skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same thing is true of the United States as well. The $150k salary is going to be after:

1) Retirement contribution
2) Medicare/health insurance contribution
3) Unemployment insurance contribution

At the $150k salary level, the following will also be provided as benefits before the $150k:

4) Short and long term disability insurance
5) Family leave

A gross salary of $150k is going to be more like $175k including those taxes and costs.

In California, on a salary of $150k, the net paycheck will be like $90-95k, or $80-85k if you max out your 401k contribution. (If you do that, your retirement benefits will be much more than you would receive in France.)
>Humans have a natural tendency to discount things that are unpleasant.

I think it might be more accurate to say we discount things that do not support our world views. If something is unpleasant, but supports our world view, even if that thing is not entirely true we give it a lot of weight. If the unpleasantness does not support our worldview however, well, yeah, even if it is completely true, we tend to dismiss that information.
This common criticism misses the fact that FANG, and greenfield startups, and even HN, set the tone for much of the tech industry.

It is very likely that these grass root coders are or will be in the coming years using the very tools, methodologies, and even business practices devised in the Valley.
The BGA and support chips could be on a board that can be plugged in.
The advantage of OPs list, whether you agree with the particulars or not, is that they are concrete, whereas your list contains vague and unquantifiable things ("work on yourself", "put yourself out there").
They're very amazing, it feels truly magical, but in my experience, they're very fragile. Back in ~2014/2015 I was able to play Skyrim on my trash cheap laptop in Archlinux (don't remember the settings and fps, but the game ran "flawlessly" for me, yet I need to admit I'm not a gamer so I can't tell the difference between 30fps 60 fps etc).

I tried the same in 2018 just for fun and I wasn't able to run Skyrim, there was always some minor issues that made the game unplayable, like mouse not working, crashing on certain screens etc. I essentially kept trying older versions of Wine, and eventually found some version that made Skyrim playable (still not as flawless as it felt in 2015, but playable). Idk if it was my mistake, or some archlinux lib weirdness or something else, but I had to try dozens of wine versions to find something that worked. This is fine for me, since I wasn't intending to play Skyrim, I was just trying to run it (for the "WOW" effect), but I imagine people who actually need Windows software might have been frustrated by this.
"Judging the book by its own cover"? I understand what this phase means, but don't see how it applies.

> It’s easy for me to dissociate from the inferiority of my job because I’ve never been particularly proud of my customer-service skills.

Clearly she looks down on her job.

> well-groomed social animals with good posture and dress shoes, men who chuckle and smooth their hair back when they can’t connect to our VPN

Try to tell me with a straight face that this isn't full of judgement.
You don’t need to be here long to be a core part of the problem. Not sure why you make that rhetorical leap.
> When your best friend comes to you and shares how he or she is feeling. How would you react? I believe – you will have a listening ear for them, feel their pain, care for them and support them.

many lonely people reading this wont know because they dont have a best friend.
Ah okay, that makes sense.

re: HTML -- I've had strange requirements come in that required us to work around the HTML spec in order to get the UI to work they way they wanted. We eventually found a better solution...

but the point was that not all requirements are golden; sometimes the customer is plain wrong, ignorant, and stubborn.
What if you're poor and basically homeless without a salary?
I think this depends on the country. In mine, young people who go to church tend to be a bit intense. But readers will know the scene in their own area.

Thank you for honestly sharing your experiences.
https://smartasset.com/taxes/paycheck-calculator#ZI0BD3ambd

Still more money, but your number are off by about 25%
Louis Rossmann just had a short video where he briefly mentioned fixing things under your control. (I think he phrased it as) cleanup the little area of the world you can, and let the effects ripple out.

I've also heard similar tones with self-help books on management I've read.
"Are your actions inspiring a different behavior than what you're asking for?"

I wonder someone using the phrase "Do as I say not as I do" could best exemplify when this has become a major problem
In general, being charming helps. Charm/charisma is just being fully engaged in a conversation with a person - no looking around the room scanning for someone you'd rather talk with, don't interrupt them and actually listen to what they're saying, and offer geniune compliments (infrequently).

Don't be an insecure people pleaser who needs lots of external validation. It's ironic, but a lot of people-pleaser behaviors come across as needy and annoying. If you're at a happy hour with coworkers struggling to get a word in, instead mentally take a step back and try to listen. I've found when I do this it makes my words more impactful when I do speak.

There's a youtube channel called "Charisma on Command" that has a lot of good advice, but I would take it with a grain of salt. Personally, I started with working through my low self-esteem before I found that channel, learning how to be more proactive, how to set boundaries and not be a pushover, etc, so the confidence is real and the social/charisma changes came naturally.
>I'm an Eng Manager and half of my learning time in 2020 will be focused on developing better management/leadership skills. It's something I've found comes with little mentorship opportunities in tech and is also hard to find others to reach out to / network with for mentorship opportunities.

What is your plan for this?
Netflix is a little different from other companies. Netflix pays entirely in cash plus a small stock option bonus on top. You can opt to get any amount of your salary as stock options if you choose. There are no vesting schedules, you get everything immediately (including 401k). Netflix has unlimited vacation.
When you say "meditation" do you include something like vipassana? Although prayer is recognized as a form of meditation, it's not the only one, and not usually what people are referring to in common usage when they use the word.
Or better yet, do it oneself: about 70 episodes, 7 billion people and change, it only takes 1 out of 100 million of us to transcribe 1 episode each to clear the work.

Hint: on a desktop browser, beneath the video you may click the "..." menu, select "Open transcript" and voila, you may copy/paste the whole (though UX is awful, I have yet to find a "copy all" button).

Here's a pastebin with minimal formatting for your perusal: https://pastebin.com/RQYhREEc
> as a married

How long have you been married?
The problem is then you get to this:

WiFi Terminator Model 101

And all hell breaks loose because of the circular dependencies. Yes, they could skip it and just go with

Wifi John Connor

But that won’t satisfy anyone.

——

Great post, btw !
Do you have a business model, or are you just developing for the fun?

I am a Sublime Text user and would be hesitant to pay money for just another editor.
Crowdfunding could do it, but it comes with its own fairly large transaction costs. Most crowdfunding platforms are also far from politically neutral, which is a problem if this is supposed to be the future of journalism.
It was interesting watching people complain about the grass not growing on The Walking Dead. Little do they know, that's normal. Especially when it never seems to rain on the show. It can jump after rain, but it stays short and brown for months in an especially dry year.
So maybe it’s actually okay for CEOs and business leaders to be paid more (even significantly more) than other workers in the company.
The title doesn't say "female" so why was it changed?
+100 "I would love to see the following analysis:
A map of repetitious tasks, spreadsheets, and manual data extraction by function in the Fortune 500.
Budget breakdown of current software spend, by function, by line, in the Fortune 500.
A view of what Accenture, CapGemini, and Deloitte keep building over and over for large enterprises. Undoubtedly a subset of these custom consulting projects can be turned into SaaS software.
A tougher analysis to do is to ask what internal software projects various tech companies are working on. If you can get the list from 3-4 companies, you will undoubtedly see a few internal tool or product examples that should be built as a SaaS product for everyone."
> One day the public is going to cotton on to all of this.

I mean, the flat-earth, anti-vax, climate-denier folks are well and cottoned. In the US, one of the major political parties what controls a fair amount of federal and state legislature seats is pretty sure 'scientists' are just liars and should be treated as such.

These chickens aren't going to come home to roost, they are roosting and their chicks are hatching already.
interestingly, I found this podcast about 6 months ago and it has quickly become one of my three must-listen channels. He has some amazing guests and conversations and I find his questions thoughtful and wide-ranging, leading to some really interesting perspectives outside of the expected domain of the guest. For this episode I finally looked up the YouTube feed and thought, "that's not at all how I pictured him! he's wearing a suit and tie?". I wonder how much the visual medium changes the impression for a first-time listener (not that either format put me off personally).
How to sell a second hand car in India?
I don't read anything here that isn't par for the course when it comes to fundraising. This is how it works with all VCs. Money isn't in the bank until it's in the bank. I get the frustration that it wastes time, but for better or worst, that's the game today. It might be a problem worth discussing, but if so, it's a venture capital problem, not a Softbank problem.
Intel Teases Comet Lake-H, Ghost Canyon NUCs, and Tiger Lake Processors
Assuming Tor Browser, just change Tor circuit, ctrl+l (I believe), until you get one without captcha (works after 2-3 times usually). Only use Google search when absolutely necessary though.
The article makes me suspect (and the n+1 piece only raises my suspicion that) this is all very Valley-approved criticism of the Valley. The new cultural train chasing the old one out.

All the new ground I've read comes from places that are easier just to ignore. Mostly bloggers removed enough that they don't care about surrounding a potentially-uncomfortable message with prose that accommodates the sensibilities of the valley. They manage to drive readers away before getting to the point. The ideas have to travel like a meme among the disillusioned until the sharp edges are sanded down enough for the general-purpose cynics, who refine it into something suitable for consumption.
Products I'm glad do NOT exist:

4. ADT 2.0: Digital neighborhood watch.

Ring is gross enough, thank you very much.
>First, I think what we're searching for isn't intelligence so much as consciousness. So I'm going to treat general AI and consciousness as pretty much the same thing.

That's not how I think about it at all. I think you're underestimating how alien AI could be to us, in general. I.e., I think you're anthropomorphising it unnecessarily.

There's an idea called the orthogonality thesis, which says:
The intelligence of an arbitrary agent can vary independently of its goals.

Here, I'm using intelligence to mean just the ability of an agent to generate/evaluate/execute plans to further its goals. A modern chess AI on modern hardware is more intelligent than one from the 1980s.
In principle, you could have any arbitrary utility function attached to any level of intelligence.

This idea was brought up because often, when people heard about the paperclip maximiser (an agent that tries to maximize the number of paperclips- and thus wants to take apart everything in its lightcone and turn it into paperclips), they said:
"But why would something so clever do something so stupid and pointless? A superintelligence would surely realize it was being stupid and decide to do something smarter."

But there's no reason to think this! When you take away the agent's goal of maximising paperclips, there's no perfect platonic ghost of consciousness left! The paperclip maximiser, as defined is just an algorithm that predicts the future, looking for actions that maximise paperclips, and executes them.
Given unbounded compute power, it can just look through arbitrarily many counterfactual simulations of the future given different plans, pick the plan that maximises the number of paperclip-like structures in the universe, and execute it.
The rest is implementation details, given we don't have unbounded computing power, but the point is such a system doesn't need to be conscious to be powerful.

If you have an AI without a utility function, you don't have an AI. 'General intelligence' just means the AI's computing/reasoning/versatility power, in a vague sense. It has nothing to do with whatever particular utility function an agent might be trying to maximize.

The paperclip machine doesn't 'want' to colonize the stars; it's just a system that will do that if it can, because tautologically, it's a system that tries to turn as much as it can into paperclips.

I don't really think there is a Fermi 'paradox'. We don't have solid priors on how often agents arise in the universe. The fact there aren't any visible aliens should either just lower our estimates of how likely life is, or maybe there's some sort of anthropic principle argument to be made here where we probably wouldn't observe a universe where aliens come to visit, because in nearly all possible universes where intelligent life survives and goes from star to star it just eats all the stars very quickly on astronomical timescales or something, such that the chances of intelligent agents like us arising while there's visible evidence of other agents is incredibly slim.
Well, it is intentionally weaker than macros (and I agree with Zig's designer that that's a very good thing, though it is a matter of taste), but it does replace many of the cases where in Rust you'd have to use macros (or the preprocessor in C/C++). So it replaces macros everywhere where it deems their usage reasonable.
Netatmo teases smartlock with “physical NFC keys” at CES
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Comments like yours here lead to petty bickering and worse. We're trying for at least a little better than that on this site, so please stick to the guidelines when posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It certainly feels that way. Honestly though I'm not sure if his goal is for a moderate nominee that joining the race is the way to do it. Seems much more likely to me he'll peel some support away from Biden rather than actually decreasing support for Warren/Bernie/et al.
one of the best-written essays I’ve ever read and helped cement my tech skepticism. I highly recommend it.
Four decisions to make on cookies before being able to read the article? Are you trying to break the internet?
I noticed this as well. Old Windows programs, like programs from XP era and earlier ran better in Wine than Windows 7 back when I was experimenting with Wine.
SR-240 is firmly on the east side of the state, which is naturally a desert. The road runs through the Hanford site, so there's no agriculture on either side, just sagebrush and tumbleweeds (and elk).
I paid for Strava and they still showed inane ads on my feed. Paying for something is no guarantee to remove ads in our revenue obsessed world.
New Cambridge Analytica Leaks
An alternative tradition uses a COPYING file. I'm not sure which is older, but most GNU projects use COPYING instead of LICENSE. Meanwhile, some projects use COPYRIGHT or other variation, BSD-style licenses are often added directly to source files, and properly applying LGPLv3 to your project involves adding a separate COPYING.LESSER file. It's a mess.
Top two is good. Being transparent with your feature stack ranking is also nice, but consider that everyone's incentives are rarely aligned across sales/eng/product.

I'd like to propose a controversial view on this and to understand the tension better.

It should be on members of customer facing teams to demonstrate that they are capable of saying "no," before coming to product with a request. Not every time, or even often, but a sales guy recognizing he's losing the sale and only brings in support from product and elsewhere to diffuse the blame for it is the basic sales anti-pattern.

I get that for a relationships sake they need to use the "let me speak to my (product)manager" routine to deflect frivolous objections from the customer, but unless I know what you were willing to say "no," to, it's difficult to value what you said yes to.

This is why the relationship with salespeople is so critical, as you need to have an empathetic view of that dynamic, but if the sales persons solution to everything is to claim powerlessness and blame others, we need some neutral language to describe that pattern so we don't have to sound it out and re-litigate it every time it happens.

The question, "what did you say no to?" seems like a practical filter.
JSJ 414: JavaScript Jabber Still at RxJs Live
Every time I get lonely I want to adopt a puppy. Then I struggle with the thought of my incapability to make him happy because of my lifestyle (I don't have my own house and move frequently)... Of course I feel even more miserable than before when my sadness was caused by my loneliness.

This happens at least once a month.
But why not make the data as unbiased as possible? Why not show total cost for weather events as a percentage of GDP?

Or if only large-scale catastrophes have increased, the distribution of weather events?

Or maybe the percentage of houses destroyed or the total acres of land rendered temporarily useless?

Or number of weather-related casualties per capita?

While none of those are perfect or complete measurements, they'd all dodge several issues discussed here.
> Most meat eaters still love their beef, but most of my friends actually like Beyond Burgers and get them not because they care about the environment or animal rights, but simply because they like the taste and want something beside a beef burger for a change.

Seconded. They're the same price in Canada and the taste of the Beyond patties is often better than the meat ones. It's a good change of pace if I'm not seeing pure protein (in which case whey powder is probably better anyway).
If i remember correctly, if you need wine for work, you pay for Crossover, which is supported better.
It's unfortunate that advertising became a kinda, sorta, but not really barely good enough (and increasingly less so) monetization mechanism for the web generally--largely because it worked pretty well, albeit with tradeoffs, in other media. Perhaps if it had been an obvious non-starter from the beginning, micropayments or other mechanisms would have been made to work because there was simply no other choice. (And we'd simply have less of the marginal content that people would be unwilling to pay for.)

Of course, that may have meant that sites like YouTube and a lot of other content simply wouldn't exist.
Startups can benefit from moneyed tech enthusiasts as patrons
> What you think of as doing extra work also ends up causing extra work for other people

This is a very good point but none of the things you mentioned are happening to other people (code review, QA, merge, deploy). Maybe that clarifies the kind of environment I'm working with.

In any case, I understand that even if more work is not being done, more stress is being caused because people just assume things will break in unimaginable ways. I can appreciate how that would be a problem for others.

> everyone else sees you as an unpredictable wildcard causing confusion and extra work

Thanks for the harsh truth. Would you say the kind of work I'm doing has a place in any other type of company? Or at all?
WiFi 6

Wifi 6 Pro

Wifi 6 Pro Max
I don't think your analysis is correct. Or at least, it's really incomplete and thereby misleading. I'm going to use hard numbers as someone who lives in one of the highest COL areas, but I want to emphasize I'm doing that for illustrative purposes and not to be condescending.

To begin with, the cost of basically anything you buy online from Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Best Buy, etc is the same no matter where you are in the country. Likewise for digital goods. That's a point in favor of the high COL areas.

Of course it's not that simple. You're right that there are plenty of things which cost more money in higher cost of living areas; namely entertainment, cinema, service-oriented experiences like restaurants, bespoke labor, groceries and housing.

In most of those cases the absolute cost raises significantly but the relative cost to your increased salary is still tiny; for example, I spend $6 - $8 for a half gallon of milk, but since I earn well over $300k/year that doesn't really matter. Similarly movie tickets are ~$18 but again, that doesn't scale enough to make much of a dent relative to a competitive engineering salary here.

On the other hand, some cost increases are significant even relative to competitive salaries. This mostly and primarily applies to housing, but it does also apply to restaurants and entertainment somewhat. But despite the fact that I spend over $4000/month for a luxury condo and another ~$2500/month on fun "stuff", I'm also saving over $100k/year on top of maxing out my 401k. That simply blows out any combination of lifestyle and savings I could enjoy in a meaningfully cheaper area.

Finally there is (unfortunately) an opportunity cost to working outside of high COL areas. The concentration of wealth and capital in high COL cities has a superlinear feedback effect on opportunity and lifestyle. There are numerous Michelin rated restaurants near me, a concierge and retinue of helpful staff in my building, world famous entertainment venues within a 20 minute train ride, numerous gyms, lots of childcare, excellent schools, etc. My commute to work is also only 20 minutes.

But those things don't interest everyone. More practically, it is also easier to quickly change jobs here, either out of necessity or for a quick 20 - 50% increase in compensation. Not only is the higher COL a justification for higher salary, but the employee power that comes with a bidding war puts a positive pressure on external compensation packages. The last time I went looking, I received about 10 offers. I don't even currently work at one of the most competitive companies according to levels.fyi.

I don't want to push this on other people because money isn't everything and it's perfectly valid to choose a lower COL area. But I do want to lay out the hard numbers from my experience so as to give a better picture for the situation.
> if your license is cancelled by legal means, you may lose your data

Maybe I'm missing some legal nuance. But if the license is revoked, wouldn't you still be able to recover your Bitcoin using a FOSS OS? Especially if it is stored on a separate disk or partition from the OS.
What debacle? As I recall, LTE was the actual 4G tech because, well, it was a new generation after all the 3G ones. The only debacle I remember was that some carriers decided to call HSPA+ 4G for marketing reasons.
Thanks, I truly didn't know if people really understood how bad it can be for new users. If you go to these sites with blockers and extensions, I'm sure it's fine, so they would think I'm exaggerating. I'm on a new machine from work, so I'm seeing some things from an average user's perspective.