skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in fact, many FIRE blogs are from non-eng people

I don't disagree with your overall point, but I don't think "number of FIRE bloggers who are engineers" is a good proxy for "number of FIRE people who are engineers".
Postmates invented applying the subscription model to a pay-per-use 'gig economy' service business.
actually you can do it as long as you don't mention about cheaper alternatives anywhere within the app.
I won't argue Apple's safety record on absolute terms, but I am fully convinced that it is safer than the Android alternatives in the smartphone space. This is the one reason why even after I de-Appled my PC (sold the MBA and bought a made-for-linux laptop), de-Appled my cloud storage provider, and de-Appled my email, I still use an iPhone.
Just because many people drive above the speed limit, doesn't mean you need to. Just because people dribble shit on twitter, doesn't mean you need to. Just because rich morons stick jade eggs into their vaginas, doesn't mean you need to. Just because there are greedy scumbags in the world, doesn't mean you need to be one too.

"But, but, someone's going to do it!" isn't even remotely a valid argument against having morals and ethics.
> Ah, and in some countries having too many companies on the CV isn't well seen, it appears the candidate isn't able to fit-in anywhere.

It is changing though in the tech field. Yes, it used to be that 10 years in the same company showed that you're loyal and dependable, but now it's more like "so you haven't learned anything new or been in a different environment in 10 years?". There's a difference between changing jobs twice a year and every few years.
Don’t be quick to dismiss “dead” or esoteric languages. They usually come with frameworks that solved virtually every problem imaginable over the years. Building a thing may involve programming but any veteran programmer would tell you that if they could solve a problem without writing a single line of code, they would gladly do so. However, if your goal was to find a programming language to fall in love with then my answer wouldn’t apply and I would suggest that you try all of them!
Likewise. I don’t let myself play games because I can’t regulate myself very well and play too much, or even if I don’t, I feel guilty for being unproductive. This strikes a great balance, personally - it’s a fun little distraction that lasts just long enough to be interesting, but not long enough to make me feel like I’m wasting time.
What's in a Good Error Message
100k is below starting salary in the Bay Area or Seattle. Most senior folks make 300-450k with Staff level engineers making 600-800k.
> First, a bit of off-topic, but do you know we keep #open62541 open for you on Libera.Chat? :D

Ahh, that's you!
I came in to say hi on the channel whn you announced. But the channel was rather unresponsive. Will do that again with a bouncer to keep the connection open over night.

Ada and Lisp are both really nice languages.
Much success with that!
why shouldn't people that have to use the platform have some influence over it given the level of integration iOs seeks to have in their users lives
This is a false equivalence. The opinion of someone who does not believe in science is not magically equal to those of people who do and are well versed in it when it comes to debating scientific matters.
Comparing Hawaii to Taiwan makes no sense since Taiwan and China are two separate countries. A better comparison would be the hypothetical situation where Spain starts claiming Portugal is a part of Spain and then pressuring other countries to support that position.
Our World in Data: Mammals
But again, what property is being taken? Unless you consider “the right to buy stocks” as property itself, which seems tenuous. You basically could apply that to any such item: “the right to buy drugs”, “the right to buy nuclear weapons”, etc. This isn’t a value judgement on whether or not one should be able to buy prohibited items. Rather, it’s an observation that clearly the legal system does not interpret “the right to buy” as property covered by the constitution.

By the way, society does generally let you buy whatever you want. It’s only when your ownership of an item infringes the rights of others are you generally barred from owning something. E.g. you’re not allowed to buy nuclear weapons because they pose a danger to those around you. Allowing policy makers and their families to trade stocks also poses a danger that insider knowledge will be used for personal gain in the market. This is a form of theft against the market and public at large. What about the rights of everyone else?
Yeah that's probably another lie. Even when I entered North Korea they needed the WHO vaccine passport from me BUT hey I am in a good mood these days so tell us in which magic fairytale country you got vaccinated in that did not offer you to use the WHO Vaccine Passport and I google it for you and show you that you could have shown a WHO Vaccine Passport and got it "stamped". Oh and just to be 100% sure I do this for you so you can see that the problem is YOU and YOUR misinformation that you try to be persistent about. We are not even talking about the blatant lie of your first comment anymore. We are talking about a new one you fabricated by yourself by moving the post over and over again.
Why would prices be cheaper? How would the user interface be changed in anyway and how would it benefit users?

That's exactly my point. There are no real improvements I can see coming from any new store. Please explain how it will be better and why any actor would make it better.
I'm sure they would enthusiastically sign whatever form absolves liability...
50% raises are extremely rare to get once you are an established Engineer in my experience. At least if you want to keep the other factors (working time, city etc) and not simply advance by switching to management or similar.

One way is to try switching from a regular industry job to a “giant” such as a FAANG. But these are quite rare in most countries.

Another way would be switching into specific industries like finance - but the high comp there traditionally means giving up some other things such as a guaranteed 40h-or-less workweek. Hard pass from many established engineers.

A third option would be switching to a larger share of non cash comp, but again, equity large bonuses are not commonly part of European comp and comp in traditional industry.
> Healthcare, 30 paid holidays, unions, paid overtime, weekends and calls off work come extra (it is 40h week period, want more pay for it), retirement, flex time, ...

If you are in your 20's, it is totally worth moving to the US where you can get paid 500K+ per year if you navigate your career efficiently. I posit that making this much money more than covers any of these additional expenses that you call out.
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just like an MMU can restrict what process(es) can access a particular byte or block of RAM, something similar could restrict access to a common storage medium.

Heh. Everything old is new again. I think the VM/370 was the first to do this in 1972.
I was at your presentation to Super Mondays at the end of the Difference Engine accelerator, when you demo'd Curatedby, many years ago. It's fantastic to see what you and the team you've built have achieved since then. :)
It doesn't. But I guess if you manage it correctly it can be a great asset.

"I'm the Wordle guy" looks good on a CV.
i've met plenty who have regretted the timing, or having 3+ kids instead of two. but never about having 1 kid instead of zero and it preventing their otherwise early retirement.

having one kid will delay any kind of FIRE strategy significantly for all but the top 0.01%.

the GP's argument is that people just dont have the willpower to make the necessary sacrifices to retire early...such as simply skipping having those pesky, retirement-draining offspring!
https://lifi.co/lifi-vs-wifi/
It offends me, as someone who has never succeeded building something people want.

I say that a touch light hearted but it’s kinda true.
Wouldn't this be hugely problematic in terms of NDA's?
He could add an ad platform or a simple sponsor without debilitating the product.
There is also F# via Fable: https://fable.io

Business logic can be shared with .NET and it has lots of ways to interoperate with JS. There's even a TypeScript converter though of course it's not as pleasant as "yarn add" and YMMV : https://fable.io/ts2fable/

Here's a demo of building some React components in F#: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Ct3CM_lj4&t=860s
So in the scale of google, 'not many' would be some few million per month? And all is good then, right? Even you use their scrapped data probably daily and are totally fine with that, right?

You think google bots read contracts before scraping website? really? :) If you had any experience in creating websites and launching them online, you would know how fast and often they arrive and how they do not care about your TOS. So the real 'violation' numbers might be very scary...for you.

https://ironcladapp.com/journal/contract-management/are-brow...
Technically there are never mask mandates by gov, but just 99.8% (I assume) of people wear mask.
this is the problem im seeing as well
You have be in the US. These email to SMS gateways all shutdown 15 years ago in other countries. I suspect the US keep them because providers handle billing differently. Unlimited SMS as been include in most subscriptions for more than a decade here, but some Americans still pay to receive texts. So in the US there’s still a finacial motivation to keep them. That and the US seems to be rather slow to move of certain outdated solution.
Once you let ideology infiltrate your reasoning, you’re no longer doing science. Just because you don’t like the implications of a particular piece of research doesn’t mean you get to dismiss it.
It can be over 100% per year depending on level (more senior = more equity). Check out https://www.levels.fyi/

If you're senior L5, it can be around 100% per year even before appreciation. Above that and it starts going above 100% per year.
Check out the CRACO project. Allows config of CRA w o ejecting.
I did a double take ... are you talking about cloning that Seattle company that's been around for 27 years, has over a million employees and generates about $400B in revenue? Sure it might just look like a web store, but there's more to it than meets the eye.

Please explain!
But Postmates, Uber, Lyft, etc are not really the same type of business. SaaS had been mainstream but memberships to a p2p app wasn’t really.
> don't excuse shit behavior on behalf of certain poor participants in the ecosystem

Why not? You are excusing the incompetence of everyone affected by this.
I’ve had a couple of managers approach me and try to poach me to their teams… usually it can cause some pretty bad blood so they’re usually pretty quiet about it.
> > Is an extra $10k per year worth learning a new org, a new skillset, a new set of expectations, a new set of coworkers, and a new boss?

> For many engineers, the answer is: “No.” Yes I could quit and get a ~20k raise by shopping my resume around, but I don't need the money.

Would you feel the same if you were enticed to switch jobs with offers of 1.5x, 2x or more than what you're currently making?

I think plenty of people would consider leaving their current employer, even with the headaches that comes with doing so, to make 50% to 100%+ over their current compensation package. I know I would.

I agree that engineers might not jump ship for a $10k increase in income, and it seems to me that the market rate for engineers based on current demand isn't captured by offers of $10k to $20k above current salaries. That would suggest that if employers are truly that desperate for engineers, like they say they are, then they'd need to offer more money to outbid their competitors' offers.

Truthfully, I have a feeling that many employers' choices of not offering larger compensation packages to potential employees don't stem not a rational economic choice, but from a feeling that such offers are "too much" for engineers. Some companies would rather not hire, and make less money, than hire new employees at their market rates and profit from their work.
I wish it were true, because single family house homeownership is an unsustainable 1950s meme. Better we take the red pill asap and get on with appartments.
> I have a personal theory that once a codebase gets complicated enough (no matter the language, no matter sync or async), you'll run into subtle bugs or performance problems

You probably, unintentionally, defined "complicated enough" to be at the point where these bugs occur - so that's a tautology.

I think the point of programming languages and techniques/libraries is to move this point of "complicated enough" as far out as possible. Without any libraries, it might be easier to understand, but it will happen so much earlier that it's not worth it. And the point of libraries is that not only do they allow you to push the problem out to a much later point in time - they also allow you to switch between projects and not lose all your knowledge.

Even considering high upfront costs, tt's a big net worth imho.
We have no proof that civets gave us SARS-1 and not the other way around.

Since it was also found in raccoon dogs, ferret badgers and domestic cats which one of those was the actual intermediate animal? Civets were just the first identified. Either one of them gave it to us and we gave it to the other three, or possibly we got it from bats and gave it to all four. AFAIK there's no conclusive phylogenetic analysis establishing which species got it from whom.

MERS is much more obvious what happened.
One doesn’t have to have a moat to have superior service.
No, they absorb the sunlight and turn it into electricity.
I used to work for a big public organisation, we had numerous SMS providers over the years. Most of them used HTTP (notice the lacking S) as the protocol and accepted simple POST actions with a key in the header (for everyone listening to read). When I left the service we used the most had moved to HTTPS by our request, but functioned the same way and was essentially bruteforceable because our password was 4 characters long and there was no limit on the service. I left in 2021.

I don’t think security is necessarily the most important thing to these companies.
It’s selecting for certain attributes that don’t have a major effect on job performance. I would actually paint it as pseudo scientific at this point.
Our oldest of five iPads is an original from 2010 which maxes out at iOS 5.1.1, mostly used by our youngest child. It's very clunky and limited. Anyone in the house older than 4yo doesn't really tolerate it. Hopefully given its limited use (no browsing, etc) any security risk is minimised?
https://lifi.co/lifi-vs-wifi/

Another big advantage of LiFi is that the usage of light allows LiFi connections to occur almost instantaneously because light travels at extremely fast speeds. This results in faster transmission of data and faster internet connections – about 100 times faster than speeds achievable by WiFi.

https://lifi.co/lifi-products/lifimax/

$1098
Guaranteed fast data transfer with 100 Mbps download & 100 Mbps upload.
Can you define PIP, please?
> How the hell do they run these operations or have this amount of gear safely in a favela?

BTW Netflix even produced a whole 4-season dystopian scifi TV show about how resourceful young people from Brazil's favelas can be - "3%". It's quite watchable and provides some interesting clues.
The swiss policy research site has a reputation for publishing texts that often appeal to people from the alt-right side of society. That does not disprove or approve anything but should be kept in mind while reading.
There are some good references linked on wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Policy_Research
I once got a job when someone on a mailing list I posted on reached out for more help with a web dev problem. That was back in 2002.
They’re taxed as many different ways as there are cities.

The main factor is the space available and the cost of the land when the parking was built. Density, land value, and taxes on that land tend to move together.

Huge surface lots are most common in the sprawling parts of the US that were developed post-automobile: particularly suburbs and sprawling western cities. Some of that land that is now part of a city, wasn’t, when it was developed. It was cheap land outside of a city at the time.
I completely agree that any new law should apply to not just Apple and iOS, but to all similar products. Of course what exactly "similar" should mean is likely a tricky question. Perhaps a rule like this would be sensible: If a device allows users to install third-party software, then it (also) has to allow for a reasonable way to install third-party software that doesn't involve the platform owner acting as a gatekeeper.
How does profiting from something valuable you created somehow makes you a greedy scumbag ?
Besides, you're not addressing the main point : Someone is going to "steal" most of his hard labor, and will profit from it.
In my first round of interviews at the end of college, one was with this consulting firm in Dallas. It was small, but successful. It felt like they respected their engineers, the office and everything was impressive, and by the end of the day I felt like they liked me and were going to give me an offer.

Only one problem: I didn’t want to live and work in Dallas. I wanted to be in Austin. That corporate sheen, so prevalent in the city’s culture, embodied by this shiny company, just wasn’t me. I’d been suppressing that thought all day because it seemed like such a good opportunity, but I knew deep down I wouldn’t be happy.

End of the day, final interview with the CEO, in his office. I took a deep breath and said, “I’m sorry, I don’t want to be in Dallas.”

He smiled, thanked me for being honest, and said “We have a sister-company upstairs. They have an Austin office. Want me to take you up there and introduce you?” That ended up being my first software job.
Why wouldn't it be? We have all the technology. Why make a dirty bomb, when you can make something invisible and release it at a busy airport, and it gets everywhere in a month and only affects the unvaccinated. It could be very profitable. Why politicians rush to convince us that this is not lab-made?! If not the original SARS-CoV-2, then Omicron for sure was lab-made.
money in has to exceed money out no matter what format the organization takes
Use vinegar to clean the terminals. The base will reduce the oxide and help to clean the compartment as a whole.
https://archive.is/mRIDh
But because they absorb sunlight, they get hot. Basic thermodynamics.

Still better than asphalt.
> but time will tell if the business ends up being sustainable med-term

Narrator: "it won't. As the whole American startup scene nowadays is based on the idea of losing unlimited investor money for years and decades with literally zero plans to change that"
The problem is deaths are so infrequent that it takes many years to get a statistically representative sample. Perhaps at-fault collisions per mile would be a better metric?
Yes, all of those cities and suburbs in the Indian Ocean, that’s what’s creating the trend described in this article.
Not software dev, but when I was a land surveyor for a civil engineering firm I got poached internally because I was doing loads of field surveying but I was also the only person at the company who knew anything about GPS and GIS, so they pulled me off the crew I was on and put me on the one doing all the geospatial work.
> SARS-COV2 came out the gate perfectly adapted

We actually do not know this for sure. There is a chance that the reservoir is one step removed and that another host in between amplified the virus to the point where it could make the jump.

Ebola also has this property, but it is just a bit too lethal to spread far (fortunately). An Ebola with a slightly longer asymptomatic incubation time (while already shedding) would be far worse then the current versions.

With Ebola each and every outbreak starts with an interspecies jump, usually bushmeat. The idea that these jumps are extremely rare is in principle incorrect, but it looks like that because pandemics are rare. But those are just the runaway successes (from the viral point of view).
So - several threads here. It’s not unreasonable to try to understand what helps globally as well as individually. Early on, when supply chains for masks were stretched or non-existent, we were instructed not to wear masks. This was good advice globally, as it reserved the limited supply for those who could most benefit from them (first responders) - but bad advice individually. If you were looking for guidance to protect yourself and those you loved, following global advice was not the best path.

Likewise, the current guidance that wearing masks - particularly if they are well fit FFP3/99%+ filtering, is good advice globally, but it’s unclear if it’s sufficient to reduce the risk down to <.1% for the individual (the point at which I would pretty much not worry about social distancing and avoiding stores, workplace, etc… I’m <65 and vaccinated, So I would be comfortable with a 1/1000 risk of catching Covid, particularly as I can usually avoid those scenarios)

The question isn’t whether masks are an important NPI - they absolutely are - particularly if we could convince people to avoid going indoors unmasked and ensuring they are wearing (and not taking off) well fit FFP3s, the question is whether that is sufficient to mostly eliminate the risk of catching Covid.

One lesson I learned here is that you really need to expand on your thoughts and not assume everyone else is already on the same wavelength as yourself.
It seems even a Java logging framework for enterprises is enough awesomeness for free.
More likely it works "good enough" rather than extremely well.
Toxic culture is driving the great resignation
People have been bitching about a lot of things for a long time and they’re still in use… amount of bitching is just not correlated with anything.
No. the new comes with new shortcomings that need to be countered with something extra before you can treat them equivalently to the old. This is what I meant above when I said: "part of the reason for that investment is the verifiable resume showing skills and experience in the right things. So you'd need some alternative that is similarly confidence-building in some other way."

Otherwise I'm just hearing extreme risk-aversion. And a patronizing tone for that matter. I have repeatedly used terms like "interesting" to describe the problem. Since you seem to be devoting a very limited effort towards parsing my words, let me paraphrase for you: that means it's a hard problem. Stop tell me it's hard and thinking you countered my post.
I was listening to just one episode of a Stacey Higginbotham's podcast about IoT with one of her colleagues on smart cities (one of her articles got featured here yesterday), and it didn't take long for them to lament the use case for IoT being creepy surveillance rather than dominated by cool and interesting open-source future dream home projects. I think the monetary value gained from surveillance is simply too great for executives to deny, and the monetary value gained from the IoT best-case is too weak for the market to supply... :/

It's overwhelmingly a work force of thwarted techno-utopians. And that means many of the disillusioned workers have crossed the floor to become techno-dystopians, possibly bordering on luddites towards the very tech they are creating, which is an extremely demoralizing position to be in.
I don’t know if that’s true. I live in Palo Alto and know a fair few people at a fair few companies. Outside of a handful of companies they’ll only be hitting those with illiquid highly-valued stocks - not with base & bonus.
> but I think you may only be speaking for a subset of engineers that are already fairly well compensated

Didn't the parent directly say that? Money not matering after a certain point means that it still matters before that point.