skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're paid based on supply and demand and your negotiating skills

Your ability to negotiate your own salary is pretty orthogonal to your ability to do most jobs. Some jobs definitely require the ability to negotiate in the form of compromise, but rarer are the positions where the brinksman-style of salary negotiation (where you credibly would scuttle the entire deal) would be useful. It should be pretty easy to figure out within a year how a new hire compares to the existing employees and were they _should_ be on the salary totem and set them on the proper trajectory from there.

There would certainly be other knock-on effects from true salary transparency, but bias towards salary negotiating skill is much closer to bias towards people-who-look-like-me than it is to bias towards people-who-generate-value-for-the-business.
Not just financially-challenged, but under-educated too. If your education was sub-par then it's easy to get tricked, especially with something as complex as the crypto world, where someone like me who had a great education, minted Satoshi's finest like they were water from a firehose, and almost 40 years of coding, still has a really hard time understanding the current plethora of blockchain shenanigans.
IIRC Kanopy just uses L3, for which there was an existing Chrome extension based leak. The key is necessarily in main memory for L3, it’s just a matter of finding it.
They've gotten worse in the year since that page was last updated.
Solar panels on trains (or, really, just about anything that moves) is pointless. You can do it, but as a general guideline, you shouldn't - solar panels don't like moving. They're quite brittle in the efficient forms (silicon and glass), and while they can be made quite strong, that doesn't extend to "regular flexing and motion." Plus, anything that moves is likely to have terrible pointing of panels on a regular basis.

Just electrify the rail lines. There are strict sizing requirements for train cars such that they can fit through tunnels, so putting wires up just outside this and retracting the pickups for tunnels is perfectly doable. Most locomotives are diesel electric already, so they're not a big shift to convert to battery/electric, with some battery cars for the stretches that can't be electrified. Or just run the diesels for that chunk. It's still a huge win to electrify rail.
Gems Hidden in the Folds of Time
> tbh

What is this? It's not capitalised so it can't be an acronym or initialism. And your username doesn't start with a capital like a Proper Noun, so it's unreadable. This is my problem with case-sensitivity, it's not how humans use writing, think about writing, design fonts, etc. 'a' and 'A' are the same letter, they're the same letter in the alphabet, they are pronounced the same, they make the same word "apple" or "Apple" which is also pronounced the same and means the same, they could be rendered the same in a given font without making words unreadable or confusing (e.g. small caps fonts).

If the computer isn't letting me use "apple" or "Apple" interchangably as I (the user, supposed to be in control here) wish, that isn't helping me, it's nitpickingly hindering me and making me implicitly care about character encoding values I can't even see. This is dreadful UX.

Domain names aren't case sensitive, email addresses could be but generally aren't, usernames could be but generally aren't, phone numbers aren't, Twitter handles aren't, my bank cards have my name in ALL CAPS but it's still me, you wouldn't join an IRC channel and think it okay to use a nick which matches someone else's but for capitalisation differences, you know which book I mean when I say "the martian" and so does Google search and my email search, PostgreSQL table and column names aren't case sensitive.

It's nice, convenient, helpful when identifiers aren't case sensitive.
>2021 was the year the other major browsers followed suit, starting with Chrome introducing an HTTPS default for navigation when a user types in the name of a URL without specifying insecure HTTP or secure HTTPS.

Is it enabled on Android? Last week a few links on HN resolved to HTTP for me, even though HTTPS was available for those sites (I checked). I noticed it because my provider injects ads in unencrypted traffic.
The problem is, you have spent most of that time saving in old salaries even if in 2022 your salary has caught up to 3x house prices. The house prices are there already, if you were planning on buying, you may still be in the game but you are probably looking at years of extra work.
Intro to eBPF – History, Rationale, and Internals [pdf]
I did not say anything about owing the company loyalty.

I disputed OP's point that Hiring Managers don't care about loyalty, and care if you leave after a year.
Why give away their power to negotiate?
I wonder also how much of the older content is self-censored for e.g. political correctness reasons.
Some people do, some don't. Just like some people obey the "rule" of not to murder, while others don't (including governments).

Rules can certainly be broken, and that's not always a bad thing as our understanding of what it means to be alive and free evolves over time. The rule that women shouldn't be allowed to vote in a democracy is a great rule to break, for instance.
Russians didn't think anything about James Bond, they lacked access to the source material. There were critical articles and newspapers, bashing this low quality pulp anti-soviet crap, which pop popularity in the West was signalling the decay of the capitalistic society. Seeing such article, average soviet person just nodded ah-ok, and moved on.
famous - the marquee is the signage outside of a theatre where the title and stars of a performance are listed.
I find 1080p at 27" to be comically big, let alone 32". Maybe my eyes are still young though.
I've been lost on my own property. It was 11 acres, and almost entirely forest.

But I didn't stay lost. I've read that people have a habit of walking in a circle, so I just basically trusted that, and figured at the worst I would eventually find a road or other property, etc. In that process, I found out that is really quite true, because I ended up exiting near the property entrance.
Top 50 covers a lot more than you'd think! The Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington metro is actually the 16th largest, and there's plenty more midwest cities included as well. But you are of course right that $600/month is widely less than what you'd be paying in any of the high cost coastal cities
(To help qualify my perspective and insistence... I was involved in stopping a long term predatory crime this year where digital assets were used to help protect the victim against perpetrators using dollars. As you might imagine, having clear records of transactions is likely to be more helpful to the targets than the perpetrators in these cases.)
Whilst it is for burning fossile files, when you’re burning the wood that grew on your property over the past 20 years, the carbon cycle is much shorter. Especially if your property grows it all back, it’s a closed carbon loop.
China files complaint to UN about near collisions with Starlink satellites [pdf]
Perhaps, but on the occasions they've covered a topic I'm intimately familiar with, their journalism has been laughably off the mark. In the spirit of preventing Gell-Mann amnesia, I'm not going to assume that they're any more accurate about anything else they write about.
Never before has humanity been planetary scale. This presents obvious new problems that could previously have been mitigated by migration. No longer, it's a global system operating under unified logic. The defects in that logic cannot be escaped.
Amsterdam area

Wages are not precise.

2018: graduated Msc. Computer Science, had a terrible job search, 0$

2019: ongoing terrible job search, 0$

2020: $40000 (36000 EUR)

2021: $60000 (53000 EUR)

2022: $64000 (56000 EUR), expected

If anyone is offering a remote position with 6 weeks vacation and 1.5x my current salary, feel free to email me ;-)

I might also be willing to relocate, depending on the country.

3 years of experience (partially obtained while studying).

Msc. Computer Science (low level security), Msc. Game Design, Bsc. Psychology, Bsc. Business Informatics

Email is in my profile. You can also read my comment history to get a feel for who I am, it’s super candid and open since this is a pseudo-anonymous account.

And while it might be cheeky to ask if anyone is hiring, the biggest reason I do it is to prove that this is my salary and would be amazingly happy with $100000 per year. I mean, the odds are quite low that this comment will result in an offer.

I can hear Dutch people sighing already :P But who knows? Maybe someone is reading this thinking: well, we actually tend to pay more than $100000, so why not interview mettamage and see if there is a fit?
>The solution is to change laws about redress. For example, statutory punitive damages and attorneys' fees in lawsuits against insurers where the final judgement is significantly different from the insurer's initial offer.

1. I you're supposed to have negotiated with the counterparty in good faith prior to a lawsuit. If not, that will be looked negatively by the judge. https://www.sbwllp.com/rule-68-offers-of-judgment/

2. This probably doesn't play well with probabilities/statistics. Suppose we accept your proposal, and say any final judgement that's 5x larger than the offered settlement should be hit with extra damages. Now a lawsuit comes along that the insurance company thinks there's a 12.5% chance of winning, and if they win, the damages awarded will realistically be $1M. Based on expected value calculated from the previous facts, and factoring in court/attorney's fees, the insurance company offers the plaintiffs $150k to settle. That seems like a good offer for all parties involved. However, if the plaintiff gets greedy, and on the off chance he wins, the insurance company will have to pay extra damages, because from an initial offer to final judgement perspective the disparity is huge.
This is incorrect in some states. Some have limits for medical liability and some have limits for property damage liability.

Michigan for example. https://www.michigan.gov/documents/autoinsurance/ip206a_6799...

Beyond that, you should insure yourself sufficiently because you can’t depend on others to have adequate coverage. Doesn’t matter that you can sue if they have no money.
If you're going to move to non-ASCII characters, what about Unicode combining characters, do you have to care if your file named é is a single accented e or a pair of e-and-combining-accent before you can move it?

If you shouldn't have to care, if there should be a layer of Unicode normalization happening, why is that okay but case normalisation is not okay? If you do have to care, then you no longer "know exactly what you get".
At a certain point these look less like games, and more like status symbols being pursued. I suspect that this explains much more of the economic and social aspect of things like Runescape more than trying to think of them like a game.
"What's fair is whatever both parties mutually agreed to"

You could argue there's an important caveat of symmetric information around this interaction if you want to talk about fairness. Asymmetric information is frequently considered an unfair advantage (see insider trading) but is also recognized as the source of much profit (see auction winner's fallacy), but you have to at least recognize that employers by and large have a huge information advantage in the labor market currently.
> In Biology for instance, inflation is so insane that most tenure-track positions demand you have significant postdoctoral experience.

“Senior job demands significant work experience” what am I misunderstanding?
It's funny how this is actually how laws and official paperwork works. It is very important to look at every single word. And I don't think you are correct in saying that it is lying. It actually objectively isn't. And whether you'd argue it is or isn't very likely depends on which side of it you are on.

Of course when reading over it in the regular fast way of reading through the comments, one might think there is a contradiction, because you said there would be one and so we read it that way. But there really isn't. It's an evasive manoeuvre. Of course they know what you're asking and they specifically do not want to lie and so they choose words you are going to very likely parse in a particular way.

If you think about it, is the "there's a contradiction in the following sentence" way of stating this any different/worse/better than the original? I would argue it isn't. Same level just on opposite sides of the argument.
No one. It's up to a court to decide. If you haven't been declared liable/guilty by a court, you're not liable/guilty. It's simple as that.
Are these significantly different in mechanism from so-called "rocket mass stoves"? I remember reading about those a few years ago. Seems like they burn very "clean" and require relatively little fuel to heat a home.
> But, as lame as it sounds, some people do like it. I'm guilty of playing a RuneScape-like game for mobile (Ancients Reborn). Things are slow and you need hours and hours to raise skills but, even though it's arguably boring, I find it relaxing.

To be clear, I don't think that part is lame at all. That part is great. I'm all for relaxing repetitive games.

But I don't think that is what happens for all of the players in a game with pay-to-skip mechanics, and I think when we talk about the positive aspects of a game like Runescape, we're kind of engaging in a little bit of wishful thinking about how universal that experience was for all of its players. If a game is genuinely optimizing for creating a relaxing repetitive experience, then it (and 3rd parties around it) probably shouldn't also be monetizing getting rid of that experience.

Runescape grinding in theory was a relaxing, great experience for some people. I'm very happy for those people, but in practice, enough people obviously hated the grind enough that they were paying for bots. I am less concerned about the people who genuinely enjoyed chopping down trees, and more concerned about the obvious subset of players who were somehow feeling trapped by the game into spending real-world money to avoid something that was obviously unpleasant for them.

Willing theraputic, relaxing, repetitive grind is great. Hard to monetize with microtransactions though, and when I look at the play-to-earn model more broadly, that model literally doesn't work if people enjoy the grind. The only way the money comes into the game is the grind isn't theraputic or relaxing, a nontrivial chunk of the playerbase has to hate that process or else nobody makes money.

The healthy, relaxing, kind of best-case scenario grind you describe is the opposite of what a play-to-earn game designer wants; those designers have a strong incentive not to allow their games to have enjoyable grinding, because the whole point is that they expect the majority of their players to pay money buying resources from other players. That monetization model only works if people aren't enjoying the grind.
I subscribe to some streaming services and that's all I use, but consider this: copyright grants ownership over a fraction of your mind without your consent. Once you've seen a show or heard a song, whether you chose to or not, those neurons are permanently allocated to that show or song. How is that ethical?

Moreover, the current state of copyright gives a few large corporations enormous power to shape our culture. The stories of our time should belong to us well before we're dead, but copyright lasts well past one human lifetime.

And as others have mentioned, sometimes there is no price you can pay to legally watch something, for reasons that are truly "silly" to anyone who isn't profiting from the international balkanization of distributors. Like the Great British Baking Show on Netflix: it's actually Great British Bake Off, and you can't watch the original in the US. Good luck finding anywhere to watch Grand Designs (from any locale) in the US without ads, no matter how much you'd be willing to pay. There are many examples of shows from UK, Australia, and New Zealand that aren't available in the US at all, and probably vice versa, let alone the rest of the world.
It's a really, really bad idea to extrapolate price reductions in solar/wind into carbon free grids. Unfortunately there's a ridiculous wall of increasing overprovision required as you go deeper and deeper into renewables. Have a look at [0] if you can make the paper fall from the back of a truck, especially at Fig. 3. Assuming absolutely perfect grid able to transmit arbitrary amount of electricity and disregarding any real constraints, going purely by geophysical constraints on the amount of wind and sun available, continental US would need at least x7 as much wind+solar capacity as it does consume on average to have no more than one day of blackouts per year, assuming 12hrs of full consumption stored and immediately dispatchable. The only scenario in which that number goes to about x1 requires 32 days of full storage, which is just impossible with our current tech. And as you can imagine, in any real scenario that number would need to be several times higher. It's an absolutely ridiculous cost barrier that is not talked about enough and that effectively guarantees that we will be burning fossils for the foreseeable future.

[0]: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/ee/c7ee0...
I don't know. They seem to be able to squeeze out a lot of funtionality out of very limited numbers of cells. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point it was discovered that their light sensitive cells slosh around the cytoplasm inside the roughly spherical cell wall turning it into ad-hoc lenses even if for a brief moment. It still might be enough to get light intensity in a specific direction.
> Science is a collective endeavor that transcends any group boundaries.

Thomas Kuhn would have something to say about that.
What state in the Midwest?
Unix socket requires elevated privileges that containers shouldn’t have in the first place.
> MLK JFK Malcom X

None of those were baby boomers.
Hardcoding two locations is only marginally better than hardcoding one. (By probe I assume you mean probing a hardcoded list rather than something even more fragile and confusing.)
I dont think those are addressed now. I needed gpg for the first time recently. After fiddling with documentation and weird terms, approaches etc I decided it is not worth whatever it does. My time would be better spent if I learned how to knit or something.
Ha probably just a child's toy: imagine sending a rubiks-cube back in time and unearthing it now and the sheer amount of man-hours that would be invested into decrypting its "sophisticated" purpose
If that's the case, why not post some general guides based on experience? It seems like this excuse doesn't hold up if the job posters actually cared about transparency.

Example:

Job: Software Engineer

Description: Lorem ipsum

Range of 125K-300K based on relevant experience level

New Grad / 1YOE: 125-150K

2-5 YOE: 150K-200K

5+ YOE: 200K-300K

You can of course be as specific or vague, but these guides help inform people on both ends while not closing you off to those two disparate candidates.
What kills my sleeping habit is having different time for activities during the week and the weekend.

I sometimes lead a nice and regular workweek, but then comes the weekend and my social life throws my sleeping schedule all over the place. And suddenly I have insomnia again.

I tend not to have much sleepless nights, but when I do, I try to sleep like I was five years old. I remember really well how I used to go to sleep when I was a kid. I made pretend in bed. I pretended to be in a spaceship, or a fast car, or riding the train, and then I would seamlessly drift into sleep. Still works, but it is hard to make pretend, specially because an adults mind is not so easily entertained by itself.
Meant to say: To implement dynamic dependencies, you need a suspending scheduler, so obviously, my build system will have a suspending scheduler.
I like this one. Reminds me of how I felt moving into software engineering growing up in south Louisiana. I only moved to ATX, and yet others' bewilderment is my amusement.
We can still live well without increasing consumption. We'll have fewer cars, less packaging, and more expensive Amazon purchases, but in return we can focus on services like teaching, medicine, sport, and working less.

There will be less flying and less exotic food, but more art, sport, and intellectual culture. We'll also get to let nature heal and value the spaces that remain.

We need to see a healthy life as something other than pure natural resource extraction or we're fucked.
The knitting tool does without adding a stick that was never found even near any romian dodecahedrons.
WOW

This, and the Super Mario Bros port done a while back are excellent. The C64 is a particularly great 8 bit platform. Was capable of far more than intended, and it's always fun to see what people get it to do these days. I am surprised almost every year!

Back in the day, the REU (sp?) was a very interesting, but very underutilized and poorly adopted peripherial. I knew a couple people using GEOS seriously and they got something out of the device, but few others did. Now we see it's ability to do DMA exploited to great effect!

Who knew?
The ecosystem around SCAR was really impressive, and with just enough drama to keep everyone interested as well. Basic color clicking in SCAR was a concept but not enough to make really sophisticated bots or to keep up with attempts at detecting repeated behavior. The mods caught on to exact pixel finding, abrupt mouse movements, and other stuff that a typical SCAR script would generate. The botting community developed the SCAR Resource Library (SRL) to generalize common operations in a way that would be undetectable (findObject, moveMouse, etc.), all with a sufficient amount randomness baked in. With this library you could write some _very impressive_ bots even though it all boiled down to pixel finding and clicking at some level. Over time there was some disagreement over the development of SCAR (it was closed source and had a single developer), and the SRL community rebranded to SRL Resource Library (SRL) as the first attempt to move away from SCAR as the only home for this pixel-finding-based library of advanced botting functionality. Some maintainers of SRL then introduced there own client as an open source alternative to SCAR called Simba.

I have had a 10 year career now developing software for the biggest companies on the planet, but to this day a lot of the most complex and robust code I've ever written was as a teenager in SCAR. Good memories. Would love to see some wiki history of this written up somewhere.
Biofuels like wood can be roughly carbon-neutral, since growing them absorbs atmospheric CO2, and burning them releases that same amount of carbon back into the atmosphere.

Though obviously this isn't the case if the wood comes from badly-managed forests that are not replanted. And there are other effects that can make wood fuel carbon-positive:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/epa-declares-burni...
The parent post argues that cryptocurrency is most useful, in practice, for illegal activities. It does not argue that this is how it's perceived by the general public, by the NYC municipal government, or by Eric Adams. The perception is that it's a sexy new technology of the future, whereas the reality is that it's mostly a playground for "investors", fraudsters, and criminals.