skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is some of this down to really agreeable shareholders? My layperson's understanding is that there's been a long term trend where more shares are through index and other passive funds, and that these rarely put any pressure on management. Is it possible to have a fund which is passive in the sense of not trying to pick and predict stuff, but is "activist" in the sense of pressuring management based on some general good governance principles?
I don't accept that; it's why I will never subscribe to the NYT.
Or the concrete develops cracks, allowing water into the steel reinforcement, which expands, further cracking the concrete until it collapses. Like modern bridges.
Being financially independent is a choice.
Q. Why does 90% of human society work the way it does?

A. Because that's the way we've always done it.

I can't speak for SV companies, but my experience of data is that it can just as easily rationalize preconceptions as be used to inform decision-making. Somebody has to interpret that data, after all.
Yes, I am sure it's a design principle. Which is not to say that some aspects will change. E.g. I'm in favour of some of the (more minimal) suggestions here: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1669
If you’re already typing correctly, you’re relying on muscle memory. Adding some layers into the mix isn’t too much of a leap. I would argue that a good split keyboard is much more useful than a standard keyboard; better positioning for ergonomics or desk space, easily stowed when not in use, truly programmable (firmware not software) that works between systems with little or no setup and a keymap that works for the user instead of against.

I like having all my often used keys in the home row. I don’t have to move my hands to use arrow keys because I use vim bindings on a layer. Hyphen,underscore, grave and tilde are on the home row, too. I can program a key to be a combination of key presses, too. My workflow is much improved using my own custom keymap and keyboard.
>You're aware Netflix also applies data insights to decide what to make?

Of course I give something thumbs up or down depending on if I liked it - why would you assume I don't know what they do with that?

But they've still made some barely watchable crap, too, in spite of themselves, so I do have to question if rating things even matters.
I only meant the top ones. There's a big discontinuity in the data and this mistake is more logical than seeing $3m equity grants that no other site can cross validate.
Yes. There is usually a base retention grant every year, which is roughly one quarter of a new hire grant, with a 4 year vest.

Then there are tiers of additional performance grants on top of the retention grant, which can be significant, perhaps as much or more as an entire new hire grant.

In a well-designed RSU grant system, employees basically end up on an RSU vesting treadmill that always has that carrot on a stick in front of them. The golden handcuffs to keep them around.

Specifics vary by company, but that's the template most start from.
> serving 375Gb/s of TLS encrypted customer video traffic with just 32 cores.

How does that even work? The fastest system RAM you can get that I know of is DDR4-5000, which transfers at 40 GB/s (320 Gb/s). How can you encrypt and send data faster than your memory can even transfer it to the CPU? Or is there something I'm misunderstanding?
Are these salaries unique to research scientist in AI only, or do FAANGs pay these type of salaries for research scientist outside of AI in those same pay grades?
He wasn't writing for you, he was obviously writing for people familiar with these algorithms.
Here is the actual explanation by Reed Hastings: (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/08/netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-on...)

OP's Dice link is blogspam.
Introduce the project- nay, the organization-wide mangling scheme! Every symbol is now required to have the library's version name in its name, may as well throw in some namespaces there too. Then maintain some sort of metainfo of what part is requiring what versions, and what project is providing what versions, and... and well, at this stage you're kinda reinventing the package management, but at least you don't need a custom linker, which is a good thing, right?
I'm not scaring anyone away, but your drama is.

After researching the proper dosage of Vitamin D, I purchased the correct dosage, and not one that would lead to overdosing, and those dosages are absolutely available and people often just buy whatever the maximum is even if they don't understand the implications of using it.
I am mostly comparing the experience ScummVM offers for a text game to what something like Lectrote offers: a window sitting in your operating system, with text rendered at the native resolution of your screen by the OS's text system, versus a bunch of text routines spewing a 1-bit unantialiased font directly into an unresizable frame-buffer designed around upscaling graphical games of the nineties to modern screens.

For instance, here is the first screenful of Plotkin's So Far in ScummVM 2.2.0 and Lectrote 1.3.4: https://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2020/09/So-...
DFW? David Foster Wallace? Division of Fish and Wildlife? Or the airport?
There are real problems here. But I can't see past the author's terrible personal habits that magnify every single one of them.

Nobody forced them to:
- start their day by reviewing COVID numbers
- allow push-notifications from "news" apps
- listen to NPR while showering
- generally allow social media to dictate their mood/schedule

All of these habits are as easy to change as they are damaging.

Edit to add: In no way did I mean to belittle those who are afflicted by social media / news addiction. It's a very real problem, and such people deserve help and guidance to lessen their suffering.
Every blog? That's silly. People are allowed to have conversations about niche topics that you are not familiar with. You aren't the audience of every blog.
You might try https://www.latterdaysaintjobs.org/ers/ct/?lang=eng . I believe membership is not required. If you do, I'm interested in how it goes (email available via my contact info in listed web site footer). Edit: they have a bunch of free services; probably everything there is free, including some materials on starting a business, if memory serves.

ps: I have also collected a list of possible freelance job sites, but you might find some interesting content (and more current, w/ useful comments from others) by searching HN for things like remote, freelance, hiring, etc.

pps: for future/generality: avoiding debt and having 3-6 months of emergency savings, etc., not burning bridges, being honest and treating others the way one would want to be treated, go a very long way for times like this. I'm studying Rust; hoping that will be useful in my future also.

All the best outcomes to you!
Best part IMO is the notion of LARPing your job on Slack, which is a reference to this 2015 piece

https://www.theawl.com/2015/04/are-you-just-larping-your-job...
Agreed. I read it as a criticism of VC-funded, growth-focused, investor driven companies and I believe the criticism is totally valid in that lens.
its usually a complement when describing a poet or writer. Meaning precise and meaningful.

such as a pithy Vonnegut quote.
I use fzf in my terminal to search my history.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Oh... I double checked and through it said they were legit and came from Germany.

I stand corrected lol

How is that even allowed? 18,000 reviews? They honestly look completely legit.
This is the complexity introduced when applying static types to a vanilla JS codebase, imo. It's easy to get crazy with types in vanilla JS. Adding Typescript forces you to resolve the different types explicitly and it can get hairy.

What this really demonstrates to me is the difference between starting with TS vs migrating to it. Code that has to think about the types the first time it is being built is going to be better structured, on average, than purely dynamic code.
Good luck.

I've quit taking steps. I'm tired of getting screwed so now I'm coasting.
It is depressing that people are happy to just throw anecdotal evidence around without even defining what metric they multiply by 10x or 100x.

There is some literature on it. For example, this blog post [0] contains some references.

I have only read Peopleware. It says 10x is the difference from worst to best in terms of time and number of defects across a few hundred programmers. Also interesting: Within the same organization, there was only a difference of 30%. This means the environment is much more important than the skill, experience, or personality of a programmer.

I cannot find any studies after 2000. Most of the data is even older. The Peopleware data is from Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, and C.

[0] https://www.construx.com/blog/productivity-variations-among-...
There is source code provided so it can be figured out. I suspect that it favours consensus by progressively hiding comments that are divisive (i.e. a large number of both up and down votes) and increasing the number of statements that get large numbers of up votes but relatively few down votes.
Everything with a lithium ion battery is a potential fire hazard.
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All this is horrible incidental complexity stemming from absolute madhouse insane splitting and substitution rules in shell languages.

Splitting on spaces, expanding asterisks, shell scripting is a minefield. You would basically never want any splitting to happen. Applications like reading a CSV by splitting using IFS are dirty hacks, that break with the slightest additional file parsing complexity (escapes, quoting etc).

In Python you can just do `os.listdir('.')` and it will actually do what you want. No 5 layers of "oh, actually" and "yes, but what if", which inevitably happen in threads discussing the simplest shell operations. It just works as intended. If you only want the files and not the directories, you can do `filter(os.path.isfile, os.listdir('.'))`.

There is no reason to use shell scripts for anything more complex than a few lines or for one-off interactive work.
Most of the games ScummVM supports are abandonware at this point, so there's no legal way to buy them apart from digging up used copies. Otherwise, as with most abandonware, they can be found floating around the internet.
We're trying to solve the salary sharing problem more generally with https://peerwyse.com by having you submit estimates of the salaries of your LinkedIn connections and then sharing back the aggregated view.

If you bring a few colleagues from the same locality / industry your estimates of mutual connections can be astonishingly insightful without anyone needing to break the taboo of revealing their own compensation information.
>Ever hear of a drug addict becoming so desperate that they start manufacturing their own drugs for personal use? Aside from growing pot, which I wouldn't call "manufacturing", not once have I ever heard of this happening. If it's so "not hard", why doesn't this happen?

Shake and bake meth is hardly uncommon.
Well, it isn't a socialist plan. That would be more like obligating the employees to all be stockholders proportional to the number of employees in the company; but, nice try :)
GP's comment outlines a pretty solid driver for the CG taxes to be driven lower than dividend rates, so yeah, it does address it.

If capital gains rates were required to be equal to the rates on dividends, the incentive toward buybacks and other earnings bypass measures would go away.
This seems like old EPROM tech where (UV) light would erase the chip: https://hackaday.com/2018/01/17/improvising-an-eprom-eraser/ -- Credit Card reader terminals had these chips inside of them so upon disassembly, it'd delete the encryption keys inside of the machine.

They also had a battery that if it ran out, would wipe temporary keys.

This seems like similar tech.
> "...shares are constantly being diluted by stock options granted to corporate executives, which were given a tax preference in 1981."

1. remove these tax preferences.

if we wanted to retain some of the incentive for startups, we could phase out the tax benefits based on the valuation of the company at time of grant. so a grant of stock options for a $1MM startup might grant you a tax preference, but not for a (mid-sized) $100MM company. (however, phase-outs need to be continuous functions to remove the gaming potential, and politicians hate that.)

2. remove the tax advantage of debt

3. remove carry-forward/-back losses

4. remove the separate capital gains/carried interest rates and all related exemptions (like 409's)

5. remove accelerated depreciation/amortization

and more. in short, remove tax loopholes, thereby dramatically simplifying the tax code.
Seems like a condensed version of The Gervais Principle:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

This should be required reading for anyone entering corporate America.
Yeah, I don't currently have any plans to release the code unfortunately. But in short it's a scenegraph library written in typescript plus a sprawling collection of algorithms in various states of completion. The scenegraph can be rendered to an SVG string and since the library does not depend on any browser specific APIs it can be run both in node.js and in a browser. For interactive browser based experimentation I use Vue.js for GUI stuff.
Although it works on desktop Safari, there's no way to tell that you should be able to hover over it.
Tactile, not tactical.

Mechanical keyboard users I've known all became obsessed with them and never stayed with the same model for long, rendering their longevity irrelevant.
> IIRC, the claim was the cup did not indicate the contents were hot, so now all such cups do

The claim was that the coffee itself was too hot, hotter than served at other establishments. Hot enough to give her huge third-degree burns across both her legs which required skin grafts and two years of further medical treatment. I've seen the photos—they're horrific.
I believe in you.
They have very good industry-insider consultants for the show. Plus, Mike Judge was a Silicon Valley engineer a long time ago, so I'm sure his experience gives him some insight into how to interpret the consultants and portray the modern incarnation.
What was the outcome? Did the convoluted project get abandoned?
> I think that’s a jump to conclusions that is illogical it does not follow from the priors.

You’re misreading that line. It’s: “This explains why TikTok succeeds, and why it is an app the United States ought to be concerned about. <continue reading post to find out why>”. The author subsequently explains why.

You mention that you get Fact A and Fact B. Fact C isn’t, “Therefore, TikTok should be banned”. Fact C, according to that post, is that China has begun ideological warfare. For supporters of a ban, Fact D then, is “The US should respond with defensive manoeuvres”. A ban is a defensive move. Nobody’s advocating for an offensive counter-attack (by running misinformation campaigns on their own social media platforms for instance). It’s perfectly reasonable to defend when under attack from a foreign entity.

Whether you think the US is under attack is the real question. But you said you agree with Fact B, so you agree that the possibility for China to use TikTok as a tool for ideological warfare is definitely there. The authors argument is that, combined with the evidence we’ve seen so far (censorship on domestic platforms, censorship on foreign platforms), maybe the US should be taking China’s own words on the matter more seriously.
Why not Julia?

See:
https://genieframework.com
https://github.com/JuliaWeb/Mux.jl
https://github.com/JuliaGizmos/WebIO.jl
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Re: not storing locally, yes, hence my first comment on relying on a 3rd party. It depends on what is your intended use, given Notion doesn't have e2e encryption yet.

Re: proprietary, it exports natively in Markdown (including a zip with all images), or pdf, or html. It's not perfect (there's a bug when exporting some LaTeX formulas in .md), but for the most part it works well.
That's the thing about FIRE. It is always a guy in his late 30s with 2 kids and a big house in a metro city trying to sell FIRE to new grads.

IMO, fire becomes impossible the second you have kids. Because all parents I know have some kind of super natural urge to provide better for their children. A house in a better school district, university education and the knowledge that they can have more if they work more, will inevitably stop people from making that early exit they so yearn for.

This becomes even more evident once you get used to roaming in 'high achieving' circles, because the second you RE, you and your children get pushed to the bottom of that social structure (in terms of material possessions)

FIRE also has a wierd hypocrisy to it. It advocates for avoiding life style creep. But, if you avoid lifestyle creep then you can pursue any of the things you would have after retirement as a primary source of income anyways. Especially if you don't expect to take on fresh debt. (new house, new car etc)

That being said, I live a FIRE esque lifestyle too. Because the core tenents make sense even without wanting to FIRE. But, every tech guy in their 20s seems to want to Fire, but I haven't met a single person in their 40s that actually has.
Given that both Apple and Google charge the same 30% commission, I wonder if they did some kind of A/B test to see which company would give them more clicks when used in the title.
> But I can't see past the author's terrible personal habits that magnify every single one of them.

Keep in mind that this may or may not be an accurate reflection of the author's personal habits. We have no indications that this is true, that each one of these actions is not exaggerated, or that they even happened in the same day.

Or even, more likely, that these are actually the habits of a fictional person that's trying to represent a huge fraction of the population. It could even be a form of criticism.

We do know that there are people sharing similar routines.
Anyone wanting more info on CRDTs can check out the index I'm maintaining at https://github.com/alangibson/awesome-crdt
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I'm not perfectly understanding of such legalities, so correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't this be infringing on scraping territory?
Didn't read much beyond the title and opening paragraph, but I'll just throw out there: for me, work is most definitely not an inescapable hellhole. I enjoy my job very much, and feel very fortunate that I found a job that I like.

Most tech professionals are in the extremely enviable position that if they hate their job, they have the opportunity to switch. I have been in jobs in the past where I dreaded going to work every day. In hindsight, the fault was my own; there is no reason I should have stayed in a job that was a bad fit for me as long as I did. I realize, and am grateful, that I can say this when many workers don't have this luxury, but also, many DO have this luxury and don't take advantage of it, or they're not willing to realize the problem is with specific things within their control to fix.
Yes, lol. They had to opt in to every one of those things.
Not explaining yourself is also a choice.
The thumbs up/down is just one signal among many. They know in aggregate what people watch, how much of a movie/episode they watched, the kinds of devices they watched on, how much binging/pausing they did, when and where they watched it...

> they've still made some barely watchable crap, too

To you. That crap was undoubtedly entertaining to someone. Not to mention a 100% hit rate is nearly impossible in the creative biz.
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Goddamn, thats fun! I didn't know this was a thing.
That's the goal of my project: PredictSalary (https://predictsalary.com)

The goal of my project is to predict the salary range from job opportunities (and Linkedin profiles in the future) using Deep Learning method (and ad-hoc rules). My plan is to cover countries outside US as well.
After 3 years, I heartily recommend the Advantage2. Using it is simply more fun. I use mine with a trackpad sitting in the space between the two wells.

Creating those wells is, apparently, a tough engineering challenge, which is why so few commercially available keyboards have them, but they are what makes it so comfortable and effective. I consider the flat split keyboards to be pointless.
Completely agree - hence why I said _usually_. Another example of irrevocable harm is when ML algorithms dictate some medical treatment or social program.

But, _usually_, it's easier to reverse some changed-data somewhere than it is to reverse an actual change-of-state in the physical world. At least, the inherent effort required to do so is less - but policies or obfuscation may make it harder.
Maybe for the top 10% (maybe even less) of workers.
Thanks!

Okay, that seems to make it worse then. Because I can see that this post is flagged, but since it's not dead, I cannot help balance out the flagging. Only after it's completely dead can anyone try to resurrect it? Seems... unbalanced. But hey, overall the site works better than most, so okay.
My partner works directly with Covid positive patients. N95 mask (for staff and patient), full face shield, gloves, alcohol and that is about as good as it gets here. Since extra precautions were implemented I haven't heard of staff getting sick - there were a few cases when it all started.

The clinic has not issued any further restrictions on the personal lives of staff.
I appreciate the transparency of the data collection. I go to Levels for my first look over the Glassdoor’s of the world because I can actually trust the provenance of the data.
My teacher managed to get our entire school of over 3,200 kids to take an intro CS class that used Racket and NetLogo. I still think that's the most insane, brilliant accomplishment. He managed to get everybody in this school to learn Lisp. Of course a lot of people found it awful and boring and confusing, but it's still a mad genius accomplishment.

I'm skeptical of teaching CS to kids because I'm not sure we know how to teach it to college students. As far as I can tell, we have a strict divide between people who can write code and people who can breathe code. And the people who breathe code rarely, if ever, learn from their courses as much as from themselves.

I suppose exposing more kids earlier will get them to start teaching themselves, but perhaps we can do it outside of a classroom format. I'm imagining a more free system where kids can explore a variety of activities, some of which are programming influenced. Like a set chunk of computer time with some programming options, some writing options, some film options, etc. Digital Montessori, so to speak.
I use a kinesis advantage. For the first one, that's a perfectly valid concern. These are not small keyboards and they are not easy to carry around. However, there are many split keyboards that are open source that are very compact and would be easy to transport between work and home and anywhere else.

The second fear for kinesis at least is largely unwarranted as the company has been around for nearly 30 years [1]. For something like the ultimate hacking keyboard, its future is less certain. Sticking to an open source keyboard where you can order your own PCBs is probably the most reliable in terms of longevity.

[1] https://kinesis-ergo.com/about-kinesis/
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