skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that RFK is somehow an outsider trying to tear down monied interests is ludicrous.

Who do you think makes ivermectin!? How many gazillions of dollars is the supplement industry worth? RFK is out here saying that he is the only person saying people should exercise when every doctor on the goddamn planet is already saying that.
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It's common. Not guaranteed but achievable by most who are reasonably competent and prioritize compensation. Keep in mind however that people spending their spare time on HN are probably not representative of software engineers in general.

My first job out of college (BS CS) a few years ago paid $60k; I got lucky and transferred into ML in 2021 and now make around the median you found (which sounds pretty accurate from my experience).

Software in the US does pay quite well, even accounting for the cost of living, which is high but not exceptionally so - comparable to places like Denmark or Australia. The lack of safety nets is a downside though; you can be fired without cause, warning, or severance, and then you're own your own for healthcare as well.

(Oh and I should add that the tech job market here is currently atrocious. I know several people looking for work and not even getting interviews. Might get better, might not.)
The danger with a widely spread asymptomatic infection is that it might become symptomatic, or might be for some portion of the population. Or chickens.
Not surprising.

Economic war is coming between the EU and US companies once Trump imposes tariffs.

And Apple needs Trump and Musk as allies rather than enemies.
I think it boils down to the fact that intelligent, curious discussion on topics like this can’t be held on the internet.

Even on HN, the comments on the previous threads, and already in this thread too, are getting downvoted and flagged (mine will soon follow, I’m sure).

Politics is an internet trigger. It can draw out the worst in even the most otherwise civil people.
That’s an interesting counter example. I agree to an extent, but I also point out that only in semiconductor work is it normal to have factory shifts of technicians who have PhDs.
Most academics teach in departments that don’t grant phds. They’re at liberal arts Colleges or regional state universities. True that statistically only a small percentage of grad students will go on to have their own PhD students, but that doesn’t mean there are no jobs for the rest.
I would differentiate your scenario in five ways.

First, the risk is higher. When a vulnerability has a public patch, it means the nature of the vulnerability is also public. Sometimes there is even public exploit code. While attackers sometimes find their own vulnerabilities (zero-days), it makes their job a lot easier if they can just use an already-known vulnerability.

Second, if the code was part of the OBS project, then anyone reporting security bugs in the code would report them to OBS. OBS would then be able to quickly release a security update if they decided the issue warranted it. But since Qt is external, security bugs will be reported to Qt, and it’s unlikely anyone from OBS will hear about these reports. So there is no process for the project to respond with quick fixes even for severe issues. That is, unless they have someone watching the list of CVEs - but that seems unlikely.

Third, if the OBS project had written the code, then it would be reasonably likely that someone on the project knew the code well enough to properly maintain it over time. This isn’t always true. Sometimes projects are stuck with huge piles of code that nobody wants to touch, whose author has left the project, or perhaps just forgotten how it works. But it’s true more often than not. In contrast, most projects don’t engage with their dependencies’ source code to such an extent, especially not for something as huge as Qt.

Fourth, on a related note, vulnerabilities often come from newly written code. Probably the biggest reason for this is that security bugs often double as regular bugs, causing crashes or other issues for normal users. This isn’t true for all security bugs: a decent chunk of them have very specific triggering conditions that are essentially impossible to produce by accident. But it’s true for many. If OBS really had left the code untouched for 5 years, then that would probably be because the code worked pretty well. Maybe it’s legacy, maybe it’s not well-maintained, but if the issues it’s causing were really bad, someone would have gone in and fixed it. That in turn reduces the chance of security bugs somewhat. In reality, OBS actually is regularly updating Qt and thus pulling in new code that may not be well tested. (But not regularly enough to be up-to-date with security fixes.)

Fifth… at the risk of sounding entitled, it’s not just about the risk but also about the potential upside. If there are security bugs in OBS-specific code, that’s bad, but all the ways to improve the situation involve doing OBS-specific hard work. With Qt, there is already someone else doing the job of finding and fixing security vulnerabilities; OBS “only” has to pull in the fixes. In practice, of course, it’s more complicated than that. But if we have a system where it’s Hard to pull in security fixes that someone else has found, well, maybe that’s not OBS’s fault, but that does mean it’s a bad system. We should aspire to do better.
I universally use column positions in the GROUP BY.

SELECT name, count(*)
FROM account
GROUP BY 1

That is still annoying, but requires less typing+modification.
The current administration's approval rating and actions are already extremely aberrational.
No. However its replacement (Nova) is.
It was profitable to do so a year ago, it was simply dangerous politically. Now given Trump is in office and aligned with Musk, it’s politically beneficial.

That seems to be the truth.
If someone wants to SWAT the Asahi Linux team, there is nothing the HackerNews moderation team can do to stop him.
Tried their SaaS the day they launched and it was definitely very interesting
Debian users frequently report bugs to upstream and not Debian.
There's a difference between "not politically-loaded decades ago" and "not politically-loaded now".

We still let people use the Swastika if they had a harmless tradition of using it beforetime. But if anybody new uses it, we assume it's because of the murder.
TikTok is back in the App Store
If anything it's politically dangerous not to advertise there.
The world is healing.

Seriously though, I certainly don’t want my companies to have political ideologies. Follow the law, be good to customers and serve everyone.
Just remember. For every person like you who thinks they are righteous by boycotting Apple because they want to advertise on X, there is someone on the opposite side of the fence who now support Apple again.
The nazi salute is a fact, the question is where do you draw the line. Is his nazism okay because it's a joke? Not that big a deal for other reasons? I admit it's difficult for me to steelman here because the best arguments I can come up with for him are unconvincing.

If you feel the need to defend the salute I would suggest digging into that.
That's how we work. We're officially a "remote-first" company, in that nobody is required to come into the office or work at specific times of day unless their work physically requires it. People still come in most days because we have nice big monitors and it's hard to get parts off the 3D printer remotely. (It still feels sci-fi as hell to be able to design a part and start printing it, all from the pub, though!)
Oh wow, it’s exciting to see the same idea catching on for other platforms. And thank you so much for sharing your hard work - I’m loving the huge new influx of GB(C) games thanks to the community that sprung up around your project!
I don't think that's the clue here. The clue is calling out such behaviour.

Maybe that's already something that people do, and the banner does nothing. Or maybe it's not something people do, and maybe some people start doing it, and then the banner does something.
But we already have widespread flus every year — which aren’t asymptomatic.

How does this compare?
> and it's distinct from "absolute pitch" because people with "absolute pitch" don't try to remember a sound and match it up. They just know what a D sounds like abstractly and can identify any D based on that feeling. It would be like the difference between me knowing what green and red look like, and me identifying green and red things by imagining whether they look similar to traffic lights.

What you're describing is the same concept as fluency in a language. You're at the place where you are still translating the language in your head, but once someone becomes fluent it just comes out in the second language.

That there exists a lower bar of skill is actually evidence that it is a learned skill, not evidence that the higher bar is only attainable by some select few who were chosen by genetics or something. We'd expect it to be relatively teachable to young children and rather difficult to pick up as an adult, like languages, and that's pretty much what I've seen in my experience with a lot of very musical people.
Are these the same Republicans who now ban the use of certain words, the same Musk said cis and cisgender are considered slur words on Twitter?
But for some types of meat, they are voluntarily ordered undercooked, such as steak, eggs, even burgers.
His pay sounds small in retrospect and hardly compares to what Elon extracts from Tesla, but still deemed high by Japan's standards where employee's jobs are considered sacrosanct in a more just system. Ultimately that was why he was hired in the first place, and Nissan needed such a outsider at a critical moment to reform themselves but didn't learn from it unfortunately.

Asianometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsL6JAUZFiQ
Most users' "threat model" is loss from actually losing things, or doing dumb things to themselves. They expect Apple to fix that.

Apple understands this, and in most markets there's a Genius Bar somewhere near the user, with technology letting Apple help them.

If your model is something else, they also have your back.

> remember that enabling advanced data protection just means they'll get your conversations from the other partys' iCloud backups

Conversations may have a counterparty not using ADP, your data storage probably doesn't.

And yes, who else can see things is very important. People show others "your" messages on their phones all the time, the more unfortunate the message, the more likely they are to overshare. Very much worth remembering they have copies of the same discussion, for this, and for backups.

While ADP won't solve betrayal of trust through analog sharing or digital resharing, Apple DO have a way to ensure your message is only between you and a personally verified counterparty:

- iMessage Contact Key Verification: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118246

After that, trust is up to you, or use a different app – knowing it can still be shown.
Stablecoins Will Both Replace and Entrench the Dollar
The corollary is that advertising on X is now profitable for Apple. Which is useful information.

Of course companies put money before political ideology, as a public company, it can be considered an obligation to their shareholders. The part that matters is that their customers may have political ideologies, and it is important for a company to match the ideologies of the customers who make them the most money, at least in appearance.
At the end of the day, both stores acquiesced to a dictator instead of following the law.
The Deterministic Brain: Why You Can't Predict Your Own Decisions
This has nothing to do with Musk’s views or X’s objectionable content.

It’s about buying support from Musk who is right now the CEO in Chief.
(Probably bc I'm dumb) I'm very confused by this paper. The dimensions are all over the place: first they say M is a N x d x d matrix, then it becomes N x d. And then they are trying to scale M with g_out and add it to E_attn which is a T x d matrix??? Are the gates scalars or vectors or matrices? If they are matrices then the dimensions also don't line up to M
The First Amendment says the government can’t arrest you for peacefully assembling. It doesn’t say that taxpayers have to give funding to old money private schools. Maybe if there were financial consequences for discrimination they would take a more skeptical look at the value of this “cultural transmission gradient”.
for a couple reasons:

1) because it can mutate and develop new and different symptoms (c.f., yearly flu)

2) because the lack of testing/symptoms means its more difficult to identify and track (c.f., early covid)

3) because people can be infectious without knowing and pass it along...see 1

4) because no symptoms now doesn't mean it does not cause harm (c.f., HPV and cervical cancer)
I can't believe some people eat those without washing it themselves. Might as well be a petri dish if there's a time when the refrigeration isn't on during transit.
I agree you should be able to research these topics. But if I ask chatGPT if the polio vaccine works, how do you think it should respond?

What if I ask it if the world is a globe (also something I see debated hotly on my facebook feed for some reason)?
The "blue" is specifically about police, so it is not as generic as you make it out to be.
There's a lot of room between a loose union of independent countries, like EU, and a federal system like in US. There's a huge difference between a state like California, and a state like Louisiana. Perhaps we should let them govern themselves more.

Re: Twitter - did it lose its revenue because of the layoffs, or because of some stupid things Elon said/did?
The closing sentence summarizes the article:

> Rooftop solar offers an alternative to a monopoly that can no longer be considered natural.

Electricity generation can no longer be considered a natural monopoly. That sounds like an endorsement of rooftop solar.
The left can’t understand people exist with a different view point or even fathom the concept that they could be wrong.
I've seen plenty of [dead] political comments and then some people complain that HN has a very biased definition of what is and is not political. Ultimately I don't think there's anything to do about this; there will always be people who don't like the rules.
This contract has not been upheld in practice for a very long time. Users will go straight to upstream a lot of the time.
> The academic pyramid was never sustainable

Theoretically it wasn't, or every human on Earth would be a PhD candidate within the century.

However there was a period after WW2 where a lot of empty professor chairs needed to be filled and so I believe that people came to expect the growth. So for example you would have the post-war generation push their kids into it, saying "but of course you can be a professor like me, they will be beating down your door to get you hired!" But of course that seems to have stopped around the end of the century.
The burden of proof isn't on maintainers. Recognizing new, untried code invariably means bugs and instability to work through, often for questionable gains, is a mark of an experienced developer. Work your way through enough industry hype cycles and you'll see, new shit just causes new and usually weirder problems than whatever it was intended to replace.
Police can serve the community - but people who use the reference "thin blue line" are casting police as combatants rather than public servants.
And what was it about before?
There should be a law in place whereby if you a prove a company was engaged in profitable advertising or activities and stopped doing those activities in response to political stances the company can be prosecuted.

Not sure where this would fit into the law though something like this would certainly curtail cancel culture like activity.
VS Code is the main way I use Phind. I love it as a way to assist my learning to code.
https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/02/cisco_vulnerabilities...

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-a...

Either Cisco is the most incompetent security company and should be excluded from any state use or at least some of the „errors“ are one purpose.
Libreoffice doesn't crash and doesn't mangle documents when opening them. When was the last time you used it?
They left because of fears about reputation damage, but since no one cares about reputations right now, there’s nothing to fear anymore. Might as well pick up a few additional sales.
>Onedrive is fine, but dropbox is not for some reason

As far as I know, it's possible to get OneDrive even HIIPA compliant, but I don't think so for Dropbox.
In my experience, mostly themselves.
We won't know until the incident investigation is completed but it's worth pointing out that an aircraft carrier at speed requires a lot of space to turn or stop. In a crowded area with crossing traffic all ships rely on other ships reasonably maintaining speed and direction.

For example, if they were passing each other in opposite directions in a marked channel, each ship is responsible for staying to the right of oncoming traffic. If the other ship veered into the carrier's path, it's like an oncoming car swerving across the yellow line on an undivided road.
I know it is not ideal but could you do a one-time $5 week trial? Or simply a $5.99 per week plan?
That’s a fair point, though I would be surprised if it made a huge difference. The actual survey question was: “Do you consider yourself a member of a group that is underrepresented or marginalized in technology?” I would expect most members of a minority to consider themselves underrepresented just by virtue of being a minority. And as the choice of groups was explicitly given, I assume that the survey allowed to view the groups and then go back to answering the first question.
Terrible decision. This is a huge national security problem and the decision by these companies to restore it at the same time shows complicity in violating the PAFACA bill and also coordinated collusion between the App Store duopolies.

Trump needs to enforce PAFACA, not allow China to undermine America. It had strong bipartisan support and SCOTUS upheld it unanimously. It’s the law. Not enforcing it is a slap in the face of both parties and their voters.
A lot of these are bots.
> The new-school guys want to make things better in a new way.

The new guys definitely want to make things different, but it seems there is a lot of debate over whether it will actually be better. Really, they should just write their own their kernel. If rust is really that much better, they'll will.
One of the comments in the main thread says that the original vision for the fedora flatpaks was to be mainly for things that fedora wanted to have tight control and be preinstalled in their distros (Firefox, LibreOffice, GNOME and apps, etc...), which makes a lot of sense, but at some point it lost their original vision and started packaging everything under the sun.

In another comment someone says that most of the extra packages are maintained by a single person (more than 700), there's no way a single person can validate and test all these packages (or even use them).
How to Make a Universe
> The old-school guys want to keep things old-school.

You are missing the whole point here. The kernel is a survival epic amongst millions of other failed projects. You don't get to tell the old captain and its lieutenants how to nail the planks and helm the ship when you just went pass the Titanic and Britannic wrecks because metal is so cool.

They're "old-school" because they have to be. Engineers will excrete their pet project and then leave and now they will have to support it. They are mean because that's the only "power" they have, as is explained in the post.

I'll leave you with this quote from "The Night Watch" by James Mickens (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf)

> This is not the world of the systems hacker. When you debug a
distributed system or an OS kernel, you do it Texas-style. You
gather some mean, stoic people, people who have seen things
die, and you get some primitive tools, like a compass and a
rucksack and a stick that’s pointed on one end, and you walk
into the wilderness and you look for trouble, possibly while
using chewing tobacco. As a systems hacker, you must be pre-
pared to do savage things, unspeakable things, to kill runaway
threads with your bare hands, to write directly to network
ports using telnet and an old copy of an RFC that you found in
the Vatican. When you debug systems code, there are no high-
level debates about font choices and the best kind of turquoise,
because this is the Old Testament, an angry and monochro-
matic world, and it doesn’t matter whether your Arial is Bold
or Condensed when people are covered in boils and pestilence
and Egyptian pharaoh oppression. HCI people discover bugs
by receiving a concerned email from their therapist. Systems
people discover bugs by waking up and discovering that their
first-born children are missing and “ETIMEDOUT ” has been
written in blood on the wall.
What is despair? I have known it—hear my song. Despair is
when you’re debugging a kernel driver and you look at a mem-
ory dump and you see that a pointer has a value of 7. THERE IS
NO HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE THAT IS ALIGNED ON
7. Furthermore, 7 IS TOO SMALL AND ONLY EVIL CODE
WOULD TRY TO ACCESS SMALL NUMBER MEMORY.
Misaligned, small-number memory accesses have stolen
decades from my life. The only things worse than misaligned,
small-number memory accesses are accesses with aligned buf-
fer pointers, but impossibly large buffer lengths. Nothing ruins
a Friday at 5 P.M. faster than taking one last pass through the
log file and discovering a word-aligned buffer address, but a
buffer length of NUMBER OF ELECTRONS IN THE UNI-
VERSE.
This Is the Age of the Coward
I cannot even tell you how many glorious memories this brings up! Thanks for a walk down memory lane.
As a software engineer, PhD is worth it if you know what you are getting into. Especially now that job market is saturated, it definitely helps your career. It's a long journey but it's worth it if you know what you are doing.
If you look at Cruz's the spreadsheet you'll see that there are DEI categories for the grants and they don't match the OP's complaints (which posits they're included for sex or race keywords).

The first one is labeled with "STATUS" & "JUSTICE" and the grant says:
THIS PROJECT ALSO INCLUDES A PLAN TO CREATE VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY STUDENTS TO PROMOTE DIVERSITY IN THE WORKFORCE.

The second is labeled with "STATUS" and the grant says:
STUDENTS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS IN STEM FIELDS ARE ALSO A KEY FOCUS

The third is labeled with "JUSTICE" and the grant says:
... WILL EMBED ITS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION PRACTICES INTO ITS EVERYDAY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES...

Literally every grant I click through has similar text in it.
In case you weren't already pissed here's some more readings!
Also left out SoDoSoPa
There was a seminar given to the breast cancer society by an epidemiologist years who who presented them with a scenario:

Prevalence of breast cancer: 1%

Sensitivity (percent of people who have the disease test positive): 90%

Specificity (percent of people without the disease test negative): 91%

And asked, "How many people who test positive have the disease?" (i.e., positive predictive value)

It's only 1/11. I think only 20% got it right (in a 4 answer multiple choice question)