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"Japan had QE with money printing for close to 40 years now"

All sovereign nations "money print" to pay bills. All bills, all the time. That's how the accounting works. It's not a relevant issue.

And that causes a cascade process of spending, which becomes somebody else's income less tax. Over a series of hops (transactions) that spending all disappears in tax - whatever the tax rate. The question is how many transactions that takes, and whether the economy can undertake this transactions (and you can work that out by looking at the number of people without work that want it).

Tax rates change the amount of transactions in the hops.

Beyond that it is down to whether everybody spends everything they get the instant they get it. If they don't and they 'save', then that automatically causes a 'deficit'. That saving/deficit combo then attracts an interest rate. QE does nothing other than alter the interest rate the saving/deficit combo attracts.

It seems strange that people get excited about levels of saving. Isn't that a good thing?
This seems really off to me. Mentioning that you work for Google only seems to introduce the risk that your words would be taken to represent Google. There’s a post in this thread where someone mentions they work for Google but fails to include the “opinions are my own” disclaimer.
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If the value produced to my company by a software engineer is below the market rate for a software engineer doesn’t that just mean I shouldn’t want to hire a software engineer? Like if I run a performing orchestra I probably don’t want to hire an anesthesiologist at market rates because they will provide very little (if any) value to my business.
Thanks for the Dale documentary recommendation. Tears galore right now.
Hindus do not have a consolidated vote bank unlike Muslims or Christians where commandments are passed on whom to choose.

If you selectively attack Hindus or Hindu vote bank that makes you anti-hindu.
I think they have something of a point...

On HN we can look into each other's post history to profile each other which does constitute something of a peek into however much of our lives we have decided to share, and I often see people mention it when disagreeing on each other. There's upvote/downvote/flagging wars on tribally charged matters, as much as Dang does his best to moderate it. All of this has to be driving up cortisol and furthering people's fear and suspicion.

But, on the other hand, HN's design is very web 1.0, and that does curtail the effects a little. You have to click instead of infini-scrolling. If you really want to profile someone, you again have to click through many pages of their post history. I think the warring that happens is endemic to the society and any medium would carry some of it, and I've seen it spilling over into "meat space".

Is HN use V.S. some other social media stemming the tide of poor mental health? I say probably not by much, if at all. Would annihilating all "engagement optimized" social media have positive results on our mental health? I say probably a considerable amount, but not enough to fix what's already broken in too many of us. Being highly optimistic it could drive some sort of "positive feedback loop" if the mental health benefits were somehow reinvested into further healthy decisions for society, but I think a lot of people would just end up in another vice because that's part of the current human condition.
thank you. same experience on mobile here.

i was on my phone and skimmed more than half the article before giving up and admitting it's actually unreadable and that i have no idea what great new thing they were trying to present.

this is somehow baffling.
The battle of the data platforms– from a decade of experience
Can you add a feature to instadj?
Basically copy songs from an existing youtube playlist, and then modify/add to it.
In a company there are seldom human failures, those are process failures. If deploying means sshing into prod server and messing around, anybody is going to eff that up sometime. That person is then not a failure, having to do those error prone tasks is the failure.
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Is that law in? Being a Googler I kind of can't imagine search working well under it. Would be an absolute spamfest.
Most schools have post-graduation survey. Quick google shows mit's 2020 class had 70 bachelor students responding to the survey for jobs in the tech industry, with base salary of:

$97,750, $118,000 $129,000 for 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile respectively

IIRC this number is typically just the base salary so you can roughly double it to include bonus and stock.

Click Employment tab then Page 9 in https://capd.mit.edu/resources/student-outcomes-and-salaries
But gaming is fine, that's not a waste of energy at all.
For an article that doesn't focus on SF, that's an odd headline, and not a big surprise for anyone who's seen the Civic Center Bart station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk

SF is an oddity because of its homeless problem, open-air drug market, not being too concerned with either, but being incredibly concerned over covid, so this outcome isn't surprising.
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> A one-woman company requires a far different approach than any sort of company with more than one engineer.

An insight I feel many software projects could learn from, even in small to medium teams.

Every tool has overheads in learning, maintenance, edge cases, and interoperability. The more abstracted the less agency you have over the tool, and time savers become roadblocks. Keep it simple, fewest dependencies, and close to where you have the most agency.
> Suck it up and figure out how to play the game

Unless you're desperate, it's best for all the industry if people don't. We can't mature the software industry hiring practices by playing along.

> Angry screeds will not change anything about the industry and will not help you.

Granted, they won't help the OP directly at the moment. But there is value in constantly calling out how broken hiring has become in this industry. Change won't happen by keeping quiet.

I do my little part (in a technical leadership position) by never interviewing using the algorithm monkeydance. I don't care if you can regurgitate this or that algorithm on a whiteboard. Because we don't do that in the day jobs I'm hiring people for. I interview based on your real world experience because at my company we build real world products. I've never hired anyone to a role of sitting in a room rewriting algorithms on a whiteboard (almost certainly never will), so I'm not going to interview for that irrelevant skill set.

To anyone who has been less than ~15 years in this industry, it's good to know that it wasn't always this way. Interviews used to be sane, based on experience. It's a relatively recent phenomenon how things have gone so wrong.
I disagree; I believe Apple is a great—if not the best—example at the company-scale we speak of. Apple has goofed many times, but on the whole, their design philosophy has been both consistent and excellent. Apple typically gets certain new UI paradigms wrong, but doesn’t flub design on the whole: typography, spacing, white space, colors, animation, etc.

With all that said, it is difficult to speak purely objectively about design, so our opinions very well may differ completely reasonably. The best we can get are some large studies with statistical usability results, but, I admit, it’s easier to simply be handwavy. :)
Paxos requires multiple parties to vote on what’s the correct result. The killer issue there is that it doesn’t solve a sybil attack - you either need a central authority in Paxos that chooses which machines run it, or you will end up with an attacker setting up a million machines in a cloud and overvoting everyone.
Yeah, I originally bought Material Design hook line and sinker. A lot of assumptions that bled over from desktop needed addressing in a mobile touchscreen environment.

Today? Android UI changes are starting to feel more like fashion than design. A trend to change every year, constantly changing for the sake of change to keep the consumerism going. Not because it solves a new problem in a new way or it is better for people, but because they just need to stir the pot a little bit more because they're out of new ideas but still need to justify charging flagship phone money.
I mean a graphics design professional or a video edit professional - the people who need or want 8k!
Does Google's own applications follow material design just like the way they document in the material design documentation website?

Let's take Gmail or Youtube for example.
That must be it. I was doing this on a mobile device where there is no "hover" action.
For now it seems like the plan only extends to third-party kexts.
Thanks for the feedback regarding the clutter. Some parts have indeed grown beyond what I originally planned. I was able to remove the breadcrumbs and it didn't feel like a loss. I also shortened the social media links at top of the page since you were right to notice on some pages they took lots of space for no good reason.
Most people dying from drug overdoses aren't homeless.
I don't know about SF specifically, but according to [1], California is doing about average for the US and is at the world's top 30 (higher is worse) for deaths per million, so I'd guess it's more #2 than #1.

Is SF doing significantly better than the rest of California, in general? Hopefully now enough people are vaccinated that the rates have dropped.
In my experience base level items have much better resale value then more expensive items. It's true for notebooks, graphic cards and cars too. For example my iPhone 11 Pro has fallen to half of the price in one year, but entry level iPhone 11 probably has still 70% of its value. Same for Macbook Air, entry level with 8GB and 256 SSD will hold value better then maxed out one. Same with cars, extra premium equipment has basically no value for people that are buying used cars. So doubt that premium graphic cards are exception. Their value falls sharply over time, so not sure people buying them are considering resale value as argument to buy them.
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And Keynes has empirically done very well, thank you.
Suck dick. How about you follow this guidance?
Even I have and I use a Yubikey 5, the whole thing still feels a bit like a black box for me. I still have not found a good overview about the different standarts, what do they different and about the many options in the Yubikey software.

Also I kind of get, you can't make a backup key. But in the end, if they key is lost, you use also mostly just another password again. But for me, I would much prefer to create a second key somehow.
I should also add that there are at least two matrix spec change proposals flying around to add role based ACLs, and one of the main reasons for switching spaces to be built on rooms is that they will automatically inherit the ACL model when it lands :)
It's worth noting that in this case (and in most discussions around non-IP law) the consensus HN view is usually what an informed person thinks the law should be based on something they heard on the news once and extended to try to generalise to some new situation that has never been tested in court.

Kranar is basically right here. It isn't at all clear that FB would be liable, and there isn't even a particularly strong case.
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I have had a very similar experience at a tech company. Was told they just wanted to have a chat (I wasn't applying for a job posting), and then suddenly it was a full-fledged interview that I wasn't prepared for. I got humiliated and was angry as hell for being misled. I still remember it to this day.
It's a pity then that supply side economy doesn't work.
Something I've wondered about for a while: If you get on the King County Parcel Viewer site and select the 1936 aerial photo basemap, you can get a good resolution view of the Seattle area from that time. If you look at Fort Lawton (now Discovery Park) there's a conspicuous east-west strip that looks like a primitive airfield. It's not listed on the historical airports site, and from digging around on Google books I think I saw it talked about as a rifle range, but I also saw a reference to it as a place where a plane could land in an emergency. Anyway, it makes me wonder if the government could have been doing early aviation work there and just kept it classified. (Or maybe it was just a very long rifle range...)
Software engineers should not compare themselves to a basket that includes (presumably) labourers, tradesmen, etc.

SEs are educated, highly-skilled individuals and should thus be compared to the VALUE the NYC society places on other highly skilled, in-demand individuals.

Be assured that NYC lawyers, radiologists, and bankers don't compare their remuneration to an average that includes dustmen, baristas, and hot-dog salesmen.
FAANG salaries are not the market rate, it’s a market rate for specific companies for high qualified developers.

On another market, I have a small agency, and I simply don’t see how a developer could provide enough value to a client on a typical web project so that we could bill the client enough to pay the developper that kind of salary.

That discussion motivates me to try to increase our rates though.

Edit: clarification of "justify that kind of salary".
After the real estate bubble crashed in 2008 policy makers decided to try to reinflate the bubble and at the same time limit the supply of housing to make sure it stayed inflated. They succeeded, prices are higher than the last bubble and we're short a couple million units of housing.

The able bodied people living in tents in major cities the the victims of that success.
We have a p time Shor's !

I don't think BQP<P makes sense... BQP <NP? I think you may be mocking me :(
Marijuana isn't known to produce lethal overdoses.
On my iPhone I setup a shortcut that will take a reddit url and open it natively in Narwhal. It's very handy and I'm not a huge fan of the official reddit app.
They are one trick pony channels that create an echo chamber for their audience. However like many other terrible things with a following, there is a grain of truth that reels people in. I would argue there are a couple decent grains of truth in that mostly best to avoid category.
2% of my HS class has died of drug overdoses, and it is the opposite of poor. OK, small sample size, but it's safe to conclude that it's not a "poor people problem."
According to Hans Rosling, if birthrates develop everywhere similarly, population will max out at around 10Bn within the next decades, and should then stay stable for a while. 10Bn to reach a somewhat comfortable living standard seems quite a stretch for the home planet based on current (mostly non-renewable) technologies. And a high enough standard is also necessary for the birth rates to stabilize, so it's not like keeping whole continents in poverty would help anyone.
I like it, but I still miss Holo way more. Peak Android for me was 4.2.2 Jelly Bean before they removed the Phablet UI layouts. I had the Nexus-7-style layouts on a Galaxy NoteⅡ and don't think any phone I've owned since then has topped it interface-wise.
Yeah, I do have a tendency to shit on other people's ideas without offering a constructive alternative. I should probably stop doing that...

Anyway, I don't know how applicable 3PL is for products that are built to order, but for something mass produced it really is as simple as putting barcode stickers on them (I use a $50 desktop label printer for this) and then sending a box of them to a Chinese 3PL company (ChinaDivision etc.).

This can and should be done from day 1 (again, probably not for bespoke items unless volume is high!), and will cover basically every country on Earth except Iran and North Korea with cheap and reliable logistics.
Loudly trumpet that shipping is free (or fixed cost) no matter the buyer's location, and you'll get a lot of goodwill from buyers in underserviced markets.

The next step from there is to set up an Amazon FBA presence in various markets worldwide. Even if you don't sell much inventory through their site, you can take advantage of Multi-Channel Fulfillment to send stock cheaply from a local warehouse.
I pay something like US$50 a month to be a part of their logistics network, plus around US$5 per package for fulfillment and logistics regardless of location.

Regarding inventory levels, if possible I'd recommend always holding enough stock to cover 6 months' worth of baseline sales at all times. If your product relies on word of mouth for discovery, a feature on a site like Hackaday (and the ripple effect that causes) could easily cause 3-6 months' worth of sales in a week. I learned this the hard way last year.

Best of luck with your business, and if you want to have a chat about logistics feel free email admin at espotek dot com. It's something I really care about and it kills me to see so many people do it wrong.
Yes, I agree that it’s not common or convenient. But I think it was just a counter point that you can use Bitcoin for regular purchases and people do. And I don’t think tax law is going to stop these people.

I completely agree that the instances of use as currency is vanishingly small.
I was being a little bit facetious in my attempt to point out the problems with the "by definition". There are two factors: the amount earned, and the percentage of that taxed. Tax evasion is paying less than what one "should" (everyone probably knows what I mean, but this can be nitpicked, so I'm adding quotes), for that amount earned. You are right in that the amount of unpaid taxes is more easily larger the more you earn, but by no means is a definition here that follows.

Your point, as you explain it here is still a valid one though, but I didn't read your prior post as to mean the same. Since tax evasion can be both hiding income, as well as finding loop holes. Maybe they are more the same than I had thought. Hm. Maybe I learned something.

As I see it, for rich enough people, tax evasion is akin to a tax on moral conscience. They pay as much as they think they should, or so it seems.
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The cases per capita in SF were about 1/10 those in LA at its peak, so the pandemic in california was really focused in socal.
It’s not just crates.io. I have a minimal, no Libc, no runtime dependencies Windows project for fun that compiles to a tiny executable of only a few kilobytes. If you’re going down this minimalist/better C route, you increasingly have to avoid large parts of the Core library as well, which is becoming more bloated by the minute. The culture seems to move in the direction of “avoid unsafe at all costs” (even where that makes the API so complicated that it hurts correctness in practice) and “avoid dynamic dispatch at all costs” (even where that hurts performance).
Better than their last try but it still looks like it was designed by a child
> Amazon doesn't price gouge

I didn't say they did. But by the argument of the GP, they are often (depending on the product) "needless middlemen in a market that already sells direct to consumers", which is what I was responding to.

> They steal liquidity

They offer stuff for sale in markets which would have nothing for sale at other times (because if supply didn't outstrip demand, there would be no profit to be made). That is liquidity where it might not have existed previously.

I understand not liking scalping. I don't necessarily like it (I would prefer there was enough supply to satisfy demand). But there's a difference between not liking something and not understanding it and denying the reality of it. You can't stop it without understanding what makes people buy things to resell at a profit, why others are willing to pay that extra amount, and why there aren't enough of that thing to go around in the first place which allows it to happen.
Isn't it interesting how our perception of reality is shaped by what we observe daily?
I was just joking. It does cause me to eat an outrageous amount of food that I didn't need to eat but ate anyways. :)
Kill all miners, save the planet!
Unfortunately, this is far too accurate.
The current desktop UX (today) of using cryptocurrency to order takeaway food from the market leading delivery platform in Germany is actually MORE convenient than Visa in my experience.

Visa: get card from wallet, type in number, type in CSC code.

Cryptocurrency: pull out phone, scan QR code.
You can't see the difference between an activity that stimulates the dopamine reward pathways and the activity that is the reason those pathways exist?
we live in an age when governments are tightening controls and are spying relentlessly on their population, as a result there seems to be a significant demand for means to escape these controls at least somehow, i think crytocurrencies answer this need, so it is not just a pyramid scheme/worldwide casino.
This paragraph is mostly in response to the fact that the GP comment is so downvoted for saying "I prefer Android's UI" - heh. This is not the first time i am saying in this forum. But before ice cream sandwich Android UI was plain ugly. I am not talking about UX or other features. But with Material design they have a better UI and even better UX as well. Apple was always known for it UI but that not mean you take that as a fact instead of evaluating it as time goes by.
Which is why you use coinbase and they tell you the cost basis and then you use cointracker to import it into turbotax. It's just some extra overhead when filing taxes.
Depends on jurisdiction. In Poland the official government stance now is that only exchange into fiat is taxable. (which is absurd, but I won’t be the one to complain)
When I was at Amazon, interns got to do greenfield work because that was how senior engineers got their projects off the ground without a six pager.
I have an example of what you may be trying to illustrate: the two types of AI in Star Trek. 1 being the ship. Crew members happily bark at it with no manners. But then there are things like Data and holodeck programs where crew members will interact with them like real humans.

Maybe there is some middle ground for both types of robots?
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Oh aha, thanks for that stat, I didn't know.