skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Page 54 of a Professionals Australia report [1] despite the low sampling size and less reliable methodology mirrors your comment that engineering contractor rates are much lower than ICT contracting rates in Australia.

I'm a qualified engineer in Australia and amongst those who graduated at the same time as me, almost all of them are working in the ICT field. That is where the demand for workers is, and probably the main reasons driving ICT salaries and contract rates higher.

Defence sector engineers also seem to have high rates on par with the ICT field for various reasons including high barriers of entry (Australian citizenship for starters), high levels of federal government investment and little effort expended in training people to join the sector. There are Civil Engineering degrees offered everywhere, but not widespread "Design some ships for the Navy" degrees.

For the mining boom starting about 2010, engineering was highly sought after but was mostly conducted by engineering firms in Europe, America, etc due to the lack of experienced workers in Australia (partly resulting from a massive lull in investment in preceding years). Given that exploration investment is currently at record highs, perhaps engineers with mining industry experience could again be in high demand soon. Engineering related to the renewable energy sector I assume would also be starting a boom cycle too.

The cooling effect on engineering as a profession though I think is the use of standards and resulting cookie-cutter approach of clients being able to almost get the point of saying "Give me an AS/ISO 1234 bridge" or "Give me an AS/ISO 5678 substation". Hence there is not a significant amount of original nor complex engineering performed for most projects, rather, it is performing minor tweaks to existing standard designs. Then there is seemingly more supply for engineering services than there is demand for the services, and qualified engineers end up performing non-engineering roles such as project management and sales within the engineering sectors.

[1] https://members.professionalsaustralia.org.au/documents/Engi...
It's the exact opposite. They try to be, and I believe are, the least political out of all networking infrastructure companies, so in the very rare cases where they do decide to deplatform (Daily Stormer, 8chan, and Kiwi Farms are the only three) it always makes huge press.

AWS or Azure doing the same wouldn't make news because they would immediately drop a site like Kiwi Farms, and anything like it, after the first report or two. If you're routinely kicking people out, people don't scrutinize you when you do it. To bastardize Stalin's quote: three deplatformings is a tragedy, thousands is a statistic.
Nah it’s just basic due diligence for releasing an open source app of this nature. Turning it off is a simple one line change, because everything is obviously named. This is not some high wall to scale.

As someone that manages nsfw open source projects, this move seems fine to me.

And actually kinda hilarious.
“The law doesn’t work so I’m gonna be the law.”

- every evil person ever
> There is so much expertise in Germany for building cars, you would think that it is the best place to found a car startup. But where are they?

Precisely because they have the expertise they don't found startups. After founding an air company it's the second quickest way to become a millionaire if you are a billionaire. Tesla only became profitable in 2020 on the back of some government credits. 17 years after founding.

Remember Tesla's screens breaking because they used regular LCDs that couldn't withstand the vibrations and temperatures in a car? Yeah, that comes from expertise.
No, it is because if all the janitors “went away”, everyone else can pick up the cleaning supplies and continue cleaning.

Supply and demand.
I'm bitter about trx40, myself.
These things were in $10k econo boxes, they’re plenty cheap.
That doesn’t change the point! It’s still a separate place from Israel. People or all backgrounds in the state of Israel have very equal rights.
I haven’t found anything better than Joplin, have you?
Or kids in Australia are smarter ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao
And yet a fast system was invented for copyright protection online. Was the DMCA wrong?

And could the legal system handle it if it was responsible for acting on every case of online copyright infringement through formal due process? What about every case of defamation? Of every threat?

The internet has set information free, and allowed every person to contribute to the information superhighway. But that means that torts and crimes that used to be rare and manageable by the courts are now anonymous and decentralized and democratized in such a way that an endless number of people can do them. Leaving it to the courts is asking us to empty a river with a thimble. It was unacceptable for copyright, hence the DMCA.

Do only copyright holders deserve that kind of protection?
I am buying a new phone, and might end up buying a Samsung, though I absolutely hate all the garbage they default install.

How do I protect myself from such attacks on Samsung in the future?
Oh god, I hope you don't mean WEF kind of an entity.

On other note, I expect ICANN to become political in a few years, observing the way our institutions are failing, both domestic and international.
I would not necessarily consider those guys as examples of the same problem. They broke actual laws. Their accusers were not taken seriously and it took an enormously long time for the legal system to kick in and dispense justice. I agree the pendulum was not correct to begin with.

I believe this person was in a consensual relationship that broke a work rule. He broke no actual laws and was not accused of doing so AFAIK. He was tried in the court of public opinion without representation or jury of his peers. NYU was prepared to hire him and backed down because a group of whiners showed up at their front door. They kowtowed showing how spineless they are. These are the very people that are supposed to be safe guarding us from this stuff. They were likely more afraid of losing their highly paid administrative positions than protecting academic freedom.

Another case (https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/pers...) and a defense (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/opinion/history-sweet-aha...)

Dave Chappelle is another notable example. Watched his Netflix special an had to wonder if people claiming he is transphobic even watched or understood what he was saying. Or maybe they where upset that he placed the BLAME for his trans friend's suicide on the trans communities itself.

Social media has dropped the barrier to a point where sociopaths can cause chaos without any effort at all.
I would agree with you, however please take a look at a statement from CloudFlare earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707821

"Our decision today was that the risk created by the content could not be dealt with in a timely enough matter by the traditional rule of law systems."

Booter services have been using CloudFlare for the better part of a decade, sure individual services come and go but the trend is persistent. So for booter services a decade is enough time for the rule of law to make the decision but another type of controversial platform follows it's own arbitrary timeline, and I would argue that is setting the most dangerous precedent of all, especially when the 'risk' created by a particular type of content doesn't outweigh any potential financial incentives.
This is because it's natural for people to view different races as coming from different backgrounds, especially in Medieval fantasy. It's more expected to see several mostly homogeneous nations with unique cultures and offerings to bring to the table, and in fantasy, using them to both unite together against a singular evil, and for some, ally with that evil.

This makes for a more interesting story and lore; it gets people thinking: "Whoa cool, another nation with different people, I wonder what they're all about!"

Whereas in this show, and many like it (Wheel of Time), all nations have been forced together to form a single uninteresting soup where few have any cultural significance or quirks whatsoever, so as to avoid offending anyone with stereotypes, which could lead to (GASP!) mild and harmless racial jesting, stupidly redefined as violence against an oppressed minority group by vocal activists who live and breathe dismantling Western/European culture.
I discovered this "meta-lists website" earlier this year and think it's better than pretty much every contemporary listicle put together. It looks to be over a decade old, but the author is still active.

https://beckchris.com/

Here's an example list on visual art:

https://beckchris.com/visual-arts/visual-arts-checklist/
Cloudflare is being surprisingly tactful regarding the apparent inaction from law enforcement. The legal and judicial systems clearly lack effective measures to ensure physical safety from these kinds of digital threats -- they're about 20 years behind at this point, and lawmakers and judges are 30 years too old.

I don't blame Cloudflare for being reluctant to play judge, jury, and executioner, even though they would probably see short-term profit from doing so.

One thing I find peculiar: we don't see the same lack of will when it comes to policing copyright online. KF gets away with literal murder, but share so much as a fragment of a song or movie and you get nuked from orbit.
Maybe we should redefine "neutrality" in this post-truth era
Downgrading binary packages with pkg on FreeBSD
>I have a credit card that supports virtual numbers--but it's a pain to use.

I just got an email from Capital One pushing me to link my card with Google Checkout because it would use a virtual card number for each transaction.
Considering things like wildcards and glob matching these don't seem far off from what you'd use in a graph db query language. (E.g. something like neo4j)
Contractor is the wrong metaphor. They're building a house based on a plan already designed by an architect.

Software isn't the making of a thing, it's the designing of a thing.

Ask an architect how long it will take for them to design your dream home.
Wall Street’s most-coddled generation is in for a rude office-return awakening
No - with Twitter there's some accountability; they respond to police requests and frequently ban abusive users. There was nothing people could do about the vile harassment campaigns on KF (a site that grew organically from harassing and stalking an autistic sonic fan) until CloudFlare had their hand forced.
We dismantle the service providers that provide cover for the forums in which DDoS attacks are advertised and purchased, like Cloudflare themselves.
Good read! It's good to see this issue in a widely read publication like the Economist. Personally, I'd like to see a global source of truth, maintained by the UN, to assign everyone on earth a unique identifier (and have any further personal info than that handled, need-to-know, elsewhere).
Point 2, even with CI/CD multiple times a day, with zero flaky tests and a sweet build time and automated test time, it sounds like you still need almost zero time between the final git push and merge to $BRANCH causing a deployment.

What about review? Code review? QA? Showing off to stakeholders? These things add a delay, and there is a 'crunch' around the end of sprints where things are artificially urgent. I am not sure that is optimal. I have not heard a reasonable solution to this, other than abandon sprints maybe?

I think this stuff works wonders when at MVP stage and number of users < 10 maybe. For mature and complex products, the type I typically have worked on it is not ideal.
> Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

So this is a person who didn't get Huckleberry Finn, then. I can see why people are upset when you take a famous book and then completely miss the point of it.

The premise of the list is fine, but the person writing about it is a moron.
>It’s nonsense this has anything to do with the law.

>This solely happened because of mainstream media pressure and significant clients moving or threatening to move away from Cloudflare and the board deciding they don’t need the bad press and loss of customers and nothing else.

Exactly.

I didn't know KiwiFarms existed before it was in the news and trending everywhere, so I don't know a lot about what really went on there in the past years. What concerns me more general with this situation. There is a lot of power in the hands of people able to rile up the mob to de-platform whoever the current very-bad-person of the day is. With the outrage on social media platforms, and then the media pressure from those reporting on the outrage, companies just do the safe, self-interested thing and acquiesce, branding it as some noble act.

It's wrong that whether someone can have a platform, or use a service, or hold a job, is determined not by some kind of objective TOS, but rather whether or not an online mob is demanding their scalp. It's arbitrary, unjust, and has and will harm harmless people.
Friend of a friend knew them IRL, and was extremely upset with me for thinking they might be faking their own death. Near is likely dead as much as we don't want to believe it.
Normal service providers normally remove violent/hate sites as a matter of course, which makes it not news. Cloudflare has set themselves up as a sort of refuge of last resort, for [redacted] reasons. Fill in the blank yourself.
Fraunhofer Society is a conglomerate of various research institutions. A lot of research in Germany is being done not at universities but at dedicated institutions like the Fraunhofer Society, the Max Planck Society, and many more.

The Fraunhofer CEO probably meant that the research part of German universities is bad, which is their main "competitor". This is still a ridiculous take and I attribute this to the general arrogance that was already mentioned by GP.
Pay per packet.

I remember maidsafe was working on this for many years without much success. Then they got into crypto for micropayments a decade later and it all got a bit messy. Not sure how the project is doing these days but it was a solid concept at heart.

https://maidsafe.net/

> legitimate customers who don't know the first thing about auditing their network for compromised devices

An IoT device not suddenly working is a good signal to endusers that it is compromised and being used illegally.
Cutting off alfalfa being exported won't hurt "food supplies" in the US one bit. Almonds, similarly, are hardly necessary for maintaining our "food supply". There are other, more staple, crops that use a lot less water but the agribusinesses choose not to grow them because they don't make as much profit.

One of the perennial problems in California is that the agribusinesses don't pay anywhere close to what they should for water. This creates gigantic misincentives to suck up the water and leave somebody else holding the bag. If the water rates were higher, the agribusinesses would grow a very different mix of crops. Of course, since the agribusinesses also throw around lots of money, politicians won't touch the issue.

The coastal cities finally decided that they need to build enough desalinization plants to cover their needs so they can simply ignore the ongoing Central Valley fiasco.
You appear to be the first person in this particular thread to bring up "critical theory". How is anybody supposed to discuss anything with you if you're just going to find the weirdest thing anybody has ever said and then demand that they reconcile their own words against it? You win: you found something stupid that somebody said, once.
This is so cool. I hope they are burning coal to produce the steam to go full steampunk.

Someone should do a water wheel powered one next.
> unless someone shows European companies are more profitable

They are. Most US "innovative competitive startups" are losing hundreds of millions, and often billions of dollars a year, for decades.

Europe (thankfully) doesn't want to do that. And "grossly underpaid software developers" enjoy a high quality of life on par with the rest of the population (universal healthcare, extended parental leave, vacations etc.)
Muzak
One shouldn't change how the door handle or the steering wheel operates. Just get it right and let me get out of the car in case of a battery fire.
Kingdom Come: A novel by J.G. Ballard
> Clinical depression rarely has anything to do with what you've done or events in the outside world.

Do you have any evidence for this? This contradicts some studies I've seen on the matter, for example, one where 75% of chronically depressed patients reported clinically significant histories of childhood trauma.[1]

Not to mention that your second cure, sunlight, is literally an example of things we've done or events in the outside world (i.e. time spent outside).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4677006/
Ok, I honestly know nothing about this topic, I just read the article and my comment is merely a critique of the original article's internal logic and nothing more.
Unless you're expecting to less than maybe 10 years to live, I wonder how anyone can assume $1 million would be enough to retire, given the uncertainty about the rate of inflation in the next few years.
The managers and executives need to have visibility into git commits and deployments. They should literally be able to see the front end and read the progress on the back end code, along with some simple reports as it goes.

If they can't understand that stuff they should not be making decisions.

But basically it's a list of stuff done, with proof, and stuff left to do.

Then they can see the progress bar moving and make decisions based on that. To get estimates, ask for explanations of what is involved in the remaining steps. Again, they should have technical competence to get a rough estimate from those reports.
That's not what I'm saying. I don't think anyone deserves any kind of violence or harassment. If they are engaging in such, vigilante justice is not the answer.
The second link in the article is the Cloudflare blog post and I'm not seeing a header abstract on my device, just a title and text.
> We are also not taking this action directly because of the pressure campaign.

I will give $100 to anyone who can convince me that they believe that.
> is that you alone are responsible for your actions; you're not merely at the whim of your circumstances.

It's not a choice when strangers online begin sending your embarrassing personal info to your family and friends, begin harassing your friends and show up in person to terrorize you.

Imagine if when you were suicidal, random strangers threatened the person supporting you until they told you they couldn't help you anymore because of them.

> The honest truth is, I've been bullied, ridiculed, and humiliated my entire life. From my earliest grade school memories to now. It's always hurt me deeply enough that I can't describe it in words. I could only just tolerate it with heavy depression when it was 4chan.

> But Kiwi Farms has made the harassment orders of magnitude worse. It's escalated from attacking me for being autistic, to attacking and doxing my friends, and trying to suicide bait another, just to get a reaction from me. I lost one of my best friends to this. I feel responsible

>
I can't handle this anymore. I have tried everything. I have taken every medication available. I have tried multiple therapists. I have tried closing myself off from the world. It doesn't help at all. Every night I am filled with panic attacks and dread and worry

-Byuu
A lot of the elections in the US in the last 25 years have been pretty close, that's the problem. I guess if they were less close or had some sort of proportional system, it might be less of a problem.
For remote work, async communication via email - often long discussions over weeks and months, with links, lists, and images. For me, that is superior to any synchronous forms of communication that require all participants to be there at the same time (around the world), such as video, voice, or text chats.

For family, friends, and personal relationships, there's nothing that replaces being together in the same time and place. But that's for conveying emotions, not only information.
Hate crime hoaxes are off the charts. "moderate evidence" isn't close to sufficient for anything anymore on the web.
KF admins Telegram: "Cloudflare's decision to block the site was done without any discussion. The message I've received is a vague suspension notice. The message from Matthew Prince is unclear. If there is any threat to life on the site, I have received no communication from any law enforcement."
Color – Bauhaus
The fable is called Pinocchio, I wonder where that may have come from
Probably by not registering a Samsung account and not using their services. While the phone OS will push you for it, it's only used for their bloatous offerings, and is skippable.
So-called agile methods. The manifesto is the only thing I know for sure is really agile.
Funny thing about steam engines is that we think about them as a thing of the past. But in reality steam engines just scaled up and turned into steam turbines, which are a backbone of society
They are published free after the conference. The 2019 keynote with substantial technical information on Lumen is available for free on youtube.
I dont disagree with you for the era that such comparisons were made, say 1995. But in retrospect I wonder if the kind of people who used these very specific line of business apps were more productive in the gui or the text mode where theyd probably memorized the key sequences by the end of their third day.
Estimating is a bit of a joke though.
It's dependent on too many unknowns.
Example: How long will it take you to get to China?
It entirely depends on how you're getting there and where you're coming from. I can give you an estimate, but if the only known is that you're starting in North America, and you're going to be held to your estimate, you'd better give the estimated time it'll take to walk there.
The real issue isn't the estimating, it's that once you give an estimate, you're held to it even if everything around it changes.
> if you've encouraged or groomed someone

This is literally what they do though. They harass them with the message that they will never stop until they do it. It's not just random bullying that then pushes people over the edge. It's commands that you need to commit suicide. It's calling your family and workplace and telling them you've committed suicide. The "joke" there being that not only do you initially shock the family, but when your target does commit suicide, the family doesn't believe the real call.
> Triptorelin

In case anyone else is curious. It's not a drug you might consider taking off label as a nootropic. It messes with testosterone and estrogen and a load of other stuff.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptorelin
> timsort and pdqsort (two comparison sort methods) and radix sort (a non-comparative sorting algorithm) have different albeit overlapping domains of applicability.

Most comparators are of the form "compare by this, then if tied, compare by that, then if tied, compare by the other thing" which is pretty well suited to radix sort. You are correct though.

> While I would reach for a comparison sort method if I had a large number of arbitrary-length Unicode strings, which I wanted to sort in a case-ignoring order.

It seems like the radix sort is likely to be a lot faster for this too, mainly due to cache effects. If you have a dataset in mind I'll be happy to give it a shot.

> Also, I found timsort faster than radix sort when there was a small number (as I recall, <100 or so) of elements.

For sure. 100 isn't so far from the threshold where a radix sort should fall back to something else anyway.
Oh come off it. Lots of professions like journalism are supported by ad dollars and work for a company who makes money via ads. Influencers are no different than working for a news corp as a journalist, just without the "noble" fakery