much nicer and faster when you don't have to worry about this stuff.
Because it's not 1/10th of the problem being addressed, it's more like 1/10,000th. What I'm suggesting needs to be appreciated visually. Only then is the meaning of the scale of the issue apparent.
I'm against recycling because it's a form of denial. We need to be searching for new materials and industrial process. Also, we need to switch to next generation nuclear energy at the very first opportunity. IMO
Other crazy part is how much startups are raising these days. Every other person that I talk to either just raised >$100mil or is about to.
Cool to see Levels.fyi mentioned here – a lot of people don't know about our verified salary stream newsletter as well, but it's a neat way to keep tabs on the market: https://levels.fyi/verified/ as well as our community (in beta): https://levels.fyi/community/

Last salary stream issue: https://email.levels.fyi/t/v/93ecf861-3d0c-47e9-84af-757bcc9...
> OpenBSD for laptops

Only if you carefully pick your laptop hardware. I tried giving OpenBSD a spin as a daily driver on my XPS13 9343 and was plagued by issues:

1.) The network firmware is not included in the base OS. I had to download the firmware onto a USB storage device since the XPS doesn't have an ethernet port.

2.) 802.11ac isn't supported on my network card

3.) The login manager and window environment are unusable on a 4k screen. Trying to scale using xrandr --scale caused everything to appear fuzzy. I scoured the @misc mailing archives and could not find a suitable way to scale display without causing blur.

4.) Suspend/resume is broken and causes the kernel to panic.

5.) X.org doesn't use the inteldrm driver by default which causes choppy media playback

6.) OpenBSD puts memory limits on processes by default which causes memory hungry applications -- like web browsers -- to run choppy unless you change the memory limits.

None of these issues came up when using Ubuntu on my XPS 13. On Ubuntu it "just worked".
Parentheses in title are unbalanced.
It's a shame the CLI doesn't operate more like nvm or sdk man allowing you to download different sdk versions.

It was relatively easy to figure out how to install different versions alongside each other myself after digging into it. The folder structure of the distribution archives is already setup for it after all. After getting it in place it even lets you list and switch between them haha.
There are no shortage of lenses that are labeled macro but top out at 1:2, or even 1:4.
> Grandstanding politicians are one thing.

But that's what's got me so depressed over the past 5 years or so. It used to be, in the not too distant past, that politicians were embarrassed to be caught in an easily demonstrable lie or stupid gaffe.

These days they just yell "fake news", repeat the lie/gaffe louder and more frequently (which is EXACTLY what the governor is doing on Twitter [1]), perhaps maybe pair it with a catchy slogan, and that seems to be a winning strategy.

1. https://twitter.com/GovParsonMO/status/1448750830857904129
> there are fades in the interface that cannot seem to be disabled. Unjustifiable.

That's an accessibility option. GNOME Settings -> Accessibility -> Enable Animations; or `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false`. Should apply everywhere.
This is a good time to practice buying less stuff.

On the upside you'll also have more money after the logistic issues end!
Wow - that is quite the unabashed Ultima clone right there!
real wages and inflation are not (this is what I said)

Wages follow inflation, of course.
> Europe also suffers from a brain drain to the US (and Canada to a smaller proportion). Many of Europe's best and brightest software engineers have already emigrated to the US, leaving behind the less productive ones.

Of course not, it is just mind numbing regulation coupled with systematic risk aversion. Many SV startups would never have gained traction starting over from Europe, neither financially nor for large-scale deployment authorisation.
I notified the State of Ohio about the unemployment site displaying full blown debug information in error messages (it genuinely errored out on me while doing legit stuff). The amount of information was very interesting and detailed, basically begging a malicious actor to probe further. I sent screenshots and a detailed writeup about what my next moves would be if I were a "hacker" straight to the CISO/CTO and their boss (my info is in that system!). No response...thankfully.
What the... s%&#?

Half a million a year for a developer or architect is bonkers.

That's the equivalent of AUD 800K a year. That's more than what the Prime Minister and a cabinet member put together make here!

How can that possibly make sense? For that kind of money you can easily hire 4 senior developers here! Any company "hiring local" at those prices isn't exploring their international staffing options properly...
what? are you telling me CloudFlare is still not 'profitable' on their earnings today?
> And this is how it should be. Money should not be good store of value in long term.

Other than the last hundred or so years (and a few historical fiat currencies) money has always been a good store of value. Or I should really say ‘specie’ instead of ‘money’.
c) should just pay their taxes.
I use Fedora personally for these exact reasons.
Sounds to me like you were only wrong in hindsight. At the time it was a reasonable decision to pass on GitLab in the circumstances.
How and Why is this a top story?

The only relation I can imagine is that the second most numerous group of neurons, first being the central nervous system, is located in the gastrointestinal tract.
> The universe is a system. We a part of that system. So any traits we have are inherently traits that the universe has

I don't know how you can substantiate this. I am left-handed. My wife is right-handed. These are attributes of us as individuals. What is the handedness of the city we live in? I would reject the question outright since I don't think that traits attributed to parts of a system necessarily can be attributed to the system itself.
Why not HTC Vive though? Better development, better privacy, more game support.
You got it- here you go the entire interaction that led to the game being removed https://imgur.com/a/F9jIsuJ
Why don't you check NetBSD's npf? It's not yet as featured as pf but will be.
And NetBSD is a very stable system.
It does, if you use ZFS, for which there's an option during the install: https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-zfs-snapshots-ubuntu/
Software patents are often used to stifle competition.
The reason attackers buy or compromise existing apps is exactly because they want to sidestep the hurdle of tricking people into downloading their malicious app. Using an existing app gives you access to the existing users.
Photoshop is no longer an industry-standard design tool, at least in digital. Most designers I know and work with use Figma, which is a browser-based collaborative design tool. It also has an unlimited free plan, which is great for students!
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Helpful anecdote, thank you. It sounds like you found the answer to my question to be, "most of them"!