skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, leverage is one of the most important parts of salary negotiation. If you know what a target is (i.e. what other people make), you are in a much stronger position.

For example, let's say you are just starting out, or are a couple of years in. You don't really understand how the business and hiring side works, you just want a programming job at a well known company. You might settle for 80%, 75%, 50% of what the market truly values you, because you don't really know what you can get. That's the important piece. It's hard to know your market value when you are a single data point while the hiring companies have entire teams analyzing the market for them.

This also compounds. All your raises over your entire tenure at a company are based on your existing salary. They typically won't think, "wow, we're only paying him $50k, we'd better bring it up to market rates." Managers don't get bonuses for thinking that way; they'll just give you a set percentage based on your current salary. You can start to see how important initial salary negotiation is; it affects your compensation for your entire tenure at that company. When hiring companies ask how much you make at your current company, they're trying to extend that discount to their company. All based on what you agreed to because you didn't have the pertinent data.

That visibility is so important, it's enshrined into US labor law (back when politicians gave a hoot about labor):

>Under the National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935, private-sector employees have the right to engage in "concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection."

https://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policie...
sounds like it should be "spend money on software" as the software becomes much more complex when hardware being unreliable (and distributed rather than one big box)
Why can other people not make that comparison? You seem to be doing just that -

A has a democratically elected parliament

B answers to its shareholders
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Couple reasons. Some folks already mentioned below.

- Manual review - we review all data to filter extreme outliers and spam.

- By-Level info - we collect much more info per data point meaning we can hone in on title / role deeply.

- No Incentive - Not specific to Indeed but there is not incentive to submit your data. Everyone has access to data whether you submit or not. This along with the form being long leads to less spam.

- Staleness - we age out old data aggressively

- Total Comp - we're centered around total compensation. Most sites focus on salary which for tech jobs can sometimes be smallest portion of comp.

- Userbase - we're quite popular with tech demographic and have been able to field much wider range of data from folks at all levels due to it.

...there may be other reasons but these are the largest I can think of off hand
This reminds me very much of Station (https://getstation.com/) which I use daily and highly recommend.
It sounds like they agreed to share it with each other but not necessarily with the general public. So leak is appropriate for sharing it with the journalist.
depends on how the screening is done. if it's a proper tech interview or a coding test then it's not much different than doing tech-interviews/testing as a service, like codility or karat
"Citation needed, especially on that implication that x86-64 lacks reliability."

Basically, the hardware and software on a mainframe does it for you. Versus having to implement redundancy and resilience into your app. You can pull a CPU on a running mainframe, and it keeps chugging. Batch failures, app failures, etc, have a very well defined ecosystem for recovery that's consistent across apps.

As you imply, though, provided you pick the right software, there's not much difference in reliability these days. The variety of software choices is what kills reliability on x86/Linux. Too little established experience because there's too many choices.
I started with Upwork 10+ years ago (when they were still oDesk) and I never looked back. Best decision ever of my life. I can afford to enjoy my projects, while doing what I love, and I never have the feeling of work, but of playing.

The problem with Upwork is initial drawing of clients to build a profile with a good score. Once you did that, you're in the clear. Just like in any other places, there are plenty of bad programmers and plenty of bad customers, and once you identify their style of language you can easily avoid them. Also I insist of always talking to my clients, we use writing as only a mean to an end, not to create endless chats. This way they can asses my English as well. Oh, and I work for only US, Australia or Canada clients. Rest of the countries are a no go for me, most of bad customers are from there.

to OP: AMA regarding, I'll be happy to reply
The pollution in the big tech-centric cities though is still absolutely horrible, and this has to be a big factor for anyone with kids.
> you will find a culture and a people ... closer to American values than anywhere else in the region.

Perhaps true, but these days Lebanon is up in the running. They do have a weird approach to "power sharing" in government, but it's not like Israel is free from its own sort of weirdness, as you've mentioned.
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Because it's been running a certain way for decades?
Not of the versions they offer.
I did a lot of programming in my teenage years, and i think that gave me a head start i am still enjoying today. But when i was a teenager, we didn't really have the internet at home, so picking up a programming book and having a go was amongst the easiest and most enjoyable distractions available to me in the summer holidays. I do wonder, if i was growing up again today, whether i would still do that, or just spend all my time on Reddit.
Up here in Norway they had discovered some absolutely horrid working conditions on some of the trawlers that fish for snow and king crabs. They'd import workers from eastern Europe and Asia (Indonesians etc.) - where the workers would deal with up to 18-hours shifts, to the point that they'd fall asleep on deck, while working.

When food ran out, they'd start eating bait. The pay was so low that they sometimes couldn't afford going back home...$400-$500 monthly salary in northern Europe.

https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/secret-slave-contracts/7055...
Getting water and snacks to thousands stuck, with helicopters if need be, on the other hand, is not very difficult...
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There are economies of scale, and various other things that need teasing out here though.

If you pay me $1 to sit in my car for 1 minute, the setup costs (time) dominate the actual act. I'm not sure why someone would pay me to sit in my car for one minute but I'm sure we could tease out some other reasons.

If I'm only buying 0.0000001% of a company, I'm getting proportionately less than someone buying 10% or 100%. They can start giving people board seats, the can actually ask questions of board members and expect an answer, so I would expect, and indeed there is different valuations for me buying 0.0000001% and someone who buys a large %age of a company.

This price difference applies to many (all?) things, if I buy 1 X if would expect to pay proportionately more than if i bought 1000000 X.
We can all accept that the price of a coke is X, whilst also accepting that we'd get a discount buying more units. Likewise if I wanted to buy 0.000001% of the global steel supply, id expect to pay the market rate. If I wanted to buy 100% I'd have to pay more than the otherwise prevailing rate.

Having said all that. To actually return to wework. Their business model is taking a big building and parcelling it up into small pieces. How do we value that building? Based on the whole building, which non of those tenants would be able to afford, and it's lower than the sum of all those small parcels the tenants have, but the value of the building is informed by the willingness of some smaller tenants to come together and rent parcels, so....

As I said on a prior post, it's an answer, not the answer. The price for the whole is different to the price for pieces. The prices for thinly traded assets will be impacted if you start flooding the market. One market will value an asset differently to another. Nevertheless this is a data point, and at this stage the best we have.

Ps
Softbank have bought a hell of a lot more than 0.00001%, I believe they've invested about $8 billion overall.
I read a journal claiming saturn would lose its rings over a period of time. Wonder how the solar system would look a few hundred thousand years later..
Can you describe your experience in more detail? How big is your data set here? What is the size of the effect you are measuring?
I think he means they have a "narrative" but that in itself is not inherently bad.
Mm. Looking at the examples, it seems like the JavaScript snippets are rather verbose and there's not a "fat arrow" in sight. If you're accepting pull requests, I would love to provide more succinct code for comparison's sake.

Side note: how does this compare to other languages that tote cross-compiliation to JS (Haxe, Nim, ReasonML, js_of_ocaml, TypeScript, etc.)?
I am so looking forward to this game. I don't even know anything about it, it just looks so stupid.
I’m surprised that no work has been put into Linux such that one instance of the OS can work across a whole cluster of machines. This seems like the main selling point of mainframes and you would think cloud providers would be interested in developing a replacement. Or maybe they have, but just on top of the OS? Maybe forcing everyone to use their property crap is a better idea?

But from a technical perspective, how hard would it be to turn Linux into something that could seemlessly use resources from many different machines? We already have NUMA machines in which some cores are “different” from others and Linux seems okay at managing that. Would it to be such a large step for it to deal with networked CPUs? And the networked filesystem part seems to be already solved.

IIRC Plan9 supported all this for both compute and disk a long-time ago.
Why is this downvoted, it seems like a good point.

Also @moksly's point seems at odds with an apparently highly regarded piece of software, SQLite.
in my company we have hired people before so they could work for clients in other countries. they stayed with us until they found a better legal arrangement.

this can be risky. effectively you are taking on the responsibility for the employee based on local labor laws (which, depending on the circumstances may not let you fire an employee) while you still have a contracting relationship with the company, who can cancel their contract at any time.
I would expect that it would actually be much harder to pull off such an attack, because you've got 4 threads fighting over the same resources instead of 2. These attacks essentially require statistical analysis, and the more noise there is the more difficult the attack would be. If you've got more than just the attacker and the victim threads running on a core than it's a noisier environment to pull off such an attack.
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... and plenty of developers prefer using its API even when native methods are available.

jQuery is great, and it's still a really useful library in some circumstances such as supporting incredibly old browsers, but if you're adding 30kb of weight to a page because you don't want to learn the fetch API then you really need to rethink how you think about users.
Ask HN: Cloudflare stock as a long term investment?
I know the IPO bump already happened ... but I wonder if it might be advantageous to buy some now anyway. Who are their real competition? What is their business plan?
uh I guess? didn't know about that, haven't heard that before
No offence but I'm amazed you weren't using assertions (and assertions as pre/post conditions, invars) from the start. They work so well. And true, you get many new ways to blow up the code; all to good.

(Edit: pre.post/assertions/invars etc are what I've used in my own code. There's little push in most places I've worked for any testing, never mind anything systematic like this).
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I'm wondering if one use could be solar ovens.
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I've been wondering the same thing. Unfortunately it's really hard to tell.
I haven't done that specific analysis but stock based compensation is given out in public quarterly financial statements. See here for example that Google spent ~9.35 Billion (!) in stock compensation last year: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/stoc...
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We have a total of 30 remote workers in our company screen sharing etc daily.
We also have a policy of not using cameras and not sharing faces by default.
Some people like that for privacy reasons and most people turn off video to save bandwidth and screen real estate.
Showing you face is a nice to have but if you’re doing technical work it’s far in the list of priorities
Was about to comment the same thing. Just an average bug, not a security issue.
>Taxing all flights, or even better emissions in general, and redistributing taxes for social programmes, gives exactly the distribution effect you want without having to complicate income and property tax regulations.

I'm not sure I get the counter-argument. A flat tax on the flights themselves, that's not connected to the persons wealth/income doesn't have the distribution effect I want at all.

I want to distribute discouragement, i.e. everybody to be equally discouraged from taking a flight regardless of their income level. A 500% tax on a flight's price from $300 to $1500 makes it extremely difficult for a working/middle class person to fly, but it's negligible peanuts for someone making $1M/year or has 10M in the bank.

And of course we can still redistribute those taxes for social programmes (and there would be more of them too! $500 in taxes when Joe Average flies, and $50000 when Marc Cuban flies, for example, or e.g. $1M each time they fly their private jet (proportional to pollution per person)).

Of course, for the environment, it's enough that we discourage the small guys (who are more numerous) from flying.

But for social justice, it's better to make it more painful for every person to fly, regardless of their income level. A rich person should have an equally large penalty, and what's equal is not the same nominal amount, but the same ratio.

(Even so, it would still be more painful for the working/middle class people -- since more of their income goes towards necessities, where a rich person can just use assets he has lying around, but at least it's better than a flat flight tax).

And it's not something unprecedented: I've read that some countries fine people with expensive cars more for speeding than average cars, which makes sense too.
Plan9 is not a true single-system-image OS (w/ process migration and the whole approach you're describing here). There were many attempts to achieve this with Linux - OpenMOSIX, OpenSSI among others - but they've all been abandoned and bitrotted.
According to the slides that plan fails already at step 1 :)

> Unfortunately, we did not have private or public symbols for StarCraft 1.16.1.

And then there are all kinds of complications that make the naive approach insufficient. Ok, you have a static memory map. But that's not really enough when the buffer overflows are being used to poke at dynamically allocated data structures (e.g. linked lists and GUI elements).

So you need to basically emulate the full original game and constantly sync the state (in both directions) between the emulation and the real game.
That's just bedroom fantasy at this point. I was just thinking about a 2019 variant of the hp48 classic. Even though a good li-ion battery would probably suffice to run the original LCD for a long time.
As a french, this is exactly what I expect from my government. Libra is a putsch by a (vampiric) private sector entity that want to concentrate powers.
That’s a good point. Also imagine if the attacker controlled 7 out of the 8 threads on a core... maybe they would have even clearer statistics for analysis.

Or maybe POWER9 is completely secure.

My main point was that Epyc has already proven to be much more resistant to these attacks than Intel’s architecture, and it wouldn’t require dealing with porting your applications to run on a niche ISA, with very limited options to buy server hardware, and very few (if any) options to rent cloud instances on POWER9.
So, I was traveling in remote Nevada two weeks ago. camping and rock climbing in the desert.

we took a rest day and went into the nearest medium sized town. i was chatting with the cashier at a diner... she said some out of towners bought out the entire town's supply of rat poison. the poison-stockpilers were asked by another casher what they were going to do with the rat poison, they replied that they were prepping for the area 51 event.

I very clearly understood that the casher wasn't just telling us a story, she was warning us of something she herself was deeply uncomfortable.
People who are troubled by security issues in Intel's Management Engine may also be suspicious of the firmware in AMD's roughly equivalent Platform Security Processor, which doesn't have a spotless record either. See, e.g., https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/06/amd_cpu_psp_flaw/
Interestingly we were working with a start-up which was trying to go in the other direction. They want(ed) to locate RAM in dedicated servers away from compute, rather like storage is today centralized in NASes. Of course it requires insanely fast network interconnects.

(I'm not claiming this is a good idea, I'm actually rather sceptical, but pointing out that there are companies trying this)
How would you collect productivity? I think that's quite subjective. As you mentioned, 'Level' is a signal of an individuals' performance to some degree. If you're performing well, you will move up quickly (broad statement but holds true probably in >80% of cases).
So you say can get a small range with a tiny bomb (nowhere near enough to cause this damage), and also without any real guidance (Preprogrammed mission isn't real guidance. Deviations are very likely to kill the mission). All this while (presumably) not living in a wartorn county.

Now guess how hard it must be for the Houthis. Either Iran did it directly or had so much involvement it's practically the same.
In the wake of left wing alternative media gaining momentum, and left wing representatives and candidates enjoying huge public support, Microsoft now wants regulation on platforms.
Well, "forced" is probably a bit strong. German manufacturers need markets; Germany "encouraged" the other members of the EU to allow countries like Croatia and Greece to accede, even though they didn't meet the entry requirements.

There are good reasons why the UK declined to join the Euro.
At REcon Brussels, in 2018: https://recon.cx/2018/brussels/talks/Starcraft.html

If you find a recording, I'd love to see it too.
I think we were talking about Spectre, Meltdown, and related attacks. Not the PSP or IME, although those are concerning too.
This summer I gazed at Saturn through an inexpensive telescope my dad found at an antique store. The image was tiny, and rather black-and-white, but the rings were sharp and unmistakable. Despite the lack of resolution, it was one of the most magical things I’ve seen. Seeing Jupiter and its moons was pretty great too.
Can I improve geolocation performance on my Android phone with a SIM card?
Hi,

I have a SIM-less Android Phone (Moto G Play) that I use mainly as a GPS. However, the phone can only pinpoint my location after 4-5 minutes outside with the GPS signals, which is troublesome. I have tried recalibration, diagnosis, etc. to no avail.

If I buy a cheap prepaid SIM card, will it improve location? What if I let it lapse and don't renew the number, will location still benefit from the card?

Thank you!
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> This entire thing is just saying "our brains make us believe fiction". We already know that.

I'm not so sure about that. Go into any political thread here on HN and observe the amount of on polar opposites of an issue, while most everyone sincerely believes that they are arguing on "the facts".

Just one example:

U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965145

And this is conversations among smarter than average people, it's no wonder discourse is breaking down in the political realm resulting in massive polarization in the public.

I think there's something about the massive increase in information people are consuming due to 24 hour cable news and the internet that's at the root of the problem, is it perhaps overwhelming people's ability to think straight? Maybe we never even evolved to handle this much complexity.

I think it's something like.....the world is infinitely complex (infinite dimensions), so the mind must compress and simplify it to make sense of it. In doing so, it compresses it into a smaller set of dimensions, but with the increase in independent thinking due to members of societies having less in common (we don't go to the same church, we don't even watch the same TV shows, we don't watch the same evening news, etc), people are compressing things into different dimensions - two people consuming the same information will view it, store it, recall it, and discuss it completely differently from each other, while at the same time be under a completely transparent illusion that they each see "the truth". This has always been the case of course, but 30 years ago life was much simpler - lots of people barely followed the news back then, you had to make a serious effort, but nowadays it takes effort just to avoid it.
It is a really nice science fair project. However, the concentrations that he used seem really high compared to what would be in the environment or even in wastewater. So conjectures about scaling this up for practical use seem to be the usual pro forma pitch that projects often have.
> Except cybersecurity seems a little more complex that cryptography, since finding holes in software is much more hairy than proving math theorems involving cryptography.

Then you have never truly studied cryptography, this sounds like what someone who only studied things like the proofs that the decryption of the encryption is the plaintext would say.
Ask HN: Are available domain names still important when naming a company?
From your experience, do you check domain name availability before naming a company? It looks to me like this is becoming less important...

There's many companies that either use alternative TLD's like; example.app or example.shop

Or prepend "get" or append "app" to the name to obtain the dot com TLD.

I also think that SEO and search engines make the actual domain names less important now right?