skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I‘ve been to the US for a long vacation (4,5 weeks or with traveltime and rest day before and after a whole month). I was able to do this because I have 35 days of vacation (a bonus program from my employer, stay more then x years and your vacation days increase. I have the maximum after 7 years) While I was traveling through south California and Arizona I dreamed how awesome it would be to live here and be able to visit more awesome sites without a 11-13h flight and all the other costs. Then I realized: If I would live and work here I might not get the vacation days I‘m used to, to do all these things. Bubble bursted for the time being. Or are there exceptions? I also include a normal weekly hour rate. I work 40h a week and can be very flexible with these times.
> Coworkers were always amazed

Did everyone clap?
I think Americans also are quite delusional about how low the European salaries are. Getting six figures in Europe isn't particularly hard anymore.
I've lived in Germany the last few years, I never heard of this, not saying it's not true but it's defo not enforced
Hi,

It's solving a tiny problem that annoyed me for many years: find a way to have unique keys for entities that don't have an obvious one without displaying their primary key as a number.

base 10 is not the best representation here.

feedback welcome!
I count 10 European companies on this list, and 20 US.

Maybe is not as bad as you think?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...
Well I'm out of ideas: https://chat.openai.com/share/3883332d-511a-404d-9d5a-7f63f9...
Healthcare in the US is super uneven. I had longer wait times for appointments in the northeast than I do here in Norway now with the public system.

You can get really lucky in the US and have a great experience, but you can also have really terrible ones _and_ pay quite a bit for it.
Free as in I can get flown to the ER without having to worry to go bankrupt.

Strong social system as in you get 60% of your salary if you go unemployed for s year.

Im not sure you realize that lots of things you pay are for the chance something doesnt go as planned in your life. Ofc its better to live in the US from a financial standpoint if everything works out and you never get sick or unemployed etc
The UK's minimum wage is £10.42 per hour. That's about US$13.

What's the minimum wage in the USA?

And, yes, if you're a full-time minimum wage employee in the UK you get a minimum of 28 days paid holiday.
I have studied and live in China for a couple of years, I kept many friends there.

You can’t have 40 years of rapid growth without any consolidation at some point, but I think it’s exaggerated.

The news reports are way too sensationalist
Not if you're a US citizen.

"If you’re driving or walking back into the US from Canada or Mexico, and you don’t have your passport with you, be prepared for some hassles. Although you won’t be denied entry to the United States, you will be taken out of line to be interviewed by US Customs and Border Patrol officers. Your return to the US will be delayed until the officials are satisfied that you are a US citizen."

https://passportinfo.com/blog/new-passport-fines-on-us-borde...

You can clearly be denied boarding a flight by an airline if you don't have the proper documentation.
You know you can take unpaid vacations, right?
Walkable cities, better culture, etc. Not just safety net
Parents have to pay for university in Europe unless they are poor. And while there are no fees, the costs are typically between 30k and 100k per child.

edit: In Germany. I‘m German and I have studied there. I should know.

edit2: Someone said this comment could be interpreted as the cost per year which is not the case. This is the total cost.
I think you can do this math yourself pretty fast: US median software eng salary is about $170k/yr, German one is $80.

Both will include full health benefits etc.

With 5 weeks paid vacation in DE and 2 weeks in US, that would be $170k for 50 weeks if work vs $80k for 47 weeks.

Not counting US taxes being lower and looking only at gross pay, that’s about $1.7K/week in DE vs $3.4K/week in the US.

So after correcting for vacation, US engineers make about twice German counterparts
Forget about 4 weeks; I took 7 weeks off this summer, next year I'm going for 8.
It's not clear that compute will scale as it did for the next 33 years. But it doesn't really need to.

I read the article and I was thinking "my God, I remember I used MSE that weekend in my pet ML project and it really didn't work out that well; wrong loss function." Our current crop of LLMs, or the one next year, will be perfectly able to tell me how I can improve my code and graphs, which means that I can deploy some expert-level techniques that otherwise would be "locked" to me by 50000 hours of "mastery acquisition".

A part of me is telling me that we humans are doomed, and that in 33 years we would have created a world in which we humans are irrelevant. But another part tells me that if we avoid that fate and all the other dooms, the future might just be quite bright.
Assuming you are a tech person with a high salary, you can probably afford to take some unpaid time off. But if you have a low or average salary, then you can't afford that and thus no time off at all? Sounds absolutely terrible.
I find it funny how antagonistic the West is against BRICS; the West has ignored the Global South for far too long, and worse, depletes those countries of resources and getting rich off of them. Countries have now seen that they can't rely on the US not to meddle.

Look at what America did to their ally South Africa, the ambassador accused us without proof and our currency dropped like a rock. The US also had its army in Syria protect private military contractors who protect US companies extracting oil from Syria. They're hypocrites as China is their biggest trading partner. France produces 70% of its electricity from nuclear and gets the majority of its fuel from Africa. And West Africa is just as poor as it left them.

India and China having border skirmishes don't make them sworn enemies of each other. In fact, China is one of India's largest trading partners. The US and Canada even has border disputes; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_Entrance.

Also, it's not a military bloc. And you can understand why the Global South countries would want this alliance to grow their economies and be less reliant on Western imposition. On average, African countries loans cost 4% more than America and 8% more than Europe, they're being taken advantage of and their natural resources depleted.

The BRICS countries constitute more than 50% of the population and 26% of the world's nominal GDP but have only 14% of the IMF's voting rights.

They aren't looking to unsettle the dollar, but be less reliant on it.

And now those countries want to come together to build up their economies through the New Development Bank which aims to increase local currency borrowing to 30%.
Tell that to my FreeBSD server - the power to serve.
Anecdote time, but I moved from a decent (non-FAANG) tech salary in the US to a (locally) good salary in Norway, and feel better off as a result. In outright terms my salary took a huge hit, but there are so many little things in the US that eat up your money you don't realize over time.

And the difference gets even more stark if you have children.
Provably false. You don't even have to look far -- there is no "labour shortage," what there is a shortage of is "desperate people and suckers." That has not led to higher wages, only enough for people to bite.

If there was balance, then you'd be getting paid your labour's worth, which would never happen as that's where all the money lies. You might have a good product, but if nobody assembles it? If nobody makes the parts? If nobody makes or maintains the machines that assemble the parts? Nothing, and therefore, no value.
In the UK you basically only see iPads (95%+). Android tablets aren’t common
In tech, yes. If you work in a FAANG-adjacent company, you're likely to be a millionaire after 5-8 years of working, all while getting better health care and better pre-tax retirement accounts than in the EU. If you decide you want to take it easy afterwards, you can still move to the EU then.

In the EU, this type of job is much more rare, and even if you get one, after 5-8 years you'd probably be at around $400k-$500k.
“Nobody dislikes the apple self-service except rossman”

Yes they do, the self service is a useless PR stunt which is useful to no one. It’s there so Apple can say “look, we support repair” but it’s completely useless to the average person to the point where people are getting laws put in place to force them to make something better

“who is paid to not like them”

What is this conspiracy theory? I guess technically people donate money to his non profit but that doesn’t go to him?

“There is no problem with them”

What about these problems?
- It doesn’t help at all with aftermarket parts, only “genuine Apple” ones they have complete control over
- You have to order each part individually, so it takes way more time and money than it needs to if they could just stick replacement parts
- It’s designed for individuals to repair parts, which very few people do, they need to be able to take things to repair shops (there is an independent repair program but it’s even more useless)

“other than rossman not being able to make money performing installations of genuine parts at the prices apple charges”

If Apple is artificially blocking others from competing fairly with them, then yes, that’s an issue. It’s called being anticompetitive. Despite all the barriers, though, he (and other independent repair shops) can still often do repairs at a much lower price, but because Apple wants to extort more money rather than making their prices competitive they create artificial issues with this

“People were complaining you can’t use random parts salvaged from dead phones or use non-genuine parts. And yeah, that’s true, because functionally those are indistinguishable from parts chopped from stolen phones.”

What about this compromise solution? Each part is still serialised, but the enforcement is done in the part itself rather than the OS. The part will refuse to power on if a key isn’t provided by the phone. An aftermarket part will still work because it doesn’t have this enforcement, and there is an unpairing process that can be used to salvage non-stolen devices that requires the device to be unlocked. When the unpaired part is connected to a phone again it will pair to that device. Of course, Apple won’t do anything like that unless they have to
I think you have this backwards, it was explained to me that the employer cannot refuse a consecutive vacation of up to 2 weeks, not that the employee has an obligation to take it as such.
"We have turned off comments, but you can see what folks had to say before we did so."

That doesn't seem right. I recall that the article was quite popular at the time and that there were lots of comments.
Oh wow, I don't care.
Tuiton in France is $500-600 USD/year for any European citizen. And degrees are only 3 years in France.
No, it is very relevant and if you don't understand why I wonder why you would bother to comment in the first place.
Neural nets seem to learn much slower than humans. Even GPT-2 has seen orders of magnitude more tokens of language than a human experiences in a lifetime. At least as far as language is concerned, humans are able to extract a lot more information from their training data.
How so? Isn't this quite dependent on country? As far as I understand here in Norway, there are no costs associated with University.
> one of the Dasher developers

If either the dev or the friend arrived by unicycle, I probably know them…
Higher education is free in many EU countries, you often only have to pay if you want to study abroad. The ones that are not free aren't anywhere near as expensive as you describe.
They're the bosses
Sure it does. Most of the responses on posts like these are simply aping industry talking points, where the "industry" in question is the academic/philanthropic complex. They spend vast amounts on propaganda to ensure public support for their work.
Interesting, you look at the frequency of different groups/traits in the different sets rather than look at which specific individuals/records that are common between sets and then sum it up? Its like one of these things that are simple but require you to stop and think of the atomicity you need.
I keep old Yoga 13 in a drawer. I think it happened still too early for its time - too heavy as tablet, fans, small screen vs form factor, font hinting quite bad in vertical mode, Windows8 clunky interface, battery...

I think today's Macbook Air M2 with 360deg hinges, touch and some iPad like UI-mode would be a holy grail for the article author.
What you call very good is almost the minimum (24) vacation days in germany plus you get public holidays ontop of which range from 10-12 (in a good year most of them are during the workweek).

Here people who have good jobs can get ~35 vacation days.
disclaimer: i am in the middle of the journey into learning this subject, and have at least done finetuning on existing models. some may still consider my take as misinformed.

one thing i am not a big fan of in this discourse is that how the community makes up jargon to describe relatively simple things on one hand (a la "embeddings"), and while come up with misnomers like "hallucinations" to describe otherwise blunt things. it is contributing to miss the forest for the trees in this discussion.

while i agree it is quite impressive to see what the state of the art can seemingly achieve on surface, the way we approach designing these models are fundamentally not aligned with what we want to do with its result. while some media for generative machine learning produce relatively harmless results (e.g. images and audio), it is the text where i have a lot of reservations.

we train these models to essentially turn noise into something that humans can pass as acceptable (for the given prompt). Sadly, however, people outside (and sadly "inside") this space claim it to be the word of God.

i still strongly believe that a hybrid system is going to be the only way we can achieve the most from the current approach. almost a decade ago we were already good at parsing through sentence structure and "understanding" what the user writes. what the output is can easily be done with some hardcoding in logic with some noise thrown in by the models. however, it should only be treated with that level of seriousness.

i might be shouting into a void, but it is imperitive that we stop taking what these models output as production-ready code, or as a starting point even! otherwise, the only thing you achieve from this is to train the models running the chat services further.
All US full time positions include health insurance, the insurance included with a good software job is, in my experience, miles and miles better than the one I now get in Scandinavia.
I think that's exactly it, they had automation logging in, which meant they accepted the tos, then violated it. The govt has sided with business in these cases (it seems)
If anyone is interested in an anecdote from a US American mid level dev living in Germany:

I get 30 paid vacation days, 10 ish public holidays and my employer has to pay up to 6 weeks of sick leave a year (after that the public health insurance pays).

I make around 75k€ with a 38 hour work week and my take home is roughly 3600€ net. My living expenses are less than 1k (mid sized city, no car, split rent, no kids) so I am able to invest 2-2.5x my living expenses every a month.
Depends on the country. All public universities (and these are the best ones) in Poland are free, for example.
Uhm, what?

If you live with your parents, and the university is free, where does that number come from?

And if you don't live with your parents, you live with others students, spending 600-1000 euro month for living, how do you reach that numbers?
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No, it is the same person.

Both are quotes from 'legitster':

> I don't work in advertising

from

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37266627

and

> I work in the industry

from

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37264230

>
Tor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacks
Your obsession with rocket scientists raises some suspicion.
25 days a year is not a "very good" vacation policy in Europe, I'd say that would be at least 35 + public holidays.
Missing from this article: why is he traveling with his iPad at all? He loudly asserts "I’m not leaving my iPad at home" but does not explain why.

From where I'm standing, the iPad is a crappy platform that has no reason to exist. It's a worse Mac. I can maybe see artists using an iPad for the touch screen, but that use case only exists because Apple refuses to give the Mac a touch screen.
If pay is the only concern, why not just take up contract work and refuse benefits to get the most pay? Ignoring the other variables at play, such as cost of living and benefits, and only focusing on pay is foolish.
Salaries are lower and taxes are significantly higher. Take your pick, but I’d rather take the American approach of a more dynamic job market.
I wouldn’t want to deal with low GDP growth, public strikes (see France) and little ability to build wealth.
NES Emulator in Common Lisp (2016)
From the OP:

> Furthermore, we applied OpenAI's decontamination methodology to our dataset to ensure valid results, and found no contaminated examples.
If Americans want the same quality of life as we have here in Denmark they should tax the top 20% more so it doesn't surprise me that the top 20% come out against things like higher taxes and more worker rights.

I'm probably among the top 5% here in Denmark and I'm fine with paying high taxes.
No, the employee is also required to do that by law.
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It is in the very article this thread is about
Places like the Netherlands and Switzerland generally pay around €2k a year for all students. The only place I know of anywhere near that price is the UK.
Time to give Julia a shot! It has this amazing package [1] for geometric algebras in up to a very high number of dimensions.

[1]: https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl
That always baffled me. Yes one could say unlimited sickdays lead to a place where a worker might misuse it. But I feel that it does quite the opposite. That people don‘t call in sick and work under questionable health.

We have a similar issue in Germany when it comes to the time between calling in sick and when you need a doctors notice. A lot of companies want a sick note from the doctor from day one. Means if you feel just not great you have to haul your ass to a doctor. Others and my employer counts in wants a sicknote after or on the 3rd day. That is great as it gives you the ability to just rest etc. But that system could be misused. So if it is better to count in that some might misuse it but overall the health of the workforce stays in balance or to employ a strict system where workers are compelled to get into work until they feel really sick … I tend to preference the system with trust. But I can see that that might not work everywhere.
$300 for component that real price value is <10$ (there are many sources that show what's price of each component in iphone) is not market failure is just apple greed + their walled garden. I don't expect them to sell me this truedepth camera for 10$ but for $50-100 they still make a lot of profit. And I should be able to make repair myself or go to 3rd party shop give such component and tell please swap it - apple shouldn't force me to use authorized repair shop only because they signed NDA and have access to some artificial tool that just signs component even if this is already genuine delivered by apple.

Taxing is not solution I don't want to tax cars 100% so even though fixing cost the same supposed make me feel better because it's then just 10% of whole product instead of 30%. Car industry has right to repair and it's a solved problem - even though cars have bigger safety considerations.
> How is this not even addressed in any of these articles or rulings?

Because people have been taught that they need to be authoritarian or else.

If you question authority you're a conspiracy theorist and we need to investigate you and harm you. Trust the government designated experts. You don't get to decide who are the experts. Experts who don't agree with the government are also conspiracy theorists.

Now it's far too late to have honest conversations, even with very unpopular stuff because people are ready to have a knee jerk reaction to if "forbidden topic/opinion" comes up. Security theater and hygiene theater are great examples.
Do you have a photo example by any chance? I can't quite picture what you mean and searching for vertical swing doesn't really show anything. I'm curious what you have in mind.
> Here in Germany, I get 30 vacation days per calendar year, plus any sick days, and thats fairly normal.

Sick days are fairly normal, but "30 vacation days" is not. Only bigCo/large places offer 30(some offered 35 days too). Usual is 25(state normal) with +1-2 days extra at most places. However, sick leave is godsend, no denying.
> It has been shown that you need around 14 days of interrupted rest to recover from stress etc.

Do you have sources on that?

My anecdotal experience is that I need at least 3 weeks.
1. The magnitute of effect these laws have on EU companies is miniscule compared to the effect on the US tech giants

2. The EU has no honest respect over the people's privacy as they fully surveil their citizens

Thus it ia very safe to conclude that the EU pretends to care about people's privacy as an excuse to protect it's industry against the ultra-high yields of US tech companies
The survey didn’t ask about “quality of life”, it asked about paid days off. Many people would rather have more money to pay for the things that they want instead of more days off. It’s as simple as that; different people weigh the value of things differently.
The difference is much smaller if you look at the median disposable income instead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per...

The big skewness (difference between the mean and the median) suggests that a lot of wealth is concentrated at the top and that many people are in fact worse off than Europeans.
"Unlimited PTO" is a red flag for me. It means that PTO will be governed by pressure, self-pressure and shame.
It totally depends on the company. But if pull something like burnout, you should be careful to cover your story why you were not able to relax properly.
They realize there is no such thing as free lunch. It’s an additional cost incurred by the employers that will translate into lower pay.
Reaction I: This story is only newsworthy "because SpaceX".

Reaction II: The statements by the DoJ ("can't discriminate against") and Elan ("at least a green card to be hired") may both be correct...from their respective PoV's: The DoJ is technically right on the law. Vs. Elan knows that any asylees or refugees he hires will, over time, be 100X the legal and security grief that SpaceX has with green cards and citizens - due to everything from Boarder Patrol harassment to the DoD expecting a 5-inch-thick SpaceX Policy manual on how they'll keep any SpaceX employees who the DoD regards with suspicion away from anything slightly sensitive. With said manual backed up by teams of badge-checking security guards, compliance officers, and lawyers - and all on SpaceX's dime.
Police brutality on pandemic protesters and really the handling of the pandemic has made me realize how fragile our democracy is.