skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the pay angle got serious until after like Google went IPO - somewhere around like 2005-2010. Before that, tech workers were paid well, but not so much beyond like a financial analyst. Now there's a mass market of FAANG-M jobs, perhaps like 500k jobs in total. They all pay way more compared to the average job, in multiplier terms.

There has been a quantitative shift in tech worker pay at the top end in the past twenty years.

In other words, the past twenty years have seen the rise of Big Tech: billion-user products, trillion-dollar valuations, eating up entire industries (retail, publishing, consumer electronics, entertainment). What enabled them are software economies of scale (production + distribution), the US's ability to train and attract talent, cheap money, and access to massive markets abroad.
> Russia is sinking despite becoming the 4th largest economy

Sixth [1] to 11th [2], on track to being eclipsed by Indonesia and Mexico.

> having major increase in real wages

Real wages are up, yes, but real disposable income is flat [3].

This isn’t uncommon in a war footing [4]. Labour and necessities are diverted to the front, raising prices for both. That squeezes disposable income, which moderates price growth in luxuries. The effect, if you’re measuring with a pre-war basket of goods, is rising real earnings and falling disposable income.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP... PPP

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/putin-grows-war-econo...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany
Link to the doxxing incident? When / how did this happen?

Edit: I'm asking as I find no mention of this elsewhere. Notably not on Torrentfreak, which tends to keep on top of such things, on Anna's subreddit, blog, or her Telegram channel
I had COVID five times over the past four years. Last three times barely any symptoms.

> It’s kind Wrong to say that Covid causes these things. Because if Covid alone caused these issues then everyone would have these issues after Infected.

However, this is not sound logic. As stated in the study, it causes these different issues in some percentage of cases, not all.
I would say that I have a very favorable opinion of Meta in terms of how they share their research and open source their software.

I would say that I have a very unfavorable opinion of Meta in terms of their commitment to privacy, security, and social responsibility.
So this is one argument- another is that I'm impressed that they got their own LLM running and integrated into facebook messenger.

I ran across this interesting graphic recently:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/4/23987953/the-gpu-haves-an...

Suddenly facebook is useful as a search engine..

Also interesting is that Meta AI is much faster than ChatGPT from end-user's point of view, but results not quite as good. Here is a comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vLvLN5wxS0
> illogical fear that impedes your normal life

I don't agree with the premise that disabling bio-metric security impedes a normal life. Nor has OP given me any reason to believe they are afraid of it in the situations you described.

Passwords and pass codes (when managed well) are perfectly normal security tools to use to ensure your privacy on a device you own.
> But why do we see smooth movement and animation?

>

> Interpolation. Serious Engine interpolates between the current and the previous game tick based on time passed between. Try opening the in-game console (~ key) and typing this to see how the game looks and feels without interpolation:

>

> /net_bLerping=0

>

> It's kind of like playing a modern console exclusive.

That list bit made me spit my tea out, I laughed so hard.

Great game. A staple of our LAN parties, what, 25-ish years ago now?
When someone says “non-qualified”, why do you immediately associate that with minorities in your mind?

Sounds like you have some racist biases to work through.
Entirely agree with you.

People will walk into the office, say good morning to everyone, then log into their computer and post "good morning" on Slack.

Same routine at end of day. Type "good night", then walk around and actually say good night to people.

90% of our Slack history is just "good morning" and "good night", repeated for 4 years.

(We're all back in office, and don't use Slack for anything cool)
There is an interesting point between the lines here. And I’m pretty extremely on team “a probabilistic word generator is not intelligence”

Natural language to sql has been a bit of a flop so far, with plenty of paid and open source solutions. The reason IMO is because they require clean well defined data and most companies who want natural language to report output want to run it on the usual hot mess of a DB set up

In the LLM world this won’t work

In a theoretical AGI world all you would need is feed the AGI the insert logic, feed it the full git history, and it would understand everything, it would rename mislabeled columns, it would clean bad data up, and it would be able to create any metric from natural
Language

But we have word generators, not AGI, so we end up with mostly useless libraries for this topic specifically
It’s funny that HN readers believe that “people in suits” think of features like this. It’s literally just all of you.
if you're reading this, please don't replicate the idea

this is not going to end well...
Actor-Observer Bias
I am apathetic about the entire industry, as a consultant. Everybody is working on bullshit products that have no relevance whatsoever with the real world, overcomplicated with bullshit techniques like morning standups and Zoom meetings that are a total waste of time. We had a taste of freedom during the pandemic and now all we get is a mockery of it, with 99.9% companies hiring only on hybrid 3 days in the office bullshit contracts. Without touching upon the fact that any tech interview for any bullshit position is a 3-stage gauntlet you'll have to subject yourself to after winning the lottery of a recruiter randomly picking your CV out of 500 ones from younger, less experienced but cheaper devs.

The technology is ever boring. I've been studying CS papers from the 1960s-1990s and there is a lot of ingenuity and new avenues being explored. Now any random HN engineer can only ask "how is this better than Rust?" and I feel that not only we have remained stuck on languages and tech from the 1980s, we have regressed so much that most developers have forgotten or never even learned about "futuristic" environments such as Lisp or Smalltalk. People roll their eyes at these names for the simple reason that no one has been paid to improve upon these for the past 40 years, because companies only care about average productivity of the junior dev. We've spent the last 30 years reinventing C and UNIX; now the cool kids are adding coloured text in their VT100 terminals. Mindblowing.

I am still consulting because being an employee is more and more like white-collar slavery, and post-pandemic it's not even that well-paid, what with the massive influx of low-quality, low-requirement workers and the post-2008 money tap being closed. I am spending my free time devouring old CS papers, and the thought of writing 1500 lines of YAML to deploy a Kubernetes sounds such a pointless, anachronistic castle of sands built by massive tech corps that have just found a way of turning the art of computer programming into a circus of Taylorist code monkeys following a script for 8 hours a days.

Of course I'm apathetic. I'm too old for this.

/rant
I don't understand what you mean: a blog post was published on the 10th, you saw a link to it twice today, so "everyone" took "so long to notice"?

I'm teasing, it's just a surprisingly increasing fallacy I see: "Why is the rate at which I saw things not the rate I expect? What did They mean by this?"
Which is what I meant by “want to make the same pay as a financial analyst but without the hours and awful culture?”
From my perspective of 30 years in professional tech development, there are rapidly diminishing returns for one's effort within companies.

You may see great opportunities to improve metrics within your org, but for various reasons you cannot actually achieve these goals based on your own individual effort. The reasons for failure are myriad, and I will avoid going down that path of sad tales.

Finally now, when I'm just about out of energy, I recognize that the most likely way to do something of significance or otherwise effect real beneficial change is to strike out on your own, ideally with a partner or two, and build something new. Of course that new thing will ultimately get bought by one of the bigger laggard companies who is incapable of allowing something like this to develop internally. But you accept that reality and vow to build something new after that opportunity is closed out.

At this point, we should be teaching classes on how to build great new things and get them sold off to the big slow giants. Rinse, repeat. I know there are people already doing this, but it's not well known or recognized.
Having now sat down and played the new tilings for a bit, I can now say ... the utter lack of QoL features (a problem with all puzzles past the trivialest difficulty) really hits hard, since they are full of chains of 2-4 edges from the start, unlike other tilings where they only appear halfway through a solve and are limited in number.
It's not just where we have troops stationed. It's also the places where the US either owns/leases the place or else has an access agreement with the host country in a crisis. Beyond the speed of deployment you mentioned, it also matters how many countries in theater have given us permission to either use their soil to flow troops and supplies through or even attack from.

The more restrictive the access agreements are, the less options military planners and operations officers have and the more predictable we are to the enemy, who knows that he only has to defend against the evil Yankees coming from country X, not country Y or Z. And that because Country X is so far away, we need to burn additional logistical assets to support the shooters.
Nice observations.

In my experience, the most important aspect is whether people care about other people's take. At a minimum, care enough to maintain a respected persona, but mainly, to be interested in hearing and adopting or shaping others' approaches. It's the collective production of a refined collective understanding.

If the motivation instead is malice or one-upsmanship or networking or shaping product reputations, the dynamic is less interesting.

As a corollary, I wonder if the governance aspect - of controlling club entry, exit, and discourse standards - has to be animated by the same incentives.

My main application for AI would be analyzing/evaluating discourse to automate or facilitate governance. If it could work regardless of incentives, then there's be less need for exclusivity, and discourse would scale much better.
Tech Leaders Must Adapt to the Evolving US Developer Labor Market
It’s possible Covid and the vaccine could cause lung Covid. And it could be that getting the vaccine after you had Covid increases the chances of having long Covid. The next time you get infection. But we don’t know because no one studying in this.

And vaccine damage is a thing. They’re currently paying people for vaccine damage in the UK. A few of them got through already. One guy Had to get his leg amputated.

You shouldn’t minimize the risks of the vaccines because there are risks. I’m not an anti-vaxxer, I just wanna know the risks of any drug I’m taking.
All time high as of producing small amount of very expensive stuff won't be good if can't produce huge amount of basic stuff.

Is USA capable of producing huge number of electric motors? Other "not profitable enough to produce here" stuff?

Remember how the west wasn't able to deliver enough artillery shells simply because it can't produce enough? Now it might be ramping up in the shells department but there's so many things that the west can't make anymore in large quantities.
Kubernetes Persistent Volumes: How to and Best Practices
A chance at what? Hahahaha. Ew.
Kind of amusing, then, that I'm a Brit :)
I think Villeneuve - out of the current cream-of-the-crop directors - best understands how to /adapt/ for film. Chiang has a masterful grasp of the short story format, in turn. Both the short story and film delighted me, and both seem suited well to their medium.
Western politics always shifted because nobody is particularly good at it. After 4 or 5 years or small multiples of them the opposition parties take over, then go back to opposition. New parties are born sometimes and take over or don't. The overall picture is a USA aligned continent since 1945 or the 90s according to the country.
I mean more, the size and shape of the ship, the size/shape/thickness of the tiles, the attachment method, the substrate material, the flight profile...
Somebody knows if this is better compared to whatever Google Meet is using? With choppy near unusable slow Internet Google Meet still fulfils its purpose on Audio Calls where all other competitors fail (tested e.g. while being in Philippines on a remote island with very bad internet). However Google Meet's tech is not published anywhere afaik.
First line of the study:

> Long COVID, as currently defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other authorities, is a symptomatic condition that has been shown to affect an estimated 10-30% of non-hospitalized patients after one infection.

Doesn't say 100%.
Yeah. But nothing critical has happened yet due to sanctions and unlikely to happen anytime soon. At current rate Putin can fund war indefenetely just by pumping money into economy and making society pay for it.

Old soviet joke:

Dad: Looks like vodka will become more expensive.
Son: Dad, are you going to drink less now?
Dad: No, son, now you are going to eat less.
Yep.

The key thing is contextual intent, but it's important to not memoryhole the origins of words that might otherwise be best left firmly in the past. Not like we're short of ways to describe things.
See also:

We just broke ground on America's first next-gen nuclear facility

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658852
Maybe or maybe not. I want to know what "significant" means in terms of stratosphere effects in DU/km^2 per kg of aluminum oxide.
"At the moment, I've applied this logic only to the supplement pages, but I am planning to extend it to the rest of the website."
Screen and tmux are almost the same these days. Screen used to not allow side-by-side splits, but it can do that too now.
IMO, discussion of website function ought to be always on-topic on HN.

My solution is simply to open every website (that I don't specifically want to be logged-in to) in incognito mode, accept all cookies, and close all the windows when I'm done.
3/4 of Australian tech workers will look for a new job over the next year
"Programming is Abstract Engineering Design"

"No physical limitations"

Is this how you get Electron apps? Mike Acton would have a thing or two to say here.
Yes, and we should also expect a heightened rate of a lot of these oddball diseases after Covid.

Frankly, I’m expecting a huge rise in the rate of Early onset Alzheimer’s.
ignorance is strength
> nothing critical has happened yet due to sanctions

The semiconductor shortage is militarily relevant, as are the increasing delays in repairing damaged refineries and power plants [1].

> current rate Putin can fund war indefenetely

Setting aside demographics, his war engine relies on oil, an increasingly-stranded asset [2]. (Over geopolitical time scales.)

Putin is blowing grandma’s inheritance on fast cars.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-sanctions-ham...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/12/big-oil-given-stark-warning-...
<< are still free to write their own manifestos, or make adult collages of the object of their fantasies. It just takes a bit more work.

This is the standard 'just start your own microservice/server/isp' and now it includes llm. Where does it end really?

The generic point is that it shouldn't take more work. A knife shouldn't come with a safety mechanism that automatically detects you are not actually cutting porkchop. It is just bad design and a bad idea. It undermines what it means to be a conscious human being.

Unless.. we don't agree on that and humans must be kept under close scrutiny to ensure they do not deviate from carefully scripted paths.
Yes, but it doesn't deteriorate in such a way as to cause someone speaking to sound like gibberish and/or random medium-frequency tones, which happens in nearly every single cell phone conversation I have that lasts more than 5 minutes.

My experience is that phone calls nowadays alternate between a much wider-band (and thus often better sounding) experience and "WTF was that just now?"
Precisely this
Drip irrigation is not that great for trees that need to develop its root systems (to gather more water, and to survive monsoon winds in the Southwest).

If you do drip irrigation for such trees, at the minimum, the drip would need to be expanded as the canopy expands, and/or use deep watering spikes.

Better would be a deep mulch basin with intermittent deep watering.

In Phoenix (which is mentioned in the article), people have a tendency to use hybrid palo verde, trim the trees so they are more like the idealization of trees rather than the canopy pattern found in the wildland, and then have xeriscaping in a way that doesn't promote root growth. Some people will drip irrigate. The result are trees that blow down easily with the monsoon winds (which occasionally turn to hurricane strength gusts). It's not too hard to get chip drops during monsoon season because of poor stewardship.

In the nearby local park, there were a number of trees planted. That's good ... but the placement was not carefully chosen. Some of them will grow to shade the west setting sun along pathways, which is great. But there were other trees that were grown within the canopy of the overstory trees -- they are not going to grow great. They were also planted by digging large holes to fit them, but without any understanding of how rainfall will collect. Turf was added back (grasses compete with trees to fight over whether it turns into grassland or forest), rather than using mulch basins; the only reason they will do ok is because the park services flood irrigates the park. Lastly, the tree species chosen didn't look like they were carefully considered.

Mainly, the program looks like it has metrics on the number of trees planted, but there was nothing in the program or policies about tree species selection, planting methods, consideration of sunlight and rainfall patterns.
Cars are used only 5% of the time, the rest of the day most of them sit around. They sit around in the sun, heat up and only disperse this heat during the night. Without those massive metal blocks in our streets, instead of large trees, the air could stay cooler during the day and night.
Show HN: Yubikey support in Xecrets Ez encryption app
I just released a version of Xecrets Ez that supports the YubiKey hardware token to make it easier to use a really strong password for file encryption.
I always thought it was a bit odd that we went from super-compute clusters built out of PS3 to the PS4/Xbone generation consoles being meh-grade laptop chips in a fancy case.
Great but how do you manage instability in the grid? German still need a huge volume of gas powered plant as there is not enough pumped storage or batteries to stabilize it.
Some of us Android devs would argue that literally blocking an app from running is little different than building an ecosystem designed to minimize non-Google Play methods of distribution.
Plotter is a drawing machine connected to a computer
That was a thing in a Black Mirror episode, I'm pretty sure
OpenAI does not power Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence will pass of queries to OpenAI (with explicit user permission) in certain circumstances where it feels OpenAI would have a better answer.
There is nothing wrong to say WTF and try to persuade the interlocutor that their idea is wrong. You can also argue that some ideas are not only wrong but if believed can lead to antisocial behaviors etc etc.

But unfortunately very often people don't have the patience to do this with a civil discussion and instead they cut the discussion short by just painting the interlocutor as somebody who must be a monster to even bring up such a topic in the first place.

And I understand why that's the case. Sometimes (often?) that's actually true. Sometimes we're just tired of bullshit flooding and rebuttal asymmetry.

But often I just think we're shutting down interesting explorations and we're ill-equipped as a society to have discussions which are truly hypothetical and neutral genuine devil-advocacy. Probably we're so much used to the abuse of those genuine techniques by people who just want to flood the scene with true bullshit.
Vaccines inject a measured quantity of antigen into your body.

The virus injects a massive quantity of antigens into your body.

If vaccines cause side effects, the side effects from the virus itself should be much worse.
How do you know? According to the article, you can have long term damage without having any symptoms.
This featured in one of the early episodes of Black Mirror and is still in the top 3 for how regularly I think about it happening in real life.
I am Irish on both sides of the family and live in Liverpool. Do you speak for me? No, you don't.

When my mum was born, there were still signs that said "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish", she remembers them vividly along with the problems they caused for her. The Troubles have been a big topic in our lifetimes, and there's still a lot of anti-Irish sentiment, even in Liverpool. My teens were ruined for being a redhead and there was never a single day I wasn't covered in bruises and cuts, and I was bullied out of education at sixteen and wanted to kill myself for who I was.

Every day, I look in the mirror and can see my broken nose and facial scars from having the bridge of my spectacles punched into my nose when I was knocked unconscious and beaten by other pupils. I won't ever forget.

I'm also Ashkenazi Jewish on both sides, Sudanese and Indigenous American, so if you'd like to continue gatekeeping my feelings, go ahead. I can guarantee it won't go well for you.
"Card Magicians Better Than Jason Ladanye"
They were originally hoping to use transpiration cooling, the tiles ended up being the fallback.
I'm the creator. Thanks for your comment. It's not about paranoid. It's critical thinking and I believe everybody should use it during the Internet epoch.

I'm not hiding and you can easily find me in social networks:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir-ikryanov-9334915/
- GitHub: https://github.com/vladimir-ikryanov

I will definitely need to share the source code of ClipBook, so anybody can analyze it or build their own copy of the app.
Yes, being rich affords you access to the right side of the bell curve
You need to go outside a little.
Or an analog wristwatch on with a mouse on top of it.
This would need to be dynamic, since a delay that works for a group of 1,000 would probably clutter a group of 100,000. And if all users post at the exact same time, slow mode doesn't help.

But maybe there's value in solving this problem :)

Interesting idea!
You know, whenever I see a company big shot giving some "all hands" presentation about how We All Need To Pull Together And Work Hard To Make This A Record Quarter, I can't help but think to myself, "Dude, your stock net worth just increased by $5 million in the last hour of you simply standing there, -existing- behind that podium. That's likely more money than I'll ever see in my entire life. Why exactly are you telling me to work hard and be so 'super engaged' as OP put it?"
like reptyr[1] or retty[2] does?

[1] https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr
[2] https://github.com/lkundrak/retty