skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very obviously true. Reductio ad-absurdum arguments like that could be applied to argue no technology is ever experimental.

COVID vaccines are the first mRNA based vaccines ever produced, they were produced in absolutely record-breaking time and rushed through trials under emergency authorization. That's pretty much the definition of experimental technology.
Yep you can.

My partner and I earn dissimilar amounts (I earn more than double what she does) so we are borrowing only what can be covered on her wages which is about a third of what the bank will actually lend us (a frankly eye watering amount).

We don't want to be in a situation where I have to earn what I do now forever to cover the mortgage and doing the above would allow me to take a 50% paycut and still comfortably pay all the bills.

The houses we are looking at decent size in a nice area with good sized gardens, what the hell more do we need, there are only 3 of us, a 3 or 4 bed is just fine.

We are effectively borrowing about x2 our household income not the 5.whatever the bank would lend.
Except the people voting on these laws are not everyone but those that have been chosen to act as informed agents on behalf of the people. How is that working out again?
You can filter by salary range on the jobs page (https://himalayas.app/jobs) - we kept the initial search on the homepage simple but could add more things if it's what people want.
> Unless your baseline is "Nordic countries" or similar, the US is pretty far to the left.

How about most of Europe and Latin America?

It is hard to define what "left" means nowadays but it is telling that you believe the "size of the government", as defined by mostly military spending, can consist as a checkbox for being part of the left.
If there is a company that is a hellscape for 30% of its employees, and works just fine for most of the rest, then I would describe that company of having a hellscape culture. The existence of positive experiences doesn't change the fact that a lot of these bad experiences, at Amazon, at Google, are directly due to corporate policies, incentives, and the decisions of upper management.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26277501
I was living in a HCOL location with kids and my experience matched yours.
I then moved to a LCOL location and I spend a fraction of that.

I've been working remote since long before the pandemic, but I did enjoy some benefits of living in a HCOL (fun events, social life, networking) - benefits that I wasn't using as much after having kids.

If you're in the States you may also consider the benefits of lowering your tax rates + health insurance bill by moving to LCOL country overseas.

There are a few (mostly) english speaking countries with low taxes, cheap properties, low crime with decent public healthcare or cheap good private healthcare.
>>> supposed to be backed up by around $4 billion worth of bitcoin.

That is uninformed and incorrect.
UST is supported by promise of conversion into LUNA at $1 per UST, so it is supported by convertibility.

It is unwinding. I have not held either of these.

Those not just making stuff up can read the docs:
https://www.terra.money/intro-to-terra
I once sent out a proposal on the FreeBSD lists to merge /sbin with /bin, and /usr/sbin with /usr/bin. People were concerned that this would slow down the system, due to PATH lookups taking longer. Even when I demonstrated the opposite was true (it being faster due to fewer directories needing to be scanned), I wasn't able to get consensus. What a shame.
Yeah that is a windows gotcha!
I hope people realize that when monthly inflation numbers are released those are annualized.

So the 8.5% inflation rate in March is actually 1.085^(1/12) = 0.7% for March, and 8.5% assuming that same rate lasted for 12 consecutive months.

In 2021, the CPI-U was 4.7% for all of 2021.

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...
Idk what you expect him to do at the helm of twitter, but tipping your favourite tweeter in dogecoin isn't exactly going to prop up the entire market.
They now publish quarterly audits alternating between major accounting firms, and publicly disclose the breakdown of backing assets. Less than 7% is "other," including digital assets.

https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports

Edit: I falsely claimed they were alternating firms, but it turns out it was just a name change recently. That is my bad.
> But why do you need 10 fake Birkins?

Different colours?
I got ZERO raise this past year and boy let me tell you, it really pissed me off. I didn't feel I wasn't making enough until that happened.
Yep, guilty as charged and I look back on this experience and see a lot of things that could have been done differently.
To clarify, the video idea was about new users of the product not internal hires, so the production quality would need to be higher.
These days I'd probably whip up a Retool-style intro video using Loom + Wistia in a day or so.
But this particular sub-thread is about the ideology the ACLU is pushing, which unfortunately gets propagated by American companies, American employees, and dumb locals who imitate what they see on TV.
This does not make any sense. Give it a few years and the author will find himself in the same place.
The cost of everything else raised as well, so wealthy tech workers also lost purchasing power (especially after the last stock crash).
> Despite the average salary for tech workers breaking six figures in 2022, many IT and tech professionals still feel underpaid.

> According to hiring experts, the most significant factor contributing to this feeling is likely the long and extra work hours of the existing IT staff, which makes them feel burdened.

This is great point. I'm sure we all know someone in this field who has experienced burnout from their job, or indeed you may have experienced it yourself.

In the end, by understaffing and piling on more and more work onto their tech workers, managers are stealing not just time from their employees, but their health too.

I personally realized far too late in my career that I'd wasted vast amounts of time working late to meet arbitrary deadlines for projects that, in the end, didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

I wish I'd pushed back and just worked my contracted hours, to spend more time with the ones I love, doing things I enjoyed, rather than forcing myself to endure further work stress.

That is much more important than getting extra money on top of a salary that is already well above the average earner, in my opinion. Though more and larger pay increases would have welcome too, of course.
Yes. Stablecoins have two stable points: 1 and 0.
> People who think techies are well paid probably haven’t tried raising a family yet.

I started my own fintech startup by bootstrapping and working 90+ hours a week and I managed to survive in Boulder where/when the average house price was over 1 million USD, you will get no sympathy from me.

My investments are the only thing that saved me, and I didn't have health benefits that entire time. I treaded water and almost drowned many times most of it's existence while disrupting an entire Industry in the process and eventually got head hunted by a mega corp.

When will you realize that are not one of the tech oligarchs? What part of that don't you get yet? You're an expendable part of the equation.

You guys have been coddled so much by these corps that insulate you from reality I almost wonder if you can see the trees from the forest and what your role is in all of this?
Interesting!

We can definitely agree that crypto's demand for electricity basically doesn't care about location. So it puts a floor of demand for electricity generation in remote places. (Also in more accessible places. But there it's relatively less important.)

Electricity is both fungible to an extent, but also not as globally traded as eg wheat or oil.

You are right that on the margin Bitcoin makes generation of renewable electricity more profitable. But it also makes all other electricity generation more profitable, on the margin.

Let's see how this develops.
The BIOS Web
Honestly, I'm shocked to see how fragile people have become... every word can be considered a personal attack.

Now, listen carefuly. Criticism can be constructive and unconstructive. They are classified by their content and not the emotion that you have recieving it. The first one gives some ACTIONABLE FEEDBACK, the latter - does not. For example: "Your thing is shit."/"I don't like it"/"It's great, I love it." - is not constructive as no corrective action can arise from this. Constructive criticism starts with specifing the reason of discontent, and (desireably) steps to make it better. And not this "My value threatened!!!!11" bullshit of this article.

This article goes into how people are afraid to make mistakes because of criticism. And you know, they should be. Instead I want you to imagine the world where people are afraid to criticise, because some snowflake might take it to heart and cancel you or do some other stupid shit. Imagine if scientists didn't criticise each others works. Or engineers didn't fix weak parts of construction, because it would damage their creative ego.

Stop being so freaking insecure about yourself. Criticism is key part in humanity's progress.
I work at Materialize (materialize.com) which is mostly Rust.

(We’re mostly remote, but not entirely — we do have a local contingent in New York, but it accounts for less than half of our people, with the rest scattered throughout the Americas and Europe).
Ah, the classic stupid rich folks management that european brands mastered long ago, ie Ferrari.

FYI you can't buy V12 Ferrari outright, even if you want to pay 10x the official price. They will sell you some basic V8 model, and if you are happy and good customer, after few years, they can put you in the waiting list for something better.

Theoretically you can skip the line by buying from somebody else, but as an owner you sign very detailed contract what you can and can't do (ie repaint), if you screw this one up you are banned from Ferrari forever (I think Justin Bieber ended up like that but don't know details).

These days, it may not be V8 but V6, and V12 became some crazy hybrid with literally too much power to drive for normal people but the logic remains, and there is more clueless rich folks who want to impress.
Overall, I'm always really impressed by how the Cloudflare exec team is on here, helping out directly or offering to get involved personally when HN has a problem.

There's something to learn from every customer interaction. Big or small. Free or paying. I like to hear from customers.
Incorrect. UST is also supported by LFG Bitcoin reserves intended to defend the peg, so the term "backed up" is entirely appropriate.
I think Tether is a scam but the current price is $0.9998, or $0.0002 off from the peg as a three month low. Calling it "struggling" is overstating things.
The Mitto AG surveillanve case – or why we must never backdoor encryption
In the UK even fixed rate mortgages are only fixed for the first couple of years, which wasn't so bad as rates were decreasing, but obviously things might change in the next couple of years.
First commercially viable lithium metal solid state battery charges to 100% in just 15 minutes!*

*using base 9
Lots of job sites scrape company job boards directly, or even their competitors. You'll find most jobs are usually on several boards at once.
We’re not using any APIs at the moment, we find jobs on the Internet and post them :)
Maybe Tory Hunt and his bandwidth post[0]

[0] https://www.troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwned-by-my-cloud-costs/
Genuine question: would you have felt better with a 1% raise?

In 2010 I was working in the UK and we had about 5% inflation that year (or so). I got a 2% raise, and found that more insulting than if they had given no raise; even though objectively any positive raise is better than no raise.
This is an article from 2008, which is very old.
> Nobody questions why main drive is C:, remnant of [an] early computer having two floppy (not sure) drives on A: and B:

Recently I was trying to install some obscure driver for a device that doesn't autodetect in my Windows 10 work computer, I had to go through the old school "add device" wizard. When clicking to manually provide the driver, the dialog is exactly (or almost?) the same as the one from Windows 95, and the path defaults to... A:\! There's no floppy on this computer, there even isn't an optical drive!
Why is there no way to filter for location? Every one I clicked on had a different requirement (US/Canada/AU-NZ)
Management is employees, too..
Could someone explain (like I'm 5) why would I want to have stablecoin instead of the real currency?
Pre-zirp. Monthly housing cost should not exceed a third of take home.
Attestations, not audits. Tether is able to move assets between accounts on attestation day to show backing, and has done so in the past.

You can read all about it in the NYAG case

Edit: to reply your edit, there was no recent name change. Tether really really wants to give the impression they’re audited, but they have never done one

It’s not just a name change. The purpose of the attestations is to create the illusion of an audit.
Not really though right? Copyright assignment applies to the existing code, which is again already licensed as APLv2. Future versions of software could be licensed differently because there would be new contributions. However now that Ben is working for fly.io, the primary way to do this would be to say fly.io is the rightsholder for contributions Ben makes to Litestream while working for the company.

This does not require selling the copyright of existing code, nor does it seem to me like that sale would be beneficial for achieving the above.
If only America's productive cities did not ban building more housing..
I wish I could filter by employee count! I'm done with big-company BS.
It's highlighting just the opposite - that their short calls are prescient. You're seeing it's all negative because they are betting that those stocks will drop.
If you are collateralized to survive a 97.5% loss in collateral value, it means there has to be a severe limit on the amount of USD circulated by the stablecoin. It cannot scale.
Here's a thread summarising how this happened.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1524006086147252227.html
In UK you always get a fixed rate for X number of years, then it automatically move to variable(but at that point you'd just remortgage again). Like we're on a 1.29% 5-year fixed mortgage, but the whole thing is 20 years long. But after 5 years we'll just remortgage again on new terms.
Not sure I agree. As an American living in the UK I constantly battle autocorrect to spell it "rumor" or "favor," lest someone think I've gone native.
> This is what I will never understand about most established tech people, they see all the widespread misery and poverty in SV and they still have the capacity to feel sorry for themselves for not making X times more than 'that other guy.'

Out of sight, out of mind? What does it matter whether the misery and poverty is in your neighbourhood, or in the third world?
If you have the oppotunity you have to visit Monet's garden north of Paris.
> Effective altruism is about doing good better

> Effective altruism is a social movement and philosophy focused on maximising the good you can do in your career, projects, and other life decisions.

That's the 'what they do in one sentence' from the frontpage of https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
I don't think there were ever white supremacists at the ACLU. Who would that have been? I think DEI is a heavy mistake to pursue. I get the incentive but the method is lacking and everyone will lose.
A Birkin for $0.2570? What a deal!

I think you meant to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31336498 .

Hmm, but https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terrausd/ says the low was $0.2998 . How does that make sense with what you saw?
It's not, juniors are as bad as they were 2 years ago.
Generally it's politically easier to nerf better paid employees than cheap ones.

You can have the socialist argument of "hey senior engineer, take a salary cut / no raise for the common good, to avoid layoffs of junior engineers - which btw would be the first to go as they're not as productive as you are" and I've seen plenty of senior engineers accept that. Their livelihood are not as stake so they'll take one for the team, forgetting that it's a for profit company which can't find the money.

In the above scenario, I refused and I wasn't fired - but I also started looking for a job and switched 2 weeks after the above episode happened.
Yes, outside London the six figure salaries only start appearing when you have a particularly senior role in a company that's flush with cash.
What about /usr/games! Insensitive clod!
That’a actually an interesting trend. Tether consistently had a very wide oscillation for the bull run.

Now much smaller, and steadily down. Probably nothing but a definite change in their patterns
Not just that they can afford it, but that they have been 'allowed' to buy one. You cannot just walk into a Hermes store and buy a birkenbag, you have to convince them you are 'worthy' even just to be added to the waiting list to maybe be allowed to buy one eventually.

This is why second hands brikenbags go for so much. Because it's the only way to get one without having to go through the whole approval and wait list process.
Here's Terra's CEO: "$UST with $10B+ in $BTC reserves will open a new monetary era of the Bitcoin standard"

https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1503296630396645376

More details: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/06/terras-founder-plans-to-ba...

It's unclear how much BTC they actually amassed and how much, if any, is left. But at the end of the day, beyond all the techy handwaving, Luna was propped up by essentially Ponzi-like promise of 20% returns and now that has collapsed.
FIFA will be rebranded as EA Sports FC in 2023
> This is what I will never understand about most established tech people, they see all the widespread misery and poverty in SV and they still have the capacity to feel sorry for themselves for not making X times more than 'that other guy.

I don't understand this opinion. Why are the two feelings in conflict? I can be concerned for the people around me AND be concerned that I'm making less than X times more than the average.

I really don't think there's anything good about equality if it means a programmer is making the same as the unqualified people - to me that signals a completely broken world that can't function. This kind of equality has been tried and failed spectacularly, and I live in a place that still feels the catastrophe today, 30 years post-facto, and it will be felt for the next 30 years at least, too.

Overall, equality seems to me to be a misguided goal. We want people to have comfortable, healthy lives - I don't see how that relates to financial equality at all. Life needs to get cheaper so even the poor people can afford it - making everyone an equal millionaire will never work, that would just cause the prices to rise so much nobody could afford it and the meme of "equal misery" would become a reality once again. Let's talk about financial equality again once machines can do all the work.
Not everyone… so you're really saying that the key "how" was the way in which these people found a market where the current vendors chose, on average, to extract only half of the maximum price.
> In other words, encryption they can access...

Access under the conditions that the

> Technical solutions for gaining access to encrypted data must comply with the principles of legality, transparency, necessity and proportionality including protection of personal data by design and by default.

Which means that the right to put something that clones the authentication session on a targeted device would do the job, no need to ban maths.
They display final price including sales tax and any “fees” in Texas?

Is your cable/internet/etc contract fixed price for the duration of the contract or they can add any “fees” when they feel like it?
What makes you think the inflation rate is under-reported?

Do you see any concern with other people making more money that would not be reflected in an (accurately reported) inflation rate?
I'm mostly being facetious, but the cynic in me does wonder about the timing of the current slump.

And yeah, Musk tweeting that Twitter will accept Dogecoin isn't going to prop up the market in its current falling state, but once the market depresses somewhat and then stabilizes, Musk announcing support for Twitter+crypto would be enough to start pumping up the market again.
This feels familiar - was it image hosting? Using Backblaze b2 for storage and Cloudflare workers to chuck data around

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20790857
There’s no way to filter by location on the company search yet. You can filter jobs by location on https://himalayas.app/jobs :)
Well said - I'd say the hardest part of the job is balancing listening/gathering feedback, and maintaining a core vision for the product that's not just a wish-list of feature requests.
There's a dark art of making someone feel listened to, without necessarily doing anything about it.
Webdev question: Do you know the basics?
A HTML, JavaScript, CSS question. How hard is that?
This is why I went into freelance. It’s not about being a junior, there are people that put in so little effort they basically bring negative value, and I’m being paid comparable to them
Because you want to operate in a way that doesn't involve real currency, either on an exchange without any traditional banking arrangements, or perhaps one that doesn't wish to be regulated as dealing with real currency.

You may wish to avoid KYC/AML rules, you may want to avoid potential taxes incurred when changing to and from real currency, the exchange may wish to avoid reporting requirements too. You may wish to transfer large-ish sums around between exchanges without any traditional authorities being involved, and in a way that doesn't expose you to volatility.

More cynically, exchanges may or may not be able to get these stable-currency tokens (and this is more of a tether concern than UST) at a significant discount compared to real currency, or the exchange may wish to invent currency-like instruments that can be used on its platform without the need to hold real currency reserves.
But isn't that already the case with the ports directly on computers?

I have a laptop that can do USB 3.2 (or something). I can charge it through those ports, but it doesn't do Thunderbolt of any kind.

I have a small desktop in front of me that's power through an external adaptor, like a laptop. It has a USB-C port that doesn't do video output of any kind and which can't be used to power the computer. It has another USB-C port with a bolt on top of it. It does thunderbolt, it can output video (I've driven an Apple TB display with it), but still can't be powered through it. It also doesn't output video through the USB-C dock, which works on the laptop.

I have another laptop with a USB-C port with the bolt on it, and it can be powered through that port.

These are all ports directly on the computer, no hubs required.
Not sure which car you've been using but cars have been getting quite reliable.

I have a 2001 BMW 330i that's on around 363k miles (~580,000km) and still running the original factory drivetrain. The only parts replaced so far are wear parts in suspension and brakes (common with EVs) and some coolant pipes (probably also needed in EVs).
Yep I definitely feels this, we need to add that :) Will add to Linear!
Land and houses are intrinsically linked. You cannot consume a house without also consuming the land it sits on. Therefore you can't realistically call a house a consumable.
> Apple's 2-USB-C-port laptop was literal insanity.

Actually... I do get the idea. 99.9% of the time I only use one of my four USB-C/TB ports, and that's for power. The other 0.1% is when I connect my Android phone for a firmware update (it's rooted, so have to go the hard way) or an SD card reader.