skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not just that the structure of option grants has worsened (also, expiration practices still are pretty bad for employees), but also that the valuation of the option grants is often way too low.

If, as in the article, a start-up is effectively offering a low salary + a lottery ticket and expecting candidates to see it as at least equally as valuable as a high total comp figure from a competitor, then the lottery ticket has to be priced very highly, to drag up the expected value after accounting for all the high likelihood outcomes that have poor payoffs.

Add to this the fact that, despite false promises, you won’t get more freedom, career opportunities, cutting edge work, etc., at most start-ups than you would at even average-case public companies, and it’s a bleak picture. No aspects of the work experience will create additional forms of “payoff” that help offset the low salary and poor lottery ticket equity, and in many cases the work environment will be toxic, full of immature behavior, unprofessional, etc., and candidates should really be requiring higher compensation than at a big company, to deal with the start-up dysfunction.

When the option valuation (even assuming a hilariously unlikely high value exit or IPO) is eventually diluted and spread out across ~10 years that you have to delay getting that money you earned (or even lose it all because of a layoff + poor expiration policy), and at best it turns out to be the annualized equivalent of a pretty modest bonus, it’s just deeply not worth it.

You will not have gotten anything else out of it (specialized experience, leadership or business skills, networking, oddball perks) that offsets the income you could have been earning almost anywhere else.
Interesting fact: the Nazis actually were trying to get rid of that old German Type and were introducing Sans Fonts a lot.

So these old German typefaces are not inherently political and were only half a decade later adopted by neo nazis who have no deeper knowledge of it’s history. Or you could say, the extreme wish the Nazis had to look modern, got replaced by a wish to go back to a wrongly imagined past (which happens quite often on the extreme political fringes)
I'm not closing my eyes and going to sleep. I'm paying attention I just don't have to gas/break/adjust steering wheel every single second.

MIT just did a study and found the warnings and driver vigilance in Autopilot was sufficient enough to maintain safe driving.

https://hcai.mit.edu/human-side-of-tesla-autopilot/
Not at all. The only place they ever "veer" is when the lane markings are lacking, which isn't very common. It is especially uncommon on the long, boring stretches of interstate that seem to drag on forever when driving.
Good point, although do long term cap gains apply to private company stock being held over years until the liquidity event?
Yes, just like buying a lottery ticket is bad for most people, but when it's good it's really good.

Stock options are never a reason to join a company. They are potentially an added bonus. But they should never be valued in that initial "should I work here?" Not when first taking the job, and not when considering whether you should leave or not (barring an imminent IPO that would delay your leaving by a bearable month or two)
Very good point. I was too much focused on resolution. Adding more telescopes would indeed give a better picture of large structures (most are cropped out of the current view because they are not well imaged and you would mostly see artifacts from the image reconstruction) and improve dynamic range, i.e. allow to see things much fainter than the brightest spot in the image.
The chaotic nature of hashing algorithms is desirable here because even a couple 'random' bytes changed in the assembly could yield drastically different computations. I don't think you can hash something without going through the whole blob.
Yes, Silver is absolutely trying to forecast elections months in advance. Taleb's argument is that the polls at that point are largely noise, and so Silver is updating too much on them when he should basically ignore most of them until shortly before the election.
> H1B:

The problem now is that the visas seem to be harder to obtain and have a longer delay. I know people who were stuck waiting for multiple months to do a transfer.

> L1:

My understanding is that this doesn't provide a path to a green card.
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If I remember correctly the soviet union had SU at one point so that might have something to do with why finland is fl.
If you go into a casino, put 1000 on green at the roulette table and win, did you get a good deal?

The fact that some people win at startup roulette doesn't mean that it's a good financial decision to join a startup, especially considering that you can make the same sort of money without the risk elsewhere.
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So the students are advanced enough to change their firefox config but not enough to change their DNS in their computers?
The first image of a black hole released by Event Horizon Telescope
Hey, this looks pretty nice! Could you elaborate a bit here on what this is?
When politicians and bureaucrats talk about shared governance what these parasites are really saying is that they want royalties for Amazon being named... Amazon.

I am a Brazilian (not that it is important) and I wished Amazon had .amazon (but made it available for others to use it too) without state actors influence.
I might as well have written “The same topic previously on HN”. I just wanted to point people to the HN discussion on the same topic.
I paid long term capital gains after selling a portion of my private stock via a tender offer last year.
If you needed something Colossus-like in the open source world, what would you use? Is there anything available that's better than HDFS for the "general-purpose, big, distributed file system" use-case?
Did you just assume my nationality?
Sounds superficially similar to the classic Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
"when"?

It'd only be nightmarish if the driver (and passengers) have no faith in autopilot.

.. in which case, I doubt the road-trip would be driven entirely on autopilot.
I own a BMW i3 and the Tesla Model 3. Both have cellular connections and are constantly pinging their motherships. At least on the Tesla I have the option of opting out. No such ability is available on the BMW.
> VAT, which can be as high as 20%

25% in Sweden
The article linking to that image: https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298276
Working remotely, part of the time, sure.

I do like the interaction with people that I get at my job. It's not entirely the same over slack, but that might be because the people whom I work with tend to be more "in-person people".

Apart from that, I also like that going to the office gives me a chance to go outside, if I'd work remotely.. I'd probably only go outside a few days a week.

OTOH, open floor plans and commuting does suck. And I'm happy (and more productive) the days that I do work from home.
I believe the previous poster is referring to a typo following from this:

>A black hole itself (the singularity) is 1 dimensional - a single infinitesimal point.

In Euclidean geometry,

A cube is 3 dimensions.

A plane is 2 dimensions.

A line is 1 dimension.

A point is ...
If you could actually register for any classes you wanted. Why matriculate so many students if none of them can get into classes?
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What a time to be alive! I wish Hawking got to see it.
The ink wasn’t even dry on the OMSCS deal when Udacity did their “pivot” to Nanodegrees. They lived up to the letter of the agreement with GT—in fact Udacity is still the classroom platform for OMSCS classes—but they went in a completely different direction as a company with a product that effectively competes with OMSCS.

It’s not hard to see why: GT said recently that through 5 years of operation the OMSCS has made $14M for the school. That’s wonderful from their perspective, but that’s a total disaster for a VC-funded unicorn company.
Well, one thing that would simplify things and reduce the number of taxpayers that have to deal with filing returns is to simply exempt people who make less than a certain threshold, perhaps $40k. People making so little money are already struggling, so why do they need to pay taxes, and worse, spend time and money filing tax returns for that?
Does anybody noticed that there are two brighter areas (not just one) in bottom part of the image.

One at approx 8PM and one at approx 5-6PM (if seen as clock)
This image is a representation of radio observations. What we would see in the visible part of the spectrum would be different but the structure would likely be similar.
just had my wife watch it and yea, that was the first thing I noticed, they really did a good job on the science of interstellar.

When interstellar came out wired did a full magazine spread on the movie, covering its science, how they came up with the story and what the director did to make sure it was believable. idk what it looks like online but I've kept the magazine.
"Amazon" is the English spelling of the original name, so it could be argued it's a made-up word too.
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Interestingly enough the Nazis actually tried to get rid of that old German typeface and were all for sans fonts. But these old German typeface was still so dominant during their regime, that in hindsight people (including neo Nazis) started connecting it with Nazis.
This is more insightful than anything else in the comment chain that was spawned from my GP. My opinion on the 'justifiable' end has shifted a bit, thanks!
Wouldn't generalise that much in saying my government (UK) is truly representative more than the US, but in the US in general, it seems that whatever business exists there has to be something for the middleman.
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Most scientist I know have a reusable water bottle on their desk. And a coffee cup. But it will likely have a cat or a joke of the "astronomers do it in the dark" flavour on it. Not something you typically want to show on TV. Also they traveled from their home institutes to the location of the press conference and got handed that plastic bottle by some well-meaning PR person.
It sounds like they have root access on the computers in question. There's plenty of options
thus available to them.
Yes, I should leave this job and probably this profession. But I don't know what I could do instead that would provide the same immediate benefits, pay, and perks that this job does. So, I'm rolling along and spending all my other time with my family and working on writing.
How many of those packages would be improved with a faster spawn mechanism? Who is going to investigate each one? How will they convince upstream to change well-tested code?
The proposed names (books.amazon, tourism.amazon, br.amazon) all seem to be dancing around what I suspect is going to be a big fight: Who gets www.amazon?
I also use Firefox, but this discussion should probably not be the reason to do so: Mozilla has stated that they are tentatively onboard with the approach proposed by the Chrome team: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2019Apr...
This should not be ignored. Windows machines are a favorite for having lots of heavy anti-virus running on them. They can destroy I/O performance. Windows 10 has a "real time scanner" running by default, but many corporate-IT security teams will add more and more. This alone can seriously slow down windows vs linux.
The Hawking radiation for a black hole with this mass would be really small. It actually decreases with added mass. So, this observation does not say anything about Hawking radiation.
Charging is really not much of a “cognitive load” in my experience. The navigation system can plan it for you, suggesting exactly where you should charge and how long it’ll take.

As for extra time spent charging? I guess there are those out there who really do drive more than 4-5 hours at once without stopping for a meal, stretch, toilet break, etc. But surely they’re a tiny minority.
Obviously Ford was a good salesman and spinster
Users of autopilot probably have faith in it, although in some cases (like the guy running into the concrete divider) this caused their deaths.

I guess your mindset is different to the grandparent poster's mindset. He thinks autopilot is as reliable as a human chauffeur, to you (and probably to me too) it'd be like having a driver which you can't communicate with and might suffer epilepsy and fatally yank the wheel at any point, so you have to keep paying attention to his driving.

Interestingly this mindset difference also exists in Tesla, the marketing department promotes 1 version, and the legal department says the other...
You can rewrite URLs to serve the main website as well. We're generally bullish on but DJing server side rendering, but a rule like this totally works:

/* /.netlify/functions/app/:splat 200!
We now have images of the environment at a black hole’s event horizon
INT. EUROPEAN COMMISSION – PHONE RINGS

SAMARA
Seven days...
Why don't startups offer actual equity grants instead of options? It seemed strange to me when I was starting out in my career that I needed to take a lower salary and options to exercise upon my exit, which wound up costing me thousands of dollars from that lower salary.

Two years later, one founder forced out his two other cofounders, started a new company in the exact same space, and poached his best employees, essentially jettisoning the cap table in the process.

The small frys who exercised their options were totally screwed. That was a real lesson for me on how crazy this stuff can be.
Worrying about discarded eyeglasses as an "environmental impact" issue is a classic example of bikeshedding.

I'll burn more gasoline driving home from work than the mass of a pair of eyeglasses. And I'll burn it in a car that has a 10-15 year lifespan and weighs about as much as 100,000 pairs of glasses (I'm guessing here, but it's at least in the tens of thousands).

Bikeshedding for purpose of condescension is one of the biggest and most avoidable sins of environmentalism. Don't do that.
"Go to Stanford" is a muuuuch bigger barrier than "go to a university."

And considering it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a degree at Stanford, it's not clear that it's the far superior option.
Funnily, it reminds me of Soundgarden's album, Superunknown, which had the famous song 'Black Hole Sun.'

https://www.amazon.com/Superunknown-Soundgarden/dp/B00IXLQJ8...
The fact that scientists were able to accurately predict what this black whole should look like using the math at our disposal is about as good a piece of evidence as one can get.
Interestingly enough, the GDP of the Netherlands today is "only" $800 billion, which is a tenth of what the article claims the Dutch East India company is worth.
Exactly, and they all have the crappy Comcast combo which advertises the extra XFINITY AP that I don't think you can turn off. As a Comcast customer, I have NEVER been able to connect to that and get data. 2.4 ghz is a sh!tshow and everyone is just spamming it with more and more noise.
I'd like to see a readout of these oh-so-convincing arguments.

I think we caught a glimpse of what lobbyists are telling senators when Ted "Series of Tubes" Stevens sloppily repeated the explanation of the internet he was fed.

(To head off the argument: I agree that the "series of tubes" part itself was correct; the problem was the lacking understanding of the relationship between "data transfer has a cost" and "why net neutrality is bad". Also the dubious anecdote about intern emails. "Series of tubes" is just the label for cluster of confusions, not the part he got wrong.)
Not exactly a unique experience, but my .05 - I started of at a startup with a "lol just do it" attitude to whatever the problem was. Worked 12 hours a day a lot, was stressed out all the time, didn't have a life, got calls at odd hours to deploy...but, if I didn't have that experience, I wouldn't have grown nearly as fast. Got to see all aspects of the products and the consequences of the decisions we made early on. Learned more in a year than in the last 3 at corp/consulting jobs. Then again, maybe it was noob gainz and I made at least a third less than I would have at a corp job.

Not sure if going back to a startup would be nearly as beneficial in terms of "levelling up." Seems like the game now is to grind whiteboard before I get too old for Google.

A friend grew from junior developer to director of IT at that startup, so there's that aspect as well, though I have also seen a number of startups hire leadership outside.
Is this due to occlusion?
8% in Switzerland.
Parent started with "It's bad for most people, but when it's good it's really good.". So yes, roulette is similarly bad for those who don't win and good for the few who do.
Yeah, it's not really cheap at all. However! vfork() is cheap, very very cheap, though, of course, you then have to follow it up with an exec(), and the cost of that on Windows depends on the setup cost of the executable being exec'ed.

Part of the problem is the DLLs, as many have mentioned, and also the fact that each statically links in its own CRT (C run-time). The shared C run-time MSFT is working on should help here. As should more lazy loading and setup.
> You want to work a certain way (remote, on the beach, whatever) and they are willing to go this route.

This is me. I quit my well paid job and took a massive pay hit so that I could work from home and so be able to spend more time with my daughters.

Absolutely worth it.
For a static site, I think 100 submissions/month for free is probably more than enough for the majority of people. Though going straight to $19/month is a pretty big step if you're just hosting your own personal website/blog.

It's $0,019 per submission, which I think is a fair price if you're actually sending that amount (and making money from it). It would costs you much more to build unless. That said, for personal (free) use there are a lot of alternative options.
I'd personally add one - if you're an early enough employee, you can have a hand in personally shaping the culture of the company around you. I suppose this can fit into "work a certain way".
Perhaps i used a wrong description, but i meant having special cases/multiple uses and specifically about text markup languages. If every other element of the document tree, like sections, links, emphasis, references, images, figures, etc is marked using explicit syntax then using whitespace for paragraphs is inconsistent and can often be misleading since this will also need to be context sensitive as you do not want paragraphs to be inserted in every node that can have children.

But this is obviously a stylistic preference as to me that sounds too much trouble for no gain at all - which is basically your response above :-P.

But as i wrote in my original message, i'm not a big fan of these plaintext formats and i'd rather work using a "WYSIWYM" editor that uses these nodes behind the scenes instead of having the user write the markup by hand. But that is obviously much harder to implement (and if the tool handles the nodes for you the syntax doesn't matter at all anyway). Still, to me that is the ideal:-).
> and I wished Amazon had .amazon (but made it available for others to use it too)

If only there was a way as a society we could make sure common resources could be used by interested and relevant parties in an agreeable manner. Maybe some kind of group that is formed based on the input of many people and will represent their interests in this matter and others like it. If only.

Also it's really silly for one private company to own an entire TLD just because that company choose to use a generic, commonly used word. That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Event horizon telescope has been taking data of the Sag A* black hole but the data is still being processed and yet to be released.
You get switched to long term capital gains 1 year after exercise or two years after the grant start date, whichever is later.
Can you elaborate on how you configured? What hardware are you using?
1. Perhaps, but we already have JavaScript, and WASM has much less access than JavaScript at the moment. It's definitely something to watch as WASM gets more integrated.
2. Sure, it is intended for native-type development in the browser. In fact, the easiest languages to get started with are C, Rust, and Go IMO.
3. If it's being sent over TLS, you know that it hasn't been tampered with in flight, no? So it is functionally equivalent in this regard to JavaScript.
4. Have you tried to audit obfuscated JavaScript? If that's acceptable, you can do the same with the tools provided for WASM.
5. Yup. However, as I mentioned earlier, TLS removes the ability for things to be tampered with in flight, which means you'll need to trust the server (and the browser). Since that's always the case, I'm not sure what you want to see different here.
6. So don't use HTTP and only use HTTPS? Browsers are moving toward making that look more scary to the user, so it's a browser problem, not a WASM one.
7. No, it assumes the sandbox can prevent security issues. The language subset stuff is to help developers write more reliable code. It won't eliminate crashes from faulty code, it'll just make those easier to spot.

Those CVEs mostly look like problems in the sandbox, which will mature as WASM gets used more. Those types of things point to immaturity in implementation, not design AFAICT.
I confess, I still don't follow the critique. Let's take the output of a skin-in-the-game model, like a binary futures market. This also predicts numbers between 0 and 1, that look a lot like probabilities, but by the argument presented here, they are not probabilities, and if you look at the output of a futures market, then you are being scammed because the market itself is not giving a decision boundary; it's just outputting the last trade price.

Yes, this allows a forecaster to say that even if the <50% candidate wins, that they weren't wrong, but so what? The forecasts should be reasonably well-calibrated -- that is, of all 20% predictions, 20% of them go in the 20% direction. 538 recently published a report of their calibration, which bears out their results (and kicked off the latest round of name-calling between Taleb and Silver).

Is the criticism just that we shouldn't look at Silver as a person with anything interesting to say because he won't commit 100% to one side of an argument? I honestly don't understand what the critique is, and this link I don't find helpful.
>How can you block DoH without doing MITM on all outgoing HTTPS? For that matter, how can you block HTTPS based VPNs like OpenVPN?

OpenVPN isn't HTTPS based. It has TLS support, but AFAIK it's implemented as TLS-over-OpenVPN rather than OpenVPN-over-TLS, so it's still very distiquishable from a HTTPS connection. There are workarounds like using TCP mode over stunnel, though.
There are plenty of ways to lockdown the ability to change DNS settings on your enterprise computers (you can also lockdown Firefox with the right deployment) and you can block port 53 traffic to outside your network, but you can't block DNS -> HTTPS w/o the interventions cited above.