skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get paid more gross in NYC than Seattle, but the take-home is less due to taxes. Cost of living is also approximately double. I did the math last year -- offer was 5% higher in NYC, but the after-tax and living disposable income was 50% higher in Seattle.

2/3rd the gross pay in Austin probably gives a significant "raise" in terms of relative standard of living and maybe 1/4 the money in many parts of Asia would move you even higher.

All I'm saying is that Average Salary is probably a bad way to compare across geographies.
A Spanner setup that will outperform PostgreSQL on a hefty x86 box will run you close to 150-200K a month.
Why you leave?!
How does `cd` work?
I think this is an inaccurate view of witch. How did you come to your understanding?
In NYC?

I think he might find work in some HFT specialty firms looking at custom hardware. But yeah I’d be looking at SF or even Boston to leverage the EE degree.

My guess is a bootcamp would help out on the resume.
"All remaining explanations being of equal probability, the stupidest one is the most likely explanation."
AWS SSM pretty decent as a middle ground.
"When scientists tried to gestate mice outside the womb, they expected the embryos to wither, deprived of the surface that had evolved to nurture them. To their shock they found instead that – implanted in the brain, testis or eye of a mouse – the embryo went wild. Placental cells rampaged through surrounding tissues, slaughtering everything in their path as they hunted for arteries to sate their thirst for nutrients. It’s no accident that many of the same genes active in embryonic development have been implicated in cancer. Pregnancy is a lot more like war than we might care to admit."

I found this paragraph particularly interesting. Squared with the claim later on that increased access to blood and nutrients might be responsible for our large brains, I wonder if it might be possible to create ultra intelligent mammals by allowing unfettered access to nutrients.
I don't drink coffee but drink 1 to 3 bottles(0.5L each) of club-mate. It contains caffeine and is not well known to the general public but is in the Berlin techno and hacker scene.
I’m not convinced that productivity is a virtue for software engineers.

I have production code running untouched for over 8 years that was produced in the laziest straight forward way as possible, simply because I didn’t feel like working so hard. Indeed, I delayed writing any code until I came up with an idea of the minimum amount of code I could get away with, then I minimized that some more. I’ve eliminated entire features by simply procrastinating them until people realized they didn’t actually need them.

Would a crackhead engineer stop and reflect on the best use of their personal time on this Earth? Probably not, they’d probably just bull through and slave away to “get things done” at the altar of productivity.
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Well, obviously I haven't! The trouble is, it's very hard to find trousers that do fit properly. Generally speaking, trousers that will fit even passably around the thighs/butt will be loose at the waist, so after I exhaust my shopping motivation I end up with a compromise that I can get into but I know isn't a perfect fit by any means. The current slim-fit fashion certainly doesn't help.

Dress pants have been my best bet, but the brands and models I've found to fit tend to come in a very limited range of fabrics - black all around!
I've always heard it called the "slav squat".
> (would there even be an interest in posting it here?)

yes.
Yes, I'm targetting small business ($25/month typical), and I've never been able to make google ads pay, even after optimizing the f*ck out of it.
If I remember right, non-competes are still a thing in Boston.
Developer in finance here.

Honestly I've seen zero drug use in the engineering world. Work hours aren't crazy (the max I did was 13hr/day - usual is 9/10), so you don't really need the stimulants like cocaine.

Social alcoolism is common, so is recreational marijuana, but it doesn't seem related to work.

Finance-wise, I think things are a lot less 'sex and drugs and rock n roll' than people believe. The finance guys are more like what you see in The Big Short: serious geeks.
This is nothing new if you have bad back, like me. Pain can be a good teacher when it comes to proper form. As a bonus, I have a runner's knee, so my wall-facing squats are damn near perfect. I'm perfecting my technique, and nowadays I'm doing my squats by ear. I know my squats are perfect when I don't hear any creaking in my left knee.

As for why we, westerners bend this bad way by default ? It may have something to do with chairs. Sitting on a chair makes you used to bending over at your hips, because a chair makes any other bending impossible.
This is the worst and I see it often enough to want to respond to your gripe with support!
Monospace tells you precisely how many characters were redacted. A proportional font with random kerning is better, but typographers would probably murder you in your sleep.
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I've known a few friends in SF with meth addiction. Vice and Buzzfeed have talked about Meth in the SF gay community, but https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/zmvej4/meth-ghb-epidemi... is a first hand account.
I wish there was a culture of naming and shaming these companies and executives. This is the sort of behavior that would be really easy for engineers to abolish by simply not working there.
Exchanges are price-neutral volume plays. Better if you offboard customer service and custodian services to someone else. You make money on volume, and thus volatility, independent of price. (Similar to Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of a gasoline additive company a few years ago.)
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I also believe in Bitcoin, but there may be a case against legitimacy at this point in the game: future changes to the protocol might become subject to state scrutiny.

Scenario:

(a) Regulators approve Bitcoin for use in banking, let's say

(b) Some change is proposed to the Bitcoin protocol, improving privacy

(c) Regulated firms are not able to do proper KYC/AML stuff if the upgrade activates

(d) Firms and regulators (and maybe legislators) push back against the upgrade

Now you have core protocol changes subjected to the scrutiny of the broader political process, which would be a total nightmare and may permanently stop development of the protocol.
The standard ritual for measuring significance in research seems to me to be some strange marriage of the ideas of Fisher, Neyman, and Pearson that I'm not sure any of them would have actually agreed with. I'd be interested to hear any historians of statistics or scientific methodology comment more on that angle or correct my misinterpretation if thats what it is.
From the Midwest originally. I moved to the Bay Area in the mid-2000s for work right out of college. As a young teen, I had gotten most drug use and experimentation out of my system. Marijuana and LSD were my mainstays then. In my later teens called it quits when I realized grades matter.

Fast-forward to moving to Bay Area, I was astounded by the level of cavalier toking up, dosing, or snorting that folks my age and well into their 40s were doing. None of this was typical at the office, but afterwards yes. Never condoned by the Big Company. The folks who did it in the office were known, but they were never fired or pushed out — even though the 2007 financial crisis was underway and everyone was tightening belts. The worst I saw in the office was a poor guy who had a vat of raw powdered caffeine that he continually ingested due to his sleep apnea.

Outside the office, damn, was there plenty of abuse within the Burning Man and Oakland scenes. Many were professionals, but they were wrecks. All said they were fine, but you could see that a manager East of the Bay Area would have fried their sorry asses in a heartbeat. To this date, two have died from drug related complications and three have wasted their bodies on MDMA, Speed, and other cosmetic drugs. Shocking to see someone earning North of 250k/year snorting MDA with a rusty razor blade.

I moved to Berlin in the intervening years. Everything was tame there in comparison. Just a bunch of low-grade speed masquerading as something better. The folks there who do this match what you would expect: poor mental acumen and lack of patience in the office, and they were everywhere. Alcoholism was especially rampant: I think the dark depressing den of winter there drives folks to it.

Since going back to the Bay Area, most of the folks have slowed down or moved away. So many broken marriages, careers, and bodies. Reminds me of the epilogue scene of A Scanner Darkly.
I’ve upvoted your comment. It’s flawed logic, but I see it as highly counterproductive to downvote people who seem to be reasoning about a problem or discussing their perceptions in good faith.

So many revered scientists have made comments that today would sound jackass silly. I doubt anyone here doesn’t have such comments under their belt.

Thinking or asking alone can never be wrong. As long as it’s well intentioned and open to the possibility of accepting counter arguments.
I have an iPhone 6/64GB and it has been running really slow. Last thing I tried is to disable all location services (besides for specific maps apps) and helped a little bit. Apple diagnosed that its battery still good. Question, how is your iPhone SE performance?
In my opinion it's a completely different area that isn't as similar as you'd expect.

For starters, cryptocurrency exchanges need to know the crypto they trade with VERY well. It's an area where the law won't help you if you mess up. If someone steals a bunch of bitcoin from your exchange, a police report isn't going to get it back, it's gone for good.

Then add in that crypto exchanges are 24/7 (not just during business hours), and I'd argue that scaling them is much harder, nobody knows if cryptocurrencies will double (or more) in usage over the next few months, or if they will halve (or more) in that same time. A single runup could cause 10X the trading activity overnight.

I do think that we need more legal, regulated competition in this area, but I don't think for a second that the answer is Nasdaq trying to shoehorn cryptocurrencies into their current systems, they are just too different.
>And an effective manager given engineers who can't write a for loop will produce $0 worth of value (or worse)

No, an effective manager given engineers who can't write a for loop will replace those engineers with more talented ones.
Through a decade and a half in finance, I never came across someone who was using drugs. I always found this odd considering the reputation of the industry. I was working at hedge funds that were the prime clients of certain brokers, and I could go eat out on their account pretty much any night of the week. Perhaps they sensed I was not the type for drugs and hookers, so I was only offered these kinds of things once.

Plenty of rumours though, and they make sense. Some of the brokers need to be taking clients out every night and then somehow show up on the desk at 7am. But I know plenty of people in the business and nobody a confirmed user.
Some companies in NY hire for software engineering without requiring a comp-sci degree. Used to work at Bloomberg and a lot of the people there were hired without a classical programming background but still with some programming experience even if not professional; a lot of physics, biology, and mathematics people for example. Then they put them through a 4 month internal coding course teaching them C++, JS, git, etc. and a lot become surprisingly competent. And then they go to Google once they are all trained up :)

Edit: point being is that there a number of companies that don't look only for traditional hires. Networking (via Meetup for example) helps. Also going through a recruiter or (Recurse if you have the time!) is also helpful.
Goldman Sachs is getting in because it see a future in making profit from others trading in cryptocurrency. Goldman Sachs believes that the profit it will make from this exchange's trading fees will be greater than the cost of purchasing it. It is that simple.
They did so for quite a while but somehow didn't really take off.

As I understood intel has the best FABs. About half the advantage over AMD lies purely in the production technology. ARM is said to be more energy efficient than x86. Yet, when intel makes ARM chips you don't hear them outperforming everything else. I wonder why.
Where to start.

Living in and growing up in Amsterdam has exposed me to more drug use than I care to remember. It's pretty ugly when you see super smart people slowly slide down and eventually enter a period of rapid decline and eventual death.

A few escaped the latter fate but they'll never be the same people. They serve as very real life reminders for me to never ever even try that stuff.

Some of the ones that died left behind wives and kids, some of them only kids because they were single parents. It's terrible to see this sort of thing up close and to realize there isn't anything that you can do about it without at least a minimum of cooperation from the other party.

I've seen businesses - good businesses - go under because of drug use, I've seen partnerships go South because of it.

From what I've seen up close cocaine seems to be the hard drug of choice for the tech scene in NL, it's not nearly as wide-spread as the media would have you believe but it is a lot larger than what I'm comfortable with and I am always on the lookout for the signs when evaluating companies.
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GDocs is definitely a full office suite replacement. It could capture the same use case of Paper, but it tends to be too heavy and focuses too much on formatting.

Quip is a definite competitor. It tends to do better for knowledge base style collaborations, whereas Paper is better for ephemeral collaboration. But it is lightweight and focused enough to be useful for both.

As a sidenote, I really think Google is missing an opportunity here. Drive could really use a Paper-style competitor. Start with the collaboration foundations of Docs, but remove all the cruft. No font changing, no formatting beyond what's in markdown, remove all the menus, streamline the interface, add some integrations like embedding Sheets-style spreadsheets. They'd capture a lot of marketshare that has G-Suite domains, but reaches out to other tools to manage ephemeral collaborations and knowledge bases.
They started so well, but then apparently decided that what the world really needed was a huffpo clone with infinite scroll. What a waste.
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> "caffeine, Provigil, cocaine, (meth)amphetamines on the front end, and alcohol, THC, Xanax and even ketamine on the backend"

I know what you're saying (up vs down), but it's amusing to think of this as what front end and backend devs are taking.
I live and work in Berlin for years now, working in startups, and I haven't met anybody that (openly) uses anything harder than tobacco or coffee, nor I met anybody who said they knew somebody to do that.

Beer is common after work, once in a while. However, what you describe is definitively not normal. Not that I find that problem, or high-risk, or anything - it's just the fact that it would just surely catch attention if anybody from my work environment (30+ close coworkers) notice somebody like you're describing.
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> they were profitable until the GOP deregulated it.

Ted Kennedy was the driving force in Congress and President Carter signed the legislation. Airline deregulation was a good thing (IMO), but the GOP doesn't get the credit/blame for it.
Airbnb’s new “Plus” tier costs about the same as a hotel–so who is it for?
I thought while Cost of living in Seattle is relatively lesser than NYC, the house prices are exorbitant. NYC has advantage of very close proximity to NJ, Connecticut where you could probably get a better home than in Seattle-Bellvue-Redmond area.
To be fair, as someone who's been at Google for ten years, you sound pretty senior. From what I've seen, I think there might be significant sample bias.

It seems that most people who use/abuse drugs are much younger, and often don't talk about it with people outside of a small group of similar users. I've definitely heard, known, or been close to people using at work, at home, with everything from speed, weed, and microdosing LSD, to modafinil and Adderall (in a non-prescription context).

By the time they get older, I imagine they'll either have stopped, or burned out (as I've already seen) and likely wouldn't end up at more structured companies like Google.
No, this is simply wrong information. Or rather, this is information provided to people who are otherwise terribly out of shape.

Look up Jefferson Curls, or j-curls. These are essentially the exact motion that this article is suggesting is the wrong way to do things.

Now without question, you can do stronger lifts and put less direct stress on your spine by doing squats to pickup things rather than bends. But full fitness and flexibility absolutely include bends like the ones this article is telling you to avoid.

Wherever your weakest muscles and structure are is where you'll first suffer injury when you try to do something beyond your capability. So if you learn to squat to pick things up, that's fine; but if you neglect to maintain your flexibility, especially including spinal, you will get a back injury one way or another. Rather than bending over to pick something up, it will be turning over in bed, or coughing while carrying something.

What bothers me about specialist advice is that it is usually focused on one thing, one specialty. But whether you're talking about human anatomy and systems or economics or mental health (or many other very complex systems), you cannot just focus on a narrow set of changes or fixes.
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Any informations on:
- Where is the data saved
- Who has ownership of the data
- Possibility/Procedure to get your data "erased" and not just archived/anonymized
- Api and other means of interconnection with vero
They're cute, but they don't appear to actually do anything except buzz around...
Cost of living is very low if you are careful where you live although that is starting to change.

Traffic is starting to be a problem...if we could get rail out 20,85,75, and further north on 400 it would bring a huge geography into play and really take off. So far it hasn't.
> Buy the censored version; get a torrent of the real thing?

The problem with torrents or warez in general is: do you trust them? Or: do you trust someone hasn't taken a virus-free package and embedded a Bitcoin/Monero miner or other malware in there?

Especially as many warez groups distribute keygens or cracks compressed and crypted so that other groups cannot easily reverse engineer the secrets, it's hard to check what's in the package - and many cracks actually trigger virus scanners due to the compression, so people turn off the AV and then get f..d...
I'd be curious to see more of those CoL comparisons. How big of a place are you pricing for NYC, and in which neighborhood? Are you factoring in the savings from not needing a car?

You can find CoL calculators out there, and they have their faults, but Seattle is already an expensive city in its own right, and I simply don't see how you possibly got NYC to come out double. That's way out of line with the calculators.
> I remember a CEO of one of my early startups would give me 5mg addies to help me get more done.

That person ought to be in jail. A CEO is definitely not in charge of the pharmacy, anything of this kind should be prescribed by your doctor.
This essay makes me incredibly sad. Many of our cities sending some of the most interesting or inspiring messages are becoming off-limits to future generations due to high housing costs.

https://standupcalifornia.com
No, yeah. Dupont said that 15% of their revenues came from Facebook. It was listed as a risk in their annual report.

FB and et al do still build their own DC's. Especially where municipalities drop their pants and offer huge tax breaks. But there's still a tremendous amount of "single tenant" purchasing done at the wholesale level by the hyperscale players.

I guess my point is that even at the top tier, people value flexibility.
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You can make educated guesses about which range the compute/storage ratio is in if you look at e.g. public information from talks like

http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw-discs17/slides/PDSW-DISCS-Google-Ke...

(it has other useful information that might not have been mentioned anywhere before, like the crazy Colossus on Colossus... or D, the GFS chunkserver replacement)

You can use that to revisit Randall Munroe's estimates: https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/ You can infer from some of the comments that e.g. very dense disk capacity is not a good idea. There's more, of course, but I can't go into details (ex-Googler).
AFAIK, SUSE doesn't employ any KDE developers but they do donate to KDE e.V.
Real-estate is probably the cheapest part about datacenters. You also seem to be forgetting how much cash Apple is sitting on.
Audio is glitchy for me on Firefox for some reason. Works in Safari on the same machine.
I don't think it was odd in the context of medieval and early Renaissance Europe for scientists to also delve into theology and Biblical exegesis. What's odd is how today's society elevates certain historical figures to the level of prophets in certain narrow areas of study, yet completely ignores or obscures their contributions in other areas. I never knew Newton was a staunch Arian before today, much like how I never knew that Pythagoras was a strict vegetarian, or that Socrates had a hatred of democracy, before researching them myself. Modern education is very careful to remove any trace of unorthodox viewpoints from its pantheon of scholars.
>New York has incredibly low pollution compared to other cities of comparable size, especially in the US.

This doesn't change the impact of pollution on health and quality of life. There may be plenty of reasons to live in NYC, but it having lower pollution than similarly sized cities is not one of them.
Although I've encountered this as well, in most cases I got a useful answer for my problem.

I often ddg problems related to Ubuntu. I had many encounters where someone had the same problem than me on askubuntu, but the answers where unhelpful, sometimes only the question was posted with no answer at all. Or the original poster stated he solved his problem, without posting the solution. In most cases, on SO I found relief.
This also applies to the oft-cited Good Will Hunting line about getting a great education for the price of some overdue books at the library.

Yep, definitely, sure, you're right: you could definitely learn everything you would in college on your own.

But you won't.