Ok, but the cumulative inflation rate since January 2020 is still around 11%
$1 in January 2020 is worth $1.11 today
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=202001...
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$1 in January 2020 is worth $1.11 today
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=202001...
Most good engineers(especially early in their career) will be an order of magnitude more productive after a couple years at the same company, as they build up both domain knowledge in their tech space, and institutional knowledge that can't be learned outside of the company. And companies know the value of this experience. That's why you can switch jobs after 2 years for a 20-40% increase. When the market rate for your labor is 1.2x your current salary, I think that's called underpaid.
But inflation is over 11% since 2020. This isn't an increase. The average tech worker is making less than they were 2 years ago according to the Dice salary report.
Why do tech workers feel underpaid? Many companies posted record growth and profits over the pandemic, but still give out paltry 3-5% raises every year. The cost savings of work from home must have been enormous for these companies, yet none of that savings or record profits trickled down to the people writing code.
Meanwhile for those that have the time and willpower to grind leetcode, they know they can command a 20-40% raise every few years. It's not a secret that tech companies underpay their employees and bank on them being too complacent to go through the interview gauntlet yet again. Most devs will admit that they couldn't readily pass the interview at even their own company without many hours of studying and practicing algorithms.
Oh, trying to tap to take an alternate route on the map? Want to tap to add a gas station stop to your route? Sorry, the touch target is too close to your nav icon, but hey at least you can cycle through 3 different car styles endlessly. What a waste of resources.
When students can no longer afford infinite loans, the price of these degrees will magically drop like a rock.
A $22B deal instantly made all of them multi millionaires. Would you have done things any differently? I'm not sure I would have.
Let's think about picking two numbers between 1-9.
Peter is given the product 24. He knows there are two possible pairs of numbers between 1-9 which produce a product of 24, (3,8) and (4,6), so he says "I don't know the numbers"
Sandy is given the sum 10. There are many pairs of numbers that produce a sum of 10, [(1,9), (2,8)...]. But she also knows that Peter did not immediately know the answer. If the pair of numbers was (5,5), that would have produced a product of 25. If Peter was given a product of 25, he would have immediately known the answer, since there's only 1 pair of numbers that produces that product.
So Sandy knows the answer isn't (5,5). Similarly, she knows it's not (2,8) or (3,7). The answer could be (1,9) though, since the product of (1,9) is 9, and there's another pair that can produce that product (3,3). If Peter was given the product 9 he wouldn't have immediately known the answer. The answer could also be (4,6), since the product of those is 24, and that can also be achieved with the pair (3,8). So there's only 2 pairs of numbers that add up to 10, and which Peter would not have immediately known based on their product. Sandy knows the answer must be either (1,9) or (4,6). Sandy says "I don't know the numbers".
Peter knows the solution must be either (3,8) or (4,6), and he knows that Sandy did not immediately know the answer. If Sandy had been given the sum 11 though, she should have immediately known the answer. There is only 1 pair of numbers that produces 11, but which does not have a unique product. Yes, the pair (2,9) sums to 11, but the product is unique, and if Peter had been given the product 18 to begin with, he would have immediately known the answer. So because he didn't immediately know the answer, and because that was not enough information for Sandy to say that the pair is (3,8), then Peter knows that the summation of the numbers must not be 11. The only other choice then is (4,6), and so Peter says "I do know the numbers".
So no, it's not the same country now.
The demand for good engineers far outstrips the supply, so companies are forced to compete with each other, which is why you get lots of other perks other than salary (free gym, free lunch, free dry cleaning, etc). Any big tech co that decide to pay the same regardless of location will have a huge advantage recruiting and maintaining remote employees. If a remote employee's only option is to jump to another FAANG company for a 15% salary decrease, what motivation will there be to leave?
Towards the bottom of the page they said they've only guessed age correctly 51% of the time, which lines up with there being no correlation between age and ability to generate random sequences
Skip the internet setup, plug in a chromecast, and never utilize any of the built in "features" of the TV. It's worked great for me so far.
It's much easier to move from an expensive city to an inexpensive city than vice versa since your savings will go much further in the inexpensive city.
Go look for salaries on a site like levels.fyi, find companies that pay well, apply to companies or find recruiters on linkedin and reach out to them.
>In order to find out, we looked at each country’s average score across all domains
So it's taking the average of the country, not really looking at the best individual programmers. Considering the US had more entrants than China(which has 3x the population of the US), my guess is that there are many more mediocre devs from the US participating, which brings the average down.
From a 2014 analysis:
>Issues pertaining to the utility, interpretation, and reporting of ICU occupancy measures were identified and there were indications that optimal ICU occupancy rates were around 70-75%
We should treat aging the same way. Some people's bodies fail them at 80, but others live to be 100+. If we develop good treatments there's no reason that everyone can't live to be 100 in relatively good health.
Many doctors are now advising patients to stop taking antibiotics when they feel better.
https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2015/5/stop-antibiotics-exper...
Can you please cite your sources for this claim? I just did the math using the numbers of infections[0] and the county populations[1] and it doesn't really seem to match up with your claim at all.
There are 58 counties in California.
San Bernardino, LA, and Riverside counties are numbers 4, 5, 6 respectively for highest cases per capita and all have populations above 2.2 million.
Of the bottom 10 counties in cases per capita, only 2 have a population larger than 100k (SF, Humboldt)
[0] https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spr...
Unless the bacteria is actively causing harm or a variety known to be harmful to humans I'd still rather take my chances with the filters.
High quality discussion is what makes HN a unique place on the internet, so I ask that you re-read the guidelines before posting again as it benefits the community as a whole.
Worth noting that Webull, a robinhood competitor, is the #2 app in the play store. They initially restricted stocks but later allowed people to freely buy and sell.
For one, an hour you spend exercising or walking around is probably an hour that you're not eating. Many Americans are constantly eating when they're at home, either mindlessly snacking or eating a huge meal. Given that you only have 8 hours between work and sleep, occupying yourself for 1 of those hours could mean a significant decrease in time spent eating.
Incidentally, this is why intermittent fasting works well for some people.
1.5 million concurrent connections would then represent roughly .15% of their total user base[1]. Hard to say whether that's accurate or not. I certainly use Uber less than .15% of the time but I imagine big events like New Year's see huge spikes in usage.
[1]Number of downloads isn't totally accurate for estimating user base but I'm not sure of another way. Also, article mentions that their system powers over 10 different apps but I'm assuming that the those numbers are negligible compared to the main Uber app.
That doesn't mean we can't oppose it. People are allowed to oppose a company's actions, even if they're not illegal
>I don't see how it can be made safe, since as far as I know people can't eat or drink with masks on.
Clearly the principles of harm reduction discussed in the article account for patrons eating without a mask on while they are seated at a table, but I suspect you already knew that.
>I'd love to have asked that UCSF expert what she had to say about this.
I'd love to hear what she would have to say as well. Though seeing as she has a long career studying infectious diseases and has studied covid extensively over the past year, I'm inclined to think she has a good understanding of the risks involved in certain activities, certainly beyond the anecdotal evidence of commenters on HN.
>I'm still waiting to hear someone tell me how many lives would be saved by allowing restaurants to open. Is it going to be anywhere near 3,000 in a single day? Somehow I very much doubt it.
I'm not sure why you're waiting for this answer. The number of deaths in a day(3000) is unrelated to restaurants allowing outdoor dining, so why are you comparing them? Closing restaurants will not bring that number down, based on the science we have available, but if you have evidence that suggests otherwise feel free to share.
Based on the available evidence, I think the number is close to zero.
>Restaurants have been mandated by the state to impose certain regulations and hygiene measures. They follow the general principles of harm reduction that Monica Gandhi[0], an infectious disease expert at UCSF, goes by: masks, distancing, ventilation and hand hygiene. "There is no evidence that I can find anywhere in the world that outdoor dining with those four procedures in play increases the risk of COVID-19," she said. [1]
So there seems to be no evidence that banning outdoor dining is going to do anything positive in stopping the spread, though we know for certain it will have destructive effects on people's well being and the economy.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Gandhi
[1] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Is-outdoor-...
This is true of several respiratory illnesses. For example there's evidence that the flu can increase the chance of a cardiovascular event for several months after recovery[0]. Is there evidence that covid has more severe long term complications than other respiratory illnesses?
>why should we only look at the effects on people younger than 70?
We shouldn't, of course. However we also shouldn't base policy off of a minority of the high risk population. Older people are also at a much higher risk of auto accidents. Instead of making the license process more difficult for everyone, several states have rules specifically for older people mandating more frequent vision tests and license renewals.
Instead of banning a low risk activity for a mostly low risk group, why don't we put resources into taking care of the high risk population(free grocery/medicine delivery, prioritized telehealth appointments, etc.) and let everyone else take care of their own risk assessment?
[0]https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/29/1/96/2398118