skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a ~50% raise last year by changing jobs and switching to 1099. This year I did not get a raise, contract just renewed as is. So I got a 50% raise to start the year and after inflation took a 10% cut at the end of the year. I like the job but I think I have maxed the salary there so going to have to find a new one at the end of this year. Pretty unfortunate but I can't eat a pay cut every year. I have a feeling most software engineers are in a similar situation where the market is good, why take a cut or only 3% raise during out of control inflation when we can jump and get a 20% raise.
> the (false) perception that the U.S. is the #1 among world nations

The #1 what? I wouldn't blame you for using some unkind phrases here, and I suspect you want to! But it's certainly not false that the U.S. does much more space exploration than any other nation, spends a lot more on it, achieves more in space, etc. None of that invalidates the work of other nations, and spaceflight and the production of scientific data seems like a very healthy form of competition (and cooperation!) between nations. If the U.S. isn't #1, I am curious how you are keeping score.

Herschel didn't just get less English-language press than American made space telescopes. It was less prominent in the public consciousness than short, much less expensive Japanese missions like Hayabusa and Hayabusa2. I doubt any of this is about American exceptionalism.
Targeted ads are spam because they try to sell me items I already bought. It's like the crap on the front of a shopping receipt.
I feel like all the stupid comedy shows, especially in the 80s and 90s, making those episodes about getting a raise and earning less money, did a lot of damage to people's understanding of how taxes ACTUALLY work, and continues to ripple to this day, leading to comments like the one you are replying to.
> There is a lot of real usage which is not "banking/payments/secure messaging".

In fact, I don't do any of those on my phone. Unless maybe you count email as secure messaging in some way.
Migrate all Google Docs to E2EE platform in 2 clicks
I've seen plenty of stick PCs on Amazon that definitely have pirated copies of Windows on them. I continue to be a bit surprised that Microsoft hasn't gone after Amazon for "aiding & abetting" this, but they probably have bigger fish to fry.
It's been worse with them because manufacturers decided early that electric cars would be wired with hundreds of sensors and connected to the internet to deliver them to the manufacturer and who-knows who else.

Next, charging standards and stations decided that tracking your whereabouts was valuable as well. So when you plug in your car is identified, and matched with your financial and mobile phone details.

All this was sold as under the guise of convenience because range anxiety was and is real. Less of a problem now with extended range e-vehicles, but they are not winding down the collection of valuable data of course.

And yes, lots of this has spilled over into new gas vehicles, with the exception of the refueling angle. In comparison my current car is completely anonymous when I pay by cash.
I tested it on my M1 Mac and it reached 46.78 Gigaflops, which is quite amazing for a CPU running at 3.2 GHz. Isn't that like an average of 14.6 floating point operations per clock cycle?
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180313/10404539417/us-na...

It's only piracy if others do it, isn't it.
Yeah supposedly, but I wasn't able to buy a used Pixel 3 that wasn't boot locked. I tried 4 of them, all were locked by the carrier.

Should be illegal imo to stop supporting a phone that's also locked. All it does is generate waste.
Segway store compromised with Magecart skimmer
Are you part of the scientific community? If not, I'd ask you defer to my opinion on this matter, thanks.
> If you spend just a small bit of effort, you can look for items not made in China. They are usually higher quality.

I try to do this when I can, and they're definitely higher quality, but for some products, finding a version not made in China is almost impossible, a problem that's exacerbated by stores like Amazon not being required to disclose where their products are made.
One of the millions of features I had penciled in for my podcasting app - that didn't survive a rewrite in typescript - was the ability to detect different speakers and skip to the next one. Probably even topic based could work too if you can convert the audio to words at specific instances, subject detection may or may not work well I guess. Worth a try.
Where is the f'ing legislation forcing these companies to provide software updates for a number of years? The e-waste this kind of abandonment creates is unimaginable. I'm so frustrated that my government continues to do jack shit about issues like this that really matter and instead tries to ban encryption every six months.
Say what you will about Microsoft, but Windows support is designed to last a long time.
Well I come from NYC, so this is not exactly new to me. I suppose I'm the kind of person that belongs in a big city that's not really part of it's host nation.

Also, it is really not true that you can truly integrate, even in Berlin, without speaking German.
Individual contributor (as opposed to management)
I believe IC is "Individual Contributor" in this context.
Yeah, I read those kind of comments before.

But then again, we got a PRISM, XKeyscore or NSO Pegasus coming out of the box every other year. So I stand by "fair play" to qualify my assumptions.
As did I.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859522
How exactly?

The barrier to micropayments is friction. People don't want to have to put in a CC number or sign into Paypal to read a website. At the same time, publishers don't want to nickel and dime users, because the transaction costs of a $0.20 article aren't worth it.

Google's changes don't affect either of these issues. The changes are purely about how audiences are targeted for Google ad products.
There's more good old songs. That's because history is longer than present.

The total catalog of good music continues to grow; decades from now, an even higher percentage of good music will be old.
Oh, those are hilarious. Three cheers!

> Two Finger Bobops - Unlike regular bobs and bastons that grow on their own, BBQ bobs, smitchers and hot bobs grow on trees.

Sounds like some alien treats
I think it is debatable if UK is really a European nation. US and UK are far closer in various dimensions than UK and any other European country.
The main "difficulty" is that "Rdtsc" has itself a large execution time, and that modern processors have a very strange definition of "execute".

With retirement queue sizes ranging from 300 to 600 (depending on architecture), your singular CPU-core could very well be "executing" 600+ instructions simultaneously, including "rdtsc".

Under such conditions, the "definition" of "get the current time" is quite ambiguous.

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This isn't a problem with bandwidth. But it makes measuring "latency" very difficult, especially because out-of-order execution means that "proper" latency is largely ignored.

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Because of the out-of-order execution models of modern processors, "reciprocal bandwidth", or "instructions-per-clock" tends to be more important than latency proper.
> Google ads has customers though. Their support probably isn't great either, but does it need to be? Where else are you gonna go?

I've not dealt with Google Ad support, but I can say from experience Facebook Ad's customer support is terrible.

Similar to Google, I'd speculate that the majority of customers pay such small amounts, that it's more cost effective for Google and Facebook to not support them, than it is to support them.

I would also speculate, that if you were instead, say Pepsi-Co, you would have white-glove service from both tech giants.
There are several aftermarket OSs that work on the Pixel 4. LineageOS is one of those. You might consider going that route if you want to sustain your hardware.

This makes me wonder if there's a market for "save my phone", where you send your cellphone in and have a new OS installed...
I'm sorry, it seems you really don't understand neither what I'm saying nor the citation you used.

Collision and proof of work are really not the same thing.

Here are some Python code that compares the two. If you're not convinced, I suggest you try using it to time what is actually harder and what makes a blockchain immutable. Then come back here when you found a collision :).

import hashlib
def h (d): return hashlib.sha256(d).hexdigest()

def mine_for_PoW (d):
nonce = 0
while True:
blk = f"{d}{nonce}".encode()
sha = h(blk)
if sha[0:6] == '000000': ## PoW
return sha, nonce
nonce += 1

def find_collision (d, original):
nonce = 0
while True:
blk = f"{d}{nonce}".encode()
sha = h(blk)
if sha == original: ## collision
return nonce
nonce += 1
Re: "weirdly American", I suspect that Google sourced the current topic list from an already existing list elsewhere. (Maybe the larger IAB list that is mentioned in the readme?) It seems unlikely Google would use some of these terms in the year of our Lord 2022. For instance, the category including the word "Shareware" seemed particularly turn of the millennium.
I still think using "container" lose the fact that it's just a process with some tweaks :)

I'm not saying "marketing" as to say it was coined by non technical people, but rather that it's a way to "sell" the feature. Like you go see your manager and say "I'm going to containerize the application" vs saying "I'm going to add some isolation settings to the process"
Individual contributor, in other words a worker as opposed to management. The author's using engineer to mean software developer; they're the workers in this context.
>the answer seems to be Apple

Until Apple bricks your phone with a stealth update because you haven't upgraded quickly enough.

https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-iphones-settlement-idU...
If inflation is 5% and you get a 5% raise, you're level in real terms, right? No, because that 5% is taxed at your higher tax rate, which is (usually) higher than your average tax rate. This is called bracket creep.
Ah, that stack exchange comment is super interesting.

"If Earth would be 9% larger in diameter, but with the same mass, its umbra would end almost exactly at L2."
There are the rich and then there are the really rich, and then there are the unbelievably rich. I'll happily call a family earning 500k/y on two salaries in a small town where a million dollar home is literally a mansion on a hill "rich". Because they are. They just aren't as rich as the Trumps or Bezoss of the world.
One problem is that Leviathan teaches that coordination problems must be solved by centralized force. Another problem is that it views society as competition for resources. The extremes of its rhetoric are a memetically potent drug, and turn exceptions into rules, which then become axioms in the minds of the susceptible privileged undergraduate population - axioms which then rationalize sociopathic patterns of abusive control perpetuated by the ruling elites. The populist reactions to these abuses are perhaps the most damaging aspect of the whole scenario as it is playing out today.
I bought 4 used Pixel 3 devices and all were bootloader locked by the carrier.

Verizon refuses to unlock Pixel 3 devices if you don't have an account with them.
Thanks, I just saw their association with SPARC from 1993 to 2010, so I assumed it was their main architecture.

On the subject of VLIW, Sophie Wilson was talking up Firepath as late as 2020.

"In 1992 a spin-off company Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) was created and continued development, using the "Elbrus" moniker as a brand for all computer systems developed by the company."

"Elbrus-90micro (1998–2010) is a computer line based on SPARC instruction set architecture (ISA) microprocessors."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_(computer)
It's probably such a small amount of money that it's just not worth bothering with.
I've been told that wine making in Temecula (inland SoCal) didn't really take off at first because they were growing varietals typical to France, and the results weren't too good. They eventually switched to varietals more typical of Italy (which better matches the local conditions) and found more success.
Activist Investor Calls on Peloton to Fire Its CEO
"Poached"? Did they enslave them? Or did they make them a deal and the masters decided they'd rather work for someone else?
Yes had the same issue. Had to make deno run js files and import js produced by ts.
fyi small typo in https://oss-docs.castled.io/deploying-castled/deploy-on-aws-...: "Login to you AWS web console"
Yep -- love the software, but the lack of a kanban-style board in the free edition means we'd jump to their paid plan. Not a deal killer (the plan is $435/yr at our small size), but a sense of pig-headedness has me looking at other options.
Pixel 6 gets at least 5 years of security updates and 3 years of Android updates.
Source? I've seen this claim many times but is it just a feeling or is there at least a whistleblower?
> i first learned of cyrus imap from a blogpost that FastMail folks posted, but do not much about it (other than it is highly respected as a platform for mail, calendar, contacts)...Is it built in Go?

Cyrus predates Go by quite a while! The project started in 1994. It's implemented in C.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_IMAP_server
I think you misread my comment this as an anti-RISC-V shill. I'm just saying there are challenges which were known in the past 10+ years since RISC-V was invented, and will still be here in the next 20. FWIW I think the direction the ecosystem has taken is not that bad (yet).

> You should have seen the state Raspberry Pis were in circa-2011.

Yeah, I was one of the naysayers initially. And in retrospect the biggest advantage of Raspberry was its price. It sold at a price-point where no one could compete, and that helped overcome most other disadvantages, in a self-sustaining snowball.

And that might very well be the case for RISC-V as well.
On the Difficulty of Extrapolation with NN Scaling
Don’t cheap out on essential hardware
Qualcomm did suggest that: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/qualcomm-offers-to-invest-in...
Depends how expensive the accounting system is. If it costs $200 to mint the NFT you might need to cut down some of the trees to afford to do it.

Generally I am skeptical about "pay $X in cash now and we'll never cut the trees down" because the cash is real but the "not cutting down" may not be.
As a more mundane example...

My wife went into iTunes and moved a bunch of songs onto her phone. Then she went out and tried to play those songs... and it tried to download them off the cloud (using data, which is a limited resource). Apparently, copying to the phone didn't _actually_ copy them, just put sort of "shortcut" there pointing at it on the cloud. That was definitely _not_ what she wanted, but the software decided otherwise.
Hmm... I think our standards for application functionality are also a lot higher. For example, how many applications from the 90s dealt flawlessly with unicode text.
Really? Even something simple like Wordle feels janky with the way Safari’s chrome overlaps the keyboard.
Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covid vaccine
the popularity is deserved as there exist adjacent apps and community forums for help. The minimal chat/webrtc solution "Talk" is great for family and friends, the (Android) Talk App itself made leaps last year. It will also write plaintext rows per chatline to the db, but that's okay. Things transferred via webdav can be clientside encrypted, cal- and carddav again is cleartext. Etesync can do it encrypted but then you'd leave the all-in-one package. It's even more fun with customroms having davx and a webdav sync solution already integrated.
The Brother color laser printer I purchased 7-8 years ago was the best printer purchase I ever made. I barely print, and the toner doesn't dry up the way inkjet ink does. It just sits there, ready for the occasional print job. No BS software required.
I feel like this is a very common delusion, the expectation of privacy when going into public.

It's like public photography. Some folks get really upset if their photo is taken out in public without consent, but those folks were out in public so zero expectation of privacy. Same exact thing for the Internet.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I used nothing but Nexus and Pixel and finally switched to an iPhone 11 Pro from my Pixel 2 in 2020 and I have the same opinion.

The phone itself is so much better, but the UX is so bizarre and full of what seems like "its this way because its always been this way" stuff. Almost every day I go to change a setting, and have to choose between the "Settings" app, or the app itself. It still irritates me that I can't assign a specific sound to an app. So now when I get a generic notification sound I have to check my phone to see if its urgent (food delivery) or trivial (twitter), because Apple forces both of those apps to sound the same.
>Whether you agree to buy or sell at a certain price is entirely dependent on whether such price is higher or lower than the value of the trade, in your own subjective assessment.

The subjective assessment of the "value of the trade" is then a function of the subject's alternatives, which is usually how much someone else will pay or accept from them.

I find the term utility to be more beneficial than value, due to it being less likely to be confused. As a boss, I would say I value all the employees equally, in human terms. But the employees provide different amounts of utility/$. Although I can see how people use value and utility interchangeably.
How the Air Fryer Crisped Its Way into America's Heart
It's not only position, also deformation by pulling or pushing on the center of the mirror changing it's curvature.
> If it forces Mozilla (the corp) to abandon their stupid side projects and refocus on developing Firefox, I'm all for a huge budget cut.

Given the apparent reasoning behind the Servo team being laid off a couple of years ago, I don't think Mozilla's response to a budget cut would be a renewed focus on Firefox.

I suspect that instead what users would get is yet another Chromium based browser... along with a bunch of side projects.
> Once they're taking images, you'll have access to them.

What you say is true but with an asterisk. They grant time limited exclusive access to the data to whatever science team is using the telescope. It's basically an embargo agreement. That way the science team gets the first chance to do their research and publish it. Not all missions fall under this and in some cases you'll see what is going on right away. Eventually all data will become public.

I'll just quote their policy[1]:

Access to science data from most active missions is often limited to the Program Investigator Team during a period of exclusive access immediately following the observations. The duration of the exclusive access period ranges from a few months to as much as a year, depending upon the mission, the program category, and other factors. Some other data, such as those obtained during facility commissioning, or those that are found to duplicate concurrent observations by a Guaranteed Time Observer (GTO), may also be embargoed for a period of time. Data falling under exclusive access can be discovered via MAST public interfaces, but may not be retrieved except by authorized and authenticated persons. Following the expiration of the applicable exclusive access period, science data become available for public use without restriction.

There is a ton more [2] about how to apply to get time on the telescope. Dudes even have a standalone desktop application to help put together the proposal.

[1] https://archive.stsci.edu/publishing/data-use
[2] https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-opportunities-and-policies
Does anyone know if it's possible to use Litestream with SQLite running on Cloudflare Durable Objects?

I suppose you'd have to compile Litestream to WASM or have Litestream running on a different machine and reading SQLite from the Durable Object?
The paper is well-written, and I would recommend reading its abstract and introduction over the OP.[a] The big idea is that a graph neural network (GNN) can be trained to predict the weights of any other neural network for performing a task, given the architecture as an input.

For example, if we give the trained GNN a ResNet-50 architecture, the GNN predicts the trained weights in one forward pass, and voilà, we have a ResNet-50 that is now ready for use -- and you can always finetune it to get better performance out of it.

Remarkably, the prediction of weights works for previously unseen model architectures too. Design your own model, run its architecture by the GNN to predict the trained weights, and voilà, you have a model that is now ready for use -- and you can always finetune it to get better performance out of it.

Very cool!

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[a] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.13100.pdf -- Abstract: "Deep learning has been successful in automating the design of features in machine learning pipelines. However, the algorithms optimizing neural network parameters remain largely hand-designed and computationally inefficient. We study if we can use deep learning to directly predict these parameters by exploiting the past knowledge of training other networks. We introduce a large-scale dataset of diverse computational graphs of neural architectures – DEEPNETS-1M– and use it to explore parameter prediction on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet. By leveraging advances in graph neural networks, we propose a hypernetwork that can predict performant parameters in a single forward pass taking a fraction of a second, even on a CPU. The proposed model achieves surprisingly good performance on unseen and diverse networks. For example, it is able to predict all 24 million parameters of a ResNet-50 achieving a 60% accuracy on CIFAR-10. On ImageNet, top-5 accuracy of some of our networks approaches 50%. Our task along with the model and results can potentially lead to a new, more computationally efficient paradigm of training networks. Our model also learns a strong representation of neural architectures enabling their analysis."
> We just need to make sure they don't get so black box that we trust the outputs blindly

Black box is probably the only way we'll ever get AGI.

Our human brains are so black box that we can only accept their outputs blindly. We try to poke and prod the human black box as best we can, with magnets, sound waves, and light waves.

But it still generates useful output all the time, so we assume it's pretty good and generally let it be.
As others have already noted, that's not how tax brackets work. The real problem might be government programs like Medicaid - it's hard to tell if eligibility requirements are inflation-indexed, and since it seems to be determined at the state level, I'm almost certain it won't be in every state. So it's possible that increased wages, while it still increases post-tax income, actually reduces net disposable income after taking Medicaid, CHIP, etc. into account.
Ooooh -- you named off two of my use cases. Can you talk a bit more about how you're using it for content creation and marketing?
I've been guilty of this at times but what I would add is a certain type of environment encourages this behavior. If the business or teammates are very reluctant to let engineers work on what they want or give harsh feedback it encourages people to retreat into their safe space and try to create something they feel is worthy of feedback.
You forgot german politicians that helped killing it, to protect the long-established energy suppliers.

Peter Altmaier is one of those politicians.