skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: EU-based, 5 hours overlap with PST
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Kafka, Flink, Spark, Cassandra, Druid, Scala, Python, Zookeeper, BigQuery, Redshift, Kinesis, Airflow, DBT, Snowflake, PrestoSQL, Stitch, FiveTran, Clickhouse, SQL, Big Data Engineering
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DT2mEynfCTm63oGXhPcdfuVQbO7rwcvl/view
Email: in the profile

I'm pursuing a role in the high-scalability distributed systems space.

I'm a well-rounded Scala data engineer with deep knowledge of the internals of distributed datastores.

Core Skills:

● Cassandra (Data Modeling, Troubleshooting Performance And Operational Issues)

● Druid (Stream Ingestion, Cluster Ops, Data Modeling, Scaling Complex Queries)

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● Languages: Scala, SQL (highly proficient), Python (proficient)

Other Skills: Zookeeper, BigQuery, Redshift, Kinesis, Airflow, DBT, Snowflake, PrestoSQL, Clickhouse, Stitch, FiveTran.

Educational Background: Computer Science.

EU-based, 5 hours overlap with PST. Solid experience working remotely and working with teams that are distributed geographically.
Many areas also make it hard for teachers to move around.
One friend was a school where she wanted to leave to go elsewhere.
The principal kept threatening to get her blacklisted if she left. (They can do that easily). This went on for 7 years.

She finally moved out of state and retired for a couple of years to get away from the principal.

I've heard and seen many variations of this.
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I love using C# to create games in unity as a way of keeping my love for programming alive. I dont know if its because its different from my daily job where i mostly write typescript and python as a dataengineer but I just really just enjoy the feeling of writing code in C# right now its just so refreshing.

Its refreshing to have types and have to say what the return type is without it being some type of pseudo enforced type as mypy or typescript. But as others have said, c# in the wild is most likely for big enterprise software which is not always the most fun thing to work on.
I'd only go back if I got an individual office. Managers didn't really want us present and focused when open floor plans and removing walls became a thing.
>profit comes out of tax payers against their will.

And there we have it. The "taxation is theft" heuristic that snaps your perspective into focus.

>Private industry should be the one footing the bill and are the most knowleable about what industry wants.

Are there any instances where you think this breaks down? There are some industries that very likely would not exist without initial government support because the initial risk was too great or the payoff too vague. I'm not sure aerospace would exist, for example, without the public shouldering the bulk of the initial risk. (That shouldn't be conflated with the stance those industries can't mature to a point where privatization is better).
I cant name them directly but some quick math suggests Elon has indeed made many millionaires.

Tesla IPO'd in 2010 with 13.3 million shares

Tesla had a bit under 1000 employees in 2010

Tesla stock price was $17 in 2010

Tesla had a 5-for-1 stock split in August 2020

Tesla Stock price is $748 a share today

1 share of Tesla in 2010 is equal to $3,740 today

It would take 268 shares of Tesla from 2010 to be a millionaire today. that's $4,556.

Elon's success with Tesla should have produced at least 1,000 millionaires if his early employees believed in the product.

I cant say that still translates to today's workers, but if his vision is that there is still just as much room to grow - then he would be making a lot more millionaires if he is correct. Even amongst todays newer employees. Idk if I would bet on that growth at this point since it is already a household name now and it wasnt before, but I have no actual reason to think one way or the other
I just saw a car with their logo and a couple roof mounted cameras driving around in my area last week.

Apparently doing a streetview kind of thing.
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And out of the entire work force, what percentage do you consider to be capable software engineers? 5%? 1%?
That article describes how to use GS as a front end for BigQuery data. I’m describing the opposite, which is ingesting spreadsheet data into databases.
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The same problems any imperative management within declarative config causes -- drift. If the tool you're using supports declarative configuration, all changes should be made exclusively via the declarative interface to prevent that drift. In this example, the new image should be added to the original manifest itself, not via a CLI update.
Sure, except him being probably the most productive human being ever, revolutionising 2 industries, and actually doing something useful with his wealth (looking at you, Bezos, Gates & Buffet)
The link should probably be one of

https://concerned.tech/

https://www.ft.com/content/f4b2fa1a-4057-4b10-9f3b-efa57e6bc...

and not Twitter.
This is clever, but it is unlikely his motivation is to microscopically increase demand for Teslas by having Tesla's white-collar workforce commute more.

It is much more likely that he earnestly believes that the trade-offs for Tesla organization favor a fully on-site office workforce, knowing that will drive away some excellent team members.

(It's hard to argue with Tesla's success; but it seems to me the future more broadly is away from on-site office workforces... even and especially at companies doing well.)
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this is very much a "your mileage may vary" situation and that there is no panacea in terms of work arrangement. It's pros and cons all the way down. Same goes for debates over what type of office layout or setup to use. There is no panacea, only tradeoffs.

If you run a company it's your responsibility to decide for your company, taking into account your industry and team and such. Don't just follow trends or reactions-to-trends.

All the remote work success stories I know of are in software, law, consulting, graphical or video design/editing, or finance where one is dealing almost 100% with intangible things that can be transferred just fine in digital form.

Tesla makes cars. With the exception of the software team most Tesla work involves physical objects, and even with the software team it involves making software to operate a physical object. That sort of work is quite a bit harder to send remote. Factory work is basically impossible to remote and will remain so unless we get telepresence level robots that can be operated remotely.

Lastly I have to keep harping on a major hidden driver of so many employees demanding remote work: fucking housing costs in major cities. Remote work has allowed a ton of people to escape high cost of living cities where they are subjected to ever-increasing rents and are permanently locked out of homeownership without a liquidity event. I've heard multiple stories of people being pushed to return to the office in Silicon Valley only to retort with a demand for a 2X raise to afford housing.

Unless housing costs in these cities improve employers are going to have a hard time recruiting anyone who isn't straight out school in those places. You simply can't raise a family in e.g. San Francisco unless you are rich. The choices will be remote or to relocate the whole company to a more affordable locale.

Also IMHO means nobody should be building new companies in these cities unless they are going remote-first or remote-optional or are willing to pay 2-4X salaries... but the latter will only drive local RE higher. Build where it is economically rational to build.
Hi HN - I’m the founder of WorkOS.

I just wanted to quickly say how grateful we are to the whole HN community for your support. We launched here[0] a bit over 2 years ago and the feedback you all provided has been incredibly valuable.

Today WorkOS is over 40 people and fully remote across 5 continents. (And we are still hiring! :))

A few of us from the team are in this thread and happy to answer any questions. My email is also in my profile if anyone would like to connect directly. Thanks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607402
Distractions can be overwhelming in an office.
In fact it's not a coincidence - economically productive areas are desirable to live. Everyone likes living in a thriving economy, and salaries are higher. HCOL isn't a bad thing in the abstract, there is no abstract "right" set point for cost-of-living, and you could equally view LCOL areas as generally being rural/underdeveloped areas that are underpriced relative to the broader economy.
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Maybe its a chicken egg type problem. The solution was that households became dual income. I think the drive for a household to become dual income was probably the HCOL and not vice-versa.
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Ok? It’s fine to think wage share of GDP should be high and I agree. But the fact is that there is a relationship between labor supply/labor demand/and wage and I’m just pointing out that by the logic of “there is no labor shortage because wages could go higher” there is almost never a shortage of anything.
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I would say that is a very strong criticism and very warranted! For note, I witnessed the immolation of two careers over retractions of papers that could not be replicated. You could say that the system worked. That was a while ago, and I'm sure the paper mill phenomenon is in full swing. You get echo chambers of PIs that rubber stamp each others work.

In my case, I was in basic science which hit a crisis near 2008 when the NIH was flat funded. This caused a come to Jesus moment, where suddenly all basic science labs were rebranded as translational medicine. My department was absolutely gutted, down from 15 or so PIs to maybe 8ish in the span of a year. Our field was bioenergetics which at the time was pretty competitive, and easy to link to diseases/metabolic disorders. We didn't work with pharma, some labs received contracts for small work. NIH was by far the biggest funder, followed by DARPA and other smaller health organizations.
* If you're poor you deal with the terrible commute as non-negotiable. You might also live in a cheaper illegal basement apartment, put your child in a cheaper illegal daycare, etc. A richer family can avoid the risks and pay more. But some poorer families have to take on the risk or be homeless

* There are more subsidies for the poor. It sounds funny to type, but the $250k families might have a harder time to make ends meet than the $60k ones. Childcare being a big example. This is specific to a HCOL city like NYC where subsidized child care starts at 6 weeks old, but a $250k family will probably be spending $3k+ per child per month
> way better than what’s currently available

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We are back to literally my first sentence of my first comment on this topic - women (and primary caregivers), are disproportionally affected by the charms of Facebook.

My wife went through a difficult personal journey around the time of the birth of our second child, when she decided to leave all social media. She decided that the benefits of this, which include a mind not addicted to the endless drip of social media, and also giving our kids a chance to live distraction-free, outweighed the disadvantages. Yes, giving up social media when your personal time is already incredibly disjointed and isolated is difficult - Facebook does provide some (at least in my wife's opinion) superficial and temporary benefits there.

>we'll have to come up with a good alternative if we want that to change

What was wrong with what we had before? That is, cohesive, in-person communities. Finding a FOSS alternative to Facebook, etc, as the solution to society's ills is, IMHO, missing the point.
Yup. Everyone is saying remote work is better. But there are no studies to prove that it is.
I make 95k and I have more money than I know what to do with. I have enough cash to live on for months. I'm in the green 2k per month even after taxes, mortgage and student loans. I don't know how you end up in a paycheck to paycheck situation making this much money. I guess it wasn't brains that got them there..

I mean: I have a dishwasher that you have to plug into the sink with a hose. My car is a rusty subcompact and has 120k miles on it. My countertops are plastic.

Do I care? No. Not even a little. Why would you? My friends are all a bunch of hippies anyway, they wouldn't care if I had rock countertops either. When the bearing or the liners on my dryer die, I replace them myself. When am I going to buy a nice new dryer? Never, hopefully. And why spend money on a car? You're going to sit in traffic in it for 20 minutes a day. Who cares? I just don't understand the way that some people think.

The only thing I would change, if I could, is that I would like to work fewer hours at the same hourly rate, so I could spend more time climbing mountains and playing board games with friends. I like my freedom and I like my friends. But having rock countertops would make no difference in my life whatsoever. And it really doesn't for you, dear reader, either, no matter what the glossy ads say. It won't improve your life.
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> highest starting salary possible at a Tier 1 paying company like a research engineer at Hudson River Trading, which can be > 320k TC.

You don't have to be at a "tier 1 paying company" to exceed 320k TC, that's easily achievable at any tech company that has gone public in the NYC metro or Bay Area. TC at a FAANG (MANGA or whatever they're calling it) for a more senior IC role can easily cross the $500k mark. If you've been their awhile and have been accruing shares that have increased dramatically in value, crossing the 7 figure mark is not unheard of.

So you don't have to stretch the facts too much to realistically achieve the 10x. If you take two very qualified engineer graduating with a PhD, one chooses to go to Google and stay there the other goes to a university and works as an RSE. Fast forward a decade, you'll definitely be seeing a 10x difference in total comp.
Not knowing Japanese and just having seen the translations posted here, I'm inclined to trust the machine ones more. "No fixed address" seems to be more accurate than "nowhere to live". Not sure if the first two sentences should be past tense. Again, unsure about "homeless" and 住所不定 appears to be a catchphrase which should always translate to the same thing. The vibe I get from machine translations is it refers to the sort of people who live around in capsule hotels etc.

Of course, I could be totally wrong. But I couldn't know. I'm a big consumer of machine translated text (with the purpose of understanding the information contained) and I do feel like it's game over for casual human translations. Usually, with a tiny bit of effort (some googling) you can figure out the ambiguous parts. If I need help I'd rather just ask about a specific word, phrase or ask a general question about the text. Human translators veer too far off the original trying to produce "proper" text in the target language, which usually destroys information. Machine translations fail in a more obvious way.
I remember watching my mom ration her insulin as a kid. As an adult making solid money, I still try to be generally frugal and it’s frustrating to see people that (statistically) make far less than me driving much nicer cars and wearing nicer clothes. Possessions won’t make you happy, but it would be kind of cool to drive a nicer car. I just can’t swallow the payments for a fully loaded Jeep or truck. I guess I’ll stick to playing with the “build your model” tools on the various car company’s websites haha.