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> but then when you get to the professional setting and you reach low level management position in an office setting you're briefed on sexual harassment so much you're almost terrified any encounter with the opposite sex will be deemed rape. It's horrible and really not that much of an issue as they want you to think it is when you really think about it as most encounters are brief and forgettable if you're busy working.

It's a legal thing (threats of lawsuits and the associated costs are again one of those things about America that determine many other things). It's also spreading on campuses now, which weirdly have their own tribunals outside of the normal court system and reverse the assumption of innocence in rape accusations etc. Ties into how American college encompasses students lives to a huge extent, while in Europe things are more distributed, people do sports outside of college, regularly live outside of dorms etc. There's no college police etc. Similarly, American workplaces also seem to provide more, e.g. custom healthcare plans, a bit in the direction of how Japanes companies sort of become your "benevolent" provider who will organize many aspects of your life.

Either way, I think it involves lots of layers of posturing. In the end, many people still hook up or even pair up at the workplace. I also know people who are very politically conscious and support all the MeToo etc stuff, but somehow hooked up and became partners at an academic conference. You just have to do it the right way (risky, but not too hard for the socially skilled who know when and how to do it). It's still very much possible. People don't act the way they talk.
I had an Archimedes, the first Arm machine, in 1988 or so. It was marketed as the fastest microcomputer in the world at the time so I think Acorn knew they'd hit on something special. I was 14 and used to write games on the BBC Micro Model B and so upgrading to the Archimedes with it's speed, Sprite system and millions of colours was like suddenly being let loose in a huge unbounded creative arena. Good times.
It isn't less. The quality of life in Europe, the northern countries like Germany and the Netherlands, let alone Sweden, Norway is far higher than that in the US. This comes at a cost, but it is up to you to determine whether it is worth it.

Don't get me wrong, the US is great and there is probably a lot of room for nuance in what I am saying here and I am most likely wrong. So take this with a grain of salt:

Things that seem better in Europe (most developed countries in Europe at least): universal health care, better privacy protections, better political situation (seeing as the US is a flawed democracy [1]), and many other quality of life things [2].

You could argue that if you are rich, these things touch you way less in the US, which is true. But I also like not having to drive through poverty on my way to drop off my kids somewhere. I also enjoy knowing that where I live people don't end up in the streets due to getting some illness because of fictionally high health care costs.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
Implying "red tape" is the only barrier to entry is a pretty big oversimplification. Also calling it an "overreach" without any justification for that characterization doesn't help anyone.
I've lived in Italy, Germany, and the US, and I would argue that tech workers recieve all 3 of those things in the US as well. Unless you are saying everyone gets those 3 things in EU and not just middle class and up.
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The short answer is that I would be shocked to the point of disbelief to hear that a mid-level developer in the EU makes €100k, which is about $123k. In the US - which has higher salaries than the EU across the board in tech - the median salary is barely $101-102k. 20% above the median is rare in the US, let alone the EU.

Where are the places you'll make $125k+ in the US? A) Silicon Valley and NYC, which are huge outliers in terms of COL; B) HFT; C) Very senior/staff/principal engineers or architects at large tech-centric firms, and you're going to need a lot of domain expertise

I think it's pretty hard to find something comparable to the above in the EU.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google accounts for the London Marathon. Does it account for the opening night of a new show in the West End? I highly doubt it.

I don't think Google maintain their own data for rail travel, and the data sources aren't that good, so I doubt they'll be accounting for engineering works unless either they are scheduled far in advance or they've been happening for a while.

In my experience it takes time equivalent to a bunch of people having a crap journey and Google collecting that data for Google's instructions to change, they're not pre-emptive based on expert knowledge, they're reactive based on collected data.
Look at Shin Dong-hyuk's story. I read his book "Escape from Camp 14" several years ago and then afterwards came to find out that a lot of it was misrepresented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Dong-hyuk
We've just started to clean the mess with browsers, where every browser made a custom custom extensions / API, and now we're entering a situation where every major player will create own CPU with special instructions, and that will cascade to compilers and ultimately to developers trying to provide cross platform apps.
Forbidden lore: hacking DNS routing for K8s
I have used PJON, with the SWBB and DUDP strategies, for my home automation setup for at least 4 years. I do not need the kilometer range of SWBB, but have stretches of tens of meters running alongside 220V AC wires with no problems, in both star and daisy-chained topologies. The system is very stable, and I would like to point out that the alternatives I looked at before required me to buy extra hardware/shields that cost more than the Arduinos themselves to get going. With PJON it is just connecting to the pins in the most inexpensive way. This plus multimaster, the strength against interference, the long cable lengths and few topology limitations makes it a clear choice for many purposes. Plus, it is free :-)
That would open up the possibility of a paradoxical situation where both moves are legal at the start but neither is legal at the end.
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I have a similar desire but across all search results, so my default search engine is a custom one: Google (Within Last Year). This has the same effect as when you click 'Tools' and select a date restriction, but automatically applies it to default searches.

You can add this to Chrome by going to Settings -> Manage search engines -> Add. Name it 'Google (Within Last Year)' and make the Query URL 'http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbs=qdr:y&tbo=1'. Then set it as the default.

This filters out of date and usually irrelevant search results across the web. You can override it manually from the 'Past year' dropdown if the results are not extensive enough, which I do maybe 5% of the time.
Swiss salaries on the German-speaking side for senior engineers are in the 120k-160k bracket (Zürich area, depending on skills and domain). Speaking German natively will also score you above a lot of the local developers (expats from many non-German speaking countries).
Taxes are much lower and quality of life is great, but also more expensive.
PM me if interested and I can hook you up with local recruiters. Remote work might be possible.
Apple has never been a majority shareholder of ARM? I think the most they had was 20%, and that is many many years ago.
> From there, it is a hop, skip, and a jump to Biden proposing Iraq be divided into three separate zones among the Kurds, the Shia, and the Sunnis ... completely neglecting the actual ethnic, religious, and power dynamics on the ground.

I don't think that suggestion was made ignoring those dynamics but taking them into account fairly deeply. It may have been problematic, but it's not like there was no non-problematic answer to the problems at the time.

That position became unpopular after the short-term success of the following troop surge in Iraq (and the continuation of the de facto but less complete 2-way partition into a Kurdish entity and the rest of Iraq) resolved the immediate issues it was proposed in response to, but given the subsequent internal instability with regional involvement (the 2014-2017 civil war and the current internal instability and Iran-US proxy war in the country) driven largely by the internal conflict between Shia and Sunni groups outside of the Kurdish region and external intervention in that conflict, I don't think the short-term success of the surge really vindicated it and the situation is sought to make concrete as the correct way forward.
First read the article, giving a good overview of JR.

It's the only work without author. Only the characters are speaking, no influence and manipulation at all by the author. Dialog only, similar to a script for the screen, but without any script hints.

Everything happens in your head, you need to be in a flow to catch on. You cannot just put the book away for a while and continue then.

And the content is also revolutionary. The kid who exploits wall street and tricks the shenanigans of the business world, is lot of fun. Much more fun than his first, which is more Pynchon alike, very boring.
It's not worth that to me no, but saying that Waze/Google are better than a human is a different thing and I doubt that's the case. I think like many problems, doing this well generalises to Artificial General Intelligence.
> Every single hacker news thread about the Cyberpunk fiasco has had a ton of top comments about they haven’t had any issues with the game.

It's really hard to reconcile with the sheer number of video clips I've seen of bugs that are totally unacceptable in even alpha level software. I have to wonder whether those who are claiming they don't have that many bugs have simply grown up in the current era of buggy games on first release, or if they're just being dishonest because reasons.

Just watch The Act Man's compilation of Cyberpunk bugs and tell me that game is worth full price.
Is this part of PPPoE, or can you put the router in bridge mode and then connect your own hardware?
Going freelance is likely the right answer in Europe. Many companies are happy to pay 400+ EUR daily for a qualified developer, on longer term engagements.

The last pure engineering gig I did (specialised mobile work while trying to figure out what to do next) a few years ago was for a german multinational company and paid around 700/day. Remote work from home (Belgium, low CoL). That was a long running engagement for about a year.

They were happy to extend pretty much indefinitely but I ultimately started a new entrepreneurial project. At ~220 billable days that amounted to ~155k/year gross.
Yes, pretty much.
Personally, I would love this conversation to move more toward an issue with capitalism in and of itself, which is a much more worthy debate than talking about if the facilitation of sex work is morally justifiable.

If anyone actually has problems with "People exploiting their bodies to functionally exist in society", then please, let me introduce you to this guy called Karl Marx.
It is weird, right? Same time zone as the US, so you can't use the argument "Europe has easier access to eastern European / Indian developers in the proper time zone"...

I don't think this happens across all trades either. Last I looked, a mechanic would make similar money in either country.
Today rox is a good replacement.
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SV and NYC is more like $200k+, I make over $120k at a random tech company in Maryland as a mid level developer
Chinese parts, hidden ownership, growing scrutiny: U.S. voting machines (2019)
As a european in the same salary bracket this is just depressing. Europe is a dead end for highly motivated ambitious individuals.

You are not getting anywhere close to the upper middle class life...
The argument holds no water and it is pretty disgusting of this uber-for-porn pimp to pretend he is doing good.
Porn is like weed. If you want to consume it ethically you need to verify your sources. These cam sites have their own serious exploitation issues that are completely being ignored.

If you go on reddit you can find many threads discussing cam girls who are suspected to either be underage or be literal sex slaves.

There are actual ethical porn producers of various flavours (also featured on HN quite a few times). Onlyfans is not one of them.
What would be the job description/daily tasks of an individual contributor with such compensation?
Any discussion of middle class should start by defining middle class. Otherwise, it always seems pointless since no one is talking about the same thing.
Not to nitpick but even taking that democracy index at face value, the US is .05 from the same category as all those countries you mention. It's not nearly as stark a comparison as you seem to be implying.
None of those are useful to you when you are young and driven by ambitions.

These perks are nice when you are old or have a family.
HN is addictive for me, similar to Instagram and TikTok for others.

business only policy, during 9-5. no news/socialmedia, cannot discuss irrelevant issues with my cofounder. Otherwise, I can go into rabbit holes for hours to research certain topic if my brain thinks that it is interesting.
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A super brief summary of the streaming protocol is that you encode short (3-10 second) clips that are available on a URL, and then clients play these clips in order. For storage of these clips you could use an external storage or CDN - see the docs at https://owncast.online/docs/s3/ for more :)

Edit:
Of course this means that this

> Do you need enough upstream bandwidth to support (Stream bitrate * # of clients)?

is indeed the case, but you can offload that to the external storage.
This is an interesting hypothesis, even though on first blush it seems obviously wrong. I'm glad the article was more nuanced than the headline.

This reminded me of an interesting tidbit from Graham Robb's book 'The Discovery of France'. He mentions the pre-industrial peasantry (in some extremely rural areas) living in a similar manner. During the winter when there were stretches of time where it was too harsh to do any productive work, the peasants just stayed inside. Food/calories were scarce enough even in the best of times so activity was limited to wake up, eat a bit, sleep, repeat.
Trying to not have a thought is one of, in not the biggest misconceptions about meditation. You can’t turn your brain off. It’s going to think. That’s what it does. The point is to notice those thoughts in a nonjudgmental way. See them for what they are: ephemeral and passing. Practicing that has a great many benefits, not least of which is an increased sense of well-being.
Looking back at the moments when I thought there were no bugs on my linux desktop supports his theory. It wasn't a lack of bugs, it was a lack of my ability to spot them.
Yep, the internet is an improvement and it changed the world. We are all better off for it.

I suppose the article brought me back to a different time. That original all text green-on-black, terminal-like, view really took me back to the BBS (Bulletin Board System) days. You might not remember but modems were a thing before the internet, I can remember my Dad tying up the house phone for hours while dialed into the mainframe at the office.

And the early days of the internet probably looked like a service like Prodigy for a lot of people. Prodigy was a fancy BBS. And everything had to work at dial-up speed. Even Berners-Lee's original pages would have been data-conserving and fast.

Its interesting that the user experience in those times felt, and probably was, faster. Our fancy modern graphics take a lot of resources in comparison. While its easy to point to numerous benefits to the modern internet, we've slipped in terms of time to display info on the screen. Modern web apps treat bandwidth and storage as infinite and free resources, its really the opposite of what we used to do and maybe not for the better.

I suppose that the key difference is that Berners-Lee's WWW used the benefit of an always-connected network. Where the BBS days were all about temporary network connections. While we use WWW and Internet almost interchangeably, its the always-connected network - the concept of packet switching over circuit switching - that brought the benefit of the WWW. I'm sure in 30 more years we'll have things I can't imagine today, its the power of the network.
> High taxes

This can't be the answer since we're talking about pre-tax salaries. On the other hand, higher taxes just mean that the difference in post-tax salaries between Europe and the US is even bigger than it seems initially.
Yes, because the FCC is a US entity and HN is likely majority US-based.
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"Supply and demand mostly. The EU means companies have access to vast pools of talent across the whole bloc and beyond."

I don't think that's it.

I was looking for work in Europe 20 years ago, and they had very few tech people there back then compared to the US, and were desperate to import talent from other countries. However, their salaries were still very low compared to the US.
> I have a bias against bad products like the 2016-2019 era macbooks which were dreadful.

Your biased opinion. My biased opinion? I can’t stand the pre-2016 MBPs anymore, and the keyboard is a major reason. Yes, I love the 2016 and later keyboards (newest ones being the best, but I never had issues with the 2016-2018 ones that others reported).

> Do I have to believe Apple has made the best laptops from a hardware perspective every single year to not be bias against them with no regard to what their competition is doing?

Nobody has said or implied that but you, so?

> There is not a single product in their lineup I do not consider arguably the best on the market these days

Really? Who makes a better ARM based laptop?
Omg yes. Horizon Zero Dawn is still so amazing to replay. Amazing story, tight mechanics, and beautiful open world.
Anyone saying that this isn't possible in Berlin is stuck in 2010. Today there are most certainly well funded startups paying 100k for top senior engineers and/or managers, but that is in the top 10% of salaries in this field.

Beyond startups, there are 1. some smaller, but crazy profitable software companies (think dozens of M in annual revenue with less than 50 staff and a handful of owners) that will also pay this type of salary and 2. some larger companies (think Zalando).

Compared to US and esp Bay Area salaries (which ofc can be multiples of that) one needs to bear in mind massively cheaper costs of living (while often providing higher standards) - day care for kids for example is 100% free (as in tax funded) in Berlin.

That being said, the pandemic is certainly taking its toll as many companies have gone into a hiring freeze.

At the same time, the decline of SF and the remote work trend will likely mean an increase in intl salaries (due to Big Tech hiring remotely) and a decrease in SF salaries.
This might end up being a big boost for cross platform development.
Yes. Nobody in Europe can even believe that things like ambulance rides could be anything but free. Those stories sound like depressing dystopia from a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
I'm around NYC, was in the city, and haven't seen anything even remotely severe in the summer. Hence Cuomo acting like he conquered it with masks.

Cases in my city were in the single digits, and then like clockwork started a steady rise in the fall to where they are now.
>Ever since Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson first published his “Long Tail” theory in 2004, the idea has been endlessly reinforced, contradicted, and debated. He argued that the internet’s removal of physical limitations (local audiences, scarce shelf space) would empower niche products and creators to flourish.

I'm not sure that's what Anderson argued (though I would have to go back and read his original piece). Collectively, the long tail is large even while a power law distribution means that a relatively small amount of content captures an outsized amount of attention. But that doesn't mean individual content creators in the long tail capture much attention (and compensation).

Otherwise, I guess the author is arguing that platforms should adopt strategies to create a gentler power law distribution so that more creators are in the knee of the curve because that would create a healthier environment for more people. I guess I don't really disagree with that although I'll note that most creators will still be in the long tail.

[ADDED: And ultimately it's really the users that determine the distribution even if the platform can influence it.]
The screens are nicer, too.

Honestly that's the only improvement I've really noticed and appreciated. They keyboard is noticeably far less usable (for me), I don't use Touch ID, and I would much prefer MagSafe, usb-a, and hdmi ports over usb-c. At least until I can throw out all these dongles and use usb-c directly with my iPhone.
> But it's mostly highly meritocratic at least, each hiring mechanism is in isolation.

Why view it in isolation? To me, the interesting question is how the hiring manager got into their position.

Referring to the sports analogy of the previous comment: how do you become a sports team owner? Not by being great at sports, but simply by having a ton of spare money. And some pro sports team owners are really bad at running a sports team.

Most of us in the system are more or less fighting over table scraps. You can't really measure a so-called meritocracy without looking carefully at those in positions of power. We seem to only focus on the lower levels of non-manager worker drone hiring.
The article fails to account an important fundamental fact: attention is rivalrous and time is scarce. We don't want to settle for mediocre content or muddle through mediocre search results. If searching fails us, we will use side channels like sharing, and the accrual of readership may self-sort into the same aggregation patterns anyway. Or, move to a new platform.
Big surprise to see wholesale theft of intellectual property committed by a Chinese actor.
This reaction somewhat supports my original comment. People have fundamentally different frameworks to view these things and the debates are therefore way deeper than just about porn and sex, and are rather about metaphysical value systems and the fundamental ideologies through which to interpret human life.
Definitely get Horizon Zero Dawn if you are on PlayStation. It is what I still consider one of the best games of the last decade.