skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tripling the salaries based just on seniority seems insane.

That’s a little antagonistic. Your whole comment is weirdly antagonistic.

> Either you started way too low, or you're going to end up paying a lot.

Or 1) you start by paying what people are worth according to “market rates”, 2) at some point they break even on what they cost, 3) every year they bring in more revenue than the last and you share it with them.

> The developers that you were able to recruit with your low starting salary
are going to end up working alongside people who came for the high salaries and may very well be quite a bit more talented.

Sure, but they’re paid on performance not “talent”. Work is not a talent show. The people getting more money have successfully deployed projects worth much more than their salary. That’s why their salaries were bumped. If this new person can do that they’ll earn the same salary.

> And at the beginning, either you are keeping your plans of an eventual 3x salary secret from employees, in which case it can not motivate them, you are promising it to them which as an employee I would view with great suspicion, or you are writing some kind of agreement about it which seems like it has all kinds of problems.

Seems simple enough to me. You do the math on how much revenue you think your work has brought in. I do my
own math, and we negotiate a number every few years.

> Employees get [equity] when it's cheap and it literally represents the value of the company that you were hoping to give them in the form of higher salaries

Revenue-aligned compensation is very different from an ownership share, both materially and in terms
of what they represent.

> It's not based on some kind of vague aspiration to be a good boss

Paying people according to their contribution to the business model is neither vague nor aspirational, although it does require you to have a business model that includes your workers.

And equity calculations in my experience are pretty vague and aspirational. Not sure what you’re indicating at here.

> No new employee is going to resent a lower-skilled old timer for their equity- they earned it.

I’m not sure if what you’re describing is based on my actual advice or a misunderstanding so I’ll let you chime in if you think there’s still a resentment issue here.
Yes, I understand your frustration, and it has options to use the legacy UI (IN PART).
I just signed up on HomeAway, which I think is owned by VRBO. There was no background check, no ID to submit, and it didn't even ask me to make an account / password to reserve the place. Just an e-mail address. I finally had to set a password when I realized I made a mistake during signup.
Pretty sure you can change a lot of this no?

Tbh the UI being terrible was one of the main reasons I stayed away from Blender. The fact they changed it makes me have hope I can start using it seriously.
4 times less likely to get murdered in China than in USA. Sounds like a better place to raise a kid too.
Blender has really developed and come onto its own. I'm really happy for them and wish they can attract more users from the general community.
WTF I love Tim Sweeney now.
If the two GCCs don't agree on the Time, which one is correct ?
Good point, I added it to the survey.
CTO here, What are you after? :)

Athena/Presto, Azure are next in our sights.
He didn’t really say anything specific...
Show HN: Commit Hawk – Get notified when specific files change in a GitHub repo
Also funny are the employers who give out frozen turkeys they day before Thanksgiving...they won't thaw so you have to save them for Christmas.
I take it everything is based on schedules, there’s no runtime magic to handle incremental updates in a timely or efficient way? I’ve been watching @frankmcsherry’s Materialize.io with interest, for example.
> If you want to donate money fine. But I'd wager if the only choice was donating money less people would donate.

If the figures in the article are correct, three out of four people would need to stop donating in order to make that a net loss.

(Three out of four people would not stop donating. Give them an easy way to pay and those contributing to a food drive appreciate not schlepping around food.)
Yeah I worked at a place where the leadership team would go out and golf in the afternoon ... often enough that you notice it.

Generally I don't think much about those things, but it was often enough after awhile that it was "Yeah I'm stuck here and they...."

Pretty easy for everyone in the office to sort of "check out" when it becomes a visible issue.
If it makes you feel better, Alabamans have higher incomes, adjusted for cost of living, than both New York and California: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/11/1....
Until you realize they are 4 times more likely to die in a car accident in China vs the USA. If you are just concerned about survivability, this isn’t a good bet.
the advertising model google relies on is just a reflection of how the attention economy and the internet work. I just don't see how this makes sense practically. People aren't going to seamlessly and happily go back to paying $$ for internet services
If you don't have people to spend the cash, then its pretty much a logistical problem. A lot of these food (need) banks are just rooms and its not anyone's full-time much less part-time job. Meal plan? That too requires the staff to support such things.
I think website admins and operators live in a bit of a different world. They may earnestly care about privacy, but I'd bet they're defining privacy differently than users who are concerned about privacy. Further, engagement & lock-in is often bad for users, whether or not privacy is violated.
Most engineers I know at companies with all the nice perks (myself included) only work about 40 hours a week. It's not an either/or.

Besides, it's my most productive 40 hours a week, during the prime of my life. I don't want to spend that as a work-robot who dutifully produces exactly 40 work-units, no more no less, then vanishes into the night. I find it much more fulfilling to have both personal time AND investment in my job.
The article explains:

> That $1 you spent on tuna could have purchased $4 worth of tuna if put in the hands of non-profit employee whose only job is to buy food as cheaply as possible.

Charities can get the same goods for much cheaper than you or any needy person with no connections can.
Reminds me of the Reply All episode about locksmiths & Google Maps (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho87)
How about eBay and Amazon knowingly selling counterfeit goods to the tune of billions? Or Craigslist for sex workers?

I'm sure none of these companies started out with the intention of profiting from illegal or immoral activities, but once they notice that prophet bump, it becomes difficult for them to make changes, especially if no one really cares or complains too much...
The USPS receives no federal funding.

It does get various breaks a private company wouldn't that you can argue amount to subsidies, such as not having to pay taxes. And it does have what amounts to a government-enforced monopoly on certain types of shipping.

But there is no funding allocated from the federal government to the USPS.
Sure, but, from a Biblical legalistic point of view, then the appropriate New Testament passage should be cited.
Thiel Urges US Probe of Google's Seemingly Treasonous Acts
Given the advances in AI/ML, there oughta be a Harlequin romance novel generator.
At first I thought this was going to be a room where it always had everyone's videos and you could see all your remote workers and I was like "...creepy...and no..."

I guess that could be a use case, but it's much simpler than that. Seems pretty neat.
Nothing wrong with donating your time and labor. But if you're concerned about waste, why not visit the website and glance through their annual report? Nonprofits are regulated and their financial statements are independently audited, so you can see exactly what the aid to salaries/op expenses ratios are.
Having worked at a few places that aren't Google as well as a few places that are Google, here's what I think the meaningful difference is that makes the Google offices more productive.

1: The people are smarter. It's sort of cheating I suppose; better inputs make better outputs. Google doesn't have all the smartest people, but it's one of the few companies that get top-tier talent in a way that is meaningful. Everything else hinges on this.

2: Your manager (and their manager) cares a lot about you. That's a pretty broad statement and definitely not universal, but it's more often true than not. Managers are explicitly trained to focus on the needs of their employees, and the ones who don't are largely viewed as failures. No other success compensates for poor treatment of your reports. Again, there are plenty of bad managers, but they're widely seen as bad managers; justification like "demanding but fair" or "knows how to get results" or "evil genius" have little effect.

3: It's easy to move. There is no pay difference no matter what project you work on and internal mobility is encouraged and supported. People do what they want to do, and they tend to be extremely motivated as a result. It also helps remove bad managers: sinking ships get abandoned really, really fast. This is arguably the company's greatest weakness as well as it's hard to get people to work on something soul-consuming. But it's great for the employees and it's great for innovation.
let's say 350 million people have the means + desire to move to the US over the course of a year after the borders open. i think that's low, but whatever.

how do you propose that the "delicate" infrastructure of the US can handle a clean doubling of population over the course of 1 year?
Holy smokes that is an amazing story. Do you have any more? I am always fascinated to hear how researchers design studies to prevent people from just spamming in any old answer.
My sixth day with Haiku: Under the hood of resources, icons, and packages
What a great experience, I really like it withe the sound off, it becomes very dreamlike and I feel even more like an astronaut.
For me "donald trump ru" autosuggests "russia investigation" (4th place). Compared with absence of "email" even for "hillary clinton emai".
It's worth remembering that the storage architecture of T2-based Macs (like this MacBook Air) is very different from previous Macs and any PCs.

The T2 chip is an Apple ARM SoC running Darwin/XNU (basically a cut-down iOS). It connects to the Intel system using a variety of buses.

From a storage perspective, the T2 is the storage controller. It sits between raw NAND flash and the Intel system (connecting to the Intel with PCIe/NVMe). The T2 transparently encrypts all data stored on the NAND, using the factory-burned-in key.

Given this architecture, how would read speeds drop by 35% from one model to the next? I'm not sure--my first guess was that fewer NAND chips were being used, but teardowns show that both 2018 and 2019 models were using two chips. So same controller, same number of chips. Maybe the NAND is just slower? Or the T2 has less RAM, so it can cache less?
>"So the batteries specifically, if you look at lithium-ion batteries, what you can do is by adding graphene to both the cathode and the anode

Well, to make a bit of a shot in the dark here, the answer appears to be, at least from reading the text of the article, that graphene is being used to improve lithium batteries. I can sometimes be guilty of not reading an article before commenting, but to do it as the headline writer seems downright lazy.
Are you using iTerm2? There's a new feature that interferes with the Touch ID PAM module working for sudo.
I don't think that's a fair characterization - I won't be getting a MBP regardless of the amount of I/O I do, because I very much dislike the Touch Bar.
Being in the country and using its services isn't free. It's unfair because low (or no) income immigrants are a burden on everyone in the country.

The unfairness is that the bar for participation is being significantly lowered to the point where it risks the social safety nets for everyone. It's unfair to both native citizens and naturalized ones.
> Nobody is exploiting your friends - it sounds like she complained to you, you took her words at face value and concluded that those other people are at fault.

You're contradicting me by stating (false) assumptions about my friend, and stating (false) conclusions predicated on those.

Your analysis also neglects American Millennial debt service and healthcare costs.

I used a personal example of my friend because it was close to home for me, and I thought that by mentioning it (as connected to an HNer), along with an age range, it would be somewhat closer to home to some other HN people. When people mention a potentially upsetting personal example, we should try to be delicate in wording things.
... specifically why I said CPUs. A loop generally gets translated to a jmp instruction in most architectures.
700,000$ for 40 people for 2 years? 4 ppl here make that much in 1 year, why would they go back other than do startups?
This is great news. Blender is an incredible tool
Only from a third tier university. You aren’t going to get a tsignhua, pku, or even beihang grad for that price.
I think Imagus is maintained still... Last update says 5 hours ago.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imagus/
Respawn will deal with Apex Legends cheaters by making them fight each other
> We're operating under the assumption that people are donating something, which implies they worked, gained from it, and then decided to pass on their gain to someone else.

Precisely. And they don't like the idea that some middle man is profiting off of what they're giving. It's really that simple. Tell me my money goes to some administrator who's organizing a bunch of volunteers to distribute donations and I'm wondering why the hell that guy isn't a volunteer.
Can't blame Ryanair by themselves too much. Their whole company and business depends on the 737, and their foreseeable future on the Max. Not a pleasant situation to be in. Even Ryanair is not that big to handle the dumpster fire Boeing started.

I'm more irritated with IAG who is ordering a bunch of Maxes while they are still grounded and who knows when will fly again, and what the hell is wrong with them. Even giving up a part of their Airbus fleet maintenance to Boeing. Truth be told, the Max will probably fly again and it will be a very scrutinized aircraft so this is a wise business decision. Just don't mind me considering it joining the dark side.
Yup, this one. If I spend three hours doing ux testing the boss will be like, "Is that necessary? How much time did you spend doing that?" Lol someday when I'm the VP of engineering it'll be different, but not today.
but a big reason search is fantastic is because of the data the system has on us. I don't think you can separate the two.
This person is really smart and makes quality products. But something feels off. They've written multiple frameworks 'in their spare time'.

Like, how many people, even with degrees, have enough spare time to write their own frameworks or just take a sabbatical to hang out in Europe for a few months?

Really happy this person exists and is writing quality code and making tech better but not sure if this is a standard just anyone can really broach?

Feels like this person has alternate sources of funding from somewhere. I could be wrong, but from my experiences in tech, you barely have any free time in general, or maybe I'm just working the wrong jobs. :)
Maths is the proper term in British English.
I don't necessarily agree. The hard part of search is building the index and differentiating _real_ promotion from the _fake_. There's a lot of SEO manipulation that Google does a good job avoiding.
Those cans would require storage for 6 years. Then someone would have to make sure they are used before they expired. Now compare that to cash the company could put the surge of cash into an account and buy the right food.
The % deal they are offering is a good start but I'm not sure buying exclusivity of game releases is good for "fairness in the gaming industry."
Google is not a patriotic company, says cofounder of datamining company Palantir
The API that https://hn.algolia.com provides can also be used! In my experience, it's more verbose and the queries are more customisable.
Tencent is not a nice company. It's a shame to see such a good product as Blender accept money from a snake in the grass.

It makes me wonder what kind of deals were made under the table to make this happen.
None of those blog posts debunk the idea that Google manipulates search results to favor particular political parties. Mashable has a statement from Google (the other two don't), saying that they don't but why would they say if they were?

None of these debunk the claims made by Google employees in the Project Veritas videos.
Where do you get that? The request is clearly described as being for the method of execution.

Requesting their names wouldn’t make any sense anyway. That’s already publicly available.
Well, fortunately you can just swap it out with something faster if you don't like it.

Wait, what's that? You can't? Oh. Well, if that matters to you, maybe you should buy a pro model that will let you customize components.

What's that? Oh. Well, let's be honest, who really cares about this stuff anyway? If you want something different from what Apple is offering, you're really just not part of their market anyway.
Why is there so much attention on Google?

It's market cap is $800B. Amazon and Microsoft are roughly $1T. Facebook is $600B.

We're not a bunch of rubes here, to have this many articles proposing sanctions and/or breakup of Google has all the fingerprints of coordinated action. It's less than a month after the US president saying he would sue them because he felt they didn't give conservative sources favorable enough index ranking.

This has a stink to it.
"Apples and oranges" is a metaphor for things that shouldn't be compared. But that's just asserting that you can't compare two things without giving a reason. And I'm asking why not?

There are lots of statistics comparing deaths from different causes. Why not use them to make informed choices about risk?
> in a lot of rural areas they don't have the people to purchase this stuff or the time.

Do you know this to be true? Time spent purchasing seems like it would be dwarfed by stocking shelves, dealing with the public, and administrative tasks.
Especially PhD students are ultra-cheap professional work force that drives forward US academic research.

Furthermore, a big reason why so many return to China, is that even if you graduate in the US, staying in the US is quite hard. The environment is not welcoming in to the newly graduated US educated foreign origin PhDs.
That video looks to show someone who built an automated script that spams random answers. Seems rather terrible to me to be fair.
> the many pilots who died trying to cross the Atlantic before Charles Lindbergh did it

I hope you're not suggesting that Lindbergh was the first. First non-stop solo flight, yes; but Alcock and Brown flew it 8 years earlier: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/bM5diyl48K/alcock
Denial is strong in this one.
How does this compare to "Linux Observability with BPF"? Should one be read first?
Yup. This was actually an interview question I got from a former Google search engineer.
Why do you feel that way? if photoshop was free, would you be okay with it?

Do you think kids should only be exposed to free software for their whole lives and then enter the real world with no hands-on experience with anything enterprise?

Should they be allowed to require reading copyrighted books in English class? Or only public domain books?

What about their graphing calculator? Only open source graphing calculators?
You China's disregard for human rights is not a big deal because if you're from there you're used to it?
old.reddit.com is the only way I browse reddit. That original simplistic design was the whole reason I started with Reddit in the first place -- the new design is just really bad, for many reasons. If they ever enforce the new design I'll probably end up staying away from the site alltogether.

Some stats, testing from pingdom's site analyzer:

old reddit homepage: 80 assets, 1.1mb

new reddit homepage: 283 assets, 5.1mb

That's a serious regression. I'm not interested in tiled youtube-style presentation -- information density was always the nice thing about Reddit, and it seems like they're moving away from objective.

If you're on Firefox use Old Reddit Redirect to auto-redirect all Reddit links to old: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
There are pieces beyond just equipment failure and operator error: things like infrastructure and process. Infrastructure has less of an impact in the sky, where the plane is pretty self-reliant, but process is huge, with maintenance schedules, co-pilots, ATC, etc all making the flying experience safer.

On the ground, it's the opposite. There's very little process around driving your car, but there's a lot of infrastructure. How roads and intersections are built, what signage is used and where, how and how much different modes are protected and isolated from each other, all have an enormous impact on road safety.

This is one of the key tenets of "Vision Zero", that blaming driver error is not an acceptable answer for why people die on the road. People make mistakes all the time, including while driving, and we have a moral responsibility to design systems and infrastructure that eliminate or minimize human death and suffering, even in the face of human error.
I'll get over everything (i've complained about so far) except how collections work and how merge doubles is gone. If the devs don't sort it out by release, I'll solve it with addons.

Just engaging in the time honored tradition of hand wringing.
> Cans last (almost) forever.

Please do not donate food that is past its marked best by date. You're wasting everyone's time and effort.
>usually coming from people who shop at WalMart and invest in companies like BP

What weird mental gymnastics are you trying to pull here? You know someone who hates Amazon and invests in Walmart/BP? So what? That doesn't mean there isn't a legitimate reason to hate Amazon.

"ugh, another one of the daily anti-violent crimes posts. Rape is evil and should be boycotted - usually coming from people who jaywalk and overcook their steaks."
> yes, I'm dead serious, Americans want everything and they don't like rules

Best not be so serious: You're mistaken.

Is a whipping a proper punishment for chewing gum left on a Singapore sidewalk?

> Step inside a land/house by accident and gets killed by the homeowner's M14 is just... nuts (yes I know I'm exaggerating a bit).

Does the dead seriousness lead you to believe Americans approve of this nutso reaction?
>Especially PhD students are ultra-cheap professional work force that drives forward US academic research.

I'm not necessarily doubting it as this is not my area of expertise, but what % of students really do "ultra-cheap professional work force that drives forward US academic research"... that anyone else can't?
In the spirit of supporting open software, it would be fantastic if Epic Games Store and its DRM warmed up to Linux next.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844241
Still used a lot in casinos, poker tables especially
Neat. I'd be interested in seeing how many job posts are reposted each month, and which companies post the most. I have noticed many jobs/companies that are present almost every month.

The rainbow coloring of the graphs is distracting.