skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My observation is that salary negotiation has little to do with negotiation. The management side of the table is never thinking in terms of economics and has no idea what their BATNA is.

I think this comes from HR and leadership which can't quantify what the right balance is for comp vs their BATNA.

For engineers this is especially challenging because metrics are hard to come by and correlate with the $$$ going out the door.
> That’s the advice from a prominent thought leader in tech to women suffering from harassment at tech events. “Just make it clear you’re in a relationship.”

So I clicked on the linked article, and - sure enough - this suggestion is made, but it's also only 1 of 6 bullet points on the topic. The rest being :

Don’t assume people are hitting on you.
Make friends with the men.
Make friends with the women.
Leave before the party takes that turn.
Recruit help.

Honestly, those tips strike me as more germane and helpful than those put forth in this rebuttal :

Be compassionate: just because your experience is different, it doesn’t mean the experiences of others are less valid or not real.
Be compassionate: tactics that work for you may not work for everybody.
Be compassionate: don’t blame the victims or those reporting negative behavior.

That sounds like a great ideal to strive for, but doesn't strike me as particularly useful advice. The world would be a better place if we were all appropriately compassionate, but most people will probably get more utility out of advice that targets the world as it actually is rather than how it ought to be. Advising someone to avoid a dodgy neighborhood isn't victim blaming - it's risk mitigation.
> not so much that they will stay just because of the salary is too high.

I can imagine a case in which a sufficiently high salary could lead to someone staying in a position for which they have no passion.

Still, like you say, it's a delicate balance, and on either side you of not getting good work out of your people. On the low end, you just wouldn't be able to secure high-value candidates. On the high end, you might keep people who have no interest in their roles.

I do think the latter case is less likely, though.
In parallel with the direct suggestions, address the stress itself. Prolonged stress limits brain function and therefore your ability to turn the situation around.

Do exercise coupled with controlled breathing, specifically with prolonged exhales, which tells our nervous system that there is no fight here. Do a tiny walk outside every two hours of coding, and consider yoga. Personally I also signed up for Blue Apron or similar mailed recipe kits because I found those instructions to be a relaxing level of activity, better than TV but still winding down, and there are those healthy diet benefits. I also rigged a sit / stand workstation with email on the low monitor and code on the high ones so switching position just happens.
I woke up once to what I thought was the sound of Velcro outside my tent. I called out to my cousin (his backpack was leaning against the tree next to my tent) that it is too early and I was trying to sleep.

Unzipped the tent and took a look out. The sound was a bear ripping my cousin's backpack open. He did not leave any food inside, but had let some food touch the pack and left a scent.

I quickly closed the tent and let the rest of the group run the bear off.
Well that's the point: neoliberalism is when you start trying to push market-capitalist dynamics into domains people view, both traditionally and normatively, as not appropriate for those dynamics.

For instance, if you agree with the statement, "Students are not customers and should not be able to dictate to professors", you are saying something that is actually directly opposed to neoliberalism. You are saying that society needs to use material resources to create a space of non-market relations, and needs to withdraw resources from existing efforts to transform that space in the image of consumer markets.
"even" better? When was it ever really good? It is a video delivery service with bare bones content discovery that is luck on good days and abjectly frustrating UX on average days.
I work to better the long term economic state of my hometown and help people to find meaningful contributions to society other than a life of crime. However, I also don't let my aging mother go to the bad part of town.

Having a solution for _now_ doesn't preclude you from working on a long term solution.

Sure it is "victim blaming." But sitting on our hands for the perfect solution isn't progress either.
One government overspends, gets bailed out by a quasi-government entity that is funded by other governments. This is government intervention in currency in debt markets, by definition not laissez faire.
Economies are based around scarcity. In the fictional economies of Sci-Fi like Star Trek, there is no scarcity. If you can replicate a Rembrandt, atom by atom, it essentially loses its value.

Today is all about me creating something, convincing you that you need it, and getting enough "yous" to contribute that I make enough to produce said thing. When you really start to break it down, money is like the Ghz speed of a processor or the Calorie measure used to measure energy in food. It's a poor measure of worth. We see people with millions of money, just because they convinced some poor smoo their life wouldn't be complete without this shitty knife.

If you believe in Glenn Renolds version of reality (Army of Davids), technology is what will level the scale. But he wrote that a decade ago and it hasn't really held true. There are Kickstarters and crowd-funding, but it's all still based around the same failing model.

We need some pretty big technological breakthroughs: truly mastering the atom. Right now we can only blow shit up (and by we I mean the ones with the money, resources and power to build atomic bombs) or generate power by breaking apart that atom to boil and pressurize water.

Humanity needs to solve the energy problem: both producing large amounts of power in non-polluting ways and storing power more efficiently.

Humanity needs to truly master the atom: to be able to manipulate atoms with a reasonable amount of energy to easily synthesize things (3D and chemical printers on steroids)

Humanity needs to move beyond money. Once you eliminate scarcity, money will essentially become worthless; an archaic idea.

This might all seem crazy and well beyond even the realm of what's possible. But I really feel like if it's not, humanity may only have another 3,000 ~ 5,000 years left. It's pretty much the simulation theory argument: we either continue to evolve and develop to the point where we could partially simulate enough of our world that the simulations would be self away (feel real) ... or we go extinct... Even if we go back and fourth between the stone age due to war/conflict ... eventually one of those two outcomes is inevitable.

I really feel if humanity is here 5,000 from now, money will be an ancient concept that people will have difficult comprehending.
Following companies is a "pull" method that would not generate significant revenue. Facebook corporate customers want to be able to push, and that's why we have ads.

I firmly believe product placement, and the information exchange that surrounds it, is _the_ monetization scheme. Unfortunately, not only Facebook's ad algorithm is broken, but pretty much everyone else's. They have come a long way nonetheless, ad targeting today is one order of magnitude better that it was only a few years back.

People want advice not advertisements. When someone has money to spend and a need to fulfill, to have the right "advisor" is an incredibly valuable asset. Imagine a bot that knows my tastes, my assets and basically my life. This advanced bot could psyche me, at the right time, into making valuable and exciting purchases. A bot I could trust would succeed turning my money into happiness. That's the direction current algorithms have taken, with ever-increasing (and rather suspicious) omnipresence in our lives, grabbing any input they can get their hands on. The key difference is that companies look after their interests instead of mine.
That's a good question but read my comment below which starts with "Connections, halo, and pixie dust." This is a much on the initiative of the person as it is on meeting the right people and being in the right place.
Is the 'Ferguson effect' real? Researcher has second thoughts
Apparently they do.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp
I didn't need much special configuration for React Storybook either. It has a separate webpack config and it was just a couple lines to include my main config and everything worked.
> You're blaming government regulations! That's absurd given many people at this point have said that

1) That's not actually what he said. He said that the regulatory apparatus is currently working to assist rent-seeking and pushing wealth to the "1%". Regulation has been used to protect the wealth of the wealthy from the consequences of a free market, at everyone else's expense.

2) Argument from consensus isn't actually a valid argument. Most of the people in your consensus have been journalists, not economists. (economists are mostly trying to get people to understand that the causes are way more complex than the journalists want to believe)
Profit motive above all else is literally the prototypical example of an ideology, just not one that most people would publicly espouse.
Anatomy of a bug fix
A good reminder that the business model of the free-content internet is a pathetically weak house of cards. Between the trivial availability of ad-blockers and the laughable vapidity of the form taken by most ads, I think we are due for a correction in the sector of ad-supported content.

As others have pointed out before, I don't think we'll be losing much of great value and there are a huge variety of alternative revenue models available for user-supported content.

And good riddance. If I go the rest of my like and never see another ad, that will be fine with me. Same goes for just about all the free content I currently consume. Won't miss it.
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I know this is nitpicky, but: HIRE, HIRE, HIRE.. and delegate.

Don't just shanghai someone because he came through the office door. Hire someone with a clear goal and determination in your mind, something like "You analyze, refine, visualize and optimize workflows in this team" or "You're the guy to run around, collect business requirements, identify stakeholders, and priorize tasks with them".

And once they are in the team, throw as much of that responsibility in their direction and let them handle it. Control and support them as necesary. For one, this is the only way to reduce the workload on yourself. However, I've also found this to be a great motivation - people like having a purpose, a goal and feeling needed.
I encourage you to listen to more music, particularly if "humanity" is intrinsic to the art of it. There is plenty of music made by humans that is rather un-humanlike. Noise, Drone, Chiptune, Glitch, Musique Concrete, Field Recordings, etc all explore the outer limits of music as an artform, and many have no more of a human element than somebody was there to create it (incidentally, most music in those genres doesn't often have lyrics).
>That someone working as a farm hand, mover, framer, or roofer gets paid a pittance compared to what I earn for sitting in a climate controlled office, moving my fingers, and thinking? I can't reconcile that with any definition of "fair."

We all know manual labor isn't that productive, so there's an upper limit on how much the laborer can be paid (the marginal productivity). The problem is the exploitation: the wages unorganized workers receive are far, far below their marginal productivity.
The government in this case isn't restraining the rich. It's protecting them.
> Unfortunately, the most profitable one is usually a fake download button to malware, or a site selling an e-book to lose 10 lbs in 10 days.

This is completely false. The most relevant ad (statistically, based on real data) is going to be around something you actually want to buy, likely from a brand or product you saw recently, or are already a customer of. An e-book to lose 10 lbs in 10 days might be the best ad for someone who is in-market for short-term weight loss solutions, but is going to be a terrible ad for most people.
That was the most interesting tech thing I saw for ... months at least. Thank you sir for your shared pointers and insight.
You'd think so, but BuzzFeed publishes some really good original content, including investigative reporting, which is bankrolled by the truckloads of clickbait they shovel out.
Exactly. This is merely more gamesmanship for the long con.

What do you do when vocal critics of your policies seem to be gaining steam? Agree with them! Use their ill defined terminology to label the failures not intrinsic to your plans as the "bad" things, say you won't do them anymore, and double down on your true ideology.

The real tell here is there is no mention of the economic colonialism of Africa and Asia. No mention of Iraq, Libya, Yemen, ISIS, etc. etc.

As an aside, I think a lot of commenters on this thread don't seem to realize you can be a proponent of government regulation and still criticize the crappy (some would say purposefully crappy) job that's being done in their name.
Eureka! We can make high precision, flat optics for Low Pressure Sodium lights!

http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/students/courselinks/spring08/at...
>is not about showing you the most relevant advertisement, it's about showing you the most profitable one.

They're not mutually exclusive. If they were, the internet would be plastered with mortgage ads.
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It's interesting how the Facebook team decided to do a built-in all-in-one opinionated CLI for React Native but never did for regular React. Hope they get around to this soon.
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Are you serious? Capitalism has been failing most of this planet! You just don't think it's failing because you live in a mid-to-high income nation. One day those nations will run out of others to have war with and steal from. The earth has a lot of resources, but it's finite. This will all end one day.
> I would urge people to call the three big credit agencies - Trans Union, Experian and Equifax and request that your credit be "locked." This means that nobody can look at your credit profile, except for people you currently have a line of credit with. You will be issued a pin and if and when you need to apply for credit you can then unlock your credit profile and re0lock it afterward. You need to re-up on this every two years which is insane as having your credit profile locked should be the default and should be in perpetuity, but you do what you can.

Keep in mind you will be charged for this.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...

> You'll need to supply your name, address, date of birth, Social Security number and other personal information. Fees vary based on where you live, but commonly range from $5 to $10.
What People Cured of Blindness See (2014)
> most disconcerting of all is to see everyday people start to adopt it.

"User posts interesting observation on website. The last paragraph implies a terrifying view into the future."

I think (hope? fear?) that it is mostly imitation. We start learning language by imitation and we never really stop. Will the clickbait we learn today go away again our stay with us?

Pre-radio newspaper headlines are notorious for their crazy front page headlines. It would be interesting to analyze everyday writing from that time for traces of the front page style. If present, did those patterns go away again or did they shape language as we use it today?
All too often a person's entry into success is described as a single moment where they finally catch a break, but I think it's more accurate to consider their life leading up to that moment. Perhaps Stephen King's success could also be attributed to a particularly effective English teacher in school, or supportive parents, or a particularly inspiring book he read when he was young.

If we fail to account for the cumulative effects of the persistent pursuit of a goal, we start to get the impression of success as a single "lucky break".
It is beginning to seem like they make this sh*t up as they go along!
> We should expect simulated Earth to be exactly identical to real Earth.

If a best-effort ancestor simulation is made, we should expect the laws of the simulation to be identical to the laws of the root universe to the limit of the resolution of the simulation.

> Or at least you shouldn't be able to tell the difference. So we should expect the laws of physics to appear the same, but things that require lots of computing power should fail.

Except, that if we are in the simulation, we have no reference point as to what the actual laws of physics are in the root universe, so we have no way to distinguish between our universe being the root universe operating by the "real" laws of physics and our universe being a simulation which fails in some respect with regard to the root universe. The only way to detect the latter case is to be in the root universe and observing the simulation. Which we could do for a simulation we create, but not for a simulation we are in.

(And, the "things requiring lots of computing power should fail" expectation is unwarranted, at least from the perspective of being something that could be observed from inside of the simulation.)
So why would I accept less money from you than my market rate, so that you, the founder, can make more money? At the end of the day there is 1 pie, why should I donate part of my pie to you?
I've had to tell women that I have a girlfriend.

It implies you are in a committed relationship. You seem to have taken it to the level of ownership, which is not healthy in a relationship period.
Too late, people who know better are the minority.
It turns out there are a lot more than 5 companies out there in the marketplace... And if you think you got a fair initial offer you almost certainly did not.
I used to but have come to accept that embedded nowadays mean anything which is black box like and does its thing. Can be Linux or a PIC program written in assembler.
Vmware launches Liota (Little IoT Agent), a vender-neutral open-source SDK
""Instead, we run a pay evaluation process internally, including feedback about the value of the role and the person from all the people who interviewed the candidate. We publish all that feedback, as well as the suggestion/reasoning of our pay trustees (a group of people who use that feedback to try to place the candidate on our pay scale)""

Problem with this approach is that inevitably part of the formula is also "level" -- so you just converted one problem (negotiating $) to another (negotiating level.) That is when the real tricky people come in -- those who want a high level and just manage others, often adding no value (good managers add a lot of value, but if you tell people that the only way they can make more money is by being manager or senior managing level, then you force people who should not be managing into managing roles.)
Applying free market principles to government run services that should be government run like health care, schools -- where profit and efficiency are not goals is neoliberal.

This is another case of people discussing articles they didn't read.
What Is the Difference Between Deep Learning and “Regular” Machine Learning?
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Yeah, why go through all this?
Actually it shouldn't be because this has nothing to do with affiliate marketing.

Most affiliates get paid on a cost-per-action (CPA) basis, so they're actually extremely disincentivized from buying against laundered traffic because it doesn't perform well.
minunit is 3 lines of code [1], two macros and an extern. and shows just how little is needed to put together a unit test framework.

[1] http://www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html#Source_Code
Turned into a really interesting thread on /r/clojure with participation from the author:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/4mbqlj/ticks_tales...
nice features, thank so much!
Hard realtime can also be with seconds latency, to further complicate things.
They used to have instant playlists, where you press a (+) button on a video and it would add it to your queue - I have no idea why they removed this feature. That combined with the mess that is 'next video' and relevant videos has really paved the way for sites like SoundCloud to dominate online music.
> They work, and they work very well.

I suspect it would be more realistic to say "they work at least very slightly better than the less attention-grabby-information-zero headlines".

If they worked very well there wouldn't need to be so many of them per page and for articles carrying them to be split into so many single paragraph pages (because enough money would be made that the site owner would start considering design and UX factors as much as getting that extra 0.0000000001$ per page impression).
Without sounding too nerdy - music doesn't have soul, brains apply the "soulful" property inside itself to aesthetic signals where it makes sense to do so. Music like all other sensory stimuli is purely aesthetic and lacks depth, it's the brain that connects the dots and fabricates the story, and in that sense an AI's output can have many different possible stories. Personally I really like artificial and alien music and art, and it can for example make us more aware of peoples place in the universe and our environment and the future, and connect the brain to novel atmospheres and ideas. This notion of a guy playing a guitar being the only thing that's music is very outdated to me and not interesting at all.

And yes - musicians use accidents both digitally but even in the acoustic world all the time, that suddenly makes for interesting listening. Music has never been 100% human.

And the last point is if you want computers to be able to fabricate the stories themselves, and maybe create output that tells or "exploits" such a story, then yes maybe it isn't a human story, or maybe they can emulate our story, but in the end we come down to what is consciousness, what is intelligence, and all of this. But if intelligence can be artificial similar to humans, then AI's can in theory create vast and amazingly intricate stories that would be even more fascinating than what a human could come up with.
Or arguably, if you are close enough in the salary range, accept a 10% lower salary for 5 weeks of vacation.
I've had multiple situations where I did answer (honestly, too - before I knew any better) the "dreaded" question up front and had the recruiter tell me: "Wow. You must work for a really great company! We can't even come close to matching that." Process ended right there, countless time saved. So, as with all things, YMMV.
I think you might be projecting bias. People like free stuff - do you honestly believe that the market will go to a paid version of Facebook or Snapchat?
Yeah and they have for a very long time too. I remember getting Safeway delivered like 10-15 years ago. And that was in a pretty small town too.
I think they refer to Carrie, not the wife.
> Monitoring tools similar to VisualVM will come.

Well, in java-land visualvm already exists and is more of an entry-level/free tool with its big brothers available if it should prove insufficient.

Java tooling is amazing, I miss it in most other languages.