skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the really bad part about equity compensation in a publicly traded company. When that stock starts devaluing rapidly it runs past even your "worst" jaded future predictions, and then it is depressing.

Back in 1998 when a company I helped start was acquired by a publicly traded company, and by 1999 the stock price was over $100 and everyone was feeling "super good" about the future. The internal dialog goes something like this, "This may be an anomaly but damn! even if the stock drops to 50% of its value I'm still doing great!."

In my case the stock dropped in value to below a dollar a a share, 99%+ drop. That feels really really horrible, especially if the future doesn't have anything in it that would rescue or recover the value. Even though there was nothing that I personally could have done (legally) to change the outcome, as an engineer and a person who solves hard problems, it made me feel like a total failure. Like I had let down my family, my friends at work, and people who I knew who had bought stock in the company as a sign of confidence in me.

It is really hard to understand that kind of feeling until you've been through it I think.
Or to put a combative point on it: "How much money do I get when you abuse this data for any purpose other than your exclusive safety metrics?"
This wont catch on for the same reason noone uses U+001F or U+001E for their tabular data, because its not on the keyboard. Any extra encoding characters would need new keyboards, or maybe touch screens that are good enough to code with.

It would be pretty neat though.
How do "we experience" free will?
Wow, the "If I don't feel like doing anything else after that, I will go back to bed." seems like the key part of it. Giving yourself a way out makes it even easier to commit to the small task. Good tip.
>for a family pretty much forces me to be W2

Yup, someone in the family has to have insurance or you're toast if you've got a family sadly :(
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Isn't he roughly doing what PIs do? Except they usually take last author.
Yeah, this is a new development:

> United States emissions are expected to rise 2.5 percent this year after several years of declines

> “We thought oil use had peaked in the U.S. and Europe 15 years ago,” he said. “The cheap gasoline prices, bigger cars and people driving more miles are boosting oil use at rates that none of us expected.”
Nothing in the argument I laid out has anything to do with smooth curves. The same arguments apply for lumpy or unsmooth curves.

OP was talking about 10 year lags! Please read the whole thread in context.
> The other way Google can control all of these aspects even for contractors is to refuse to work with contractors who do not uphold the standards they set. As these contracting companies exist solely to provide contract work to big tech cos, they will fall in line immediately.

Hmm. But if they try to match (or come close) to Google's standards then Google will likely have to pay more for a contractor than they do for an employee. At that point might as well just hire them.
I wished HN had a budget where you could upvote some people/posts 10 times.
Following up on my own comment, a lot of folks are saying, don't get a financial advisor. My wife and I discussed this quite a bit, and I was also lucky to be able to ask a lot of questions to my brother, who previously did a lot of work in hedge funds and has managed his own portfolio for decades.

It's a perfectly fine strategy to manage things yourself, as long as you diversify. Be sure to get things that are non-correlated with the market, and diversify over time.

The thing that a lot of people are missing in their "don't get a financial advisor" advice is access. Access to hedge funds, access to some investment vehicles designed to hedge your bets, access to early stage funding of companies. These are things that you would not get easy access to without a good financial advisor.

Again, you can do perfectly fine managing things yourself, so it's basically a judgement call here.
Specifically, the RUC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_Society_Relative_Val...
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Yeah, exactly. In a lot of unions in the states, if you have 5 years experience, you make x amount of money regardless of skill. The benefits are usually VERY nice though.
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Two have told me they did so because D enabled them to write faster code than their competitors, and they were in a line of business where faster code meant making more money.

One reason D code is faster is array slicing, where you can refer to a subsection of an array. This pays off for things like strings. Consider the string:

s = "/root/me/file.ext";

I want to extract the "file" as a string. In C/C++, because strings are 0-terminated, I have a cache hit, allocate 5 bytes and copy 5 characters and install a 0. In D,

name = s[9 .. 13];

I have no cache hit, add 9 to a pointer, copy 5 to the length.

(A slice is equivalent to a (length, pointer) pair.)
The kinetic energy of a negative mass would also be negative, cancelling out the increased speed of both objects. The same would be true of conservation of momentum. There's no "conservation of speed" to be violated.
The biggest change i see in reddit is its not ron paul obsessed any more. In what ways has the quality decreased?
Apache landed a patch to ignore the DNT header from the versions of IE that enabled DNT by default. Thus websites would only see DNT headers when for users that they know manually opted into DNT.
The were, from the article though: "United States emissions are expected to rise 2.5 percent this year after several years of declines." Also, the article you sourced is about what Scott Pruitt said, and he's not exactly unbiased!
Can you explain how the article is "a recipe for bro-culture"?

Why is hiring fluent-speakers of the language in which the company conducts operations a bad thing?
> Another cool side effect of this approach and that it is by design very natural to add support for extra web renderers.

As you start moving to other platforms and see WebKitGTK as a limiting factor, I would strongly suggest looking at CEF [0] as an extra addition to your abstraction. I know you fear a Google/Blink hegemony based on your post, but beyond that it is the best cross-platform browser embedding lib I have used (I developed a browser using it and Qt myself).

0 - https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
How would you like Google to decide what the correct answer to [origin of the universe], [gun control] and [vegetarianism] is?
You get the Wikipedia page? How fortunate. I rarely see them on the first page now even when I know there is a relevant article with matching title. Need more space for ads and DoubleClick affiliates.
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Hey Devin, thanks! We really love the feedback so far. the format of conversational therapy was a perfect fit for a chat bot. Also it's really simply to to get started, we want to move towards an app eventually.
The explanation I've heard is that it's just space being created everywhere at once. There's no center from which everything expands.

This VSauce video explains it better than I can (later in the video): https://youtu.be/3pAnRKD4raY
There are plenty of truths in your point, but there are TONS of unions that aren't "manual labor" related. The top 3 US unions by membership are Teachers and Public Servant. There's also entertainment unions (All pro sports, SAG, etc). These represent millions of US workers.

There are trade offs to collective bargaining, especially if you feel you're at the top of the skill curve among workers (If you're in the 1% of workers, why would your value be helped by bargaining with the other 99%) but the idea is always that in any negotiation of you vs. "the company" the advantage is typically in favor of the company because of the deferred costs across the entire organization. The larger the company gets, the greater this advantage becomes. Yes, there are other companies competing for top talent, and coding is an exceptionally in demand skill (which BTW, many hiring managers still prioritize seniority/experience over true meritocracy) which helps in the short term but since everyone is pushing coding education initiatives, I can't imagine this will be the state of things in the future. Right now, since there's more Senior Dev job openings than people with Senior Dev skills, there may be a slightly more neutral negotiation table. We'll see how that plays out in 10 years.

Any time you have a large group of people, there's going to be disagreements about organizational choices or decisions as to how best to allocate resources. If you're unwilling to buy into the group, it's always going to feel like an albatross instead of a benefit.

A coders union could be a good thing in the long term. Right now, the sector is still too chaotic, and lots of people are making stupid amount of money. If that starts changing...
That's putting the effect before the cause. The dark matter map can also be a map of "how wrong we are," not only "how much invisible mass is there." An incomplete periodic table of physics, if you will.

We need to produce a WIMP here, on Earth, and watch it decay. That's a "thruthifiable" experiment, but it'd be enough to convince me that we've found the correct line of thinking (which the popular opinion could very well be, don't get me wrong - I simply believe that we're overconfident).
I'm not sure I quite grasp this argument. Google is a popular, high-demand employer, and lots of people want to work there. But Google still found it useful to conspire with other tech companies[1] in order to hold down wages. The reverse should also be true: The sorts of engineers who can get a job at Google are in high demand. But, if they bargained as a group, they could probably get even more money.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/apple-google-ruling/u-s-judg...
It's hard for me to take climate science seriously when

1. We know of the state of crisis that all other soft sciences are in (p-value abuse, publish or perish, institutional bias, replication crisis) [3]

2. We know that the earth has been substantially warmer in the past (with accompanyingly higher CO2 levels) and life thrived [2]

3. We know that we've been coming out of an ice age since long before the industrial revolution [1]

4. It is nearly impossible to find studies for possible benefits of a warmer earth, because the subject is, frankly, taboo. For example, expansion of arable land from melting permafrost.

5. We are extrapolating a ~hundred year old trend in a system which normally evolves on scales of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, and sudden historic shifts are likely beyond the resolution of geologic records (ice cores only get you ~<1ma, older records have substantially lower temporal resolution)

Modern climate science is extremely biased, does not allow for skepticism, and is therefore bad science.

Of course, none of that precludes erring on the side of caution. But dogma is bad for everyone.

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_glacial_retreat

2.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phanerozoic_Climate_Cha...

3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001632871...
Containers have nothing to do with the complexity of the software, they are just a packaging format.

Yes, SQL server is complex software, and can be installed via apt-get as well.
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I used to use RedGate's SQL Compare (and SQL Delta) for this for years. Compare two databases and spit out an alter script to get you from one state to another (for schemas and data).

The tooling is definitely lacking in the Postgres world. I like using Postico on the mac for basic data tasks, since it's rather polished. But doing anything else is a slog using an ugly app.
Source code being visible doesn't make it open source. It had a personal-use-only license, which isn't a valid OSSI license (which is what makes something open source).
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Global carbon emissions reached record high in 2018
Lemons can significantly impede a team's velocity and, more importantly, the team's overall happiness. It's difficult to enjoy and take pride in your work when the code base either looks like shit or require that you spend most of your time reviewing/cleaning up the mess the lemons create.

Will your standout engineers enjoy working with the lemons?
> It turned out to be something like double my typical salary, with health insurance taken care of by taxes.

Yeah, except the part about health insurance. In fact I know a lot of folks who had to do the insurance 2-step (find a job for a month - or whatever period - or longer then get terminated and keep the COBRA benefits so they could pay insurance yourself). Not sure if Obamacare now that it's been around for a bit alleviates the fact that the insurance market for individuals used to really really suck.

Another way to resolve the health issue is to have a spouse who works to get health insurance so you can contract.
Surely you jest.
Unskilled is a problem of course, but with an unskilled, but ambitious individual, they can be mentored. In my mind a bad hire is someone that has a negative drag effect on the psychology of the work environment or the project.

I had one hire who was brought in as a junior dev, thought he was better than he was and that he didn't deserve to do the grunt work he'd been assigned, and then proceeded to constantly bitch about anything he could. He was so negative that when he finally moved on I was super relieved.

That psychology of "why even bother" can just sink into people's subconcious and become problematic. It's hard to spot who's going to be like that at an interview though.
Sure, that's the economical aspect of it.

On the other hand it means the technology is established and people prefer to buy SSDs over HDs. Speaking of myself, I wouldn't consider buying an HD laptop ever again.

This means companies can invest in very long-term endeavours to transform their HDD production businesses into SSD production businesses. The costs are high but the risk is low, lower or at best equally high of continuing with HDDs if you ask me.
If they’ve been there for longer than a year and a half I doubt most are sweating. They’re still very much up since grant price, plus they get yearly bonuses and refreshers.
This looks really neat. I would love to download and play around with it.
In response to #2 and #3: https://xkcd.com/1732/

Also, yes. Earth has been substantially warmer in the past. Earth's atmosphere also had higher oxygen levels in the past[1], but it would be very bad for most life on earth if we suddenly returned to those conditions[2].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_oxygen

2.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
My neighborhood just got hit with a string of robberies from inside cars. Not one window was smashed; the thieves can simply use a thin piece of metal slid between the window and door to enter vehicles about as quick as someone with a key, just like what police do if you locked your key inside the car.
My point was that this looks quite the same from the other side of the aisle.

More damningly, that article has nothing useful to add beyond ad hominems. Instead, try this: https://heterodoxacademy.org/social-science-hidden-tribes/
Holy cow that's bad. It says: Showing results for ways to make naan. Search instead for 'ways to make nan'.

Fair enough, so click on the Search Instead and it says "Did you mean: ways to make naan" and then shows a bunch of links about breadmaking anyways.
> The U.S. Leads All Countries In Reducing Carbon Emissions

I guess that's technically not false (depending on the definition of "leads"), but it's like saying "Flint, MI leads all US cities in reducing the amount of lead in tap water".
They only need to slip up once and connect to facebook for it to unmask the employee from their device. I highly suspect they are not as anonymous as they think. Especially if they are connecting to an internal guest wifi at the office. You can get so much from metadata that you almost don't even need to know the content. Guess it all depends on how good their internal logs are at connecting wifi access macs with facebook logs. I'd wager it's pretty good as they already do this type of stuff to guess who your friends might be based on access proximity.
In exchange for the $30 an hour, you get a meaningless phone call from someone who works there every couple months and access to a terrible health plan.

My plan was literally "pay $100 per month to avoid the 2% Obamacare tax." It covered basically nothing, and the deductible was ridiculous.

The only value "talent agencies" add is that you can start earning money immediately, instead of jumping through whatever hoops vendors need to jump through to be approved nowadays.
Agree. I have been using Postgres and Oracle in production since ~2000 (oracle 8i). Postgres is an amazing project but the oracle core database has billions of R&D dollars. Don't confuse the oracle core database with the awful applications they hang off of it. Oracle will still destroy pg for most OLAP workloads, now you have to decide if the insane licencing cost is worth it.

Also just want to add an oracle developers post that I find hilarious...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
>> Even as coal has fallen out of favor in some markets, the rise in emissions has been driven primarily by stronger demand for natural gas and oil

This is interesting. If you care about CO2 emissions, you don't want to use coal because it's mostly carbon. But if you care about the greenhouse effect, you probably want to burn coal rather than gas or oil because those contain a lot of hydrogen which forms water vapor when burned. And water vapor is a far stronger greenhouse gas.

Either way I'd prefer if planes burned coal so they wouldn't produce contrails. Yeah, I know why that's not going to happen.
Ideally you die with $0 left. As the philosopher Karl Pilkington once said, "The only reason you need money is in case you don't die today."
I cannot take any of these reports seriously unless they are comparing emissions from each country on a per capita basis.

This is an easy way to make US look like a responsible polluter compared to India and China.

Its a different ball game, if you factor in the total emissions per capita over last 100 years, in which case, US emissions are probably a few multiples over China and India combined (that's my guess. I'm too lazy to calculate these numbers).
>When a WD Blue 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB is $46 on Amazon and a Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch is $134.

those are cherrypicked numbers because 1TB is at the very low end for HDD sizes. compare with a more typical HDD size (3TB or 4TB) and you'll see the differences become more obvious.
The article directly addresses the US:

> United States emissions are expected to rise 2.5 percent this year after several years of declines, and despite a shift away from coal toward cleaner sources of energy. Dr. Jackson attributed part of the increase to a colder-than-normal winter in some parts of the country and a hotter summer in other parts, which inflated demand for heating and cooling.

October 2017 was before the cold winter and hot summer. Not to mention that the US output falling 1% per year is not nearly as big of an impact as China's growing by 5% per year. As the article mentions, US emissions are only 15% of global.
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> Calling these "burner phones" is a little silly

Calling a personal phone your "burner phone" is silly. But if you work at Facebook, you're aware your personal phone may be leaking data. A phone purchased specifically to talk about things you don't want Facebook to hear is roughly accurately described as a "burner," even if it isn't discarded after use.

(Broadly speaking, this is a prudent step for whistleblowers to take. Buy a cheap phone, turn off all non-essential services, and install Signal.)
Translation?

I'm guessing "close enough" as in "sloppy work"?
$150k net for 50+ years is upper middle class at most in America? Jeez some people are in a bubble.

Reminder this is assuming he completely stops working and does basically nothing with the money except match inflation.
Hi Rafuino, send me an email at [firstname]@pingcap.com and I'll connect you with the benchmark author.

Just to expand a little bit on this comment:

> The expected data volume for TiDB is larger than memory.

There is both total data volume, and working set (workload dependent). This point was in regards to some databases use data structures which require the total data to be memory resident.

The working set is a longer discussion - it could just be a few percent of the total volume, and some working sets have a "long tail" of cache misses vs. short tail. And it can vary for a B+tree vs. an LSM tree too. RocksDB uses compression which helps a lot.

It is not clear in this benchmark if the working set fits entirely in memory. Thanks for bringing it to my attention - I will follow up and make sure we do a better job of communicating what is being tested.
Also, they failed to address screenwriters, who have a creative specialist occupation that is vaguely more similar to software engineers.
NAND prices have dropped considerably over the last 10 years, but not as fast as hard drive prices.

https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2017/9/24/9577541-15...
The premise was, if someone had told me ten years ago, which is 2008.

You are correct, of course, none of that stuff existed in 2000. 2000 was just the year I started using GNU/Linux. ;-)
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Java, when open sourced, couldn't run with purely open code (it relied on some binary blobs Sun provided); it's plausible MS could do similar. There would likely be a fair bit of interest in replacing the binary blobs in Windows.
> take any access-escalating action

I see I made a naive statement here. Let's consider the access-reducing action of the vehicle locking itself when the fob becomes distant. That is also open to exploit; if the attackers boost the signal when they spot a driver walking away from the car, then the locking neglects to take place as the driver enters a building and goes out of sight.

However, auto locking a car based on proximity is justifiable as a fall-back measure to explicit locking with a button. The rationale is that if the user forgot to lock, it is probably better to do it for them than to do nothing.
It's great to see some Googlers stand up for this. Subcontracting is an all around poor practice and encourages exploitation of labour, and whenever this is pointed out the same old false arguments on the lines 'but some slaves had it good' or the 'alternative is starvation' are trotted out, completely defocusing the companies benefiting from this labour and their dependence for it. This subtly shifts and derails discussion.

But the bigger problem having this discussion in a tech context is the tech community is also made of up many who derive near religious identity from their jobs and conflate their jobs with success and identity, and logical arguments cannot appeal to emotion and this need for hierarchy.