skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The difference is governance and leadership. It’s fundamental and extremely important to not have self serving leadership.

This.

There was a whole book written about it. It is called Why Nations Fail IIRC.

edit: add link

https://www.amazon.com/-/en/dp/B007MIXOEC
Moderating is so hard because there is no objective ground truth about what should or should not belong. Individuals and societies just don't agree. It is a fundamentally different problem than OCR, speech recognition, or even credit scoring.
They're all too small :(
> I once shared this outlook, but when one considers their own ideas about the lifestyle "wealthy" entails, and run some numbers, specifically determine the annual spend for that lifestyle, one will quickly realize the truth.

In other words, at some point you underwent lifestyle inflation and didn't realize it. And now you're unwilling to give it up.

> Of course this depends on location and cost of living. I am referring to someone in the US.

Millions of people raise families on 40k/year in the United States. These are your fellow citizens. Perhaps you can ask them how they do it and whether they are "satisfied" with that level of income and lifestyle.
You might want to peek at NovelAI.net instead.

It's the exact opposite, in just about every possible way. Including, I'm afraid, model generality -- it's tuned for fiction, and nothing else, but it's very good at that.
Great point. Max available freedom has constraints based on your current situation. I'm not in prison but i don't have the freedom to walk on the moon
I’ve been in my current career for seven years and make 44k (52 with benefits accounted), so I am very much an outside observer here.
I think they tried that and it was an expensive disaster.
> “HR says they never seen such high rates”

The company isn't desperate enough! When SHTF, other concerns take precedence. Like if they have a deadline they can't hold, or a problem that has been messed up before.

> so how can you increase your rate as a software engineering contractor?

Increase steadily every year, to select companies that value your rare skillset. If you are asked at inconvenient times, practice surge pricing like Uber. It will also help you realize how acceptable such prices here.

In finance, rates >$1000/hr do exist. If I'm on vacation, there's an automatic multiplier to that, minimum of *2 in the US, more if I'm abroad.

But competent people that deliver on time (and are always available when you need them) are so rare that it isn't much of a problem.

And to protect regular clients from sticker price shock, I have a "full refund no question asked clause". But I can (and will) fire them if I think they abuse it.
7 years to become a millionaire is probably unrealistic for most but this post gives a lot of good advice. If not 7 maybe 14 but that's better than never. It definitely gives a good roadmap to getting to work independence. Definitely worth considering.
So imagine what will happen when Facebook launches its metaverse!
All he said is that some ethnicities are less intelligent than others. What is the statistical likelihood that 100% of ethnicities, which have evolved in drastically different environments across the world, have all developed perfectly identical intelligence on average? It's just not how evolution realistically works. People shouldn't close their eyes to how the world actually is whenever it doesn't match up with how they think it should be.
> androcentric

I suppose you mean _anthropocentric_ (or the anthropic principle).

The prefix andro- refers to men, in the sense of male (adult) humans; anthropo- instead to men in the sense of all humans.
Neither Miranda nor Pidgin has those problems. What made me stop using Pidgin was only that everyone moved to networks not supported by Pidgin.
Stacked diffs in practice were often deployed as a unit at FB, in my experience, with the "Ship stacked diffs" button. There's maybe a little value in merging individual commits in a PR, but I think not a lot: if all the commits aren't in master, the feature doesn't work anyway. Technically you get a little bit of an edge from merging individual commits if earlier ones are acceptable and later ones aren't, in that those commits land in master faster and are less likely to have to deal with merge conflicts later — but in practice I didn't find this to be a dealbreaker. Most PRs weren't enormous, and most files weren't subject to many engineers modifying the exact same lines concurrently, so overall review time didn't usually cause too many conflicts — and conflicts usually weren't hard to solve anyway.
Org-Mode is a great concept but looking at the syntax you can see its age.

I think it would be cool to have a format comparable to Markdown but with support for a JSON-like object notation that supports the linking of any metadata to any part of the text.
That would make it simpler and let users add their own properties which would then be just ignored by other parsers.

The problem with such things is of course that we already have what feels like a hundred different Markdown variants, each one slightly different and incompatible with the others in some way. That is in fact the reason I started using .org in the first place as a Vim user (that and the LaTeX code support).
You can say the opposite as well though. On forums, as you say, “there's an implicit assertion that this thing I'm posting should be interesting to that community,” which is less self-centered. I certainly know that I only post stuff on HN that others would find interesting as well. Compare this to Twitter or a blog where, also as you say, you just say whatever comes into your head which is decidedly more self centered and encourages more navel gazing because rather than take part in a larger conversation you have this digital “space” that’s all yours. I certainly think that encourages a narcissistic self-fascination and preoccupation where you are more sheltered from diverse opinions.
My favorite comment of the day! And I say this as a loving father.
You do not have to learn stuff 'you hate' to be a contractor. And Go is very much in demand. Surely you could be a contractor using Go? I do not see why you have live in a small town either? You could just a well just live 20-40 min outside city center or in a smaller flat.
I've never feared being out in Singapore, even at 4am at night, in any part of the city.

I also never feared police or the state for that matter in Singapore, if I didn't do anything illegal.

I cannot say the same for the USA, where there are "no go" areas in all major cities (and many smaller ones), crime stats are way higher, and an encounter with a cop can turn sour way more easily.

Not to mention I had an accident (in Singapore) and my friend called the ambulance there, and had to spend the night on a hospital, where they did several tests, and the cost was like $100 for first rate care in ultra-modern facilities.
Stop asking about salary history, employers urged
From previous times this has come up, I was led to believe that it's not so much that the maintainers don't want namespaces as it's a thankless and overwhelming task just maintaining the status quo, and so they don't have the time and resources to implement something.

Hopefully this is one of those issues that the Rust Foundation can direct some funding toward as the entire Rust community would be all the better for it.
Why should I pay for this if Automa is free open source and better?

https://github.com/Kholid060/automa
We have those already too ... at least around the west coast. There are plenty of drive-by coffee kiosks that only fit a single employee in the first place. These could never keep up with the foot traffic of a big city corner but I have seen them in lots of places off hwy 1 and 101. Still, if maximum employee occupancy is one then its going to be hard to understaff.
What would be the consequences of dropping MD4 support in wpa-supplicant? Does OpenBSD not work with WPA-PSK at all or is that implemented separately?
Returns for the past decade have been quite good even if you're just investing in a diversified equity portfolio. Drop 10% to 4%, which is the rate that most planners use, and you're down to $40K/year. Which isn't that below median US income but many people working in tech in the US would probably consider it fairly bare bones even for a single person.
> Why do you think that? All the numbers work out. Even in your hypothetical scenario, investing 100k for 7 years, especially in the last 7 years, would easily bring you 1M total investments.

My point was that to show that the only way to get this to work out was to make everything work out perfectly, from getting the authors highest quoted day rate of $1000/day on every single day of every single contract from the start. You’d also have to live an aggressively non-wealthy lifestyle without any room for things like travel, hobbies, or luxuries.

So yes, technically it can work out if the stars align, you can always get those high-paying contracts without fail, and you’re willing to live an aggressively frugal lifestyle taken to an extreme.
>And Belter is meant to be an English-based creole, reflecting the in-book/in-show history of the Belters as the descendants of speakers of several different languages who needed a lingua franca.

Heinlein did something similar with the Luna patois in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

I'm sure it's been done many times, both in literature and in fact.
it's like "light yogurt" where "light" can refer to the colour
Yes, when you dig a bit these kind of posts they usually got extremely lucky by being at the right company at the right time (enter when it's a startup then make $$$ with stock options or RSU when the company IPO or gets acquired) or at some point worked at a big tech with a total comp between 300k or 400k.

There is no "secret" like saving or investing the right way.
Because it reduces the operators of said networks to people who know how to build rust/etc projects from source. That is limiting and off putting.
I don't think you understand the unix philosophy.

If a tool does everything for you from start to finish, it's not following the unix philosophy.

Unix command line tools are basically meant to be like small library functions in an ad-hoc text-based interpreted language.

Commands are supposed to be focused on one specific task.

More complex tasks are supposed to be achieved by orchestrating several commands in the right order.

The interface between commands is a stream of text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

For example, one of the core items in the list:

> Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don't clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don't insist on interactive input.

But as you can see, esbuild is nothing like that. It doesn't expect itself to take input from other programs, nor does it expect its output to be piped to other programs.

Another formulation:

- Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

- Write programs to work together.

- Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

Again, esbuild conforms to none of these points.
>When I lived there a while back the shock to me was the “What nationality are you?” when trying to find a place to rent. Discrimination was commonplace and even explained away by the majority.

So, like the US, but with less hypocrisy about it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#Current_issues
The charitable thing to do would be to read the statement in the context of the paragraph that it is a part of. There is no issue. The rude thing is six comments from different people assuming the author is dumb.
I actually thought this when I was writing the comment. The difference is, you call the manufacturer when you actually need their specific expertise, and when they're your best option. You're not obligated to. They haven't generally purposefully hidden the internals of the machine from you - and most machines are designed to be serviced by end-users.

If every software supplier was like hilti when it came to support, I don't think there would be a problem - except, they aren't. An engineer from microsoft isn't going to turn up at your office if your computer won't switch on.
Thank you. I am glad that you learned something from the article. I wrote the article for people like you, who are seeking knowledge and self improvement.
> In the past decade, the growth in low-code and no-code solutions...

The articles then shows that it is far from a "past decade" thing.

Low-code, no-code, RAD, or whatever you want to call it has always been a thing. Code is an obscure thing to the uninitiated, and it costs a lot of money to hire the initiated. So of course people want to make it more accessible. Today is nothing new, if anything, it tends to go the other way: people are getting more comfortable with code.

And the article explains it very well, in fact, it is one of the best overview I've seen. It takes about Excel, the most successful "low-code" platform, UML, which is mostly a failure, and modern takes like Copilot which offer guidance but do not try to hide the code.

The conclusion however seems to be "I don't know", told in a particularly convoluted way in entire chapters. I think the article would have been better if it didn't try to predict the future.
Seems like the new Classifications feature uses GPT-3 text completion, and their similarity search model under the hood [0]:

"The endpoint first searches over the labeled examples to select the ones most relevant for the particular query. Then, the relevant examples are combined with the query to construct a prompt to produce the final label via the completions endpoint."

As a non-AI person, this sounds interesting. You wouldn't need to provide examples for every label you want, just enough that GPT-3 gets the idea. Is there prior art on this approach of text classification?

[0] https://beta.openai.com/docs/api-reference/classifications
> The underlying asset is not stored on the blockchain and can be deleted at any time.

If the asset is stored on IPFS, as many are, this is simply not true. Even if the asset falls off the network (which the creator, owner, NFT holder, and anyone else can prevent by pinning it themselves) then as long as you have the file(a) and the IPFS software you can put it back at any time, and it’ll have the same URL thanks to content addressability.

I’d certainly agree that any NFT that links to a digital asset in a mutable / non-content addressable way is worthless.
A lie can travel all the way around the world before the truth manages to put on its shoes [1]. The way interactions happen on social media almost guarantees that the medium acts like a mutagen for ideological memes. This could be easily rectified by changing how people interact on platforms like Facebook and Twitter but doing so would reduce their profits so our social fabric will continue to deteriorate and these companies will continue to make billions in profits because any alternative that encourages sane and truthful discourse is less profitable.

1: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
Insecure Direct Object Reference and How to Protect Against It
Go with the career and do your appealing stuff on the side. Transition when the appealing thing makes you as much or more or buys you a better life quality. I mean it sounds great to chase after your hopes and dreams, but the brutal reality of life is, it's not common and only a few are successful.

The one instance I'd like to point out though is the guy who made Dwarf Fortress. He didn't work a corporate job but just earned income off of the game. He didn't start making a reasonable salary until like the 2015's or something I believe. So 10 years of trash almost at poverty line level incomes.

Granted it's a unique case, but it's something to always keep in perspective.
It’s not a common confusion at all though. No one would ever confuse Italian for English because they use the same script. It’s only “common” wrt Arabic script languages.
Maybe exercise some humility instead of jumping to the conclusion that you are right and they are wrong? I'd take the opportunity to seek to understand how someone living in the same world as you, with access to the same facts, and the same mental faculties, how such a person has come to a different conclusion about what does harm.
Should elephants have legal personhood? An upcoming case will decide
Writers seem to want to work themselves into an incautious panic about inflation
For tech people in the US it is also a non-factor. The much greater income allows for buying great insurance coverage.
So,a basic standard web chat spec. I am good with that.

Didn't see anything about WebRTC, so no multimedia? I'm fine with that, too. Basic is good.

Now, I am not up to date with modern chat apps, but I'd imagine most of what is out there has everything in this draft and then some. So, why would anyone commit to the protocol besides nostalgia. Not saying it's bad, just wondering
New AI: Photos Go In, Reality Comes Out [video]
QR codes aren't digital, they're physical. The purpose of a QR code is for physical entities (scanners, cell phone cameras) to be able to read digital information. Compare to an NFT, whose purpose is for digital entities (apps/websites/games) to read digital information.

The goal here is to make your online data portable, so you can take it with you as if you're wearing a backpack. What that looks like in practice is, when you show up to an app/website/game, to tell them the address of your backpack + proof you own it. A QR code could not accomplish this.
Oh, if you find the story of BER hilarious and troubling you should read up on the 2021 vote for federal and local parliaments. Or the civil administration there in general where you have to make an appointment to get your passport renewed months in advance.
When contracting, in addition to self-employment tax, you have to consider risk of not having paid work for a time and other lost benefits like health care. The rule of thumb I've heard is $1 as an employee ~ $1.50 as a contractor.

The trick discussed by the parent pertains to S-corporations, which allow you to take distributions as long as you pay yourself a reasonable salary
"Write JSON strings inside your JSON" is the kind of anti-pattern that software engineers have known about since before the advent of XML.
Okay this is legit the funniest thing I read today on Internet
As opposed to migrant Mexican workers in the US, for example?
The problem is that a lot of organizations see foss as purely a free thing and not an investment. If they put half the money they spent on licensing into paying people to improve the foss packages they use, the ecosystem would transform and everyone would benefit. Massive cost savings overall, and it would push paid software to work harder to compete (who knows, it might even force Microsoft to offer decent privacy policies and remove ads from their manipulative desktop)
This sums up my feelings towards NFTs succinctly. I feel like the vast majority of people are interested in them for the potential financial gainz and not the tech.

Just yesterday I got texted by a non technical friend asking if I knew how to build a minting site. Yes, I'm sure I could figure it out over a weekend but I have absolutely 0 interest in doing that.

Fortunately I feel comfortable enough with my current income and position where I don't feel an urge to waste the brain cycles learning about them.
Because proclaiming oneself 'self made' is immoral. There's no roi on that story anymore. Imo, that's kinda dumb. But, such is the fashion .
The problem is that a transphobe that refuses to acknowledge gender identity can look exactly the same as someone who legitimately does not understand gender identity and wants to know more. The former knows this and will JAQ off.
Yeah I have a strong feeling a lot of those are just bouncers that are running on some old VPS, totally forgotten.

I also think this would have triggered people to think "do I actually still want to be on IRC"? Rather than just idling for years.

However I didn't know it was still only half the size. That is much worse than I expected.

I know some of them have moved to other networks, for example the alpine linux team went to OFTC. So part of it is explained by that. Still a split of the community but OFTC is a very similar type of community.
Sure, but its done on average 9% the last 10 years and if you just invested in an S&p 500 etf you would have made a little over 13%. There are definitely down times but even if you started investing in January 2007 to ensure you caught the worst of the 2008 recession and just kept investing monthly for 7 years, your returns would be on average 12%. Of course all things end but historically and including now it works. Its a safer bet that you will get to a million in the stock market than putting your money in a bank where you are guaranteed to lose money each year with inflation.

Serious question, what's the alternative for a safer investment and having a real retirement? Everything booms and busts and then booms again (mostly).
It took me a full minute to realize this wasn't the Los Angeles Police Department's R&D division
I love this. Bitcoin rising made it so everyone who was defrauded can be paid back. This would not be possible with an inflationary asset.
Ambitious supertall tower turns skyscraper design on its head
Finished goods are where all the money is in capitalism, so why do any of the poor countries that export raw materials not just stop doing that and make finished goods?
Every country is a real Omelas situation—I don't think we're meant to read it and go "man, sucks to have to make that choice," but, "oh, it's an allegory for the society I actually live in".

The entire global economy is one, too, in fact. Not to spoil it, but that's something The Good Place ends up wrestling with by the end.
Ok I'm not crazy
You'll still need the laser emitter. Here I would hope the emitter can be operated in a high-power small-target mode to also obliterate the detected cameras. Extra points if it can do so autonomously - I leave it over the bed, go out for dinner, and come back to a room without any cameras.
The only places I've ever heard of having linux on their computers are tech companies or software devs.
>at this point held more by non-Americans than Americans

I've seldom met Americans who didn't think so, even leftists seem to have this mental wart (well, some of them might think Canada is the apex of civilization). Manifest destiny, and everything.
The first thing to do, IMHO, is to make sure OOO emails are only sent to addresses within your company (at least Outlook has such a setting).

That being the case there is not much to be included, maybe when you'll be back and who to contact if it's urgent but I'm guessing people within your organisation will be able to find who else to contact in any case. The point of the OOO email is then only to let people know that they should not expect a quick reply.
When I was a postdoc at Berkeley we wanted to release some open source code. I talked to the professor, who is a really smart guy. We discussed various licenses and I asked about GPL. He said he had read it and simply couldn't understand what it meant, legally speaking. He read the BSD (both types) license and it made perfect sense (same for Apache and MIT).

After thinking for a while and seeing the battles and their outcomes I have concluded that GPL is in fact a liability, not a license.