skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks don't give out access to this API easily. Unfortunately it's not some OAuth thing that a new upstart accounting software could easily hook into, therefore the banks gate keep feeds to major accounting providers and no doubt charge excessively for the privelage. We need regulation to open feeds to anyone willing to consume them, or a bank to add it as a feature but why would they when they can charge Xero and MYOB to access proprietary feeds
From PayScale, the upper is at $50K. You wouldn't even get an average developer for that salary in Barcelona for example.
One take I haven't seen..

It's sort of like when otherwise successful "name brand" organizations offer unpaid internships (let's not get in to whether that's legal or not.)

This selects for the type of people that can afford an arrangement like that.

Put another way, already wealthy founders, supported by wealthy investors, also want wealthy employees, or at least the demographic that fits already wealthy people.
>I think americans need to really reflect on how inflated american dev salaries are.

Or maybe people everywhere else need to really reflect on how underpaid they are. It’s not like the revenue of tech companies is lower outside of the US, so why isn’t more of it ending up in developers’ pockets, where it should go?
> At a startup, a "staff engineer" might just be

They're clearly wizards that hold a staff.

> I've also worked with senior engineers at big tech companies who would be less productive than a new graduate in a 3 person startup.

That doesn't sound like the engineers' fault? In reverse would the new graduate be productive in big tech?

> "Senior" means different things to different people.

It usually just means old.
AFAIK the Hurd kernel isn't ready for production because Linux is so solid so it hasn't been focused on
Dont thrust those numbers. 50k € is a very high salary in Spain for a software developer. The average is probably closer to 35k €
With OpenOffice all the large contributors (IBM, RedHat, etc.) moved to LibreOffice. Only Oracle remained with OpenOffice. So unless CloudFlare, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. decide to move to the Rust fork these situations are not at all comparable.
North of $70K is still a ways away from $100K+ and I'd love to see which companies we're talking about here because that's not the news that reaches me from Spain. Rather the opposite.
Please attempt to refute the central point instead of posting non-sequitors. Engaging in good faith is what keeps this place from being Twitter.
Apparently some test plants have been on station since 2022[0], I interpret the report to be they are still working on ways to get it to operate meaningfully with sufficiently little babysitting.

[0]https://www.factoriesinspace.com/zblan-and-exotic-fibers
Would changing developer accounts cause it? Like maybe Discovery insisted on a new ADC account?
If the point is to limit the scope of specific variables, wouldn't it be simpler to write

void foo() {
{
auto [a, b, c] = std::make_tuple(x, y, z);
/* [...] */
}
}
wonder how this affects the models that are trained on the data generated by these capcha's? will german motor cyclists be less safe because of this
How same could be said? React makes calls to json api typically - both sides are very inspectable. Given that you have to resort to session for state, things can get messy on the data layer (a poison pill for stateless rest json api)
Writing a compiler is still on my list since a few years, but everytime I start I get stuck in the parser. It just doesn't seem to click with me. On the next couple of weekends I'll start again with Flix (flix.dev) and maybe Crafting Interpreters. Wish me luck.
Right, but neither are they below the law and proper standards should be followed and proper justifications met before investigations begin.
> which is why crime is rising catastrophically and people are fleeing to states like Texas.

California violent crime rate : 25.2 / 100k

Texas violent crime rate : 24.8 / 100k

California property crime : 35.4 / 100k

Texas property crime. : 38.0 / 100k

Yep, trully a disproportionate crime rate that warrants narratives about "people fleeing", which btw is not happening, demographic movements have been pretty steady. Largest moves have been a few real state companies and some dudes with podcasts.

> at some point y'all have to look at SF and say "huh, maybe we weren't right about everything"

Is SF somehow not part of the american police state? Like what part of California is suddenly this leftist utopia and warrants careful consideration before american follows suit into hell?

Cali is notorious for NIMBYism, where police are called by rich white liberals to keep minorities, homeless etc away. Police action is as violent and as class aware as anywhere else in the US.

The SF police budget is 780 million yearly, that would put them above 60 countries on earth by gdp. The entire country of micronesia, with 500k people could work for 2 whole years and not be able to pay 1 year of the SF police budget.
Thanks! Huge fan of Pragmatic Engineer's blog post. There are plenty of paid mentorship programs listed, which is totally different from what we are looking for as we're trying to build a mentorship program that's free for our developers (and ofc we will pay the mentors). But paid mentorship with exclusivity is not reaaally what we're looking for as they're structured very differently.

The free ones seems cool, gonna check them out and probably reach out to folks there.
Did you grow up as a black american? People from different communities have radically different experiences, which is why we see denials such as yours
I use a language because it works for what I am doing, not because I know everyone who wrote the code is perfectly nice and well behaved.

If we are going to be easily offended wtf is up with the crab wielding a knife? So violent.
I disagree, commits are mehh

Pull requests, patch notes, documentation and comments should be source of truth

Git is not project management tool, it just manages my letters history.
If the author is reading,

The link in the yellow box to the follow up article links to the article itself instead of /2022/12/23/sigils-2/.

Also a missing word "hash" in the link towards the bottom of the article to hash_literals in the Raku documentation.
General research into AI alignment does not require that those models are controlled by few corporations. On the contrary, the research would be easier with freely available very capable models.

This is only helpful in that a superintelligence well aligned to make Sam Altman money is preferable to a superintelligence badly aligned that ends up killing humanity.

It is fully possible that a well aligned (with its creators) superintelligence is still a net negative for humanity.
> I don't understand this "be my true friend or screw you" advice that is repeatedly given here.

That wasn't the advice. The advice is that if you want to maintain a relationship with someone, make a little effort to do so. Social media has made people ultra-lazy.

> Am I supposed to call them on the phone to get a verbal update on their life, or they are not my "true friends"? Have 1:1 sessions in Signal to discuss what exactly? Their Facebook photos?

I mentioned email, but your reply mentions everything except email.

Anyway, as far as what you're supposed to discuss, yes, you'll want to get an update on their life. "Hi, wondering how you've been. What's new with you?" Not that difficult.

It's almost as if social media has created learned helplessness, and we've forgotten how to be human.
This feels like a niche market someone needs to go after. I would love to have a bathroom floor or a kitchen backsplash tiled in 'hat' in 4 colours (ensuring no two same-colour tiles touched of course).
Oh wow, that is really nice. I love how stable Android, and Android accessibility, is. No speech engine crashing while feeling around the home screen for no reason, Braille input (for the displays that are supported grumble grumble), is fast and clean and never slows down after like 20 words. Still trying to get into the TalkBack beta program though, since they're probably testing support for the display I own now. But anyway, thank you so much for working on this. Now if only Youtube supported accessibility actions instead of having buttons everywhere on each video widget in the list of videos.
I'm managing a few databases for living, from pg dbs of few hundreds of GBs on-prem, up to few TBs on rds, and almost 1PB cluster of 20 warehouses on Snowflake. Which of those count? (doing data architect/eng for living)
They are in charge. They framed many people and spied on a sitting president.

Huge number of politicians were involved with Epstein’s island. Which is looking like a huge honey pot. They must have crazy dirt on people sleeping with under age girls. They will do what they are told.

CIA met with him multiple times before he was killed in his cell.

Of course they could release his client list and put all those people in jail. But they won’t
I don't know this website but for France it says 38k€/year on average. Which means they're not using the total salary but the post employer's taxes.

I'm using France for reference, and approximate number for the sake of explanation: for 100€ cost to the company, 40€ is employer's taxes, 20€ is employee's taxes. We call 20+40 = 60 the "gross" salary, and 40 the net salary, we never talk about the 100 when negotiating a salary. I don't have the time to check if that 38k is gross or net.

It is my understanding that if you have a 50k€ gross salary offer in Europe, you need to add ~40% to it to compare to compare to total cost for the employer as understood in the US.

I'm 90% sure their number are "wrong" for Spain in the same way.
Now it is, when climate scientists were first sounding the horn they got the same response that these people are getting now. For example:

"This signatory might have alterior motives, so we can disregard the whole statement"

"We haven't actually seen a superintelligent AI/manmade climate change due to CO2 yet, so what's the big deal?"

"Sure maybe it's a problem, but what's your solution? Best to ignore it"

"Let's focus on the real issues, like not enough women working in the oil industry"
Is this to be understood as the equivalent of HTMX + Jinja, but for Elixir?
Sure, but the first LCD tv's were $50,000, now you can get one for $100. It won't be $5m forever.
Lots of criticism in this thread and a shortage of empathy for the position that the FBI finds itself in trying to do its job to protect the public. The following quote from "A Few Good Men" encapsulates my feelings about the subject.

“We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a great responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. The luxury of the blind. The luxury of not knowing what I know: That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and uncomprehensible to you, saves lives. You can’t handle it. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it. I’d prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I’d suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post.”
Yea because Israel is exactly the same as the US if not worse in terms of terrorizing the Palestinians
I personally know of people who quit tech to improve their lives. One opened a Falafel Restaurant. One a video store (that was a long time ago). Others returned to their hometowns to live a sane life among people they know.

There are a lot of life choices to make. Make one!
I wonder if at that point there was a "do this for us and we'll promote you on iTunes" thing as well - which at the time was arguably worth far more.
You are somehow advocating for the FBI by saying “yes it’s a corrupt mess but nothing could ever be better”. What a defeatist, nihilistic opinion.
Less Variable Wattage = More Flow
An example from today was a YC company and they had an ad on the front page.

https://deep-ivy-ltd.breezy.hr/p/055a500d0e8701-ml-research-...

45-60k

● Very strong Python skills, with deep expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow or JAX

● Very strong skills in recursive programming. Check out the Ivy Container class

45-60k would be a Wordpress developer in my opinion, I'd imagine deep expertise in ML cost a lot more.
> It’s not like the revenue of tech companies is lower outside of the US

It actually is much lower.

That doesn't mean that developers aren't underpaid, but there definitely is a huge difference between a company serving the US market from inside the United States and one in Europe. In general the fraction of revenue that goes towards salaries is a fairly substantial chunk of the books of a typical company, but for a scalable proposition that is entirely virtual there is an advantage if your home market is unified in language and currency. And it also is an advantage if you have easy access to large amounts of capital.

Success breeds success and creaming off some of the $ of that success is what causes developer salaries to be what they are where they are: it's based on competition for talent mostly. And that's precisely why some of these large companies were trying to collude to depress the salaries as much as they could.
Interesting read but ends without conclusion / indicative answer?
That's a very good point - I should add sharkdp to the title!
The vast majority of countries are neoliberal/capitalist so that’s simply not how it works. Your pay is a function of the market price for your talents, not of how much your boss is making.
> It’s about whether your phone is a needy, attention-sucking vampire.

What else outcomes might be awaited if "the phone" is running non-free software? I am exactly that kind of person whose healthy screen time of snoop phones is zero because of some attention obstructions - but I have no fatigue issues after heavy sessions behind a screen which is powered by Debian without opening any websites requiring JS.
This is the correct answer.

If you really want to make it big in nearly whatever profession, you have to go america. All other countries are severely underpaid. (I don't care about Switzerland/similarities because it's just 3M people).
That can't be good for Spain's own IT industry e.g. national companies, or even government agencies wanting to employ senior IT personnel.
> 30+ years seems like enough time to pick up some skills to earn above minimum wage

This is the fallacy of assuming the person can predict the future. Do you know what happened to typesetters when desktop publishing came along? They were decimated. Some did as much as they could to adapt their skills to the new environment - e.g. learning to use computerized typesetting systems as far back as the 70s, teaching others how to make documents that didn't look like shit instead of typesetting those documents themselves - and still got hammered. The kicker is that those who had invested the most in learning this fairly technical skill were the most vulnerable. Throw in some other kind of savings-liquidating reversal, such as natural disaster or unreimbursed medical expenses (possibly caused by the chemicals used in the related printing industry) and it's easy for someone who tried really hard to make all the right decisions to end up poor (or dependent on their children) in their old age anyway.

We're seeing the pattern repeat with LLMs. A lot of people right here and now have been talking about how "AI" is going to make many jobs obsolete, throwing their practitioners' life plans into disarray. They're probably right, though I'm still skeptical that programming is one of those jobs. The point is that it's unreasonable and monumentally callous to say all of those people screwed up and should accept the consequences. A society where a decent late-life outcome is possible only if you make all the right decisions even in the face of uncertainty is still not as just as one where even mere humans who make a few mere-human mistakes can still expect something better than complete abandonment. I suggest you try reading John Rawls for a fuller exposition.

> I have no plans to make minimum wage at 55

Neither did the vast majority of people who actually end up doing so. You might or might not be smarter - or more "meritorious" in any other way - than most of them, but I guarantee you're less so than some. It could happen to you. It could even happen to me, though it's probably less likely since I'm already retired and comfortably so. Everyone thinks they're going to be the lucky ones (see also: neo-feudalists of both authoritarian and libertarian flavors thinking they'll be among those who thrive by creating a less equitable society) but that's just another delusion.
"Lost" meaning that one loses the right to stop others from using the genericized brand, not meaning that the trademark ceases to exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
I'm saying that the capabilities of the game in question and the original Tetris are also orders of magnitude larger, you just don't see them directly because you're biased to comparing this game to the original due to its visual and gameplay style, and that comparing the two to measure the value of "bloat" is an absurd thing to do.
You dodged a bullet. I think my only response to that would be "thank you for your time; I've learned everything I need to in this interview".
You have spoken my exact thoughts aloud, thanks.

Let's start working on the theory!
I feel betrayed; everyone has been telling me Canada is perfect and does everything right :(
TeamCity 2023.05: Dark Theme, Agent Terminal, and More
80k$ salary in any European country is way more than 80k if you add the 10-30% of taxes paid by the company which are shown on the payslip and all the other benefits. In total that should be paid way more than being the 80k you'd get working as a contractor for an US startup with no employment protection and/or severance pay.
Could somebody please explain to me what bad actors try to do on HBO Max? What is the incentive to create robot accounts?
That's curiously the standard crackpot line. "They doubted Einstein! They doubted Newton! Now they doubt me!" As if an incantation of famous names automatically makes the crackpot legitimate.
If it's anything like Sweden, working as a permanent employee for a company in the Netherlands with that salary also gets you relatively high job security, pension contributions, 6-8 weeks off a year, unlimited sick leave, sometimes a collective agreement with guaranteed pay bumps or bonuses, often additional wellness allowances, etc.

Some companies employ through a local entity which gets you some or all of those same benefits. Often that's not the case. Which is not a bad thing at all imo. It just means that $80k would probably not be high enough to be equivalent with what you'd get locally when it comes to total comp.
> For a long time, I held off using Hotwire in my Rails apps, because I didn't understand it, and because I found the official documentation hard to digest.

This is so relatable!
> I think americans need to really reflect on how inflated american dev salaries are.

This statement makes no sense. We have a much higher cost of living here than in Europe.
>median salary for a developer in Spain is $30,000 a year

Whhhhaaaat? That doesn't sound right. I know a guy in Barcelona making $200k, although he works for a US company. Heck, even in Eastern Europe, with the right knowledge you can make $150k+.
Soviet Block
How much would 50k EUR be in Spain after taxes, more or less?
It’s not email, it’s anything you do on a small screen:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05605-0
The United Monarchist Party of America
Zero screen time is not ideal. Everything over the internet is not drugs by the analogy
For non work stuff I normally use my phone to browse, and I mostly browse HN and a couple of local news sites.

On chrome mobile, I have JS disabled by default with a few exceptions (HN is one of them). If I need JS I use Firefox.

I prefer not getting content than getting a bunch of ads and annoying popups.
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123082
Once you accept the fact that single income families don't afford real estate ownership, 70k is easily sufficient for a comfortable life. Again, assuming it is a double income household. It is so for the high price region in Southern Germany around Munich.
A lot of research about avoiding extinction by AI is about alignment. LLMs are pretty harmless in that they (currently) don't have any goals, they just produce text. But at some point we will succeed in turning them into "thinking" agents that try to achieve a goal. Similar to a chess AI, but interacting with the real world instead. One of the big problems with that is that we don't have a good way to make sure the goals of the AI match what we want it to do. Even if the whole "human governance" political problem were solved, we still couldn't reliably control any AI. Solving that is a whole research field. Building better ways to understand the inner workings of neural networks is definitely one avenue
I have more experience running large MySQL databases. Both at SurveyMonkey and Zapier our primary databases were MySQL and were massive as you can imagine from massively scaled consumer products. I won't list the data here since this is about postgres but wanted to provide the context.

The largest postgres I've personally administered is on RDS:

* postgres 13.4
* db.m6g.2xlarge (8vCPU, 32 GB RAM)
* 1.3tb storage
* Largest tables: 317GB, 144GB, and 142GB

I effectively treat this database as an analytics database and write massive queries with joins against those largest tables and postgres handles it just fine.

I have had random bad query plans when using CTEs that get cached and take down the entire DB for a bit but usually been able to fix it with `vacuum analyze` and the customizing the query to convince postgres to choose a better plan.

Overall I think postgres can do a lot of work with very little.
8.7M people to be precise :-)
Ask HN: Why are 32bit installers still offered?
Why are things like Rust or NodeJS still offering 32 bit installers?
Did you?

FWIW I grew up very much "in the hood" in Brooklyn.
Ask HN: What's something non-conventional that you find cool?
"Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schießen" : shooting sparrows with a cannon.

This is the story of software development, nobody uses a shotgun to get the job done quickly, because afterwards they're out of job.

It's borderline criminal but all the nonsense is about scamming your employer to pay you hefty money for many years to build the Kaiser Wilhelm Gun.

And the "geniuses" disappear right when the project gets to be delivered. Like the past few projects I worked on, the original developers that shall remain unnamed would spit out code like there was no tomorrow, always latest fashion and of course throw one or two badly broken ad-hoc domain specific languages pulled out of their ass. Get paid for two years or so and in 6 months before scheduled release, suddenly "be assigned to an uttermost important project", in fact another two years of jacking off with no responsibility. While their piece of art gets transferred to suckers like me who only need to do the "easy" finishing touches and get it released. If it succeeds, praise is in them, if it fails, it's my fault.
"Paid? You kidding? You don't get paid. You work on commission, that's better than getting paid."