skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am fascinated by this - how wildly different experiences can be in different pockets of the industry.

The only way I can see 400k+ salaries is if your requirements are a very restrictive Venn diagram of:

* Geographical location (assuming in person, Bay Area / SV?)

* FAANG experience (is it an actual requirement?)

* Seniority (does not necessarily translate to ability... but it does translate to higher asking salary!)

* Niche technical or industry skills

* Golang experience (which wouldn't explain 400k+ by itself, but may restrict the candidate pool further)

If you're seeing $200/hr, that is high but not unreasonable for a good freelancer and smaller engagements. $400k for a 1 year full time freelance contract is pushing it. $400k/year for a salary position seems borderline crazy to me!
I have an idea. We could build a new, better review site. Sprinkle in some blockchain and AI...
I failed the link in the OG post and cant seem to edit or even delete it :(

https://kviklet.dev/blog/parsing-the-postgres-protocol/

This is the correct one if someone wants to take a look.
Former US Treasury Chief Mnuchin Looking to Buy TikTok
Armstrong ruined the careers of his colleagues that didn't want to participate in his doping. He was the doping kingpin.

https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/29240335

Here's Lance chasing down another rider and publicly threatening them to "zip their lips" when they were trying to go public about the doping in the peloton.
Building a Stream Processing Platform for Developers
The database services are moving downmarket towards the developer segment. Stream processing should be democratized—the next-generation systems should be free, extremely easy to install, deploy, use, and maintain.
See my related post [1]. The NativeIFC add on talks about BlenderBIM.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39706564
I have found it preferable to visit the restaurant in question, look around, read the menu, and decide based on those cues around me whether it's worth risking a meal there.

Yelp has become useless, and TripAdvisor is as bad if not worse. The reviews on Google Maps are wholly unreliable as well.
Aye - your discernment is strong ;)
The thing to keep in mind, is that some people find that kind of grind satisfying, and different people enjoy different levels of it.

Some people find incremental progression for weeks or months or years at an achievement point or something similarly ephemeral to be satisfying. Some people think that it's not worth doing anything that you can't get in one play session.

Neither of them are wrong, for them, necessarily, but I do believe there's a nonzero amount of friction you want to introduce, and various sweet spots for friction versus people saying it's too much but still loving the game and playing it versus it actually driving away too many people.

I have played a number of fairly grindy games to various definitions of completion, and found it satisfying to play them more than once and get a lot of the optional objectives again. I have other friends who spend a week just grinding out the cap of various items in early game and then coast through the rest and think anyone who thinks a week of nothing but grinding to do that is mind-numbing and unpleasant is just wrong. I have other friends who have refused to play games older than PS4 era because the graphics not being hyper-realistic drives them out of the game and they think anyone who enjoys anything remotely grindy is just rationalizing broken systems.

But ultimately, for many games, you play them for the incremental satisfaction, and ensuring you get a steady drip of that and incremental fixes of larger satisfaction until completion, without turning each hit into a microtransaction exploitation, is the essence of making a game that people want to play again. Nintendo does this very well, in a number of their games even in modern times.

I feel like not understanding that there is a certain amount of padding required for you to enjoy a game as much as you might otherwise, because humans don't process things instantly or handle a truly constant flow of engaging things well, is one of the things a lot of people I see who play games and complain about being bored when they bounced off spending more than 15 minutes on it don't appreciate.

(Not saying you're one of those people or making that argument, just that I see a lot of people arguing that various kinds of friction could be removed, without thinking about how much that changes the perceived experience.)
I tried giving my oldest a Minecraft Redstone lesson. The youngest was also watching, but considering he's a little too young I was focusing on the oldest. The oldest listened and nodded to everything, but never ever built a redstone contraption since then, no interest at all (despite the fact that his world would dramatically improve with some of the stuff I taught him). On the other hand, the youngest now often gets to Creative mode and makes dozens and dozens of contraptions using observer clocks, pistons, trapdoors and dispensers.

You can show them that it's an option and give them an introduction, but you can't force them to be interested. They need to be ready and need to choose it.
i wish everyone would adopt a mutation to the 5 star review, so that at a single glance a 3 star review would have coded with it whether it's a bathtub curve, or equal, distribution. like, if it's bathtub curve, change the middle star to a skull. but if it's even, leave it a star. how great would that be
I know the Houthis sabotaged the one in the Red Sea - funny it all broke down in the same span.
And I’ve avoided getting it for the last 2 years taking zero precautions
The size of the salt "grain" required would crush any mortal man/woman/LargeAnimal and leave a 100m wide, 50m deep, divot in the ground.
This was a joint trial for a preliminary issue in two cases.

In one case Wright brought a claim seeking "hundreds of billions of pounds" in damages against volunteer open source contributors to Bitcoin (including myself) on the basis that their use and distribution of Bitcoin violate his database rights in the Bitcoin blockchain, Copyright in the Bitcoin whitepaper, and copyright in the bitcoin file format.

In the other case The Crypto Open Patent alliance (COPA) sought a declaratory judgement on behalf of its members (mostly cryptocurrency exchanges and payment processors) who had been threatened with litigation by Wright for distributing the Bitcoin whitepaper.

COPA's request for declaratory judgement was subsequent to Wright bringing a similar claim against the operator of Bitcoin.org (the original Bitcoin website) and securing a default judgement against them because by policy the UK will not allow an anonymous party to present a defense, resulting in an order against Bitcoin.org to prohibit it from distributing the bitcoin whitepaper in the UK. Wright had also previously brought defamation claims against a number of private individuals for simply saying Wright isn't Satoshi, so the legal threats that motivated and justified COPA's declaratory relief weren't fanciful, but both serious and chilling.

So essentially, the courts needed to tackle the issue because Wright has engaged in litigation (and threats of litigation) premised on his claim of being Satoshi.

Wright has other vexatious litigation outstanding which won't be automatically resolved due to this case, sadly, including another case against most of the same open source contributors where he is claiming billions in damages due to us not introducing a backdoor into bitcoin to "recover" billions of dollars worth of coins which he claims to have lost the keys to.
My impression has been that they were experimenting sonically, looking for new sounds. Sometimes the result seems flat and dull to our ears 37 years later, and sometimes absolute brilliance emerged (viz: The Ballad of Dorothy Parker). But the result was always something quite distinct from the sonic landscape of its time, and it had a huge impact on music production that followed. For example, it's hard to overstate the influence of the mid-80s Prince albums on the entire genre of New Jack Swing.
Plus the fact mirage apps have to be written in OCaml
Making Transformers Sing
I always wonder, how exactly are gravitons or gluons supposed to create the attraction between two particles? They carry a negative momentum or its just magic? Does it mean that the gravitational force is fluctuating with some statistical distribution of gravitons?
I think this was done to me. I didn't even signin or anything, just looked around at what options are out there and started getting questions about my plans to leave.

What I've learned is if you plan to change jobs assume everyone at your current job will find out the minute you have an interview booked. Only applies to big companies that pay 3rd parties to monitor their employees like that though.

Sometimes I wish we had germany's privacy laws for employees in the US.
This is the essential problem with any platform whose value consists of user-generated content. For example, Reddit doesn't have to hold an IPO to continue being Reddit, they don't have to paywall their API, and they don't have to make their website a global dark pattern to force engagement; they chose to sell stakes and play the growth game. Medium is another example, as is Quora, LinkedIn, and a hundred other tech companies that are essentially specialized takes on PhpBB forums.
also worth noting that if you attempt to go in via the mobile page, specifically to delete an account that predates "fish bowl" and mandatory names, you'll be bombarded with cascading popups that require your compliance (no x to exit, just "next" and filling in the relevant forms).

Based on this story, I already knew to expect resistance, but jesus fuck that was far worse than I imagined.
The channel name was “SpaceX”. Are these not unique in YouTube? Can you add spaces or other hidden characters to the beginning or end of a channel name?
sh: Python Process Launching
I know a lot of people who claim to make 200k+ as contract programmers doing vaguely web-related stuff.

But as a tax guy, I generally see the actual financial data (i.e., the actual 1099-reportable payments), and I rarely see anyone who actually does make 200k+ as a contractor. And all of those positions are always niche positions, and almost all of these roles are for less than a year: meaning: the 200k is the amount they would make if the role lasted a full year. So if they're making 200k+, it involves multiple gigs, which is a very different situation from making 200k+ at a single gig.
Interesting related development that access to key programming is being put behind some more "security" due in part to easier access of key programming devices, but it's on the manufacturer to say what's part of the "security" system. Not just keys but can extend to tons of modules.

It's arguable if this would have any effect on criminals who are known to follow rules (/s), but will definitely have an impact on some businesses.

A criminal record can disallow participation. One way for people who have a record to enjoy success after serving their sentence is to start and run their own business, but I guess they are screwed. <shrug-emoji></shrug-emoji>

https://wp.nastf.org/?page_id=367

https://wp.nastf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ApplicationC...
I have such public accounts but they are specifically for said creeping.
> More examples of "scalable" books please?

In addition to what the other replies recommended, I read Tom Sharpe at a young age and enjoyed all of them with sometimes uncontrollable giggles.

Start with Wilt, I think. Then maybe The Throwback.
A remote key-logging attack on AI assistants [pdf]
I don’t understand - how is the attacker able to decrypt TLS packets for ChatGPT requests? It seems like that aspect has been assumed.

Isn’t this similar to someone just replacing your HTML page for an encrypted connection?
Yelp rating, photos and reviews come before the street address when you click on a place in Apple Maps. I have to scroll down to get the street address, somebody decided that is less important.
> Firearm injuries tend to be more frequent in places where people have easy access to firearms

Which I think the US would be an outlier in that too.
If what is occurring is actually illegal (as your example would be), then it's out of the platforms hands. The platform then wouldn't be able to take any action unless instructed by police.
> The laws of thermodynamics apply in closed systems, and our planet is not a closed system.

> Solar power, geothermal power, hydro power, are effectively perpetual motion, for our purposes.

I get solar power and hydro [also solar] power, but isn't geothermal power a closed part of the system? Where does solar input feature in that?

> The more we look into renewables, the more we can find ways to "cheat" by using "preprocessed" goods where the sun or the earth already did the hard part for us.

This is also a closed part of the system. If the argument you're making is "the planet is not a closed system", then you need to be using energy that comes from outside, not energy that is already contained in the system.
My father is doing poorly, and he is just around this "median" age. He has a chronic disease which somewhat contributed to him not moving around much. Largely sedentary, but not over-weight.

On the other hand, my in-laws are doing very well, into their 80's. They take walks, attend talks, stay active. They don't have any substantial diseases.

So IMO, the revolutionary enhancements will come from controlling diseases, so those with diseases do almost as well as those without.
It's a shame we probably live too early for cryogenic freezing to work, either.
My understanding is that its very well documented, but the funding isn't there to do much with it. I mean most of the team behind things like the Atari computers, Acorn, Commodore, early Apples, etc are retired but we can emulate them and understand these things on a very technical level. I know this isn't a great analogy, but ultimately age of the project or the age of the original team members isn't the bottleneck.

I sometimes see retro projects on hack-a-day done by people who could be the grandchildren of the original designers of those vintage chips and OS's. They probably know more about that chip or OS than the original people do just due to them being out of the game for so long. The same way people regularly lose to fifth graders in tests because they dont recall 5th grade science and civics. If anything your scenario might be the opposite! Grandpa might be asking his granddaughter how those registers worked or how to emulate his OS from 1982.

I remember reading about the team that maintains the Voyagers. Its a skeleton crew using legacy equipment to keep the communication going with the assumption the next decade, or even earlier, is going to be it.

NASA has the same problem the private sector has. Capitalism rewards things that will generate profit/prestige, not legacy cost centers, and NASA is not immune from that dynamic as NASA employees and managers want to maximize their income and prestige too. So the people maintaining or bug fixing old products are often lowest on the prestige, pay, recruiting, and profit spectrum than those chasing new things. They get the skeleton crew funding and can't do novel things, even if technically possible because of lack of staff and buy-in.

Passion projects make for feel-good documentaries like 'It's Quieter in the Twilight' but ultimately if society isn't vested in these teams, their hands will always be tied.
Hair dryers and clothes dryers both operate by adding a bunch of heat to the thing they are trying to dry. I am not a physics expert but that seems to suggest that heat helps speed up evaporation!
Don’t know how convincing it’d be in court, but Open Timestamps[1], a free service that operates by publishing Merkle tree hashes to the Bitcoin ledger and can give you independently-verifiable proofs after a while, still exists even if it doesn’t seem to be under active development. (I think Keybase tried something like that some time ago as well, they already had most of the parts in place, but then they decided to use their own something-or-other-coin and I stopped paying attention.)

[1] https://opentimestamps.org/
this is why the GDPR right of erasure exists

fuck these companies
> “As he practiced his writing, Jijingi came to understand what Moseby had meant: writing was not just a way to record what someone said; it could help you decide what you would say before you said it. And words were not just the pieces of speaking; they were the pieces of thinking. When you wrote them down, you could grasp your thoughts like bricks in your hands and push them into different arrangements. Writing let you look at your thoughts in a way you couldn’t if you were just talking, and having seen them, you could improve them, make them stronger and more elaborate.”

― Ted Chiang, The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling

This quote really stuck with me when I read this story (which, as is usual for Chiang, is fantastic). It does a great job of putting into words how amazingly powerful writing can be.

The best writing I've done has been taking collections of disorganized notes and assembling them into "explainer" type articles, which I can go back and reference. This is, imho, one of my "superpowers" as an engineer - being able to create docs like this for what I'm working on can really improve my ability to get things done.

I do it for "personal" stuff too - whether I'm just capturing stream of consciousness thoughts on some topic or building some reference for myself. A few months ago, I did this one on quadratic equations, which ended up on my blog. I've already gone back and referenced it once or twice since: https://epiccoleman.com/posts/2023-12-08-aoc-2023-quadratic-...

The best thing was that, as I wrote this post, and worked through my own examples, I found a few different errors in my thinking which I had to correct before everything started to add up (literally!). Doing that work means that I not only have a reference which is personally tailored to help my brain remember things, but also a nifty blog post.
>Manual human reviews and slow turnaround times are inseparable. Only automated systems can give quick, instant decisions.

Being unresponsive isn't the same thing as being slow. It says unresponsive, it doesn't say slow. What basis does anyone have to jump to your take on things when the article plainly states otherwise.
Thanks, that actually answers my question, 40 sounds like the right ballpark number.
That is how only fans is selling itself, but most people aren't making bank, and the ones who are, are generally running a business where they're paying people to do all the "engagement" related stuff.

The higher paid folks are models who are also business owners. It's just modeling without "talent agencies" being gatekeepers on who can be a model
Can you just imagine that?

No this is not a plausible scenario.
I'm now known as John Smith, student at Brookdale Community College with an associates degree, aspiring to be an "Assistant Dog Catcher" (yes, that was one of the options in their auto-complete field) in Lodi, CA.

There was no option to delete the account, but after clicking "Deactivate", it still said that my account was now deleted, so who knows.

Edit: And now I received 2 emails from them that my recent submissions (filling in that form?) violated community rules.
The Wind in the Willows. As a child, I read it purely as an adventure story. Re-reading it as an adult, I realized it's actually two stories: one a eulogy to the British countryside, and the other a comedy about the self-inflicted troubles of Mr. Toad. The humor was lost on me as a child.
Hey I'd like to apologize for that (and I didn't downvote you FWIW, I've now upvoted both the GP and parent to offset whoever did, your comment didn't merit a downvote).

You're exactly right that my comment veers from high-quality to low-quality linearly with character count: I had an ambient distraction burst into my office in the middle of writing it and I was over-multitasking and failed to clean up the second half within the edit window.

The second half of my comment has important signal but it's too high-noise to be a good comment, as my grandmother used to say: "A barrel of wine and a spoonful of sewage makes a barrel of sewage".

If anyone deserved a downvote it's me, please know that it was unintentional.
Transgenic cows boost human insulin production by 10x
I had an employee on my team at a company I worked for once who used the CFO's real name to post a review trashing the company.

The real name policy had the opposite of the intended effect.
It's the opposite: despite all the scams that have occurred in cryptocurrency, the overall system still continues to work.

Rug-pulls are inevitable, what matters is whether people are left with power to move on or if they are trapped into the corrupt system. How many people managed to leave the banking system after the crash of 2008?

See also: Reddit. Despite all the protests, the absolute majority of people went back to it and accepted the conditions.
This is pretty much impossible above a senior IC level, where job responsibilities are focused on coordination, collaboration and other "glue". The responsibilities are going to constantly change over time, and be different for every individual. Trying to define & document this is a fool's errand. I think you're way better served to set broader objectives that are not SMART goals and then continually discuss, identify and update concrete delvierables that serve the spirit of the overal goal. This helps stop actions from being irellevant or misaligned with changing priorities, and provides a body of hard evidence for evaluating performance. I encourage everyone I manage to spend a few minutes a week capturing all their accomplishments, specifically the "soft" ones that don't have artifacts and will be forgotten (by both me and the mployee), and take an initial stab at categorizing the item against our corporate values (because I know that's what their formal review will look like). I had someone (who is a high performer) turn their multi-hour review preparation cycle into a 20-minute cut&paste operation.
the Nation of South Africa in the last years (?) "made waves" by hosting BRIC nations for economic development, causing a commonly repeated BRICS acronym in some reporting, no?
Originally it was built as the inverse. A signal that recruiters could use to tell them which “passive candidates” could be more willing to change jobs.

A customer asked if it could be used internally (we already had their ATS/HRIS data) so a new feature was born.

Yes money was a motive but this particular feature didn’t seem like an evil idea to be used to increase employee misery.

That said, We did build some things that I do regret now.
stances and postures sound like policies that are not written
> …Prince just didn't care enough because he was too desperate to get the music out, and that attitude never really changed much until he died.

As a huge early-/mid-career Prince fan, this is a surprising take. Prince was famous for his meticulous attention to detail and perfectionism in the recording studio. The lore is that "Purple Rain" (the song) went through 91 mixes before Prince was satisfied.
Please don't replace the text of comments like this once they have replies. It's unfair to the users who responded because now their comments lack the necessary context to be understood.

We're all wrong sometimes and it would be fine to add an "Edit:" after the original text followed by an explanation or retraction or whatever you want.
I'm shocked that it turns out that yes, actually, guns do kill people.

But there's no way to prevent it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
Interesting. I didn't know Svejk was popular at all outside Czechia. I must say, it's somewhat a bittersweet realization. The way I and many other Czechs see it, Hasek did us quite a disservice. Still, if you guys enjoy it, hats down.