skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US is the wealthiest country in the world by miles.

True, but the point is that most of that wealth is highly concentrated. Hence why the US is not the beacon of happiness and progress.
There can be huge tax advantages in the US compared to Canada or the EU. My effective rate in California is 24% because I can file my taxes jointly which isn't possible elsewhere.
"They might mess up" is not a 'conspiracy theory' in any conceivable sense of that used and abused term.

I don't think the competency of any organization of people is ever assured and beyond reproach, but you're welcome to disagree.
Well to be honest london is not an ideal place to live in. But thanks to remote contracting and london rates, the uk market can be quite attractive.
None of the technologies you've named could be considered "6-month-or-less half-life stuff."

Puppet in particular is ancient by tech standards and is still getting used to date.
All I want is a simple "channel on hiatus for personal reasons" post somewhere.
Electron or Chrome are not the topic of this thread.

I also don't appreciate whataboutism, sorry.
The biggest hole I see there is that not all OSS is used as a dependency. If you're talking about fully built, standalone software, then package managers alone can't capture that.

You'd have to target the distribution process as well, which essentially means we're back to square one since these are vary heterogeneous and there is no single/central way of dealing with distribution other than through platform specific or domain specific distribution channels, and these are usually big boys that don't give a damn about OSS maintainers.
Nothing wrong with well made 3D, try playing The Book of Unwritten Tales.
What is total cost on these?
Only a small fraction of people even know they are logged. Only a tiny fraction of people would know how to logout first. It would essentially render their phone unusable.
The people making the announcements, and even some of the engineers working on higher-level systems, might not even know whether the (multiple layers of the) underlying storage system actually deletes or just adds a "tombstone" that won't take effect until the next compaction or equivalent. They also might not know about copies left around in caches, during rebalancing, etc. Or whether "trimming" or overwriting data on a particular device - really anything short of a full device wipe - really makes the data go away. Secure deletion is a harder problem than most people think; I certainly wouldn't assume that Google or any other organization has really handled all the corner cases.

Source: I've worked on many large storage systems, including the largest (by bytes at rest) at Facebook. They were subject to the exact same kinds of requirements as Google, and as the code continued to evolve gaps would still appear from time to time.
That syntax just smells like a leaky abstraction and is jarring. Also probably lacks typing and poor intellisense support. Not sure why I’d pick that over conventional offerings.
AWS Nuke – delete all resources associated with AWS account
Read that before. It’s amazing how it just lays out how an entire way of life is not sustainable.

Of course, I live in a walkable neighbourhood in Europe, so it’s easy for me to say that.
Your screen name forced me into a double take, as it's very rare for me to come across a similar name.

On topic, the idea of performance optimization seems to be completely lost in large sectors of modern day computer science. My recent experience being windows. I have several old laptops that had been rendered completely unusable through windows updates [one even stopped charging]. However, once replacing windows with Ubuntu, they 'feel' like some of the fastest machines I have. Hell, even the one that wouldn't charge, now charges and works like a charm.

It's sad to think of all the waste, physical, electrical, and economical, that stems from poorly optimized code.
I am not disputing what you're saying about your healthcare system, but if you get hit by a car, I would guess that nobody will be afraid to call an ambulance for fear of the cost. The same cannot be said of the US, where people with emergencies take ubers to the hospital.

You might take an uber to the hospital in Sweden too, out of convenience, but not out of fear for being stuck with a $1000 bill.
The people who this work is ostensibly meant to fund: the ones who engage in open source because they think it’s the right thing to do, or because they’re hobbyists, or they just like helping others.

To be clear, I am both: I am paid professionally as a software developer, and I’m a member of the open source community for my own reasons. My job already pays me, so the question of compensation is meant to pertain to the latter category.
By this logic, the best deal for a good developer will almost always be to start a company
FISA 702 orders (PRISM) have not been phased out, but in fact scaled up. We're talking 20-50k/year.
Produce music? That basically involves all of those things to one degree or another... (don't do it for the money though)
That's not your son being entitled, that's him being entertained in a sandbox. Even without video games your kid will stand up action figures and kill some of them with the others. Even without action figures at some point he'll play a game where killing is part of the play. Even animals in the animal kingdom do mock battles with their fellow lion cubs and wolf pups. It's completely natural.
My only guess would be that it for some reason picks up on 'lie' within the word while you're typing it out, changing in to 'TRUTH', and then blanks when it detects 'aliens'.
Lightroom user here.

It's over hyped. Yeah, it's cool and all but anything else would do the same thing. The only thing that I actually found is better in Lightroom is the AI detection features. Same can go with Photoshop and paint.net (or gimp if you're into that kinda thing.)
This person?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_W._Anderson

"From 1949 to 1984, Anderson was employed by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, where he worked on a wide variety of problems in condensed matter physics.

During this period he developed:

- what is now called Anderson localization (the idea that extended states can be localized by the presence of disorder in a system)

- Anderson's theorem (concerning impurity scattering in superconductors);

- invented the Anderson Hamiltonian, which describes the site-wise interaction of electrons in a transition metal; proposed symmetry breaking within particle physics (this played a role in the development of the Standard Model and the development of the theory behind the Higgs mechanism, which in turn generates mass in some elementary particles);

- created the pseudospin approach to the BCS theory of superconductivity;

- made seminal studies of non-s-wave pairing (both symmetry-breaking and microscopic mechanism) in the superfluidity of He3,

- and helped found the area of spin-glasses."
>> Today, we’re announcing that if our systems identify that someone has visited one of these places, we will delete these entries from Location History soon after they visit. This change will take effect in the coming weeks.

Wonderfully vague. Should be obvious to anyone that deleting merely the track within the parking lot isn't enough. Needs to be unwound far enough to give no clues. Which might be all the way back to home, both outbound and return.
It’s simply a Westen European country I lived in, sorry I never lived and went to Uni + worked in the Netherlands to give a more topical example. My point was that borders are unfair in terms of compensation not just to Western Europeans but to a lot(most?) other people in the world outside [west coast/big city) Americans. And that true globalization will equalize things not only upward.
I have never really understood the value of soccer jersey sponsoring. It's gotta be a "we-have-too-much-money-and-don't-know-what-to-do-with-it" phenomena.
I note that the announcement is VERY VERY SPECIFIC about the data being gone from the opt-in "Location History" feature (with the capitals and everything).

It does NOT say that every copy Google has is deleted. It just says that the user-visible copy is gone.

What about, say, Sensorvault? Or whatever other internal systems I don't know about?
They didn't disclose but I am guessing average compared to market. They're not cheap but they seem to be good quality. ps - median price of a home in Austin is $624,000
Dinosaurs took over amid ice, not warmth
Interesting article. Wonder if similar analysis could be done with named sports stadiums.
>Once they made their offer he laughed and told them he’d earn twice as much for the same (tech) job in romania. Perhaps an isolated case

Definitely not an isolated case. Austrian tech companies generally pay shit and are usually pretty backwards and burocratic due to the management heavy culture from the 20th century factories (WFH is frowned upon and your time in the office is tracked instead of looking at employee output) and highly conservative culture in general (everyone still uses cash). Also they put far too much value in having advanced degrees from their local universities rather than looking at experience and practical skills, so you end up in credential inflation town with colleagues who scuff at your code or technical opinions, because they "have a PhD from TU Sturmfart, and you don't".

That explains why they have virtually no internationally successful local SW companies (unlike other small EU companies like Netherlands or Finland, or even poorer Estonia), and instead have just a bunch of mom and pop webshops, crusty ERP boyshops for local factories, and their outdated banking industry that can't even get stock trading and banking apps right and instead need to rely on the German Flatex and N26. Their only unicorn, Bitpanda, recently fired half the workforce, which they easily could because Austrian employees have virtually no protection against termination, so your employer can fire you without any reason with the 1-3 month notice period. The cherry on top is that non-competes are legal here and employers can choose to enforce them, which, as we know, is what made SV the cradle of innovation. /s
I rest my case.

QOL is generally good there and you can live well there, provided you do anything but tech, ideally work for the state or government enterprises and coast till retirement on your inherited real estate.
Numbers to back that up? Just googled and Twitter seems to have a pretty modest market share compared to FB. And I don't know how you'd compare it to other channels that aren't classified as social media (including non-digital ones).
If you think a dev is a code monkey then yes, it doesn’t matter if you hire someone from vietnam or seattle for your US business. If you’re actually looking for a software engineer then i have bad news for you: professional software development is all about communication (with customers, requirements engineers, other developers and so on). That’s why you are paying them ten times more, so they have a chance to understand your business domain and can consult you on technical decisions. Otherwise every manager and business owner on earth, including me, would hire just the Vietnamese dev instead of the 10 times more expensive US dev.
This makes no sense. If you want to pay to keep secrecy, why not just raise their salary by 9x to keep them quiet?
“ These precise predictions enable equally precise evaluation of inequities in law enforcement, discovering that response to increased crime rates is biased by the socio-economic status of neighborhoods, draining policy resources to wealthy areas with disproportionately negative impacts for the inner city, as demonstrated in Chicago and six other major U.S. metropolitan areas.”

In other words, cops abandon poor neighborhoods when crime goes up there and mobilize to rich neighborhoods when crime goes up there. I’d be interested to know the other 6 metro areas, although I have a suspicion of which ones they are and their flavor of DA.
Ah I had something similar happen in Switzerland. Still getting a sad feeling when I lookup the current values of my then stock portfolio. Don’t understand why it’s possible
I'm really curious what the "killer features" are of present-day Word compared to, say, Word 97.
I think it’s fair for a project as a whole to describe itself as “simple” as a statement of its goals (vs. e.g. “flexible”, “high-performance”, “easy-to-use”, and so on).

For example, Suckless Software describes many of their Linux applications as simple, and it’s a fitting description that also encodes the spartan nature of the projects compared to their more commonly used counterparts.

But outside of a README or GitHub project description, I completely agree. Simplicity is the absence of complexity, and will become in retrospect when users choose what you’ve made because you made it simple enough to do so.
How long were you on the waiting list before you got access? I only signed up a week or two ago, so I assume I'm in for a long wait.
I don't ask this question a lot, but when I did, it was mostly as a nice starter to get started on a drill-down interview on that specific topic. The candidate is giving me the topic, and I would just dig into it and ask them to describe their approach and how it would change given certain constraints. Being able to lay out options in a mece-way (mutually exclusive and completely exhaustive) comes handy.

I believe it's also a very difficult exercise if you didn't experienced the problem solving yourself.
1. Complaining about syntactic style

2. Inferring that the author doesn’t know what threads really are when they could just be using slightly different terminology than yourself (i.e. terminology where “threads” are not narrowly defined as “OS threads”)

3. Just based on the bad inferrence in (2) + complaining about they did not appreciate goroutines enough + complaining about “hand holding”

4. Proof that the author is incompetent: they didn’t even mention this one particular concurrency construct. Cherry-pick ergo preconceived conclusion

Unsolicited inferrence by myself: peeved that the author said that `go` was harmful—even though the author also said that this is a general problem—, and thus you needed to concoct some half-assed arguments in order to justify making a reply.
That is indeed always the best deal for every developer who wants to be an entrepreneur. But it's not for everyone - some people just want to code.
So you’re saying the Dutch in the article shouldn’t complain that they earn less than Americans then?
I remember images loading one line at a time. Now I can stream 4k video. Not sure what OP is on about. There is lots of bloat but we are now on a jumbo jet and we used to be on a hot-air balloon
Google Maps won't let you set a home or work location without enabling location history. It's bullshit tying.
I'll never get to see these links to other links because my ad blocker won't let Reddit's page even load because of the trackers.

I just get a white page. No content.
They're being used, but less for new projects
hp Z240 SFF quad-core xeon w/ 64G RAM here, NVidia K1200 graphics. works great for Debian.
Do you have an idea why the dates you've been on haven't led to a long term relationship?
> If your company is doing something remotely serious [..]

(Sorry I have to ask this) but what types of companies are you talking about?

Uber? Netflix? Spotify?

For those maybe, just maybe, the secret sauce isn't actually secret any more, it was simply cheap VC money subsidising all our rides/viewing/listening.[0][1][2][3]

[0] https://slate.com/business/2022/05/uber-subsidy-lyft-cheap-r...
[1] https://financialpost.com/investing/investing-pro/investors-...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/technology/farewell-mille...
[3] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-uber-ip...
I went a little further in 2020 and started working on HP Server. They are even cheaper than Workstations but need some upgrades to be comfortably used at home (silent fans etc).

I use 2x westmere cpu (x5670) as performance vs price is still excellent. DDR3 ram is dirt cheap. Combined with nvme drive it just really fast machine for any developer task I do, even some graphics.

Power consumption is 140W at idle, up to 350W at full load. I use it few hours a day, so the electricity bill is not something to consider here.

My conversion: https://www.instructables.com/Convert-HP-DL380-G6-to-Cheap-G...
This matches my experience, and also consider: I'm paying less than 8% income tax and health and social insurance combined on my income in the CEE country where I live. What's the tax and insurance in DE and A?
For anyone wondering, "Foot Heads Arms Body" originates from a Guardian headline purportedly run in the 80's when Labour Party leader Michael Foot traveled to Brussels to chair a European Parliament lobby group pushing for nuclear disarmament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Michael_Foot#Foot_Heads_A...
>That's a lot more than UFO believers have.

UFO 'believers' have - since very recently - videos released by the US military in which they say 'detections of this object were confirmed by multiple sensor platforms' and 'we cannot identify this object and have no speculation as to its origin' or whatever the exact wording is.

You know what I mean, the 'tic-tac' video. The narrative provided with that video confirms that the object/objects were detected by multiple types of sensor (visual, infrared, radar) and by multiple sensor platforms (aerial radar, aerial infrared, ship-based radar) and that the detections correlated.

With those releases the the UFO landscape changed, to wit, the US military is now a 'UFO believer.'
Google can cope with a Zettabye Era (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte_Era) it’s separating wheat from chaff which is the hard problem. Also most data is largely being siloed behind walled gardens and can’t be indexed.
I was thinking more in terms of procedures. Look for waiting lists, those are the procedures where the government–chosen price is too low. Meanwhile more profitable procedures will not have a waiting list.

Medicines are more complicated because the manufacturer will probably have patents that grant them a manufacturing monopoly, meaning they can always set the price to whatever they want anyway. Not to mention that a multinational can afford to make less in some countries as long as on average they make enough to continue doing research. If Germany somehow sets a price that is egregiously low, the manufacturer can simply sell their medicine elsewhere instead.
Pretty sure you can figure out why, but if you deny this line of vaccines that are the oldest in existence from variolae vaccinae, Jenner's Latin for "smallpox of the cow," you deny everything called a vaccine.

Given that the only new wrinkle on Orthopox vaccines is taking the old derived from cowpox virus and preventing it from reproducing which is not a new or likely to be difficult technique including in manufacturing, there's effectively nothing "new fangled" about them.

Nor should there be anything "eye wateringly expensive" about them except Bavarian Nordic's JYNNEOS perhaps having a monopoly on this new type for now (they do in the US, don't know about Europe). For the older type vaccine the US started making it again after 9/11 so reclimbing the learning curve was done long ago, there's 100 million doses in our stockpile.
Might I ask what happened over these 120 dates. Is there none of them you find attractive or see a path to a meaningful connection with in time?
By this diagram, if you can't climb from the second curve onto the third one, then it is indeed a bad deal and it would make financial sense to switch to some other career.
This speedrun is the most compelling argument against (safe) Rust I've seen.
It's the case in the backend and devops world too. But like for Redux you probably chose some decent libraries and tools at the beginning and sticked to it. If you start looking around you will see there are alternatives to everything you use, and even maybe that most of the industry moved to those alternatives in the past 5 years.

How many ways are there to build an API? In Python: Falcon, Flask, Django, FastAPI and so on. Just as many choices in Java, Go, Node, <insert your favorite language>.
I quite liked the UX of the article, honestly. I think in contrast to seeing inline images, I was better able to understand the transition between two similar images. I have experienced frustration with other articles hacking the scroll functionality, though.
Not even sustainable on a simple medium term economical basis, regardless of externalities (environmental/human health impacts). But that's arguably a good thing, as long as we don't run out of money before making the necessary changes...
Every time I see this article reposted, I feel a pang of sadness. It's this chasing of the SF salary outside of the US that is supposed to be the holy grail of every engineer in rich EU countries.

Well, if you get hired by FAANG in Germany, you don't get the SF salary. My experience is that companies that do offer extreme salaries do not do so out of competition with FAANG (since FAANG does not compete with itself globally, i.e. FAANG companies tell you something like "if you want SF salary, come and work in SF," which tends to be difficult due to the exploitative nature of US immigration system).

Rather, there's some kind of a catch, like "we need you to know this highly specialized thing that globally only a handful of people have experience with" (I'm looking at you, AI solvers), or they provide conditions very few people can tolerate.
> Maybe if you paid for your content it would suck less

Haha, maybe, but I really don't think so. People pay for cable and still get ads; people pay for Netflix and still get ads, I still got ads when on Youtube Premium, etc. Even outside of media consumption, there are countless similar examples.

Perhaps, if content was paid for in juicy frictionless micropayments, the bullshit web would suck less - for a time. But it would begin to suck more and more, until we have the same situation or worse (while still paying, more and more).

The companies pumping out these trackers and selling our data couldn't care less whether people are subscribing to a service or not. They'll offer cash and buy our data until the day that shit is illegal.
This goes both ways. It will protect somebody who vandalizes a clinic equally as well as somebody who visits the clinic for medical services.
Ha, me too, I turned off images back then and it made everything snappy and very pleasant. I just wanted the text, the information.

It’s weird though- people want all the nonsense. More and more that is the primary use of the web.
Here in the UK chronic pain treatment is a farce. You get to go to meetings where they tell you to soldier on and if you can't, well try harder then.
So there is a huge illegal market of opiates of all kinds and deaths are soaring. If people can't get prescription and can't stand the pain then where do they go? Dealers.
Big pharma has a great grip on the government so things like medical cannabis are out of question. Fortunately it has been legalised a couple of years ago, but it is only available on private prescription after you have failed "traditional" therapy.
If you are unlucky, you are looking at spending £300-600 a month out of your own pocket.
you guys should try and dig up some old home movies of using the computer back in the 90s

Nowadays if something isn't a bloated pile of trash, it'll literally load up in a few dozen milliseconds or less. Back then, even a pretty lightweight text-only site would take seconds to load and render (and of course, bloated crap sites back then took upwards of a minute to load if you left images on)
Yes to all of those, and verbal attacks are often incitement or a precursor to physical attacks. I think anyone with security experience could summon numerous examples from memory.
Most people find a relationship in fewer than 120 dates. What's been the barrier for you?