skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are indeed concrete complaints and proposals to curb fraudulent refugee claims:

Children have priority, but men routinely lie about their age. Some 40% of purported children refugees turned out to be adults. Similarly, many claimed to be from Syria fleeing warzones, but turned out to be economic migrants from countries at peace looking for a better job.

I'm not German and I am pretty much on the opposite of the political spectrum as AfD. My parents went to the US after the communist insurrection in Cuba, and I'd much rather have more permissive legal avenues to immigration in America. But what I'm not a fan of, is undemocratic measures like banning political parties because of a more conservative approach to refugees. Banning political parties is the destruction of democracy, not it's preservation. If members of AfD are actually trying to undermine democracy, charge them with insurrection or whatever the appropriate crimes may be. Remember, the Reichstag Fire Decree was ostensibly passed to protect German democracy, too.
Outside of the tech bubble, this is the average range of salaries for most tech workers in most major cities in the IS outside of the west coast.

It might be off on the high end by $20K
I'm happy to see that this happened successfully. It reminds me of a counterfactual which is that there was a long-shot possibility by which the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia could have been rescued from orbit by another Shuttle crew, rather than sending them down to re-enter in the Columbia with its damaged heat-shield. No attempt was made to mount this hypothetical rescue but it would have been incredibly heroic: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-audacious-rescue...
> The paranoid arrogance of HN commenters!

Yeah, i mean we all should accept everything written in every article with no critical thinking whatsoever.

You choose to interpret the comment as arogant. I choose to interpret it that they see an obvious solution which is neither mentioned nor implemented and thus they have questions about what they are missing. Clearly if what one sees as obvious is not done then one is likely missing something important.
Good points. This estimate also looks like it is just base salary
> The survey was conducted in January and February 2023.

As an NZ based CTO - I feel things have slowed quite a bit since the start of the year. That said, the market is more buoyant than the US based on comments from others here. I think things will pick up in the new year again.
That's true in most languages.

The opposite is almost more surprising.
Skills shortage means "We could make so much more money if skilled labor was cheaper. Our countrymen are so greedy. Can we please undercut them by importing more desperate and compliant people? Can we get some taxpayer spending to push more young people into this field with the promise of low pay and low job security by claiming there is a shortage? Can you tell them that they will be in high demand and well-respected?"

PhDs get paid nothing and yet there's been a "shortage" for half a century.
Yep. We too our whole team to DEF CON every year since 2015. (We’re an infosec team of around 40). After last year I made the call to ditch it and we took them to Banff this year and did fun outdoor stuff, spouses and partners included. Not a single person missed it. And suddenly spouses wanted to come too. DEF CON has become super lame. Basically a giant corporate event center with long lines and uninspiring talks and booths. And Vegas is filled with people at their worst being exploited. Not sure I’ll ever go back.
Sorry to hear you're struggling. Anecdotally, this hasn't been my or my friends experiences, but none of us are dev ops, we're all senior backend devs (mix of C# and Node) - all located in the U.S.

I wish we could get a more granular breakdown on demand in the tech world. There's a vast difference in skills, requirements and pay scale for strict DevOps positions versus more traditional software developer roles.
Word. Where I work that's 15-20+ years experience and often means "would become a director if there was an opening and they wanted the job"
Scipio Nascia wasn’t punished for Tiberius’ murder. Spurius Maelius didn’t get a trial but people celebrate Cincinnatus as a hero.

Seems to me that the same undercurrents were always there, they never got resolved, and sure, eventually things blew up. But they would have done so without the Gracchi. I don’t know what the right solution was - obviously agrarian reform led to increased tensions with the socii who were experiencing the same disenfranchisement. But what we ultimately got were the Marian reforms, and that’s what really caused violence to dominate politics for the rest of Rome’s history.
Also wish someone would do something about single player computer games that you find out won't work when the Internet is down (I assume because of telemetry but I don't know for sure), until it's too late to request a refund.
When I was hiring in Q422/Q123, I saw plenty of big tech candidates (Google/Amazon/Facebook/Microsoft) applying to the few roles I had open, and on average, they were willing to sign for $100k less than what you see on sites like levels.fyi given their experience. Also, I was hiring in CA, so I doubt the data was biased.
And that’s not representative of most of the 2.7 million developers working in the US.

Check out comp for most “enterprise” jobs at banks, insurance companies, SaaS companies or even many YC companies.
Platinum-group metal value might exceed the cost of de-orbiting it.

One method proposed to deliver that is to produce ingots embedded in foamed metal, and electrically accelerate them to an earth-crossing trajectory. It relies on atmospheric drag to de-orbit and avoids need for terminal delta-V maneuvering.
They also refuse to engage with AfD's concerns about chemtrail poisonings. [1]

Just so we're on the same page, could you give me a definition of what a fake refugee is, how many fake ones Germany currently has, a statistic of the development of fake refugees vs. genuine refugees over the last 5 years, and the mechanism by which the fake ones (not the real ones, of course) cause harm to Germany that needs fixing?

If you could provide that, and truly no main party in Germany is currently engage on that data, I'm voting AfD next time.

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/afd-in-sachsen-st...
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/microsoft/salaries/software...

There are 100 pages of salaries for level 59 reported here. If you made $250k starting, you would be in the 99.5%-ile. So yeah, not common at all.

I don’t doubt that TC for some individual new hire you know was $250k but that is different from your claim about starting TC, you can easily look at the levels.fyi bands, and I know multiple people at Microsoft that are paid less than $200k out of college.

FWIW i was also paid $250k by MS out of college, but that is because I worked for a subsidiary. It is not the starting TC at MS proper.
Soulseek is your friend.
It's mainly necessary to look to longterm supply dynamics to get to "bad for renters" because these sold homes don't get torn down: if landlords sell, the buyers are home owners, who therefore are either moving out of the rental market, or at least not adding to it, so net homelessness does not necessarily rise simply because landlords with excessive mortgage costs have to sell. "it depends"

But if the new housing supply stock drops because builders see little to no incentive to make buildings to sell to investor-landlord owners, thats a supply side issue which has consequence.

It is also true that removing rental stock may reduce vacancy rates and so prop up rents. Councils and government at large have mechanisms to control prices, other economies do this.

I think housing should not be "left to the market" but should be a regulated function, with price controls. I think council housing was a good model and the thatcher revolution in selling off council homes was a regressive thing (mainly because the thatcher government also removed incentives to councils to build more homes, so actually removed rental stocks from public hands and prevented its increase and replacement).

At the time of the Thatcher government "shelter" estimated 1.5m families nationwide in the UK were seeking homes. I don't think the misery of living in B&B and hotels has ceased since.

I bought my first home in the UK during this time and I haven't rented since the 1990s. I don't envy the current generations seeking their first independent home outside their family, the % of income which goes to rent is stupid-bad. It's equally bad, or even worse here in Australia.
Had a look, NZ tech wages are laughable. 140k for a tech lead in Welligton, where a 2 bed rent is 3k/mo?
Sad but true. It’s as if the last ounce of hacker authenticity died with Kevin.
Amazon Unveils Giant Camera That Tells Users What to Do
Sentry has not been using BSL since the beginning.
Amazon has a back heavy vesting schedule and the first two years you get a large prorated signing bonus to get market rates.
Children are people and like any people they can tell when you are having an inauthentic interaction. Just be a normal person to your kids, don’t try to “hack” them.

Secondly, I really enjoyed mathematics at school, but it was always way too easy for me. If my parents had followed this advice I would have never got any praise at all, which would have been extremely demotivating.

Praise your kids for their efforts, and also praise them for their abilities.
> It doesn't take a lot of effort to reverse engineer mechanical parts

Have you personally ever reverse-engineered an internal combustion engine or recreated parts from a patent document?
This is precisely why UEFI is a heap of garbage, and things like coreboot, u-boot are much more appealing. It is far too complicated, and the complexity of the standard, coupled with half-assed vendor code, mean that not only is the boot process more fragile, it's also much less secure.
It would be interesting to see if the English output would be close to what was intended...
None of this has anything to do with the book.
As a Kiwi still living here I didn't feel like I was getting a fair deal until I started working remotely for a US company paying AU rates.

Making the move from an NZ employer to (essentially) an AU employer got me a ~40% pay rise.

I'm now afraid I've priced my self out of the NZ market and will have a rude landing if I'm forced back into the NZ market (you never know, things happen).

But it is frankly ridiculous how far NZ employers have their heads in the clouds. If remote work stays around and more US companies don't mind a few hours overlap with the West Coast timezone to get access to a native English speaking, Western culture, talent pool... well, I think those NZ employers will start banging the immigration drum a lot harder.
The fact that you can have a wonderful signature stamp, but the only way to get the image into the system is to hold an image up to your webcam is insane to me.

I have a perfect png signature with transparency, but there's no way to import it.
There are places in NZ (Nelson for example) that semi-formalize this as the 'sunshine dividend' making up the balance of payment compared to other towns or cities.

i.e suggesting because a place has nice weather that you should be paid less.
A bunch of engineering departments got told to work to a budget, and that budget was built on the assumption there'd likely be a recession in 2023. I could very well see things get out of the funk by 2024. The halcyon days of COVID tech job market are over tho and aren't coming back, but we could see something that looks like it did in 2014-2015.
Android has quite a capable emulation ecosystem. There are emulators for most major platforms, and frontends like Daijishou make the experience very user friendly. There's a plethora of handheld devices from Anbernic, Retroid and others, with built-in controllers, so no latency from BT, or you can just get something like a Razer Kishi for a regular phone. Modern chipsets are very fast and efficient, screens are large and high resolution, battery life is excellent, etc.

We're really in the golden age of emulation on mobile devices.
Dude, I don't even live in the US but I've worked with PR before (huge firm) and as soon as I started reading this my bullshit radar went off, this is clearly reads like a PR fake story, and when that happens it's always 1) to sell you a product or 2) to plant a fake idea on your head. Since there's no clearly a product, yeah, this article is clearly a psy0ps.
Side note: when they report "...72% expects easier jobs..." they are talking about their expectations, while hiding employment data (which probably says otherwise). That's another cheap old "dark pattern" in lying PR article. They call it "soft data" (instead of real data, so you can lie easily. It's like Marlboro would tell you "...72% of smokers expects health improvements due to smoking...
My memory of Babylon 5 is that it was fifty percent great episodes with really good writing and fifty percent "Oh no, Senator Fuckface tripped and fell down a hole and lost their communicator and got amnesia and they're somewhere in the massive ghetto part of the station that exists for some reason."
How's the contract scene?

There's a difference between hiring staff and getting a job done. Most companies choose one or the other, but they're peanut butter and chocolate!
yeah probably so. tough time to be making a career change back into tech after 8 years out lol
Those pollinators do well enough on random wild vanilla plants. They aren't honey bees that need to spend every daylight hour visiting hundreds of flowers. They simply can't do what's needed in a commercial vanilla patch.
Some recent examples are a daylight shooting of a former Chechen Rebel commander in Berlin [1], Shapoval's death by carbomb in Kiyv [2], and of course, Litvinenko's Polonium poisoning in London [3]. Glukhovsky is wise in not announcing where he is.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53091298

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksym_Shapoval

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
Where handful is 2 now that Trident is effectively dead.

Gecko (from Netscape 6) in Firefox

And KHTML (from KDE Konqueror) -> Apple Webkit -> Google Blink in everything else.
Competitive programming is overrated, system design is underrated
Now nobody will know about that lady's suspended license... oh, I meant now more people know about it than ever would have if it were on the front page in big headlines.
> While I haven't tested it extensively, 70B model is supposed to rival Chat GPT 3.5 in most areas, and there are now some new fine-tuned versions that excel at specific tasks

That has been my experience. Having experimented with both (informally), Llama 2 is similar to GPT-3.5 for a lot of general comprehension questions.

GPT-4 is still the best amongst the closed-source, cutting edge models in terms of general conversation/reasoning, although 2 things:

1. The guardrails that OpenAI has placed on ChatGPT are too aggressive! They clamped down on it quite hard to the extent that it gets in the way of a reasonable query far too often.

2. I've gotten pretty good results with smaller models trained on specific datasets. GPT-4 is still on top in terms of general purpose conversation, but for specific tasks, you don't necessarily need it. I'd also add that for a lot of use cases, context size matters more.
Correct, specifically front-line EM roles. I added clarification.
I thought I was the only one that watched Lexx. What did it copy?
There is a strong correlation that I noticed in Europe as well between a place begin nice to live with nice weather which tend to have lower pay while depressing places
with shit weather having higher pay.

Basically the nice cities with nice weather attract a lot of candidates meaning employers don't need to pay so much, while employers in cloudy, windy, rainy and depressing cities need to pay good because otherwise there's no reason to move there. It's just supply and demand.

I could get a nice pay bump by moving to Netherlands or the UK, but I really can't stomach the weather in that part of Europe, as someone who like going outside for walks in the sun. Sometimes there's more to life than counting more money, and life is too short to spend it living somewhere where you don't like just to accumulate money.
Yup. NZ employers claim there is a labour shortage, but in almost all cases I think NZ has a serious lack of business management skills. Basic ideas like staff retention and margins seem to be completely foreign to a bunch of "business leaders".
You were making the in the low single digit millions and are now considering the military?

You could have saved in one year what you’d make in 10 years in the military.
I had two problems with mine: First off, it used the same crappy "vacuum sealed" cartridge with the built-in print head that cost like $60 when Canon and Epson were selling separate ink tank vs print head units.

I replaced it with a canon, where I could hold the ink tank upside down and squeeze more ink into it with a really cheap refill kit lol. The HP required you to drill a hole in the cartridge and then use a plug to seal it (which often leaked).

HP's inkjet printhead also makes a distinct annoying sucking air sound. Nobody else's inkjet does that. I don't even like their plotters for the same reason lol.

The second reason was the rollers were made out of cheap rubber and my dj500 seemed to rather often need attention.

Dude I have a 13 year old canon where I've never cleaned the rollers, never replaced the print head (maybe once? I forgot), and I have always used cheap generic ink from amazon in it. I've probably spent less than $100 on ink the entire time I've owned the machine.

Sadly, newer Canons don't seem to be that good. I 'replaced' mine with a new one that I got free with a laptop, and it died after a year lol. Like, totally dead.

Anyway, I stand with the Brother laser printer crowd lol. It seems like you either are small enough on printing that you can get by with a Brother... or you're big enough that you rent a Konica or a Minlota or a Xerox or whatever from some company that does all the maintenance for you.

Outside of the inkjet printers, I understand the reverence for oldschool HP gear. Their power supplies and scopes were awesome. Still nice to use keysight gear.
I suspect in the US there has been a shock effect of interest rates causing the big source of money for high tech salaries to fall off a cliff. Everywhere else VC is not as much of a big thing. You typically work for a bootstrapped company (all of mine have been, or taken their first investments at the $1bn valuation level) or a large bank or public sector job. These sorts of jobs are not impacted. You need a global crisis type recession like 2001 or 2008 to cause this.

You are slashing $80k. Over here (rest of the world, $80k is the TC typically, and often much less!)

This is going to be bad for SF real estate I suspect. People will leave to adjust to their new salaries.
> teams are less productive when not face to face even though individuals may think they are crushing it.

I can imagine this argument being true if and only if the team is all based in the same office, which isn't necessarily common. My team is spread across two countries and four cities, my being in the office means I'd be co-located with about 1/3rd of it currently. I think though if you are on a team that requires a lot of collaboration with people outside of where your office is (either a closely related team or people on your team) then you're better off WFH than in an open office, because calls are so much more painful in the office, especially if multiple people on the same call in the same office. The amount of managing muting your mic to prevent office noise and echoing and etc is such a drain compared from WFH
Really starting to feel old here because to me that's one the most legitimate and accurate titles in the industry.
Climate change denial with a sneering attitude.
In Germany, two job board owners I know reported a marked drop in job listings. There are just as many job-seekers, but fewer employers that are hiring.

All of my friends are either reporting layoffs or belt tightening at work. It's hitting recent graduates and retrained workers really hard.

On the other hand, Germany is about to dramatically lower the residence permit and citizenship requirements, as it panicks about its aging population. This might further depress the wages.

The skilled worker shortage (Fachkräftemangel) is constantly in the news, although the worker response is the same as in other Western countries: have you tried paying more? Relaxing job requirements? Training people?
They're still looking for a sucker. That's what they expect to pay someone coming into that role. They likely had the last sucker at that salary and hope to find another. It's possible you can expect to take a hit when going "social impact" roles, but who's willing to take $100k reduction just for that. Either that or they're inflating the title a lot and really just want a Sr. Dev. who again would be taking a salary hit at todays rates.
> Having to slash like $80k on my previous salary prospects

Reading in between the lines, these were mostly just prospects and they were also 2021 numbers which were aberrations.
Agreed. My comment was worded poorly. Thank you for clarifying.
Another use of popcount: generating binomial random variates corresponding to n coin flips in early games. Rather than looping n times, flipping coins and counting heads, you generated a new random number, masked off the bottom n bits, and hit ’em with popcount.
> I also learnt to only become as involved and care as much as the customer. If they aren’t willing to go that extra mile then why should I?

This is what I use at work to keep myself sane. If the highly paid VPs, directors, managers don't care about something, why should I?

This leads to a lot of friction with manager where they want to put blame on individuals, months after they ignored the warnings. But realistically, it is their fault and they will get fired soon enough if they try to make everything a problem of engineers.
Yeah - I’m not personally a fan of the specific tech discussed in the article - 100 proxy requests/second could be handled by a RPi, but I suspect it was more complex than a simple proxy - but it was pretty clear that this wasn’t really the issue.

The point was that the launch was predictably going to fail, it was predicted, and then it failed. And this was due to the kind of arrogant, disconnected management decisions that are sadly very familiar to many of us here at HN.
for some time (before having seen either) i thought they were the same series. i have no idea why. there was something about the appearance that made them look similar. i started watching Farscape once i realized my mistake. but i skipped Lexx because it didn't appeal to me.
It's a document. It can't do anything. You have to help enforce it's content.
The tight plotting is, in a sense, something that makes it difficult to recommend to people these days. Because there really are some clunky episodes, particularly early on, but they all have something important going on, even if just in the C plot, so you can't easily give someone a simple list of must-watch episodes.

...and episodes like Severed Dreams or And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place just don't land the same way if you've missed those character moments or buildup.
It means not being able to find available people with the needed skills. Typically this results from locking talent into exclusive arrangements.
In their defense, "real-time" has never been a precise term of art, even in the embedded computing space. Hence modifiers like "soft real-time" vs. "hard real-time" etc. IMHO, outside of embedded computing, it's effectively puffery, and should be treated as such.