skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems very locally maximized. Over a X0 year career it's impossible to consistently run-rate at that level of performance. But as an outsider there is no turnover issue at the sample set posted here. Just an observation.
In both countries, there is an employer contribution and an employee contribution. In both countries, “gross” income excludes the employer contribution. In the US, it also excludes employer-paid health insurance premiums. In France, it excludes the employer-paid health insurance tax.

As to the precise mix, I don’t think it’s accurate to say that more will be paid by the employer in Europe. In both countries, medical is paid mostly by the employer, and deducted before the $150k/80k euro number. Both countries have a similar employee-paid social security rate (6-7%). As explained above, the base Social Security payment will return as much in absolute terms as the French retirement system. Any 401k you contribute to will return a lot more in retirement than what you would receive in France.
I think each respective package manager should just support this out of the box.
Yes, James Reason's "swiss cheese" model that is often used to portray mishaps that occur as a string of subsequent latent failures. My point is that engineering failures are often part of this chain. To the parent comments broader point, many on HN are quick to dismiss the engineer's culpability. Engineers are one of the few professions that have an ethical obligation to society and their role in the process shouldn't be minimized.

In my experience, the result of bad decisions is usually due to incomplete information and risk assessments, whether by an engineer or management. Management usually has more risks to balance than the engineer. Engineers are typically only concerned with technical risk while management has both technical and programmatic risks to balance. When the balance tips towards programmatic risks, it may be due to a poor understanding of the technical risks as well as a bad incentive structure. When the technical risks aren't well understood, it's generally not because management is too dumb to grasp it. It's more likely the culture and organizational structure don't foster good communication or accurate assessments of those risks. For example, if you look at the Challenger disaster, neither the engineering staff or management has great estimates about the risk. (However, the engineers were much closer to the true risk probabilities). It came down to a concrete schedule risk vs. a somewhat nebulous technical risk and the absolute risk won out in the management decision process. In your Fukushima example, I'd bet the "idiot" probably didn't have an assessment (in terms of a failure-modes-effects-analysis or hazards analysis) to properly gauge the risk of their action. (Or there were likely communication failures of that risk, or both.)

I think the important point is that to really fix these issues, they have to be addressed as part of a process failure rather than pointing fingers distilling it down to a simplified notion that it's somehow the fault of an "MBA mindset"
The risk profiles of the examples you gave are not comparable to that of most software projects. Most software projects are harmless if they crash. No one is hurt.

Software projects which do risk injury and dead, for example embedded medical, get a lot more engineering and QA.
(using throwaway account so I don't have to sanitize what I write)

I can relate to what you write, I also used to feel social anxiety and always felt (and still sometimes feel) in the wrong place when going out with more social people.

"Not having learned how to interact with people" is exactly how I often feel, having spent much too much time in front of my computer (teaching myself programming) during my younger years.

But nowadays those deficiencies don't bother me much any more. Seems like I finally accepted who I am, and developed some sense of humor or towards situations where my lack of social skills become apparent. I think you overestimate how much people appreciate the social skills of the "cool guys". Sometimes it's quite ok to be a more introverted person that doesn't need to bother people with small-talk. It becomes easier once you stop trying to be someone you aren't. While it may be more difficult to get to know new people, once people get to know you, I think there is quite some tolerance towards people with less-than-average social skills. It doesn't make you a malicious person.

About "connecting with people": due to family ties I stumbled into various niche hobbies that connect me with similar-minded people. I started playing the game of Go at various local clubs and also sometimes take part in amateur tournaments that give handicap to beginners to give everybody a chance. I also started training in some niche martial arts club after suffering quite some anxiety after a neighbour started showing physical agression towards my family.

My experience with those hobbies where generally very positive. Those niche hobbies have a relatively small social circle, so you often run into people you already know, which is much less stressful to me than constantly having to learn to deal with new people. Also the "niche-ness" of those topics seems to impose a filter on the kind of persons that are drawn to them. I often meet very interesting, open-minded people that way, it's easy to have conversations and there's not much need for bull-shit small-talk :). A common, niche interest, already effortlessly creates some connection.

Thinking back now, I think when I was younger I totally underestimated the availability of open-to-everybody activities that you can join if you want to meet like-minded people (or at least people that don't make you feel uncomfortable). I'd also say that I generally was too pessimistic about the impression I made on others.

Not trying to dismiss anything of what you write, which honestly sounds like a pretty taxing situation to be in. Just trying to give some more data points for a bigger (and maybe or maybe not) more realistic picture.

Maybe I should also mention that I suffered panic attacks and related general anxiety problems since my youth but did nothing about that until starting psychotherapy sessions a few years ago. In the beginning, this was a very difficult step to take, but looking back, I think nothing else would have helped in the long run. If you suffer from "terrible" social anxiety, then maybe this is also an angle to consider.
Yes, but the problem is no one thought this was copywritable material, so while they probably did try to avoid issues like this I'd actually be shocked to find out they did license any copywrite that may exist.
I've never done any of that nor do I know how. I've only mowed it, that's it.
Exactly. Water is used, but not lost. Except for cases where more is drawn from an aquifer than replaces it (a very real problem, but not one that quantity of water used in beef touches in a useful way), the water is just passed on down the line. Thus the whole argument doesn't make sense. It is a big number that vegetarians like though because they can make it sound bad while the more complex truth is too complex to understand (and doesn't support their bias as well).
> Dependencies are cattle...

... Which also happen keep their own cattle that you're still responsible for.

It's not so bad in languages with solid standard libraries. In Python projects I might have 20 direct deps, ~50 indirect.

In a real JS project I'm building, I have 17 direct, 3829 indirect. The JS standard library is so damned thin that everything pulls in some random version of the kitchen sink.

yarn list | sed -E 's/.*─ //' | sort -u | wc -l # minus 2

In situations like that your job of auditing licenses, updates, sec issues, etc balloons exponentially with each new dependency.

Tooling should absolutely be used, but it still doesn't perform the job of working out whether or not you want to upgrade a component, or whether or not you're likely to have suffered a security breach, or how to report on how well audited your dependencies are.
Matthias Wandel on youtube has a video of a DIY woodworking project for building a wild parsnip harvester that doesn't require touching the plant, for the purposes of manually eradicating it.
How much of the delta in years is compound growth?

Btw Monday to Thursday with a corporate apartment (aka hotel) might he easier.
Only when the cow is allowed to go in the stream. Have the cow go even a few meters away from the stream and it is great fertilizer for the grass the cow eats.
I think the community that R users have managed to create is it's strength. Python has a community of software developers, while R has a community of people who use programming to solve their problems. It's a fundamental difference in mindset, one which really shapes the community.

What also helps is that R is so focused on data and statistics. It gives a focus to the users that really helps when it comes to finding help. Python is famously second best at everything, but that also means it's community is spread thinner over more subjects.
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I need to have a lawn to separate the forest from the house. If you don't the forest encroaches and then you eventually have trees that fall on the house (think new england ice storms). I also need to cut back the trees to make sure there is enough light for the solar panels. I don't need a super green lawn but I need something that gets mowed.
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Is a street canyon a bad thing? I don't think so. Perhaps if the street is only for cars,
but many of the most treasured streets are 'street canyons'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shambles for an example
Hmm, since this is WebAssembly I would have expected a demo on the page. Too bad there isn't one, I would have liked to try it out.
> I suggested that future airliners made of advanced impact-resistant materials might never become tomorrow’s AOGs, Bruce Rund had a prediction of his own. “Somebody will figure out a way.”

Definitely, like this 787 repair

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ethiopian-787-flying-a...
And yet you have not linked to the mediabiasfact site's profile of the sources you provided...That is an example of bias. Are you going to answer my question?

Ps. This is a new account. I've been here 11 years and I have noticed those that cite the guidelines are often trying to hide behind them. Also, your own positions are depending upon assuming bad faith.
Yep, I'm aware of this and use it. I guess in these terms, my claim is that the BATNA of most companies here is actually that they have all the engineers they need at low cost. But are presenting publicly that they have a shortage and more people should become engineers, so that they can get them even cheaper.
I read a French translation of it a decade ago and remember it as a fairly interesting book. It has an intriguing premise which it uses cleverly to explore a large range of subjects, is fairly well written and is an interesting commentary on what constitutes a bildungsroman.

It is not particularly plot driven however so I'm a bit confused by the idea of it going somewhere.
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Those numbers are way off. Th comparison is saving 25+% of $350k vs 50% of $175k.

And that's assuming your spouse doesn't work.
>A higher frequency is generally worse for living organisms

Do you have any sources for this claim?
No, it is because the politicians have decided that the largest industrial consumers of electricity should be exempt from the EEG fee. Instead of subsidizing renewables the end result is that the EEG fee is primarily a heavy industry subsidy at the expense of residential consumers.

The EEG fee is anti efficient because of the exemptions. As money more is invested into renewables the market price goes down. Renewables are guaranteed a fixed payout per kWh so lower market prices mean that the EEG free has to be increased but since heavy industry doesn't have to pay it, the industrial electricity costs are trending down to 0 for them. When a large consumer is paying nothing then someone else has to cover that shortfall and residential consumers get no exemptions so they are the ones who have to pay for everything.
Similar situation in the UK, we used to haul crayfish out of our sailing lake each year by the boatload.
Some homeowner associations have rules about what can be grown on a property. Some (many? I'm not in a HOA) require it be a traditional lawn. Some people try to do alternative lawns like native bushes, or even raised bed gardens, and then have legal push back to turn it back into a lawn. I think it sucks.
Really nice and thanks for the info. GJ on getting to a ridiculously low COL. My costs are on the ballpark of $1000 per month excluding housing costs, but housing costs easily approach that number as well. Which obviously reduces the potential savings rate dramatically.
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You'll do better if you focus on living your best life instead of worrying about someone else having more money.

If you don't move to USA, how does envy make your life better?
So many buzzwords and technologies... It's pretty scary. As someone who is not into web-development, it seems it would take months to be familiar with everything mentioned in this post.
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The park? That's where I did those activities as a kid.
Ruby and Rails?
Even in bigger places, it's never as simple as joining a group. I think everyone who suggests that is just (again) confusing solitude and loneliness. Being in a group and being lonely is both common and potentially quite painful. I find it easier to deal with loneliness in solitude than in a group.
First class functions and pass-by-value have been in basically every language that was designed in the last 30 years, and have been added to most of the popular ones that existed before that. Homoiconicity is less common, but is still present in some form in most recent languages that were originally designed to be interpreted or JIT-compiled (Python is no exception here).
I actually looked that up last year, came across this article which goes into some depth:
https://triviahappy.com/articles/who-are-the-people-in-the-o...

“ Most of the crew were just strangers or friends in Madison, Wisconsin, where The Onion used to be based.”

“ The brown-haired caucasian man is Bill Harris. He was The Onion’s Madison UPS truck driver”
I'm covering half my lawn with leaves, woodchips, and hugelkulture. I also have many editable perennials like strawberries and raspberries taking over a large portion of my old hillside lawn.

I'm building systems which hold and sequester large amounts of both water and carbon.

We should start a movement, I have an awesome domain name for the project, if anyone wants to join up, (unturf.com)

I'm using less and less gas each year on the remaining sparse lawn. Next year I plan to use my battery powered weed whacker for the majority of my lawn work (Christmas gift).

My long term goal is no use of gas to maintain my property, and I'm well on track.

For free woodchips, checkout CHIPDROP, it's amazing and growing.

On my 3/4 acre hillside plot I have a thriving baby orchard of 4 years with about 13 apple trees, 6 peach trees, 5 plum trees. My kids love it.
Maybe Fortran?
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>Engineers are compensated well now because of the value they create for their employer

This is dubious.
This reminds me of the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", which is also about a father-son roadtrip, and which uses it as an excuse to talk about what happens when we do long, boring tasks requiring some focus but leaving enough of the brain unoccupied. It's a good book and I should probably reread it.
I wrote one[0] because it was recommended as a good first emulator due to its simple nature. Been meaning to write an emulator for ages and now that I have I wanna try something more advanced like a Gameboy.

0: https://github.com/k0nserv/chip-8
I have a few too, although I don't know who is going to read them since there are over 1k comments. Here goes nothing.

1) I'm pretty sure a final cure for HIV-1 and better detection + treatment for AIDS will come up in the next 4 years. Also, the Pre and Post exposure drugs will probably become efficient for infections older than 48 hours. The things with HIV/AIDS research is that a discovery on one end of the disease yields results on all of them in a short amount of time.

2) Populism and nationalism will start to die out because gen X and Z are brought up in a more data-available world. They'll probably have a more Hans Rosling/Steven Pinker attitude towards the world than a Trump/Johnson one.

3) Ethiopia will become the powerhouse of the continent, prompting migration from all over. If an open and/or tolerant attitude is kept towards neighbors, it might generate a ripple effect across the whole region - an effect consisting in stability. That's what Israel could've done if a dual-state solution was obtained, or Iran if the CIA hadn't generate a coup to remove the democratic prime minister because BP Oil couldn't buy cheap resources anymore. I really hope no one fucks up this time.

4) Poorer countries will outpace the more developed ones in terms of digital governance, administration and bureaucracy since they'll start implement administrative reforms with the current available tools that have the power to reach anyone - which are all online. Current administrations from developed countries still need to overcome the integration nightmare of current systems.

5) Public photography and filming will get intensely regulated worldwide as the laws haven't been adapted to the smartphone era as well as the digital privacy era. For example: currently, photographers are allowed to snap photos of you in public without asking for consent in most of the countries. Then they sell them off for 100 dollars on Getty Images. Then you see yourself in a prostate ad from an obscure magazine sold in a mall in Indiana. Life's complicated.
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Lawns use far more fertilizer than agriculture per unit area. Many small suburban laws get as much chemicals as a farmer will put on many acres. The farmer is a businessman, excess fertilizer is wasted money off the bottom line, thus the farmer tries to apply only what is needed, and keep it on the field not run off into a stream (this is a very hard problem, I'm not claiming farmers are fully successful, but they make an effort and research shows they are doing okay). The suburban lawn gets excess chemical with no thought about will it run off.

Note that the suburban lawn does not need chemicals. If you want green colored lawn you need them. If you want green as in good for the environment a lawn without chemical input does fairly well, but it won't look as nice.
Tom's was a good site...in the late 1990's. They were purchased somewhere in the 200's and turned to crap quickly.

Somehow they are owned by the same parent as Anandtech, which has gone downhill, is still readable. It's not total spam like Toms, even if I miss their in-depth Mac articles.
Not a huge fan of node or anything but npm lock files do pin to a hash. Also in commercial world you're going to be pulling through nexus or some other cache to reduce bandwidth use and developer downtime.

Are there other reproducibility concerns I should be worrying about? Are you thinking npm modules with native code or that (this does happen!) actively pull other stuff during build? Most of those do their own pinning but agree the whole thing is messy.
I think you’ve wholly missed the point
All of the latter are a subset of the former in this context.

And of course, many people go from, say, QA, help desk, 3rd tier support, or programmer/analyst to developer.
Did you downvote the wrong comment? It was a different comment by the same author, with the same unique format, that cited the Daily Mail.
They're a problematic way to measure anything, but often they're the best we've got, especially when what we're measuring is economic costs.
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Oracle did not comply with the SDKs license, nor did Google comply with openjdk's license.

Google acknowledge's this and isn't bothering to try and argue otherwise. They aren't presenting openjdk's license as a defense to infringement. Oracle for whatever reason is ignoring that issue in their statement to ars technica.
It’s easy to grow “exponentially” from a small base.

Also, if the only advantage that GCP has is price, that’s not defensible. It’s not like it takes a great engineering effort to change a price.

The market leader can usually afford to be a “fast follower”. That was MS’s playbook for decades.

I posted a link earlier from a podcast interview of someone who works at GCP. She said that only a few small internal projects at Google run on GCP.
> YY - Short year - 6, 16, 106

> [...]

> Note that traditional, incremented version numbers are 0-based, whereas date segments are 1-based, and the short and zero-padded years are relative to the year 2000.

Y3K here we come!
>Nowadays I've mostly given up PostScript in favor of SVG and Reportlab, sad to say.

JavaScript and the canvas 2d api are the moral equivalent of PostScript, these days.
I'd like to know more about how you're achieving that. Any pointers or plans to write up what you've done?
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I am a full-stack data scientist who builds narratives around user behaviour at scale using quantitative data. I have spent the past five years using data to build better products for users—first as a product manager for an online car marketplace, and most recently as a data scientist at a travel company. I thrive working with the python ecosystem (jupyter, pandas, numpy, scikit-learn) to turn user data into actionable insights using statistical techniques such as A/B testing and machine learning.

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I don't think that universally true. I work for G in Munich, and salaries post cost of living are competitive with the Bay Area (maybe 10%-20% off, but OTOH consider quality of life). From what I can tell, Zurich beats the Bay Area.
Allen B. Downey's "The Little Book of Semaphores" is a great resource if you want to go a bit further on understanding how to use these things and design solutions to synchronization problems. It's available for free: https://greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/
Always had !!
The article mentions the Stratix 10.
American freshwater crayfish infest all the rice fields here in Portugal. They cause a lot of damage to irrigation and drainage ditches but the number of things that eat them is enormous. It's probably the major reason White Storks here no longer migrate to Africa in the winter. At Vila Franca de Xira, near Lisboa, when the rice is harvested in October, you can see hundreds of thousands of ibis, herons, gulls, flamingos, egrets, spoonbills, storks, waders and everything else you can think of eating crayfish of all sizes.
The best investment is whatever large cap company left wingers hate the most. It used to be oil companies.
That is in fact the purpose of lawns: to show you are rich enough to not surround your house with food gardens. The poor had to plant food anyplace they had legal rights to soil, the rich can plant non-food to show off.
> you can pass as a native English speaker

Also clothing :-)
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