skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's only by virtue of supply & demand

Absolutely. I never meant to imply otherwise. Worth mentioning that this will be true for a while though.

> The truth is, if you're at a school where the CS program only pays faculty $65k

I have first-hand knowledge about 3 such institutions, all of which place at least one student in a position that pays >$150K every year. Perhaps shy of 3x but higher than 2x for sure. Averages tend to be around 90K (pulled down by people who choose to go to grad school).

> Those students aren't going to a school with the name recognition required to easily open doors for entry-level $200k positions.

But they do receive fantastic educations, because they are at teaching-oriented institutions and get hand-held through their pre-career years (internship placement, interviewing skills, etc. are all coached 1:1).

The basic issue is that administrators at lower-tier institutions haven't yet flipped the switch where "CS = Finance/Accounting". They continue to hope and dream that their mathematics faculty can pick up the slack, as if it's still the 80s/early 90s and CS hasn't blossomed into its own highly specialized field.
That’s funny because I’m at Tulane and they can’t seem to hire or retain worth shit.
I disagree entirely with the thesis of "bullshit jobs". Unless it's a government job or mandated by regulations, someone is paying for a task to be done voluntarily. Therefore it isn't bullshit to the payer, even if it might seem like bullshit to the worker. I have never stumbled on a single job that wasn't government-required labor that had no purpose whatsoever, and furthermore the laborer wasn't able to quit.
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Case insensitivity is a mess as soon as you start looking outside of ASCII.
> sub-saharan country (which to me is even an absurd distinction)

Why? Sahara was for bigger natural barrier than Mediterranean Sea, so for populations/civilizations it makes more sense than continental distinction (Africa/Asia/Europe). It is true that Ethiopia is kind of exception here due to Nile and Red Sea.
I need to store the map of the entire US locally on my phone, because often, where I want to go has no service because where I go is very, very rural. If I were to do this with paper maps it would cost me hundreds of dollars. As a bonus, I can overlay the map with USGS GIS data and see all sorts of information about where I'm going, again, stored locally on my phone. I can tell you right now in about 30 seconds what federal or state agency manages any GPS coordinate and how to get there in a car, and if I need information like that, which I do, I can get it in the middle of the grand canyon a hundred miles from the nearest cell tower.

People do need it. You're dismissing very, very powerful tools just to complain that your city isn't walkable, forgetting that some of us don't live anywhere remotely resembling a city at all. There's a whole world out here man.
Not just themselves, often it's stolen to order: there's been a few mainstream stories about this and they often mention that paying off Facebook employees is pretty commonplace because the value of these usernames and the low paid customer service representatives are a recipe for bribery.
The problem is not with capitalisation, the problem is that Linux filesystems are case-sensitive and require you to type the name with exact case.
Personal data should be auto-delete after a few months by default (2018)
I love this.

I agree that owning a business that doesn't require too much of your time is better than a business like consulting. This might be something I would do on the side. One of my old manager owned several rental properties, it rarely took any of his time.
I prefaced it with perhaps incentives don’t necessarily line up… maybe there’s a clever way to go about it. I was thinking it will be pre-approved category of content… there’s already such model with sponsored content influencers post.
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Good idea. One prominent precedent: Haskell Curry's widow was asked about using the name Haskell [1]:

> * Hudak and Wise were asked to write to Curry’s widow, Virginia Curry, to ask if she would mind our naming the language after her husband. *

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
Are you assuming that the comment you are replying to is in regard to vaping indoors in public spaces? No reason to do so.

And also, why conflate smoking with vaping? They are completely different in terms of immediate and lingering odor, as well as second hand effects.
This is very similar to how npm works. Each installed package has its own dependencies installed that are kept separate from other packages even if another package has the same dependency.

For all the hate of npm and node_modules it’s wonderful to have this isolation
I think bash autocomplete can be configured to be case insensitive
I think there's plenty of room for some specialized developers. So you have to drill down and focus on one sector, and learn everything about that sector. Find the best products and brands in that sector, why are they so successful? Apply those techniques to their competitors, etc.

The most successful web developer I know only makes websites for GYMS, he knows how to craft the ultimate gym landing page. He knows what gym owners need, what they respect. And he knows what they're naive about, and what struggles they have to overcome. He knows how to sell and market to experienced fitness experts, and fresh soft newbies alike.

There are millions of gyms, and he is an expert and his knowledge could help every single one of them.
And guess who comes looking for him specifically, when they want to start a new gym business? The pro "gym websites" guy, that's who, who has 20 Gyms in his portfolio and 20 blog posts about how to be the best gym owner possible.
There should be less aggregators on the web. Regurgitating content from other sites only clutters the web.

Look, I understand you think having a scraper running and auto-filling your site is neat and will make you rich beyond measure. It won't.

Read the last two lines of the first comment again: trust is key, and so far you haven't demonstrated you actually understand that.
From rumors I heard over a year ago, Apple are planning on satellite implementations of some sort to get off current cell tower configurations and SIM vulnerabilities. I don't have a current link to those rumors, but I'm sure you can find them. When I first saw this MacRumors article come through I assumed this is why they're removing SIM. We'll see, it's just rumors to me until it's brought to fruition anyway.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29705957
Another issue (at least here) is that most positions are limited to 3-4 years and permanent positions in academia are quite rare and hard to get.
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You would rather not be able to tell who is and isn’t racist in your society?

If someone is prone to racist remarks that should be noticed and their thought process/moral failings should be addressed. If you simply threaten reprisal in advance you not only don’t address their core issue, but you also hide it from sight!
That is basically how domains work, but there are grace periods for recovery.
In 1994 there were scant few games that even had an actor or an actress. I'm guessing Wing Commander III was released too late in the year to be in contention?

Most of the games with live action scenes in this era were horrible Macromedia Shockwave things with terrible hunt and click or puzzle gameplay too, mostly banking on the shock value of filling up an entire CD with short tiny Quicktime clips superimposed over static backgrounds.
The problem with the bullshit jobs thesis is similar to this common saying in advertising: "I know I'm wasting 80% of my ad spend. I just don't know which 80%." The same principle likely applies to wages across the economy.

I think it's rather obvious that a huge fraction of employment is worthless. The problem is determining which fraction that is. It's not obvious. Many jobs that look and feel like bullshit may have some hidden function within an organization that is essential (and may not even be the "primary function" of the job as per the job req), and many very important looking jobs may create little to no value. There are probably companies that could knock out the CEO but would have a tougher time without one of their office assistants, but where telling which office assistant this is would be almost impossible without spending months observing the intricate details of operations.

The fact that markets are bad at optimizing out this obvious cost center makes me wonder if it might be "non-computable."

The only way we know of to discover this is to use Darwinian methods, but this is incredibly destructive. Deep recessions take out a lot of good but not-yet-robust businesses along with the bad and the obsolete. The modern practice of pumping economies along forever and not allowing deep recessions probably leads to a ton of dead wood building up but it's also probably why we have progress in quantum computers, electric vehicles, and space flight among other speculative areas that would probably implode in a deep recession (without being specifically subsidized). Forest fires burn the dead wood but they also burn a shitload of trees, especially immature ones who don't have layers of flame retardant bark. Lots of old and injured animals die but so do the babies who can't run fast yet.
Ones which say "something went wrong" with a "funny" gif of someone scratching his head?
The weirdest thing for me was that after my Ph.D., people started coming up to me on the street and asking directions. The scary thing was I usually knew the answer. Even when I was in a new city.
I had a two letter name which got hacked. I called in a favor from a friend of a friend at instagram/FB and got it back.. then it happened again and I didn't want to ask the favor again. IIRC they did not yet have 2FA even though I asked for it ( I was assuming it would happen again and it did. )
Sounds like it was actually effective overall then.
These companies contribute ~17% of worldwide road change updates, if that's not employing anyone to work on OSM then what exactly do you mean by "work on OSM?"
Sure you can quit. But often these “bs jobs” are a form of scope creep so you face the thought that eventually, it may change.
You're in luck! This belief system will likely die out in a generation or two.

Or you can accept that this belief system is directly opposed to humanity itself, and expect to be treated that way.

I think saying the only reason to have children is out of guilt and peer pressure is myopic.
This is a nice turnaround from 2015:

> Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy Guard, in 1997, and since then has been almost single-handedly keeping it alive with patches and updates from his home in Erkrath, Germany. Now 53, he is running out of money and patience with being underfunded.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encrypti...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9003791

Recall that this was in the wake of Heartbleed, a vulnerability that exposed our dependence on OpenSSL, another critical, and chronically underfunded project.

The project got a nice boost after that article, leading to this Ars Technica story about the windfall:

> Given the ramshackle state of massive GnuPG code base, it's not clear what's the best path forward.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/once-starving-gnupg-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011138

Nonetheless, a fundraising campaign followed just two years later. It turns out that $150K isn't actually that much of a windfall.
> your undergrads are making 3x your income at their first gig

Why are you making stuff up?

These sorts of careless lies, which are all too common, can be hard on young people in college, or considering college, or otherwise. They're either trying to value their potential education or wondering why the fuck they aren't getting the job offers they should be getting because so many are telling them their degree is the gateway to instant riches, and you're not helping.

> the total comp number for top-tier MBAs is about half of that.

Wrong in a very different way here. You should stop.
Fighting is really difficult (on level 5). I'm wondering if it's supposed to be this way or not. I don't remember how it was in the original.
I don't know what you're sorry about. There's nothing wrong with that idea. It just isn't feasible to have 8 billion people all living like that. If cars were only used by a sustainably small number of people who live like you, then it's fine enough.

The problem is the "lot of other people" issue. Your way of life works well only if most people forgo it. There's nothing inherently wrong with it in and of itself.
Securing a server is hard for the average user. But in any case LastPass uses E2EE so if the password was compromised that's most likely on client side, and for this self-hosted or not would make no difference.
Your last paragraph implies the person you speak of is a hacker, using 0day attacks? I hope such people get caught.

I only worry about innocent westerners living in a society that is creeping toward authoritarianism in the name of some politically polarizing politician. I do not empathize with hackers breaking into systems and causing major problems.
I use KeePassDX on Android and KeePassXC on a laptop, and they are synced with Syncthing. I have no issues with this setup
> But in this case, the only thing propping up the iPhone is the dominant market position of Apple

Surely, Apple selling lots of phones has nothing to do with people buying a product that appeals to them, and only to do their evil lobbying and manipulation.

Too bad this evil company Apple has replaced the Apple of your youth, that was cool, and not a for-profit company.

Homie, they’re removing the SIM card because they have the data no one uses it. You’re reaching into IDK-WHAT just to put words on the page. It’ll be OKAY.
Sorry to get a bit off track:

So is web3 just “ blockchain related things “ ?

I feel like web3 as a term usage has exploded to the point that I’m not sure what people are talking about when they say “web3”.
This is something that I can attest to being a problem. I visited friends in China, and when we were done with our dinner, they went back to the office... I also know of some couples that have sex like, once a month, because all they do is work.
Certain jobs sufficiently far from the obvious value creation have a tendency to look useless.

In many cases they are useless and could be bundled into other jobs, but when a job is over loaded there is efficiency to unbundling them. Factor in the communications synchronization overhead and it's no wonder that small organizations can perform incredible work. Large organizations have scale though.
Usually we replace the title with one that conforms to HN's rules, so in principle yes. I can't remember why I didn't do that in this case. Sometimes it's because the thread was so dominated by the original title that the discussion doesn't seem salvageable (I'm not sure if that was the case here—I haven't re-checked.)
My setup:
- Windows Desktop
- Macbook Air

I installed Keepass on my windows desktop along with iCloud drive sync. I keep my Keepass database in my iCloud directory. I can now use this Keepass database on my iPhone (via Files app), on my Macbook (iCloud Drive). Any changes made are automatically synced daily.

Is that really too difficult? And yes, it does "just work".

Bonus: Any passwords stored in my iCloud Keychain are also synced to my Windows Chrome instance via Apple's 'iCloud Passwords'[1] plugin.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/p...
Can you provide an example of a bullshit job?
I was just able to trigger the email again on a bad password. Going to figure out the exact 123’s and screen record.
i routinely cheat in single player games, i want to experience part of the story without the time investment.

i mean its my money, my time, who cares? I bought the game legit, i subscribe to "cheat" groups.. Does me getting to the last level deprive anyone else of that experience legit or otherwise? It would be different if i was posting spoilers day of release or something.
I don't honestly understand why a case sensitive file system is a problem. I think a case insensitive system is counterintuitive.
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My problem with these Play2Earn games is that it provides a dark motivation for kids to play them.

Previously, you'd play something like Doom or Quake because you enjoyed it and you'd quit after an hour or two because it would rapidly become repetitive and boring. You knew deep down that you were wasting time on recreation and that you should probably do the things you should be doing (e.g. the dishes, reading a book, etc).

Now, there's a small voice for players of these telling them that this time is productive. They're earning money and that's a noble goal to ourselves. Even worse are the games like League of Legends and WoW where there are professional scenes. It's very easy to deceive yourself into thinking you're just practicing those games in order to one day go pro.
web3 is whatever the newest startup is doing.

But yes, blockchain.
The idea being discussed is that a person could live on if the connectivity and weights of the neurons in their brain was captured. "You’re just a set of weights and biases right?"

I pointed out that a brain is dynamic; it depends on the biology of that person, and there are many other control loop mechanisms which are not captured by a network of weights. We aren't "just a set of weights and biases".

As practiced today, neural networks are trained, and then the trained network is statically deployed in recognition tasks or whatever. They aren't continuously evolving. Yes, one can come up with algorithms that retrain and reshape a network continuously, but (and here is the key point) it is very likely to quickly diverge from the changes that the original, organic brain would have made.
> to try to get addicted

Why?

> more nauseous than anything if you have enough

Enough to poison yourself.
I just did this in Germany last week, it has gotten a lot more painful. They now want an official document showing your German address (Personalausweis or Meldebescheinigung) making it impossible for foreign visitors to get a German SIM. Two years ago it still worked with only my passport.

Next time I'll just do roaming on a prepaid card from my home country, unfortunately my current provider doesn't support roaming in Germany.
If you are using the nickname china and have registered it a lot of places, even if you are completely non political and in no way associated with the country China, I can imagine the existence of these accounts outside of the governments control is a risk the government will be willing to spend millions trying to get rid of.
I'm not sure you can fight that, at least not by yourself.
Indeed, and this is an outgrowth of the fact that PhD education is relatively unstandardized. If you let people chart their own course, a few will figure out how to slide through without doing anything. Also, it's quite possible for someone to be capable of doing the research and producing the dissertation, but with such abysmal personal skills that they render themselves unemployable.

On the other hand, HN is where I learned that employers think so highly of CS graduates that they find it necessary to give them an exam to find out if they actually learned to program. So I don't think it's unique to PhDs.
Ok, you're now https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tandymodel100.
So original article is down, but this sounds like people who used the same password as their master and in some _other_ service that has been leaked. ie a user who's lastpass master pass is same as their facebook. Very different from having LastPass leak master pass. Is this the same issue or a case of LastPass not getting the situation?
There are several recent vulnerabilities which could have resulted in your computer being infected with malware without you knowing (like the log4j vulnerability). Because you're storing your passwords in a KeePass vault this actually increases the platform size for attack. This could have taken the form of several fairly simple attacks, such as key logging, clipboard (copy & paste) sniffing and quite a few other methods of stealing your master password purely because you've stored it somewhere other than your brain. Given the number of reported events in recent days, this looks more like individual compromisation events (malware/viruses locally on each affected users computer) than a single large breach.

It's also entirely possible this is all is due to an entirely new vulnerability which hackers have uncovevered which the security community has not recognized yet. This is less likely, but whether it is the case or not doesn't change the fact this likes like a higher than average incident rate for indivual compromises, rather than a larger single event.
This sounds like another tired variation on the "open source is dead" article that popped up here a few weeks ago.

People contribute to things for free for a variety of reasons. I've made only a couple contributions to OSM, but I'm happy to do so. The world needs freely available mapping data. Sure, the companies that benefit from it the most may not contribute financially or with manpower (just like with most open source), but that doesn't change the usefulness of OSM.

I'd much rather we have something like OSM than have all this data locked up behind paywalls and contracts. Who does and doesn't support the work is irrelevant to me.
It’s also very “easy” to identify a BS job, especially when you don’t know much about it.
I don’t think that is the norm for most people is it?

I only get a 2fa confirmation if it’s some absurd amount of money
Comparing the list of CVEs for major cryptographic software OpenSSL, OpenVPN, OpenSSH and GnuPG implementation of OpenPGP, GnuPG has stood up pretty well for three decades:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/4711/Gnupg.html

The main shortcoming of OpenPGP standard is lack of modern authentication. It has MDC, which works in most cases, but isn’t best practice nowadays. There is an update to RFC4880 in progress, RFC4880bis draft, which is presumably considered by sequoia-gpg. The file format is also apparently disliked by some people, but end users care about results. If RFC4880bis is standardized, the gap between OpenPGP and alternatives is closed. Then, using a heavily audited standard and code is preferred.

I read GnuPG is used by organizations requiring high security, eg, intelligence agencies, NSA, state-level actors (presumably shadow brokers etc), banks etc.

It’s still good to have competing options. But let’s focus on facts.
For what it’s worth, you aren’t alone. Not every role in software is amenable to WFH. In fact most roles aren’t. Developers have it easy. They can do remote all day long… or at least they think they can but they still have to have high bandwidth interfaces with the rest of their team.

It’s very very hard to replace sitting with all your teammates and rapidly working through a problem. When everybody is remote everything has to be scheduled and calendared.

I dunno where I’m going with this ramble but I strongly suspect two years from now will look a lot like it did back in 2019. People will still WFH some days like they did in 2019 but all these companies trying to go hybrid or whatever will discover that it just doesn’t work.
So instead of banning gold farming in their game, they just made it a feature and collect a %?
Current Hollywood would just start remaking them. No time/budget for new scripts.