skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think cash-wise i would fall in this bucket. Of course i have plenty of savings, but most of my income is spent away.

One issue when talking about incomes is that its not properly adjusted for COL and taxes. A 250k salary in the bay area is about 12k a month in hand.
Im a head of family - I support my wife and my kid with this income. Rent is 5k, and pre-school is another 2.5k. Between unnegotiables like phone lines, food, internet, electricity etc etc the reminder to be stingy about is not a lot.

I used to live in this area with 100k and still save, but as a single person living in a dump and eating in the office every day.
In some places $1.7m is a median priced home.

The usual rule of thumb is don't be too far from the median house in the area, either below or above, but if you have to miss aim below.
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I've worked two FAANGM jobs as a salaried engineer and or manager, rarely put in over 40. Draw boundaries, stick to them. Long hours mean the company is underfunding your team, and there's no reason you should be picking up their mistakes.
This depends a lot on what kind of job it is.

I have worked in many companies, in several countries, from startups to a few of the largest companies.

Without exception, work in the office has been far more distracting than work at home.

Counting also the hours lost with commuting, in a day of work at home I have always worked about a double number of effective hours per day compared to most offices.

There have been only two places with a productivity somewhat approaching the work at home, and that was because every pair of engineers had their own closed office, well separated from the others.

Discussions with the colleagues from time to time can be very useful, but most of the real coding or design work is better done alone.
I never got a chance to compare it to those, since I was most interested in beating bmalloc. And I mainly wanted to beat it on Safari workloads.

I believe bmalloc was previously compared against jemalloc and tcmalloc, also using Safari workloads, and bmalloc was significantly faster at the time.
Just in case you didn't notice: this thread is about visual coordination between musicians in an orchestra or smaller formation; so it is up-front unclear why you post a video of a techno performance where the DJ also operates some drum pads in addition to the sequencer. And now you're turning it into a values debate; seems to me like you just look for confrontation.
> If the owner of the company I worked for, who invested well over 40 hour weeks so he could become insanely rich

He's doing it to save humanity from extinction level events. If he just wanted to be rich, well, that goal was met years ago.

It just turns out you need a lot of capital for truly effective altruism.
Thanks for taking a look!

> In case you were interested, there's a section devoted to that in RFC 3548: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3548#section-4 with the tl;dr of `s/[+]/-/; s/[/]/_/` and then omitting the trailing "=" characters and just padding the incoming b64 since (AFAIK) one can add as many "=" as they'd like and it'll just ignore extra ones

Thanks! I'll check this out.

> Depending on your interoperability interests, you can shave a bit of text out of it by shortening the JSON key names `"i"`, `"a"`, `"n"`, and then also `.filter(Boolean)` to nuke those two trailing empty strings

This is a good idea. I might already be filtering those empty strings but I'll have to check.
> facebook could have noticed that the primary email for the user was for an expired domain, and proactively notified them to remove it.

Or just wait at least a week before emailing a password reset PIN to secondary email addresses. I reported this exact vulnerability 4 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17835127
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not a bad idea, although it basically sounds like a beefed-up version of the "school counselor" role.

> Self-assessment quizzes could be administered to screen for depression, anxiety, dark-triad type stuff and then results evaluated by an actual psychologist with appropriate followup as needed.

this part seems misguided. especially if administered through school, I suspect a lot of students would perceive this as an attempt to get them to "tell on" themselves. which it is, at least some of the time.
Didn't Switzerland pull shit like literally put explosives around bridges and data links so if someone invades people could, quite literally "go to the mattresses"?

I heard lots of stories like that from people who would claim they have friends in GCHQ or whatever as I'd repeatedly remind folks I have never filled out an SF-86, I'm literally just some guy that people with TS:SCI clearances have talked too much in front of since childhood.

I worry that kind of movie plot threat modeling is why you saw what happened in Texas, repeatedly:

https://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/2011-blackouts/

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/16/968230163/millions-without-po...

People made decisions that seemed right at the time, but didn't factor in the costs, in all senses of the word, of upkeeping a complex defense system with physical components that may... decay.

You cannot do things like maintain a separate power grid to make it easier to secede, then pair that with no state income tax to ensure upkeep of your parallel infrastructure, or your people will die in large numbers, multiple times, as some Glasnost loving, chicken fingers addicted autist repeated comes onto The Website to remind folks: you were told that exactly this scenario, on this day, would happen if you ignored the warnings delivered in person, face to face, repeatedly, for over a decade, of the consequences of your decisions.

Now, wall of text aside, this is a fascinating article. My hometown can get into the 90s with high humidity, but has abundant caves if you know where to go (we used to mine coal more than we do now), so I find this kind of writing extremely educational, and I thank the OP for pointing me to it.
> Clang fits the second half, that Apple contributes a ton to it.

So where is that ton to it?
> OK, but how is it harder for PageRank?

If you are familiar with the algorithms, which I assume you are, you can work it out.

To make my page score high on the PageRank score I need to acquire links from high PageRank score pages. This is a lot harder because it depends on a) in-links and b) high PageRank pages. With Hits, its easy for one page to harvest a high Hub score. All that is needed is to outlink to known good pages (authority). Providing outlinks is trivial. Once so harvested, one can direct that flow to a designated page to give it a high Authority score.

> It's not really the kind of 'game' that would be considered in game theory

Why not ? Formalize the strategy spaces of both the players and its a very valid game in the Game Theory sense. For the ranker you have to consider some functional space of functions over a graph. For the page player it has a budget of alterations it can make to the graph.
Assuming that they can keep their job/income while moving somewhere less expensive.
Funny, Dutch people are raised the opposite. I say that, yet I'm still surprised how many Dutch people have student debt, which is around 1.6 million people with an average of around 15000 euro's [1]. So maybe it's just how I was raised?

[1] "2021 hadden 1,6 miljoen" and "15,2 duizend euro in 2020", see (CTRL + F): https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2021/47/meer-personen-met-st....
Out of US there is also:

- FTX Future Funds: https://ftxfuturefund.org
>You find these earth cellars in many places across Europe, even today.

Weren't these the original "wine cellars"? :-)
I know you're taking the piss but I worked for a Shell subsidiary for 2 years very recently and they actually take all the "green" stuff very seriously despite the fact their core business accounts for 2% of global co2 emissions. It's very bizarre and much of the internal "greenwashing" dialog reads like a catholic confessional.

With that out of the way there is a difference between corporate PR greenwashing and literally changing battery chemistries to not contain as many rare earth minerals.
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A brand new Sienna will run you $600 a month or so on a good loan, with down-payment.

And it'll get 32 MPG whilst doing it. It could be worth taking a look.
First of all you might want to refresh your memory on the QWERTY layout. As it happens, in grad school a group of us bought into the Dvorak myth, and spent several months retraining on Dvorak. We didn't see great results. And then by chance one of us ran across https://reason.com/1996/06/01/typing-errors/ and we realized that, based on research we had not known existed, there was in fact every reason to believe that QWERTY is superior in practice to Dvorak.

And this brings us to the subject of network effects. It is easy to see, and experience, that network effects are real. And certainly they contribute to why existing networks dominate, and alternate ones struggle. However, on multiple lines of evidence, network effects are far smaller than people suppose. In fact they scale as O(n log(n)), see http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf for multiple lines of evidence supporting that estimate. This is a big barrier to getting modest adoption. But if a better technology gets there, it isn't a barrier to dethroning the leader. And so, despite network effects clearly favoring Perl at the dawn of the web, Perl got overtaken by PHP got overtaken by node.js got overtaken by Python. Lock-in to popularity is clearly less of a factor than it may seem. (And none of those technologies actually went away. It is likely that more people program in Perl today than in 1998.)

And there are no shortage of potential competitors out there. The number of query tools that I have had to learn and use is a testament to that. And, just in case I needed more evidence, you bring up another. As it happens, I have not used EdgeQL. After reading a bit about it, I'm not sure why I'd want to. But if it gains any popularity, then some day I'm sure I'll have to.

But looking at it, I'm reminded of a fact about programming languages. The perfect is the enemy of the good. Different people have different notions of what perfection looks like. And therefore attempts to create a perfect system inevitably splinter into a million fragments, none of which can gather the critical mass to overcome network effects. Look at the history of Lisp to see this in operation.

And yet the best ideas do tend to emerge. Back when I first learned JavaScript, closures were a weird feature that books didn't even want to try to explain because programmers wouldn't understand them. (JavaScript has them because it was created by a Lisp hacker.) Today they are considered standard, and even languages like Java have been forced to add them.
> since a large market I work in (insurance / life insurance) is dwindling

Out of curiosity, why is the life insurance market dwindling??
For sure. Way back any high Pagerank page linking to another would unequivocally boost the target site, whatever niche, but it's became more nuanced as you say.

What I was meaning was, the players who can manipulate the link graph most cost effectively tend to rank better and it favours those with deeper pockets. Not so bad for competitive niches and high volume terms, but muddies the waters for many other things.
I wonder if Hashicorp has gotten any blowback from confused Luna holders. Our company gets calls all the time from people thinking we are UPS or Fedex and wondering where their package is (we audit UPS/Fedex invoices)
> That's like an old person complaining that their body felt a lot better back in 2006

It's simply a fact that in 2006 Google search results were better.

Reasons might vary and could well not be Google's fault, but it's not old man yelling at clouds it's provably true.

Of course people that were not using Google before 2006 can't really know, just like people that are not old cannot experience how much better being young is, body functioning wise.
It can be quite difficult to find online oases like that. HN is quite unique.

Have you considered starting your own Slack, invite interesting people and build a new oasis? (Or Matrix channel.) It would take some work to get people to join, but it’s not impossible.
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Number of papers published or number of citations isn't a measure of the value of someone's research. This over-reliance on metrics is a big part of what's going wrong with academia. A hundred years ago people published when they had something to say, and authors of journals had to literally beg people for submissions.

>Soldiers, and defense in general, are part of the main things a government should provide

So is education. All developed countries spend public money on education.

>In the UK in particular, education used to be tuition-free.

That is my point. There are abundant historical examples of how a thriving university sector can be maintained without each department needing to be run as its own business.

>You are basically paying people to sit in a room and discuss something by themselves. Why does a minimum wage worker have to subsidies that?

In the UK? In the UK a minimum wage worker pays hardly any tax, so they don't subsidise much of anything. If the question is why society should subsidise that, my answer would be that it should do so if it values historical knowledge (assuming that we're still talking about history PhDs). If you are just saying "history sucks, so let's not spend money training people to be historians", then sure, that is a coherent position.
While I agree with you overall, I hope you aren’t saying that someone in the top 10% of incomes is “elite.”
I am this stage currently.

Amazon recruiter has been asking me to take a technical assessment for weeks. I have no will power at all. Frankly, I am at a point where I won't study leetcode at all. I'm willing to make a move but will not grind.

Working on CRUD doesn't help the situation but at least I can do it with my tired and fried brain.
Hang in there, man. I can totally relate. I too find myself getting tired out at the three year mark at companies, and switching things up has always helped. Although it's easier to not burn the bridge when you switch positions internally rather than start a completely different company (since often that other company can be the main competitor to the one you are leaving).
The key distinction between previous "decriminalization" and this change to real decriminalization, is that previously it was only a prosecutorial and policing policy to not charge users, but it wasn't a criminal code change.

Drug users were still actively policed with users reporting feeling "harassed" as their drugs were often confiscated, which simply made their life worse and didn't help them at all.

With this change police can no longer confiscate drugs, so the intent is to reduce police pressure on drug users.

As there are still limits to the amount of drugs that can carried, there remains the possibility for severely active policing, harassment and street checks in police actively checking people to see how much drugs they're carrying.
I remember as a kid in 1st grade (California 1991) I would walk to school from my Grandma's house. There would be streams of kids coming from the surrounding neighborhoods. Now, when I ride by elementary schools, I see lines of cars a mile long waiting to drop off their kids in huge noisy modified cars and trucks. Even the one I used to go to. Now they are tearing out playgrounds to add parking and places to queue up to drop off kids...

Ironically the area is no longer safe for kids because of these cars. Occasionally I see lifted trucks hopping curbs and minivans blowing through occupied crosswalks at 10 over the speed limit. Crosswalks are a deathtrap because of right on red. Lights are timed with zero consideration to pedestrian traffic. Residential streets are wide and used as short cuts.

Cars have become a plague in America.
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Try Yandex image search, you'll be surprised how good it is.
Not to mention politicians teasing loan "forgiveness" makes me afraid to make payments for fear of being a sucker when the debt is wiped away in the name of buying votes.
Get sleep. Eat proper meals. Don't skip meals. Talk out loud when analyzing a problem, if necessary. Try to laugh to relieve stress when faced with a knotty problem that you're making no progress on.
You don’t pay taxes on them until and unless they turn into shares.
> As for Discord... isn't it a gamer thing?

It is a general purpose web based chat similar to slack that was targeted towads gamers. Anyone can use it for anything. Think fancy web based IRC.
If this was true humanity would be getting poorer.

In reality we're steadily getting richer each year.

We've been automating away work for 250 years, and people have been worrying about how automation will make them poorer for 249 years :)
Just because you do something for money doesn't mean you're not good at it. I'm no big capitalist, but incentives 101 tells us that people try harder at things when you pay them.

edit: and to make an unfair generalization, pay is the most predictable and intelligible motivation for an employee. An activist can be motivated by doing good through their organization, but an employee who isn't motivated by their pay is also certainly not motivated by helping their employers get wealthier. So their motivations are weird, not straightforward.
I was onboarded with 3 other colleagues, while the company was fully remote. I'm fully integrated into the work and company culture. I love my colleagues and get along great with them.

I don't undertand this "you can't build relationships over Teams" sentiment. Have people forgot about online gaming? There are millions -- I'd wager a billion -- close friendships that started (and maybe stayed) fully online. The bar for colleague-level acquaintances is much lower.
> Good leaders respect you if you have these skills

but

> almost always comes down to (at least seemingly) bad management

So this solution, while it sounds wonderful, doesn't seem to follow the problem.
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> Right. All that guy cares about is money, so he can sleaze off at his yacht, surround himself with supermodels and be photographed with world leaders.

Elon dated Amber Heard. It was revealed in a trial that he donated 1 million USD on her behalf to charities of her choice, we presume to impress her during their courtship.

> It’s not like Elon needs more money to afford a bigger house or something. The the things he wants are things that, as of now, no amount of money can buy.

He wanted Twitter, which had a very specific price tag (44 billion USD), and his wealth allowed him to purchase it.

There are plenty of examples where additional wealth has benefited Elon.
Maybe this is just my consumer perspective but I feel like TomTom really missed on a pivot to other GPS-related products that Garmin has successfully nailed. 10-15 years ago both companies were known mainly for car sat-nav systems but Garmin now has an incredibly diverse product line with well-liked fitness watches, bike computers, exploring/off-grid satellite communicators, marine charts, aviation, etc. Whereas TomTom seems stuck still selling the same handful of automobile satnav products which are surely squeezed to a tiny consume base between smartphone apps and feature-rich car screens.

I know there is map IP as well and maybe that's their only real business opportunity going forward.
If I remember right I think he mentioned somewhere on Twitter that he hardcodes most of it in shaders as well. It’s crazy cool