skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very similar to my story. I moved to America from Ireland in 2007 after graduating with a degree in cs. I did a year in grad school before working in tech in the Bay Area for more than a decade, including at two companies from FAANG. I also ran a consulting business and for the last 3 years worked at Coinbase.

I don’t consider myself in anyway special. I know many people from Europe who went down this path.

The sad reality is that in Europe software engineers don’t get paid very well relative to the value they create. It’s a lot better today in my home country Ireland than it was a decade or so ago but salaries and opportunities are still nowhere near as good as in the USA.

Unless you are very lucky, if you want to make a lot of money and work with the top people in your profession, you will have to move. This will likely involve risk and personal sacrifice. If I was to distill this guys journey into a high level formula it would be as follows:

1) Pick a fast growing industry you are interested in.
2) Move to the area which pays you the most and where the most opportunities are.
3) work with top people and adapt your career based on what you see them do.
4) live reasonably, save and invest.

I see a lot of people from Europe in the comments saying this is unrealistic or that it would be hard to replicate this success doing the same thing today. I disagree.

While the specifics of the plan might be different for todays 20 year olds. I.e specialize in cryptocurrency or machine learning or fintech. The overall approach is still valid, it just involves a lot of sacrifices and risks you may not be willing to take.
Capitalism is about free trade. Airlines grew to their size based on a certain economic condition (free travel between nations). Pulling that out from under them resulted in massive loss of income.

It's not about entitled or not. It's about the fact government action directly harmed them, whether or not justified.
So now they can work on that instead of hiding it behind billboards.

You're closer to a solution now.
Autotranlation: https://www-franceculture-fr.translate.goog/emissions/la-met...

I recommend to translate the title to something like "Positronium, the particle that breaks everything? [French]. IIUC it's a podcast of 58 minutes in French.
What an absolute joke. The United States has terrible class mobility compared to the Netherlands or Germany for example. You don’t have anything to support what you said other than a skewed perspective created by American centric media.

Edit: I guess the down voters here hate facts. The US scores lower on social mobility than the majority of European countries https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
These pumps with “Gas Station TV” are so annoying that I go out of my way to get my gas at a different station. I’ve wondered if it actively drives other customers away too or if I’m just very sensitive to it.
Ads are everywhere you go on the streets. They lure your attention span with bright colors and LEDs which may create accidents. They reinforce a sense of need to consume and/or a feeling of being inappropriate as a person. Supermarkets will try very hard to "give" you their customer card so they can collect more detailed info about you and profile your habits.

Companies often place adverts illegallly [0] by recruiting precarious workers who are going to face the police, not them. They'll even go as far as to cover a cycling area with a slippery material for their ads [1], or to cover historical monuments in spite of architectural regulations [2]. A multinational like Amazon will even steal a wall reserved for artists and pay goons to intimidate the population [3] in order to promote its shitty services.

Also, i don't know about the current situation in regards to this, but more than a decade ago there was a "scandal" in which public French companies wanted to setup spy cameras in advertisement panels so they could target ads and study reactions. The tiny pinkertons following you around is, unfortunately and scaringly real: https://antipub.org/ecrans-de-pub-espions-du-metro-les-assoc...

Last time i was in a big city i had the occasion to see an advertisement panel graphed with a huge red "Adblock". It was heartwarming, and reminded me that pretty much every where local people organize to sabotage advertisement panels and companies, and you should do the same in your neighborhood! I'm personally lucky enough that there's no advertisement where i live, and i think nobody from the neighborhood would let such a trend emerge.

[0] https://lareleveetlapeste.fr/affichage-sauvage-quand-les-mul...

[1] https://www.bfmtv.com/societe/paris-burberry-recouvre-une-pi...

[2] https://www.latribunedelart.com/le-patrimoine-parisien-denat...

[3] https://www.streetpress.com/sujet/1600089407-paris-amazon-em...
The Importance of Price Signals
I'm assuming you're still referring to MacOS?

The various tools included in MacOS are often old or BSD versions instead of GNU tools. There's lots of gotchas when writing scripts on MacOS that will run as part of a Linux build pipeline.
I disagree with this comment. I don’t want to start a debate, just to give my experience and perspective.

I am a South African, I am white, just for transparency.

In my experience:

White people are still in a position of economic and social power such that the (unjust) assumptions made by an average person during apartheid are still mostly the same.

White people are stereotypically more educated, have more money, connections and are more trustworthy etc.

To say that white people are the subject of reverse racism while making any comparison to apartheid, where people where abducted, tortured, disappeared, forcefully relocated and removed from their land, is simply ignorant.

I make this post not to try and change your mind, but simply to give some representation to an alternate view point.
(Assuming that you’re) comparing current vaccination/related approaches to apartheid, seems pretty Godwin-esque…
I agree that 99% of companies should not be buying their own hardware and setting up a datacenter in their basements. But: not all clouds are created equal.

The "cloud" can just be a blank Debian box on Digitalocean where you have root access _or_ it could be some obscure managed AWS service where all the technical days are abstracted away behind a REST API.
That explains why China decided to propagandize the whole internet.
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I think it probably is, but I don't really know. I don't know how different various parts of China can be versus how uniform modern communication and travel can make them.
Obligatory XKCD:

"Ten Thousand"

https://xkcd.com/1053/
To compare apartheid to being asked to follow scientifically validated an internationally agreed protocols to not spread a disease to those around you, geesh.
Civil disobedience was rife in South Africa in the late 1980s. (1)
But not usually friendly, and not usually in Bishopscourt.

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/state-emergency-1985
European law is unfortunately very unfriendly to small businesses. For example, sending a correct invoice is a requirement, and you have to store them for at least 5 years. That can be done only if you have set up a corporation or self-employment and have obtained all the necessary identification numbers. Fortunately Stripe made things much easier, but still - beginning to process cards is lengthy. Paypal in Europe takes a very big commision and they will block your account and ask for the same lengthy card processing process after you make few thousands in sales. Taxes are hard to file yourself even if you do only local sales, and becomes impossible to manage yourself once you sell out of EU.
You may be surprised how dumb, desperate, and brazen espionage or sabotage attempts can be. Recent example that has been completely memory holed in the West:

MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/. A US embassy employee stole a railroad sign in Russia’s Tver Region in spring 2021, endangering the lives of train passengers, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova disclosed in her Telegram channel Monday.

"What is not funny is the danger that the US citizen put the lives and health of train passengers in. The Ostashkov hub is a rather busy part of the railroad. A railroad is a high danger area. If the missing sign was not discovered promptly, a tragedy could have happened," she said.

According to Zakharova, this story became known due to police pre-investigation actions. Police officers determined that an unidentified man stole the switch sign and put it in the trunk of a car with red (diplomatic) license plates.

"The very same day, a car with the same license plate was pulled by traffic police in the Tver region for a traffic rules violation. The car was driven by an employee of the American embassy who fit the description," the diplomat said.

She added that the embassy employee retained his diplomatic immunity but had to return to the US.

https://tass.com/politics/1313063
Unironically using the term "mingling indoors" is an indicator that you're sufficiently far gone down the corona rabbit hole that it's pointless for us to discuss further because we see the world in completely different ways.

More value would be derived from discussing climate change with a Martian.

We could hash it out over a pint at the pub, but you don't mingle indoors see, so...

Sorry, but I think this is a bit comical, I don't have the patience for such farce.
Out of curiosity, I decided to check your website with adblocker turned off. After rejecting (!) GDPR consent, the website decided to send my personal information to the following companies: Google, Facebook, Amazon, Ad Lightning, Setupad, UniConsent, Adagio, ID5, Criteo, Magnite, RTB House, Casale Media, EMX Digital, Adform, Pubmatic, Between Digital, Lijit Networks, AppNexus, 33Across, Adx Premium, Sharethrough, Smart Adserver, OpenX, BRealTime, bumlam.com (couldn't find information about owner of this domain), BidSwitch, Getintent, Yahoo, and more - at some point I gave up trying to figure out who owns given domain names.

The privacy policy which is quite hidden on the website (https://www.photopea.com/privacy.html) says nothing about that. All it says is the following:

> We use third party tracking tools to improve the performance and features of the Service (e.g. Google Analytics). Such tools are created and managed by parties outside our control. As such, we are not responsible for what information is actually captured by such third parties or how such third parties use and protect that information.

This won't fly under GDPR, just saying. Not only you are responsible for third party behavior, but you didn't even mention all tracking scripts that are directly used (I see Facebook Pixel Code right in the source code for photopea.com). You are in Czech Republic, right? I think it is in European Union.
>My understanding from technology connections is that US circuits are 230ish volts, but it’s often centre tapped out to sockets.

Indeed.

My heat pump is 3phase 230v/16A one, that's 11kW peak power, the pump itself is 5kW, though with the rest being a resistive heater. Car charging is similar as well 3phase is quite standard nowadays.

My understanding is that the US power supply is pretty similar to the one in Europe when it comes to delivery, and industrial equipment runs 3phase, 240v - something you can find at a lot (most new) homes in Europe.
This is what I do as well.

I use Homebrew for general purpose niceties like starship, fzf, and casks.

Project deps are managed with asdf.

The “right answer” may in fact be Nix however. I just haven’t fully grokked it yet.
The golden handcuffs are only handcuffs if you’re in a terrible environment. I’ve walked away from a 7-figure TC. Handcuffs be damned. I wasn’t going to take the abuse anymore.

Some people don’t have the strength to walk away and instead will obsess over money for anything. It’s funny how I’m sure people would require much bigger numbers if they were given an offering where they’d have to go to a terrible prison for 2-3 years in their prime years.
Both are a problem in their own right. Tracking visitors to make up for your lackluster business model is abusive, but cookie banners as usually implemented are but one way to comply with regulations aimed at curtailing this. And in my book, it's a form of malicious compliance, making it equally part of the problem.
Like everything, it's very different across Europe. Best case, social mobility is pretty good. Worst case it's a little worse than the US.

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-social-mobility-among-poorest...

>In Germany, it would take a child whose parents' earnings are in the bottom 10 percent of the population six generations or 180 years to reach the average national income.

>The average across the entire OECD, a group of 37 industrialized countries, is five generations. Children in low-income families in Denmark would need two generations, while children in the United States would need five generations.
>I don’t consider myself in anyway special

As someone who has within the last few months failed three FAANG on-sites and a Coinbase phone screen, I’d say you’re special.
Self-teergrubing by cpu quotas.

Wonder what mechanism could be used to communicate the available timeslice length so that the app/thread could stop taking on a request when throttling is imminent.
I also avoid area gas stations with gas station tv. So theres at least two of us.
Energy Efficiency of Modern Codecs
Rented dedicated feels like a nice middle ground between colo or on-site and cloud hosted. It's on the cheaper end. And if you can boot into a self-configuring image, maintenance cost is quite low too.
I hate tech interviews. If it’s any consolation, I remember when I interviewed at Apple, I failed 10 interviews for multiple teams over 2 years before I got my first job.
So you have to not enjoy the best years of your life and spend time and energy keeping track of investments to... get bored as hell later because your brain is so used to just work and save and nlt enjoying life that you will feel guilty spending that money?
I want to retire at 55 but I'm really skeptical about the FIRE community, especially by the ones in their 20's
I realise that the Twitter is using Mesos, but for those of us on Kubernetes does guaranteed QoS solve this? https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/qua...
It’s also not his fault at all.
The giant ad billboards always remind me of the giant portraits of the supreme leader they have in authoritarian world states. Instead of his image dominating the public sphere, we have the Coca Cola company, or some clothers retailer or what-not. There's also that scene in Blade Runner with the giant ads about a new life in the other colonies.
Because blocking ads in a city would require coercion. Blocking ads in my browser doesn't.
You're responding to someone who was asking what my comment was referring to, and I felt you were misrepresenting what I was talking about.

That's why.
so the market conditions changed.
Simple for me: how easy is it to find your first actual ( and paying) customers compared to building a website.

Fyi: yes, some experience building websites for others is required.
This is no contradiction, you can concentrate on the algorithm also in a faster language :-)
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I doubt there was a global women poll on this issue. And strongly suspect even if existed it wouldn't show that majority of women even care. You are welcome to change my mind
Also you need to be extremely lucky to be born in the right country and the right area, have a healthy childhood and access to learning, have no physical or psychological illness, have no moral qualms with working for those companies, and the list goes on.

> this type of trajectory is only possible for a very limited few

We are talking 0.1% of human population if not less.
Agree that the stronger drag is the cost of childcare, but the poor don't earn 50k+

In fact, if you earn 50k as a single without dependants (or if you are a couple with 2x50k income) you're definitely richer than the majority of folks.

Also, the UK tax system is incredibly generous to high income folks: 40k+ tax exempt pension contributions, 20k ISA allowance, 12k cgt allowance. It means that you can accumulate a good chunk of capital before you'll even have to start paying taxes
Another reason why you should be happy to have freedom of speech in the US.
Practicing Programming (2005)
No, because transistors were clearly going to be useful.

Fusion (especially DT fusion) has a good chance of never being useful (except for H-bombs).

These comparisons with old embryonic technologies also miss the point that lots of embryonic technologies never go on to success. Focusing on the rare ones that did is survivor bias.
What is "active earmuffs"?
Your example proposition assumes the source code is available at no cost from the developer, which isn't necessarily the case.

It's true that nearly all GPL'ed (and FOSS) software is available for download at no cost. But there's nothing in a FOSS license which requires a vendor to have a no-cost distribution mechanism.

The "Selling Free Software" sales proposition is that you can pay to get the GPL'ed software directly from the developer, or find an existing customer willing to distribute it to you for free, or at a lower cost. The latter step may also require additional diligence as now you have two vendors in your supply chain.

That said, it's still a terrible business model.
As a recent Mac adopter after spending 10 years as a Linux user, Homebrew is exactly what I need it to be.

Linux OS package managers are, almost by necessity, full of outdated packages which are not the versions I want to use for day-to-day CLI applications. Snaps, Flatpaks and AppImages all have their own downsides due to half-baked isolation goals and the associated usability compromises. Language-specific package managers are a mixed bag, but too narrow in scope when thinking about usage of tools rather than development based on libraries. Maybe Nix or the Arch AUR are a better option, but they come with a learning curve and/or stability compromise. I don't care how the packages are arranged on my Mac; the system is too locked down for me to really have the level of control I'd like anyway, so better to just accept the usability advantages and get on withy life.
The discussion is actually _about_ Zen Gardens.

You chime in with a point that's not actually related to what I was talking about.

I let you know.

You get annoyed.

I think you need to simmer down.
Whoever invented USB-C deserves a Nobel Prize
Two big things that annoy me about google:

1. They somewhat get around this with their maps feature, but their regular search doesn't actually search by area; you always get national websites that optimize the best. That would be a nice feature to have starting out without having to type in the specific area you're looking for.

2. Search results for hotels that actually work! Not only if they're set up on OTA's! This could actually get your search engine some traction as the search engine to go to when making travel plans which would give you a nice niche to start out in.
It occurs to me that I've done nearly every leg on this route at some point. Except of course taking a different route through china and Vietnam since that high speed link through laos didn't exist 20 years ago.

I did that Thailand night train back and forth to Surat Thani at least a half dozen times back when I'd spend my winters there. It's probably my favorite of the bunch for sheer atmosphere.

It's a shame that night trains in general are vanishing these days. You used to be able to do Europe without ever staying in hostels, hopping the longest train you could find each night and waking in a new city.

Now you can go back and forth between Paris and Venice, and that's about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Point

Tldr; a tower block suffered a partial collapse as a result of a gas explosion in 1968. Changes to Building Regulations were made to mitigate against 'Disproportionate Collapse'

(Effect on legislation)
'Existing buildings were allowed to resist an explosive force of 17 kPa (2.5 psi), provided that the gas supply was removed and flats were refitted for electric cooking and heating.'

Such buildings with gas supplies today will have been constructed to comply with the amended regulations.
> Your flip comment seems to belie the fact that he's only earned at least a half a million dollars for one year.

I would say $475k is close enough, in all honesty.

> The majority of his NW comes from investment and savings, not income.

Sum of (earnings - spent) over the career is $2,611,000. Net worth by the end is $2,400,000. In order for investment returns to be above savings on income, taxes would have to be 42.3% of lifetime earnings, which would be a bit surprising.
Yes yes, in the end everyone's success can be distilled down to luck or environment (which we were born into so also luck) or inborn qualities (which are also luck). Merit does not exist and everything is luck.

Or we could notice that merit is still a useful concept, that good decisionmaking is a skill regardless of whether everyone is in a position to use it, and that the previous poster's parents made decisions that were highly beneficial to their child, above and beyond what other parents in comparable situations might have, and that the poster is quite right to be thankful for that. Which funnily enough is the only opinion they voiced, so it's rather a mystery what your needlessly nasty comment is replying to.
Nobody said it was "his fault" and that is obviously not the point of the acknowledgement starting the post.
> People who know bare metal are rare these days from the total of available infrastructure engineers

Sysadmins are not rare they're just not the people you hear about in Silicon Valley bubble anymore. 90+% of businesses haven't moved to the "cloud" (i.e. whoever the fuck's computer you can't get your hands on in case of problems) and even if they wanted to it would make no sense: most businesses just need a basic website and an email/accounting service. Cloud abstractions provide much complexity and zero benefits for such usecases.

> But in my experience people argue one option a lot without being to deliver the other.

I'm in this box. I can't deliver "cloud" computing and from a political perspective i refuse to "learn". Also, it makes no sense for the non-profit projects i work with: the biggest ones need at most a few servers which is still manageable by hand and certainly easier to deal with via Ansible/Chef than via new layers of abstractions and all their new failure modes (eg k8s/AWS).
https://vixra.org/pdf/1812.0382v1.pdf

"The Helion Fusion Engine will enable profitable fusion energy in 2019,” from NBF 7/18/2014.

“If our physics holds, we hope to reach that goal (net energy gain) in the next three years,” D. Kirtley, CEO of Helion, told The Wall Street Journal in 2014.

“Helion will demonstrate net energy gain within 24 months, and 50-MWe pilot plant by 2019,” from NBF 8/18/2015.

“Helion will attain net energy output within a couple of years and commercial power in 6 years,” Science News 1/27/2016.

“Helion plans to reach breakeven energy generation in less than three years, nearly ten times faster than ITER,” from NBF 10/1/2018.

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Having quoted that, I consider Helion a less unlikely bet than the DT fusion approaches.
Cries in European
For me the ban on indoor smoking was a godsend in that it gave me an open excuse to duck out of a situation and spend some time on my own recombobulating without it being considered a massive breach of etiquette. If things start getting triggering I go and smoke and read my book on my phone, usually resets me nicely.
I get there was a bit of cheek about it, just on the scale of civil disobedience in the country I didn't think "living in a big mansion in the richest neighborhood" would register much of a blip but maybe I'm wrong.