skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a personal password manager, that works ok, although syncing between multiple devices can be complicated and is sort of what I do, but it is much more difficult when you need to manage shared password for a team. At the very least you need some sort of locking mechanism to prevent accidentally overwriting someone else's change. And you also probably want an audit log, admin override capabilities, ability to grant different levels of access to different groups, etc.

Pass with a git repo satisfies some of those requirements, but it isn't very user friendly for non-technical users, and fine grained access controls and groups is tricky.
Since the name Second Life is taken, how about Third Life?
Shrinking consumption would, but its never going to be pursued as a policy unless the climate crisis becomes so immediate and obvious to every human bring alive, and by then, it will be too late. Therefore, we pursue the techs and policies that are possible to implement, where we hope that adversity breeds ingenuity.
It's an unauthorized copy.
They have hydronic registers that have very dense copper/aluminum fins and are powered by fans. An extremely small unit can heat a huge area; they are by far the most space efficient system that exists. They are also very fuel efficient.

Hydronic heating is usually the best. The problem with floor systems is poor adjustability, usually noticed on cool down times, but the initial heating can also be very slow. With registers you stop flowing the water and turn off the fan. Or do the reverse and make the air hot immediately.
I suppose it is hard to find a team like that. Team needs to be owning and building out something that is getting traction and growing.

And an engineer has only a few chances (2-3) to get this early in their career.
The entertainment industry will continue to wither and be replaced by the influence industry. Movies that once were about ticket sales became about ticket sales and selling toys. Then they became about selling toys and ticket sales and product placement. Then they became about product placement and ticket sales. Then they became about product placement, ticket sales, and social influence. Currently they are about social influence, product placement, subscription services and the toys have measured amounts of entertainment you lease in small increments.
Not a great example.

An engineer that started on-site with regional pay that now went remote does not equal “we’re a company that hires remote worldwide and we don’t adjust to regional salaries”.

A good example would be a company that hires new staff in multiple countries and continents that pays everyone regardless of their location.
You could use Pushover for that, it works on iOS and Android - https://pushover.net

You can also send images captured from your camera in addition to just text notifications.
Can we train something for object recognition stuff?
> In the New York Times about half of the things would be true and the other half false.

What is one example of something the NYTs reported, that has since been proven false but hasn't been retracted? (Not Iraq was examples, that was reporting on false intelligence not NYT providing the false info).
I wish California would pass this law. It would be really hard to avoid tech workers in California.
How does decentralization help with a centralized service?
What happened to the Zero Population Growth movement popular 20+ years ago, or maybe for much longer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_population_growth
Bit of a niche anecdote.
> The original D&D dice were the 5 platonic solids, the 10s were added later.

True; IIRC, the rules used d10 but it was a way of reading the d20 before d10s were manufactured.
Agree here.

Emotional detachment to engineering solutions is one of the hallmark of the maturity of a senior engineer. Senior here means in general being separated from new and inexperienced engineers, not to particular title.

Then another level beyond senior is that engineers start to be able to have emotional attachment to engineering problems. It's like back to the beginning when someone is new and inexperienced. The difference is that the attachment now is about the joy of learning, instead of the frustration of feeling not be able to solve the problems easily.
Recycling materials is often not less energy intensive than the original production.
I'd do this job for free if I could afford it. What a fantastic opportunity.
Shrinking will probably mean reviving 'culture'. Lower economic activity may imply more idle time, to be filled with group activities, art, rituals.
You pay 10x for access to Netflix’s content.

The fact that you only want to watch 1 movie out of their catalog is irrelevant. I do not find their content worth it, so I do not pay Netflix.

I find it better to just rent a movie from an online provider if/when I want to watch one, since I rarely watch. If I want to watch it over and over, I buy it (kids’ movies).
According to a video from another comment, each eyespot is a single cell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kux1j1ccsgg
Long path echoes on the 24 MHz band (VO1FOG) – Dec 2021
> Not really. It is simply a consequence of a market lacking price transparency.

With close to perfect information, there is little room to profit, which would put a spoke in the wheel of capitalism.
Hate to be a pedant, but Izvestiya was a propaganda branch of the Supreme Soviet, not the communist party. Whatever the minor difference it can make.
they can ban me, I guess ... if they don't want to receive payments.
'Play To Earn' is obviously in a different category of identifiable BS jobs.

If Rich Worlders want to pay Poor Worlders to rank up ahead of time on a game for them, that's weird, but so be it.

'BS Jobs' I think is more a problem with the vast landscape of effete and ineffective White Collar workers.
Weather was a major reason I chose to move to Southern California from Toronto.

Bad weather affects my quality of life immensely. If it’s cold or wet I’m more likely to stay home, more likely to wake up late and it negatively affects my mood.
You're welcome!

I would have communicated this sooner, but, apparently, this site limits me to no more than 5 comments at a time, and hides the fact behind an un-actionable error message that doesn't tell me what I did to deserve it.
Growing up in Missouri means going to school in Missouri.
I keep wondering how much more do we need to extract, since we have tons of stuff in machines and devices, it's more a matter of recycling it.
We seem to have become hypnotized by the "blah blah blah" mentioned in the article, like frogs being slowly warmed, sous vide style.
I can see a scenario where $65k would be attractive. If it were some small college in the middle of nowhere with a 3/3 course load, that would be a very attractive position for some people. I bet when you look into it though, those schools want something like a 5/5 load with min 3 preps. No thank you.

> The whole thread descended into pedantry about a multiple when everyone concedes the basic point.

What else would you expect from a thread that has attracted a bunch of academics? :P
Go to levels.fyi and you can see pay bands for the different levels at the big tech companies.
Haskell and Hascal. Don’t have conferences in the same hotel.
Did you read any of the linked document or were you put off by the term "antiracist"? I have to admit I was initially put off by the entire concept but reading through what it recommends it seems pretty standard stuff, just couched in terms that are a bit... contrived for the piece.

I think there's two things to understand, broadly:

No one is saying that math itself is racist, nor is the teaching of math itself inherently racist. Only that the way we teach math is steeped in the dominant culture and doing some pretty simple stuff like incorporating cultural artifacts relevant to your students might help them learn better.

Sadly, as many other commenters have pointed out, besides the rare private school where the teachers have adequate pay and a decent teacher to student ratio, full implementation of any of it is kind of a stretch.
Let say you work at company that exits for $10b which is very rare even for a YC company. With 1 basis point of equity you’ll get $1m which is $250k per year with the standard 4 year vest. This isn’t factoring dilution from additional raises or the risk company doesn’t exit which I assume half or more arent successful.
Here, I found 5 so far.

https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9e046a56c76ba933&tk=1fo21m...

https://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=d87c517c32a680d3&fccid=2b2d...

https://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=0e1dbdaee064b39b&fccid=c953...

https://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=b1ed6d586890504b&fccid=afbf...

https://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=cd34c725a1fc5766&fccid=2c62...

The 5th link says it openly in the title of the job ad.

> Principal Software Engineer – Search (open to remote work, except in Colorado)

Just search "software engineer Colorado" on Indeed, select "Remote" and maybe 1/3 of them are a Colorado exclusion.

> https://www.indeed.com/rc/clk?jk=08cf978f51852f65&fccid=ccf1...

Of tech companies doing it, one of them is eBay.
Paying for someone to stand in line for you isn't a bullshit job tho - it's generating value because the person paying is obviously otherwise occupied with a better use of their time, and thus can afford to pay someone else to stay in the queue.
Ehh, yeah, that’s not really cool. I wonder how many times he got away with that?
> By the way, you can get d100 dice.

Can you get fair d100s, though?

I know the “Zocchihedron”, one of the first and best known commercial ones, is not fair (after this was proven, they were renumbered so that the over-/under-weighted results were better distributed over the range, but it's still not fair.)
Sure, there are plenty of services that I can sign up for where I can install their custom app and then send my private messages in the clear to their servers.

But the point is I want Apple to do it so I don't have to rely on a 3rd party. I already have to trust Apple with my private data and for the most part rely on their servers to be up.

I don't want to add another service to rely on.
The problem WILL be solved one way or another. Either we willingly make the changes necessary to render our existence sustainable at current population levels, or our environment will force those changes upon us in much more urgent terms, with the end result of reducing our population as necessary until our footprint is again sustainable. I have no hope that the former case will be the one pursued, human nature being what it is.
That certainly makes sense; I've only ever used fireplaces and you can visibly see the particulate those emit.

I'm guessing it's outside of the economic envelope in which people are burning wood anyways, but the article makes it sound like combusting at the "right" temperature essentially solves that problem. But I suppose at that point you might as well just burn something cleaner and retain the other advantageous parts of the design.
It turned out that it happens by itself in developed nations.
It could just as easily be "establish the priorities." There's different balances and tradeoffs depending on what's considered the top priority.

Or am I misunderstanding what this means when plainly spoken?
I think the unvaccinated should face reality, not be coddled.

I don’t know if that’s liberal or not. I don’t really care about the ideological underpinnings to know it’s an asinine incentive design.
Those work for me on private browsing / it's set up to work for public viewing I think. What do you see when you try to click them?
The same (incorrect) reasoning applies to literally anything you don't physically use including USD, equities, gold, land, etc.
Most of us live with roommates.
Because something like this break will happen, and the fewer suspects the better. Maybe the code to upload the encrypted version is buggy, maybe the code hits a bug that uploads the private key to Dropbox... there are all sorts of "maybes", no matter how remote. If the file never touches, eg, Dropbox's servers, then there's zero possibility the break happened because of something related to Dropbox. Maybe the keys used are weak in some manner that is later discovered.

Do you own assessment of all of the "maybes", and come up with your own conclusion and practices. Someone else's hard drive is not to be trusted, but it is convenient.
Charts show how omicron is unfolding in San Francisco
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/remote-...
I'm not arguing that it's about meetings some other human's desires. Indeed, jobs that give real pleasure or sense of accomplishment to other people (actors, massage therapists, yoga teachers, personal trainers, artists, language coaches, yada yada) I find incredibly valuable.

I'm talking about when someone, specifically a gatekeeper, creates what is basically a little tedious maze for you to run, not for their own pleasure, not even for someone else's pleasure, but often just to justify their own job, usually in a "CYA" fashion.
I am no expert, but it sounds like you are naive when it comes to negotiation as well.
Startup hiring is nothing like big company hiring. You’re basically casting a wide net and negotiating compensation on an individual basis. You may get a great junior applicant with 1 year of experience and a great senior tech lead with 15 years of FAANG experience respond to the same post, and you may want to hire them both!

If a company is flexible on compensation then it doesn’t make sense to artificially constrain the job listing before they even know what candidates are applying and how much they need to join.

Source: Previously a hiring manager at early startups.
> They are telling the government they will pay out if the insured party is at fault for an accident

A police report doesn’t establish proof of fault. Neither does a video. Neither does eye witnesses. All of those are evidence of fault, but not legal proof of fault.
How is that different at all from fiat currencies? Every electronic transaction you make, like credit card or money transfers, has fees.
Central banks have to keep pumping money into the economy so we can have the same nominal amount of cash in the system(albeit with lower value, because inflation).

So, my question is, is fiat currency cashflow positive? How?
Choice vs. Convenience
> A good number of specialties in medicine have a median income in the upper two thirds of the six digit range. It seems like limiting production of CS PhDs could be equally lucrative.

Probably not. Industry would route around the PhD system. Academia would just hire folks with masters degrees as ad juncts.

In order for such a scheme to work, you need a licensing regime. If anyone could practice medicine at any hospital by passing an on-site interview, the AMA would have substantially less power.
What kind of software do you write that self-describes too difficult problems as taking a few weeks? It’s crazy to me how attention seeking and superficial some software jobs and engineers are these days. Taking a few weeks to learn about the problem domain, research and implement a good solution is not extreme at all.

I probably wouldn’t think too highly of an engineer who drops work at the first sign of trouble and is only interested in going after low hanging fruit, with the rationalization that anything hard isn’t immediately delivering value to the customer and hence not worth it.

I’m also suspicious of people who are intentionally biased at such work. The next time someone is “rat holed”, instead of hating them for it, maybe try and take a break from your 0.5 point task and help out your fellow teammate stuck on a difficult problem?
Thanks for posting this. I could have sworn I pasted this into the submission box!
My $200 Monoprice MP Select Mini has been going for the past 5+ years with no maintenance (I know) and was an absolutely great purchase.

Yeah it's not open source hardware, but attach a Pi to it with OctoPrint, and it's a great low-cost way to get in to 3d printing.
I do not think so. See retail and insurance businesses, with their consistent 2% to 6% profit margins.

Bigger potential profits merit bigger risk taking. But not all investments have the same risk profile and time horizons.
So 300 base, plus the 100 or whatever RSU grant, plus 45-75K bonus?
If I want to replace my phone now, I can pop the SIM card out of the slot, and slide it into the new device. Takes 3 minutes and importantly requires no contact with the carrier.

With an eSIM, I'd have to-- at the very least-- do some sort of migration process through a carrier-provided resource. Maybe it's a web-based thing where I can sign in to their site on the old phone and get a QR code to scan on the new one, but I'd be unsurprised if at least some carriers say "gotta come into a store" or put up some sketchy "for your protection" roadblocks. This could be technical incompetence or a dark pattern, but I'm sure they want to keep anything related to bring-your-own-device to be a bit arcane and scary, to encourage customers to buy through the carrier.
So I pay for what I don't need to get the little that do I need. What you call irrelevant I call the core of their business model.
They are also using resources that should be utilized by people that have done the right thing and taken a vaccine to prevent hospitalization.

In my opinion, the unvaccinated should simply not go to the hospital if they get infected and instead recuperate at home. Sadly, they’ll continue to leech off of the work of those that have taken the bare minimum steps.
Just about every project is cashflow negative. Most projects start Worthing $0 and rises to another number later on
For anything in NYC, they will need to as a new law takes effect.

https://www.dwt.com/blogs/employment-labor-and-benefits/2021...
Please explain why for the rest of the class. A few sentences for those of us who know we are naive would be helpful.
Is that even a lot of money for top talent? We all know Apple has an ar headset in the works and it needs to get finished by September
California, IIRC, mandates that they provide you the pay range if you ask for it.
Apologies for the side question but this is the first time I’ve heard of the Spectator and was wondering if the subscription is worth it.
Wild story, thanks for sharing.
I grew up in Western New York before moving to the Bay Area for work. People really love my hometown.

It’s okay, you can adapt to any place and make the most of it. But I think the coastal cities are much better places to live. More opportunity, more food, more people to learn from and things to do, more variety. There are cost of living trade offs for sure, but I wouldn’t go back.

I hope Garry Tan is successful fixing SF. I’ll do what I can to get the bad politicians out.
Most startups are flexible with a wide range of compensation and seniority as necessary to bring candidates on board.

It wouldn’t be all that helpful to break the job listing down into 3-6 different job listings if the end result is a wide or open-ended range anyway.
> Personally, I avoid companies who adopt this practice.

As do I. The value of my labor doesn't change because I walked 5 blocks away into another ZIP code with significantly higher/lower costs of living.

The only reason this flies is because most engineers have little to no ability to individually negotiate away such nonsense, while employers are happy to collude with one another to enforce these pay scales.
It depends what your career goals are. Repeated execution of non-trivial things in different contexts builds your engineering sense and intuition. Amazon has a quote, "there is no compression algorithm for experience".

People who fast track that step too much are not on a stable footing. You can probably sometimes get away with it, which is why we see the kind of "thought leadering" shared in the OP ... but I'll say that I'm "only" ~10 years in to my career and I've already seen quite a few instances of VP+ people who bet the farm on some nonsense and end up flaming out.
Second. It's the best thing on the internet.
Right on. I remember him strictly as an announcer. He rarely had anything super important or overly technical to say, but we loved listening to him nonetheless, probably for that reason...like a football grandpa. Reminds me a lot of Harry Caray, and I'll forever miss listening to both.
If you don't believe that government has any value, then there isn't much to discuss with you as your views on the topic are extremely fringe and we likely won't agree on much.

If you do believe that government can create value, then it easily follows that paying / collecting taxes can create value. There is no need to assume that taxes always provide value or that all parts of government create value (since that would also be a extremely fringe view.)

> it doesn't create value, it retains value for those who created it.

Yes, at the cost of higher taxes on others who created value or a reduced revenue for the government.

If you believe the goverent needs less revenue, then lower taxes. The "bullshit jobs" are created when you have a complex set of rules and loopholes that incentives wasting manpower to find ways to dodge paying taxes. We would be better off just having lower tax rates and less effort wasted dodging taxes.
I mean why would you attribute the "GDP" to the worker if there's no causal connection?

> Being a 10x engineer at a small, insignificant company without growth potential means that you hardly produce anything at all in economic terms. It's much better to be a 0.5x engineer at FAANG (economically speaking).

That's not the kind of scenario I'm talking about. You're talking about an actual difference in what the worker produces. Not what I mean.

Suppose the worker produces a widget while working for a monopolist who controls the distribution channel. Then the worker's productivity is the price P the customer pays for the widget.

Now suppose the worker's firm is distinct from the monopolist firm. The worker's firm sells to the monopolist at a lower price, P - X, the monopolist marks it up to P.

The worker's causal productivity hasn't changed, the only difference is which people capture the value. If the people capturing monopoly rents are in the same firm as the worker, then the worker's "GDP" is higher. If they're in a different firm, the worker's "GDP" is lower.
Insurance is so far from perfect information though. Maybe perfect information in for an average year is possible, but it is the black swan years that knock you out.

Even then, there is no perfect information on clients.
Anyone interested in some nostalgia?

Long ago there was an MMO called Ultima Online. At one point gold on there reached the point that it was more expensive than the Italian lira. This was in a kooky time in 1999 when everything was at a peak. Here's the old article.

The NYT just wasn't having it.

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
THE NEW ECONOMY
Money for Nothing
A new breed of Internet profiteers is spinning virtual gold into hard currency. By JOHN COOK

Fixer-upper w/moat: The real market for imaginary property in Ultima is booming.
enjamin Schriefer and Michael Gmeinwieser make money the new-fashioned way: they sell stuff that doesn't exist. And their customers, who pay them in cold, hard cash, don't mind one bit.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine...
Disagree. For posts like this we should be skeptical. I've seen many posts from people saying how their Stripe, PayPal, etc. account got shut down and they're innocent. Suspiciously, they never give details about their business. But when someone manages to find info about their business it's always something shady.
Yeah after the first interview. But that's way different than with the job posting.
This is tantamount to providing web push APIs. Which Apple doesn't because the App Store would lose relevance.

It's also against the App Store rules to make an app which provides an OS limited service such as push notifications as an API.