skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the fact that those two mutations pop up in Brazil, South Africa and now India a good thing?

That could mean it's likely the virus is running out of useful mutations?
Seems a bit of a straw man no? I don't see how the parent comment expressed having taken offense, nor particular insecurity, and surely not enough to infer their gender, or any such grounds for "motives".

The comment you are responding to also explicitly points out the basis being just the article in question, and being open to the possibility of a better argument posed in the book. So, I honestly do not see the issue here.

edit: As is evident from the response they got, the book seems to give better insights, which must be a win for everyone?
> What the average HN user and the average user want is worlds apart. The average person likes their emails to be nicely designed like a website with blocks of colour and the site logos.

Do they? Do they really like it? Did anyone actually asked? And no, A/B testing your design's capability to trick the user into paying you money isn't measuring whether they like it or not.

I have an alternative proposal: average user just accepts what they're given, because they have no other choice. Nobody listens to their opinion (again, tracking and telemetry is not the same as listening to people). Abusive designs and patterns are adopted industry-wide very quickly, so there's rarely an opportunity for the user to vote with their wallet - after all, they can't choose something that's not available in the first place. On top of that, the average user lacks the mental models and language to conceptualize what is wrong and how much better technology could be if it was slightly less abusive. All they can do is accept that computers are annoying, and casually complain about this to friends and family.
Corps I worked for usually seek to create some kind of contractual obligation between the authors and the company. Of course they pay to get the authors to accept the obligations.
Banks are what proof of stake looks like after a few hundred years.

Ultimately, proof of stake is a centralizing mechanism. It delegates authority to those with stake, which incentivizes acquiring greater and greater stakes. This will happen through takeovers/acquisitions and slowly, you'll have an oligopoly of centralized powers which control a large portion of the money supply. Sound familiar?
Companies make those sort of trade offs all the time, whether to buy or build. It doesn't take many to decide to buy to fund a small project like Babel. Not only that but you are likely to see competition driving the whole thing forward.
Babel is used by React, Typescript, Webpack, and other high-profile projects. Should we be worried and return to vanillajs?
you are already going fast what more you want from 2.7x speed
In the above mentioned scenario there is no need for backups as the database (or more precisely the schema) is recreated at each run.
I use markdown files with a couple of VSCode extensions for links mainly.
> tmcz26

> Brazil it looks like.

> Source: am brazilian, recognize the make, models and prices

Have you missed the number plates being clearly from Portugal?!
"Imagine that you’ve got a million people farming in Antarctica. They’re eking out this bare subsistence in agriculture in the snow,"

"Obviously, if you let those farmers leave Antarctica and go someplace else to farm, the farmers are better off. But isn’t it also better for the world if you let people stop eking out this existence, contributing nothing to the world, and go someplace where they could actually use their skills and not just feed themselves, but produce something for the world economy?"

The failure of the developed world to enable all of humanity to realize their potential is a huge, huge problem for everyone.

Imagine you had been transplanted to Haiti or Equatorial Guinea at basically any point in your life, and you weren't given an education, you weren't allowed or able to move to anywhere else etc etc. It would be a huge loss not just to you but to everyone else that your potential went unrealized.
For anyone that isn’t aware: https://www.genscript.com/crispr-services.html

Gene-mods-R-Us! lol

Especially now that we can actually image individual proteins to help discover their structure: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/7/1474

I’m sure there are complications that make this much more difficult than it seems on the surface, but we should probably get that Mars thing going just in case haha.
If you have a problem paying a high salary then don't base the company in a high salary area. Any other place would be just as good and way cheaper. Also the origial author says someone is misappropriating money[1] on top of this! They definitely don't deserve more funding before they fix those two problems.

1: https://mobile.twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392019586833387522
As an effective shortcut but it's still the wrong thing, ultimately, to trust.
I would love someone to explain the downvotes here, thanks.
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If you run a company with a monthly labour costs of $100k, and Babel increases efficiency by just 0.1%, then you get $1k of value from Babel every month.

I'm no really involved in JS, but many people talk very highly of Babel, and I'm going to guess the actual efficiency increase is more than 0.1% for a lot of companies.

$100k/monthly is perhaps 10-25 devs (depending on where it's located).

So just $5/month sounds like a spectacular ROI to me; and 5,000 companies doing this already adds up to $50k/month.

And that's just Babel, not talking about all the other tools and libraries people use for free; people build literally their entire businesses on stuff like Python. Surely Python provides value, no? Yet how much money flows back to Python from the average business?
>although consumption is much higher there is still such a need for continued population growth in western nations that immigration is used to ensure there are enough younger workers to support the wealthier aging populations

It's because social-security/pension systems are a pyramid schemes that can't sustain themselves without ever growing population. I consider many Western EU countries overpopulated (UK, Italy, etc), Google Maps satellite images also do a pretty good job at portraying at just how overpopulated the earth is. Pop growth every decade is still insane.
> one could argue banks are worse.

How, exactly, would one argue that?

> Decentralized currencies do away with reckless money printing and other evils, and for that reason they are the future.

We're already doing that. When was the last time you used cash? It's called plastic.
> I've turned off all of the numbers with Calm Twitter by Yusuke Saitoh. I could not give a rat's ass how many likes I get. It's amazing.

I am curious to see if he is able to handle being on the front page of HN, with potentially record amounts of traffic being sent to his blog, without getting hooked again.

If it was me I would probably be up late at night refreshing my analytics page instead of sleeping. And then wake up the next morning with a strong sense of self-loathing knowing that the day was going to be an unproductive one due to lack of sleep.
ah good to know! I found "Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.", I wonder if it's related, or if physical goods were already considered resaleable anyway

One side question: how do you manage the warranty? Presumably as the reseller you will need to handle the legal minimum warranty (how long is that in the US?) by shipping the article yourself back to the UK?
a joke : I take the pile of resumes, cut in two and throw one of the halves into the bin. I don't work with people who are not lucky.
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Yeah, that jump from $20/month to $500/month is too big. JetBrains asks for $500 per year--that's probably right about the discretionary spend of a decent engineer.

$500/month means you're going to have to generate me an invoice and that invokes a whole bunch of corporate machinery that you don't want activated if you want a donation.
Er, isn't OP's whole point that these numbers and statistics should be politically invariant?

We don't have liberal integrals or conservative arctangents.
Babel funds were misallocated for years
Yes, indeed: It highlights that it's a "role" that pretty much anyone could have filled if it hadn't happened to be Bezos that did.

And since discussion about compensation on this site usually centers around the ubiquity of potential fillers of roles -- "Amazon warehouse workers are paid shit because anyone can be an Amazon warehouse worker!" -- it also shows that Bezos' humongous windfall for more or less at random fulfilling this not so much more unique role is monumentally inequitable.

Hopefully that was what you set out to highlight?
>I don't think a paid version of babel would be viable.

It would if there were no open source alternatives. Bear in mind that most of the users are commercial organisations deriving value from it. They need something like it to solve their problems and if it isn't available for free then they will pay.
Seems easy enough as a contractor
It's wild. I moved from Belgium (generic company) to Dublin (Facebook, 2018) to Seattle (still Facebook, 2020) and my net income more than doubled with every move. And that's as a software engineer without a degree (dropped out of college).
11k usd to GBP is £7791~ - that's £93.5k / year roughly. Most senior devs should make more than this in London; though this is pre-tax.
I don't even get how his salary is an argument here, when babel is one of most critical parts in almost all web applications. His knowledge and skillset is way above any average "lead dev" and he's still doing "grunt" work. Sorry, but this is a very reasonable salary.
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The median salary for a senior software engineer in the US is $133k.

And that'll be heavily skewed upwards by SV, so yes, it is actually quite a big figure, given that it's a charity-type job which generally pay less.
I have things to say on (French) AXA. Worst insurer I ever had the displeasure to deal with. I will spare you the multi-year history, but if you're an expat: AXA will pretend that once you move out, suddenly all 'modern' financial infrastructure has evaporated and only French cheques exist (not cache-able anywhere in my next country, Netherlands) when refunding the fines and erroneously incurred 'costs'.

They'll will string you along for _years_ correcting their own mistakes and then you're stuck with a bunch of useless cheques. I think half a dozen former colleagues and friends tried to help me out too, including someones grandma, to no avail whatsoever.

Really, the worst.
Here in the UK, ETI Ltd (the manufacturer of Thermapens) often sells refurbished units cheaply through eBay. I’ve bought several this way and they are fantastic!
That's how much is needed to be paid for getting people to do unethical work. It is not directly comparable to working on a compiler used by many people.
This sounds terribly inefficient. Why include the tiles as part of the design? Why not instead have a specification about what kinds of tiles are supported and how they should be laid out instead (just an interface)? Then other projects could take care of providing designs for tiles... Tile providers will need to change to adapt any changes to the core layout, but the core layout doesn't need to change often since the fickle parts are not part of it.
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I am looking for junior and senior engineers to join my platform team. This is a unique opportunity to work in a highly technical team and solving some of the most challenging backend problems we have.

Our stack is mainly TypeScript, Node.js, React, Docker, MySQL, Elastic, ... We expect some experience with that but the main thing is the cultural fit. We are looking for team players.

Please ping me an email at jakub.kadlubiec@pipedrive.com if you want me to refer you or if you want to learn more about the company. Please include the location where you'd like to work from (no remote). I am an engineering manager not a recruiter.
Can someone explain to me what I'm missing with regards to how much they're currently earning? Looking at their base support sponsors (of which there are 4), they are each paying a minimum of $24,000 each ($96,000/year). There are 5 gold sponsors of at least $1000/month ($60,000/year) and 24 silver sponsors of at least $500/month ($120,000/year). That's already $276K without including the bronze/backer tiers.
I would say companies with a revenue above a certain number should be compelled to pay an annual subscription for any and all Open source projects they use. Even if it means projects have to include that in their licenses.
I think you are right with the analysis and prediction but wrong with the conclusion.

What will happen when anyone can make a movie on their home computer that looks just as good as a Hollywood production is not that current book writers will make them. It is that the market will be flooded by visually fine, but structurally inept movies that no one will want to watch.
At 20k USD / month, you are either incredibly good and/or lucky or you are not saying that you are working in Switzerland, in which case you forgot to say that your cost of living is higher than SV and you have no public health insurance. (but 20k/month is comfortable anyway, even in Switzerland)
That project hasn't seen any updates in almost five years.

I'm not a JS guy and familiar with Babel, but I find it hard to believe that the amount of investment required to replace Babel is less than $10/month? You can fund Babel for ~40 years for the same costs as one month of developer time.
Yeah I see dozens on the Braintrust platform literally daily. Some remote roles have gone up to $240ph which would be absolutely insane in Europe (or most of the US).
Yeah, $11k is a very high salary in Sweden. Almost the only way to make that as a developer is to be an independent contractor.
Yes, the title is sensationalist... BTW: Tigers are big enough to sometimes hunt elephants (the smaller, asian kind), so hunting rhinos doesn't seem impossible.
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What entry level SV dev makes 11,000 x 12 = 132,000 x 1.25 (tax) = $165k/year pre-tax? I know the salaries here are high but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If they are that high for entry level then I’m being seriously underpaid :/
I'd wrap the ul with a div with display: inline-flex and set text-align: left.
True, and in many (oldschool) companies, it is easier to book a workshop for $10k than give a donation of $5k.

Of course, the drawback is that the project would need even more devs to compensate for the time giving workshops, so IDK whether it would work out in the end.

The salary is high for Europe, but not outlandish. I come within 15% working in IT in old industry but without leading a huge project and managing people, cooperation and giving talks. So, no, they should not pay much less even if the contributors probably have their dream job in contrast to me.
Of course none of the solutions involve you. You just want the product for little to no cost. A product that increases your productivity and helps you earn more. Pay for it? Phshhh... let someone else step in and work for less. I'd rather sit here and ensure that the developers of an extremely popular tool earn less than a great engineering salary. They should work hard because they are passionate. It should not be rewarded monetarily. Seriously....
Actually, the average salary for people with computer science degree and 5+ years experience is 9-12k USD according to IDA (Engineering union in Denmark).

That's just the average!
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

You don’t need one huge plant to manage the baseload when we’re talking about renewables.

You can just as well have the same wattage distributed across multiple places in the country, removing a single point of failure and lowering transmission costs (although requiring a redesign of the energy grid).
> The consequence needs to be liability and the penalty insurance coverage.

No, because bankruptcy discharges the liability. And that's exactly what's happening in Texas right now is a bunch of companies are going bankrupt after having skimmed off the top.

If it's fundamental infrastructure, there should be minimum rules and if you fail those rules you go to jail. People died because a bunch of executives decided that it was too expensive to winterize properly.
I was just thinking how messed up it is that basically companies can take those expenses off their taxes and they still don't contribute, but then I was thinking - do they think that if there was a healthy ecosystem then they would create problems to employ people because the healthy open source community is then another competitor for top quality talent.
Really don't understand this logic. .. Very few engineers make 9k in Germany, simple. Why compare net wages to gross wages?
"Gets you hired" would be far less cognitive load than "convert" to me. Maybe its just me, but I haven't seen it used like that previously, I've seen it mostly with ad clicks converting to them signing up or buying something (which is only slightly less grating, but I can understand the need for a shorter expression when it is industry jargon)
Isn't it an obvious problem that lots of OSS people have? If your project is non-trivial and effective, millions of people want to use it but it takes a lot to maintain it. In most cases, without vetting, it is hard to accept PRs from random people because you pretty much have to review the entire code and in most cases, it would probably take ages to understand enough about something like Babel to be a useful contributor.

The obvious solution is to charge a small amount ($10?) for a licence to use on a single site/application. You can't entirely enforce it but with some basic registration process, you could tie a licence to the code so that an internet scanner could potentially find people violating the rules. Minor updates included, major updates cost another $10. If only 500K projects are using it, that is still $5M, which would go some way to helping.

I understand that licences can be a problem if the code is/was open source since people might just fork it and use their own version but that is not a 100% easy workaround and requires time and maintenance to keep it up to date.
A legitimate concern? Is not knowing or not understanding NOT a legitimate reason for concern? Would blind trust be better? I started my comments on this thread because I found much of the information I have been seeking is a direct result of an almost dogma being thrust upon society on what is OK to say and what is not regarding Vaccines, and when someone does say something wrong they are silenced by bans or deleted/moderated posts.

Cutting out a persons tongue doesn't make them wrong or prove You right, unless the argument is over who has a longer tongue.
x86-64 isn't going anywhere. Not in the next decade or two anyway.
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If Microsoft could just bundle their Edge/Chromium renderer instead of their ancient WordHTML engine, or even the EdgeHTML engine of the previous Edge, they'd do the whole industry a huge favor. It's so frustrating their holding us back. Instead, they allow Google to push technologies like AMP for email for things that could probably be solved with standard HTML.
First aid training and certificate are mandatory in Germany to obtain a driving license. Also, as you are trained in the first aid, you are now liable by the law to help someone in need of immediate medical aid, in the scope of your training.
This one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Samsung_Series_3) with the Exynos 5? In terms of value for money it was, in my opinion, the best computer ever sold. One of those cost £229 and was in constant use for about 8 years, carried around in a rucksack, used for e-mail, web browsing, video calls, iPlayer, editing files on Google Docs, ...

If they could make one of those that runs Debian with the security features of a Chromebook but without the Google dependency ... it would be too good to be true.
Even without the "like this" in the last sentence this would be accurate.
> Politicians will never win votes by promising to reduce govt debt

I mean that was pretty much the 2010 Tory platform, and they won?

Next up, “the people would never elect a scientist to office?!?!?”
You simply have to understand that inflation is impossible to measure objectively. By extension, all inflation-adjusted data (so basically all historical economic data) is more or less made up.

If we'd measure inflation like we did in the 80s, it would easily come out 1% higher, meaning the real GDP growth is 1% lower than currently reported. So several economies would be considered in a recession for years insead of showing low growth.

I'm not saying that the way inflation is measured is wrong. But most data depending on the official inflation rates is a lot less accurate than you might think.
The problem is the developer earning $11k didn’t actually work on the project.
This seems to be overlooked, I was wondering why the original author is no longer involved.

Babel, Rome, Deno, are all transpilers the tech isn't as unique as it once was. Things come and go in JS land, and Babel will go the way of Dodo.js
I am assuming that in the article the $11k/month figure is pre-tax. It is higher than Silicon Valley entry-level, I think, but I had thought that it is not higher by much. However, I just did a bit of Googling that made me realize that maybe I am significantly overestimating entry-level Silicon Valley salaries.
Many people (including this comment) severely underestimate the sheer volume of information processed everyday by those staff level engineers in big techs.

Imagine that each day you need to review 1~2 design docs, read and reply tens of mails, attend at least 3 meetings and make non-negligible engineering decisions each, keep the lights on, manage and mentor some junior engineers. And write some code and design docs for your own projects upon all the crazy stacks of technical and procedural complexity.

Time is limited resource, so you cannot really have enough time to understand everything needed as scopes expand. You will eventually need to embrace ambiguities and uncertainties stemming from the complexity. And this needs more than just willingness and patience. Perhaps having some level of smartness can help, but this alone might not be sufficient though.
Critical parts in almost all web applications, including those built directly on the pack of this work. Facebook, Gatsby, Next.js, Netlify and Cloudflare (a bit more indirectly).
There's a lot of greedy selfish people out there.

This past year I was mostly unemployed, and wasted countless hours, days and weeks, months doing tech interviews. A complete waste of my time that I'll never get back. I live in London and it's stupidly expensive.

Although all of my problems, I've kept sending my donations to people, projects to show my support, appreciation, and also charities and family in need.

I got some short contract work in-between, luckily, but nothing much.q

I think we should give back, have at least some empathy to others and respect the ones that've been here for longer, that are truly talented.