skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably should have followed this route. I've been at my job for over a decade and all my big promotions and large pay raises happened in the first half of that. Been single digit raises since then and I don't think there's any more room to move up unless I want to try management, which I really don't.
Last year got raise 3%, this year just got raise 5%, but my TC currently ($190k base + $30k bonus) is still lower than people I know. 2 years ago when I joined, my peers got $250k base already and I was getting $180k base.

Exceeded expectations on both 2 years.

Raise for inflation doesn't even take into adjustments knowledge and experience gained.

Looking at TeamBlind astronomical TCs, I feel I'm not valued enough. Especially not when my peers are making $70k more than me.

The company: we sell terminal.

I am interviewing hard these days. Leetcoding again. It sucks to interview again, because I like my teammates, my manager. And instead of working with my best effort for my employer, now I have to juggle interviews and Leetcode/system design/behavioral preparation.

And I will not stop interviewing until I get a better job, even if it takes me 365 days or more.
Yes but those refreshers at best total 70% to at best 80% of what new hires are getting. You’re always going to get stiffed for sticking around longer.
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence."
-Immortan Joe, Mad Max: Fury Road
There seems to have been quite a bit written about how anything that's browned during cooking probably creates a certain amount of carcinogenic chemicals.

And a substantial amount of litigation and regulation related to this one in particular:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide

"Although researchers are still unsure of the precise mechanisms by which
acrylamide forms in foods,[24] many believe it is a byproduct of the Maillard
reaction. In fried or baked goods, acrylamide may be produced by the reaction
between asparagine and reducing sugars (fructose, glucose, etc.) or reactive
carbonyls at temperatures above 120 °C (248 °F)"

It says there was actually litigation over whether coffee should have a Proposition 65 warning in California due to acrylamide, and it was upheld.

So clearly, anything that isn't boiled and is baked or fried in any way causes cancer in California at least.
If you're happy with your role and your life around it, why not just not care about the money?
>>the US and other NATO countries pulled their people out. Military, diplomat, civilian - all out.

One exception that I know of: Poland's ambassador Bartosz Cichocki stayed in Kiev. Polish consulate in Lviv is still working.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding, but doesn't this mean that you don't give your employees any raise in terms of real dollars?

Even in the same role YoY, don't they become more knowledgable, experienced, capable? Take on new responsibilities? Don't they deserve to share in that added value to the company?
Even better are the articles that were written last year or whichever period SEO abuse started skyrocketing, except slapped on with [Updated $CURRENT_YEAR]!

So fresh, so new! Except when you click, you realize the article is dated and was barely updated at all from when it was written!
So in layman's terms: "we looked at a bunch of ads, and found that a bunch of them are making bullshit claims". I mean yeah....that is what advertising is: exaggerated, nebulous, or otherwise evasive if not outright false claims.
The data seems mostly cherry picked. Like say azure support, azure is mostly a windows shop thing. It’s like pointing out that the oracle driver for ruby hasn’t been updated in a while. Not many people run rails on oracle.
Food additive criticism in Japan is tend to be unscientific. Take them with a grain of salt.
Elite private high school in SFBay (not tech, but all of our families are tech/VC). Everyone is getting raises of max(8%, $6700), working out to an average per-employee raise of 8.6%. Inflation is the main stated reason.

(FWIW this means that my salary, teaching undergrad-level math classes to high schoolers, is going from $74K to $81K.)
> we get mesh networks that only allow Alexa to pump ads into your home

I didn't realize Apple AirTags were enabling ads for Amazon, or apple was using AirTags to pump ads for Apple, or is this just an exaggeration? Surely we got more mesh network than ones that push ads? I like the ones that help you find lost/stolen things.
> Users on the whole have become passive, relying on Google to anticipate their desires

No, Google made users passive to profit from controlling limited choices presented to them.

> I interpreted the sentences as part of Sullivan's response from the context

Looks like it to me, too. It's Google's propaganda for "we made you need us".
In Norway we have employers' organisations[0] and unions[1] that takes care of the overall wage adjustment negotiations, and it usually ends up higher or equal to inflation.

Personally, I'm running a tiny IT-consultant company together with six close friends. Because the market is so volatile for us, everyone is paid based on the company's result, with a definite minimum of $120,000/year (2021. This is then adjusted for inflation every year. Everything else is bonus, except a lot goes into running expenses (of course) and a "war chest" for worse times.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Employers%27_organisa...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Norwegian_Confederati...
Tweetbot if you’re on iOS. I’ve used it for probably close to a decade and nothing compares IMO. Always chronological timeline, no ads whatsoever, filters, mutes, etc. It’s just great. They recently moved to a subscription model (I know, I know) but it’s only like $5/year and way worth it. In the past, major versions were usually a $10-$20 upgrade price. Ever since they moved to this model the rate of updates and new features has really ramped up, too.
The Art of the Reading Nook
Maybe. It's clear that disabling Find My means, per the description, that _your_ device is no longer a findable target via that network.

It's a lot less clear that it also means you are no longer a node in the network for other findable targets.
Why is it so important though to earn as much as or more money than your peers?
I've just read Orwell's 1984 (finally). There is an episode there: "Winston covered his face with his hands. 'Smith! Prisoner 6079!' yelled the telescreen, 'Uncover your face! No faces covered in the cells!" The Big Brother wants to see expressions on your face at all times, and encryption lets you cover it when you have ungood thoughts.
They want control of your car as well.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/infrastructure-bill-signed...

>The cameras would monitor eye gaze to check for impairments. Another option is sensors that would determine how much alcohol is in a person's sweat... "The drunk or otherwise impaired driver will get in their car, and it either won't start or won't move"
Yeah, that's my point. Because they are more susceptible to becoming infected, they're more likely to transmit the virus.
One time they sent back a letter assuming I opposed a position that I actually supported. In fact, I think the senator supported it too, but probably only got letters from people opposing it.
I live in Japan for many years, it's a beautiful country and culture but there is a lot of obsession with the convenience stores. They are neat but the sandwhiches are really nothing special IMO.
I'd say yes, I've had one at every company I've worked at for > 1 year, however they're much smaller than moving companies. I once had a 20% raise to get up to market value but < 10% for the rest of mine.
I've never experienced xenophobia in a Japanese convenience store (I'm an obvious white foreigner).
Just make your own toaster.

https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toas...
> This is a strange article because Twitter is still giving the chronological fans what they want.

They definitely aren't doing that. The problem isn't that we disagree with the default, but that Twitter will not allow users to consistently switch back to the real timeline. The setting does not stick. They are constantly resetting it back; used to be that it could reset back multiple times per day. Now it happens maybe every month or two. (And of course also on every new device).

And now this change is even worse, at least according to the article. There will be no way to show the real timeline when opening the app, you'll always get the algorithmic view and have to manually switch. This really is not what anyone wants.
4 >> 5

Huge mess. We went from 4 (still have a couple purple Silicon Graphics machines we’re about to toss) and skipped 5 for Solidworks.

SW isn’t by any possible stretch perfect, it’s not even very good, but having a tool that gets the job done and isn’t some rare mythical unicorn has its perks.
I’ve thought about creating HN Tropes, similar to TV Tropes to categorize the repetitive discussions with comments that are easily predicted. I haven’t convinced myself it’d help things, might just fuel the fire.
> Modern Alfas are about as reliable as german cars

I've just read the other day that BMW is recalling 1M+ vehicles on the US market because of engine fire issues. What?

Last weekend we went on a trip and what do you know, smoke coming out of the hood of a burning BMW X3 on the other side of the road, fire brigade etc. When we returned we saw it reduced to a pile of burned down chasis.

A woman from a neighbouring office bought a brand new BMW X6 (the butt ugly ones). She had to take it back to the dealership because the engine would overheat.
Funny enough, it was bought by a Japanese company "Ito-Yokado".
>you've always been able to force a match by wrapping a word in quotes

This no longer works very well. A while ago I was searching for the linux syscall which is identified in the manpages as 'splice(2)'

If I didn't include quote marks, I basically got pages of junk.

If I did include quote marks I basically got a page of junk and then a single relevant link halfway down the second page followed by another page and a half of junk.

I know to use 'verbatim' now but still very much a downgrade in terms of user experience.
I've stopped using Facebook since they messed up timeline several years ago (even manually selecting “Newest posts” started to do… nothing).
How is it much different than someone's SNAP card being shut off? We already limit the amount and type of food that the poor can purchase with their Fedbuxx. Fuel seems like a logical next step.
The question is, "Who's buying the US senators"?
You can pretty easily buy AirTags on eBay etc., with the speaker drilled out. Apple only very recently added a notification that an "AirTag may be traveling with you that is not yours", which definitely helps... IF you have an Apple device yourself.
money that went towards:

* higher utility and Internet bills
* increased wear-and-tear on the house
* purchasing equipment and home office furniture out of pocket or using your existing tech equipment
* increased vehicle maintenance cost (decreased usage lead to more rust, damaged batteries in the cold weather and selling is ultimately not worth it, at least in my case)

Engineers saved time, yes, but not as much money as you might think.
Normally people don't like to job hop. It is unnecessary stress. However, people have responsibilities to their families. If you are concerned of job hoppers then why don't you help them to alleviate their burden. If not, and if other companies are paying higher somewhere else, why would that person stay? That would be doing a disservice to him/her and his/her family.

son: "dad, why can't we go to vacation this year?"

dad: "sorry son, don't have enough money. still got bills to pay and dad's company don't give enough raise."

son: "why can't you just find another job?"

dad: "that's treason son, we don't do that here. think of the team morale son."

son: "okay dad. i love you."
If the part reaches any amount of complexity at all, i’ll just go in and intentionally break references.

I usually just want to focus on designing a part, and not having to consider if I selected this edge when building the mating part and what will happen if I edit the wrong sketch 20 hours from now.
First let me just say, nobody wants to see bad information, intentional or not (unless they want to get an understanding of what the propaganda is).

My reasons to be upset are

1. What they call misinformation / disinformation may turn out to be accurate in the future

2. I have no way of knowing what they are actually removing. They may call stuff that they just don't like disinformation

3. I want to hear not just one side of an argument. You can't form a fully fledged understanding of a complicated subject like this without seeing the other side.
They don't. I hear the same overstatement of what vpns will provide in terms of security from non-technical and sometimes technical people.

Somewhere these misrepresentations are being taken as fact.
I think the easiest way to get an intuitive feel for this is to look at the stories of hyperinflation, because they're always literally exactly the same. The only thing that changes are the catalysts. Zimbabwe [1] being the contemporary example.

The first step is some event triggers a reduction in supplies for some commonly needed good. In Zimbabwe they chose to expel white farmers and replaced them with black farmers, many of whom who had little to no experience in farming. Food production rapidly plummeted and many farms simply ended up being completely abandoned.

The second step is rising prices as a result of the first. Wheat isn't inherently worth 5 coppers. It's worth however many coppers people are willing to pay for it. If there's half as much wheat to go around as before, people are going to be willing to pay more to ensure they are the ones who get their wheat.

The third step is an entity, usually a government, trying to solve the problem by attacking the effect rather than the cause. The government of Zimbabwe saw many people were quickly becoming unable to comfortably afford food. And so they responded by giving people more money aiming to bring them closer to their previous buying power.

The fourth step is a new increase in prices. This time the supply of wheat has stayed the same, but people suddenly have more money to bid on it. So again people are willing to pay more to ensure they get their wheat.

The fifth and final step is: goto the third step.

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The end result is Zimbabwean's becoming quite capable at big figure math alongside the complete collapse of their economy. For instance we saw the introduction of the world's first $100 trillion bill. In a nutshell, giving people more money to combat inflation is like trying to put out a fire by dousing it with the only liquid you have - gas.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
This reminds me of a letter I got from Sirius XM in the mail after purchasing a new vehicle that said if I do not call to cancel within 7 days after getting the letter that I automatically accept their terms of service. Imagine being able to send letters to people that say if they don't respond or do anything that they are agreeing to something.
A(G,G)

https://xkcd.com/207/
> Not to be dismissive, but why would a company specifically care about some arbitrary number called "inflation" vs overall pressure from the labor market, which presumably must have some encoding of that, considering they seem to clearly paying a person enough not to justify leaving?

You hit the nail on the head.

Everything related to compensation becomes much less confusing once you accept that hiring is a market. Like any market, supply and demand drives the prices. Nothing else matters much.

Big companies have entire teams dedicated to compensation which are separate from HR and hiring managers. They carefully track these details and will fine tune their rates up and down depending on how often their offers are accepted or rejected. If every candidate is accepting the offers, they're probably too high and can be adjusted downward. If the company can't close any good candidates because they're going to other companies, it's time to raise the rates.

Of course, not every company plays this game correctly or intelligently. If the OP's company has guessed wrong and gave too low of a raise, they risk losing too many people. On the other hand, if most of the employees shrug it off then maybe they made the right call for the business.
> Past a certain level of seniority it's a big ordeal to change jobs, rebuild your network within a new company, rebuild reputation and social capital, etc.

Doubt this is relevant, seems like a red herring. What do you want? Just get paid more and call it a day, right? What level of collaboration do you really want? Just join another company, and if there are leadership expectations that cannot be met, then just get the normal level of performance review so that when you do become effective you can get the higher evaluation later, compared only to your moderate performance earlier. No need to overachieve.
The larger problem is that giving everyone inflation-linked raises causes inflation in the first place; that's called a wage-price spiral. That's one reason raising interest rates stops the inflation, it gets enough people laid off that the rest of the raises are absorbed. Unfortunate really.
Or a unnamed gas station in Louisiana, serving crackling and boudin as side to poboy.
Sorry, no. Japanese (edit: konbini) sandwiches are made from this disgusting tasteless "bread" that feels like a wet sponge, has about as many nutrients, and is filled with the cheapest ingredients they can get away with.

Eat the onigiri, eat the boiled eggs, eat the nikuman, eat the oden or coroket. Hell, eat the convenience store bento or ramen or chicken before you even think about the sandwiches.

Or better yet, eat at a place that serves real food.
so glad! I'll sign up to share important personal data to be mined.
For me it's always been about a sense of fairness, not the nominal amount.
It is not about that, but it is about knowing my value. Am I wrong?

I don't even need to earn $250k like them. If they were giving me $240k I would've been okay. But $180k, come on...

I have family to feed. I am an immigrant with no help from parents. I gotta do what I gotta do.
Another vote for Fastmail. You literally just set up an alias of *@yourdomain.xyz and any ‘arbitrary’ address will auto routed to your inbox (amazon@yourdomain.xyz, google@yourdomain.xyz, yourmom@yourdomain.xyz, etc). All of those will immediately become valid addresses without having to explicitly set those aliases. I think this is exactly what you want?
Where I am, Cumberland Farms and Seasons are pretty good.
It's mind-boggling that people in here think some fanfare is unnecessary.

People _love_ Taco Bell in America. Why? Because it's healthy? No. Because you get a large portion of food? No. Because you know the filling is even? Nope.

Why can't people come to Japan and love conbini sandwiches for what they are? An easy, cheap meal.

As someone who isn't a breakfast eater and actually dislikes Toxic (lol) Bell, I love visiting Japan and getting to grab a quick breakfast or morning snack for dirt cheap. A tamago sando, plus a hot bottle of tea, really warm me up and get me going for the day in a different place.

Sure the MSG that is likely in the tamago salad helps matters, but why's that an issue?

It's odd to see.

I have made several friends in Japan who are locals, and most of them enjoy their conbini food as much as I do and are surprised when I show them what we get (or explain what we don't get) here in the US at our convenience stores.

It seems lately that there's this anti-foreigner hate thing going on, mostly by expats (?) where it's like non-expats aren't allowed to enjoy things that are common in Japan or something. Clearly in general, sandwiches there are good because otherwise they wouldn't be such a popular item that even many locals will grab on their way to work or a picnic or...

Again, mind-boggling.
Publishers != Authors

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49660-6

vs

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62398-w

Throwing enough money around has a tendency to incorrectly flip those Ts and Fs.

And trusty Ctrl-F does not substantiate your choice of word "lie".
A prompt of "these apps will now be hidden" sounds like a start.

Getting more specific and explaining *why* certain apps are being hidden for a given age setting would be even better. Each app would probably provide its own explanatory string to be displayed (so the liability and complaints can be shifted to the apps, and the whole idea could actually get off the ground ;) ).

I'm honestly curious why Netflix is being hidden in particular. I immediately thought of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPPA, but then realized that law is around data collection and privacy. Is Netflix just checking out completely because of that, or is there some more nuanced media-specific thing they're avoiding falling afoul of by disappearing for 9+?
Show HN: Coding for absolute beginners YouTube channel
AI Line Drawing Generation
I don't think I had seen that fork before, thanks for the link. They appear to be much more up-to-date. There are still issues using Alpine as a development container. I ultimately resorted to a separate Ubuntu container for development, building against glibc. It was the only way to get VSCode's C++ and debugger extensions to work on aarch64. I don't love the workaround; using Ubuntu for everything would be nicer. I only use Alpine for test and release builds.
Thankful that Tweetdeck still works and has never tried to switch me to a non-chronological feed.
I bet it can't too, because "toaster strudel" cannot ever work in a toaster. A toaster is specifically designed not to cook bread all the way through. The idea is to caramelise (toast) the outside of a slice of bread to the point where it's golden and crisp while still leaving the inside fluffy and bread-like. Good toast is fundamentally opposed to what a "toaster strudel" is.

To make good strudel you should heat it through consistently in a conventional over and then grill it.
Some likely reasons for privacy: protect against gerrymandering, automated marketing, etc.
Yes, because inflation.
> sometimes radically modify the behavior of the device you purchased and may make it unsuitable for the original purpose you bought it for.

This is one of the reasons (along with price) that I try to stick to Apple products that are too old for them to care about. I'd like to see them try to remove functionality from my iBook G4! (Granted, it didn't have as much functionality to begin with, but what it does it's stuck with for now.)

I tend to research purchases extensively before I buy, and it's incredibly frustrating when the manufacturer decides that actually, the product I bought wasn't finished yet, let's have an update to add/change new and exciting features. I chose to buy a specific device with specific features, and if I decide I want new features I'll trade it in for next year's model.

(Incidentally, is it possible to get security updates for Apple devices without getting feature updates? Not for the G4 of course, but my iPad mini keeps asking me to upgrade iOS and I don't want functionality to change.)
I do not see it on the first page of my results at all.

What I did notice was that if I go directly to the Drudge Report, it's "not secure." Seems to only be happening the first time I load the page. I wonder if that has something to do with it.