skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the median is much much lower, there are a couple of thousand individual contributor SWEs (non-managers) between Google, Meta and a few other big-ish tech companies who make >$1 million/year (steady state, does not depend upon recent run ups in stock prices), with a couple of hundred of those above $4 million/year even. The risk/reward for joining a startup is very skewed in terms of risk in these cases.
100% agree with this on all points.
I know that individual instances happened, but with the amount of rupees that Moscow now owns, I'd expect to see a whole army raised...
I use remote notebook and just connect to it.

The key to out of order problem is simple: once a piece of code works - save it in .py module and import it. Very little discipline is required to achieve significant productivity gain.

That way notebook is always clean and tidy and always resembles a “pseudo code”, with implementation detail hidden in modules (that were tested and are working).
Mostly not having caches.
I think there is. In this case we have to clarify that an optimal strategy can still lose due to random chance, so the optimal strategy will only be clear after some large number of games.
Sharing a drawing machine I designed and wrote about a few years ago but never published: an analog mechanism for producing digital conic projection perspectives inspired by Piero Della Francesca’s “Other Method,” which is essentially a 15th century drawing algorithm for sampling a point cloud and representing it in 2D perspective. I can convert this into a blog post if people are interested. Unfortunately my professor kept the actual machine for their “collection”…

Write up/reflections: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wz86p0z0exxlaj5omhtfa/the-oth...

Abstracted visualization of the algorithm and animation of the mechanism: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pst87255tjt9nvpqwloyp/the-oth...
Location: Vancouver, BC
Remote: Yes, hybrid works as well
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: JavaScript, React, Express, Git, Node.js, Mongo, Python, Java
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u8pWt2LnTR57BWVk_Le66X0dX0vIjgs8/view?usp=sharing
Email: memm.milad@gmail.com

Hi, my name is Milad Mehri, currently studying for my B.Sc in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. I have developed several projects using Typescript, Javascript, and React, including interactive games and websites. Most of them can be found on my github: https://github.com/milad-mehri .
I am interested in any position that will provide me with a hands-on opportunity to develop new skills and learn more about the tech industry.
It would be nice if the government did what they did with GM... Hostile take over, clean house, restart and eventually release.

Maybe people have a negative impression of the GM take over, but it was the best option and "worked".
Httpstat: It's like curl -v, with colours
High humidity and the climate it's UK like. If avocado can grow up in Wales/Ireland, it might work under Galicia. Still, it's prone to speculation and it needs tons of water, something the Eastern of the country is not short of.
The parents that actually care need to get together and decide collectively on timeframes for phone use so the kids can text/social with time limits. Then enforce it with on-device parental controls.

Maybe 45 minutes before school each morning and 1 hour the evening or something.
Databricks themselves open-sourced it: https://www.datanami.com/this-just-in/databricks-open-source...
OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board
Fascinating. I started to instinctively "scroll" with my tongue while reading the article - felt really intuitive.
I too was primed for the Bill Gates (?) quote about change in a year vs a decade.
Well, "control" is a fuzzy zone. There's temptation, confusion, marketing... I mean, you choose which direction to swim but there's also a current to contend with. It can be a fight.
Elon Musk's $56B Pay Package at Tesla Approved In Shareholder Vote
n=1 but i didn't have a smartphone until halfway through senior year of hs (2013-2014) whereas most of my peers had one from 2010 onwards. i wouldn't say socially stunted but popularity wise i would say not a full member of the social groups i was tangentially in, not in any group chats, etc.

deep 1-1 connections for the most part because yeah i was texting and messaging people but other than that...i think it's probably only worse now. there are group chats/discords for each social group probably and not having a smartphone would mean you can't participate.
How many times did he pass the onramp?
Early in the iOS Face ID cycle I saw this play out with a parent and child where the parent would make a funny face each time the child held the phone up to the parent's face, defeating the biometric.
Consider the source.

And the same deals Dems have been making for decades too.
Riyadh would prefer the one willing to sell secrets for a couple of million dollars.
Re: "... as long as the government is managing things reasonably."

Bingo!

The issue is, especially in Canada, which people don't seem to know is a "free" healthcare system structured fundamentally differently than the other more successful systems.

The primary issues I believe are rigid centralization - along with nepotism, and the single point of failure-capture that is then possible in a highly controlled-centralized system, where the people - the voters - get no say; e.g. when the health system doesn't have elected administrators.

In the US, I believe most states and cities, judges and police captains are elected? In Canada, we don't have that even.

There are pros and cons to "both" systems, and there are solutions to better select for the pros in both.
Exactly. Its unfortunate that this is the way the world works...but we hope that the MouthPad^ can change that tired script! Universal design benefits us all, not just those at the extremes -- we should all care. See the history of curb cuts on our sidewalks as a small example.
we did, there were at least 3 kickstarters (of which i ran one) but not enough people were interested.
> an overwhelming focus on compliance rather than actual good security practices

Yes, this is sad and mostly a waste of time.

However (and perhaps it is what you meant) this is a direct reaction to the lack of that cultural shift towards caring about security.

So security teams are mostly left with two choices. One, argue for building secure products because security matters (and be laughed out of the room). Or two, argue for compliance with what the auditors require and that at least move the needle a tiny bit toward security (sometimes).
Aphantasia is objectively measurable. Aphants lack a pupil response to “imagining” shapes of various brightness. They also lack the measurable “stress/anxiety” response to anxiety provoking written passages, but not images.

If any part of your imagination is like the experience of seeing, you probably don’t have it.
Is the storage savings worth this added complexity vs just using normalized strings? What do you do when it needs to store `*555` in such a field? To me, in 2024, this seems like using a bitmask in a database to pack a bunch of bools into a single byte: technically it could be perfectly valid (ignoring the example above), but you're probably going to ruin someone's day who comes along after you and just wants things to work.
Google is know for testing features in a small number of users (where small is perhaps a few millons). Perhaps they roll a dice and you were the lucky tested of the feature, and the second time you were unlucky.
My feeling is that discussion of this issue includes a lot of people implying things, making vague accusations. I feel it’s useful to get specific about the claims so readers can understand them.
>The interviewer points out that Sony's PlayStation 3 is viewed as one of its least successful consoles, which is true. The PlayStation 3 pretty much lost the generation handily to Nintendo's cheap, casual-friendly Wii and Microsoft's less powerful but easier Xbox 360.

In Europe, PS3 was widely popular especially in conjunction with Call of Duty because Xbox never really gained ground in EU, at least that was my impression growing up as an EU gamer. Wii was also popular af at the time but PS3 and Wii buyers were different audience, Wii was more casual type of gaming and it was suitable for family gaming while PS3 was for more serious gamers who played more hardcorish titles like COD, FIFA and PES and ofc there was and is PC master race for real hardcore gamers.
Yeah this, was it "orange"?
Clearly we have different priorities and I've failed to convince you. Which is fine.

Hopefully enough folks do prioritize browser engine diversity, so we aren't stuck with no significant alternative.
I don't think what you say is the case. The petrodollar isn't something minor. The role of both oil and the currency used internationally for trade can hardly be understated in history.

It won't lead to much in the short term, that's certain. A boat as big as the global economy doesn't steer quickly. But in the long term it very well could. Or it could not, if the USA makes sure to keep the dollar in the center of world trade in other ways.
With how small cameras are these days, you can buy a pinhole camera and tuck it into your shirt and record everything without anyone being the wiser. Face as biometrics doesn't really work. Mother's and daughters and twins have similar enough face shapes to fool FaceID.
While snowboarding or skiing, it is difficult to control music playback because bulky gloves are being worn. Cycling might be another sport where you want to control music without taking your hands off the handlebars. A single button (like tapping an earbud) that could be gently bit down on could control song playback. Prior art for this type of device would be something like this: https://www.airturn.com/products/airturn-bite-switch-remote-...
Yep, millennial teenagers in my area were all over LiveJournal/Myspace/Xanga in the early aughts.

And if one considers messengers like ICQ/AIM (or even IRC) as a form of social media then teenagers were commonly (in my area) using social media in the late 90s.
Apple Reportedly Not Paying OpenAI to Use ChatGPT in iOS 18
Idk how to say this exactly, but one thing I've learned from playing online MP games is that people aren't socializing on them, they're just being antisocial as a group.
What customer has *555 as their phone number?

Edited to add:

It does depend on what you are doing with the numbers. Focussing on the storage side is missing the point. It’s about the ambiguity. In general I’ve found that anything other than integers is a mistake.

For example, *555 is not a valid phone number. You can’t put it in a tel: URL and you can’t dial it or send a text to it. It will work only in limited situations. If you want to store an extension it should be a separate field.

Once you realise that phone numbers are functional, almost exactly like IP addresses, you realise that storing them as integers has benefits because that way you literally are unable to store useless data.

Once you get in the habit of using only e164 numbers, the phone number becomes usable in almost any context, and you can make functional assumptions about it.

As an aside, it’s much easier to create fast and small prefix indexes on integers, but that’s a different story…
I suspect it’s a couple things. First, the skill gap - maybe someone begins needing assistive tech and has no idea how to start making. Second, perspective - as an able-bodied techy, I lack the understanding of the problem to build the right thing. Third, communication - can the one in need describe their need? This really requires reflection, and maybe skill. And lastly: money - how many of is can afford to work for months or years on a project that doesn’t (and likely won’t) pay?
Discussion [0] (176 points, yesterday, 206 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40659281
I like how the first US number does not have enough digits to be valid.
That's what my colleague is telling his boss.
He doesn't even want a raise. He just wants income adjustment to keep the same buying power he had 4 years ago.
> You have completely managed endpoints, strong hardening of the endpoint and complete inventorization of all the resources in the organization. You have certificates installed onto each device. You have an ACL engine that determines whether a user should get access to a particular resource.

None of those are “solved” for any mid or large-sized enterprise where tech isn’t their code competency. In fact, I’d say most of these are insurmountably hard.

This is a “draw the whole owl” kind of response. Its very well to say that you can do things differently, but imagine Shaw Industries (22k employees, largest carpet/flooring manufacturer in the USA) doing any of that.
At least three times. I kind of lost count as I got this growing feeling of simultaneously being irritated and having pity for the guy.
Now that some time has passed we can look at the anti-vax debate with less polarization and more nuance. It has been an eye-opening experience for me to attempt some objectivity here. At first I was a 'good citizen', took the vaccine doses, and I found it hard to appreciate the perspectives of the anti vaxers: they seemed hysterical, and so much conspiracy theory, with dodgy links to the far right. But some people did die from vaccine doses. Many countries withdrew the AstraZeneca vaccine due to safety and efficacy concerns. My brother had one dose of this and believes it almost killed him with blood clots in his brain. I myself have had effects in my heart (I was on Moderna vax). Then there are the concerns about government and big pharma disinformation, and the extraordinary amounts of profit being made. Formerly I would have dismissed the parent comment but now I'm open minded. My beliefs now have shifted somewhat to be undecided, certainly a lot more sceptical about the vaccines. In such a morass of disinformation we have to work out our own truths. For me, I believe on the balance of probability, and relating to my own experience, it's more likely that my heart issues were caused by COVID rather than the vaccine. But I also decided to not get the booster jabs.
I'm willing to bet that you knowing NixOS is going to make Debian installation a completely easy and smooth experience. If you can use Debian stable, you are going to setup a rock solid system for your parents. If you can start the installation by using an Ethernet cable instead of wireless, I think you will have an easier time, but once you get all the updates complete you should be able to switch over to wireless fairly easily. With Debian stable, it really doesn't take very much time to figure out if you're going to have hardware issues within an hour or so of beginning installation. This is coming from someone that seems to have less knowledge than you do about Linux, and has also installed systems for people that were not very forgiving when things go wrong. I suggest starting with Debian stable because security is backported, and if you can get it running within approximately an hour, you should be good for quite a while. That's not to discount what everyone else has said here, just my experience as someone that is closer to a "consumer" level of Debian usage than a sysop. I did get into Linux with Red Hat in the 90's, and have dealt with the pain of manual configuration, but haven't had to deal with it in over 10 years now. I mostly deal with Windows and .NET development now, but am looking to get back into Linux now that I can make use of .NET and drop server costs and resource usage.
For the updated NYT URL - https://archive.ph/Sfxon
That's not accurate. They retired SICP and added a new introductory course [1] based on Python to placate the suits. Neither Sussman nor any of the other SICP folk is involved with that.

Sussman created a follow-up course to SICP [2] which is still based on Lisp and still being offered today.

[1] https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11127

[2] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/
Disagree. I thought there's a part in the story where the narrator talks about the inability to change the future. she knew her daughter would die in a fall and couldn't change it
There isn't anything like that currently - The integration that's been announced/shown is more like the current fallback in Siri of "Would you like me to Google that for you?"
I'm willing to bet that social dynamics around phones at high school in 2024 are markedly different from 2014.
Ah, nice solution to prevent the cookies persisting. But I'd rather simply not give them my attention, if they're going to treat their audience with such contempt.
that'll do it. Thanks william
It looks like you don't understand how torrenting works and what "helping by seeding torrents" means.
Unless there's a comment I'm missing, I don't see anyone recommending deep learning and neural networks. Comments such as "the AI is making really bad plays" mean in the videogame sense (the CPU player), as far as I can tell - which was just a simple heuristic in the original.
Speaking of group chats, I recalled an interesting story how MSN Messenger lost Chinese market. Back in 2003ish, MSN Messenger was THE shit in China. QQ, the competitor of MSN Messenger by Tencent, was losing ground rapidly, especially to white-collar users in big cities. To Microsoft, MSN Messenger probably was a toy, but to Tencent it was life and death. So QQ launched group chat. In addition, QQ Group Chat allowed users to drop any images, including GIFs into a chat. And man, that feature killed. Hundreds of millions of users got hooked. It was just so much fun to be creative and spread memes using this features. In the meantime, what was MSN Messenger's response? Absolutely nothing. No, it's worse than nothing. It was insulting. If I dropped a gif to a chat, MSN Messenger would always convert the gif into a 8x8 icon, and sometimes turned that gif into a static image. BTW, I'm not sure why, but big techs in the US somehow couldn't get Chinese market. Case in point, the emojis in all the chat apps, be it Apple's or Meta's or Google's or whatever, are just ugly and not expressive, when compared to WeChat's, let alone QQ's. Of course, as a Chinese user I'm biased, but that's the point: very few Chinese natives like the emojis offered by western countries (and I guess vice versa).

And then, well, there's no "and then". The rest was history. MSN Messenger quickly became a niche and lost its user base. It made Chinese companies realized that they had a chance to out compete behemoths like Microsoft, by moving fast, by moving decisively, and by being creative to fit the psyche of Chinese market.
An internal extension on your PBX
Not even a good try. Let's wait till sora comes up.
For the US not much will change in the short or medium term because the pact was about exclusive dollar payment for energy deal. But this will open up the road for Saudis and OPEC to speed up dedollarisation and diverse their currency reserves(ruble, dollar and Yuan), they already made the steps by accepting Yuan some year ago. Russian Central back also today announced that Yuan will be the main foreign trade currency instead of the Euro and dollar. That pretty much means China has free flow access to energy, food and maybe weapons/shells if needed for a war.
Discussion [0] (53 points, 12 hours ago, 67comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40667416
I'm sure it varies. The peals of laughter coming from her room suggest her experience is different.
Challenge: surreptitiously press your lock button five times while being accosted or outright assaulted by one or more police officers.
Their plugins are a (very) mixed bag, but saying to not use their products is a bit too alarmist if you ask me - the baseline IDE is doing fairly well, and teamcity and doing your GitHub-specific PR-stuff from within intelliJ is kind of niche overall I would assume (I've never used either, only the stock git client they have)
tracking attention when you're driving is everyone's business. I'd rather you have a camera in your car making sure you're looking at the road, than have to drive next to someone who is on their cellphone and is trusting the self driving feature of their car.
where are you building them? How much does it cost to build?
Russia has had Baltic states right on their borders for 20 years since they joined NATO. So if this was their plan it’s out the window regardless.

Russia wants to regain its "lost" territories, started with annexation of tchetchenia (2 wars), annexation of parts of Georgia, and annexation of Crimea. Ukraine was next regardless. They already annexed the break away republics of Ukraine, and even land that they since lost.

No need for pretexts (NATO, denazification, biolabs, or protection of Ukraine ethnic Russians) to explain Ukraine invasion. Ukraine not ruling out joining NATO meant they had to invade while they could, or let go the dream of a glorious Grand Russia.

I mean, they don’t even hide it, it’s all over their state TV networks, with propagandists telling things like "Europe will be ours", "To Berlin", and "The world belongs to the superior Russian race". It’s textbook fascism, state-sponsored, casual, on modern TV shows. I find it disturbing that some still think they are the victim and it’s all about NATO imperialism. When was the last time some NATO country annexed some land?
> US oil is fracked

About two thirds [1].

> the US runs on diesel. We don't produce much heavy oil so we import it

Diesel is a medium-weight distillate; we can turn light oil into it fine. We refine most of our diesel and import the balance from Canada [2].

> Fracking, anyway, is an economic mirage enabled by cheap credit and expensive oil

Our production costs mirror Russia’s [3][4]. (They’re dwarfed by Saudi Arabia’s fiscal break even.)

Consider citing your comments. I’ve sometimes started writing something as riddled with errors as yours, only to find myself corrected when searching for citations.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=847&t=6

[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/diesel-fuel/where-our-di...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/748207/breakeven-prices-...

[4] https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/At-What-Level-Will-Sau...
I once had a VPN utility that HAD to be closed with a Keyboard Interrupt in order for it to shut-off properly, so my systemd setup for it didn’t work. I ended up making bash aliases for tmux commands to run it and send the keyboard interrupt signal into it to stop it. I’m sure there was a way to do this with systemd, but tmux was easy, if a bit jank.
> I theorize it's the wage gap. Why bust your ass for a company that makes millions or more, when the wage you get as an employee will not even allow you to buy a roof over your head?

Something related I heard yesterday during consulting in a client:

"Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why my code, comes from AI"
My favorite book in the Bible. King Solomon's history is fascinating.