skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also far easier for an L4 to get competing offers for amount far exceeding what L5s make. That's also how many (most?) people get the L5 level: they negotiate with HRs when they have the leverage (competing offers). Getting to L5 via the promo committee is probably the hardest way to get there.
> the money all goes to the site without 20 trackers and 8 seconds of auction-waiting on each of your pages, resulting in a better experience for everybody

This doesn't prove that direct selling is more profitable. Sure there is no ad network taking a 40% cut but sites also need to run their own in house sales staff then.
Sure, would have no issue with an IC or someone not cozy with management, but this was a specific senior HR person close to Balwani who was complicit in intimidating/spying on employees and trying to get them to sign shady NDAs, among other atrocities. And Google still hired them.

IMO it speaks to the "skills" that big tech want in their HR people. The fact that they did all these things is exactly what they look for in "good" HR people e.g. protect the company at all cost and no mercy for employees.
> The US federal budget is ~$4.1T per year.

What is the current US federal budget for building or supporting nuclear energy infrastructure?
My feeling as well. It's sad because Fossil underneath the covers is a lot like Git, but with a SQL RDBMS as the store. Fossil's design is much more powerful than Git's for that reason alone. But that super-opinionated attitude they have is a disaster. Run away.
Ask HN: What Skills and Careers Are Most Transferrable Globally
Along the same lines, what skills and careers are most compatible without needing to constantly be active in the field to stay relevant (such as supporting the ability to take several years off and still be marketable upon return to the market)?

I'm a technology professional with over twenty years of experience, and it has never been more clear that the treadmill of tech doesn't support even brief breaks in employment. I'm seeking community input as to what skills and careers have life long value regardless of continuity of employment or marketplace participation, while also enabling you to find work independent of geography.
Why are you comparing something as specific as advanced nuclear power tech to the whole federal budget? 2 billion dollars is nothing to sneeze at. (not even considering the fact that Gates has been working on this since 2006, so there's considerable work that has been done)
What's the federal budge that gets reserved for next generation power infrastructure development?
That's not the situation described in the article. The situation described in the article is pretty specific: Someone asks you something you don't know. It's right in the title. And it goes on to describe a situation in which you may end up making up something on the spot, trying to be as vague as possible so you can't be wrong.

So yes, if your hypothesis is just something you made up only so you can have an answer, then please don't do that. I don't care how solid the guess is. It's still a guess just to have an answer.

In the situation you described, you do know something and you're sharing that knowledge. I have no problem with people sharing that knowledge. It's not a hypothesis. It's the opposite of "you don't know". It's knowledge about the history of the situation.
Ask HN: Where do you 'stumble upon' the best things on the internet?
Back in the day, there was StumbleUpon, a website with a button that took you to a random website. This was one of the best sites I ever used, but then it was undertaken by a corporation and ruined. Similarly, I found a great deal of random things on demonoid before it got taken down and new management took over. In the past ~5 years, the number of gems I've come across has been a fraction during the golden age of services like stumbleupon and demonoid. Now, library genesis is the only source, scrolling through all new submissions to come across a book with an appealing name. But this is limited to books and not websites or anything else.

Does anyone still have a source for gems?
Nuclear energy is spurned by many (most?) self-styled environmentalists. That alone could win it favor in this administration. If Republicans could be persuaded to "own" it and Democrats could be persuaded to go along with it, we might just wind up doing something good for the planet.

That's probably optimistic, but there's a lot more hope in that idea than in fighting a pitched battle about solar panels, China, and "clean coal" in the current political climate.
"Most live performed music does not use equal-temperament" - Such as? That claim doesn't sound right to me.
Some personal notes: I am working right next to the ministry of economics in Berlin and watched the different protesters that held their rallies yesterday.

First between around 8 and 10 am maybe 100 mostly men between 30 and 60 years with labeling from the union of mining, chemistry and energy industries protested for a sensible transition that helps the affected regions and especially people living their. They seemed to be good and hard working men that have to care for their families and all, all freezing in the cold (and coming into our hospital building to warm up). Note that this is a very important issue from a political view as well since this year there are regional elections in Brandenburg and Saxony and right wing (pro coal) forces are set to get more than 30% of votes, even more with a hardly acceptable plan for these regions.

Than around 11 the situation changed when the school students appeared (picture 2 in the article). It was absolutely fascinating as I would guess around 2 to 3k children between 12 and 18 came (sure they hadn't to go/weren't to school but again it was cold and these kids held out for 4 hours+ in freezing temperatures) with barely any adults, chanting here and there but mostly just holding up their, in a way very obviously self-made, signs and waiting (they later marched to the chancellors palace, though). Not one of these rallies were various known parties hold up their sign to somehow also promote their agenda, just kids fighting for a better planet/future. It somehow was very impressive.
How are you going to encrypt all your public facebook interactions, or your use of a "game" that - unknown to you - has been designed to harvest user data?
You can make the life of others more easy by always naming the same thing the same, eg always naming foo.bar foo.bar and you wouldn't need to annotate them, and everyone will know what it is. But if changing something means you also need to modify code at a lot of other places you have a architecture/pattern issue. Such a change should always be a semver major.
> much cheaper sources of green energy

When people stop bragging about how many more jobs green energy creates than fossil fuels, I'll start believing that renewables are cheaper at scale.

> What we need now is a good storage solution

Collocate the new nuclear plants with facilities that (at high energy cost) recapture carbon into dense fuels.
This guide will be useful.
That's an odd comparison to make; Boeing did not exert control over the passengers, crew, or flight path. Facebook exerts control over membership, access and exposure.
Unless the future gov't is run by someone like Trump.
It’s not as unusual as you might think. Random failures can cluster. It’s why two paths is never enough if redundancy matters.
Seems silly you were downvoted without being responded to. But I do believe you are misinterpreting/misstating facts. If you take into account externalities, fission is cleaner and kills fewer people than other renewables (and both are much better than fossil fuel). This is true even after including the grossly incompetent (but thankfully rare) disasters in the history of nuclear energy. There are a couple of research paper references that always pop up in conversations like this about deaths per MWhour for each type.

Even storage of waste is a solved problem: bury it in dry old mines in seismically dead locations, or start moving to the known novel reactor types.

Politically, the issue is much different though...
Seriously, if I see another push for wind (!) on here, I might just loose it. It’s like saying let’s use sail boats in the era of supersonic travel.
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But listen - someone has to babysit the datacenter, just like taking out the trash, or fixing people's plumbing.

When even low level retail job listings demand A Burning Passion!!!!!11oneoneeleven for the terrible job?

They're trying to find the people who would do this work anyway, without getting paid for it. Why?

So they can pay us all less. When we work partially for the privilege of what we do, money matters less... and we can get away with expecting less.

Anyone else? Is too busy fitting this mold to even be able to ask for a raise.
The advice that I would give to myself in my early 20s is (1) nobody cares about your career except you: people come and go, change companies and have their own careers; (2) the only way to move up the ranks is by shifting between companies and getting multiple competing offers; this applies even to outstanding devs; so you are expected to move every 3-4 years if you don't want to get stuck at your entry level pay.
Looks like just an alternate view of all the standard Control Panel options.
Yes but it would take a president like Garfield to do it. Whichever person disrupted the corruption would end up dead. I'd be willing to do it, but don't have the money to run. Garfield was a complete fluke. Surprisingly Arthur, someone who benefited from corruption ended up paring it back in memory of Garfield.
> The fossil all command

In git, this is pretty much a oneliner script dropped in your path and named `git-all`.

Something like (typing from memory on my non-work computer):

#!/bin/bash
find . -type d -depth 1 -exec git -C {} "$@" \;

Which allows any of the following to just work (I usually alias these commands):

git all status
git all status --short --branch
git all pull --rebase
You don't pay for email? ?
> A privacy policy is not a contract

Exactly. Why Atlas Obscura even uses language about "agreement" ("[...], you are agreeing to such modifications.") is beyond me. It might even result in more legal exposure and restrict their freedom to move within the limits of the GDPR to rely on user consent (provided they even want to comply with the GDPR as a Delaware Corp).
This is the most cynical, but probably the most pragmatic perspective.

I'm not a fan of Gates, but if this is his gameplan, I'm all in.

If we can ditch coal and fossils for nuclear, we'll have a new set of problems, but nothing as dire as "12 years before we all cook to death".
From my point of view, this is only about the general electricity generation. I mean, a lot of people are still using lignite to warm their house in the winter and knowing the lifetime of personal homes in Europe, we cannot really expect that to end in the next 50 years (though not for newly build ones though).
A billion here a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
There will always be people eager to point out the race of people who do wrong, when those people are Jewish.

I understand how it might seem OK to do that because Haaretz did the reporting here, but even leaving aside questions about the motivation of Hagar Shezaf and Jonathan Jacobson, Haaretz is an Israeli paper and I think those sorts of details could be left inside the country.

For those of us outside of Israel, it's enough to identify that a tech company is providing this software- without naming the nationality!
One of city’s local newspapers broke this story, and has a very detailed (seemingly) non-paywall article about it:

http://www.ocregister.com/gov-gavin-newsom-says-state-to-sue...
I'm not sure any VCS scales well to huge repos, and the MSFT work in this space is truly amazing. I love, for example, their use of a Bloom filter to make git blame fast!

I actually like the git UI. Like many git power users, I've come to terms with a subset of the UI that I know how to use very well. The thinness of Git's abstractions lets me think of complex VCS operations as I do when reading or writing code. If the cognitive load is too high, you can always just use a merge-heavy workflow and stop thinking about the mechanics, but I recommend instead to understand the mechanics.

The data model in Git is hardly more complex than Fossil's or Mercurial's, and it's copy-on-write all the way, which makes it very safe (think ZFS).
No, merely having payment information is not giving consent, but you signing up for a subscription service was giving consent to a recurring subscription. That's a totally different situation.
> Can you imagine a business that insisted on a phone call to begin a subscription?

Very clean way to illustrate the ridiculousness.
"Piercing the corporate veil"
The budget of the office of nuclear energy is about $1B [1]. So if Gates spends an extra billion over say, the next 10 years, that's still a 10% budget boost. Not jaw dropping but still significant.

[1] https://www.energy.gov/ne/our-budget
Sales does suck, but as the article says, enterprise sales aren't the way they are because the salespeople are necessarily immoral or trying to fuck anyone out of their money, they're the way they are because big companies need to be sold to in a particular way. When the buyer is not the user, and there are multiple departments and decision makers involved, you can't just rely on the quality of your product to win out. You can have a fantastic product that you know will help the customer immensely, and you still have to follow the enterprise sales process if you want to sell it.
"hardware sliders to allow the user to adjust individual harmonics" - Ah, just like traditional church organs.
Nuclear has such a terrible reputation, and rightfully,people will always have legitimate complaints about it. We can never fully guarantee that a plant is free from the potential of catastrophe, not to mention we still don’t have a great solution to nuclear waste other than bury it in a mountain. It’s definitely a lot better than slowly suffocating ourselves by injecting hydrocarbons into the air, but we really need a revolution not evolution in energy.
C# is a pretty underrated language. I've worked with JS, Java, C++, Perl and I've always preferred to use C# for personal projects.

async/await - C# is the ONLY language which gets this right. Javascript has it now but you need to be use libraries which support it too, which are hard to find. Kotlin has coroutines but Java base library doesn't have support for coroutines so you can't use it all the way through and create a chain of all async functions. Once you use async/await it's hard to go back, since the code is as easy to write as synchronous code.

Then you have proper support for generics(unlike Java which has type erasure), LINQ queries and an amazing IDE which is visual studio.
Mercurial's bookmarks tend to get into a bad state for me. With Git it's trivial to fix things. With Mercurial I just can't figure anything out, and I think that's because Mercurial tries so hard to hide how things work and to tell me how I should do my work.
What do you say to the person who won't do that?
The more effective way to get what you ultimately want is to offer everyone the opportunity to achieve it.

Imagine if, instead of making their case to the administration, the advocates of the FIRST STEP Act felt it was sufficient to criticize the administration, and then give up entirely.

I see no reason why, with the right pitch, the Trump administration would be especially resistant to an effort like this. It's not as though they oppose certain "green" policies because they're "too green"; they oppose them because they are costly for, and unpopular with, their base.

Real people are not your caricatures of them.
I wish it were easier to have more target languages. (And that there were more target languages.)

I know the docs say that additions are welcome, but I'm still in my infancy of working out how to :)

Congrats though! I love it when these tried-and-true tools continue to perform and improve!
The Baltic sea is polluted due to factories on the coasts. Well-known fact.
More than you’d assume, once you factor in search engine crawlers, miscellaneous bots and automated tools that bad actors run to probe websites looking for vulnerabilities. However if still expect CGI to stand up against that.

Performance arguments aside and given the type of site you describe, wouldn’t it be more convenient for the developer to use Wordpress or one of those website builder as a service things instead of inventing something from scratch in CGI?

I get the argument that some personal sites wouldn’t get much traffic but the argument that CGI is easier to build than any non-CGI alternative simply isn’t true any more and hasn’t been the case for more than a decade.

I know I’m coming across as passionately against CGI and I assure you that isn’t the case (I recently chose to use CGI as a private API endpoint for some Alexia skills I’d written for myself). But for a public site there isn’t really a strong argument in favour of CGI anymore given the wealth of options we have available.
Besides superhuman speed, AlphaStar could see the whole map at once unlike the human player. After beating human 5-0, they had extra exhibition match with new version of AlphaStar that had cameral like vision where it had to look around, and AlphaStar lost that game.

AlphaStar has till way to go before it can beat top human in a fair match.
Fair point, it wouldn’t make sense for EU jobs to not be in the EU, but it’s not like that distinction is ever made in the discourse either.

Either way, it’s fewer jobs in the UK.
> Well gee that is great for you but what does the taxpayer get out of it.

Green energy anywhere and anytime you need it, not just when the sun shines and the wind blows.

The one major problem with nuclear energy is that mining uranium has thus far been an environmental disaster.
> What are they supposed to do then?

What they should do is follow the law, and not try to get rid of worker protections.

I don't care that it has negative effects on them. I am going to judge them morally, for trying to get rid of a good law.

The whole point of laws is to prevent companies from doing bad things, that might be in their interests.
The Git index is one of its most powerful features. Try doing a `git add -e` sometime. You get to do a bunch of work in the workspace then split it up usefully at commit time.
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Why not just use the contactless card your bank gives you? Or, if you don't want to pay directly out of your checking account, get a credit/pre-paid card? They are all contactless these days, and even the small tea shop that processes card payments through an Android tablet and a small Bluetooth reader is able to accept the contactless cards.
What a strange thing to say. Gates has been spending $2B/yr for the past two decades ($28B in total so far) on what I consider to be exemplary philanthropic efforts. Thanks to him millions of people are alive today who would otherwise die of infectious diseases. And he does what he does irrespective of the administration, because he knows it needs to be done, and it's not like he can spend $100B anyway.

If anything, it may be easier to pass legislation favoring nuclear under Trump: Trump likes to deregulate, he doesn't care about anti-nuclear "activists", and he understands the role of cheap energy in the economy really well.
You haven't seen the union workers on friday protesting for a sensible transition. These aren't men that doubt climate change, these are men fearing about their job. If you have a house and a family to care for, change within 5 years can lead to huge political backlashes (in local elections).

Also, this was the coal commission suggesting a strategy, not the government (with plenty of old ministers though). What the government is doing with this now, we'll see
https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/a6e5c9131767364ce2f4b39...
I'm surprised the Acura Integra/RSX/ILX isn't on the list. I certainly see a lot of older Acuras driving around in the northeast.

Maybe a badging issue due to all the name changes?

Or maybe the kind of person that will drive a 15 year old car doesn't like compact cars?
The author sounds like they were confused as to who the customer is for Enterprise Sales. It's always the person / team who is paying for, not the person / team who is using your product or service. The companies that do well selling into political environments, which most large companies are, get an Executive on board who can navigate the environment / clear a path. So that Executive and whoever they tell you matters, who will probably never use your product, is the customer and who you work to keep happy. Sure, it helps if the product works and is good but sadly this isn't always a requirement. It's a very different and dysfunctional world compared to selling to small / mid-size companies where the customer often is the user where things are a bit more sane.
No, I had to phone.
Yes, this is why SaaS products are fundamentally just better than one-off sales products. It aligns incentives between the SaaS company and the customer.
That's a good point. The presence of the list is only beneficial when people don't know it exists: then everyone acts as if they wouldn't know it existed, so all its doing is preventing those sensitive details to be leaked. However, if you know that the list exists, but you don't know what's on it, you might trust it too quickly... and might only find out that something is NOt on the list if it's too late. So then the existence of the list also contributes towards exposure of private details in some instances, while preventing exposure in many others.
> There will always be people eager to point out the race of people who do wrong, when those people are Jewish.

What was pointed here was an country government's agency, not ethnicity. I see nothing wrong in including that information and in, in fact, in favor of it.

This way, it's possible to have a grasp of what govts. are doing what, even though not much.
I'm pro-nuclear fission (full disclosure, I work on fusion related research, but I don't care about who wins more than I want society to win), but I think talking to any random person in the public who are already skeptical about fusion, to them fission has not had a great track record. Make as many arguments you want to make about fukushima facing a natural disaster, w/e, and how the field has advanced since three-mile island and chernobyl, but the fact remains the public is skeptical regarding fission for good reason: history has not been kind to the kind of disasters fission reactors have wrought.

If you want to convince the public you're going to do it right this time without creating mini fallout zones, you have to do a good damn job of that instead of just wagging your finger at people and calling them dumb. They aren't dumb, they just know rightly that engineers can't foresee the everything in the future and are understandably skeptical.
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/6-things-know-about-nucle...

$30.6 billion requested in 2019 for the Department of Energy, which includes more than $757 million for the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE).
I hazard a guess that many more know it is Chopin than not. It is so Chopinesque…
> Bad idea. We have plenty of much cheaper sources of green energy.

Gates basically has dedicated his life to thinking about issues like this. He funds and promotes all the other sources of green energy as well. It's clearly his considered opinion that nuclear energy is going to be an important component, over and above other sources of green energy to actually achieve our goals in an amount of time and at a scale to have a meaningful impact on climate change.
Yeah, I guess as someone with a purposeless life it’s hard to understand how somebody could feel their life has purpose.
Gunter Faltin: Teatime Stories (2016)
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