skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It’s usually a bit more ambituois than knowing specific languages or having specific defined skills. A lot of the benefits of having more senior engineers is good judgement, which is hard to define or quantify or identify. However good judgement can have huge benefits. For example picking the right abstraction today avoids an expensive refactor 2 years from now.
This has nothing to do with the 1st amendment
Fwiw it’s probably not as beautiful but for the continental US I recommend San Diego for remote eng and surfing. There’s a bit less localism and it’s at least 70% as beautiful and probably 200% more convenient :)
When u/DoreenMichele said "They are just sure the homeless are all drug addicts and thieves", I think they were arguing the absurdity of such a closed mindset. Not that all the homeless are literally drug addicts and thieves.

> Attempted theft doesn't qualify? Most interesting.

Doesn't qualify as what? My statement about martial arts was that it's not an effective solution for problems that aren't in the "form of physical direct combat". As in, there are other problems and negative consequences that don't manifest themselves in violent personal crimes.
By the way, the fact that "average" and "best" human performance are presented as meaningful benchmarks is one of the biggest signs that modern AI is driven by hype, rather than science.

For example, speech recognition AI is supposedly within fraction of a percent from "average human level", and yet auto-generated captions are awful. They have no punctuation, they don't distinguish between different speakers, they aren't visually grouped, and fail miserably dealing with slang. So turns out researchers are measuring only one aspect of the problem their algorithm is good at and ignoring the rest.

On the flip side, we have animal intelligence. Bees aren't nearly as smart as humans. So surely modern AI, which surpasses humans in this and that, would have no problem outperforming a bee with its 960 000 neurons, right? But in reality, there is nothing even approaching bees' versatile intelligence. Of course, modern AI researchers would just hand-wave this saying the problem is not well defined. Convenient.
I understand there are no reservations, just wondering if there is some legal status.
We take a holistic approach to level comparisons. The ultimate goal being to answer, "If I join X company, what level will I be placed at?". Compensation as you've pointed out, is not reflective of this because it varies wildly based on the size of company.
Hard to figure out how to effectively challenge behavior like that from the rank and file, honestly.
Somewhat off topic comment, but in 2003, Bill Bryson's book "History of Everything" states that anthropogenic CO2 output is 7billion metric tons per year where natural CO2 output is 200 billion metric tons a year (mostly volcanoes IIRC)[0]. It left me with the impression, that an additional 3% a year is small and we have time before this becomes a crisis. For the record, Scientific American calls Bill Bryson "A Champion of Science".

Then when climate change appeared to accelerate, I assumed that it must because we are removing our carbon sinks and that deforestation is likely the more dominant cause than our +3% additional emissions.

Earlier this week, I revisited the above figure and according to Scientific American: "the world’s volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, while our automotive and industrial activities cause some 24 billion tons of CO2 emissions every year worldwide." [1]

At 3% I can see how a climate change skeptic might feel this issue is alarmist. But if it is 12,000% I don't see how anyone could honestly be skeptical that global warming isn't being caused by humans.

It is mind boggling that two authoritative sources could differ by 3000X. Any clarifying comments are appreciated.

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=_CWlKRYLbIwC&pg=PA268&lpg=...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-volcan...
[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-volcan...
In that case I wish Plan 9 had never appropriated the term "rune" :p
> The patents are almost expired by now though.

No they aren't? The two recent patents are from 2011 and 2012 (filed 2007 and 2011) -- which by my IANAL read -- means they don't expire until 2027 and 2031.

And even if they were nearly expired, it's just not significant or responsive to my comment. They have been under patent for most of their lifetime, they're still under patent; hence they have seen little use when viable alternatives exist.
Isn't that what Oauth is for?
Wow.... these salaries make salaries (including mine's) in Sydney really, really low.
Has there ever been a major conspiracy theory / claim that a book ostensibly attributed to a male author was in fact composed by a female one?

In the same vein, would anyone contest Shakespeare's claim to the plays that bear his name if it were not for the fact that he was born a bit too low in the British class system?
But an attack that keeps rate limits saturated doesn’t require much bandwidth (you know, because rate limits) and is therefore easy to keep up. Most services would consider it unacceptable if a script kiddie with a botnet and a generic list of usernames were able to prevent even 1% of their users from logging in.
these are obviously new hire figures (includes signing etc). does anyone know if one can expect similiar compensation if hired as l3 and move up to l4 versus if hired as l4 directly. wondering if it’s better to switch jobs for promotions in that case.
You had me at "male"!
The truth is, in my experience, people in the major cities (and even some outside them) in the USA are the most highly compensated people on Earth. Canada and the EU have a lot of social systems that cost a lot of money. They have a lot of worker protections. This means it costs more to hire someone there and it is very difficult to get rid of them meaning more risk for the company. Because of this (and other reasons I'm sure) the wages are far lower.

In the low end and even mid-tier this probably works out better for Canada and the EU. But at the high end, which these jobs are, you're paying a large price compared to the USA. But hopefully you find the costs worth it.
So you're saying you're getting tired of everyone else copying Google's behavior?
> But guess what. My second link, the NASA one, shows the global increase of temperature between 2001 and 2011 to be 0.03°C.

Are we looking at the same graph? Because the graph clearly shows that yearly variation of ~0.2°C is quite normal, and picking any two years separated by 10 years is basically asking for random noise.

When IPCC said global temperature would increase "between about 0.15°C and 0.3°C" in 15 years, they didn't mean "between 1990 and 2005, every successive year will be between 0.01°C and 0.02°C warmer than the previous year." Nor did they mean the year 1990 and 2005 will be "average" years whose temperatures would be smack in the middle of the surrounding time period. To think otherwise shows a fundamental misunderstanding.

Climate scientists are not lawyers. They usually write for people with some scientific training, who can and are willing to follow their arguments for what they are.
no offense but when i hear leaving after 5 months it just sounds like serious underperformance.
"Content creation" isn't usually referring to "family photos and social media". Besides, family photos are made with digital cameras, not mobile apps.

In the context of this thread, the target user of iPad Pro is more than someone taking pictures of their kids and pets on weekends.

As for my opinion on this, I believe in using the right tool for the job, AND using multiple tools to get the job done. Sometimes an iPad Pro might be fine for certain stages of a project, for sketching out backgrounds or initial ideas for a design, and then importing that into another system such as animation pipelines or other applications on desktop or laptop or workstations. Depends what the job is.

I've never met a professional designer who works only on their tablet. Professionals love their workstations, multiple screens, and all the comforts and power of a proper setup. If you're just marking up a PDF, I wouldn't count that as professional work!
Communication friction, price and latency, has always shaped the structure and reach of our communities. Historically, friction that meant most people primarily interacted with "nearby" humans with differing perspectives... moderating new ideas through socialization.

What's changed is that social media, and the internet at large, has finally brought the cost of global peer-to-peer communication to (effectively) zero. That's huge! Our tribal boundaries are now fully decoupled from distance. We can define our community with complete freedom and precision while our phones grant near ubiquitous access to those we have selected.

On one hand, I know this revolution helped some LGBT friends find themselves and stay strong growing up in "traditional" communities... but the same tools also enable bigotry and conspiracies to fester in our backyards.

Hyperpartisanship is not new, but the degree of tribalization enabled by the internet feels new. Differences are being reinforced along every axis of opinion, with a much weaker socialization factor. It's not just team A vs B... the various groups of A are fighting themselves, all the variations of B through Z, and hordes of bots. It's an unending unwavering battle royale.

How do we compromise or reach consensus in a system like that? How can we turn this diverse melting pot into progress, mass adoption and acceptance of new ideas? And how, if at all, can we self-regulate things like bigotry without oppressing progress?
They would get their return as the exodus begins.
Yeah I know of this team, and I'd love to work with them. The problems they are solving sound really interesting. I guess I am afraid of joining under the understanding I'd join that particular team, but then find I'm shuffled onto some boring Java CRUD app, with no escape. I've nothing against those apps, but I've been there done that, and I'm not interested in it.
Where do you live that doesn’t have taxes? Also 40-45% is extremely high for the US. Perhaps you’re misunderstanding how marginal tax rates work?
l5 is terminal level for vast majority. meaning you can stay at it for 10+ years and not be expected to move
up without hard work and luck
Well, I'm a quant. I do know quite a lot about statistical pitfalls. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't do any mistakes if I look and analyze the data myself, but if I do and I engage people like the HN community, my mistakes will be pointed out, and it will be a learning experience, and I'll be able to progress towards a better understanding. And to be honest, I do think it's more likely than not that the global temperatures have been rising. But again, it would be nice to know you can access the data, and be able to whip out a jupiter notebook and do some sanity checks on it.
I’ve never worked in a major tier locale or for a FAANG so these TCs are wild for me. We’re hiring mid- to senior developers at probably half the big league Bay Area companies do.
At least for those with actual reservations and treaties they are allowed quite a bit of self governance and such. They can make their own laws, form a government as they wish, tax, regulate, decide who is a member and such.

That has not changed at all.

It sounds strange, and it kind of is, but in reality life on a reservation in most cases is rough, few options to make a living, lots of substance abuse, tribal politics can be pretty petty and nasty. I lived near a reservation for a while and the first thing you think "oh man they have this nation inside a nation they could do a lot of things" but really life is rough there.
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No way, these employees don't get paid by the hour and they aren't going to pull from their PTO to protest. Having a bunch of employees standing around being unproductive hits them right in the wallet. Management is going to listen to this above almost any other signal.
stock values are crazy high right now in general. what was 80k a few years ago is 160 or more at a lot of these companies
I believe based on comments here that they are reflecting current value, not initial grants. Many of these companies have performed insanely well over the last 10 years and anyone getting typical grants have done well by them. An AMZN grant from 4 years ago is worth over 5X from then, for instance. 6.5X 1 month ago for that matter but October was rough.

Being at the right company during the right 10 years is transformative and leads to early retirement.
This is pretty critical information that, imo, you should communicate more prominently. I was a little shocked at the value of some of these grants for the level, but this makes more sense.
I used to think the same thing about people who browse with auto-loading plugins. Then browsers caught on and started click-to-play'ing them.

Javascript is the new plugins (so much host OS functionality exposed now) and it requires a new click-to-play. I'd like to think they'll eventually integrate something like NoScript into the browser as a standard. This free for all code running is too much now that the browser is an OS.

But it's difficult to get browser companies to understand something when their income depends on not understanding it.
Most finance roles don't anymore. There's a large supply of candidates looking for roles across finance in e.g. NYC, but the industry is also shrinking in many areas, leading to compensation compression. I'm particularly thinking of sell-side roles.
>The thing is, when Hawaiians protest its hard to figure out who or how many they represent. Because there is no official Hawaiian government. (There is the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). But dont even get me started. lol) So no one can say "Hawaiians dont want the thirty meter telescope (TMT)". You can only say, "those people protesting over there dont want the TMT".

You can get a sense from polling http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/03/25/hawaii-news/support...

>My instinct is that a large amount of this particular protest springs forth from the students of the University of Hawaii.

You're partially right. The protests are fueled largely by sovereignty activists, some of whom are trained as sovereignty activists in the University of Hawaii School of Hawaiian knowledge, which is sort of a de facto sovereignty training camp. The dean is a vocal sovereignty activist.

> If Hawaiians block the one road up the mountain, and are willing to get arrested on a daily basis, its hard to imagine that any politician would back the continued construction.

Not true. This is exactly what happened with the solar telescope on Maui, and for the exact same reasons. The protesters were arrested in the streets and construction continued. There has been no decrease in support.
Well of course, you went to a consumer electronic store. The kit they sell there isn't really meant to be for "professionals".

It's the same for everything they sell at those shops. They are there to upsell shiny shit to people who don't know what they want. Try finding a decent laptop for a decent price at one of those stores.
when comparing msft/amzn with the rest keep in mind the state tax and CoL. that being said goog and fb also have seattle offices. but msft and amzn have bay area offices that pay more as well
> This article touches on an idea that I think many in the tech industry (myself included) continue to be myopic about: as disruptors we are held responsible for the negative social outcomes that we bestow upon society.

I think that's fair. I mean, since we get credit for the positive social outcomes, we should accept that we'll be blamed for the negative ones.
“Some guy” is probably an employee of the facility who knew perfectly well the USB key that he was probably given, not at random, is not innocuous.
It was actually pretty uncommon for ancient humans to draw the human form, let alone dicks. I think one of the earlier images with a dick in it was of birdman. More current anthro or art history buffs hopefully will put me in my place. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascaux#/media/File%3ALascau...

Edit I mention this becaus the author speculates humans have been drawing dicks for ages. Society had been much more interested in the female form. See the Venus figurines: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines

This all makes a bit of sense if you acknowledge the patriarchy: how much of your interest and indeed porn is dick focused after you’re 12?
You absolutely can set up a Google account with any email address you want.

https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail

I use Google services heavily at work, all on a Google account that was created with my work email address. And we are not a Google shop; my employer's email is self-hosted Exchange.
In what way do "they" do that?
Another very happy user of FastMail here, with our own domain. I initially was excited by subdomain handling, but switched back to only using my main account.

Using FastMail-specific features will lock you into this specific vendor once again, one of the main reasons to switch in the first place!
Show HN: Jasper
Jasper by Spyglass Studios, Inc.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jasper/id1440001010?mt=8
Why?

I left after 5 month voluntarily, I wasn't fired. I performed well and they wanted me to stay, 5 months was just enough to understand what kind of company is it.
Which country uses a single IP address for all its devices/citizens?
thanks! and good question - same locale but jumped ship to be a contractor.

I was a team lead prior and dealt with a lot of vendors where I was approving their time sheets so I saw how much they were being paid. Told myself.. WTF, why aren't I doing this?? Paid twice as much, way less accountability (parameters of work are all defined per project or per SoW) and I don't have to be stress out about the politics within the company. Also.. as a contractor, my schedule consist of half the time on customer's premises and the other half dealing with internal dev teams which gave me loads of flexibility of WFH.

This is the unfortunate reality for IT positions in any industry in Australia - Full time positions have not many upsides and contracting is the best way you can capture as much $$$ as you can. There are some downsides but upsides outweigh it by a mile!
Didn’t read the links but the numbers in your comment differ by 3x (7 billion vs 24 billion). Unless I’m misreading something?
I definitely agree. As someone who has been programming long enough that I "lived on the command line" in many different operating systems (Unix, DOS, VMS, IBM mainframe, and more) back when that was the only option, I really don't want to go back to those days. The Unix shell is a wonderful environment and I love it, but there are lots of useful GUI programs that make my life easier, and using them doesn't make me a lesser programmer.

(I also don't want to go back to punched cards or typing in machine code in hex.)
Equality in JavaScript
The Sci-Am Q&A is not dated but this is and also provides enough information to look at the raw data if one should choose to, it also provides a pretty wide range for volcano output but less than 1 billion tons a year for the last 250 years.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits...
Some of these reported salaries would come close to that, if you include social security and medicare:

For a $500k income in CA

29.59% Federal Income Tax
+ 10.48% CA Income Tax
+ 1.59% Social Security
+ 1.99% Medicate
----------------------------
= 43.65% total tax rate.

(Source: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-paycheck-calculator)
> Details about the supposed new attack are superficial at the moment, as there are no details about the supposed attack, the damage it caused or its targets.

So... not much of a story at the moment. Iran claimed its under attack by a "Stuxnet-like" virus.

Doesn't seem like there are any other significant details beyond that. It's not even clear that the target was nuclear centrifuges this time.
> Let’s wait and see how many actually participate before assuming only that number care?

You are right. It will likely be fewer.
I distinctly recall yellow pencils in the USSR. Not that it was the only color, but it was definitely a popular one.

Looking it up, apparently this has something to do with pencils being manufactured in early (1920s) USSR by an American entrepreneur:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Hammer#Career

https://i.imgur.com/vpObXqU.jpg

Eventually the Soviet government bought the entire operation from him, and thenceforth it became this:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE...

And they probably just continued to use yellow, because why not?
It seems equivalent levels at Microsoft are severely underpaid by the factor of 2 and sometimes even 3. How the levels considered equivalent across different companies on this website?
They didn't say they were fired after 5 months. I left Amazon after 10 months. It had nothing to do with underperformance, it had to do with the working conditions within the team I was on. My manager was very happy with how I worked, and since leaving has emailed me to come and work for him on a different team.
That is not what you wrote.
I don't know how to say this in a way that's considered a substantive contribution, but I still want to know:

What's the point of "pinecoin"?
Reach out to them? I’m sure they can work something out..
They have a very interesting idea, more such ideas should find place in commercial banking and finance. I hope they succeed and probably be a formidable competitor to Barklays and Citi of the world. Would definitely love to use this once i move to UK.
One is million vs billion.
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