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Sean Carrolls Mindscape – Finding Gravity Within QM
Ask HN: Which perks do you negotiate for beyond base salary?
I'm about to enter into a compensation package negotiation where I have the upper hand. I have skills that this company needs and they know I have them (my previous boss works there).

I'm thinking of negotiating the following in order of priority for me and I wanted to know if there was something I was overlooking:

* Base salary (depending on the initial offer, of course)

* 10% annual base salary as a Signing Bonus (because I was already told it's too late in the year to participate in the annual profit sharing plan) payable after 90 days of employment

* 5% annual base salary for Moving/Relocation Expenses (to break my lease, etc.)

* 4 weeks paid vacation/sick time (employees start at a generous 3 weeks here)

* Work laptop of my choosing (they can pick the brand if they're married to one; they can set an upper limit for the budget)

* Remote work 2 days per week (of my choosing) starting 30 days after successful employment

* Work cell phone of my choosing

* Internet stipend to facilitate my work from home days

* Slight modification to my Title such this the "lateral move" becomes a move up

What am I forgetting? Hiring managers, what about this is out of the question? What is the hardest to accommodate?

Thanks!
Forget the money. What’s up with the freaky temple on his island?
I really don’t enjoy when this form of argument comes up, because it strikes me as both lazy and extremely unlikely that the speaker puts the same conditions on his own conduct.

I think you can both fly on planes and believe we need to reduce our use of fossil fuels dramatically. You can both believe that we should pay more tax to fund public services while not donating additional income to the government. You can work for Amazon while thinking they should pay their workers more. You can believe that the way the food industry treats animals is awful without being a vegan.

In my opinion, being a complete paragon of virtue is not a prerequisite of having an opinion on what would make the world a better place.
The sailing was about more than just saving CO2, it was mainly a symbol (highlighting that air-traffic is not yet climate friendly and that something needs to be done about it, since feasible alternatives don't exist). I really don't get why people are so annoyed about this.
> Even if I'm the only person in the world who thinks the bus is too expensive, I still have the option not to use the bus. But if I'm the only person in the world who thinks the tax is too expensive, too bad, I just have to pay it.

Moreover, consider this:

> If I'm the only person in the [city] who thinks wide streets and highways for cars are too expensive, too bad, I still have to pay it.

Streets and traffic lights and parking spaces and traffic enforcement and all the infrastructure needed for cars aren't free; your car ride into the city is being subsidized. If it's not fair for you to subsidize bus-riders, why is it fair for bus-riders to subsidize you?
Yeah, really. A lot of filler paragraphs building up to unreadable code. Bad article.
Did you read the article? It’s about diet, exercise, and the energy burnt playing chess.
Mass adoption doesn't necessarily mean something is superior. For all the software that's written in Go, there's plenty more written in C++
There's a sibling post to mine that has a link to a blog post elucidating on what a tech company is. They go further than just 0 marginal cost. But that's the biggest one, and why tech companies justify such a big PE ratio.
> They're a real estate company.

Are they, though? Their CEO owns another company that buys up properties and then WeWork rents to them. I don't know how much real estate WeWork owns anymore. Though I think you're closer calling them that than a tech company.
Paul Ford Uses This
Did another advanced species exist on Earth before humans?
This is something that struck me when reading Dickens; people died, a lot. One thing it highlights to me is the importance of modern medicine and antibiotics. Another thing is how different the human experience is now for most of the world; children and death are much less common (for most) than previous centuries. Sure this is common knowledge, but taken for granted I believe.
> I'm using part of this idea in my prototype tracing JIT for CRuby. With a tracing JIT it's much, much easier to implement basic escape analysis because the control flow is linear. One basically gets Partial Escape Analysis (the big deal from Graal) for free.

Maybe Ruby is different. But with JavaScript, tracing JIT turned out to not be a winning strategy. Every engine that tried it eventually moved to a more traditional multi-tiered JIT (with OSR entry/exit).

> Post Haswell, there's not a ton of value to baseline JIT, especially for dynamic languages. Mike Pall talked at length about how the highly optimized bytecode VM of LuaJIT 2.x was sometimes faster than the baseline-ish method JIT from LuaJIT 1.x, and that was before Haswell.

I can't say definitively for other languages, but for the JavaScriptCore implementation of JavaScript, we are very aware of the performance value of all our JIT tiers, and the baseline JIT makes a significant difference. And yes, our interpreter is very optimized. We essentially have a CPU-specific interpreter loop using assembly code generated from a meta-language. Baseline JIT on top of that is still a big perf win (as are our two higher JIT tiers, DFG and FTL/B3).
Tesla has a software business and its big
Sounds like students opt-in to this to get rewards later. It's not a penalty, it's more like you don't get a free lottery ticket.
If I were in such a job I would be very happy about it. I view work as a means to an end. Work to live, don't live to work. A society without jobs would be wonderful. If something I was working on would eliminate the jobs of millions, then we would be closer to having no jobs at all. In such a position I would feel like I was really contributing to a greater future.
How's that going to work? You still have to pay your mortgage and property tax.
Here's a good article: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/hedge-funders-have-so...

>Oddly, Epstein also claimed to do all the investing by himself while his 150 employees all worked in the back office — which Kass says reminds him of Madoff’s cover story. Though it now appears that Epstein had many fewer employees than he claimed

What was almost certainly happening was that his hedge fund was a front for blackmailing people (after they had sex with his underage sex slaves).

It's also interesting to note that his client list has still somehow not leaked. Everyone on there is probably a (wealthy/powerful) pedo.
I believe there will be plenty more stories like this coming out and landing well. Some of the testing I've managed hasn't helped end-to-end conversion rate _at all_ and did nothing short-term results even when it looked great at first glance. I feel pretty jaded about "performance marketing" and "growth marketing" at this point. There are legitimate growth marketers out there but it's become a cop out for The Hard Things in marketing.

Essentially, it's become really easy to get leads for cheap and incredibly expensive to get them to convert. The question becomes, which master do you serve?

I think marketing leaders need to delicately balance the KPIs with the vision of the company or product. In High Output Management, Andy Grove talked about negative indicators for KPIs as well (forgive me, don't have book within reach). I don't think any time gets spent on that in my network. Granted, it is hard to do with small teams and you might say it's the wrong thing to focus on for small teams. Eventually, you reach the point where the numbers look too good to be true and they usually are--meaning you won't convert these people because they're not ready to buy what you're selling. They're just ready to get the free info you're offering them in two clicks of their time.

I appreciate the candidness about failure even if it wasn't detailed. Can't wait for more similar stories.
Whatever Epstein did, it's good that his money be put to good use like helping education and research rather than being burned because he touched it.

Harvard has nothing to 'admit', they did nothing wrong, and there is no point in them getting rid of the money they have left.
Just here to take you way-too-seriously and promote a different way of thinking about art :)

Art is an experience, not an object.

Reflecting on an object can help you find an art experience. Some people set out to create special objects designed to help others find an art experience. It's fine to call these art-objects. Other people set out to create performances that help others find an art experience.

Despite the absence of an artist or art-object, some people might have art experiences when they watch a sunset, look through a microscope, or have their understanding turned on its head by an unexpected-but-confirmed result in a dataset.
I think Greta Thunberg makes a lot of people feel extremely uncomfortable and guilty about their extravagant lifestyles (I know I do!). She's uncompromising, and she doesn't go in for feel-good fairy tales about how we can save the planet if we all just do a little recycling.
Towards the end of my time as a student at the University of Michigan I stopped buying tickets to the games. Between the crowds, security, drunk strangers, the sun in September or the cold rain in November - it's just more fun and more comfortable to watch at home with friends.
I remember there beeing school strikes in Germany inspired by her well before she was a topic in the national media landscape. The Germans school kids who followed her example saw it on social media mostly. Only once it was clear that that school striking swedish girl inspired a whole lot of others throughout Europe, the (German) media picked up. I remember thinking that is was a tiny bit late.

This wouldn't be extraordinary. Your claim however is. And you know the drill: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Especially when you use that claim in an ad hominem attack to silence someones arguments.
An artificial leg with sensors helps people feel every step
According to her Wikipedia a group called Fossil Free Dalsland contacted her first and suggested the school strike. Then another group called We Don't Have Time broadcast photographs to a wide online audience. Her strike was literally created by activist and media organizations, she is no more than a child spokesman for a viral marketing campaign.

Like I said, it is a collective delusion where you have to buy into every facet, including the messianic self-made image, or you hate little girls and the environment.
I've been remote for a couple of years now. My situation is a bit different tho: I'm at a large company and a manager so I do interact with other folks more often than, say, a developer probably would.

- I get on IRC & Slack to get relief from the "is anyone out there" loneliness during the day.

- I tend to shut down at a specific time of day and make a point of doing something more social (work out, go to networking events, plan something with family/friends). I find that many of my work from home folks have a really tough time 'turning off' to allow for some health downtime.

- I get out of the house for a few hours a couple of times a week and work someplace where there are people. Even if it's just someplace like Starbucks, it's good to not be staring at the same 4 walls all the time. When possible, I'll meet another remote worker.

- If your company has an office convenient, try to go there periodically even if it's not part of your job. My company has a subsidiary with an office in town, and I have an arrangement where I come in and work there for a day every week or two.
Not sure how a Vue.js app would work without any client-side Javascript enabled.
Ask HN: How valid is total monetary cost as a measure of environmental impact?
Many threads on HN (Tesla, climate change, nuclear power etc.) involve complex carbon estimations. As an alternative, how valid is it to use monetary cost as an estimation of environmental impact? There are certainly edge cases, but, ultimately, don't most dollars represent extracting resources from the earth?
> travel by boat to the UN. All of this is highly theatrical

The hate would have been full of claims of hypocrisy had she hopped on a Boeing or a trans-Atlantic liner (if there are still liner services). She says she probably won't be able to go, the someone offers a place on a racing yacht. If she'd stayed at home the message would no doubt be trying to spin up her not feeling the UN important enough...

Damned if she does, damned if she doesn't.
I went 12 years without owning a car (in my 30s and early 40s). I bought a vehicle a little over a year ago and I've changed the oil every 5,000 miles which amounts to 5 changes at $75 per change.

If you're changing the oil on your vehicle twice a year you're either underutilizing the vehicle or ruining it.
As someone who's on board with climate change advocacy, I find it absolutely insipid to listen to her monotone, severe, apocalyptic proclamations.
Hi nikivi,

Just a suggestion, but if you love creating your own tools and optimizing your workflow you might consider switching to linux with some tiling window manager and other improvements.

To be honest this might be one of the reasons not many people abuse Karabiner.

Cheers! Keep the good work but do not forget to rest as well!
With the amount of powerful people involved in this story, I don't think we're ever going to find out any details what really happened about the actual trafficking crimes themselves, at best we'll probably just be fed a healthy diet of salacious stories like this until some other event is big enough to distract everyone.

But I sense this whole thing is yielding fruit in other ways. Reddit threads on the front page (and allowed to stay on the front page; this thread on HN has now been flagged I see) in normal subreddits are absolutely full of overwhelming conspiratorial comments, the nature of which the hivemind would previously have downvoted into oblivion, because as we all know conspiracies like this are "always" crazy lies, due to the fact that is it "literally impossible" for that many people to keep their mouths shut.
This is great to see. A key part of medicine is generating an appropriate differential rather than identifying one true diagnosis (as they explain). A ranked list of diagnoses lets you appropriately incorporate new information (history, lab data, imaging, etc) and gives you a framework for exploring further (thinking about value of information and what additional data you'd need to narrow your list or increase your confidence).

I think in dermatology, radiology, and pathology (and other visual diagnostic fields) this work is a huge boon, but the conceptual framework is the same for diagnostics based on laboratory, physical exam, genetic, or any other findings. I don't think ML is necessary in creating excellent decision support tools but is increasingly valuable as you include more and more disparate sources of information.
It's difficult and very much intuition.

The first question I'd ask is why the one stepping down is unhappy? They're compromising and giving a gift to their partner, which their partner should recognize, thank them for, and respect. See (B).

I can only offer the following as things that have worked for me:

A) (MOST IMPORTANT) Recognize (and lead your partner to recognize) that the purpose of disagreement is resolution. Too many people get trapped in a cycle of argue - failure to resolve - argue. If resolutions aren't getting reached, then you and your partner need to talk about how you argue.

B) (second most important) Recognize that no one wins an argument. The purpose isn't to win. The purpose is to reach acceptable consensus. Agreeing on this weeds out a lot of toxic behaviors (like bringing up old arguments), because those actions don't make sense if no one wins.

C) Get better at initiating disagreements. Is this the right time and place to disagree (hint: usually "now" and "here" is, as putting things off is generally a bad idea)? Do you catch your partner off guard, or do you telegraph you're going to disagree about something (hints followed shortly by action is a good playbook)?

D) Get better at providing care after a disagreement. Do you revisit the solution reached, and reassure your partner that you feel good with the solution arrived at? Do you make sure to remind them you care about them, especially if it was an intense argument?

E) Realize that some people were raised with extremely maladaptive and toxic argument patterns by watching their parents. And changing these takes time and effort by both people. Arguments are like coding: there are a huge number of ways to do it, so choose one of the better ones than one of the worse ones!
Fake news is never paywalled.
Did you read between the lines? The article is indeed about those things, but they’re almost certainly BS.
I track my vital metrics religiously. Last week, I interviewed at three companies who have intensive technical interviews (Dropbox, Google, Apple).

The morning after the second interview, at Google which was intensive, I was my lowest weight ever in several years (dropped three to four pounds from five days before)

I gained the weight back after a week. But it was interesting to observe the physiological effects from interviewing. I'm not surprised to read about such physiological effects from long, mentally intensive activities.

(I thought I did well enough in my interviews but I didn't make it past the hiring committee at Google, or Dropbox)
One of the other nice things about welding - while it may not make you rich - is that you can do it to some degree almost your entire life. It's the same with a lot of trade skills.

I'm a software engineer - that is what I know, and what I do. But I'm already above the "age ceiling" that we all know exists - but somehow (maybe due to the fact that I keep my skills current?) I have stayed employed and haven't been subjected (to my knowledge) to not being hired because of my age. I'm also not in SV or any other "high earning" area, and I like small "mom-n-pop" vs large established companies (with all the politics and other junk) - so I've never earned 6 figs - nor will I likely ever. But what I do earn pays my bills and keeps a roof over my head, and allows for entertainment for me and my family.

For now.

But someday that won't be there. Then what? Well - I intend to work until I die - that is, code forever. I know there are plenty of software engineers out there much older than I am who are still employed. So maybe it isn't as bleak as I think. But I do know this: When I am not employed, I can't just "go around the neighborhood" or "advertise on craigslist" or "hang out a shingle" that says "Got a broken fence? I can weld it for ya! Call me @ xxx..."

Which is something tradespeople can almost always do. In their "retirement years" they can become handypersons, do side-jobs welding or carpentry, or maybe simple auto repairs (or even more complex ones if they have the tools and strength left). Plumbing and electrical isn't out of the question either. They may not make bank, but they likely won't starve, either.

For myself? I'm not sure what I could do. One thing I do know I can do - just not well enough to be employed at it - is weld. I can also use a hammer, saw, plane, whatever - I do have some wood and metal shop skills. I also work on my own automobiles. Whether I could convince someone else to let me fix their issues - well, that's just some marketing and hopefully doing it right for them (just hand me that grinder and paint - I'm no tig stacked-dimes artist).

So there's that to be said about the trades - that it is something that can be done to keep some form of food on the table, even if it's just helping out neighbors for a few dollars. Nobody wants to hire an aging software engineer to code up a simple website or something like that any longer it seems. Those older SWEs typically find their gigs maintaining aging and creaking software in a language nobody uses any longer (and fortunately for me, I do have skills in Perl, VB3 thru 6, classic ASP, some COBOL - and it seems PHP may be headed that way too).
It's a vue plugin.
Breakthrough Autism Research Uses Social-Media Videos
Eh, saying the truth is selling ideas? I had a software consulting company when I was 16, I am sure she understands.
Most likely this is just boosting articles at the beginning of a trend curve for growth for a search. For the purpose of what's laid out here, opinion could and probably should be presented.
At what point does this start to fall under false advertising law? This space is just wildly unregulated and rife with fraud. Seems like the FTC should get involved.
>why we allow

Who do you mean by we?

I'm not familiar with the american university system but how much public (say tax) money does a private university like Stanford get (which also has a good football team).
This reminds me of the ordeals depicted in Sangatsu no Lion, a manga about professional shogi.
> Robert Sapolsky, who studies stress in primates at Stanford University, says a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament

Citation, please.

I see him making this claim in a number of articles and talks, but am having trouble finding an experiment verifying this.
No, i doubt that is the reason. It's just higher level of global awareness and a touch of hipster that is the likely cause. Israel is still largely a country of meat eaters. And personally, as a former vegetarian/current carnivore, I don't see how kosher slaughter is related the welfare of animals. Surely a swift instant death is better than letting the animal suffocate and/or bleed to death.
Epstein cited his relationships with these schools (built through fundraising) repeatedly both to intimidate his victims into silence and convince authorities to let him go. This wasn't a case of him sending a check and walking away, he was extracting a lot of value for his predatory operation from these institutions. They should face the music for their role in what happened.
If a McDonald’s cashier steals from a customer should the CEO go to jail as well? How far do you want to take the concept of “the CEO is criminally responsible for everything their underlings do”?
He mentions that “deterministic” means “discrete” or dichotomized, presumably opposed to probabilistic or “real” values.

I found it funny he spends the entire article eliciting a dichotomy between thinking “deterministically” (dichotomized) and thinking non-deterministically.. yet chiefly to form the suggestion that one should not make such dichotomies to better understand things.

How could we model the co-existence of the discrete and dichotomized with the continuous and probabilistic... without involving at least one dichotomy?
I experienced this "diet" when I was having a tough time at work. Turned out for me that stress eating calories added up to way more than what the insomnia and nervous thinking burned. Your results may vary.
1) After a string of tricky life events (death of a relative, breakup of a serious relationship), I moved out of my family home closer to work.

2) I managed to pay off my college debt to external services (I still owe money to my parents, but it's interest free)

3) I got promoted to a senior level at work, got rotated to a different team, and put on a high visibility project.

4) I started doing improv comedy on the side! It was something I'd flirted with in college but didn't really take `seriously`

Not everything is perfect, and I have some bad days, but my life between the start of this year and now has drastically changed and in a lot of ways for the better.
Why should schools only provide a basic education? There are a great many reasons to participate in after school sports: general health and fitness, teamwork, confidence, community.

Schools can't do this too?
BP launches gas cloud imaging, drones to monitor methane emissions