skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used to have a salary cap of $165k until 1.5 years ago, I’m not sure what the cap is now but it’s significantly higher.

I’m aware of a newly hired SDE2 (~2 years ago) that was hired with a TC of $305k. While the breakdown of compensation for an SDE1 and SDE2 might differ, an SDE1 breakdown is 5% vest after 1st year with 95% comp coming from salary + signing bonus. 15% vest after 2nd year with 85% comp coming from salary + signing bonus. Then after years 3 and 4 it was 40% vest + 60% from salary. It’s a little less straightforward than this because they build in an expected ~15% stock growth price YoY as part of your expected TC.

So assuming SDE2 payout structure is same as SDE1, their compensation might look like this for a new hire where the strike price is $100 for AMZN at their date of hire.

Y1: 165K salary, 15K stock (15 RSU), $120K bonus.

Y2: 165K salary, 45K stock (45000/(1001.15) RSU), 90K bonus.

Y3: 165K salary, 135K stock (135000/(1151.15) RSU)

Y4: 165K salary, 135K stock (135000/(132.25*1.15) RSU)

So their signing package would be like 300K TC with 15+391+1020+888 (2314) RSUs.

After year 2 or 3 stocks vest twice a year. So granted payout structure is likely much different now with higher base salaries I agree it is not implausible for non-directors to receive $100k in stock in a single vest.
Just to be clear, I wasn't complaining. I liked that it came back with the one recipe that I've already settled on (and I've tried quite a few over the years.)

I think I'll ask it for a calzone recipe this weekend. The one I use now makes the dough a little too bready.
In my family, my wife would get the house because although she has 5 degrees and a relatively good career with the federal government, I typically earn 2x more than she does. I can buy my own house if necessary. She can’t. It’s not for lack of trying. She earns more than all of her friends, and most of my friends for that matter. She would get the house because any other option would harm her and the kids.

This could have been the case for them as well. It seems likely to me. Getting the house when you have low income potential isn’t a “win”; it’s being thrown a life boat.
From Wyden's letter:

"The Houston HIDTA officials told my staff that all Hemisphere requests are sent to a single AT&T analyst located in Atlanta, Georgia, and that any law enforcement officer working for one of the federal, state, local and Tribal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. can contact the AT&T Hemisphere analyst directly to request they run a query, with varying authorization requirements. The Houston HIDTA officials confirmed that Federal and state law enforcement agencies can request a Hemisphere search with a subpoena, which is a directive that many law enforcement agencies can issue themselves (except in California and Texas, where a court order is required by state law). They also explained that Hemisphere searches are not required to be in support of drug-related investigations."

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_hemisphere_...
I beg to differ. If Apple the production company is embroiled in a series of high profile censorship missteps then it DEFINITELY impacts Apple the tech company. Their devices and software are not dumb platforms. Their APP store, their DRM and media distribution, and their ability to remotely control your technology devices are all major escalating factors when it comes to discussing censorship.

The opaque nature of how this decision was made, the opaque nature of how any decision at Apple gets made, is also a contributing factor.

There is a long and problematic history of Apple censoring content, maintaining tight control and hooks into their technology products.

If their censorship in one area is becoming more draconian we have no way to predict how it will impact other areas of the business.

Your dismissal, that these are totally unrelated smacks of damage control, spin, and I think you know that is EXACTLY the opposite of what is going on here. People ARE going to assume this will impact the media and control they have over the technology they buy from Apple. People will respond by not buying those products out of fear.

Your casual assumptions and assurances don't really mean anything.
In comparison we don't physically "do" much, which is true but its really absurd to compare industries against each other. Teaching is largely paid out of tax money and what politicians want to pay them since they usually control state and local budgets. That is a vastly different economic model than some billionaire VC dumping millions of dollars into a bunch of startups hoping he/she gets a hit. Or some Fortune 500 company that makes billions a year. There's a series on YT by a handyman who was literally paid $100/hr to replace a light bulb once. A skilled tradesperson in a town of tech workers that don't DIY anything probably makes bank.

We're paid this much because the market pays this much. Its capitalism.
> Can I trust that Q's proposed AWS architecture solutions will be cost-effective?

No. Even in the Solutions Architect an Data Analyst Certification exams there are biases tested to essentially reinforce customers build in ways that ensure they spend more money. This model is no different. Amazon makes it incredibly difficult to opt out of any data collection across its AWS services, making user privacy a serious concern here. And, Amazon continues to fail to disclose to customers when their services/data has been compromised.

The "Q" model is incredibly underwhelming. ChatGPT continues to do a better job of describing and proposing viable solutions using AWS framework, and it's free.

As a customer, the guarantee you'll have with this model is KTLO. No thanks.
Stack Ranking was pioneered by Jack Welch who was operating in an environment where labor was the dominant party in the labor-capital relationship, and he was taking over companies that had had decades of labor growth and power while capital was stagflating nationwide. Introducing stack ranking was a way of trimming excess fat from decades of build up within companies, while reasserting capital in the relationship within the company.

Long term, it has been a disaster in every company. Because eventually you run out of fat, and then what you describe as "far more willing to hire non-standard candidates on gut and hunches, knowing that if it didn't work out, it didn't work out they would be gone" becomes "I need to hire people I don't want to work with, so I have someone to fire in the next stack rank". And that's its own form of fat.

In short, stack ranking makes some sense if you have a fat organization, not unlike restricting calories to lose fat when working out. But once you've lost fat, continuing to restrict your calories results in losing more muscle than fat.
I've just watched the video. Pretty cool product.

Some ideas to make your value proposition clear to visitors to your website:

1. On the landing page show a side-by-side of some Terraform code and its corresponding diagram (produced by your tool).

2. Show a range of screenshots of nice looking diagrams produced by your tool, including the isometric versions (shown in your video).

Questions:

1. Can you share more information about pricing? Freemium or free-trial?

2. Why did you choose the name Holori? What does it mean?
Rise? With the advent of social media, we have already witnessed a sea of mediocrity flooding the internet.
Why nuclear plants and not solar, wind or geothermal?
> Those Guccis would not exist if not for the mass-market cheap option; there would be no reason to splurge on an expensive unique purchase if everyone else was already wearing something unique.

I would have a slightly different take. They all exist for the same reason: extremely cheap labour overseas. That's why there's enough spare cash sloshing around to provide what is the main differentiating factor: marketing. Get the marketing right and you can charge far more for almost the same product. If your shoes were made locally and cost $200 on average, you'd a) pick shoes for longevity, not looks, and b) not be that impressed with shoes that cost "only" 4x more.

To translate this to AI: they're both using AI. Just one has better marketing paid for by higher prices.
everytime I get a new computer it takes me 5 seconds to remember that I can't live without sizeup.

But I can never remember the name of the app because it's just ctr-opt-cmd-left in my head.
Interesting. I've been using Rectangle for MacOS and it's worked fine so far for me. Will keep this in mind if I ever want to switch.
I can't speak for everyone, but the reason I personally find generated images completely uninteresting from an artistic standpoint is that they are low-effort. I appreciate art because a human sacrificed time and effort to make it. As a general rule of thumb (with exceptions, of course), the more time and effort an artist sacrifices to make a piece of art, the more I find that art interesting, especially if the artist is highly skilled.

I don't think that AI art is fundamentally uninteresting (I am a machine learning researcher, so I think it's rad), or that it can't be used as a tool to make great art. I just think that the final image is not the point of art. The point is that a person practiced for hundreds/thousands of hours to develop a creative skill and then spent several more hours painstakingly applying that skill just to create the image. If AI is incorporated into a high-effort, high-skill process, I don't have an issue with it.
https://twitter.com/alyankovic/status/1670113967497433090
What Is an Octothorpe?
Author: "Someone needs to write an East Asian studies paper on how Tokyo became Switzerland for Asian crypto enthusiasts due to a combination of governance, network connectivity, latency, and geopolitical risk. I nominate anyone other than me."

Done:

"Tokyo: Asia's Crypto Haven. Unraveling the Swiss Connection in Governance and Technology"

https://instabooks.ai/products/dce8add9-2d5c-ecdf-860a-38bb3...

Feel free to fact check it
https://discord.gg/Z7mACcrfJV

Verge article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794110/reddit-male-fash...
Show HN: Real-time AI image generation and story creation on mobile with GenZArt
My co-founders and I have been fascinated with real-time image generation and believe this technology would fundamentally change how we produce content. So we brought this technology to mobile, on our app GenZArt.

The way it works is that you simply start typing into the text-box and images get generated in a couple of seconds as you type. This allows you to fine-tune your text by getting real-time image updates.

In addition to image fine-tuning, we believe that this technology would enable storytelling in a seamless manner. You can describe your story frame by frame, and craft what you want to express in minutes. The images generated in sequence are also consistent, which help with how the story feels. This is exactly what we have now implemented on GenZArt. The UX for it is very crude and sub-optimal, so if you have any thoughts or insights on how to improve the UX, we would love to hear it!

Lastly, we have built AI music generation into GenZArt as well, so you can describe the music you have in mind and add that to your story. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Can't speak for OP, but I use telescope for neovim and I don't think I could use (neo)vim without it.
Has anyone transitioned from moom to magnet?
I have an alpha guide I wrote on scripting macOS with Hammerspoon if anyone's interested! There's probably some editing issues and I've been meaning to move it to the actual domain/clean it up to release, but it's got good info in it now:

https://learn-hammerspoon-0x8080.netlify.app/

I have a chapter on window management as part of the guide.
Sometimes the music is itself parodied, and performed using an accordian or some other unique instrument.

For this conversation, that is completely irrelevant and he still has to pay royalties to the original composer. Furthermore, while Weird Al does have many completely original songs, looking at his streaming numbers that isn't what most people seem to listen to.

The fact that he is both very talented and very creative is both true and irrelevant.
This is correct. While many of the exact details aren't public, Spotify's royalty model is aggressively hostile to the artists. Tidal, YT Music, and Apple all pay artists an order of magnitude more per stream than Spotify. Apple even lobbied to enforce a new royalty payment for artists of 1 cent / 100 streams [0]. Apple music effectively pays this rate to artists right now. In Al's case, those 80 million streams would have netted him about $800k.

[0] https://pitchfork.com/news/apple-music-in-contrast-with-riva...
Totally reasonable question, and you'll get a very candid answer!

I wrote more about the pricing strategy here (https://buttondown.email/blog/pricing-page-driven-developmen...) but — when Buttondown first launched I _had_ a souped-up free tier (up to 1K subscribers!) and it certainly helped with early adoption, but hurt almost every other part of the business — in particular unit economics and customer service. Curtailing the free tier felt like ripping off a bandaid, but it also solved two of my biggest problems at once:

1. Conversion rates nearly doubled. People who found Buttondown valuable suddenly had an avenue and reason to pay for it!

2. _Margins_ went up. It costs money to send emails; a user who sends, say, one newsletter a week to five hundred subscribers costs around two or three bucks a year just in email alone. Supporting _thousands_ of these users (who are very nice people!) hurt my bottom line.

3. Customer service got way easier. This might not apply to all cases, but the _majority_ of my time answering emails and helping folks was spent on people who weren't spending a dime. While I genuinely want to help all people regardless of how much they are (or are not) paying, it was not sustainable for me to run a bootstrapped business where I spent 4+ hours every day helping people who did not find my service valuable enough to pay $9/month.

Having that free tier I think was a useful wedge to get initial customers and users onto the platform (and I am grateful for those initial users, who I've kept on their free tier!) but I think something significant would need to change for me to consider going back to that set-up.
Unity keeps doing stupid things.

It's still much more mature than Godot, but at what cost.
Most couldn't, there were only a couple like Metallica.

But that's my point, people never made money from this previously. Why is Spotify being demonised because bands have bad contracts with their labels?
Puppeteer’s home world found.
This sort of thing is one of the big reasons why I would never work for a FAANG company. I prefer to work at a place that encourages good work rather than a weird cutthroat arena combat thing.
You are 100% correct, but my observation was more about how I actually got to work on good projects and enjoyed, but I just don't remember much about them because they barely needed my intervention.

Naturally I'm not counting the stuff I built myself: I definitely worked a lot of time on them and they were a breeze to maintain, but I won't classify them as good bad, since the one thing I'm sure of is that I'm biased about their quality ;)
Ie monopoly was extremely efficient from a profits perspective. Slow updates, low dev costs.
Not rude at all! I appreciate the reply. Only reason I deleted my message was because right after posting, I scrolled down and saw someone asking the exact same question at the top level, so I felt like it was best to conserve effort and not repeat them.

I liked that other people pointed out that risk could have been eliminated by using polarized connectors (I hope they started doing this after the incident), but also made me wonder about "back-EMF" caused by solar flares. In other words, maybe all thick wires and ground/power planes should be hardened against current surges simply due to a solar event hitting mars (which may incidentally cover the case of back-powering the driver circuits).
We also know that any electronic stuff is very often designed to not be reparable at all. While there are standard interfaces for standard diagnostic data, you rarely can skip dealing with a very closed stack of software, intellectual property around a thick shield of armor.

This is why you get things like heatable seat DLC.
I like rectangle [0]. It fits my needs well enough without requiring disabling SIP. I especially like the “repeated key presses resize a window on the same side” feature, so I can get cycle the size of the window on the right side of the screen from 1/2->1/3->2/3 easily. I miss i3 sometimes and this ain’t an identical replacement but it gets the job done! Turns out I don’t move my windows all that often anyways.

[0]: https://rectangleapp.com/
It works 24/7
IE6 might even be okay (though it was not); it's also far enough in the past that not everyone has a real memory of it.

A really good, palpable example of monopolies having a stifling effect is internet access, especially in non-urban US areas.
When you start talking 10+ hour road trips flying or even taking the is more competitive as you need to include maintenance on your car. And really would you drive that long for such low pay as a job? It’s just not worth it in my social circle.

On the other hand spending a day casually driving back roads is kind of fun, and you’re going to spend time traveling either way so more reasonable road trips still exist.
Good to know that checksums are being used... But are they signed at all? How do I get the checksum in the first place?

Sorry don't mean to heckle, just was skimming through the code and saw that line.
I was peripherally involved in a project that was going sideways and I was an easy target. In hindsight, while the reason for me to put “on focus”, I honestly admit was maybe 70% my fault. I could have handled a horrible customer better.

On the other hand, the PIP itself was a setup. During the focus period, I met all of the criteria and had perfect CSAT scores on two customer projects I led (Professional Services) and the projects were both done on time, on budget and met requirements

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37963737

Honestly, I didn’t look at the reasons why I was put on PIP on the remedies to stay until after I had another job. I didn’t even realize it was part of the paperwork.

As soon as my manager starting discussing them, I interrupted them and asked how much was my severance. After they told me 40K+ and paid out vacation, I asked where do I sign?

I knew someone would hire me. By the time the conversation came up, I already had a side contract with a former manager/CTO waiting in the wings for $135/hour. I also knew the director of a major non tech company who was willing to create a position paying more in cash than I was making in all at Amazon to lead the cloud transition and architecture.

We had worked together at AWS and he was the one that suggested I wait for the PIP. I ended up not taking his offer because I didn’t want the stress of the job even though I would have loved working with him again.

My compensation now is somewhere on the high side between CRUD developer and BigTech software dev. I can easily go up after a couple of years if I care too.

I’m working full time at a consulting company because I really don’t want the hassle of going independent.
I die of laughter, Coca Cola? After laying off high tech startups to move the operations to Infosys "because it is cheaper"?

LOL
It was renamed only twice. Once, after a clean break, rewrite and going open source, from .NET Framework to .NET Core. Then, from .NET Core to .NET to indicate a single platform going forward.
Reading the issues with Yabai losing windows and needing a restart..

Rectangle is another oss option: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

I bought Moom long before rectangle came out, both are pretty decent.
Legally they are light trucks. Obviously that's not how they're used or designed.
The magic is the biology. Computers are not going to understand the pain of taking a bullet or childbirth. What can they write about these topics except trite regurgitation?
I've never worked there and never tried to work there ... I dont consider myself anywhere good enough to even try

I have the impression that if you can survive for 4 years, you get some very lucrative wealth building stock options. But I also believe that most people don't actually make it all the way to the end. Kind of like a winning lotto card you get for standing in a boiling shower for an hour
From what I have heard this is because Spotify has many people on their free tier, versus profitable competitors like Apple music which give a trial but are paid-only. If I understand it correctly Spotify's ads on the free tier don't generate the $10/mo revenue they get from paid users.
> AI art isn't as good as human art. But in a few years it will probably be better.

This is a very big "probably". About as big as the "in a few years, AI drivers will probably be better than human drivers" line from 2015.

Regardless: an AI can definitively be better than a human at something like Go (a closed game with a clear win condition) or driving (a logistical task with no creativity). But how do you define "better" when it comes to art? From a technical perspective, AI is already better than the vast majority of human artists! Very few artists would be able to, say, draw images of nature to create something that has the same contours as a popular meme[0].

So, arguably, we're already at the point where AI-generated art is "better" than human art. The question is, does that matter? Or does it matter in the same way that it matters that a motorcycle is faster than Usain Bolt?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/jsI0HZH.png
most of them, totally. The issue is that in some room there is no way to control directly the power to the bulbs, they are always on and you can switch them off only from central electric panel (because they are all zigbee bulbs)
You must not have ever worked at Amazon. The issue you highlight from Google is "a first world problem," as the kids say. Amazon is low brow.
Once I changed half my working code ( and wasted an Hour of time ) before realising that I was testing different code. On the other hand, now newer code had 10 times more testing points.
Q: How do you do atomic unaligned accesses from C++? (and I'm sure someone will say "align your data". But that's not always possible.)

Edit: I mean on x86, where it's possible. I couldn't even find any intrinsics for the corresponding lock instructions. And yes I'm aware of the performance penalty.
I hope that computerized AGIs also get the zoomies at 3AM.
You're right, I didn't know this. I was under the impression that Spotify self-reported its split and that it wasn't really auditable in any way. Can you link to a source?
How is this different from Gradio/Streamlit?
^ Precisely.
I wonder how these eukaryotes that lost their mitochondria get their energy?
I tried amethyst but it was essentially useless to emulate an awesomewm or sway like experience.

Switching to asahilinux was a *far* better solution. Not really sure what the use of macOS for me is when asahi exists now.
That’s never sat right with me. I don’t pump any oil out the ground personally now, but I’m thinking about starting. What area of the country would be best for me to decide to not pump oil and cash in on this program? Should I not pump oil from both Alaska and the Gulf, in order to diversify my non-operations? Or maybe start smaller and just not pump in the Gulf to get started, and only later expand to also not pumping in Alaska?

It seems far better to pay carbon dividends to people (only humans, not fictional people) and then charge for carbon emissions (not the extraction of fossil fuels; you’re welcome to pull it out and put it in a tank paying only the emissions of your extraction equipment, but when someone buys it to consume, they pay the carbon cost.)

Tweak the dividends and carbon costs as needed to achieve the balance of policy goals.