skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your tax math is bad. The pre-tax figure, even with California income tax, is closer to 500k than 700k.

And some of that 300k/year difference is coming from growth of invested savings, not just W-2 income.
I love the detail that the author goes into, it's a nice change of pace from the normal articles on the web. His travel photography is also stunning, almost makes me want to do something with my travel photos as well, but once I see how much time he puts in, I think I'm not going to do it until I'm well retired.

At any rate, I'm glad he enjoys what he's doing and shares i with the world, the photography really gives an effect of how he saw it, which is all to rare with people's vacation photos.
Ask HN: Intel drawback of patches; Should I update (my Mac) or not?
Recently I read that Intel drew back their patches.

Having not caught up with the discussion of meltdown/spectre, I am left with a question meant for the "average user".

Could you highlight brief reasons
- not to update now?
- when to update?

I have a Mac.

Thanks :-)
I actually think it's fairly useful word. I've used it seriously on more than one occasion to mean "logically constructed according to the rules of word formation". It's handy if you're prone to building new words from Latin roots etc.
Other insidious forms of fraud include, but are not limited to, "settlement attacks" and "refund attacks."

Note that both do not require merchant knowledge or collusion.
At the level of arithmetic, there are studies of children performing math in the marketplace, but then being unable to do the same calculation on paper. So translation from notation to reality (and back) is probably a significant barrier to success in math.
Let's not forget the most important thing that I personally resisted for over a decade of my working life before legitimately giving it a try: allow yourself the opportunity to get 8 hours of sleep per night. You won't always get it, especially if you're a parent, on-call, or a thousand other reasons. But I went from being a person who "only needs 5-6 hours of sleep" but was always running out of time in the workday to someone actively seeking out new challenges because my work (and personal) time were spent so much more efficiently and pleasantly by default. Seriously, if I could go back in time and slap my mid-twenties self for ignoring this, I would.
Ah, you're absolutely right.
Try to get the real scoop. If the corporation isn't very transparent to employees, it might help to exercise at least one share, to have stockholders rights.

It's one thing to be nearly profitable like Amazon was for many years, where current income was going into investment for the future; if a need for profitability arose, investment could be toned down and margins would appear. It's another thing when the current costs are slightly more than the current revenue, but decreasing spending immediately will also decrease revenue immediately. The later situation could be ok, if there's some realistic medium/longer term cost savings or revenue growth plan that is likely to be finished before the money runs out.

Startups that have revenue but not profits are judged a lot harsher in the market right now than they used to be; certainly they're judged harsher than startups with no revenue. If your stock makes your total compensation good/acceptable only if there's a big exit and the required exit is much bigger than is realistic, you're not well compensated -- unless you're getting something else out of it.
> That's funny, I've never had a hiring manager or interviewer look at my literal hundreds of thousands of lines of code on GitHub or several of the OSS projects I've contributed to.

I was thinking, since public repositories or open source contributions are the new "mandatory". If you want to see me coding, just request a new feature to one of my public repositories on github. These coding assignment you sent by email? I don't even bother to read them, in fact I store them scrupulously together with your email - once you might be looking for a job and I will be the one doing hiring.
I have the opposite question.

As long as deals are legal and meet generally accepted ethical standards, it seems that founders and investors have no interest in favoring employees in negotiations that restructure cap tables.

So why do employees make money in a good fraction of successful exits?
True, that would strengthen the business case for participants in subsequent competitions.
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Two syllables vs five for a commonly used concept. I think that's all there is to it.
Because there are trillions of dollars in gold and only billions in bitcoin. If bitcoin just replaced gold as a store of value it would explode many-fold.
3 Reasons Why I Invested $1,000 in a Porn CryptoCurrency
The biggest game-changer for me in converting/sticking with emacs was finding out I can edit remote files with my local emacs via TRAMP (https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode). No more logging into remote machines and installing a sub-standard subset of my highly customized editor configuration.

And before you say it, yes I know you can edit remote files with vim too. But with emacs/TRAMP it's dead simple.
Made a short 3 minute video explaining my rationale, and why I think Porn is the reason your 70 year old GrandPa will be involved in CryptoCurrency.
As someone who made the same jump, Windows wasn't really a viable platform for non-dotNet developers until that happened. The state of Linux on the desktop is, frankly, a disaster — I spent months on trying to make it work, but wow, it's not worth the time.
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I mean, you also have breweries like Lagunitas slinging world-class PAs (Born Yesterday) and BA stouts (High Westified) for like $2 a pop!
> This title is confusing

The Economist is famous for using puns in its headlines, and this is a play on a well-known expression (that is itself a pun):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_tomorrow
There was a study in Sweden where people got a small amount of money (500skr, about $60) per month instead of a prescription of anti-depressants. Turns out the people who got the money were happier.

Link: https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/studie-psykisk-ohalsa-blir...

(only in Swedish, sorry!)
And the retort - https://twitter.com/paulmach/status/956017594313699329
One word - spacemacs.

It's emacs with vim bindings. You get all the editing goodness of vim with the extensibility of emacs.

Spacemacs has won the editors war.
This is awesome. Since you are on HN, I imagine you are looking for feedback. It would be great if you could easily reorder the list under favorite places.
I completely agree that it's disconcerting. At least they are transparent about it and no other mainstream OS seems to be doing better.

That's the problem with C, it can't be written securely and these bugs will continue to be fixed for decades.
Sure it's the rarity, but also the lack of corrosion. If your coins maintain the same weight for 100 years that's good, because the value can be measured by weight more reliably. Contrast that with iron that degrades, or copper that actually increases in weight as it goes bad... now how do you weigh out a coin?
Multivariate vs univariate analysis of variance is not at all a simple set of ideas. There's a ton of deep abstraction there, both on the side of statistical analysis as well as the theoretical underpinnings of large-dimensional spaces (and for that matter, interrelationships between variables). But moreover, he was dropping the concept casually, and medium provocatively by saying "the gender gap doesn't exist"--she was having to process "is this fool serious??" at the same time as a technical scientific argument.

Put yourself in her shoes. He was appearing to deny a widely reported phenomenon that is but one aspect of the repression women face in our culture. That would be frustrating.
This is fair. For someone that just wants to edit text in an efficient way and doesn't want to tweak/tailor their editor
vanilla vim is a good choice.
HN is not at all representative of the wider programming community. HN attracts a lot of people working for trendy startup companies and is very silicon valley centric, but that is a tiny portion of the programmers world wide who are much more likely to be working on a java project for a generic business than using the latest fad.

TIOBE has it's issues but as a rough guide to what the industry is actually using I think it's in the ballpark.
But does that mean that causation is a good way to discriminate or that the article is claiming anything like that?
I had the same problem, but affinity designer helped me move to windows.
Tone it down there. This is about Spectre, which is a non-Intel chip problem too.
One way to do that(not ideal) is to add the places in the right order.
It doesn't feel like it uses my AMD card at all. Whenever I check taskmanager it's always using CPU, even when rendering. Don't know if it just doesn't support AMD cards, but I'm not sure what would help increase it's performance aside from RAM now.
So they started out as hardware product companies.. and remained hardware product companies. I don't see any examples of software services companies transitioning to product.
Late to the party, but just wanted to comment that I appreciated the namesake spelled out by social media icons in the footer. Some people put thought into all angles :)
This is one area that YC has a strong incentive to act in, but hasn't. A startup ecosystem with a best practices guide to equity and suboptimal exits would help everyone.

Doesn't have to be rules, just a guide and companies who comply and those who don't.

For an example how this could work, see the CFA and GIPS. Every big asset manager is in compliance with GIPS. Every reputable startup should choose whether to be compliant with best practices for equity for employees.
Videos (and talks for that matter) are good a giving a quick over and showing you what is possible (i.e. getting you into a position where you know what you don't know). Books are good ways to dive deep into things you already know you want to learn.
I setup https://blogspam.net/ to offer an API to do exactly that kind of real-time spam detection for blog/forum comments.

It works. But it is pretty coarse, and doesn't support training. (It used to have a bayasian filter setup, and you could train ham/spam, but I found too many reports of false-positives so this was removed.)

I've seen plugins written for wordpress, drupal ,etc, but it never really took off the way I hoped it might. Still it does mean my own blog is spam-free.
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Not likely at all unless you have masses of them (which the Kurds don't have), though they may successfully harass attackers and reduce their bombing accuracy.

Does Turkey have guided bombs? And will they be re-supplied so that Turkish air force could use them at will?
Nashville plans for a big boost in local transit, light rail
Yes, the bulk of increasingly automatable jobs that require weeks of training at best are a very different issue. A capitalist system without UBI will look like a very bleak dystopia soon.
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Is there a point to running verified code on insecure hardware?
Less intellectual wasn't exactly what I meant. I also thought his explanations were clear. He did flirt with provocation: "It doesn't exist" is perhaps less clear and helpful than "It doesn't exist as described", especially when gender is one of those 18 factors that contributes to variance.
Wow. You made me smile. Took the effort to investigate, identify a good reason and defend.

Thanks!
It's an example of how brain-dead the hiring process is for tech in general. Most of the jobs I've worked in my entire career have involved working with languages, not just frameworks, that I didn't know beforehand. I learned all of them and became good at them on the job. If you have a good grounding in programming fundamentals and you are reasonably productive then it's pretty easy to pick up any language in a short amount of time, especially now.

I think part of this is that there is this common delusion that tech workers in hot fields (like silicon valley startups) have to all be rockstars or have to all have some exceptional level of expertise. And having those people on board is how you crank out software better and faster. The reality is that someone who coincidentally happens to have experience with whatever your current technology stack is may not have the highest level of overall expertise or talent that you truly need.
At my previous job, I left due to the company, not the management.

My direct supervisor was great. He was a good manager on most levels.

I left because the company had no future, they weren't going bankrupt, but they weren't growing either. I never got a pay rise, probably never would. My benefits actually shrunk as time went on, staff social functions were cut (e.g. team lunches), use of networking funds became more restricted, and my work environment became less flexible.

In fact, the only reason I considered staying was my manager and coworkers.

People leave poor working environments, whether it's a company or a manager causing that poor environment.
Linux on Windows is still a disaster? It's been something I want to play around with but haven't had the chance yet.
"Normal" people may not know it, but they use RSS when they download/subscribe to podcasts.
A developed country should dismantle its planes and not let them rot in the nature just because its easy. My two cents.
On the contrary: One of the long-standing problems in engineering, technology, and indeed many other businesses (from nursing to Nickelodeon) has been what to do, when the traditional career progression was seen to be "next, you are promoted into management", with the large number of people who did not want to go into management.

Lots of people have been considering themselves unsuitable for management for decades. This is a problem that people were talking about in the "systems" world back in the 1970s and 1980s, and that is neither the only area that it was a problem in nor the earliest time that it was mentioned. Have a snippet from the Journal of Systems Management from 1980:

> The systems professional who wants to remain within his job, i.e., does not care if he is promoted, is one who sees his main purpose as contributing to the profession. But many professionals and many organizations feel that one must get promoted to a management position, for if one does not want to be a manager he is not ambitious. This reflects itself in many organizations when the annual review time rolls round, or when one wants to change jobs.

If your company today has an organization structure where entering management is not the only promotion path, decades of mulling and lots of people not seeing themselves as management is the cause.
Videos are dynamic. They are the closest medium currently we can get to pretending we're inside the presenter's head in real time (I'm thinking of khan-academy style videos). To experience how an expert solves a problem and the steps they go though is great and is hard to convey though a book (you would essentially need a flip-book or multi-step diagrams that get very big very fast and it's also hard to convey the temporal aspect of the process that's being explained).
Should be (2016).

Color me surprised - a poaching company doesn't like people using the term "poaching"?

As commenter David Carson points out on that page, people use "poaching" to refer "a company making an offer to an employee of another company that they currently have a business relationship with. Customers hiring staff away from suppliers, and vice versa, etc."

There's a related definition which I think is more common. Quoting Wiktionary, "To cause an employee or customer to switch from a competing company to your own company." Quoting from Merrian-Webster, "to attract (someone, such as an employee or customer) away from a competitor."

In neither case does the term have the meaning of hiring people for a higher salary.

The essay says "Did you know that the roots of Silicon Valley can be traced back to one of the most epic “poaching” events of all time?", referring to the 'traitorous eight' who left Shockley to found Fairchild.

This was not poaching. It doesn't even fit the author's own definition, which is "one company offering an employee of another company a better job". Those who left Shockley were founders; Fairchild didn't exist to make them an offer.

And if the company is serious about not using "poach" as metaphor, they should stop using "hunt" as a metaphor for finding employees. Eg,

* "many companies try to hunt the same developers" - https://42hire.com/how-to-attract-and-select-the-best-progra...

* "When you are engaged in talent acquisition and on the hunt for your next talent" - https://42hire.com/top-secrets-to-become-the-best-recruitmen...

* "Permanently rotate people and hire new MBAs to hunt employees with analytics skills." - https://42hire.com/digital-hr-tips-to-update-the-recruitment...

This 'hunt' metaphor equally compares you to Cecil the lion.
Good catch. I’m not familiar with the original Ponzi scheme, but as far as I know Madoff was targeting rich people. The crypto scheme has reached the gambling masses at scale
Even less of an investment then. As an investment it's a greater fool one. If you buy it for non-investment purposes then the investment definition doesn't apply. Same as art or classic cars. If you buy it to resell, that's when it applies. If you buy it as an input into a business process then it doesn't, but that's not the common case.
> Zurich also has a high cost of living and well above any US cities.

SF and NYC are a lot more expensive.

You're right about the size of the job market though, it's tiny, even relative to the population size.
> China is generally not hampered by ethics or advanced social thought of any kind.

Hold on. You really need to avoid saying things like this. It is a generalization. And you will get into trouble with it.
What traits did you find in them. How do those traits convert with experience. Say, for example what would, according to you, make a 3-5 year experienced web developer 10x?
On ARM (A64, A32, T32) we get CSDB barrier, but it's a hint instruction instead of going via MSR registers.

From whitepaper CSDB is 1101_0101_0000_0011_0010_0010_100_11111

Here some snippets from ARM manuals:

HINT instruction:

1101 0101 0000 0011 0010 0010 100 11111
CRm = 0010
op2 = 100

Some encodings described here are not allocated in this revision of the architecture, and behave as NOPs. (This is important)

Hints 18 to 23 variant
Applies when CRm == 0010 && op2 != 00x.
HINT #<imm>

Hint is encoded in CRm:op2 pair, existing similar:

0010:000 ESB // Error Synchronization Barrier
0010:001 PSB CSYNC // Profiling Synchronization Barrier

Thus in assembler this is written:

hint	#0x14

Which is a NOP if SOC does not understand this hint. It's being used here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.0/04191.html

and also here: https://github.com/ARM-software/speculation-barrier/blob/mas... (which is being upstreamed to compilers in cross-platform generic form IIRC)

ARM whitepaper states that conditional selection/conditional move is enough on most ARM implementations. If it's not the case then the new CSDB solves the problem. On older CPUs it's still a NOP.

X-Gene disables branch prediction: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/06482.html

ThunderX2 branch prediction hardening: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10151975/
I'd question the savings for a microbrewery on using adjuncts. Corn isn't easy to work with, especially on the standard microbrewery system with a combined mash/lauter tun without direct heating.
Ask HN: Could decentralized organizations reduce poverty?
Governments are responsible for providing the legal infrastructure to protect assets and property.

Without this safety net, people are less willing form organizations to seek new opportunities.

My hypothesis is that by offering a lower risk collaboration environment, people will take risks and potentially pull themselves and their communities out of poverty.

I'm exploring this idea as a startup, https://govchain.global

Do you think this is a viable hypothesis?
It took a while even reading these posts here until I got it - I can too! :)
As a veteran of early Origin games, I'm up for that. I ran Ultima VII on a DoubleSpaced 386.
Ah, thank you
It's a neat idea, but these things need to be secure and most of all reliable and dependable, before any of that happens.

Which means a very very long timeframe.
Having just interviewed at various companies in Zurich, it surprisingly varies.

I've also heard "Most of our employees work 80%, but if you prefer, you can do 100% as well - just be advised that we find 80% better for work-life-balance."
> "But most highly educated people aren't interested in starting a restaurant or mini-mart."

What a bizarre statement. So highly educated people can't be passionate about food?

Also, what I suggested is not limited to expansion through a franchise model. Let's go back to product manufacturing to explore why. Imagine you have just received an initial order of 100,000 units of Product X. You can meet this order with your current supply chain, but in order to cut costs in future orders you'd like to manufacture a greater proportion of the finished product in-house. Let's say for the sake of argument that you've identified potential savings if you can create injection molded cases for Product X. If you go to the bank with a low-risk plan to grow the business, including an analysis of the current health of the company and forecasts of future profits, you can reasonably expect that you can find a bank (or other business loan lender) willing to lend you the money to invest in your company to help it grow.
Super curious, what kind of problems do you mean when you say "signal recovery over the action of compact groups"?
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If you verify that it does no funny business with the hardware bugs it should be no problem, right?
Yea, its too easy to say people leave managers, but it was never in my case. I think it varies between industry. With the software companies, the churn is mostly due to folks looking out for better opportunities..

Me personally almost always looked outside due to availability of better opportunities. The argument that people leave managers makes sense only if you are in the best possible job/company you can get with your skill set (which is a very small %) and you somehow got a rift with the manager big enough to leave.

But it could be different in other domains/industries where people stick with the same company till their retirement..
The fact that there is a wall between the Linux stuff and Windows stuff (“You can't edit a file that originates from the Linux userland inside Windows.”) sounds very hacky to me.
The content of those 426 requests weren't created for free. Part of the "high demand" developer skills I suppose. Adding gunk to the point you can't get the content. I'd guess sooner rather than later the pendulum is going to swing back to simplicity. Then having good sense about how to effectively portray something without tormenting everyone and wasting resources will be in high demand. As it always should have been.
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Or downgrade a few versions and run ANSI.SYS.
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