skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the house of cards is also potentially diamond shaped, where a lot of systems are built on top of other systems the organisations no longer understand, which are held up by a single engineer that has been there long enough and holds enough IP to know where to look when trouble strikes.

Basically, if a pulled card collapses a few levels you're maybe ok, but hit the widest part of the diamond and you better hope that engineer is around. Take the engineer away and you have a reeaally precarious, potentially very expensive house of cards. I have a hunch this is not uncommon, especially as the upper levels of cards fill with 'automation' and abstraction.
Higher average wages, but not do much higher median wages. Unless those rich people who are driving up the average are giving their money away, the ones who are closer to the median are in a sore spot.
This topic also came up a few weeks ago. I speculate there is no upper bound. A similar example using "Hawking": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30626497#30653029
But in exchange taxes are lower.
Screenshot.

The art is not the NFT. The person only "owns" a hash code that points to the art.
> As of mid-March, federal scientists had identified 60 cases of the side effect, including nine that were fatal. That amounts to 3.23 blood clot cases per 1 million J&J shots. The problem is more common in women under 50, where the death rate was roughly 1 per million shots, according to Marks.

Now let's compare to hydroxychloroquine and other "alternatives".

Let's also compare to the 99% survival rate of Covid folks keep harping on about. 99% survival rate is nowhere near better than 1 per million. And that's assuming you are a woman under 50. And that's assuming you took the J&J vaccine instead of the mRNA variants.

60 is too many, but with 1M dead in the US alone (mostly unvaccinated), perspective is important.
I think this is a common reaction to <insert thing> being evangelized. I can’t say it’s a good approach to deciding whether or not something is worthwhile or good or w.e, but maybe it’s better this way because it means that when the thing being evangelized doesn’t pan out, not everyone is caught up in the aftermath. That being said, I don’t have anything against Rust or the community, and if it’s a good tool for <job> then it will succeed with or without me or you. Personally I’m interested in how it’s progressing.

Edit: as with many things it’s not right to say that the loudest voices in the room are the community. It could be that this is the behavior you are seeing because somehow it’s managing to get people worked up or engaged in some other way on social media you use, and you find that annoying. If you don’t want to learn the language and engage with the community then you don’t have to, but calling the whole community annoying because people are excited about what they are doing and what they’ve learned and the possibilities they see is… ehhh
Where would a masters degree in CS help for someone with 20+ years of software experience? Genuinely - I have no clue.

I don’t have a masters. I’ll likely never need one. If there was a specific field that required intense learning and was cutting edge (computer vision or something) then I’d understand a masters (or especially a PhD) but for general work…? Don’t get it.

You’d certainly be better off financially from doing more leetcode or system design prep instead.
Ohhh please this is language wars, people don't want healthy arguments, they just want to pick a side and argue, just to earn internet points :D
I agree in principle, but if there's one thing internet commenting has taught me, it's that a tragically large number of people are somehow getting though life with broken sarcasm detectors.
People are buying them though. I think the problem is people think they’re richer than they are and don’t want to live in the places their income and wealth suggest they should. Previous generations handled this better.
It enables it, but that's just because both you, the device user, and M$ and the rest of the media industry, need to ensure the TPM inside the processor is genuinely from the manufacturer. You wouldn't want to use a TPM if an attack vector is one where China (who is a large part of the supply chain) can poison a large amount of TPM shipments with their own key that can be used to export or otherwise access internally-stored keys.
Yeah having worked in a big company or two, "you find it you own it" is a real issue. Easier to keep your head down when you know it'll be an 8-month back-and-forth meeting-fest to fix a basic issue.
Yes. This is why we're seeing a bunch of whining about a labor shortage, because people can now choose to be paid a little more fairly.
Not committing theft, or returning shit you stole, is considered "woke" now?
> if there are buyers, competition, and houses are continuing to move quickly, then it’s a bold statement to say they are overvalued and that we should predict a significant decline.

No, for the simple reason that (most) people buy homes with mortgages. Take a look at the 30 year mortgage interest rate over the past few months.

The total cost to own a newly purchased home is what matters, not the actual sale price. That's mostly paid by the bank.

Even if buyers are prepared to absorb the massive increase in total cost of ownership necessary to keep prices moving upward, it probably doesn't matter because many prospective buyers will no longer even satisfy the mortgage DTI qualification at current prices.

You may object that some are buying with cash. While that's true, it's not enough of the market to sustain prices.
That's part of the problem noted in the article: they haven't even implemented style changes that they could have - why are simple changes taking so long?
And crypto has precisely zero value unless enough people believe it does. Less intrinsic value in fact than tulips.

It will not end well.
There is a wide chasm between "may cause suicidal ideation" and "should be entirely withdrawn from the market".

Suicide is a difficult and sometimes rational decision. There really are people who, in their most lucid mind, would prefer to die.

If antidepressants work to restore motivation, they may also restore someone's ability to take their own life.

It's extremely complicated, and it should be up to a patient and their doctor. Lots of medical interventions can cause death, including breast implants. That's not, by itself, a reason to ban it.
Wow. What's going to happen your payment when rates go back above 0 to stop rampant inflation?
The pandemic was hard on office suck-ups. Now they’re back and ready to schmooze
Pydantic is not just popular (and awesome) on its own but serves as the underpinnings of a lot of the FastAPI functionality - faster Pydantic would make a LOT of apps faster
Presumably reasonable people would find the assertion self-evident, esp. after seeing some of those grotesque tech demos from a few months back.
Why Minecraft Is a Technical Feat
Melbournian that has worked in the US a little bit, and had similar experiences.

Mundane releases and improvements were presented with huge enthusiasm and fanfare.
I wonder if this is location dependent... I order way too many things from Amazon, and 90% of the time they deliver on time. I live in a very large city, though, so I wonder if that explains the difference.
Should be "Ableton" in the title
Thank you, that clarifies the idea for me and it's an interesting approach. It seems like an "all in" design that you might apply to e.g. an interpreter.

Of course in practice we don't abandon Rust's slice iterators to achieve basic observers or backreferences, and I've definitely tripped over "someone else is already borrowing this thing" runtime errors.
In my city, 10 years ago, a nice starter home was around 150k. Now you can’t buy a dump for less than 200k. And those same nice starter homes are 250k+. It’s not hard to imagine why. People flipping burgers can easily make 40k per year now just in base pay. A single person working an incredibly low end job now makes enough money to get approved for nearly 200k loan.
Halting rent and college tuition paybacks while also spending trillions for people not to work and businesses to not open while the fed also cut interest rates continuously.

They decided to test MMT and it failed so badly.
> Even if nobody else noticed or cared about that one line on my resume, I think I would notice, and that would make a difference. Just in terms of self-confidence

This is the most important line in the article. Perhaps that’s part of being “mid career” but that’s an excellent level of self awareness and shows that there are multiple upside/benefits.

I wish him the best of luck!
Windows has had this for 2 decades
Yes, the array itself was fine; was just a dumb action on my part given how brittle the system was.
I blame companies with their ridiculous and morally corrupt, "fam this" and "fam that" when they sought to squeeze more productivity out of their workforce by playing on emotional connections to real blood family. So they got highly opinionated, grossly over-demanding employees as a result.
Can I ask your height and weight?

I'm trying to bulk now and the online calculators I'm using are telling me to take in 3,100 calories, which feels like way too much.

But I am 6'3", 195 lbs, and I'm hitting the gym 5-6 days a week, so maybe?

After years of dieting and weight loss it's hard to eat that much.
How many radioactive bananas would you need to power a house?
Yes, the law is that it belongs to the bona-fide owner. The third buyer needs to get their money back from the second, the second gets their money back from the first, the first goes to jail. The fact that this is often impossible is legally irrelevant, it belongs to the original owner.

One interesting place this came up was in the post-2008 financial crisis... turns out a lot of banks had been using an off-the-books legal record system, and transferred ownership of the property to the record system, and the record system would move it around internally to avoid filing fees every time a mortgage was resold. But this is actually specifically illegal in most jurisdictions, governments have a strong interest in a verifiable chain of custody maintained by themselves, they don't want it to go to an off-the-books system because then they might not be able to trace the true owner of a property. There is actually case-law dating back to the mid-1800s on specifically this - modern bankers aren't the first ones to try and create a "bearer note" conveying ownership of a mortgage lien, and it was specifically slapped down at that time, ruling that doing so would "separate" the note from the actual deed, invalidating the lien.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/business/06mers.html

https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

And it also turns out that many of the banks did it digitally, so they could not actually provide the original wet-ink mortgage, so they did not have an effective lien on the property at all in any respect, nor could they rebuild it themselves unless the owner voluntarily re-signed a note. So many of the properties in that era have (big airquotes) """title insurance""" that includes a clause that basically says "in the event of a defect in title, the title insurance doesn't pay out". So if the original owner figured out they might be off the hook, they could come back with improper foreclosure and get the property back, and you would be left paying a mortgage on nothing because the title insurance didn't pay out. My parents were looking to buy a foreclosed property in that timespan and the bank tried to pull one of those and they walked away.

(also, in that era many banks responded by simply forging the wet-ink mortgage notes. When they got caught, oops, no penalty and they got to try it again. Laws are for plebians.)

https://www.propublica.org/article/disputes-over-citigroups-...

https://financialpost.com/news/economy/four-years-later-u-s-...
Average wage is always reported as median.
I'm surprised Google didn't fuzz Google Docs.
She specifically stated this in her article,

> She was in possession of a looted piece of ancient art. She couldn't keep it. She couldn't sell it. And giving it back to its rightful owners was a lot harder than it sounds.

Why are you building up a false narrative?
I think more than that, the good stuff ends up on shopgoodwill.com, so it's increasingly difficult to find interesting or valuable things in the physical stores.

It makes some amount of sense; there's a bigger market online so they get higher prices and people looking for obscure things are more likely to find them than by visiting stores and hoping to get lucky. It's kind of a shame though that the stores are less fun to visit.
"First, they don't" is the top-most answer.

Also, the multiple is closer to 10x for strong faculty candidates if we're talking about teaching-focused roles. A lower-tier college/university (non phd granting) will offer 60K - 80K for a full-time faculty position. A PhD with 5-10 years of industry experience will make >500K if they are maximizing for income.
I get your point, the community annoys me too, but I was a true believer for a while too and I understand they are just trying to share what made them happy. I root against it sometimes because it feels like its getting so complicated. But mostly I root for it because I have written c++ for a living since before it had an official standard and while the newer standards are better, the compiler refuses to protect me from people who do truly horrific yet subtle things.
> of 44 cryptographers surveyed across 27 major open-source cryptography projects, only 17 had actually used automated tools to find timing vulnerabilities, even though 100% of the participants surveyed were aware of timing vulnerabilities

I wonder if this is about the larger mindset difference where some just find it harder to focus on 'breaking' things. I.e., not every web engineer is also a pentester. (Should they be?)

Nice write-up, easy to understand for a non-specialist and well-linked.
I've never known anyone to leave a gas leak, and everyone I know would also get a leaking tap fixed (or do it themselves). I think you're exaggerating this aspect of Australian culture quite a bit.
I wish you well but the way things look, you’re completely fucked. Your interest rates have been so unsustainably low for so long. And now things are going up fast and will likely continue to due to rapid inflation.

Good luck!
Season 3, Episode 3 of Utopia dealt with myGov perfectly. It's like the writers were actually in implementation meetings.

If you've never worked in or with government in Australia, I highly recommend checking it out. Then remember that the real thing is worse.
I know that, you know that, other WFH employees know that. My comment above was tongue-in-cheek; it's studies and reports like the linked PDF that management and Clevel will use to delude themselves and employees to comeback into the office.
Well there’s even a looted diamond sitting in the crown of the British queen[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor
Museums shouldn't be full of looted treasures, museums should be full of treasures of the culture who built the museum. It is an injustice that any significant artifact is not in the custodianship of the culture it belongs to and when the infrastructure is in place to preserve the items, they should be returned to the community they came from.
The problem is when you have paid the tuition, and finished the degree, it's so hard to objectively rate it.

I have a Bachelor's degree from a decent state school in California.

At the time, I felt the courses were too easy, and my four years were a bit of a waste of time.

I remember going to a graduation party, and you would think we graduated from med school. The graduates were carrying on like it was so rigrigrous. (I have a very, very average intellect too. I actually flunked kindergarten.)

To this day I will not denigrate the school in any way.
If I had to get a masters, I would take one unrelated to software development.

Marrying software development knowledge with another non-tech domain expertise would make one valuable.
There’s something happening with Euro/JPY vs USD that is forcing a significant inflow into US assets. It’s going to continue because: (1) EU kicked the can for far too long and they cannot meaningfully raise rates without facing the realities of the debt crisis of 2010-12, and now made impossible due to Ukraine, and (2) Japan is committed to driving down the yen even further. USD is king and real-estate will reflect that reality.
I still find it bizarre that phone carriers sell phones.

This shouldn't be an issue, in much the same way "Comcast only supports Dell and Lenovo laptops" would be incredibly weird.
Drag and drop from one folder to another is how I would do it with a mouse only. Is there another way?
Forever? Here in Brazil we negotiate a yearly rate for the whole extension of the contract. Isn't this standard?
great!! I was about to go ask in the forum :)
Yes it’s gotten worse.

1. The cloud allowed to increase the available computing power at the expense of simplicity. This brought in the whole devops suite of problems (kubernetes, microservices and what not).

2. The data science hype brought in Python everywhere, which creates contention both culturally and technically.

3. The rise of mobile, means you no longer can escape portability.

4. And then general hype about the last new thing. I don’t that changed fondamentally.

I think things will get better eventually cause 1, 2 and 3 are still relatively new.
This reminds me of when Google claimed that the number one was copyrighted [1]

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-drive-flags-text-files-con...

I don't recall that the reason for that bug was ever explained. I wonder if the reason for this one will be.
Now they're talking about college loan forgiveness which is going to directly goose home prices, all over again.
Some of are at lesser campuses. For instance, our espresso bar is closed and I have to walk to a whole different building to get one. It sux
> Does the person who was robbed still have a right to the book?

Yes, and everyone who bought it under false pretenses are entitled to a refund, but what actually happens in reality is messy and pretty much down to how far law enforcement is willing to go. Someone is always left holding the bag, ideally it would be the original thief but it's most likely going to be the last person in the chain who can be identified or isn't willing to go to the effort.
Yeah it’s true. Property taxes are so low in the UK. With “free” healthcare and almost no property tax, it’s easy to retire young. But it’s harder to make retirement money.
I agree with your point that rare side effects is not a reason not to encourage vaccination. Basically all medications (whether causally or statistically) end up with potential side effects, and it's not a reason to reject modern medicine, it's always a probabilistic exercise.

I also think public health messaging should focus on the net benefit and not get caught up in rare side effects.

Where I think we disagree, and what I believe is the problem is that once we get into compelled vaccination (which whatever mental gymnastics people play, we have in most places), you take away people's autonomy to accept a treatment for themselves, and so suddenly even the rarest side effects become the government's fault and a big deal in the eyes of many. Most will voluntarily undertake much riskier things, but force them to do it, and surprisingly people get upset that there are potential rare side effects.

Couple that with the fact that the vaccine doesn't really do anything against current covid strains, ("prevents severe infection" doesn't really clear any bar) and it makes more sense that even very rare stuff ends up being intolerable
This is inherently contradictory with the trunk-based development model.

I get the feeling you need to pin to v1.4 but ideally by being on the trunk head at all times, you force everyone (especially the library owners, and yourself, by writing tests around your wrapper) to do things properly such as having enough tests in place. Otherwise, you find yourself digging a grave for yourself when the time comes to migrate from v1.4 to v1.7, and it becomes grunt work that nobody wants to take on.
I feel so sorry for your boy. He deserves a dad who loves him more than virtue signaling. Your boy is thrown into the world with no preexisting moral guilt. And you, his father, are justifying rather than decrying the racial discrimination of your own son, while apparently trying to stand on the alter of that very discrimination.
Also, those cash offers from companies don't always work out, look at the haircut Zillow took.
Does it, though? The Amazon truck that delivers my packages drives down our street stopping every few houses. Stopping once extra for my house isn't going to add extra fuel usage.

If the truck is full every day, and drives the same route every day, it won't save fuel to batch deliveries.
The HCOLA house my wife owns in which we live would rent for ~5,000 a month as it is inside our respective city beltway, in a good school district, in a low crime, historic area. When we got married $5,000 is pretty close to our much smaller apartment rental costs, summed. The vacancy rate is pretty low, and the demand is strong.

Like all real estate calculations though, this is completely local.
20% down (80% loan-to-value (LTV)) is the standard minimum for avoiding mortgage insurance. If you're willing to pay a mortgage insurance premium, 5% down (95% LTV) is not uncommon AFAIU, especially for large, "jumbo" mortgages, at least in coastal California. (Elsewhere it's probably the case that jumbo mortgages require a greater equity stake, not lower. Coastal California is a little unique. While prices are nuts, the risk of a significant valuation crash is negligible compared to, say, Nevada or Florida, so issuing banks are more comfortable with the additional risk and seemingly more eager to have that asset in their portfolio.)

Also, in case there's some confusion, "deposit" and "down payment" are distinct. In American real estate parlance a deposit is earnest money (often 5% of the initial offer) to bind the seller into closing--the process of finalizing contracts among all involved parties, and transferring assets. A deposit might be forfeited if the buyer pulls out. A minimum down payment is the minimum equity a mortgagee (e.g. bank) requires the borrower to hold in the property as a condition of making the loan.
You’re basing this statement on what?
Constellation: Software's Superorganism
In the US, 15, 20, and 30 year fixed are boring standard mortgages, with various adjustable rate mortgages available from 1-10 years (and even some interest only products, where you’re essentially just renting the property from the bank and not building any equity).
StarTrek ran on top of Teradata I believe, although I don't recall it being quite that bad.
If Amazon took longer, I would have to take a trip to the store for a lot more things. Me driving to a store and back uses a lot more fuel than a single truck that is bringing things to dozens of houses on my street.
Totally agree, with one slight tweak: add "cost of housing and food" to that. The former rises faster than inflation and has been for decades.
Arguably, if this 'structure' is so flimsy, it is not knowledge. This house of cards is simply faux knowledge, built on assumptions and misunderstandings. Once you truly understand something, to the degree that you do, it is solid.

If we talk about programming, which stems from math and logic... it is a solid as it gets, perhaps a diamond castle. Unfortunately I've come to the realization that software companies don't really appreciate this fact, and invest no effort in making logically correct systems. Therefore engineers spend a lot of their time navigating this flimsy structure that often falls apart because the engineers that came before had to make assumptions to finish things quickly because of deadlines and all that.