skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of consider salary numbers posted in job ads to be a bit of a red flag. In my experience, when that happens, the company's usually trying to preclude negotiation on a salary that is way below market rate -- and there's amost always room for negotiation, so I see companies that try to do this as probably kind of sketchy (except in the case of some government jobs where they may be required by law to post salaries, and there really is no room for negotiation as their salaries are also set in stone).

The other situation that I've seen this in is job ads posted by recruiters who post way-above market-rate salaries and then try to bait-and-switch you when you answer the ad. Also a big red flag.

Mostly, though, I am interested in negotiating, and don't want to commit to a number even before I've had a chance to make a favorable impression on the employer, because then they could say "well, you knew ahead of time what we were paying, so why are you trying to negotiate?" Well, if they had posted a realistic number or their best possible offer, maybe there'd be no need to negotiate -- but that is virtually never the case.
Great link, thanks. I had no idea this exists.
> you install on your own server

Yes anyone can easily spin up their own server, but MailChimp does that part for you. Right?

So the cost analysis should really include the cost of an EC2 instance too, to compare them fairly.
If you gather this information in any way from an applicant, you are opening yourself up to a lawsuit that will cost you many multiples of whatever you were hoping to save. Even if you win, which you won't.

Also, "and — if applicants ask — must give them a pay range for the job they are seeking"

So start offering what the job is worth.
I think that holds only if your time is worth nothing. I don't want to go through weeks of interviews just to find out that my salary demands are $50K more than they're willing to pay.
Not a great example:

"American-made imports reached a high point in 1930, when approximately 25 percent of Soviet imported goods came from the United States. (..) By 1931, there were 134 signed technical aid agreements, the vast majority of them with American companies, servicing virtually every branch of the economy (...) General Electric had been eager to reenter the Russian market as early as 1922 to prevent German competitors from preempting it. Their granting of credits for up to five years, credits which were not guaranteed by the United States government, caused a sensation in the United States and signaled greater willingness by capitalist firms to take risks in the Soviet market (...) In 1913, there had been only some 600 tractors in all of Russia, mostly of German make; by 1930, there were 60,000, three quarters of them manufactured in the United States."

https://sci-hub.cc/https://www.jstor.org/stable/178483

And of course, 1933 was when Roosevelt officially recognized the USSR.
Please don't refer to them as black boxes. The internals are fully observable.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no".
Nobody seems to comment about this part of the law : "if applicants ask — must give them a pay range for the job they are seeking"

That's pretty interesting. I wonder how companies are gonna try to circumvent this.
measurability

crawling != indexing

with a segmented sitemap (i.e.: one per pagetype, per namespace, ..) you get important communicated to indexed ratios you otherwise do not get.

if crawling and indexing works, it works but if it doesn't you should know it (see it in google search console) and debug it (narrow it down via segmented sitemaps).
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I have a mid/high-end Bosch and find that the dishes end up much dryer if you crack the door when the cycle completes. This is particularly important for plastic stuff like tupperware. It doesn't have a heating element, so it's best to expose the dishes to non-humid air while they are still hot.
For context, google published a paper on their on-device wakeword system 1.5 years before the 6s came out.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
I live in a dying, rural small town. Well, dying is too strong a word. The population isn't growing, but it's not shrinking either. Stable for the past 20 years. Has around 800 people.

Anyways, this town was founded as a railroad hub in the 1880's. Both a freight hub taking farmers' harvests and delivering goods to the farmers, and a passenger hub transporting people from the surrounding counties into the nearest big cities. The town also provided necessary services at a time when traveling more than 15-20 miles was a hardship. There was a grocery store, general store, cinema, funeral home, pharmacy, bars, couple of hotels, hardware store, and so on. Was a central gathering place for the farmers, and the people who provided services for the farmers.

Many of those businesses are long gone now. The town is still vital for farming because of its mill & grain elevator, and the hardware store still does great business. But the rest is gone. Even the railroad moved away. There are no tracks left in town and the main route is 20-30 miles away. The town survives because of inertia. And because some people are willing to commute an hour to their work in exchange for having a house in the country, and a school with small class sizes for their kids.
It is a good step towards that. Although top management in companies wants to bridge the gender gap but when it comes to hiring, the HR & recruiters get biased and tend to be biased towards candidates with lower salary expectations. They want to check how much the candidate was getting paid, which gives them more room to bargain with salary expectations.

IMHO, the salary of a job should be based on how much the company is willing to pay to get the job done. It should not be dependent on how much the candidate was getting paid by previous company. What if the previous employer was harassing or taking advantage? how does it matter if I was in my previous job working at McDonald's and getting paid peanuts? Selection of a candidate should be purely based on talent, skills & Merit.
> There's a sense of urgency to getting and staying employed in America which counteracts this ability to be judicious about what work you take, which is perhaps the underlying cultural driver.

Uh, yeah, of course there is, because the alternative is penury. If you make scientists liable and change nothing else the result is not going to be a great scientific system that works for the average Joe.
AD Hominem fallacy - the status of someone has no relation to the outcome of a scientific experiment.

That's not what the parent comment is arguing. The parent comment points out that research is expensive and not available equally to all groups.

The status of mom and pop doesn't effect the outcome of their research. Mom and pop weighing R&D against making their mortgage that month usually means they don't invest much in research.
I did the same as you and migrated away. I was looking at the XPS and ended up going with the Razer Blade Stealth. What's actually surprised me most is how much I enjoy having a touch screen. I could see checking out the new surface pro 2 at some point now.

The other huge thing that surprised me was how easy development is becoming with the new Windows Linux Subsystem. The only thing i haven't gotten to play nicely with it is Postgres, but I just set it up in windows and have the wls connect to it and I'm on my way.
Answer: 70 km/s/Mpsc but amazing science.

Or in more human terms, that 2.75 inches per parsec per second or 137 micro-inches per nanosecond per mile. If I did all of the conversions correctly.
So a commenter on HN quotes a commenter on Reddit who said that some commenters on BackReaction 'explained to her she was wrong'.

That's grand and all, but is anyone in that chain actually a cosmologist like Sabine Hossenfelder?
I'd prefer to see this go in the other direction and make all salary information public.

Right now, employers have far more information than employees, and I don't think this law will do much to change that. To me, it's similar to real estate - imagine if only sellers had access to the database of exactly what every house sold for and when, but buyers had to go with unsubstantiated, scattered rumors. Or vise versa. The side with information would have a monumental advantage.

This law won't do much, if anything, to change the basic dynamic. For what it's worth, I work for a public institution and my salary, and the salary of all my coworkers, is public. The sky hasn't fallen.

If tech companies balk, one approach would be to say that any company using the H1B or other work visas must make all salary information public as a condition of using the visa. After all, if you're experiencing a desperate shortage of workers, it's reasonable for the public to know what salaries you're paying these desperately needed workers in short supply.
Yes, it does, since apps are sandboxed better than web pages. There are a number of steps you can take depending on your browser: Disabling 3rd-party cookies prevents this attack. So does Firefox's Containers (or just private browsing) and other addons like uMatrix.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status#Canadian_citizens (The USA embassy link on the Wikipedia page isn't working):

It must be noted that the TN status will only be granted if the period of stay is *temporary*.

If the USCIS or a CBP officer has evidence / reason to believe that a TN applicant has intentions to immigrate to the US, then the USCIS or the CBP officer can deny that applicant entry. I wouldn't be surprised if the USCIS or the CBP would consider an individual holding a TN making statements of a similar nature within the United States to merit the corresponding consequences.
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Proving my income (with paystubs or a W2) separately from the credit report the bank ran always gave me the impression that the credit agencies didn't have that info. Nor do I ever recall seeing it in the reports I got from them.

Welp.
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This is exactly why I made the comment. Recently went through 4 calls and a full day on site just to be met with an offer they wouldn't budge on that's 20% lower than what I currently make.
> If you share and your amount is > the employers, you have no job.

FWIW, I have never had this happen to me in the Valley. Companies will either make projections on what their stock will be worth in the future to make their offer look as attractive as my current pay, or they'll straight up tell me that they have a leveling chart and $X is the maximum they can offer.

Asking me is a rational thing for them to do because they have nothing to lose - same outcome if I decline, win if I accept.
Louis Pasteur and Pierre & Marie Curie fit the description of "mom and pop research", as compared to today's labs, yet their findings are still valid.
Rumor? https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/
Honestly the vertical stretch feels kind of strange
are you sure you are replying to the correct comment. Nothing you wrote seems to have anything to do with what I posted:)
When I made below-market rates, I withheld any salary data whatsoever. Now that I'm well above the median, I tell them as soon as they ask so as to avoid wasting my time.
still, who uses it for what? browsers dont change behaviour because of it, search engines ignore it, users dont see it.
Yes... But such blog posts are terrible. They share bad knowledge and so many people trust such blog posts and make decisions based on this.
If this kind of technical creativity (way outside of the box) was possible in Russia under the Soviet yoke, then what kind of things are they capable of creating today?

Perhaps a whole bunch of electronic warfare devices like those used against AEGIS and the USS Donald Cook? And what about the fact that NASA and the US space program are so dependent on Russian rocket engines? Or the Russian jet that can hover or reverse in mid flight?

We know that the Russian system of higher education is very rigourous and places a lot of emphasis on mathematics Could this be the root of it? Or is it something else in the culture of Russia?

One of the biggest mistakes of the USA after the Cold War was to stop taking Russia seriously and to stop watching what Russians were doing. The west accepted the views put forward by Ukrainians about Russia, instead of going direct to the source. Now we know that neo-nazi forces within Ukraine were spreading misinformation about Russia in order to benefit Ukrainian oligarchs.

It is time to move beyond this. More of us need to learn Russian fluently and analyze Russia based on direct knowledge of the country and people. Russia isa powerful nation and it has a rich and vibrant culture. There is a lot to learn there, not just about technology but also about how to approach and solve impossible problems.
I thought of trakt.tv also and wonder what would compel me to switch?

I use trakt.tv with kodi and also take advantage of trakt's website.
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I've read people saying that parent posters might have been accidentally downvoted. I propose the ability to disable the downvote button from the profile page with maybe an additional option to only disable it while on mobile.
I believe I addressed this in the 4th paragraph of this article. I can't imagine many teams going back and optimizing their memory usage after they've deployed something to production.

Unless you have capacity in your sprint to do some fine grained optimization of these things you'll most likely be looking at extending the platform or picking up potential feature requests.

But even still, the point still stands whilst not to the same extreme. You have to actually to set this flag in order to reduce 64MB which is still 60+ times the size of a similar Go service and 3-4 times the size of a thin Java/Python application.
You trust the credit union with your money, but don't trust them with a fingerprint of your browser identity?
Haha yup. Well, Bellvue but it's probably the same city by now. Small world.

Glad your friend escaped Green Bay as well ;)
Considering that companies like Google and Apple went to illegal extremes to prevent competition for labor and depress employee wages, I find it unlikely that they’re not going to do the same thing here. They’ll probably invent some cryptic, convoluted means to launder the data, and if they ever get caught, pay whatever slap on the wrist fine is the cost of doing this kind of stuff.
"I've also come to expect that I'm going to give a candidate a pay range as well."

Employers in California are now required to do so upon request, so be prepared.
Yeah they are making acquisitions in that space like crazy too
Better yet telling them what salary you want and not disclose your previous salary. Don't start you work relationship with a lie.
> It seems as though if an employer were only looking to spend so much on a hire, then if you're already likely above that number, wouldn't it save both you and the employer's time?

Do you think you'll be able to convince an employer post-interview that you're actually worth that much? If so, then don't let them decide otherwise before they actually interview you.
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While agree that is a problem, I also think that if you gave that power back to the employer you would end up seeing a wage gap form as they give raises people who they like/shoot the shit with/are the same skin color as them/the list goes on.
This is not malformed HTML. In fact, optional tags were in older HTML specs and are perfectly legal. Even in HTML 4.01 Strict.
See: http://rimantas.com/bits/minimal_html.html
Safer? I doubt it, apps can ask the Android system for list of installed packages, and list of currently running apps:

http://stacktips.com/tutorials/android/how-to-get-list-of-in..., https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3304685/how-to-get-the-l...

For example the Facebook app is a curious one. IIRC it also asks the system to notify it when a package (any package) is installed or uninstalled: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11246326/how-to-receivin...

I guess they can easily track the popularity of apps like Snapchat or WhatsApp. Geez, also, identify any apps that are "going viral" in popularity, and either buy the company, or squash them through imitation...
Government funding, universities and charitable foundations are the traditional model for research.
Having gone through this tutorial (which is great!) and several others, I'm curious what is a good second step for the casual neural network learner?

It sounds like there is a growing bag of tricks neural network researchers are discovering to make training practical and stable for large data sets.

One example would be using relu activation - whenever I play with it in a simple tutorial like this one, training seems to explode and fail much more frequently, so I'm guessing either I'm missing another step people use, or there are some extra constraints on initial conditions?

Using a Gaussian for activation in my tutorials has tended to be more stable and converge much faster, but I assume there is a huge downside lurking somewhere to having a non-monotonically increasing function?

What are the tricks of the trade that a weekend warrior should investigate?
Why not use Oberon instead?
> With the number of states introducing legislation like this it will be interesting to see if you can tease out any state or city based GDP growth/shrinking based on these laws.

Probably not reliably; the numbers are still small and there are way too may potential confounding factors.
Especially since I currently use Trello to manage TV Shows.
37s/basecamp uses Radford for market information - what is the going rate for a person with X responsibilities. This law bans the use of an individual's salary history to make a salary offer to that individual.
Right, let's start by redistributing the wealth held by people in silicon valley making more than 50k a year. Think of all the people we could lift out of poverty if all us tech folks just gave up our wealth! I'm sure we could do without that second helping of avocado toast each day. The solution is obviously to steal from the wealthy and give it to the poor.
"If you share and your amount is > the employers, you have no job. Bad situation."

If I'm currently employed, that saves me taking time off for interviews, etc.

Depends on how desperately you want to leave, in that case, I guess.
> Since BLM started, police have pulled back patrols

High murder rates in inner cities have been occurring long before the BLM. Not sure why they are being inserted in this discussion
Using a weird local subset of C as an introductory imperative programming language seems like a really bad idea to me, unless you're using your weird local subset of C as the source language for a compiler construction course.

There's just so many other good options.
> chinesium

Thats the first time I have heard of that. Using it from now on, thanks haha.
I was an ECE major at CMU.

C0 basically served as an introduction to C, with contract annotations. The contract annotations were used to enforce more thinking about your code (i.e. proving your code worked via pre/post/loop conditions). There were still pointers, there was just a bit of syntactic sugar surrounding it.

About 2/3's through the course we switched to full-blown C, at which point we had to learn pointers. The intro to computer systems course (think malloc, proxy, and buffer overflow labs) used C as well, and that in turn required us to use pointers. There's no "losing out" on learning pointers. It's basically a step-stool to C.

At the time, I had a pretty good grasp of pointers and thought C0 was a bit silly- I'd never used contracts in my life. I currently work as a full-stack web developer (bit of a twist from my intended path) and I've never seen anyone "write out contracts" like I did in C0. I now think it was a valuable exercise in that it forces you to define the parameters that allow your code to run.
Good talk.

And I, for one, am confident that Wall Street will accept the limits of their intelligence and introduce software constraints that require human oversight for the benefit of market stability. /s

Seriously though, any system with many actors is going to see unanticipated failures resulting from runaway interactions. There is no way around it. And I think that if the threat of losing money isn't a powerful enough incentive to stop it, then nothing is.
Particularly difficult for Chinese speakers. I've heard Alessa a lot.
> We cannot simulate the human body to the level of detail that's required

A-ha! So we use AGI for this! :-)
They need to convince you it's worth going through that much effort. It's also completely reasonable to ask what a position pays.
The two have completely different business models.

Where I grew up there is a WalMart 45 minutes away in the "city", along with Target, Best Buy, etc. etc. You go there on the weekend for your afternoon shopping trip. It's a basically weekly event, and most everyone does it.

Dollar General is in town and you can go there after work if you need something.

Most people I know frequent both. The difference is that WalMart requires a much larger population to support, whereas Dollar General can get by with a few (1 - 5) thousand people.
What? Surely you mean perpendicular to the path? Or does path mean something different from trajectory..?
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70%, 85% and even higher are available at the regular grocery store (Publix here in the Southeast). Lindt is one of the available brands.
I find this essay very curious, especially the strong view against the Bullet Cluster supporting the model of Dark Matter. This is the first time in professional astronomy I've seen this brought up. The details in the linked essay say as much as a few studies find that it's improbable that the two clusters collided at the speed that would be required. It was funny to see my same concern raised in the second comment on the blog:

> I don't get it. How does modified gravity explain displacement of visible and gravitating matter in the case of Bullet Cluster?

> The improbability of conditions that are needed to set up the collision is another question.

I didn't find the reply especially convincing, or the arguments for the likelihood of small numbers raised in the main essay. Attachments to certain "elegant solutions" by theorists have posed significant hurdles to scientific progress. Einstein removing the cosmological constant for an expanding universe is a famous example.
Unfortunately, humans do.
I don't think this will fix anything. Consider the following scenario.

Employer to (theoretically) underpaid/under-represented minority: I offer you x.

Underpaid minority: accepted.

Employer to market-rate perspective employee: I offer you x.

market-rate perspective employee: nope.

Employer to market-rate perspective employee: how about X+25K?

market-rate perspective employee: sounds good.

This bill tries to fix a symptom of the problem - but the underlying dynamics causing the pay disparity will remain.
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What a colorful sample!
At the same time, salary information for all California state employees, from the governor to university groundskeepers is publicly available online for anyone to use.

transparentcalifornia.com
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why I suggested each company have there own pay scale, like google will pay 60k for a programer, microsoft 65k and maybe they scale different, but it should be searchable. (numbers made up)
If only there was a way that millions of mops and pops could club together to fund research into areas that might benefit them all...