skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this kills Hotjar?
Well, you worked at a bank. Other than a few niche roles like algo trading, banks do not pay SWEs particularly well. Nor are they particularly well respected. You play second or third fiddle to the traders.

SWEs at FAANG and other top tier tech companies are at a completely different level of compensation. I don’t think they’re underpaid.
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Heck, from my perspective other professions are highly underpaid.
I know a couple of friends who work in healthcare as medical proffesionals (nurses, doctors etc), their wages (especially of nurses) are atrocious compared to the value to society they provide.
I wish these companies would generate fewer billions in revenue, choosing to make their businesses more beneficial to society as a whole instead of apparently focusing on maximizing profit. It seems like all parties involved could still be quite adequately compensated.

Unfortunately (in my opinion), that's not how it is. Given our reality, I think I agree with you that SWEs do deserve that slice of that pie. But I very much wish that more people placed greater priority on benefiting others/society instead.
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The “Const” Deception
Why do you need direct access to your phone? Just dock the phone and have the screen work like Samsung's Dex.
But you have much lower education and time costs, no?

>In all, it takes about eight to ten years to become a professional engineer, depending on whether you decide to get a master's degree.

>Doctors must complete a four-year undergraduate program, along with four years in medical school and three to seven years in a residency program to learn the specialty they chose to pursue. In other words, it takes between 10 to 14 years to become a fully licensed doctor.
Lol what? Because they're Czech?
What Chinese corner-cutting reveals about modernity (2016)
> we have a career which requires a dedication to constant learning

95% of that is chasing dumb fads, pop cultures, pointless shiny objects, technology fetishes
In comparison, Nadella is a bit above $50M which is gross underpay considering how Ballmer left the company. Nadella has been the best CEO in the past decade. In fact, you could argue that he’s the best investment manager in the past decade since MSFT is now a giant technology conglomerate. Better than Berkshire.
Somewhat bizarre to make a list of apps with vim keybindings, when most of the functionality of those apps can be achieved already in vim, or the terminal. Obsidian in particular is a terrible experience; even with vim mode on, you still have to switch to the mouse for a lot of GUI operations.
Incorrect. This sonic boom thing has been mentioned here like 50 times, but it's addressed right in TFA: "altitude of 170,000 feet"
Robot Jox (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1

>In the distant future, mankind has forsaken global wars for battles of single combat. The world has been divided into two opposing super powers, with each side represented by trained champions.

Mechwarrior boxing, more or less. The 5/10 imdb rating is well deserved. Mostly notable for a writing credit by Joe Haldeman, who managed to get an accurate depiction of a megawatt-class laser weapon on screen.
I think you're underestimating product-market fit.

Normies don't care about the exact truth
Good to hear. Let's reserve "open source" for cases like that.
Is the US in a Space Race Against China?
Why does Buffett get up and go to work in the morning?
> Well on paper at least, the US has antitrust laws going back to the Sherman Act and Standard Oil.

That's my point.

China got their "Antimonopoly law" in 2007.
Lol @ Tim Apple. For those who don't know, Trump called Tim Cook "Tim Apple" in a conference once.
> If we sell only 50 tickets daily it is less than million of $ that Musk have available for each ticket.

Wow, and for anyone else for only a million dollars people can buy an entire day in what was once a free federal location!

Meanwhile, let's look at Yellowstone. Over a decade, they will sell about $110MM in passes (just a 10x of what they generated recently.) Let's say at an auction the passes go for an average of 20x that. So for $2.2 billion, someone can buy exclusive access to a 2.2 million acre federal park for a decade.

A 20x multiple is pretty high too.

> reality people like Musk probably would never spend even 1/100 of their wealth for any single attraction.

Musk spent approximately 20% of his wealth on an internet toy.
Totally nailed it. 2016 to the M1 had Apple release trash product. The touch bar? A keyboard that doesn’t work? Garbage.
You don’t think they could find a competent CEO for, say, $100M?
You're right and this is why they didn't heavily use BERT(in the full sense), arguably the game-changing NLP model of the 10s. They couldn't justify bringing the cost per search up.
> Electrek reported that vehicles only cruised at 35 miles per hour, instead of the roaring 150 miles per hour that the company has touted

Residential neighborhood speeds for 21st century mass transit, dream big.
> Imagine reading a magazine full of ads and perfectly good-looking people almost every waking hour as a teen. You're going to end up very unhappy if none of what you're seeing looks like you.

In 2018 "obesity prevalence was [...] 21.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds." [1] according to the CDC. That's one out of 5 being obese, not just overweight. And it has more than tripled since the 70's [2]. I have to wonder if it's related. A lot of teenagers are bombarded with images of their peers' perfectly healthy bodies that, quite simply, won't match what they see in the mirror. The solution? Ban mirrors.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_15_16/obe...
That's kind of the idea.

But there are more than just instruction set transitions. The difference between the Pentium 4 and Core 2 or Bulldozer and Zen were stark.

Even the Ryzen 7000 series has AVX-512, DDR5, PCIe 5.0 etc. It's frequently twice as fast as the 3000 series from 3 years earlier. The M2 isn't that kind of thing.
The Pareto principle…
Science is not a one off definitive answer to things. We need to study things, restudy things and replicate results. So yes, a repeat study on something studied before can very much be news, if it replicates the previous results then it's often even good news.
> Describing or at least providing context is not editorializing.

Absolutely. I'm not saying that I think that the title here is good. Just that I understand why it ended up as the title.

> I don't know how this "discouragement" is phrased,

You can find the guidelines here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

To quote the relevant part:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

That's it.

> (which I don't have a grasp of, even after following the cryptic link)

I described it over here, if you're still curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820670
Lua itself was easy enough to learn, but it lacks a way to interrogate objects similar to dir(variable) in Python. There's iterating over pairs(variable), which works on some, but not all variables, and it's up to each module to implement it's own version of that, which is a mess.

I couldn't live without my hammerspoon GUI hacks on Mac (like click and drag to move/resize windows from Linux) though.
Just because somebody buys something, that doesn't mean they like it. I don't like my ISP. It's shit service at a ridiculous price. I pay for it because the glorious free market has failed to provide acceptable options. No ISPs provide good service for a reasonable price. Therefore, my choice is to pay for something I don't like, or not have Internet.

Every time a company finds a way to make the product worse but increase profits, they will do it, and all other companies will eventually have to do it in order to remain competitive. It's an inevitable force that is built into the so-called free market. Nearly every product available today is worse and/or more expensive than an otherwise comparable product 10 years ago.

Mark my words, bookmark this comment and come back in 10 years. If these subscriptions turn out to be profitable, then in 2033, every car manufacturer will have functionality locked behind monthly subscriptions. And people will buy them because they have no other choice besides not buying a car. There will be no way to vote with your wallet--you'll just have to abstain with your wallet.
Significant portions of companies like google are parallel structures unrelated to revenue and body shops piled high to buy localised political influence.
That's a good argument for requiring App Store apps to offer Apple in-app payments for anything that costs money, but not for requiring App Store apps to only accept Apple in-app payments for anything that costs money.
Navigating Zero Trust Kubernetes Architectures from a CTO's Perspective
Tim Cook says layoffs are a ‘last resort’, not considering at the moment
Displaylink solves the one monitor limit IMO.
Don't hijack the back button, I will never use it just because of that reason, and entering my bluesky username and password into a random website is the dumbest thing I've heard
I moved out to the rural countryside, paid $120k for my house. Work remote, and meet my collogues 5-6 times a year in person.

It's not for everyone, but I'm happy. Not being a slave to the bank (mortgage) feels incredible.
And so easy to pick!
> Because you can access it on a 15-30" screen rather than a 6" phone screen

Displayport over usb-c would also solve this problem.
there's an ahk or ahkpy module to call it from Python.
This is not a leaked google memo. I can't believe hackernews believes an article like this is a memo at google. Kudos to the authors for finding a sneaky way to get traffic.
My entire life until past few years, the only population concern was overpopulation. What would we do if override Earth's carrying capacity?

Now that it looks like we'll coast up to not quite 10 billion by the end of the century with a flattening thereafter and maybe a slight gradual decline that would take at least another century to get back to the 8 billion level that we're at today... many people are reacting in a way I don't understand.

Even this mild moderating of human population growth is being presented as the end of humanity, with imagery of ghost cities and "last human please turn of the lights" storytelling. Yet lower end of the forecast still predicts more humans in 200 years than we have today.

There's nothing antinatalist about it. People who care about humanity continuing into the future should be celebrating our luck that nature seems to be giving us a chance to pause population growth while we figure out how to have 8-10 billion in decent living conditions while not wiping ourselves out.
Kyiv is still being bombed though. With shitty poorly aimed missiles and drones, sure, but still. Is that ok for a nuclear reactor?
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I'd be completely fine with my cremations being blown up on launch. Kind of funny.
I agree with you to the extent that yeah technically it's not open source because the data is not known. But for these foundation models like Llama, the model structure is obviously known, pretty sure (didn't check) the hyperparameters used to train the model is known, the remaining unknown of data, it's pretty much the same for all foundation models, CommonCrawl etc. So replicating Llama once you know all that is a mechanical step and so isn't really closed source in a sense. Though probably some new term open something is more appropriate.

The real sauce is the data you fine tune these foundation models on, so RLHF, specific proprietary data for your subfield, etc. The model definition, basically Transformer architecture and a bunch of tricks to get it to scale are mostly all published material, hyper parameters to train the model are less accessible but also part of published literature; then the data and (probably) niche field you apply it to becomes the key. Gonna be fun times!
Totally agree. Tech salary bubble is going to burst soon. As a software engineer myself, I've already started looking for a plan B.
>The point I'm wanting to make is that users will go to whoever has the best model.

Best isn't defined just by quality though. In some instances for some groups, things like whether the model is trained on licensed content (with permission) and / or is safe for commercial use is more important.

This is one reason why Adobe's Firefly has been received relatively well. (I work for Adobe).
It's mentioned in the article, but LoRA or RAG will enable this.

Phind is getting awfully close to this point already really. Integrating new knowledge isn't a bottleneck like we know from expert systems, I think it just hasn't been a priority for research and commercial reasons, till recently.
That's exactly right. If they want $6000 dollars more for the car over the lifetime of the car, the $6000 being right there in the sticker price might dissuade some buyers. But if they say it's $60/month, now you're only looking at the sticker price, and the Mercedes is cheaper than the everything-included BMW, so you buy that instead. (Sorry, I don't know enough about cars to know if Mercedes vs. BMW is a comparison that people make. I never even got a driver's license.)

This additionally acts as a nice A/B test; you sell the same car and get data on whether or not people would pay $6000 more for it to be faster.

I reflexively hate this, but it seems so rational to me.
Is anyone struggling with team dynamics?
I'm working on a new project to try to help development teams work better together. I'm particularly interested in improving interactions between developers and PMs. I've been both a developer and PM. I think there's a lot of opportunity to improve this dynamic.

Let me know if you anyone wants to talk about this and hear about what I'm building.
My bad. Deleted.
That is somewhat fixed by Comparable, but the fact that HashMap doesn't have a pluggable Hash override always bothered me.
Found anything good? I’ve had a few ideas over the years, but they all involve expensive school I’d need an high salary to even afford.
You don't think you could find a competent software engineer for $80k?
It will probably be hard to create a public space that is both:

- safe for people who express unpopular political (or other) opinions

- safe from people who express unpopular political (or other) opinions
You are right, of course, that there are many sorts of transactions that "subscriptions" make sense for. However, subscriptions (particularly relatively inexpensive subscriptions) are dangerous and people get into trouble with them all the time.

The current fashion in our industry is to make everything a subscription even when it doesn't make sense for the product (a large portion of SaaS is exactly this). They do that because people don't tend to do well with them, and so it helps to maximize the company's revenue. Combine that with making it hard to cancel subscriptions and there's a real reason to be cautious about them.

Fixed recurring expenses are famously dangerous things, and should be avoided when at all possible.
And his name? Was it Inigo?
Google’s board has spoken, and the price of their stock today matters more than the company’s future.

If I was an employee who cared about Google’s vision, or what other services they could offer the world, the I’d probably be angry at the squandered opportunity too.
I’ll take some blame for $226m.

What you’ve said is nonsensical. Being the victim of some harsh words forgotten the next day while never having to work another day in your life is not any kind of responsibility.
It's roughly 4%. I would not call 4% of anything huge.
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Software engineers are the only highly paid professionals that can convince themselves they are worth less than the going market rate. Not sure i've seen this common sentiment in banking, law, medicine, real estate, or high $ sales.
Okay, my Original Point was that maybe one of the soft skills the test is assessing is the ability and willingness to share their personal self in a positive and constructive manner.

Many if not most people find us a desirable attribute in coworkers and workplaces. I get that it's not for everyone, but not every workplace is a good fit for everyone.

I think you're getting some rude comments because of exactly this fact
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No. You'd still lose access to the encryption keys so the data would still be safe. But it would allow you to start over without throwing the entire device in the trash and buying a new one.
It seems like a ton of engineering effort has been put into these neural network frameworks. How didn’t they explore sparsity yet? With numerical linear algebra that’s, like, the most obvious thing to do (which is to say, you probably know beforehand if your problem can be mapped to sparse matrices).

(Edit: just to be clear here, I’m not saying I expect the whole field is full of dummies who missed something obvious or something like that, I don’t know much at all about machine learning so I’m sure I’m missing something).
Who knew that $5 horse armor DLC for Oblivion in 2006 would grow into a $2000 Horsepower DLC for Mercedes-Benz?
OK, so you have a completely different definition of truth than most people. Truth is not subjective. At all. If it is subjective, it is an opinion. You are setting yourself up for opinions masquerading (marqterading?) as truth. You can wrap all the philosophy you want around that, but that isn't going to change your results into truth.

The examples you are calling out are errors or mistakes, not changing truth. People learn over time. What we thought was true in the 80s doesn't mean that truth changed, it meant that we were wrong. If people lie and other people believe it, that doesn't make the lie true, it just makes it a lie.
Function for how long? That's the entire issue.
Certainly not because he needs to work for a living, or for anything at all.
That's literally what they said...? (that is, engineering and medicine are professions of dedicated learning)
Most engineers earn nothing close to FAANG comp. Even some really great computer scientists who just don't happen to live in the silicon valley bubble don't.
Certainly not for money, he lives in a simple house and drives a simple car. Probably because he just likes his job
Joey Hess' excellent moreutils¹ comes with vipe which is a generalised solution for these types of tasks. It allows you to run whatever $EDITOR you've configured mid-pipe, making it possible to work your changes up in an interactive editor session. Useful for those of us not smart enough to write up our changes as a series of -c arguments ;)

(It fixes the vim issue by virtue of using a temporary file to do the magic)

¹ https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
All of my examples are the same thing - selling the same thing at different prices, technically referred to as price segmentation or price discrimination.
Perhaps it's the meaning of the word "similar" that is giving you trouble.
Is e.g. libc part of the OS, or the desktop environment?
What are you doing about it, complaining on the internet? :P

Nobody's asking you to do anything, except maybe stop with the ad-hominem attacks and participate in the conversation in a rational way.
The "I am rich" app making a comeback, duly sanctioned ...
[Threaten to] Open a gdpr case on them (as an eu resident).
Article 15 iirc is always a good start.
Last September. You now get $X per year and chose how much you want in stocks or cash. Depending on your level, a certain minimum of stock is necessary. Most Sr / Staff engineering had a floor of 10% stocks, but the rest is plain cash.

Shopify wasn't paying like FAANG, but also not like a startup. I would say 75% of a FAANG.
Not in today's skies, not with my eyes. But in the time before cell phones, internet, tv, radio, electric lights, or bound books, with nothing better to do at night but look at the sky and listen to your neighbor pleasuring their spouse ... I think the odds improve greatly.
On a more serious note: Given that many user communities in the FediVerse are people conscious of their privacy and of suffering pile-ons by large majorities of outsiders, I wonder how many more examples of this there will be before people start asking the developers for out-of-the-box defaults that simply blacklist all requests that come in with referrer headers containing news.ycombinator.com and other similar "Slashdotting" sites.

It's not beyond the bounds of possibility. Compare https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15431 .
But that's the problem. If I understood correctly, Google won't ask you for your FIDO key if you use their passkey.
"Some people" probably thought the same kind of thing about nuclear apocalypse people (or the CFC people). If there were, my honest assessment of those people is that they were fools. One of the main reasons we didn't have a nuclear apocalypse is that people knew that we could, and took active steps to try to prevent it.

There are a wide range of people concerned about the long-term issues in AI. I agree that some of the logic of people on the extreme end doesn't seem very sound. But there are loads of people who have a more measured take on things.

Essentially, I think there are two questions of fact, which we don't have good answers for:

1. Is it possible for intelligence to go forward without limit? Is it physically possible for an AI to be as smarter than us than we are smarter than chimpanzees, or ants?

2. How likely is it that if we made such an AI, that we could also induce it to leave humans in control?

If the answer to 1 is "yes", then consider what it would be like to interact with such an intelligence: that it would continually be doing things of which we have no conception, but which cause the universe itself to turn against us.

The analogy for #2 I've heard is, "It may be that at some point we reach a situation where our relationship to AI is like a herd of cows' relationship to a farmer. Maybe the farmer slaughters us, or maybe it keeps us around but on its terms, not ours. Either way we want to stop things before they get to that point."

Now maybe the answer to #1 is "no"; or maybe the answer to #2 is "very high". But I don't think we have rock-solid reasons for believing either answer; and so I think it only makes sense to proceed with caution.
Has Twitter discovered a better way of correcting online falsehoods?
Why would someone work for $250m but not work for $150m? Or at that level of wealth work for free.

Surely it's just for keeping score
> Similar to other professions - engineering and medicine for example - we have a career which requires a dedication to constant learning.

So do adjunct professors, and they're paid peanuts.

> We build systems which allow companies to generate billions in revenue and deserve a slice of the pie.

Capitalists don't care what you think you deserve. Their morality says if the labor market situation means they can get away with paying you peanuts, it's righteous for them to do so, regardless if you do things that "allow companies to generate billions in revenue."

The people who care about getting people paid what they deserve will play a tiny violin for you, since most workers have it way, way worse than software engineers have it now.
But it does. Discord tells other people what mutual communities you are in together, which has personally been a source of discomfort when I don't want one region of my life to cross over into another, but some curious and chatty person brings it up in a public chat to talk about.

I'd like pseudotrue pseudonymity please.
i was not able to find the 80 programing languages it supports using my phone. you would think this would be front and center somewhere.
Consensus is that a 4% APR on a savings account is huge...
Why? It's not like Google is average, either