skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds about in the ballpark I would expect, though!
This is an excellent essay that says better than I could why AI is not, and will never be, "conscious" in the way that a human is conscious.
The same can be said of BMWs, Philip Patek, Louis Vuitton, and dozens of other luxury brands. People like buying status signals, but it doesn’t signal how “non-advanced” we are. It’s how society has always worked and will always work.
Has John Oliver done an episode about diamonds?
This is a ridiculous argument. There are 143 million housing units in the US and 600k homeless. That means that a vacancy rate of 0.4%, or 1.5 days per year is enough to make that true. Vacancy just due to people moving will greatly exceed that number.
Having led API teams at a big tech where we handled similar (slightly lower) request numbers at the edge, I can tell you that the entire stack was engineered to be defensive and handle a certain amount of load. As other commenters have said, fan-out means that 80k qps at the edge means you're getting probably 10-100x that on some of the most heavily hit backend systems. A lot of the work we did was very aggressive caching and sharding. Autoscaling to handle load spikes.

Observability was our secret sauce. We would monitor everything. Our caches, NICs, our load balancers, etc. Cache hotspotting and DB problems were the problems that kept us up at night, though my teams didn't deal with much stateful data.
The real lesson is to join a company poised for rapid growth (bonus points if it turns into a mainstream name like Facebook) and getting lucky as they expand. Try that at a mature company and you'll get nowhere. Do it at the small companies that never blow up and you'll get nowhere. Even if you're in the right company at the right time, there's a good chance someone else will be given the opportunity over you.
There's a lot to be said about this— I want to bring up the conversation around exports. I'm no expert, but I was having a look at these.

The primary export of the UK are services, making almost half (~48%) of their total [1]. I can't help but compare this with France at ~34% [2], and Germany at ~19% [3].

As the rest of the world rises, how defensible is this sector for the UK? Germany exports a lot of industrial machinery, pharmaceutical products and vehicles, which means factories, a complex supply chain, brand recognition, patents, etc. Overall, things that are hard to move or replicate abroad.

- 28% of the UKs exports are Information Communications Technology. It has IMO a weirdly broad definition (including "marketing, manufacturing, assembling, servicing, installing, maintaining and/or repairing systems, software, equipment, machines, devices and apparatus" [4]), but it sounds to me like it's in large part knowledge-based, digital work.

What prevents an industry that doesn't involve machinery, factories, and supply chains from moving to India, for example? Net (exports minus imports), the UK accounted for 24.3% of ICT worldwide in 2003, and India for 3.3%. Now India is 16.3% net and the UK 13% [6].

- 13% of the UKs exports are Insurance and Finance. In 2003 the UK, net, was %40.7 worldwide. now it's 28%, mostly to the gain of the USA [7].

The UK has been running a trade deficit of about ~1.5% of GDP every year since 1998 [5][8], without the USA's capacity to print USD. I'm no expert. I just wonder if the UK is betting too much of its economy on industries where it'll have a hard time remaining as competitive as it currently is.

[1]: https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=81&queryLevel=...

[2]: https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=77&queryLevel=...

[3]: https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=61&queryLevel=...

[4]: https://www.michalsons.com/blog/what-is-ict/2525#:~:text=%E2...

[5]: https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/stack?country=undefine...

[5]: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/tra...

[6]: https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/stack?country=undefine...

[7]: https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/stack?country=undefine...

[8]: Interestingly, France seems to also have a long-standing trade deficit (since ~2006). Germany has had a surplus since ~1993.
I worked for QVC a million years ago and the Diamonique they sold at the time was super clear and bright compared to authentic diamond.
Regarding Hetzner Storage Box's 10 connection limit, Hetzner also has Storage Share (Nextcloud hosting) at basically the same price point (~3 EUR/TB at the 10TB+ size), only it comes with 200 connections. Rclone supports WebDAV for Nextcloud just as well.
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You advance in either lifestyle or risk (maybe both). Managers are better equipped to optimize and climb established business structures. ICs are better equipped to create new products or at least jump into a nimble team. Maybe you should take more risk on special projects in your organization, spearhead new technology shifts, or join a startup (giving substantial due diligence to understand the feasibility of a startup business plan from a technical perspective).
I can't help but notice you didn't give any actual examples of what you've said happens. All of those government programs still exist. Where's the example of the shut down public service?

Helium party balloons exist because the government is pricing helium below market value which both causes wasted helium and prevents private competition. Notice how USPS, which is required to operate as a business would (paying its own bills, which it does) has competition in the market?

There's definitely a role for the government in a lot of sectors but I can't for the life of me imagine why helium should be owned and operated as a government service.
Bad argument because you can say the same exact thing about neurons in the brain.
What would that change?
DOM interaction can and is abstracted away by frameworks anyways and not performance critical
Is there a planned feature for it to be incorporated into UserLAnd? Possibly through an In-App Purchase? It would be neat to be able to manage this along side other UserLAnd instances

Edit: Nevermind it is there. Super Awesome
I thought they already had a perpetual licence to the instruction set and that was all they used because they design their own cores?
I also wonder how good the advice is coming from atypical experience when the majority of people will never be in those situations.
Like a lot of people, I exclusively go to urgent care for routine stuff, and for the first line of care for anything more serious, and I have never once had the experience of being bounced to an ER. They share records with my PCP but can see me at the drop of a hat on no notice.

People overuse doctors. Most of what younger people (under, say, 50) go to the doctor for, a good NP can do just as well or better. One of my weird hobbyhorses is how dumb the name "nurse practitioner" is; they should just call them "associate physicians".

(Note here that we're talking about "urgent care", which are clinics run by health chains, staffed with a doctor or two, a couple NPs, and a bunch of nurses; "urgent care" is not the ER, which is a thing people gotten hung up on HN about before, because I guess every country calls their ER something different. Going to the ER for routine care is insane.)
Assuming you work 9-5 in an office, would you be happy getting a commuter pass or an alarm clock as a gift? I imagine some work-obsessed people would, but most would prefer something more personal.
Certainly. But don't forget to squeeze out the wine that the fruit fly has drunk first.
Thanks for the additional context. A few final thoughts:

- even if you stay in cybersecurity forever, I'd guess that increasing your software engineering capability is worth some amount of effort

- the knowledge can help you in the job, and in an interview, but in most cases it's your CV that gets you the interview; someone reading your CV will likely look at your past accomplishments, so it would be good if those learning opportunities also allow you to have some impact
There are far more med school applicants than spots every year. They can't expand because of residency constraints, sure all that stuff would lead to more people wanting to become doctors, but the people who want to be doctors now largely can't. That problem would only be worse with less education.
>Every human is good at something.

I dunno man, some would accuse you of invalidating their suffering by offering such a statement.
This is intentional, to keep salaries high. Only in USA do you have to get a random degree before you can go to a medical school. The only purpose served here is to reduce the number of doctors.
Agreed on many counts but they did collude (with Apple, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm allegedly due to bullying from Apple) to suppress poaching workers from each other. I'd say Facebook played a huge role in refusing to collude (as can be seen from this exchange between Sheryl Sandberg and Jonathan Rosenberg [1]) and thus driving up worker wages due to competition.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/sheryl-sandberg-facebook-r...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34227388 - Steve jobs email asking Google to stop poaching from apple and them agreeing
I feel like you have a choose your own adventure at these companies:

* climb the ladder - try to be 'in the room' with L+1&2. Get assigned high visibility work, define and deliver some intermediate milestone, declare success, groom perception, etc.

* get hired at a competitor at L+1.

* start a side hustle/lifestyle/real estate business. Subscribe to the FIRE subreddit/podcasts.

* have kids, develop increasingly esoteric personal hobbies, get into fitness/longevity.
Netscape and SGI are two good examples that were making people into millionaires in the 1990's. Not to mention all the "Microsoft millionaires" (stock options, baby)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/secretaries-get-rich-in-the-in...
The fossil fuel industry can exist fine without subsidies. Where else can people get cheaper fuel?
I don't see why a small shop can't do this. The testing should be supported by the government. You don't need to be a food scientist to get FDA approval to sell a cookie.
Nope. This is about a story that someone posted a week ago that got 99 points, based on sweet FA:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37322152

You can see my comment there where I actually looked into the evidence for these fees increases, and they are non-existent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37326780
Pretty sure letting population enter freefall will start a race to the bottom that will destroy any country.

Countries with fertility rates of 1.5 shouldn't be throwing stones at immigration.
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> regulations put us on the path of trusting religious-like in government

We trust in government to set rules and punish rulebreakers. When that is not true, do we enact punishment ourselves? Results would be not pretty.
In certain cases probably yes, but maybe still worth it? If you have the keys you still need to get your maliciously manipulated build on the customer's device... And this is assuming the manufacturer even bothered signing and verifying in the first place.

So this would be bad for manufacturers releasing secure well designed devices without security vulnerabilities.... But if you think about it for a second, isn't this good? As long as there is no known vulnerability, the manufacturer can say the device is still supported, and it costs them nothing, as they have no reason to release an update. And well, if there is a security issue, then it might be better to have the source and keys after all?
"This crystal isn't impure - it's just full of pockets of an alien substance"?
When you have a market as distorted as medicine in the US, it's not just that crazy things happen, but also that normal, functioning versions of the thing are crowded out by the inescapable pull of the distortion.
But X would need to prove that the ADL made defamatory statements - presumably in private to said advertisers, because Elon's contention is that he's "heard from advertisers" about it. Then X would need to prove that those statements were false, and then prove that they financially harmed X. I'm dubious that X wants to, or can, do that. If Musk wants to go on a crusade to test whether the ADL makes up lies about antisemitism out of left-wing partisan hate for him personally (and if he really believes that), then fine, try to hold the ADL accountable. Why not? But the reason I quoted Sartre in that post is that I believe there is no sincerity to this. Selecting a Jewish organization as the source of his financial woes is simply a dog whistle to his increasingly radical rightwing fan base.
Rubies and sapphires are just different flavors of impure corundum.
Probing the Connection Between Entangled Particles and Wormholes
If you're in America, you're fucked. One mistake and your marked for life. Be that legal issues, work history, etc. We'll hold that shit against you until you die.

Edit: why disagree?
I’d like to get a few more rounds of counter strike in if I can
Can't seem to upload a .txt file resume, it looks like only .docx and .pdf are accepted. Any reason why? .txt is the most universal file format.
> This write-up from The Atlantic from 1982 explains the situation well.

It explains the situation 40+ years ago, but is completely irrelevant today.
> We have this immutable education track, seemingly because that’s the way we’ve always done it in the US.

It's not: it's only been that way since the nineteenth century. There used to be a Bachelor of Medicine degree that represented six years or so of study and was sufficient to practice medicine.
I wonder how prohibitively expensive it would be to grow a ring made entirely out of diamond.
I don't think the MIT guys have the same motivations as the author of this book. He (Walck) discusses the suitability of (a subset of) Haskell in this article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880

Maybe someone else can shed light on the MIT mindset. Certainly some of Walck's points apply to Scheme as much as to Haskell, but Scheme lacks the type system, syntax and syntactical "convenience" of curried functions. The basic strength of functional programming is the lack of complex imperative book-keeping: your code looks more like math.

My impression is that SICP and SICM are eccentric.
Wasn’t it “You wouldn’t download a car”?

Which ended up being quite funny, because I very much would download a car
"Hey everyone, I know the world is doing just fine, but I have this new idea. We'll burn giga-joules of energy every year shipping stuff all over the place, but not to worry, because the joules-per-can-of-peaches is hardly anything".

OK, then.
I'm sure the executives, admins, and board members of your Children's chain are paid quite well!

Administrative bloat is killing these places
Sadly it doesn't fit our criteria, but this does explain the £33k package.

A lot of the kind of skills you've mentioned have become very commodified, and being based in North England is limiting your career as most buyers are located within Greater London.

I'd recommend

1. Moving to Greater London - most of the companies that have the budget are located there

2. Skill towards cloud and containers skills (eg. CKA for Kubernetes, AWS Solution Architect, Azure Solution Architect). Most large companies have active 3-5 year roadmaps to move core apps to the cloud, especially within Europe. It will also help you move laterally into DevOps/SRE of Platform SWE roles.

3. Implementation roles don't pay well in Europe. It's better to work as a Sales Engineer or a Professional Services Consultant for a (usually) American or Israeli vendor (eg. Splunk, AWS, IBM, Checkpoint, etc). This will require some experience but if you have 2+ YoE and are willing to move to Southern England, you can break £55k+ for sure
Because I want to see my kids become full adults? I want to meet my grandkids?

There's still a lot of things I want to see and do.
There are dramatically more software developers today in the US than 25 years ago. 1.6 million with a median salary (before benefits) of $109,000. So the field got a lot larger in terms of labor (2-3 fold depending on how you want to count it), while simultaneously paying so well - a particularly remarkable thing. Those jobs tend to come with good benefits as well, including nice health insurance (which is obviously extremely expensive in the US).

Granted, this is peak software developer and we're just starting on a downslope for the profession (both in the US and globally).
When a website erases your text you can use this trick to recover it
Did someone mean to post this about ten years and accidentally set the publish date too far out?
In a society that believes in free speech, is it not our free speech right to ignore someone? Free speech does not mean you have to be listened to, or that someone has to host your content
> - PCB pros avoid right angles for the same reason. Bevel your corners. (You see examples of this on every board if you’re not sure what I mean)

If your design suffers from the consequences of this, your reach has probably exceeded your grasp. Its true that you can get noise from sharp corners, but unless you're running SPI at maximum speed, it probably won't cause any bugs in your project. And if you need to run that fast, you're going to run into other, less straightforward signal integrity problems too.

PCBs with right angle trances look ugly though. So I might still judge you for it, but only if you also wear white before Memorial Day.
A flop is something footballers do. flops are what CPUs do.
Well I suspect it is now the most famous pedestrian bridge in all of Minnesota, so it would be a shame if it didn't!
Forbes says it's #6 on a list, behind loggers, roofers, fishing and more

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/workers-comp/most-dange...
You sound depressed, everything OK?
Nope. Nobody is "programming" neurons. And anyway, nobody so far has explained how neurons firing leads to consciousness.
Would you like another mentee?
This sounds good and funny at first but how is this different from this scenario: A software engineer pays a dentist for servicing his teeth and he turns around to pay the software engineer to build an appointment system for him? Clearly lots of value was created so unless this is to illustrate that GDP calculations can't filter out bogus transactions (bogus according to whom), I can't really make sense of it...
This is the case for many "cracked" DOS games. You can find archives that say "we checked all the games to make sure they're really cracked", but I obtained a copy of Spaceward Ho! from such an archive, and the developers had pre-defeated this assurance measure by not invoking the copy protection until several turns into the game.
If you're maxed out on pay, maybe retire early and do something you enjoy?

I'm stuck as a mid-level making below median dev salary at a not great comapny and I will never be anything more. Eventually you come to terms with it... mostly at least
While I suspect I would learn more writing a tokenizer and parsing logic myself I find grammars much easier to read and maintain.

ANTLR is pretty good and is supported across several languages and something I had previously used for some quick Elasticsearch query syntax munging in Python. It also means you can often start from an already existing grammar.

The JS version of ANTLR didn't seem to work for me so for the SQL/JSONPath stuff ended up using the Moo lever and Nearly parser which was rather pleasant. https://nearley.js.org
Actually the issue is not residency; basically everyone who graduates med school gets a residency.

The filter is on entering med school.
A JSON Validator in C
Makes sense. Primary care would be better like dentists.

The monopolies formed for these health networks are bad for everyone. The staff are miserable, patients don’t heal, and half the time the companies are losing money. My primary care was bought by a hospital network, which was bought by some multi-state network that is under financial stress yet just boight another regional network to ruin.
Suppose you buy a car from manufacturer A. You lose both keys (perhaps you and your partner each bring one on a canoe trip and capsize) so you have no choice but to ask the dealer to assign new ones. You find that Google now owns the entire brand A including its dealer network, and they only offer rekeying service in conjunction with an update that installs what you consider spyware. Do you opt out of the motor vehicle industry?
What is? The certificate? Because otherwise you wouldn't know. For the same value of 'how much it cost', a lab-grown diamond (we're not talking about other non-diamond synthetics) will look better (clearer, fewer flaws) and/or be bigger. If you want to show it off on your finger, you want lab-grown.
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I think open source firmware would be healthy for device manufacturers in the long term. Companies who build toasters should be competing on who can build the most reliable, energy efficient, long lasting, and aesthetically pleasing toaster possible, not on how much data they can harvest and sell. They're also not likely to recruit elite software engineers to write firmware, so the open source alternative will usually be of vastly superior quality.
I've been "bounced to the ER" once, but that's because the x-rays showed pneumonia, and my vitals were... not in a great spot.

Even then it was phrased as more "If it were me, and I had similar comorbidities, I'd get that looked at ASAP"

Ended up hospitalized for 4 days.
I think it’s a pretty major advantage.

For developers, it means that you’re not writing a completely new app for the platform. You can progressively add features for the new platform to your existing app, and most of what you learn applies to other Apple platforms.

For customers, it means you aren’t taking off the device to use an app that’s not been ported.
Well, obviously the people who wrote it. They don't own the game, which they didn't make, but they own rights to the cracking code, which they did make.
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