skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taxes and cost of goods vary widely across markets within the US. Not to mention that progressive scale shifts more tax burden to people living in high cost of living (COL) locations.

Think $120k in Washington or Florida with no state income tax and lower COL. you’d pay maybe 25% tax. In San Francisco, $200k comp to adjust for higher COL will push you into higher federal tax bracket plus 10-12% state income tax. Now you’re paying more than 40% in taxes.

25% vs 40% is a significant difference.

Local taxes also greatly affect the cost of goods and services. 9.5% sales tax in SFBA vs 0% sales tax in Oregon.

25% vs 49.5% — two extremes, but that the reality in the US.

Not to mention gasoline taxes in CA — highest in the nation, they directly affect the cost of gas that we pay as consumers.
The first problem on LinkedIn is that many people have to be on it to earn a living or show their team spirit for work. If we could all find employment and network without LinkedIn better than with it, 90% of us would.

So when someone is hitting on someone using LinkedIn, that person is the societal equivalent of the jerk who hits on a waitress at her job. She has no choice but to be nice to you and tolerate your “smooth” lines because she’s a prisoner. She can’t leave easily and the jerk might be an important customer of the business. Even if the jerk is being coy about it (likely for the purposes of plausible deniability later), it’s incredibly awkward and disrespectful to the waitress.

This is no different than a female client flirting with a male financial advisor putting him in the awkward position as well.

Both are jerks. And while these are common stereotypical situations, there exist with the roles reversed too. Ask any male bartender. It’s awful and a real impediment to security in their relationship when every other night, some lady implies she’s available to him.

The second and bigger problem with LinkedIn are all the idiots who think it’s an extension of their social media. They pontificate on political events, give condescending lessons on life, share way too much about their personal life (nobody cares about your daily wins), and use #hashtags so #frequently that is #impossible to #read their #posts, not that they worth reading anyway.

It seems no matter what you do to purge yourself of these fools in your “professional network”, you’ve always got a few saps that end up liking their posts and so that Instagram-like garbage shows up anyway. You have to constantly tell LinkedIn you’re not interested, or just keep your network to a low high-quality number of people that are too busy working to play with their phones.

When I get a connection request, even if it looks like a promising industry connection, I check their activity history. If they’re on LinkedIn liking and posting things every week, then it’s a no go. You’d better be worth a cool $100 million for me to make an exception.

My feed is my feed. I follow companies to keep track of my industry. If you are cluttering that up with your sappy posts, even if I agree with you, you’re gone.

Unless you’re my boss, in which case, my hatred runs deep. I can’t even unfollow you because you are the kind of LinkedIn Loser who checks for mismatches on connections verses followers. So yes, much deep hatred.
Reading it over more closely, the article doesn't exclude the possibility that the person who leaked the memo was actually Ms Zhang. The anonymous "other software engineer" might just be another source the authors know, or even a reference given by the "leaker".
I don't think it's that silly if you compare it to the cumulative length of roads for cars
> We get stuck in local maxima at each layer and the critical energy required to escape out of it would be too large.

ML solution - many restarts, add momentum and in the end maybe all local maxima are equally good after all.
I was recently re-reading how to solve systems via QR and realized that the key trick was switching basis. But it took me a while to understand that, in between all the extra stuff. Now you are telling me that most of LA is like that and wow, so many things make sense now!

Do you have any additional linear algebra tricks?
Building an Athena Data Lake with S3
10. You hate it because it has an Apple logo on the box.
On a slight tangent ... the one thing about HN that lets me breathe is that the links that turn up are the same for everyone on the planet and is not "personalized". If it were, I'd be gone in a jiffy.

Maybe we should rename "personalization" to something with a -ve connotation - perhaps "bubblification"? "narcissization"? "comfortzoned"?
Forest fires don't generally move fast enough to cause mass death. The property damage in the West coast, however, is extraordinary.
> but once things become ossified as a norm it is difficult to imagine another way

Sounds like a ML model that can do correlation but can't handle causal and counterfactual reasoning.
Yes, but in my understanding, it's in the top 2 research facilities in the world in Coronaviruses. It's the only BSL-4 level lab in China. According to their publications from January, they discovered the two Coronaviruses that were the closest to SARS-CoV-2. WIV is not an average bioresearch laboratory from the standpoint of the pandemic.
Yeah it's a fantastic prototyping tool. Or if all you need is a basic database a couple of people will use with quite light usage.

I built a CMS for my wife's business and she's used it to manage all her clients accounts for the last 3 years.

Took me all of an afternoon to figure out. It's been pretty solid, and incredibly low maintenance for me.
Solution to everything:

put human (consciousness) into silicon. Now all problems becomes one dimensional. (2), (4), (5) becomes moot, (3) is quite unnecessary because time is now more or less expendable, and we can just work on (1).
Is it really surprising though? Woke culture is a predominantly west coast product and coincidentally that's where a lot of influential software offices are situated. I think what's more surprising is that people in our industry still pretend like American software practices are politcally agnostic.
Theodore Vail’s vision that became realized through AT&T - “universal telephone service throughout the USA”. Job done.

Mountain Bell/USWest/Qwest/CenturyLink/Lumen vision -

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Slightly offtopic, I'm having some problems accessing this site due to use of... Older technology.

Curl reports: SSL connection using TLSv1.0 / DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA

Which Firefox will refuse to load without forcibly enabling TLS 1.0, which is actually marked for complete removal at some near point in the future. I believe Chrome's approach is similar, with the same expectation of removal.

Now might be a good time to check the site's architecture. As annoying as that probably is. (Especially as it does just appear to be a static blog).
One fun exercise I had is to disable IPv4 in my network settings and go with IPv6 only, see what's left working.
Agree to #1 for sure (I use the Force HD chrome plugin for #2). Please add a volume control button!
I agree entirely.

Most of them sound like "how to I justify my AI driven technocracy by pointing to studies of lemurs"
I believe he is just describing a side effect of being a loving person.
I agree with this. You can get a kit [1] to hardwire a UPS. You could then take the output of the UPS and run it into a subpanel with a separate 15 amp breaker for each room. That way you won't have extension cords, etc. which might only be rated for 15 amps drawing 30+ and potentially starting a fire.

1- https://download.schneider-electric.com/files?p_File_Name=AS...
I think this explains the state of the world, and given the state of the world: why is this surprising to us.

I guess people tend to believe that everyone else is like them, including those of us that aren't sadistic. And if a full 33 percent are sadistic, is it something that even should or can be corrected?

Now that's terrifying.

However, it is much better to simply look at a flower and meditate on how amazing it is that it exists at all than ruminate on the facts of how cruel the world is.
Yeah, counterintuitively buying a TV helped. It's better for my sanity than going full cold turkey on Netflix.
So the author says "stick to it for 3 years".

But that doesn't answer the question at all. The question becomes, how do you stay motivated for those 3 years?

The answer, for me and people I know, is that you have to break it down into small pieces (month-sized, then week-sized, then day-sized) and find happiness in the progress. In the small daily wins.

If you think you'll only be happy once you succeed (3+ years later) you'll never make it. It's trite but it's true, that you've got to find happiness in the journey, not just the destination.

Because if you don't, then you'll absolutely give up and fall back to the things that do give you instant happiness today, whether that's social media or spending time with your spouse or kids. And if you choose your family over a long-term project because the project isn't producing happiness... then that might be the right choice for you! :)
Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck you (2012)
Doesn’t happen to the same degree as in plumbing. With front end or back end, yes there are good jobs and bad jobs, but if the data gets to where it’s going and there’s no bit rot, you’re pretty much done. If the data is in the db and not on the paper forms, and you can’t see it decrypted at rest, it’s a good job. With plumbing, there seem to be endless layers of nuance between good or bad, finished or unfinished.

Also, it should take X hours to code a feature of Y size with this many fields or inputs. There are unclearly established timelines for a job and any big deviation from that will get you fired (or not hired again by the same builder). There’s no “due to this plumber’s lack of sobriety with the world, a project that should have taken 2 weeks took 4 and a half months, and the connections on the joints are poor”.
It doesn't seem that effective to me, because it makes some assumptions about employees' willingness to move or engage in location arbitrage.

For many employees without children and especially those who are single, moving areas is not a dealbreaker. For those who save a lot, really you just end up incentivizing them to move to expensive areas.

It's basically based on the model of thinking of "we should pay this employee the minimum it takes for them to work for us" rather than "we should pay this employee what it takes for working for us to be worth it to them"

It makes more sense to lock someone's CTC (cost to company) if they're remote and then let them live anywhere. This allows them to fully realize the remote benefit of being able to live wherever they want. Especially if other companies stick to the old model of adjusting pay based on COL, this makes working remotely in a low COL a better offer at no price difference to the company for someone who is willing to move whichever place is most economically efficient for them.
> Apply to pitch an NFX Partner

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Nice piece of “content marketing”!
Not to tell you how to live your life, but if I were you, I would move ASAP. I lived alone in SF on 88k a year supporting my unemployed fiancee and a dog and still saved a good bit of money. I know people who get by on 50k. You can afford your own apartment! 4k for a one bedroom is def the high end but you can ball out!
As always, the context of market conditions is important. Sometimes startups have no advantage because the time isn’t right, and this pandemic isn’t the right time for many startups when so many people are flocking toward proven offerings for stability.
I would say that the absence of any overarching anthropological, epistemological or philosophical basis for these questions is the fundamental observation that needs to be made. "Big social impact" is hardly a defined category, let alone necessarily representative of desirable outcome.

As we move from a multiplicity of disparate cultures to a single common denominating quagmire of internet-unified global capitalism, how do we ensure that alternative perspectives on nature, society and purpose continue to exist and are granted reasonable space and resources to self-sustain?

Alternatively stated: how can homo sapiens as a group reliably value things such as the commons (nature, intellectual heritage, freedom of choice, individual dignity, etc.) that exist outside of conventional private ownership and economic rationalism without politically centralizing objective value thereby capitulating the great strengths known to be associated with heterogeneity?
Being ad-driven is an important component because a big part of the incentive to maximize engagement is to drive ad impressions. If social media companies were compensated in some other way, the content might be different.
One might think so, but....
Hardware is much more complex than software and also requires incredible amounts of money in order to fabricate. Not sure if that will ever change. We'll probably remain stuck with whatever is available on the market.

Starting from scratch is actually feasible on the software side though. The OSDev wiki has many examples. The most recent one I know is Serenity. Still a monumental task. It's probably a lot of fun if you have the time and motivation to stick with it. You can actually throw POSIX in the trash and create your own abstractions. Hopefully people aren't reinventing signals...

I think Linux is the best option for those who want to create something from scratch. The Linux kernel is unique in that it is completely separate from user space. There is a stable, documented kernel interface in the form of system calls:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/stable/syscalls

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso

So people can actually do things like trash all of GNU and come up with something entirely new. It's possible to rewrite the entire Linux user space in Rust or Lisp or whatever. It doesn't have to be POSIX compliant.

The kernel even has this amazing header which lets people build freestanding Linux programs:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
https://youtu.be/Q6iy3IbVIsQ

Listen to him talk about Nikola in interviews. In an interview he said "before WeWork it was really easy to get money but now investors ask more questions."
His interviews are filled with answers from this perspective and it's quite bizarre how no one noticed this.

I noticed that he also makes false statements in the video. Nikola has zero active routes,that's a lie.
Can you run SwiftUI on Windows or Android?
I feel like IPFS is taking an interesting approach to this. They aren't trying to rebuild modern computing from scratch, however they are designing a tool which, as the name suggests, has the ability to scale basically unbounded. I'm talking in particular about their focus on defining specs that are themselves parametrized by other specs. At the base of this is multiformats which are a suite of specs for things like network addresses which allow you to wrap any current network protocol like tcp over ip over ethernet or dns over https over quic over udp over whatever. By using these paremetrizable protocols they are lowering the marginal cost you mention and making it much easier to migrate to improved technology in the future.

It's been a while since I seriously looked into IPFS, but this is what I remember about it.
> I often wonder what if we decide to build a completely new, well thought out computing system (including network) that is totally separate from any legacy system and 100% backwards incompatible. Not any bit less, 100% backwards compatible and everything would be fresh. There would be no jpeg support (it would have its own image format), it would not have standard TCP/IP stack - a new protocol and network infrastructure, new display format, new IO ports, etc.

The iPad is probably the biggest such attempt to do most of those things. :)
That's quite a good point. I hadn't considered that perspective. I'll have to think about that one.
There will always be trolls. What the ads fund are armies of cognitive scientists making you addicted in the name of “engagement” aka ad revenue, consequences be damned.
Kubernetes would be better example.
speech x technology x money = reach
Thank you for this. I don't understand why people have such a hard time thinking this way. Many people are very elastic and flexible about where they live (especially when it's 'anywhere in the US') and as someone with a job in the bay area, I don't understand why I should take a pay cut to move somewhere cheaper to do the same job. The employer ends up incentivizing me to stay in the most expensive area that also happens to be the easiest place to get a competing offer... makes no sense
This is what makes me so uncomfortable with hiring software developers. I don’t know how good of a job they’re doing, or what’s taking them so long, or whether another group of developers would do a better job faster.

If I hire painters, I can tell if they’re doing a good job by looking at it. I know what’s taking them so long. They’re using slower drying drywall compound, or they’re having to mask off because they’re not good with a brush.

There are fields of work where it’s easy to gauge productivity, but software development is not one of them.
Some academic fields have serious problems with reproducibility, such as social psychology. The preference for social interaction over reproducibility can in part be explained by subjectivity of academic field.
>any additional linear algebra tricks?
>> the only trick linear algebra has
If you have to pay $200k to get talented engineers in the Bay Area, and find out you can get equally talented people in the Midwest to work remotely for you for $130K, obviously it makes sense to set waters geographically.

But what happens when your competitors realize this as well? Now you can no longer get the same level of talent in Iowa for $130K, soon it’s $150k, then it goes up again. You aren’t paying for work, you are competing for talent.

I think the market ends up being bifurcated, where working locally in-office gets a premium when it’s worth a premium, but remote pays the same no matter where you are outside of time zone issues.
if we're doing anecdotes, the apocalypse makes me more productive since good work allows me to hide from everything else in the world being terrible
> Most (if not all) severance agreements in case of firing include non-disparagement.

I've never seen it. Employment lawyers are very happy to take cases against companies, who have money. Just like non-competes, they have been dropped from contracts over the last few decades (severability applies anyway) on the west coast.
I have yet to make such an investment as good air monitors are fairly expensive, but I’m hoping to get a few indoor monitors from Purple Air (~$200 USD).

What do you folks use?
> I doubt a full rewrite would fundamentally change much about how we use the internet.

I imagine that it would in fact have to support people using the internet exactly the way they do now, if it hoped to get traction.
Compromising the domain controller is far worse than gaining admin on one machine. It would potentially give you remote access to all the company machines.
That's understandable... but it usually takes a lot longer to calculate that cost than it does to tell you "don't do this, it's silly and would have all these problems". I answer questions on bash/awk/sed in Stack Overflow. You can do a lot of things with those languages, but sometimes people think they know what they want ("how do I do this with 'cut'?") when they could do it much more easily with another utility (awk/sed).
Okay, but you should still run ZFS because I really don't think anyone is going to make a better file system.
Everything about the creation of our first hardware product – Veer earplugs
That's the first I've heard of something like this. What's the purpose of dropping specifically-shaped steel into the ocean?
Has there been any research into health impacts of people exposed to those conditions? I’d love to read some if anyone knows of any.
I'm surprised that OP didn't notice misspelled vocher prominently visible on multiple screenshots.
>> There are fields of work where it’s easy to gauge productivity, but software development is not one of them.

I manage a team of developers / analysts and it's straightforward (though not always easy) to measure this over several six-week blocks of time for the team. It is not, however, easy to measure it for any single developer or analyst, and there's a lot of variance when you try to look any more granular than the team.

I suspect it's doable for small groups that work together. Or even larger groups. (I have no experience here.)

But for individuals? I agree. No shot.
Why did this get flagged? Is there something wrong with the facts?
Blocking foreign companies is not a free speech issue. Also free speech isn't a law, and the 1st Amendment has nothing to do with some social network provided by a private foreign corporation that must still follow US regulations to operate here.

The rest of the world is not going to change just because we start to treat China the same way they treat everyone else. Perhaps you should read up on how India and other countries are also defending against China.