skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's about language, then why isn't London a huge tech hub (order of magnitude bigger)? They can sell to the US the same way SV exports back to the rest of the world, no?
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Warning shots, single shots to the leg, and all less lethal short of 40mm grenade to the head/neck has proven wildly inconsistent at stopping an attacker. Remember the Tueller drill, there is no time for reaction, only action - that means to shoot until the aggressor is incapacitated. This is the time proven way of preventing dead or injured police officers (and civilians!).

It's just that police in Europe and Asia don't really face dangerous and determined criminals.
240k in the whole US? I thought those were salaries of high col areas (new york, sv, etc)
45k eur? Senior software engineers in Germany make about twice that.

It's still a big difference to US salaries but let's not get carried away here with lowballing the EU salaries.
Hey, "But only in public!" Are you really defending imprisoning Woman to their homes by maybe robbing them of their few privileges? I am utterly disgusted how they frame this bs.
The first paragraphs contain the most concise explanation of the differences between rasterization and ray tracing I ever encountered!
Is that US number the US average or specific to FAANG in California?

Update: this post [0] mentions $110K for the US average, $60K for Germany (and $95K for Switzerland, $72K for Denmark).

[0] https://www.daxx.com/blog/development-trends/it-salaries-sof...
Can it also be that the time of Europe exploiting the rest of the world is over, the last 50 years is US exploiting the world (like forcing it to obey they rules, FAANG de facto monopolies), and the next 50 years will be the china doing exactly the same as old powers but in a Chinese way? :)

Historically, the empires exploited other countries, it used to be very brutal, now it's just who works for whom, who is the product, who control the money and information flow.
Software engineers are well paid in the EU, just not overpaid. If you compare even a Danish salary with what you could be paid in Silicon Valley, sure, you're pay less well, that doesn't make the EU salary bad.

If you read the complaints from software engineers living in the Bay area, they will tell you that housing isn't affordable. You have well paid people with roommates. The affordable housing isn't in the same areas as the jobs (for the most parts).

Honestly the startups could move much of their development to eastern Europe and pay half the salary, while still getting some of the best developers in the world.
Well, as an example, hermaphrodites.
Given that you don't know how the future will be, instead of doubling all your reserves right away, which definitely sound like panic buying, you may consider a less aggressive approach. Don't just buy everything right away, instead focus only on the most important type of food you need and slowly increase your reserve by buying a bit more when you do your groceries (you buy rice once every 2 weeks? Consider buying a few more kg each time and add to your reserve). And once you're good with rice/noodles/cereals you can do the same for other stuff.

I call this FCA, aka "Food Cost Averaging".
Pure speculation: Texas. (also central US crops? but it's probably too early for that)

I wonder how many warehoused things that require power and integrity got damaged.
> The Republic of Ireland also beats the US. Explain that.

This is driven by multinational profit shifting, and is in no way reflective of the actual Irish economy.
And they get into a LOT of preventable accidents, without anybody seeming to care very much.
I generally agree with you, nonetheless someone just released this:

https://github.com/A2L5E0X1/debloat-adb

Sometimes the scripts on xda-developers come bundled with an older adb version specifically because they don't expect people to know how to install it themselves.

Although, on a second thought if a user then decides to run the `debloat-google.sh` without knowing what he does the user might end up quite frustrated as a result. So I guess you're right.

I think google has been gradually restricting what adb is able to do.
I only count 6 Rs, has one been missed out?
So you'd wank a stranger off as soon as carry their bag?
I thought about that ...

And then got derailed by -realizing- there -is- such a thing as a "cat cafe" (!) ...
Your numbers are way off.

A US senior software engineer making that much would live in a major tech center and would probably work for a very good company, so a lot of people are excluded because of location and others just because of selection. It's hard to say, but I can't imagine more than 30-50% of US senior software engineer making that much.

And for Germany, the salary for a senior software engineer is not that low :-)) A senior software engineer in Romania or Ukraine would be making that much (while living in less developed countries with much lower cost of living). The only way their salary would be so low in Germany would be if they would be working for a crap company in a small city.

So you're not comparing apples to apples.

However the general point can be right as I'd say that the correct number for the us would be more around $150k and the correct number for Germany would be around $90k. So you'd still have a $60k gap.
Indeed, in fact if that steam explosion had happened it would have likely reduced the chance of the core going critical rather than increased it. It still would have been pretty bad though, especially given that they didn't really have a good way of cleaning up the highly radioactive graphite other than to have guys pick it up by hand...
It's never bad to have a little extra if you have the storage space and rotate through it. If that unlikely hurricane comes, or whatever your area might suffer, you don't have to be a pepper to be a normal level of prepared.

But don't panic buy. Don't now go to the store and stock up massively. Put in an extra shelf-stable item, and next time you go shopping do it again, but don't panic now. That's how you create a food shortage.

Even if you add "only" 10% extra to your purchase, I think that's what happened with toilet paper. I purposefully didn't buy any, figuring the crazies would get their fill soon enough, but a month later it was still going and we were trying not to be in the store more than once a week to prevent that being a spreading place but could now only buy 2 rolls at a time per family and many stores were completely out. Of course, we didn't even have to ask neighbours yet (some neighbors will have had to spare, not as if the rolls all disappeared into thin air) so it wasn't bad in any way in the end, but this panic behaviour is unnecessary and very quickly detrimental, even when a majority of people understand it's unwarranted.
How on earth can an article about GDP in the Euro area not include a line for Germany?
> Germany - senior software engineer - 45k eur.

You mean, in a rural town of the former DDR right?
Their value is higher than the combined GDP of Germany and Italy.

FAANG market cap: US$7T

USA GDP: US$20T
To be fair, if we’re talking about wealth distribution (as opposed to income distribution) many European countries have similar inequality to the US. Some, like Sweden for instance, are even worse than the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...
Europeans are old. This is often forgotten. Old people are slow to adapt. So Europe is old and old-fashioned. This is not great for prosperity. Same with Japan.
Actual title:

The puzzle of Europe
> No european politican in power is that altruistic. Ours are in no way less crazy or corrupt than the US ones.

I very much believe that Dutch politicians are less corrupt than U.S.A. politicians, in no small part due to the fundamental operations of the electoral system.

Donald Trump refused to yield power and flirted with a coup d'état after losing the election; around that time, the Dutch cabinet offered it's resignation peacefully to atone for a scandal it wasn't even directly responsible for, but took responsibility for as the ultimate executive. — it's quite a difference.

I find Dutch politicians very much far less self-absorbed and egocentric, and I believe this is due to the U.S.A. system being a winner-takes-all system that thereby selects upon narcissistic risk takers, for to obtain any public office in the U.S.A., one must have taken a risk where one stands to leave with nothing after considerable investment, — such is not the Dutch system, which is not a winner-takes-all system but one where victory is a matter of degrees.

Dutch politicians are generally quite down to earth rather than surrounded by pomp and grandeur. The prime minister goes to work by bike and has a part time job as a primary school teacher and lives in a normal apartment rather than a posh official residence, and this is because the system selects upon men who have power trusted upon them, not upon those who seek power.

> Political systems are always eventually captured by the powerful and they prevent any real change because they benefit from the status quo. Europe has old corporations and the system is built to benefit them.

In 1916, the Netherlands switched from a district-based system to a simple, proportional system. This change surely did not benefit the parties in power, but they did so anyway for the purpose of democracy, and probably because the voters wanted it.
Could I inquire as to the name?

Excuse if 'haps a bit too PII :)
Anecdotal: London's GDP was considered super high and growing. Why did citizens not experience any increases in happiness and well being? Because policy focussed on attracting super rich people, and a couple of them raised the GDP significantly. GDP is not a good measure of estimating the pleasure/happiness derived from of living in a country.
Well, GDP is at least a good metric to estimate the capacity of a country to finance good public healthcare, transport, education, etc. If GDP does not grow, with time it will be more and more difficult to finance all of these services because of inflation, etc.

GDP is a measure of production and thus an indication of spending power (you need to earn before you can spend).

Whether a country chooses to use its economic output to finance these services is another question.
It's no the US average.

> The average salary for a Software Engineer is $110125 per year in United States

https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries
He's taken a low-end salary but take 80k euros or even 90k and his argument still applies.
GDP is not computed from anything that's split on individuals, GDP median over people does unfortunately not make sense. (Not in the way that median disposable income would, for example).
I don't think the differece lies in healthcare costs, but this exmple is silly, and average SSE in the US does not earn 240k USD. Silicon Valley is an outlier even in the US.
> every inhabitant of a country is entitled to that excellent healthcare

This isn't always true..

In some of these free healthcare countries you can be SOL if you get cancer or a rare condition and don't have money for the latest treatments. Here in New Zealand the wait times are so long that a lot of people just pay for private surgery/screening. My father for example was out of work for almost a year waiting for a hip operation, he irrationally thought he was getting a good deal having it publicly funded.
This kind of thing is one of the reasons I'm really interested in languages that support multi-stage programming. I've played around with Terra and lately I've read many good things about Zig, because they both let you run code at compile-time. Things like dependency-injection could be zero-cost if done at an early compilation stage, so the compiler has a chance to optimise the code with the correct dependency already in place.
> This free-for-all free love ethic that you celebrate,

Who said that? Why - no one!

> every single human society has seen it fit to strictly control sex.

A link would be very helpful in proving your dramatic and dubious claim...
45k? Maybe in a rural area but in Berlin it's 3-4x as much
Not to forget availability of labour. Which travel restrictions affect. Also processing has challenges. When your line worker might be out of service for week or two it can affect output, same goes for increasing the hygiene standards. And those also involve costs which will be moved to consumers.
After just finishing reading Griftopia; I would not be surprised if Goldman Sachs had something to do with this or at least speculation of perishable commodities.
"argue in good faith"?
"willing to yield to reason"?

Please.
> Lions on the other hand, the "pride" appears to be a social construct.

I've always wondered - in my observation of cats - whether they would show some behavior similar to larger felines ...

I am leaning towards thinking that they (sometimes) interpret us as part of their pride ...
45k is what you can expect to make as a senior software engineer in countries like Italy, Spain, etc. This a pretty good salary in southern Europe but it's way below the average of countries like France and Germany.
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Sweden is doing pretty well too. No oil there.
I live next door in the Czech Republic where the salaries are generally quite a bit lower than in Germany and I'm wondering whether the 45k EUR number is accurate. Is it after taxes or before?

Because I'd say that 3750 EUR per month gross is way too low for a Czech senior dev, and 3750 EUR net would be an okay-ish compensation for an experienced developer in Prague or Brno.
London is a huge tech hub :-)

And it's not bigger because there are trade barriers between countries, for services. It's far from trivial for a UK company to sell stuff in the US.

I imagine the timezone difference also doesn't help.
> Studios need to reach the widest audience possible to make the most money, so it's a safer bet.

As opposed to... what time in the past where this was not true?
> It's that you have a tiny scope of what you consider to be the world.

No, that’s something you put into my mouth.

This is why I was asking. Unlike others, I explained which language works great. "Doesn’t work" is useless without saying what it doesn’t work for. "Does/Doesn’t work for language X" is actually relevant information.
Good question.

Private-debt-to-GDP ratio:

- Germany (154)

- Scandinavia (269-280)

- Western Europe (224-266)

- US (220)

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/private-debt-to-gd...

Gov-debt-to-GDP ratio:

- Germany (58)

- Scandinavia (~40)

- Western Europe (~100)

- US (108)

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/government-debt-to...
Every inhabitant is entitled to excellent healthcare doesn't always mean they also get it.

I lived in 2 European countries with amazing healthcare systems available for free or almost free but had either: amazingly long waiting times (measured in years) for anything but the most basic interventions OR an amazingly difficult process to get referred by your GP into any specialist care (GP generally recommends paracetamol and rest for everything).

So while the US has an overall broken system, as a highly-paid engineer with private employer-sponsored health insurance in the US you might be more likely to access the high quality healthcare you need.
Yeah you are correct and as usual on HN when it comes to these things, you got downvoted. These kinda coercions by people in power are rampant. Just as an example, here is something from Silicon Valley's crown jewel Google.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

https://qz.com/work/1326942/sergey-brin-started-google-with-...

It's the victims that suffer because they report.
It's more than language. Regulations are more important. Also sales networks, word of mouth, network effects..
You also need to account for student debt. In most EU countries, students do not need to go in debt to pay for university. So in the US, how much of those first salaries goes to paying back that debt? (It won't account for the complete difference obviously.) And maybe retirement savings is another thing to add.
> It's obviously fine for those who have it or can afford it. The argument is not about whether or not Silicon Valley software engineers can live with private healthcare. The argument that we here in Europe tend to make is that every inhabitant of a country is entitled to that excellent healthcare, nomatter who they are.

I think I should point out that it seems like very few can afford it. This just what I seen from tv show story lines which are designed to reflect what people experience, stories on reddit/twitter, and the fact gofundme is such a large thing. Even if people have health insurance of some kind they often have deductiables that means they still need to pay for any treatment they have even if it's only a percentage, treatments can only be approved by the insurer for certain things at certain times - a company decides and not the doctor, health insurance only covers for certain things, emergencies can ruin a family, medical bankruptancy is a thing, etc.

They literally created a tv show based on the idea that a teacher with cancer needed to start selling drugs to afford it.

I'm pretty sure those with health insurance in the US pay more for theirs than I do (I live in Germany and health insurance is a legal requirement and the amount they can charge is legally limited). Yet they get less than what I do. I can just turn up at hospital and not worry about how much it's going to cost. I don't even pay attention to how much I pay for insurance and neither does anyone else I know. We just consider it another tax.
Prior to the pandemic, I always advocated for a couple weeks worth of non-perishables to be at the ready. Storms can cause issues getting to stores (or shipments arriving), and illness can make it a pain to make a weekly run. Now my significant other is entirely on board.

When normal ingredients we used became unavailable, it caused us to continually try new things. I have to admit I was pretty surprised to see today's customers buy up the basic scratch ingredients like rabid consumers early in the pandemic. Flour, sugar, etc. were all a real pain to get a hold of.

I thought prices were increasing pretty steadily before the pandemic and now it's even worse. I can remember so many items being as cheap as 25 cents each during the 90s and into the 00s... now most of them at $1.50 each. Meanwhile, our state minimum wage has increased not nearly as much (but employers are having to offer closer and closer to double to rope in anyone).
Is -this-, finally, the killer app?

or, the way Skynet comes about?
Neither is wrong in the sense that it goes against any proven cosmic principle (depending on where you live it might go against national law, see below).

It's just that, as it was written above, the people who would be requested to do it "feel revulsion at the idea and none would support it". They'd coordinate against ones that tried to normalize such a policy.

Many programmers don't want to live in a world where they have to agree to serve coffee every morning if they want to make their living as programmers. And they have sufficient leverage to make sure that things won't turn out that way. Doesn't mean that they have anything against people who choose to make their living serving coffee. That's the whole point.

People have even stronger feelings about the importance of sexual service not being part of receptionist job descriptions. They felt so strongly about it that they outlawed the practice, and they make sure that it stays illegal even in countries where prostitution is otherwise allowed.
I exclusively pay with Gpay these days here in India.
His mistake was trusting HR to be on his side.
Fleabag was brilliant but the first season was a very difficult watch towards the end.

I would recommend it to anyone but don't think it's just a laugh.
I remember as a young expat engineer, I've worked for one large consulting job doing UK's NHS's NPfIT project in 2005. I've refused to signoff the architecture due to one of the providers not meeting requirements. One year later I've written a 6 point warning to the C-level of the company, that it's going to fail. Then quit the project and left. Years later, I read that the project was a failure for UK. I still keep my warning letter as a badge of honor, showing to my family and friends.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health that
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I've been involved in crypto since 2017, but it was always in a trading / business development role. I am also an experienced developer, and now I have a concept I'd like to bring to market that I've been working on for some time. My question is, where do I find solidity devs who are interested in working on new projects? Seems like 4chan's /biz/ may be one of the main places, but they're trading focused.. Ideas?
The title is (intentionally?) imprecise.

There are so many variables of value other than GDP. The US is #40 on the list of countries by citizen lifespan.

It's #15 on quality of life index (assuming you believe in the methodology of defining that index).

It's #45 when freedom of press is measured.

I would not be surprised if, after taking all the different indices into account, the US is not in the top 5 overall. GDP matters little if you don't have freedom, healthy long life, maternity leave (and other expensive but necessary quality of life benefits).

Also, reconsider GDP per capita relative to hours worked. The US is not the leader here. It's no surprise that if you work a lot more hours, you should have higher overall output (diminishing returns, but still obviously higher).
They show a switch for me even when I search in English.

With google, I sometimes wish I had an easy switch like that when the terms are also available in English as currently this makes their results useless.

!ddgde is indeed a bit long, but as most of my searches are not local, I can live with it ;)
Taken to its conclusion should this not include every living being? Why not children, or animals? Ageism and speciesism indeed.

My point is that while the majority of Swiss cantons decided to not have gender restrictions on voting, they allowed Apenzell to keep being the weird one, and in response the people of Apenzell don’t force their way onto others. If I don’t want my neighbour to tell me how to run my household, I must also not force them. Apenzell didn’t force their way into the Züricher.

Although in the end, the people of Apenzell were forced to change their way.
Because it is a complex cultural issue and banning it probably harms woman further from an already oppressed state. In some cases basically imprisoning them into their homes or forcing them to relocate. No one bothered asking those woman about their thoughts or circumstances.
France/Germany can still be said to be falling behind in this graph - but super interesting to see anyway.

I think part of the explanation is that the finance and high-tech sectors are way overvalued in money, and they shift the balance massively. This "inflates" the GDP in the U.S. This has basically been a conscious policy in the U.S. - "quantitative easing".
For anyone waiting for US to exercise justice on this matter, might want to read that article about Secretary Clinton considering selling Taiwan to China.
I’ve had friends move from working at FAANG in SV back to Poland, taking 60% salary paycut, citing better quality of life here - especially when children are involved.

If you have good public transportation (as in: you can get around faster in a bus than using Uber), good and cheap healthcare, and free public education, you just don’t need as much money to get a better lifestyle.

Also: “fine” is a good description of the US healthcare. I experienced both US and European healthcare systems and it’s amazing how much worse is one from another. Even if money is not much of an issue.