skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that's exactly what i thought -- getting a "promotion packet" is absurd. your promotion packet should be the job you have been doing all year long.

I'm guessing you don't know how the process works? I'd like to give a summary so you have more context. Apologies if that's incorrect.

Your promotion is decided by a promotion committee, who likely do not know you or what you do. This is done in an attempt to make promotions fair and objective across the company.

That being the case, you need a promotion packet to describe what you've done to people who are basically strangers.

Don't get me wrong, the process has many issues but I don't think it's fair to assess them without understanding their purposes and I don't think anyone I've seen who complains about it has been able to come up with something better.
That is literally the last paragraph of the article.
And since there is no google customer service, nobody can social engineer it out of you!
It's from 2015.
That’s just it SCOTUS is 9 Justices ruling on issues of law...Law...not fact, and yet they regularly find themselves split.

But it’s beyond the point because rulings aren’t the point, the point is it’s impossible for any lawyer to tell a client how a case will go, because no one knows how a finding of fact will go. Pick 12 random people, have them watch a verifiable video of events and you will still have a split on the finding of fact. But let’s assume there is a case with no issue of fact...you still can’t tell a client how the case will go/what it will cost...again maybe it’s a default judgment, maybe it’s a case with significant discovery, maybe it will get referred to mediation and settle...the same case, the same facts, the same law, can have different outcomes and when trying to factor in costs the outcomes are infinite.
And a juicy signing bonus. So yeah, it doesn't actually feel like leaving money on the table most times (unless the equity has appreciates 2x plus)
Easiest way to download a movie from the internet
In some cases, this might be your app? Past a certain point, "take them to court or threaten to do so" can actually be easier than dealing with the company directly. Or, though it's a bit riskier, cancelling your payment mechanism and disputing things if they try to send you to collections or ding your credit score.

The much-maligned Google assistant did sound tempting for this, though. Something willing to call every single day and sit on hold indefinitely to convey a simple message would be awfully useful for the less-illegal forms of membership stonewalling.
What skills do you need to work as a software developer in algo trading and HFT? What sort of job titles should you be searching for? Most jobs in this space seem to want Statistics or Applied Math related majors. I want to look for software development jobs in HFT.
I would add Maciej Ceglowski

http://idlewords.com/talks/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maciej_Ceg%C5%82owski
> The problem is the whole system is designed from the perspective of the lawyers rather than the customers.
If a company overcharged me $10 for a product, then as part of the settlement I should get at least $10. The company should also have to pay punitive damages, some of which could be used to pay the lawyers.

The lawyers would love this, because they work on contingency and would get paid more of their clients recover more.

> Instead we get a system where the total damage amount is often less than the company's profits on their illegal activity.

That's because the system is set up to protect the defendant. Absent exceptional circumstances, there are no punitive damages, so the most you can recover is, e.g. the amount of the overcharge. Then it is reduced from there to account for other factors. For example, damages are measured by the wrongful profits, not the total profits. If you sell a $1,000 laptop and make $100 profit, and you've engaged in price fixing, the $100 profit isn't on the table, only the difference between the $1,000 price and the hypothetical price in the absence of price fixing. The defendant's expert then says the price fixing only resulted in prices going up by $3, and the plaintiff's expert says it was more like $50, and the jury picks $5, because jury trials are usually held where the company has a presence and juries don't like to punish local companies. Meanwhile, there is a possibility that you get nothing because of various legal technicalities, which are in themselves justified but in the aggregate create a minefield to recovery.[1] So when the company offers to settle for $4, you jump on it.

[1] It's deeply rooted in the law that defendants should not pay for harms that were not caused by their conduct. So say you're a laptop manufacturer that engaged in price fixing. Plaintiffs present evidence showing that prices went up $50 after the price rigging meetings started. But it just so happens that around the same time a tsunami wiped out DRAM factories in Taiwan. Even if you have executive after executive testify "yeah, we totally were trying to raise prices by entering agreements with competitors," your damages expert can still carry the day by convincing the jury that your price fixing wasn't the culprit and that parts shortages caused by the tsunami were responsible for almost all of the increase in prices.
If this is a huge recession/depression forming, it's too late to prevent it.

I've seen many explanations by people I respect of why it is going to happen but likely won't be as bad as 2008. It's all speculation though.
Historical trends on similar threads. Other "Ask FAAMNG" threads seem to have a disproportionate number of responses from Googlers.
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Haruki Murakami: You have to go through the darkness before you get to the light
Did this general point have some relevance to the discussion? If not, I would like to take this opportunity to point out that water is generally wet, and that food can fundamentally taste good.
I make 3x what I did as in house doing the same amount of work, after all other expenses.
> "A chatbot called DoNotPay has saved motorists millions in parking fines."

Why does this so often get framed as though it is a good thing? Parking fines help regulate limited parking spaces. They're necessary and exist for a reason.
Just plot the latency distribution in a histogram [1] and be done with this boring topic. The problem you're complaining about is that aggregating everything into a single number doesn't give you the information you want to know. It's impossible by design. If you want a different type of information you will also need a different type of diagram or statistic.

[1] https://rethinkdb.com/assets/images/docs/performance-report/...
True, the pipeline is a great feature. I haven't used tidymodels yet but it looks like the start of a great ecosystem. I do remember seeing Broom at a talk a couple years ago and thought it was a nice idea.
The crew of STS-51-F although they aborted to orbit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-F
correct. For companies with heavy RSU based compensation they assume a certain % of growth every year. Say 10%. Let's say Amazon did 50% year over year. You did better than you expected. However, next year you will get less RSUs since you made a lot more than planned in the previous year.

Having a very good year, as I imagine most Amazon employees did, does not mean you should get the same windfall money next year. I'm sure that is not properly understood.
They'll be comparing the instantaneous value of the stock with the value of the raise.

So if you previously got pay for the month of let's say $2,000 plus $400 in RSUs (the value of the RSUs at the moment they're assigned), then you might lose the RSUs but get paid $2,500 per month -- a $100/month raise.

If you then feel that Amazon stock is a good investment, you can buy $400 of Amazon stock on the public market, and you'll be where you were before, plus $100 in cash.
I only used Stata in school but that's how it turned out for me. "Why learn Stata, SAS, or SPSS when I can just use R?" It made no sense to me (and still doesn't, honestly).
This is really interesting. How much do you pay these freelancers? Also do they augment a team in the same location or is everyone 100% remote?
LegalZoom came to mind immediately, as well actually. Having not read your links (they're loading in separate tabs as I speak (edit: er...type)), was I mistaken thinking that at least LegalZoom has licensed attorneys at least on staff and several others in their 'network'?
I see this as a cultural problem, with a cultural solution.

If you think about "free riders" versus "cooperators" as a dichotomy, you won't find a solution. Everyone is both a "free rider" and a "cooperator", depending on social context. The issue is that our social fabric itself may be incentivizing people towards long-term destructive patterns.

So, how do we fix it? IMO, the best any one person can do is try to create an environment where people feel safe to cooperate. I believe human nature is fundamentally cooperative in large groups, but we are often "forced" into a competitive track by a lack of resources or other external pressures.

For example, many US workplaces pit employees against each other. It's perceived that there are too many workers for a limited number of jobs, so workers feel forced to compete for their "slot." If there was less communal anxiety about being fired, more individuals would feel comfortable to cooperate with their coworkers instead of competing.

Ofc, this is an insanely complex issue, so that's just a tiny facet, and I'm sure some of the points are debatable. But I honestly believe that "taking care of people" is one of the key ways to achieve more collaboration.
> and ~35% of adults could not handle a $400 emergency.

That is observed in the US, but in some european countries the outlook is even more bleak. Sovereign and consumer debt is skyrocketing and governments are considering growth rates below 2% to be an economic boom.
It's the BBC, their quality of editorial content accuracy is terrible.
Hi @jpincheira! Thank you for feedback! Actually, I was thinking about that for some time. The first option in my mind was to distribute it with homebrew. And the second one to provide .dmg file with possibility to put it in App Store (if approved by Apple). I didn't have a feedback from users and for the beginning decided to go with homebrew. I thought that many of the github users use brew in macOS. Currently I use brew tap, but according to brew documentation, a project can be accepted into homebrew main packages if it will get more than 75 stars in github. When accepted, it can be possible to discovered with 'brew search git' and installed with 'brew install github-notifier'.

P.S. Can I venture to ask whether you use homebrew or not? Would be also be interested what other users will prefer brew package or .dmg app for this kind of tools?
>QE led to neither rampant inflation

QE did lead to rampant inflation in asset prices (housing, shares, etc.). It just didn't lead to rampant inflation in consumer goods.

That's purely because of how it was "spent" (on buying up treasuries). If it was spent on actual goods and services then it would have kicked off inflation in consumer goods instead.
Somehow I suspect that the people who have attributed the economic performance of a year ago to the US administration will not similarly attribute a downturn...
https://youtu.be/cFwPFQXQHNk
Vel: PyTorch meets baselines
Perfectly fair — I'm sure you're not the first to inference something. And yes, 'infer' is an interesting word, especially when you bring in Latin.
Sounds like a reasonable description of pretty much every communication/social platform since the 90s.
There is not much of a need to distinguish disagreement downvoting versus bad quality here. In a technical forum, these two are very closely aligned: you disagree with something because it gets the facts wrong.

If you disagree with something which is mere opinion, it is in fact legitimate to downvote it on grounds that it is just someone venting their opinion.

If you disagree with something technically, and you have all the facts straight, it is legitimate to downvote it based on inaccurate content.

So basically, from all angles, disagree-downvoting works fine around here.
Google Spanner vs. Calvin: Is There a Clear Winner
Ask HN: How can I see the value of Scrum?
Dear HN-ers, this is not a rant, I wrote this post to kindly ask you to change my view. All answers will be helpful for me and other people in my situation.

I am a developer. My previous company gave us a free hand on how we organized. We worked directly with project sponsors and sometimes they had very concrete requirements about how things should work. Sounds worse than micromanagement. On the other hand, there was culture that we should tell them about unaddressed issues and design solutions to overcome them. I enjoyed my time there because of emotional roller-coaster and ability to prove myself. The project was a success and company made a pile of money.

Then I switched jobs.

The company does scrum. It feels like project management is duty of SM, PO and development team.

The process is heavy, we are forced to give estimates, give input on content of user stories and write down tasks. Tasks are locked for the duration of sprint even if these stop making sense after two days. I feel there is perverted need to predict what is going to happen next week and complete disregard for historical data.

Developers are also very eager to discuss how scrum team should fill Jira tickets to maximise their psychological comfort. We are also shielded from stakeholders and when one talked with a dev it was a "disaster". There is an obsession with minutiae like keeping the sanctity of daily standup duration, getting five extra minutes "ruins the productivity". I lost it when devs requested a reverse digital twin of Jira board with post-its. Every other day I lose two hours to existence of scrum.

My coworkers are great people but I can't stop the feeling they are brainwashed in that area. Not only is PMO happy with "predictable" and "well-defined" process but also developers are enthusiastic because they work in ego-fuelling "best possible" framework.

Am I missing something? How to enjoy scrum? Can scrum fulfil the trifecta of time, budget and quality?
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Can't it be explained simply by relative sizes?

Most estimates I've heard are that Google has over x10 times the number of software engineers than Facebook.
Sending news and update notifications to your software
> They whined about anti-Trump leaks.

I don't like Trump as much as the next guy, but I think we should be consistent and all leaks should be either a.) fine b.) illegal.

If there are "sanctioned leaks", well that's super convenient for the current administration, but not for democracy.
Should NASA scrap it and save some money by chipping in to SpaceX's efforts?
So this is a proprietary system that gates all access to critical systems.

Designed by a company with 1-10 employees (AngelList).

Are we really supposed to believe that their small team totally got security right 100% on their first try without the decades of community auditing vanilla ssh has enjoyed?

Are we supposed to trust no malicious code made it into their repos? That they audit all the third party modules for their Javascript frontend? That the employee that cuts binary releases can't be blackmailed to introduce a subtle flaw that will add a fixed ssh key to all servers their tool manages?

Imagine if SpaceX -did- use this tool. Blackmailing or phishing one employee to gain access to all of SpaceX systems sounds like a state actors wet dream.

Anyone who considers a product like this has no business protecting access to their employers systems IMO.

Maybe if they open source it, place bug bounties for extensive community auditing, allow fully on prem deployments, offer consulting/support contracts, and do all PKI in HSMs end to end...

Then -maybe-.
Ex Amazon Ex Microsoft here.

Moved to bay area, bought a cheap house in Hayward CA, paid off my mortgage early.

Started my own company Goodly (www.goodlyapp.com) I am learning a lot on daily basis and enjoying it throughly. Even though I work crazy hours it doesn't feel like work at all.
How else do you think the U.S. Nuclear System shares data https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/26/479588478...?
Aborted takeoffs and go arounds are generally routine in avaiation right? Surely using an abort mechanism is preferable to killing the passengers and crew. I see nothing wrong with adding some names to the list of people who survived.
And you also need to know about this bug in order to make your server go down after 2^31 ms. As stated in the Github issue, the service remained otherwise functional.
> Trust in institutions seems to be at an all time low; institutions take generations to build, we won’t get them back easily or quickly.

So what? I see nothing wrong with reliance on government being replaced with reliance on more local entities (i.e. one's friends, neighbors, church congregation, local government, etc) which is what happens in the near term when trust in higher level authority collapses. If the state doesn't think the feds will give them money for roads then they'll figure out a way to build it themselves. If the community college doesn't think they'll get federal grant money they'll get the state to give it to them or fund-raise it themselves.

Sure, if the federal government just stopped handing out SSI checks, highway dollars and research grands tomorrow it would suck a lot for a lot of people in the short term but in the long term you'd see towns and states running their own programs to compensate. Something always creeps in to fill the vacuum.

Edit: JFC people, I'm not advocating for some sort of near-anarchy where the only government is local. I'm saying that government action should always be performed on the most local level possible and I see no problem with an erosion of trust in Federal government as a means to that end.
... actually the U.S. Nuclear System uses 8 inch floppy disks. FISK seems to be too advanced.
I don't think so, seeing 2^31 (units) immediately tells me what's probably going wrong in a way that 25 days or ~1 month doesn't unless I go and convert that into milliseconds.
Yes, I see. Doesn't mean he or she might not rather be correct, however.
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> simple

i don't think that word means what you think it means
I think it would be even further along the axis of cooperation. I happened to be in Detroit for some work in the late 90's. I took the opportunity to do some volunteering and saw some really weird things. Like farms that were basically squatting in collapsed buildings out in certain areas of the city. Basically, "secret" farms, that were secret to no one in the area, and nearly everyone was using. (Both planting and harvesting.) How anything got coordinated was beyond me? That said, one thing they did have a handle on was who had done what, and people would argue when one of the "freeloaders" for lack of a better term, came along.

(I know. They were ALL freeloaders, as it was HIGHLY doubtful in my mind that any of them owned that property. But you know what I mean.)

I didn't really know the terms "pro-social" punishment, and "anti-social" punishment. But these guys were FIRMLY in the "pro-social" punishment camp. And I got the very real sense that you just didn't mess with that.
The Classic Adventurer
They had a famous plunging house cover two years prior to the crash and frequently covered the case-shiller index.
I think for Schiff to be right, they would have to be ultimately raising their prices.
I was fortunate enough to be able to see the total solar eclipse in North Georgia. It was kind of freaky when it started to happen. Roosters started calling at the beginning, cicadas stopped, and I heard a very weird humming sound. Once it was dark it seemed like all the insects and animals thought it was night time.

I wonder if nocturnal creatures start coming out like bats.
It's a good time to remember that the replication crisis in social science still exists even if when a result confirms your preconceived notions, and that the bulk of the article is speculative brainstorming of hypotheses, not research.
That's not right. The stage sep was the Soyuz strap-on boosters separating from the sustainer stage. It was already ignited.
Can't you use floats with a large mantissa instead?
You may not be killing posts due to picking sides within the debates, but the vision of how HN should be is a kind of ideology, and steering it toward that form is enforcement of that ideology.
Is Python popular because it is slow?
In the internet age, don't argue like Socrates
I've used plumber, and it's pretty easy to get started, though doesn't feel very polished. Handling multipart form data took some hackarounds with the underlying "Rook" package.

I'm curious to see how https://github.com/thomasp85/fiery performs and if anyone has used that. May be higher performance than plumber (re: concurrency) because I get the sense from the docs that it's closer to libuv.
> You might want to re-evaluate your associations if no one talks about sexual assault and harassment or the over-policing of black people.

Why? I’ve never been happier.
I have been a prime member for quite some time, but now I end up doing a google search for any type of household good that you find could be prime pantry. In many cases I can find a cheaper option with almost as good pricing.

If you have young kids using diapers, amazon has been one of the most expensive places. I tend to go to the big box places like costco to get better deals.
In America, some restaurants are experimenting with profit or revenue sharing as a way to retain the top-end of the labor market for the respective positions.

That sounds a bit like what you're talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNKtIY6JpQ&t=289

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJCenuebAa8&t=1089
> SBCL OTOH treats type declarations as type assertions which can be checked at compile time.

Wait, is that really not the standard behavior?
Would someone seriously encounter a defect like that? Who would set a function to run after ~25 days (2^31 milliseconds) and expect that that process still runs after all those days? You're not safeguarding yourself against the very likely situation that processes could stop over such a long period.

Also, considering the length of that period, it's most likely that the delay for the function-to-be-called is from a business (and not some technical) requirement. So, a more fitting design would be to set up a delayed job for asynchronously executing long-running or later tasks in the background by a scheduler.
For UK numbers I can also recommend these guys: https://www.aa.net.uk/telecoms.html

Their technical support is actual tech support, with tech guys that won't take any bullshit, especially if you have 2FA (TOTP-based) on your account.

The numbers are not recognised as VoIP and will work with every single service (I have yet to find one that will fail). I believe they are partnered with a local carrier that does some magic (call forwarding to some internal number?) so from the outside they look just like any other mobile number from that carrier.

(no affiliation besides being a satisfied customer for years)
Historically it has been seen as contradictory to the main principles of Illuminism.
There can be a strong co-relation between sun-light and biological cycles or even metabolism in different living organisms which we may not have discovered. I have noticed that my neighbors dog would go insane during solar eclipse and would start crying as soon as it was over, back in the yard playing. Maybe other living organisms don't understand how eclipse works like humans and they are just scared of unknown.
I wonder what % of the employees got bonuses though. are 95% of the employees better off, and the highest performers taking home less?