skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not “any employee” - the company has to allow it.

What type of market do you think there was to buy my options in the 60 person startup that no one ever heard of at my previous company? I was paid in cash at market value so it wasn’t a big deal - and “market” for your standard enterprise CRUD developer architect was nothing to write home about compared to tech company salaries.
Canada foodbanks have been struggling recently. USA has poverty. It isn't just Venezuela or North Korea.
HN isn’t the right avenue for live news.
There is a ton of money in virtual goods in games. Of course second life isn’t exactly a game.
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That person could probably be making 500k+ at a FANG with less variance in the stock component.
I think people read it as damage control because you're trying to address the feedback while arguing that you guys aren't wrong. That's pretty typical damage control behavior these days.
There were russian and chinese blogs reporting this for days, but nobody took them seriously.

I guess it's too hard to tell signals from noises.
I don't think so. there is a lot of hidden complexitxy in flakes.

If you have time, may I ask you to please provide more opinion on what's easier to understand?

We are always looking for more input.
But one of the loudest issues related to Microsoft acquiring Blizzard/Activision is that Call of Duty will be part of the deal and that Microsoft will keep the game on it's platform. My question is, how is this considered a deal-breaker if this is something that Nintendo already does and has been doing in the industry for decades?
Why does levels.fyi say US$542,547 for E6? I count only 6 figures.
These days I saw a website where you could pay to write down your name on warheads that would eventually explode on someone's head. By the looks and numbers it had it seemed very mainstream and popular.

It doesn't matter which side we're talking about. This kind of thing is insane and dehumanized.
I think this is more of frontend vs backend thing. I have a similar experience to you with our ~5kloc React frontend, while dependency upgrades for our 50kloc backend have been mostly painless.
Oh, I apologize! I do try to define abbreviations.
At this point, the EU and UK are doing a better job of fighting for my constitutional rights in the US than the US is.
> but the median income for SFO is way below

Yes, it's a huge problem. There are greedy people buying more houses than they can use as investment vehicles, renting them out to everyone else who can't afford housing at unaffordable prices, and that ultimately increases prices across the board on everything because local businesses and service industry also need to rent commercial space and personal space -- and that ultimately comes from greedy landlords who keep lobbying against building more housing.

Most of SF is NOT living a life that I would call "livable". Having roommates in late 30s out of necessity rather than choice, and working out of a bedroom with no sunlight and not retrofitted for earthquake and fire safety and removed of mold spores isn't even ethical IMO, but that's the reality that lots of people live in.
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Post-WW2 Germany comes to mind.
Even in a world with safety nets, like in Europe, you still need decent money to fund a first world lifestyle, which you don't get from your safety nets, and I'm not talking about a huge house and a garage full of sports cars. Safety nets are there to prevent you from becoming homeless that's it, so you'll definitely want a to work a good job and not rely on your safety nets. I don't think Microsoft employees in the US are at risk of becoming homeless.
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I actually don't think that would be easier to program. The current thread abstraction won't be efficient with 1024 cores. OpenCL is much better suited for that. But then you might as well run it on a GPU.
Whatever you want to call it, coup, rebellion, whatever, it seems clear that this event will provide a Dolchstoß explanation for the loss of the Ukraine war that will be used to keep revanchist militarism alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
An RV driving 50 doesn’t seem like a big problem to drive behind.

I guess I expect people to be reasonable, but comments in HN should have taught me better by now.
This seems like a broad generalization that has little support beyond -- perhaps -- the personal experience of the commenter, who, I suspect, considers themselves one of the "good engineers" and not one of the overpaid and decidedly less competent engineers, annoying producers of technical debt.

Comments of this nature would be much more informative if were they to begin with "what I've seen is in my professional life", "in the three or four teams I've worked on", or "according to some friends, who consider themselves to be top engineers, working in teams similar in size and scope."

Otherwise, we are left with the sometimes realistic and sometimes much more fairy tale-like story of incompetent leadership holding back talent for no other reason than incompetence or nepotism or envy of those who are smarter and more accomplished.

I have been in similar situations and considered myself a top professional, which may well be true, but in large, mature organizations, regression to average performance is largely an inevitable consequence of size and the need for coordination, a problem whose solution is not to be found in a redistribution of salaries.

How else, with a few exceptions, do employees at Google, Facebook, Uber, etc. think that back in the day things were so much better, that talent was treated better, that there was a real engineering culture, whereas now it's all about sitting in chairs, people in finance having the most power, interviews were so much harder, and we have so much technical debt?

OpenAI is, at this point, a research organization, in spirit and in purpose. If and when it becomes a "normal company," the logics of scale and scope will lead the early employees to complain about how things have evolved. But I suspect that the "let's get rid of the makers of technical debt and use the budget to give top talent more money" will not produce the expected and desired result of a renewed engineering culture, because top talent will not be as useful as it once was.

Whenever a top executive leaves a mature company (or dies, see Apple), the risk of catastrophe is aired, but catastrophe rarely occurs. There is a lesson there.
Yes, but this is just because tech industry people are far more susceptible to fantasies and bullshit than those in finance. In fact, they seem to largely enjoy the fantasies and bullshit, as this whole AGI rigamarole has shown. They’ll take a pay cut because the enjoy the make-believe over the cold, naked logic of market movements.
> The fact that countries like Venezuela struggle to feed their own people in the modern era, during the time of greatest abundance and production, while the bulk of the world figured out food production/trade a century ago really blows my mind

Ever noticed that somehow only US enemies have "food shortages" ?

You shouldn't believe everything you read.
India raises human rights, hate crime issues in the US
This "middle class life" really isn't middle class if a top 10% income can't afford it.
Some made up new equity class that isn't actually equity, and caps your upside? Are we seeing a new level of startup management greed? That smells pretty scammy.

Common advice is to value earlier stage equity at zero anyway, so how the heck are people credibly calling that worth 600k...
WGPU is just finishing up a major reorganization of locking and internal memory management, going from a global lock to fine-grained Arc reference counts.[1] Change log, just posted a few minutes ago: "Arcanization of wgpu core resources: Removed 'Token' and 'LifeTime' related management, removed 'RefCount' and 'MultiRefCount' in favour of using only 'Arc' internal reference count, removing mut from resources and added instead internal members locks on demand or atomics operations, resources now implement Drop and destroy stuff when last 'Arc' resources is released, resources hold an 'Arc' in order to be able to implement Drop, resources have an utility to retrieve the id of the resource itself, removed all guards and just retrive the 'Arc' needed on-demand to unlock registry of resources asap removing locking from hot paths."

From a performance standpoint, I'm much more concerned about being able to get all the CPUs working on the problem than slight improvements in per-CPU performance. My metaverse viewer has slow frames because loading content into the GPU from outside the rendering thread blocks the rendering thread. All that "ARCcanization" should fix that.

(I'm a user of WGPU, not one of its developers.)

[1] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3626/files/5b34df5a2e6f9...
China improved since the 1949 revolution by becoming gradually less authoritarian in matters of economic security. Even so, their GDP per capita is still a fraction of their neighbors (Taiwan, South Korea, Japan)
Which contract specifically was cancelled?
What kind of processes are heavily (or, at least, moderately) impacted by the performance improvement of sorting algorithms?

By my lack of knowledge (and the heat of today :0 ) can't guess what algorithms or processes do lots of sorting behind the scenes.
Hard part is getting an interview. It helps a lot to know someone already inside, and this is pretty much standard for all companies regardless of prestige.

If you're really well-known, they'll come to you. Otherwise, get an insider referral.
I default to MIT license for anything open source that I make for 2 reasons. Firstly it’s compatible with pretty much every other license, and secondly it is written in clear, simple, unambiguous plain English.
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Indeed! I won't spoil it, but there's some very prescient ideas about what are essentially LLMs and how they behave
Licenses will (I'm working on that right now), but probably in the opposite direction by clarifying that AI doesn't get special treatment.

Don't train AI on code if you can't follow the license.
T2 is much worse that version 1, I'm sorry to say because I really really want to like Teams since I'm forced to use it for work.
We're actually selecting for experience. One way submissions demonstrate experience is if they account for the big issues that come up in real life.

I don't think you can spend more hours and get these criteria.
Is that cause and effect defensible? I haven’t heard any Americans civilians or politicians claim overtly or subtly that the US should be more like China.
Those skill sets aren't interchangeable.
A interesting reading related to this is the thoughts of Linus about AVX-512 back in 2020: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-On-AVX-512

My conclusion (feel free to enlighten me if I am wrong) is that a system will profit by having more cores instead of AVX-512 for the same power consumption.
> Everything built on lies and games of power will crumble under its own villainy.

US seems to be doing fine.
Anyone have a sense of how the energy needed to fly something like this compares to driving an electric car the same distance?
Additional suggestions that i think would make the game better/harder because the answer distribution is currently pretty skewed and many of your options are just clearly not covered by the rule (though all respect to rule sticklers, general contrarians, and everythings-a-vehicle hipsters):

construction equipment for park improvements (backhoe, etc)

gas powered moped

electric moped

gas powered rc car

4-wheeler/atv/dune buggy

golf cart

segway/monowheel

antique cars for some kind of demo/event

shriner guys in those mini cars in a local parade (at least i think most americans know what i'm talking about)

anti-drunk driving display (they have these sometimes at colleges, and maybe high schools, but it's basically a wrecked car and there are police there to do pr)

Note: i think many of your options are just clearly not covered by the rule, maybe keep some of them but not so many?
Yeah, take home of $13.5k a month can get a little tight if you're looking at an $8k mortgage on a crappy little shithole condo

You surprisingly (considering you're making 5x the median household income for the US) end up having to lightly adhere to some sort of budget. With car payments, sending money to your family, and local inflated prices, it's easy to find yourself not saving enough for early retirement

I think if you just don't buy new cars or first class international plane tickets you can get by pretty comfortably though. I saved $100k a year with a pre-tax total comp of $350k for a few years in the Bay Area
Unless you have a tax write off, then you don't have to pay that much tax.

You can get legal insurance as well and get all that nonsense done for $20.

Elderly people can go retire in Mexico and have a better life than whatever is possible in the US, in towns full of other retired people.
Correct, but in America impoverished people are more likely to be obese than the general population. People experiencing food insecurity tend to consume calorie dense cheap food. This is not nearly the same as Venezuela or North Korea, which can't supply enough calories to feed their people.
Databases would be me suggestion
Discussed at the time:

Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15727115 - Nov 2017 (16 comments)

(p.s. reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
[irony] Yeah, for less than 2 million a year you can't raise a family [/irony]
Convex cofounder here. Initial focus has been low-latency OLTP database workloads, which is pretty tied to the user-facing end-to-end reactivity angle we're pushing. As a bonus feature we also have built-in strongly consistent full text search, but not vector search.

So far our answer for folks who want alternative storage/query engines is to use our streaming Airbyte source connector or write directly to Pinecone, Snowflake, etc. This should work great for most devs.

There are likely always going to be some developers who want to use a particular third party database in addition to Convex, but we plan to expand built-in support for most workloads over time so that Convex is a truly full-stack backend replacement.
Well it is the New York Times.

Everything they post that is of the "the new trend" schtick is things happening to young rich white couples that live in Manhattan.

To be fair... Those are the people that read them.
Not really. It might start out being for the benefit of the tests but knock-on benefits turn up, usually sooner rather than later.
The sole proprietor is also able to get a tax deduction on his truck that the developer can't.
Yeah it probably does sound that way.
How is AI "reading" code different from me reading code?

By doing so with the explicit intent of building derivative products from it, and at massive scale.
US is doing fine despite its political and cultural issues, not because of them. We'll see how that turns out in 30 years.
At the very least, it could return an intersection type that is equivalent to the known keys in the object so you get autocomplete, but allow other arbitrary properties of unknown type:

type FrozenObject<T> = { readonly [K in keyof T]: T[K] } & { readonly [key: string]: unknown };

const x = { foo: 1, bar: "hello" }
x["baz"] = "blah"

const frozen = Object.freeze(x) as FrozenObject<typeof x>
const baz = frozen.baz // No autocomplete for 'baz', but no error either
Erratic behavior, a sign of drug abuse. Prigozhin must be under the influence of drugs.

Another possible explanation: he got the backing of some faction inside the Kremlin, but they did not really back him when push came to shove.
I'm not convinced that implementing cybersecurity standards actually improves security.
This license seems to specifically take aim at RHEL's new source distribution policy. Are we as a community okay with allowing this to happen, because Red Hat is adhering to the letter of the GPL and the FSD/OSD/DFSG?

Are those definitions unassailable truisms that are not up for debate? Are the authors arguments in favor of his own license not worth rebutting directly on the merits?
2013 - I think.
Thanks for pointing that out. I added a little warning to the screen about inaccuracies. This feature (AI) is just a small part of the app but I think it can still be useful to generate ideas for a trip.
Can you name a US ally with food shortages?
I believe they were trying to force all Wagner fighters to sign a new contract with the Ministry of Defence by July 1st. Apparently this is no longer the case, although nothing confirmed 100% yet.
The reasoning is: Children are both small and stupid. They cannot reliably judge when a red-light crossing is safe.

I don't know how Vietnam makes it work; they either have really alert drivers, really slow drivers or a really high child mortality rate.
Yeah, they just need to put up a bunch of 10 story condo complexes all over the Bay Area. It's insane that Tokyo is so much cheaper than Mountain View
"Good luck with that" is a trope and "he's already basically lost the war" is grandiose rhetoric. A one-liner consisting of those two things is both shallow and flamebait in the sense that we use those terms. This isn't a borderline call!

(but I shouldn't have used a moderation reply as a place to ask "everyone" something, since that could inadvertently generate a mob reaction and that's the last thing we want here)

Moderation comments are never intended as an insult or aggressive, but of course it's all too easy to come across that way without meaning to. If you or anyone wants to suggest ways to be more neutral about bringing up the guidelines, I'd be happy to take advice about it. However, that's different from changing the moderation standard, which is well established on HN.
At the full value of $600K?
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America really needs a federal law so that the advertised price is the price you pay and not a cent more. That's really all it takes. When I look for a AirBnB here in Germany, the advertised price must include everything and I mean everything. When I booked one from the US, the initial price was low but then they added about five fees for stuff and the price went up at least 30%. It was completely ridiculous.
Finland (the south of it anyway) has about a gigawatt of HVDC lines connecting it to other countries, about 200W/capita.
We would have hover cars like we predicted decades ago if it is energy expensive. Lifting a vehicle and passengers is always costly in energy.
This is a core critical problem. I suspect reddit has significant automated processes on top of this.

In my original comment I mention mods banning for hate speech in an abusive / ironic manner (so nobody is truly worried for their safety for example).

I think reddit used to automatically forwards reports for this category for admin review probably due to a legal requirement. Due to the mass quantity of reports vs staff, I suspect they automatically flag mod reports as credible. As such they have automatic admin superbans.

Admin reviewed bans are a higher level of ban and super bans and use every possible privacy exploit to go far beyond basic account or cache banning. It’s far beyond even IP banning.

These seem to be intended for truly extreme, severe, violent actions such as credible acts of immediate impending mass violence, coordinating true terror, promoting actual adult offensive exploitive content, etc.

Instead, they map hate speech and some other serious reports to this category. Technically, it sounds like it makes sense on paper, but this is abused so heavily that essentially meme reports are nearly sending automatic SWAT raids to people’s homes.

I’m guessing these are only summarized in a broad category to staff as “Mod reported + Admin reviewed. User banned for performing or conspiring terrorism / active police verified death threats / extreme exploitative adult content / active police verified mass murder / hate speech”

That last one technically fitting the rest if it’s used correctly (or at least one could argue) but as a chain of OR listed reasons, someone who was ironically banned because the mod “hated that they disagreed with the mod’s decision to ban scumbag steve memes from the meme subreddit” is suddenly flagged in the same category of true terrorists, as if Bin Laden himself had his own subreddit and was posting live content of his active mass public attack.

This is one reason they want people to download their app. Any association such as unique app combinations installed or other accounts (including non-reddit accounts) can be linked to a user even when they opt out of traditional tracking. They can then sell this data or use it in a magnitude of ways.

This is a specific core problem I’ve been tracking but this is a general template example of many of Reddit’s problems I’ve strongly disagreed with that go beyond general debatable business choices or general preferences.
I worked with the enterprise sales team for awhile when I worked at Udacity and we did some research on job motivations to help answer questions about recruiting & retaining good engineers. We found that salary needs to be “enough” (varies by local market) but that people will literally relocate their families and lives to work on problems that they find interesting and that are a unique opportunity. The salary bump needs to be very large to achieve the same effect as “amazing opportunity”.

Both may be benefiting openAI here. There’s lots of places to work on LLMs but “GPT” is a product/brand that people have heard of, and if OP is to be believed then they certainly seem to be paying “enough”.
I find it funny how everyone is suddenly a Russian foreign policy expert.

Given the fog of war, I am taking a wait and see approach.
They're only measuring labor force participation rate.

Also note that the time range is 1980 to 2019, so any more recent trends won't figure into it.
Shoigu and Gerasimov? I very much doubt it. Any sources on that?
Whoa. This is one of the more science fiction things I’ve read lately.
I don't follow why reusable rockets would be more expensive. In fact, I don't think that's true.
The article mentions that the Cisco router used is limited to a million addresses, which would be exceeded in “2-3 years.” Looks like the author got at least double the life out of the router, because the internet is just approaching one million BGP entries now!

https://bgp.potaroo.net/bgprpts/rva-index.html
> Makes Putin look rather weak.

That's the problem for these kinds of strongmen dictators - any sign of weakness is a major political problem and one which he may not outlive. And in fairness to Stalin (and you won't hear me complementing Stalin too much usually), he didn't flee Moscow in 1941 when other armies were approaching.
What are you writing off against W2 salary?
Less of the UK, thanks ... we're sliding down the slippery chain.

Don't join us.
> What is shallow about the comment

Positional without explicit or evident basis.
Just because "have been involved in" doesn't mean "are involved in every instance". That's ok, it's a really common mistake.
Something unusual is happening indeed. Based on my experience living under a comparable regime, I infer the situation to be as follows:

- Prigozhin is entirely aligned with Putin.

- However, there's some ambiguity regarding the army's leadership complete allegiance to Putin.

Thus, the crux of the matter appears to be the strategy to displace specific factions within the army and replace them with supporters of Putin.
Is this why Teams has steadily gone from useful to useless? It used to just work, and now it's a source of frustration multiple times a day with bugs and delays and features being lost in the new version. So annoying.
Has Xbox lost the console wars?
Kim didn't "ask" anything.
Don't tell me that, I want to believe in the dream. :/