skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, there's very little correlation between salary and longevity. There definitely seems to be a correlation between salary and "demand."

For instance, Kubernetes is really hot right now, and there's a limited supply of people who know it, so people that know it can make upwards of $200K.

OTOH, you could be the world's greatest Windows admin and you'll be lucky to make half that, because there's a million people who know Windows.

TLDR: specialization is more lucrative than sheer hard work and expertise.
I could see being underpaid actually causing you to get fired if it was a perceived signal for how valuable you are.
The other element I always consider is the risk. Right now the GP knows the amount of stress the job causes. Changing jobs has risk about his/her ability to estimate the stress caused by the new job.

I have a tendency to ignore things like stress (hard to measure) when selecting a job while overvaluing things that are easy to measure.
I'm a little surprised google does not use the user's password for encryption. Seems like they are inviting a very bad data breach in the future.
I'll only be worried when celebrity chefs make more than CEOs. Oh wait, nm.
I definitely didn't approach it exactly how I wanted it to come off but I mean I'm not saying to go say this stuff verbatim to them but you have to take a stance where you are attempting to meet half way, work with them, and try to make them understand how you can best do your job. Especially if, like I said, the superiors are really not tech savvy folks.

Without some understanding in that realm it's going to be choppy seas.
I do the exact same thing, so you're not alone
>fog of deconstructivism and psychoanalysis.

I wonder to what degree that relates to our subjective submersion for so long into the collective percolated ideas of Hume and Hobbes and Kant and Locke and (with the extent latter-day capitalism has adopted some variant of 'the end of history) Hegel. That is to say, were any of these works being actively purveyed to the public now, rather that forming a sort constituent background radiation in which even the prenatal are bathed, whether the foundation works of what is called western-enlightenment wouldn't be viewed in the same light. (In fact, I would wager one could start publicly reading from any of the above mentioned [excepting Hegel, for obvious reasons] and be sure of getting at least a few denouncements along the lines of 'postmodern trash'.

Also, I'm tempted to say that idea or only penetrable when they're not considered at all, that is, when they are merely that constituent background radiation of our lives. (Much like how we tend to know the answer to something right up until we're asked the question.) And upon the act of engagement, that is trying to understand any of this, we're left with Adam Smith being as seemingly impenetrable as Freud.
Direct link to (pre-print, not peer-reviewed) paper:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/10/13/442...
Stabilisation mechanism
unlike Maker's DAI for instance

What?

The Maker DAI relies on users trading Etherium for another token DAI.

It’s essentially a mortgage backed security derivative, except instead of houses it’s a speculative database token swap.

Certainly not safe.
Ford's Rouge plant has a steel mill. Iron ore comes in via barge. They have a glass plant. A power plant. A casting plant. An engine plant. Now that's vertical integration.
Star Citizen definitely supports a pilot, turret gunners, and an engineering station simultaneously being managed on the multi-crew ships.

That being said, there's neither PvE content on the scale to need that, nor PvP density to support it either.
The airlines are losing money by having passengers circumvent the price discrimination.
Add ageism to that list. It seems to be SV's favorite ism to practice and unlike the others regularly gets defended on HN.
This is a huge issue when it comes to learning React, Angular, Vue, etc. It's never just 'here's how the framework works', it's all the little extras they bundle into the tutorials they make things more and more overwhelming. Webpack, Redux, Jest/Enzyme/another testing framework, etc. It often feels like you can't understand the tech stack your code is running on at all.
Have any of these studies found places where insect populations have not declined at all?
Nah, Im going full Rich rebuilds style. Buy 3 of them for a couple grand each, frankenstein them together into one working vehicle.

Not rooting for Tesla to go out of business, but the result of it could be a ton of cheap EV parts hitting the market.
Because a ticket from x->y->z sometimes costs less than a ticket from x->y. Presumably this has something to do with how much the markets in x, y, and z are able to bear. As in, people in X and Y will pay more for tickets than people in Z, so tickets terminating in Z are cheaper.
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1365-some-bewildered-clarif...

(NOTE) Agree with Zizek / Chomsky or not, that terminal paragraph is just such a fantastic burn.
One very interesting thing here is how they're using the credit score system to blackmail people. If this continues, any company can hold you hostage by threatening to ruin your score, without any recourse from you.
Besides the problematic assertions this article makes about Tesla's business fundamentals (already addressed in the comments), I just want to call out the absurdity of its media conspiracy theory:

> Media outlets are doing what they can to survive. They’re laying off seasoned journalists with strong fact-checking instincts. They’re laying off fact-checkers. They’re laying off editors. They’re rethinking how they write headlines to compete with clickbait...Tesla and Musk are big eyeball grabbers. They have been for five years, as this Google Trends graph shows. One publisher I work with regularly told me, anecdotally, that anything with Tesla or Musk in the headline is likely to perform better than average.

Only someone who has his head firmly in the Tesla bubble could imagine that the eyeballs that Tesla/Musk articles attract are any kind of significant blip in the revenues or traffic of a major general news outlet. It's really hard to imagine how clueless this author is, as if he had just woken up from a 2 year nap and doesn't realize what currently dominates the headlines and reader traffic.

Take this Sept. 4 article from BuzzFeed News, which arguably directly led to Musk bringing a libel suit upon himself: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-...

I would bet a decent chunk of money that the reporters who worked on that story get paid more, and put more work into that article than did their colleague for this article from yesterday, "16 Bakers Who Should Be Very, Very Ashamed": https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamiejones/people-who-wont-be-winni...

The "16 Bakers" article has 326,000+ views, according to Buzzfeed's own metrics. The BuzzFeedNews domain does not display pageview metrics, perhaps partly to look more dignified, but also because BuzzFeed's reported articles generally are nowhere near as popular in pure pageviews as the standard Buzzfeed listicle. Moreover, the Buzzfeed listicles sell ads (the Bakers' listicle has a sponsored Uncle Ben's ad), whereas the BuzzFeedNews articles rarely have any ads.

So tell me how paying quality reporters to write damaging articles about Tesla/Musk helps BuzzFeed's bottom line?
This is a step in the right direction but it's not perfect. The name of at least one domain that the responding server must host is still leaked. This can be a non issue if the same ip is hosting hundreds of domains (e.g. CloudFlare) or pointless if it's just hosting one site.

I just had an idea that might be able to work around this though:

1. Create a new TLD: .ip. All *.ip domains are valid ip addresses (in some encoding, e.g. 740-125-138-139.ip, or anything else) and they always resolve to the ip address specified.
2. Automatically issue certificates for each host for each of the ips that they serve on. (Thank you Lets Encrypt)
3. Every new connection made can just use the ip-domain as the esni originating host, because you can know that every host is serving https://ownip.ip.

This doesn't solve the fact that server ips are still fairly unique, and so a reverse dns might be enough to find the host, but it doesn't leak any more information than what the IP header already leaks, and it doesn't require leaning even more on increasingly centralized proxies like CloudFlare.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that for folks who process in absolute pitch, it can be harder to think in terms of function, to deal with things that are out of tune, and to transpose. Like, for me, I barely care what key something is in other than to get started playing.
Totally agree - if you see it and enjoy it as a challenge, that really helps.
Those numbers are probably TC (total compensation) which includes stocks and sometimes bonuses. If you go on Blind you can see people are receiving offers in that ballpark from Facebook and Google, who seem to be in a bidding war of sorts for talent.
Microsoft hires program managers (what other tech firms call product managers) straight out of college. Almost all of the PM-I employees I met at Microsoft were college hires with CS degrees who had taken few or no business or marketing classes.
Snapchat's global endgame is bankruptcy due to an unending series of terrible product decisions. Everything else is an antecedent to that.
There's this belief, very common on HN, in technology as the solution to any and all problems facing humanity. In a way, technology has become a religion - "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".

Technology was in many ways the force that shaped the last century - it changed warfare, transport, communications, agriculture, medicine. Technology promised us a future of unlimited growth, with ourselves as masters of the universe and of our destiny.

But by submitting ourselves to the cult of technology, we've removed ourselves from the world, and thus lost our connection to the world, with its myriad living creatures and endless mysteries. In building ourselves castles of concrete and steel and experiencing our consciousness through 5" screens, we have become isolated and desensitized.

It is deeply ironic that the age of ubiquitous communication is also the age of alienation. And it is deeply distressing that so much time and effort goes into developing and manufacturing space rockets, mobile phones, new cars, while so little is being done, it seems, about ensuring our future on this planet.

I have become convinced that for us to have a better future we actually need to give ourselves a break from technology, in absolutely all facets of life: the food we eat, our personal health, the way we participate in our community and in political life, and our place in relation to this earth that is our home.
> Though the first income taxes came along to pay for war - I guess all the United States needs to do is stop being in the business of war and the income tax could go away.

The first income tax came to pay for the Civil War; I don't think the US is going to give up on maintaining it's territorial integrity, even if it gave up on foreign wars.
My hope is that this is another push toward on-prem data management.

One of the things that the "computer revolution" spawned in the 90's was that there were a lot of "extra" computers around because everyone upgraded every 18 - 24 months. After a couple of rounds of upgrades, if you had kept the old parts, you had enough parts around to make another computer. In my house this typically became the "kids" computer and we would build it, them image it, and then use the image to restore it back to what ever it had been built to originally when the kids did something to make it non-functional.

Of course after a still longer period you had upgraded that "previous" gen computer and now you had a left over previous previous gen computer. And typically what I did was put Linux on it and have it for running this that and the other thing. These days a RasPi 3 is about as powerful as that generation -2 computer was.

Like a lot of people as my Internet speeds increased I started leaving computers on all the time as servers that I could access from anywhere. This was made easier (and without paying extra for a fixed IP) with dyndns, although these days it is easier still with IPV6 (no dyndns required if your ISP will give you an IPV6 prefix (so far this has been pretty easy).

So I think a number of services you use "in the cloud" might be implementable as local services where it is harder for the Government to get its hands on your data, (or at least it would have to serve you with a warrant and so you would know they were looking at you, an NSL doesn't work if the person being served is the person being observed :-)
I'm just impressed you got your son in bed by 8pm...
Passengers who save hundreds of dollars should get a credit boost for their demonstration of financial savvy.

I'd sooner give a loan to that person than some reckless spender.
I doubt UA would follow through considering it is illegal to submit known false debts.

Plus they're outright wrong that it constitutes "fraud," if for no other reason than the person skipping additional legs didn't profit from it, instead they simply limited UA's ability to further profit off of their travel.

If this was "fraud" then any other airline discount or saving would be too. Shop around for the cheapest price? That's "fraud" since UA didn't make as much. Didn't check bags for $50+ and instead overload your carry on? That's "fraud" since UA lost the checked bag fee. Fly to a smaller airport instead of a larger one, then take the bus? That's "fraud" too, UA deserves that money.

UA's creative use of the law here is nothing more than an intimidation tactic. They've run out of ideas so instead are just trying to muddy the waters enough to stop this becoming overly popular. I guess that's easier than re-examining how you ticket/what your business model is.
> The company also noted it has never received a National Security Letter. Such NSLs are typically filed by intelligence agencies looking for company data. They also normally come with a gag order preventing businesses from revealing their very existence. That means that if Nest ever removes its disclaimer that it hasn’t received an NSL, it likely has been sent one.

Whenever I read copy like this, I read it as "no dragnet this time, nothing to see here! Keep buying Nest and other great products from Alphabet, Inc!" But is it possible that no NSL was ever sent and Google simply provides a data feed of all relevant info and video to their national security partners? (A generously paid-for feed, of course.)

I guess what I'm asking is, is an NSL required for Google to legally surveil its customers on behalf of the host government? Beyond sheer EULA license legal weasel-wording, I'm wondering if the fourth amendment restricts the US government from arranging for a dragnet-style data feed from some willing corporate partner.
I don’t see the problem you’re describing and my Steam library has over a hundred games. I think in general that as long as the game developers keep their individual files relatively small it all patches efficiently. I remember Starbound (indie 2D game) describing how they restructured their game a little to facilitate smaller patches. So yes, there is a worst case scenario of gigabyte patches, but it doesn’t appear to be the norm.

Anyway, if you could get individual games on disk images they aren’t patched every hour anyway so it’s a non issue. The real issue will be dealing with Windows’ file system and Steam’s DRM.
I'm surprised we haven't seen more companies abuse the credit reporting system like this. Recourse is painful for the customer, and I imagine a non-trivial number of them will just pay off the debt. I'm guessing with the gutting of agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau we'll see a rise in these type of practices.
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what an ignorant and short-sighted comment. The amount of economic good cryptocurrency can do will far outweigh any negative environmental costs incurred over the long term. Bitcoin is good for a world that is teetering on the edge economic enslavement from debt.

When bitcoin inevitably hits 100,000 dollars, 1,000,000 dollars and so on (it's an algorithm, it will happen, you're just investing in an algorithm) people will use that money to buy Tesla's, start eco-friendly businesses, upgrade their outdated appliances and so on.

Just wait and see.
Caper (YC W16, First Round Backed) Hiring Back End Engineer
a lot of FAANG-a-likes structure compensation in parts. base salary alone is not the whole picture. RSUs are anywhere from 50% to 100% of salary and vest quarterly or monthly. yearly bonuses are 15% to 25%.

at the low end a person making 130k in base is pushing 200k total comp.
Robinhood Gets Almost Half Its Revenue in Bargain with High-Speed Traders
> goroutines are a major innovation upon threads.

Not exactly, Erlang has had them for almost three decades.
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This is exactly why we are building on-device private AI at Snips (https://snips.ai, disclaimer: I'm a co-founder)

We believe that the only way to have people trust AI is when we will make it possible to have privacy-respecting AI, we believe it is not only feasible, but it is our duty to build AI which respects people and is able to scale without presenting a danger to our societies
I spent a while trying to figure how you could issue some token to everyone on the planet. It's hard to get the database and contact them all to give them private keys, as it were.
It's very hard to get a good product manager. Some can't "color within the lines" when presented with the limitations of an API that a product needs to work with. Others let their imagination run away. Others think the product is "about them" and use the product as their personal art project. Some don't understand scale, and either set scalability targets too small or too high.

The worst, though, are the ones who loose interest in the company's cash cow to go chasing imaginary trends that never materialize.
Thanks! Also fixed and will also go live in a little bit.
To expand on this for example in the US we have an interesting history of lynching black men based on the accusations of white women.
It would be fine if keys were held locally or in a loyal-to-end-user way, and data stored dumbly in the cloud. This would break business models fundamentally and also require a lot of technical rearchitecting, though. (Ideally you'd be able to delegate/release a short-lived key to a subset of data to do certain operations remotely, on to-some-extent-loyal remote computing resources, but I think within 5 years people will realize that long-term/eternal data at rest under anyone else's control makes you a victim-in-waiting.
It would be amazing to see something like this on the switch. Play any game portably? I’m in.
We tend to view this as a technology problem.

The real question: Why do we let governments get away with this kind of behavior?

Fighting a technology arms race with the government is a losing battle. They can ask for private keys to be handed over - on threat of jail time if you don't comply.

We need to start at the ballot box.
The labor force participation rate is at multi-decade lows and so is the number of hours worked weekly. people are already being freed from labor
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The form and function of Unix-based operating systems hasn't really changed much since the 70s, but even then the most significant investment in their development (Linux et al) has been in the last 20-30 years.

As a sibling comment pointed out[1] better than I could there's perception bias in thinking that just because something outwardly looks similar, that changing it hasn't been just as hard or harder than initially getting to that point from earlier technology that looked quite different.

It was much harder to go from a 737 in the 60s to a modern 787 in the 2010s, than from something like the Douglas DC-3 in the 30s to a 737 in the 60s, even though the 737 and 787 outwardly look about the same, and quite different from the DC-3.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223205
wut?

nations will continue regardless of currency.

nations will always have different levels of resources.

nations will need to defend those resources.

this has nothing to do with electricity used in current electronic financial transactions.

bitcoin and it's ilk are wildly fantastically inefficient.
Because the person was supposed to pay more for the privilege of skipping that flight leg and just staying at that intermediate destination. That customer is robbing the airline of their god-given entitlement to extra revenue.
my point is not so much about the markdown editor, good job to the dev for spotting a niche where he can make a product. I'm just observing that my brain (annoyingly) would have never let me create something like that.

As an aside, for my dev diary (stored on a cloud file system ) I write markdown in Vim, I used to want to see it rendered and played around with visual editors, but I like vim style editing so I just deal with it in text form with syntax highlighting and that's plenty good enough for me.
Cometlike objects could be spreading life from star to star
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With their spectacles (albeit failed (1)) product, I always just suspected they were playing the long psychological game by getting consumers used to wearing an oversize eyeglass frame with built in cameras. Then, when someone with actual decent AR display tech is ready to integrate, they would already have a platform generally accepted (with little privacy foul complaining) and ready to go. While they waited maybe they could make a little $$$ with basic non-AR pic/vid apps. It seemed like it as the anti-Glass at the time. Alas, didn't pan out.

1. https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/28/why-snapchat-spectacles-fa...
> It always ends in tears

Tears is best case scenario. OP should be reviewing his/her paperwork with an attorney at this point. I fully expect the employment documents to have errors or vagueness conveniently located in places that would benefit the business.
On the second quarter call this year, Elon Musk stated:

> “We’ll not be raising any equity at any point... I have no expectation of doing so; do not plan to do so.”

Issuing new shares would be a disaster. Far more likely is they come up with a way to roll the debt forward.
Goroutines are not Erlang processes; they are similar in that each is multiplexed M:N style onto native threads, but goroutines aren't shared-nothing, and they communicate with channels rather than each process having a mailbox.
I did this earlier this year flying to Europe. My plans had changed a little so I realized that it would be easier to get off in Amsterdam instead of taking the next flight. It never occurred to me that this could be a problem but the agent gave us a really hard time when I asked to get our bags checked only to Amsterdam.

I honestly thought they would be happy to be able to give our seats to someone else.
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