skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just left my company that swore up and down that they work hard to pay competitive market salaries. They claim to have all this fancy compensation market data compiled by experts. I don't know why they trust this data so much, but it consistently shows lower salaries than even Glassdoor or Payscale, which tend to be lower than surveys like this one.

They don't criminally underpay or anything, but they are on the low side of average and I've been insisting that they are 20-30% under market on just base salary alone for high caliber people. No RSUs and there's some cash bonuses (maybe up to ~10%) and other near-cash perks but nothing super significant.

Well, jokes on them, I just accepted a new non-FAANG gig for a nearly-25% base salary increase, plus a significant initial RSU grant of ~1.5x salary, plus other bonus potential. And I'm more excited about the company and work anyway.

It's bananas out there right now, go get it while you can.
So true, it's the unknown unknowns that tripped me up before going back to get a Masters CS degree.
Social media was a mistake.
I am definitely justifying eating meat, but that is not a fallacy of the argument by itself. If you think of “hierarchy of life” as being closely related to us, then I could justify eating super intelligent octopus over cows. Again if you mean the hierarchy as intelligence then I would ask if it is ok to consume the less intelligent variants within a specific species. Moreover, would it be ethical if we bred/genetically engineered a cow/chicken which have near zero IQ and no emotion at all and consumed that only?
> //USER OWNED// TPM / enclave

HAHAHAHAHA

That would be kind of neat if it ever happened though.
Thanks for clarification.

On the first point tho’ are you advocating gender segregation?

How would this benefit children in schools?
I've been thinking about this lately. Mainly OKRs around developer experience. As an objective that's an easy one to come up with plenty of key results that actually tie in to refactoring, retiring old systems and upgrading existing ones.

Currently where I work we have a fixed allocation % of dev/test time for technical improvements. In practice it works really well if you approach it strategically and use it to achieve things over the long term. Things you can just chip away at that steadily improve the health of the code, architecture and product. I find if it's used on a purely operational basis where you just ad-hoc improve stuff you find then it's not super effective, but it's pretty solid when the team is onboard with leveraging it to achieve better and better DX over the long term. Otherwise "refactoring" barely ever gets done and products slowly suffer bit-rot.

I think OKRs are a perfect fit for such a scenario. We don't use them, but I kinda use them internally as part of my mental model.
I believe the risk is fairly small compared to the drugs on that list which is why its left out. Not that I trust this site more then a government site, but this list has it[1].

[1] https://www.ehealthme.com/ds/lamictal/tardive-dyskinesia/
yep, the biggest NZ startup - Xero - gave equity to all full time employees. The difficulty is accounting for it due to how income tax is assessed on stocks which makes US-style stock options unattractive. Most companies that offer stock do it through a related-party loan and a bonus to pay that but there are interesting tax implications.
I can't imagine an experienced data scientist at Facebook is only making $135k in total. I'd double or triple that for experienced senior engineers (including non-cash compensation like RSUs, etc.).
I've been pondering this conundrum lately. Building an effective UI is very hard and having one probably has a greater bearing on whether your product is successful in the market place. Yet front-end development is looked down upon. Why is that? Here're some of the explanations I came up with:

1. Back-end code runs on expensive software whereas front-end code runs on free software. People associate cost with importance.

2. Activities of back-end code are often not directly observable. People are conditioned to regard the mysterious with the sacred.

3. Front-end code operates in an uncontrolled environment. That makes development more difficult. In human society, however, control implies power and those with power sit higher in the hierarchy.

4. Front-end programmers often find themselves deferring to the opinion of UX designers. A variation of reason 3: Not being a decider is associated with lower social standings.

5. Front-end technologies change more rapidly than back-end ones. Again, that raises the difficulty of front-end development. Yet it means investment into front-end code wouldn't hold its value as well as investment back-end code. People are loss-adverse. It's an uncomfortable thought losing a critical part of a project to obsolescence.

6. Back-end programming is less exciting than front-end programming. People's sense of justice lead them to reward--rightly or wrongly--back-end programmers with greater regard.
I'm bummed that of all places on the internet, no one on HN has pointed out that the answer to your question is the city has an API you can query to obtain the public data collected by the sensors.

Not the videos though.
Your comment wasn't flagged! Assuming you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547331. The flagged comment was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19547929, which is also the one I was replying to.

I'm a bit puzzled as to how this misunderstanding arose, and it seems like it might be a UI issue. Perhaps it was because the actual flagged comment was collapsed, so it looked like the [flagged] annotation was somehow stuck to yours?
Having fundamentally different interests and being fundamentally different are in no way mutually exclusive
Came to say just that. The post is just an advert for "the productivity system at LifeHQ".
but if sweet pickled cucumber relish is added, the relish binds the ketchup molecules and reduces mortality by 0.71 +- .09 (95% CI)
The Union-Tribune is owned by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong now, along with the Los Angeles Times. The reporting has been a little better lately, at least in the Times.
For a single small passenger car without any grade, maybe.

From that video: 90kw/hr of battery. At peak power output of 180kw, you could run that for 30 minutes.

The ubiquitous GE Dash-9 used in freight service here in the US generates >3000kw and can run all day. They're also usually run in multiples to pull long heavy trains.

I wouldn't expect to see battery powered trains in the US anytime soon, except maybe short passenger-only lines on the east coast (which are probably viable for electrification anyway).
If your current FAANG role is listed on LinkedIn, you're probably getting a ton of messages from head hunters. Just start asking them if they can get you an interview at one.

The hard part is that there are only like 4-5 trading firms that have a reputation for great technology, and their size combined is like 1% of FAANG size, so there just aren't that many openings.
I’m paid below H1Bs at my company in the same job title and I’m a us citizen. So it all depends... I have a lot of work life flexibility in my job though. So maybe it evens out!
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Yeah, Getty is selling photos that are public domain. Photos in the public domain are already free to use, though some people might pay to have peace of mind that they didn't take a similar, not-public domain work by mistake or something.
Perhaps legislation needs to be in place to force the various Getty's of the country, to clearly mention the source of the "free content" that Getty (and others sell). So when you use the Getty search system for 'space photos' and a nice NASA photo pops up, Getty would be obliged to have a URL of the original (and freely accessible) photo location. Then the 'Gettys' will feel the pain of running a search engine/maintaining a library with the high possibility that it won't yield scammy profit.
> Except memorizing multiplied numbers is not foundational knowledge for any higher math

But my point wasn't that it's foundation in general, category theory, set theory, etc are foundational, but that it's important to start from it. Just because something is foundational doesn't mean it's a good starting point.

> it doesn't mean you need to know an entire table.

Kids at an young age are usually very good at memorizing things and once they have memorized then they can build on that and learn new tricks, relationships, abstract and foundational principles.

> Not knowing 7x8 never held me back in higher math/math-relevant classes like Calculus I-III,

Neither did me either. Embarrassed to say, I had forgotten a lot of it. But I would have been struggling early on in the 4-9th grades if I didn't know how to add or multiply numbers then. I would have been wasting time on tests doing it the slow way, instead of thinking of more interesting problems.

So to summarized, yes, it is not foundational but it all depends on age, it's better to take advantage of what the brain already knows how to do well at that particular state in time.

> In fact I'm pretty sure mathematicians are notorious for poor arithmetic.

Could be but if they are poor they would be left behind in early grades and might never becomes the mathematicians they are. There is also a bit survivorship bias in the sense that if there mathematicians who are poor ar arithmetic, they'd stand out and become memorable, but those that are good are not noticeable because they are expected to be good with numbers.
Yes it's quite bizarre that HN is so anti-Google in this issue. Only tech companies that cooperate with China exist in China. Google tried to stand their ground for years and was completely banned.

Google being completely banned in China doesn't do anyone any good. A censored Google is better than no Google.
OKR's are mostly done with things that move the needle with respect to money or user engagement/metrics.

That more or less mandates building new products, features and services.

Refactoring, tests etc don't fit anywhere in the OKR model.
'hide' just hides it from your own view. We can delete the post if you want, but I don't see anything wrong with it! It might help other people become aware of or learn the history that feature.
Hungary wanted out, for reasons that had nothing to do with Wilson. The first "Compromise", partially restoring her sovereignty, is from as early as 1867! And after the Austrians lost in WWI full independence was clearly in the cards, no matter what Wilson would say. "Racism" seems to be mostly a red herring when it comes to Wilson's beliefs, especially since he was also influential in establishing the League of Nations.
That test pad seems pretty close to what seems to be a populated area. I see a couple of warehouses and what looks like an apartment building within a few hundred meters. I would be pretty worried if I was a neighbour.
All the news sources I can find call it a congestion tax.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/02/01/for-hire-congestion-...
At the big tech companies, you normally reach the "terminal level" (i.e. there's no more up-or-out pressure) within ~5 years. It's entirely possible to reach that level and then keep working another 30 years without a promotion. And even if you do strive to continue getting promoted, each level is significantly more difficult and could take another 5+ years to reach.
I sometimes wonder if we’ll see a genuine men’s rights movement around the question of false paternity, now that it’s trivial to document.

There are many issues that disproportionately impact men — but that’s one that basically uniquely impacts men, and where women’s rights movements (such as feminism) have shown a distinct anti-male tendency.

Food for thought:

https://youtu.be/3WMuzhQXJoY
Sometimes the purpose of a sprint is to have a synchronization point that allows you to evaluate the state of the system in some way.
Is it still the first day of the fourth month where you are? ;)
(to be fair, I almost fell for it myself)
OKRs can help solve this problem, if they're done well. Your OKR that depends on the API guy should derive from some common OKR that's owned by a guy up both your reporting chains. You can point at that to help make sure you get unblocked.
> How feasible would getting a federal UBI bill being passed even be?

A federal UBI bill? An outside possibility, if the right person was President and pushing for it.

Yang’s UBI concept specifically, zero, and anyone making it a centerpiece of their campaign would get roasted as soon as any opposing candidate (or interest group) took it seriously enough to bother looking for holes to poke in it.

The big kicker in a Democratic primary: not only is it a huge budget busting expenditure, but it's a huge budget busting expenditure even after accounting all existing welfare as an available funding source, and yet it is often worse for poor families than existing welfare. In a number of states, the benefit level proposed a household with a single adult with two kids would be less than TANF + SNAP (not even counting housing subsidies and other available benefits) are now.

(Yang does say current beneficiaries would have a choice with UBI, but the cost and funding doesn't seem to reflect that; if you do that, the cost goes up even more, for the retained welfare benefits and administrative bureaucracy.)

> He can want it and push it all day long but if the support from congress isn't there (which it frankly isn't currently), what are the chances it will become reality?

To be fair, 100% of the House and 1/3 of the Senate will be elected along with the next President; if a President making UBI a campaign centerpiece is elected (a big “if”), there's a reasonable chance a more favorable Congress will be, too.
> For me, for example, the fact that those positions can be matched up to me on TripleByte would literally make me reject those jobs.

That seems shortsighted.

If I was running a startup again and looking to grow my team after exhausting my personal network, triplebyte would be a good value proposition: reduce the time it takes me to hire by pre screening candidates and presenting me with a curated set of people to interview.

So it follows that if I wanted to join a startup I’d consider triplebyte for the same reason —- I can see busy ceos of small companies using it.

You seem to be focused on compensation not finding interesting offers though. To that I’d say two things:

1) If you want to purely optimize for compensation, work at FAANG. I don’t think they source via triplebyte so the point is moot.

2) In my experience, offer size is not related to where the candidate was sourced.
Agreed. After about the first 4 years of my career, base salary was a minority of my TC.
I had an opposite experience. OKRs were a complete waste of time. I was required to waste hours trying to come up with OKRs, none if which had anything to do with what my actual day to day work entailed. The OKRs were then promptly ignored so I could got back to getting shit done. At the end of the ORK term of course they'd been ignored. This had the effect of being demotivating because I was being asked to make up these OKRs "because at this company we have OKRs" but then having zero time and zero motivation to pursue them since there were people waiting for my real work to be finished.

I think discussing this requires getting clear on what OKRs are. At the company I was at they were broad personal goals set every 3, 6 or 12 months related generally to your career at the company. They were not related to any specific project or deadline.

An example might be "Do more public speaking". Where as generally I'd speak if the opportunity came up but I wouldn't seek out opportunities and AFAIK the OKR didn't make me seek more out. It was just something I wrote to get management to sign off that I had written some OKRs.
Yes, you are really in the wrong.
That adverse-selection argument applies to all selling of ideas. It doesn't address my question.
There was no international order before ww2. Besides, the US was easily the largest economy and arguably the greatest naval power ( matching the british empire ) for decades before ww2. The pre-ww2 era was an era of major powers ( US, british empire, russian/soviet empire, germany, japan, etc ). And even then, it was the US forcing them to accept our version of the "international order".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty

French is an offical language of the UN, but so is mandarin, arabic, russian, spanish, etc. Using your logic, the chinese, egypt, russia, etc ruled the world?

There has been one international world order. The american world order. The british empire never created one. Neither did the french, russians, chinese or arabs.

What basic principles and norms? The international world order, like all order, is ruled by the fist ( or might ). A lot of people had to die and will continue to die for "order". "Priniciples and norms" are just fluff we make up to distract from or justify the fist.

Lots of people would want to "upset the apple cart". Do you really think the chinese or the russians or even the germans or japanese or eventually the indians or any other major nation wouldn't want to be top dog?
When I was a kid in the 1970's games came in a credit card sized form factor. Pacman, donkey Kong, (MAME types of games). We all had a bunch of these games with us in our bags. Each device could play one specific game.
That story points to an apparently deleted URL ("Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!") from a different Twitter account.
Celeste was incredible. Can't wait for the free DLC! Have you played A Hat in Time yet?
I eat meat and occasionally eat impossible burgers to reduce my meat consumption, and you can definitely tell. Just not as good.
Uh, I spent a good amount of time in the eighth grade learning language diagramming and structure. None of that was mathematical so I don't know where you got that from. Nor is it an affectation.
People need to band together and vandalize and destroy these things, basically the only way currently.
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> I've known people that have been abused by the police

I've been abused by the police.

That did not prevent me from complaining to police when I got in trouble with criminals.

> For some there's really nowhere to go for justice.

Correct. But many victims still have ability to get justice. And it is very hard for potential perpetrator to predict if victim would complain or not.

So that uncertainty works as an effective deterrent, even if some of the victims are not going to complain.
... you're right. I chose my words poorly there; I was meaning to call out a potential difference in culture (not knowing anything about South Korea) but it came out wrong. Apologies!
I like how you are the expert on when pot smoking on the street in my neighborhood became a thing, despite not knowing what neighborhood I’m even talking about.
I think that no matter what solution the browsers decide on, we will always have to fight the “pre-permission prompts” from websites. These are the homemade prompts in JS and html that the sites pop up that essentially ask if you want to be prompted for the real permission. Once you click accept on their dialog, they hit the real browser api to show the native dialog.
ESA is outright stating that the landing rocket they're developing is a "fast follower" copy. So it's not just the Chinese who are following SpaceX on landing rockets.
SuperPac is to run ads on TV/FB etc... you can’t make direct campaign contributions as foreign nationals. As a lobby though it is a good idea and you’d probably get backing from Tata etc...
Yes! I hate the notifications prompt showing up on the landing page of a website. I definitely support the browser blocking nuisances until there's user interaction, things such as: sound, videos, popups, and request for permissions.
That "WE MADE HISTORY" at the end definitely should be "WE REPEATED HISTORY".
> From an objective view point, it is completely and obviously true. There is no intrinsic quality of humanity that makes our lives more valuable than that of any other organism, or indeed, anything else in the universe.

The only "obvious" answer I could see from the perspective of the entire universe is that the value of a single life is zero.

But that perspective isn't useful for most moral decisions.

If you evaluate that mouse = human = nonzero, I don't think that's "completely and obviously true" at all.

Let's remove the issue of human exceptionalism, even. It is not "completely and obviously true" that mouse = tapeworm = nonzero, either.

A lot of your argument is just that humans are not categorically different, which is not the same discussion as whether different species have different multipliers.
If you only have six people, maybe :] But we're commenting on a post that's talking about the best time to introduce an OKR process. At my company we don't have an "API guy" and an "Android app guy", we have 30 or so different teams that my team interfaces with in a company with thousands of engineers. We can't just "thrash it out" on Slack at a company of this size.

You need to try and think about what things look like when the company is much, much larger.
As a doctor I'm still waiting for the eMacs of EHRs/EMRs. Something with a bit a learning curve but where your hands rarely need to leave the keyboard. And where you have emmet like intellisense.
A a security-conscious journalist paranoid enough to use burner phones hardly qualifies as an "ordinary user", even if they aren't traditionally technical.
At least those can be blocked with adblockers.
While I do agree with some concerns about quality journalism, and I want it to survive, I find the specific argument you used to be disingenuous. We're dealing with perfectly and infinitely reproducible 'product'. Any scarcity here is artificially imposed. It's not like with groceries, where we have finite amount of goods, that can only be consumed once.

I know, that reality of dealing with non-scarce goods doesn't gel very well with free-market capitalism, but I think limiting access to journalism (and IP laws such as copyrights and patents) is a net negative for our society, so we shouldn't resort to bending our only post-scarcity type of good into a scarcity driven economic system.
That’s really funny. Makes sense.
god forbid you leave firefox set to never remember history, you don't get the option to block sites forever. So every time you hit a reddit link it will gleefully present you with a prompt about notification permissions.