skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're comparing to expensive places to live, Switzerland pays academics well. Postdoc salaries are around 85-100k (CHF, which is about the same as USD these days). Many universities don't have much in the way of a pay ladder though (ETH maxes out at 3 years experience). Full professors can hit 250k+. A studio in Zurich is 1500+/mo though which is comparable to central London, but competition is fiercer.

In the UK an experienced postdoc, or one with a competing offer, can make around 40k before having to push for lectureships. Professorial salaries start at 60k and maybe hit six figures for senior staff. Munich is fairly high, I think between 50-70k depending on who you ask (TV-L E13). Scandinavia is not great compared to the high cost of living, last time I checked.
Unfortunately some python packages are not reliably able to move across versions. I’ve had issues with sqlalchemy and celery before. Let’s not get started with the python packages from snowflake.
"Image-based" is typically how this is described, e.g. https://wiki.c2.com/?ImageBasedLanguage
Lol

It was probably the same game. You’re saying the product was laptops right?
I think flying [let's say current nation's] flag, can very a bunch depending on the country, I know in Denmark as well as the US it appears much more common than in other parts of the world. And personally, once I'm used to a flag being flown, I don't really care which
uhm... I studied and worked on authentication protocols, and I worked with a company that was into web3 (though I did not work on that part directly)

...so I might have a few insights.

while the (small) article shows only common arguments, and while I agree on those, we need to distinguish a bit the technical part with the financial part.

Technically, web3 is merely authentication with a public key. That's fine. Good, even (if only people used hardware keys instead of software keys, sigh).

I mean there is always the little catch that to actually verify stuff you need either 300+GB of data or you need to trust a webserver (thus breaking the whole point of web3), but details and details.

But the big problem is tying your identity to your financial. That to me is a deal breaker. Lost keys? lost money. Stolen Key? stolen money. To actually work with web3 you need to put your keys in every stupid little service, since we use basically only software wallets at best, and most are integrated in your application be it banking or gaming.

Some use services like metamask that are... browser only. chrome plugin browser-only. so you have to hop through things to use a normal application and constantly switch to your...browser, which by itself is the biggest attack surface in the current world.

There is no keys-with-money/key-for-authentication, there is no key revocation, main-key/subkey, monthly-spending-limits or anything. We could have gone with some small gpg-like web-of-trust for each key to revoke, substitute or compartmentalize the purpose of the key. But no. Absolutely nothing. And the bigger the project, the more static and adverse to change it is (hello bitcoin, still at 4-7 transactions/sec?)

So while I would welcome a key-is-your-id kind of web, as a security researcher I have to say that this model looks like it's built for you to lose control as easily as possible, which makes it a deal-breaker imho. The truth of course is that there is no conspiracy, just that nobody is accountable, and that looks like work, so nah, we ain't got time.

Edit: typos
I guess nobody would call it “modern” but it is quite possible to have the compiler do type inference and automagically specialize functions with the user not even knowing it is happening behind the scenes. No generics needed.
No there is consensus, and it is real. But the hierarchies within that group (based on sex, ability, wealth, knowledge, etc) are also there and are also in play.
Yep. It is an intention to appear fresh to Google, so that it can rank above websites that have better content but are using dates. Users be damned.
> GPS is an adjunct to navaids and charting.

Indeed.

For all the millennial kids on here, there's a famous American Airlines lecture called "Children of the Magenta Line", it's doing the rounds on YouTube[1]. Boaters should adopt the same mentality.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WITLR_qSPXk
USCG Lighthouse Modernization Manual (2011) [pdf]
This SHOULD be true, but it is not.

Once again, SHOULD =/= IS

Just because they quote charges does NOT mean that they have solved the problem or that the charges are accurate.

There is absolutely nothing that requires the charges to have any relation with the actual costs, even if they are known, particularly at the item level. Only the total charges must exceed the total costs (less any external support e.g., from govt, philanthropy, grants, etc.), and that is on a basis of multiple years before any serious reckoning happens.

IOW, they can and in fact do literally just make it up. Also, charges that are heavily scrutinized may have some relation to costs, but other charges may be "just add a few zeros" to make up for it.

If you have some detailed and complete internal accounting data from any major hospital that proves me wrong, please post it. But when I read about congressional testimony that a CEO of a hospital literally cannot get the same data that you claim exists because 'of course it's been solved because every other business solves it', I find it difficult to believe you.

I can also state from running a business that the relationship of costs to charges is very loose. Sometimes I will sell things below cost for a number of reasons, and for some customers (e.g., those with high bureaucratic overhead requirements) the charges will be substantially higher. And when those charges are made, I may do detailed studies of what the increased costs are, or I may just say "one data point shows that's going to cost 4% more, but I don't like it, so add 7% - basically a whim. And no one in the world besides me knows the difference (and I forget about it after a few cycles and it becomes the baseline). So, yeah, perhaps stop posting speculation.
Well if he learned to use the Maps app on his phone wouldn't it help him a lot?

At this point it becomes more of a business/hobby/profession-related thing to learn that would help a lot, rather than a trend or a luxury.
A bit boring seeing those lopsided anti-crypto/web3 comments at the top of HN so regularly. Those who entered crypto markets during the boom have already been burnt severely, that should be all the warning they need. I don't even disagree with many of the critiques, but I think they don't acknowledge some merits that web3 actually has. The ability to host open source web services pretty much indefinitely (with or without maintenance) after initial deployment is interesting, especially for hackers.

The fact that a ridiculously high percentage of current projects may be scams doesn't negate that, it's not an uncommon phenomenon with dissemination technologies (printing presses were also used to disseminate outrageous propaganda lies).

The more interesting critique is that web3 tends to 'financialize everything'. I can see what's meant there and I wouldn't even contest that there is such a tendency. I can also see why people would be opposed to that, but I think that argument misses what's already happening. Facebook, gmail, Google Maps, pdf-merge,... may be mostly free for users, but their data is heavily monetized by the companies providing those services, with little to no transparency. Web3 can shift the pendulum of economic power a little bit (not fully, as maybe claimed by some enthusiasts) in the direction of users again. Public databases, anyone can build frontends for popular services, no need for rate-limited APIs when building on top of other projects,... I can see why FAANG shareholders should be opposed to that, but not why there seems to be such fundamental opposition on HN.
But if you dig deeper most people rate their own schools higher. It’s the other schools, or schools in aggregate that are the problem in the eyes of the voters.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1612/education.aspx

For example, in 2021 only 46% were at least “somewhat satisfied” with the state of education. Pre-COVID numbers were only slightly better.

But if you ask a parent about their child’s education 73% are at least “somewhat satisfied” and pre-COVID the numbers are about 5-10 points higher, indicating the vast majority of parents are fine with the education their kids are receiving.

This is because of how public school works in the US. Yes, there are federal and state standards that dominate the curriculum but because so much of it is funded by local taxes, school boards do have some leeway in terms of how things get shaped. So maybe you’re appalled at what’s being taught in Texas schools, but why should you care if your kid goes to school in the Chicago suburbs?
If you're trying to run more than one application on a server you probably ought to install dependencies in such a way that different applications can use different versions. Either using a toolchain-specific version manager such as nodenv (or nvm or asdf), or a more general tool like Docker.

It's pretty reasonable for projects to require a specific language version. Especially in this case as 16 is still the latest LTS version of Node.js.

EDIT: They even say "Ghost can work with other operating systems, node versions, and databases (particularly those supported by Knex) - but as a small team, we only document and support one narrow stack that we know works really well."

Can't really see how you can fault that.
Surely making a digital copy and releasing it to the world for free would be the first priority of any museum that wants to preserve things forever
Wild. Let’s hope it never becomes an economically viable thing to harvest.
A whole age of warfare sank with the Moskva
Be(e) Hummingbird!
This variable seems easy to equate to wealth and access to technology, though?
Is that their role? It's very common to see journalist-posited hypotheses used as the justification for dismissing concerns, on HN in particular. I think it's reasonable for them to relay the noticed effect and not try to guess why, if the research they're reporting on hasn't established a link yet.

Plus what does it change about our understanding, or responsibility? The effect is there, it's real. What are you hoping for, the reason will turn out to be "minority kids are just naturally dumber?" Something else that makes it not a problem we need to solve?
Yes, let's have an intellectualky honest and objevtive debate about if the world is flat. No, stop wasting people's time and energy with your obvious pyramid scheme.
See the first Tomb Raider also for a 3D version of this. She only ever moves by full tiles.

Makes it quite cool once you get used to the grid as you can reason logically about certain jumps etc.
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school...
This is why it isn’t called Amdahl's suggestion.

The use of std::mutex (especially in frequently accessed structures) will bring your application to a grinding halt. Better solutions abound with concurrent sequential processes, or the Actor architecture.
> the obvious after the damage is done

This is survivorship bias.
I tried sqlite once and had a lot of errors with just 2 writers. Instantly no errors after switching to postgres.
As a professor, pay is very comparable across organizations for given degree programs nationwide. One hypothesis for why is that salary support on grants to faculty comes from grants with salary as a direct cost. These grants are the same amount nationwide, e.g. $600K for NSF small CISE core award. Also student tuition doesn't vary for different classes, so the university doesn't necessarily have more money for CS faculty depending on how things internally work.

There is some cost of living adjustments but it is pretty minimal. The discipline adjustments are more significant. English department adjuncts are probably paid a lot less.

My biggest surprise was that adjuncts are paid so well. It rivals my salary when I got tenure especially with only teaching two classes per semester and them being co-taught. I've done the visiting/adjunct thing in NYC, and the Berkeley salary is over 2x higher. But I was doing that for the joy of teaching and I had a day job.
Hi HN John from Ghost here. Excited to launch 5.0 today, 9 years after Ghost first got built thanks to a popular post right here on Hacker News. We're hanging out in the comments today if you have any questions or thoughts!
"Technically?" Curious how you've even managed to avoid it, frankly – all of the largest US banks have it: Bank of America, Chase, Citi, Capital One, and Wells Fargo,
as well as 1,536 other banks.

Going down this list, I don't think I've ever used a bank that didn't have it: https://www.zellepay.com/get-started
> High-dosage tutoring—which educators define as involving a trained tutor working with one to four students at a time, three times a week for a whole year—is one of the few interventions with a demonstrated benefit that comes close, producing an average gain equivalent to 19 weeks of instruction

Yes, more anxiety inducing pointless education is what kids need. I like how they're trying to sell the idea of measuring students in 'weeks of instruction' as if they're mechanical objects.

More hours of education doesn't make kids smarter. It might make them more knowledgeable in certain subject areas (many of which are completely useless to both children and adults), but it definitely gives them anxiety. The education establishment is trying to encroach on ever more of our kids and young adult's lives, and to what end?

Let's get back to being human. Let's go outside for 7 hours a day, we can probably limit education instruction to just 3-4 hours 3 or 4 days per week, and we'll have more functional adults.
> Also, what killed Usenet was mainly the byzantine process of creating newsgroups (i.e., artificial barriers to entry)

I don't buy it. The web forums that largely replaced Usenet also had significant barriers to entry; although you could get a PHPBB hosting account pretty easily you would then have to drive traffic to your site; people couldn't just add your site to their feedlist and see new posts automatically without "going there". And you had a much freer hand with moderation.

I think web forums won largely because they didn't require any client software - the barriers to entry for new users were non-existent. Maybe the moderation was more effective as well; I know some usenet groups had major issues with spam but that wasn't universal.
This does partly rely on it being cheaper to extract lithium from spent batteries than it is to mine.

Lead acid batteries are easy to recycle because there is exactly one chemistry used in car batteries. LiIon is not yet as standard.
Neat project. Reminds me of the concept of streaming a log file through some kind of tokenizer -> tone generator (probably doesn't work for really busy programs) so that you can listen to the program execution and pick out things like errors from jarring notes. Don't remember where I came across that concept though :(
People like to diss email as a "todo list that other people can add items to", but really, this holds for just about all communication channels.

So for me, what worked is to only use one channel (in my case, my work gmail) as a valid TODO-inbox. Everything else doesn't count.

This means that if someone WhatsApps me something that requires a TODO, I ask them to email me a reminder. In my particular social situation, this tends to work. If they don't want to do this, it's probably not important enough

I keep my email itself clean by using Andreas Klinger's classic gmail-TODO-setup (https://klinger.io/posts/dont-drown-in-email-how-to-use-gmai...). That article is 9 years old now but it still works perfectly, despite Google's reputation for killing niche apps/features.

Then, I enable email notifications in key apps (eg Slack and GitHub), most of which I archive right away, but occasionally mark as a TODO using the gmail-TODO-setup. This means I never have a secondary "unread message as TODO items" list in slack, or similar in GitHub. It's very nice.

Finally, I use "Simple Gmail Notes" (https://bart.solutions/simple-gmail-notes/) to add little notes to myself about what a TODO-email is about. eg "review this" or "delegate to someone", etc.
What Is an Application Binary Interface
To be fair, latency and throughput are not among its issues.
Environment of Peace
You're saying that you taught and felt people were not properly prepared, but also believe people are not behind?
A note of thanks, gentle user.
What's HNsers expo yet experience using Mycroft? I tried to play with it on a rpi a few years ago. Got stuck blue being able to use a Bluetooth mic. I found the CMU Sphinx voice was good to just use on it's own.
I think you could make it work with only some username namespace. Eg: whatsapp.cerium vs fb.cerium. Facebook would forward messages to whatsapp usernames and vice versa.
Stop spreading misinformation. The data clearly shows that the death rate for parents is extremely low. It was only ever people in the 65+ age group that were at significant risk.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
The humidity in London is currently 69%. Your indoor humidity should never exceed 60%, and you should target 40%-45%. If you have no way to control this then you are essentially running a mold incubator.

From my travels around western europe I also noticed a SHOCKING number of bathrooms lack any form of bathroom fan, so hot showers spike the indoor humidity and it stays there.

>The point-fan-out-the-window technique is for rapidly bringing your home down to ambient temperatures (and humidities).

Sure, but the goal is to do that in a controlled manner. Every outlet needs an inlet, and that inlet can either be a dedicated one with a filter (via ERV) or cracks, crevices, and air leaks around your house that you can't see. By puling in uncontrolled outside air you risk moisture buildup in those areas that can lead to mold and rot.

>There will be no condensation, and thus no mold, because the ambient night air is above its dew point, and your own walls start out hotter than the ambient air, and they only approach its temperature _from above_ as you ventilate the house.

Unless your interior air is humid, because the house lacks even the most basic form of humidity control. Then those air leak spots cool the area they're leaking in around which then makes condensation from your interior humidity.

>(You can also get mold problems, when you are running an AC.)

Oh for sure. My point is that a house with proper AC, humidity control, and ERV will be extremely resistant to mold growth. It will also feel fresh, comfortable, you'll sleep better etc.
It's just a regular card:

"Apple Cash services are provided by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more about the Terms and Conditions. Only available in the U.S. on eligible devices. To send and receive money with an Apple Cash account, you must be 18 and a U.S. resident. If you’re under 18, your family organizer can set up Apple Cash for you as part of their Apple Cash Family account. Security checks may require more time to make funds available. Apple Cash Family accounts can send or receive up to $2000 per transaction or within a seven-day period. Sending money from Wallet requires iOS 15.5 or later.

An Apple Cash card is required to use Daily Cash, except if you do not have an Apple Cash card, in which case you can only apply your Daily Cash as a credit on your statement balance. The Apple Cash card is issued by Green Dot Bank, Member FDIC. See apple.com/apple-pay for more information. Daily Cash is earned on purchases after the transaction posts to your account. Actual posting times vary by merchant. Daily Cash is subject to exclusions, and additional details apply. See the Apple Card Customer Agreement for more information.

Variable APRs range from 11.24% to 22.24% based on creditworthiness. Rates as of April 1, 2022.

To access and use all the features of Apple Card, you must add Apple Card to Wallet on an iPhone or iPad with the latest version of iOS or iPadOS. Update to the latest version by going to Settings > General > Software Update. Tap Download and Install.

Available for qualifying applicants in the United States.

Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch"
OK, but roughly 100% of the US has lower living costs than Berkeley too. $50,000 (especially with solid benefits) is a middle-class salary in most places.
Sure, that is a goal for many drivers. There's no reason for anyone else to care about it. Whatever the hypothetical advantages of automobiles to society in general, police-enforced speed limits exist. Since you seem opposed to limits on speed, one might expect you to value Tullock's spike as another possible solution in the trade-off space that would allow faster travel for those who, like you, really value that, while still somewhat protecting the rest of us on the street.
A good dev should comment their readable code so well that anyone can drop in and figure it out.

Unfortunately that good dev is no longer employed at this company...
Define your time horizon. Currencies will disappear - whether it be in 10 years, 50 or ... let's be ultra-conservative: a few thousands years.

The system is rigged by old generations heavily invested in tradfi, but give it a few generations and things will radically change ... which might be arguably irrelevant on your own time horizon, fair enough
The cynical side of me thinks serial entrepreneur means having rich parents who can provide you safety net when your latest venture fails.
Great nugget. Thanks for sharing.

Here is the transcript: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018...
I see. I think it's possible. If there's a catastrophic event that nukes everything, it's certainly possible to restore from a prior state... or even multiple prior states. You would effectively get a fork or multiple forks and then the ones that folks decide to use en massed would become the dominant chain. It's happened already when there have been disagreements in how to scale protocols, or even in the case of a pseudo-catastrophic event like the DAO hack on ethereum.
Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power
Could you give an example of a successful and useful web3 implementation? Because I look around, and all I see are grifters, scams and pyramid schemes. There must be some examples of something useful and popular that has been built, if it's such a revolutionary technology?
Why is this a 'political thing'?

Did I miss the campaign to define SQL? Of the one to specify the x86 ISA? Perhaps they should merge the arm and x86 architectures, they're both CPUs right?

This feels very far away from a 'political thing'.
This idea of obsession is funny. Like you keep asking if I want to play your carnival game and every time I say "no" and you can't get me to say "yes" so your solution is to follow me around asking "why are you so obsessed with me?"
I mean... I singlehandedly disprove your claim. I use Apple Cash very frequently, even in cases where both parties have other apps on their phones. IMO they don't need to remove Venmo or Cash App from the market in order to have a meaningful product that adds value for their customers.
The B-29 Bomber in Lake Mead
> why those kids that were reading at an early age are typically not that ahead in a few years.

That's often because they are dropped in a single pace system, where they are forced to sit with kids learning the alphabet, wasting valuable time, getting bored.