skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
13th salary?.. It’s actually Austrian thing being taxed less in Austria. Never had this in my dozen jobs in Germany. Xmas bonus yes.

Health insurance is expensive and low quality. One must pay for all modern treatments despite being insured. Or have another expensive additional insurance. Cancer will be treated for free, that’s right.

Tax refund is a bad joke. Spending 5000€ to get cents back. 50% taxes and mandatory insurance plus 19% value added tax (food less, fuel with additional taxes). So 2/3 earned go to the government. Nice!

No company from dozen paid for childcare. I know, that it might happen, but it’s rare. Some companies have on-site kindergartens. But well… the waitlist is long unless you are important manager.

Government retirement will be about enough to live in extreme poverty trying to save every cent.

Just got intrigued and opened immobilienscout24. No houses for 2000€ in Hamburg and Berlin for a family of 5. Rather old Reihenmittelhaus for 2500€ with current electricity and heating prices.

There is nothing comfortable about 100k€ annually. Especially for a family of five. It’s like 4500€ after taxes every month paying 2500€ rent and living from 2000€. Belarus freelancers also make this and have really comfy lifestyles.

Edit: with 3 kids it’s closer to 5000€ after taxes. Still does not provide any luxury.
Welcome :). Berlin in January is tough, even for German standards.

1. Just get a tax advisor who is fine speaking English with you. Just let him do everything in the beginning. Afterwards you can do more of that yourself. Try to be classified as Freiberuflich, not Gewerbetreibender. It helps if you have an engineering degree, but he can help you with that.

2. Do at least two gigs per year (Scheinselbstständigkeit).

3. Use HAYS and others to start it of.

4. Continue to learn German. Maybe do some German interview training or something to get in. There are teams working in English, but you will have an easier time overall.
The issue is the conveyancing process as a whole. It's extremely slow and expensive.
Take out the bulbs.
I am architect on the sales side. That's little bit crazier, I would guess.

In the morning I look over our github/mail/slack queue to see whether someone needs urgent help.

Then, if there are customer meetings scheduled on that day, I frenetically try to re-create customer's infra in our lab (be it Anthos Cluster, AWS Systems Manager, Azure Arc, or istio). If there are no customer meetings I try to improve our stuff on github. Sometimes, I publish new blueprint, kubernetes operator, or a terraform module, or try to create new CFT resource.
You should still do ketamine with your friend!
To add to this a bit - I do think an embedded steganographic-type “signature” of chatgpt output could be enormously valuable - without it we can wave goodbye to the efficacy of things like school assignments. Such a signature is very different than a typical cryptographic one we have today however.

But I expect instead of embedding such a signature they will just save hashes of generated content and sell a billion dollar “checking” service to schools.
About that last point, imagine the horror of having the responsibility to maintain whatever the AI wrote 3 years ago. :)
> There's no reason why some committee couldn't sit down and standardize a format for ancillary data such as the trust date cutoffs mentioned here

They already have (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280.html, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6960.html) but CRL/OCSP functionality not implemented in most libraries because it's hard and thankless work.
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

- Stephen Jay Gould
I believe the parent is saying that if your logic were correct unions would be extremely powerful in relation to multinational corporations and everyone would be afraid of getting the union angry, as this is not the case something must be keeping unions in check or they cannot, at any rate, grow to be as powerful as you suppose.

That your logic as stated does not hold any identifiable logical error does not mean that it gives the correct result.
Interesting WW2 Quote
The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them." - Arthur 'Bomber' Harris.
Nope. Chips clearly have a national security component. Ensuring local supply reinforces national security. Which reinforces geopolitical commitments through making those commitments more credible.

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I was in Manhattan when the pandemic hit, now I am in suburbs and I kind of like it out here. I miss the city, but it seems rent has gone up, not down, since 2020. So I will be staying out here for a while.
Pretty consistently research has found waiting until at least roughly 30 or so leads to greater average life satisfaction for parents. I'm not going to provide a rigorous or even cited defense here but I spent several days sifting through the studies before coming to this conclusion. I encourage the reader to also study the journals before coming to their own conclusion.
Software engineer with 10+yrs experience and was on a break for 3+ yrs. I haven't done outbound yet ("applied" to companies). Mostly got referred to companies/startups through folks in my network. Remote work is an important requirement for the time being.

So I spoke to 15 (remote-friendly/first) companies through my network (could've been more if I were up for onsite work), 4 started the interview process (rest had hiring freeze or wanted to prioritize folks that got laid off from FAANG) out of which:

- 1 ghosted me in the last round

- 1 rejected in the last round without any reason/feedback (although I think I did pretty well)

- 1 rejected in the first round because they wanted me to stick to a specific programming language (in their leetcode round) that I am now rusty with

- 1 rejected me in the last round on fair grounds and were decent enough to give feedback. I believe I made mistakes out of being super desperate to land a job.

One thing I noticed (although small sample set) was that the interview processes are very slow (like 1 round per week). This might mean things like companies are in no hurry to hire and they have abundance of candidates applying for the same positions at different "expected CTCs" making it a buyer's market. I am currently interviewing another company who has scheduled the next round to happen after 2 weeks.

Also no inbounds on Linkedin from recruiters. I used to be swamped till like July/August. Probably means there's decent amount of hiring freeze and most of the recruiters are fired?

Tbh, even though I got rejected in a few places, I did not feel too bad because I did not "feel" like they were doing solid engineering work (I ask lots of questions about the tech stack, challenges, culture, etc. in each round).

I've decided to spend a few months upskilling myself till the situation gets better and take the hiring process slow (rather being desperate). Although lucky to be in a position to be able to do so.
I do believe this "sign everything" issue can be dealt with later on. For new data/knowledge/posts.

There's a much more pressing issue.

I just asked ChatGPT to explain it, here's what it spouted:

"We need to securely record the knowledge created by humans up to this date using cryptographic hashes and a Merkle tree. This includes text, pictures, videos, and sound. This is vital for training future AIs and will ensure that the well is not poisoned. We can use SHA-3, SHA-256, Blake3, or any other cryptographic hash. We should store this in a large database, as well as sites and forums that will provide a "proof of existence" before a certain date."

It got a bit confused at the end. What I was suggesting was that there'd eventually be sites/forums/tools where every data you can access could check it's "proof of existence".

You'll then know for sure if the file was created before a certain date or not.

For example imagine I were to download a file, a tool could tell me (disclaimer for sensitive users, I'll mention the 'B' word):

"File xyz, with SHA-256 4f82d8dd...eb80fd7b, was first recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain in block 601382, in april 2023. We verified that using the Merkle tree XYZ3497 whose root hash was in that block."

It's not perfect but before we begin signing every new content we create, I think the most pressing matter is to "sign" as much of the past human knowledge as we can.

For what an AI will be able to do is to create and sign new content and use fake identities.

But what an AI will not be able to do is modify proof-of-existence of old documents. So we need, now, to establish proof-of-existence for as much old data as we can.
The only thing on here that is in any way better than what I get in the U.S. would be the free daycare.

Everything else is worse than what I earn as a fully remote employee, who could choose to live in any number of second or third tier American cities that are nearly as cheap as Berlin.
I have the suitable skills. Please see my CV.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ro518VX_VZsMl6o0zIaP7laI8rL...
Philly roofers union firebombed my grandfathers truck beacuse he was non-union.
Now that Google will be in your resume I'm sure you won't have any trouble finding jobs in the future.
All the power to you, and that is a good philosophy, but my god do I hate smart homes.
There isn’t a mechanism to “force” anyone. With few exceptions, companies lease their office space. A few companies may try to force employees to sit in a leased office to feed the sunk cost fallacy, but that won’t last. Only the most incompetent management will renew leases to support employees who don’t want to be there in the first place.

The actual solution is large scale conversion of commercial real estate to residential. Some people like being downtown, with population density, ability to walk to lots of restaurants, etc. And converting ~60% of office space to residential will drive costs down, reducing financial motivations to move out of the city.

Property owners are fucked, and will see much lower returns than they expected. Some will go bankrupt. Buildings financed by banks may see foreclosure/auction, and some banks will lose money. That’s what interest is for.

But eventually these buildings will have new owners that bought them at appropriate prices, and new purposes as residences, and downtown will probably be an even better place to live, with a population that doesn’t go home to the suburbs every night.

tl;dr: probably a good thing for downtown; invest in office-to-apartment conversion companies.
A bit off topic; I of course understand that I'm an odd situation and not representative of the broader trend at play here... But moving into remote work inspired my partner and I to move into Manhattan from the sprawling car driven nightmare that was Phoenix.

Tiny little studio, but we've never been particularly materialistic, a murphy bed massively opens up the space, and no office to go into means once the day is over we're a step or short train ride to really anything we could imagine doing without having to worry about gas/Uber pricing. Went for a lovely bike ride early in the morning, the city is practically dead at ~4:30AM. Whole Foods is just as expensive as it was in the suburbs of Phoenix, and our local Trader Joes is cheaper than the Fry's (Kroger) was out West. Then you have the street produce that absolutely slaughters any prices I've seen anywhere.

It's a little bit of work to find reasonably priced restaurants, admittedly, but there still are 6-10$ plates out here if you have the patience to look. I do miss In-N-Out.

Though really I think this is an indictment of the current state of Phoenix more than it is a reason to praise Manhattan... I'm sure any of the many lovely "flyover" states in-between would have much more livable pricing, and the drive cross-country showed that Arizona has some of the highest gas prices in the country.

Plan to move onto Wisconsin after a couple years, another plus of working remote (with companies that are very open/willing to support us in that choice).
You could definitely argue that you do not wish to or cannot have this app on your device. Buying a smartphone and installing the app for you would probably be the management’s next step. A cheap $100 smartphone costs relatively nothing compared to a year of NYC rent ($25k-$75k). So you would probably be stuck carrying two phones around.

I’m not sure a phone contract would be needed, especially if the building has WiFi.
I had my first at 32, and that was earlier than my friends. And when I pick mine up at daycare, I feel like I am the youngest. But I also do not feel noticeably worse off physically in mid 30s compared to mid 20s.

I disagree that there will never be a better situation. A couple with secure cash flows and in demand talents can optimize when they have kids to accommodate goals (for example, their preferred living situation, career goals, etc).

Things like moving, and working strenuous roles while having kids seems less than ideal. Of course, if you want 5 kids then waiting is not an option, but if you want 2, then there is some room for maneuvering.
I strongly identify with this post. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah, there are lots of things I can't do now. But that's ok with me. It doesn't even feel like a sacrifice really. Being a dad is just part of who I am and I want to do it well just like any other thing I do.

My kids won't need me anchored forever. And I still get to go fishing, see concerts, play video games, and do other stuff I enjoy. It's not the total loss of all freedom some make it out to be.
I keep hearing this trope but this is very naive. A manager simply cannot keep hiring into bottom 6% role. All candidates are subject to the same type of interviews. Every interviewer has to give a "hire" decision for the new candidate. Then there is a bar-raiser interview in Amazon where the interviewer belongs to an unrelated team. They need to give a "hire" decision too. Unless all of this happens, a manager cannot simply hire a new candidate. There is no way a manager can simply hire into the bottom 6% role to keep their good people.
> The legal binding on the original NFT is broken, and a new NFT is issued.

oooooooof. Centralization removes what modest benefits there were in the first place.
> The problem are security bug fixes [...]

I'd say the bigger problem is having a stack that a very limited amount of people want to work on. This is true for a company where you want to hire specific people to work on your outdated stack (hard and expensive), but even more for an open source project where you need contributors willing to work on an old stack in their free time.
Do you think this applies to others too? Some people do sports or competitions for fun. Winning is overrated.
Excellent question. I have no idea.
The same government targets animal rights activists as terrorists. I suppose that make sense from the same government that drones babies and women and talks about human rights.

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/23/ecoterrorism-fbi-animal-...

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/12/animal-people-documentar...

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/animal-righ...

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For context Peta claims that 110 million animals are killed annually in the US for research purposes:

https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation...
Issues has a negative connotation. Staking withdrawals were >intentionally< not enabled to give the system more stability in the short term. Unstaking, in a FIFO manner, has a roadmap you can read about with a quick web search.
We will be all dead and gone long before any of those points are a reality...
Genius is also loaded. It's a fact kids in poverty have lower test grades, so the ACT of giving them UBI will in fact RAISE test scores and maybe move them up to the 'genius' level, or at least give them a better shot.

It's hard to focus on schooling when you're tummy is growling, or there's a ton of stress at home, or abuse, etc.
I have the suitable skills.Please see my CV
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ro518VX_VZsMl6o0zIaP7laI8rL...
This is one of those instances where it would have been useful to:

- somehow not see that headline number of 1,500 first

- come up with a guess (or look up) how many animals are typically killed in medical testing procedures for drugs, surgeries, etc.

- guess how many animal deaths would be expected for a company doing what Neuralink is trying to do

- only then check the true number after having this estimate in mind

Since we see the 1,500 first we have some kind of immediate emotional reaction to it that is not calibrated to anything. It’s a textbook form of scope insensitivity. Would you have reacted any stronger if the number had been 150,000? Would you have reacted more mildly if the number was 150?

When a headline provides a number and then the article provides no real context for what one might reasonably have expected that number to be, it’s a sign that you are being preyed upon.
Thank you for sharing. You are certainly at a different point in your life and career (I am but only a humble developer), however it was very nice to read your story about spending more time with your children.

I share that feeling of observing the industry. I think that some of the recent sentiments are a bit overblown about the tech industry. Some seem to think that it's all going to blow up because a few thousand FAANG rest-n-vesters got let go. (side-note: I know that not all who got made redundant were of that type, just adding flare!)
We can't even expect people to not have cognitive dissonance.
A few generations later? It was about 600 years later.
Shitcoins all the way to the horizon.
Why do new cars look like wet putty?
A "mediocre" thinker is able to conjure up "powerful truths" if he pretends they were said by somebody else.

A "mediocre" artist is able to make "masterpieces" if he pretends they were done by somebody else.

Somehow, one is acceptable, while the other is quite obviously nonsense, absurd fetishization due to bias.

What makes art so special? Especially when it is generally said that what makes a master is not simply technique, but their unique 'eye', perception of the world, way to express things in a certain harmony with technique and the zeitgeist. The profound feelings that people have in connection with art depend on what the opinion of others actually is, despite the apparent universality of the art language.
The crime of forgery, within the art world, is similar to forbid anyone to express wrong theorems or false mathematical statements because of course, you wouldn't be able to distinguish that from the real mathematics of Gauss.
...yes and it would be clearer if they used the named functions
And here is more:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878219

It appears that they have killed 1500 animals so far, that is a staggering number. For context most of the projects I've worked on use a total of a dozen or so animals over the course of the entire program, and those devices are on the market.
> The Naira has fallen 52% in the last 7 years under the current regime

How much has crypto grown in Nigeria? Is it possible that the migration to crypto / loss of faith in the local currency in lieu of USD is what’s actually behind the collapse vs government policies themselves?
> The real estate thing is interesting: transfer time goes down from around 4 months in the UK to a couple of days. The only delay is the KYCAMLCTFPEPOFACT checking: if that's done as a pre-clearing step the transfer of real estate will be instantaneous. It took several years to build this capability.

So. The delay is still there, you still need KYC and other checks. The speed up is due to transfering paper records to a digital system, and has nothing to do with blockchain.

But sure. "NFTs and Blockchain" something something.

Good grief. In a backwards country of Moldova (where I'm from) property transfers (and other transfers like changing car ownership etc.) are instantaneous and don't need NFTs, blockchains or Ethereum. Go figure, must be happening by magic.
A good article that reiterates the importance of building positive habits to improve one's own life experience, over thinking that dramatic escape will change your life.

You can't be tempted by chocolate if you don't have chocolate in your house. Can't buy chocolate if you get into the habit of avoiding that aisle when shopping.

Also works in reverse: I recently started a new job within cycling distance, and by design my subconscious route to and from work takes me past the gym.
It's easier to keep going to the gym when you're there anyway, every day.
> Not when life expectancy decreases, as it is here in the United States.

That's scary! Do you think life expectancy to continue to decrease?

> People who don't have a roof over their heads or a meal to eat aren't concerned with climate change.

Sure that's what I was trying to communicate. Climate change won't be a priority when people are struggling but it doesn't go away...
I think the argument is that they're taking too long. Actual humans continue to suffer with problems that could be addressed by this technology while some people are "hand-wringing" about animal life in a society that raises and kills animals inhumanely because they're tasty.
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I help companies building production grade firmware and software for (preferably) robotic systems.

I have been professionally developing firmware and software for over a decade, working on AGV control software, wireless sensor networks, guidance systems for self-driving tractors, optoelectronic volume measurement systems for agricultural applications, consumer robotics systems, securely connecting resource-constrained embedded devices with the Internet including OTA, custom embedded systems for AGV battery management, magnetic guidance, ultrasonic distance measurement, robot-human interaction and many other projects.

Looking forward to working with you ;)
It appears that they have killed 1500 animals so far, that is a staggering number. For context most of the projects I've worked on use a total of a dozen or so animals over the course of the entire program, and those devices are on the market.
Fun fact: tracks that marbles are travelling along in Marble Drop are actually 3D.
It's inseparable from the technology. The technology is about issuing and transferring, and exchanging virtual tokens. This is all it does. And what can you do with virtual tokens? Not much, other than trying to sell them for money. I think Ponzis will always be one of the main use cases, if not the main use case.