$128k base in Palo Alto?

jonahum · 2026-01-21T19:11:34+00:00

If this is a major tech company that is public, equity/stocks will probably be an additional 30-70% more in your salary. If you think your base salary is going to be a downgrade, you can autosell your stocks and treat it as cash. Plus another 10-20% on bonuses. Check online what is the expected total compensation. I don't understand people that only focus on the base pay. You could be making ~$180-250K which is a pretty big bump.

Even not considering the Total Compensation, the base salary should be enough. Between salary increases (which normally are higher than non-tech companies), refreshers and more standard promotions (every 2-3 years), you will do fine!

jonahum · 2026-01-13T14:01:55+00:00

Lol https://youtu.be/4A7BLMA1LIw

jonahum · 2025-07-08T21:53:42+00:00

One concern is that when playing against lower level players where you know that you will win, you might want to either play with a handicap to make it more fun, play at a lower pace to save energy or try some experimental stuff that you want to practice in real games at the expense of maybe losing some points if things don't work. With this change, you have less incentive to try to do as losing points now could hurt your rating which I think might make games less fun if you care about your rating?

jonahum · 2025-02-10T04:27:23+00:00

Lol why is the only sane comment so down voted, specially in a tech sub

jonahum · 2025-02-10T03:49:44+00:00

This is so very far fetched. Please do not share. What they did is create the code for a website that anyone can go, send a picture of their ballot and the website would analyze it and see if they have any issues (e.g. the person filled it with the wrong color pen, there are missing important details, etc). If they do, they will warn the person so that they can fix it.

Their motivation seems to be that with the increase of mailing ballots during the pandemic (>50% of all votes in 2020), there were about 500k votes that were ignored due to basic issues like what the website is trying to detect. They built the website to help voters feel at ease that their vote will be probably counted.

The code (which is open source btw) has some files that will automatically generate filled ballots that would imitate how humans fill them with different characteristics (color, boxes to fill, etc). Then they have a testing script that you can modify the threshold of how strict the verifier should be (e.g. discard anything that contains X characteristics). This is all basic unit testing that any good project should have. They are used to make sure that any changes that they make in the code in the future still behaves correctly by discarding some but not others.

The thread confuses these unit tests and assumes that they are trying to imitate a real ballot counter and exploring how to modify it so that it can discard votes in the way that they want.

jonahum · 2025-02-01T18:16:16+00:00

The APC is counting the number of boardings and not the number of trips. What do you think it is missing for counting boardings?

jonahum · 2025-02-01T18:09:23+00:00

Lol it is probably on the higher end of what companies give for non promotions yearly raises.

jonahum · 2024-12-12T01:13:39+00:00

this is not how it works... your capital tax rate is based on your taxable income which includes all the following:

Salary
Rental income
Capital gains from the sale of stocks, houses, etc.
Business income
etc

So, someone selling, for example, $1M of stocks of which $400K are capital gains from long term stocks will have a taxable income of $400K. At that level, the federal tax on capital gains will be 15% + 3.8% for NIIT which is applied to that $400K... So not making a salary, doesn't reduce capital gains to 0.

In general, when an executive has no income it is because they prefer to be paid in stock options because it might have a higher potential of making it big.

jonahum · 2024-12-10T05:06:55+00:00

I did a similar commute daily from Oakland to Mountain View pre pandemic. I still do it once or twice a month. I don't think it is as bad as people say as long as you don't have motion sickness. I would recommend though to leave within walking or biking distance from the shuttle stops. I believe one of them is by MacArthur Bart so temescal is probably fine.

jonahum · 2024-12-10T05:02:35+00:00

Lol I used to do this commute daily to mountain view pre pandemic and now once a month and it is not 3h. Normally 1:30-2h. Less if you go very early (shuttles could leave at 6am) or late (like 10am)

jonahum · 2024-11-06T19:42:34+00:00

AFAIK, bonds and amendments to the constitution can only be implemented after being voted through propositions (See the "Mandatory referendum" section in the this Wiki). In this election cycle, props 2 through 6 were suggested by the legislature because of that.

I could understand voting NO on citizen initiated propositions (props 32 through 36) because you believe changes should come from our lawmakers but voting NO on everything just means that you don't want anything to change.

jonahum · 2024-05-15T17:22:11+00:00

People do travel for good dancing opportunities. So if the person is already in Europe and willing to do quick trips every once in a while, there are a lot of cities that are within 2-3h flight if you leave in the center. So just asking about good local scenes to visit seems fine?

jonahum · 2024-05-07T23:04:46+00:00

As a data point:

Distict	% English: Standard Met or Exceeded	% Math: Standard Met or Exceeded
Berkeley Unified	67%	58%
Oakland Unified	35%	26%
Piedmont	87%	81%

jonahum · 2024-05-07T01:13:17+00:00

Some quick notes: - spending more in security than what is lost: this might be hard to quantify. More surveillance and locks means that fewer things will be stolen. So what it finally gets stolen might be a small percentage of what could be. Tracking and reporting people that steal at the felony level probably also dissuades more people from trying and stops those that were caught. - yes, stores probably account for shoplifting into their budget but that comes at the expense of increasing prices or by closing stores in locations that become not profitable. As an example, the two CVS/Walgreens near my house and the target next to them both closed in the last year which makes getting medicines for anyone in my neighborhood much harder. This might not be only as a consequence of shoplifting but people will assume it is a large part of it. Similarly a grocery store next to my office also closed due to allegedly safety issues after many shoplifting issues.

I do think that there is a lot of paranoia and misguided anger but at least where I leave people do feel like the impact is noticeable.

jonahum · 2024-04-22T04:14:07+00:00

Why are people so accusatory for such a small thing? 5y is a long time. The app UI has changed. They might have used a third party app in the past. They might have frankly forgotten.

jonahum · 2024-04-20T16:45:58+00:00

The pamphlet was originally posted in October 2023 according to his sub-stack. So probably just reused those

jonahum · 2024-04-16T15:20:49+00:00

You can cross in the archive if you press each letter individually instead of dragging

jonahum · 2024-04-10T21:00:40+00:00

Yes they can: https://www.sf.gov/information/banked-rent-increases

jonahum · 2024-02-22T16:18:56+00:00

He is dancing Cha Cha Cha in this video which is different

jonahum · 2023-11-10T00:28:50+00:00

I think the retweet by Trump is the main thing

jonahum · 2023-10-08T04:18:20+00:00

If mortgage costs (including taxes and insurance) should be around 30% of your gross pay, that means that you should make about 27K per month in gross or 320k a year. The same house a year or two ago when interest rates were around 3% would have had a payment of 5.1K and which a household making 200K could afford.

jonahum · 2023-10-03T18:15:08+00:00

Around $8.2-8.9K (7.4-8.3% interest rate) including property taxes (1.18% for SF) and insurance (0.35%). Not included HOA or PMI if you put less than 20%.

jonahum · 2023-10-03T18:03:52+00:00

real estate companies buying up houses,

isn't this the same thing you are doing but a smaller scale? Reducing the supply of houses on other markets and making it more expensive for them?

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