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Of course, and improving the lives of those people is important but should never be detrimental to the Parisians themselves. For example, tourism means lots of Airbnb’d flats that are thus taken away from the people who could live there, and higher rents for those who can.
It may be the nature of lots of humans, but to cast such bad behaviour as human nature is a bit of a pessimistic view isn't it?
From the company’s point of view this seems like a very bad idea. It essentially cripples their ability to attract great talent.

In order to avoid drama in the workplace, companies adopting this sort of policy would undoubtedly adopt a standard pay scale that excludes their top workers. Maybe the existing employees are grandfathered in? Or maybe not. In either case you end up not being able to spend extra on that one employee who could really help your business goals.

And I say that as a person who pretty freely shares what they make (though not typically with current coworkers) and also earns well above average in my region.

Just imagine having the sorts of discussions we have about ostensibly-overpaid NFL players, except about George in Logistics and you’ll start to see what I’m imagining.
* "Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items"

* Mathematics isn't only about calculation and applied physics. When you write a simple algorithm and convince yourself with a logical argument about its correctness, time complexity, etc. that is math too. You also do calculations when you design various systems (latency, throughput, etc.)

* I know a dozen mechanical, structural, and electrical engineers. They almost never model anything from first mathematical principles, they use well known tools and methods they learned. Their "nail guns and glue". Actually I think most of them don't understand math/physics behind it very deeply. So even if those methods are underpinned with mathematics and physics, it's abstracted away most of the time which is good for practical purposes.

Even in "user-interface programming", I often had to use math, algorithms, etc. In other parts of software engineering I used it much more.
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> felt if I saw similar level people earnt more and I raised this but didn't get equalised it could hurt my sense of justice and how content I felt in the workplace.

Shouldn't it, though? It's like saying your partner is cheating on you, but you don't want to know because it could 'hurt your sense of justice and how content I feel in the relationship'.

I mean, I'll grant you that if you're happy in your job, and honestly don't care about pay, it's different. Just like if you're in an open relationship, and genuinely don't care if your partner sleeps with other people. That's fine. But by saying it could hurt you, you're implying it does matter. And if it matters, the first step to righting any wrong is to know about it and to be able to take adequate steps.

Put differently, suppose other people knew they were worth more, took that information and asked more, got more, and you didn't, even though you could've. That doesn't sound right to me.

What I think could be a useful tool is to take that raw Norwegian tax data, run a basic condition on it, and then spit out only results you find 'relevant', which can protect you from knowing things you don't want to know.

e.g. input 10 names of your peers (who should be earning the same), and only show those salaries that are say 20% above your own. That prevents you from knowing Bob earns 5% more for reasons that may never be resolved, which could still annoy you. But if say Bob earns 20% more, that's something I'd want to know to see if I could take action.

Or, perhaps even more conservative, to only get a sense of where you stand versus company average (for your function) and versus market average. That takes out a lot of the personal but tells you whether you should be happy where you are, or asking for a raise or another employer.
Unfortunately, those errors exist on both the numerator and the denominator.

Interviews of crematoriums in China claim that two thirds of the bodies they are picking up are from homes, not hospitals.
That's thereason why I always call myself a Software Developer. It allows me to explain what I do as opposed to the baggage laden "engineer" title.
You have cowboy builders in the "engineering" area too. For some reason in software we seem to be more accepting of it.
2.3% is still based on official Chinese data, which is likely totally bogus.
The classic case, the gold standard - the math is correct, the programmer is one of the best in the whole world (I have read PAIP) but the simulation is completely meaningless.

First of all, almost no (zero) transactions occur across different social strates (or castes), at least in real world, like here, in India (where I am living for now).

Second, randomness does not exist. Each social dynamic has its causes, too complex to capture, so it is much easier (and profitable) to assume randomness. However, randomness implies lose of any meaning. A blur which ruins the original image.

A naive model superimposed on a too complex to comprehend reality is neither explanatory or even meaningful. This is just a philosophy 101. Map is not a territory, simulation (a cartoon) is merely, well, a cartoon.

Third, this kind of modeling bullshit nowadays is literally everywhere, and this is called "science".
I’m not familiar with his specific case, but it sounds likely that he’s already incurred the taxes but not yet paid them.
> the school to which you want to send to your children to

That doesn't seem to be something that most people spend a lot of thought on. E.g. in Germany less than 10% of children attend a private school, and with public schools you basically have to send them to your closest one (which isn't a big problem, as the quality of schools inside a city generally doesn't vary too much).
The center of Paris is something like 13-14k€/square meter... The truth is Parisians with average revenues (for Parisians, not for French people) more and more live close to the suburbs (13th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th districts) around Paris and the center is full of company's head office, shops and restaurants. So the picture displayed in the article should figure inhabitations on the outside skirts and accommodations in the center.

At the national level, Parisians are an average really rich population and living inside Paris will continue to grow more and more difficult because living in Paris is nowadays a luxury. And nothing will change this situation in a close future.
I feel the last few years of chaos has less to do with the mayor and more to do with the national legislation. The mayor is not negotiating pensions and fuel taxes. Which is where most of these protests are about. It can both be true that Paris is a well run city with a president who invites protest every week.
The key difference between software vs all other engineering: building it is instant & free & repeatable, vs expensive & slow & singleton.

If bridges could be replaced in minutes for pennies, we’d build them iteratively too.
But when you're writing business software to solve business problems, many more people have a "right" to an opinion. Usually the business people know a lot more about the problem domain than the programmer. They are also the ones who will use the solution.

I've been thinking that this is one of the key differences between software and bridges. When you design a bridge, very few people have a "right" to an opinion on the bolt sizing. But when you design an order entry system, the business users (and users of the downstream data) have a valid right to an opinion.
> Just imagine having the sorts of discussions we have about ostensibly-overpaid NFL players

While bad from a companies point of view, salary transparency is one of the few free market mechanisms in sports, and it does generally result in meritocratic distribution. The very fact you can mention someone who is perceived as overpaid implies scrutiny far beyond anything possible in a major corporation.

Frankly, I suspect this would be worse for company profits more than anything else. In sports they have a strict % of total revenue that salaries can come out of,which limits the pot. Employees would certainly have no such artificial limit, in fact such a thing would likely be illegal.
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I feel the same way about the dollar.

The inability to compute exactly how many there are, nor their rate of creation. Their limited use beyond a specified geographic boundary.

The confident speculation based on ever increasing underlying leveraged weakness (showing no sign of slowing) is worrisome.
You can apply unlimited capital loss against capital gains and then an additional $3K of capital loss against income each year.
But anyone can log the messages and at any point they can come out for a number of reasons. None of them have to be negative or evil. Stuff happens.

I find in many ways it’s worse to hand wave and say there’s a policy against something where no one can actually control that policy.

Also, many people don’t understand that things can still be logged or tracked. So the policy example given can give many people false thoughts.

An example is Zoom video chats. It has a record feature. The record feature once on turns on shows a blinking recording icon. In one instance people got a bit upset about it. They were even more surprised and couldn’t completely grok that any one at any time can screen record their own desktops without any one ever being notified or knowing. So Zoom letting you know is actually better.
This, Greg's wiki and #bash@freenode is how I became a bash nazi to my peers.

Just hanging out in #bash@freenode you learn so much best practice. Like sub-shell quotation, variable capitalization, parameter expansion, read usage and much more.
Has anyone on Hackernews ever worked or interacted with Joseph Redmon? From his CV/Twitter/GitHub he seems insanely eccentric.
Imagine if the flu caused irreperable lung damage.
Issues are about bugs in the project. Discussion are about bugs in the person. It's true that it is not always evident which domain a bug exists and so some spill over is natural.
> People wouldn't be job hopping if you could get the same raise as the new guys.

That sounds like a huge win for companies.
> You mean that different people doing the same job earn a different salary? How is that even possible?

Do you mean the same job or the same job title?

Unless you are working in a job where it is very well defined what your responsibilities are different people even with the same job title might be doing very different work.

I have the same job title as the guy next to me and he can't write a lick of JavaScript and spends all day writing VB / C#. All I do is JavaScript pretty much. I am sure we are paid differently as my skills are less valuable to the business (I believe).
Designing your software to work interchangeably with unix domain and regular sockets can also make initial testing much easier. Then you have a no hassle way to simulate lots of ip/port pairs via file names, without port clashes and creating virtual nw interfaces.
Sounds like Stockholm syndrome to me!
It will probably only affect Patreon’s share of FOSS-projects starting today (and thus doesn't already have a Patreon).

Of course if enough people start using GitHub Sponsors, end-users may make it a expectation/demand to be able to sponsor their favourite projects there if they are going to bother (much like users today won’t bother to sign up for a Patreon-competitor).

And then it might start having a noticeable effect.

That said, anecdotally speaking, today only one of my Patreon pledges are for software projects, and most are for youtubers.

If that holds up for other people too, I suspect Patreon will be fine.
How do you do math on fake numbers of covid-19.

The one thing that should be obvious at this point is that developing countries are not reporting their real numbers.

China didn't report until international cases arose. Same with Iran. if you look at the map of infected countries, there are several that mysteriously are between infected countries and somehow have zero cases.

You cant do math when you have bad data.
I had the opposite happen to me :)

I ordered a 2017 Dell XPS and got the 2018 model instead, didn't complain.
Is there a clause for death by pandemic?
What does the word "developer" mean to other people? If you want to keep it simple, why not "programmer"?

Depending who I talk to, I use "programmer" or "software engineer" most often.
Cities are terrible places to live. To prove my point, can you walk to a natural area (beach, forest, mountain, etc) within 15 minutes? Of course not, other than maybe a tiny manicured park full of people. That "green area" pictured in the diagram will be the only green area, it will be a flat park of some sort, and it will be your only choice of place to visit. It will be more like a museum for trees than any kind of natural habitat.

That doesn't meet anybodies "needs". This is all just dressing up ways to reduce the costs of humans. Governments are just a collection of large companies (their controllers), who run the world the same as if it is a business. The citizens of the city are a cost, and these are marketing campaigns to get them to accept cost reduction measures.

Also, as I am getting downvoted, I may as well point out that Paris itself is an especially terrible place to live. In fact, I don't know many parisians that live there, and I have never met anybody that likes it. HN obsession with density and walking is hilarious.
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I never said that everyone went back to work, but yes, a large part of the workforce outside of Hubei Province has actually started work again. This is easy to track - factory emissions outside of the worst hit regions (NO2, for instance, is a good proxy) are starting to recover, and social media activity is very clearly indicating 1.) a large number of furloughed workers are happy that they're now going back to the office and 2.) an even larger number of workers are now doing remote work and telecommuting (and hating it).

I also never said that the impact of the pandemic to manufacturing is irrelevant, only that 1.) provided that factories are starting up again, which many of them are (and we know this, because we can track how much they're emitting) and 2.) the fact that the pandemic hit over the Chinese New year, will mitigate some of the actual impact of the pandemic to the global economy.

Again, all of this assumes that the infection rate in China will continue to slow and that the recent spate of cases outside of China don't escalate to the point where other countries have to implement city-wide quarantines.
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From a privacy perspective, is that really that bad? You've got a bunch of other people's clicks messing up your marketing profile. This might even be a good thing, because it pollutes the dataset that the adtech people are using, which makes the trackers less useful.

So here's a feature suggestion: instead of removing URL parameters, replace them with a randomly-generated value. Be careful to use the same length and character set (e.g. replace a hex id with only hex digits).

And also, set DNT=1.

That gives the digital marketing people an incentive to respect the DNT header, and an easy way to maintain data quality.

I think that this is a better strategy than blocking trackers and "cleaning" URLs. It shifts the economics of web tracking, which short of legislation, is the only way things are going to change.
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They are starting to go back to work, and we can actually track it to a certain extent (not to the point where we can quantify it, but enough that we can say it's a definite trend).
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It's spam - just like anyone else. Sensationalized because it's connected to someone special.
“Everything should be as simple as possible but not simpler”–not Albert Einstein
I guess alchemy eventually grew up and turned into chemistry. I really hope the same happens to dev but I’m not expecting it in my lifetime
> instead of sitting down and figuring out the actual requirements first like any real engineering job

If it were so easy, then we would have done it already that way for the last seven decades. The simile topples over upon further contemplation:

civil engineers:

• client is not a domain expert

• to an overwhelming part, client needs are easy to transport into the mind of c.eng.

• can employ a wealth of standard solutions refined over the course of milleniums

software authors:

• client is a domain expert for the subject matter that the software is supposed to model

• to an overwhelming part, client needs are difficult to express and transport into the mind of s.auth.

• if a standard solution exists, the client would have already bought it off the shelf, so coming to a s.auth. always means customised development

• the entire sector is still in its proverbial baby shoes

We have to come to grips that we unfortunately can't apply what happens to work well for a different sector. The supposed value of non-traditional software methodology lies in that at least the client notices that the requirements are off the needs rather early.
$20 per hour at least.
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That is not independent and not net neutral.
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The feeling I am left with after reading the essay is that the author is more interested in being right in an "I've won the debate" kind of way, than he is interested in being useful. And that the author admires his own writing.

The most useful writing shows more of a willingness to be vulnerable and to share the human condition. As opposed to reaching for a filter that makes one always correct, motivated by "a horror of saying anything dumb". Ironically, a detailed essay around that horror - so strong it often silences you - might contain more useful truths than this essay.

And useful essays are not limited to the novel ideas the author focuses on. Considering the author's background, it's predictable but also understandable to see a focus on novel ideas. But that's an unnecessarily restrictive focus. The art of writing essays has already demonstrated much wider possibilities.

That's not to say the simplistic formula the author gives won't improve your writing. It's reasonable to briefly consider. Just that it has limitations, and a peculiar and very specific motivation when compared to writing that is more useful and lasting. So also consider less flex, less patting one's self on the back, and perhaps even saying something dumb. If you want inspiration, two concrete examples off the top of my head are David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers.
I wish they would do it for Kremlin bots as well, they do a lot of propaganda here in Russia
The point here is that the bonus is given if the company is making profits
It shouldn't have been flagged - it's on topic for this forum.

What HN needs is a downvote button for stories, because flagging is extremely misused.
I didn't know xmessage existed but I found it's quite a nice tool for filling your screen with windows that follow your mouse cursor with minimal effort.
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Once again, it could be the post office to the rescue, if only the post office decided to do a basic extension of the services they already offer.

However, even if this came to pass, you would still have a new requirement - that is to show the product exactly as it was originally sold. And for highly technical products there is absolutely no way to efficiently do this without hiring technicians for specific product types. Most products would need some kind of established rubric for how close to original condition they currently are, and nothing like this exists that I know of. The amount of money to process and run a system like this would require approximately 10-20% of the cost which is not unfeasible, but most people already balk at sales fees of 5%.
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Just curious, as a product, is renter's insurance very different from homeowner's insurance? Superficially, i can think of similarities.

Is it a matter of time before you would move into this sector as well?
Sorry, what? This is spam, but the potential effect is significantly greater. This is someone trying to buy an election and circumvent democracy. I'd say it's not sensationalized enough given the stakes.
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Quite a lot of difference. Alchemy is science and software development is art
Real life wealth distributions have a very interesting property not shown here. The "random give/take" always ends up with an exponential distribution, which models real life for about the bottom 99% and doesn't have any really high values or long tails. However the top 1% follows a power law in real life, which does spread wealth across several orders of magnitude and has long tails, and the transition is very sharp. Presumably this is because the top 1% made their wealth in a way that is scalable, such as though starting businesses, investing, etc. If you search papers in econophysics you can see this effect.
You don’t have to work 4 years at each failure, of course.
That's amazing. I remember back in 6th grade, thinking I could take a swing at this... 9 years later, not even a dent made. Maybe one day.

I guess part of it is that if you ask the average person, even if they have ML experience, they might not even know where to start.
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On the bright side, most people who are only in it for the money will not do as well as people who are passionate about it, because a passionate person can naturally spend their spare time learning and tinkering, so will improve more. Someone who's not passionate about it will probably burn out if they force themselves to spend their spare time on something that doesn't interest them a lot.
I pass this site every morning, negotiating a throng of homeless people. Not everything about modern Austin is more humane.
> As part of a far-reaching social media strategy, the Bloomberg campaign has hired hundreds of temporary employees to pump out campaign messages through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. These “deputy field organizers” receive $2,500 per month to promote the former New York mayor’s candidacy within their personal social circles

Accusations of paid shills have been thrown around so freely on the Internet, it's refreshing to have actual textbook examples for once!
Right, I was misled... here's a good explanation why that experiment works :
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Native Americans have this exact thing and free medical and free housing. They are now fully dependant on the governent.
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It hopefully doesn't - at least for the mobile app !
I'm pretty sur it can download maps and work offline ?
I never understood this since I worked for the US military for 22 years. Everyone knew exactly what everyone else made, including extra duty pay, housing allowances, bonuses, etc.

We never bitched about the pay someone else was making. It was just the way it was.
The grand OP referred to concept of "cult of positivity."

Policing tone is passive aggressive censorship & bias.
It's as hideous a concept as 'culture appropriation' or
the cult of positivity.

It may have been voted down and dead at the time of your writing. Now its back alive.