skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a side note about publicly available salary information...

I worked in Munich, Germany for a while, and at least there, the average salaries (or even calculated recommended salary based on yoe, degree, tech stack, etc) on payscale, glassdoor etc were always significantly lower than what I've seen in real life... My friends' salary were higher, my salary was higher, the other offers were higher, the salary all my friends recommend me ask were higher etc...

And none of my friends were in a rare niche, none of them were FAANG, none of them had unique skills or background, and still...

I can only speculate as to why this is (not enough data, biased data, fake numbers, business model of the website is biased towards showing low numbers, my friends and I are better than average, who knows) but it's something worth keeping in mind.
> restart cronjobs

>

> sudo systemctl restart cron

Hello author, there's no need to restart cron, crontab -e applies changes automatically on exit. And the daemon is called "cron", not "cronjobs".
Some good points, thanks.

FWIW, I have been using it with Plex (just two users, me and my parents) and haven't gotten banned. The ToS are kind of unclear on whether this is allowed if I have to be honest.
So far as I’m aware, TailScale has been at all times a good actor.

I have no problem criticizing tech companies, but I try to wait until they behave badly.
This is the type of analysis I always hope for about file systems, but almost never see. Looks like some of these file systems had linked list files, which is an interesting contrast to inode based file systems like the original UFS, or BSD FFS.
Why Europe has become an epicenter for anti-tourism protests this summer
Part of the problem is that if people don't have access to those things then they don't have much incentive to support the government or things like property rights.
Homeland Security agents searching Fuyao Glass,27 other locations in Dayton
Most contracts say you can’t do work on the side in the UK without permission so I wouldn’t highlight this, just because it probably won’t impact negotiations (there’s better things to say) and at worst could cause issues where they ask you to stop. Unlikely, but in general don’t mention this stuff.
Wow, unexpected trip down memory lane. Thanks.

Press ESC twice for nostalgia.
The US government just doesn't want the competition.
Oscar Zariski - forgot about his own wedding is the original title on the article.

The title I objected to was "A man who forgot about his own wedding". This title was actually edited to make it more clickbaity before it was later edited to be less clickbaity.
no, it really isn't... it's complete trash.

To feel like you're hip, you "learned to like it"
I do agree with this. But bluff will be called about other offers, and not enough time to get any active before supplying my response.
Money is nice. 50 vacation days is also very nice.

Where I work we don’t count holidays and I encourage all my reports to take full advantage. I’ve been on holiday twice (2 and 4 weeks) this year and take off a week here and there and I never have to worry about what I am going to do around Christmas, I always take another 2-3 weeks then.

But since “don’t count them” is a tad to vague for many people, just go for a high number like 50
The (above) shared url leveraging the cloudflare.com domain name seems to show ip v6 address, while I've noticed that the following defaults to showing ip v4 address: https://1.1.1.1/cdn-cgi/trace

Pick your poison as you wish - either is great! :-)
I lean towards the "convergent evolution" explanations of perennial philosophies as well. However paleolithic humans have also gone through geographical and population bottlenecks. If there are convergent features in culture you would expect them to also be the ones highly conserved after going through such a bottleneck. I don't draw the same conclusions as the author but the idea of paleolithic story telling as being an ancient memory preservation mechanism is compelling.
I think that's unfair to the programmer-archaeologists: young Pham wanted to write things from scratch (and took advantage when he got a chance to), and other characters said he was a talented hacker, but as they also said, it was just way more productive most of the time to cobble together ancient code.
Fair point I was comparing US to EU.
The Freelancer's Evolution: 8 Steps on the Path to Freedom
Or salary sacrifice into the pension, to stay under or near 100k. Only disadvantage of salary sacrifice is it lowers your effective income if you want to apply for a mortgage.
It would appear they use the title is a bit misleading:

> Pacific Legal Foundation is primarily funded by donations from individuals, foundations, associations, and small businesses. Except for court-awarded attorney fees for case victories, the organization receives no government funding. The foundation is generally described as supporting libertarian or conservative causes. [1]

It strikes me that they are guns for hire for anyone who thinks the Government is overreaching. I would think a true libertarian would be supportive with having non-competes removed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Legal_Foundation
We are throwing 10X that at the middle east and eastern europe on a weekly basis.
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Use levels.fyi for general salaries, align Head of Development with the salary level you want to negotiate for, and use it as evidence for that rate.

Want £100k? Find the appropriate level on the site that has that rate and make an argument that head of development is that level. You can make this argument for basically any level, with that title, so this alone might work.

Probably argue that now you have line manager responsibilities alongside development requirements you feel the salary bump doesn’t adequately reflect the much greater workload, especially without additional equity.
> Why where they so much more skilled than today's schoolchildren?

Because today's school children spend a little more time studying mathematics and science. Music, arts and crafts took up a much larger part of 17th century girls education. Upper and middle class girls were being taught what they needed to be good wives.

> The school provided lessons in writing, reading, math, music and art. The girls studied paper cutting alongside other crafts, such as embroidery and needlework
You could host your own VPS for a few dollars specifically for the purpose of responding back to you with your own residential IP. But that wouldn’t be free.

In my experience, you have to be careful if relying on one IP source because if they give you the wrong one, then your servers could be MITM’d. I say this because I have a script which does this exact thing, and found a couple of these ‘what’s my ip’ services giving me someone else’s IP. Because of that, I randomly select a few IP addresses and ensure they are identical before I trust any of them.
> Input and output are also obvious. Input is what you type, output is what you see.

Input maybe, although realizing that instead of typing, you can pipe, is a major conceptual breakthrough when new users are learning to work the command line.

But output? The existence of stdout and stderr as two sources of text with no visible distinction is highly nonobvious and continues to trip me up in practical situations to this very day.
Sorry but 128k for a yacht is not a lot of money and should be achievable by anyone who is willing to work hard.
Lambda_calculus revisited for dummies (like me)
In order to explore some of λ-calculus expressions - ie to actually compute algorithms in realtime - we will rewrite them using the lambdatalk language, working in a wiki, lambdatank, built on top of any modern web browser.
For other top European locations, I would expect more than 100k GBP (130k) for your top report and anywhere from 10% more to 50% more for your level depending a bit on the industry and org style.

I think glass door like services tend to underreport normal-high salaries for various reasons but London is also very low for its expenses and I would look around at nearby markets. Even if you wouldn't want to leave the UK its easier to anchor some firms on other markets now that work location is more flexible.
Entirely correct, and not a consequence of surveillance pricing.
I think you are describing a bug, not a vulnerability. Is it bad? Sure. Is it a security vulnerability where you can impact anyone else? Doesn't sound like it.
I suspect a lot of that data is from job advertisements which go unfilled so they keep getting reposted.
It would be nice if you have a contiguous time to sit and learn CALC, but it's not required. You can think of it as a Mario World level with several stages, that you can complete one at a time. The bottom half of the page in this concept maps shows the world map for CALC world: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic...
>Self-hosted apps come in many flavors, but they are often containerized, orchestrated with a tool like Kubernetes, and deployed on a cloud provider like GCP, Azure, or AWS.

I thought self-hosting is the opposite of using cloud providers.
As far as equity goes, it depends on whether you think it will ever be worth anything and if you are willing to roll that dice. I've been a paper millionaire twice at startups; neither paid off. Obviously the potential upside is high, so may be worth taking the chance.

EDIT: you say equity only pays off if they sell the company. What is the exit strategy for this company? Are they looking to be bought, and are there any obvious buyers? Is this more a lifestyle business for the founders?

If they don't have an exit strategy, then I'd say don't go for equity until that situation is clearer.
Well I study Ukrainian and was just curious why it's missing, since it's on the supported list for both whisper and OpenAI TTS.
I can't find a list of languages supported by GPT-4o anywhere in the release materials or API documents. It's not in GPT-4 technical report either.

I'm native in Finnish and would say that 4o writes sort of ok Finnish but definitely makes many mistakes. I'd imagine many of the languages on the list of supported ones are worse.
85k for a senior isn't bad for manchester. given that's the low range for senior in some london firms.

if I were you, I would push for more equity. as that's you're likely to gain the most. more salary is just money for the king / queen and their shenanigans.
Yeah, my company previously used numbers from Mercer to argue we were above average, when numbers from the union placed us below. Both of course might have a bias, the union in our favor, and Mercer getting paid to keep the numbers low.
This is the only time I’ve seen meters abbreviated as “mt”. I have seen “metric tonne” written as mt though.
> much-maligned aviation sector

It is much maligned because unlike shipping that benefits nearly every single human being and is much more efficient (despite horrible lack of regulations) benefits per person, aviation is used by tiny population and minuscule accomplishments.

That said, shipping does need a heavy global hand to get compliant.

Cars are fair point, and there is serious action being taken by the big Govs to get them pollute less (both China and India have plans to phase out ICEs within next decade).
The three problems of computing:

0. Cache invalidation

1. Naming things

2. Off by one errors
It doesn't have to run macOS. Frankly I hate macOS. It just needs to not be crippled. Let people run what they want and give it a usable file manager.

Yes, it's great for sketching, entertainment apps and most web browsing. But if you go outside those use cases at all it's a horrible frustrating experience. Seriously, there are tasks that are easier to do on an Amazon Fire. That should not be the case when an iPad is multitudes more powerful and more expensive.

It's a nice product for the handful of approved tasks but even for those its really easy to run into problems especially if ANYTHING requires managing more than 2 files or features from multiple apps. The iPad could be a lot more and a lot more peoples one device.
I would say “hey, I’ve proven to be a critical part of this company since the beginning and I’d like a seat at the table to take this company to the finish line.” Then ask for 5-10% equity in addition to your salary.

I’d also say £40k was way too low. I’d guess the founders have significantly higher upside. It would be worth asking for transparency in order to determine fair compensation.
Reminds me of this talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
I remember pkayung the adventure game “Milkmaid of the Milky Way” and loving the style. It’s indie, and the text just rhymes all the time. http://machineboy.com/milkmaid/
this is US-specific information, but even at FAANG and adjacent, my experience with websites like levels.fyi is that the listed compensation, even contemporaneously, skewed very low compared to offers I knew of and was actually seeing.

generically, people are more likely to post on these compensation-sharing websites when they have gripes about compensation.

there's also the fact that many people take FAANG offers without negotiation (equity was often heavily negotiable) and you're looking at the average of a leftward-biased sample of a wide distribution.
This is a big deal, nobody would expect Google to fuck up this badly, least of all the parties who support Google's social login.

That means that, even if you don't want anything to do with Google at all, others could have impersonated you by registering a Google Workspace trial account on your email address, "verifying" their account through this vulnerability, and logging in to third-party sites (that support Google login) by using your email address.
China could have the fastest supercomputers
What was in that update that you are worried about this missing?
The iPad ultra with the diamond encrusted frame is a great idea for those grandmothers who like to use their iPads as a cutting board, because then they could flip it over and sharpen their knife.
Jepp, that's precis som på svenska, där “dig” uttalas “dej”. But AIUI you can see from old songs and poems, by which words it was used to rhyme with, that the spelling is how it used to be pronounced not so many centuries ago. (And yes, “dough" heter “deg” på svenska också. Så og på norsk, antar jag?)
It looks simpler to start with.. Aka PnP.. you just plugin in stuff, SLAC and later ND discovery kicks in and vioala, we have network up and running. But somehow I see it less managable and controlable. In Enterprise networks this is a serious issue. We need static IP, we need well known subnets, because we run FWs everywhere.

And yeah.. soft LL in IPv4 is good idea. You can use it. In IPv6 you are forced to use it. Oh thank you, OSPFv3 configuration is so cool on in IPv6..
> A bright, capable mind of 40 with an imagination factor of .75 may only have the cumulative real-world experience of a 10-year-old.

While provocative, that argument does not take into account the development of the brain. Processing early experiences are far different from the ones when the brain is fully developed. This includes the storage of memories (knowledge).
> “thousands of flights a day could be impacted with delays and cancellations”

I don't think this was the work of a rogue environmentalist hacker, but what gear would a lone terrorist need to do this?
Really interesting insight - something I’ve always suspected and my only hypothesis is that those likely to share will also be those on ordinary salaries. For example, your high achievers on unique salaries probably won’t post as they will be identifiable, and/or are unlikely to post because they are happy at the company and there is no need to (most reviewers do it on switching co or if they are unhappy).
I don't get this point of dirty shit not being illegal in international waters making it legal somehow.

Murdering people is still illegal in international water, we don't see people being boarded for international killing as a service.

Why is shit fuel OK?
IMO close to zero chance of them saying yes to either of these
Firstly, earning more money isn’t a trap. You’d be making more than 3x the average UK salary, you can spare the higher tax rate, and it’s not like you won’t see any of the extra money.

With that out of the way, the core thing to consider here is valuation. 0.2% might be small, or it might be life changing money in the case of a sale, in my case at a similar amount of equity it resulted in a deposit to buy a house rather than buying one outright. What does 0.2% translate to at different sale prices, and does it feel like reasonable compensation for the effort you’ve put in? In terms of salary you’re pretty much at the top end of the scale for small startups with entering the C-suite already. You could maybe get another 10k or so, but if you do that forget about extra equity as well.

Secondly, it’s worth considering if you want the extra stress of being a manager. It’s a different skill set, and a different kind of work. Some people love it, others don’t. Personally I spent five years or so gradually working my up the management tiers, by the end the money was great (in the order of £150k a year including bonuses), but I hated every minute of every day. Eventually I decided I’d had enough and took a huge pay cut to go back to writing code all day for a startup, and I’m a whole load happier for having done so.
Is it still the case that "at the border" actually means "anywhere within 100 miles of the US border"?

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
No one sunsets products like Google.

I’m in the middle of transferring all my domains from Squarespace thanks to Googles sale of that business to that incredibly lousy vendor.
How would anyone (including Apple) create Apple software without Mac?
Creator of Cirru here. Cirru is confusing since it's a syntax of data, not a standalone language. Calcit(<https://calcit-lang.org/>) is the language I built. However Calcit does not store source code in files called `blabla.calcit` or something. Instead, Calcit stores code in data, which is called "Cirru EDN" since it's a variant of Clojure EDN. And it uses Cirru as a data format so stored in files called `compact.cirru` or `calcit.cirru`, which might confuse you PLDB data.
My recommendation is get competing offers that you'd consider taking (batna, as others mentioned) to figure out what you are worth.

You'll never actually know how much you are worth until there are offers on your desk. Actually having offers is the ultimate negotiation card that makes sure you are realistic (neither extremely delusional, nor underselling).

Of course, I recommend you still negotiate politely and respectfully (e.g I wouldn't actually say that I have 3 competing offers).

Once I asked my manager about the salary raise schedule, he said company wide is once a year (and that was like 8 months away for me), asked him once again in a week to confirm, next Monday I handed in my resignation.
> estimated $312 million over 6 years—drew immediate concern from several members of Congress

Napkin cost analysis:

• $8.50 per year per patient, or $0.02 per day per patient // via: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%24352%2C000%2C000+%2F+...

• $0.17 per year per American to fund it // via: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%24352%2C000%2C000+%2F+...

---

> As a society we decide where to invest our money.

It's hard to believe there's any American that doesn't know someone with a family member affected by Alzheimers.

Prevalence:

An estimated 6.9 million Americans age 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s dementia in 2024. Seventy-three percent are age 75 or older (see Figure 2, page 23).

Of the total U.S. population:

• About 1 in 9 people (10.9%) age 65 and older has
Alzheimer’s dementia.

• The percentage of people with Alzheimer’s dementia increases with age: 5.0% of people age 65 to 74, 13.2% of people age 75 to 84, and 33.4% of people
age 85 and older have Alzheimer’s dementia.

• People younger than 65 can also develop Alzheimer's dementia. Although prevalence studies of younger-onset dementia in the U.S. are limited, researchers believe about 110 of every 100,000 people age 30 to 64 years, or about 200,000 Americans in total, have younger-onset dementia.

Source: https://www.alz.org/media/Documents/alzheimers-facts-and-fig...
Wouldn't the point be they're an indecent, possibly bad, actor by default since they're a business at all rather than just creating or contributing to protocols/standards to resolve the issues their product relies on to exist? The only way they could be a good actor is if they're using the money from their sales to fund that initiative with a plan to obsolete themselves.

I suppose if you follow that thread though a lot of businesses just shouldn't exist except for fulfilling the need they fill for the sake of those in need.
This looks better to me: https://www.tesla.com/roadster
AI powered SaaS for college applications
I think "adventure game" has broadened a bit in meaning maybe. To me it means a game where the outcomes don't depend on response speed or dexterity in a game task and where those game tasks are diagetic content within a narrative. So basically puzzles only, where the puzzles are a natural intrinsic part of a story.

Everything else is UI. You can have traditional adventure games, first-person adventure games, third-person adventure games that are not really traditional, and so forth.

Just my opinion though. Traditionally "adventure game" meant a sort of text-driven story game without combat or dexterity-based tasks, and it often still does. But I see the term get applied more broadly than that.
I wouldn't call the tax effects of earning between £100k and £125k a 'trap'. It's an absurd way to do taxes, that I will admit. However, a pay rise between those figures is still earning you more money; your 'take home' income just rises more slowly than usual.

If you expect the company to continue to exist, equity might be useful to 'spread out' your income, so that you continue to earn dividends from the shares after you've changed job and have a different financial situation. However, you say that the company is not profitable, so you won't get any dividends until it is - and that the directors choose to issue them. They are under no obligation to distribute dividends even if they are profitable.

In summary, I can't answer this question:

> What salary feels right to ask for?

...but I can answer this question:

> Should I ask for a lower salary to avoid tax brackets but more equity in return?

No, because:

A: The tax brackets aren't a problem, only a disappointment - a pay rise will still earn you more than before.

B: There's no indication that your company will choose to distribute dividends in the near future (especially because it is not yet profitable and may be acquired).

C: You might have trouble selling your shares individually if the company isn't publically listed, and you might be waiting years for an offer from some mega-corp.

If I were you, I'd only negotiate for equity if I was absolutely confident that the company was going to be bought out for a good price, meaning I could take advantage of capital gains tax being lower than the 'higher' or 'additional' rates of income tax.
Stopped reading when the causes listed didn't mention the EU regulation that prevented Microsoft from delivering its api that would have meant that cloud strikes software wouldn't have been running in kernel mode.
Agreed about having frequent time off to enjoy life. I think the number of days I’d want to take are somewhat capped by my wife’s annual leave too. For example if she gets 25, I don’t know if I’d want an extra 25 on top of her as we love doing things together. Maybe an extra 5-10 for trips with other friends or a day/two pottering doing some DIY.