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I agree with you, but I appreciate that people on HN talk like this because then I am presented to this world of privileges. It shows to me that this world exists and I might benefit from it. That happened to me.

Instead of anchoring myself to what Brazilian companies pay for developers, I focused on getting a remote job at a US company. One that would anchor themselves among their peers around SV, LA, NY. Now I earn about 12x more than when I started as a junior when I started 5 years ago. I earn about 3x more than if I was lucky to get the best paying job for my experience level here in my city.

This 3x salary increase is very related to knowing that this privileged world existed, which is mainly HN’s fault in my case.

Bear in mind that I am not earning close to USD200k (but six digits). I learned around here that FAANG salaries exists, but then I decided that those are not for me. But that’s a conscious decision. A much better position of not even knowing this exists.
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Maybe this has something to do with the declining belief in god and religion that another poster mentioned. Things that the average Joe used to simply blame on god are now being blamed on the "Shadowy Elite" boogeymen, who are purportedly always conspiring against the public.
Yeah, that's a good idea. He's pretty handy with blender and those skills might come in handy here.
You're right, I misremembered here.

The renaming part btw was quite awful of them, they had a hard time acknowledging that they went back to Cortex based cores and I remember their press release trying to imply they didn't.

They were quite hammering the fact they had a custom arch pre v8, and the turnaround was difficult for them to admit.
>Either Apple or Microsoft would have to write all the M1 drivers

If Microsoft is selling Linux in a virtual machine as an acceptable solution for *nix software compatibility on Windows, why wouldn't running Windows ARM in a virtual machine be acceptable solution for Windows software compatibility on the Mac?
If that wasn't the problem, sounds like you didn't have the right skills.
If all strings with what looks like format specs are implicitly f-strings, how do you use reusable template strings, which use the same basic internal syntax, for formatting?

f-strings, like r-strings, have uses, but, like r-strings, I wouldn't want to replace plain strings with them.
IB might not be the best example, as they also restricted GME option trading to liquidation only.
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Yes, my use case was "I always use F-strings" so these other breakages could not occur, by definition.

I suppose it's not that much of a problem to run a program to preprocess source and add in the F

But.. Python has a history of introducing new features that break old ones. That seems to me a balance between backward compatibility and future goodness.

the "from future import auto-fstring" construct could do it...

And, as for having to run the f-string parser: yes, but only once on static strings, which are most of them.
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> both are equally supported conclusions

Yes, I would agree with this. In other words, the word ‘echo’ entails nothing at all about whether it refers to prompted or unprompted speech (which of course it doesn’t). That’s precisely why their argument that “they must be referring to unprompted speech because they used the word ‘echo’” is not just illogical but utterly mystifying and verging on schizophrenic thought derailment.

I mean, come on, let’s recap what we’re talking about. This guy responded to this question:

>> What part of the paper gives you the impression they imply voice assistants are listening to everything?

With this answer:

> For me, it's this: "Your Echos are Heard"

> That's what gives me the impression they imply voice assistances are listening to everything.

> I don't refer to voice commands or normal interaction as "echos" so the user of the word "echos" here implies something nefarious.

This is the most brain-damaged nonsense I have ever heard in my life. They are seriously arguing that the word ‘echo’ is some sinister cryptic message indicating – for absolutely no reason any sane reader can decipher – that Amazon is listening to everything you say.

Come on. I know you’re committed to arguing that his comment is actually a brilliant masterpiece of logic, because I violated the law that One Must Always Be Superficially Polite and so the template dictates that I must be Actually Wrong and Humiliated for my Arrogance, but you can’t convince me that you really believe that garbage represents a reasoned thought.

(Incidentally, in case the original commenter is reading this, I should underscore that I’m not trying to attack him personally. We all say stupid shit now and then. I’ve said far more than my fair share. But no one gains from being nauseatingly insincere about it, as though it were a grave insult to acknowledge that someone said something silly on one occasion.)
Is it really necessary for real productivity that we have instant transfers and trade on crazily priced equities?

What part of the real economy requires any of that?

I'm doubtful.

I wonder what a Tobin tax, and possibly even some kind of ban on high speed or even fast trading would do? i.e. throttling limitations? Or something to slow down the trading?

Would it affect the real economy and would the financial sector be prevented from creating value?

Or would it just mean some casino aspect of the operation is limited ...

I'm not suggesting we actually do that, because it's fine if people want to do those things so long as it doesn't affect the real economy with negative externalizations. But I wonder if it would be better for the system as a whole.
You're ignoring that cows are also carbon stores (and relatively dense ones as far as biodiversity goes).

Look, the problem is real simple. Simple math says that we can do this:

Carbon(in atomosphere) + Carbon(biomass) + Carbon(underground) = Carbon(total on earth)

Biomass gets it's carbon from atomosphere, and releases (most) of it back to atmosphere, and hence not a real problem as it undergoes a stable cycle and is limited by the total carbon between the two. Even if it's form changes, it's not a real problem as the math shows it's inherently limited. Additionally, some carbon does escape this cycle and ends back in underground stores - but it's an extremely slow process.

The real problem is taking carbon from underground, and putting it into the atmosphere - via an unnaturally rapid process. Anything else, is comically trivial to the problem that is the fossil fuel industry.
Fidelity's offering is fine. I don't need confetti to confirm my trades.
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Interesting. I'm scarred from spending years learning how to sharpen axes and shave yaks. Maybe the kids today don't need to do nearly as much of that anymore.
OCaml is more like Python in that it has true OS threads, but it has a GIL (it also has an async ecosystem via `lwt` and `Async`).

This will change when OCaml 5 is released, though it is likely that will require test driving and fixes in both ocaml itself and the ecosystem.

Multicore OCaml was merged in PR #10831, and 5.0 was originally targeted to be cut in March or April 2022, but it seems there are still blockers: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/milestone/40
I was advised by multiple sources not to try. The initial people took down the info pretty immediately, but now it persists over a lot of forums, blog posts, etc., so I imagine it would be a game of whack-a-mole that would require significant legal resources, and it would draw a lot of attention, which would be unpleasant.
Right! I just couldn't stop myself from not adding Starbase to this project!:D

Well...maybe I should add a new category (work-in-progress launch sites). Noted;)
Nope. I smoked for a few years (quit) knowing full-well the risks. These risks have been well known for at least 30 years now.
Despite a generally higher cost of living in Europe, salaries across the board are lower. A £100k salary in the UK puts you in the 96th percentile for example. It's not just engineers, it's everyone.
Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a "heat battery" based on the heat produced by mixing salt and water; the project started 12 years ago and the first deployments of four pre-production prototypes are expected this year in Europe. Storing the heat is achieved by drying the salt: the heat that causes evaporation of water is stored in the salt and released by adding water. [Not literal abridgement owing to time constraints.]

> The heat source to store in the salt can be taken from industrial by-products, such as the residual “heat waste” in factories or surplus heat from data centers

> The system is made up of a heat exchanger, fan, evaporator/ condenser and a boiler with salt particles. [... A] protoype around the size of a large cabinet [...] could heat a home for up to two months

> [According to Professor Olaf Adan, ] «In the Netherlands we have about 150 PetaJoule of residual heat from industry per year... That would enable you to take almost 3.5 million homes off the gas»

A more in-depth article is at TechXplore,
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-battery-quickly-millions...

The selected salt, potassium carbonate, was chosen also since well resistant to the physical stress of enlarging and shrinking during the process.

> The prototype looks like a sort of large cabinet with dozens of lockers [...] each duo of small "lockers" represents a heat battery that matches the entire, original [7 kWh 2019] demonstrator in terms of storage capacity. The whole device contains some 30 "lockers" with a total storage capacity of over 200 kWh [...] equivalent to two fully charged Tesla. [...] Most applications do not require such a large battery[: it is] deliberately... a modular system

> With a consortium... Adan is therefore now preparing a real-world test trial to use the heat battery for the reuse of industrial residual heat. Residual heat from the Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen will be transported [by truck to a sort of 'transformer house' in the residential area] to about fifty homes in the neighborhood in the same municipality

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@Dang, if you happen to read this: the TechXplore linked page is much better than the original one provided. I cannot change the link through the editing field. In case you would like to replace it...
Ownership related costs are significant as well. 1% of the price annually for maintenance is what I've seen as a guideline and that's a lot of money for young people in particular.

Personally I never got the appeal of home ownership (context maybe that here in Germany rent protection is strong and HO rate is low in general), you can build wealth by putting the equivalent of money in index funds, never pay attention to it, can move easily, have no debt, high fixed costs, or significant risk of losing your home like people did in 08-09, and so on.
You know, the problem with both is actually the same. The home owner and pensioner both rely on a young population that will take care of them. Owning a home only reduces the need to build one, which is better than nothing but it does not reduce the need to farm food for example.
I guess my point was moreso that legal agreements sprung upon you post-purchase could make for a useful escape hatch.

If you want to use the product, shrug. But if you suddenly don't, then hey, there's a potential exit.
People act like Boring tunnel are designed to only ever allow single Tesla threw.

They did that because Tesla are available for them quickly.

Do you really think those peope are to stupid to understand that higher occupency can increase threwput?
Wow this is brilliant. I've sometimes tried to reverse engineer APIs in the past, but this is definitely the next level.

I used to think ML models could be good for scraping too, but this seems better.

I think this + a network request interception tool (to get data that is embedded into HTML) could be the future.
> Except they do. All the time when bubbles pop and other crisis form.

Market halts are completely different from what we are discussing. And one of the purposes of market makers is to provide liquidity in extreme cases as you are describing (I'm not saying it works perfectly, but it's one of their reasons for existing).

Anyway, I feel like we aren't quite getting our points across to each other. Not blaming you just saying let's agree to disagree.
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Has anyone found a product that does a good job at consuming and unwinding transactions from an Apple Card?

If I understand correctly, AC can’t be connected by Plaid, and You have to do manual export and upload of transaction data.

If you use this for most of your expenses the payments from your checking account to pay off the card each month should also be recognized as such.

I’ve tried managing this using Waveapps some and besides not liking that company, it didn’t handle this very well.

Specific to this thread, how well does Actual handle this? It would be cool to self host this stuff.
Does this mean Anna favors availability and partition tolerance over consistency?
> option trading

Options are extremely different than the underlying stock.

Options is everything we discussed except with way less volume and way more margin requirements.

It doesn't seem like IB restricted GME-stock, only options-on-GME-stock, which is a very, very different instrument.

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That being said, if I were a paying customer to IB and was hoping for good options-trades during that time, I guess I would have been pissed off. Still though, its a far more understandable issue to have a derivative-trade fall through rather than the underlying stock-trade fall through.
You guys forget they also did the same thing blocking Nokia stock buys. Don’t tell me they didn’t have enough to cover that. It had a fraction of the GME madness.

I am not wealthy, but I have more stock than the average person. I moved all of it out of RH. Will never trust them again.

I am sure there was thousands of little guys like myself that bailed.

The idea that they blocked sales just long enough for the r/wsb crowd to panic sell and then restore buying was pretty suspect. I know they claimed liquidity problems, but it sure seemed to benefit groups that bet on the other side of the GME bubble.

Note I am not bitter about losing money on GME. I didn’t.
Black people have agency. This kind of comment is racist and disgusting and does not belong here.
Perhaps get a tween to click it, or someone else that you are not responsible for. There is probably some clause to ensure that the person that clicks it passes on the licence, but that clause would be difficult to enforce. If you told a very young child to do it, then you would probably be held responsible. Outcomes would vary depending on jurisdiction too?

Edit: “You agree that RED and its affiliates may collect, maintain, process, transmit, and use technical, diagnostic, usage and related information, including but not limited to information about your RED Camera”. This implies you allow RED to have a person follow you around to watch what you are doing? They don’t limit the collection to just what to device records, nor do they limit the scope of what may be collected?
Try: https://topstartups.io/jobs/?role=solution+architect

https://angel.co/jobs should pull up some too
Isn't this good? What's the downside?
> Google says a removal request will be considered if the search result in question includes the presence of “explicit or implicit threats” or “explicit or implicit calls to action for others to harm or harass.”

Apparently they've always had a process for bank account info and other related things, but I can't get some of the newly included items, like login credentials, removed unless I can show actual or implicit threats of harm?
I've used a similar technique on some web pages that get returned from the server with an in-tact redux state object just sitting in a <script> tag. Instead of parsing the HTML, I just pull out the state object. Super
I was curious to know how the top 10 locations fare when adjusted to their metro population. It turns out New Orleans tops the list by far, with San Francisco and Las Vegas afterward. Perhaps this shows how "interesting" these cities are as a backdrop, compared to merely populous urban centres.
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The only reason to buy a home is because you want it. It should be a joint decision; what does the wife think?

A home is not an investment, it is a liability. The "American dream" makes money for speculators, realtors, advertisers, builders, decorators, landscapers, lenders, insurance companies, and taxing entities. Homeowners may breakeven if they keep it for thirty years. They can actually make money if they were really lucky in their choice of "location, location, location." But that's gambling, not investing.

Read "Your Engineered House" by Rex Roberts. Avoid the updated version; get the original, 1964 version. Then read Ken Kern's "The Owner Built Home." Roberts deals with houses as machines; What do they do for us that make us need or want them? Both books deal with buying a house with sweat equity. Roberts points out that half the cost of a house is labor. (If you build it yourself you can have twice the house for the same money.) But half the materials cost comes from fixtures: doors, windows, cabinets, etc; things that other people make for retail. We buy them ready-made because ... builders get a kickback (discount); because they are advertised in "Better" Homes and Gardens; because we don't know that we can DIY-build better for a quarter the cost.

A rental house is an investment. Keep it until the loan is retired and you have an income-stream.

Building your own home is the same as buying it for twenty-five cents on the dollar ... and that IS an investment.

Always remember the Rule of 72 - "Seventy-two divided by the interest rate yields the years required for your investment to double." Don't forget to subtract the inflation rate from the interest rate. The point is that if you can live on half your income and invest the other half at 10% interest (after inflation), then you can retire on half your income after seven-point-two years. When you are thinking about a major expenditure, think about it in terms of the Rule of 72 and your eventual retirement.

...Do you see a therapist because you have difficulty distinguishing between what YOU want and what self-interested others tell you that you SHOULD want?

Well what do you want?
I find this questionable. You buy the hardware, then get 'the software' for 'free' after the fact. I imagine crypto miners would throw a fit after nVidia made it harder to mine some coins, but none of them ever did? With the amount of money they earn I'd imagine they would.
Perhaps journalists think everything is falling apart because journalism is falling apart.

Journalism is everything to these journalists. It shouldn't, but it seems it does.

Hence, these journalists think everything is falling apart.

But our everything is much greater. And it's not falling apart.
Congrats!

But unless your story can come with many other examples, it should not be counted as representative of any "average" situation from the market at large.
Krebs’s doxing posts will get removed from Google?
As a counterpoint there also used to be jobs and careers in other places that have largely been centralized into bigger metropolitan areas I do agree somewhat though.

Be interesting to see how remote work shakes out in the long run. I think people are hesitant to buy and be stuck somewhere with no jobs.
I know what you mean. But pronouns which relate to social gender can be differentiated from sex/biological gender.

To rewrite your original comment, "Lia Thomas, who was born male, was permitted to compete on the basis of her gender identity claims" would be a fine and understandable statement, I think.

When talking about the person Lia Thomas, we are talking about a woman. She's Lia Thomas. Yes, she was assigned male at birth and her biological gender is male, but the person is female.

Again, I am maybe a bit petty, but I think this is exactly one of these important aspects when talking about transsexuality.

I'm not really disagreeing with what you're essentially saying, just trying to make a point about transsexuality.
This is really good, imho. The downside is that the information is of course all still out there for a sufficiently motivated person to find.
You might find the following experiential program of interest:

https://www.bentley.edu/centers/ux-education

Or something more academic:

https://www.bentley.edu/academics/graduate-programs/masters-...

https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/

To answer your specific question re: "career prospects/lifestyle of UXR"; I used to do that work full-time, and even founded a consulting business around that. FWIW, I also chaired one of the largest local chapters of the relevant ACM special interest group (SIGCHI). However, I don't work in that field anymore, by choice. And I'm somewhat pessimistic about it, even though I still think it is a critical discipline. My reasons for leaving are:

-- Smaller companies can only afford one person, so they typically hire someone with an art school background; and expect that person to also be able to do UX work well. They are really distinct (but slightly overlapping) skill sets, so it is hard to find one person who is competent at both! Especially on a small company salary...

-- Personal to me: I don't have that art-school background, so that puts me out of contention for a lot of jobs.

-- Most 'tech' companies, from giants like Apple, to small start-ups don't seem to value high-quality UX work any more. At least not as much, and as generally, as was expected in the dot-com years. More typically, nowadays, they seem more interested in visual appeal, and being 'on trend'.

-- I've also heard that UX is not really important because new users are 'digital natives'.

-- I can make a LOT more money, and find more jobs, slinging web front-end code (Vue/React/JS/TS/etc.), than I can doing UX work.
Privatizing the police seems like a bad idea. For one thing, it exacerbates inequality between those who can pay for security and those who cannot (or can only pay for inferior service.) If private security becomes the go-to for the well-off, who have a very disproportionate say in society, they will stop caring about universally-provided security of the police, and will let the institution wither, increasing inequality further. Inequality is bad for the cohesion of society.
Sure, until it fails and then it fails spectacularly. I think Musk may be the exception to the general rule. And some founder type CEOs don't go off the rails until they know they're on the way out and don't have to pretend any more. (Not that I think Musk is on his way out any where. I love Musk. All hail Musk.)

But I say those words with a sense that I might be eating them, if something horrible comes out and we all say "gee - should have seen those red flags".
> There’s something magical about taking your nose out of a book and finding yourself in the same setting as the characters.

I had (am having?) the similar magical feeling when reading a book on iPad you can open Google Maps, find the location a character is in now - and see pictures of the place people took, sometimes up to the exact building the author describes.

E.g. in The Little Drummer Girl by le Carre you can follow the exact route characters taken. And there is a 360 deg view of some remote place in Lebanon near Israeli border that some tourists uploaded. Magical feeling, indeed.