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Sorry :(

In the US, especially in NY, 120k or so is starting salary at a startup. Maybe 110k at some. Normal pay for a Sr engineer is 170k -> 220k.

Now if we go into FAANG numbers, double or tripple that as total comp.

But to be fair, there's a lot that your society gives you that we don't get. I currently pay 2k a month for health insurance for myself and my daughter, 3k for me, daughter, and fiance. Companies do better with insurance as they get better. And even with insurance we often pay for many services out of pocket. I pay 2.6k for an apartment and it _IS CHEAP_ because I live an hour away from manhattan, most people pay 4-5k a month for a 1 bedroom, or room with many people.

Also where I live a car is not mandatory but incredibly convenient. Which means another 166/mo for insurance + whatever you pay for the car which can easily end up in the $1000 a month for the car (because parking is not great)

The pay is high, but the cost is high too, it just makes certain things cheap by comparison.
> If you’ve got a visible beer gut, we don’t need to bring advanced science into this. You just need to eat less

Basically almost all the research I’ve seen on keto suggests this isn’t true. That on the contrary the primary driver of weight is hormones which is driven by the composition of the food. Anecdotally I’ve confirmed this and lost tons of weight while increasing my calorie intake.

I understand your position, it’s simple and people are splitting hairs. I don’t think that’s the case.
This is the sense I was trying to communicate.

I'm not flooring it, but when I make a speed adjustment, it happens 'right away'. There is no delay. Its immediate.
I may have taken you a little too literally when you wrote that you didn't understand the problem. Perhaps what you're saying is that the conclusion is not repugnant to you and that the conclusion is neither counterintuitive nor ethically problematic.

Consequently you believe that it is better for a large number of people to exist in a state barely better than misery than for a smaller number of people to experience a greater degree of happiness.

Fair enough.
Are we gatekeeping liking fast, expensive cars now? Cars are an absolute fixture of American society, and even a blind person can feel the difference between a 5-second 0-60 and a 15-second 0-60.

It's fair to point out that, eg, a Corvette from 1960 was slower than 5 seconds for 0-60, but you don't have to be a total gearhead to want to be the fastest off the light.
There’s always a double jeopardy in legal monitoring. You have to adjudicate the risk of appearance in discovery and trial against the original risk you sought to moderate.

I absolutely think this is a good startup idea, and have been pondering building out a prototype.

I don’t love it, but in so many ways when you sit down and look at the alternative to it that isn’t tearing down or radically altering the existing legal system, it’s actually the better platform for the future.

Unfortunately there is a plethora of social control (and behavioral modification) issues intrinsic in this technology area, and like medical it requires some serious and open ethical exploration.

Thanks for the good comment.
I still lug a T430 around. Runs Win 11, hyper-v and 1 bazillion tabs across multiple browsers.
Its fairly trivial to buy art assets from the Unity asset store and port them to Godot, there are tools to do it automatically. They are just meshes and textures after all.
I drive a Jetta GLI, it’s 6.1 (edit - 6.4?) seconds - fairly fast but not a fancy sports car, no obnoxious reviving required. It’s a four cylinder, too!
of course not, you have to acquire their LLC to let them skip the interview process. so building stuff does count, but only if done commercially
The problem with install fees is that it's a potentially unlimited financial risk.
When the anonymous source in the article said "they've been killing it," then I knew that the quote came from a source internal to AppLovin. Their exec team loves to say stuff like that.
They were supposed to have solid state battery cars and vehicles for the Tokyo Olympics. It was obvious that wasn't going to happen and it didn't.

Toyota has been completely asleep at the switch for EVs which is baffling since they pioneered the hybrid electric vehicle.

What's really strange is after having such a huge lead and hybrid electric vehicle, they have really crawled behind other manufacturers and producing plug-in hybrid electric vehicles which are really just a plug adder onto the vehicle.

It really is mystifying

Keep in mind they're basically isn't a single car manufacturer outside of China and maybe Tesla that are actually doing original battery research. They are all partnering with actual battery manufacturers like Panasonic, Samsung, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutrophication
I would say the primary is fraudulent since their representation of the process in court is very different from what they float to the public, and voters are disenfranchised as a result of the misrepresentation (the legal concept of fraud requires injury.)
But they have strong support from the likes of Apple to keep ARM independent.
No one is denying that. What is often overlooked, however, is that Jews were always part of the historical landscape of Palestine. They were only a minority in Palestine because of European interventions (Romans, Byzantines, and Crusaders). Referring to Jewish settlement as "colonization" is ridiculous because, like the Palestinians, Jews are indigenous to this region. Even more so when considering the cultural aspect of indigeneity to a region. Judaism is a direct continuation of Canaanite and Israelite culture, which predates colonization. Whereas modern Palestinian culture is the result of the Arab/Islamic conquest of the Levant.

The issue that some people characterize as colonization is, in reality, a matter of migration. In fact, one of the early demands of the Palestinian nationalist movement in the 1930s was to halt Jewish immigration, and they sought to enforce this demand through violence. And this violence snowballed to the current ethnic conflict between arabs and jews. If we compare this to the present day, imagine a bunch of trump supporters marching through the streets attacking/murdering Mexican immigrants. It's a no-brainer that these people would be considered racist criminals. But this is exactly what happened in Palestine in the 1930s. And the situation changed only for the worse. Yet, people (especially the left) still sides with those criminals instead of supporting a lasting peace between the Jews and Palestinians.
I don't think that being able to develop in multiple languages implies that you're going to be bad at developing in those languages at all.

I've been a dev for a very long time, and am competent in a lot of different languages (expert in far fewer, of course). But I don't use all of those languages all the time. I use the one(s) that are relevant to whatever my current project is. That's usually just one or two at a time.
I really believe that. From everything I've seen, Google consistently does the right thing with regards to avoiding search lock-in, and is substantially above the industry standard in doing so. Just try changing the default search engine in Chrome vs. Edge!
you're in luck! OKCupid costs ~$44 a month, and you can add on "read receipts" for about $0.50 each, superboosts for $1-$3 each, the privacy (hidden) profile for $10/month. with some creativity you can have 0 real matches for ~$100!
A lot of that is the automatic transmission in ICE drivetrains. a manual transmission delivers immediate acceleration but still not as good as a Tesla
"gamers" aren't really a unified group any more than "movie watchers" are. Its useful for marketing to pretend so, but the only thing they share is they sometimes play video games.
I can't stress this enough, risk of losing (or breaking) your security keys is the number 1 threat when a service (correctly) offers no way to circumvent it's absence.

This is the same for encryption: the number 1 threat is lost encryption keys; the number 2 threat is broken backups; the number 3 threat is stolen encryption keys. Having #1 occur is equivalent to being ransomwared with no way to pay.

In both cases, you need multiple copies, or if you are using non-copyable aspects of security keys like U2F or OTP, then you need multiple backup keys registered to the same services.
You should read this: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
Yeah, I can't say that this is the best value Chromebook but a decent choice if you want a premium level one. The only complaint I have is its noise but it's not that extreme.
This site spends a significant amount of bandwidth complaining about the problems of big tech, yet when people are actually trying to do something about it, the benefit of the doubt goes to the big tech companies.
I wouldn't hold my breath for something called a "Corolla". Their roadmap is a big gaping hole for the next 3 years.

However, this exists, and kind of looks like a tall Corolla:

https://www.toyota.com/bz4x/
The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film [video]
People seem to underestimate the scale you can get to on a single machine, and overestimate how easy it will be to go up from there.

An in memory index is about as good as it gets for a single node performance, and fitting that many vectors into memory on a single machine is easy.
Poll: What do you call Twitter now?
Since Musk rebranded it to X, I've never actually seen anyone online use the new name. Indeed, of all the large tech companies I checked, only Microsoft has actually updated the social media links to change the branding here.

So what do you call it? Twitter or X?
sounds like this dude got caught in someone’s promo packet assembly. i wouldn’t worry too much if i were him. this’ll be deprecated in three years or so once it served its purpose to signal how good of an engineer the person who made it as part of their promo package is
There was a streak where it seemed like every other story corporate media (CNN, Foxnews, etc) covered was a Tweet that some prominent person published. That’s what I mean by being at the center of public discourse.

Compare that to Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., which never really achieved that level of press coverage.
Only Apple (85% of global profit share) and Samsung (12%) have positive margins on smartphones. [1]

[1] https://macdailynews.com/2023/08/04/apple-iphone-dominates-w...
Japan population is in decline because it's hard to raise babies and work at the same time.
FUD isn't enough to maintain market dominance indefinitely, just ask Microsoft.
Mobile onboarded a different demographic of user. Pre-mobile, not many people really used computers or the internet outside of work or gaming. I grew up in a poor part of the US and lots of people did not have desktop computers at home; most kids begged their parents for access to computers for gaming. Parents in our area could never figure me out. I liked using computers (I would dumpster dive for parts since as a poor kid, I had much more time than money) but I didn't game much, and I'm a kid so I'm definitely not doing work. (I learned to code as a kid because I wanted to make games and then I found the coding part much more fun than the gaming part.) My parents were flummoxed how a kid who liked spending so much time reading was also so weird about wanting to use something as expensive as a computer.

That's the root of this blog post, the rise of Tinder, and the big shift to mobile in general. Nerds aren't the only people on the internet anymore. The average person is now on the internet. OKCupid was very much the dating site of us thoughtful nerds, those who thought text and personality tests would help them find a better match. Most singles in the West at the time just went to the bar, got intoxicated, then made base conversation with whomever engaged their base interests. That demographic moved to Tinder.

Unless you're specifically targeting a nerd-heavy demographic (e.g. academics, devs, hackers, etc) with a high margin product, if the goal is to create a mass appeal product then making nerds happy just isn't profitable. We're too small in number and too picky.
Not really. You can’t know if someone you never met killed someone after the fact so you rely on evidence. Some of which is what you say. The jury are regular people,
not logicians.

In addition killing is not always a crime.
Ig Nobel Prizes webcast is on live right now
It's because of insurance.

Anything insurance touches becomes expensive, because insured individuals are no longer price sensitive, so there is no incentive to lower costs by providers.

My employer pays for my vision insurance, whether I want it or not, so I may as well maximize the benefit with the "best" hardware I can get for "free."
One of the others is Panda3D. It's not on a lot of people's radars but you can use it with Python and C++. It's pretty code oriented which might not be everyone's cup of tea but I enjoy working with it.
Yeah, GPT-4 is so good Iceland is using it for language preservation of Icelandic as it translates text so well, letting them enrich the language with new works.

Like you, I’ve definitely often though “Come ON!” about the increasingly archaic Google Translate in light of DeepL etc. It has really stagnated over the years.
The C++ standard library "general regex engine" is crap (at speed), so there's no competition on that front at least...
Monogame came in to fill in the XNA gap to a certain extent. Works pretty well as long as you're making 2D games. I'm trying to make a 3D game in it right now, and it's...okay, not great.
How did advertisers become such puritans? Playboy magazine carried ads for normal products just fine. Every newspaper deals with "depression, gender issues, politics" and they somehow survived trough most of their history on advertising revenue.

Surely there should be marketers that see "Imagine a viral picture of your ad next to one of those posts." and realize that everything apart from "Imagine a viral picture of your ad" is often irrelevant.
Just build a second machine to power the first!
0.5. The guy who reads the press release for the journal article!

(0.2. The guy who reads the title of the news article for the journal article on HN and proceeds straight to the comment section...)
It was not?

Part of the deal to get them to use the connector was that nobody would say apple wasn't involved.

This actually led to a particular journalist giving them credit for it despite them having nothing to do with it.

They participate now.
Or http://projectoberon.com
The older I get and the more I read, the more I'm convinced we peaked as a species a long, long time ago.
That's cool.... the situation we were in was that we had multiple public ip addresses in each of our class C static addresses, but no BGP routing because we were small fry. I used DNS round robin so that from the outside world, it would try either route in, then forward those packets in to the appropriate server.

Its good to see you don't have to mark those packets manually any more.
There's a saying in car manufacturers that Americans buy horsepower but drive torque.

Torque is generally what you need when you need that. Beat the person off the line because you didn't merge into the right turn lane early enough acceleration onto the highway and two lane highway passing.

Horsepower is largely a metric for top speed of the vehicle, and if we're talking about in a relative statistic for road cars, top speed is far more useless than 0-60
Particularly the one that was a tare-down of why paid dating sites like match.com where a mug's game for almost everyone. That somehow went AWOL fairly soon after the match.com take-over…
Ig Nobel Prizes Webcast Live Now Here [video]
Toyota does sell the Mirai[1] in California, it has pressurized tanks[2] I think keeping the hydrogen liquefied would take low temps as well, which would use a lot of energy for refrigeration (and or a lot of volume for insulation).

1: https://www.toyota.com/mirai/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai#High-pressure_hyd...
Any mechanism that could switch the magnet on and off would require energy. E.g. you could put a magnet next to it with opposite poles, which would mostly cancel out the magnetic field, but would require a lot of force to push them together, which is work, and thus requires energy.
Stride, a C#-based, open-source game engine
The software in question only gets worse for you, the audience, not the people running it. For them, it gets better as it brings in more profits.

(Another reason why free software is essential.)
There is always a balance of risk between what appears in discovery and trial to be active management of risk, the original risk of monopolistic accusations and prosecution, and the risk of false accusation due to imprudent or unconscious behavior of employees and associates of the business, irrespective of legality.

I’m simply saying the smoking gun of managers managing the risk needs to be seriously considered as a possible smoking gun and not simply dismissed because of its potential as a false indicator.
That is true, but![1] This is well understood by modern conservators, so they use reversible materials as much as possible. For example paints which can be any time cleaned up with a weak solvent specifically selected such that it doesn't attack the base painting at all. The any time is a very important property here. Normal paints "set" after a while. You might clean them off the canvas a day later easily, with some difficulty a year later, and 30 years later it becomes basically impossible. But conservation paints don't do this. They can be cleaned up a day after the work is done, or 200 years after.

The other important property is that these materials are often designed to show up visibly under UV light. That way they can perfectly blend in the base paint under normal gallery lights (if desired, this is not always desired) but they will always show up for someone who investigates the painting in the future.

1: All my knowledge about the topic comes from the aforementioned Baumgartner Restoration YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BaumgartnerRestoration
I will reduce their market share
I do agree that more engines would be nice especially if they push workflows in different ways.
That's super interesting! 4D chess move to be sure, but also kind of crazy that companies plan strategies around affecting the entire world market based off of their behavior.
Unfortunately I do. But you make a deeply compelling argument.
We moved to Europe because Silicon Valley is dead. You should too
Generally if you want to buy the whole thing / take it private, you have to pay out all shareholders in cash the public market price plus a premium - you definitely don't get a discount.

Just look at what happened to Elon.
What does a broken repo look like? What does broken mean here?
Xbox doesn't provide a game engine, just lower level APIs. Unity is a popular way to get games on Xbox for folks who can't build their own engine. Further, things like HoloLens run Unity as a first class dev environment.

I used to work on both Xbox and HoloLens at Microsoft, but this is all public info.
The best company I ever worked for had a very well defined career framework. Salary ranges were defined. Skill and experience requirements were defined for each promotion level. How education layered in with experience was well defined. Decision points were defined for things like applications path vs. systems, as well as technical vs. management. Morale was sky high. The worst? No framework and promotions were ad hoc and discretionary as were salaries.
That’s a pretty singular experience.
Lexus is the new Cadillacs they might have a 400 horsepower engine and really high performance but the people that drive them drive them like slugs.

They're the cars of old conservative rich people that don't buy American and primarily considered reliability
> I know it sounds weird, but unless you reviewed the source code AND built the binary from it, no open source software is to be trusted.

Why specify "open source software"? Is it not true of ALL software?

"Unless you reviewed the source code AND built the binary from it, no software is to be trusted."

That seems to be more accurate. Am I missing something?
Bear in mind they are preempting the mandatory change by one product cycle. It’s hardly an argument for a progressive change that wasn’t directly the result of inbound regulation.
What's more interesting is to learn that the entire economy is highly dependent on cheap money. There is just too much speculation and financialization all around.
Open source is unsustainable if we act like this. A 100k grant costs a fraction of the latest leetcode wanker member of the blind church of tc. Add to it a couple of seniors to mentor the dude a couple afternoons a Week and you’re steering the project without too many problems at lower cost.

“Give back to the community” used to be something I admired in the American culture as an European, but I guess most exchanged it for a L6 promo
There are stupid people. A large percentage of the population never regularly used PCs because keyboards and mice are too abstract. They only began regularly computing once they could touch things with their fingers. Today, Google search has more fuzzing and returns more Q&A results on mobile.

A large percentage never used e-mail because e-mail addresses are too abstract. They only began using "social media" when they could address correspondence by photograph.

There are a billion people who can speak but not read and write, and billions who can read and write but not well enough to earn karma on Hacker News.

Though smart people are sometimes Marl, they are Marl less often, or in more sophisticated ways (like wasting time on Hacker News).
8 year old _desktop_ computers (that have anywhere from 3 to 6x more watts hitting the CPU) are one thing. Also consider whether your machine has a dedicated GPU. A Chromebook or other budget-to-mid-range laptop from 2015 would have a different experience, although I'm sure they're still usable.

I was daily driving a 2009 MacBook Pro for a while in 2018. It was... fine, especially as a Vim user, but if someone else used my computer, they would most certainly comment or complain with normal web browsing.
What is fair? We are 9 month away from dec 2022.

That is reason why Apple Watch is so far ahead. And now the phone. Just need to stop sleeping. Walk or better run …
I mean, as snarky as I am about this, it still technically is an upgrade.
I think this is more like caching the regex than creating it at compile time? Load time I think is basically runtime. I think lisp can be loaded and then rehydrated later, but I'm not sure how common that is.
It seems like part of the problem is they're being poorly managed https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-square-enix-mi...
The Unity asset store isn’t limited to Unity (yet…). If you’re ising Unreal or Godot or whatever, there’s no reason you can’t use assets from the Unity store. (With the exception of code assets of course)
The focus is on microgrids, but they're modular and can be installed below grade so you can add as many as needed. Approximately 2m diameter by 1m tall.

We're still working out costing, but it might even make sense for residential use to take advantage of time-of-use rates or energy arbitrage. Other applications are industrial processes that require high power for short periods.
That is what you assume when you look to take a company private.
The wrong things is that they actually spent time talking to Oz.

It wasn’t just a random repository they came across.

Anyway this is why I GPL everything. At least it ensures that the changes to it remain free.
Reddit Activity Plummeted After the Protests
“When you break an egg and scramble it you are doing cosmology,” said Sean Carroll, a cosmologist at the California Institute of Technology.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/science/15brain.html
you don't know what the public market price is for the majority of the shares as only 10% were sold today