skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The sole reason USA leapfrogged the rest of the developed world economically after WW2 was because they didn't have to rebuild everything from scratch.

Nah, you need to read/watch Secret History of Silicon Valley to understand this is false. https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

Obviously, not having to rebuild your country helps. But thinking this is the only or even main reason is very shortsighted, IMO.
Thanks! I was looking for a book like this and for some reason this one eluded my searches.
If you're inside the US, just apply to any private unicorn or public tech company (the ones that get media coverage). Anecdotally, roughly 50% of them are now cool with full remote and virtually all will pay 250k or more in total comp.

If you're outside the US, forget about salaried roles. I've found that a vast majority of companies mentioned above will have blanket policies against hiring non-US workers (most HR departments are still living in the past and don't know services like Pilot, Deel, Remote.com, etc exist).

Also, there's virtually zero non-American companies that pay those kind of salaries--save for a few select places like Singapore, Zurich (and funny enough, its also the American companies in those cities that pay the highest).

Contracting for sleepy European big companies is probably your best option if outside the US. In most European countries, there's insane cost benefits to having contractors vs. employees due to the social welfare systems and impossibility of firing an employee. So contractor rates can match US ones.

For all the talk about COVID unlocking the global marketplace of talent, I don't see any evidence of that happening yet.

Covid has eliminated geographic barriers to talent within countries, but the barriers between countries are still too scary for risk-averse, late-adopting HR/Compliance/Legal types to deal with.

Give it another 5 years before the FUD clears.
I never got the love for Pompidou. In my opinion it’s an eyesore in a way that can’t be justified by somehow being practical. Living in the neighborhood for a couple of years did not change that impression.

Not to cast shade on the architect(s); I understand these things are subjective.
Not a lawyer, but I would say no. Being aware of your legal obligations is part of cost of doing business. Expecting company to follow law isn't anything special. Just because in past they have been unethical and not spend money to follow them doesn't mean when they hear about it and spend money the person they heard about it from has to pay. That would be insane. They have been bad people by not following the laws or being aware. Now they are aware of them. In no way is him responsible for these idiots legal cost. Specially when they should have already paid them before.
> Who is inconvenienced?

Vaccinated people. I feel like you aren't following the debate.

> And should I feel 'inconvenienced' by those going to hospital because of vaccine adverse events?

No, why would you?

> Wouldn't want to inconvenience you with lockdowns now would we! How frustrating! Better let you out so you can go give some unvaccinated people covid instead hmm? Sorry for the snark but what a selfish attitude.

Yeah if you think "you better stay inside so I don't get COVID because I don't want to get vaccinated" is a reasonable stance, this won't go anywhere.

I even completely fail to fathom how "you should limit your own liberty to protect me from my choices" is remotely acceptable, let alone thinking that somebody not doing that is selfish.

You can either get vaccinated and go out, or not get vaccinated and stay in. How is it at all reasonable to tell me what to do because you don't want to get vaccinated? You're basically saying "everybody else needs to stop driving because I like walking in the street instead of the sidewalk, how selfish of you to still want to drive!".
> In a very real sense, every landing page A/B test is nonconsensual interactive research.

I think the difference here is that the user requests a page with a web browser (which could be argued as giving consent to view the contents) while the person that received this email didn't request the experimental email (and therefore didn't consent to the experiment).
indeed.

> If they don't have an FPGA engineer, or have a very small team, they are not serious about finance, or they are just dumb.

are FPGAs that core to Finance writ large?
While true, it is often ignored that combined EU does possess a huge, highly advanced and well trained military force.

So more than that I'd hope EU can then put its squabbling aside and respong in unison to any military provocation as well.
I think there is something we can glean from what happened with the millions of land mines after conflicts, they were just left there to continue to destroy human lives for decades (probably they can last about a hundred years and still trigger).

Robots that are solar powered and off in remote parts of the world may continue to destroy people when their nation-state owners are gone because of the last MAD command they get.
What I was trying to say is that even for a technical audience having to log in on Github is an obstacle and will reduce the number of reported bugs.
Honestly, I find that unacceptable. It's National Geographic. Could at least have some higher standards considering the above average audience.

It's not technical lingo using the actually correct wording for the effects of the expanding universe. Galaxies do not fly apart, the space in between grows. The difference is significant, even though the observer wouldn't notice any.

I know it seems like a non-issue, but in the end it's misleading all the people who would blindly believe NG to be accurate.
How does this compare to codeweavers crossover which is also a GUI for wine that uses the term 'bottles'?
I said 2 weeks vacation to make the math simple.

I actually get six weeks vacation at my full time US job and I use part of that to work in my part time consulting job.
What makes you think you're worth anything anywhere near that?
There is no downside as long as the apps are not malicious.
I think the right response to these provocations is to assist Taiwan in protecting itself. Essentially we should reverse the betrayal of Taiwan by Nixon in 1972, when he withdrew the US nuclear presence there. This time, to protect from changing political winds, the nukes should be under the control of Taiwan.

Nothing much else will deter China.
I found playing with ws2811 lights fun with an FPGA. I created a little double buffer in BRAM and was going to build an SPI interface to drive them via a Pi, which I need to get round to.
Hope this Russian-Ukraine tensions, also China-Taiwan tensions will open eyes of western world like it happened with Europe during WWII.

Collapse of Soviet Union influenced western world badly. They relaxed and eased requirements whom to work with.

We need at least to introduce tyranny tax, same as carbon tax. That will give a good boost of local economies also gives a proper signal to the entire world.
These businesses should have been aware of this already. It is their own fault for not being aware of their status and preparing for it. In no way anyone but they are to blame in this case.
Well, that article isn't helpful by itself, but there's tons of words I can google for better information and tutorials.

Thanks!
Facebook’s success and ubiquity is what makes it worse than other companies that trade in attention and data.

It’s not a moral panic, the people who run facebook have provably done terrible things. Would other people in their position do those things? Some would, some wouldn’t. There are people who do the right thing, even when it means their company losing a few bucks.

It is our responsibility to speak out against terrible companies like facebook. And if you, like me, work in tech, it is your job to not do terrible things.

If it’s not our responsibility, then it’s no one’s — and if you believe that, you believe in nothing.
I don’t think I ever heard anything positive about the TPP. NZ hated it because it was being pushed through the government and no one was allowed to read it. When questioned if we could change the Terms or cancel in the future if it turned out bad for us we could not get an answer. No one in nz wanted the TPP.

It’s the only good thing trump did IMO. As a kiwi.
This turns gigabytes per hour of logs to hundreds of terabytes per hour during normal operation, in many cases it's an inferior solution for problems which pop up in a fraction of infrastructure several times a month.
Did Lithuania detain Chinese citizens/diplomats first? I can understand their need to evacuate if they did.
Really I have the nginx logs going to the disk so that I can have prometheus-nginx scrape them for referer patterns (it getting above a certain threshold for a given referer is how I know when my article got posted somewhere), status code rates and overall to make sure that the core functions of the site (such as the RSS feed) are working like I expect. I could probably change it to write the logs to a unix fifo instead of a unix file, but I actually do end up going back to look at the logs for things like people attempting to exploit my code so I can harden my site appropriately.
Thinking is a form of feeling. The difference is that feeling, comes from a lower level part of the brain, the same one responsible for other "automatic" processes like heartbeat and breathing.

Feeling is more superior, as it can shut down thinking when the available power/energy is limited, or the situation calls for a faster, automated response e.g. hands accidentally touch a hot stove... you really do not want to think about about whether or not to move them, you just will.

Thinking is superior in all other situations.
Here are Ohio's monthly deaths for 2021 [1]. For December I took the deaths from the first through the 18th and extrapolated linearly.

Jan 3611
Feb 1324
Mar 584
Apr 558
May 454
Jun 227
Jul 165
Aug 736
Sep 2174
Oct 2341
Nov 1009
Dec 1752

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states&...
CppCon 2021: “GraphBLAS: Building a C++ Matrix Library for Graph Algorithms”
I was glad to help. At the time I didn't have a reason or time to go through it comprehensively but it seemed digestible and informative. Perhaps the only problem for me was that lots of these topics are completely new in my small post-Communist country so lots of exotic types of auctions are unrelatable for me but that's clearly not the book's problem but rather mine.
Yes, but being shot was not the fate of a typical dissident under late socialism. Gentler states like that of Hungary also managed to suppress dissident and not with bullets. More typical is the following:

>Konrád lost his job by order of the political police in July 1973. For half a year he worked as a nurse's aide at the work-therapy-based mental institution at Doba.
> Combined EU has the largest economy in the world

Unfortunately (?) not. By nominal GDP the US is the largest. By PPP-adjusted GDP China comes first.

> So if EU got its shit together and formulated a coherent unified foreign policy - it would be at the very least on equal terms with both US and China.

On approximately equal terms, yes, probably.
Basic economics:

"Market rate" is what clears the market - no extra supply or demand.

If you have vacancies at your asking price, you are below the market rate.
> In my experience you shouldn't need to do this. In fact, I suspect doing this creates both a taxation and legal nightmare.

Have worked with both arrangements. Much easier to deal with a US based LLC than anything that is managing payroll. For the contractor the LLC arrangement may end up being better, too because at least in the US corporations pay tax in arrears, and individuals have money withheld in advance.

> Except then you create legal issues, since there are likely legal issues with a company you run hiring another company you run.

For a simple business, this is actually simple (at least the US part of it). Revenue - Cost yields a very modest profit in the US so there's probably not going to be a lot of tax liability. Not sure what the nightmare is. For the group I used, their books were super simple in the US, and equally simple at home.
I'm "this other guy" you reference above. For what it's worth, even if he were working only 2 jobs rather than 3, that would have still broken our ability to trust him with any meaningful work. From an HR perspective, if someone lies about having a 2nd job, what else are the capable of lying about?

> It is not wrong to work two jobs.

2 jobs vs. 3 jobs doesn't make much of a difference. It is wrong to work 2 jobs if you explicitly tell each company that you are their sole employer.

The thing I don't understand is if someone really wants to work 2 or 3 jobs... why not do it by looking for 1099 contract work rather than chasing W2 roles?
I worked in financial trading for a few years in the 1990s. It was the same deal then: pay was great, industry was a boys club run by assholes, work environment was toxic. After a few years I was very much burnt out and had to change careers from sysadmin work to software development as my internal reaction to being asked to do sysadmin had become waves of nausea and hostility. Took me years to get over it.

So if you are tempted to do financial industry work, make sure to price in the risk of lost work time, years of therapy, etc. It was a fascinating experience and I learned a ton, but financially it was not a net win for me in the long term.
Ruby gems Pull Request – Add cargo builder for rust extensions
China would hurt a lot more
wow that is a really interesting investment vehicle. provided your descendants don't mess up and sell the land
And, the researchers shouldn’t have phrased things like an arse, just to increase their response rate!
> any private unicorn or public tech company (the ones that get media coverage)

Can you give some example companies?
The Flying Tigers: How a Group of Americans Ended Up Fighting for China in WW II
5min searching for sources ... Might be a mixup with sonic weapons. "An employee at the U.S. Embassy in Guangzhou, China, allegedly suffered mild traumatic brain injury after hearing a vague and abnormal sound" https://www.theepochtimes.com/with-sonic-weapon-attack-china...
To be clear, the vaccine mandates for healthcare staff had little to no impact on actual care. Very few professionals were unvaxxed and even fewer left/were dismissed as a result of not vaxxing (i.e. they got vaxxed). The staffing is low because providers are leaving or have left the field due to horrid conditions. However, the real issue here is that the bed count didn’t go down just because there was no one to cover… Hospitals in many places are simply being inundated with patients (mostly unvaxxed).
If you spend more time at something doomed to fail, is that better or worse?
It doesn't really matter what the offense is, but if the CCP feels offended, say bye bye.
> Removing insulation from a live phone wire with my teeth (I had decided to put an extension in my room without asking for help...) was one of mine, that definitely made me more careful. Went just fine until I closed the circuit with my tongue by accident

I read this and thought "so what?".

> just as someone called.

Ahh there it is. Yep, that is indeed not pleasant.
Tell that to thousands of existing libraries.
How specifically would a Chinese person report taboo speech of another Chinese national from abroad? Is there a hotline or a website or something? Or do you just call any government agency and tell them you want to report bad speech by someone abroad? This seems like something that the US and other countries should be legislating against, instead of leaving it up to schools to deal with.
China can get away with their diplomatic isolation of Taiwan due to the large economic power imbalance between the two.

We never saw this with North /South Korea, nor West/East Germany. Countries recognized both as sovereign. There was no "Korean Seoul" or "German Bonn" competing at the Olympics, etc.

If anything, West Germany or South Korea could've done what China is doing now but they chose not to.
China has only two levers to pull from to distract its citizens from the rampant domestic issues (e.g. inflation, supply chain scarcity, astronomical energy prices, food scarcity): pandemic or Taiwan.

You this play out in the west too.

The best way to get people to shut up about energy and food prices, is to lock them down because X new variant is out and super scary.

It's basically Europe in a nut shell. Energy prices have generally 10Xed from last year and there is no chance the EU would admit that its failed energy policy has caused this, so lock down it is. Omicron variant! If you go outside you're a Trump-voting anti-vaxxer so stay inside. The problems are caused by the pandemic, not by incompetent leadership!

China at least has the benefit of two levers and is smart enough to realize that the pandemic lever is massively destructive, while the Taiwan one can be tugged at productively. Of course if they pull it all the way down, it's a huge gamble that either cements China for the next 50 years, or wipes out the last 50 years of progress.
> Repressed emotions meant people at least tried to repress their worst,

It means that people act irritated and have angry outburst at moments unrelated to original source of issue. It means acting cold toward closed ones and children in particular. It means that blame gets placed pretty much randomly, at whoever is around and weak. It also means more of rationalizing of bad behavior and less empathy towards others.

Repressed emotion dont mean better behavior.
This is true in the Midwest.

I’m seeing two strategies that are friends are using to get to $250k+ right now and much more…

1. Several have left for left/right coast former startups companies that are publicly traded. Their base comp is $160-180k but they are also receiving a large pool of equity that vests in tranches of $75-100k a year.

2. With everything being remote, several senior engineer friends are working two jobs at the same time. Some are telling their employers and others are not.

Companies are desperate for senior engineers and many are unable to compete with the “we’re remote, have free beer and no vacation policy.”
You are wrong, and I fear the only way you and others like you will learn is if you personally receive an email from an attorney, tell them you’re going to ignore it because you didn’t get the notice via the post, and suffer adverse consequences.

I don’t know where you “learned” this false information, but I would recommend going to whatever authority figures are spouting this nonsense and correcting them.
No I've had this nick and various variations on it since I was a teenager on LambdaMOO in the early 90s, and I don't think I was conscious of Commander Pike.
Work in a more of a niche. Development in of itself is not a niche, and web development is but doesn’t pay as much freelance.

Setting up and configuring and managing firewalls and automation around them? $200+/hr. Setting up CI/CD pipelines, build processes, automated notifications, vulnerability scanning, and logging? $200+/hr.
> China, unlike any of the Western nations, WILL take a stand on their principles over profit

Surely that's a joke, right? China, which still has the audacity to call itself a "Communist" nation, which is basically much closer to a Fascist system, with their authoritarian and state-directed control of capitalism?

China has one primary governing principle, which is to keep the CCP in power. Their primary way of doing that has been ensuring that bargain of "we get 8-10% annual growth, the populace is happy enough not to revolt", but they've also been phenomenally successful in using the Internet to stoke nationalism and Xi's personality cult.
It's not at all demanding on my RTX2060 but I'm only doing 1080p 60fps - don't know how other cards/resolutions/framerates compare.
Same here on Airtel, India - blocked.
You might be content with living like a pre-industrial peasant but how many other Americans or Europeans would be? I would wager very few. People care about their own immediate needs (or what they perceive to be their immediate needs) first and things like China, HK, Taiwan do not even register in their minds. I would bet that most Americans would rather live in a vassal nation than to not have any of the convinces of modern day living, and I quite frankly, would also. When gas gets over 4 dollars a gallon, people get mad. When lumber prices jump by 25%, people get mad. When steel prices jump by 10%, people get mad. How do you think people would react if the next iPhone cost 5k or the BigMac cost 10$, they would vote out the current government and replace them with a new one.

I think you are being a bit too idealistic and have quite honestly drank the Kool-Aid and forgot about the original purpose of why America dislikes China. They are a rising power seeking to disrupt the current one. Good playing American jobs have been cut and Chinese jobs have sprang up in their place. People who had those jobs are now experiencing a reduced quality of life.
If I found out about it, yes, he'd be gone immediately even if he were our #1 engineer.

It's impossible to trust someone with AWS production keys and access to customer data when they lie to you about something as simple as who they work for. People secretly working multiple jobs are looking for an easy way to make a lot of money. If it's within their ability to secretly work 2 jobs, is it also in their ability to download proprietary company info and sell it to a competitor?
It goes by a lot of names (sales consulting, solution engineering, sales engineering, etc) but sales engineer is probably the best literal descriptor: basically your job is to go to prospective customers and engage their engineers/architects and work with them to solve their problems using your company’s software or techniques. If you do a good job, the prospect signs up and you make a commission. Engagements vary- you might just be presenting slides, or you may be writing code to implement proofs of concept. Usually report to sales, which can be good or bad depending on sales culture at your company.

It can be a lot of pressure since it is a customer facing role and requires being able to solve technical problems on your feet (not unlike a whiteboard interview at times). Requires you to learn quickly (may have to consult on software that hasn’t been released yet and has no documentation, better be good at reading code and asking questions). Also often requires a lot of travel, hence remote okay.

If you’re a sociable engineer who likes variety and to travel, it’s definitely a good role to check out. If you meet your commission targets you will probably make significantly more than you would in a strictly salaried engineering role. Can be really flexible since work is largely driven by customer demand, just be prepared for some really intense weeks and late nights preparing for critical engagements.
I was going to point to the WineHQ AppDB also but the person most active in updating the Fusion360 entry seems to be working on this. https://github.com/cryinkfly/Autodesk-Fusion-360-for-Linux It looks like it's been fairly active over the past year so it's probably what I would start with to get Fusion running.
> If someone has control of the application, aren't all bets off at that point?

Great point, but not necessarily. This is what we are trying to solve with Redact. Would be interested to hear your thoughts on our solution: https://redact.ws
What makes me an expert is the amount of computer books I have near my desk. Sort of like how the enchantment table works in Minecraft. I am also a bash expert because I own an O’Reilly book on the subject I bought at a Borders 20 years ago at retail price. :)