skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not RTFA yet so I do not know whether what you write here is based on fact or otherwise. What I do notice is that you end your entry with a bunch of labels - reactionary, racist and incel - which tend to be used by people who are guilty of many of the same transgressions as those which you accuse this CoAlpha site of: hypocrisy, elitism and hate. Your reaction would be more convincing had it not been for that last line, now it just reads like the pot who is berating the kettle for being black.

...[time passes]...

RTFA, the author named 'purpleduck' has diarrhoea of the typewriter and could have said what he wanted in a few lines instead of a number of pages: Google has jumped the shark when it comes to search. The rest is just drivel and as such this link was nor worthy of its position on the front page.
There is quite a bit that EU laws say about analytics as well... What's your point?
My next door neighbor died in this crash (flight 427). I'm from Virginia. I remember this crash vividly and I was only 10 at the time.
Duckduckgo seem to have a good way to make money without compromising privacy [0].

I'm certainly not an expert on this subject but monetizing based on relevant content is reasonable. You can still make money without gathering a tremendous amount of user data.

[0]https://duck.co/help/company/advertising-and-affiliates
As a customer it may be great, but this isn't great for the developer in my opinion. Perhaps it's just the way I play, but I will already refuse to advance until I've got a level fully beaten, so I'll basically keep at that until I get bored of your game or beat it fully and you'll never see a penny from me.
IT Security, Established company, East Coast, remote 80%, $ in USD.

2011 - Graduated B.S. Info Assurance, 55k, Security engineer

2012 - New company, 65K + 5k bonus, SOC analyst

2013 - Same company, 75k +10k bonus, SOC lead

2014 - Same company, 100k + 10k bonus, same position (sabbatical for 1 yr)

2015 - Same company, 125k + 12k bonus, SOC manager

2016 - Same company, 135k +12k bonus, same position

2017 - Same company, 145k +15k bonus, same position

2018 - Same company, 172k +20k bonus, promoted
What's a promotion after BI architect? Manager?
> Answer this question to satiate my curiosity, what if Stripe and Paypal refuse to process credit card payments for these authors?

I believe this will always be a concern unless cryptocurrency becomes widely accepted. Any centralized payment processing system will likely cause certain people to be excluded.
These salaries sound astronomical compared to earning potential in UK companies. As an Architect, average salaries are around £64,000. Does anyone know how like for like roles pay in the UK for US companies? I can't see Amazon paying £200k for a software developer?
I'm so tired of hearing about this. XUL was slow, and no one wanted Mozilla to spend millions improving a standard of which it was the sole user. There was a multi-year deprecation cycle. Everyone had a chance to update in advance.

Sorry your workflow was broken, but sometimes the users have to pay the price for technical debt too.
Watch: Dual Universe Handles 30k Concurrent “Users” on a Single Planet
Well, except markets love to ignore externalities like environmental damage, which is something I was including in my usage of "cost" up there.
You've managed to live in different cities for work, e.g. Madison, London, DC! That means you've gained invaluable life experience. I'm pretty jealous of that TBH.
This is true if you want to be the biggest streaming service, but I don’t think it’s true for HBO.

One of the potential flaws in Netflix’s strategy is whether they will have to keep investing heavily in content in line with price increases.

The other, which I would not say is a flaw, but merely going to opposite direction by only producing a few, high quality shows is a differentiated offering from Netflix.
They are quintessentially Australian. Barren, dry, low (Alps is a very generous description), spread out.

A few years ago very hot dry and windy conditions created by north westerly desert air precipitated major bush fires ripping through the area, killing a few people. Fire fighting in these area is very hard, so they were essentially unstoppable.

They were stopped though - by a snow dump from an Antarctic blizzard coming in from the south.
The main thing Tumblr offers that I haven't seen anywhere else is curated submissions. Like the sister reply said, on Tumblr, you can allow anyone to submit posts to your blog (including anonymous users and users without Tumblr accounts). You can set restrictions, such as "only text post or photo+caption submissions", and provide tags for submitters to choose from (e.g., on my blog submitters can choose the tag for the TTRPG they're using).

The key differentiator is the curation. Only those submissions which my mod team approves get posted to the blog, unlike Reddit where all submissions get posted first and then up/downvoted accordingly. I think (?) Reddit might have a way to curate, but it's not feasible at the scale of Reddit and a subreddit equivalent of the blog would quickly overwhelm the mod team and have to become uncurated. Considering the number of low-quality submissions we actively curate out, the result would be a significantly degraded experience. Which is not to say a transfer to Reddit is impossible, but it would definitely be An Effort, and one I'm not sure I'm willing to put in for what's been a fun hobby project for the last seven years.

Asks are another Tumblr feature that I haven't seen in other places. An ask is a question submitted to the blog mods, which the mods can reply to either publicly or privately, and which are visually differentiated on users' dashboards. On Reddit, a question to the mods would look exactly like any other post, and the mods' answer could easily be lost in the sea of general comments on the post.

There are also lesser features that Tumblr has that I've never seen on other platforms. Tagging is a big part of Tumblr culture and something I've had a lot of fun with on my blog. Reblogs and replies are very different forms of interaction than retweets/@'s. Fun coincidences like "dash did a thing" (where two unrelated posts show up together on a user's dashboard in a way that's amusing) don't appear to be a thing on other platforms for various reasons. The visual layout and formatting of Tumblr posts on the dashboard tends to be more readable than Reddit or Twitter.

These are all little things, but they're little things that have built up the personality of the blog over the years. I'd rather close the blog with its personality intact than watch it slowly die as yet another subreddit plagued by low-quality posts, insufficient moderation, and sameness.

(This sounds like I'm down on Reddit, which is not the case at all - I like Reddit, just not as a possible host for my blog.)
If you like that, you'll love CyberSphere: http://mudstats.com/World/Cybersphere
Base salary was $160K since 2014. But why? The stock part ended up as money in my bank. These aren’t stock options like startups give. Public companies like to pay with stock because it didn’t impact their cash flow. The shareholders pay for it via dilution.
Margaret Hamilton Led the Nasa Software Team That Landed Astronauts on the Moon
Kamala Harris wants to expand US Digital Service and bring it to states
But you're leaving out those people who actually do not care and those who find it okay to a certain extent, that was my point.
>The launcher makes an encrypted local copy of your localconfig.vdf Steam file.

This should not be done preemptively.
Huh, that is nowhere near the percentage drop I would've expected. I guess people actually use Tumblr for more than NSFW stuff.
> 2015: $100k, academic researcher, Midwest

This is more than some tenured research faculty. How the heck did you make so much in academia?
But there's also risk in designing a whole new plane, which had been Boeing's original plan. I'm not convinced MCAS is the wrong engineering decision. And who's to say a new plane wouldn't have a similar type of pilot assist system... the trend is in that direction.
That's also assuming there's no correlated issue causing all the crashes.
NZ has done this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Fast_Broadband

Covering 87% of the population by the end of 2022. It is a public–private partnership of the government with four companies with total government investment of [USD 1 billion].

It was rolled out below budget. Then again, look at Australia trying to do the same thing, and failing (incumbent telco and govt), which might be more similar to what would happen in the US.

Size, geography, and population of NZ is somewhat similar to Oregon, if that helps. As written by someone from Oregon: "When it comes to Oregon and New Zealand, there are similarities galore. Both have a largish city in the north corner. Both have around 4 million in population. And the square mileage of their land masses differ by only 5000 (98000 and 103,000, respectively). The scenery is spectacular. Micro-breweries are aplenty. And Kiwis “get” coffee. They really do. In other words, I feel at home here."
2014: $0 - Dropped out of school

2015: $45k - Freelance

2016: $75k - First big boy job

2017: $90k - Second job

2017: $110k

2017: $125k

2018: $135k - Third job

2019: $155k - Fourth job

2017 was a trainwreck. All positions are generalist (mobile, full stack, devops, design, etc.) because company sizes have been tiny. Figures do not include stock or bonuses because that number is pretty much zero.

I live in a major metro area and feel massively undervalued but I don't want to sell out to BigCo
I don't know what you mean by flight level. Flight level is a standard term in aviation and is based on pressure altitude. Strictly speaking pressure altitude is the height above the standard datum plane at standard temperature and pressure, but for practical purposes it's above mean sea level.

https://www.flyingmag.com/everything-explained-all-about-alt...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_level

Pilot vernacular often uses just `altitude` but which kind of altitude depends on context, but if there's ambiguity I say MSL (mean sea level) or AGL (above ground).
> Because of the flexibility provided by separating the Node-based logic and processing layer from the web-based presentation layer, VS Code lent itself well to this kind of innovation.

Game Changer? Innovation? This sort of thing has been possible with x-windows for decades.
A Cell Tower Is Causing Cancer in School Children
Ugh it is actually outrageous. On client sites, I use an icon and an anchor tag with noopener/noreferrer.

One client really wanted Facebook login so I had to make a Facebook account. That was a dark day.

On a somewhat related note, that business is no longer operating. I still host their site for free, partly out of smugness as they took none of my advice.
I'm sure the competitive drive to dominate (in generosity) plays a role. Look at the rivalry between Rockefeller and Carnegie for example. Once they grew old and their companies either bought out (Carnegie) or broken up by the feds (Rockefeller) they basically switched to seeing who could get their names put on the most public buildings by building libraries, universities, etc.
Coach K Wins with Unbeatable Habits
I'm suspicious of hindsight bias.

I'm not sure if that had written 10-20 years ago, that "learning" would figure out so predominantly. Who's to say there isn't a third such big method?

Also, while the lesson fit the facts (easy in hindsight), it will hold... until it doesn't anymore. The end of Moore's law has been long heralded, and we're starting to enter this era. Progress can be made, probably, but transistors can't get any tinier, and you can only put so much cores on one chip. Hardware may continue to provide "free gains" but those will likely be at an order of magnitude (or more?) smaller than before.
24 years as a dev (estimated - can’t remember all these ...)

Mostly SFBayArea...

1995 - 30k (startup)

1996 - 40k

1997 - 60k

1998 - 100k (consulting)

1999 - 120k

2000 - 150k

2001 - 80k (dotcom crash)

2002 - 80k

2003 - 120k (bank)

2004 - 125k

2005 - 90k (startup)

2006 - 125k

2007 - 140k

2008 - 125k

2009 - 140k

2010 - 150k

2011 - 165k

2012 - 150k (contracting)

2013 - 125k

2014 - 1M (startup sold)

2015 - 60k (startup)

2016 - 100k

2017 - 150k

2018 - 500k Eng mgr

2019 - 600k expected
Agreed, this is dank. The successful wiring alone is noteworthy.
> Sure but do those same studies look at code with the same character count (ie longer but fewer lines) or are they just subtracting characters via subtracting lines.

For most practical languages that are used day to day, this doesn't really matter. How often do you see Java or C# programs that have very long FP style lines?

As a matter of fact, I keep running into cases where golang code is both longer in terms of line length, and line count compared to code written in Java with map/filter/takeWhile/etc.

You can have a multi line approach and use if expressions, and get both readability (which is kind of subjective), and not needing to assign to the same variable in each branch. golang just chose to go with the most verbose and most error prone option.

var a = if foo() {
bar()
} else if baz() {
qux()
} else {
corge()
}
This sounds to me like a description of the internet, not Facebook.

I also think it is possible to enable others to make such cost-saving use of the internet without also doing the objectionable things Zuckerberg has done.
There are spots in Kansas City, MO where you can get gigabit fiber from three different providers.
Honestly, time to leave SV if you want to provide for a family. I'm in Atlanta. 10 years experience, 135k base, 150k total comp (401k and bonus). You can easily provide what you parents provides you here for 100k salary, which can be easily had. No one will judge you if you don't have large scale systems experience.
If explainable AI is too limiting, what's the alternative? What's going to happen when someone gets hauled into court to be held liable for their non-explainable AI's outcomes? Oh right, I know, they'll hide behind corporate limited-liability shenanigans, until people get tired of that and go straight for the guillotines. Or maybe the non-explainable AI's owners will decide they want to prevent that, and ... do you want Skynet? Because that's how you get Skynet. Maybe spend some time thinking about the various awful ways this could play out before concluding that explainability isn't important.
Didn't feel comfortable sharing on my real account, but thought some might find this interesting.

Gender: male
Location: east coast
* 2013 - Graduated without a degree in CS. Worked at small start-up for 55k, no equity.

* 2014 - Raise to 75k, 0.5%

* 2015 - Raise to 85k, 1%

* 2016 - Quit for a FAANG. 220k total comp.

* 2017 - After 2 promos at the FAANG, ~330k.

* 2018 - After good previous year, received a special stock grant and made 475k. Same eng level.
You could probably draw a quantitative line according to fraction of income paid as tax, since capital gains follow, ahem, different rules. It's good to be king!
It's about the media and political actors getting control over the lucrative and politically important social media platforms.

It's not just facebook. Google, Twitter and Reddit have also faced tremendous media pressure. Facebook gets most of the attention because they are by far the largest social media player.

For all the talk about how powerful tech companies are, traditional media is proving they are no slouches. Of course traditional media has far greater political backing so you could say they have an unfair advantage.

All we can do is have ourselves some popcorn and watch the entertainment. One thing that perplexes me is why the social media companies don't band together and help each other from these politically motivated attacks. There is strength in numbers and they'd be able to fend off these attacks better if they acted together. Maybe the tech environment is just too competitive for that?
Are you seriously saying that the reason Google hasn't implemented a _web_ standard is because Linux doesn't provide good enough support for binary device drivers?

That's just ridiculous.
I don't see anything in this article that wasn't already in the FAA's Emergency Order of Prohibition[1]:

On March 13, 2019, the investigation of the ET302 crash developed new information from the wreckage concerning the aircraft's configuration just after takeoff that, taken together with newly refined data from satellite-based tracking of the aircraft's flight path, indicates some similarities between the ET302 and JT610 accidents that warrant further investigation of the possibility of a shared cause for the two incidents that needs to be better understood and addressed. Accordingly, the Acting Administrator is ordering all Boeing 737 MAX airplanes to be grounded pending further investigation.

This article is further missing the "new information from the wreckage concerning the aircraft's configuration" piece, which is in the NPR interview[2]: And that, coupled with some physical evidence we found at the crash site led us to believe that the similarities were too great not to consider that there was a common thread.

So it wasn't just the flight path, which indeed was sufficient for other countries, but the addition of physical evidence as well:

And when you have a common thread between two accidents, then the argument for grounding becomes necessary. Grounding becomes necessary, and so that's what we did. We didn't have that link until yesterday morning, yesterday afternoon about midday.

GREENE: But isn't this something that analysts and experts have been saying for days now, that these two crashes appeared similar?

ELWELL: Yeah. Many were saying it, but nobody had data to act on it. It was all conjecture. And in aviation, the FAA in the U.S. has always acted on data. We're a data-driven organization. We have the safety record we have today based on science, risk analysis and data.

1. https://www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/Emergency_Order.pdf

2. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/14/703298739/faa-acting-head-dan...
Same here in the burbs. Would love me some fiber, but it's never going to happen.
Are the 10%-15% who bail free users, or paying users? Number of free users is only a good metric if you have ads. Without ads, a better metric is needed, like revenue.

The other thing we need is a real alternative. Ads are more or less unanimously not beloved, but bootstrapping revenue and funding are real problems. Worse than losing 10% of your customers is losing 100% of your customers because you can’t afford to stay in business. No matter how much everyone dislikes ads, they aren’t going away until there’s a way to fund your site/org/business.
The Man Who Invented Pi (2009)
Aside from the year, that is so similar to my first SE job:

East coast but not big city: 1999 $48k, 2000 $52k

I suppose inflation has been mild. Showing up in the height of the Y2K/web frenzy sure helped. I got myself a nice embedded RTOS kernel developer job before even finishing my degree. Meanwhile, everybody else was running off to invent web development or repair COBOL.

People graduating just a couple years later slammed into a dead market.
I think maybe he's asking without using a browser, instead open VC code and attach to a server maybe?
It's not absurd, it's really the opposite - it's common sense.

Ads are an important means for companies to get the word out for stuff you might want and they're in more places than the internet.

The industry suffers from inefficiencies, surely, but it's still net beneficial.

Someday we might have fewer ads, and better ads that we really want to see.

If you ever get into a position where you have a company, and you run ads, and you see how it affects your business, you might have a different view. For example, I'm helping with a small new business making a very cool niche product - they'd be dead without FB ads because only FB offers the kind of targeting necessary (just basic demographics really). None of us are big fans of FB but the business would not exist without them.

Businesses that have more scale and bigger budgets can hit demos a little easier, but there's only two real games in town for many businesses: G and FB.

And of course, we would never, ever advertise near porn, not for a second. In fact - if we felt that 'Tumblr' became well known or synonymous with porn, we wouldn't advertise there. As far as G, well, they have porn, but for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to affect their brand.
"not doing it out of the goodness of their heart" is such an irritating cliche that makes me cringe.

FB was founded in 2004 as a crappy for-profit startup. How many for-profit businesses born out of the goodness of the owner's heart? Yet you seem to make it sound like it's FB's fault.

> I understand somewhat why it's working, but still find it kind of depressing that it's being actively cheered on.

Social network has enormous benefit because we human being are social animal. Simple as that. I'm surprised that you only "understand somewhat why it's working". Just because there are bad sides of it doesn't make it a mistake. In fact I firmly believe the benefits it brings to the society should be cheered on.

Condemn FB for their shady tactics, but don't forget the positive effect. Get out of your bubble. Put yourself in regular people's shoes.
What else is he going to do? At that level of wealth, the marginal returns on greed have diminished to almost zero.

So one must find another way to feed ones ego. What is left apart from fulfilling the god complex and saving the world?

Edit: has->have
The key difference here is that the Bible as a whole has plenty of material to the effect of "don't expect God to make all your worldly problems go away", consistently enough that all major Christian denominations hold that faith healing isn't something you can depend on.
Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area

2012 - $55k software engineer out of college at a Series B startup

San Francisco Bay Area

2013 - $95k software engineer at same Series B startup

2014 - $120k software software engineer at new Series C startup

2015 - $130k full stack engineer at new Series B startup

2016 - Minor CoLA increase

2017 - Minor CoLA increase

2018 - $140k lead frontend engineer at angel, friends and family round startup

2019 - $150k pay increase at same startup after raising seed round

Edit for formatting.
> Consider you need to save a ton of money yourself in government sponsored accounts such as HSA or FSAs for future healthcare expenses that you can't possibly estimate when you're 20 years old.

HSA’s are good investments, but FSAs don’t roll over I believe, so they’re actually quite terrible for 20 year olds

Your analysis is a little idealistic though. I wouldn’t feel certain about social security nets 50 years out. I would take the cash any day.
But ~$500K is the market rate right now. Several people I know got that amount at Google, Facebook, and Oracle here in Seattle with ~10 years experience in cloud or AI/ML. Amazon’s stock increase has inflated the market rates because other companies had to pay so much in the last 3 years for people to leave Amazon. Obviously there’s no guarantee that this will last forever, but I was pretty confident I would have continued to make $500K/year as long as the market conditions remained the same. I also had enough unvested RSUs until end of 2020 to make that much.
This is really cool and the effect looks awesome. I've been playing with raymarching recently, so I'll have to try this out^^.
This comment crosses into personal attack, which breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Can you please make your points neutrally and respectfully in the future? It's important for the survival of the community here.
I would love to hear more about Microsoft. They seem like they are doing different things since they aren't considered part of FAANG. Smart on their part and sounds like a good place to work and a good model for other large companies to follow.