skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some countries it is illegal to charge different prices based on which payment method is used.

Here in Italy for example there is a lot of discussion around this topic now that most stores are legally bound to accept digital payments but cannot charge a different price if you pay with card instead of cash.
Previously discussed here [1] (includes link to paper)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34596187
>A more realistic example could be that 65% of routes are safer in a self-driving car, but then your personal commuting route might be in the remaining 35%.

This is a good example, I think it will be the reality of any change like this. But that is sort of my point: Someone will always lose out. That's the price of things getting better for everyone else. And that's that standard we should judge all changes on: do we do more good for more people than we do bad by making this change? Then perhaps you can re-distribute.

That's what I am asking for here. If self-driving cars prevent 10 people dying down town but cause 5 to die up town, that's a good deal because 10>5. The fact it's a bad deal for those 5 people does not mean it is not a good deal for society as a whole...
It's called surcharging and it's not allowed in the EU.
> Like, the romans and the greeks were a lot more sexually free than we are right now.

I wouldn't recommend using collapsed civilizations as the beacon for what's good and right for a healthy and well-functioning society.
“We decide on something, leave it lying around and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.”

- Jean-Claude Juncker 1999
Algorithmically curated social media content didn’t work for Facebook. It didn’t work for Twitter.

… but maybe it will work for Artifact.
Tiny Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Is a Android Pet That Can Follow Commands
This was a real scenario I faced and the company/founder was a complete stranger to me- I forget if he just found me on LinkedIn or it was through angel list- I would not have been a cofounder just their CTO. Either way I ended up taking another offer with somewhat lower risk- they were extremely successful but turnover there was on the order of 25% per year. And I did end up taking some people with me and lasted about 5 years there so it all worked out.

I check in to see if the other company ever made it anywhere and nothing ever comes up so I guess I wasn't missing out on startup riches.
The job market for tech is especially brutal right now. Most tech companies have frozen hiring or are actively laying off people. Perhaps look at trading firms or more traditional F500 companies, which still seem to be actively hiring.
question besides the lols whats a good use case for this
How does it cost them less to serve a HTML page with an image instead of compared to a simple database lookup and HTTP redirect?
If the article is accurate, this may be stupider than the Australian anti-encryption legislation.

https://proton.me/blog/australia-anti-encryption-law
English surprisingly (to most) is a second language for me so apologies, I always seem to forget the little nuance.

Also, I really just want their "Code" editor, but I don't want the headache of compiling it, I want it installed as a package, but its a pain to find it for me, not sure if I'm Googling incorrectly, but their editors name is not SEO friendly at all.
That doesn't mean their loneliness is any less real
> The fee gets taken regardless.

Yes, that's my point.
Indeed. Pol Pot and Mao broke a lot of eggs, too. They just weren't as openly racist as D.I.E. ideologues.
Server Environments
Interesting tidbit from that site:

"No crewed spacecraft has ever been developed and flown from Europe."
These sorts of comparisons end up being shark vs bear discussions - until engagements happen, the information you need isn’t available. When I was a kid in the late 80s I was an aviation nut, and the over the top analyst takes on the MiG 29 were totally off.

Air Force and Navy comparisons always depend on the ecosystem around the systems. The US system around operating these things on deployments is the magic.

The other thing is as a dude on a message board without context, the cynicism re the F35 almost too much. I always question whether that’s misinformation.
Thank you for the offer. I dropped you an email. About posting the resume publicly, I worry that it's hard to anonymize properly and still get the point across. Although I might do it if I run out of things to try.
The part that really drives me up the wall is when people complain about this kind of "don't ask don't tell" ass covering behavior and then turn right around and confirm it was the right course of action by calling for the book to be thrown left and right in every case of wrongdoing.

Naturally HN often has me doing laps on the ceiling.
I'm not so convinced.

It's mainly because the attrition rate should have entirely depleted the S-300 system in the first 6 months (2-3 per week during the main phase).

Ukraine is a big country and there were loads of missile attacks to defend. It's very unlikely it was able to move S-300s continuously into needed areas compared with manpads.

Yet it would have been a PR disaster if NATO admitted to supplying weapons to Ukraine before the invasion started. So MANPADs are implied to have sprouted like mushrooms in Ukraine...
> won't have all the benefits of sharing the same platform with the rest of the Europe.

Buying the _eurofighter_ wouldn't let them share the same platform as the _rest of Europe_? I realize that the F-35 has racked up a number of sales recently, but there's quite a few eurofighters around still, and more on the way IIRC
Royal Navy nuclear submarine reactor repaired with glue
They have an active mammal extermination programme in NZ trying to deal with the threat to the native birds.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-releases/2016/predator-fr...
This may work for something simple, but a typical database cluster setup will be impossible / impractical to try to emulate in containers because you'd need to configure a lot of things not normally available inside containers (s.a. how storage is attached, how memory is allocated).

Since OP mentioned DBT (kind of weird, hopefully, it's at least DBT2, since DBT is very old), they mean to test the productivity of the system rather than correctness of some queries (typical tests that deal with workloads similar to DBT2 are, eg. pgbench). Running pgbench over a database setup in a container will tell you nothing / might just confuse you, if you don't understand the difference between how database is meant to be setup and what happens in container.
Which basically means that you pay credit card charge even for cash payments.
He doesn't make much sense.

Though I'll agree on one point.

His parents had raised him to be a more efficient, cold hearted version of themselves, and even helped him setup the massive shell corporations.

Their liberal connections also greased the wheels into him meeting powerful individuals in politics so early on, something no one else in the industry could.

His brother is even still actively trying to grab that multi-billion dollar healthcare govt contract with their nonprofit.
If I ask GPT3 to name a few good books on some expert topic, it makes up book titles.

What prevents it from doing the same when asked about research papers?
“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.“
The difference between speaking and thinking
At one level this delights me and gives me optimism. At a basic aesthetic level, a world that has dodos, and woolly mammoths, and sabre tooth tigers, is a more interesting one. "Bring back as many of these magnificent creatures as possible!", I think.

Yet, to expand on points made by other posters, the very existence of this species requires a kind of ecological disequilibrium. Humans will need to maintain strict control over what other species are allowed into its habitat (the article mentions rats in particular). It seems like a fight against entropy, which requires ongoing work, like maintaining two thermal reservoirs at different temperatures. Or keeping COVID from becoming endemic in China (or any other country).

I have always found the dodo to be a sympathetic animal, though. Tame, friendly, trusting. I suppose when you're hungry you eat anything, and once you've killed your first animal for meat, then the second and third become easier, so if I were not an insulated modern myself (indeed a bit like the dodo), then I would maybe have an easy time killing one. But as it stands, I find it hard to imagine, and my impulse is to try to befriend the creatures. "Yes, let's bring back the dodo", I think, "maybe we can be friends".

Maybe that's not a horrible ecological niche. Dogs are not totally incapable creatures, but in America they live almost exclusively as domesticated pets. In a way, the same may be true of humans, who are all utterly dependent on the rest of society. Perhaps the dodo, who will live at the mercy of peoples' tastes, will not be so different from many of us.
Digital disconnection will fizzle out, they go too far by completely isolating themselves. Even the hippies with all their back to nature zeal had their own circulations, pamphlets, and recordings of talks and music. My guess is that the next major cultural shift will be disciplined use of modern media and a subversion of technology that simultaneously circumvents censorship and removes the algorithmic control over content.
Not terribly related, tho I created a source-available (not "open source" as it's Polyform Strict License) secure document viewer, which thanks to the libreoffice and other backends supports PDF, DOCX, XLSX, etc and provides a web interface where an uploaded document is converted and "images of pages" format and displayed:

https://github.com/dosyago/documentspark

The idea is to defuse/prevent any document-borne malware vectors from infecting the device. I incorporate a version of it into the Pro version of my RBI (remote browser), BrowserBox.
Not the answer people in your situation like to hear:

- you are too hot for well over 90% of the roles up for grabs.
- your expected salary alone may be enough a deterrent.

One thing hasn't changed: the recruiting scene has not improved, rather gotten worse.

Jack is a recruiting manager. He constantly needs people and the three projects he is on are far behind. HR just announced a wage cap and he will only be able to hire one engineer. 10 remotely relevant applicants, you are one of them, but the other 9 will say yes to start coding this impossible to complete set of features and won't make noise until there is room for a few more recruits. 3 of them seem like a good fit and he won't have to battle with HR like last time to offer twice what he would offer any other three who have a few years experience which should be enough to get moving with lambdas on AWS.

My tip would be to not give in and be as meticulous in your selection of roles to apply to as your technical expertise is.

Plenty of companies out there looking for exactly your level of experience and nothing less.

On the bright side, it may sound contradictive but more roles are open than ever for top tier talent. Compensations have more than doubled in the last 10y and hiring people expect more, add noise that has amplified even more than compensations and that's what the climate is like.

It takes several months to land a fitting role. Less than that you are very lucky or gave in for something subpar to your value
Lil Tjay Cheated Death. What Does a ‘Miracle Kid’ Do Next?
I once did a Google Summer of Code project with NSS, and tbh I found the codebase quite hard to work with.

It has a lot of what appears to be unnecessary API layers upon API layers that require changes in a lot of places if you want to add something. Also - I don't know if this is still the case, but it was back then - they had bugs in their ASN1 code which they knew about, and workarounds all over the codebase to comply with these underlying bugs.

You could really see that this code is old and has a lot of technical debt - after all it is the "original" Netscape SSL implementation. And the API stability comes at the price that you cannot really get rid of all that complexity even if you wanted to.
That's faking low financial or political status in order to obtain cultural status. If the rich and powerful are generally hated, you don't become popular by flaunting your wealth but by distancing yourself from it.
Your pricing box just says $9. I assume that means $9 per month, but it doesn't actually say that anywhere.
What about LibreSSL in comparison? Has it become different enough?
...and yet the people in charge of those companies are starting to revert back to 'the good old days' of making everybody commute sometimes hours to sit at a (generally worse) workspace to do the work. It's maddening to me.
As a non-dev, how do I use this?
honestly. how many months of rent was that boat? You are privileged ag
Forgive my confusion, but why do you specify needing space away from work now when the vast majority of your concerns prior was struggling with textual mediums? I could suggest if you want to be on prem, you can be. But none of that will address that not only do you want to be on prem you have frustration that other people are not. Couldn’t difficulty with communication be resolved via personal occupational therapy or coaching?
Conservatism can never be counter-cultural because it is concerned with enforcing pre-existing social hierarchies. If you are looking for an example of anti "degeneracy" counter-culture, one might be the DC hardcore bands of the early 80s.
Yeah, it's one ministry pating another, but it's still necessary. Possibly a European rule.
ARPANSA in Australia some of the most decent radiation detecting equipment I've seen, I imagine they would have been engaged early in the process.
What you say is not remote jobs, it’s working remotely for an office-based company.
I don’t know if that will disappear completely but from what you say that seems to be the case.

But remote jobs for remote companies have always been a thing (been doing that on and off for 20 years, continuously for 14) and I don’t see them going away. If anything, hiring just got a little less difficult know that the pool of people who can and like working from home grew a bit.
That's still not proof of any such conversation happening.

Denmark joined because the US invoked Article 5 after 9/11. It was more about making sure they're protected if they ever need it in the future, so I'd say it was absolutely in their interest. This was the first time Article 5 was invoked, not going would've killed NATO and their own security. The invasion of Ukraine has solidified their reasoning.
> Purely algorithmic feeds work for TikTok because people want to shut their brains off when they use the app.

Yes, if I'm half-freezing and my train is like 15min late something like that might actually come in quite handy... but that's about where its usefulness ends for me.

>but the friction is actually an important feature, and keeps the experience from devolving into lowest common denominator clickbait.

This is a great insight, I think you are 100% spot-on here.
Intel slashes wages, bonuses after disastrous quarterly results
+1 that we don’t have much to go off of.

Mid-twenties with 7-8 years professional experience suggests you’re self-taught. IMO that’s a highlight, but could it be that in this tech hiring freeze economy, companies are filtering on undergraduate as a prerequisite?
There is a joke in the France Defense sector that goes like "France has very good engineer and very bad salesman".

When it come to pure "on paper" spec, Dassault (planes), Naval Group (submarines & boats) and Nexter (tanks) can often challenge their U.S and Russian competitor. But in the world of Defense, politics is often more important than pure spec.
Buying from Uncle Sam is one way to be closer to the most (atm) powerful country in the world. Also, due to the fact that the U.S Defense budget is ludicrous, you can bet that whatever you buy will be produced in larger quantities, for a long time and will have plenty of spare parts and such.

A good exemple is the fiasco of the Australian submarines contract with Naval Group. On paper, the contract was amazing for the Aussies: Not only would they have subs that would fit their specs, but the subs were planned to be built for the most part in Australia and to have a full transfer of technology. So they were buying the subs and the means and knowledge to make them themselves in the future. It would also have created a lot of jobs in Australia.

But then the U.S came around and used their diplomacy to make the contract fail even though their proposition was on paper inferior. It is funny because the French, if they had been given the opportunity, could have proposed something similar to the U.S proposition (especially since France is one of the only country willing to export their nuclear subs technology), but the aussies didn't even give them the chance, clearly showing that it was not a business or a specs issue, but a diplomatic one.
You didn’t mention it in your post so I assume you have been applying to these positions online. I would try and work your network as much as possible here. With a decent resume, you’re almost guaranteed an interview if you get a referral.
> I don't think the "plank over a ditch" is similar. If anything it's more like a suspension bridge?

It’s a suspension bridge if you keep “one wire per kite”, but I mentioned that example to help make clear that the “we won’t need 1 wire for each small kite” scenario would scale the weight of the kite at a speed that’s faster than linear, and that’s not the suspension bridge scenario.

I think your suggestions to modulate the surface area/adding motors or propellers/etc. also mean the larger, composite, kite would be heavier than the set of smaller kites. The structure certainly would be more complex than “just tie a thousand kites together”.
I'm sorry. I took your statement as "if the bird couldn't survive on its own..."
Yeah. the orgies aren't exactly what I would call culture.....more like vice.
Move fast and break evidence.
> What an engineer thinks: "Why not attach this thing to a beacon so that it can't be lost?"

Or put cameras everywhere to deter crime.
I'm not familiar with this, but your last point was curious to me. Can you not have "radically traditional values" and be a single man living in a big city? Or at any rate, it's not respected, so these people you are talking about are pretending to not be single and not live in a big city?
Pixelmator, iTerm, Time Machine, Photos, Garage Band, iMovie, Mail, Fork, Carbon Copy Cloner, Postico, Table Plus, Panic Nova, CameraBag, Soulver, Affinity, Capture One, Lightroom...
Can't find this on fees page https://www.paypal.com/al/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees. Which detail is it?
It's an interesting substance - shared some anecdote already some time ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30086522

My dad was an inventor of one of engineering processes for making Denatonium Benzoate, I lived with and around this substance for hmm 23 years :) You get used to bitterness.
My implication is that ultimately crypto will go to zero - because it is worthless. When you sell something that is worthless to someone, that is a zero sum game.
> Building runways is cheap.

Destroying runways is cheap and easy, look at Ukraine
Economies of scale are a real thing.
To answer your questions:

1. Not only FAANG, I was a first eng hire at a startup, did some consulting work, etc.

2. It's 5 positions excluding internships.

3. I'd say I have some experience, I did competitive programming back in the day and the usual LC-style questions are not a big problem for me. I used to land jobs without doing any prep at all. Although I'm sure I've gotten a bit rusty.

4. I applied to some higher seniority jobs, but I'd say that's not the majority.

5. A startup would be great, I love wearing many hats, but I've been applying to what I considered mid-level companies with a larger engineering workforce, processes in place, etc.

Thanks!
Actually, bringing back extinct or near-extinct animals has a lot of side benefits to ecosystems as a whole - just look at the successes of wolf reintroduction programs. Wolves keep reindeer and similar animals in check, which is beneficial for plant life and subsequently species that depend on greenery [1].

But for that, you need quality breeding stock in zoos in the first place.

[1] https://defenders.org/blog/2020/03/we-were-wrong-about-wolve...
If that's what you think you really live in a bubble.
I don’t know what type of role you’re looking for but I have hired for database-related roles in the past (I’m an IC now) and will be happy to review your resume and maybe suggest a couple of places for you to try if applicable, just contact me at the email on my profile.
Yes, unsurprisingly more countries are procuring F-35 than the Typhoon. Eurofighter also costs about the same while being technologically less advanced, its A/G capability was bolted on after the fact.
Debezium is a change data capture tool that can replicate changes to another target, such as a backup.

A common pattern with Postgres databases is to replicate the WAL to a read replica. If the primary goes down you promote the replica to master. I have to imagine there is a similar recipe for MariaDB.
Anecdotally among my peers, we make more money than our parents, yet mostly need two incomes instead of one to have kids and not all of us can buy a house. I'm 40 and can't buy my house but my parents could just get a mortgage in their 20s. I doubt they even considered renting, it was just normal to buy a house if you had a job.

The number of big vacations is similar to our parents (about once in five years). We probably eat in/order from restaurants more than our parents but the high cost of groceries and fact that both parents work means it's not as simple as claiming we are simply not being frugal. We have Netflix and smartphones but these are hardly the reason we can't afford houses.

In terms of adventures, many of my friends' parents had a cabin and boat, and as kids most of our families went on weekend trips skiing, to a lake beach/cabin, camping etc multiple times per year. As middle aged adults now, none of us have cabins and weekend trips might be done 1-2 times per year instead of 5-6 times per year because it's so expensive.

Anyway, it's easy to check inflation and cost of housing vs salaries to verify that the problem is cost of living and wages, not excessive vacationing and avocado eating.

Also note that this website is heavily skewed towards American software developers, so things are generally worse than indicated by the comments here. Even the discussion about remote work is a fairly privileged one, as most workers need to do work at a workplace (factory, warehouse, retail, service, etc).
So if self driving cars killed 10 people by stopping in the road, but saved 1000 by never hitting pedestrians, that would be a bad trade?
It is a bit telling, that you perceive it as "promoting of homosexuality". I am not gay and I don't see anything like it. What I see, is promoting of a idea, that people are free to live their (consented) sexuality, whatever that might be, instead of forcing them to live an unhappy life not fitting to them. That is not really good, if you want stable people. And without stable people you won't have a stable society.

And about birth rates in general, that is a way longer debate. I would start with world population and limited ressources, but rather leave it at that.