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>US tech salaries are good for only one reason, the largest tech companies went the path of public stock valuations and paid employees with stock.

That's a reason for first-generation employees to get paid highly, not a reason to continue to pay that highly to new employees joining today.

The real determinants of tech company salaries are the same old boring ones that govern salaries in most lightly regulated industries: productivity and competition. Each marginal employee earns a lot of revenue for a company, and competition ensures most of that is paid out in salary to them (I'm aware the company makes more from you than it pays you, but that's about average productivity not marginal productivity).
> I think you can know what ingredients are more likely to make you happy,

How do you know you know for sure? Are you positive you know everything that can make you happy?

It's a knowledge/discovery problem.

> With your outlook what does one do? Just sit there and wait for happiness to appear?

No, we can use your approximation indeed, but after the facts (ex-post) instead of before (ex-ante): you need take sample of the multidimensional space then try to do gradient descent.

The sampling part has to be random - so you randomly try things. Some of things will make you happier, and sometimes much more than they should, so you tweak one parameter, try again and see if you are less happy or more happy.

That's just using algorithms on actual life.
If you're able to fool your complete working space, I think there's something wrong with you. I couldn't do this without losing so much sleep, it wouldn't even be healthy. Just be open about it? Also, this article smells of corporate manipulation.
What industry are you in? You should be able to break 250K in finance.
Some researchers say Victorian era people were more intelligent than people in our present time, and after reading the Victorian guidelines, maybe they're right.

https://phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intellige...
These are the dumbest type of comments. People are doing real world work in FP, but because it's not the work you do (or you're not comfortable doing the work you do in FP) you're deluded to thinking that no real work gets done in it.
Refused to implement the felon voting rights that voters approved in any manner that might actually by equitable. Proposed an extremely gerrymandered district map that was thrown out by a court, but then worked with the state congress to drag his feet on a replacement to ensure it gets used anyway.
Concur with your thinking.

At the same time, I took "abolish traffic lights" as a North Star for future design as well as making changes to existing infrastructure where economically and physically feasible (i.e. stay practical). Not rip out all traffic lights everywhere and replace them with roundabouts or rotaries, as the case might be.
C'est de l'Adobe.
> As usual, when money talks, we get FOSS posts with a subset of the capabilities of the real thing.

This. They're right you know. The same thing happened with LibreOffice, GIMP and InkScape. Even if you have an installed version of them, they don't come any where near the features of 'the real thing' and users will complain why it is not Office® 365 or the real Photoshop®, or actually Figma®.

On top of that, neither of these FOSS alternatives have done nothing to combat the move to online versions of Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Figma, etc. since there is no need for the user to install anything which will always be ahead of manually installing these apps.

The only exception to this is Blender, but as always with specialist software it is used by a small amount of users compared to the applications that I have described.

As for Penpot, it just tells me that the Figma users that are 'upset' over Adobe today are just going to keep using Figma anyway and are just reacting over the news of the acquisition, since Penpot still doesn't meet the requirements and vast capabilities of Figma.
The simplest definition of intelligence I use is one's capcity for abstraction. Is a mind capable of generalizing accurately and then refining it with some good tools for feedback?

Pattern recognition is close, as it's abstracting things into symbols and then comparing the symbols, but it's not sufficient. "Smart" I define as the ability to effect intentions, or to get what you want. In this sense, a lot of intelligent people are not very smart, and a lot of very smart people are unhindered by intelligence. Animals are perfectly smart for their environment without needing much intelligence. Humans are poorly adapted to our physical environment, and require a great deal more intelligence to have survived. Language is useful for many things, but the things it isn't good for are anti-smart (e.g. I think our ego as a refining filter for experience is an artifact of language)

Anyway, the Turing Test as a thought experiment isn't really a measure of intelligence so much as it is an economics model of an indifference curve, which is how much the observer cares (or not) about whether they are dealing with a machine.

I'm actually more bullish on the possibility of AGI for some admittedly very strange reasons, even though I am harsh about people who anthropomorphisze code and fall for animism. My view reduces to a kind of theistic argument where if we can create conscious life from rude materials, it is logical evidence that we ourselves may also have been the expression of some similar intention. If AGI is demonstrably impossible within our physics (like incompleteness theorem level proof), then we exist within a hard ontological boundary, and the best we can do is infer what that boundary is made of (probably time/gravity). The reason I think AGI is plausible is because I have theistic axioms that create a kind of circular reference where if we can Create life, then we could also have been Created with the intent to discover and appreciate the meaning of that, and if we cannot Create, we were not meant to experience that Creation. Maybe even if there is something on the other side of death, we may still just be programs or epiphenomena that aren't intended to reflect or apprehend our substrate, sort of like the one-way directional relationship between an instrument and a song played on it. An AGI would make the leap from song, to software, to operating on its environment using abstraction, generalization and feedback. It wouldn't be "us," but I think it could certainly become a them that could eventually exist independently of us.
You've been able to play Sketch prototypes on the web for a few years already, also they just released a new iPhone app that lets you preview prototypes and docs. Their iOS Mirror app is pretty much deprecated now I think
Not to the country you’re visiting. I had to attest to the German government that I would not send any emails or write any reports on my recent work trip there. Else, I needed a work permit.
The point is, if Affinity gets too good or competitive, Adobe will acquire them too.
I sold a couple of Bitcoins years ago at 200$ because I thought it wouldn’t bounce back. Guess I keep what’s left until Bitcoin hits a million.
Just wanted to say thank you for Typesense. I use it for my own open source software [1] and integration with it was really easy.

More generally, I think it is great to see development in this area from Algolia and Search.io to Typesense and others. Being able to have a customisable search which is really fast, can make a bit difference on a web-site.

[1] https://datatables.net
Every networked system (eth, btc, usd, the internet itself, trade, an economy) has aspects of centralization and decentralization. USD is decentralized in that if enough people stopped attesting to its value or accepting it for trade, the whole thing folds. That doesn't happen precisely because so many people believe in its value. But many aspects of USD and the banking system are opaque: how it is minted, what players are trusted, how much fractional reserve is allowed, etc.

The big difference is how easy it is to step into the game. I'd probably need millions of dollars, oodles of lawyer-hours, a bunch of employees, and a mountain of paperwork, to start a bank and participate in the banking system as a peer. I just need 32Eth (roughly $50kUSD) and some computers to participate as a validator.

The hard fork only "worked" cause enough people went with it. If enough people said "f it, no fork", then the fork still happens, but loses the social capital and thus the old chain "wins".

The internet struggles with ipv6 because not enough nodes support it. Politics breaks down when parties can't reach agreement. I don't know of any system which is truly tolerant to byzantine / 51% attacks.
First one is Lido and second one is Coinbase both of them are pools. Lido is more decentralized than Coinbase as the stake is spread across many different staking providers. In any case the situation is not ideal and a bigger uptake of solo staking and truly decentralized staking solutions like RocketPool would be beneficial.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x388c818ca8b9251b393131c08a736...

https://etherscan.io/address/0x4675c7e5baafbffbca748158becba...
Everyone knows the address range commercial VPNs use. Plugging into an internet connection in a house or something bypasses that.
If you can't afford an apartment on 250K you need to take a serious look at your spending and figure out what you actually want to prioritize. Sure, you won't be picking up a $3M apartment overlooking Central Park, but toooooons of Brooklyn and Queens should be affordable to you with that level of income. I got a mortgage a few years ago when I was only pulling down $180K and I was approved for up to $1MM loan, most of the city is doable at that budget. https://streeteasy.com/for-sale/brooklyn/price:-1000000?view...
Instantaneous creation of a server with an RBAC GUI, multiple text and voice chat rooms, voice chat, screen share, app share(game streaming), and for clients, a GUI that allows people to view the status of other servers while participating in one.

Again, it's made for voice/screen/streaming share, not primarily text.
This way lies hellish amounts of indirection.
Absolute hubris corrupts absolutely.
Thanks for posting! We just adopted rebase for our docs repo, so this was a timely article for me. I do really like the clean commit history, but I also haven't experienced any of the downsides yet.
> I also follow a few subreddits that just post new music for very niche genres to help find some things I might have missed. I also pull these in via RSS.

You might be interested in a project I shared here on HN recently to create weekly spotify playlists automatically for each of about ~100 music subreddits, using the most popular submissions in the last week.

The main project page with a link to all the playlists is here: https://jameslawlor.github.io/reddit-playlists/

Code on Github: https://github.com/jameslawlor/reddit-playlists
I mean, 1 —- HN is largely populated by big tech coders who decided selling out the entire world population for a mid $100ks salary from the surveillance state sounds like a good deal.

But 2, there are liquid markets for crypto. So, while you might feel good typing out how you value crypto —- it simply doesn’t matter. Put your money where your mouth is. Short it.
The AP Exam covers Java and you have less than 180 days to cover everything from "what is a variable" to inheritance, recursion, and sorting algorithms.

My school has gone back and forth with starting with Python or Java in the Pre-AP course. There are pros and cons for both options, but ultimately a language is just a language. The concepts are what is really being taught.

The difference between a math variable and a computer variable and how "x = x + 1" works can be difficult for some students to wrap their minds around. Getting students comfortable/competent with a language and then switching it mid year would be a tough ask for quite a few students.

Keep in mind, many of the students taking Computer Science in high school are not exactly the same students that would have taught themselves to program at 15 and 16. Self-taught students are easy to teach (although they provide their own challenges), but you have to approach things much differently (and often slowly) for students that don't already "think like a programmer".
We don’t have the same standard in place for physical private companies. If Walmart started issuing lifetime bans to people because they didn’t fill out the customer survey on the receipt, they would be well within their rights by the same argument. It would also probably not be tolerated by society, because it impacts food security for those people where Walmart is the only grocery store around.
This is an extremely sad sellout and a poor and obvious effort to monopolize. The fact we all know whats coming is a sign Adobe should not exist as a company anymore with the way they can treat end users/products and still get away with it.

I'm sure the people at Sketch are currently throwing a party that can be seen halfway across the world though.

Fuck Adobe.
Policing with Less and Less Policing
Income is taxed where it’s generated in America, not based on residency (at the state level, the feds always get their pound of flesh). Many people don’t follow this rule but it’s smoothed over by reciprocal tax agreements between states. Companies are usually good about tracking this stuff and paying taxes appropriately, employees are usually not but the company pays the taxes correctly and so the employee lucks into doing their taxes correctly. Consultants will often find themselves confused after receiving a mean letter the first time they fuck this up because most people think as you do.
Or you can set up a personal VPN at your apartment. Just tell your AirBnB not to touch the computer in the closet.
Unfortunately all the NFT scams (most of which were run on top of ethereum) and smaller coins/networks created and promoted solely for pump-and-dump schemes (not ethereum) got conflated in some people's heads with everything else in the cryptocurrency space and now they think it is all just a scam that doesn't do anything besides trick people into losing money.
Adobe is the new Oracle or Intuit. Somehow it escapes the antitrust scrutiny that other Big Tech companies are subject to. Buying up smaller competitors left and right.
The "only" thing that change was the consensus algorithm.

That's good software engineering practice when you have hundreds of billions at stake. Minimize the bug surface.

Furthermore there are other concerns, Ethereum prides itself in running on the most modest of hardware. Many stakers are staking on Raspberry Pi 4.

A blockchain with large transaction speed require very powerful machines. It becomes impossible to sync with less than 1Gbps of bandwidth and storage cost becomes prohibitive.

Doing so before implementing state expiry/rent to reflect the cost of storing data in a blockchain will reduce decentralization as hardware requirements require professionalization of node operators.

Furthermore there is the rollup-centric roadmap for future scalability: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/r26hhv/rollupce...
They lost me with their article "Why I’m Ditching Android" which is a switch from Google to Apple. Just like switching from Coke to Pepsi is not going to help you lose weight. You have to make a real change to be private.

https://kevquirk.com/why-im-ditching-android
Everything gives people options: the question of whether those options actually increase competition comes down to what a particular option does better than the alternatives. For example, if I'm not in the business of selling blockchain services I don't care about Visa's backend infrastructure. I care about things like how much overhead I'm paying on each transaction, how hard it is for my customers to use, how quickly transactions go through (especially in retail settings – I don't want someone blocking the line while they wait for a miner to approve a block), and the cost / risk of fraud.

Currently, it's by far easier for everyone to use Visa: most people have access to that system, services are widely available for businesses of all sizes, etc. The primary drawbacks are transaction costs and businesses being on the hook for most fraudulent transactions.

Switching to Ethereum would make things slower, but that could improve. Since it's not tied to a hard currency, however, there's a much bigger problem cost management: I know exactly how much a Visa transaction will cost but gas fees are unpredictable and volatile, and the exchange rates for ETH vary both independently and more than most currencies. Similarly, there's a real appeal to not automatically being on the hook for a disputed transaction but that's significantly undercut if you have to worry about being one mistake away from irrecoverably losing everything in your account and so far customers have not been jumping to take on more personal risk either.

The big question here is also what competitive businesses do in response: for example, if at some point in the future Ethereum actually became cost-competitive what happens when Visa simply lowers their transaction fees until that's no longer the case again? They have a lot of margin to do that and the merchants don't need to change anything about how they do business. Similarly, Ethereum is nowhere near the speed of a traditional credit card transaction but even if it hit that speed it'd be playing catch-up with Apple/Google Pay – businesses care a lot about things like that since it's often highly visible to customers and can affect things like retail lines, so the question is whether that can be improved faster than companies like Apple/Google, Stripe, Square, etc. can improve their services.
Considering they only have about 10k-20k employees in the US, I would guess the median wouldn't move much.
Here's a good video on why (and where) none of these things have to be true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPGVP85WpU
I just want to check in and make sure you understand that the fundamental principle of how a Con Game works is that the mark thinks they know something that no one else knows.
Garishness on new TVs also comes from the "soap opera effect", caused by motion smoothing, which is enabled on every new TV I've seen (and which tends to reset itself every few months on my home TV). Turning that off makes everything so much better.
My friends who have an AI company bought out these miners by the dozen and are running it for training - and yes they got it by offering more money than gamers and buying the whole lot, so gamers got the short stick again.

Why is that not bad? I don't see where the value for society got so much better, if that's the measure you're using - I'd rather have someone run the Ethereum blockchain than generate catgirl porn pictures. But even that is IMHO more useful than a bunch of guys gaming, at least more people get to feel the effect of a GPU than if it was owned by a gamer and only ever used for his eye candy. Games also could simply use the available resources better and then the gamers wouldn't need such absurdly overpowered hardware.

Overall, I think we shouldn't be measuring usage of GPUs, solar panels or any other products like this and definitely shouldn't be saying who has a right to have it and who doesn't, or for what prices - that gets us into nasty situations with only nasty answers.

This is a product like any other, gamers don't have any right to get cheap GPUs. Somebody else offered more money for it and the vendor didn't take the low-end market - that's just how it is.
FWIW, it was added in 1992. https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/dd9ed839d6958f73704... with gdbm added in 1994. https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/4b4c664d2e93279c8d7... .
I receive a two-week paycheck with a one-week delay, plus five business days (a week) for the bank to verify my employer actually has the funds to cover it. So that's four weeks already. I'm not sure where the other 17 days come from, but it's important to note that most people would not quit on the spot if their paycheck doesn't clear; there's too much risk in that. This is how employees end up weeks to months behind on paychecks with employers stringing them along.
And... you don't think there are companies and leadership teams that think this way.
But they're a British company! British companies NEVER sell out to forei... oh.
If you can't beat them, buy them
They do not just try, they succeed. It's disturbing because you can be sure this is a person who is dead now (and this was the process of them dying), but being able to take a drink is impressive.
Its 2022. An AI will automate it.
>They're degrees of the same thing.

No; they're not. Intention often matters in immigration. If the purpose of your stay in a country is tourism, that is one thing. If the purpose of your stay is to work remotely then that is a different thing.
Things seem to have gotten a lot worse over the last few years, the reports and allegations shot up dramatically since 2020, there are just too many reports of those reporting CP having their accounts suspended, with the reported creators allowed to continue over the last few years to believe that this isn't a deliberate policy.

I believe the association with THORN and INHOPE are great steps, but I can see that they have not had much affect on the rising number of reports and allegations over the last few years, the problem seems to be increasing under their watch over Patreon. The cynic in me thinks they are convenience camouflage and nothing more.

On the subject of Patreon creators vehemently attacking those who blemish the platform, I have seen the opposite to be true, the prominent creators from the infosec space that I have spoken to have told me that they are really worried about this. For the most part they have gone quiet, nobody wants to create content and build audiences alongside paedophiles, and these allegations are just allegations at this point. One of them (DarknetDiaries) showed me evidence of people canceling their subscriptions and stating the reason was Patreons child porn issue in their exit surveys, they can't be the only creators seeing people vote with their money.

The former security team have gone quiet, understandably. I have been told that they are bound by very generous exit packages and very tight NDA's, you also have to assume that they have been verbally warned against responding to these allegations publicly. We just do not know if the firing of the security team is connected to the allegations online, but in my view security talks to trust and safety all the time, their workloads overlap, I think it was common knowledge internally that they had a massive CP problem.
> More engagement (even if from fake profiles) = more ads to show = more money.

I'm surprised bots actually load ads.
It doesn’t though: profits for lots of companies during the pandemic were at all time highs, as was productivity. Remote work favors people who deliver, and not those who play politics or like to use the office to keep up social appearances!

So both profit and people are addressed by more remote work!
Isn't that as pointless as comparing clock rates of different CPU-families?
> We just don't accept Monopoly Money as compensation for work rendered.

Every person that took equity in a startup that then went out of business would love to talk with you. Believing bitcoin will be valuable for some people isn't really any different than believing pets.com will be successful or that tesla will actually be able to make electric cars and taking equity instead of cash for compensation.
There is no point to use sqlite3 in default journaling mode. I bet results may be even better than dbm if you use

PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL;
Check out the Organic Transit ELF or the BetterBike PEBL.

Both are enclosed electric trikes with two wheels in front.

The PEBL can be winterized by adding a floor and it has reverse.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32659508 ;)