skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of in poor taste given what your employer has done to block the Archive Team (in this thread at least).
I've heard from multiple managers that offering someone money to stay typically buys another 9 months or so of their employment. They'll soon find other reasons to be looking for a job.

There are, of course, exceptions; it's just a general rule.
The obvious theory for different pain sensitivity between men and women is that women need to handle childbirth.

Since that is unique to our species, animal testing probably won't be helpful there.
https://billmoyers.com/series/joseph-campbell-and-the-power-...
Looks like the support improved dramatically.

They now have a phone number and actively pick up the phone to imply you'll never get any support.
About 22-23% of school age children in Seattle, WA go to private schools.
I absolutely love this book.

I read an article a few years ago that casts some doubt on Rube Marquard's story [1], which was one of my favorites from the book. I don't think this actually changed my opinion of the book, but just added a little more color to it.

I think it's this one.
1. https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014/03/28/whos-the-worst-pitcher-...
It is 4pm on a Sunday at Google HQ. It seems a bit premature to start reading deep policy decisions into this.
Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes (2015)
There's a lot more leverage than that depending on the particulars of the story. It may have been OP that identified a saving that could be made and their leverage is a future unwillingness to identify such things. Maybe they'll stop questioning things and "code to spec" in future. Maybe they'll ignore those erroneous errors they notice throughout the day and wait for a bug report in production.

Companies that don't give raises can expect all of these behaviors.
A cutter isn't a cheat pitch, is it?
> This is quite similar to the cognitive and decision fatigue principle which indicates that each of us only has a limited pool of cognitive resources and so we must be very selective in choosing what activities we engage in.

Watch out — many of the studies which displayed “cognitive fatigue” (I assume you actually mean ego depletion) have not been replicated successfully.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story...
fishtoaster, where you at?
Yes, but I'm taking company vs state.
Though the grammatical gender of words have a lot of oddities too. E.g. German Maedchen (girl) is the neuter gender.
Just a note, but it is possible for anyone to become hardened to cold weather with gradual exposure over time. I used to feel cold like death but now I easily walk around in casual clothes in 30 degree weather.
Major Versions in Go Modules Explained
It is in fact a service Google sells to cloud customers, same as AWS.
> PHP's documentation is garbage

Birds are Cats.

See, we can all make unsubstantiated claims.
Yeah, just carry a freaking book bag or backpack everywhere with you that you don't actually need because you might go to the store. WTF is happening here :-D

Also, compulsive shopper was probably not what you wanted to say.
XSS on Google Search [video]
I liked his book “Power Moves: Lessons from Davis”. After listening to this book I followed Adam Grant for a couple weeks on Twitter. He does have interesting advice on deciding what to focus on.

I am going to add a calendar reminder for a year from now to follow him again on Twitter for a while.
The hardware already exists from MVIS (Microvision):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWFCR55tsuA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1KlJgT-eNY
I believe grandparent was referring to proactive raises.

Reactive counter offer raises typically don't work because the employee's mind has been made up to leave. Compensation is usually only part of why someone decided to leave.
The Award Winners from SkyPixel’s 2018 Aerial Photo and Video Contest
You don't even have to pay much for ads to get help. They will do a call and walk you through the steps for setting up everything to start spending. Its just that advertisers are the only customers google has.
Not interested how quick it runs. Just energy expended through native and webassembly.
This isn't snark, I'm honestly trying to understand: Why is what Latin did relevant for French in the 21st century? Didn't they branch like 1,500 years ago?

When the French created a new word for, I dunno, "computer" or whatever, they didn't go back to Latin roots to figure out what it should be...or did they?
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I've worked for 5 companies and 3 of them had this behavior. Would get 5/5 on reviews, saved company hundreds of thousands, delivered a flagship multi million dollar in revenue product. Ask for more then 10k and was told to get an offer elsewhere and they would match. Got another job at 30k+ told them to screw off, if I have to apply and go get a job offer to prove my "worth" then I'm just going to go work for another company. Companies have a bad habit of negotiating for negotiating rather then paying for worth. It's because it's hard to track worth and easier just to always bottom out, that and much of non tech centered world still operates like that across the board.
Not sure if there’s a comparable role I can point to. This was a non-technical role and my second job out of school (started a few years ago). Salary was definitely lower than a SWE job or PM job (my current role)

Quite honestly I just got very lucky and would be surprised if it happened to me again. The company is doing better than I expected and would expect it to raise at a higher valuation soon (sold the bare minimum I had to to participate)
That is basically the same thing the poster you replied to said, except from the perspective of the current company and not the new one. The current company knows his performance. The hiring company is making an educated guess from maybe 10 hours of interaction and a resume.
Here is my take. In long past times, baseballs were reused until warn out, and those that went into the stands were returned. This allowed the balls to get naturally bruised up, which inadvertently gave pitchers more (unpredictable) movement than today's clean, unused baseballs. Because of this, old pitchers may not have had to throw with as much elbow rotation as today's pitchers do to get effective levels of movement. This lower spin requirements meant less strain on arms of pitchers, letting them throw more innings and longer games than you typically see in today's baseball. Giving that pitcher's elbows are going out at record frequencies in the MLB in the last decade, I'm all for allowing pitchers to rough up balls some, moreover, enhance it beyond what they can do now. Optimally, I think the league should intentionally texture-ize parts of the ball to give pictures the spin they need, and thus help minimize injury risk.
They can vote their bosses out and they usually have statutory civil servant protections as well.

When government employee unions negotiate with their employers, they negotiate with a political actors who, if they act right, get support from the union for their next re-election.

The incentives encourage political actors to bend to the unions will to receive donations or endorsements in their next election.

Typically this is called a conflict-of-interest.
The PHP way for that is Traits
R-134a is just one of the possibilities in duster gas, [1] but none of them are great to be inhaling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_duster
That's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure the problem it solves is worth the implementation cost. It's really trivially easy to bring a reusable bag with you when you go to work, on the off-chance you might go shopping. We're talking a couple cubic inches of volume and a few dozens of grams of weight.
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Sounds like I did way overestimate. Thank you for the structure!!
Hey. I don’t know you so take this for what it’s worth. But you asked for less than 0.01% of what you saved the company. Every single one of the people who decided you don’t deserve an extra 1K earned more than that because of what you did, either through salary, bonuses, or stock price increases. It’s possible you signaled that you don’t think you’re worth much by asking for as little as you did. Whatever it is, they believe (right or wrong) that you’ll continue to earn them money even if they don’t give you an increase. Don’t let them believe that even if you have to leave to do it.
If you pay everyone more that gets expensive quick. Seems like it could be cost effective to give almost rock bottom raises and just replace the people who aren't 100% into it.
> A team I am on just lost a good engineer to another company

Your analysis would be correct if they lost a bad engineer to a company giving him a 30k raise.
Both galaxies without dark matter are UDG's.

I'm not a physicist, but this strengthens my personal hunch that dark matter doesn't exist. My heretic theory is that it is just a product of some sort of physical law acting as a "ceiling" in local gravitational force which gets conserved by spreading over large distances.
This seems like an interesting moment for the state to invest in infrastructure. Perhaps there is a way to redistribute some wealth for societal progress.
I have fond memories of those characters from my childhood and my adult hood when [adult swim] came along and gave us fresh and absurdist/adult-oriented versions of some of our favorite characters.

Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, The Brak Show, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, Sealab 2021, many others.
When the coffin containing the remains of the studio was being taken to its grave, it was carried by the same rocks and trees, over and over and over.
No it's not: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_fastball

I do think it would make sense to give pitchers some additional grip aid like pine tar when the temperature is below a certain level. It seems like in the unwritten rules of the game, this is usually allowed if kept discrete.

The great body of unwritten rules is what makes baseball so enjoyable to follow over many years but also may be contributing to the declining interest in general. It's a slow game the rewards patience, subtlety, etc.
The minutiae doesn't matter. Every bag that doesn't end up in a landfill or incinerated, will end up causing trouble in the environment. You know the disposal rate won't be 100%. Why worry about the specifics?
Silicon Valley Investors’ Bets May Pay Off
It's a myth spread out by recruiters. They do not get paid when the developer doesn't change job. They'll say anything to get you to leave.

Truth is, counter offers happen and work out. When it's about compensation, not toxic workplace/coworker, or relocating elsewhere to live with your wife/children.
Except archive.org doesn’t obey robots.txt files any more [1], and they also ignore requests to remove content.

[1] https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
The term "attention management" might not apply to everyone, too. I'm most effective when I'm in the zone, which usually comes easiest when I'm listening to music and rapidly flicking between things. My thought process works best when there's a fraction of distraction and when I'm in a playful mood, not when there are no distractions and not when the only thing in front of me is the task at hand.

My thoughts slow down without something there to keep them moving.

No known conditions or attention disorders and doubtful of having one. I just work best in a creative or playful mood, not a concentrated one.

I'm surprised it's so alien and uncommon for programmers, it's not uncommon in other more traditionally creative fields.
Do you have any firsthand experience trying this strategy? This sounds kind of genius.
A bottle a week would (depending on glass and bottle sizes) be about a glass a day.
> What RUINED Hanna-Barbera?

Not really answered.

They mention other cartoons came in based on merchandise, but don't say why Hanna-Barbera couldn't/didn't compete.
Hey, I have enjoyed your comments over the years on HN, so I am happy to have some good advice to share with you: use something like Instapaper or a transient bookmark list to note interesting/useful things but do your reading just a few times a week. I find that this keeps me from link-following behavior that afterwards seemed like a waste of time. Make the saved link reading time special by setting aside reading time so I feel like I am doing just what I am supposed to be doing.
> I want to stop using a language still forcing me to type semi colons.

Fuck it, go one step further and stop using languages that expect you to use any formal syntax. Just write down "Computer do this thing! Now, good and bigly like!" and then wait for it to happen.

Of all the fucking complaints about a language "requires semicolons" is the most ridiculous thing I've heard (and no you're not the first place I've heard it, but it's still as ridiculous now as it was the first time I heard it).

> Ruby, Python, JS all don't ask you for semi colons.

Except, JS does require semicolons, it just happens to be able to insert them for you in some situations.

> Array expression is also too verbose in PHP

Array syntax in PHP is the same as in JS: `['foo', 'bar', 'bar'];`. Oh that nasty semicolon is the "verbose" part I bet?
Do you think there might be due to the availability heuristic though?
Also from my armchair view as well.

Both of these galaxies are UDG's, keep in mind.

In my uneducated opinion dark matter is an outcome from cluttering too much gravitational force in too small a space.
Machine Learning and AI in Ophthalmology
Compile Once, Debug Twice: Picking a Compiler for Debbugability
> Andrej Karpathy just finished his PhD and he was offered an executive position at a major public company.

Since when is middle management with an org size of 80 an "executive position"?
Like a single-person meeting room/phone room?
> Array expression

I meant as in

$hash['member']

vs

hash.member
You just gave me an idea actually...

I don't have time to implement it but if you like it go ahead and steal it.

Basically a Hacker News style-site for complaining about companies that don't fix their problems or own their support issues and their user base can upvote them to embarrass them into actually fixing the problem.
And then people used electric sheep in the later two-thousands which was a pretty interesting concept.
Abe explains choice of Reiwa for next era name
Yeah not to mention companies are utterly incapable of analyzing the worth of any one employee.
not the end of the world, just something to think about
Also in Canada there is 0% capital gains tax on your primary residence.
Private unions are fine. Government unions are problematic because the interests of taxpayers and the government officials that negotiate with the unions are not in alignment.

Government office holders benefit greatly if they take care of the government unions in terms of campaign donations, endorsements, rallies, and so on. Taxpayers not so much.

Why else do government union employees get outsized retirement benefits that have caused disabling debts to local governments?

That is what happens when the taxpayers' negotiator personally benefits from keeping the government unions happy happy.
> The current company knows his performance.

This is a huge assumption that often times, probably more often than not, isn't true.
Doesn’t this exist?
What's the difference between someone getting in because their parents bought a building and someone getting in because their parents spent 50k/year on a highschool?
There's a lot of grads and intermediate developers dragging the average down. Also, Wellington has a lot of services companies that pay as close to the bottom of the range as they can get.
I'm happy PHP is still there, because other much better languages missed a lot of good things that PHP got right immediately (in the context of web development):

1. You may add complexity if you want but the bare metal of web is that you have some printf() like output construct plus a trivial <? ?> interpolation thing. Then who wants more can add more, but this should be what you get immediately for free, without template languages.

2. Languages, even high level ones, should be reasonably fast.

3. Setting up an environment should be trivial.

4. By default things are created and die in the context of a page load. Then if you want to optimize things, you may have additional constructs to create persistent connections, objects, whatever. But give me this huge garbage collector that is a stateless execution, by default.

5. A set of libraries already included so that for most things I don't have to go and find some solution.

Many other competitors failed so big in that regards that I really wanted PHP to get better as a language (like it is doing) so that it was not a so bad experience like at the start, because I was pretty sure the others would hardly fix the above points.
That's awesome that they are so great in the Fatherland where you have strong consumer protection laws. As they are not legally required to do that in the US, the message is more like: "It's your fault for having problems, fuck you"
None of this is leverage. You're wasting your own time at best and will have less achievements to talk about in your next job interview.

Same thing if your next advice is to stop working 60 hours a week and overtime. This was a huge mistake and you should never have done this in the first place.
This is available ;)

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I suppose you could argue something along the (slightly different) positions that nuclear weapons reduce the likelihood of interstate conflict, and tasers increase the use of police force -- i.e. when war was the only recourse, the result was no recourse, and we were better off.

Not convincing though IMO, but the point is pretty academic at this point so it's hard for me to say one way or another. Maybe we're all talking past each other? It's one thing to say that having recourse to block someone is good, but quite another to say that taking recourse to block someone is good.
Doesn’t matter if you are a large company Google doesn’t want to talk to you. Just like Microsoft used to write horrible code hoping that someday someone would invent a compiler good enough to optimize it, Google doesn’t want to talk to you and is hoping one day to have an AI that is good enough to speak to people.

When I was as Tumblr we were just as helpless and subject to the whims of Googlebot as a mom and pop. One day Google decided to ramp up our Googlebot rate ten times. This significant because they were already a double-digit percentage of our traffic, so going 10x placed an unexpected and worrisome strain on our backends. They only way we could get them to throttle back was through personal contacts people had with people over there. We didn’t want to tweet out to them and advertise we were under stress because it would bring out all the weirdos to ddos us (we even had to adopt rules to not talk about company holidays and offsites until after they happened because people would monitor our blogs and ramp up their bots when they thought we were out of the office)

Adopting Kubernetes at my current employer we had many discussions about going with AWS or Google Cloud. What it always came down to is AWS has support where we can write/chat/phone someone at any time and get a solution to your problem, and Google Cloud can only offer our account rep’s email address.
Trump was near universally hated by those who were most familiar with him in NY and NJ. He was (and still is) considered a blowhard who discriminated against and displaced people of color in his real estate projects; ran tacky, shady, constantly failing business operations; and refused to honor his agreements, stiffing contractors and business partners and bullying people with his unearned wealth.

His national reputation was mostly based on The Apprentice and his PR efforts. It's not a surprise that people changed their opinion of him when he announced he was running, because in his announcement he accused Mexico of actively sending criminals to the US, and his solution was a humanitarian, ecological, and financial disaster of a wall. This of course would not even address the majority of policy violations in immigration (over staying visas). His ridiculous promise that Mexico would pay for it was also an obvious farce. It was a wake up call to people who had previously not scrutinized him very much, particularly in a political context.

What's "weird" is that anyone took him seriously after that.
By the way, is there something like Discourse but in Go?
I really like where the writer is going with this, and I have had similar thoughts on the matter. I believe that a good user experience streamlines the flow of attention and tries to reduce "attention turbulence" for a given task. And I'm referring to more than just smartphone apps and web pages, though they make for great examples.

I wish more people realized the value of human attention. I would even go as far as to say that the reason that the tech industry is so profitable is because of it's ability to provide shortcuts for the attention required to complete a given task.
I don’t know French, but according to Wiktionary the main French word for “computer” is “ordinateur”, which is:

> From Latin ordinator (“one who orders”), from ōrdinō (“to order, to organize”).

> In its application to computing, it was coined by the professor of philology Jacques Perret in a letter dated 16 April 1955, in response to a request from IBM France, who believed the word calculateur was too restrictive in light of the possibilities of these machines (this is a very rare example of the creation of a neologism authenticated by dated letter).

The older, presumably preexisting definition is “one who performs an ordination ceremony”, which is entirely unrelated, so I’d expect that Perret did look back to Latin when coining it as a word for “computer”.

Edit: I’m wrong, it’s a bit more complicated than that. According to this source, the word was coined from a differently-spelled rare word, ordonnateur:

https://blogs.transparent.com/french/the-origin-of-lordinate...
The further the romance languages deviate, the less mutually intelligible they are. I am no etymologist, so I'll leave it to speculation as to whether that is the best choice. But I don't know French or German, and having a Latin vocabulary allows for some understanding, especially if a sentence has English loan words in it to boot.
> It is kinda amazing that Elon Musk is selling cars based on speculative future breakthroughs in technology. That must be a first.

It is. But it's not that unusual these days: it's basically a Kickstarter!

Well, not exactly. Kickstarter projects have no responsibility to ever deliver. They just have to make a good faith effort.

Tesla has to eventually deliver some version of full self driving to customers, but they made sure not to say when.

So it's hard for me to see the legal liability for them. How can someone sue for a product that was never guaranteed a delivery date?

Worst case would be a lot of customers demanding refunds: which I doubt Tesla would fight.

So I guess that's the liability on the books: some % of $5000 refunds.

But a lot of customers will be happy with whatever they deliver whenever they deliver it. It doesn't feel like an existential risk to me.

Part of why it doesnt faze me is Tesla has so many knobs they can dial here. They can decide where FSD is enabled: if it works only on roads where the autopilot is highly confident, and only during good weather conditions, that probably fulfills their legal obligations.

This is why I think self-driving bears are wrong.... They argue computers will never be able to handle every corner case, which is true. But it only needs to work for one slice of drivers in one location for there to be a market, and from there it's just an iterative process to grow the service area.

It's like arguing my ice cream shop will fail because many people are lactose intolerant, pale, vegan, etc. Sure, but to have a successful business I just need one customer, then two, then four. And I get to choose which customers I court.

Tesla is the same wrt FSD.