skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here in my region of the US. My house is on a half acre and is about 2,500 sqft (~230m2) and it costs less than a studio in SF.

I had an opportunity that would’ve given me some funny money that has gone down by 40%. I’ll take family and affordability over chasing FAANG salaries.

I’ve never understood the “I pay the same for a MacBook as you” mentality from SF/SV. I can assure you the housing, food, and gas costs are way higher than mine.
Yes and yes, and yet I think you'll find most people here _are_ working for a boss.

Hands up if you've got a website selling printing cards for school, or an old cd business. These are the only ones I know here that printed a ton of money. The rest are just working long hours with golden handcuffs and a carrot in front of their nose.
Total comp sometimes includes stuff like Options (which might never cash out), bonuses (based on things you cannot control like quarterly sales) or include benefits. So for example if your company pays a dental insurance that costs 2,000 a year it might say your salary is 50k but your total comp is 52k.

So an example could be. Your salary is 50k, your benefits are calcualted to be 10k, your options ammount to 20k and your bonus is 20k.

Your total comp is 100k, but because options vest slowly you only make 1/4 of that and the bonus did not work out, so your take home salary was 55k + benefits.

This can change depending on the company, role, country, contract etc. Its not really like total comp is a legal definition.
South Korea government proposes increasing cap on weekly work hours
Yeah I mean why wouldn’t they do this? I mean it worked right? There’s basically no risk factor: NYPD can do almost anything without ever facing any meaningful consequence on the individual or org level.

NYPD paid a $650k settlement direct from the taxpayers pockets, a meaningless “consequence”
> - This is not a liquidity issue as long as SVB maintains their deposits, since these securities will pay out more than they cost eventually.

This is exactly a definition of liquidity issue... Owning enough assets but not being able to cover short term liabilities.

In opposition to not owning enough assets to cover liabilities.
Wait until spooked investors start looking at other banks and realizing how much they've sunk into agricultural mortgage backed assets, when half of American ag is facing the largest megadrought since the Byzantine Empire was a thing and the other half doesn't know what it's facing because tornadoes and floods knocked it ass over teakettle. Not to mention all the billions invested into property development in the Colorado River Basin. Ooops! Tee hee.
Yes I'm facing this when trying to convert a YOLO-based model to TorchScript for mobile (React Native) usage. I wish I can also package the whole pre/post processing from Python to TorchScript instead of having to rewrite it in JS.
> Including the will to take illegal steroids

Not everyone who takes steroids ends up like Arnold, so your comment adds no value.
Yes indeed the entire world relies on ARM products ! Britain found a better way to conquer the world TIL ...
If the vast majority of Google engineers aren't earning anywhere actually near $600k, then I'd argue it's pretty freaking uncommon!
Thanks for taking the time - I really appreciate it and lots to think about. This whole thread has definitely swayed my views on the relative merits.

Always enjoy reading people enthusing about tooling they know well.
About GDevelop's multiplayer being worse than construct, have you checked out my multiplayer extension for GDevelop, "THNK"[1]?

From what I can see on the Construct3 documentation[2], they seem to be roughly matched in terms of features:

Both are authoritative with a host-client architecture, both allow using WebRTC DataChannels for UDP connections, sending messages, synchronizing objects & instance variables automatically, and using a relay with rooms.

THNK has some features that Construct's multiplayer also does not seem to have. For example:

- THNK is fully network agnostic[3] through a network adapter system (you can easily implement an adapter for another networking method in a few lines). Using the geckos.io adapter, you can connect to a player on the LAN via an IP address, even if offline, instead of requiring the presence of the signaling server for a connection to happen.

- Games made with THNK work in single-player normally by default. It only becomes multiplayer once you connect to/start a server via an adapter.

But Construct also seems to have features THNK doesn't (yet) have. For example:

- Listing rooms (when using the THNK Rooms adapter)

- Expressions for stats

- Local input prediction

Hence, I think of them as roughly evenly matched.

Disclaimer: My claims here are based from the information I read on [1]. I have not used Construct multiplayer before and might very well be wrong with this comparison. I would be happy to be proven wrong.

[1]: THNK Documentation - https://thnk.cloud/
[2]: Construct Multiplayer Documentation - https://www.construct.net/en/make-games/manuals/construct-3/...
[3] THNK Adapters Documentation - https://thnk.cloud/docs/misc/picking-an-adapter/
You can turn it into real money in any amount by selling it on the market. Market makers will handle the “100k chunks” problem for you.
sedsed: Debugger and code formatter for sed scripts
Its not the first time. Chess was the first time.
I've observed similar in Tokyo. FAANGs exist here but compensation is middling compared to what they offer elsewhere, it's even worse when exchange rates are taken into account. If you want to be paid at the top of the market you're better off working for a bank.
The Islamic world is also notorious for how corrupt and non transparent it is, so getting accurate crime statistics beyond murder is going to be hard.
Part of his argument here is stock is funny money. I think that is less true at FAANG today. You start vesting in a quarter, vest monthly after that, and RSUs are treated as income unlike options. Yes stock may change a bit but it’s more likely than not to stay within the 550-650k range. It’s not at all like illiquid startups.
I don't think companies take this shallow view of recruitment. yes, they will choose the one that is beneficial for them, but the example you gave is not a situation that can provide any benefit in the long run. in other words, companies that prefer this will probably turn away from this decision in a short time.
The sentiment has just shifted among workers I think. People have understood that working for startups is a low estimated value gamble compared to non startups.

Dilution and share classes also are worse nowadays I believe.
The problem is, the signing up to an account you don't consent to wasn't a system error, it was a deliberate policy at the highest levels (that knew about it and could stop it).
The big idea · Unison programming language
I found a similar success with some project I've done when tiling a couple of overlapping textures with differing prime factors as their scale, I got the idea learning about cicada genrations arriving every X prime years that way the texture still repeats but only every multiple of ALL prime numbers involved (much larger distances)
If you think the term "Systems Programming" is problematic, try "Computer Science". I have seen the term "Computer Science" applied in multiple college catalogs to MS office!
>I’ll take family and affordability over chasing FAANG salaries.

And FAANG salaries might start to not be as great as for some the revenue started to decline.
Everyone in body building posture tested leagues is still using steroids. Probably the winners in the tested leagues are using steroids too, just like everyone in cycling is, even though they don’t have untested leagues.
I work in a FAANG and I e always loved my job (switched teams and companies a few times) if you don’t love it anymore, find a project you do love, that’s the glory of a big company tbh. This was a pretty surface level article. There isn’t any industry on earth where you can be an IC making 600k except tech. At a FAANG 600k is reaching your bank account(stock is real comp)
Literally cannot go tits up.
This is hilarious. Do you really think you can pay with USD in any random country?
Thanks, this comment accurately captures my discomfort when reading the parts where Uncle Bob was talking. He consistently portrays Clean Code as a programmer friendliness vs processor speed tradeoff, while my impression of Clean Code has never been that it’s slow and programmer friendly, but full of overengineered design patterns that are horrible to read.“Premature optimisation in code flexibility” is a really succinct way of putting it.
I've never heard anyone include the value of benefits in TC. TC is usually referred to as the cold cash you take home pre-tax. It can be stock, bonuses or salary. 100% liquid
Microsoft’s Bing AI Keep Saying It’s Named Is Sydney-Here’s Why
Putting everything into US treasury bonds is what sank SVB, so putting everything into AAA rated bonds isn't safe either.
As an American who much prefers life in the Netherlands to life in the US, I must admit the growing frustration at the pay difference... it's almost enough to make me go back home.

My impression is that with remote work this is changing. There are a lot of opportunities for working remotely with better salaries than in The Netherlands. Of course, it's not for everyone.

That said, I'd always take a cut for working in a nicer, friendly company where I can make a difference. I'd rather make a decent wage with work that I enjoy over an extravagant wage over something that I hate. Bonus points if I can work on FLOSS software.
While I agree that removing money from SVB if you could was A Good Idea, this:

> You're talking as though the SVB depositors are some sort of hive mind capable of acting in concert. They're not.

… is patently absurd. Startups and the VC market are all about meme copying, on everything from which front end stack or build system to use to how to write a “regretful” layoff announcement on LinkedIn, to (apparently) management of funds.

The boards are incestuous with respect to the ecosystem, and absolutely capable of acting in concert, as constantly demonstrated.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/03/inverse-cramer-etf-lets-invest...

The fact multiple ETFs like this exist should tell you all you need to know.
HackerNews is a service by and for the venture capital company Ycombinator. 30% of Ycombinator backed startups use SVB bank, most of them to run their payroll.

So no we can't move on. The livelihoods of the people who this site was made by and for are at stake. They aren't even getting their paychecks this week. The entire venture capital and tech startup industries are immensely affected.
I think that there is some grey area around what a hypocrite is but not that much.
Are those numbers on levels.fyi realistic? And those stock/share grants, presumably vest at one quarter of the amount every year after the award, or something like that?

So if you're there for only two years, you might only collect your basic salary, and that's it.
The U.S. Government and the Sinaloa Cartel secret deal
His examples use class state as faux-global state and dozens of small one-line methods that "do one thing", but don't really, since they operate on this object state. In the end, it makes it difficult to follow the logic flow, since you have to jump around from one small method to the other to understand what's happening. And clear understandable method naming is of limited help, so it turns into this ravioli code anti-pattern, clean on the surface, but semantically all tangled up.
Why? Isn't it us who defend remote working to death and say it is the same or even better output as opposed to our in office counterparts? At some point during that argument, somebody is going to realize that you can get exactly the same quality of output for 10th of the price elsewhere in the world and it will not be a shallow/short termist move.
While down from its peaks, Duluth is still a very active harbor. [1]

There are regular harbor cams and freighter watching videos on Youtube. [2][3]

There is an old lake freighter open to tour. [4]

There are several good breweries (probably better quality than what would have been available peak Duluth!).

The University of Minnesota does have historical aerial survey photos of the port starting in the 1930s, but modern Google Maps satellite is probably better to get a sense of the port. [5]

If you travel up the north shore, Two Harbors is also still an active port. There's a good brewery there. And still further up the coast, there's also an old lighthouse that can be toured. [6]

Not a local, just a fan. But as a fan of history, I agree it would be so interesting to time travel.

[1] http://duluthport.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2021-Tonnag...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@DuluthHarborCam1

[3] https://www.youtube.com/@PaulScinocca

[4] https://decc.org/william-a-irvin/

[5] https://apps.lib.umn.edu/mhapo/

[6] https://www.mnhs.org/splitrock
That wasn’t the point: they can be as happy as they like about making payroll today, but they’ll be screwed when their customers don’t make their invoices tomorrow.
No one cares about the Kennedys anymore. You too can not care about them.
In my HR portal benefits show up as part of the TC calculation, includes things like pension matching so it is not unwarranted entirely as cash calculation. But it also includes BS like will writting so yeah, I have seen some funky TC calcs out there
Thanks for the explanation! What happens when someone shorts a stock and then the company goes under? In this case of SVB, you short a stock, company gets taken by FDIC, trading is halted and I'm assuming the company will be sold/dissolved? So what happens with the shorts?

Edit: Answered already by someone in other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107107
> I don't think companies take this shallow view of recruitment.

If 2023 has shown us ANYTHING, is that tech execs have done a complete 180 on "valuing" employees

HN is stuck in 2019, but don't worry it is curable

put yourself in the other chair - if you are hiring right now, why do you need to offer a premium salary? you don't

no different than after the .com bubble burst, candidates were grateful just to have offers, no one was offering premium comp
Torch.fx.Transformer – symbolically modify PyTorch modules
> If the combined rates were much greater it would create an incentive against creating c-corps.

This argument isn't sound. If high tax doesn't create an incentive for creating corporations, then it also doesn't create an incentive for people to work and be productive.
Now the taxes are pushed on the workers that have to pick up the corporations tab.
It may have worked in the past where corporations had high head count and were not outsourcing, but now governments rather than working to correct that imbalance, they increase workers' taxes.
We can see this system is slowly collapsing as your can tax the workers only so much before they feel like slaves and stop working.
Yes the same thing. Probably the thinking is along the lines "better for criminals to die instead of innocent people and if they die we don't have to pay for their accommodation and the society will have to worry about one predator less."

Probably they use criminals in the most risky of situations.

Maybe it's not very moral but the politicians are more worried about their calculations than about morals. Most of the times the difference between some politicians and criminals is just on which side of the bars they are.
> but claiming you could use a tech at a point in time

Where did I specify the point in time when this would be practical?

> nobody is telling anyone to stop improving shit

Look up "vitriolic". Also ask yourself why you are so angry at a stranger's neutral comments. This kind of interaction does not make the internet a better place.
I guess you didn't understand my reply. I'm not pro astrology nor I'm against it. But, I kinda dislike when tech people dismiss it all together because their logical knowledge can't come up with a proof. That's why I made some example, not as a proof for the correctness of astrology.

Would it be fair to say "We don't know and we should study it more", rather than "There is no proof supporting it and I feel like it is stupid to believe so, therefore I should not believe in it."

This feels all over again "Earth is at the center of the universe" when 99% of the humans believed otherwise.

My stance is "Since there is no proof that supports or is against astrology, it is better to say I don't know and be open about it."
Perhaps there is an instance of Amdahl's law lurking the the midst?
Not quite - that was his initial implementation which he described as "That’s not good at all, but I was trying to work within Perl’s limitations". The corinna syntax is

class Point {
field ( $x, $y ) :param = 0;

method clear () {
( $x, $y ) = ( 0, 0 );
}
}
> Better in some vague notion of engineering goodness? Eh probably not. On average we're all about average.

This doesn't make sense. You're picking people from the top end of the income distribution, assuming they are average and using this as evidence that people from the top end of the income distribution are average.

It might even be true but the reasoning doesn't follow. It's more likely that it isn't true and there is a difference in skill but that difference isn't proportional to compensation e.g those people are 15% better than average but get paid 100% more.
Not everyone is happy to move around in the world just to earn more money. I can’t imagine that a lot of people from Europe would just move to other countries or even continents, just to make more money. So, I don’t expect a “brain drain” to happen anytime soon.

That being said, I’m sure the salaries in Europe aren’t so great, but that goes for many things and other sectors definitely have it worse than tech workers (e.g. healthcare workers).

And it sounds like you could try working for smaller companies that are more agile and don’t have such annoying management issues! (At least in Germany they also tend to pay better or equally well as big corporations.)
Two US Banks Collapse in 48 Hours. Which One's Next?
100% why I left the Amazon meat grinder and RSU weighted compensation packages. I am one million times happier working for a midsize business that actually treats me like a creative, not an assembly line worker.
Word documents have carried malware for decades, over email over microsoft supported email services. The most widespread untargeted ones eventually get added to antivirus signature databases so the % of population affected is limited. It's not like it surprises anyone. The corporate IT world has its own logic and incentives. The users certainly aren't going to rebel.
I mean - if we have another widespread banking crisis, people will die - literally. When GDP falls, excess deaths go up.
No, they have the production facilities, network and know-how of Volvo. Most startup have nothing like that.
> If the European companies don't wake up to this, they will gradually see a brain drain

I think the EU has taken a pretty consistent stance in wanting to avoid America’s massive wealth divide.

It’s nice to know that you can be on the benefitting side of such a divide, but it comes with social downsides. America’s rent, homeless, and crime problems are far, far beyond most places in Europe and a big factor in this is people with insane wealth happily paying insane amounts for formerly cheap properties.
Ask HN: Suggestions for Additional Touchpad
I need to start using mouse less. I had a broken right wrist in childhood and using mouse a lot gives me some RSI symptoms recently. I am trying to be more keyboard oriented (using Vimium in browser for example), but I still need to move pointer around.
I have a laptop with Mint, but I always use external, mechanical keyboard and a G502 Logitech mouse and external monitors.
A friend of mine, using laptop for dev, suggested that additional touchpad could be a solution.
What touchpad would you suggest, do you use a similar setup (ext. keyboard, ext. monitors, additional touchpad)?
Mistakes I Made When Starting My First React Project
Silicon Valley Bank Fails, How Bad Will the Fallout Be?
Total comp should never include options or benefits like medical/dental. It’s just cash or things with a liquid cash value. It’s not what hits your bank account, though, because it’s pre-tax. And yes, FAANG TC of >600k for senior IC’s is absolutely a thing.

The article is correct in a lot of its characterization. Your output is a lot of documents and strategic influence and not a lot of code (aka “getting things done”). But that doesn’t mean it has to be unfulfilling. You can get things done by making a compelling technical argument based on your experience and convincing hundreds of people to go build the architecture you envisioned. Do you get the thrill of debugging the code at 4am? No, you don’t. You only get that from skunkworks projects and side endeavors. But it’s still gratifying. And it pays embarrassingly well.
There are also tons of under-intellectually stimulated BigTechCo engineers here who will upvote you if you can make an oblique reference to an internal system, but one where you have plausible deniability so the social media team at BigTechCo can't get you in trouble for talking about it. Look for weird non sequiturs in a BigTechCo thread that sit high on the comment chain.
Ask HN: Is item?id on Hacker News always increasing?
Take the url of any submission (comment/story...) and you might have noticed the item?id attribute.

For example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070369

For a personal project, I am wondering if this number is always increasing, upon each new story or comment, or does it happen that lower identifiers are re-used when a new submission is published?

Is there any reference or documentation on this particular field?
Global illumination test: Godot vs Unreal Engine
I'd love to work in big tech or finance but it's hard because even if I can make up for skills (on the job skills and interviewing skills), it's hard to fake the necessary background to get an interview (having good education or previous experience in a similar company).
> missing the fact that money has a time value

You mean like Roku, who was keeping $500MM at a depository institution instead of in T-bills or a money market fund.
> I'd rather make a decent wage with work that I enjoy over an extravagant wage over something that I hate.

I don't think this point of view holds up, really. When the pay difference is 10x, it's hard to conceive that working 10 years at a nice job has better utility than working 1 year at a not-so-nice job and spending the other 9 years at one's leisure.
> In the US, it takes 24 business hours to transfer money, sometimes less.

What? The third-world banking system of the US often takes MUCH longer than that.
All of the given techniques will produce visible artifacts on harder edges when viewed up close, because they apparently involve crossfading between multiple copies with different orientation/reflection. That might be why all the examples are very zoomed out.

As another comment points out, Wang Tiles are the basis for many better techniques [1] [2]

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=10382979889643467...

[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1038297988964346798...
Pity the competition. Has anyone tried these Ai powered searches? https://www.perplexity.ai/ https://you.com

I'm finding that whatever search is used, it's much the same results with same political leanings so in fact Ai search doesn't offer anything new in that event. I'm a sceptic.
even if it is "shallow/short" termist...thats okay, most tenures in tech now are two-three years...we turned ourselves into short term cogs working commodity tech

its not just overseas competition, devs in Iowa think 170k is a dandy salary
Also, the entire domain is managed by Apple Open Directory on an Xserve. And all of the business logic is not in the Java code, it's in C code called from the database.