skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does sound like a good way to interview a candidate.

But I can see from the company's side it being a bit of a potential legal challenge issue. Depending on what the problem is and how deep it goes into the codebase or whatever, you might get into proprietary process information that someone outside the company shouldn't have access to, possible IP access violations, etc.

If it can be done in such a way to avoid those pitfalls, then it might be ok. But I bet it's a tricky challenge, and may be why it isn't done often?
JS is unique in that it started out as really quite a bad language, but due to external circumstances (the success of WWW browsers) it became the most-used one.

So lots of people work on dealing with its warts.
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Well of course there is a limit, mapping at this scale absolutely requires GPS of loop-closure of some sort. Myself, working in forests, I mapped at most 100 meters by 100 meters but some people in my lab are going as large as 1 kilometer by 300 meters.
Is the Catholic Church a private organization in this context?

One that surprised me was Fidelity investments. It's huge company held privately by a single family. Not centuries old and probably nowhere near as profitable as Apple though.
Why would it be on par? Laravel is built with Symfony. [1]

[1] https://symfony.com/projects/laravel
A couple questions,

Are these base salaries or total compensation?

Can you share what the distribution of companies you source to is? Ie are they mostly early stage startups or do they include many large post ipo tech companies?
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Tom, that was the end of the email trail; I didn't hear back anything.

It's no big deal really. A miscommunication between their tag line and my expectation. My email is ganesh @ aihello.com
I think because it's interesting to hear what people have experienced when moving existing thing to Rust.

How hard was the task? My personal experience has been that it's often hard

What performance benefits did you get? Insane drop in resource usage is what I've seen

What did you contribute to the young Rust ecosystem? Many people end up fixing existing weaknesses or problems to get existing thing rebuilt.

I think these and others, get many of us interested in these types of submissions.
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Yeah, it's basically an ethical burger, which, if that's what you're looking for, that's great. While I can tell it tastes different, when dressed up in a burger it hits the spot just like a hamburger does. The problem is when people try and convince themselves that just because it's vegetarian it's healthy, which isn't the case at all. After all, Oreo's are vegan.
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Great question - these roles correspond to our notion of engineering archetypes (https://triplebyte.com/archetypes), which define what concentration of skills a company is looking for for a particular role. In this case, full-stack indicates a web focus, while a generalist engineer is a more, well, general programming role - often one that requires less specific web knowledge.
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Sure, anyone can say anything is morally acceptable. That doesn't make them right. The fact that different opinions exist does not mean that morality is meaningless.

> Just saying its wrong/right its useless without any concrete action behind it.

Of course. That's why I think concrete action should be taken. In this case, Google should not support totalitarian government censorship. I'm honestly not sure what your point was here.
Interesting to see that this is not a normal distribution. The modal salary is closer to $135k, the median $146k, and as we see labelled, the mean at $149. Not the idealized bell curve taught about in statistics class. That long tail on the right side is pulling the mean up and away from the mode and median.

Honestly, I'm not sure why I expected a classic bell curve instead of a long right tail.

Edit: playing with the data, looking at some of the sub-distributions, (e.g. front-end engineers with 3-5 years experience at all company sizes) do look a bit closer to normal distributions, but in many, there's still that long tail to the right.

Now, what to do with this information? Perhaps I can play it to my advantage when attempting to negotiate a raise or a salary with a new company.
I'm a UBI supporter, and every one of these points has serious problems.

> 1. Current spending. We currently spend between $500 and $600 billion a year on welfare programs, food stamps, disability and the like. This reduces the cost of Universal Basic Income because people already receiving benefits would have a choice but would be ineligible to receive the full $1,000 in addition to current benefits.

Making UBI a choice vs. existing programs is administratively problematic (and, also, makes no sense.) But a lot of current welfare spending is state and local, and some of what he mentions (disability insurance) is not only state/local, but not classic welfare spending, it's insurance against loss of income, which UBI, despite raising the income floor, does not provide or meaningfully substitute for.

> A VAT. Our economy is now incredibly vast at $19 trillion, up $4 trillion in the last 10 years alone. A VAT at half the European level would generate $800 billion in new revenue.

What's the “European Level” referenced here? European VAT levels range between something like 8% and 27%.

> A VAT will become more and more important as technology improves because you cannot collect income tax from robots or software.

Yes, you can collect tax on income gained through capital investments like robots and software. We do that today, just at lower rates than labor income, but there's nothing fundamental that requires such lower rates.

> New revenue. Putting money into the hands of American consumers would grow the economy. The Roosevelt Institute projected that the economy would grow by approximately $2.5 trillion and create 4.6 million new jobs. This would generate approximately $500 – 600 billion in new revenue from economic growth and activity.

At best, the growth and new revenue lags; it helps with the steady state cost, but you still have to deal with getting there.

> We currently spend over one trillion dollars on health care, incarceration, homelessness services and the like.

That's true (talking government spending) even if you cut out everything after health care, but...

> We would save $100 – 200 billion as people would take better care of themselves and avoid the emergency room, jail, and the street and would generally be more functional.

That's... extremely optimistic for a $1K UBI. Especially since much of the government cost of healthcare, which is the bulk of this category, is in means-tested programs, particularly Medicaid, which presumably was already fully counted when you counted the full cost of existing “welfare” programs.
This chart is absolutely beautiful, great job! Is this made using pure D3?
I mean, I'm not trying to be rude, but it doesn't really matter what you "strongly feel" -- your estimate of 1-2% is just a wild guess.

I "strongly feel" it's not very likely, whatever very and likely mean, so there.
200k base is not that unusual for a senior engineer in a major tech hub working for a large tech company

Given that the median in SF is $150K, $200k base salary for an experienced engineer is in line with expectations
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Honestly, Jason is hopefully going to be thrilled Wireguard is going to be deployed to an absolutely massive scale, not even OpenVPN has been offered as a 'free VPN' like this.

I'm really hoping it works out, and Cloudflare can continue to contribute their expertise working with WG. At the end of the day, this benefits everyone since OpenVPN whilst it's reliable in my experience, is just too burdensome.

I also am intrigued by the price, and features that will differ between free/pro. I suspect many VPN services over the next few years will feel the effects of this (is that why they're all rushing to add 3 year plans?)
bootcamps have been around for only a few years so that's also likely filtering based on years of experience.
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> The future notion is that that storage directory is yours

One problem is that unless I want to plug my phone into my computer each time I need to manage the storage or use the rather limited built-in file explorer, I'm going to have to use some third-party apps myself (that I have decided to be trustworthy enough) in order to manage "my" storage. From Google's point of view those apps remain third-party-apps though, and as such remain subject to some set of restrictions.

> FBReader has a directory of its own, and can provide other apps with access to ebooks or other files in that directory, mediated by its own code, access-controlled as it pleases.

I don't want my ebooks to "belong" to FBReader, though. Now yes, you can still do that as long as you only open the books from inside the respective reader apps (copy your ebooks into a general ebooks directory on the storage and then give each of your reader apps permission to access that directory), but

> can provide other apps with access to ebooks or other files in that directory, mediated by its own code, access-controlled as it pleases.

Google wants the above to be the only way to pass file references around between apps, which is stupid when
a) that file doesn't actually conceptually belong to the sending app, and
b) the receiving app would have had permission to access that file itself anyway.

As Google has currently implemented content://-URIs for example, even if FBReader has been explicitly granted access to my ebooks directory, if I happen to open a book from my file explorer instead, then because in that case the access is "mediated by" the file explorer, FBReader cannot reliably tell that the incoming file is actually one that is already part of its library, so I potentially end up with a duplicated LRU/history entry, my reading position might not properly remembered because FBReader doesn't know whether those two files are in fact one-and-the-same or not, and, and, and... And if I happen to switch my file explorer app and uninstall the old one, all references to files opened through the file explorer become invalid, even if FBReader had permission to directly access the file by itself, too.
Hopefully carbon taxes and such would kick in at some point and would include the real environmental cost of beef, so the switching to plant based beef would be even more swift.
> Somewhere around two-thirds of Saudi nationals work for the government. Many of these people do virtually nothing, they are employed simply for social purposes, to keep the population happy. Thus, their incomes are very similar to universal basic incomes. The Saudi government gets 90 percent of its income from oil revenue, which given the ease of producing oil in Saudi Arabia and the use of foreign partners to do much of the producing makes this revenue source pretty similar to simply printing money. In Saudi Arabia money doesn’t grow on trees, but it does bubble out of the ground.

Saudi has been running a real large scale UBI experiment for decades, showing how you end up a stagnant, backwards and authoritarian society.

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I get this. If you've ever done software consulting for horribly backwards industries or companies, I think it's clear what he means. It's easy to look from the outside and see obvious and clear solutions. Why don't they fix that problem? Why do they still do that? You gather your requirements, make your solution, and hand it over. Of course, it's never that simple. There is a ton of historical gunk in their processes that people are too busy to fix, and they're busy tearing their hair out just to keep the ship running. Not even agile can save your software solution, it was doomed from the start.
Soon enough, you're making spaghetti code to adapt to the spaghetti processes. It's so horrible that it's obvious why no sane or superstar-talented person wants to work there. It's not worth the pain and effort, it makes way more sense to work for a company that has a lot of things figured out. Ah, Netflix, where they publicly brag on their website about their culture and having dream teams full of superstars. Heck, Netflix pays way better too.

So the company gets the employees they deserve, not the employees they need. That isn't to say that Batman isn't worthy of respect. Batman saves the company over and over again every day. But they really needed Harvey Dent. Unfortunately, whenever a Harvey Dent goes to work for that company finally, he either dies a hero and has to leave, or he lives long enough to become the villain that just perpetuates the monstrosity and makes it worse. Hey, he's getting his paycheque, whatever, who cares anymore. The company is still alive and paying me. Before, I was so idealistic. Then I was biding my time while looking for a better opportunity at another company. Now I'm so full of apathy and cynicism that I'll just feed the machine while the machine pays me. I've got mouths to feed and my employees like how I still play the hero now and then. Heck, they even think I'm Batman, not Two Face. But every now and then, I'll backstab Batman, because look at what I am now. I'm not Harvey Dent anymore, I'm Two Face. But don't say that I'm not doing my job.

Companies get the people they deserve, they rarely get the people they need. Andrew Yang is trying to be Harvey Dent.