skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps health insurance costs FAANG employees several hundred thousand dollars, but if it doesn't then it's hard to imagine it being better elsewhere.

In my part of Canada, a decent dev salary for a new grad is about 45k USD. After taxes you'll be left with about 32k USD. Rent for a 1 bedroom apartment within a half hour drive of the city is about 1k USD, food for one person for a month is 200-250 USD if you don't eat out but do eat reasonably healthy (frozen vegetables, ground beef or pork chops, pasta, stuff like that). After internet, power, car expenses, telephone costs, etc. come out, you're maybe left with 10k USD to spare each year.

If a new grad in California making $180k+ is left with that little after the same expenses in the USA, I'd be impressed.

Granted, other things become more expensive later on. No doubt childcare is more expensive in California, as is housing. But it's not cheap here - a cheap house within a 30 minute drive of the city here costs about 500k USD, while that might be, what, 1-2 million in California? But a senior dev salary here is about 80k USD, vs 300k+ in California. And sure, the ratio might seem not too bad - 80k vs 300k is like a ~4 times difference, 500k to 2 million is like a 4 times difference. But after you deduct living expenses, you're looking at a much different ratio - unless every living expense is 4x more in California. But I'd be shocked if, for example, 1kg of medium ground beef that costs $10 USD in Canada costs $40 USD in California. Or if a $100 internet plan for 100 Mb/s up/down here costs $400 in California.
Microsoft does actually have M365 Personal which is mainly about the Office apps but also removes advertising on the webmail. The big difference from the business plans is that you don't get the admin center or the things inside of it like the exchange control panel.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/outloo...
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I was a cranky little asshole when I was 21 who thought being a douchebag was just "edgy" and if people didn't get it then that's on them. Looking back, I cringe every time I think about, because that just is shorthand for saying "I was that toxic worker no one liked". I absolutely did mean it, I still think she was a moron who didn't understand anything about computers, but you're right, an apology for the verbiage would probably be in order.

I've thought about finding her on LinkedIn and apologizing, but almost a decade has passed since then, and I don't really think she wants to talk to me anyway. Somehow I think she's probably over it by now. What's life without a few regrets eating away at you?
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Do you have any rebuttals to the article, besides "the person who made the argument is from Tribe B, and the city belongs to Tribe A, therefore we can ignore it"?
Ask HN: What decentralized apps can I use?
Hey HN,

I'm in my early 20's and have been loving learning about the crypto/blockchain/web3 space. However, I've been lost in terms of what sort of value I can actually get out of using a decentralized application. A lot of applications I have seen are centered around Art Marketplaces (NFT), gaming, gambling, DeFi (lending/borrowing), token exchanges, and DAOs. As a young person with not a lot of capital on hand, I would love to start using decentralized applications to scout them out and start understanding their use cases/what all the hype is about. Can someone shed some light on places I should look? What am I missing? The goal here isn't to make money via some scheme to buy digital assets and resell them, but to use a product that adds to my daily life/workflow.
Inflation and the national debt are way up. It might feel nice to have an extra $5K today but we increased the burden on our descendants and have nothing of lasting value to show for it. Shame on us.

No one is going to raise wages for a particular position just because it was arbitrarily classified as "critical".
I disagree. Majority of H1b visas are issued for tech, not science. Even if there were no h1b visas in science, I suspect your wages would still be pathetic. This is because the even if the science lab work is very critical, its very far from the final product you get in these fields
Even if the article is about San Francisco, do you have anything to refute what's happening or are you just going to put your head in the sand?
TBF the reply in that link was written 4 years ago, before the language went 1.0

> Nim lacks official support to multiple inheritance or interfaces

Multiple inheritance is a bit of a trainwreck IMO (see diamond problem).

The language isn't designed around OOP, and is instead procedural with metaprogramming for extension. You get more bang for your buck this way, but for people with their head in inheritance it’s probably a shock.
The fallacy here is that districted voting ends up with two parties. Extreme ones with fptp, mode centrist ones with, say, approval voting.

So first you want some proportional representation.

The second fallacy is that of the informed voter or the informed representative. The core issue we debated in this thread was about that second fallacy. The issue is that "information" is heavily manipulated in a world where anyone can anonymously claim anything. And how do you address that with representative democracy?
>For instance I received an offer that was 160 base, 325 cash bonus and 5% of my RSUs for my first year, putting my TC at ~510k. Second year was a slightly smaller bonus, and 15% of my RSUs.

Jeebus man. What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do?

For reference: I do Angular and Python development. Is there like some open source project or code samples that give an idea of the complexity of code that 510k developers are writing?

Man you got me day dreaming about that kind of money: I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities.
There's an unfortunate tendency to treat science as the only source of truth. Really, psychology (like engineering and medicine) is a profession. Professions aren't just based on the scientific method -- they draw from a semi-formal pile of experience known as "best practices." These are often just based on something that a clever person decided to try decades or centuries ago which seems to have not hurt anyone. Of course it is an iterative process so sometimes these things are overturned, but the process seems to work allright.
Yep, ditto my experience here. Amazon is far and away the company that reaches out most aggressively - which is generally fine - but what's very annoying is that the jobs they want me to apply for are so poorly targeted.

I have probably about a dozen emails from AWS even though I've been doing mobile apps for the past >10 years and that's readily evident if you even bothered looking at my CV.

I can't think of another major company whose recruiters spend so little effort pitching a relevant role to the candidate. At this point I don't even open the emails any more - which seems like it's long-term detrimental to their recruitment efforts overall.
"Top-Notch" is the giveaway.
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Yes, that's how labor markets work.
Agreed. When I think of good (Apple) design, I think of the 2012-2015 first generation retina MacBook Pros -- a slight refinement of the previous era, thinning the chassis when possible, upgrading ports, improving the screen, but largely preserving the best elements of the old design. There were some losses -- the sleep indicator light, the battery LEDs, ethernet, maybe some of the reliability of the Magsafe 1 connection -- but I would say that they largely improved on an existing design. Similar with OS X releases in that time period, Apple largely iterated on the existing Snow Leopard-ish design instead of blowing things up with fancy new designs.

Funnily enough, I remember many, many tech reviewers in 2014, 2015 criticizing the MacBook Pro for that "ancient" design. And Apple eventually gave in and redesigned both the laptops (yuck) and OS X (maybe even more yuck). UI/UX is tricky, I think, because in an industry where folks move around every couple of years to maximize their salaries, people aren't rewarded for being good, iterative stewards of an existing system. Instead, they change jobs, someone new comes in, and they try to make a name for themselves by redesigning everything through a big bang redesign. And then they move on a couple years later, and then someone else comes in and redesigns... etc. etc.

Sidenote: Holy cow, this also explains why the government sucks so much.
A lot of SF’s problems are common along the large West coast cities, but the bay area has often held itself out as a vanguard of progressivism (Berkley, Haight Ashbury etc) so fairly or unfairly it will always be a standout that draws criticism.
Engineering Career Ladder at Ockam
"To be clear, I do NOT blame junior devs at all for this. It takes experience and growth..."

Also, as software engineers right now we have a very weird experience where the job market is better for us as employees than almost anyone else ever anywhere. Like this is as good as it gets.

So it gives the illusion you can find the perfect job, if you don't like a place, why not leave for something else, you can easily do that!

So while generally I'm partial to your point of view, job hopping so quickly is unlikely to lead to the job satisfaction you hope it will. But... in that environment... if you wanted to mostly work on JS and that's not what the job was, why not leave for something that is what you wanted all along?
Probably something a lot more like the Earth-centered, Earth-fixed coordinate systems [1] that are for instance the native reasoning tools of things like GPS services.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-centered,_Earth-fixed_...
I'm not the crypto regulator. Those mistakenly (in my opinion) who use Tether do it by choice.

You can opt out of crypto just like you can opt out of liquor stores and MJ dispensaries. No opting out of taxes due in Fed debt notes.
Thar only worka because almost every one else is either driving to the
store and school or living in an apartment. It's a simple matter of geometry.
PWA means "progressive web app". You know, the vision Steve Jobs and Apple had for iPhone apps before they released the App Store.[0]

What about virtual experiences that are sold through an app that a customer uses, but are held on a different virtual platform? We’re not talking just about virtual events held through the app or FaceTime, we’re also talking about virtual events held through Zoom calls, it’s just that the app maker (for example, Airbnb) used their existing customer relationship to market virtual experiences, and Apple somehow decided that was different from the exception to selling (physical) goods and experiences that are also used outside the app.

If they aren’t using the app itself or FaceTime, how is it any different from an in-person event?

What if that in-person event includes teleconferencing equipment that links two locations together, do you suddenly need to give Apple 30%?

Apple's rules have an exception for 1:1 virtual events. So, if you suddenly bring your significant other to a virtual event that was classified as 1:1, will the app maker need to implement facial recognition DRM to ensure that there is only one participant on each side of the virtual event, or else they are in violation of Apple's rules and deserve to be banned because two people showed up instead of one?

The rules are deeply tedious, and often have no obvious rhyme or reason.

Regardless, Apple changed the rules, and I don’t have an option to opt out without giving up everything I’ve already bought. I could not have known they would change the rules in the ways they have, so to your earlier point, I could not have made a more informed decision. Would you like to offer the refunds on Apple’s behalf? Doubtful. This is clearly different from other retail relationships in ways that would benefit from being regulated. That’s the core discussion here. Apple is not just another retailer, and the App Store is not just another store.

> Clarifying the rules is not the same as changing them, ask any hermeneutic.

They did not clarify the rules. They absolutely changed the rules, and this is not the first time either. Your whole argument is invalid if they changed the rules, so of course you're holding on dearly to that incorrect point. Apple argues that some apps were accidentally paying them revenue for that already, therefore it would be "unfair" for them not to take that revenue from everyone... but it wasn't in the rules before, period. Apple added the rule so that they could add more revenue.

You may think my opinion is irrelevant, and that’s fine, but my opinion is as logically self-consistent as I can make it. Apple’s rules are the ones that hold very little self-consistency right now, and are just overreaching in any way they think they can get away with, which is getting tiresome.

[0]: https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/03/remembering-apples-sweet-solu...
Total as in including everything, right. Not just cash.
I want to disagree with you, he seemed to specialize in JS, in his post he mentioned that almost 50% of the time he worked in erb that's the rails template to produce html, or the "new fancy" term that JS developers call server side rendering.

So frontend is focused on whatever produces something visible to the user, most of the time html, others can be jsx or whatever the frontend template is being used.

I think this shows why he was not hired as senior, he's lack of experience/knowledge in the area.
So, if the recruiter says $500k in RSU, and the stock stays flat for 4 years, the grant is actually only for $425k (or less with compounding)?

Or, are you saying, they justify small grants by telling you the stock will grow?
Thats a bit like asking for Prohibition because of your drinking problem, isn't it? Perhaps you could use your annoyance at the same old things to say something new? I don't think I could; mind you; just an idea.
Absolutely. I replaced the battery on a 2015 MacBook Pro 15" myself with one I bought from iFixit, who I thought were a reputable dealer, and one year / 150 cycles in it was swelling to the point where I felt it was dangerous to continue using the computer with the battery inside. I had a similarly bad experience with third party batteries on my iPhone 6S.

I'm all for keeping things as user replaceable as possible, but personally I'm only using OEM batteries from now on.
i have read through the comments. most complain about the price and the hanging nacells. none of the commenters have built this model yet. most sound self righteous and they were never going to get this thing anyways. i'll wait until i see more reviews from people who actually built the thing.

maybe i am biased towards lego alternatives, but i don't think that the same model with original lego bricks is going to be any better. i highly doubt that the quality of xingbao bricks is the problem here.

rather this model is at the limit of what plastic can hold, and unless you cheat, like mega bloks, i don't think it is possible to do better.

in my personal opinion, if the model doesn't fall apart, then the quality of the bricks is good enough. yes, there are issues with inconsistent quality, and i have seen models that actually do fall apart. if that happens, then criticism is justified. but for the model as presented in the video, i didn't see such quality issues, and hence i don't agree that the review was biased.
Everyone is saying No, but that's not strictly true.

GoG has a slew of arcade games for sale, that are essentially emulator+rom combinations. Double Dragon, Metal Slug, Neo Turf Masters, etc are all available for purchase with a good ROM.

There are also licensed miniconsoles and cabinets (Arcade 1Up and others) that are likewise just hardware+emulator+rom combinations, and you can legally extract the roms for your own purposes.

And there's more. I have a sizeable legally-acquired ROM collection, now. Even console games - Genesis games on Steam, PSX games on PSN, etc.
Do you do only equities or also derivatives?

This is very interesting. Because you run frequent short auctions, there's no strict long-running orderbook here, right? Are you using FIX for your protocol and where are your servers geographically located?
Loved this from the first time I saw it some years back (became part of my example list of innovations out there)! Finally, some advanced auction mechanisms going broader.

From the description above: are you guys then just selectable as an algo/ATS going through through a broker, i.e, there could be a natural "sweep" (bit like algos covering block interest in some cases)? Do you work with some big broker-dealers on integration?

I know you started out with equities, but bond portfolio transitions are (often) a much bigger pain - any plans there? Or issuance, i.e., mix of funding instruments in one go?
Two thoughts spring to mind here -

Thought #1 - Who wants to seed-fund an EU based FB / IG clone in the hopes that this isn't a massive game of bluff on Meta's side?

Thought #2 - What are the odds re Meta actually taking its' ball home in a huff vs the EU backing down? My gut says that Meta will 'magically' find a way since they aren't going to want to walk away from the EU revenue stream .... especially not since I'm surely not the first nor the only one that has had Thought #1

(I'm aware that this announcement is part of an obligatory statement of worst case scenario requirments)
Python that bad?
Sure, why not? Who cares about due diligence? We're deep into the silly-season of the market.

Supposedly Tether has been given $75 billion and nobody's asking any tough questions, so what's a few hundred million between friends?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
The speed of the turnaround on GME's public perception is crazy. In the beginning of the pandemic they were constantly excoriated for refusing to close stores and let employees go home. But then the squeeze happened and everyone's opinions did a complete 180.
This wasn't a criminal case or even a case asking for return of the funds. Innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply. It was a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent future action by the sheriff's office. The burden of proof for a TRO always falls on the party requesting the TRO.
In reality they already do via the max storage that comes with a free account, and this has fallen over the years I believe. Conceivably, they could lower this to the point where anyone who has had an account for more than 5 years will likely run out of room, which could be a big windfall revenue wise but will piss off users.
Perhaps we need anti Twitter —Where comments need to be at at least 280 characters to encourage explanations and discourse. I self censor in this regard where I start many replies, but discard them if all I have typed is two lines of witty snark.
>Because neoclassical economics does not even acknowledge the costs of environmental problems and the limits to economic growth

Econophysics is really crank stuff but some people really like to shit on econ without knowing a tenth of the discourse in the field. How can someone not have heard of carbon taxes or balanced growth paths?

What's funnier is that you both are revealing that either you don't know the methodology of solving economics models, or don't know what the physics equations represent. Nature acts to minimize convex functions while economic agents move to maximize concave ones. Of course the solutions end up the same.

Don't think that our utility functions are correct or actual people act differently? Honestly only having profits to maximize is just a good first order approximation. That's why we have an entire field working on supposedly irrational behavior and backing up everything with data and experiments.

Now economics does have its huge problems, but things aren't as simple as this. But if you still see a huge problem, just get your correct model, back your results with data and enjoy getting the Nobel prize.
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I can see the headlines: "Facebook leaves Europe. Continent wide holiday declared."
IIRC, Eve used Stackless Python, not normal CPython.
> The reason the theory was wrong is that there is actually zero cost for drivers in having multiple apps open at the same time.

You think no one noticed that when they gave Uber a $billion investment?
Netanyahu trial delayed over claims police illegally deployed Pegasus
I'd say a strong news source probably doesn't need to lean on a "Sunshine Girl" [0] to sell papers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Girl
I do wonder when people will cease to be willing to pay the "tax" on storage upgrades when it comes to "first party" cloud.

With the general push (at least in Europe) among regulators to decouple (see investigations around app stores, bundled default apps, payment services on stores), I wonder if this model will fall apart some day. The "free" iCloud and Google storage tiers seem to have stagnated, whereas the cost of storage falls.

While you can't do everything supported by first-party iCloud storage (specifically iCloud backups for one example), the files app and support for storage by API ought to provide some competition for these overpriced first party storage options. If regulators force unbundling, we could see a separate ecosystem of storage from apps/services.

Maybe this would help drive more transparency of the true costs of the products and services in question, by decoupling them from "pay us 20x market rate for more storage, since you can't use any other storage with our app".
FYI, i work at MS (on a compiler team). The work-life balance is fantastic. I'm not sure where you got the idea that that isn't so. Thanks! :)
> To me anti-work is the recognition that forced wage labor is not acceptable

Good. Then it should be acceptable to let people starve. Why feed someone who can't accept that he has to contribute to society?
> This is surprising to most americans, but the Western EU countries are the least safe when it comes to mugging, stealing, and general crime.

This map would also be surprising to Europeans.

This map was generated based on data from Eurostat, "who bases these number on police reports from each country." (sic, cf. https://landgeist.com/2021/10/12/robbery-rate/).

So... the obvious question, then, is how many robberies do not result in a police reports in each country, and how good each country is at reporting all robberies to Eurostat.

I suspect that this map is more of a reflection of the rate of reporting for robberies than the actual rate of robberies, which is why the map is so surprising: it's misleading and does not reflect reality.
Citations are upvotes for academia.
Good question! Combinatorial auctions with a uniform clearing price eliminate mechanical arb; there's no opportunity to buy and sell a single trading instrument at different prices. Stat and funding arbs form "outside" of trading venues and they're a good thing that keeps the market efficient. Putting a combinatorial auction in the mix eliminates friction and entry costs for folks providing liquidity (no steep tech costs) and keeps the process competitive.