skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the engineering departments of most large tech companies including Microsoft, people at the same pay grade are supposed to be making about the same amount of money. The idea is that if you deserve a raise, you deserve a promotion too. So your job title and your salary aren’t like two different things.

This is not true. At FAANG companies and Microsoft, the total compensation bands for levels at or above "Senior SWE", "Senior SDE" are really wide. This is by design, and its widely communicated that this is the case. Most of the variation is in equity grants and bonus, rather than salary - if your management chain recognizes that you made a huge impact last year, you'll probably get huge equity refreshes and a giant bonus, although your salary might not rise by much.

Promotions are a separate thing, because promotion beyond "Senior" implies a change to your role and expectations (more leadership, more "people coordination" even if you're not a people manager, etc.) It's totally possible that you're making an amazing impact in your current role in a way that merits additional compensation, but you're not meeting all the criteria for the next step on the ladder. That's fine - you're still going to get paid a huge amount more than the average for your level.
One thing that has always struck me about compensation is that it is incredibly infrequent where I can actually implement the type of fundamental changes a company most needs due to most opportunities for major throughput gains being hidden in the mires of interdepartmental communication breakdown.

I've actually gotten grudgingly bored of technical implementation/testing as at this point, I can look at a set of specifications, and generally have the code that underlies it it be almost immediately apparent. Migrations are a bit more interesting, however, at the end of the day, I get the most out of untangling or unobstructing human communication pipelines.

The work is irregular, generally novel, completely underappreciated, and nigh impossible to get anyone to agree to let you do regardless of the throughput increase you can enable. Especially if politics/an imagined threat to someone's budget becomes a sticking point somewhere in the chain.

So often times a job degenerates to the work an office will allow you to do.

It is one of the things I miss about startup culture sometimes. It's amazing how much a couple of people can get done with a process based on the right abstractions and a tailored vernacular/set of efficient protocols.
At the raw metal level, zOS. But [you can run Linux on top of that](https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/os/linux].
There is evidence that earthworms fail to thrive in soil containing microplastics (but it is not quite clear why)[0]. That then has knock-on effects for soil health and farming.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/12/worms-fa...
“What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake. Dreaming is the main function of the mind, and the mind dreams twenty-four hours a day. It dreams when the brain is awake, and it also dreams when the brain is asleep. The difference is that when the brain is awake, there is a material frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way. When we go to sleep we do not have the frame, and the dream has the tendency to change constantly. Humans are dreaming all the time. Before we were born the humans before us created a big outside dream that we will call society's dream or the dream of the planet. The dream of the planet is the collective dream of billions of smaller, personal dreams, which together create a dream of a family, a dream of a community, a dream of a city, a dream of a country, and finally a dream of the whole humanity. The dream of the planet includes all of society's rules, its beliefs, its laws, its religions, its different cultures and ways to be, its governments, schools, social events, and holidays. We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams. The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born, we hook the child's attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind. The outside dream uses Mom and Dad, the schools, and religion to teach us how to dream. Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive. We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind. The adults around us hooked our attention and put information into our minds through repetition. That is the way we learned everything we know. By using our attention we learned a whole reality, a whole dream. We learned how to behave in society: what to believe and what not to believe; what is acceptable and what is not acceptable; what is good and what is bad; what is beautiful and what is ugly; what is right and what is wrong.“

From a book called ‘The Four Agreements’
Or a classic take from DHH 7 years ago, just test the big things:
https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3159-testing-like-the-tsa
https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/14059/are-there...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNedIJBZpgM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV0Fz2i2a8s

They're universally recommended as an entry to "serious" biking even though there's no scientific evidence they improve power or speed at all (except maybe marginally in accelerating from a dead stop).

For what it's worth, I have used and continue to use on occasion flats, clips, and clipless, and I prefer some kind of securing mechanism just because it's "set it and forget it" (I prefer clips actually).

However, somewhere in that first set of links (or in a link from one of the links) there's a long essay explaining that people feel less secure on flats because they are used optimally with a different foot position. That is, on clips and clipless you push with the front of your foot, and there's an argument that flats you should push with the middle of your foot. I've been trying this lately and it seems true to me. So some complaints about foot security might have to do with that; people trying the same foot position on both might be doing the wrong thing.

Also, a lot of money has gone into improving clipless pedals, and not so much on flats or clips, so there's some unfair comparisons there too.
Trying to keep a network of huge towers across the countryside secret is not going to work.
exactly, in a few office jobs i either had a private office or i was sharing a room with people who were not on my team. i could have played games or commenting on hackernews all day without anyone noticing, or i could have worked just as well from home or anywhere else.
Can I easily SSH into or otherwise interactively get a shell into a Fargate container? I think this is a minimum debuggability requirment for these kinds of services.

https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/issues/187 sounds like the answer is "no"?
No, its good for the saudis who need an excuse to restrict supply and raise prices.
How are you defining rape where having sex with a coerced child isn't rape?
> DRM uses /dev/dri/renderNNN

It’s /dev/dri/card0 on my device.

DRM has a thing called “dumb framebuffer” which exposes a memory mapped file with the CPU-accessible frame buffer data. See DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB and DRM_IOCTL_MODE_MAP_DUMB IOCTLs. The only inconvenience, some boilerplate is required to find the correct GPU connector, and setup a supported video mode.
Except that the potato paradox doesn’t apply here. What the business cares about is total signups and revenue, not the variation in rate of signups. The potato paradox only applies if you’re talking about the rate of misses, which, while interesting, is secondary or tertiary in importance.

An 80% decrease in missed signups only causes about a ~5% increase in revenue. That’s an important point if the team that produced that 5% revenue increase costs a large amount of money to run. At close to a million a year for the team, that’s only going to be worth it for some.

And that was the whole point of the article: this optimization usually isn’t worth the cost.
You can compare Bitcoin with torrents, even after streaming services like Netflix or Spotify were successful, torrent is thriving.
Genetic engineering and human-animal hybrids
> Yet even if this mercury was indeed used for fantastical landscaping, Duan doubts that there can have been much of it... he thinks the chamber might have contained at most 100 tons of the liquid metal: around 7m3.

That's a LOT of mercury. 7 cubic meters of a liquid can cover an area the size of a football field to a depth of 1.3 millimeters. Concentrated in a few narrow channels representing rivers and peripheral seas, the depth could be increased to several inches.

Why do historians go to such lengths to try to argue that ancient records are fantastical exaggerations? These people had the technology, resources, and political will to build a football field-sized map of China with rivers of mercury. If there are records saying that they built one, chances are they actually did.

By the way, it's also enough mercury to poison millions of people. That tomb should be a Superfund site.
Yeah, but what's up with those YouTube ads. They are really something else, kind of 2001-ish.
Doom Emacs
Such a cool feeling isn't it? Never forget the first time I saw those rings in person through a cheap telescope. It somehow places you in the same universe you've only read about till then.
Too bad we cant just focus on the scifi. I could care less about the personal politics, however unfortunte, of the author. More political posturing. Denounce his poor views and move on already.
There is more to it than "wanting to learn".

You can peruse Can I Use https://caniuse.com/#search=fetch to evaluate if the API is widely enough supported to be viable. Then you have to figure out which bugs and incompatibilities exist across browsers.

If you look at http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/ you will notice that the native approach is at best similar to jQuery, but in many cases more cumbersome and verbose.

30kb is completely insignificant.

Using jQuery is just easier and less risk.
Why can't you see any stars in these pictures or the video they posted? I'd expect to see thousands of stars.
All true, unless you do a low-carb diet. Once your body adjusts (2-3 weeks for me), your hunger feelings are significantly dampened because your blood sugar is always stable. This is why low-carb diets are considered "easier" by many people.
Every short domain I looked at, the registrar considered them "premium" and wanted $300 or up to $3,000 per year for them, even on obscure tlds.
"java.lang.NullPointerException"

That is probably responsible for more of the lost sleep in my life than any other single entity.

Various versions of "out of file descriptors" might be a close second.
What security problem would you be addressing with osquery that Fargate doesn't already address? If you're worried that AWS is owned up, it doesn't matter which AWS service you use.
Effectiveness of aerobic exercise in Parkinson's disease
Sounds like it’s security - DoS
Especially when it comes to browser support...why would I not use JQuery in those cases?

I still use JQuery to this day, but probably because I don't really rely on JS in my applications that much. Unless you're building an "app" from the get-go, it's still my default choice.
> all iOS devices would begin reporting nearby devices' locations back to Apple

Just to clarify for others - its not that all iOS devices will report the location of all other devices, but rather "lost" devices will emit a (BLE?) signal, which nearby Apple devices will report its location back to Apple.
A signal to whom? Is that signal strong enough to persist in memory until the next election cycle?
The headline title is beyond a "frustration", it reads like a universal assertion.

Something like "I dont like TDD" or "I struggle with TDD; here are my thoughts" would at least ground us in our expectations.
Compared to cages where you're so tightened in you lose feeling in your feet?

Triathletes would have switched to cages years ago if this was a myth.
Historically, mainframes have a different architecture from servers. Specifically, they have redundant power supplies, IO buses, memory buses and CPUs. So you can even install or remove memory or CPUs from them without turning them off.

Today, servers are adding redundancy where it matters most, but they still have a different philosophy where you should think about adding or removing servers, instead of components.
Potentially, yes. Or a battery: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/tesla...
Mainframes are a category of their own and IBM is the last company in the category.

Mainframes have spectacular capabilities, like running a compute on multiple CPUs in multiple data centers to ensure integrity and survivability built in so that any software can take advantage of it. They have the lowest transaction processing costs of any machine. They detect hardware issues and phone home to order repairs without user intervention. And on and on and on.

Quite frankly, a lot more companies should be using IBM mainframes than trying to build a reliable infrastructure on the cloud.
I wish someone would implement a bare metal DRM/KMS/GLES backend for https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia, e.g. based on NanoVG C library for vector graphics and fonts. .NET core runs way faster than JavaScript in browsers, and C# is much higher level than C++ people use with QT.
> lead poisoning

Uh... leaded gasoline has been phased out since the '70s, despite being demonstrably better for car engines (no anti-knock agent as good as tetraethyl lead has yet been invented), precisely because the American motorist is not unassailable!
Can confirm. The last two clients I worked with (both Fortune 500) used mainframes for business critical operations. The most recent one didn't actually have source for some components of their business ops software stack - they've just been working as-is for about 30 years and no one will touch them.

I was told they did an assessment a year or two ago to price out what it would take to move the business completely off mainframe and onto an x86 stack. It was in the hundreds of millions of dollars to do so because so much other software has been built to interact with and rely on the mainframe over the years that switching off it would be a multi-year effort across every department in the company. So of course that ROI calculation was pretty damn easy and the mainframe isn't going anywhere.
"manually removed"

Which probably means Instagram admin intervention.
Speaking of... on the model 3 rather than using standard rain sensors for the automatic wipers they got cute and used the autopilot camera and it’s fucking awful. I constantly have to screw with the wiper settings when it’s raining (which are on the touch screen because of course they are) because the auto setting is so bad. I love the car overall but this design decision was a mistake.
How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen
TDD of course forces you to build modular mockable code. For me it encourages a short term thinking, hacking approach. I think it elevates unit testing a bit too far conceptually, but it does encourage better construction. Like the author implies, it's a useful way to think, even if you dont do it.
They would have to be, because they favor deregulation. You can't define your way out of an argument. If "everyone in the western world" operates this way, you're making his point for him.
The exposure is adjusted for Saturn which is much brighter than the stars.
This is awesome in a terrifying way. The code itself outlived any employee that knows what it does.
Hackers could target Internet-connected gas pumps with cyberattacks
It's a mainframe as in the category (nowdays, only IBM and Unisys are left). You are buying a mainframe, not just a CPU and a mobo like AMD EPYC. You expect serious RAS. This mainrame comes with spare CPUs for reliability, it has redundant power supplies. It has 99.9999% availability. Additionally, they come with massive I/O subsystem with drawers of PCIe connections and various other connections.
Or z/TPF or even Linux.
Here is a very informative twitter thread from a train driver explaining what is involved in learning a route https://twitter.com/chris_thedriver/status/11637928873871646...
To motivate me: No death marches, don't keep changing the task I'm working on and expect the completion date to stay the same, and respect my personal time after regular business hours.
My guess is a mainframe would be much better at handling a high volume of transactions much better than a $50k server? I would also think it would better handle conditions where "eventually consistent" doesn't work? I'm sure most companies are running batch processes and data-intensive calculations that could be easily shifted to cloud workloads in practice, but it does seem like there are some use cases where a mainframe could be better?
I think it is something else.

The Xcode GM points towards an Apple AR devices. I think there could have been a "One More thing" in the Keynote, but it was pulled out in the last min along with All U1 announcement. They simply don't want Another AirPower to happen.

And it might have something to do with whether the software is ready for it as well, iOS 13.1 coming 10 - 14 days after the release of iOS 13.0. With quite a lot of features promised in WWDC missing, when was the last time we had something like this?

And may be they decided to save it for October event. After all we are still missing new MacBook Pro, New iPad Pro, Mac Pro update, and may be new iMac Pro?
It must require massive parallelism and a huge amount of IPC, otherwise clusters will beat your mainframe with a much smaller budget.
I don't know many of those problem (in fact, I can't think of any). Programmers are usually very eager in optimizing IPC out of any parallel algorithm.

I have seen a handful of mainframes on use, but I have never seen one used for something that it is good for.
The mainframe is a different beast.

Can you change physically change CPU, Memory, and internal components without any stop/delay?

Not only the Mainframe is Very robust it was made not to stop.

I used to work on a Data Center with Sparcs, Intel, Blades servers, and Mainframe.

The only time I saw the Operator with Fear was when he had to turn off the Mainframe because of electrical maintenance.
The last time he did shutdown the Mainframe was 15 years ago.

VMs? The mainframe has it since the '60s.

IO? The mainframe is a BEAST on IO

Backward Compat? IBM guarantees that your code from the '40s will run today.

The whole research in mainframe is to Be a powerful beast with high availability and safety.

If you may check more about it, it is a part of Tech that is very beautiful yet.
A fetch polyfill can be added to a project for ~500 bytes[1] vs jQuery which is ~30kB [2] - or if you were to import just the ajax element from jQuery it would be 13kB [3]

And by correctly using polyfills only on browsers that don't support native fetch, the majority of your users (chrome/safari/firefox) won't have any extra dependencies by using fetch, whereas jQuery will need to be loaded on every browser that hits your site.

[1] https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=unfetch@4.1.0
[2] https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=jquery@3.4.1
[3] https://www.telerik.com/blogs/jquery-using-only-what-you-nee...
Goodbye Atlantis, Hello ‘Greater Adria’. Lost Continent Found by Geologists
That looks awesome. Passed it along to some folks at NYU. I wish _I_ could join. Surely they don't have so much demand they'd need to restrict this to high school and university students... In general if they're willing to do these programs why not provide training/re-training for adults in need of work?
> Yemen is a really poor country, they don't have this capability.

The Houthis capabilities for anything short of deploying regular military forces is essentially ide identical to Iran’s since they.are actively supported by Iran including deployment of the Iranian Republican Guard to aid, train, advise, and support them.

Saying the Houthis are too poor for this kind of drone attack is like saying the Mujahideen in Afghanistan were too poor to have had shoulder-launched SAMs.

Also, arguing whether it was the Houthis or Iran based on capabilities that Iran could have easily supplied to the Houthis is kind of silly given the nature of the conflict.
This seems to be an abstract for a talk rather than the actual full paper?
Yes, it obviously is a better image to have your school look engaged, rather than absent, on national TV.

But the other reason (for schools with prominent teams) is that the number of seats available is often less than the number of students who might want to attend, so to be fair to students who actually want to attend, it becomes necessary to disincentive people from requesting tickets if they’re not serious about attending.

It’s pretty common for schools to give out tickets in a lottery system, and then penalize your future ability to successfully get a ticket if you show a pattern of not actually using the tickets. Back when I was in school, this was tracked by scanning the tickets when you entered.
The attack was, per their claim, carried out with assistance from inside Saudi Arabia.

The required range is vastly smaller than 1000km.
I got half way through before the ads crashed chrome.
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China is increasingly using exit bans to bar Americans from leaving
If you are so sure it's valuation is ridiculous, you should be shorting the stock and put your money where your mouth is.

Wework not being public matters, you can look at the financials of public companies which was my point.

You cannot look at the financials of private companies so no point of commenting what private investors are doing when you cannot look at the same data.
From an SEO perspective I do agree that domain name isn't as critical as content.

From a company perspective I do think a domain name is important when it comes to being easy for people to remember, related to the business properly and uses a well known TLD. I think the use of the classic TLDs will become less and less important with time, but I see a lot of people nervous if a site is using a new TLD they haven't heard of. This matters depending who your target audience is in the end. If it is engineers than probably less important, if it is general consumers the importance is higher.

Also, I generally try to avoid abbreviations in the name but at the same time try to avoid long names the best I can. Outside of that I wouldn't get overly excited about it myself. But to answer your question, I won't name a company unless I have done searches for decent domain names I think are easy for the target audience to grasp/remember and type in.