skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At $250k/year, you’ll be paying 24% Federal tax (up to about $325k, at which point it goes to 32%), so AWS would net you about $32k/year more (excluding state tax) for 250 to 500 hours more per year (5-10 hours/week * 50). That works out to between $128 and $64 per hour. If you take into account the 401k difference, these numbers might drop even lower.

The Oracle job seems like a nonstarter since you’ll have to pay the self-employed tax (really just the 7.5% that your current job pays for you) plus benefits (which can be very expensive). It doesn’t seem like a financial step up.

I’ve been a consultant for years because my spouse has a great job with benefits. I’ve been able to save up to $50k/year in a solo-401k and take of lots of time to spend with the kids (coaching, day trips, vacations). This freedom has been the MAJOR benefit of consulting, but again my spouse provided the safety net.

What I haven’t mentioned is the tech stack. If you are in a dead end job, then you should definitely consider a change - if your position is eliminated (and it’s probably more likely than you expect), what could you do next? A sideways move now into a better career path could pay off in terms of safety (as in you could easily get another job). Being comfortable now could make life more difficult later.

You’ll obviously need to weigh these options yourself, but the best opinion I’ve heard so far is to seek out a transfer within Microsoft that might give you the tech challenge/ experience without the uncomfortable changes the other jobs would require.

Good luck!
> Where do I apply for a permit to reassign culpability for my driving to a corporation?

Search a jobs aggregator for "Taxi Driver"?
I too became highly dissatisfied with technology and the pursuits therein. I knew this was not what God wanted for me so I gave it up and now working a factory job. I never quite made it in tech. But there is more reason for this than simple incompetence. It was never something I was supposed to do.
This is for Orange County, NC, which has not expanded Medicaid but is using the regular federal ACA marketplace. There are definitely a lot of low cost/quality HMOs at the Bronze level, but across all tiers there are 63 HMOs, 3 PPOs, and 10 Point of Service (POS), a term I hadn't heard previously.

For comparison, I am on my mom's insurance from Belk Stores which is self-insured, offering three different HDHP PPO plans with a pretty good network and a range of deductibles within the HDHP window. Premiums are pretty bad. My dad worked for a SP500 semiconductor company before retiring, about five years ago they switched to HDHP-only, which just two options both at the higher end of the HDHP range. Premiums were better, but actual coverage not much better.
The other big downside is you can't get the money out for one year. After that, they are basically liquid.
Per capita is a standard way to contextualize things in statistics and since the original measure is per year, per capita per year. The point is not to "make the smallest number". 99 million trips per year alone doesn't tell us anything. If it was made by 1 million people, the scale is big, if it was made by 100 million people, not so much. That's why contextualizing per capita is important.
Well. In Germany the middle class flies or drives, the lower class takes the bus and the upper-upper-middle class drives teslas or takes ICEs
Sorry, but since the about page of sslping is down, what is it? From what i can tell from the scant information on the internet, it's a monitoring tool that tells you when your websites have a SSL vulnerability?
>A bad trip can result in a massive setback in terms of one's mental health -- which can take months or even years to overcome

This is extremely rare. For perspective, there are people who drink once and overdo it, and end up dying in accidents or fights. But no one talks about it because it's equally rare and alcohol is socially accepted.

>People on mushrooms occasionally do really stupid shit.

Sober people do really stupid shit all the time, too.

Anecdotally I've taken 6g of dried shrooms (they are decriminalized here, for what that's worth) and was still able to refill my coffee and walk up and down a flight of stairs without spilling it or falling. I still wouldn't drive like that, but liquor impairs my fine motor skills a lot more. Driving myself to the hospital if I had to would've been possible off shrooms, but I can't say the same about half a bottle of whiskey.

Every drug is slightly different for every individual and no two highs are identical, sure, but for most nothing bad happens with psychedelics.
That’s not what I meant. Only that the fact that people complain about X in both A and B does not tell much about the relative quality of X in A compared to B because the expectations and standards may be very different.
Location: Bay Area

Remote: Yes or on-site

Willing to relocate: not out of California

Technologies: Open, particular interested in teaching and education.

Résumé/CV: Berkeley BA Mathematics

Email: Kirsten-K@berkeley.edu
Shameless plug for my friends substack all about public transit:

https://lovetransit.substack.com

It’s wonderful and bounces back and forth between japan, sweden, and greater europe
I was once part of a startup named Intrinsic. We had built out a complex product that protected Node.js processes with extreme granularity. Not much information exists about the product after it was acquired but the blog posts are still up:

https://medium.com/intrinsic-blog/securing-node-js-applicati...
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not, but this really is meant to encourage you.

Most people will never write anything and even fewer people will write something good. Nobody who doesn’t write will ever write anything good. If you can get yourself into the group of people who have written something, that’s like buying a lottery ticket where the prize is writing something good. Maybe you’ll buy a bunch of tickets and shorten your odds a bit.

Maybe you’ll just have a bunch of losing tickets at the end of the day. But most people won’t even have those and those kinds of people really like to sneer at people who do play the lottery.

Maybe this is an awful analogy. But if you want to write, that’s your reason to write. I hope you have some fun and find some meaning in it.
What? They have absolutely tremendous data, the envy of any data scientist on the planet. I don't understand how you could possibly describe their user data as garbage in any conceivable way. Even search result click-and-query data alone - leaving out Android, Chrome, Cloud, and everything else - is a stupendously invaluable, priceless asset.

If you call that garbage, what on earth - or, for that matter, off it - is not garbage!?
HR chief says your boss wants to boil you slowly to get you back in the office
yes, Madrid <> Marseille, Lyon, and Paris on AVE, and TGV services on Paris <> Barcelona. No track gauge change, direct link.
The media is silent because it is bullshit.
They don't report stupid Soviet lies.
I am a machinist. Do you know how easy it is to fake serial number stampings?
One guy with a hammer and number set.

Are Russians that stupid?
They think a serial number is some kind of authenticator?
Heck from the pictures I saw it was spray painted on.

Please don't insult our intelligence.
This is a great suggestion. There’s a quote that’s something like “If you think without writing, then you just think you’re thinking.”
But that seems like a reasonably understandable number? For all that everyone talks about how amazing trains are in other countries, I'm a little surprised to learn that I take Amtrak more in the US than the average German citizen takes DB, which is generally a much better system.

That said, that seems like a pretty good improvement, percentage-wise, but a lot of folks talk about trains in Europe as if it's so amazing that everyone is taking it all the time. I'd be curious of that number relative to the number of flights taken per year per capita.
SQLite fixed that a few releases ago with STRICT tables: https://www.sqlite.org/stricttables.html
Fair summary of America's disheartening descent into structural idiocy. "Glad" I can see it with the clarity of an outsider, but then again... these things tend to cross the big pond sooner or later at least somewhat, as evidenced by right-wing flareups here in Europe.

Hope we will be able to look back on this with the relief of having overcome a bad dream. Then again, there won't be long until that other crisis hits... and that one's not just happening in the head.
Russia warns Sweden and Finland against NATO membership
Probably my favorite show to have on in the background when I'm color-grading or doing other work where I can afford to be a tad distracted!
I am an independent software engineer and Solar & Energy Efficiency Engineer in Nigeria.
That's a very good receiver for 1933. Most television of that era was still rotating-disk systems. This receiver is intended to receive signals meant for Baird rotating-disk receivers. 12.5 FPS, 30 lines is the rate they give, although there was no firm standard at that point.

For more info about early TV systems, see the Early Television Foundation.[1]

[1] http://earlytelevision.org/
> “The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.”

At least IBM took this to heart.
I thought that at first. But if you need to translate between a lot of the devices this would work with, you might spend more than that on all the different adapters.

For someone with a lot of retro gear mixed in with new gear (like me), it's probably not such a bad price. Especially businesses that digitize home videos etc.

I wonder if there is surge control on the inputs. The number one reason I have to replace video adapters is the input buffer frying. Ironically that often results in a not-blue screen of death.
One might equally suggest that all American workers should go on strike until their healthcare system is properly functioning.
Yeah, there are ~100B neurons, ~1Q synapses, but how much compute is the brain actually using over time?

Some quick googling gives this:

- Generation of an action potential seems to use ~2.5×10^−7 J [0]

- The brain consumes around 20W during normal activity

This seems to imply that there are around 8×10^7, call it 10^8, activations per second [1].

Apparently, the average neuron has 1000 synapses. Let's say each synapse requires 10 mulacc operations per activation. Doing that math gives about 10^12 FLOPs/s [2].

Integrate that over 18 years, and you get roughly 5.7×10^20 FLOPs [3].

PaLM required 2.56×10^24 FLOPs to train [4]. So, we have (way more than) enough compute, we're just not using it efficiently. We're wasting a lot of FLOPs on dense matrix multiplication.

There's plenty of wiggle room in these calculations. I checked over the math, but I'd appreciate if someone would let me know if I've missed something.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-018-9503-3
[1]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Divide%5B20+W%2C2.5%E2%80%89%C3%97%E2%80%89Power%5B10%2C%E2%88%927%5D+Joules%5D
[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Power%5B10%2C8%5D+Hz+*+1000+*+10+flop
[3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=Power%5B10%2C12%5D+Divide%5BFLOP%2Cs%5D+*+18+years
[4]: https://blog.heim.xyz/palm-training-cost/#:~:text=PaLM%20(2022)-,2.5e24,-10x***
Absolutely - these ranty invectives are so tedious. The idea that something is fundamentally broken because it doesn’t work the way you expect it to.

I struggle through each of my Windows sessions despite having used Windows since the 80s and having built probably more than 10 PCs over the past 30 years. I don’t blame Windows for that. I daily drive MacOS and that’s what I’m used to. That’s a me problem, not a Windows problem.
> Trains kill lots of people

Vastly fewer, per passenger mile, then passenger cars, comparable to busses, less than scheduled airline flights.
Agreed, soft deleting adds so much complexity to everything. And even has the potential for privacy related bugs. Like, say, accidentally forgetting to respect the deleted column in a query on a joining table that determines user permissions for some resource. Now people have access to something they had permissions revoked for. Whoops.
Wealth of one of Putin’s 'inner circle' revealed
That was it! I thought I could remember 'Tim' but my mental completions were all wrong. Thanks.
I don't like what you like...
> The numbers seem large when they're in absolutes, but per capita...

Which is still an absolute number. Just in another context.

It's a relative improvement of 32% which is approximately 3% per year. Not ground breaking, but a nice steady improvement.

ICE usage is also much higher (~6x ) than in-country plane usage to give another point of context. [1](percentage of domestic flights) [2](total air passengers)

I think trips per capita is misleading as a high percentage of the population isn't doing much in-country long distance travel to begin with.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2021/06...

[2] https://knoema-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/knoema.com/atlas/G...
That article says that 60% of Americans don't have $500 in a savings account, not that they don't have $500. Savings accounts are an anachronism, it is like saying Americans don't have phones if they don't have a landline. By that standard, I'm flat broke.

Americans can afford a $500 expense just fine. The median American household has ~$1000/month left over after all ordinary living expenses, per the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
Not if it sounds anything like a terrestrial vacuum cleaner – cats do not get used to those.
Web3 will divide the world into two categories: people who can remember and secure their passwords, and people who cannot.

The latter group will outnumber the former group 20 to one. I expect them to reject the whole thing once the initial speculative sugar rush wears off.
But why couldn't DB Netz do both people and freight, if both are profitable (after subsidies for passenger traffic)? i.e. why does it have to be a choice?
Terrible website. Pop ups everywhere. Small button to view the content.
Curation is expensive, and difficult/impossible to automate, but there's value in it, in a world where anyone can post anything anywhere. We all felt better using Amazon ten years ago, when we could trust reviews, and trust products, but now it's flooded with brand names like "UZOOG" or whatever. People generally liked Facebook more before their grandparents and weird uncle got on it.
Hey sure let’s work something out —- I’d love to hear your use case and where the ToS ran afoul of your needs. I’ll reach out!

[EDIT] just sent your contract form
Labor price is salary + benefit packages. Reducing the cost of benefits from the equation would mean the company has extra resources.

The company could:

* immediately raise people's salaries

* or hire in more people (which increases demand)

* they could take the extra profit and distribute that to shareholders

* or drop the price of their products and services and pass the savings on to the customer

* or they could make capital investments.

In most cases, I would expect salary prices to increase for labor (even if not immediately) or make people's current salaries more effective in purchasing power.
We don't really want the trains (because of the way the US developed its cities). Let me give an example. In order to add a few more daily routes from Chicago to Milwaukee on Amtrak, a freight train would have to hold on a holding line for several hours in residential areas to let the Amtrak through. The increase in ridership, not just riders shifting their schedules, would have been at most a few hundred.

So in order to get a few hundred cars off the road, Amtrak would have to build a holding track (carbon cost), add more rolling stock to the route, burn more diesel, and a residential neighborhood full of children would have had diesel trains idling for hours a day.

The total economic and environmental value of the program was negative by most measures.
Could also be the sensation of air rushing past [1]. Curious to test the competing hypotheses--dead reckoning from initial alignment versus air movement--in a wind tunnel.

[1] https://www.military.com/history/how-naked-skydive-inspired-...
> Where do I apply for a permit to reassign culpability for my driving to a corporation?

I think this is mandatory in most states and countries, at least for civil liability up to some limit. You can purchase more, of course (and I recommend to do so, given that the minimal liabilities in each state haven't really kept pace with needs).
At least you have that option!! Sounds better than unmaintained "crumbling infrastructure."
This sounds like a worthy experiment. Why don't we already have a mouse artificial gravity habitat on the ISS?
Yeah, rail infrastructure costs O(distance) while plane infrastructure costs O(trips).
Hot Corners for Mission Control and App windows is interesting! Gonna try that today.
What I meant was that the buses are provided if there's no other option, like another train.
Any company that says "we are a family" or talk about loyalty is immediately not to be trusted. Was on linkedIn today and say some director stating that the one thing she looks for on a resume is loyalty, if someone has jumped ship every couple of years she is not interested. Looked at her CV and she had been with the current company 5 years. Prior to that, not a single job longer than 17 months. She essentially reached leadership and then decided that its insulting for the plebs to quit on her. She also made a statement along the lines of 'you spend 12 hours a day at work...'. Any leader that thinks you should be spending 12 hours a day at work is not a leader you want. It was the clearest red flag I have ever seen a people leader post.

I will work for a company and try my best as long as they provide me with good yearly raises and benefits and don't require insane hours. Fail on any of those points and I am gone. There are plenty of opportunities for a 20% raise somewhere else. I know that as soon as times get tough they will cut whatever heads are required while being sure to give the execs or in-crowd a golden parachute and the rest nothing.
I’m doing a PhD in biology right now at a large university in the southern United States, interested in biogerontology.

My plan is to bring to market therapies for age-related disease, probably a crosslink breaker for skin. We’ll see if it happens...
I'm not speculating, I'm pointing out how their data analysis is grossly flawed because they don't understand the statistical methods they're using. Maybe your own political bias is showing.
We know humans in zero-g often barf a lot, and cats often barf a lot, so it seems like cats in zero-g was a high-risk experiment.
Data fabrication is sadly the norm nowadays.

I was a chemistry researcher working on renewables, and during my master's thesis 9 months were spent validating fake results (from a publication of a scientist who worked in our group moreover).
Blackrock
Talk to people who have actually done it. Not one will tell you it's cool or fun. Here's how science red teaming actually goes:

1. You download a paper and read it. It's got major, obvious problems that look suspiciously like they might be deliberate.

2. You report the problems to the authors. They never reply.

3. You report the problems to the journals. They never reply.

4. You report the problems to the university where those people work. They never reply.

5. Months have passed, you're tired of this and besides by now the same team has published 3 more papers all of which are also flawed. So you start hunting around for people who will reply, and eventually you find some people who run websites where bad science is discussed. They do reply and even publish an article you wrote about what is going wrong in science, but it's the wrong sort of site so nobody who can do anything about the problem is reading it.

6. In addition if you red-teamed the wrong field, you get booted off Twitter for "spreading misinformation" and the press describe you as a right wing science denier. Nobody has ever asked you what your politics are and you're not denying science, you're denying pseudo-science in an effort to make actual science better, but none of that matters.

7. You realize that this is a pointless endeavour. The people you hoped would welcome your "red teaming" are actually committed to defending the institutions regardless of merit, and the people who actually do welcome it are all ideologically persona non grata in the academic world - even inviting them to give a talk risks your cancellation. The End.

An essay that explores this problem from the perspective of psychology reform can be found here:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2021...
Would be great if companies could do this on their own rather than having to be forced kicking and screaming
I think its because the complexity of allowing configurability isn't always worth it. Verifying it works for all configurations becomes exponentially harder.

I believe it can also have performance implications especially for things like recommender systems where you are depending a lot on caching, pre computation and training.
I'd call them "intrusive thoughts", like a (silent) voice in my own head that tells me something demeaning about myself (not actually it, but similar to "I'm a racist".)

But when faced with the real world manifestation of these ideas, my emotions play out like these thoughts are indeed false. And I'd expect the reinforcement to correct this over time. But it hasn't. Causes great anxiety in quiet moments, and i'm hyper aware of certain social situations. It also comes up in dreams sometimes.

The idea about myself came up mid-trip, and from it poured out empathy for others (good) but somehow the anxiety inducing parts never left.
GNU/Linux == GNU is not Unix (even) over Linux.

:)
Have your own backup works only if there are common open standards for export/ import. Email or storage may have those, project management tools don't. I can't simply backup from Jira and start using pivotal.

Even for Email or storage or any other open system, UX changes and feature differences can take a lot of time to train properly, you don't migrate from one vendor to another vendor just like that.
People who couldn't read and write would have rejected a world in which writing is everywhere, but if being able to use writing is enough of an advantage, then it will win anyway, and eventually everyone is taught to read and write from a very young age.

I'm not saying Web3 is enough of an advantage to matter, but the fact that some people are currently incapable of using it doesn't mean it will be that way forever.
Well it could be per capita in decade for a ten-fold increase, but given that a human career lasts around 4 such periods, this metric would not be too useful.
The cat is being accelerated at 9.8m/s2 towards the earth while falling. What do you mean by this?
Another proponent of mechanical television!
At least your trains run on time, or at all. I guess your criticism is based on the level of service you have become accustomed to in your country, which is incredibly good by world standards.
Now that Go has generics (and the workspace handling mentioned here) I think it's going to get down to complaining about verbose error handling...
When your basic right seater needs a minimum of 1500 hours flight time, maybe your career path should include a salary higher than a union bus driver.
My most memorable train experience in Germany was when Deutsche Bahn left me in Munich in the middle of the night. I had a connection there but my first train was ~10 minutes late, and my second train had already left. So I spent the whole night at the train station until ~5am when I could catch another train in the direction I needed. I've taken many train trips in the Czech Republic, and that has never happened.
Focus-follows-mouse is great. That’s the biggest thing I miss from Linux.