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haha, but what if it doesn't pop and we see something like Japan's economy from the early 90's on? High prices that never come down, combined with wage stagnation? We're kind of already seeing it now.
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You're spot on about the basic underlying mechanic. A mechanic like that can be found directly causing or partially contributing to almost all the problems we face today.

Obligatory link going deep into this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.
On another note - these kinds of "let's go back and check what we can do with a single node today" approaches are valuable to recalibrate our thinking once in a while. I didn't interpret this post as a case against distributed processing - there are many things going for it - but just to avoid falling into hype.

A couple of great posts by Frank McSherry along the same lines a few years ago, doing page rank for a 128bil edge graph on a single laptop (in the second post below) -

The first post - "scalability! But at what cost"
http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...

The second post - "bigger data, same laptop"
http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/02/...
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Nothing. In all my years ( 13 ) software engineering, the people who made the most were the ones who could sell. And I don't mean like "sales engineer", but rather who could sell their projects to team members, bosses, etc. Making money really comes down to being able to sell

A) actual, i.e. what you've built or

B) potential, i.e. what will you build

And then to get rich you need a multiplier on those things. But just being a good engineer, in general, does not get richly rewarded. If you show me a pure engineer who makes 1 million, I can show you a founder who made 100x from his work.
Well, you can't do any of that if there's even a hint of commercial use because of the CC BY-NC-SA license they (CopperheadOS) used. So you can basically only build it for yourself.
100% fruit juice is still bad for you; without the pulp to slow down digestion, your liver and pancreas both take a beating from digesting all that fructose at once.
I still think that Graffiti was very fast and efficient. It had real effect on my handwriting and I still see myself simplifying letters in graffiti way when I try to write fast :)
So when someone asks you for money, you don't ask questions, you just give it to them?
Malaysia is nice as long as you don't pick Kuala Lumpur.

Good weather, good food, beautiful people, fast internet, easy to travel to other places, very pro startup/tech attitude, nice currency conversion rate for remote workers.
https://tldroptions.io is all about estimating the approximate upside under a wide variety of exit scenarios. Even the basic answer ends up being “it depends...”
This is particularly hard for people with ADD. That said, I think it’s potentially dangerous to give advice that’s in any way titled the “Psychology of...” without actually basing it on evidence and the literature because people might confuse it for rigorous or clinically appropriate guidance. I recognize you couch this in your experience, but if you’re going to write about something that in anyway dovetails with a pathology, it could be helpful to include at least some even abridged literature review, since this will be viewed by thousands (given you’re a shoe-in for HN’s front page).
LineageOS seems to be alive and well.

I'm currently using it while I wait for the Librem5, after which I hope to say goodbye to the dumster fire that is Android.
You seem bitter for some reason. I wish you well.

FYI, I got offers from FANG companies, specifically the ones you mentioned. There used to be a gap, but on the last round the AMZN numbers were effectively the same as Google's. My guess is that over the last few years they faced the necessity to pay equally.

I have friends working at MSFT in the Bay and their current pay also falls in line with the numbers mentioned in this thread. Of course, they're senior engineers.
Yea, we literally are, unless all other commentors on HN are bots...
Gtk+, Qt, wxWidgets, JUCE, Eto, ....

There are quite a few options without packing a browser engine with the application.

If that is the only way to get applications on Linux, then we should just all move to ChromeOS and dump the Linux desktop attempts as is.
No, because it doesn't happen in nearly the same rates.
The author and his introduction definitely has a compelling story to tell. It is making re-think our recent strategy shift in which we evaluated GRPC and GraphQL. We chose GRPC but I'm starting to see that it's not really any better than REST + Swagger. I think I might need to actually just go ahead and buy this book and re-think if the GRPC route is worth it. Our investment in Grpc at this point has been slow - mostly because I figured the Grpc-Web project would be moving a lot faster by now. It's not and I don't see the team doubling down, whereas it looks like Apollo and GraphQL seems... ready now.

Edit: Does anyone know if he goes over typescript?
250-350k is low for Google and FB. It's more like 400-500k if you are senior, 500-700k if you are staff. This is including RSUs
Yes, but this is equivalent to purchasing the stock. You could sell the day they vest, and then use the proceeds to repurchase the stock and you'd be in the same boat. I.e. there's nothing special about them once they vest.
Also used in Iceland!
Nobody counts free meals as part of their total comp.
Hard to find fruit juice? All I have to do is go to the supermarket, and look through a few bottles until I find one that says 100% fruit juice. (Alternate plan: go to back yard, collect oranges, juice them). Compare that harrowing experience to a hunter-gatherer, sheesh.
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>and of course by bombing all of the competitors factories making the US a monopoly in manufacturing.

But also making them poor enough to not to be able to buy anything from America. This is 9 out of 10 people pulling out this argument forgot.
"By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too."

No, because there's this thing called "context", which is notthe same in those situations.
Was the first thing that stood out to me as well. Toggled modes like this are also quite annoying when shuffling around sections of the file. Copy one hex too many and suddenly your numbers in another part are all wrong. And due to the toggle you'll have a hard time finding the place where it all went wrong.

As far as I could tell it's been more or less the only mode. At that point I'd probably get rid of it because global state (which modes are) has to be remembered at all times and in this case its invisible until you see output. The suggestion to use different operators or modifiers for a single numbers was a good one in that direction IMO.
> What evidence do you have that significantly more than 10% of engineers earn more than $400K?

What evidence do you have to the contrary?

Compensation data isn't typically shared openly. Well-paid engineers have no reason to share their pay figures and create animosity or worse problems.
Pros:
More Freedom
More Earnings Potential
Express Way Up the Corporate Ladder
More Say in Business Decisions
More Say in Work Culture

Cons:
More Pressure
More Work
Less Job Security
Possibly Little or No Starting Pay
(That’s why I said fruit juice is bad for you)

But yes, I concur.

http://www.enzafoods.co.nz/the-company/technology/fruit-suga...

What do you give kids other than water?!?
Go, is more organic in that structures tend to grow and die over the course of the game.

Chess rewards calculation moreso than Go. Games are often won in a few tactical sequences.

On the other hand, in Go structure and shape is more important and more long term strategizing is required as plans involve building structures in many parts of the board.

While there are local tactical fights that are important to read, one most also think more globally.

So, I'm not sure that the property that one game is more organic is really the essential differentiating factor between the two games.
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I don't blame them. Cryptocurrency offers fast finality while credit cards offer chargebacks up to 90 days. Those two things don't mix well.
> If a founder can't afford employees at market rate, they shouldn't be hiring yet. They could perhaps offer to take people on as co-founders -- with an appropriately equal share.

Brother, I have worked with both startup & MNC's and i can understand what you are trying to say but it is a bit harsh to say that if a founder can't afford employees at market rate, they shouldn't be hiring. Some part of me says you are right but other part says that some employee should have some faith. If I look from employees perspective its safer/more rewarding/less riskier to join as co-founder then getting market rate. I believe somewhere faith also counts :)
Yeah. Look at them. Because the vast majority have added sugar. That’s my point is it’s more common for fruit juices to have added sugar than to be 100%. Which doesn’t help parents who think they are doing good by buying juice rather than coke for their kid.
Not necessarily. The least affordable housing markets tend to be bigger cities. Growing the cities further will not necessarily make housing in those cities more affordable. There's a positive feedback loop between cities being bigger being more desirable.
Did the same. I really think it’s a pay now or pay later affair. PRK was a more painful recovery for sure, but I’ve had no issues and no restrictions.

I healed very quickly. I did a review of medical research and did a few things to make PRK better for me:

1. Vitamin C supplements leading up to and after treatment. Reduces risk of corneal haze (though risk is very low with modern PRK which uses Mitomycin off-label for prevention)

2. Extra omega 3 supplements before and during recovery. Keeps the tear coatingon your eye from evaporating / breaking up as quickly which supposedly shortens re-epithelialization time (the epithelium is what is removed on the surface of your cornea).

3. Wetting drops way more frequently than the minimum that the doctor prescribes. You basically can’t use these fast enough for the first few days. The wetter the surface of your eye, the faster the regrowth of your epithelium (fun fact: this is the fastest growing tissue in the body—at least according to the surgeon who did my eyes).

Also, pick a surgeon with the latest and greatest laser. I believe the latest ablation tech had some benefits from an optics / recovery perspective.
What they seem to forget to talk about at all are that people are moving around, and especially in US.

Moving to quieter town then you are well off and stable career-wise is certainly what a lot of people do.
In theory, if your goals and chosen locale are not identical to your parents, you can sell their house for cash and use the cash to buy a house in your chosen locale.

In practice, a large percentage of the population are getting screwed because a.) their parents lost their home in the foreclosure crisis, the bank repossessed it, and it got sold to a private investor b.) their parents had inadequate savings and needed to take out a reverse mortgage, and most of the home equity goes to the bank by the time they die c.) their parents got divorced and their evil stepmother got the house or d.) their parents live in one of the many regions where housing prices are stagnant or declining but the kids need to live in an expensive region to have a job.
There's some data about this on Blind for Google that seems pretty solid: https://www.teamblind.com/article/google-engineer---total-co...

For Google, it looks like 90% of L6 engineers and a single-digit percentage of L5 engineers are at this number. So yes, not your typical mid-level engineer (many/most engineers plateau at L5).
It's absolutely mind blowing that this article doesn't mention diabetes as the main problem from eating too much sugar. It affects a third of Americans and is spreading around the world at an alarming rate. Why is that? Why is it that my mother knew about sugar and diabetes, but it's almost as if we forgot and are painfully trying to prove the connection again.
I wish either (a) USB-IF would stop being evil and start assigning small PID blocks for a reasonable price, or (b) someone would sue the fuck out of USB-IF for antitrust violations.
If ~25% of American debt and fund market is dumped on property market, I believe they can simply buy all of the housing stock.
I have no strong evidence to the contrary.

I'm trying to learn the truth. The previous commenter made claims about the distribution of comp. No doubt they had reasons for believing that claim. I want to know their reasons so I can update my own beliefs.

I have made no claims so I don't understand why you are asking me for the answer. I'm trying to learn the answer! :)
I think the concept of karma is an attempt to find a way to talk about impossible to prove patterns suggesting cause and effect of social phenomenon.

You can't really prove that honesty or kindness or whatever is directly responsible for various positive outcomes, but the concept of karma encapsulates such ideas in a somewhat actionable fashion.

My son read a book that contained a story about a primitive village with a concept of a lucky jaguar. The village believed that if there was a jaguar in the area and it wasn't bothering the villagers, you should not kill it because it's presence was a blessing on the village.

Somehow modern scientists were able to determine that the big cat was eating wild pigs and the wild pigs were feeding on the crops at night. In years with a lucky jaguar in the area, the crop yield was 50 percent higher than average.

So villagers could observe that when there was a jaguar around, life just mysteriously worked better. They were unable to pinpoint cause and effect, but they could recognize correlation.

Similarly, I think the concept of karma is an attempt by humans to say that pro-social behaviors like honesty and treating others well observably correlates to a better life, though we often fail to identify the exact mechanism by which such traits come back to us in a positive way.
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Steelmanning is just applying the Least Convenient Possible World principle to debating. If you're picking nonessential nits then you might technically be right but you're probably also dodging the actual interesting questions.
Regardless of industries, you can always assume, as it is always 98% of the cases, that any failure of correction or innovation is because 1) It doesn't improves their bottom line and 2) Anything that involves higher cost budget or lower profits.

That is why we need competitions. Sadly patents also prevent competitions from happening.
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Agree with many others here that talented early startup employees don't tend to make enough money to offset the opportunity cost of FAANG-like total comp. That point has been argued in the thread above more eloquently than I could.

If you accept that compensation is the issue, and want to fix it, and get our best and brightest back into startups, that has to be corrected somehow. I can only think of 4 sources:

A) Pay them more, shortening operating runway
B) Make their equity worth more, by making founders' worth less
C) Make their equity worth more, by making startup companies worth more
D) Make their equity worth more, by making investors' worth less

I'm going to argue as a current startup executive that (A) is already efficiently calibrated by the market and has yielded the current balance, so not likely to find more ground there.

The current supply/demand of founders would suggest (B) is not likely to make a dent either. If it could, that would suggest that there is an oversupply of (qualified) founders, such that we could do with fewer. I think most VCs would disagree with that world view, as most of them take 100s of meetings to do a single deal, and generally consider capital deployment to be their primary operating limitation.

If someone has serious ideas for (C) that can make a difference at scale, I think they would do well to share them here.

That leaves us with (D). Anybody who has negotiated a term sheet will tell you that this won't be easy. But I submit a humble suggestion for a cultural shift that I think could make a big difference here: make liquidation preferences unfashionable.

My reasoning is simple: in a modest outcome, the effect of the preference is much greater on employees (who lose out on their true equity value) than on investors. Most VCs have already hedged the downside risk within a given fund by diversifying over 10-20 other deals, and most of the time, at least one or two of them (if the fund is any good--and they won't be around long if not) will net a > 10x return. The value of the preference as downside protection is therefore quite limited.

On the flip side, it is a huge impact for an early employee, who might see an extra 50%+ dilution in a modest exit after the prefs get paid out. And let's face it... these modest exits are far more common than the unicorns.

Doing this would also free up better price competition among non-institutional investors who are happy to have non-controlling participation, especially in later growth rounds, and so could actually make the sector more attractive to a wider investor base.

This wouldn't produce an overnight change, but could result in more early employees having positive "EV" stories, which could eventually shift perception.
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You pretty much always need at least 2 GPUs, one to keep running jobs for 30 minutes or so and debugging, and the other for longer jobs. It also takes a lot of patience to only make ONE change at a time. Often, changes you make which feel intuitive would actually hurt performance, so it's important to verify that each new change is actually improving performance.
I want to buy it but feel annoyed by these payment options.

Tier 1: $39 - Full book when released and early access
Tier 2: $89 - Tier 1 + updates for 2 years + extra chapters
Tier 3: $289 - Tier 2 + free updates for life + more extra chapters

This is an oversimplification with only the things I care about. The actual packages include more stuff. What really annoys me is why would you call tier 1 the full book and say tier 2/3 has "extra chapters".

I just want all the chapters + early access + updates (2 years is fine). And I want to pay less than $100. Am I being too entitled? Buying books used to be simpler.
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That's because the disposable income is mainly going to bid up the price of real estate. Nobody is making more real estate and the existing owners patronize the government to lock out competition. The federal government then pours gas on the fire by subsidizing demand through housing loan guarantees.

Meanwhile, as the young prospective parents work harder than ever to save for children, the government claims that they aren't producing enough new citizens to keep the welfare state going. This is taken as justification for bringing in immigrant labor. This suppresses wages for everyone, making saving and reproducing harder.

No, I don't believe the free market is a zero-sum game. But it's not exactly free either.
Starting to feel like a parrot since I’ve recommended this book a few times already on HN but Designing Data Intensive Applications [0] is a great starting resource. I’m not affiliated in any way just a happy reader.

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Indeed, and even well-funded startups can't afford to burn $400k on a single engineer.

They basically have to give out generous equity to compete, but they and the VCs would rather be greedy and dole out fractions of percents under the cynical misleading pitch that these scraps will be worth millions when the startup exits for billions.

To their credit, This scam did work for a while, shortly after a whole lot of early employees really did make millions on generous equity grants at early startups like Google.

Being an "early employee" means nothing now. You get the token 0.01% bottom-preference shares that will net you 0 in almost every imaginable scenario, and somehow this is supposed to cover the 200-300k/yr difference you'd get at a profitable established company.
Here in gloriously over-protective Sweden, the word "juice" can only be used to describe 100% juice, no additives are allowed.

I think concentrate can have vitamins added to bring the result back to fresh juice's levels, but that's it.

Also, (cow's) milk is popular and IMO much better than juice.
Even though it doesn't matter. Freshly squeezed juice from your garden have about 114g of carbs / liter (of which 90g of sugar).
Coke has 110g of carbs / liter (all sugar).

Yes, coke has more sugar, but it's the same order of magnitude, fruit juice, even freshly squeezed from pure organic oranges is very much comparable to soda.
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That’s 2+ hours per day of your life that you’re never getting back. You can always make more money, but time lost is gone forever.

How much is 2x5x52 = 520 hours worth to you?

If you’re selling your time for even just $100/hour that’s $52,000/year right there. With a 300k salary your hour is worth way more than $100. For your family, it’s priceless.
Consider the following Thought Experiment:

Let's assume for a moment that the "six degrees of separation" theory is true. (six can in-fact be any number so long as it is some valid number)

Let's also assume that for every person to whom you bestow a good deed, pays that kindness forward at a rate P, where P > 0;

Then it can be mathematically proven that given sufficient acts of kindness, eventually, a loop will occur where the good deed has propagated back to the source, thus proving Karma to be True.
Looks very interesting. Maybe link to examples of threads? I didn't see any in action, but looks like a good idea.

I'd also suggest smaller default font. Sites like this benefit from high informational density (look at craigslist, reddit (old design) and wikipedia as examples). That's my vote anyway.
> This seems like a massive violation of the spirit of GPL...

What do you mean? The gpl literally exists to restrict the rights of downstream developers.