skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about your friends but the average salary out of an elite b-school is something like 160k in the best of cases [1], not the ranges you mention...

Either they're total outliers, or you're talking about something like an exec MBA, or something else altogether.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-b...
No, it means that Amazon reached the point of considering other solutions than Oracle (I bet partially because of cost) at the time when this project started to move their database workloads that at the time were residing on Oracle to something else. Amazon uses many software vendors, they by no mean suffer from the NIH (not invented here) plague.
I have seen some day rate contracts in Zurich at astronomical rates, if you don't mind working for a Big Bank. One of them even offered expensed flights, hotel accommodation and a (substantial) per diem!

J2EE isn't the bleeding edge but it can keep the lights on.
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This is exactly why I bought an iPhone 8 earlier this year. The fingerprint reader combined with rest to open means my phone is ready to go before my eyes/face are anywhere near the screen. There simply is no competition (against face id) as far as speed is concerned.
Impossible to actually achieve that return. Those indexes can add and remove companies at any time. Index funds never perform to the same level as an index, and that's without accounting for fees.
The problem is, the salaries in Switzerland are terrible for good software engineers.

This page says 120,000 CHF for 5 years of experience. That's around $120,000 USD.

At Google, someone with that much experience is at least an L5. According to https://www.levels.fyi/ in the Silicon Valley region that gets you total comp of $360,000.

Yeah, not everyone is making Google money. But a lot of software engineers around here are, or they will be at some point during their career.
This comes up in recursive descent implementations as well https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/53913ad229bad5d0a3bb...
Microwave ovens are not very narrowband and certainly do not excite 'rotational resonances of water'. The periodic burn marks on your cheese are from coarse standing waves within the microwave oven cavity (related to the magnetron resonance and spacing of the walls).. it has nothing to do with molecular resonances.

EDIT: the reason it cooks food is the intensity of the field strength (1 kilowatt per cubic ft, or ~27,000 watts per cubic meter) in a microwave oven. 5G signals are tens of microwatts (millionths of a watt) per cubic meter. That's a difference of a factor of 10's of billions.
I'm unsurprised by the replication crisis. I've seen scientists p-hacking, and even choosing inappropriate statistical tests because it gave a "better" result. Example: using a non-parametric "U"-test when a parametric "T"-test gave a non-significant result. Along with low numbers of replicates. Statistical analysis is only useful and meaningful if your data is of good quality, and you use a statistical test appropriate for the data. If your data is of marginal quality, then I'm afraid that it's simply unworthy of publication. But when your career hangs in the balance, stuff like this gets through.

The major problem with current scientific practice is that good practice is actively penalised. I used to work in industry, and I was shocked at the lax standard of work, particularly with respect to accuracy and precision, of wet lab scientists in university research settings. I mentioned this to a few postdocs over the years and paraphrased was told that "if it's good enough to publish, then it's good enough for me", which if you think about it, is actually quite a low bar. Most of the people were fully aware they were doing sloppy work, but didn't care.

How can it be improved? I think there are two sides to this coin. Firstly, good practice has to be encouraged and rewarded, and sloppiness penalised. That requires a culture change in the laboratories. Too many PIs don't care about what happens in their labs so long as "good" results are being generated by their underlings. They don't look after instrument calibration and ensure that people are working to GLP standards. In industrial labs, we had to send samples off to reference labs, analyse random samples provided to us, and undergo inspections and audits to prove we were providing correct analyses. Maybe academic labs should be obligated to prove themselves as well, or lose their funding?

Secondly, a project delivering negative results should not be a career-ending move. Failing experiments does not necessarily mean one is a bad scientist. But right now, the incentives are to spin all results in a positive light, even if it means publishing bad science, because that's what it takes to keep the funding coming in. Success should be rewarded, but I think our criteria for what success is need to be recalibrated to reduce charlatans abusing the system for their own benefit. Publishing a paper isn't enough; it's got to be replicable independently.
I have only just taken an interest in the canvas fingerprinting. My understanding is that it relies on a unique hash of an "image" created using HTML5, including the time it takes to draw. Is it not possible to alter this hash by throttling or slightly modifying some GPU settings? I know this is a weird and most likely highly technical question. I'm just curious.
I don't see any. I skimmed what was sent (about:telemetry) and didn't find anything too egregious. Yes, you can be uniquely identified by your telemetry pings, but that alone isn't really an issue. All it tells Mozilla is that you use Firefox. It doesn't tell them anything about your browsing habits. The biggest risk I can see is malicious actors getting the IP information associated with telemetry submissions and using it to deanonymize your browsing sessions by correlating telemetry submission IPs with other sites' IP information. To mitigate that risk, I would recommend batching telemetry submissions (every week/month rather than in real time) and using separate connection/proxy settings for telemetry submissions.
Some of the higher quality face unlock uses a dot matrix of IR projected onto the face. Should be visible in dark. Might be hard in areas that are bright in the IR spectrum though.
Is it inspired or a direct port? And are all doc sets supported? I have to admit that I use Dash way to often even though it’s just a glorified man page reader :) But I do miss it on windows and Linux.
Show HN: DoCL, an interpreter for an assembly inspired language
There is also this -- https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/cups-pk-helper/
I appreciate the plushed giraffe perturbation. Reinforcement learning needs to account for all eventualities, including giraffes.
I've had nothing but terrible luck getting progressive lenses for years. I'm in the -7 diopter range, so the correction has to be pretty strong. Usually the script is dead on for some part of the visual range but hardly anything else works clearly. The single vision lenses I have for computer use are right on point. I have a pretty significant astigmatism in my left (non-dominant) eye, and that one is always jacked up.

I've been going to the same ophthalmologist for several years now and over that time he's made a few mistakes in the script; twice I've had to have the glasses remade because of errors on his part. He came highly recommended, but the recommendations you get tend to be aligned with whatever hospital system you get them from, rather than true recommendations based on actual craftsmanship.

I'd be interested in figuring out how to find an ophthalmologist who uses the Zeiss i.Scription tool in combination with a subjective test. I probably need to start going first thing in the morning as well; since I have to have my eyes dilated I tend to go in the afternoons after I've been hacking code most of the day; it sounds like that could be hurting the quality of the prescriptions.

If anyone in the Detroit Metro knows of a good ophthalmologist with the Zeiss machine, do send me a note.
Many of us weren't. You claimed MBAs are exclusively for rich kids. I provided data to refute that baseless claim. The point on how many foreigners there were is just a freebie.

I don't know about Harvard MBA students, I didn't go there. But you can go ahead and google each school's class profile. Maybe that info is out there.
Most likely it was cost reduction to meet competitors. The router needs to do more work handing packets than just store and forward (which is basically all the mesh nodes have to do with packets).

The D-Link Covr series and the Amplifi are probably the best direct competitors for this. Neither require a cloud subscription to work either. Both have "tri-band" which basically just means they actually have a dedicated radio to use as a backhaul (which this doesn't).

The Covr is ~$200 for 2 units and Amplifi is about ~$340 for three units so this is more expensive already than either of what I think of as its direct competitors. The only "feature" that this has the others don't is Google Assistant and in my book the lack of it is a win.

I've personally used the Covr mesh nodes and they're pretty solid and easy to use.
I miss when HN throwaways were used to serve as whistleblowers.

Not for spreading "The Bell Curve" 90s research and unsourced white nationalist propaganda.
I'm pretty happy with the 3aXL.

It has a fingerprint reader, a headphone jack (yes I use it -- particularly on flights which I unfortunately take a lot of), a 2-3 day battery for my use case, and a reasonable price. When you consider eg skipping the warranty because it's $400 not $700+, it's a great buy.

Also... standard cables (that aren't fragile as shit) and the high speed charger you want is included in the box, rather than used to juice accessory revenue!
The charge of electron was incorrectly reported in many studies for many years because scientists refused to publish results that contradicted Millikan's incorrect result, and happily published incorrect results because they matched the accepted theori of the time. This is one of Feynman's favorite stories to illustrate Cargo Cult science.

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
AMC Theatres launches streaming service in latest blow to Netflix
5g is already here. They are behind.
> but your pay is roughly correlated with the value of your labour.

If that was true businesses wouldn't show profit (or would show low profit margins consistently) because the value of the workers labour would have been been paid back to them.

Plus that whole thing about these billion/trillion dollar SV tech companies engaging in massive wage fixing.

You're paid the absolute minimum amount of money the company thinks they can get away with.
The people in the central bank, are bankers. Bankers have a personal motivation for choosing banking as a career.

I should have used more accurate language and said 'primary' instead of 'only'.
The problem is many many books survived the test of time and a lot of such non-fiction books are outdated/incorrect by modern standards.
Step 1. Stop using browsers that don't respect user freedoms.

There are plenty of good firefox forks out there.
It looks like DNT is turned on automatically if tracking protection is on, so it probably doesn't identify you any more than "a Firefox browser with tracking protection on".
Honestly, I think you underestimate how much of a distribution and fulfillment network Sears had at their peak. It is easy to imagine way for them to have transitioned to the internet, offer similar delivery speeds to Amazon.

But to do so would have required a lot of forethought and vision. They would have needed to recognize the significance of online retail, free shipping, trustworthy customer service, and their fulfillment way back in the early or mid 90s.

I remember startups back then that didn't really recognize that, and I'm certain that old retail didn't.
Infrared does not work like that
I have sweaty hands, the fingerprint sensor on my iPhone 6 worked maybe 50% of the time. Since upgrading to an iPhone 11, I've found Face ID to be a huge improvement.
They did move to vendor built software. They moved to one that they could get better prices for, AWS. Everyone else will not likely get the deal that they received.
I would expect nothing less of people than to help their kid succeed in life. It seems like parents are spending money as expected. Of course, the article doesn't look at what happens to those kids once the parents are gone or what happens to the grandchildren.
Yeah this article is interesting. Cost of housing is basically being described as as high as the Bay Area, but the salaries sound quite a bit lower. Junior devs in SF are making maybe $110-130k, vs 60-90 that the article claims in switzerland. Senior devs are making maybe $180-220k, plus more in stock options/RSUs (which despite the negative reaction to them here on HN, actually do often turn into real money at least at unicorns or public companies) vs $120k+ mentioned in the article.

More generally I've been wondering about this and can't figure it out, why are software engineer salaries in Europe are so much lower than the US? From what I can tell, Switzerland is just about the highest you'll see in Europe, and is still lower than the biggest US tech hubs. In other big metropolitan areas (Paris, London, etc.), the cost of living is at least a bit lower, but they're still major cities and not that cheap. And there salaries for engineers are even lower. As another concrete data point I was looking through the gitlab location adjustments for remote workers that they have released publicly[0], and the floor for anywhere in the US, meaning even the most inexpensive, remote parts in the country, is 63.3% of the baseline SF salary. Any mid-tier city will be higher than that, like 75% of the SF salaries. But Paris only pays 56.5% of the SF baseline. Why is that?

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/master/dat...
what about just the old way, google groups or email lists?

otherwise, I still see certain business model shall work for meetup, how about when meetup charges a fee for its members then it shares some percentage of that fee with meetup? otherwise it will be free.

and what about eventbrite.com
Google/Kf: Feels Like Cloud Foundry. Runs on Kubernetes
Which applications can't you remove?
Why are people so enamored with books? The only kind of books I read are technical books, and that's only when the content is not available elsewhere (or the quality of the content is much higher in a book).

What free education content on youtube for whatever your interest is (other than programming, most of that sucks on youtube).
If you find Redux "Too complex" or you feel "it requires too much boilerplate" then this is a clear indication you don't need Redux. The real use-case for Redux is highly complex applications, if you're using redux for your todo app then of course the cost/benefit ratio for you is not gonna work out
> ps aex | grep $common_denominator | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill

That looks pretty equivalent to:

pkill -f $common_denominator

I suppose this is less portable, though.
"In particular, there are ongoing efforts to try to make it the normal thing for scientists to make the programs they ran on their data available so that their results can be reproduced; aggressively dropping older programming language implementations rather gets in the way of that."

But if this is important to you then depending on the OS to provide your python seems like a bad idea, independent of the python2/python3 issues. Wouldn't it be much better to use something like conda / the anaconda distribution, so that you can specify precise versions of each library for your environment?

Having said that, I don't know how anaconda is going to handle the EOL of python2. So I guess the question is: if someone wants to be able to reliably reproduce a python2 environment with specific set of libraries, what is best way to do that?
> 3 years of security and OS updates will keep your phone performing at its best.

I’m still using an iPhone 6s which has gotten its last major iOS update after owning the device for 5 years. It will continue getting security fixes for another year until iOS 14 is released.

iPhones last twice as long as Pixel devices, which is a big plus when you must have a secure phone.
All great points. I'd also add "the rise of the MBA" really happened 50+ years ago...
I have the exact opposite experience. These are just anecdotal experiences. Without providing insight into the workload and your approach it is pretty meaningless.
Speaker is the standard term. Amazon describes the Echo Dot as a "Smart speaker with Alexa". And this is how Apple describes the HomePod:

"HomePod is a breakthrough speaker that adapts to its location and delivers high-fidelity audio wherever it’s playing. Together with Apple Music and Siri, it creates an entirely new way for you to discover and interact with music at home. And it can help you and your whole family with everyday tasks — and control your smart home — all with just your voice."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Dot/dp/B07FZ8S74R

[2] https://www.apple.com/homepod/
Never heard of "Mavis Discount Tire"! I Google'd "Mavis Discount Tire vs Discount Tire" to find that the latter is suing the former for trademark violations:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/discount-tire-lawsuit-c...

Wheel retailer Discount Tire claims a rebrand by Mavis Tire Supply LLC—labeling its stores Mavis Discount Tire—violates its trademark rights.

The company’s Dec. 26 lawsuit says Mavis started renaming stores after buying multiple chains located in the South and Midwest, where Discount Tire does business. Mavis intends to confuse customers and profit from goodwill built up in the Discount Tire trademark over decades, according to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Georgia.

Mavis previously used Mavis Discount Tire branding only in northeastern states with no competing Discount Tire stores, according to The Renialt-Thomas Corp., Discount Tire’s corporate name.

Looks like an interesting case!
Could be worse, you could be living in Dublin, Ireland where it's in the 50% range for damp cold mouldy apartments.
None of them have been proven to actually generate anomalous thrust. The prior probability of such a thing working is so small that without dramatic evidence to the contrary, they're all nearly indistinguishably equally unlikely.

That said, "EM drive" prototypes have actually been built, as have Mach-effect thrusters, etc. None of them have convincingly been shown to work, mind you.
This thing just exists on paper. It's not that hard to come up with a derivation on paper that's actually subtly wrong- much easier, sometimes, than actually finding where they went wrong.
Not an answer to your question but seems fitting to share it: http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html
Compared with human case workers, algorithms apply any encoded incompetence and / or bias at potentially massive scale
I'm going back to iPhone soon for privacy support and better features. I had all Pixel/Google phones until Pixel 2 and they all died within a year and half (Google returned me the money).
Nexus 5 was the best... There were considerable regressions since (HW and SW), ... at least Pixel 3A still has the headphone jack.
I can chime in here, as I am very familiar with Zurich.
While there are no extreme high compensations like for the top echelon SD in the SV top companies, the median, truly achievable wage is easy in excess of 120k annually.
The housing prices are much lower than around SV, and most importantly, you do not have to live in the city, the public transport system network is very efficient, it is not essential to own a car.

Those are the good parts, however, not all things are good.
Everything else is very expensive. Going out to an average restaurant will cost 100 CHF for a dinner for 2.
There was a study saying a household with one kid will require 8k CHF a month if you plan to have a holiday and a car. You will have to pay for mandatory insurance etc.
Then again, 8k is not that much if both partners work.

Do not forget that the tax rate is very attractive and often there is a so called 13th salary at the end of the year, usually a full month salary. This is not based on KPI's this has been a tradition for a long time.
Also, 5 weeks of paid holidays, the US do not know that concept yet. If you add these two to your salary, the numbers suddenly look much better.

In summary, you can have a very good life and put money aside in Zurich if you commute to work by public transport(or small scooter), do not live in the most expensive apartment you can find and so long you do not eat out twice every day, you will be very well off.

Zurich is one of the most beautiful and entertaining cities in the world. The weather is horrible compared to California, but you'll have plenty of money and paid time off work to holiday in sunny and warm destinations.
The nearest being southern Switzerland, once you're through the alps, you are in a different climate zone. A 2 hours commute.

And let's not forget the social system. If you earn 10k CHF a month and lose your employment, you are entitled to collect something like 7k gross a month for 1.5 years while looking for the next job.

I hope this gives some perspective, that said, with such a salary, if it's possible to work remotely, I'd chose neither SV nor Zurich.
the 90 Hz screen and camera are pretty cool I think
"Guess the teacher's password" is an expression my son uses. It's based on his experiences attending public school for a few years. (I pulled him out to homeschool him when he was eleven.)

Using it wasn't intended to suggest a classroom setting for the story in question, just a standard answer that someone more knowledgeable about history might not spit out as The Answer without being inculcated to do so.
There really aren’t that many sports where you sacrifice your body to achieve a certain level of performance. And I think the academic neglect thing is overblown. You probably have college athletes in mind, but it’s useful to keep in mind that what appears to be academic neglect is probably often just non-intellectual athletes doing as well in college as they would have done had they not been athletes.
Doing a masters (or undergrad) in Canada is the backdoor to immigration.

Once you graduate, you get an open work permit equal to the length of your program and can then apply for Permanent Residency through “Express Entry” based on your advanced degree and local experience.

The desperation for local experience can really suppress wages in some fields.

And you don’t need to prove that you’re not taking a position or anything from a local candidate.

Canadian universities and colleges have been making out like bandits and accrue excess value from the scheme.
It's marginal utility, not labour value or labour usefulness that determines wage price. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value
All data should be scrutinized. If you are going to blindly accept data that matches prediction, than don't waste resources collecting the data you aren't going to use -- just use the theory and don't lie about verifyit it.
Face ID kinda beat the fingerprint sensors a while ago, the only problem was false positive rates were a bit too high which Apple apparently addressed in new iPhones.
Trading seems to have people from a very wide variety of backgrounds and capabilities. I think it's the result of random events being the most significant filtering mechanism. Anyone can get burned on a trade at any time, so staying in the game doesn't really depend on anyone's qualifications or abilities.
ABS yes, but it’s a Bosch mechanical pump. There’s a reason for the manual stop lever on it! There is an “electronic diesel system” that feeds into the ALDA system, but the car will run without ALDA. I don’t think the 300D had EDS though.

If there is ever a nuclear apocalypse, the giant mutant cockroaches that survive will be driving around in style in 80’s diesel Mercs.