skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am on Klonopin and Remeron. My diagnosis is anxiety, but really it's insomnia. I had a horrible, multiple-year episode of insomnia that started in my early thirties. For about three years I got maybe one night a week of decent sleep. I was mentally and emotionally out of it; I'm kind of surprised I still have a job after that.

A few years in, I found a psychiatrist who was willing to experiment and we discovered that the two meds above helped tremendously with the insomnia. I was then getting a solid eight hours most nights. There were side effects but they were much better than suffering with the insomnia was.

Now, after a decade, the insomnia seems to be completely gone. Knowing that I have medications available to me that can help me get to sleep is enough that I think I don't actually need the medications any more. So I'm very slowly going off of them. Klonopin first. There are, as far as I know, no guidelines for how to do this. I tried cold turkey, but the side effects from that were fairly severe. So I started tapering. I'm now down to half my original dose. If things go well, within four months I'll be off the Klonopin for good, and then I'll start on the Remeron.

These medications are not easy to stop taking.
The easiest way to get a raise is to change companies. You can then ask your current company to match, but in my experience (from the company side) this never works out in the long term. You'll be branded (at best) a hired gun and not trusted beyond "work for hire".

For a less dramatic increase you can change jobs internally but the impact to your take-home is far less significant. You can also play off any goodwill you've banked (like history of quality work, extra dedication, etc) to ask for more vacation, training budget, etc. Try for things that can be part of your new regular package; ex: an extra week of vacation each year vs. a one-time 2-week bonus.

The short answer is test the job market, get a better offer and take it.
> Pai's plan suggests an $11.4 billion annual cap on the total cost of the four programs, which is more than current spending but would put an upper bound on what the program could spend in the future.

This isn't as bad as the headline makes it sound to be.
Agreed as well. I find this encouraging given beef's large carbon footprint, and think low-grade burgers are the best target for replacement by synthetics (forget trying to engineer a steak). I don't expect them to become popular until they're almost indistinguishable and at least as cheap, but I think that could happen soon.
Do you have data to show if there is any delta in base salary for folks on visa vs others?
(OT thoughts on Triplebyte)

I think Triplebyte is stuck between a few incentives that aren't necessarily aligned with developers, and I'm not sure how to decide how I feel about their contributions overall to the job market for software.

I absolutely love their outreach and data like this where they try to empower developers more.

My problem I have is that they entered the market using the same exact worn-out old methods that everyone has been trying to use to hire for software forever. They do a timed coding challenge, they ask we-need-to-hear-the-right-answer quiz questions about both algorithms, and topic-specific areas for web/mobile/back end.

All they've done is dress everything up in fancy clothes and used an interface UX tuned towards developer's sensibilities. They absolutely bombard all major programming related internet sites/communities with their stupid click-bait "only 2% of green-skinned back end browser developers living at least 100ft above sea level get this question right!!!!111!1!1one1!" ads. Their initial, multiple-choice "gotcha!" quiz should be passed by a second year CS (or any eng.) student with a tiny amount of thought, but it makes developers feel like they've already just "beat" someone else out and "accomplished" something and it plays a psychological game with them to get them to commit to the extended live interview. (It worked on me!)

Do they have data about how their candidates perform after hire? 2 yr performance reviews? 2 yr turnover rates? How do they market to the recruiters who are their true "customers"?

To me their product seems like something that hiring managers and in-house recruiters can use to remove liability for bad hires. Has anyone ever worked with them through recruiting to see if the value proposition is there for eliminating bad phone screens? I don't think initial phone screens are terribly difficult to do for a senior engineer with experience, to root out red flags. Is it a better value prop on your expensive on-site interview slots to trust Triplebyte? Or your own internal senior engineers/hiring managers?

I'm not saying that Triplebyte has direclty nefarious intentions or anything like that. I just am no sure I see how their incentives are aligned with me as a developer, in quite the same way they market as ("We are god's gift to developers").
Your work sounds awesome. How did you get started?
My point exactly. Yang's assumption that we'll be able to scrap welfare program if we give people UBI is a fantasy. Because UBI won't change the fact that many people are still going to need welfare, UBI or not.
I'm arguing that if sex is more casualized, which it is, then partners are not "competing"; they can have sex with Man A on Monday and let Jody from Accounting have Man A on Tuesday.

The failure modes for this system are twofold: if women want sex much less than men, by a huge factor (which for casual sex may well be true) or if the most desirable men are insatiable nymphomaniacs and quite capable of finding a spot for every groupie. I'm not sure if the second part is amenable to change, but I'm sure it's possible to increase women's libido because surveys tend to indicate women have much less satisfying sexual experiences than men do, so changing that would show room from improvement.
I hate it when they do that. Seen it from the inside, and it's a blatant cop-out. When a company shows no interest in tracking down and correcting their botched work that's a big red flag for me to be on the lookout for another vendor.

Imagine if Boeing said "those plane crashes are intermittent, we won't work this problem until you've consistently reproduced it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_subsidization

They don't make money, they just want to gain market leverage. This will make their network more interesting because of crowd effect. Akin to fb letting people create profiles/chat, google giving free search results/emails/file hosting, etc. Just finished reading a book about this, see [1] for a review.

[1] https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/06/05/book-rev...
Im not sure what the parent is talking about Cargill, the largest private company in the US, is much smaller than Apple is.
What an interesting article. I ready it for a bit of morning outrage and now find the issue far more complex and subtle than I had thought.

My own child entered the US system in grade 8 as it happens and due to language issues was tracked into algebra, which was mostly stuff he’d had a couple of years before (not because he was an advanced student, simply how his German system had worked). He wasn’t able to get back on track until the end of the year.

So I of course assumed this change would be a disastrous concession. Now I’m not yet sure what to think.
I'd be more concerned about the carbs from the bun's bread, which was probably sweetened with corn syrup, than the calories in the cheese.
The original article states that, maybe read the article before commenting.
That would be a lot more interesting but it's also super hard to compare equity for public companies and different stages of startups. It probably makes better sense to split the companies into different categories and then do the comparison in the same category
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I wonder what level the public school 8th grade teachers are at with their Algebra at this point and what that has to do with this. I get the impression there are very few 8th grade math teachers who studied math in college as their first choice and then transitioned to education. There are too many more attractive STEM careers if you are inclined towards math, and the best math teachers in a school district are likely to be teaching the advanced 11th and 12th graders.

I took Algebra in public school in 8th grade in 1990. The public school was pretty bad, I remember how frequently we (the 8th graders) were correcting the teacher, he was that bad he was screwing up the examples on the board almost every class.

I got sent to Catholic School for high school. Everyone in the math department had an advanced math degrees. Calculus was taught by a PhD. The curriculum blended Algebra/Geometry/Trig/Calculus across all 4 years instead of the "one thing at a time approach." I remember being very cognizant of thinking I was probably better at algebra by the end of 9th grade than my public school 8th grade teacher had been. The quality difference in the teachers for math was mind blowing between the two schools.
It's also bad if you're actually interested in finding someone to actually date seriously. Do you want someone who falls for your act?
That is true. I meant it as in: ‘If you can avoid writing something in JavaScript, do so’. Obviously, there are contexts where it is the only game in town — I have big hopes for WebAssembly for that reason.
Difficult, but not zero. Social Security got passed, for example.

A crisis makes radical solutions easier. And if Yang is right about what is going to happen to the economy over the next couple of decades, crisis is what we'll have.

And his look to the recent past, rather than the future, isn't speculative - it's fact-based. When he points out that half the laid-off manufacturing workers wind up never returning to the workforce, many on "disability" that is becoming a long-term unemployment system rather than its original intent, he's quoting statistics. To reject his conclusions in a valid manner, one must either challenge his facts, or provide alternative interpretations of the observed facts. (Of course, most won't bother with a valid rejection, and instead just wave their hands around and shout louder about how we're going to train 50 year old truck drivers to be software engineers or whatever.)

Even where Yang is speculating, his speculation seems pretty reasonable. Making trucks drive themselves rather than needing a human for the steering and brakes and situational awareness isn't exactly an NP-hard problem. The odds that Amazon etc will continue to eat into retail seems reasonable to me. These things add up to millions of jobs lost, with no equal-paying replacements in the pipeline for those workers. And it's not just "blue collar" work... what happens to paralegals, for example? There are a lot of jobs that people go to college for, taking on tens of thousands in debt, that might just disappear in the course of a few years.

What the hell are we going to do about that? Tell them to get their lazy asses back to work? Because that's the current solution.
There was a post recently about a mindset where you'd try your luck in life sorting options by ROI. I found that interesting because I spend aeons on things that will be almost useless right away, instead of doing that maybe simpler, maybe less exciting but a lot more rewarding in terms of comfort. I guess my brain should be rewired from artistic perfectionist pride to capital (cough) pride.
Is this a problem, or fundamental part of development at all but the newest of companies?
Very relevant for people working for startups, much less relevant for those working at public companies where the stock can be sold the day it vests. Standard vesting starts after a year cliff, but it’s common to get a large signing bonus which makes up for it. Plus some people are getting offers with no cliff.

I worry that some really skilled developers may be looking at these stats and not realize what they are giving up by accepting a job with the average salaries reported here.
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What makes you think "processed" and "chemicals" are bad for you?
>However, in companies that are collectively owned, this becomes less clear.

Unless it has no management there is still a management class with disproportionate decision making power and thus the antagonistic relationship necessary for there ti be a clear case for gaming continues to exist. Humans are really bad at removing hierarchies, to the extent that I would assume any place without hierarchies has them in a harder to notice format.
Exactly.

Even in an attacking role, if you're still able to be denied actual air superiority over your target after you run out of missiles (i.e. because you're unwilling or unable to dogfight and clean up the rest of the enemy's air assets), then congrats, mission failed, we'll get 'em next time.
Strange that viewers would struggle to understand using captive brains for computing power, but would have no problems with a whole lot of other concepts from the movie...

Then again, the plot is the usual Hero's Journey (Campbell) like the majority of Hollywood blockbusters tends to be, but I guess the devil is in the details (illusory matrix/maya, recursive resurrection/enlightenment of Neo, the Christian theme of consuming an apple (pill) from the tree of knowledge and the subsequent expulsion from "paradise", etc.)

The Matrix trilogy is good on many levels, but I can't buy the "people used as batteries is easier to understand than people as compute accelerators". There are plenty of other, perhaps more relevant, places to dumben down in the Matrix if one goes down that road.
Most industries, certainly in the west. Possibly even most 'tech' ones.
I doubt mobile (phone infrastructure) is expanding that much, neither probably are smart phones. Landline internet is well past its growth phase. Big iron computing, desktop PCs.

Industries can't keep expanding forever. Sooner or later they have to mature. A growth industry might be a nice sound bite for a marketing pitch, but I'd rather be in an already large market, than a might be big one day market.
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Benchmarks of Amazon's AMD EPYC M5ad Instances vs. Intel Xeon and ARM Graviton
If a bonus is guaranteed, how is it a bonus? Just because it's a big year-end extra payment?
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The 'exit drug': can marijuana help end the opioids crisis?
At large, public companies, the stock options are basically as good as cash.
KSA also has access to very cheap labor (relatively slave like).
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Which production-ready options do you see for frontends without JavaScript?
Why did you choose not to use rsync ?
( Also, you regarding the criticism you received: perhaps you are interested in using TAHOE-LAFS. )
I love these burgers! They have actually helped me transition to completely beef-free since they address that occasional fast food burger craving.

It’s interesting to note that A&W Canada is entirely separate from A&W in the US. A&W Canada is much higher quality.
Well that's kind of my point... a burger isn't a healthy thing, the burger patty is probably the most healthy part of it outside of plain vegetable toppings
> McKinsey’s work with financial services leaders over the past two years suggests those at the blockchain “coalface” have begun to have doubts. In fact, as other industries have geared up, the mood music at some levels in financial services has been increasingly of caution

Who writes this stuff? I assumed with McKinsey you'd at least get exceptionally clear and concise communication and analysis.

Granted all the assumptions are likely to be made up and the conclusions nonsense, but still.
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But this system is allowed to continue only because the employees admit it. I guess it is not illegal to disclose your own salary. Or is it? Can an employer fire you if you disclose your salary?

In academia, even while the salaries are rather meager, at least they are public and equal to everybody (depending only on your position and seniority, according to some public tables). We could very well do with a bit of wage inflation!
"Why" doesn't matter when it has already been proven that they do.

Just search through HN for any discussion of net neutrality.
I am indeed alluding to the principles of ECS! I didn’t want to beat readers over the head with what might be perceived as “a whole new way to architect your software!!1!”, but this is the next step in that direction.
It's an illusion.

I think this is just one of the rare examples where people can't arbitrarily roll their own new language because they're unhappy with bits and pieces of C++ or Python. Consider that in the same span of time we have kotlin, groovy, scala, elixir, erlang, r, go, rust, swift, etc., as well as many yearly flavors of C++. Its just that every time someone makes one of these it fractures the total attention paid to the the langauge/framework so they tend to become niche and peter out.

Javascript, on the other hand, is 1) profitable and 2) chosen because no matter what you really cant† choose a different language to do this work in the browser. This has the effect of concentrating all work in a very specific place. Image if instead of some people writing ruby, go, java, etc. you combined all of their equivalents of npm into one giant thing that everyone worked on all the time. I think it would look very similar to npm.

Oh and don't forget that framework development is not only driven by new engineering practices and concepts, but by new features that get added by Mozilla and Google like async/await and OffscreenCanvas. There's just much, much more to whole ecosystem when you're dealing with modern javascript than really any other language.

Also, Javascript is just LISP in C-style clothing so you also end up drastically different programming styles (take, for example d3's style versus jquery versus react versus three.js: all valid, all quite different and with different requirements like webpack.) This maps rather directly to when people made scala and groovy, imo. They're just like JSX/ES6+ but we consider them all different languages as opposed to "lots of javascript."

† even here there are some attempts to do this with typescript and rust that compile to restricted javascripts.
The most recent research basically says that dietary intake of cholesterol have very little influence on cholesterol blood levels.
Unless you go to a FAANG you're basically going to be accepting compensation close to what's listed here.

If you're at a FAANG and get those massive stock packages, then you can really start getting close to the $300k+ total comp packages that people talk about.
Nutrition facts: https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600189392...

Ingredients: https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600189374...

Saturated fat numbers don't look great. Also, TONS of salt which isn't great either.

sigh oh well, maybe some day.
Hehe, seeing this I thought "Cool, this is exactly how Spotify handles separation between the GUI frontend and the backend in the Spotify app" and then I saw the organization name in the URL.. doh!
I agree that backend languages are stable and the new shiney ones are less frequent to emerge and more conservatively adopted but... within the languages themselves things are changing quite a bit, 7 years ago PHP was at version 5.2 and lacked any support for non-string defined functions (i.e. we had to do stuff like

create_function('$a,$b', 'return "ln($a) + ln($b) = " . log($a * $b);');

since that point there is now actual support for anonymous functions, greater namespace support, typing...

So over the past few years we have had a great improvement in the toolset we have to work with, but, to the other half of your point, we're mostly working with the same groups of tools, they're just better.