skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will the current high tech salaries last?
I've been reading a lot here about how high salaries currently are, due to a shortage of engineers/the Big Quit/startups being showered with funding/whatever other reasons. I see figures like 200k-300k in the Bay Area, and maybe similar for remote positions.

I'm getting FOMO as a young engineer in deep learning/computer vision at a small European company. My plan was to stay at my interesting job with average pay until I stop growing, then hopefully jump to a company that pays better when I feel like it. But what if the market shifts and salaries go down?

Is there any indication of what the job market will become for tech employees in the next few years?
at a 50x reduction in cost per interception than can probably afford to produce a lot more of them in the long run.
A third the price but still pouring disgusting fumes into our neighborhoods
I just hope that this shows how useless competitive programming is that it can be replace by the Transformer-model.

Additionally, people should REALLY rething their coding interviews if they can be solved by a program.
Yes, though narrowed down to "packaging for a python virtual environment" draws closer to jar/war.
> So you're saying telemetry should be handled as a separate process that has nothing to do with the rest of the browser, and treated like a hostile service? [... T]his was a dumb bug and it is completely unreasonable to expect some kind of adversarial design "just in case a freak bug triggers on telemetry network requests".

I absolutely agree that this a dumb bug having little to nothing to do with telemetry. It is not even the first case-sensitivity HTTP/3 bug I’m personally encountering in the course of completely casual use[1]. Probably not the last, either, those joints ain’t gonna oil themselves.

At the same time, you know what? I’m glad you suggested this, because I certainly didn’t think of it. Yes, in an ideal world, telemetry absolutely should be a separate process (or thread, or at least not share an event loop—a separate “hang domain”, a vat[2] if you want). And so should everything else off the critical path.

I’m not saying Firefox is bad for doing it differently. I’m saying it’s silly that Firefox is forced to play OS to such an extent because the actual one isn’t up to its demands.

[1] https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme/pull/11

[2] http://www.erights.org/elib/concurrency/vat.html
Interesting, though it's enough that two independent mmWave radars can re-recognize a person to count as
identifiable. No need to involve visual data. Especially if mmWave radars become common place.
What makes you say gasoline cars are much less safe than electric?
I was wondering why that wasn't reading right to me...
Plus, Kagi has only a few possible outcomes.

These are my predictions:

1: Never has enough userbase to become sustainable. Very likely given that a search engine costing as much as a hulu account is not a value proposition and Kagi folds after a few years.

2: Kagi gets bought out by a larger brand and takes on the hulu platform of pay + ads.

3: Kagi gets enough of a userbase to get recognition, so advertisers and companies start targeting and optimizing their sites for that service so that they can get a share of a crowd that will pay to search the internet, eventually turning them into what Google is now.

4: Companies invest into Kagi, buying a premium subscription to enable the search functionality on their own systems. Soon after the companies realize they are covering a significant portion of their income streams and start blackmailing Kagi to change their business model so that their userbase is preferentially directed towards the controlling companies' products.

5: Kagi gets investors who do what the companies in 4 would do.

6: Cheaper competitors arrive and the paid search engine concept goes into a death spiral race to the bottom, destroying the field for everyone. (I can get the same results as Kagi on "Gluffer" for $0.99/month and the first 6 months are free! etc., etc.)

There's very little chance that they make it past all of these hurdles. It would require a creator/owner with amazing self-discipline and an absolute corporate credo to force them to turn away money (all the way up to bankruptcy and the end of the business) in favor of the people that use their products.
> The #1 predictor in a US Presidential Election is the height of the candidate.

No, it's their gender.
Have you sufficiently taken the pandemic into account?
It messes up everything and people are more on edge. Couples spend more time together and outside friends or activities are missing for many.

How will you know, that your feeling of happiness will even last when she is gone?

It seems obvious you need a break, but maybe your past self will just recover and with it comes a lot of regret.

If you are really sure, you should confront it with her, there is no nice way for this, so don't even bother finding it.
Doesn't really seem meaningful when you can get a remote position at pretty much any company right now. As long as you're high performing you can work well below 40 hours, work pretty much whatever schedule you want, and everyone's happy.
Hmph. Isn't CGI just different path? We could have improved miniatures as well. Maybe technology to produce them or use with CGI. It is not so binary. Computers are no the only technology we know.
For body text, I would say the 1st and 4th in the screenshot are the best ones. Which ones are they?
Agreed it completely dreadful. (No sarcasm intended)
It did:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_school_of_algebraic_ge...
>I'm gonna stop the author right here:

>> First of all, remind yourself that users love settings.

Maybe this is a better way to explain it: Some users like settings, some users have to change settings to use your product. But most users will not change them if you pick good defaults... for most users.
nice way for the companies to hit back at the compensation growth. I knew they would find a way :) . Reduced hours -> reduced pay. While pushing the required responsibilities/deliveries up, not initially of course, yet slowly after the "honeymoon" back to the pre-reduced level and may be further up as the reduced hours at various places were anecdotally associated with higher performance.

>As an Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will be contributing to the design and development of the end-to-end developer experience across all 50+ teams and be the key technical advocate with partner teams. You will work with senior leaders across Amazon, finding solutions to multi-dimensional problems and driving a consistent tooling experience across the different parts of the Amazon.com product portfolio.

and the requirement is just 2 years of experience! May be it is just a team which can get away with anything - like either a pet project of a high VP or/and just a project pretty irrelevant to anything serious, ie. it doesn't look to me like a typical AMZN dev sweatshop.
I didn't say it was.

https://blog.adacore.com/a-modern-syntax-for-ada
BMW is a luxury Car, you still have to pay for safety extra. That's the difference. One car brand make it mandatory, other ask you extra dollars for every safety camera to install.
> Again volvo is a premium brand, so they don't want to invest more in EV to make your car more safe.

Dude, really?

https://group.volvocars.com/company/innovation/electrificati...
Like the concept, but especially for live feeds, seems expensive? at $3456/month/camera ? Is this not your use-case (it's the first one on your use-cases page)? Or am I missing something? Congrats on the launch!
I’d rather be in the world where we have too many papers tweaking the details of power posing and exactly measuring how much each contributes to the effect. At least we’d know the effect is real.
To be fair, Singapore is surprisingly strong in everything. Google "little red dot" and you'll get a window into their mindset.
Yep, find ... | xargs grep ... is something I use almost daily. I don't use -exec with find, mostly just because I learned the xargs way and it's habit.
Google posted earnings yesterday and stock popped by 10%. This is more to do with FB than tech bubble FUD. Also they broke out the reality labs division for the first time, presumably indicating not-so-rosy picture of what FB is betting on in the future with Meta verse.
T-cell immunotherapy tied to 10-year remission in two leukemia patients
The blog site keeps randomly scrolling by itself when i ahve darkreader on.
You could probably just do both? Once a redirect has fired, off you go..?
HVM is the ultimate conclusion to years of optimal evaluation research. I've been a great enthusiast of optimal runtimes. Until now, though, my most efficient implementation had barely passed 50 million rewrites per second. It did beat GHC in cases where optimality helped, like λ-encoded arithmetic, but in more real-world scenarios, it was still far behind. Thanks to a recent memory layout breakthrough, though, we managed to reach a peak performance of *2.5 billion* rewrites per second, on the same machine. That's a ridiculous 50x improvement.

That is enough for it to enjoy roughly the same performance of GHC in normal programs, and even outperform it when automatic parallelism kicks in, if that counts! Of course, there are still cases where it will perform worse (by 2x at most usually, but remember it is a 1-month prototype versus the largest functional compiler in the world). I'm confident HVM's current design is able to scale and become the fastest functional runtime in the world, because I believe the optimal algorithm is inherently superior.

I'm looking for partners! Check the notes at the end of the repository's README if you want to get involved.
There was that time when it was discovered that nearly all published binary searches and mergesorts were wrong. [1]

And yet, the concepts of binary search and merge sort are fine.

I think that's quite similar to the situation in math papers? Because math isn't executable, a math paper being "significantly" wrong would be like discovering that a program uses a fatally flawed algorithm and is trying to do the impossible. It can't be fixed.

Programs that can't be fixed seem rare?

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about...
Opinions on this aside (which are subjective), we should remember that the "this is a bad precedent to set" argument is ignoring the (objective) fact that this precedent has already been set.

The US Government took many actions even stronger than this to stop speech against the Vietnam War (resulting in the Free Speech movement).

This problem continues in how folks talk about how vaccine mandates setting a bad precedent, unaware of how the US Government mandates (by force) polio vaccinations.
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This is more difficult than wordle. You might have the correct sum but in the wrong order. For example in math 8 + 2 is the same as 2 + 8 but not in numble. The order matters.
> I don't buy that, unless you're asexual and aromantic. People tend to find love, if they're looking for it or not. And, not just men re-marry. If my experience is at all typical, a second marriage works better than the first because the first was foolish.

I didn't say I'd give up sex. Only long term committed relationships. I don't want to hurt another person the same way I will surely hurt my current partner

> This sounds quite insensitive, and I wonder if you're considering the emotional aspect of this. I strongly recommend counseling. Many of us here are on the spectrum, and have difficulty processing the emotions of ourselves and others without deliberate study.

You are right, the financial part is not actually the main problem, the main problem is how heart broken she will be. But I think the sooner the better, at least she has enough time to find someone else, if that's what she wants
It’s the old no true lockdown argument; if the lockdown fails it’s because it wasn’t tough enough or because it was followed or enforced strictly enough.

An easy fallacy to handwave away the possibility that the lockdown strategy just doesn’t work so well. Which is kind of obvious if you think it through; either the result is you eradicate the virus completely or the lockdown just delays the inevitable. And it should be clear by now that eradication is simply impossible and from very early on in the pandemic was just never going to happen.
I found some (very mild) examples of censorship mentioned elsewhere [1], but I also don't understand the hype here:

>In the original North American SNES version the spell Holy was renamed "Pearl", the summon "Jihad" was renamed to "Crusader", and Hell's Rider to "Rider". Many sprites were also censored. Overly revealing sprites, such as Siren, Lakshmi (Starlet), Alluring Rider (Critic), Chadarnook (woman), Goddess, Power (Hit), Magic, Lady (Girl), and another untargettable part on the final boss, were censored. The smoke for Misty and her palette-swaps was removed. Pub signs were changed to cafe signs.

>During the scene where Locke sees Celes imprisoned in South Figaro, she is no longer being beaten by the guards in the GBA version, and they merely taunt her. The censoring of Celes's beating isn't from the localization; this is also present in the Japanese GBA version. The scene where Celes is being tortured by the Gestahlian Empire was removed because the original Final Fantasy VI was created before the Japanese ratings board, CERO, existed.

>The conversation between Edgar and Relm during their first meeting in Thamasa was changed. In the Japanese version, after Edgar learned about Relm's age (10), he said to himself: "I need to get a hold of myself... or it's going to be a crime". In the English versions, Edgar says: "Not even a lady yet. Here's hoping you're still around in eight years, kid". In the Japanese versions, Relm used harsh language, especially for someone her age. The overseas versions toned down the dialogue so that, while still biting, her words are overall clean.

>When climbing the Tower of Kefka, in the original version, members of the cult of Kefka are said to be "praying" to him. In the SNES version, this was changed to "thinking" about him.

[1] https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Censorship#Final_Fantas...
The disgusting fumes are almost exclusively from diesel trucks and very old cars. Manufacturing affordable (no, the Model 3 is not affordable) new cars helps take old cars off the streets and make our neighborhoods cleaner.
Why life-threatening? Is Wormhole going to whack them or something?
I did. I haven't sorted out proper ventilation for my laundry room yet. Using a pi zero with a dht22 to control a dehumidifier via a tradfri power switch when needed was quick, fun, functional, and offline with no vms or GUIs needed.

Logging the data elsewhere to influxdb was a fun little addition for a few pretty graphs.

I'm a fan of nats.io but it isn't necessary. A private network via zerotier makes life easy but is also completely optional.
> In ethereum code is law

The DAO hack says otherwise. Defeating the point of 'decentralization' and 'permissionless blockchains'.

> If what I say is wrong and code is not the law, than what is the point of ethereum at all? Might as well run on AWS or something.

Exactly. Even when 44% of Ethereum Nodes are running on AWS. Amazon's own announcement defeats the whole purpose of decentralization again and the idea of 'code is law'. [0]

[0] https://coinful.net/amazon-managed-blockchain-supports-ether...
I thought the same thing after I had time to think about the light rail comment. I certainly don't want to downplay the technical achievements. I am really excited about the progress. I think myself and others just want these companies to be honest with us, give it to us straight and tell us how we can help create the future, not blast out PR releases meant to suck in the less informed investor. I suppose if that's the only way to get the money to create this then I should learn to accept it.

Edit: two other concerns of mine 1) SF is a great place to kill a pedestrian with not completely proven driving technology, especially kids, because there are so many of them. And 2) These companies give very little consideration, if any, to the millions of people who drive for a living who might no longer have that means of supporting themselves.
Uau, that is when I started in computing with a Timex 2068, naturally ray tracing was not even on my radar at the time.

Did it also do the classical line based rendering?
> Creating solutions to unforeseen problems is second nature in human intelligence

If this is true then a lot of the people I know lack human intelligence...
It's good to be aware that gnu grep has a lot more features than "unix" grep, so if you find yourself on a BSD system a lot of this stuff doesn't work.
The test against human contestants doesn't tell us anything because we have no objective measure of the ability of those human coders (they're just the median in some unknown distribution of skill).

There's more objective measures of performance, like a good, old-fashioned, benchmark dataset. For such an evaluation, see table 10 in the arxiv preprint (page 21 of the pdf), listing the results against the APPS dataset of programming tasks. The best performing variant of AlphaCode solves 25% of the simplest ("introductory") APPS tasks and less than 10% of the intermediary ("interview") and more advanced ones ("competition").

So it's not very good.

Note also that the article above doesn't report the results on APPS. Because they're not that good.
For me it would be enough if RSS feeds could include <recommended-feed href="https://someone-elses/rss.xml" reason="Friend's travel blog" /> and RSS reader allowed to browse through the web of recomendations and add allowed to add selected ones to my feedreader list.

A potentially standard way to find other related feeds, instead of just consuming the content of one author/website. Curated by real humans that produce useful content (that's why I have them subscribed).

Simple thing that could have been very powerful for discovery if this was thought about early enough.
Using CGI leads for so many "unrealistic" mistakes as your example. The devil is in the details, and soon makes something otherwise good quite soon unejoyable.
Probably just reduced pay with the same expectations.
People are slow to "accept" self-driving cars because they don't exist in a form that anyone can actually buy. Regardless of safety or lack thereof, I can't purchase a real SAE level 4+ vehicle today at any price.
Same here. I started running my own mail servers back in 1994. Through the years, I've run smail, sendmail, qmail. My current stack is postfix, dovecot, rspamd running on FreeBSD.
Handy, I’ll probably forget the 1 suffix tho. Ycombinator-meta.com or smth might be more memorable, that’s my problem tho I guess =)
There was another study that found that people remember things better when reading a heavier book instead of a light one. The obvious solution is to glue a brick to the back of your phone...

But seriously, the form and tactile sense of the object in your hand seems to be related to how well you remember things. The trend on phones may be moving away from what makes things easier to remember.
Why not? Fixed-size SIMD architectures use mostly the same operations, so if you target SSE2 initially, the code should run just fine on NEON. A runtime that ships a JIT compiler also has the unique opportunity to further optimize SIMD code by using more lanes or limiting the working set to the host platform's L1 cache size. Even the AOT compilers like GCC or clang emulate platform-specific intrinsics using generic vector ones. This should count for something, no?
Why wouldn't it be possible for a country of almost 26M people to have competent hackers? Just cause they live in a dictatorship doesn't mean they're all stupid.
Data-journalism is actually a thing, and bigger organizations like the New York Times have done some pretty impressive work building tools and training programs for their reporters.

https://open.nytimes.com/how-we-helped-our-reporters-learn-t...
For an individual person to be willing to adopt autopilot on safety grounds, autopilot has to be safer than that individual person's driving, not just safer than the average person's driving.

If your driving skill is above the mean (because you're never a road rager, speeder, etc.), then you're worse off using Autopilot, even if Autopilot is as safe as the average driver.

Since most people probably consider themselves above average drivers (and in fact most people may be above the mean if the bad drivers are outliers), this limits the number of people who will believe that Autopilot makes them safer.
Against the “survivorship bias” theory of why modern architecture is ugly
They did use all that money to overpay market value for a lot of engineers, data scientist, etc. They were particularly aggressive the past 2 years during the pandemic, but a lot of those hires are now getting paid 20% less on their overall comp.
Also workaway.info. One summer I participated in two consecutive ones - one in Romania, one in Austria.
Late career Unix engineers refuse to concede on decades long debate
and hard-to-press keys. uppercase letters only. and you are ONLY allowed to backup manually, and to 1.4Mb (or worse) floppies

This is The Way

kids: off my lawn
No. Even as a tech geek... I use it as an aid, but not as the primary. Even when I'm driving a fire engine with a dash monitor that has seven always on, always visible cameras around it, I thought I'd use them a lot more than I do. I do use the cameras in my car supplementarily too, helps me dial parking perfectly, etc. But I still find myself doing visual checks.

But I also grew up and had my formative driving learning years without the benefit of such aids.
Yes, the compilation speed wasn't something I had on mind when I made the remark, maybe I should have abstained to play clever.

Anyway maybe when Cranelift gets more mature.
Yeah my first thought was wondering what happens when "reduced hours" comes up against deadlines, stack-ranking (or similar), and game theory.
>> But the only thing worse than having to tweak a setting to get your functionality is not being able to get your functionality at all.

Or a setting that once set doesn't stay set. If I arrange the settings for something, especially part of a UI, I do not expect those setting to go back to defaults every time an update happens. Somewhere between functionality and not having functionally is only maintaining functionality through constant user effort to rebuild settings.

Like the rental car I had that constantly reset the heated steering wheel every time I got in. I don't want you to be on. I told you I do not want you on.
So stop turning yourself on every time. THGTTG predicted this frustration decades ago (the Nutrimatic drink machine scene).
I’m here really hoping this is just Ms. Psaki’s personal opinion and not that of Administration, that somehow transpired during a briefing.
For whatever strange reason, people in this field call all sorts of minor changes in the text and images to better fit regional tastes and cultural norms 'censorship'. That's not to say some of these changes aren't ill-conceived or silly but the term makes it sound like something far more sinister than what it is.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Censorship#Final_Fantas...