skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lower range given here (33k) is pretty much the legal minimum for software development for an absolute beginner.

Collective agreement in English:
https://www.wko.at/branchen/information-consulting/unternehm...
Updated numbers for 2018 (in German): https://www.wko.at/branchen/information-consulting/unternehm...

The relevant column is presumably ST1 ("specific tasks 1"), in several categories according to experience. The given numbers are a "monthly" salary paid 14 times per year, so the absolute minimum per year is 14 * 2.273 = 31822 Euro per year. If they actually only give you 33k per year, that can only be "above Austria industry average" if the industry, on average, breaks the law. Which is quite possible.

Anyway, the collective agreement for taxi drivers (German: https://www.wko.at/service/kollektivvertrag/personenbefoerde...) is 1.235 Euro per "month", which would be 17k per year, and I cannot imagine that they are paid a lot more than the minimum in general. So overall it's at least twice of what a taxi driver would make.

Edit: It's neither specific to taxi drivers nor software developers, but Numbeo claims average monthly net salaries of 858.64 € for Lisbon and 1,781.56 € for Salzburg, so you might be mistaken about this being comparable to Portugal. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
You don't just count VAT, let's count everything: 150%-250% taxes on energy, ridiculous amount of fees and duties. As a Dane, we're probably the most taxed in the world and for a high earning software engineer it's approaching 75%.
Here is another generic approach to anomaly detection from event data which has been used for analyzing logs received from automatic lawn mowers:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323971244_Detecting...

It allows for using different algorithms like one class SVM or MDS (including custom algorithms). It also allows for defining custom domain specific features as integral part of its analysis engine. In particular, for log analysis, frequencies of various event types have been generated.
Uber et al., Planning for Rolling Background Checks
Better yet, come to Switzerland and earn > 10K usd/ month; and on top of that, you pay only a fraction of the Swedish taxes.
Create a user and env to run a one-off build + application. DJB cracks me up. He may have the right thing in mind but this type of prophylactic approach is no longer proof against anything.
That's not actually what's happening.

Drop natural population growth toward zero. Import one million low skill, very low income persons per year.

Welcome to the non-merit, non-point based immigration system treadmill of never getting anywhere because you perpetually flood your system with cheap replacement labor.

Tens of millions of Americans moved from the middle class into the top two economic tiers since 1970. And we replaced them with vast amounts of low cost imported labor. If you keep doing that, you will not see meaningful wage growth at the median, you'll only see it in the top tiers.

Most other developed nations are once again correct: the US should move to a common sense points based immigration system. We could merely exactly copy Canada on immigration, and that would dramatically improve the conditions for workers at or below the median.
That's what the job offer requests, not what they need or what they will get.
Yes, the RPM format is crappy. A normal person would have seen that quickly (or known it already), gotten their business done, and moved on. What's the point of dissecting every little piece to criticize, or of criticizing even the oversights or practices normal for their time as much as the things that are truly insane? It's just rage-bait.
Porsche Looks to Incorporate Digital Assistant Technology
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What if you just don't show up for work? They fire you, right? Do you have to pay some big cash penalty? Or is the hesitance just that you can't get a reference for your next gig?
Paiment in Europe is often late, from 30 to 90 days. So if relations between the contractor and the company go bad, there's quite a bit of money that can be caught up.
Almost no one who uses RPMs needs to know the internal format, and if they do they should use rpmlib (or rpm2archive if they just want to unpack the files). Does anyone not use JPEG because they think the internals of JPEG binary format are a bit complicated?
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Job security is a huge psychological factor. I'm starting on my own this very month, and deep down I'm incredibly scared that in a year I might be without a roof on my (and my children's) head.
As a Dane living in the US. I'll take the US health system anyday over the danish system. Just too bad Obama increased premiums by 50-100%.
Do you think that the owner(s) of the hotels shouldn't be compensated for the risk that they're taking by building and operating the property? There's a ton of risk associated with investing like that.
I'm not sure the premise of the title - that employers will do almost anything (or anything at all) to find or retain workers - is accurate. Setting aside pay - will they offer livable working conditions, or will they cram everybody elbow to elbow in a noisy airplane hangar with no dividers like cattle? I don't see that any employers, anywhere, are doing anything to find good employees, paying more being just one of the things they're not doing.
Wow, not a fan of that "article" format
I think its America's individualism that led to America's roaring success and increase in inequality. If you let people have more individual liberty, some are going to be highly motivated and intelligent and excel while others are going to be lazy and slow. Throw in a few years of selective breeding and you're going to get rising inequality
It doesn't really make sense to say it because it's not as if there's a general cultural tendency towards shrift. Most people aren't saving enough, what's the point in popularizing the message that we should continue on that same course?
> I definitely think that the rich (broadly defined -- both via high income or high wealth) need to be contributing more back to society than we are.

If the goal is to spread wealth more evenly, wouldn't it make sense to tax wealth rather than income? As a general principle of incentives, you want to tax the thing you want less of.
Ripple signed on some 100 banks to use their tech, not their tokens though.
Elon Musk’s tiny submarine is a lesson in how not to solve problems in tech
It is a false dichotomy. I don't mind the health insurance being mandatory, much like I don't mind people being forced to pay for car insurance if they drive a car. What I find absurd in Germany is that you pay based on your income, just that. I would accept it being factored in, but not being the sole metric to determine pay.
It's sad how hypocritical the business world has become. Netflix is focusing on showing sexual scenes instead of great storytelling and expecting people to be sexless at the same time.
OCaml 4.07.0 has been released
Jolla will be launching new version of the Sailfish OS this quarter, aimed for 4G-enabled feature phones. You could try that.

I'm currently using Sailfish OS 2.1.4.14 on my Intex Aqua Fish and the experience so far (last 1.5 years) is so good that I've decided to never use Android phones in future. (Brief - No home and back button wasting your time, just have simple gestures to navigate to different menus etc.)

PS: Sailfish OS can also run almost all Android apps.

https://jolla.com/sailfish3/
I have worked for 5 diferent french companies as a developper and this is so true. They all complain because they can't find developpers, sometimes its not even that they can't find "good" developpers its just that they can't find any developpers willing to work for them. Then when you see what they wan't to pay i just laugh. Someone helping on a kitchen in a restaurant can earn the same as a developper here in france. Most of the devs in Paris earn like 2000 per month after tax. Its just a joke, and when you get paid a decen't salary the marketing/finance/lawyers complain beacuse you are "just a developper".
Or cpio. IIRC tar had its own set of issues once you consider old Linux distros or non-Linux systems in general.
Now that was an interesting talk. Thank you.
Probably one of the few. On HN, a search for "djb" results in about 60 submissions where "djb" is in the submission title. There are about 6 for Djibouti.

Also, the airport code "DJB" is for Sultan Thaha Airport. The Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport code is JIB.
Expecting public companies to do anything except optimize for shareholder value, is pure folly. We can debate morality all day, but there's a more practical reason for this: shareholders hold all the power over management. Regardless of how unhappy you as a customer/employee are, you do not have the direct power to fire the directors/executives. You only have the indirect power of pressuring the shareholders, and hoping they will pass it along.

Hence why CEOs and Board of Directors will optimize for shareholders interests above customers/employees/society. Because if they don't, they will get fired and get replaced with someone else who does. This is textbook Evolution and Natural Selection.

If we aren't happy with the way corporations are paying their employees, the solution has to come from outside the corporations. Demand that your government increase the minimum wage, increase the capital gains tax rates, raise tax rates for the 0.1%, and use the proceeds to fund basic income or a better social safety net. he private sector does a great job of generating wealth, but don't ever expect it to distribute it fairly.
That seems like a rather arbitrary distinction considering that diagnosing mental disorders still involves many false positives and false negatives.
Your hyperbole isn't helping you deliver your point.
You are completely missing the point.

It isn't that MMA cutting is healthy, it is that fat is burned first, not muscle. Fasting for a day here and there isn't going to make someone 'lose all their muscle mass'.
Obese man looks at a fit man and thinks "I wish I looked like that."

Obese woman looks at a fit woman and thinks "I hope she gets fat."
Interesting. When I was in Mykonos last year my server was a registered accountant but made more bartending / serving than he would make in industry.
BPMN is the most under appreciated technology in our field IMO.
Not at all. It is a signal that with the instinct for survival removed, people will push back on hard work for low pay, as they should.

I think society would be a better place if people were paid based on the value they delivered, and not coerced into work based on the need to subsist. When employers/owners have to absorb long-term costs, they make changes.

People who work on pipes or other buried things used to often get killed or injured by collapses of mud or stone. Worker's compensation costs forced employers to put reinforced steel safety devices in the holes to mitigate.
> You don't need to be not-GDPR-compliant to display ads and do user tracking.

You also don't need to be tracking anything to be non-compliant.
I make $100k in Texas and after taxes and everything including healthcare I have approximately $75k. Living in a democratic state has its price.
Those formats aren't comparable to RPM/deb. In any case even if we did unify RPM and dpkg, it would make no difference because distros would still have their own standards for naming, dependencies, etc. SLES and RHEL both use RPMs but you cannot copy RPMs from one to the other.
It's not for everyone. It's definitely for me. I see my family every lunch. I can just wander off and go so stuff with them if I'm not feeling it, and then just do some work at another time. I've counted all the "moments" so far in my son's life that I'm so glad I didn't miss but would have at a traditional job: 106 since February.
The microsecond level competition comes from the fact that the HFTs can't compete on price below one cent, because the minimum quote increment is one cent. So they have to compete with each other on speed. There have been proposals to allow sub-penny quotes, and thus let the HFTs compete more on price and possibly bring spreads down even further, but those proposals don't seem to have gone anywhere.
> How and where did you find a US remote job whilst being/remaining in the EU?

I worked in Africa for a while, and got many American contacts there.

I also have a very high ranked stackoverflow profile, and get offers from there.

And I'm extremely active in the Python community.

I'm not actively searching a job with an american company, but if I were, I would just apply to any american job offer that interest me as I would do in France. Just be very clear on the situation. A lot of job offers seem definitive, but the people behind it are often ready to make many concessions.

> I'm not actively searching a job with an american company, but if I were, I would just apply to any american job offer that interest me as I would do in France. Just be very clear on the situation. A lot of job offers seem definitive, but the people behind it are often ready to make many concessions.

Well, most people don't understand IT at all. They can barely use their computer. What we do is very foreign to them, and they can't assess at all the difficulty of anything, or the skill of anyone.

Also, the fact something is "virtual" gives it less value. People thing that google is just a page with a button. They can't imagine the complexity behind it. Form then, the UI is the product. For them, stealing a banana is a crime, but a mp3 is ok. So your work seems easy.
No problem with UBI as a theory, for all I know it might be strictly better than the status quo. Handing money out seems to have worked out for the banking system, hahaha. :[

The issue is that the economy is outrageously complicated and it isn't obvious that the people who want to bring in a UBI are the same people who will be working to bear the cost of a UBI. If it turns out to be unfair and negative, as any ambitious economic policy can be, it could be politically very costly verging on impossible to unwind.
https://i.imgflip.com/2dswyy.jpg
I remember working for a startup a few years back. When I joined it was kind of "scrappy," and I really couldn't negotiate for market rate. It didn't matter, though. I loved the job, and really wanted the early-stage startup experience.

A year later we were in a nicer office, and definitely not "scrappy." We interviewed a lot of candidates, and when we made an offer, it was always rejected. Why? We were too far below market rate. At the time, I still loved the job. (It was also a very short commute by bike.)

Another year later (two years after I started,) we were acquired by a large, and very profitable company. People started demanding market rate or leaving.

The point is this: People work to get paid. Crumbs work for a short period of time, but at a certain point, people's lives move on. That's when employees jump ship because they need the extra $20-50,000 / year. Many people will choose better working conditions over the highest salary possible, but the difference should be very, very minor. No one's making a lifestyle change because your office is cooler than the one down the street.
APL\3000 – HP Journal – July 1977 [pdf]
It was the subject of the latest 99 Percent Invisible podcast.
I just tend to move on when I see a message like that. If you rather block access to 400-500 million people than sort out your privacy policy and how you manage sensitive data, then so be it. Stay away from such websites!
The issue contains a lot of interesting information about the APL\3000 system, in particular, tricks used in the implementation.

A complete list of issues of the hp journal is available at:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/pdfs/IssuePDFs/hpjindex.html
Colour-coding of emotions in different languages is fascinating!

In Swedish, envy is green (grön av avund), but jealousy is black (svartsjuk).
But you have to pay national insurance on top of that to pay for the rapidly crumbling NHS.
Nothing says Officially Sanctioned Fun like Hawaiian shirt Friday...
Depends in Ukraine the pay is very decent especially considering taxes side of equation.
We had no poach deals with other franchises when I was a hiring manager. The idea was:

1. Other franchise owners knew each other by name and would call each other up when they found their employee were hired by us. Enough harassment and you tire or worry that they won't help you in situations like running out of product or selling/purchasing stores from you

2. The kind of person looking to sell themselves often were often trouble and weren't what we were poking for. Signal to noise ratio was terrible in these situations

3. Since we paid so little, a wage war was a sort of Mutually Assured Destruction and good employees were worth much more than we were paying them. Why chance that?

4. Training a new employee was a lot of time and money - a week with another employee just to make them somewhat competent in their station and a month so they could reliably hold their own. Then do that for every station the employee was expected to work (5 - 6 for a non-kitchen employee)

I only "poached" if I was sure I would withstand a tongue lashing from the office and I was almost told to stop the hiring process on one after I had offered them a job.

Glad I'm out of that industry
In the north you get paid more but I think your buying power is pretty much the same.
From a quick google, a postdoc can expect something like 2500per month in sweeden,
but how much do you need to spend on rent and food etc there?

In any case, I did move some 7 years ago, but the whole thing is depressing, you know?

I can give my work to some capitalist megaCorp and get paid nicely, or to the public and get paid shit...
KeePass DX doesn't support syncing the database natively. With Keepass2Android, you don't need to install the Dropbox client to save the database to cloud providers.
One could optimize test error over hyperparameters by various methods. But at that point does test or validation error continue to provide the functionality that a test or validation set is supposed to provide ?
And now you're questioning my motives. Hypocrite
There are more than 10 on just the first page of search results, so I'm not sure how you're counting
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/search/collection?q=&artist=...
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UBI is like socialism, it sounds like it might work on paper, but it's failed every single time it's been tried IRL.
I'm totally confused by your argument here. The simple fact that myself and others posting here don't treat "concentration camps" totally equivalent to "Nazi extermination camps" seems like ipso facto proof that this is not a disingenuous distinction.
Your entire first paragraph makes me cringe. Coming from an academic/research background, all of the things you mentioned goes against everything I was taught in terms of being rigorous with your research.

Is this more evidence we have really entered the "click baiting" era? Where the end result of the research is now secondary to getting published and into big conferences to get some notoriety?
Risk implies footing the salaries.
Wish I did. I think it helped that I have a very unique skillset: web dev + robotics + GIS. So when I reach out I generally get quite a bit of excitement in return.
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In Denmark you 25% VAT on everything except rent and mortgages. Completely ridiculous.
When there are new releases of OCaml, usually the first comment is about multicore and modular implicit. They are not yet there, but things will start changing soon. Refer to [0, 1] for more information.

[0]: Ocaml-multicore: report on a June 2018 development meeting in Paris https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ocaml-multicore-report-on-a-june...

[1]: Modular implicits https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/modular-implicits/144
I think switching to Firefox is the easiest of all. You are not logged in with your Google account all the time which I would think is a big deal.

My problem would be YouTube. I spend way too much time there and none other site has half of the content.
Above 70k, you are supposed to start your own business and optimize your expenses through that. Despite recent squeezes on related practices, it's still much better. Not doing it, is basically a gift to the taxman.
Ask HN: How do I switch to CS industry(Web) from college?
I am a sophomore CS undergrad. So far, we have stuck to simple 100's of lines standalone programs in C++ and python. Could you please suggest some resources that helps me understand how the actual industry level deployment (Web) works : Hosting on AWS, server-client interactions, back-end, content delivery etc. Just an overall idea is what I'm looking for.
Do you know what's causing it?
Another problem of anomaly detection is that they do not provide any (domain specific) explanation for why the system thinks it is an anomaly. The system also does not say what to do in this situation, which means that such anomalies are not actionable findings. Therefore I think anomaly detection should be used as a pre-processing step which generates input for some other other components of the system.
Talking about self-driving cars, I always interested in the legal aspect of these cars. What's the regulation, what are the driver's (or passenger?) responsibilities, and what are the automakers' responsibilities. I have just read a nice information related to this matter at https://www.lemberglaw.com/self-driving-autonomous-car-accid.... It's always interesting to talk about this future technology.
The state enables a lot of stuff for you in return though, which we'd also have to count as a benefit if we "count everything". It's just infeasible to come up with a concrete number of how much they "take away" from your earned money.
Question for conservatives: Do you really think that if your rent was a few hundred bucks cheaper per month you’d start smoking crack?
I thought it was pretty tough on immigration side of things?
Could you explain what the risks are?
I just realized "Sisu" would be a sweet name for a programming language.
100% agree. It's all about the money.
I would say that while plenty of people in the first generation to receive UBI may continue to work, later generations that are simply born with it have a much higher risk of simply moping around doing nothing of value. Any experiment that doesn’t explore UBI beyond a single generation isn’t rigorous enough IMO.
Demon Core – Possibly the most notorious subcritical mass of plutonium
Any good books or articles on minimalism you'd recommend?
At the end of the article, there's a link to a Cardiff Garcia's post showing how the workers shortage headlines are repeated over and over.
https://threader.app/thread/1014944737978175488

It'd be funny to change some of them and show the problem as being caused by the companies. Instead of "Great job openings, no candidates" it could be "Great skilled workforce, no employers".
https://money.cnn.com/2009/11/03/news/economy/jobs_sit_open/...
There's a pernicious assumption here in equating "recreation" with "laziness". All of us deserve to have fun once in a while, regardless of socioeconomic status. Recreation can improve mental and physical health, provide great opportunities for social interaction, and exercise parts of our brain that don't otherwise get exercised.
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Does this work for sea sickness as well? It would be awesome if so because I’m so scared to take a boat after a particularly bad and embarassing boat trip where I suddenly puked from it.
You can restyle Windows 10 using WindowBlinds. There's a classic theme for it.