skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just realized how spoiled us dev folk are. If only my grandmother would know the cushy life I get to live while still complaining about it she would slap me.
I guess China. But you probably have to be a full-fledged dictatorship to achieve it.
Yeah, I'm sure it can vary widely; we try to stick with US timezones, which at least brings all of South America into play. Deel is really great for the legal issues of onboarding international folks.
Stick to VTI and VXUS? VTI is up 12.4% the last year and flat 0% since October. https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
Interesting. MongoDB actually came to mind while I was reading the other comment here:

> No one uses DynamoDB alone: they bolt it onto Postgres after realizing they have availability or scale needs beyond what a relational database can do, then they bolt on Elasticsearch to enable querying, and then they bolt on Redis to make the disjointed backend feel fast. And I'm just talking operational use cases; ignoring analytics here.

Perhaps MongoDB is prime for a comeback?
This is a great anecdote! I think the same thing happened with me, possibly with another of his books.
The most accessible runtime on the planet. To each their own. I loathe JS, but I also believe english is a crap language. English happens to be the only language I can effectively use to describe my ideas to others. :-)
Would this happen to be the same philwelch of Tuesday?
Jeff - are you going to do any ESP32 IOT stuff now that you’ve got home assistant? ESPHome extension to it is great
They will always be what? Going down? I was just saying they've come way down.
What happened at SiFive?
Even within remote companies there are distinctions between the way different teams practice remote. For example, a lot of companies that transitioned to remote out of necessity come from the perspective of copy / pasting in-office activities online (ie meetings, happy hours, etc) whereas natively remote companies think about things from a more original and untethered view (async, writing, Looms). Be careful to spot the difference when joining a company.
For international, Deel does this from the employer's side and https://rebase.co/ does it on the employee's side.
Education or healthcare provide returns which are not directly monetary.
Perhaps the renumeration is fair for the market of environmental and social startups in Berlin, but thats quite low in comparison to other industries and to the rest of Germany.

There is often this premise that just because you are “doing good” that you don’t deserve good or better than good renumeration.

You even said it yourself, that less money to developers means more money to your cause.

These two ideas are not diametrically opposed, we have been taught they are. A startup as successful as Ecosia is in position to pay its developers above these market rates you suggest

And honestly it shows, I dont use Ecosia because the results are (in my opinion) subpar. My argument is if Ecosia attracted the best talent in the world by paying more, their product would be superior than what it is, and as a result they would earn even more money for their cause.
I can show you 10 code snippets that don’t contain sec vulns. Therefore, software security is easy.
Sure, I'm referring to recruiting FTEs. I'd be surprised if a startup offered a 3 day work week at the same or even for less comp. Perhaps for specialist skills.
You shouldn't read SICP as a guide to practical programming. A lot of things in it would normally be bad style or contrived, but it's interesting to know that they are possible.
Even if sideloading is a thing, the vast majority of users would still use the App Store.
Maybe SICP will not be better for using Javascript, but perhaps Javascript programmers will get better for reading SICP?

That would be very nice.
>for our most performance and latency critical workloads, we have made the choice to build and manage our own infrastructure on-prem

I don't understand this logic. are they basically saying that their servers are on average closer to the user than mainstream cloud infra? are they e.g. choosing to have N satellite servers around a city instead of N instances at one cloud provider location in the centre of the city? is it the sparseness of the servers that decreases the latency?

or is it more to do with avoiding the herd, i.e. less trafficky routes / beating the queues?

it's also unclear whether they use their own hardware on rented rackspace as that could potentially lower costs too
In reality it worked - each service only talked to the next so in that sense it was okay. But each service was its own binary running in its own container (someone went to a conference and heard that S3 was made up of 500 microservices, to they decided we needed as many microservices as possible).
The bit where it didn't work so well was making changes and testing those changes - the original developers hacked it together then didn't want to touch it after that, so there was no dev environment (just staging environments to hijack) and no functional/e2e tests.
I also appreciate the honesty, but I don't see the error in the author, quite the opposite.

Afaiu, Bolt is a personal OSS project, github repo is archived with last commit 4 years ago, and the first thing you see in the readme is the "author no longer has time nor energy to continue".

Commercial cash cows like Roblox (a) shouldn't expect free labor and (b) should be wise enough to recognize tech debt or immaturity in their dependencies. Heck, even as a solo dev I review every direct dependency I take on, at least to a minimal level.

I can't speak to the incident response as I'm not an sre, but as a dev this screams of fragile "ship fast" culture, despite all the back patting in the post. I'm all for blameless postmortems, but a culture of rigor is a collective property worthy of attention and criticism.
Thanks for all the advice! I'll definitely give modemmanager a spin now; I had some initial trouble but it sounds like if I can get it working it will solve a lot of the pain points I had with the manual QMI setup.
I understand that people will adjust their consumption based on price, and I think that there are generally some interesting ideas with trying to fight the general logistical challenges of non-static demand through pricing.

I think the core issue here (which is honestly my problem with surge pricing as well) is that there are limits in these systems. People in the cold need some heating, so no matter how high the price is there's going to be a floor of how much energy will be consumed. Peaker plants might exist, but there are only so many of those, so no matter how much demand there is supply can only vary by so much.

Given those factors, it feels like the reasonable thing to do is to set price floors and ceilings that are "reasonable". If there needs to be exceptional pricing, honestly this is where the State can step in (and it can buy insurance or whatever for this) to help. But $9000/mwh isn't helping to relieve problems (especially when people don't even know!).

Even in your cutoff knob, it's like... OK you are going to set a max price, and cut off your thing. Are you setting a max price for your fridge or your heating in winter? Or rather, would most people? Hell, what commercial enterprise is "shutting down the datacenter"?

If we are going to say that pricing is a signal for controlling consumption, you need a feedback loop. That implies communicating price changes and giving people time to adjust for that. Generally this has been solved through the easy-to-understand "at these times it's cheaper" and "at these times it's more expensive". You can also have fun with seasonal variations as well. It's not 1-to-1 but hell, just charge more or less right and seasonally it should all average out nicely, and it doesn't require nearly as much futzing around.

Market rate feedback could be done purely at the grid level, without exposing that to customers in real time, and mostly work. It removes arbitrage opportunities for energy providers, but that's a feature in my book.
Me (angrily) to the global pandemic: "Enough is enough, mister, if you don't stop ravaging our population, we're putting you in a timeout!"

I'm sure bargaining with covid will work.
It's surprisingly hard to consistently find startups willing to pay over $140k - some offers are low key insulting. However, if I cared less about having any semblance of a social life I'd leave new york immediately. $200k+ full remote, I'd never go back.
There was an article about all the unicorn IPOs from last year being under their IPO price, I think that's a good indicator of what's going to happen: valuations falling back to earth, you need to be building a business that doesn't rely on VC money. Time to stop handwaving unsustainable companies as "growth plays"
They've spent lots of money on an expensive PR firm from the old school, and what they came up with is "No Place To Hide".

This can be easily undone with the following meme...

1. Take whatever advert they create with the tag line "No Place To Hide".

2. Change the image to Ann Frank.

3. Profit.

* BONUS: Add the text "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about".
That's true across the board though, and seems strange to call it out specifically in regards to alcohol consumption.
It think you'll find that on page 47 of subparagraph 4 of the t+c you agreed to 27 years ago when you first flew on AA (since amended twice daily), that the data in question is in fact property of AA.

In all seriousness, this is the crux of many of the issues on the internet: Data about you, or generated by your activities, is probably not your in a legal sense.

In other words AA gives users a limited license to access AA data, and they are mad that you are allowing TPG to use that license. AA sees this as sharing your Spotify password to give them access to music.
Thinking through zero-knowledge protocol creation via socratic dialogue
You'd get access to a fairly large pool of the "almost wealthy" who have enough wealth saved and invested that it will grow to a nice sum over the decades, but still need some income to avoid touching it over that period.

i.e. those in leanFIRE, baristaFIRE, or coastFIRE positions.
The _accounts_ don't disappear. The data linked with the features you're cancelling does. So, apps and purchased digital goods don't seem to disappear. Files that you need to pay for storage costs for do.
I think Pfizer got 50B+ USD in revenue in 2021, maybe they can find a little bit of change somewhere to hire specialists to prepare the data cleanly and release it ?
The difference is that you consent to someone else's drugs entering your body.
Yeah, I suspect this is where a lot of the 'debate' is coming from. My experience is that Google/FB/etc... have (a slight) majority preferring WFO for at least 3 days, and other companies are overwhelmingly WFH.
I'd say JS-only devs would benefit from getting outside of their bubble ASAP, and the original SICP is a very good way to begin doing that.
This. I've billed, from Belgium, clients in both the US and Switzerland. Had zero problem receiving payments.
I like remote work and all, but to be completely honest, I'm not sure we've figured it out yet. All that we've gotten is forced equality; we aren't bringing in remote workers as second class citizens relative to the people that work in the office. That's a good start, and probably a necessary step on the way towards a "tipping point". But people don't have the same rapport that they do in person, decisions are tedious and contentious, and knowledge sharing is harder. We still have much to figure out, and it will be easy for someone to say "figuring it out isn't for us".
I think your first paragraph is a bad analogy. Because we did it in medicine doesn't say we can also do it in politics. Politics is a lot harder.
> But now we're finding out that the old retirement system is too expensive for the young generation to handle

I had read somewhere that, long long ago people who retired at, say 60 would probably eventually die by 65.

In that case the retirement system, pensions, savings etc would work because they only need to be supported for a few years.

However, as the healthcare system across the world increased, people are now living much longer lives and hence they need to be supported longer. This stresses the existing retirement mechanisms.

It's kind of ironic if that theory is true.
> Access to the global talent pool

Great for companies. Great for non-Americans. Not so great for Americans earning high wages.

This is what happened to our manufacturing sector, and it's absolutely gunning for our knowledge work. It's inevitable.
I'm not sure what to think of this from the article:

> She told me that she didn’t want to get anyone sick or kill anybody. She was worried she would be held responsible for someone dying.

> What am I supposed to say? That 23 children have died from Covid in Canada during the whole of the pandemic and she is much more likely to kill someone driving a car? That kids in Scandinavia, Sweden, and the Netherlands largely haven’t had to wear masks at school and haven’t seen outbreaks because of it? That masks are not a magic shield against the virus, and that even if she were to pass it along to a classmate, the risk of them getting seriously sick is minuscule?

> I want to tell her that she can remove her mask, and socialize with her friends without being worried.

> But I am expected to enforce the rules.

While I can sympathize with how the student is feeling, the author seems to be forgetting (intentionally ignoring for the sake of their argument) that having a conversation with a student isn't breaking the rules. That explaining the facts to a young woman, nearly an adult, is what is expected of a teacher.

> At the beginning of the pandemic, adults shamed kids for wanting to play at the park or hang out with their friends.

Who was shaming children? local parents? government officials? I didn't see any of this shaming. In fact, where I live, more children were at the parks.

I think what's really missing in most situations is honest conversations about the way the world is right now, the fact that many people are afraid, others are dying and many more will die as a result of this virus.

Young adults should be encouraged to think about this situation, it's the world they are entering.
Is it what is happening with Android? From what I read it’s not the case, almost every install is done via the play store, sideloading is a power user feature that has almost no impact on the average user security.
The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle – Low Tech Magazine
I used to use this font, and applaud JetBrains for creating it, but I eventually found Rec Mono Duotone, which I've now used for years.

Found it via this website in a thread very much like this one, so just paying it forward:

https://www.recursive.design

screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/masonmark/masons-vscode-th...
Exactly. Precaution comes at a price. The question is whether the benefits of the precaution outweigh the costs. And that is an answer science cannot, and should not, answer. These days, it seems, many scientists are desperate to cloak their policy preferences in "science." That is precisely why there is presently so much distrust of scientists.
If I was an editor of the publication that ran the article I would probably have said “yeah, I’m not running a piece about a architecture without pictures relevant to the subject matter. Come on, think”.

If you want people to care, meet them half way. A wall of text isn’t that.
That's a different position than the one I advocated.

Containing an extremely contagious airborne pathogen is not the same as not simply assuming that "everyone will get infected" (which suggests that any activity to contain or restrict the spread of infection is 100% wasteful).
i predict that ultimately the linux kernel will prove too difficult to fully secure.

i predict that the successor will ultimately be a microkernel architecture with ipc that is built from the ground up to be hardened against hostile components and will be accelerated in hardware. i predict we'll see something like realtime cryptographic proofs of both the identity and correct execution of operating system component code and the code of user programs.
Even if this number slides to 50% in a few years, we've accelerated what would have probably taken 20 years or more of transition in to just a few years. The impact on every city and region outside the historical major growth centres will be huge.

We are just in the opening phases of that change. A big %# isn't the only indicator of change, it's the amount relative to pre-pandemic.
The more common this becomes the more likely people in the US (where most people are trying to work) take notice and enforce existing labor laws, and push for more regulation.

I’ve worked with people doing this in the past and they almost certainly are contractors in name only. That is they are essentially full time employees operating as contractors to skirt legal issues.
She's most likely upper-middle class and definitely spent several thousand euros of her (family's) money. But I think you might be overestimating how much she personally spent. Look at all her sponsors (https://flyzolo.com/partners/). She didn't go out and buy a Shark at full price of 127k, it was either lent to her by Shark or she got a good discount. All her other sponsors helped out with money or products in exchange for being part of a record setting flight.

Some of the copy might sound over the top, but it's way easier to attract help when you're postured as "a young woman with an entrepreneurial spirit on a mission to break down gender barriers, set records, and inspire other young women" instead of "please give me money, I want to go fly."
Have a read about the world’s worst market timer: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...

In short: there’s never been a 20 year period where the broad-based US large-cap equities index have lost money. The future isn’t guaranteed, but I’m betting on that record to continue.
Comment I read on here a year or so ago stuck with me. "time in the market beats timing the market"
As part of the general public I feel the same way about these made-up terms. However, I believe if there is an increase in litigation, as a result of new "anti-tech" laws, that is allowed to proceed through to discovery, then lawyers will cut through the BS. The made-up terms will be translated to "plain English" that the general population, including judges, can understand. It is part of the job.

There is an old theory that settlement may actually be averse to justice. In the case of "tech" companies and their nefarious practices, questions have been allowed to remain unanswered and issues to remain unresolved for the general public. This has been going on for a very long time. Uncertainty has been allowed to persist for decades. Who benefits from that uncertainty.
A good grandma would be overjoyed that her descendants had progressed to the point where these were their chief complaints.

Absolutely incredible.
Spotify pushes Drake all the time so that theory is bunk.
> The CDC has been unfortunately hopelessly politicized.

These accusations are a common way to tear down democratic institutions, handing power to corporations and powerful individuals. Do you have evidence of it? I've seen none, other than some things attempted by political appointees during the Trump administration.
An important difference being that nobody ever expected users to use the x86 instruction set directly. Whereas the very clear initial expectation for Bitcoin was that it was an actual currency used for transactions by end users.
"...he was someone whose career, title and passion for the game obliged him to play chess, an activity at which he was not very good."

That's a fairly ridiculous conclusion to draw. Suradiradja was regularly a 2100 to 2300 ELO rated player. This is not a grandmaster, and he should never have been awarded that title, but he was in fact a very good Chess player by any reasonable standard. If you, me, or almost any strong amateur player played against him we would be absolutely demolished.

To make an analogy that a fan of team sports might get, Suradiradja was the equivalent of a journeyman role-player on a professional team. Entirely solid by professional standards and truly elite by normal human standards. Unfortunately, he was declared to be an All-Star when he really wasn't quite that good.

Just a reminder than even mediocre professional athletes are still better than 99.99% of the people in the world who play their sport.
How do you think approval voting will affect long-term incentives for campaign strategies?
Remote is such an overloaded term.
Is it US/North America only?
Is it equal work for equal pay globally?

I was someone who took the opportunity to relocate back to my home country when Covid struck, but had to take a near 50% pay cut to do so, despite doing the same work. I'm surprised this hasn't become more of a hot button issue within the community.
But we have a similar noise in COVID death and injury as we have incentivized hospitals to register everything and everyone as COVID related. And I believe we all know just about any PCR test can be made positive if you use enough cycles.

Sorry but I can't distrust VAERS and then trust the COVID injection complication data added by the same people but now with financial incentives.
Is your whole argument that a solar flare will be predicted with enough notice and the grid will be shutdown in time to save us?
You need some disposable income but don't necessarily need rich parents. A pilots license is doable with $5-10k depending on where you are in the country and whether you purchase time in blocks. Training in the bay area is ridiculously expensive because of fuel plus the sheer amount of time you spend waiting for other traffic.

Looks like she also has quite a few sponsors so perhaps she was able to fund the trip through those.
Climate impact is significant. That's going to interfere with generations enjoying their lives.
So this might have changed, it's been a while since I looked into Android dev, but I think that some of the C++ integration stuff ends up hitting FFI latency. So you can get good performance, but you're still bound to (for example) latency in the input layer because your hooks into the OS HID layer is still going through the same stuff, _and_ you have some FFI nonsense.

I imagine that thanks to people at Epic and Unity that things will have improved much on that front, it's not like games don't exist on Android after all.
It is when it's the real life accounts of coworkers who actively believe that, and similarly share these sentiments on the company Slack.