skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet these numbers are total compensation. They are averages across the industry, not "the top comps for the top talent at the top FAANGs".

Whenever there is a Tech Salary article, commenters on HN comes out of the woodwork to point out that everyone in tech makes $400K and drives a Tesla to their second home in Tahoe. Everyone seems to know at least somebody's brother's cousin's roommate making $1M/yr at Facebook or whatever. They trot out levels.fyi as if that's the norm across a huge industry. These huge figures are not happening anywhere but a few top companies, or for a few top roles. Most of the tech industry plugs away at ~$100K which is still great and well over the average and median comp for jobs in general in the USA.
Quordle is great! Can I ask what it sold for?
Abu Dhabi makes its Falcon 40B AI model open source
Im somebody else replying to this thread. I think the predators will follow whichever troden path is to catch more and more victims in their nets. If the ocean of darknes dries up of victims they’ll adapt to land. AI technologies will, in my opinion, become more entangled with the real world. More devices are listening, seeing, labeling and categorizing and that will only explode in ubiquity. I think there will be no escape from it even in the real world.
If you're a woman, you're consenting to the possibility of becoming pregnant. If you're a man, you're consenting to the possibility that the woman man become pregnant and may choose to keep the baby.
Your comment was rude and baselessly accused me of making stuff up; I'm not in a mood to sit down with you now, pipe in hand, for a chat about the meaning of poverty.
According to https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Targets
the only fully supported targets are x86-64. This does not mean that the entire stdlib will only work on x86-64 but that specific functions that require information about the inner workings of an architecture is only guaranteed to work on x86-84.

If you'd be interested in a hash function like CRC32 you can see in the source code that there is no dependency on arch specific functionality, which makes it likely that it will work fine on other (LE?) architectures. This is on a case-by-case basis at the moment though. The advice from the Zig community is to check the source code in case of doubt. I have always found the source to be accessible, so this hasn't been an issue for me.
Around here the insurance companies created a billing code that is just for annual checkups, with discussion of ongoing care turning it into a different type of visit (that isn't necessarily free).
> Gemini documents certainly are never visually very attractive

As a proponent of the Gemini protocol, I take issue with this line. The Gemtext format is a minimal markup format for text documents. It's a way of semantically indicating "this part is plaintext", "this part is a link", "this part is a header". Unlike HTML/CSS, it does not provide a mechanism for the author to style their documents. Instead, it is up to the client to render the text document, however the client chooses. If most clients render text in an unattractive way, that's not a fault of the format. And I mean, I don't think plaintext is ugly.

Re: URL discussion

The author interprets "URL needs be UTF-8 encoded" as meaning that any escape codes in the URL need to use UTF-8. I interpreted that as meaning that the URL string as a whole should be UTF-8 encoded. In the author's example where there's a "%C5 in the URL", I'd just encode "%", "C", and "5" according to UTF-8. Maybe it goes without saying that the URL-line doesn't use UTF-16; but I think Solderpunk included it to be clear.
I was someone trying to connect a linux pty with the espeak backend.
Yeah, my kids have had what feels like every illness under the sun, and I can count on one hand (maybe one finger?) the number of times we’ve been given antibiotics. They’re in public school, which may have something to do with it, but the rule has always been 24 hours sans fever with no antipyretics and you’re good to return. Sorry to hear that the parent poster has encountered such bizarre rules, that’s pretty lame.
The article doesn’t make sense. It says a tsunami will hit the pacific coast, but neither Portland nor Seattle are very near the pacific coast. It is not very likely a tsunami will be able to clear the Olympic mountain range, and while Portland has no such protection, it is inland enough that it would have it be a huge tsunami not known in modern times.

Now if everything simply breaks up and falls into the ocean, we are screwed. But a far away seismic event isn’t going to affect us.
I would add "What is Islam? - by Shahab Ahmed" and "A Culture of Ambiguity - by Thomas Bauer", althought I don't agree with everything they say.
I second the recommendation for Nongbri's "Before Religion". It definitely improved my understanding of what it is we even mean / have meant by "religion".

For a more evolutionary understanding of religion, I'd recommend Joseph Henrich's "The WEIRDest People in the World" and "The Secret of our Success".

Finally though certainly not least importantly, I'd recommend Iain McGilchrist's "The Master and His Emissary" and "The Matter with Things". Both touch on how it is we see and understand the world and how the current default perspective differs from those of other times and places.
The data in this article seems very inconsistent and not grounded in any kind of reality I see. Most likely because the sources are poor, as are the categorizations.

Ruby should not be the top of anything in 2023.

“Vice President” is a very loaded term. In finance nearly everyone in IT is a VP. In other industries, VPs are very high level powerful individuals.

C-Suite should always be carved out, not mixed in.

All the comp numbers appear too low, and it doesn’t say if this is total comp or just salary.
>Keep your sexual and romantic life to yourself in a programming community.

It's normal for people to mention their romantic partners in casual conversation. Straight people do this all the time. So it's really really hard to interpret this request as anything other than a request for LGBTQ people specifically to hide the fact that they're LGBTQ from their coworkers.

Examples of straight people doing this:

> I have to leave early today to pick up my kids from school.

> I'm taking pat/maternity leave because we're having a baby.

> Can I bring my husband/wife to the team social?
LOLBINs are very much an issue at pretty much every company there is, just because there's a way to detect them doesn't mean they're actually detected, or that an alert is made, or that the alert is triaged correctly, or that EDR is even turned on, etc
I'd like to use Argon2 for web stuff but Web Crypto doesn't support it yet (https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/59) and the WASM flavor creates problems with bundling and testing. Stuck with PBKDF2 for now...
Is now a good time to say what I was censored for on Reddit/Twitter in 2021?

You are statistically more likely to die if you took a Covid vaccine.

https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/the-devils-advocat...

We said the vaxx would cause more heart attacks, blood clots and cancers, and few people listened. Those things happened, deaths skyrocketed starting in mid-2021, and everyone is still in denial.

If you don’t believe me, go to this website, filter by 25-44 and set the time range from Jan 2020-2023.

https://www.usmortality.com/deaths/weekly

The big jump in deaths for young people happened in the middle of 2021… do people think Covid only started killing young people mid-2021? That the virus waited over a year before killing in this age group?

Overall - young people don’t die of Covid. Look at this table: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

About 45k people died of Covid in the age group we’re talking about during entire pandemic. Every week of 2021 thousands of excess deaths occurred in that age group. So Covid deaths come nowhere close to covering young people’s excess deaths. It’s the stupid vaccine - Covid doesn’t even cause myocarditis, see this study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35456309/

All studies funded by CDC that say “Covid causes more myocarditis than vaxx” were damage control. They fabricate data and the science is fraudulent. If you do country by country comparisons by vaccination rate as in the first link it becomes very obvious.
> Are LOLBINs still an issue for most companies?

Depends. The TS/SCI enclave at Raytheon R&D is probably locked down. However, most of the (sub)contracting work is done by small-medium business America and they've never even heard of lolbins.
Are we talking about the same thing?

Stock options - private companies that give you options that aren’t liquid (usually) until an exit event at sone undefined time.

RSUs - a known amount of stock granted in a public company with a known vesting date.

I know people at those companies and they aren’t getting paid nearly as much at the senior level as even a mid level software engineer at one of the larger tech companies.

I have been on both sides and spent most of my time as an enterprise dev.
What about the content of the article? I admit I’m a NYT print reader as well and don’t really look at their online content, so I wasn’t aware. It makes sense in context of my comment that they change the title, but wondering if they run the actual contents through something too.

Worried we’re headed for (arrived at) some dystopia where we’ll need to have AI filter and sort all the AI created crap to be able to consume anything meaningful.
You've fallen into a trap categorising yourself as a "chat app". If you're not connecting 2 different end users to talk to each other then you shouldn't call yourself a chat app.
They do, it just doesn't work very well.
No mention of Unix, MacOSX, or Linux.

Is there an un-equal hardening of such tools or is it more of the popularity of MS Windows in the marketplace?
Nowaday i avoid all technologies which require an additional "tutorial" to explain. It's what the job of a good documentation.
I have already done so. Awaiting a reply.
It’s just an expansion of the “smoking gun” idiom.
Bart D. Ehrman has written a lot of interesting books on Christianity (some of his work might be considered controversial to some practitioners). E.g.,

"Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior"

"Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics"

"Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew"

And, many more. I don't know of a commercial book site where I can just link to a search by author:

https://libgen.rs/search.php?req=Bart+D.+Ehrman&lg_topic=lib...
As someone who has been in mainly or partly-Ruby companies for the past 12 years -
I suspect it’s because it’s different enough in its approach that someone who isn’t very senior will have a long learning period in Rails. Applications that are written in Rails are usually big monoliths and the framework is very easy to get started in, but difficult to be “extremely skilled” with (for example, it’s easy to get started in ActiveRecord, until you realize that it’s killing your performance if you don’t optimize the queries it generates, which forces you to break the abstraction wall pretty thoroughly, resulting in quite complex code). So I think a lot of “Rails” companies really want a Ruby/Rails expert to come in and actually help them sort out some of their complex Rails monolith problems, rather than someone they will have to teach Ruby and Rails.

And I know lots of languages and things have complexity and are hard to master but I feel like Rails experts especially are so uncommon to find that I feel like there are just always open reqs looking for them.
do they actually have any advances worth their intentional maliciousness?
> that the strong technical disagreement was not brought up the many times it could have!

Consensus attained by a shouting match?
ChatGPT cannot play tic-tac-toe
Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.3.5
I deal with inventory systems and there is a difference between your system's key and a 'natural' one--the natural one existed first. The good answer is to support both and use either as appropriate. There are many ways of ID'ing an item, usually a SKU (literally stock keeping unit) is used. The owner of the items can choose to use an existing one (manufacturer, UPC, etc) but more commonly assigns their own so that interchangeable items with different manufacturer codes can share a SKU. Ideally a system should support as many methods of ID'ing as the user deems useful.

If you do use surrogate keys everywhere, avoid exposing a one if a pair of existing ones will do. e.g. rows of an association table, unless of course that association has attributes and is a well-known thing to itself.

Making every user of your systems always use system generated identifiers (where external ones already in use commonly exist) is kind of like a file-system that only uses tmp-generated names and the user has to do external book-keeping to remember which is which.
It’d be nice if we could downvote links as well.
A, yes that's a topic I've been interested in all my life.

## Frans de Waal. The Bonobo and the Atheist
"..evidence for the seeds of ethical behavior in primate societies that further cements the case for the biological origins of human fairness. Interweaving vivid tales from the animal kingdom with thoughtful philosophical analysis, de Waal seeks a bottom-up explanation of morality that emphasizes our connection with animals. In doing so, de Waal explores for the first time the implications of his work for our understanding of modern religion. Whatever the role of religious moral imperatives, he sees it as a "Johnny-come-lately" role that emerged only as an addition to our natural instincts for cooperation and empathy."
https://www.amazon.com/Bonobo-Atheist-Search-Humanism-Primat...

## Aleksi Kuokkanen. Constructing Ethical Patterns in Times of Globalization
https://brill.com/display/title/20218

## Ken Wilber. Up from Eden.
Dated and I find Ken Wilber's views in general to be problematic. Still it's one approach to understand religion.
https://www.amazon.com/Up-Eden-Transpersonal-Human-Evolution...

## Cardinal Walter Kasper. Mercy
"Cardinal Walter Kasper examines God’s mercy while holding these devastating facts and questions in hand. He looks at empathy and compassion as a starting point for theological reflection on the topic. He continues by reflecting upon the following: What does it mean to believe in a merciful God? How are divine mercy and divine justice related? How can we speak of a sympathetic―that is, a compassionate―God? Can undeserved woe and divine mercy be brought into harmony with one another? He likewise seeks to address the ethical questions that similarly arise: How can we measure up to the standard of divine mercy in our own actions? What does the message of mercy mean for the practice of the church and how can we cause the central message of God’s mercy to shine in the life of Christians and the church? What does this message mean for a new culture of mercy in our society? These considerations of mercy lead to the fundamental questions of theology. In this work, Kasper combines theological reflection with spiritual, pastoral, and social considerations on this essential topic at a crucial time."
https://www.amazon.com/Mercy-Essence-Gospel-Christian-Life/d...
"There is no end to its fluent pomposity. There is also no end to its incompetence. It has all the surface appearance of being an expert without any actual expertise."
Worth noting that the easiest way to get a novel traditionally published these days is to have a big audience - for example a large number of email subscribers.

Publishers much prefer an author who has a guaranteed audience, it's lower risk for them.
Why Tears of the Kingdom’s bridge physics have game developers wowed
TLDR: because Nintendo retains & develops talent internally.

> “There is a problem within the games industry where we don’t value institutional knowledge,” Moon said. “Companies will prioritize bringing someone from outside rather than keeping their junior or mid-level developers and training them up. We are shooting ourselves in the foot by not valuing that institutional knowledge. You can really see it in Tears of the Kingdom. It’s an advancement of what made Breath of the Wild special.”

Failure to promote employees internally is a software industry issue, not just a games industry issue. I’m often surprised how the salary incentives in software engineering seem to encourage job hopping at the expense of institutional knowledge.
That's great. Thanks for sharing.
But the fact that he was black is a non-factor here, and shouldn't even be mentioned.
I can learn on-the-job training fast. Is it enough for getting hired?
It actually wouldn't be that hard to make off the shelf security solutions for free. We just need to take away the developer's choice and force them to integrate with some simple functionality.

For example, make a login management framework that is feature-complete and does not require the dev to implement their own "hooks" into its methods. Instead use a config file to tell the framework how to work (expose this HTTP endpoint, use this data backend, etc) and just send it data in the way it expects, and have it respond with booleans. I assume devs might hate this, but it does give the business what it needs without relying on devs to implement it correctly (or have to wait on them to do it).

There are some overcomplicated examples of this already (keycloak) but we could make simpler things too that are secure, and more of them. Particularly I think SQL frameworks, REST API frameworks, HTTP daemons, container image builders, Cloud authentication methods, Git repositories, etc could easily implement stronger guardrails to force development to be secure by default.

The fact that most Cloud software today still tells devs to give it a static infinitely-lived authentication key is absurd. That just should not be possible; take that shit out of the software. We can do way better.
>Make sure to get one which has a user-replaceable "maintenance box", the cheaper ones have a fixed one

That seems really sneaky. Making a sponge replaceable isn't hard or expensive.
What's real disappointing is that this is an IEEE publication.

Everything I've published in IEEE had to go through a lot review but I guess if I had instead put together some bad charts and worded it as blog spam I'd be in their most circulated magazine.
Thanks, that makes more sense. Reading the document as an outsider was confusing :p

For a minute, I was worried there were some crazy nationalistic Chinese dudes living in the woods behind my house.
Yeah lots of really, really low quality malware
>> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

Python is awesome, but I wish Python's package management and deployment story were more Pythonic.
I think the problem is the physics here.

In theory, you could just send higher frequency AC or pulsed DC signal thru the wire (to get to the "one pulse is not all that dangerous" level), and with a bunch of ADCs discover every anomaly VERY quickly. But, now you're pouring high frequency signal into huge antenna, which means you probably need to change cabling to be twisted pair and recabling house is HUGE issue. And you have higher losses which means you'd realistically have to have power converter in every house for it as you couldn't transfer power at long ranges if it ran on several kHz

> Imagine if sources could verify the link before sending each energy packet: no more electrocutions, electrical fires or damaged equipment. Imagine if in a domestic situation each energy packet was below the threshold that could damage a person? Electrical installations could become inherently safe, also meaning no need for specialist installers.

If we assume sending device and receiving device both communicate how big energy packet would be and fail safe if it isn't, then sure, any interruption would be detected quickly, but it does nothing for cases where end device after the "power interface" has problems.

Also at least in US there is like 400 electrocution deaths per year, with only 20% from actual wiring [1], so it is a fight entirely not worth fighting, for residential at least.

Where I think it could be interesting is in high reliability equipment, where for example you might have power supply shared between a bunch of subsystems and you don't want failure of one component to cause brownout of whole thing. Sure, fuses do that but they are not exactly very elastic and don't send the signal about nature of the failure upstream.

A "power bus", where on top of delivering power subsystems can signal failure condition, or get signals (like "switch into power save mode, battery is low") might be interesting but if USB-PD is any indication it is FAR easier to make it into overengineered mess..

- [1] https://www.nickleelectrical.com/electrical-safety-statistic...
I like this book but I don't think it's a good fit for what the OP is looking for. James is interested in the religious experiences that individuals have, and writes from a Protestant Christian point of view. It doesn't have much to say about the history or evolution of religion as a general global phenomenon.
It’s both. Pharmaceuticals companies are not an innocent bystander. Everyone is happy to get this big piece of the pie, including drug companies.
The media hates him, and I can understand how that can be hard to separate out from one's view of reality; but, I think whether Elon has success despite actually being terrible as some might think, or is actually really good at what he does, he's been very successful on the whole if you can be the slightest bit objective. So, given that, you would have to claim to know, really know, that it's all despite him to say he's ineffective, which is a pretty silly thing to propose unqualified.
It entirely depends on the job, and moreover the market. Those skills would have probably landed you a number of Junior/Intern interviews in 2018, but it will be a while before the market looks like that again.
Here's a month-old YT video [11m] on this issue. Top comment is from an engineer on the project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hKXOfQ6JmE

> I am an engineer, I live in Venice and I do work on this project. The gates might have a lot of drawbacks, but at least they are not visible. The lagoon of Venice is practically a natural reserve, especially in the vicinity of the sea inlets: the gate project in the Rotterdam style was rejected exactly for this reason (and the inlet in Lido is almost 2 km wide, compared to the 0,4 km of the dutch project). The gates themselves are huge, they can easily withstand a tide of +3 m and need very little modification to go above this threshold. The main concerns lie with the environmental impact of their activation: firstly because they consume a lot of energy, secondly because they impact on the vital interaction of the lagoon with the Adriatic: in the worst case scenario, it is expected that by the end of the century, flooding above the 110 cm threshold will occur for 180 days per year, thus this problem needs to be carefully handled. For the concerns about the navigation and trade, an offshore port (with an underwater train connection) is being studied, an idea which could also remove all the container and cruise ships which are still allowed to enter the very shallow water of the lagoon.
I am not sure what are you trying to say. Your link says people in need are getting energy subsidies and direct payments. Do you believe that the number of people skipping meals will be lower without the safety net?
Live Action Role Play.

Basically taking the transformation that made sports into sports computer games and running it in reverse on computer RPGs so you get people in costume in the park throwing colored balls at each other to "cast spells".

Not really my thing, but a great way to get more fresh air and exercise if you're into RPGs.
wrong. What i meant is that they are both influenced by political considerations.