skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s only a “dick measuring” contest if either you tie your self worth to salary or you think they do.

When I see software developer salaries for SV companies, I’m mildly curious but I don’t look at them in envy. The two trade offs would be moving to the west coast and working for large companies. I’m interested in neither.
One possible explanation is that the market rate for a developer in two different cities is different, so said company has no choice but to pay those two developers different salaries if they want to hire them at all.

It's simply supply and demand. An engineer in SF won't work for less than 140 (not when there are so many other jobs that will pay that) while an engineer in London will.

So why doesn't the company just pay the developer in London (or Hanoi) the same as in SF? Well, why should they? Reducing costs is the rational course of action; regular people do the exact same thing.

If anything, you're making an argument against companies hiring from SF. If two developers, one in Hanoi and one in SF, truly do provide the same value, then why on Earth would said company pay almost twice as much to hire the one from SF?
It's not just the cost. Coming from India, I'm used to sleeping my way in any 6+ hour journey. In fact, for business travel, we prefer overnight trains or sleeper buses (yes, sleeper buses) because you don't need to book an unnecessary stay. I'm not going to compare INR vs EUR, but this mode of travel is pretty affordable and common to the mass market here.

European trains are way more expensive AND I have to sit my way through long hours with not even pushback. Ouch my back hurts even thinking about it. Sleeper berths are extremely rare and even more expensive.

I just don't get how my fellow european humans consider this mode of travel plausible.
I took a random 7000 km flight and extrapolated. Sorry if that ended up off by such a large martin.
I see just as many asian female engineers as white male software engineers in the bay.

There’s almost no chance this is true. “White” and “male” are both overrepresented in software engineering. Would love to see the data though.
I think you’ll get downvoted but I largely agree with you about the futility of the exercise. The complexity of the Earth’s system for sustaining life still far exceeds our understanding, and I think going to Mars will at best turn out to be a powerful way to learn that we cannot replicate it.

The typical moral justification is that the Earth may be threatened and so it would be prudent to have some humans somewhere else in the solar system.

Well the number one threat to Earth is an impact event. If we can hypothesize a rapidly growing lift capacity, why not use that mass budget to develop a solar-system-wide system for detecting and if necessary altering the trajectory of potential impacting objects? It would be WAY better to protect the Earth than any other backup plan.

The other big threat to the Earth would be a fast gamma ray burst but that would very likely get Mars and any other human colony as well.

The reality is that people want to go to Mars for the same reason people want to go climb mountains: because it is there. Our economic system provides a very few people with the resources to pursue those dreams. Whether that takes away from everyone else depends on how you think about the economy—to what extent you believe it is zero-sum.

Personally I think we should go to Mars for the simple purpose of going—I like exploration and climbing mountains too—but not fool ourselves about establishing a new human society there. To me it’s like say let’s establish a new human society on the summit of Everest. Which would be way easier than doing so on Mars, by the way!
The next solar system is a mere 4 lightyears away. We have engine designs from the 1960 capable of reaching 5% the speed of light (Project Orion and successors). That's 80 years travel time, completely viable with current technology.

Of course it makes more sense to colonize at least one other planet in our solar system first to learn on a smaller scale with lower stakes. But waiting for entirely new physics is unessesary.
Cloud and Energy have similar economics. No economic entity I know of operates their own power plant and power distribution network in their backyard. No economic entity should be expected to operate their own datacenters and data networks. The Cloud is here to stay, just as Energy utilities are here to stay. What EU needs to do is to recognize the strategic importance of the Cloud, invest in EU Cloud infrastructure and ban American/Chinese companies from running EU Cloud datacenters. Then pray latency costs are sufficient to keep EU companies from moving their data overseas.
Are you somehow equating stickers and grooming? That takes quite a leap of imagination.

Stickers aren't targeting young audiences in any sense. It's very weird to draw such conclusions just if you're not using them yourself (if that's the case).
Hey. Do you want to work with a startup going through good scaling up growth? Also, want to learn from your experience on VoIP and scaling the infra. Let me know?
Product manager is great for generalist. I was a programmer who enjoyed technical challenge, but I eventually realized if I wanted to guide the direction of projects I would have to join the business side.

The challenge is endless, diverse, and there is no perfect solution to the problem if people. It is a strange domain, but being technical is nice when working with development. Worth a try if you are in to that
We did colonize Dubai, that was a desert... Israel was a pretty deserty place too a while ago...
Blender has become so good and so complete, my bet is it will become the de facto standard for all things 3D over the course of the next decade.

It still is difficult to approach, but it has come a very very long way and is almost on par with commercial packages wrt usability.
I don’t talk about my salary with current coworkers, but I talk about salary openly to former coworkers in my same area and friends who I know make about the same or more than I do.

Nothing can come good out of sharing my salary with current coworkers.
Me too, I thought a “column oriented” file was a file where the data for column #1 comes before #2; ie, structure of arrays rather than array of structures. “cut” doesn’t work with that afaik.
I’m not sure I’d ask for clarification here (as to me, this is what “column oriented” means), and probably fail the interview.
Why Objective-C was chosen for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
We have one transport card that works for all public transport providers. You cannot book trains in advance - all distances have a fixed price (not counting international trains). In many other countries there are regional commuter trains like that, but with national trains the prices vary on how early you book, like with planes.
Most male engineers I see are east asian (predominantly Chinese) or Indian.
I’m wondering if inequality is an example of Simpson's paradox: inequality in rich nations is going up but inequality worldwide is going down?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/12/Global-inequality...

https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Public%...
Trains in the UK got a lot better after privatisation, and of course we're discussing how they're not competitive against the airline industry which is significantly more free market again. So your point isn't landing. Yes. Globalised and freer markets are a solution to this. In fact it's what the article advocates, more or less.
There are certainly a bunch of freshly created accounts on HN, all corroborating each other. Very funny - can you name this 1000 person org/company.
Boa Constructor best RAD IDE ever! why does no one understand this?
No, posting somewhere moves the whole subthread to the top.

Before:

├── a
│ ├── b
│ │ ├── c
│ │ └── d
│ └── e
└── f
├── g
│ ├── h
│ └── *i* <- this is new
└── j

After:

├── f
│ ├── g
│ │ ├── i <- moved to top of its thread and its thread moved to the top
│ │ └── h
│ └── j
└── a
├── b
│ ├── c
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└── e
Making the Sahara green is a good idea, Siberia warm, much less so. Actually the thawing of the perma frost is currently one big danger, as it would release a massive amount of greenhous gases (mostly methane).
I miss the anonymity, the freedom you had to join a random channel and talk to whoever without being afraid of that being linked to your real persona. In today's internet I tend to watch everything I comment or do, because it can later come back to hunt me.
Unemployment insurance is state based and usually somewhere between $300 - $500 a week. The waiting list for housing assistance is years long in some places.
> nowhere did it acknowledge just how completely inhospitable Mars will be once you finally get it there

And you really legitimately think that they did not know about this piece of information from the children's book about space? They don't mention it because it is so ubiquitous and common sense that they assume everyone knows it, not because they managed to "miss the memo" about Mars. The idea is that we terraform Mars with technology to make it liveable, not that we just go there and try to build a hut from dirt and call it a day.
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Running out of room on Earth isn't the issue here. And as the other comment notes, we are pretty good at colonizing deserts if we want to (we are also good at making deserts, but that's another problem).
That's somewhat a function of how much you get paid. However, leaving aside debates about remote work generally, in my experience once you get beyond five or six hour time differences, synchronous communications start to get really hard--especially if you're not willing to significantly deviate from a "normal" schedule.
Is there a difference between a saloon and a salon?
> What's this mania you have of disseminating yourself?

Life. It's what living beings do. If some group of living beings stop doing it, there are fewer of them, later.
“This is the way we hire”, but what you’re describing doesn’t at all match what the comment you’re replying to describes. It sounds like you both are interpreting two different sets of facts to tell yourself the same story of “blatant discrimination”. I don’t see it, personally.
Not sure I understand your problem. What prevents you from simply changing your interpretation of review scores so that it will better fit the expectations of others, instead of avoiding leaving helpful reviews altogether?
Females definitely make less across the board. I want to say around 80 percent of the time , and it’s usually because of HR, not the engineering team.
How is it compared to ZBrush? I’ve seen a lot of the sculpting tools they’re showing and I’m wondering if they’re up to par yet?
My message to America’s top scientists
Oil still make globalisation possible. Without humongous amounts of moving cargo (did you know that humans now are moving more mass every year than any natural phenomenon?), globalisation is moot.

People seem to believe that "services" are somehow entirely disconnected from hardware. There aren't; almost all services are about managing actual physical influxes. If we cease trading goods and people with China in any significant amount, then information influx will dry out in proportion.
You can give stars for different aspects like delivery, price etc.
I mean just based on UK ticket costs I'd say they're not too far off the mark. If you catch a coach rather than the train it's often half the price, but the trade-off is you get stuck in traffic, they're infrequent, if they're oversubscribed there's no standing room (although coach operators rarely face this issue) and they're usually just not as fast as trains. I commuted to work by intercity coach for a couple of weeks and believe me it was no picnic - 5:30am wake time to catch a 6am coach and I often didn't get back until 8pm. Admittedly I was at the end of a route with a number of stops in several small villages nearby which exacerbated things a lot, but still! Some people do this on a long term basis and it blows my mind.
What changed in version 2.00
> travel by train is an important way to do it.

Traveling less is even more effective.

With all the debate about transport modes, it still boils down to distance - the emissions per passenger kilometer of all powered modes of transport are within one order of magnitude.
Sorry. I can admit I was wrong. I haven't seen ellipses used to begin a sentence that asks a question in a way that wasn't flippantly dismissive before. Couple that with a throwaway account and I jumped to conclusions.

I probably should have asked what his comment meant before I spoke.
I don't think any of those houses are in locations that most people here mean when they say NYC (by which many mean Manhattan south of about 110th Street or a fashionable part of Brooklyn).
That still breaks the experience. Now you have tampered content AND broken clients.

TLS does wonders for preventing transparent proxies, DPI & ISPs from modifying or tracking what you see.
Qt has got really big and I probably only use 20% of it. But the 20% I use might be quite different to the x% you use.

Also Apple likes to nuke its developer ecosystem from orbit every 5 years. Qt struggles to keep the Mac classes stable and working in the face of this. I'm not sure an unfunded open source team is going to do any better.
A solution is to go through a VPN, they will see a steady stream of encrypted data.
My suspicion is that they are communicating at frequencies we can't modulate/demodulate yet. Look how short of a time it took us to get from KHz to GHz. Since there's a trade-off in that the higher the frequency- the more data can be transmitted in a given time, it makes sense that intelligent species would try to increase their transmission frequencies as a matter of course- like we did.

The downside trade-off is that transmissions become more and more strictly line-of-sight at higher frequencies.
> Signal doesn't have deletion. I just tried. All it seems to have is delete on my device and set timeout on all messages.

I see. I definitely assumed it's deleting on both ends of the conversation.

Slack didn't win because of features, but because of marketing, free tier, and network effects. It never was and still isn't the best chat service when it comes to features -- the trainwreck of their threading implementation is one of the more prominent examples.
I don't sculpt much anymore but from talking to people who do it seems like zbrush is still more performant with better tools for sketching out ideas as well but with blender you get the convenience of not having to jump between applications.
Yes, most of them are electrified.
Afaict, that's just textbook corporate behavior. It only becomes monopoly behavior if they succeed in driving every competitor out of the market
> you can find a better instance that suits your needs, or run your own instance

I understand that this is the concept, but in practice, it's a laughable recommendation.

Accounts aren't portable and running your own instance is an insurmountable task for most and the cost of it is not nearly worth it.
> 2. engineering knowledge: more smaller engines means more engineers.

Not necessarily (by much). Automated production is a thing.
I moved from SF to Charlotte with the same company, taking a 20% pay cut in the process, and would gladly do so again. The price of housing in the Bay Area kills the actual value of the take home pay.
To be fair, it is pretty easy to fork a shared component when necessary, but it is painful to maintain multiple components with duplicate logic. So it is reasonable to err on the side of DRY when in doubt.
If this were the bar for doing pure research, we'd never do any pure research ever.

The average quality of life in the US has never been higher.
Unfortunately in Europe we tend to be brainwashed about the health insurance, as if this was taking half your salary.

Thanks a lot for clarifying this, I hope that people start to understand that the salaries for highly skilled people in Europe are just ridiculous.
EU intervention solves nothing. Forcing roaming prices down just pushed up other tariffs, which didn't matter to the Commission because their ideological goal is to unify Europe into a single country, not get people the best mobile deals. It was only possible at all because the phone industry already built all the infrastructure for roaming on it's own.

The problem is lack of demand. The article posits there is huge untapped demand for night trains but there isn't. Rail companies can and do run services on each others tracks but rail lines are frequently at capacity, timetabling wise, so it's not always easy to just drop in and run extra trains in the same way many airports have free slots for extra planes. And of course airlines are still mostly national too.

Indeed it's best kept away from the EU. It has a habit of suspending transport and trading rights as part of unrelated political disputes with its neighbors in order to pressure them to obey Brussels. If you want train connections to be mysteriously severed because of some dispute with the UK or Switzerland over fishing or trade unions then asking the EU to organise it is the right way to go. If you'd like train timetables to be set taking into account what the railways can do, leave it to the private sector and get governments out of the way.
Is it common for C-level positions? What’s the overall percentage of non white dudes as you go higher up the ladder at these places? How many of the VCs are not white men?

I ask because I think these questions are useful heuristics to look at how power is distributed within a company.

If it is a group of white guys who make most of the money, manage most of the people, and own most of the business, discriminating amongst hires of roughly equal ability for entry level roles, that is one thing, and has its own legitimate questions to be asked.

It would be pretty different from if a company, run, owned, and funded by women and people of color, was systematically discriminating against men with pale skin in all roles and positions and there were very few white guys at that company.

My informed guess would be that, in tech in the US, anything approaching what you describe describe is closer to the first scenario than the second.

Point being, if we are going to discuss discrimination, let’s discuss all of it, and not look at a painting through a microscope and call it red (unless it’s a Rothko ;) .
FWIW, the linked book, "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming"(CTM), is imo a fantastic book, and there are free classes on edX ("Paradigms of Computer Programming", I think it's now split in two now) that go over the material.

Highly recommended if you have an interest in this stuff.
with the advent of so many open source libraries for physics, maths, geometry, rendering, whatever, blender seems to be the right sink to aggregate all of them.
Honestly quite surprised how much work it turns out to be. Would not wish this on my worst enemy territory. You have to like that it is 24/7/366. You need to enjoy wearing different hats on an hourly basis.

Action trumps thought. Let that be your mantra. What you feel needs to be done in the moment. Let that be the thing you intensely focus on 110%.

Because trying to maintain the Ben Franklin schedule of discipline. Isn't going to happen in the mobile connected world. And 5pm video chats with Silicon Valley.

Here it is 10am. 16 degrees outside. Configuring a "hybrid cloud" in my bedroom. Not exactly 99% of people's idea of a blissful heavenly morning ;)
This is a little out of date, but doesn’t seem to be the case:

https://www.revealnews.org/article/heres-the-clearest-pictur...
I used to work in rail engineering. Our projects were all reliant on explicit government subsidiary. We as a company basically watched the national transport budget for the next 12 months to predict whether we'd make a profit in the coming year.

There are a few factors to rail that make it unsuitable for long distance.

First, there is 10s of 1000s of miles of track, all of which has to be laid, maintained, controlled and signalled. It has to be inspected and repaired and monitored and upgraded. Plus, you can't go directly anywhere. You can't take a train to Barcelona from London. You have to go via Dover for the tunnel, then lille because its a city and there's not track not via lille.

The air maintains itself and you can fly basically direct to wherever.

Plus a shit tonne of political interference (here in the UK we have stations basically next to each other no one will close and HS2 take a huge diversion to avoid politically sensitive areas, and that's just in one nation, try getting them to agree on train safety standards). For an airport, you basically just need a mile of tarmac and a tin shed. I don't think you even have to have radar anymore, just transponder tracking...

Plus, as you point out, the plan can carry 7 loads of people in the same time that the train can carry 1. So all things being equal (which they're not) you'd pay only 1/7th...

Plus, the costs for the Barcelona London route are basically fixed. The fact no one wants to make that journey in the winter just means the assets are unused. If no one wants to fly London to Barcelona in November, you can just switch the route and take people to their ski holidays instead. So planes are more versitile and has much higher utilisation rates than most trains.

Trains make sense but only over shorter distances. Anything over about 200 miles and planes win.
I meant util functions. Silly mobile HN clients, bah!
If Linux Never Was – imagining an alternate reality without Linux
SETI has demonstrated that no one is beaming a signal right at us.

There might be a reason for that, other than them simple not existing.
Zbrush is it’s own thing. Nearly all 3D package can (and have) produced the equivalent. What you have with Zbrush is another way of looking at how to do 3D illustration and as a side effect 3D sculpting.

So, blender was on par already for quite a while. And since the version 2.8, it seems that they’re more than on par with the rest of the industry.
While not all the new features will be in this release, the rate of improvement for Blender's sculpting tools has been astounding. For example, the new cloth brush:

( https://twitter.com/pablodp606/status/1223663016811618307 ,
https://twitter.com/pablodp606/status/1223060180344147970 )

Available as an experimental build here: https://blender.community/c/graphicall/Sjbbbc/
You mean parallelism? Concurrency has been there for years.
Parallelism was available under a flag a few months ago. I do t know the current status since I don’t need it.
$500 per year is a small price never to have to read Microsoft Win32 documentation. ;0)

Seriously you would wonder that the Qt company can't offer something attractive to solo developers and small companies around the $500 to $1000 per developer per year mark.