skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cut the woe is me bullshit. It's totally fine to be focused on your salary or think that things could be better, but to acting like you're barely scraping by on a 100k a year is so fucking tone deaf it's borderline offensive. Maybe it's just because all my closest friends work non-tech jobs and I see their struggles compared to mine, but it really irks me when tech workers act slighted about their salaries.

Responding to your points, first, inflation calculators exist. 100k today is a little over 75k 10 years ago. Coincidentally, that's exactly how much I was making in 2014 living in a HCOL city, so I'm well aware exactly how far that goes. I definitely had money to save up for a house, but it still would have taken years of budgeting for me to get a down payment together for a starter home. Similar to 100k now, it was more than I needed to live a decent day to day life, but I still needed to plan for longer term financial goals.

Second, the average US salary is something like 55k. Even today a 100k salary would put your salary in the top 25% for US workers. I know plenty of junior developers with 1-2 years of experience making a good bit more than that. Even the low end of developer salaries puts you well above what most people in the US make. Obviously where you live matters, but in pretty much every region most non-tech employees will make less than your average developer at the same level of experience.

Tech (in the US) pays very well and I don't any other industry pays better compared to the amount of work needed to get your foot in the door. We've had it very, very good for a long time and even if things cool off a little bit, we're still going to have it far better than most. All this makes me think of is "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"
Love those ideas. 2 years ago I've build sth similar(not targeted for sleeping though) -> https://tv.istasyon.app/ It was going to be a curated version of the YouTube where people watch the same high quality content (from youtube) together like a TV. A free online TV where no subscription is required.
Your views are intriguing and I wish to subscribe your news letter.

But seriously, I've been thinking about an append-only files + memory indexed DB for the past couple of weeks - any prior art or links or papers or anything, lay it on me.
Blog-post quality long form Twitter content
Bandcamp is (was?) to music as Flickr is to photography. It's a portfolio site, that doubles as a means to buy things from that portfolio. It's the thing an artist's social media pages link to to say "here's my body of work for you to browse through." Where browsing through that portfolio — listening to 30-second previews of songs, etc — doesn't require signing up for any service, but is just a regular part of the public web.
When I was starting out learning to program I found ESR's how to ask questions[0] guide invaluable.

Half of the time just thinking about trying to ask a good question will usually lead you to a solution, or if nothing else if you're not finding an answer through searching you're probably just asking the wrong questions because the odds you're solving some novel, undocumented problem is pretty much 0.

So usually it's more of thinking one knows what they need to do, just to learn that they didn't actually know what they needed to do at all once unknown unknowns are unearthed. That's where something like Discord shines because it provides an avenue where extremely patient people will do some prodding of a newbie to help figure out what it is they're actually trying to do so they can be pushed in the right direction. But that's also a double-edged sword because searching Discord is extremely difficult and has a high barrier to entry so you're often going to be faced with the same questions being asked over and over.

[0] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
The 1995 'original' is very good. The atmosphere of some scenes with nothing but landscape views and music are really striking in a hypnotic way. The overall quality of the drawings is incredible and the storyline is both interesting and getting more relevant.
That is such a cynical take.

For me, the value of the verified checkmark was that it verified people and organizations were who they said they were.

This was a big part of what made Twitter such a unique and fascinating place. You could learn a huge amount about the world from tweets that were attached to verified identities.

Plus it was really fun. This tweet by Monica Lewinsky really wouldn't have landed without that verified mark! https://twitter.com/MonicaLewinsky/status/115034806144255180...

Unfortunately, Musk apparently had the same cynical opinion of this that you have, and threw the entire thing away. No wonder Twitter has less cultural impact today than it did a year ago.
Just to be clear, we want costs to be passed on because the real solution to climate change is an adjustment to our consumption habits.
For C, I tell my compiler to make it trap. Then it is also safe.
I don't know of one, but you seemed to doubt not that it's actively being done, but that it's even possible, which is a very different proposition.

Remember C++ actually implements checks at compile time for the modern std::format function. That is, if you mess up the text of a format string so that it's invalid, C++ gives you a compile time error saying nope, that's not a valid format.

You might think that's just compiler magic, as it is for say printf-style formats in C, but nope, works for custom formats too, it's (extremely hairy) compile time executed C++.
Yeah this can be possible with public schools. Which I already pay for. Why give more handouts to women because they're entitled to it?

What do men not take care of kids? Don't we already give benefits to people who are married?
I don't understand why the moderators allow you to keep posting questions that are clearly bait multiple times a day.
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If I'm truly interested in an ad I probably already knew about the product category and would look up the information I need without an ad. If I didn't know about a "need" the ad has effectively induced a demand in me, which means that it probably did one of (a) emotionally manipulating me (by inducing subconscious fear, or FOMO).

If anyone in my personal life did that in order to achieve a self-serving goal I'd call them emotionally abusive. But suddenly I need to accept it because someone paid for it? What?!
1. It’s pretty much only in the US that there are union workers and non union workers in the same field. If you haven’t already guessed, this is entirely a ploy by corporations, and the US govt to weaken unions by creating differences where none exist.

2. Unions rarely, if ever, negotiate rights only for their own workers. The massive union protests prior to COVID asking for minimum wage increases didn’t ask for minimum wage increases only for union workers. They asked for federal and in some cases statewide increases in minimum wage which would affect all workers.

3. A lot of the research shows that higher union salaries also translate into higher non-union salaries, so union efforts also very directly help non union workers.
Protectionism means you're protecting inefficient industries. In a global marketplace, this means industries in other countries will out-compete yours.
HashiCorp and its CEO are too focused on their competitors while they really should be focusing on their customers
There are a lot of reasons we arrived here over the decades of struggling to keep servers in good working order in a sea of change. One is that backup and restore is inherently fragile, and we have many instances where restorability degrades for many reasons over a long life. Backup restore verification is not a regular part of hygiene because it’s intrusive, tedious, and slow. If ever done it’s usually done once. Reproducible builds allows for automated verification and testing offline.

Changes done are only captured at snapshot intervals and are no coherent and atomic, so you can easily miss changes that are crucial but capture destructive changes in between deltas. Worse are flaws that are introduced but not observed for a long time and are now hopelessly intermixed with other changes. Reproducible build systems allow you to use a revision control system to manage change and cherry pick changesets to resolve intermixed flaws, and even if they’re deeply intermixed you can resolve in an offline server until it’s healthy to rebuild your online server.

The issue with reproducible build systems isn’t they aren’t superior to backup and restore in every way. It’s the interfaces we provide today are overly complex compared to the simple interface of “backup and restore,” which despite its promised interface always works in the backup part but often fails in the restore. These ideas of hermetic server builds are relatively new and the tooling hasn’t matured.

I would say actually click ops is an ideal way to solve that issue. Click ops that serializes resiliently to a metadata store that drives the build and is revision controlled solves that usability issue. If the metadata store is text configs and can be modified directly without breaking the user interfaces would be necessary to deal with the tedium for complex changes in a UI, while providing a nice rendering of state for simple exploratory changes. Backup and restore would be only necessary for stateful changes, but since the stateful changes aren’t at the OS layer, you won’t end up with a bricked server.
It can change your mood, which effects how you respond to the other parts of your life.
The first step to industrializing is assembling something. Right now it’s an aircraft, but with more money skills and capital, soon maybe it’s worth it to make a screw factory in the same city. Then maybe a steel smelter. And so on.
This works pretty well! You should sell image credits for faster processing.
I submitted this, and opted to elide that part of the title, both due to wordiness and also because it doesn't change the headline: the "evolution of model" that McJannet is advocating is not in fact open source. He is, therefore, predicting an "OSS-free Silicon Valley" -- one way or the other. (I also think he's entirely wrong.)
Not sure. There’s extensions that force YouTube to serve h.264 so it seems like something similar should be possible with Meet.
Yes this is the weird part. I have a very hard time thinking of an organization that would need ultimate features for even 30% of its staff. It's usually super niche features, or features that don't necessarily make sense on an individual seat level but that you have to pay for for every user. It makes the value proposition very hard to see, because sure generating security reporting and auditing are nice but why would we want to have that for every user? The only way to actually manage cost would be to have separate instances for teams which is a nightmare for selfhosting. Especially with the weekly update schedule lol

To me, a flat instance tier pricing + per seat cost would make so much more sense.
The older I get the less enthusiastic I get about government regulations with a few exceptions.
First, ones that balance the cost of negative externalities, clearly not being accounted for in the behavior of market participants.

Second, ones that increase the information about a market (transparency) so that all participants can make better decisions.

To that second end I would really love to see governments force companies to report headcount on a per role basis and anonymized compensation data about each of these roles on a monthly basis.

That way would could more easily contextualize posts like this one.
There are not so many options you couldn't just check yourself... But to answer your question - Poland and Czech Republic.
Crypto Hippies: Thoughts on Reading "Going Infinite"
No, if you modify GPL code at Google you would upstream the changes.

Not sure why you're so concerned by this use case, it doesn't seem particularly important.
I rarely ever need to use SO on a daily basis. I've been programming on the .NET ecosystem for a while now and usually if I need anything I just directly go to the docs.

I used SO a lot when I was a junior engineer. Most of my issues now stem from biz logic or internal design that really can't be googled for.
The search works great. I'm using MkDocs with Material as my personal handbook because of the simplicity -- for example, I usually remember great articles in conversations but always forget their location. Since I started writing my newsletter https://opsindev.news/ including an MkDocs web archive, I can share interesting URLs way faster :) Or let folks discover it by themselves, using the search.

Configuration in https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/opsindev.news/-/blob/main/mkdocs...

Material for MkDocs also has an insiders build, accessible through sponsorship. https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/insiders/ These features add more value to MkDocs -- I initially joined to get GDPR-compliant cookie banners and stayed to support a great project.
While I appreciate the sentiment behind this new account, it’s also feeding a troll. Anyone equating SF to Soviet Russia is not looking for reasoned argument.
- Okay -- what would that imply?

- I dunno
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RTO is pushed for a simple reason: WFH means working like a contractor, so if you find another offer just a bit better you get it, since there is no need to relocate, change office culture habits etc. Beside that remote workers would like owning a home, not leaving in small places consuming services, witch is against the "agenda 2030, you'll own nothing".

However RTO will fall, because people never want to change, but they was forced to change on time and they discover that's a good change, you will not pull them back even offering shorter workweeks and side benefits. You'll just push back low skilled labor and with them no company can go much further.
intel: gamers don't want tens of e cores

10900k was the highlight
Accrued PTO gets paid out when you leave, though. It's basically guaranteed severance if you're not using it.

Just be wary of hitting a cap because then new PTO gets straight up _deleted_ with no recourse (had this happen to a report of mine).
Another day, another issue where Conservatism loves to make noise, but when it comes time to actually do anything, they are suddenly no longer interested.
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Death by homicide seems much worse the further back you go, on balance.
GPL should apply to anyone legally being given a copy, as the giver may be required to sublicence it under the GPL in order to be permitted to distribute that copy.

If you simply 'find' a copy, GPL doesn't necessarily apply. And employees in most circumstances are not legally 'given a copy' - just as if the employer hands them a wrench to work with, that doesn't become the employee's wrench, and that applies to all kinds of copyright issues, any prohibitions to sublicensing don't prevent the product being used by employees because it's never licensed to them, etc.
if I had acquired Bandcamp, in efforts for streamlining, I probably would have laid the editors off too

that's not what happened. they're not streaminlining for the sake of streamlining.

SongTradr is in the business of B2B sync licensing. Bandcamp's in the business of selling music to fans.

SongTradr's probably throwing out the articles not because they didn't move sales to fans, but because SongTradr doesn't care about selling music to fans.

they're probably more interested in converting Bandcamp creators to a sync licensing business model.

I've never read a single bandcamp article. Did anyone actually read them, especially enough to justify their cost?

yes. your experience is your experience. it is not universal. Bandcamp was making money with those articles, both for itself and its creators, for many many years.
>Highlighting the new role on a LinkedIn post, Microsoft's senior director of Datacenter Research Sean James revealed the company is creating a dedicated automation team. "Where are my automation people?"

Maybe more companies should invest in training people instead of hoping someone else does it and poaching them later.
It's a pity it's now hard to find an instance which allows downloads, it was nice to be able to grab things on mobile.
Been there and there is no easy answer. Personally, I’ve tried switching jobs, doing new hobbies on a side but it was not enough. I’ve burned out much deeper than 1-month vacation or a new job, doing essentially the same, could fix. In the end, my whole life needed changing. Now I’ve cut my costs a lot, work a lot more on my own projects, take on freelance work, and spend A LOT of time doing other shit that I want to do. It feels crazily unproductive at times and I’m missing out on a lot of money and career improvements. But I feel fucking alive.

I think to get out of the rut, you actually need to do significant changes that feel scary but those are the only ones that will shake you and get you out of the rut. It’s actually really simple but also not easy. In a sense, we crave for that rut and familiarity of what the next day brings but that’s also what kills us. Need to shake up things periodically, try to discover other parts of yourself you didn’t know or forgot about. That will do the job.
prior to this, bandcamp was owned by Epic and lord only knows why they bought them or what their bigger plan was. i also have no idea how much they staffed up under epic rule since they went from a small business to being owned by the fortnite money man. Entirely possible it's something like:

1. bandcamp is a sustainable normal small-to-medium business growing healthily

2. Epic has tons of fortnitebux and is feuding with apple so they buy bandcamp as some kind of tangential play should they end up as a big alternative store on iOS. so they could have a music store offering (to compare to itunes? not that apple gives a crap about itunes anymore??) in addition to an app store?

3. the money music stops and everyone races for a seat. bandcamp is left hanging.

4. epic sells bandcamp to whoever just to get it off the books so they can focus on fortnite lootboxes

5. songtradr or whatever their name is tells the union to pound sand and cuts bandcamp down to a core team because they're planning to just gut the product and transition all these indie artists over to whatever platform they were running before. This is a music IP company. I don't think they want to handle B2C purchases or provide streaming music. They just wanted to buy a big pot of artists and IP to add to their collection.
I'd not heard of Chieng-Shiung Wu, so I have reading to do. Fwiw, it's _Lise_ Meitner.
> But the divisiveness they employ makes them a political distraction. We need workers’ rights in law for everyone. Not just those who are in a union.

And how do you propose we align around such things? It seems like you’d need to organize your labor pool and possibly position yourself to bargain collectively, perhaps?
> LeBron James is also underpaid, at least his NBA salary.

By what logic?
A few mil won't get you those things, but they'll guarantee your basic necessities. For example, my dad is working into his 70s. If I could fund his retirement I would.

And here's the kicker: you can always go build something bigger than yourself after selling. Having fuck you money means you can make the ethical choice next time.

Edit: on your comment about founders regretting their first sale. I'm guessing most founders are also well off, and don't worry as much financially. But even then, regret doesn't mean they made the wrong choice. I regret exercising my Shopify stock while I worked there, but it was still the best decision for me at the time.
Talking about UBI is like talking about a space elevator. The hypotheticals might be entertaining, but it's not something we're likely to see in our lifetimes.

UBI should lift everyone about the poverty level so no one would "grow up poor", except as a relative measurement. You can still get a job so your standard of living is higher. No one is forced to stay poor.

Children might not like growing up with parents who refuse to work, but I suspect that they will appreciate the financial security. It's the fundamental promise of a society.
Should California impose massive tax hits to businesses that move jobs to other states?
This really feels like a prompt for one of those “write your own punchline” exercises.
What are your thoughts about going into management? Even if your first response is to recoil, consider if the change of pace may help shift your perspective on your career. In my experience some the best managers are engineers who don't want to be managers, and you can always go back if it's not for you.
I think modular behavior at run-time is actively dangerous. It is not memory-unsafe, but still unsafe. Having it trap would better. For C, you can tell the compiler to trap for signed overflow.
From what I see, it's exactly the opposite. It's more like we hired all these people because we're growing so fast, so please give us money
Thanks for sharing the option-WiFi tip! Looks like the Bluetooth menu bar item does it, too!
I think what a lot of people are missing is to do the backwards induction from where companies predict how things will go back to the present where they develop open source software and release it.

Previously, the belief was that you'd open source the software and then sell support since you knew the code the best (even though it's open source, the knowledge in the brains of the developers working on the code was not open, and you could extract value by leveraging that knowledge). That's the RedHat model and... well it's pretty dead. No startups today are predicting that will be the profitability scenario for their company since the paragon of the model, RedHat, had to sell themselves to IBM.

The next profitability model was open core, where you open source the main thing and sell integrated services and closed source enterprise features, etc. This model was more promising but it is squashed by companies like Amazon, or even other startups who can wait to see which open source products win, and then compete on those services etc. The main difficulty here is that open core isn't "commoditizing your complement" it's commoditizing your main thing and then being left with nice-to-haves as your business.

So a startup today has to look at this future and decide "open or closed source?" and if they look down the open source future and see no profitability, they just... never take that path. People are looking at companies switching their licenses today and saying it's greed, etc, but the difference is that those open source products exist at all due to a company building it. In the future, without an answer to open source profitability, there just won't be any companies producing open source software.

Open source software might still come from:

* bigcos with extra cash around commoditizing their complements: open sourcing non-core pieces for the purposes of competitive advantage. (e.g. kubernetes and bazel)

* hobbyists building things they personally enjoy working on. This usually precludes solving gnarly inelegant problem spaces like terraform (keep up with all cloud APIs in near real time... at night after your real job!). It also tends to mean there's no particular plan for maintenance or support. I love hobbyist open source, it's wonderful, but there are definitely things it consistently doesn't do well.
Strange - for me, installing intel-media-driver & setting the vaapi config option in about:config (for firefox) is sufficient. I gave up trying to get it to work in Chrom{e,ium}, though.