skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an article at Forbes that said employees who stay with the company for more than 2 years are underpaid by as much as 50%.

So why do they stay for so long? Humans are resistant to change.

Speaking of myself, when I was working as a programmer, finding a new job meant going through endless interviews with leetcode tests even though I had 15 years experience.

Turns out it was Joel Spolsky who invented that practice. I'm sure most programmers want to strangle that guy. Lol.

As for me, I became a contractor. All my underpaid overtime turned into a paid one. Plus my contracts lasted a lot longer than my full time jobs. But even that what I later found out is what they call "trading hours for dollars".

In order to really succeed I need to start my own business. Which required me to learn "direct response marketing and copywriting".

Because being an Engineer I sucked at selling, finding hungry markets for my products, creating products and selling them by the millions.

Once I figured that out, it's like a new world opened up to me. Turns out you can make as much money as you want. Unlimited amounts. It's up to you how much you want to make. I wish I would've figured that out earlier.
> If you're not on a rolling release distro, your version is probably older.

Ironic considering security is often advertised as a feature of rolling release distros. I suppose in most instances it does provide better security, but there are some advantages to Debian's approach (stable Debian, that is).
I edited it for brevity and clarity. The full headline wouldn't fit, and it was unclear from the original headline what the actual problem is.
Romania was never soviet.
Recently experienced an excellent colleague ask for a raise to $X, get rejected, leave, the replacement was hired for more than $X, the replacement complained about the workload being too much, and so we hired another body to cover the original developer leaving, again for more than $X. Absolute madness.
Would Fuchsia supplant Android on mainstream smartphones or is it more intended for specialized devices like smart TVs and smart watches?
I can think of half a dozen former programmers I know who now do things like finish carpentry, furniture building, luthierie, and other fiddley wood stuff, and it's been a private joke with friends. I didn't know it was such a widespread phenomenon though!
It's also very possible that the account was compromised and taken over. A two years long con with real useful work is a lot of patience and effort vs. just stealing a weakly protected account. I wonder if MFA shouldn't be a requirement for accounts that contribute to important OSS projects.
there were multiple Meta companies before Facebook/Zuckerberg co-opted it, such as an amazing motorcyle brand/publication which was forced to change to https://vahna.com. they chased them with lawyers and Vahna didn't want to fight it so they rebranded.

big tech is going to steal the big names and it makes zero sense for fellow tech companies to get mired in the legal + SEO drama.
No! The poop symbol is used in data, and thus is a terrible separator. If you have to quote it anyway, use commas, as that is already in use. Or use "Unicode" separated values.
That horse has left the barn. Best we can hope for now is a concerted effort to ban the devices from school classrooms. It is being tried, and becoming more popular, but I remain skeptical. Kids are extremely resourceful.
It's hard to solve social problems (intentional voter disenfranchisement) with technological solutions.
This is a system still in an active development phase, so I suppose they cannot commit to something like 5 years at this moment? Unlike API, ABI stability is a really hard thing to guarantee and it will haunt you to the end of eternity when you make a mistake.
FTL comms are absolutely essential to the story, and it is specifically accomplished using quantum entanglement.

When Evans speaks with the San Ti/Trisolarians, he is talking to them via one of a pair of sophons - quantum entangled protons.
Honestly I don't know what the answer is. Having a kid stay home sick is a tremendous burden for working parents. Maybe it's not so bad if one parent is a homemaker, or if you have a network of family members to support you. Many families do not. It's quite difficult for us to manage on top of the many times school closes when work does not.

We are both lucky enough to even have jobs that let you take a last minute personal day to care for your child, but many jobs do not work this way, or even if you can take off, you lose income. You're not going to keep a kid with a stuffy nose home if it means not having enough to make ends meet.

Tough shit, right? But kids get minor colds a lot. In the winter they just infect each other (and us) all the time. Often, by the time they show symptoms the whole class has already been infected.

The practical realities have to be acknowledged. The solution is to draw a line, on one side you are sick enough to be required to stay home, and on the other, oh well.
why wouldn't you just serve them via a CDN?
That account seems to be a contributor for xz though, you can see him interact a lot with the author of the backdoor on the GitHub repo. Some pull requests seem to be just the two of them discussing and merging stuff (which is normal but looks weird in this context)
There is bison in Chernobyl: https://www.rferl.org/a/bison-chernobyl/28357813.html
Or teachers.
I've crafted a digital sidekick that streamlines my forum postings
It's not just a tool; it's a matrix-inspired wordsmith, turning each sentence into coded art. Imagine a pen that's part hacker, part Shakespeare - that's it.
Smalltalk and Excel are both good to draw on. Another programming tradition that is actually very popular but seems to have limited influence on "professional" programming languages is Wolfram/Mathematica. The Wolfram Cloud product has some very interesting features in terms of exposing your Mathematica code as a service on the internet. Here's an interesting demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqlCm_T2CA.

Mathematica also popularized the "notebook" style of dev which is also very nice for exploration.
The main problem is they are still in the basic multilingual plane, so U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO still has an edge there for tickling problems quickly.
>>It's a little odd that you've changed the topic from stealing food to survive,

Why is it odd? OP said stealing to survive is never immoral, to which I said that of course it is, because theft has a profound impact on the victim, no matter the reason for stealing. People who are victims of theft rarely know why they were stolen from, so they cannot adjust their emotional response as if every thief is stealing to feed their families - and I think acting as if that's a reasonable assumption in any way is well, unreasonable. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

>>But ultimately, if it's actually a survival need, I hope if push came to shove, I wouldn't put my psychological well-being

Sure, and neither would I, but I don't accept that stealing is the moral choice - the person could have literally knocked on my door and asked for food and I would have given them food, and I'm sure majority of people would as well. Again there is a bunch of assumptions there, but I find the whole conversation a bit disingenuous - there is of course actual undeniable theft where the alternative is death in various places around the world, but I refuse to accept that this is the kind of theft most people are talking about here - no one in any modern country is stealing to survive, literally every developed country has programs that will just give you food if you ask - dying from starvation should not be happening anywhere with even a semi functional social system.
It's wild that people find such an idea unthinkable.

The dude was suing Boeing for their retaliatory actions against him in an effort to shut him up about the safety violations he was in the middle of testifying about.

Just in 2022 there was a case of murder-for-hire of a whistleblower at a contract tree-cutting service in Georgia [0].

It's not common, and we shouldn't presume guilt, but it's very far from unprecedented.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Eliud_Montoya
But corp logic: it's cheaper to raise ONE top performer when he wants to go than to raise EVERYBODY (even those not interested in leaving) to match market
For a long time, there was one legitimately annoying disadvantage to the git-generated tarballs though - they lost tagging information. However, since git 2.32 (released June 2021; presumably available on GitHub by August 2021 when they blogged about it) you can use `$Format:%(describe)$` ... limited to once per repository for performance reasons.
Already people do experiments where they shoot a proton beam at a target and then detect the resulting neutrino beam at a far distance, for instance

https://www.dunescience.org/

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_OPERA_faster-than-light_n...

A muon storage ring with straight sections would produce powerful beams in the direction of the straight sections when the muons decay which would produce orders of magnitude higher flux than existing accelerator neutrino experiments not to mention a highly collimated beam.

(I am still amused by the superluminal neutrino flap because (a) it wasn't the first case where people thought they saw superluminal neutrinos, I remember seeing an experiment at Los Alamos Lab where curve fitting the neutrino mass was giving an imaginary (superluminal) number in the 1990s, and (b) it sounds so much like something out of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steins;Gate)

The OPERA experiment does show that if your equipment was calibrated properly you could possibly get a high data rate from turning your source on and off rapidly, however, I don't think you can turn a muon storage ring on and off.
> If you're using an AI summarizer, maybe check the output more closely?

No need to be aggressive; I’m not using an AI summarizer. I pointed out this is a different use-case, and then gave an example based on my own experience. I’m sorry if this was not correctly worded and felt like this was the use-case the article was refering to.
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That's the entire point of certification, and any certification at all. Certification does not guarantee performance. Actually, I would always cast a suspect glance to anyone who is FOCUSED on getting certification after certification without any side project.
How congested are undersea network cables? I naively assumed that the deployment was so expensive that the cable diameter(stands?) would be hilariously over provisioned so that the available bandwidth would far eclipse present needs.
I imagine it might be easier to just compromise a weakly protected account than to actual put in a 2 years long effort with real contributions. If we mandated MFA for all contributors who contribute to these really important projects then we can know with greater certainty if it was really a long con vs. a recently compromised account.
Sometimes banner blindness becomes total blindness: https://bsky.app/profile/dahosek.bsky.social/post/3kop4ci756...
> The problem is - historically it hasn't bitten companies badly enough that they stop doing it.

The reason for that is the culture around keeping compensation secret. Most people (in the US at least) believe it's impolite to talk about salary directly. I do wonder how much of this taboo has been cultivated by corporations that benefit from workers feeling like they shouldn't talk about salary.

On top of that, some companies tell their employees they are not allowed to talk about salary. That practice is illegal, but some companies still do it.
Obviously you can say I'm biased but I think they're increasing.
Quantum interference enhances the performance of single-molecule transistors
No, they just removed the bullet points about what to include in a report. The 90 days part was in both versions.
Imo the criticisms are more cultural or philosophical than technical, ie the Gemini image search kerfuffle. Clearly Google and Anthropic have a lot of solid people.
I'm pretty sure most of them have no real idea what they're complaining about, other than what the angry man on TV told them. See the giant, nonsensical hubbub over "critical race theory" a few years ago, as well as stuff like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/desantis-florida-ap-af...

There are probably legitimate criticisms of recent changes to public education, but it's never the things that Republican politicians harp on.

Also, for what it's worth, much of what my generation was taught in school was utter bullshit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies_My_Teacher_Told_Me. If anything, the idea that my children would be taught that the Pilgrims and Indians were best friends, that Columbus was someone to look up to, or that the Civil War was really about states' rights is what would compel me to homeschool, not "liberal indoctrination." But many, like DeSantis, still appear to believe that these lies should be taught.
Gemini is painfully over censored. It is good at some niche tasks and probably the best commercial vision model though. I think people just don't want to spend time evaluating a model if it's mostly not great.
On top of that in terms of your life outside of work, some of your biggests costs are up front in your life. Education, childcare, housing, paying into retirement plans through it all, etc. When you are in your 50s-60s with your kids moved out, your healthcare later in life to be subsidized by the government, your home payed off, your student loans long gone, your retirement portfolio built out, with another 20 years lets say on average of life left in you, what do you even need a raise for?
This looks neat and nice with the MIT license.

Looking forward to giving this a try!
> how to safely move all of my bitwarden credentials to a new completely sterile machine?

Bitwarden is synced so just wipe the machine and log in again?
Whatever code you are handy with. You'll need land generator tools and profiling tools - and picking those out and developing skills with them is a step toward understanding scale too.

In the course of building those prototypes, you are learning something about scale too... what if I spawn a bunch of threads to handle this task at this point? What if instead I put each of those tasks on a queue and have a task handler? What if I take this engine piece and put in on separate hardware? What if I have a bunch of these engines running in parallel? What if I make this change to the DB connection? What if I remove the dependency on the DB entirely?

It's easy to say a lot of this stuff is basic computer science you should have learned in school, but that's not reality. There's a lot of emphasis put on algorithmic complexity and efficiency, there's a lot less put on systems design and architecture. You kinda have to do it in the wild to learn it.
This is a pretty good analogy. But I think that I may be part of the majority in this context. It would be like the avocado farmers paying somebody to put avocados in your kitchen, even though you hate them.
My opinion is quite simpler: GPT got the 1st mover's advantage from a marketing perspective, and until Google, Anthropic or another proposes something VASTLY revolutionary for the layperson, then it's unlikely they'll "catch up" (which is only a percetion ofc, perhaps a wrong one at that)
I had understood past a certain point diameter doesn't add bandwidth?
I have the personality type you speak of.

1. I don’t do everything in your list. In fact retrospectively I’d say I’ve allocated much more time and energy into building things than nurturing friendships and relationships.

I have a general interest in how things work so my behaviour is largely self motivating.

When I wake up every day I feel like I haven’t accomplished anything. I have an urge to aim as high as possible because I want to literally change the world in some way. So I set large goals and grind away until I achieve them. I get dopamine from achieving things people thought weren’t possible in timeframes people assume are unrealistic. So I relentlessly pursue this.

I find spite is a great motivator as well. I often think about people that have wronged me in some way and channel that energy into the work that I do. It’s very effective.
I think they are struggling to find internal clients. It has on-boarded some customers using a customized Linux kernel but those are minor. ChromeOS was supposed to be the first big client but this effort is reportedly now deprioritized.
The reason for the new annotation syntax is the annotations are much richer in their details than merely stating when an object is freed by a function. They can express subtle preconditions, such as the expectation that a pointer refer to a region that is heap-allocated, or be a valid lvalue or rvalue, and so on, and also capture more general side effects.

As per the issue of backward-compatibility, Xr0 strips the annotations with a simple command: `0v -s`, producing C source that works with C compilers.
The stereotypes around Russian and Chinese tourists have a lot to do with relative wealth, I think. If you're from Russia or China and you decide to go to Europe (or in the case of Russia more specifically Western Europe) for a vacation, you are likely fairly well-off in your home country even if your relative wealth doesn't necessarily translate to the country you're visting. This comes with a certain sense of entitlement typical of "new money".

The part about Russians being more aggressive (I'd even say more likely to credibly threaten violence) might have to do with the level of corruption in Russia making it more likely for you to get away with even violent crime if you can afford it. At least this would match what Russian ex-pats I've met say about their home country.

I'd say American tourists in Europe are generally relatively well-behaved because they're conscious of how they might be perceived (remember the travel advice to pretend you're Canadian?) but e.g. in Germany they're often known for being noisy, which is generally seen as rude. I've heard a lot of complaints about American tourists "talking too loud" even in regular conversation, and the heavy use and expectation of "social smiling" (i.e. feigning friendliness as courtesy) can be extremely off-putting.
How many of people like this one exist?
I feel like it will get worse and worse until people will actually care about privacy again and then we'll take proper measures. Although Chrome disabling cookies seems like a step in the right direction
LLMs aren't nearly as monetizable (now) as search ads. Very possible that search collapses in the near future alongside the open web, and that whole line of revenue destroyed.
"Transistor Takes Advantage of Quantum Interference" (2024)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/quantum-interference-transisto... :

"Quantum interference enhances the performance of single-molecule transistors" (2014) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-024-01633-1 :

> Abstract: Quantum effects in nanoscale electronic devices promise to lead to new types of functionality not achievable using classical electronic components. However, quantum behaviour also presents an unresolved challenge facing electronics at the few-nanometre scale: resistive channels start leaking owing to quantum tunnelling. This affects the performance of nanoscale transistors, with direct source–drain tunnelling degrading switching ratios and subthreshold swings, and ultimately limiting operating frequency due to increased static power dissipation. The usual strategy to mitigate quantum effects has been to increase device complexity, but theory shows that if quantum effects can be exploited in molecular-scale electronics, this could provide a route to lower energy consumption and boost device performance. Here we demonstrate these effects experimentally, showing how the performance of molecular transistors is improved when the resistive channel contains two destructively interfering waves. We use a zinc-porphyrin coupled to graphene electrodes in a three-terminal transistor to demonstrate a >10^4 conductance-switching ratio, a subthreshold swing at the thermionic limit, a >7 kHz operating frequency and stability over >10^5 cycles. We fully map the anti-resonance interference features in conductance, reproduce the behaviour by density functional theory calculations and trace back the high performance to the coupling between molecular orbitals and graphene edge states. These results demonstrate how the quantum nature of electron transmission at the nanoscale can enhance, rather than degrade, device performance, and highlight directions for future development of miniaturized electronics.
Those CI and build infrastructures rely on the Debian and RedHat being able to build system packages.

How would an automated CI or build infrastructure stop this attack? It was stopped because the competent package maintainer noticed a performance regression.

In this case, this imagined build system would have to track every rust library used in every package to know which packages to perform an emergency release for.
I'm struck by the language of the article. Quite the manly story of mainly men doing man things with machines.
I am not completely sure about this exploit, but seems like a binary needed to be modified for the exploit to work[1] which was later picked up by build system.

https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/6e636819e8f0703...
> there's got to be a better way

Be better managers. Do more human work during the hiring selection process. Take HR away from the lawyers. Take Responsibility and Accountability for the management layers of the company (including the C-suite).

But we all know these are just pipe dreams.
Terrible writing. Creates drama where it doesn't exist. The author makes statements about "problems at Google" and provides anecdotal evidence. Desperately tries to create a "knight on a white horse" storyline for no reason. Assumes Google makes its money off of products, when actually it makes money off of ads. So much bad.
Most of the roadmap is about Starnix. Starnix started serious development around late 2022 and is a way for Fuchsia to pretend to be Linux and run Linux programs without recompilation or modification. It is a pivot for the Fuchsia project, essentially giving up on the idea that most programs would be (re)written for Fuchsia

See https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/rfcs/0...
Since we live in a winner-take-all society, one has to morph to be able to thrive in such an environment and i want to. i am from a place where the killer instinct is a necessity and the price of failure is too high (believe me, i know it very well). i have no choice but to become the type-A finance/tech millionaire to ever hope to become one.

> If you're LARPing, you have a flair for writing.

Not larping sadly, this is real. Thank you, i do not know if you are being kind with the compliment but either way, even having flair for writing is useless in the age of LLMs haha.
Speculating that something could be possible is not spreading a rumor. The only claim they made was that Boeing disregarded human safety.
> its also implied that the trisolarans did not think themselves very far advanced compared to humans,

not quite. they are aware that they are significantly ahead of humans, but have also observed human scientific and technological progress following an exponential curve, since we do not get our civilization(s) wiped out periodically.

they fear that we will easily catch up with them in 400 years unless they somehow intervene.
No products -> no ads?
I chuckled. Thanks
the US tightens greenhouse gas emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles
No, search -> ads. It isn't like their ads come from Google Meet or GMail. Their ads come from search. Their search is still best with no challengers of note.