skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of FAANG outliers and SV, have software engineer wages really rocketed up? I've worked outside the FAANG world at companies of various sizes and industries for 25 years and haven't seen it. If anything, I'd say wage growth has been kept artificially low by H1B competition from folks born in low cost of living countries under threat of deportation if they object to the abuse they receive. The average corporate IT dept. looks more like a sweatshop now than it did 20 years ago, the ones I've seen anyway.
I think it is an interesting point of comparison that DeepMind was acquired for $400M in 2014

https://www.reuters.com/article/google-deepmind-idUSL2N0L102...
Libcpucycles is a public-domain microlibrary for counting CPU cycles
I would think that if it was organized crime, the feds would be all over it already. Even stuff like pirate radio gets tracked and shutdown fairly quickly. I'd imagine the FBI still has significant sigint ops, even if they might be less extensive than during the cold war.
I could easily enter public transport with these, that’s not always the case with scooters where I live. Scooters are also quite heavy and can hit things while carrying them around. I don‘t consider scooters suitable for my commute, and they haven’t really gotten the adoption from commuters they should have if they were that good.
Oh, neat! I was repeating a thing I'd heard, but is apparently misleading.

According to a few sources I've found, paper is the name for anything primarily made of tangled cellulose fibers, which can be harvested from many different plant products. The more restrictive "definition", which I had been alluding to, considers only cellulose fibers derived from wood pulp as "true" paper.

Papyrus, the ancient Egyptian writing surface, is not considered paper because the raw material is not processed to remove most non-cellulose contents. Other non-paper writing surfaces throughout history include: vellum/parchment (made from prepared animal skins), clay, animal bones, bamboo and wooden slips, silk, leaves, bark, and I'm sure dozens of others.

I found this wikipedia page to be a good jumping off point for this knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_material
ICs aren't necessarily CPUs.
Yeah -- they looked nice, too.
It’s really about the “crypto hype” and that’s really the only incentive behind most of these helium hot spots…
They are expensive and the return is slow. Really nice idea in the grand scheme of things but it’s not DIY friendly network…well it is but if you want to send data via the helium network you MUST pay per message using the helium currency; that and a lot of these hotspots piggy back of internet…sadly not completely decentralized.
> I think the idea of a career is dead for a lot of the 40 and under set. The idea that you'll have the same job for decades is just nonsense

We're probably just nit-picking over definitions but a career, in my opinion, is not "having the same job for decades." A career is a decision to specialize in a particular craft, trade or profession. The opposite of a career is someone who takes odd jobs. Hospitality one day, transportation the next, might dabble in manufacturing. These jobs pay the bills, and there's nothing wrong with "just" doing that, but they are disconnected jobs; not a career.

I consider myself to have a career in software engineering but I have had multiple "jobs" over the decades that have contributed to that career. The career is the knowledge, the experience, the speciality, the reputation, the time spent focusing... all accumulated over my time developing that career. A career could be made by having a single job lasting from graduation until retirement, or it could be a handful of jobs that put to practice and develop the same skillset and knowledge.
>> Jokes about English majors asking if you want fries

Sure but that never stopped anyone from pulling out BLS statistics showing life-time earning potential of an BA in english vs a highschool diploma.

But the point of bringing up "any degree" isn't that any student thought (or any guidance counselor said) that underwater basket weaving and electrical engineering had the same potential it's that we were told to go to college even if we had no idea what we wanted to do with our lives. A degree was the important thing even if it was in something that we didn't want, even if we didn't want a degree at all.
The unsafe part of an e-bike is the cars running people over.

I agree with you: we should get rid of that part.
Probably any language that supports Unicode identifiers.
i've used these guys: Thinq and they are awesome for sms / messaging apis

https://www.thinq.com/sms-mms-text-messaging/
Clojure’s loop expression hits this spot for me. It sets a recursion point to which you can jump using any logic inside the body you want, as long as it is from tail position. It’s like a while loop turned into an expression. I haven’t encountered any other way to write iterative expressions whose number of iterations isn’t known at the top (like map and reduce).
> just never heard someone refer to a factor of ~3 as "half an order of magnitude"

Last time I looked, the estimates ranged from 270% to 50x. Seeing the latter, my brain went into astronomer mode and then I guess just ran with it.
> It has nothing whatsoever to do with American companies doing anything wrong or punishing them.

OK, but you said this:

> it makes those companies accessories to this illegal Russian war

Is being an accessory to the Russian aggression not wrong?

> American parts in wreckage of Russian drone strikes is undeniable.

I mean, sure, but the Russians are using Ukranian-made arms and aircraft, too; that doesn't make the Ukranians complicit in the Russian aggression. Ukraine used to be a major arms supplier to the entire Soviet and post-Soviet sphere of influence.

Your standard for "responsibility" is bizarre. The balance of US involvement in Ukraine is extremely heavily on the side of good, and it'd stay that way even if TI had knowingly had anything to do with these drones.
They want to open these boxes in a way that minimizes the risk of destroying any evidence they contain.
Sure, but the downside is sometimes having to literally deal with other people’s shit.
No, I meant more as in haven’t tried it myself. Plenty of folks have done similar things with C and C++, I’m not sure if anyone has done it with Rust yet.

Certainly more difficult than Flutter or RN, but if truly native UI is a goal I think it, along with Kotlin Multiplatform, are the best options
Also makes no mention about schema changes.
It's just so much engineering for such marginal benefit over alternatives. I can contrive a use-case where this is better, but I have to contrive it.
Does that mean engineers working at FAANG no longer will be subject to noncompetes?

Amazon is known for enforcing non competes on employees (especially AWS employees) who leave to join the competition.

Their CTO has been vocal about this on Twitter and a quick Google search will reveal a lot more details.

What about job offers that require employees do waive away some rights and agree to arbitration as the only avenue to resolve a labor/employment dispute?
It's annoying if you use LoRa components for something else since they are more likely to be out of stock
Apple DOES say that, when you set up FaceTime and iMessage!

There is a pop up that says "Your carrier may charge for the messages used to activate iMessage and Facetime" You can choose to not activate and do it later.
>since so many people had it it wasn't a status symbol anymore, so that wasn't enough to get a good middle class job

This makes it sound like a degree is worth less today than it was in the past, which is not true. The income and wealth gap between college degree holders and non-degree holders is higher than at any point in history, and it grows bigger very year.

Most degrees have an unemployment rate of about 5-6%. That's not bad, but it does mean that there are over 2 million college-educated Americans who got degrees and can't find jobs. This minority is much more visible today; they get lots of press coverage and talk about their struggles through social media. This makes it seem like things are getting worse, just like how people tend to think that crime is getting worse, but the reality is things are getting better and college becomes a better deal every year.

>Then we were told what we really need is nurses. So folks went to nursing school in droves.

And generally this paid off, since nurses are in demand and make well above the median salary.

>Then we were told to go into STEM.

Which is decent advice, with a caveat. Most people with STEM degrees could easily pivot into something highly profitable like software development. What people weren't told is that it's difficult to land a profitable role doing research/pure science, especially if you don't have a PhD.

>And then a bunch of people were told they shouldn't have gotten those degrees and they were worthless.

Which is mostly incorrect. Even folks majoring in stuff often touted as "worthless" like art history or gender studies still tend to do better than people without degrees. The catch is that you might end up working a business analyst or a project manager instead of an Egyptologist or whatever you actually majored in. The biggest offender here is Psychology: many new graduates are shocked to discover that no, you cannot actually become a psychologist with just a Bachelor's degree in Psychology, nor are there profitable research opportunities at that level. A psychology degree still looks great on a resume if you're applying to be an HR representative or something, though.
Oh, cool :)

Let me maybe elaborate why I like Phoenix, especially with LiveView.

Traditionally in web dev, everything is centered around the HTTP request/response cycle. Browser sends a request to server, which renders a response page in HTML (or e.g. JSON if it's an API endpoint).

This is very simple but has a bunch of mental overhead, since you need to fit every user interaction into this schema. It's also not well-suited for interactive pages like games, it really feels like a "website" not a "web application."

Because of this, over the last 10 years, most companies/stacks have migrated to a frontend/backend split where the frontend is a SPA (single page app) typically written in JavaScript, using a rendering framework such as React. This allows you to do very interactive stuff and has enabled what we know as "web 2.0" with web apps as we know them.

The downside is that you're now maintaining 2 code bases, you're learning two languages (or, worse, you're writing Node.js :) ), and you have to keep these 2 in sync. You've gone into the distributed systems business.

The innovation of Phoenix LiveView is that everything happens on the server, and the server sends a diff back to a thin browser JS frontend that you almost never need to touch. So it feels simple and productive like an old-school web 1.0 app, except you don't even have to fit everything into the request/response cycle. Instead, there is a much simpler and faster "events happen -> you react to them -> re-render" cycle that doesn't require a page reload on the user's end. This allows you to make very interactive-feeling websites without all the ballast and overhead and headaches of maintaining a distributed systems and, frankly, touching JavaScript.

As an example, check out this site I made with LiveView: https://livetyper.com/

There are certain limitations to this, it won't ever be as fully interactive as a locally-running SPA. But for anything but real games or maybe the most performance-hungry apps (think Figma), LiveView is totally fine and 1/10th the effort.
Laying ten thousand kilometers of cable to loop around the moon sounds like a huge undertaking, even if you've got a rocket that can bring the cable there.

What would the cable layer look like? A huge robotic rover? Could you get all 10,000 km onto one spool, or deliver new spools to it?
I don’t think we should focus on 4% of the world.
It varies more by age. A bronze plan under $300 per month is only possible for someone in their 20s.

You can see premiums for 2023 for NJ here for all ages and plans, and adjust up or down 20% for other states.:

https://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcra...

https://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcra...
I'd love to see a benchmark with the 3d vcache ccd cores disabled and benched against the non 3d part it is based on with one ccd disabled.

Would be interesting to see at comparable clocks what the performance uplift of hitting the huge cache more often on the other ccd vs hitting main memory.
There are some cons to using `result`:

https://status-im.github.io/nim-style-guide/language.result....
I'll shoot you the DEFCoin white paper.
Same. Early '90s. Nobody was telling us "any degree will do". They were saying "You should go to college, and if you do, major in computer science, engineering, pre-med, biotech, (sometimes) business, and so on." I remember that as a pretty consistent message during high school career guidance talks and through freshman and sophomore years in college.
And if that iPhone was somehow utilized in genocide, would that be bad for eBay, or Apple? Or not bad? Good!
That seems plausible for that one specific setup - but it's obvious that all of these weird crypto grifters were trying to make money by deploying in remote spots with long range connections to capture the rewards.. there aren't very many paraglider canyons and there are far more of these in the foothills.
Symbols in Ruby are meant to be more performant that strings iirc. If I have symbol :a, then it's allocated once regardless of how many time it appears. As opposed to "a" which is reallocated every time.

I guess it's similar to Python having a single instance of small integers. PlayStation also experimented with caching small floats which gave them some perf improvements too, but I think wasn't as performant in all cases.
If he's willing to have the business fund it long term then fair enough honestly. But it seems like a weak strategy that isn't playing out well judging by the progress made over the 3 years so far.
Cell phones are basically locator beacons for the police. The cartels know this.

It's not worth discussing the specifics in the open, but the investigative techniques have gotten good enough that even "anonymous" SIM cards don't buy you anything.
I'd love to see evidence for some of these claims, like stability and testing. Would you also be able to comment on correctness?

(co-founder at MotherDuck)
Why would they pay someone when they could kidnap them, like they've done to many others?
The science knowledge base grows monotonically but not necessarily at a steady rate. Actually far from it.

There was a time in the 19th century when people thought physics discoveries were complete. A few decades later all hell broke lose.

The problem we have right now is that we are stymied on the complexity front (materials, chemistry, biology, medicine etc)

Our mental / mathematical models that we use to understand the world and even enable us to ask original scientific questions are losing their edge when things get complex. These tools are 19th century stuff (including all the AI junk) and we have milked them for all they are worth

I would hypothesise that a new period of discovery will correlate with some breakthrough in the mathematics of complexity. We had a few false dawns but not the real thing
If this episode isn't a giant warning sign for MacAskill and all of the rest of these characters, what would be? Maybe he's not as dumb as he always acts, but SBF seems more like a pawn of the altruism cabal than the other way around.
I live in Umeå, Sweden. Most people here bike.

I’m not entirely sure what your point is.
> Instead of writing 10000500, you can write 10_000_500, or 1_00_00_500 if you’re Indian.

I hate this so much. It means I can't grep for a constant.
some investors have expressed skepticism that the company can generate meaningful revenue from the technology

Would anyone like to speculate as to how they could?
Remington was not forced to settle. Remington chose to settle.
Breach alleged to have happened Jan 1st, 2021.

I just got the haveibeenpwned notice, as I am sure many other just did as well.

> In early 2023, over 200M records scraped from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum. The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that enabled email addresses to be resolved to Twitter profiles. The subsequent results were then composed into a corpus of data containing email addresses alongside public Twitter profile information including names, usernames and follower counts.
GPT4 will replace it, which is also from OpenAI.
From another thread, the actual application appears to be something called a "hike and fly race":

> The Global Rescue XRedRocks is a premiere hike and fly race in North America, organized in a similar way to the Eigertour, Vercofly and DolomitiSuperfly- multi-day hike and fly events that take participants into magnificent mountains to see what they’re made of when we pair back free-flight to it’s most raw and exciting form. Travel is only allowed by wing or on foot. There are no supporters. ...

https://xredrocks.com

The devices appear to be internet hotspots, possibly powered by the Helium network:

https://gristleking.com/helium-deployed-the-network-in-actio...

This could explain why you'd want to put a hotspot at the top of a mountain: to provide real-time tracking of paragliders during the competition.

The hotspots in the local news clip could be put there either for real-time telemetry during the competition or for training.
Too bad you don't have enough scrap metal collectors. Beats any cryptocurrency. This network wouldn't resist a week in my country.
React Native is much slower on Android than on iOS, sometimes by orders of magnitude. You can get things usable on a lower-end Apple device, but on a lower-end Android an optimized RN app is still unusable. Part of this is due to the JS interpreter available on Android (which FB has tried to replace). But I think it's also due to architectural issues in Android itself and the natural overhead that RN has being too much in a constrained environment.
At the moment, the only one I know for sure is Agda.

I suspect java would work as well, not sure about golang unicode var naming.
Wow I just looked into that project and it really seems to work great. I really struggled a lot when typing longer responses in my Browser when trying to input my vim commands, so hopefully that will help.
ESP32-P4: High-performance MCU with IO-connectivity and security features
I can assure that anyone in a traffic jam disagrees with you–violently so.

More roads aren’t a solution.
>I haven't looked in detail, but I'm suspicious they are using the SQLite Session extension: https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html

Having used the Session extension extensively, from reading the info this would also be my conclusion (makes no use if it, which to me makes little sense).
Myeah, that sound like a bug in this variant. File a bug report with them, probably they'll release a better free one then you can properly test your theory. Good luck
A lunar eclipse can happen at any time of the day, might only be visible on the other side of the planet - maybe the question he meant to ask was "can you see ...."
You are right, it seems much faster than freeBSD in a lot of areas and relevant benchmarks (real world programs and scenarios).

They got similar overall results, but as far as I see, freeBSD is mainly faster in irrelevant benchmarks. (This is an opinion based on a glance of the phoronix article. I haven't spent much time looking at the results, also I am not an expert at benchmarking.)
* Come to the US as an H-4 dependent of H1-B parents

* Age out at 21: H-4 no longer valid, green card process delayed because of country-specific quota

* F-1 student visa gives you a few more years, but still no path to residency

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/01/1023393351/documented-dreamer...
I really liked the postfix and prefix notation in Mathematica. These three all mean the same:

f[x]

f@x

x // f

It matches the flow of thought more naturally when hammering out a couple of one-liners.
> 8 rooftop base stations with multiple SDRs and 8 fixed endpoints at ground level

> 1 rooftop programmable massive MIMO array and multiple dedicated UE devices

> 6 base stations on light poles with multiple SDRs each – coming in late 2022

Interesting project, but there's no mountain location here and the antennas look more like 2m 1/2 wave from the video...
They may also just not know yet
From experience doing other smelly jobs, if you shove a bunch of vicks vapor rub all over your nostrils and wear a mask you are immune.
Oh great. And whoever buys OpenAI could do a lot of nefarious things for profit...

Who remembers fogbugz fondly?
Or this: https://xkcd.com/2712/
I’m one of few left in our company of our original mobile team after we switched to qt, and i pretty much soft quit by writing an entirely new native app
Vim for Writers: Plugins
I think "AI" is way overhyped.

That said, because of the competition driving the value of the technology down, with open source versions and constant iterations and improvements, I think the value will be in having some "enterprise" version and associated relationships that make it friendly / easy to buy for large businesses. The Bing partnership and whole Microsoft angle suggest Open AI is in a good spot to be an enterprise provider
You're not wrong in being puzzled by why people would try to glue LoraWAN stuff to "blockchain" BS, that's been pretty much the reaction of everyone who works professionally in wireless telecom industry/applications.

Helium is (was) yet another pump and dump cryptocoin hype train.
I live in Umeå, Sweden.

It was -15ºC today. Most people I saw outside were on bicycles.
Because in most languages they're not useful. Symbols are solutions to problems, some of which are:

1. mutable strings (ruby)

2. and / or expensive strings (erlang, also non-global)

If you have immutable "dense" strings and interning, and you automatically intern program symbols (identifiers, string literals, etc...) then symbols give you very little.

And then there's the slightly brain damaged like javascript, where symbols are basically a way to get some level of namespacing to work around the dark years of ubiquitous ad-hoc expansions so you're completely stuck unable to add new program symbols to existing types because you could break any page out there doing something stupid.
lol - tesla, spacex, etc didnt succeed ? what planet are you living on?
Or good at locksport
Funny that a relatively small highly competent company like openai has created a stir that none of the big companies could. The 10x engineer theory is alive and well. A tale as old as time, large “prestigious” corporations incapable of innovating, probably due to management being unwilling to cannabalize their own jobs and knowledge cough google cough
Pretty true. But that kind of like saying "politicians are going to take bribes, they are just people".

There is the reason why some jobs are treated uniquely, and HR should be one of those jobs, as they have a disproportional amount of power and influence over other people's ability to find employment.

In some countries those special professions are even marked as such in law, for example in Poland there exist a notion of a "public trust profession": "a profession that is a profession of high social importance, requiring appropriate qualifications not only professional and health, but also characterological, i.e. moral and ethical"

I am not particularly keen to enshrine that notion in law, but we should not treat HR so flippantly.
What subject teaches Supply and Demand in High School?

I was aware of it but I only remember seeing it taught in Econ 101.

Most majors don't require Econ 101 to my knowledge.
I'd like to use neither Steam nor Epic. Looks like there's a direct download for KSP.