skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am at a Unicorn. Engineering is 20-30 engineers total. This person is definitely confusing Unicorn with some generic big engineering heavy company. Many companies scale very differently. Some scale with large engineering efforts - mine doesn't. The change in number of engineers has barely moved in the last 2 years.

That said - to the question about unicorns: You're always expendable. Same as any job - same politics - same nonsense. No matter how important they make you think you are to a products success - they'll fire you regardless. It's amazing how fake management will be about urgency. "This is the most critical business function! We must have people working on it!11!!1!1!" Fires key employee because they didn't like them - "critical business function" gets shoved into the backlog to never be seen again. People are fake and think they need to show urgency to get the most value out of their employees.
I think you're more pointing to the fact that most 'raises' are joke tier. The word 'raise' in and of itself generally refers to an ~inflation bump.

5% per year is practically nothing. There is no point in my life at which I would have ever even noticed the difference other than on a spreadsheet, all the way up from a corner shop minimum wage job.

I think the reason most people push is for those lateral changes when you break into a different "role" and double your salary, change your working hours/respect, etc, because that's a material difference.
You said that the Chinese government failed to contain the pandemic, which is different than the Chinese government worsened the pandemic.

I agree, they did things that probably made things worse. I disagree that they could have easily stopped it from occurring.
I'm not sure, but either way my question remains. What if moderation of hate speech is part of the product?
this is why I favor looking at the XY scatter charts rather than a made up heuristic like G3D/$. for instance those 2 gpus in you post will almost lie on a straight line through 0 without anything else on lower slope side. but we dont actually have to get the absolute lowest perf/$ & looking at the scatter chart we can bring in those other factors into play too.
Indeed, the price of food delivery apps is insane. I really don’t know where all the money is going. How can they overcharge so much for food and yet still have a loss? In addition to the service fee, delivery fee, and what you pay in tips, the actual price of the food items is sometimes (often?) more expensive in these apps than on the restaurant’s own menus.
I was also let go today, is anyone looking for a frontend engineer with 6 years experience?

My profile is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmaskasky/
>Rent is hardly "free money".

What would you call money which accumulates in your bank account which you didn't have to work for?

(I could the portion of rent which would be left over after a rentier paying management fees here. Managing a property is work. Owning is not.)
I think there is a difference there, but it's largely because the computer with a camera is such a simple system at this point.

In contrast, you have many, many layers of very sophisticated and interconnected abstraction and reality modeling between that visual stream and other forms of processing. Typically, the higher the level of abstraction, the more "aware" of it you are as it gets filtered and dumped into your attention centers.

In short, even our most sophisticated state of the art "deep" learning algorithms are but puddles compared to the ocean of depth available in your brain. ...and almost none have any form of attentive aggregation and selection.
That's not blocking competitors though.

I specifically didn't bring up the Shopping case because EU anti-trust law is very different, and the case doesn't qualify as anti-trust in the U.S.
> But that's not really surprising-- more dense houses paying $1000/year property taxes in some other part of the city will subsidize the other parts and the city will avoid financial ruin.

1. That itself is not great. There's no compelling reason for the government to subsidize things that way. Why deliberately push a form of development that's horrible for the city finances? Modern zoning rules usually force that kind of thing to exist, for no good reason. This is one of the things strongtowns talks about.

2. Some cities don't have a dense core with enough activity to subsidize the sprawly areas.
7) It's way easier to find someone you know to help you on Windows than Linux, for now.

I visit my parents once a year and always mark out a day to spend fixing/updating/removing junk on my dad's Windows laptop. Three times I installed Linux and when I came back the following year Windows was back on the laptop. The reason being people just know Windows where I am from and the moment they see Linux they feel that's the problem. Even if my dad is struggling to print something which has nothing to do with Linux, the first thing they do is remove Linux.
I think he said TX is not more lax than CA, which doesn't mean CA is more lax either. It's possible their safety regimes are simply similar.

I think a lot of workplace safety rolls up to the feds anyway, so it wouldn't matter which state you choose.
The sentence he was specifically talking about:
Google controls 91.89% of the search market [1]
I think the underlying assumption is that the company will grow very quickly, so that when it comes time to pay you back they are paying you back with a small fraction of their revenue. Look at Netflix, for example: ten years ago they had 1.67 billion in annual revenue. Last year they had 1.87 billion in net income, and they are still growing. There are certainly some ridiculous valuations, but that quote is ignoring both the fact that businesses grow and that not everybody needs a 10 year payback.

More generally, the reason there are high valuations for companies that are growing users by selling a $20 bill for $18 is that they can drive out all of their competitors who can't afford to burn money. Once those competitors are gone, the survivor can raise prices, lobby governments for regulations that make breaking into the market very difficult, and generally employ anti-competitive practices to take advantage of their situation. If they're able to do this without being smacked down by anti-trust regulators they will be a money printing machine. These high valuations mean that the market thinks that governments will remain toothless and easily controlled. It's a depressing future to think about, but there's a pretty high probability that this is how it will be.
Who says security through obscurity doesn't work?
>The landlord provides a usable piece of land

They neither made the land nor made it valuable, so they're not "providing" it in any meaningful sense. They're relinquishing their state provided entitlement to expel users of the land with state-backed violence. In exchange for resources.
Oculus wouldn't have had that buzz without Carmack pushing the original Rift DIY kit before their Kickstarter. He was already commenting on Palmers DIY creations in the community where the ideas for Rift were born.

It was more or less a community project, because without community input in those forum threads Palmer woulnd't even had considered glasses, he was deciding between VR glasses and a 3D monitor in his first posts there, and got nudged by a member towards glasses, lol. He just never stopped absorbing information and kept iterating on his franken HMDs and prototypes, and one day when he had already reached a good level Carmack showed up.
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Are HMRC paying you for this comment? :)
Deaths are a lagging indicator and shouldn't be used for this comparison. On average, in cases of death, it is about 18 - 23 days between diagnosis and death (compared to 12 - 17 days for recovery).
It’d be interesting if in places where censorship is common and part of daily life there would be efforts to study an artificial periodic dissemination of information.

I mean if the CCP wanted, they could label 24hr news a counterrevolutionary conspiracy by the US to distract citizens and tell them from now on news will be delivered on a schedule to ensure the continued success of... their success.

What a peek into behavior that would be...
It's an outstanding document all things considered. Aside from some things like implicitly allowing slavery at the time, the constitution + bill of rights are nearly perfect as a foundation for the role a federal government should play in my opinion, especially with some additions like the 14th. Nothing else that I've seen captures the essence of good governance quite the same.
I agree with you, I just think some big corps are worse than others, so I choose one that is on the better end of big-evil-corp. Is the pay that much worse at Stripe, Square, GitHub, Netflix than advertising companies?

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Yes, I am a Bradly. About half my coworkers/friends/family call me Bradly and about half call me Brad. I introduce my self as both interchangeably depending on the situation.
Maybe that's why Welch said to measure against GE's future leaders if they are destined to forever underperform the S&P. :)
Great! Thanks for sharing! I'll look into this
If any of this were true you'd have tech giants, with their armies of "top" developers and massive legal teams disrupting the status quo but instead they announce a foray into healthcare, with much fanfare, only to scrap the project or have it fade into obscurity a few years later.

Turns out healthcare is hard, both the practice itself and the industrial/government bureaucracy. Probably why the better EHR shops pay just as well as top tech companies.
pair this up with the successor to intercoolerjs,

https://htmx.org/

and you can keep even more of your work directly in html.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23038637
At the limit, efficiency is the enemy of resiliency.
How is it evil?
I am willing to bet that other than a few selected ones in management positions, the majority will get pennies.
Uber all but destroyed the existing taxi infrastructure in several major cities. So yeah, in many places they're now pretty essential.

That said, the barrier to entry for an Uber-like service is quite low, so if Uber vanished from the face of the Earth it wouldn't take more than about a month to re-create it.
Makes you wonder what they're wrong about today.
New York is probably one of the most union heavy places in America. Checking where they are unionized more isn't an accurate reflection of the rest of the world.
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I am happier with no side project
I'm 35 years old and writing code since 16, and for the past decade with lots and lots of side projects, few even finished, I don't know if I can do it anymore? Somehow I can't handle knowing I could be building something. I have the skills, and what? I simply don't try it? Is that even an option?

Many times after quitting a side project, I didn't work on anything for months, and in those times, I'm the happiest. I concentrate on other hobbies, read more, run more, play chess.

After a while, my energy level gets back, new ideas spinning in my head, and I try it again. I know a lot of people go through the same, and I wish I could hear your story about how you quit side projects or found your peace with it.
> Having fines graduated by ‘skill’ would just be more of a declaration that it’s okay to break the law and speed if you’re a ‘better’ driver, whatever that means.

You misunderstand. I'm proposing actual limits be different for different classes of drivers. So C1 gives you 50 mph max on a given road, C2 60, etc.

> no licensing in our system is capable of distinguishing the skills of different drivers

A CDL clearly requires additional knowledge beyond a standard license. E.g. brake failure modes and technical operation.

> The speed limit is a declaration of what the safe speed of a given road and today’s vehicles are - again, because physics.

So between 1994 and 1996 all roads and vehicles became substantially safer?

> these limits have been raised in some locales by law makers in spite of the Highway Patrol’s objections and evidence that accidents and fatality rates are higher with the raised limits

To put it bluntly, Highway Patrol does not seem like an objective third party in this matter.

>> It’s also incredibly sub-optimal, given that vast variance in drivers and vehicles.

> So by what metric is it sub-optimal? How do you arrive at the conclusion that it’s “incredibly” sub-optimal? What does optimal mean, and what are you suggesting?

Total travel time has an economic cost. Very few people work at full productivity while driving their cars.

An optimal allocation would be permitting everyone to drive at a precise maximum speed, calculated on the basis of all their attributes which effect likelihood of accident, and standardizing for likelihood of outcome.

Some of those attributes are constant from driver to driver (road geometry, weather).

Some of those attributes are variable (driver skill, attention, tendency to drive drunk, vehicle performance, vehicle maintenance).

Unless you're willing to argue that the variable attributes have neglible effect on accident likelihood or that their variable range is negligible, I'm not sure how you arrive at anything less than "incredibly sub-optimal" given static speed limits for everyone.

> Are you saying more skilled drivers should be allowed to driver faster than other people, or just suggesting that fines should be lower?

The former.

> Who, exactly, is being harmed by speed limits, what is the damage being done, and what is the alternative?

Everyone, but particularly drivers, by economic inefficiency. The alternative is my modest proposal.

> There are statistics showing increased rates of death in higher speed limit areas, so you need to have a pretty convincing argument that a thousand people being stuck at 70mph are being hurt more than someone getting killed.

See earlier points about the difficulties in normalizing statistics for proposed driver skill level.

> I suspect the unintended consequence of increasing the speed differential would be more road rage and more road fatalities.

Possibly, in additional to innumerable other things we haven't considered.

But my point is that we can't, on the face of things, defend the current system as the best we can possibly do.
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Storage fails all the time. Cables, power supplies, UPS, monitors, keyboards, mice - I have a graveyard in a cabinet.

Also motherboards who's capacitors dry up; connectors that develop faults.

This is of course leaving out devices who's firmware get exploited and become poison (routers, USB devices with malware)
> "Why would we expect to be able to force Google to host speech they disagree with?"

So what Google is doing with this particular epithet is fine is what you're saying? Sure hope there's no other cause that you champion that Google decides they disagree with someday.
And the next release Android uses noexec and therefore you can't even mmap(...PROT_EXEC) the binary. So you now have yo copy the binaries to RAM by yourself on exec().

And then at some point you realize that, like Cygwin, you have built a system where fork() fails randomly by design.

And then Google blacklists both fork and exec.
I agree there is no one size fits all solution. This question is aimed at HNers who thought a post was important to them for some reason and they think it would benefit others for the same reasons. The reader is free to choose the posts he/she finds interesting.
Yep, this is true https://www.stoodnt.com/blog/new-h1-b-rules-give-priority-to...
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If you're measuring things by slopping them into a measuring cup instead of weighing them out to the milligram, you'll never know the difference.
When people talk about food costs in America, an extremely crucial element is often overlooked.

For all the moral posturing about animal treatment in factory farms and sustainability, which I can sympathize with, there is a massive army of illegal migrant workers that are invisible both legally and socially.

These migrant workers grow and harvest the food that Americans survive on every day. Not to mention cleaning homes, landscaping, and even raising families.

This is a major factor in why food is so cheap and abundant in America. Illegal migrant workers who are paid sub-minimum slave wages to feed the citizens of the United States.

Until we take a hard look at this labor system and widely acknowledge its economic role, these debates are empty. If you know your history, you understand why this system exists.
An interesting comment because it's a good example of what you see more and more of from people with a positive emotional disposition toward someone who won't let them fail or look bad even if its quite obvious that they failed, and it looks bad (and even if they themselves would admit it).

As a factual matter, the measurement isn't meaningless at all. Give Jack some credit.
I see this as a good thing, the chip is tuned well enough to hit its limits out of the box, without having to mess around with manual overclocking to get optimal performance.
Every term is a made up term. Hate speech is generally understood as sexist/racist/homophobic speech (in general, discrimination against a minority group with no justification based in reality). It doesn't need to be encouraging violence in the immediate against such a group, that's a subset of hate speech.

You may disagree with the definition, but that's what people are talking about. If you want to elevate the discussion, you should avoid pointless semantic arguments IMO.
You're conflating censorship and moderation.

Moderation can create a productive discussion, but no automated word filter is going to fix that community if people are motivated to be hateful, troll or spam.

Besides, the subject in question is not "hateful spam" or a "hateful" meme. It's charged, opinionated political speech but you'd really have to be stretching the meaning of "hateful" to apply it here.

Of course, expanding that definition is the political strategy of some interest groups right now. But this is a great illustration of how fuzzy and easily abused that advocacy really is.
Don't really agree with this at all unless you are only talking in the context of the software engineering job market - which I don't think is usually what people refer to by "tier N"
there have been complaints by serious people about the work in this book, see

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sle...

now, it's obvious to me that if I don't get 8 hours of sleep a night, my brain stops functioning properly and my entire life goes to shit very quickly. So I was happy to see a very popular book advocating sleeping well, and hopeful that if lots of people read it, they might have more respect for other people's sleep schedules.

The critic, Alexey Guzey, seems to be a guy who needs less sleep than I do, and also a guy who is into life-hacking/self-improvement type stuff. There's definitely a type of person who thinks "sleep is for the weak". I think he probably does have a bias towards sleeping less.

But I think the problems he points out about the book are pretty serious.

In particular, it seems that claims around sleep and longevity and other health outcomes (e.g. injury rates, cancer) are often unreliable or based on misinterpreted studies, and one case involves eliding data that contradicts the result.

Now, having myself experienced chronic sleep deprivation, and dealt with people who think they don't need to sleep but definitely do, I think the basic argument of the book is probably correct. But as the last line of that post quotes, "Good ideas do not need a lot of lies told about them to gain public acceptance".
> And why both parents need to take it.

Sweden does that to a degree. Since 2016 both parents get 90 days each (it was 60 days each before then) that they either use or lose, and the remaining 210 days can be split between the parents however they like.

As of 2018, it seems like men used 29.3% of the of the parental leave days so it's not equal in terms of use yet.

I should note that the pay is 80% (up to a maximum) of your normal pay. So from a financial standpoint, it makes sense for the parent with the lower income to use the parental leave days.
closely related: names have power. Naming a thing gives you a modicum of psychological control.
Why do you think Saudi Arabia even listens to us when we tell them not to drown us in oil?
I do wonder what if anything is wasted with talent and people's efforts plunged into things that ... amount to nothing.

Reminds me of some of the articles about top business schools and what folks observed as a large number of folks heading off to finance ... instead of running the actual businesses that produce a thing / long term value.
Especially eye opening given the wave of recent media layoffs due to a lack of ad revenue.
> ... European countries are complicit ... don't think many deserve being painted as a victim of this situation

This is not a dichotomy. Very often victims are made complicit to keep them quiet (e.g. in bribery, extortion...).

Not many countries in the world dare refusing to cooperate with the USA
Can convert does not mean thats only way to install , as long you give an insecure option your security is still weak .

It is not that OS developers are not improving , for example S mode on surface is a good feature, however as long as adobe’s of the world still abuse my system the problem is not solved .

It is just not older gen software either , Slack desktop definitely takes more resources than web version while delivering broadly the same features
Sure it is electron abstraction , however if a multi billion company with vc funding can not see value in investing on 3 different stacks for windows,MacOS and Linux how can most other developers?
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That's a pretty high standard.

You don't need to open it up for developer mode, which lets you mess around as root, chroot into a Linux distro, give the chroot control of the screen...
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