skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tripling your salary isn't unheard of. It's pretty common to start at $50k, then $100k the next job, and end up somewhere for $200k.
I would posit that most of your points are relevant for the economy as a whole, but you are missing inflation, which is probably the 2nd or 3rd most important factor for the economy as a whole (after your number 2 and your first number 3), but the single most important factor for tech workers, who are seeing huge comp increases due to stock packages in an M2 fueled bull market. That, and remote working trends, as you mentioned.

When you can get a 30% raise at a new job and there is too much psychological resistance for companies to give those raises internally, high turnover is inevitable.
It's not like covid is going to slowdown for unvaccinated so that percent will end up being amended to be .02 percent per week or day
> It was a super cool company up until about 20 years ago when Bane took over as CEO.

Your experience is the opposite of mine working for the company. Many of the most kind and competent managers I've had were from there.

But... I left the company 15+ years ago so things might have changed a lot since then. I will say that the stores were run pretty independantly back then so I wouldn't be surprised if experiences varied quite a bit.
What's different is the enforcement of punishments.

quote from https://saputo.law/criminal-law/texas/theft-crimes/theft/:

* Theft under $100 is a Class C Misdemeanor (punishable by a fine up to $500).

* Theft between $100 and $750 is a Class B Misdemeanor (punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2000 fine).
If the value of the stolen property is under $100, it is still a Class B Misdemeanor theft if you have been previously convicted of theft of if the property stolen was an identification card like a driver’s license.

* Theft between $750 and $2,500 is a Class A Misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a $4000 fine.

In California, you are not likely to see any jail time (and often you will not see any prosecution at all) for the same crime that will be prosecuted in Texas. It's not about felonies per se, but the general attitude towards punishing crime.
I feel like im reading my own thoughts. The thing that got me into work was the people not the product. I also worked in ads.
Speaking of Hackintosh, with the transition to M1, does this have an impact on that? At some point Apple just drops all x86 support from the kernel after 5ish years, right? Surely no x86 chip will be able to run it then so unless someone spends the time porting it to generic ARM laptop/desktop CPUs (which AFAICT are not on any near time horizon in that space)…
> G/O was formed in April 2019 when Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm, purchased the websites from Univision for $20.6 million.

Is it just me or is that a shockingly low amount for those websites?
> it just goes against the normal intuition.

To me it's perfectly intuitive.

However, the other example he gave blew me away:

return if cond { ... } else { ... }

The compiler evaluating both results and chosing the right one using a cmov, rather than using a branch to evaluate just one result. My how times have changed.
What evidence is there that a general consensus on a thesis indicates that it is necessarily true? Is it rational simply to accept a consensus, effectively taking something on faith?
Higher wages. I worked for a Fortune 500 company and got a 85% raise by leaving.
The my-team/your-team nature of this whole fiasco is astounding. D/R lawmakers are heading together to lobbyist dinners, and they are leaving us with the 3degree warming check.
Yet properly run clinical trials trump anecdote no matter how large the sample size is. What is the relevant mode of action to explain any success? Humans have the channel being inhibited by ivermectin as virii have no channels. Hence one of the problems with overdoses.
Jack Dorsey says ‘hyperinflation’ will happen soon in the U.S. and the world
Admirable, and about 40years too late
The 'reclaim' phenomenon is fascinating. I presume all politicians do this, well, all who have staff sophisticated enough to grok SEO and respond within a few days to unfavourable trending topics.

Would be interested to know other examples of prominent politicians doing this. I'm pretty sure I recall a British politician doing this a year or two ago. I can't remember exactly who it was or what it was about, but I recall it seemed very obvious what was going on - moreso than this Biden/Brandon instance.
There is nothing well-intentioned about NIMBYism. While all this culture war keeps us busy, cars and short buildings laugh at us.
quinine, chicle, eucalyptus...
Yeah, that's a problem.

To the person who downvoted me: I'd like to hear some arguments. Perhaps you don't need to. But that's irrelevant -- the world at large does. That's the main point of the post, too.
I try to be very explicit about it. People are afraid for various reasons, either of asking or saying. Consequences are: no idea of home economics (my mother didn't tell me anything about our finances, which weren't bad) and no idea how someone should be marketed.
People also choose the job based uniquely on what they like to do most of the times, which is terrible. You can compromise between something you like and something you make good money with, which ends uo with a great rewarding life both personal and professional.
A lot of the time when they found the company I find the CEO knows a lot about it
If you have subject mastery often you aren’t allowed to talk it because you might get fired or make your company look bad
> For almost a year now, my own build using AMD 5900X running on ASRock X570 ITX board had sleep disabled

My m1 macbook air cannot go to deep sleep either. Whenever battery deeps to 0% it crashes. It's been supremely annoying and haven't found a way to solve it yet
It's not really about the cost. It's about the principle of having to pay any amount of money to be able to do development work at all with your preferred choice of OS/editor.

Attaching a price to your ability to onboard a language with your favorite workflow changes how you view that language and the motives of its maintainers when compared to the alternatives for that platform. Java has no such barrier to adoption on Linux, for example, because IntelliJ happens to have a community edition.
tl;dr you can drop power consumption to between 80-100 mA at idle if you don't need to use HDMI. And like 75-80 mA if you also disable WiFi/BT completely, as well as the tiny onboard power/activity LED.

But honestly, if you're going to that length and really need good battery life, maybe consider a fast microcontroller ;)
No, people are concerned when 'kids' call out an innocent action (a glance, let's say) from a teacher a 'microaggression' and have their parents call in and threaten them.

There are countless examples of this kind of behaviour across all of society now. Writing this off with a racist strawman argument that you just invented sounds like a bad faith response to me. Which honestly is one of the tactics (purposefully taking the least generous interpretation) that is so popular among the silence-is-violence crowd.
> You can be “not sold” on getting a booster all you want, but give it a few months and for employment/entertainment/etc venues you will be considered unvaccinated, period.

For what it's worth, in NYC right now indoor dining, gyms, government jobs, etc don't even require two vaccine doses, only one.
Standing Up a Blog with Hugo
The power circuit in the Pi isn't super-efficient.
If you're looking for one? 100%.
A Covid pass protest sparked a debate in Italy on its fascist past
Here are some links:

https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-crime-armed-robbery-sf-da...

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/woman-robbed-at-gunpoint...

https://www.ktvu.com/video/643073

https://sfist.com/2021/07/11/66-year-old-san-francisco-resid...
Frankly I'll believe it when I see it, commercialization that is.
An article about homelessness by someone who was homeless
On the topic of sex hazard, while lying on a metal table under a encroaching laser beam, Bond almost had a vasectomy.
Probably nothing that can be sold in the EU or North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall
As I understand the shipping fee from China to the US is very expensive right now, so ships don't want to wait for ports to load empty containers on. They turn around ASAP to catch another shipment from China, leaving all these empty containers at destination ports.
I can see many incompetent/below average tech workers being replaced with offshore workers (e.g. India and Phillipines) once international travel is permitted again.

COVID in countries that supply most of the offshoring has been devastating. Many people from India and Philippines resigning from their roles to move to Western nations to live a better life.
Live in Vancouver and don't we spend around 360 million a year on the DTES?
Get a vaccine jackass.
I like the idea of globally phasing out fossil fuels for synthetic fuels made from carbon capture (possibly with biomass components if required).

Gas cars might be less efficient than electric, as expected of any kind of shim or polyfill, but they would be good enough that we wouldn't need to incentivize people to ditch their current vehicles.

Perhaps more importantly, it would fill a big gap in our planning for the future. Rather than banking on the ability to massively scale up lithium mining, we build renewable power plants in proximity to natural gas plants and hook up carbon capture systems to those plants. Boom, now they're just overly complicated batteries, and therefore part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Consider them technical debt; at least people get to keep their jobs for a while longer and modernizing of the grid progresses more quickly.
Raspberry Pi X-ray tool
This was the case before the pandemic.
Yes. Global store with subscriptions. I barely know react, but I knocked one together in half an hour.

https://codepen.io/tomtheisen/pen/NWvdXyJ

I already like it better than hooks. Everything's out in the open. No magic or hidden dependencies.
There’s footage of people crossing the southern borders in Nimroz but that would mean they’d have to get to Nimroz first
So that appears to imply that in largely more wealthy cities are sending homeless people to less expensive cities and SF has an active program which is doing this too.
They don’t get paid if they are waiting too so it makes the job even less lucrative
Most homemade Chai tea recipes I'm familiar with tend to drop a cinnamon stick into the pot to infuse, rather than dissolving ground cinnamon into it. I'm not sure how much realistically leeches out when you drop a stick in, but I'd assume less than a "dissolved" teaspoon (which rarely actually "dissolves", in my experience--usually it just floats on top of the liquid).
You can trace a lot of these problems to their bone-headed decision about a decade ago where they refused to see where things were going and kept rationalizing not moving to 64-bits.

I have some moderately sized solutions that take forever to open and chug to a halt and start paging like crazy with unresponsive UI if I don't disable all the code inspections and Intellisense. This is on a brand-new i7 with 32GB of RAM and a NVME SSD. It pegs itself at that 32-bit process memory limit and thrashes. It's worse if it is a modern web app with a bunch of JS involved.

And so I've used Rider almost exclusively for the past fifteen months or so...
I guess this shows the magnitude of the poaching problem…. The selection pressure from poaching >> the loss of viable male offspring (for overall population success). Half of the males still make it through and no amount of elephant testosterone is effective vs poachers.
There is no money laundering unless there is proof that a crime was committed that generated the money in question, since money laundering means "disguising the origins of the proceeds of crime". Often times the law enforcement agencies claim money laundering was uncovered, but do so in cases where there is no proof that an underlying crime was committed. Because their definition of 'money laundering' is evading financial surveillance controls, not actual money laundering.

So you get statistics being trotted out in the media like "HSBC found to launder $5 billion in criminal funds", when in fact, it's just suspected money laundering, without a criminal conviction for a crime that generated the $5 billion, and a criminal forfeiture to go along with it.

What's behind this propaganda is the economic incentives of those who work in the "AML" industry:

https://www.effectiveaml.org/the-biggest-problem-with-aml/
As far as I am aware there is zero accusation that Wikileaks have not published absolutely everything that has been submitted to them regardless of who it helps or hinders.

You can't publish what nobody has leaked to you. They don't investigate, they don't hack phones, they don't "go looking" they sit and wait with their secure drop boxes for someone to send them documents. They then try to verify them and publish them.

There is also zero accusation that I have ever seen that they've published anything forged. Which is remarkable given how controversial they are and how many people are desperate to make something stick.

Is it reasonable that these things are rarely at the top of the list of facts in this discussion of wikileaks good or bad? Is it reasonable to ask why the "Why don't you leak on Putin" comes up so often when its such obvious garbage for a publisher? [1]

[1] If wikileaks had not published something that makes Putin or Hilary or Donald or whoever you think they're in league with look bad when it was clear that it was leaked to them that's a very serious charge and one we would all take notice of. I'm pretty sure I'd cross the road to avoid Assange as a person myself. I don't know if I'd consider him worse than George Bush Jnr, the late Colin Powell, Hilary, Donald, Blair. Do you really /like/ these people more than Assange after what they have done? It's not necessary to like Assange to take an interest in the story and the evidence. And fwiw I don't particularly /like/ him at all.
No permanent address is self reported. In general those who aren't employable are unreliable for self-assessments as to why (although I don't doubt the lack of address is a hinderance -- for sure it would be).

Similarly, lost job tells us little about the bigger picture. What led to them being a lost job away from being homeless? Was it living beyond their means? No family? No friends willing to take them in? Being raised poor with no social net and working jobs making no money?

You have to really do a deep analysis to get in deeper to understand how people ended up in the situation they did, what roads they could have taken but didn't, what are societal ills that brought them there, and thus what to ultimately do about any of it.

Given the amount of money ($1B+) SF spends on homeless yearly, personally I wish we could find a way to use that to actually do something WPA style and employ them to do various jobs to actually improve things (and hopefully their life as well) versus just continue to maintain status quo.
No, I sure haven't. But come on now: Manhattan! What do you expect?
You would think That’s a lot to consume until you find that something like this exists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_challenge
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.md/BI7Zi
The article is scant on details but from the description and the “shadow exchange” nomenclature it sounds awful like they’re uncovered a hawala exchange. It’s a system as old as money transfer.

Obligatory wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
Computer
I WISH TO KNOW THOROUGHLY ABOUT THE DESKTOP COMPUTER
It would be catastrophic if it was the case
Yes, there are some companies who have changed to fully remote and now hiring people from anywhere. There isn't enough of these companies to make even a small blip in the global job market.

The vast, vast majority of companies are still hiring people locally.
One word: Work Visas and Residency Permits.
Check your entitlement. The belief on the part of USians that "the customer is always right" is the reason nobody wants to work in retail any longer.

That florist doesn't owe you a smile or pleasantries. He has as much of a right to his emotions as you do.
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The cynical side of me thinks that the move to embracing "the personal is political" is mostly about making any transgressions widely visible. That makes it that much better for the claiming of victimhood and the ensuing backlash to the perpetrator.
They know, thanks to NSA, but don't want to reveal that in court.
And you can't just diagnose them then go visit them? Help them with meds etc?
Almost everyone thinks about their jobs in terms of the people they work with, what that get paid for and sometimes the bigger purpose of their endeavor. Purpose was up until now not the biggest reason. But somehow in the pandemic it's importance in the average employee's mind has grown. Don't know why but I have seen people make career changes. Perhaps it is due to lack of working with people you liked (since everyone is remote).
Yes, hope and purpose are important. I like existentialism and cling hard to thought of being able to define that belief system myself and what purpose I have from it. That said as of late, after years I seem to be going through a bit of a dark night of the soul with that chosen system, to borrow more from religious terminology.

I guess one of the downsides of forming my own belief system versus religion is it's bedrock is just a wee bit younger and potentially less well formed as I've been learning. Back to the drawing board :P
If a single extra trip is lucrative enough and at current rates it’s 5-10 regular prices that would make sense to forgo loading in the us and just hurry home
I tend to ask myself "will this enrich my life, or if I die doing it, would I feel really dumb?" Without regard to quantifying risks or benefits precisely.

If I was at the proverbial gates of heaven talking to St. Peter, I would want to be able to say I wasn't grossly negligent in whatever sent me there. Meaning I took, not the optimal, but the customary precautions.

I'm not sure that I truly understand the concept of comparing risks and benefits. If I do something risky, that's an abstract concept. In fact, either I die or I don't. If I don't, of course it was worth it. But how does that show the benefit was greater than the risk? Any risk that doesn't happen feels the same as any other.

I have gone skydiving, and at the time, it seemed like an experience worth having. After the second time, it didn't any more. Part of the thrill, I guess, is the proximity to death if you don't perform the right actions at the right time, and I tend to screw up under pressure.

I was conditioned early to always wear my seatbelt in a personal vehicle, but I don't think there is logic to it when I start comparing it to other risks.

As a child I didn't wear a belt on the school bus, because nobody else did (or there weren't any). I think I've ridden on city buses that didn't have any, but I also have the impression that accident rates are really low for various reasons. As a freshman in college, I rode in the bed of a pickup truck, even though I was uncomfortable doing it. I prefer to be secure, but peer pressure could override that.

When I'm on an airplane, I buckle my belt as instructed, but I think the decrease in risk is probably not logical justification, as the risk is already so low.

And I have sometimes ridden motorcycles, so if that's a reasonable thing to do, then why not go unbelted in a car, if you like? I mean, except for, say, being ticketed. Do 3-wheeled vehicles that legally count as motorcycles have belts? I think I've read about airbag devices for motorcycles, which are interesting, but I don't really think they should be mandated and universal like with cars.

I would very much like consistency and simplicity in rules in a particular area (like the pandemic), rather than continual murky arguments over what is optimal.

I think it's ok to compartmentalize and not try to reconcile with all our other activities.

Standing six feet apart and wearing masks in buildings open to the public is simple enough, but it's become complicated over time.

Where I live, most businesses seem to have their employees wearing masks, but the customers generally aren't. I too, am required to wear a mask at work. I dislike spending thought on what arbitrary thing to do in daily life.

Simple rules that lead to a harmonious daily life are better than obsessing over what is perfect or optimal. That is my belief.
Hoping not to flame or anything, but personally the point of my religion (orthodoxy) is to be correct and to provide an understanding of reality. Morality and coordination stem from that for sure, but they aden't the purpose per se.
Buttigieg is broadly responsible for this sector on a national federal level.

My question is if anyone is specifically working to solve the current acute port clogging situation, ideally someone who has authority to implement solutions.
Ignoring the specifics in this case, I'm in favour of the govt requiring that the degrees available are viable for career progression. Speaking as someone from Australia, I see too many universities offering degrees that the target industries don't actually value as a credential, or the university itself has no post-grad academic path. If the degree can't lead to anything it shouldn't exist imo.

Many industries don't actually require a degree, just that you can "do the thing", and you're much better off doing a shorter course at some private outfit (provided it's actually good), or just skilling up online.

A big example that comes to mind is game dev, which is a borderline scam at uni. You're much better off doing comp sci or software eng, and then building a port folio in your own time then taking any course with "game" in the title.

An even bigger example is game design, which should be considered a senior role and not really a position where a path exists directly from any course.
If you're gonna have giant balls in the movie, you have to do it right.
I would agree with your first line especially - learned that very valuable reason after a few teams imploded (and a lot of my work-friends left for understandable reasons). Very easy to get lonely/depressed very quickly if enough people leave at once.

Would also second your advice to connect with people via hobbies you already have. Even if it's something like niche digital art, creative groups, volunteer services even.
>petty theft

That doesn't happen in most of the rest of the country. Sure you can load up the circuit court sites and find it but effectively you don't even need to lock anything
> It's about the principle of having to pay any amount of money to be able to do development work at all with your preferred choice of OS/editor.

Are you paid for your work? Why shouldn't the developers of development tools be?
Yeah but the ship operators don’t pay for this so everyone is optimized for personal profit not system efficiency
Ah yes, that was it.
Boris Johnson: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-model-google-n...
What is a good source on it that is not written by a bourgeoisie economist or other agent of the wealthy?
> waging
There's nothing wrong with pushing back, though.
Second that EconTalk episode. Alternatively recent Atlantic article that
is adapted from his book the least of us https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/the-new...
I just quit my job to find something more interesting to do.

From my experience, this is the first time since the virus-drama started that I felt safe enough to take the step.

But I was unemployed when it hit the fan, and the first year was really tough since it was pretty much impossible to find jobs around here.