skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah except the PM and cabinet minister's will pull in 20x later on some board or w/ lobbyists they've been friendly with. That's their stock I suppose.
What would be an example of extremely profitable niches? Just curious as I live in London and wanna up my salary.
> Everyone knows

New university graduates don't, at least I didn't :-)

And they can stay clueless for many years, if they're a bit shielded from office politics by a caring manager
I feel like if we try to increase the number, it will actually backfire.
Safari has done that many years ago. I don't recall it being a point of discussion, let alone a full article.
It's harder to transfer on robotics and biotech as ramping up a projects takes a long time and there's a lot of bespoke tooling. In my experience the jobs that pay the most are where engineers can switch and quickly be productive, as the main force actually driving salaries up are people quitting for a higher pay. The company hiring you for more than average needs you to be productive quickly.
How long will these last? I'm just in the beginning of my career and am deathly afraid of a dotcom type situation where my earning potential is harmed over the rest of my career.
It sounds like a really fascinating topic! If someone is interested, where he/she would need to start? any papers that review most/all methods that are up to date?
Andy keeps it real
This has to apply to "smart tvs" too. Those things are out of control.
Microsoft: We shrunk Windows 11 update sizes by 40%
So on phone the only real alternative is SailFishOS ?
> I should be able to net 400-600k at this level if I go to Apple or Google. Hoo boy, looks like it’s leetcode time again

I hate studying leetcode just for these interviews, but with these numbers it seems foolish to not put myself through hell...
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. There is very little doubt as to whether America benefits from legal immigrants.
I get that, but that's software on the main device. I guess yes, wording such a law will be a crap and a half.
You said it yourself: "just not in a handheld device" and not in what is effectively realtime.
Yeah there some good points there but mainly it's because the past 10 years (the prime for marriage for millenials) have been a sh*t show, and the sh*t show is still going strong. From recession and not being able to find a job, to political turmoil and both sides of the political aisle going insane claiming it's the end of world because their candidate was or was not elected, to a global pandemic and those same political issues carrying over to the pandemic, and now we seem to be in a gridlock of some kind.

Of course it sucks to not have kids, but in a way good, because i have no idea what's coming in the next few years. Nobody wants to reach out to the other side, both sides feel like the other is the worst in the world, tensions keep rising, but there is no resolution on the horizon.
I had a similar burger at another chain. My biggest criticism, and from the picture I see the same issue here, was that the patty was too small for the bun and toppings. Put that thing on a small bun with a slice of American cheese, and you've got a tasty and viable alternative to a basic cheeseburger. Drown it in toppings and an oversized bun, and you've got something you can barely tell has a patty in it, meat or plant.

It almost seems like (and maybe the do) they want to target people who are used to eating vegetarian food that's just a bunch of vegetables and carbs. If they want to bring over meat eaters, make meat a central ingredient.
> So the company value will be stored like this: &#x27; or &#x27;=&#x27; instead of this " or ""="

No, if they enter '"', store it as '"' in your database (maybe by using '\"' in the query), serve it as '&#x27;' in html ('&#x22;', actually).
Some big tech company salaries are higher than equivalent hedge funds salaries. Also, work life balance is better.

I know some folks more senior than me at top hedgefunds making less than I am.
Banksy’s Shredding Artwork Is Auctioned for $25.4M at Sotheby’s
What's the consensus on the tech market being really hot right now? Does that imply a potential crash in the future, or simply a "cooling down" or plateau-ing? Can anyone point to some commentary on future expectations, beyond the immediate salary bumps we can get today?
That's exactly my point: a dev working for Facebook in Hungary will probably make decent money but it will still be a fraction of what he could be making in the US..
Bots are interesting and fun, but they always seem to go off the rails the deeper into the conversation you get.
I wonder how much money the Royal Family could spend on saving the Earth.

I can only half-agree with him, because our work in space is pretty important, too. A more moderate option would be to not be so enamoured with space that we continue to neglect Earth. It's a long time off, and pretty unlikely, that Earth will ever become less inhabitable than Mars. So even if we colonize Mars, it isn't really a planetary replacement for "the rest of us."
Exactly! The failure rate of startups hasn't moved out of the 90% range ... ever.

https://www.failory.com/blog/startup-failure-rate
By 2500 earth could be alien to humans
I've been running Ubuntu on servers for over 12 years. It generally works great... until you upgrade it to the next major release. I haven't had a smooth Ubuntu upgrade in years. During one upgrade, the system lost the default route. There was some bug with multiple NICs. Another time, it decided to rename all the network interfaces, requiring a bunch of manual reconfiguration. Then for some reason my boot device got switched (perhaps this was really a UEFI issue?) and the system failed to restart.

Some of these systems have 3 or 4 NICs, multiple HDs and NVMEs in RAID configurations. Is this that exotic a configuration?
I suspect o called "average user" would probably trust anything. Non average: I have no idea but I personally just simply do not trust. Do not care what is the company name.
> need something to work

things can work and respect your freedom at the same time. its not like either or.
> Hell the thing that probably embarrasses Apple the most about the Epic saga is that their justification for their 30% and not allowing sideloaded apps fell on its face when Epic's in app payment waltzed right through app review.

It's always been possible to dynamically load content like a payment signup form after the application loads, app review was never about preventing that. The enforcement mechanism for that is lawyers, which Apple used and collected >3 million from Epic for the breach of contract.
Why is it desirable for Congress to make laws limiting how electronics manufacturers can design their electronics?

If Facebook wants to make a VR headset that requires that you upload a monthly video of you doing the chicken dance, just don’t buy their product.

Attempting to use government to make private entities build the kinds of technology you like is a pretty heavy hammer to drop on individual freedoms.
Yes, US tech salaries are rather crazy.

But at the scale they operate at, it is also relatively easy to justify such salaries. For example, just last month, I saved the company more than a million a year of cloud costs by doing 1 week of cost optimizations for just one of our services. I will create many times that in new revenues/cost savings in the remaining 2 months of the year.

My total comp for year? Barely over half a million. So I'd say they are getting a good value.
Social media is here to stay so these efforts are kinda silly. It is much better to recommend reasonable legal policies for regulating Facebook and social media in general, e.g. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/twitter-and-interopera..., https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/interoperability-and-p.... [1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28822961
Can you clarify something? From your link, it appears that they told you they have a policy against games with crypto or NFTs, and is trying to refund you the fees. You then spammed them, so they politely replied not to do that, and consolidated the discussion in a single ticket.

Are you saying your game does not have crypto or NFTs, and their evaluation was mistaken? Because this goes one of two ways - either they are being complete jerks because of a mistake, or you are. Not sure which without more info.
States issue non-driver IDs they are already very low cost and easy to obtain.
Sorry but your comment made me laugh.

Apple (a company that never publishes or leads with their tech specs) would be the biggest loser if Huawei stayed in the market. That Huawei that never reached 2% (or even 1%) mobile marketshare in the US
I would say that finding and reporting exploits is ok in every circumstance. I would draw the line at using those exploits for malicious purposes.
Heptatonic Scale
So, what can you do with a (de-Facebooked) one of these then?
Birth control is a choice influenced by the culture.
I'd also add https://tldroptions.io/ as a quick and dirty potential options valuator. That being said, I agree with the author's default assumption that private options should be valued at zero, especially for financial planning purposes. At the same time, it is this hockey stick that is a strong part of the allure of smaller startups. There's an entirely separate levels.fyi equivalent that needs to be made for the amount of equity employees get at various stages of a company. It should also note that the size size of the exit is inversely proportional to the odds that it'll happen.
It seems people here mean different things with the word "politics" -- to some, it means ~ manipulation, to others, effective communication?

And then of course people disagree about if it's good or bad or normal?

> Engineers who do not master these skills are putting a cap to their career growths,

Maybe can make sense for an organization to give everyone some practice in communication and presenting ideas -- to give the good ideas better chances (also if the idea person initially wasn't a good communicator)
> but there also should be concerns about the survival of the human race

We’ve… some ways to go before we have to worry about extinction from not reproducing enough. This should probably not be in humanity’s top thousand or so worries.
Have you seen that movie Idiocracy? Our modern society is hollowing out the gene pool in the vast median of our cultural middle classes
> Europe also suffers from a brain drain to the US (and Canada to a smaller proportion). Many of Europe's best and brightest software engineers have already emigrated to the US, leaving behind the less productive ones.

You need to back this up with something better than anecdotal evidence - FWIW I've worked with plenty of world class American engineers who don't live in the US
It's time for a national water grid(https://www.osti.gov/biblio/963122-national-smart-water-grid):

> The National Smart Water Grid{trademark} will pay for itself in a single major flood event.

Weather patterns will likely change dramatically and violently. We cannot relocate our farmland fast enough. We need a system capable of absorbing extreme precipitation and reclaiming it for food.

This isn't about stealing water from the Great Lakes(that's a common worry). Yes, pumping water takes energy, but it also provides an infrastructure for gravitational storage of solar energy for night time use.

We need to think big, and we need to think fast.
That's great. That means that if the Rust compiler is made faster in this one case it'll make a huge difference across the board.
this is like saying "my Rails app is using 650 MB of memory on Heroku and I'd like to optimize the app to use 100 MB max" and someone saying "you should just let your app have memory leaks"

Imagine thinking the tax collection agencies and government apparatus that runs so-called "society" is efficient in its expenditure. Give me a break.
Accepting money from friends is highly risky in my opinion.

A friend might say they are willing to lose 100% of their investment, but if you fail and the money is gone, there is likely to be negative effects on your friendship from both parties. Also if the financial state of your friend changes, like getting a mortgage or losing their job, they can get buyers remorse.

If you do make it big, then your friends might be annoyed they couldn’t invest (although if they are really twisted about it then perhaps they are not a great friend anyway).
Can you email me some details at my HN handle at stripe.com? I will see if there is anything we can do.

(P.S.: This is my only work inbox and I will always read emails for HNers with interest, which is true of many other people who work here, HN.)
Anti-cancer drug derived from fungus shows promise in clinical trials
You do it however you have to, for example:
https://hvmag.com/life-style/history/a-history-of-iron-mount...
If that's the fight you are fighting, then by all means keep up the fight. Being able to do basic computer activities privately is a definite need. Hacking what's essentially a gaming device from FB is just not that critical to me.
It is always nice when the idealistic choice lines up with the exciting, or pragmatic choice. Sadly, in the world of hardware at least, this is seldom the case.
Nothing. It's all just pixel grids.
I'm surprised that is the first priority. It presumably targets Jupiter and Saturn: I thought the JWT was primarily for observing objects further afield.

Sure, there's a ton we don't know yet about Jupiter and Saturn...but for reference Juno cost 0.1x the amount of the JWT and observed Jupiter from one million times closer [0]. Is the JWT really the most economical way to make these observations?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)
That’s the whole problem with this kind of analysis. You can’t just ignore that there is market segmentation (I hate the term “tiers” but that’s really what it is).
Governments around the world need to make it easy to have kids. Not sure about Britan, but here in the USA it's prohibitively expensive to have a child let alone 2. Couples of have to make tough decisions like quitting their job as they can't afford child care. Public schools are on average bad and gentrification keeps pricing people out. College costs are out of control.
Non-citizens can get CCLs too.
And how do you think we will be getting third mature ecosystem if we never try anything? Complaining is easy
I've had driver issues with things like arch and debian. I maybe enjoyed digging into that a decade ago. I don't anymore.
Your baseless assertion that nuclear power is incredibly dangerous is what sounds like a conspiracy theory. Certainly it's not based in any facts or science.
the companies you listed have been competing with faang for talent since they were formed. they’ve always had to pay competitively
Norway and....Maryland. I've lived abroad most of my career and unwisely lived in Maryland for a short time. When I left to go abroad again, Maryland insisted on taxing my earnings, despite the overseas domicile. I found trying to fight Maryland over taxes was exasperating and futile.

protip: if you live in Maryland, and plan an overseas life, establish a domicile in a tax friendly state beforehand. Then leave. Otherwise, Maryland will own you. A pox on Maryland.
The levels.fyi number you're looking at is across companies, so it's skewed by the type of companies hiring SWE's in Boston vs the Bay Area, which have different pay scales. Large Bay Area tech companies (e.g. FAANG) pay Boston SWE's pretty close[0] to what they pay SF SWE's.

If you use the "Robert Half" site[1] from the original article, it says Boston is +34% compared to US baseline (vs SF's +42%, NYC's +40.5%) which roughly lines up.

[0] Google: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi... vs https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

[1] https://www.roberthalf.com/salary-guide/specialization/techn...
Is hiring outside the US remotely so fraught with difficulty it’s worth paying extra 100,000s?
s/more/anything at all.

Monetizing written content was (and is) crazy hard, comparatively.
If someone distributed a .apk that contained plaintext SSNs of their employees, I don't think I would call someone who noticed a 'hacker'.
Check the discussions on Blind. Total compensation discussions are completely bonkers and I believe they are true based on some interviews I had for remote roles in US.
That explain why CV-driven development has been aggressively overtaking good development.

Similarly, a lot of the original FLOSS culture has been overshadowed by the "github-is-my-showroom" model. Optimizing for github stars and so on.
no, the difference between a full-frame DSLR and any phone camera is night and day. It's just ridiculous to read articles about phone cameras with their ugly photos where authors are writing something like “wow it's amazing - best camera ever, you don't need a pro camera anymore”. It's so funny.
Are graphene releases/support completed tied to google releases/support? I had assumed they were able to update their version of android for a phone beyond what google does.

edit - found it https://grapheneos.org/faq#legacy-devices

> It cannot do that once device support code like firmware, kernel and vendor code is no longer actively maintained. Even if the community was prepared to take over maintenance of the open source code and to replace the rest, firmware would present a major issue, and the community has never been active or interested enough in device support to consider attempting this
List of potentially permanent post COVID symptoms

* fatigue
* memory problems
sleep disturbances
shortness of breath
* anxiety and depression
* general pain and discomfort
difficulty thinking or concentrating
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/201...

An example of an otherwise healthy person in excellent shape who is likely to have to face a career-ending post COVID life:

https://nationalpost.com/news/an-anti-vaxxer-edmonton-oiler-...
I worked on a Jenkins cluster with around 150 agents and many, many builds per day. It all ran so smoothly and I swear it was because there was zero groovy.
In the US everything is pretty broken anyway - so go right ahead and change stuff, you might even fix something!!

Whereas in Europe everything pretty much works as it should, so why rock the boat??
Yeah, all of the above. The market was a lot less hot in 2010 on the back of the 2008 financial crisis; Intel is just kind of a shitty employer all around; and illegal no-hire collusion didn't help.
That feature was actually inherited from Ocaml. Both have a REPL and type inference powerful enough to insure that you never indicate types in Ocaml and rarely in F#.

The experience is close to having an elegant Python with types, definitely worth becoming more popular.
The reason why I make any judgement about this is because I am an utilitarian. I see 3 Booleans that influence the outcome

- Is it product that adds value?

- Is the person inspecting the website a customer or a potential competitor?

- Is the platform of which the computation is resold listed?

I am only interested in cases where the product actually adds value. So I we can discard that other part of the possibility tree and demand that every company acts as if it adds value.

This leaves us with a 2x2 grid.

- potential customer & transparent: The user can make an educated decision before having to register, for additional hardware questions people can look at the original hoster, website focused on value add, using trusted hoster gives legitimacy

- potential competitor & transparent: competitor can clone your service without creating an account

- potential consumer and no transparent: greater uncertainty for consumer, "Why does he hide it", maybe negative experiences because it wasn't obvious that might not be suitable for tasks due to particular issues with underlying hoster (such as ping time), positive features (such as Hetzner running on green energy) are lost, with unclear hoster reliability of the infrastructure in question, lack of access to historic data that does exist.

- potential competitor & not transparent: competitor has to create to learn in what data centers the servers are as creating an account and renting a few instances would allow him infer any information he needs to know

We can suspect there are more customers than potential competitors and competitors are ore willing to learn about your service then people visiting the website by having this information available you make the life competitors are single digit $ harder, at the cost of having a harder time getting the trust of many more customers and potentially losing business.

So either the product should 't exist xor it is irrational to not make this information available easily as it hurts reseller and potential customers more than it hurts a slightly motivated cloner of the service.
Companies are not individuals.
He might be talking about Focus 3 maybe?
People can barely get the house to put the kid in. That’s the first milestone and if you can’t do that, you pretty much back off from all other shit.

Oh, and dating in the west is a complete game. The East usually go by family connections, but in the West it’s a game and the game got super harder with social media and unrealistic expectations.

So that’s a barrier too. I dunno, nothing feels normal anymore.

Personal anecdote - I want to do all these things, but holy shit did it get harder and weirder.
Assuming $500k in a big coastal city:
$285k after taxes
$50k in rent (generous)
$10k in worst-case healthcare costs
30 minute commute

Over $200k per year in take home pay after most expenses.

Rough numbers, my monthly salary is ~$10k/mo (after tax) and I vest ~$50k in stock every 3 months (also after tax)
Call yourself a consultant or freelancer, and make it clear you're looking for part time clients.

I generally do either 20 hours/week (billed monthly), or per project billing (which can be as many or as few hours as you want).

As for actually finding the work, start with people you know and let them know you're looking for a client for 10-20 hours per week; if no one is hiring directly, ask for intros to anyone they might know who might be looking.

Another thing you can do is contact small to medium consultancies in your area and mention that you have 10-20 hours of time if they have any projects they want to sub-contract; that works pretty well usually.
The OWT was proposed, but not funded. Yet.

"Overwhelmingly Large Telescope": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...

The GBT monster, the king of the telescopes at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia -- I always think of it as the "Great Big Telescope":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope

A radio telescopes, sure, like the Very Large Array... but the next such instrument up is simply the "Square Kilometer Array", reflecting (!) the total area of all if the array elements.

(I lobbied for naming it the SRSLY, but these international consortiums can be a tough audience to calibrate; they were sick of me by the end of the conference.)
I don't think there's any real debate that eating whole, unprocessed foods, mostly plants, is the best thing you can do for your diet.
It's 100% possible to make electronics that do not require a connection to the Internet to function. That is, in fact, good.
The stock has been split 1 to 4 during 2018, so his 15k share is 60k shares actually. If he keep the option and sell it today, he will make 6 millions now.
Notification Support Across Popular Devices
> Even local crypto exchanges are refusing service

As long as one has non-US local friends/family who can cash out, I don't think this matters much (albeit in a local currency)

I think in this day in age, all of this is really depends on ones personal preference in how deeply they want to tie themselves directly to the traditional banking system (and traditional asset classes/financing/jobs/organizations) without even trying to give up US citizenship (because obviously, the process is a PITA).