skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Never make that mistake. Never ever disclose your salary information to someone that you potentially could work for.

In general I agree, except he did say the person was his friend. My close friends and I all know what each other makes. It helps a lot when negotiating for a new job, because I now have additional data to know that what I'm asking for is not crazy.

One of these friends I have worked for in the past and could work for again, but he readily admits he can't afford me right now.

EDIT, I read colleague as most likely a friend now. Perhaps not, but my above point still stands about friends.
Don't forget it's 200k a year whereas the EU salary is 5k per month - still way below, but as op said: once you factor in the cost of living, it starts to make more sense :)
Bargaining doesn't seem to work at scale (countries with bargaining habits don't do good economically) and it rapidly becomes a big waste of time for everybody.
Much smaller country though and with a very unique economical situation because of oil, I wonder if it affects those results, should compare it to France, Germany, Italy or Spain which seems to be more relevant comparison
One of the things about continuous functions is that they aren't necessarily differentiable, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function
Thanks. That sort of proves my point: when you have millenia of history, things are complicated.
Megacorps have their own reasons to select technology. Your best bet is probably to go with a Yubikey (or something like it). It's about $50 and it's what several of the big Linux projects themselves use so it's well tested and documented.
"Blank is Beautiful!" - same episode

Ahead of its time apparently...
How to avoid this React Hooks performance pitfall
Approximate, not compute. The function also must be continuous. NNs are good for approximation / interpolation / extrapolation, which makes them quite useful for certain domains of problems. But of course, it does not make them a kind of universal computing machine (in the computability sense, like universal Turing machines).
This is because a sr programmer with experience and likely a family needs to think about saving for healthcare, retirement, education costs for children, housing costs that may also be more inefficient or expensive in the US than other nations
Also there is no reason why a 50 year old can’t learn Vue, React, Rust, Blockchain, PWA, Docker or anything else that is hot. It’s all logic, all 1s and 0s. Someone with 20 years experience can probably learn it faster.
It's also important to note the theorem doesn't help you find the right weights, just notes they exist.
Where do you get 2 million from? I.e. why not 20k or 200m?
Google/licensecheck: classifies license files
The government has successfully solved many large-scale infrastructure problems. Have you ever driven somewhere on a road? Was that road funded by you paying for a "road subscription" or as a benefit from your employer? Probably not. The government built it, and there are a lot of them.

I don't see why healthcare is any different. People wanted roads, so we built roads. People want healthcare, so we should build healthcare. It's the same exact thing.
I kind of wonder about these things, but I'm not in sales.

I've heard two stories about car dealers that each say different things.

One story was about a car dealer that told its salesmen the actual wholesale price of the cars they were selling. The salesmen would deal from that price upwards and would always sell the cars close to that price. They changed to only telling them the retail price of the car and then sales from that point on were much higher as the selling prices clustered nearer to retail.

But the other story was from a friend who used to work at a car dealer. The top sales guy would move an enormous number of cars. He would sell them for $250 over invoice. My friend said he was amazing, and it was common for other salesmen to spend hours haggling with a customer on one car, and meanwhile the top guy would move 4 or 5 cars.
How to do code reviews like a human
Continuous != differentiable.

The standard proof uses some functional analysis techniques but nothing too complicated to show you can get arbitrarily close to any continuous function with an NN. That includes things like step functions whose derivatives are not defined everywhere.
Thanks for the correction. Most of my time in Catalunya was in the Pyrenees, which would explain my bias.
"I am a practicing antenna engineer, with a PhD in antennas and I have worked for many years in defense, university and the consumer electronics field as an antenna engineer."

Nice that some of the "old web" soldiers on. Firsthand info from actual experts.
Yeah, I'm glad I was able to dig it up. It has an almost-inspirational sentiment to it.

Also, rereading this line genuinely made me laugh:

> I was sat listening to Brian Acton who founded WhatsApp and made 3.5B$ and thought "I invented this crap" - which is a great feeling - and they gave me a tee-shirt.
Wonder what would happen if we:

- Set high minimum wage for H1B ($150,000+ annual salary, set to increase in response to inflation in technology salaries)

- Incorporated an automatic green card "path to citizen" into the process, which will be portable between employers (with a decent provision for unemployment or family leaves).

Seems like:

- Dramatic improvement in living conditions for higher end H1B roles (less beholden to employer, more career mobility)

- Immediately eliminates abusive lower-tier H1B roles (you could grandfather existing arrangements for the duration)

- Opens up entry level tech roles to native-born trainees

- Opens up unencumbered path to citizenship for top talent

I'm sure there's a way for politicians to screw this up... but seems like this might be a good first step towards ending the current abuses within this system...
We look at the elected heads of state that some nations have and think "no thanks".

You know that the Queen is still the head of state for most of the commonwealth countries? And half of Europe still have Kings and Queens, and quite a few countries in Asia. I wouldn't be surprised if over half the nations of the world still had a monarch.

Plus it didn't happen in 2019, it evolved over more than a 1000 years. Things get a little warty over that period of time.
I did an economic history lit survey back in the '80s (lost now unfortunately) which showed that a very substantial portion of UK wealth at that time had a direct lineage back to slavery on sugar plantations. Even if you judge that meritocracy works justly within a generation, without appropriate taxation wealth accumulates over time, often consequent on terrible injustices. It takes some pretty heroic ethical gymnastics to justify that let alone consider it efficient or useful.
tcl/tk was the X Windows answer to visual basic.

Simple dialogs are very simple with tcl/tk. No matter what you do, however, it is going to look awful and people will give you grief about it. Dealing with window resizing, scrollbars, and the like may also make you cry.
Forgive me for asking, but do you personally deal with the paperwork generated by you and your family’s health care?

At my last N employers, I’ve been lucky enough to choose between literally the best HMO in the US (on multiple metrics), and top-end insurance plans from a range of multiple companies (e.g., a $0 annual deductible plan or an HSA + high deductible plan, where the employer’s HSA contribution matches the annual deductible).

The paperwork for the high deductible plan took multiple letters per doctor visit spread over multiple months, and more than doubled the paperwork we had to track for income taxes. This is completely unacceptable.

The HMO is, well, an HMO, we have limited choices of doctors and specialists, but I swipe my credit card when I check in or pick up medicine, and that’s 100% of the paperwork, even for extended hospital stays.

The only people in the US with better health care plans have what I have, and also a personal assistant (or heroic spouse) to abstract away how messed up the system is.

For these reasons, I argue the US health care system has failed all but top <1%, and those people can already afford to fly to Europe and buy specialist care, I don’t see why they won’t be able to do so in the US after the rest of us get universal healthcare.
Obligatory mention of Asimov’s The Last Question. Give it a read if you haven’t! Phenomenal short story.
Is that true? This article seems to indicate wealth in Florence is fairly “sticky” across the generations.

https://anarchimedia.com/2019/01/15/rich-families-in-florenc...
I for one am really happy to see this classic getting a makeover! The author had recently tried his hand at datetime libs and api microframeworks but despite really wanting to like them I didn’t feel they were all that better than existing solutions. Requests however has been a staple for me for ages!
The Company That Invented the iPhone in 1990
Which is ironic, given what the plumber quoted us this week.
I was put in touch with a business by a recruiter. I stated my salary expectations, received the typical "that's a little high..." from the recruiter; as per usual, the offers I received justified my stance.

They offered me 15% below what I wanted alongside a very uninspiring business in advertising. I was honest and said I was interviewing elsewhere and wasn't about to accept that offer quickly, though it wasn't off the table. They waited one week and pulled the offer. I accepted a better offer pretty much the next day.

The recruiter got back in touch with me a week or two later and said quite frankly that they regretted their decision as they've struggled to find anyone comparable in my salary range. Because, as it finally dawned on them, my salary expectations weren't even that high - I intentionally put them in the mid-range for my skill-set because I care deeply about work/life balance and I'm picky about tech stack.

Unrelated, but I also had a similar experience last year when buying my first home. First place we put an offer in with was poorly advised by their agent, and they came back begging a few months later by which point it was too late. It's only two anecdotal data points but it does seem to be that people are willing to lose a lot in order to gain a pittance.
I was working at a company that went public. They hired a CTO that produced negative value. He decided we need to rewrite the software in .Net and left...
Thanks for the reminder. I was completely OBSESSED with that show as a kid.
This approach has come up a number of times in the comment that it makes me think that many candidates are bluffing and so this might well be a rational (if very sleazy) approach.
Just about every Dell and Lenovo laptop from the enterprise lineup still comes with a SC reader option. In the enterprise world, smartcards are the de facto standard. I've heard complaints from $BIGCORP managers that they couldn't have iPads because they don't offer smartcard functionality.
There is a surprising lack of easily digestable antenna/ham radio related material on the internet. I know because it took me 3 weeks to learn the basics of antennas when I expected to finish in 2 nights. Some of the best information I read was from old Royal Canadian Airforce videos, atleast several decades old[0]

I still haven't been able to find a general equation for a have wavelength dipole antenna explained in simple English. I do have one based on empirical evidence, though[1]. I've even bought a copy of the ARRL Handbook, but I find that it goes from 0 to OMG-language-is-this too quickly.

Thank you, I wish I'd found this site earlier.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bDyA5t1ldU

[1]: https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/12996/what-is-the-eq...
Why go to a restaurant and ask "can I get a diet Coke, please"? Why not admit that you'd consider other sugar free, carbonated, cola flavored soft drinks?

Because both parties should already be aware that it's a negotiation between people and not a blockchain contract to be mechanically evaluated according to a spec.
Announcing osql: community-oriented osquery fork
100% correct, recruiters want to close the deal, not let it slip away over salary negotiations. And they want to get hired again (they get paid by the company, not the recruit) so saving that company 10, 15k is definitely in the best interest of the recruiter.
The AMA intentionally limits the amount of doctors that can practice. If there is an intractable shortage it’s because 25% of the current practicing doctors like things the way they are.

Healthcare is already melting down, for patients.
That’s not what I’m saying at all.

I’m saying as a society/country/large group of people, we are choosing to pretend to offer affordable healthcare options, but in reality using specialty products designed for relatively wealthy and healthy people as a mainstream option.

For financial/healthcare situation described, we need a true affordable option, not an exotic instrument.

As a society we did the same thing with exotic mortgages and pretended they were affordable.
This is, strictly speaking, not true. Talking about an "orthonormal" basis implies that you have in mind some Hilbert space; but in any such instance there will be interesting functions that are not in this Hilbert space. So consider for example the standard space L^2(R) of square-integrable functions on the real line. This does not contain the function f(x) = 1, as a really dumb example.
I had screencapture work with a timer via terminal.

You’d probably want to integrate it with BitBar for status / pause when browsing naughty.

Also, how would you browse them effectively?
Skimming through the article, I understand that the author...

A) was focusing on functions that take a certain amount of input variables and

B) that the function (that s/he mirrored using the neural net) computes out of it directly one or more of result(s).

C) To do that s/he used a backpropagation network (which is the only model I know very well).

Right or wrong?

EDIT: when I say "directly" I mean that the function(s) does not feed itself.
Did you read the linked news piece before commenting? It says it directly there:

> "The company will continue to meet current customer commitments for its existing 4G smartphone modem product line, but does not expect to launch 5G modem products in the smartphone space, including those originally planned for launches in 2020."
You can’t blame individuals,
nor the companies here.

Okay, I really want to get on board with your logic here, but there's a layer of abstraction that simply cannot serve as a firewall of protection from real culpability.

Mostly, I'm thinking about synthetic opioids. Mostly because you mentioned pharma in passing. Mostly I'm thinking about Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family.

I can't really condone the idea that it's okay to throw your money into a magic black box, and ignore the reason why the black box magically grows your money.

If a pleasant financial advisor sits at a desk and tells you to feed your life savings into a worm hole, and on the other side you'll get triple back, as long as you never ask questions, sure, you'll do that.

But that right there is the origin of hundreds of thousands of lives lost to drug overdoses and addiction. Investors not asking questions, but just demanding returns. Who cares, as long as the checks come through?

The truth is, that level of commoditization is what gets people killed.

"I don't care how it works,
I want 10% growth every year, minimum"

Turns out, sometimes a plane crash or massacre isn't the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it's a corporation operating a merciless business plan. But worse things don't always make for good headlines.
How long Facebook takes normally to fix software bugs?
I found a bug that once you delete Facebook account the forgot password link doesn't send 6 digit verification code as it says (remember you have 30 days to deactivate deletion)
I asked someone to open bug with fb and fb responded that they are working on fixing it. It sounds like a simple fix and fb must be patching bugs very often. It is more than a week and the issue is still not resolved. I'm okay getting my account deleted :). I changed my password with some random one and deleted my account :) . Just wondering the bug patching cycle of fb.

I also hope that they are not sending password reset links to some foobar account :). You never know
It doesn't matter if neural networks are computed on Turing machines or not. The term "compute" or "computation" is commonly defined by a Turing machine, as all other models have been shown to have equivalent power, and so far there is no indication that the Church-Turing thesis is false. So if one says a model can perform arbitrary computation, it cannot be stronger than a Turing machine, unless one is talking about hypercomputation, which is still largely a conjuncture.

Just my two cents, correct me if I'm wrong.
Recently I had a bad cavity (back of mouth, didn't hurt until gigantic, don't go to dentist regularly) and very minor bone loss in my jaw next to it. In the process, a dental hygienist explained that the primary purpose of flossing or waterpicking is to prevent bone loss in the jaw which can lead to infection and tooth loss if left untreated.

Thanks to waterpicking, the gums in that area of the jaw have healed and I shouldn't experience any more bone loss as long as I waterpick or floss.
Wow, this seems important.

Maybe post a link to a press article leaving the body of the submission empty so that it doesn't go to /ask and it goes to /news instead.

Remember to not editorialize the title. Submit the actual title of the news site as "title".

I don't remember the exact system for submissions but I'm trying to help you as you said that you're new here (and I'm commenting from my phone.)
I think I’ve said too much already.
These are not normal base salaries even for senior programmers in the bay area. The 60th percentile for senior software engineers is around $180k per year in the Bay Area. Total compensation is commonly $200k or more, easily, but not base. Outside of the Bay Area, even in NY, Chicago, etc., base salaries are lower. In most places they're much lower--below $100k.
> An alternate interpretation is half of the property taxes are paid for by less than 1% of the population, who also are acting as environmental conservators by not subdividing and developing large tracts of unspoiled wilderness.

As I understand it, "unspoiled wilderness" is exempt from the nearest things the UK has to property taxes, council tax (on residential properties) and business rates (on commercial properties).
There are nice USB external keyboards available, you know. With a proper set of dongles, you can set yourself a proper typewriter. :P
The UK has no property taxes while it has high income taxes therefore increasing the inequality.
Yes. Great drawings/animations too that show a lot of thought and effort being put in. Cheers for the links.

Do you need a licence to operate a boat in Venice? Update - it appears you do and it's pretty tightly controlled.
Are you getting "scammed" because you have homeowners insurance and you didn't burn down your house? No. The money is to pay for the worst-case scenario.

The problem with health insurance is that "rare but catastrophic" is not the only health-related expense that people have. It covers that case quite well, so isn't really a scam, but it also doesn't give people exactly what they want -- seek medical attention whenever and for anything with no financial outlay.
Britain's democracy evolved gradually from feudalism, without much in the way of violent uprisings or outright revolution. The entire system is based upon incremental changes to give us the democracy we have today with various checks and balances. The monarchy is a vestigial part of that system. Look at stuff like the Privy Council which continues today, and Magna Carta, which was one of the starting points for it all. Technically, the monarch still has a huge amount of power, but in practice they are required not to exercise it. They have to sign everything into law; in a very real sense the law still is what the monarch signs their name to, as is the freehold system of property rights. All the land is owned by the monarchy; you get a freehold on it.

Like the enlightenment and the industrial revolution, democracy wasn't imposed, it came into being here for the first time, and while it's not perfect, there's a lot of factors, including sentimentality and inertia, keeping the status quo going. You could argue that a clean start with a proper written constitution and federal government (with separate state governments for the different countries) would be a good move. But like for any working system, it's painful to disturb entrenched structures, and there's always the risk of breaking something important. The US was able to do a better job; it's easier when you can start from a clean slate with the knowledge of hindsight.

Also, the monarchy has for the most part been a net positive. Compared with what elected MPs have done to the country, I see it as a rather more benign institution in comparison, in recent centuries anyway.
This is awesome!
From the headline, I thought it was about engagement maximization dehumanizing users. But it's actually an automated means to build literal video game avatars that look like specific real people.
You can get 2FA over ssh by requiring both key based and password based authentication. That is, you need both your private key and your account password to log in (in addition to your private key passphrase).
Delphi/FreePascal have the best IMHO.

Also, for brevety look at https://www.red-lang.org/2016/03/060-red-gui-system.html
If you take away my 20k health insurance premiums (many commenters are not counting employer contributions), tax me an extra 20k, and now I have no deductible and can switch jobs fearlessly, how am I not better off?
Commodore 64 Basic and Kernal ROM Disassembly – Pagetable.com
> Everyone else is a consultant, and they don’t have any incentive to care about the long-term impact of architecture choices: their management only evaluates delivery (graphs, model metrics, etc.). How do I go about raising awareness?

It sounds like management treats data science as a service function as opposed to a strategic function. Do you get the sense whether they do have any incentive to grow the data science team properly as opposed to leveraging consulting resources? My gut is that there are trending to building out a data science team given you're their first data science hire but it also means that your results will largely dictate what the team will evolve to in the future.

To raise awareness, get a good understanding of the management team and their motivations. Frame the issue to something that they are most concerned with (likely business-related) and highlight the impact of not addressing the issue of poor architecture.

Present your findings, highlight the impact and go a step further to propose 3 options. Highlight why the option you're recommending is the best.
The article seems to suggest Right to Roam was only introduced in 2004 in Scotland. Is this really so?

In Scandinavia Right to Roam (alle-mans-rätt / All Men's Right) predates even the earliest modern laws, so is generally not even codified but based on an immemorial legal tradition.
I had a Nintendo Wii a decade back, and making an avatar that looked like each regular player was a pain, but we did it anyway. Nice to have a bot that does it.
What's so wrong with your DMV?

Anywho, I don't imagine my (public system's) doctor visits being any different than yours. Except less paperwork/billing work.