skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do the same and use German data, and nuclear optimizes to 100%. The US has especially abundant wind and solar.

I would very much like to see a similar model that includes a demand curve. Preferably, customizable demand curves, to allow for modeling of e.g. flatter curves due to electric vehicle charging at night.
> I own a cheap old car and prefer to fix it myself if I can (...) probably worth more than a professional would have cost.

Maybe! It all depends on whether or not you would actually do something more productive with the time. If you were to write a book or work on your company or take an extra job with those hours, sure, pay the professional. But if, instead, you were going to be watching TV instead, then you are way ahead. You have learned a skill, which can save you in the long run, even if you pay (you know if you are getting a good service and not being gouged, etc).

Having a cheap car – as long as it's not a lemon – is a good thing.

> I'm afraid to make investments fearing that the market could crash the second I enter it

Ok, that is a problem. Keep hoarding cash if it makes you feel better but take a portion and invest. Once you have managed to save enough to have 3-6 months expenses covered, you should be investing the rest. That's how you get out of shitty jobs, specially later in life. Markets generally recover and have for a century. If this stops we'll have bigger problems (and not investing doesn't shield you from them).

I basically agree with everything else you said.
In my experience, a value per hour in Europe tends to imply contract/freelance arrangement, where you need to get a VAT number, liability insurance and have basically none of the labor rights regular employees have.

So I think the confusion is due to the fact that the interviewer interpreted as you expecting a full time regular employment contract, which gives you plenty of legal protection. In that case I have seen 45k/yr as typical for jr level developers, while 65k being an average and towards 80k for seniors.
There is nothing inherently wrong with borrowing money to buy an asset.

The problem is that most people don't have the money and they likely never will, passing on their debt to their children, but they want the asset anyway - so we have created a debt driven culture.

The issue is that everyone believes they are entitled to a home, even if they cant afford it, they take out large mortgages to purchase these properties pushing up prices even further whilst alienating the next generation of buyers to enter the market. The reality of being squeezed out of the market is very very real in Australia, and the general sentiment is that the earlier you are into the market, the better.

The personal debt to income ratio within Australia is some of the highest in the OECD - meaning that every day people who have bought into the "Australian dream" have sacrificed their quality of life for an asset (or perhaps a liability), which creates an atmosphere of increased competition and stress.

The recently outed liberal government had relaxed borrowing regulations. Hence, we have people flipping houses for 30-40% more than they paid, in just a period of a couple of years.

Most new people entering the market have no concept that in the 1980s interest rates were upward of 18%, if interest rates hit 5%, (which could be a plausible figure considering inflationary pressures), the yearly repayments to service the average mortgage is now $37500. People haven't had a pay rise in years, and now their "prized asset" costs them a near minimum full-time wage to service. This is the hard reality that many people who have entered into the market in the last 5 years face.

My personal conclusion is that housing in Australia has become a toxic asset class. Housing is a human right, it shouldn't be used a highly speculative asset. I have no problem with appreciation of the value of property over a long-term timeframe, but what we have seen in recent years is nothing short of insanity.
Having left the country many years ago to live in Europe, I think I might save myself from a debt encumbered existence and buy a plot of land in Portugal for €10K instead.
I don't have any number answers for you, but different companies set different budgets. They also have really different attrition numbers, but people who can get higher pay tend to not stick around too long at those lower jobs.

It's a wide range and it varies a lot, figure out what you want to be happy and try to find a company that can make it happen. This company might be used to skating by with cheaper engineers.
> “this Supreme Court”

Assuming you mean Citizens United, decided twelve years ago, the Court has had a nearly 50% turnover since then. It was still “the Robert’s Court” but hardly “this Court”. But the current Court would likely hold a majority for same conclusion of CU - that the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which prohibited any corporation, non-profit organization or labor union from making an "electioneering communication" within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of an election was an unconstitutional limit on free speech.

Not to relitigate it, but it’s not as if collectives of people weren’t making campaign communications prior to BCRA or CU. They traditionally did. If one has an issue with corporate personhood, one has to rewind 100 years and do impact analysis on all that it would mean in practice. Probably a bloodier mess than just prohibiting speech (property rights, taxation, etc).
I'm a cis woman but any person who gets genuinely upset at people for asking to be addressed by their preferred pronouns comes off like a clown. If I change my name and ask to be addressed by my new name, anyone who wouldn't do it would be ridiculed. And yet someone changing their pronouns asking for the same is somehow too much.

You don't have to be super-woke or tolerant to simply refer to people correctly.
Getting hired as a PHD is usually a +1 in level compared to a junior.
That document, as with every other claim about stagnant wages in the US since the 1970s, entirely (probably intentionally) fails to account for the massive demographic shift that has occurred since 1975.

The US middle class is not the same, 1975 vs 2022.

Show me the demographics of 1975 for the US middle class and lower middle class. Then show me the same demo for 2022.

Next show me the wealth and income figures for each demographic, 1975 vs 2022.

Hint: the US middle class is no longer entirely white; and the white people that used to dominate the US middle class have moved up. Meanwhile first and second generation Hispanic Americans have moved into the US middle class, coming from largely impoverished backgrounds and third world countries. Does that document account for any of that? Of course not.

You can trivially see this in the Fed's demographic data for wealth and income (white household income and wealth figures are well above the median figure for example; which was not true in 1975, back then they were close to one and the same), and by comparing present demographics vs past demographics.

Hispanics were 4-5% of the population in 1975.

If the white demographic moves up, and formerly poor Hispanics move into and take over the US middle class (which is exactly what's occurring), the document you linked to pretends nothing changed, there was no improvement. There was in fact vast improvement for the actual people in question.
An Underwater Hack and the Digital Ripple Effects
> Australia is one of the world’s top three producers of gas and coal, but about a quarter of the east coast’s coal-fired power stations are currently offline because of outages and maintenance.

Meanwhile, more sensible policies seem to be prevailing in Western Australia:

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2022/06/15/western-aus...
Totally agree that it's obnoxious to ask for a number first, but if you're going to do it makes sense to do it at the beginning. In your story, if they were reasonable they would have said, "we actually only pay around x, if that's not acceptable to you then let's not waste each other's time". That way they give you a chance to accept.
How ridiculous is this? Do you really have a right to free association if you have to file a report if you pay someone $600 to do something for you?
You made it sound like the US was only working on the decommissioning of the labs. The quote I provided added additional context that the US was also helping run 46 labs.
And capital isn't free. With physical goods, there is already a number of existing roads, train tracks, and ports.

Capital costs is why Hawaii has traditionally imported oil versus having an undersea power connection to the continental US.
Couldn't figure out what the big deal is from the link, so after some further research, this is what's going on. The A321XLR is a smaller more efficient plane that will make long range but less frequently travelled routes profitable without the need for transfers on bigger planes.
>"... as though it's literally stupid to care about other people."

That's not what the quote means. It's generally understood to describe how young people are well-intentioned but naive, and that you come to understand your limitations and get wiser as you get older, which causes you to adopt more philosophically conservative views (see Leo Strauss for a good example).
Once upon a time when I was a young pup, I was the sole engineer dedicated to a product with top line revenues of $60MM+/year. There were probably a dozen other engineers working on supporting and critical infrastructure that was used for that product.

I made $75,000 / year, in a major US tech hub.

So my point is - get it man. Enjoy the remote work and the big salaries and RSUs and all of it, because the generations that came before you worked darn hard to push so that you'd get all of this.
Note that this was originally written in 2003!
Or perhaps you could link to a wider range of literature rather than try to get people to buy a $100 book
It's an example of using edge-case scenarios that are pretty much orthogonal to the issue at hand as an argument against people having the right to work and purchase things in such a way that their privacy is still maintained.
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/GUzin
Hear, hear! I see no reason why can't we go back to sharing information across sites on many domains hosted on a number of small servers, like in the 90s. For example, having a Raspberry Pi in every home. This sounds like decentralization to me.
In the spirit of the article or at least the title one might say your grandparent's regular food wasting attitude has been scarred by WWII.
I'm not surprised this didn't happen earlier. The pandemic disrupted everything and gave people a good reason to rethink their life choices. Industry salaries grew faster than academic salaries. Teaching became more stressful and less rewarding. Instead of being in the same place with other people with similar interests, you had to do research remotely from your tiny apartment. And because you were probably far away from home, travel restrictions often prevented you from seeing your friends and family. The academia started looking much worse, and getting a job where you can choose where you live became even more attractive.
You can observe plenty of people acting like the worst imaginable human being on Facebook or Twitter - all under their own name. I think you're spot on about the issue, but I'd argue the reason is simply scale.

When you have only 5 people in your vicinity you're going to form deep relationships with them, whether or not you want to - or whether or not you like them. It will simply happen due to the fact you're going to be around these people day in, day out. 500? Well that gets more difficult. It'll require some degree of mutual effort to form relationships, but it's still very doable especially as you'll be still somewhat regularly bumping into the same people.

5,000,000? You will, in all probability, never see the same person twice. And even if you do, you probably won't remember them among the jungle of faces. You will never form any sort of a relationship unless you aggressively go out of your way to do so. And whoa, who's this random guy trying to be so aggressively buddy buddy with me? This dude is weird. Let me smile, nod, and find the nearest exit. And in the internet, you're around hundreds of millions to billions.
Agreed, that sounds more like an ADD management problem on the professor's part?
Didn't python become mainstream until numpy/pandas? In my mind, data science was Python's killer app, but maybe that's just my revisionist brain. Similarly, I think Ruby had Rails as its vehicle.
I agree. I think everyone in this thread needs to take a step back and stop being so prejudiced about some situation when no one in the public has the full story yet.
the creme of the creme are all working for big companies making big dollars. But I could imagine people in academia thinking they are the a big deal.
The one big downside I see is Google (and the cell phone carriers, and a few others).

They already HAVE this data. It’s part of running Maps or a cell network.

So this further entrenches them in some ways because they can make decisions and products off data no one else has.

You know that thing when you search a place and it tells you how busy it is at certain hours?

Bing could never replicate that. They have no way of knowing.
Surely "Desert Bus" set the precedent for driving a commercial vehicle in video games.
HN is generally very hostile to the idea that many people want their data collected, or at least don’t care much at all.
I've worked at Kraken for almost 6 years, and know Jesse pretty well. He acquired my project and I reported to him for a while. I manage a large engineering team here.

I think you and many others are misinterpreting what he wrote. He's not defending the use of the N-word and I've never, ever seen anyone use language remotely close to that in internal communications. I think the example he gave is the ridiculous scenario of someone identifying as a different race so they can have permission to use the N word.

I think people are getting outraged over literally nothing with this story, I've found the vast majority of people working at Kraken to be perfectly reasonable and respectful to each other. I don't understand why everyone on HN/Twitter is so eager to get outraged over stories like this when they have so little detail and context.
DaaM: Details-as-a-Menu
I'll read those later so I can understand the context from your statement more. What sections specifically in that doc concern you the most?
Here is the Vice article about Kraken.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zwb7/crypto-exchange-ceo-c...
Seems that caesium-137 is also excreted pretty quickly:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137

Still even though it's hard to find good numbers, and the average seems to be ~ banana / kg. I believe there's at least reports of mushrooms and boars with ~10-100 times the radiation of an average banana.

I don't think it's actually possible to show any health effects of that amount of radiation, even if ingested (and excreted) but it's more than the average banana.
No, in the pure market sense that enough businesses have decided to target the same pool of workers and can afford to pay them that much.

Yes, in the sense that most businesses can't justify that cost and that lots of SWE's make more than enough for their desired lifestyles at much lower TC.

But it's nothing new. 20-30 years ago, there was a comparable spread between SWE's who took jobs in finance companies vs the rest of us. A new top-school grad could get a job at Goldman Sachs out of college for 2-4x what someone working in most other software fields would earn because technical innovation in that space was intensely competitive and they desperately needed more hands on deck. Eventually, that divide largely evened out and the ostensibly "overpaid" sector moved to new technical frontiers.
It's not "putting up with". What are they going to do otherwise, not take insulin?
All very good points, and if you ever want to read/listen to the books that defined the genre and formula, pick up A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (or one of the numerous short stories that accompanied his works.)

What I like about the short stories in particular on audible is the stories are quick and digestible and novel. Perfect for a bedtime story or a quick car ride. In particular, this[1] one is worth the 1 credit if you're an audible subscriber. Stephen Fry for 68 hours. Hard to beat.

1: https://www.audible.com/pd/Sherlock-Holmes-Audiobook/B06WLMW...
In most places, being employed anonymously is illegal for both the individual and the company.

I could imagine that even if you were paying taxes, you might be prosecuted simply because you could not prove to a tax authority that the other party had paid their taxes.

Apart from that, you're probably going to miss out on a lot of government and private schemes that require proof of employment - mortgages and credit being a big one.
I'm surprised they ended up going with a non-immutable distro. They say their Debian-derived system is as robust as Ubuntu Core, but seemingly immediately contradict this by saying they're using apt to manage updates.
No, a comment reply isn't a date: i.e. not a interaction that signals you have continued proactive interest in me

Ask me to some in person interaction and it becomes ambiguous.

Alternatively, replying to me often and making flattering comments.
> canonical needs to go public and do IPO.

why?
It's a package manager that replaces Opam. It doesn't require switches and it caches builds of packages across projects.
That's a fair take, especially for a market in which the general sentiment impacts them so much. I guess we'd have to see if they fill those positions to prove they ever intended to.
Thanks!

EDIT: Just sent them an email, will let you know when I do.
> instead of deploying readily available technology

Well there's no opportunity for him to make inflated profits off a technology that he can't patent...

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bi...
It doesn't matter what's "expected in today's market" from this perspective, either, since the market can be extremely skewed in terms of bargaining power.

What matters is 1) how much wealth any given employee generates, and 2) how much of that generated wealth they retain. Anything that doesn't end up in their pockets, and is not a business expense otherwise, is economic rent collected by their employer.
> reality

Every claim says it's 'reality'; that's why they need evidence.

The evidence is a Reddit video (!) of one road?
The distinction is about the purpose of altering someone else’s body. Is there a medical benefit or not? If not, then the answer is leave the other person’s body alone.

I do not know enough about tongue ties or frenectomy’s to comment. I have heard it is over diagnosed and might be done just so parents can feel something was done, but again, I have not delved into it much.

I have delved into cutting off foreskins, and that one, as you even claimed, is all about tribal affiliation. In other words, the procedure is not being done for the medical benefit of the person. At minimum, you would be causing unnecessary pain and risk of infection, but while I am not a urologist, I do know that foreskins have a role in providing lubrication.

Maybe it is mostly inconsequential. But that is irrelevant to the principle that people should be in control of their own body as much as possible. Obviously there is a ton that will not be, but cutting off the foreskin on penis to signify which tribe the male belongs to is a pretty easy one to conclude that violates that principle.
... this sounds like you're in my exact department, actually.
Same exact deal here. I LOVE powerwash simulator mentioned in the article. Also love sweating out hours in payday 2 getting raided by horde after horde of enemies.
> Unless foreskin does provide a benefit that I'm unaware of.

The lack of willingness of uncircumcised adult men to be circumcised should be a huge clue that there is in fact a benefit to bodily integrity.
Lack of bullshit in the source file.

Unlike some D programmers I don't mind rust but compared to C and C++ the primary difference I'd say is that D has a lot of features that you'd have to emulate with either macros or recursive templates that means that the source files end up much cleaner.

If you want to declare a struct with N members where N is declared at compile time, in C++ it's usually a question of doing a bunch of compile time magic that leaves a roadside picnic of SFINAE everywhere whereas in D it's just a "static foreach" loop inside a template.
I think the recruiter meant 90€ as freelance and you asked 100k as permanent? In Europe de permanent contract includes a lot of benefits and a big risk for the company: holidays, unemployment coverage, sick coverage and normally other things like bonus, pension, phone and sometimes medical insurance and car (consultants).

For the rates I’ve seen first hand, 90€/hour of freelance corresponds to 70-80k hired salary
> You’re much better off trying to meet people in real-life situations, where there is a more reasonable ratio of men and women

I think is a thought-stopping cliche that sounds right but just isn't true. People went to apps because real life situations have failed them. The hobbies that attract the most young people tend to be the most gender skewed (gaming is a great example).
The non-editorialized title of the video:

"Advanced Machine Learning Day 3: Neural Program Synthesis"
This "pseudo-diabetes" appears to be fairly straightforward:

1. Someone stops consuming carbohydrates

2. This causes them to produce significantly less insulin

3. In order to preserve ~~insulin~~ glucose for the brain, other insulin receptors are downregulated

4. Because of this downregulation, the subject is less tolerant of carbohydrates

This is "pseudo-diabetes" and not "diabetes" because a person on a ketogenic diet isn't producing insulin, whereas a diabetic can't produce (enough) insulin, or is so desensitized to it that glucose stays in the blood steam.
The end of Chinese immigration will force change on this issue, it will be great for science and humanity.
Was used to bootstrap Rust. Others clearly also think it's a great language!
Normally for airliners you compare fuel burn per distance per passenger.

At 200 passengers you'd get 2.3 l per 100km per passenger (100 miles per gallon per passenger), in line with a small sedan car.
A day late and a dollar short...
Also: How do I sign an NDA?
Depending on your use cases you may want to check out Clover (cloverapp.com).

They’re a YC alum making something a little more ‘streamlined’ than Notion. Doesn’t have as many blocks, but the ones it does have work well.

(No affiliation, just a happy user that moved over from Notion because it got a little too ‘bloated’ for my taste).
I said that because there's no curly braces and you don't usually have to use semicolons
If a existing and expanding systems doesn't seem to make sense, your understanding is more likely to be wrong then reality.
Coinbase-level salaries are perfectly sustainable in this market. But over-hiring for massive product investments, none of which pan out over a whole year, is not sustainable.
Happy to reify our mutual understanding with an upvote :)
I wonder when dual-income households became the standard.
Another solution is UBI.