skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just some anecdata, I’m in ml not in faang and make more than the top end of the survey in the OP.

If I were to give some guidance, I’d suggest skipping on faang as they top out where they top out, and go downstream to smaller public companies who are growing and where you can deliver real value. Companies like snapchat doubled in 1 year, square doubled in 1 year, etc etc. If you’re already joining a trillion dollar company you need to enter as a leader to earn the top end.

You’ll never see these stats because 1) you don’t gain anything from sharing and 2) it’s easy to find who you are at smaller companies.
I'm not entirely sure what the best way to pay anybody is, but I definitely think that `maxWage = minWage * 10` or something similar should be applied or even codified in law.

500k as a programmer in a tech company that's doing well sounds like justified compensation. They do write the product after all. I does make me question if there are any juniors present in that company and what kind of salary it is they have. Having a colleague that earns 5x as much with maybe 10x the experience is still... quite bizarre to me. Would that kind of a progression even be possible from within the company?
Ease of adaption may depend on users age. No point to argue about this imho
How do you verify if it’s correct?
Re: SEC, Brokerages ask if you’re related to an officer/director/10%+ owner of a publicly-traded company when you open an account. I don’t think they actively monitor these people, but they’ll be looked at if there’s unusual trading activity.

Usually what happens in these cases is accounts with no/little activity suddenly have unusual options trading activity, like buying way OTM weekly calls that always profit. These transactions get flagged and reviewed and if they notice a pattern with names or something, it’s not that hard for them to put the pieces together.
Too bad Matt Levine is out, I'm sure he would have a good time talking about just how terrible an idea this was. I assume these fools went with the classic "buy a shit ton of illiquid and thinly traded OTM options" route.
On-Device AI Optimization – Leveraging Driving Data to Gain an Edge
1.4M in profits? Doesn't that seem like chump change? Like if you had insider information couldn't you buy options a make much more? Assuming your info was guaranteed to play out predictably. And if it wasn't is it really any better than general speculation?
Police don't like to be spied upon.
Being corrupt without power goes unnoticed.
As alleged, the family reaped illicit profits of approximately $1.4 million from their unlawful trading in Amazon securities.

Did anyone really need insider information to know Amazon stock was going to rise?

Although $1.4 million is life changing amount of money, I feel like for these people who were already being generously compensated in Amazon stock, it probably wasn't worth the risk, especially given the quote below.

Laksha Bohra, the SEC’s civil complaint alleged, ignored numerous reminders from Amazon not to divulge confidential financial information or to illegally trade in the company’s securities based on what she knew about the company’s financial position — even after a former colleague pleaded guilty to insider trading in 2017, earning him six months in prison. [1]

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/feds-charge-sea...
Newfound brain structure for birds challenges assumptions on animal cognition
Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe Formula
An Introduction to Ansible Roles
Hi, this is part 2 in my Ansible series for beginners.
Some of their style guides are a bit... particular to their situation, but this one I absolutely agree with.

There are so many pitfalls, so many weird interactions with pipes and error conditions in subprocesses, signals(!), etc. etc. that it can be hard to write even "bail as soon as ANYTHING goes wrong" logic.

(And that's not even accounting for things like "rm -rf $FOO/" going wrong. The shell fully embraced Stringly Typed Programming and this is the inevitable result.)

I have recently learned of linters and such for bash/sh scripts, but that's a bandaid at best.
It is funny that high management is never considered to be doing illegal insider trading (except for obvious missteps), but they're the ones responsible for capital allocation, stock/option grants, and all kinds of decisions that will impact financial results in the next quarter.
They're not worried about competition in the video captioning market because they're not a video captioning company. They're probably losing money on the feature and are happy to offload the work to someone else.
> Did anyone really need insider information to know Amazon stock was going to rise?

Did you invest? Did everyone you know invest? Did you time it as well as the alleged offender?
What's the point in the system censoring these words in the subtitles, if the words are uncensored in the source audio?
The author, Anne Helen Petersen, has published a book, Can't Even, on Millennial burnout. I ran across this from a recent NPR interview:

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/19/914715440/helen-peterson-talk...

She's been making the rounds on podcasts, listening to a few of the longer-form interviews gives some depth to the story.

This specific article may not be the best introduction, though it definitely illustrates one element of the problem.

As with many essay-to-book expansions, there's aa succinct poetry to the original piece:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/mille...

Discussed at the time on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18832627
Not me and my team...
Would it actually change our understanding?

We know that if we apply an energy gradient through a soup of ammonia, methane, and water vapour, we get the fundamental building blocks of Earth life.

If we discovered these same blocks on another planet, that has all of these pre-conditions, what would it tell us?
Your best developers are your competitor's worst. It easier to destroy than to build!
$1.4MM that's all they could eke out of it, pitiful performance.
Or just plain zod
Until it gets too hot and they have to ironically shut down the plants during heat waves.
They can't catch you unless you're a total idiot. Buying a bunch of short dated OTM options that no one else even wants using an account that rarely trades options was probably the dead giveaway.
I've seen it at some Asian supermarkets in my area (suburban Maryland). Remarkably, they mostly seem to sell the whole fruit, which seems rather ambitious.

Trader Joe's sells it in cans, though I don't know if you'd like it that way.
This looks worse than zoom
Lectrote works on top of Chromium/Electron and thus leaves a lot to be desired. At least for macOS, there's no reason to compromise in this way when there exist interpreters that take full advantage of the system.

Spatterlight is a native Cocoa application with superior typography, better performance and orders of magnitude less bloat:

http://ccxvii.net/spatterlight/

And for Magnetic Scrolls games, there's the amazing magnetiX:

http://maczentrisch.de/magnetiX/
>This is just not true, the master build is literally the first thing you see on the download page.

"Literally the first thing" that I see on the download page is:

>Releases

>You can also [install Zig from a package manager.](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Install-Zig-from-a-Packa...)

Going by the AUR package script and the table in the wiki itself, those instructions will install 0.6.0. This is also what gravitas said in the OP of this thread.

Anyway, I see ziglearn.org has now been fixed to make it clear, with https://github.com/Sobeston/ziglearn/commit/10b14426e26ffcdb... , so all's well now.
Simple solution: don't force self isolation. If someone goes to a hospital where staff have been in contact with COVID, then they should take some steps to self isolate. That doesn't mean medical workers needs to stop work.
Acoustic Panel
And, of course, Fabrice Bellard found a faster version of this formula in his copious spare time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellard%27s_formula
Ah, the Bohra family was smart, you see. If they only traded out-of-the-money options, and only in “small” amounts, the SEC computers (which have nothing better to do all day...) will never catch on!
If it's well written, it can do a better job than a badly written tool in any other language.
State of the art non EUV photo lithography uses light with a 193 nm wavelength. 20nm is significantly below that which would imply usage of highly advanced lithography techniques like multiple patterning. A chip manufactured with a 20nm resolution would involve dozens of masks which were created through electron-beam lithography. Just the mask set alone would cost millions of dollars.

The only hobbyist that I am aware of used a pretty nifty mask less technique but the resolution doesn't come close at all. I think you just mixed up your units.
> Because you don't get to stick around if you abuse people to the extent described in the article.

I feel like you must have worked hard to not give credence to things you've heard from folks about their jobs, Phds, etc.a

Or perhaps not known many people who've been in a toxic work situation.

But grad school has been talked about as a toxic nightmare for like a decade now ...
https://status.office365.com/ actually has a public status message now, since admins can't log in.

https://portal.office.com/servicestatus is starting to get populated.
If I can provide some guidance, there is no upside to share your data when you’re at a small company because it’s really easy to find who you are. If there is a way to obscure the company, for example, generalize to market cap or size ($1-3b mkt cap company with 2500-5000 employees) and bucket that way.
This kills me. I used to work at a fast-growing startup where recruiting could never keep up with headcount, but most projects never shipped. Managers shuffled around, accumulating direct reports, then ascended to higher levels of managing and eventually jumped organizations.

Ironically most people didn't want to be managers. Unless you made it to the Director level the salary raises were dwarfed by the stock grants. It was way more stress and visibility to play the game than to float around on nebulously defined projects and spend 4 years vesting
Geological formations suitable for storage of hydrogen are quite widespread. They're basically identical to the formations that are already used to store natural gas.
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Very interesting observation. Large number of short term OTM options are flagged when they become in-money.
As someone with a hearing disability, crowdsourced captions are a godsend for me, and I have never once seen spam or abuse in them.

Most videos I watch are on niche and technical topics and the auto generated captions do a remarkably poor job, so I will miss this feature very much. RIP.
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> I suspect however, that the effect of not quite perfect burn schedule and burn intensity of the propellant has a much greater effect.

This is the real answer right here. Rockets have all sorts of uncertainties in them. You have the measurement uncertainty in exact orientation and the measurement uncertainty in the acceleration and thus total thrust delivered, all on top of the physical uncertainty in exactly how powerfully your engine is going to burn, and for how long. Remember, there are physical valves that need to open and close to control propellant flow, and there are chaotic perturbations in the conditions inside the combustion chamber. You simply cannot remotely achieve a perfect delta-v in a perfectly specified direction; there are uncertainties on both.
So, I generally like APFS, especially because I can have a case-sensitive volume for git repositories without stealing space from the root volume. However, has Apple fixed the issue where filling up the hard drive makes it impossible to delete files to free up some space?
How the IRS was gutted (2018)
If it really is widely known that a stock will definitely rise at some point in the future, that very quickly gets priced into the stock price now. It goes up gradually as confidence that it will go up goes up.
Or if you need a chemical energy store with very low $/kWh of storage capacity, for long term or rarely used storage. There, the efficiency penalty is much less important than it would be for rapidly cycling diurnal storage.
It seemed like they were very public with the brokerage about how the amazon employee controlled his family's brokerage accounts to make amazon trades.
If anyone is interested in Type systems and what's a type, I highly recommend watching the first 20 mins of Sean Parent's presentation:

https://youtu.be/sWgDk-o-6ZE

It will change the way you think about types after this.
It is wonderful to see so much enthusiasm about this technology. I have been working on CRDTs since 2012 and it has been quite a ride.

For those looking for more information, have a look at the information collected at http://crdt.tech/ (Disclaimer: I am involved, though Martin did the bulk load of the work.)

If you are into CRDTs for collaborative gaming, we are looking for partners and investors: https://concordant.io (Disclaimer: I am technical advisor in its team.)
Then let me get ahead of it for you: the future from now is going to be even stupider. I know that hardly seems possible, but trust me, it's even worse than you imagine.
The context of my statement/question was definitely "given the precision that can be achieved with available precision" and not with an arbitrary imprecise constant in the calculations. As you say, the mechanical aspect of the launch and transfer orbit insertion is going to be several orders of magnitude more imprecise than the mathematical goal - that is what the mid-course corrections are for (aka the difference between theory and reality)
Anyone who has tried to keep their culture plates sterile in a lab will probably appreciate panspermia more than regular people. I'll personally put all my money into life being found at least fossilized not just in Mars but in europa and anywhere with liquid water, and sharing the same fundamental dna-protein-genetic code makeup as us (but probably little else). The way I see it, once life forms on one planet, it probably starts spreading seeds on a cosmic scale quite promiscuously. The speed at which life arose in earth as soon as conditions were right suggests that there's always microbes floating into the planet ready to take advantage.

This also would mean that there's no opportunity for any other form of life to develop in the same conditions - dna based life probably has a monopoly on water based planets throughout the galaxy
It's incredible that they did it.

It's also incredible how much time and resources were _invested_ in this. Part of me wants to say _wasted_ on this. In the midst of a global pandemic. In the midst of an impending total ecosystem collapse.

Fiddling while Rome, scratch that, while the planet burns.
People do really dumb things for relatively small amounts of money. Look up examples of corruption in US city administrators.

You’ll see people who throw away their career over $30k.
David Foster Wallace is pretty obscure, though, at least to me. I know it's the only human I gave, but I had no confidence that it was actually the right answer. Still don't, for that matter.

[Edit: I was also trying to point out the ridiculousness of blasting out those initials and expecting that everyone would understand what they were supposed to represent.]
Companies dont generally trade at their book value
Audio plugin programming makes extensive use of lookup tables for expensive operations. Pre-calculating is a useful technique for such real-time sensitive work (like games that have to render a new frame every 16ms @ 60hz or audio plugins that need to return potentially a buffer every 0.72ms @ 32 samples/44.1kHz).
It's a quibble to say that the undefined term CRDT is part of the lede or the the lede itself, since people who do not know the meaning of the acrynym need to read a significant part of the story to be told the definition.

That can be seen by glancing at the comments on this page.
BBS? Available 2 hours a day otherwise your parents ground you with no computer access because of the phone bill :-).
Linux distros work this way. Some group of people (distinct from sw authors) compile and sign the packages, and distribute them.

I guess in this case the code will not be publicly available, so regular joe will not be able to inspect and recompile.

So rather than app signing, the real issue here is lack of trust for the company.
The Code Will Never Judge You
> MIT license allows it, so where's the problem. It's like people who support freedom of speech, and then cry anytime someone used it to say something they don't like.

You can support freedom of speech and still publicly disagree with what people say. Freedom of speech says that people should not be silenced, not that they can't be disagreed with.
I'd be happy to let the chinese take over but I think they'd put me in a death camp and harvest my organs and rape my sister because we're brown.

Just seems like what they'd do, after seeing what they're doing to the uighurs.
Abusive advisors exist at universities of all prestige levels.
Well, the humans that reversed that image don't necessarily have the skill sets to help fight a pandemic.

It's like saying your car broke down and the art teacher doesn't want to fix it.
And their trades are typically scheduled in advance and public. Their job and fiduciary duty is to maximize shareholder value, and they make decisions so that happens. If that means allocating $ and rewarding people that will attain that goal, then what should be considered illegal?
Your numbers also show that coal use went up by several TWh shortly after the Energiewende. I'll concur that the numbers improved much faster than I would have expected based on what I had in mind from previous years. But they still went up.
There's no leader node necessarily required; each participant application in the session may have their own local copy of the document, and they apply edits to that using CRDT operations.

It's no doubt possible to construct application that don't behave correctly for certain combinations of edits -- but the datastructures themselves should be robust under any re-combination of the peer group's operations.

Edit / addendum: to phrase this another way and perhaps answer you more clearly: it's a responsibility of the application designer to come up with a document format for their application (and corresponding in-app edit operations) that will tend to result in 'sensible' recombinations under collaborative editing.

My sense so far is that this is the tradeoff; the complexity moves into the document format and edit operations. But that's a (largely) one-off up-front cost, and the infrastructure savings and offline/limited-connectivity collaboration support it affords continue to accrue over the lifetime of the software.
Microsoft 365 Outage
People downvoting an observation on a curious use of language? If it's because of some perceived political motive, then that's really sad.

I really did just wonder why anyone would anthropomorphize a programming language, by ascribing a gendered pronoun to it.
are they tho
Looks like it's not just parts but all.
How often is jail time included in these types of cases? If they merely lost their profits, this isn't much of a punishment.
I really wish iCloud could be a Time Machine target while we’re talking about network backups.
Npcap 1.00 was just released and a new Nmap is on the way
It is a confusingly written article. The subtitle alone would be compatible with the interpretation that NPCC is just reporting on the policy of some of its member forces, rather than actually recommending them to adopt this policy; later on in the article, it implies that it is actually the NPCC's own policy not just NPCC reporting on its member forces' policies.

If the subtitle was changed to: "The National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) has confirmed it has recommended officers be told not to install the NHS Covid-19 app on their work smartphones" it would be clearer, if that is indeed the correct takeaway from this confusing article.
Nodebook
What you don’t see are all the other shady things they did. How often do people get caught the first time?
Agreed. Being reliable and getting things done is not memorable. Someone who is actively getting in people's faces, pushing along agendas, meeting with others, and on the whole being "visible" as projects move along is more likely to be associated with getting things done than someone who quietly gets work done and is liked by everyone but does not make a big ado about it.

People get promoted not for what they do, but what they appear to do.
Did I invest? Yes, my compensation was in part Amazon stock. Pretty much everyone I knew also invested. What is timing if you don't plan to sell short term? As far as I can tell, this charge is about buying not selling stock.
Law and medicine are professions which require a certain number of continuing education hours per year. For example lawyers in California have to complete 25 hours every three years. Everyone knows that going in. Most do little more than the minimum.
What's incredibly insane here, is that "low usage" is the excuse being used to terminate an accessibility feature. Accessibility features will always be low usage, but it's still important to provide them.

This is kinda like a restaurant removing their handicapped ramp because it's "not used often". Of course, that'd be illegal.
What is the size limits for a durable object?

The read/write limit per second?

That usually the first things I want to know about my cloud primitives...

(Credits for at-least being clear about consistency which is always my very first question)
I'm guessing they look for accounts that suddenly start making a series of extremely profitable short term investments in a particular stock, then notice a bunch of linked accounts (having a history of transfers between each other) also suddenly making the same series of extremely profitable trades and only profitable trades. That's a red flag. After raising that red flag it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to notice the other linked account in the set that has made zero trades but receives a regular monthly paycheck direct deposit from the company in question.

Most people only try to commit major fraud once, and hence aren't very experienced at doing it. The IRS and SEC encounter major fraud constantly, and hence are very experienced at spotting it.

Scale favors the regulator when it comes to automated detection tools.
I think it's effectively closer to 2X than 4X. When I started as a new grad, I also had some RSUs and a sign on bonus. My employer didn't go public then, so my RSUs were not liquid, but I'd say my compensation was effectively $225k first year even though I couldn't cash out most of it. It's a different story now that my employer is public

My first promo put me in the $275k-ish range, and my second promo put it in the $350k-ish range. My base salary is $220k now, and the remaining $230k is stock and bonuses. IME, getting the first promo is not too difficult, but I had to put in a substantial effort for my second one, and hit some rough patches along the way. Any promos after that are a bit of a crapshoot, and more political than anything. The politics favored me in this case.

This tends to be the usual career trajectory at Facebook or Google, or some of the smaller public companies (Uber, Lyft, Square, etc.). It can be more volatile at smaller companies, given that stock based compensation is a significant portion of your total compensation, and you're taking on more risk.

I stayed more or less in the same engineering role throughout my career. I think skyrocketing senior engineer compensation is a relatively recent (i.e. ~4 years ago) trend, while new grad salaries were pretty high even 10 years ago.
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