skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond curiosity, what practical purpose would such a tool serve vs other methods of verifying assets?
Can you clarify what you mean by "lack of civic culture?" I don't mean to argue, I just don't follow what you mean to say here. Do you just mean that they don't vote, or something more?
I know a guy with a Tesla that drives for Uber.

Some people just like driving & side hustles
Uh, successful by what metric? If we look at economic figures like income per capita, Cali doesn't even make the top 10.
Tax difference between Texas and California is pretty significant, he is probably looking at double his effective tax rate once you account for the bump in income.
Do you own any index funds (most of which have oil holdings)?
I’ve pulled 40k iops across 3 disks in azure running ssd. The new managed disks are fast enough for our workloads. Yes they cost money, but looking at overall cost disk is ~15-18% of total spend for us.

There are some bugs with the new archive tier and some weird behaviors for non ssd disks when you start forcing high queues.
"Not renting a one bedroom and eating $14 avocado toast with your roommates."

$110k before tax is $77k after tax. That's enough to cover:

Avocado toast for every meal: 3653$14 = $15k/year

Rent without roommates: 12*$3.5k = $42k/year

Misc other expenses: $20k/year
We must not treat data like a natural resource
In SF yes, not the Bay as a whole (which is the cited area)
I'm sure there exist a lot of One Person Companies that have much higher RPEs than $1M.

They are of course not in the S&P 500, nevertheless it would be very interesting to read about them.
Onsen UI could maybe tackle that (I'm working with it) - gives you material or Cupertino look on the fly. Still caveats with Cordova vs Native but it's alot less work...
amazing quality!
Yes, I do think it’s pretty different.

If you weren’t the fine upstanding person you are, you’d have all the web traffic of users at your disposal: banking, secure interactions with healthcare providers, credentials to Hacker News, the whole nine yards.

With access to my email, you could probably reset a handful of my passwords to various services that don’t support dual factor auth, and you could probably discover what services I subscribe to.

I mean, I wouldn’t want you to have access to my email, but I would much rather that than a permanent man-in-the-middle web client.
Do you have a source on that? Also, they must not have been very concerned if they went for it. I watch the opening ceremony, and all 3 levels of government seemed to be very happy about the deal, so either all of them are just as "wicked" as Google, or maybe you're distorting the truth here. Lastly, helping build a city is still very different from running a city.
I think a better comparison in situations like these is to look at the cost of buying a house. While renting may be the norm in places like SF and NYC, in the midwest the norm for people making a good living is buying a house. I imagine the math is more along the lines of "how much would it cost to buy a comparable house in SF?" In which case, you may be going from a $400k house in TX to a $2M+ house in SF. If all your money is going to a monthly mortgage, you don't have extra to spend on cars and vacations.
A talented software guy who doesn't know javascript could well make a better long term hire than a less talented guy who does. On the other hand any decent degree holder ought to be able to do this mostly trivial test given enough time but if this is a sit down test then all you've discovered is who is most up to date with their javascript and not who would be the better hire long term.

It ought to give you a bit of self reflection if you realize that your solution to the problem you faced has been pretty sub par.
How Tesla and LinkedIn Use Neuroscience-Based Games (Instead of Resumes)
Why would the price of gasoline matter in SF? If you’re living and working in the city, you almost certainly aren’t driving enough for the gas price premium to matter.

I don’t mean to pry, but I’m having trouble imagining an income that is so comfortable in Texas, but so uncomfortable in SF when doubled. There must be at least one major factor that doesn’t apply to my calculations, perhaps child care or private school or something.
What about an options market for jokes that may be taken literally in the future?

r/memeeconomy but irl, if you will.
Many waitresses and bartenders I know make $800-1000 in cash tips on a busy weekend, and don't report their tips. They're basically making the equivalent of a six figure salary that is fully taxed. They can do side hustles during less busy hours (like mornings-afternoons for a bartender).
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What this article may miss, is that ICANN's lawsuit isn't exactly hostile: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-05-25-en and https://www.epag.de/en/tucows-statement-on-icann-legal-actio...

The lawsuit was filed in order to get an official legal answer on the books as to how Whois data should be handled for GDPR. The easiest way to get actual precedent on the matter is to sue someone over it.
My math says $100,000 - $41,000 = $59,000. Not $70,000.

> not accounting for taxes

That would be a large mistake. California has huge income taxes, Texas none. It's not just state taxes, a doubling of your income puts all that additional income in a much higher federal tax bracket.

I would expect renting a parking spot in SF to cost a pretty penny, too.
Punks throwing shit off the overpass definitely couldn't stop a 6 lane freeway in both directions, but yes I see your point.
they are getting more complicated these day, the guy invented a whole browser frontend in order to rickroll us! :)
I remember that old original flash-version of the bayeux editor. It went broken like 4 years ago and I constantly thought about rebuilding it in javascript. It's so great that you did it.
Strategies far from unique to Apple.
I had a related but tangential problem: I think the company was willing to offer the bucks to make it economically worthwhile: I had major performance anxiety about the value proposition to deliver to meet that scale of pay.

Maybe its just me, but I had a hard time even imagining selling my work for the kinds of sums necessary to maintain an inner-city lifestyle in S.F.
You basically just said "eliminate core CSS / HTML questions and only ask about jQuery."
Whereas, Seattle has zero income taxes, cheaper housing, and equivalent salary
> Also, I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job.

I think before you can answer that question you have to figure out if there are enough geeks like you who think this is a useful enough tool to run / use regularly. They'll likely pay you $. Alternately, find use case where even just a few users / companies would pay $$$ each for some thing that it does that you can't easily get anywhere else and helps get work done.

For me it looks cool, and i'll give it a try, but i'm more likely to stay with my normal browser because with plugins like vimium i don't have to reach for my mouse very much. That's actually one of the reasons i use the command line so much. Make it work without constantly using my mouse and I'd be far more likely to use it. Once i'm using it regularly, then I'd be starting to think "I wish it would..." and then making those wishes come into practice is something i'd support. This is kind of a weird / esoteric thing that would just gradually improve so... maybe Patreon is a better route for getting support than normal software / feature / plugin sales.

personally, IF I find myself using it regularly, i think i'd be more likely to support you via a Patreon type regular donation.
Yeah exactly. Hopefully AI computation market will grow big in time so those crypto-miners can pivot into more profitable business of GPU cloud for AI instead of selling the hardware in crypto downfall. In the long term, Snark AI wants to create the marketplace where all the qualified GPU providers can bid for the best market price which will benefit everyone.
Fuck it, we going to build a blockchain startup in a weekend
There are reasons real estate is more expensive in the bay area, and it's not just NIMBYs. Even if you build to the sky in SF, real estate is going to be much pricier in the bay area than Houston. Not caring about the things that make the bay area market pricier is an arbitrage of sorts for you. The heat and hurricane weather alone are enough to make Houston a non-option for many people, myself included.
+1 - revenue is not the same as profit...
> Can you clarify what you mean by "lack of civic culture?"

In New York City, there is a general expectation that once you make money or ensconce yourself in the community, you start giving a shit about it. You volunteer. You donate to local charities. You stay informed about community issues, voice up for yourself and those around you, and vote. That sense of civic culture and underlying duty is far more suppressed in the Bay Area.
Your point is definitely valid. If housing costs double and salary doubles, you will have more income for things that don't change price like shirts and laptops in the high-cost area.

However, one of the things you lose in high-cost areas is freedom. You lose the freedom to pursue passions, take time off from work, try out a job you think you might love but pays 30% less, etc. I can delay or forego the purchase of a new shirt or laptop to prioritize something else in my life. Maybe I want to work for a non-profit I find compelling or spend time with my children. The high-cost area isn't high-cost for discretionary spending. It's high cost for essential spending.

If I need $75,000/year on housing, I can't afford a pay cut; I can't afford part-time job and part-time parenting; I can't afford passion. $75,000/year might sound like a lot, but the median home in San Francisco is going for $1.35M. After a 20% down payment, mortgage payments would likely be around $65,000/year. Add on another $10k for taxes and we're at $75,000 for a median home.

Let's say I could earn $250,000/year in San Francisco and $100,000/year in Chicago. In Chicago, the median home is $300,000 so we're talking $15,000/year in mortgage payments instead of $65,000. Let's assume that I pay 30% of income in tax on $250,000 and I take home $175,000. After $65,000 in mortgage payments, I'm left with $110,000. In Chicago, If I pay 25% in tax and $15,000 in housing payments, I'm left with $60,000. That's certainly less, but I've also gained a lot of freedom. If I want to take time off, my expenses are low. If I want to switch to a career earning $50,000/year, I can still live my life. I'm not being forced into specific employment based on cost of living.

If we adjust the numbers slightly and make SF $200,000 and leave Chicago at $100,000, the gap quickly closes. Assuming 28% tax on the lower income, we're talking $79,000 vs $60,000. A little more disposable income, but very little freedom.

SF salaries are certainly high. Are they 2.5x higher? Even if they are 2.5x higher, do you really feel good? I guess a part of me feels like life should be easier and more comfortable. I'm not looking for fancy shirts and yearly expensive laptops. I'm looking for the comfort of knowing that if something goes medically wrong, my cost of living isn't so high that I'm very quickly on the bubble. I'm looking for the ability to be able to choose different life priorities in my future if I desire. We all make our own decisions, but I think there's something intangible that lower cost of living provides.
There are SF taxes also so it’s even worse.
Including the value of stock options in those figures is incredible bullshitting.

For those wondering: the “first rung” is more like $110k plus stock options (which you have to pay for - they’re not RSUs - so calling them “income” is rank nonsense)

The estimates for stock options value on there are also WILDLY high compared to people I know who actually work there.

Very suspect.
At those income levels, taxes will eat up nearly 40% of your incremental income (30% federal, 10% state). Not to mention you’d also have to make up the tax on your original 100k, which Texas doesn’t charge.

On top of that, everything else is more expensive as well, especially anything based on labor, because people have to pay the rent:
- food, especially eating out
- car insurance
- services such as car repair, dry cleaning, housekeeping
Ask HN: What less-common companies have extremely skilled programmers?
Clarification. It's accepted (typically) that Facebook, Google, etc. have top notch engineers. What other, lesser known, companies have an extremely high bar for engineering quality?
That could be a smart move in the end. If the salary is 3x what you’re getting paid in TX you could be one of the first people they’d look to lay off in the event of a cutback.
Do you regret doing your PhD in math? Reason I ask is that I thought about going to grad school for math but decided against it. It just seemed like it would be postponing the inevitable of finding a job that had little to do with my "passion". I definitely see the appeal of doing a PhD in a field with better industry employment prospects (e.g. AI in CS if you're into that), but less so for fields like pure math that aren't as employable outside of academia. I'm curious if you felt the experience was worth it, though
What’s with all the immature puns in the article trivializing the subject matter?
Those California income taxes also apply to capital gains.
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The Children of Anaxagoras: Did hands make us human?
"I was offered a position with one of my clients in SF for roughly double my current income in Houston, TX. After running the numbers with an attempt to maintain similar standards of living and leisure, it was simply impossible to make the math work out in my favor without significant sacrifices on either count."

So assuming you were making ~200k, doubling that to 400k, it was still impossible to make your standard of living? I find that hard to believe.
Well in this case they provide a link:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1026931/?&utm_m...
Microsoft&rsquo;s $399 Surface Go Is the Smallest and Cheapest Surface Available
Just as a quick example, the Florida Bar had a regulation that an attorney’s website could feature a picture of the lawyer, but the background was required to be either a single or gradient color or a generic courthouse.
That makes sense and those are good points. I think it’s about tone all the way around. It’s entirely fine and beneficial to both parties for the startup to ask questions. But there are some distinct differences in how people ask these questions. Some really are stuck up. It’s shocking how deeply people can believe the stories they’ve made themselves about how good they really are when in fact they failing miserably.

Some of the better questions I’ve heard are prefaced with comments like “we’re aware we’re having troubles in this operational area, would you be able to offer guidance and advice to get us out of this sticky situation?” Self awareness seems to be a sign of a great and investable company.
Yeah, but you have to live someplace that's so depressing that 90% of the population is overweight and self-medicates with some combination of coffee, alcohol, marijuana, and adderall.
Reading that, all I can get out of it is "Do things without people who are experts in that field, try to reinvent their expertise on the fly, and fuck up on the way."
I only ride fixed so not an expert on groupsets but people using upper end shimanos does not seem to have that much tunning issue.

maybe you yours is damaged or sth?
Thanks grzm. I didn't know that existed. Will try it out! :D
It's interesting that you're drawing the comparison with NiceHash. Snark AI will be a marketplace like NiceHash but targets mostly deep learning training and inference on the user end.
SF does not have an income tax.
> Seattle has zero income taxes

I wouldn't count on it. Seattle just passed a city income tax, despite it being against the state Constitution, trying to gerrymander it around the wording of the Constitution. At the state level, the Democrats in the last election got control of both houses of the legislature, as well as the governorship. High on their agenda is finding a way to tax income.
It's not bullshit. $120k base salary (before RSUs and maybe a signing bonus) is "not even blink" territory for new undergrads from state universities. You don't need to be at a highly desirable university. You "only" need to pass the interview.

That's not only the Bay Area either. A friend of mine has a sister who graduated from a downright forgettable school and landed a job with Google in NYC right after graduation. The base salary was $120k.

Someone else I am acquainted with received an offer for $180k all-in compensation (base, bonus, RSUs) from Facebook as a new graduate from a middling school.

It has very, very little to do with the school. It's the companies themselves. It's not even outlandish to get hired at the top tech companies without any college degree these days.
There's no SF city income tax. Are you thinking about sales tax? In most cases, sales tax should be negligible unless you're spending ALL of your money, and spending it ALL on local purchases. Things like flights, vacations, online services, etc. don't have local sales tax applied to them.
From wikipedia - UK electricity generation sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_Kingdom#F...

...In 2016, total electricity production stood at 357 TWh (down from a peak of 385 TWh in 2005), generated from the following sources:[33][34]

A typical offshore oil/gas platform
Gas: 40.2% (0.05% in 1990)
Nuclear: 20.1% (19% in 1990)
Wind: 10.6% (0% in 1990), of which:
Onshore Wind: 5.7%
Offshore Wind: 4.9%
Coal: 8.6 (67% in 1990)
Bio-Energy: 8.4% (0% in 1990)
Solar: 2.8% (0% in 1990)
Hydroelectric: 1.5% (2.6% in 1990)
Oil and other: 7.8% (12% in 1990)

//surprised there is little discussion in the plan for how the electricity will be generated and transported, or viable sources.
This one-kilo umbrella was a perfect example of useless technology
Orcas of the Pacific Northwest Are Starving and Disappearing
It seems to me that by living as a frugal software engineer in SF, you will be much faster to save money for a $400k house in Texas than if you choose never to leave Houston. Buying a 2 million dollar house in SF makes little sense to me unless you're really wealthy, so I don't understand why this is a better comparison.
> Snake oil is actually very useful

You don't appear to actually understand what the phrase "snake oil" means in English. It doesn't mean "snake oil isn't useful".

It means: during in the 1800s Chinese immigrants to American used snake oil (from the Chinese water snake; the one in your link) as a cure-all. Unscrupulous "snake oil salesmen" would sell what-they-called-snake-oil-but-actually-wasn't. Or it used rattlesnake oil instead of water snake oil.

Here's a 90 second video that says the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaDsOJATX3A
I've talked to one of my mentor's peer, who is a black woman, at the FDA NCTR and she said black women have it rough with breast cancer.

I just google it the term for what black women have they call it triple negative.

https://theconversation.com/why-is-breast-cancer-mortality-h...

One big reason why this happen is there are more clinical trials for white people than there are of other races. One of the reason for this that I got from her is that other races aren't lining up in numbers to go through clinical trials and that there should be more out reach in educating.
Potentially.
So on an average day for you, how much time do you spend dealing with whiny posters complaining about titles, and then manually re-editorializing them yourself?

I see you've had to respond to this one at least twice, and that doesn't seem unusual from what I see here. Multiply it by a couple dozen articles that are on/near the front page per day, and...

You should keep a log and see, I suspect it's a larger fraction than you realize. It's not a positive benefit for the community discussion either.
I think SF is perfect for a techie work-n-travel. Go work at a googloapplebook, live in a trailer, save 90% salary. Move to a cheap place, buy a house with cash (in your twenties), the rest spend on a year-long journey around the world.
Sell it to the masses, and the housing problem is solved :-)
>How does the higher cost of living in SF manage to eat up all that money in just a year?

It would be imperative to save at least 100% of the "extra" $70k to make reasonable progress towards a down payment.
Costco is all around the Bay Area. I shop there almost exclusively for bulk groceries. Food costs are reasonable here with little effort.
Not OP, but I think you are overlooking a few things.

First, taxes start being a good chunk of your income at higher income brackets, especially in California. Taxes in 50k in TX will be a good chunk less than half of taxes on 100k in CA.

Second, a city like SF will have expenses on things that you don't have in Texas. For example, owning a car in SF means you will probably be paying at least a couple hundred a month for parking and insurance will probably be higher.

Finally, major cities with high COL and rent tend to be more expensive for consumers. Things like higher rents for business and higher wages for workers will, at least partially, get passed on to customers. If you eat out a lot or have kids needing to go to day care, this can be a huge chunk of your income.

I'm not saying OP is, but I know I've met some people who exaggerate for effect when they say things like "You could double my salary and it wouldn't be worth it to move to the bay area", but pretty much everything in San Francisco is more expensive than in Houston.
Taxes were definitely a concern (especially with SALT deductions being gimped, thanks Trump). Further, an apartment (or payments on a home/condo) in SF at $41k/yr would almost certainly not come close to matching the size, quality, and general conveniences afforded by my current accommodations. Tack on changes in cost of living (gasoline, dining out and groceries are noticeably cheaper in Texas), and at best, my model showed that at best, I'd looking at a wash in terms of livability and income.

If I were trying to move to the Bay Area to fulfill a personal goal, things would be different. But when I'm working for others? Fuck that. I'm not going to compromise on comfort and quality of life.
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Any blockchain scaling problem can be solved by creating a blockchain centralization problem.
Have you tried out a bicycle with an internal hub gear? I don't know how loud they are, but you shouldn't have any chain binding issues (and you could probably run a belt if you wanted).
I know it's hard to believe, but some people actually find the weather great in the Pacific Northwest.
Classic Google!
Lobby group fundraising, by far.
But can't i do the same thing from wherever i am and have it delivered? Or have it mailed as a gift? Even with the situation in Venezuela, Fedex/DHL still ship there.

Furthermore how does that allow you to pay for food, water, utilities, or even fuel for your car?
You're spot on.

And note that Texas has 0% income tax. Zero. Somewhat higher property taxes than average, but it's arguable that it still works out in our favor compared to states like CA.
Kind of off topic, but does anyone know why the real estate around Twin Peaks is so much cheaper than surrounding areas? I know there's a bit of break-in crime at Twin Peaks, but the surrounding areas should be better, yeah?

Is there that much of a weather penalty?
Besides the ones already noted, Qualcomm and others who make SoCs with custom CPU design (rather than using ARM Cortex) are paying ARM tax just to use the ISA.

I imagine RISC-V is attractive to them.

A lot of these SoCs become the core of smartphones. Did I mention Google (of Android fame) is also a member?