skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How nice, to leave students massively in debt so that the university can run a private welfare state for its paper pushers. All while the taxpayer is picking up a good portion of the tab.
None of that is unique to SV, it's what money looks like everywhere. All this means that financil success makes people ugly, just as it did for finance, law, and big business in all industries.
So let's assume you can reduce your rent from $50k/year to $20k/year.

That's a saving of $30k/year, or maybe $40k/year before tax.

From what I understand from reading comments here, salaries in places with lower cost of living are not just $40k/year less, but much much less.

And for those earning more than $150k, the math works out even more in favour of the Bay Area, as the % drop in salary goes up with salary, whereas the $40k rent difference doesn't.
Sure, if you want to be irresponsible and damn the consequences, who cares who gets left behind or run off the road, then of course you can just go crazy. At some point someone is going to have to pick up the bill.

>"where in that list are the European Google, FB, Amazon, Apple, NVidia, Intel, TripAdvisor, etc... ?"

How convenient to only mention the extreme few who made it big. Never mind their predatory business practices, well-documented abuse of their employees, deep-seated government lobbying and massive total disregard for even basic customer privacy. They made it big, so they must be good, right?

>"Given the size of the European population, the amazing level of education of the population and the concentration of potential, the state of European innovation is pitiful.

The root cause is Europeans live and a deeply arthritic societies where change is very rarely welcome."

You seem to have an extremely biased and uncharitable view of Europe, for some reason, which I find troubling.

Unlike the US, we don't just dump our poor and destitute people on the streets to starve. "Move fast and break things" is not a healthy way to run a society.
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Recently left Airbnb to start a new company in Washington DC. I'm reminded of my previous experience starting a company in London. As soon as we had success (exit) we moved to SF. All that's changed for me is that the $ threshold has gone up, but the principle is probably still true.
Feitan > Titan

It's only a syllable away.
> What incentive does a manager have to increase the size?

Personal satisfaction, looking more important, all the usual human motivations.

> What incentive does he have to improve performance in general?

The manager's own manager will likely notice increased output and reward it. Under normal circumstances an empire-building manager is kept in check by the need to justify their headcount in terms of their output (both of which are visible to their managers). It's only technological productivity increases (which are invisible to higher management, because they take effect in the technical details of the work) that gives managers cover to continue to employ people who have become redundant, or even add further redundant people (because the team is more productive): the overall team productivity (in terms of output/headcount) is going up, and so from the outside it looks like the team is simply performing well, when in fact the manager has siphoned off the fruits of technological advances.
That's why such change needs to be enforced simultaneously and externally.

As an example, I recall reading that tobacco companies were actually very happy about regulations limiting the marketing of tobacco products - by themselves, those regulations didn't change anything about their market share (the market was already saturated), but everyone got to stop spending so much on advertising.
Nice! I've been looking for something like this for ages. If I could make a wish, I'd love to see some sort of interactive stuff, or at least visualisations of for example username/password -> cookie exchange. To make it easier to digest. Not everyone prefer to learn by reading :)
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>Providing drugs for free might give companies more data to help develop (or potentially prove safety, efficacy)

It's a nice thought, but you generally can't have patients and doctors opting-in for unproven treatments and expect the resulting data to stand up to any sort of scrutiny. To glean useful data, one would require a really, really large-n study population and clear impacts from use of the drug that are so pronounced they drown out nearly all other confounding factors (e.g. studies on the health impact of cigarettes) -- and expecting an unproven, last-resort type drug to attract a study population this large is just unrealistic.
Link to the story without all the Oath tracking: https://www.slashgear.com/life-size-lego-technic-bugatti-chi...
... and Hanahan followed it up with https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(11)00127-9
in 2011 which does cover immunology.
I'm doing quite alright with Chocolatey[1], a NuGet based package manager for Windows. Helps skip all those annoying '90s installer wizards, too.

[1]: https://chocolatey.org
I'll take your baseless judgment, and enjoy my non-cracked skull, thank you very much :-)
Part of the big problem with IT isn't just limited to BS jobs, its also BS titles.

Most managers could simply be called supervisors. And it would work just fine. The problem is once you start calling them supervisors, you have to pad a senior title every time you have to promote them, so you go like senior supervisor, senior senior supervisor ... etc. So they invent titles like manager, senior manager, general manager, director, senior director, AVP, VP, SVP, Exec ....

There is also an overall dressing of 'leadership'. If you attend most of these company wide meetings, they are full of these words. 'We are trusting our leadership to do X', 'We congratulate our leadership for doing Y'. Making it look like highly laborious mental work involving a test of human spirit.

They also have to establish the master-slave relationship inconveniencing you every step along the way to show you who the real boss is.
It's really amazing how often I meet people today who think world filters are in any way, shape or form effective against abuse and trolling.

And this isn't niche software either, this happens in AAA game releases, all the time. I've encountered this in software that had been developed for millions of dollars.
Interesting. The same happens in Italy; however this hyper-regulation doesn't actually ensure that jobs are performed well and ethically; rather it has the effect of removing personal agency and accountability, while those who seek personal profit still find a way to circumvent the rules.
Are mediocre C++ devs that much more expensive and rare than mediocre web-devs? Certainly in the field I work in (civil engineering) you're probably far more likely to run across someone who can cobble together a simple GUI tool in C++ than you are someone who could cobble together the same thing in Electron.
How secure is Bluetooth - how do we know snoopers aren't stealing keys wirelessly?
Nice for humans, but these dongles don't solve the problem of automated background services having to log in to machines to complete their tasks. How do people solve this problem?
Maybe in a few years time
Please don't read/send email while driving.

Use your bus/train time to study things that will help your career, at this job and the next. Don't just give that time away to your current employer for free - unless your employer is a charity.

Edit: Even if you work for a charity, giving away your time for free may not be a good idea. ;)
What racial monoculture?
Incase you want different versions per app
Its a funny reference to bring up California. So many responses to GDPR have been a blanket refusal and cutting EU users off from a nontrivial amount of content on the internet.

As a US citizen, I already know that everything on earth causes cancer to the citizens of CA, but its interesting how many product commercials where you see the products are not available in CA.

Frankley, I think alot of data privacy crusaders are going to be even more surprised by how easy it is for ditigal product offerings to cut out users by geolocation. If CA wants fo go down the road of making websites display notifications about this cancer causing data collection, well, I feel like I could make my living just by selling my digital products in Texas.

At some point the regulation makes the business unprofitable.
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> You don't get to review which products your office cleaning firm uses.

Seems a bad analogy, do you make a contract with them but not read it? I mean in the contract you will specify what cleaning products can or should be used(like in some hospitals strong cleaning products must be supplied and you ask for those in the contract if the supplier gives you bad quality ones then sure it is not your fault but it is your fault if you don't even want to read the contract terms)

I imagine the OP was thinking that he wants to embed in his pages some analytics or similar scripts, maybe some advertising scripts, use a few third party APIs and it seems a lot of work for him.

At least his US customers can now know that their data are could be shared with many third parties that could have weird terms like those third parties could sell it further.
Just as Malthus observed that the land in the British Isles was a finite resource. Malthusianism is a trope in macroeconomics.
Hey! That's a great point. John (our designer) is currently on vacation but he will create some animated SVGs which make this easier to digest!

We were also thinking to have an interactive "decision map" where you start with what type of application you develop (e.g. prototype, distributed app, ...) and step-by-step come closer to a recommendation from us. We might also include some software in the last step to guide you to the right pieces. Would that be something you'd like to see?
> I'm absolutely sure same skill level programmer will create less defects in Python, Erlang and Lua than in C.

Fewer defects, or just different (arguably less severe) defects? It's great that you're sure, but evidence would be even better.
> Not good to simply look at the clock and say 'well that's a day' if you want more responsibility, leadership, respect, trust etc.

Sadly, the effect of this is that there's less incentive to build resilient systems, since there's always someone available to fix things quickly. Trying to convince corporate to spend more time and money on building a system that looks/smells/feels the same, but is presumably more resilient, is very very difficult.
We have an electronic time sheet, and I've always added answering emails during commute as work time. Nobody ever complained.

Maybe it's different in the UK, but I don't understand the big deal.
There’s a magical place like that today - it’s called Montréal.
A Netflix cache appliance isn't dependent on the number of customers, it's on dependent on the amount of traffic from Netflix. You don't need 5000 Netflix customers, you need 5 Gbps of peak traffic to qualify.

However that isn't your only option. You can just peer with Netflix, they have an open peering policy.
Reminds me of "Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded."

> 46% of respondents say they plan to leave the Bay Area in the next few years

But they are not leaving empty houses - they are selling them for millions as the world's would be movers and shakers move in.
I don't think more than a tiny fraction of programmers are capable of writing secure software under such an approach; unix's reliance on unstructured interfaces means misunderstandings and "confused deputy" style attacks are inevitable. IMO our industry fetishizes performance to an absurd degree in proportion to how bad we are at correctness and basic security. I do think we're due a reboot (and to a certain extent we already have one in the (typed) functional programming revolution), but one that focuses on writing software that does what was intended, rather than obsessing over shaving pennies-worth of cycles off program runtimes.
How do you know that developers working on those used tools such as the Clang Memory Sanitizer?
That was my first thought. What about early detection and treatment?

There's a saying "live long enough and you'll die of cancer".
Told that to oncologist, got vaporized. It's a tough moral issue, lack of regulation = deaths, too much regulation = deaths.
I was lead to believe it is; I'm asking here if anyone can confirm this.
When you put it like that, it doesn't seem so bad? Less than half the number of car crash fatalities, anyway. Past a certain age, we're more likely to die from any number of different health reasons...
> 2/ "There is less and less actual work to be done due to technological progress." If this was true, there would be unemployment, not BS jobs.

I think this could be the main point of contention from where a lot of things flow.
It all depends on how we define 'actual work', but I think we can all agree that to do the same things as we did a century ago we need less effort and time.

We need less time to build a bridge, less time and human energy to wash our clothes etc. From there, where did that time go ? Some of it wen to help our survival, but the rest of it could arguably fall into 'BS' jobs.

We didn't get massively unemployed when we got better machines, we just found out other uses of our time that were seen as low priority before, but become good enough to be seen as 'work' afterwards. What was once considered a BS job becomes a standard job, the bar just gets lowered.

To get back to the point, I believe less works doesn't lead to unemployment, just new 'jobs'.
> A secondary factor caused by real estate hyperinflation is that all the stuff that once made the SF Bay Area so interesting has been priced out. I remember the Bay Area in the 1990s. It was a hub not just of tech but of art, music, and culture. It was a magical in a way that's hard to explain today, and I say this as someone who only visited. My main experience of it was from the culture and "vibe" it exported. All that is gone now.

That recapitulates my experience as well from living in SF. There was a feel of the city that has since disappeared. For me the breaking point was in the early 2010s, when I noticed all my nontech friends disappearing - they were getting priced out and moving, mostly out of state. And the conversations in tech changed too, from doing interesting and weird and exploratory things, to conversations about money, getting vc funding, and working on things that will make even more money.

The vibe was turning into a 90s wall street, and not the old city where everybody was a misfit and did their own weird thing. That's probably the part I miss the most.
Is your backend doing a google search? Wont you get blocked...
He shrugged and continued to desperately try to clean up a mess aforementioned company just caused.
Almost all ha devices use zigbe/zwave. You only need node in main ui, not a big problem
Per-purpose passwords. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

Per-purpose users (with very limited rights) on machines, inside per-purpose VMs (with very limited network if any)... etc.
Microsoft was too as evidenced by __stdcall calling convention used in Windows API.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_calling_conventions#stdcal...
This was written in 1995, just after the failure of the $3.7 billion attempt to modernize software at the FAA. That was the most expensive failed software effort ever. The amount of bloat on that project was astonishing. It’s worth reading about that failure to get some historical context against which this author was writing:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-worst-software-proj...
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Not all of those happened exclusively outside of Europe - there was some parallel development in Europe as well (transistor, computers). The transistor was independently developed in France shortly before the public announcement by Bell Labs. And the arguable first working "modern" digital computer (programmable, fully automated, using floating point) was the Z3 in 1941 (which started the Zuse KG, a computer hardware company, which lasted until ~1970).

And most of the first few search engines were based in Europe (mostly Geneva).. and you might also have heard of a small invention out of CERN that you are using right now..
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OP's remark was a sarcasm.
I think you basically described Earth’s entire biosphere at the end there.
Yes. Since USB-C devices can draw significantly more power than USB-A can supply, any USB-C device into USB-A port adapters are disallowed.
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Cocaine’s a hell of a drug...
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Nine years ago, my late wife had developed a tumor in her throat next to her vocal chords. She was fighting cancer while trying to be a mom to our 3 young boys. Directed radiation treatment was ruled out for this tumor, leaving surgery as the only viable option. The downside was the very real risk of her permanently losing her voice.

Hoping that she’d one day beat the cancer, but may not have a voice, I came up with an idea of trying to “capture it” in 2009 - hoping that it could be algorithmically rebuilt in the future. I reached out to a number of individuals that ultimately put me in touch with a research group that had a proprietary setup for capturing samples and rebuilding the voice. Over the Thanksgiving break, I managed to get access to a soundproof recording room and they worked with my wife to capture samples over a period of 4 hours.

Having worked in the infosec space since the 90s, my first reaction is often either how new tech/innovation can be used to bypass a control and how one could detect/prevent that. It’s easy to lose sight of how something like this could fundamentally changes a persons life.
I understand people steal stuff at pretty much every company, but a chair? That's kinda hard to just walk out with.
Haha, probably not[0].

[0] https://twofactorauth.org/#banking
I don't know half of it half as well as I should like; and
I like less than half of it half as well as it deserves.

-- B.B.
>If you believe that we operate in a market economy, then by definition bullshit jobs would be removed.

That's the theory, but we all know that theoretical capitalism and what we have today are very different beasts. Bullshit jobs are not literally companies paying people to do nothing, but more systemic problems.

My local shop wants to sell a banana to me. The intrinsic complexity of this task is: A small group of people who grow bananas. A large group of people who manage global shipping. A small group of people to sell the banana to me.

However, let's inject some bullshit: My local shop and a shop slightly further away both want to sell bananas. Therefore they advertise. Let's add two large groups of people making graphics for the side of busses, posters for walls, animation for web advertising, filming television adverts, maintaining 'woke' social media accounts, et cetera. We now involve more groups of people for the busses to sell this advertising space, television networks to manage ad time, et cetera. We now have more people advertising the banana than selling it, but no more human beings are buying bananas, because there's a fixed size market for it. _Those_ are bullshit jobs, because they achieve nothing but keeping the market in the same steady state it would otherwise have been in, except with vast resource expenditure. No one company can stop advertising, though, because then their competitor's resource expenditure would actually become meaningful.
I assume everything on Amazon is a counterfeit and plan accordingly. Have you heard anything about Walmart? They have free two day shipping and I haven't heard any counterfeit horror stories (yet)
If you get paid by the hour and you're required to be in an office during a set period of time, then yeah, I hope you aren't working for free on the train. This is far from the only situation though...

I guess I'm lucky enough that my managers have never hounded me about when I come in and leave, so if working an hour on the train means I get my work for the day done an hour early, it also means I leave the office an hour early. Yeah, maybe I could use that hour to read for fun instead, but I'd rather finish everything sooner and get on with my day sooner.
Not even the frame - "This is also the first-time load-bearing parts were built purely out of LEGO."
This has suddenly became the most wholesome thread I've ever read on HN.

This is why HN is great.
A car inspector might think his job is safety related. Then the inspector who inspects the car inspector could start thinking the same. Then you arrive at a senior manager who is the boss of the inspector who inspects the car inspector.

| senior manager who manages inspector who inspects car inspector
| inspector who inspects car inspector
| car inspector
| pizza delivery guy

As the hierarchy expands people keep moving away from the real producer. And at some point have nothing to do with the producer.

Now you could say the senior manager might think his job is valid. Well guess what, if you get paid well, and paid well as you go up, doing as little job as nothing, you aren't exactly going to complain about it.
Work hours are increasing because of the decline in unions, and along with it, worker bargaining power.
Seattle has the wildfires that are just going to get worse and worse due to climate change.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-wildfires-burn-miles-away-sm...

wonder what specifically downvoters are not liking about this factual comment. It's relevant for quality of life. It's likely that quality of life in Seattle will get worse over time due to increased wildfires causing unhealthy air. All things being equal, fewer people should want to move there because of that.
Aside from shape, the LEGO one or the "real" one share other thing: they're still both toys!
This has weirded me out, as I have a recurring dream where I can fly by repeat jumping, and when I wake up from such a dream I start to question whether that is a real-life thing for a minute or so.

Very intriguing game.
So it's quite possible they weren't refused advancement, they were offered it but turned it down

Absolutely!

Anecdata: I have 30++ years of experience. I enjoy programming. I do not enjoy managing people. I do OK managing projects, but don't enjoy it.

Especially in the first 10++ years, when I had my yearly performance review I would tell my boss "whatever you do, don't make me a manager." They tried talking me into management roles quite a few times (and succeeded occasionally getting me to fill a technical management role in projects) but have mostly honored my request.

If I had gone into a (technical) management role I would likely have made a little more money but my stress level would be a lot higher and my enjoyment would have been way way lower. I've watched other engineers that went the technical management route and have been very happy with my choice.

Staying heavily technical isn't the right choice for everybody, but it was absolutely the right choice for me.