skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully agree, I personally know a good number of people who did quite well for themselves taking a slightly lower offer at a fast growing startup than taking a standard or above-average FAANG offer. The problem for a lot of people of course is how to value options/rsus, and that generally the fast growing companies that everyone is taking about are generally about as hard to get a job at as FLAG

For example let’s say you can take $240k TC at a big tech company where your comp is fully liquid, but instead have the option to take $170k base+bonus at a startup worth $400mm with RSUs valued at $50k/year. It’s easy to say that those RSUs are worthless and just go with FANG, but there’s nothing wrong with taking a calculated risk for slightly lower short term liquid comp in exchange for equity in a company you believe has a strong chance at 10xing. The net result is that you are choosing slightly lower pay in exchange for access to a high-risk high-reward investment
If you understand LegCo and how the system is currently setup to benefit pro business and pro Communist government, you will realise changing it from within is a farce.

The game has been rigged specifically to benefit China alone. The system is slowly being corrupted by pro Chinese force. Out of the last 3 CE, one was indicted for corruption. One took 8mil USD in consulting fee and then through China having to save his face, had his investigation dismissed by firing the investigator. The current one even admits she solely takes orders from Beijing.

There is no good faith governance from the beginning.
It seems like a lost battle.
If a person you don't know well uses literally, you already cannot know without context if they mean figuratively if the fact being qualified is remotely plausible. It's broken beyond repair. No hope for healing. Literally is no more. It's passed on. It has ceased to be. It's expired and has gone to see its maker. It's an ex-word.

Do you know Captain Literally?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jh4Mpgbi4A
Any third party sign-in.
This is worth other people chiming in on.
> Cutlar saying to Griffin, "It was eating my potatoes"; and Griffin replying, "It is up to you to keep your potatoes out of my pig."

Requirement fulfilled. Now does it make more sense to fence in the potatoes or fence in the pig?
This. I never understood why people at a startup I worked at (even after it was acquired by a FAANG) gave a shit what happened after hours. There was an ops guy actually trying to slack people at 3am. At one point they tried to contact me again on the weekend, my boss decided she'd ask why I didn't seek "ownership of the problem" (one of the god awful basically fascist "workplace principles" of said FAANG). My response was basically, I don't work for a startup, it was the weekend, I don't work on weekends. I left about three weeks later, my boss also accidentally sent me a PIP offer minutes before I was going to send in my 2 weeks notice. Got a bonus $20k for leaving a shit company ;)
There is nothing here that I wouldn't mind attaching my name to.

So here is my (very?) controversial advice.

Depending on your situation, it may be bad advice. There are too many downsides to list, so please use your best judgement.

Before voting or commenting please remember this HN guideline:

>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith

...and for what it's worth, I absolutely wouldn't want to work with the person I'm describing below.

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1. Lie strategically.

When looking for a job/project, lie about what you know, what you've done, who you know, what you can do for the company, etc.

Many times you are never actually called on to prove these things.

If you are sure you'll be called on to prove them, still lie, but study them as much as possible beforehand.

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2. Do what matters for the people the matters.

Figure out what metrics count. Ignore or give away everything else.

Who controls your next promotion? Who could potentially refer you to your next job?

These are the people you need to please before anyone else. If you have time to please people who won't advance your career, don't. Look for ways to improve your relations with those who matter -- or ask them to introduce you to others like them.

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3. Extract value from everything you do.

Look at every opportunity you would normally pass on and figure out how you can use it to your advance. Maybe you can refer someone, maybe you can take it on and subcontract it out.

Never pass up any opportunity without first asking how you can extract value from it.

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4. Everything is negotiable.

Your severance package? Negotiable. Your working space? Negotiable.

Figure out what matters to the people who you interact with and use those levers to push for your desires.

The threat of a lawsuit, or an actual lawsuit, can be used in negotiation, even if the lawsuit would be unfounded.

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5. Take as much data with you as you can.

When employed, you have access to an incredible amount of valuable data, resources, and tools. Take full advance of these while employed, but also remember that you will move on from your position at some point.

Back up whatever you can without being noticed. Who knows what can come in handy in the future.

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Caveats:

Most of this is unethical. Some of it is illegal.

Understand your risk tolerance. Understand your environment.

Doing any of these can, and likely will, burn bridges. Many industries are tightly knit. People talk. Be smart.
Query languages that came after it that weren't concerned with compatibility realized this. XQuery has "for" first, which is to a first approximation FROM, and "return" last, which is like a more powerful SELECT. SQL++ and its brethren also had it this way very early on.
However there's so many applications and users that are accustomed to it the original way, that it is not usually possible to fight against the inertia.
There are also large roll-up hardwood floor protectors you can get. The one we have comes with felt backing to protect the underlying floor, and the hardwood top surface itself is sturdy enough to withstand whatever your office chair is likely to do to it.

It's just another option.
It is not surprising that creating automated reporting systems increases the number of reports. The article simply gives no way to make an informed opinion.

There are two things I would point out:
1) I would be surprisesd that the ease of communication the internet brought did not benefit to criminals
2) The article describes several problems that won't be fixed by encryption ban (e.g. the lack of means for report clearing houses) and also gives exemples of cases solved despite encryption. I would like to understand why encryption is described as the problem here.
Location: Major metro in South East US

Remote: Remote only. Open to small amounts of travel

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Go, a lot of Kubernetes experiences

Resume: Will send on request

Email: Graves138 at gmail dot com

I'm a senior SRE with a lot of leadership and platform architecture experience (10+ years). Looking to get away from any sort of production support and focus purely on writing systems software in the Kubernetes environment.
Hyperloop will be a cheaper, better option.
Using Yelp as a POI provider prevents me from completely dropping Google Maps. Even ignoring Yelp’s shitty practices, needing the Yelp app to view reviews and images is a showstopper. Apple needs to dump Yelp and go full Google here their own reviews and POI DB.
SAPM = Speculative-Access Protected Memory. Basically, a memory range can be selected to be instruction serialized.

I have this weird feeling I have seen this idea on another architecture before.
I've been bouncing around the idea of a fully decentralized end-to-end encrypted chat protocol for exactly this reason, but I've been afraid to work on it for precisely the reason this thread is being discussed. I know that if my name were attached to the project, I'd be facing all kinds of unwelcome scrutiny from the government and news agencies. I'd lose the very privacy I want to maintain by designing privacy-protecting software.
I assume you're being downvoted not because what you said os controversial - it is in the spirit of the topic - but because it is not advice at all. Its just misogyny.

"Women - make a point of branding yourselves in linkedin, communication, personal branding to leverage the advantages that are being offered, use the overcompensating in treatment of women to your advantage" - still stupid, less overtly misogynistic, at least posted in the format of an advice
A slightly more charitable view of this situation is that an optimization which was previously triggering to make the query fast suddenly no longer applied.
Developers dislike:

- Loosely estimating dates, then having management set them in stone

- Spending more time talking about things than it would take to do them ("planning")

- convincing business leaders that engineering is more than just writing code

- sitting in meetings that add little value to the team

- arguing over made up numbers for vague deliverables

- having their mistakes, miscalculations, and other normal aspects of software development enumerated and held against them, as though it was an actual problem

- having "scrum masters" come up with straw men to justify even more process

- reporting to too many non-technical managers

The last point sums most of it up though. In many orgs, Agile is used as an attempt to compensate for lack of technical leadership, as though process can obviate the need. You need some, most, or all of your management and executive team to have technical foundations, depending on how technical your product is. You wouldn't put a football coach in charge of a coal mining operation (forgive the hyperbole). The same principle applies to software.
They should just give it up and use google
Thankfully I'm not out here buying businesses of any kind. And knowing what a thing is and knowing how to spell it correctly are two different things.
Dostoevsky did publish in serials! This is related to a story. Before he finished Crime and Punishment, which was being serialized, he had to write a whole other novel in order to prevent an unscrupulous publisher from capturing the rights to all his future work. In the end he was saved by dictating The Gambler to a young woman named Anna Snitkina who was the star pupil at the local shorthand academy (shorthand was an innovation at the time). During the day, he would work on finishing Crime and Punishment while she worked on transcribing The Gambler. Then in the evenings, he would dictate the next part of The Gambler and she would get it in shorthand. They would talk about the characters too.

They finished on the last possible day. The publisher cunningly closed his office that day and ordered all his staff not to receive the manuscript, but Dostoevsky went to the local police station, handed it in, and got a receipt. Thus his career was rescued. And then he and Anna got married.

It's fitting that this high-stakes drama produced The Gambler (a great short book btw), since Dostoevsky had gotten into it in the first place because of his gambling addiction. The marriage was a long and happy one and his life stabilized after that. His books maybe got a tad less exciting though.

Joseph Frank's biography is the best English source but he spends too many pages on this for a Google Books link to be useful. This one works though: https://books.google.com/books?id=1C1K-BnFGFIC&pg=PA51&dq=do...

Re serials: it's mind blowing that so many great masterpieces of the novel were written and published that way, and yet are so coherent, Dickens included. How on earth did they do it?
Elon Musk Hired a Convicted Felon to Investigate Cave Rescuer Who's Suing Him
Location: Macedonia
Remote: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavel-nichoski-39052b36/
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Django, Linux, Javascript
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavel-nichoski-39052b36/
Email: nichoski@gmail.com
While labor camps (eg Solovki) do predate the Communist era, their scale was massively expanded by the Soviets -- we're talking of scaling up from thousands of people to millions. Solzhenitsyn explores this in detail in the Gulag Archipelago.

That said, for much of the Imperial period, crimes were punished not by banishment, but through mutilation (gouging eyes, cutting off tongues and hands, etc) and execution.
Saved by the Shell: Reconstructing Command-Line Activity on macOS
@dang, would you be able to delete this? I reposted with better formatting but didn't realize that new accounts cannot delete comments either!
If the company's one way of making it to the next payroll/ funding round is to fire you, they will. Don't be more loyal to the company than they are to you. Learn to be a mercenary when it comes to salary talks in reviews.
BBEdit 13 arrives, with new grep features and dark mode support
Those don't help with the forward blind spots (i.e. the A pillar).
I agree with 1 - 4, at least in part, but 5...

>Back up whatever you can without being noticed. Who knows what can come in handy in the future.

Definitely not worth the risk. What value does the data even have to me?

Code? I can get the smaller bits on stack overflow. Similar enough large projects can be found on GitHub or similar.

User data? Worthless. The bits that could be used for money are illegal enough that they would never pay off using in such a manner.

What little value you can extract from the data does not outweigh the career ending risks.
> Did you know that AAA pays them $10MM/yr to have that access? It is so strange to me.

The drivers are the AAA customers and AAA feels they can bring value to their customers by providing this service. Hopefully DMV uses this money to improve their own service times.
I was going to say that you need to use the IO::Handle module to be able to use the autoflush method, but apparently this no longer necessary with modern Perl.

From https://metacpan.org/pod/perl5120delta#Other-potentially-inc... :

> Filehandles are now always blessed into IO::File.

> The previous behaviour was to bless Filehandles into FileHandle (an empty proxy class) if it was loaded into memory and otherwise to bless them into IO::Handle.
This is a far gentler introduction, and the rest of the blog is pretty good too:
https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2016/5/1/a-guide-to-bayesi...

Edit: this is a different take on the subject but an enjoyable and accessible read too:
http://mbmlbook.com/toc.html
I think we would do well to explain to our Chinese friends what we mean by the communist party taking credit for the economic success of China. For one, the latest and most pronounced grown spurt of the last ~20 years coincides with the admission of China to the wto, under the support of the USA, with the explicit understanding that china would liberalize it's economy and in general, play fairly. Seeing this exchange as a zero sum game has benefited china even more in the short term at the detriment of others, although Western naivete has been changing.
Here is the thread about the same/similar topic from a different source six days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21086866 .
> I'm not even sure I'm safe writing it here.

Yep. I'm pretty sure you just torpedoed any hope you may have had at a political career.
This was previously covered by a well-known post by the OP:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat

The necessary link between aerial imagery and on-ground navigation by mobile phone is a 3d map.

I'd like to know where the front entrance is vs. the side entrance, is there a ramp vs. stairs, are these two buildings connected or not, is there a skyway, is there a penthouse on the roof, is there a garage behind the main house, etc.
>the article mentions homeless people not going to the media (avoiding leaks), not being vulnerable.

I guess...I didn't think calling the homeless a vulnerable population was controversial? The text in article specifically mentions that the people working with them described them as ignorant and purposely mis-informing them about the nature of the trial. Are you saying you're ok with companies misleading people as long as those people are unlikely to realize they are mislead?

>Just because you have a fear of Google doesn't mean the whole world does

As I said in my post, I don't think there would be anything wrong with collecting that data on the street and happening to get homeless folks because they're around. It's the misleading and targeting that bothered me. Are you sure I'm the one who's letting my feelings get the best of me?
This is somewhat intentional I think to guide you toward buying Enterprise edition, which since 11G includes plan baselines ( see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28274/optpl... ) - which allows you to lock a SQL queryID to a specific plan.
For most people the issue is not high speed train but rather suburban and inner city transportation. For 1k km we can take a flight, but there is a lot to be done for 100km radius type of transportation and that's what we should focus on.
I'm not sure if you mean that the murder was mentioned without reason or if Chris was the victim of a murder without reason. I think it's a bit unclear in the writing style (at least it was to me) that the book is a real story, about a real experience: and so it was terribly sad but (IMO) necessary to mention. Pirsig wrote about an important journey he took with his son and closed it with a mention of the end of Chris' life [0].

To anyone reading this thread, I also recommend Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals [1] by the same author. It's set some time after Zen, as the author struggles with the exact topic of the OP (the fame of the book and the challenges against his "Metaphysics of Quality" [2] that he introduces in Zen). He expands on the idea a bit more and goes into some unclear details from Zen. I thought it was an excellent book, maybe even better than the first.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig#Personal_life

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Lila-Inquiry-Robert-M-Pirsig/dp/05532...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsig%27s_Metaphysics_of_Qual...
3D structures are great when you’re walking around a city a trying to find a specific building, because you can now see what it looks like.
Wow this whole thing is insane. First that Musk apparently doesn't realise that an expert diver might want to live in Thailand not because he's a sex tourist, but because Thailand has really good diving (has Musk been to England?), but secondly because Musk apparently got scammed by someone emailing him directly! Pretty mind-blowing to me that he even saw that email. And then fell for it!
Do you regularly run into child porn on the internet? I don't.

I don't see those kids getting hurt any further unless they happen to be the sort of people that go out of their way to seek out child abuse material. It's hard to imagine anyone ever accidentally running into images of themselves being abused. You can't possibly be re-victimized if you don't know.

I don't mean to sound heartless, obviously these are horrific acts which hurt people deeply. I simply don't think banning encryption or otherwise eroding our rights to go after distributors and consumers is really going to have much practical effect on how the victims end up feeling.

E: HN doesn't let me reply to selectodude below

>the mere knowledge that pictures of you being abused on the internet is extraordinarily difficult to deal with

I absolutely agree with this. I just know that nobody can ever go tell the victim that now those pictures are forever gone off the internet.
You can even think about the joins "imperatively".

JOINs are imperative.
Even easier to just not worry about getting a warrant.
There are plenty of idiots involved in hiring, that's certainly true. But I was recently (for the first time in my life) had to hire a lot of new people for my team, and I noticed I hire people on probably very different traits than some recruiters and managers do. I don't like candidates who just give socially acceptable answers, I do like candidates who give creative answers, who are vocal, opinionated, weird, outside the box and against the current. And I'm well aware people sometimes get fired for really stupid reasons. I doubt I'm the only one.
There's enough conflicting information about the suicide that that particular conspiracy theory is going to have legs for a long time to come.
Some manufactures keep great visibility. My Subaru has very narrow A pillars and good blind spot visibility. I can adjust my mirrors to get rid of almost all blind spots on my Impreza.
Common-place books as compendia of book excerpts was a tradition going back to classical times.[1] During the Renaissance, when people began to elevate observation over historical authority, personal notebooks shifted from being collections of quotes to what we now think of as research journals.[2]

John Locke was an obsessive recorder of all manner of observations in notebooks. He emphasized recording spontaneous thoughts and putting complex ideas on paper to facilitate reasoning about them. He was one of the main promoters of the modernist reliance on evidence and argument rather than citation of authorities.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Know-Scholarly-Information/d...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Notebooks-English-Virtuosi-Modern-Sci...
So Google Street View is chopped liver? Flat gray 3D representations don't seem to answer those questions as well as just tooling around the building in Google Street View.
>because by then it was well established that white people shouldn't enslave, or attach to land, other white people.

Well, you'd be surprised. A large part of Europe (Germany, Austria, etc) halted serfdom only a few decades before Russia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom#Dates_of_emancipation_...
Well, I guess we know now that law enforcement reads our messages whenever they want.
Intel may not pay like the FAANGs but I don't think they're terrible to work at like you said. My first job out of college (15 years ago) was at Intel (Folsom) and it was actually relatively peaceful and nice. I left after 2 years because I wanted to chase the silicon valley startup dreams at the time (which was a right move for me at the time I think, and looking at the outcome/my past 13 years, I'd say it was a good decision), but I also could've stayed -- some of my coworkers from back then are currently still at Intel and happy. Maybe your local office has specific issues?
> (I really want to find a more accurate way of phrasing this than “sql queries happen/run in this order” but I haven’t figured it out yet)

Maybe "Order of Operations"? Similar to order of operations in math where you do (), then * and /, then + and -, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations
This is one of the things MS Entity Framework gets right - it enforces the "start with FROM". It actually ends with SELECT, which makes so much more sense.

Seriously, between navigational properties, group-with-children, EF to me hammers home how bad SQL is. EF is a square peg in a round hole but it does a great job at makign some trivial improvements over SQL, while still remaining true to the principles of relational databases.

Of course, the framework is a hairy mess for other reasons (lazy loading, untranslateable methods, ugly generated queries) but the alternative to SQL it presents is lovely.