skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm avoiding going to breakfast with them, to keep away from the weird silences, and I feel like I do them a favour

This is a critical flaw in thinking.

You are NOT a mind reader you have no idea what their opinion of you is, or what they are thinking.

You are judging a situation you do not fully understand[0] and it is causing anxiety because you are trying to fix a problem that isn't there.

I think you have it backwards. You are depressed and it is causing strain at work. Not the other way around.

Why would a team open up to someone who is sullen and won't even grab breakfast and coffee in the morning? They are INVITING YOU to morning coffee. How much more welcoming do you want them to be? What more can they do for you?

I recommend a therapist and CBT to control the anxiety you are feeling. [1]

Following up: I hear it over and over again. Both of my siblings went onto mild anti-anxiety medication and it made them into a new person. Same with some of my close personal friends. That constant buzzing in the back of your brain wears you out.

0: To be clear, this covers basically every social interaction and situation anyone encounters.

1: I read a book recently called "Positive Intelligence" that I liked quite a lot, that is a sort-of mix between CBT, meditation, and stoicism. I found it helpful in realizing that when you judge a situation, you really only understand a tiny fraction of what is actually happening, and projecting your own shit onto it does not help. And at the end of the day: If they end up actually just being jerks... then screw 'em.
You said "It is". I was replying to you because you said it was a good investment, and I was questioning you why - to justify your opinion.

The point is that I disagree that it is a good investment. The investment is gambling with unfavorable odds - we're hoping we get something out of it. Even if we learn something new from astronomy..so what? There are many problems on earth that could use $10B or more of NASAs space budget that have direct impact on lives.
Charged for what? There is no "insider trading" with cryptos, just as there isn't any with Forex, fiat currencies. He can't be charged, because there is no crime. No law prevents you to trade cryptocurrencies or fiat on insider knowledge. Might be unethical, but not illegal.
Congrats to whoever invented the upvote paywall on that website.
i work in ml and you asked for an example so i thought a proof of concept answer is sufficient. as i said somewhere else if you are looking for a ready made framework then this is not for you and should probably stick with pytorch, tf, and maybe even pyro. but if you are willing to engineer your own system for optimal performance while avoiding c++ then you would be served good by common lisp. common lisp for ml is suited for software engineers doing ml not so much statisticians
Getting that good work life balance issue settled usually takes 2 or 3 rounds to pry some useful info out.
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I've run into this phenomenon so many times playing entrepreneur that I gave it the name Alan's Law: getting paid to do a job has little to no influence on an entities ability to do said job.
Not unique to Canada at all, FWIW. Demanding top level skills while paying market rate at best has been going on for years now. Employers just don't want to change, and a lot of candidates are still accepting the circumstances.

Especially noticeable with the whole cloud + microservices + event queue craze, since very few companies do anything with this yet, so few people actually accrue the knowledge they require, and most projects where the benefits of these shine are not projects individuals will tend to pick up.
Mostly curious, is the company hiring a lot of new staff? You might find that as more people join, you'll build a sense of camaraderie with the new staff.

I noticed that I felt a bit alone working at a game studio with a lot of GenX-ers, but once a bunch of fellow GameCube-pilled millennials got hired on alongside me things felt more comfortable.
Where is the fraud? They can't charge with insider trading, because insider trading does not apply to currencies or cryptocurrencies.
The most common constraint is whether the DB as a service offerings support a given extension, since they don't support installing custom ones. Naturally choosing to support an extension across a fleet of hundreds of thousands of instances (running dozens of different minor versions) isn't a decision made lightly, so it can take a while for new extensions to be supported.

Supported extensions on AWS RDS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/PostgreSQLRelea...

Supported extensions on Google Cloud SQL: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/extensions

Supported extensions on Azure Database: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/single-ser...
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> only a few lines of prose informally describing the model

This is ironic considering they use more words to describe chunking (splitting along a dimension, x,y = a[0,:,:,:], a[1,:,:,:]) than multi-heads.
> Meaning, if you are looking for a place you will enjoy working, do not start with salary.

I get where you are coming from, but at least here in Texas, a job with the title “Project Manager” can be a low-end job paying 50k to a senior position paying 250k or more. Salary is often the only way to tell them apart because the wording that recruiters use are typically identical (or very close to it).

Not sure if this is common or uncommon, but I wanted to share that sometimes these things are important for other reasons.
The article says Wire Fraud and Conspiracy.
This happens more often than you might think…
> If I built an application to visualize this result and refreshed it every second, I would spend $40,340.16/day on Tinybird’s Pro-plan.

What? Even if I used SQLite on my laptop and queried this thing every second, I'd still use <$3 a day. Also, this platform has no concept of caching? Don't understand this post at all, total clickbait based on an inefficiency in your platform you really shouldn't be advertising.
No. I wanted to have amount of words a month preselcted when buying. like from 1k-100k/month basic/semi/pro level writers with pricing and a big "BUY" button which they are then able to distribute between languages and types of content in app.
I don't have much to add here except you've revitalized my fear of this situation.

Any other thoughts on what the phases are?
>>>MongoDB also provides single document atomicity.

And multi-document, in sharded clusters. 2018:
https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-multi-document-aci...

>>>But in RDBMS you can configure the ACID properties.
https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/write-concern/
I'm glad to hear it.

I'll keep watching out for the first.
Haha, and the first reply to that tweet is complaining that the SEC is ignoring this while shackling another Coinbase venture. That didn't age well!

https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1513926481486909442

Edit: Quoting in case it gets deleted:

>>While the SEC was very swift in shutting down Coinbase Lend for DARING to provide 4% yield

>>They’ll do absolutely nothing about this situation because they are a corrupt organization that wants to see the average American stay poor
I agree with you. I have written plenty of contracts and statements of work, and it's so important to get those right and make sure there's a true meeting of the minds and that they strike the right prject-specific balance between detail and flexibility, but there's no substitute for both sides being a little bit reasonable.

It's just not a business where a project can succeed despite an adversarial partner. Both sides need to grow together.
For some companies, giving a compensation range, e.g. $150k-$200k, would most likely create turmoil internally. Imagine Bob has many years in that role, and makes $160k. If I were Bob, I'd have a conversation with HR as to why I'm on the low end of the range.
Thanks! Sorry I had missed that.
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OK, but... some places think a "senior software developer" should make $70,000, and other think they should make $250,000 or more. And everything in between.

I don't care how nice the a place it is to work, I'm not applying to the $70k place. If I can't quickly figure out where you fall on that spectrum, I'm not going to bother to contact you because job listings are not rare. If you somehow manage to present as exactly the perfect place to work, I might contact you—to ask what the salary range is, and if you won't say up-front, I'm out.

It takes exactly one time sitting through interviews, having everyone be super excited about hiring you, then naming a totally normal rate when they ask what salary you're looking for, and watching everyone's faces turn green, to never, ever waste time doing that again. I've had mine already.
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>Avoid database systems that charge per query

oh my god

i'm currently $13k/mo in dynamodb costs because of this whereas the same requirements sql database costs $2k/mo
There are vast amounts of software engineering roles you are ignoring. Pretty much all of embedded firmware or hardware driver development. The entire video game industry excluding online play. The many software developers that provide solutions for enterprise software with 9-5 support contracts. Mobile app developers. Whole fields of consulting and integration experts that set their own hours. Pretty much every data scientist or machine learning role ever.

It is online services that are niche. It's just what this website is mostly focused on so it seems more prominent.
There is actually no particular law against insider trading at all, not even related to equities… it’s all securities and wire fraud. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-02/don-t-...
>If the majority of miners agree to it then the rest of the network either goes along with it, or they're forced to do a hard fork themselves.

The only the hashrate attacks can do is alter the order of transactions (for example allowing them to replace their past transactions and double-spend). They cannot change the way in which users interpret blocks (for example, they cannot spend another user's outputs, change the value of a given output such as a coinbase output, or otherwise alter the tokenomics). I recommend watching 3blue1brown's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4

>For the end user just trying to make a payment, it's irrelevant whether it's intentional or not, either way he is now faced with the spitting of his coins and the resulting chaos.

Any reasonable vendor will wait for X amount of blocks to pass before accepting a transaction. You're describing a well known vector called a "Finney Attack", which becomes exponentially less likely for every block you wait.

>What's the actual value of a bitcoin? There just isn't one.

Take the number of pizzas that are being sold for bitcoins, and divide that by the number of bitcoins in circulation. I think you may find that the value of BTC/Pizza has not changed much over the last decade.

I mean, what is the actual value of a dollar. It is not like we use the gold standard anymore. The dollar is valuable because it is a connected to a useful payment system. You don't mind holding some liquidity in US Dollars because you have an expectation that you will be able to spend your dollars somewhere in the near future, not because you trade it in for shiny yellow ingots.
> you're only going to invent RSA or blind signatures or zero knowledge once.

Well, maybe. Sometimes things that are discovered are lost or go completely unnoticed, so progress is not always monotonic. For example, for a long time it was believed that John William Strutt first documented dynamic soaring [1] in birds in the 1800s, but just recently (2018) it was found that actually none other than Leonardo DaVinci documented the phenomena in his notebooks centuries before [2]. People just didn't notice or forgot, despite those documents being some of the most poured over in history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_soaring

[2] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2018.002...
Yeah, I´m partially on it. It seems like it is not even required but the fact that nobody wants to do it makes it a hot stuff.
Even though I might be in favor of some variant of this bill, I'm really glad that it can't just be railroaded through without adequate debate. The "tyranny of the majority" can be a very real thing, and we need to be mindful that the tension between powers (separation of powers) was put there explicitly for this purpose -- to prevent a single powerful group from seizing control.
I'd do it for $300k ...hourly.
I like the cut of your jib, I'm going to try that with unsolicited recruiters for a while and see what happens.

I've been getting pings over the last two years and if I can get them to a range, it's routinely 80% of my current comp and that never changes. Nobody is getting the idea that you need something to attract talent away from a current job to hire for a new one. There's no salesmanship in this at all.
Great. We're talking about responding to an ad. Your response equates to just dealing with 1-4 hours of work, often requiring some juggling from the candidate's side (= more time), just to get some of the most important information.

Not only are you supporting my argument, you're also showcasing how ridiculously inefficient the hiring process is from the candidate's side. Without it being obvious whether this is a net gain for the employer.
What you describe is not the default behaviour with PostgreSQL (though it is available, via ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT ... NOT VALID).
To be clear, my argument isn't firing him was right or wrong. My argument was that Republicans are willing to bend, change or just completely ignore rules when it suits them. Republicans talk about institutions when it suits them and don't when it doesn't. Democrats largely are LARPing in a world that doesn't exist of civilized debate.

My argument more simply is that Democrats should be more like Republicans. Not in policy issues but in terms of effectiveness: whipping votes, advancing an agenda and punishing dissent.
First rule of crypto is assume the exchange is compromised. Money on the exchange is always in danger, as is anything connected to it. They are not banks. The people running them are usually yahoos. They are not a save place to put money for any extended length of time.
Speaker Pelosi's insider trades are a parliamentary privilege!
As Matt Levine would say - and will certainly write about tomorrow - Insider Trading is about theft. They stole valuable company information before it was publicly known to profit from it...
The stakeholders get replaced with AI too.
E=mc^2 + an infinite universe filled with mass.
College education is not only a strong proxy for income, but an even better proxy for working class status than income. The guy who redid my bathroom probably makes more than some of my lawyer friends doing government work. But he still removes and replaces toilets for a living and they don't and that's a form of privilege in and of itself.

And the current poll does not reflect the "way it's always been." Democrats were competitive for white voters with just a college degree as recently as 2008: https://www.npr.org/2016/09/13/493763493/charts-see-how-quic.... In 2016 they lost that group by almost 30 points.

They've replaced those folks with a coalition of Silicon Valley engineers and Wall Streets bankers who used to vote Republican, and racial minorities. Good for fund raising, but results in a party that cannot effectively advocate for the working class.
As far as day-to-day satisfaction on the job, sure, salary could be way down the list compared to company culture and work/life balance. But I think we should acknowledge that salary is the only reason any of us work at all. If the salary is bad everything else will crumble around it regardless of how excellent culture and work/life balance are. If the salary is good there's no guarantees, but there's at least the potential for on the job satisfaction. Salary is the foundation. The exception to this is charity work for purely mission driven work, but that's not the work context for the majority of people.
I understand why you are saying this, but one should not be made uncomfortable by reality. That may be the case for some, but it is easier to change mindset than it is to alter reality.
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Thank you for your second post (kind of answered my other reply to you already)

I've seen how gnarly instagram bot comments already are, and wondered how many people are bots vs. people on there. It's not economical to turing test them all, so I've had to assume that they're all propaganda... and even then I've noticed the influence on deciding what's social.

How would you measure the success of this, if you were making them?
The problem is, you are using an unlike comparison.

We as Americans pay based on US salaries, US cost of living, etc.

This is why many choose to use Military Purchasing Power Parity (MPPP) [1] instead.

MPPP can explain why the USSR had at one point a truly gigantic force regardless of the spend.

This explains part of the story around how huge China's military force is becoming [2]

Another element to consider is how much of the entire US government (federal, state, local, and tribal) and US industry could be operationally controlled by the US Commander-in-Chief during wartime. China for example could be expected to have unity of command across the board. We wouldn't, despite things like the Defense production Act [3]

Yet one other factor is the amount of unidentified military units, such as China's Fishing Fleet [4] (Chinese Maritime Militia) that serve as a somewhat disguised extension to their Navy. For force parity comparisons, you'd have to total up their Navy, their coast guard, and their CMM fleet.

[1] https://voxeu.org/article/why-military-purchasing-power-pari...

[2] https://www.cassandracapital.net/post/the-colossal-scale-of-...

[3] https://www.fema.gov/disaster/defense-production-act

[4] https://www.businessinsider.com/china-has-covert-naval-fleet...
You just bought a washing machine... could I interest you in a washing machine?
I would argue that the most important factor when considering old reddit vs new reddit UI/UX isn't a matter of preference based upon performance, certain content, or habit. Old.reddit is actually just better for the end user experience overall and new reddit UI is better for Reddit's ad revenue.

Many times a user not wanting to switch to a new UI isn't based completely in effort/adaptability but a history of experience with product life-cycles weighing more towards business objectives over time. e.g. Facebook calls users lazy for not trying out "improvements" and blame old soccer moms for being inflexible when they're just trying to extract more money. Not that businesses spending effort to get more money doesn't make sense, because it does, but businesses love to lie about this common user complaint.
> How many factory or construction jobs does "hard-science" funding create?

Lots? JWST is a schoolbus-sized pile of high-precision high-tech parts, never mind the construction of new facilities to test, transport it. LIGO and friends require substantial construction, colliders are huge construction projects before they're scientific instruments, ...

If there's a productive project that costs billions, it's going to employ a lot of people.
No, besides the obvious moral dilemma, potential legal issues...

Task switching sucks and I imagine it'd be somewhat stressful to feel like "you're gonna get caught out".

Best to keep the two separate unless you're like one of the guys sitting on the rooftop in the Silicon Valley TV show
I mean.. I could have just said nazi soldiers but I thought it was too cliche.
> with the better candidates responding to the ones without salary ranges.

This makes sense to me. The strongest engineers are those who really love the work and enjoy building software systems. They tend to have active software side projects outside of work. They tend to be the sort who want to be paid well, but prioritize places where they can learn new things, learn from others and be excited. They want to enjoy coming to work each day and grow as an engineer.

The engineers I know who are the most compensation-oriented, on the other hand, seem to think of work as mostly about the paychecks. They aren't bad engineers, but they don't seem to love the craft as much as the great engineers. If your relationship with the industry is transactional ("I write code and you give me money"), you rarely develop into a great software engineer

It doesn't surprise me that the strongest applicants are the ones who aren't prioritizing comp in the decision-making.
I have no problem applying for jobs without a salary range. I typically ask in the first recruiter call.
The benefit of microservices is also its downfall. You need to maintain each one as a separate entity.

This is true whether you have "microservices" or "libraries packaged and released individually".

I think when you need to introduce a breaking change, if versioning is not sufficient, you could create a separate library and upgrade each service slowly to it while still maintaining both libraries until all services have moved to the new one. This is more semantics than anything else but might be useful.

I'm afraid there is no silverbullet. I'd love to hear more suggestions too.
They're freeloading in the sense that they're paid to not meaningfully produce anything, cleaning guns, loading and unloading crates, doing calisthenics and polishing up boots are some fairly unproductive uses of able bodied people, not to speak of the pencilpushers setting up the logistics for this.

Paying people to churn butter by hand non stop would probably be more of a contribution, or doing actual UBI.
But they have the budget to run $10K of queries a day?
That the Internet exists directly refutes what looks like common reasoning. It never would have happened without DARPA (because telecoms never would have let it happen).
I think I can see a scenario.

You think you're hot shit on a silver platter. You apply for jobs with high TC listed and others which you believe will also be high TC based on... reasons, even though they don't list their salary ranges.

You get callbacks from some of the high TC positions you applied for. You also get callbacks from the non-listed salary positions. Cool. None of the highest, none of your first choices, but whatever, an interview is an interview.

You go through the processed and find out a lot of the non-listed positions have TCs much lower than you were hoping for. TCs so low, you wouldn't have considered the job if you had known. Whatever, you'll just ghost them. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

But then the days stretch on and the only positions submitting offers are the low TC jobs you applied for. You take the blow to your ego along with the job. Gotta pay those bills.
No, it just isn't a silver bullet for every problem under the sun. But quite a few record holders on various problems are ML solutions and that is unlikely to change for the foreseeable future.

It's just that as soon as you start out on every problem with 'ML will solve this!' that you're going to end up with a bunch of crap. The right tool for the problem wins every time.