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For those not familiar with UK betting.

Betting is still opened and the odds are roughly 1 vs 10, meaning if you bet £1 on Trump and he makes it you will earn £10 back.

It's normal for betting to continue after the end of an event. Usually the odds are reaching 1 vs 98 toward the end, because the betting platform is limiting the multiplier to about that and because there's actually money to make there in the last few percents.

Things do happen in the last second and results do change after a match (goal in the last second in football, horse falling in horse racing, candidate disqualified, re-scoring). For this event it's relatively normal for the betting company to wait until the candidate is in the white house before redistributing the money.

What is unusual here is for the odds to be this close this late in the game. We're at a fairly late point in the election when the outcome is relatively settled, is there 10% chance for trump to win?

The money is real, indicating there are many people who think so. Yes you (and 9 other people) could bet £1 on Biden and hope to make £1.10 back, because there's one person on the other side willing to bet £1 on Trump hoping to make £10 back.

P.S. Betfair is not open to US users (not legal in the US). Don't try to open an account, you will be blocked when you try to open the account or when you try to credit it.
I agree. I see false advertising as a serious crime.

Obviously we should be utilizing critical thinking ourselves, but I think that we also need the threat of punishment. Because if we have that threat one critical thinker can report the problem and it will be solved for everyone. If there is no punishment then there is no incentive for companies to tell the truth.
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Holy crap! Thanks! I missed that completely. (Too focused on the planimeter.)
Tesla expands warranty to cover defective computers in Model S and X vehicles
I did the math one time, many years ago when I was working for a London based startup. They offered me a small portion of equity with vesting to offset the lower salary.

If the company sold for $10 million, I would have ended up with about one years worth of the lower end salary...which was about 1/2 of what I could make from an average offer in rural parts of the US.

Ten years later, the company finally sold.
Thanks. Now searching through issues I see:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/5246

and the most recent entry (Sep 2):

"The plan for this is now to, at some strategic moment, utilize the C backend of stage2 to do a one time thing where we delete stage1 and replace it with the C backend output of stage2. The reason this won't be problematic for bootstrapping (#853) is that we won't keep doing it. The new stage1 C code will then get manually cleaned up and reorganized, and start being manually maintained to keep up with stage2, therefore granting it "source" status rather than "generated file" status."

Can anybody explain in more words that paragraph? As far as I understand "stage1" is a minimal compiler, written in C, needed to compile the sources of the full-featured compiler (which is called stage2) which are written as zig sources? The minimal compiler doesn't have to produce optimal code but has to support all the features used in the sources of stage2. Is that correct? Effectively, all the functionality used by the zig stage2 would have to be maintained both as C and as zig (twice) (I refer to the "manually maintained" sentence)? Is that the correct interpretation? Wouldn't it be better to remove the duplication by keeping the "core of the core" "simply" in C sources?
Huh. Not my son's experience. He did convoy duty. Three times they encountered bombs causing death and dismemberment. Mortar attacks on their camp were a daily occurrence. His turret on the vehicle he was gunner for resounded with the pings of small-arm fire.

Twice he survived mortar attacks - one exploded on the wall behind the staff during morning assembly in the yard. Another crashed through the roof on the other side of the wall when he was in the phone room talking to his Mom.

It took years for him to finish surgeries and physical therapy at the VA. His college degree took extra years to complete because of it.

I imagine 'actual warfare' is pretty rough then.
> What if one person just added a parameter to a function while another person is adding new calls to that same function. The automated merge cannot fix this conflict.

If you're working in a large codebase and the function in question is part of your API, don't mutate it, add another function and deprecate the older function.

In any case, either developer A or developer B has to pay the cost of mutating the function at some point.
Another problem is if the update is packaged in a print job, which seems to be an option according to comments here. In that case, the Internet connected computer may still be hijacked by the manufacturer to bork the printer against the customers will, by sending a malicious print job to the printer.
But the outcome isn’t clear. A few states aren’t done counting votes, there will be recounts in others, and a few lawsuits alleging improprieties have been filed. These are all factual events that have nothing to do with Trump being a “sore loser” or whatever else nonsense.

I fully expect to be downvoted into oblivion, as usual on HN, where pointing out facts contrary to the desired narrative are unwelcome. Even dispassionately describing the political process is apparently partisan now.
Isn't that credit card fraud?
Arguably charity is the primary moral requirement.
Having something is different than having something at scale and being able to effectively implement it. Logistics in less developed countries is already more difficult. Adding in specialty refrigeration requirements further complicates that. Large scale logistics should never be assumed or hand waved away. Mass toilet paper shortages in first world countries this year is a perfect example of how easy it is to massively disrupt logistic chains. What do you think shipping 100 million plus vaccines a month that require specialty refrigeration and dry ice will do to the supply of dry ice in Nigeria or Albania? Or the US for that matter? How many of those dry ice shipping containers does Pfizer have? How quickly can they be manufactured?
Almost a 0% chance it will be worth anything more than $0 and, maybe, a good story.
There absolutely is a level sensor in many toner cartridges these days. Are you still using a 90s model LaserJet?
As a British subject, it's not surprising though. We are taught a lot of things about Americans which turn out not to be true, that you learn history via movies is one of these things that gets said now and again.

I was chatting to someone the other day and asked if she'd been to America. No, she said, I can't stand Americans.

Do you know any Americans, I asked. Of course she didn't but she has been to Canada and asked if I had.

No, said I, I can't stand Canadians. She looked at me as if that was a ridiculous statement before realising I was being sarcastic. Go figure?
I can buy named brand Oatly for ~$4.50L or I can buy generic Oatmilk for ~$2.35.

I can buy soymilk for cheaper than cow’s milk.
The ludicrous claim that Europe's regulators are going after American companies can be easily dismissed by paying attention to Congress: Our own government has been asking questions about the same concerns about the same companies.

The most significant difference though between our government and Europe's though is that Europe's is still functional. So when Europe is regulating our companies, we should realize they had to because we failed to do so ourselves.
The electoral college is definitely well covered in every grade school social studies curriculum in the US.

Although, the median American learned those facts ~25 years ago at a time in their lives when they were too young to vote and politics was probably not an important part of their lives.

By comparison, movies are a lot more accessible, recent, and engaging.
Another reading of this (which I don't agree with) is that "liberal" ideas need censorship to survive. Which one is the correct interpretation is almost impossible to determine without sophisticated methods of testing.
> Imagine if people took a reducetarian attitude toward murder.

Why not? Imagine we are murdering thousands of people every day. We're able to reduce this by say 50%. How is that not an achievement?

Compare it to slavery. What if we are able to have slaves live with more freedom than the status quo? What if we are able to liberate 50% of all slaves? Isn't that commendable?

Again, you step right into the bifurcation (black and white thinking) trap.
Book makers in general are pretty comfortable with low odds risk. It's kind of their business.

In this case I suspect the only reason they haven't settled the market is to avoid causing a scene with people laying bets against Trump, not because they genuinely believe there is any chance of it going the other way.

Traditional bookmakers have already paid out, including Paddypower who are part of the same group "Paddypowerbetfair".
Neither that code author nor I has any trouble being employed. I learned go and then stopped using it because (in my field) C++ and Python are what is used most commonly.
Oh yeas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BeTq99LqUo will cover your curiosity safely
If there is evidence of election fraud surely it is in more than Trump's interest to find out about it.
The electoral college is chosen by the voters in each state, and enough electoral votes have been clearly decided in the preliminary counts that we know who the president will be.

It is possible that the preliminary counts will be changed before the official counts are declared, but ever since the mass adoption of optical scan ballots after the debacle of 2000, recounts just haven't moved the dial enough to affect the presidential election.

The losing side this year is extremely butthurt about having lost the election, and is filing lawsuits to contest it. However, these lawsuits are so without merit that they aren't even surviving summary judgement, which is an amazingly low legal bar to clear. Saying you had video evidence of a poll worker brutally murdering anyone who voted for Trump would be sufficient justification to survive summary judgement, to give you an idea of just how low a bar it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfILg3ct71s
> Or, you know, negotiate higher equity and stop bitching and moralizing when your payout isn’t high enough.

Seriously, what is your point here, besides acting like a jerk? I mean, I totally agree with you, but that's why I think this thread is important. It should be a lesson to potential startup employees about how extremely lopsided the risk/return considerations are, that most equity deals are complete shit at startups, and that you should usually demand more equity if you have any negotiating power.

Indeed, the purpose of threads like this should be to convince startup employees as a whole that they're getting screwed on equity so they should demand more.
If you don't mind me saying, Nick is just claiming your comment won't age well.
What exactly are you taking issue with? Come on.
Spreadsheets are awesome! They're extremely easy to use databases and make computing data really easy. I wish they were even more programmable than they already are. A map function would be nice...

= MAP(A1:A, A + 10)

This would be so much nicer compared to a huge mess of ARRAYFORMULAs I'm using right now.

The ability to store multiple values in one cell like a dictionary would be awesome as well. With that I wouldn't have to implement lookup manually.
London salaries:

L5 (senior engineer)
Facebook [1]
Google [2]

Facebook L6 (lead engineer) [3]

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En...

[2] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

[3] https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En...
I am not an expert on the curricula of all 50 states, but I am not aware of any that do not include civics. Either as a separate course, or as a part of their social studies curriculum.
https://github.com/garritfra/taurus/commit/e5548e02e96f51c6a...
Somewhat entertaining to notice the usage of exaggeration adjectives in this article. So they've created a broadcast system; but from the adjectives one would think they created something much more significant. Every possible place they could use an exaggerated adjective to describe the project they use an extreme form. If this tech were something new or specifically unique, maybe, but not this.
That's a silly take IMO. I don't know where you're from but news outlet projections are taken as the de-facto actual result of the elections until the official counts are certified, often days or even weeks later. Note that these projections (in France and the USA) come from official, if only partial ballot counts.

The only actual decision the news outlets have to make is to decide when to call the win when they judge that the winner is statistically almost impossible to change.

In France for instance we get the first projections at 8PM sharp, once the last voting places close. Nobody, including the politicians involved, wait until the the final count to concede or celebrate their results.

The only "americanism" I can see here is this odd electoral college system that leads to absurd situations where ~100k people effectively decide the elections for everybody else, while hundreds of millions in non-swing-states effectively don't count. If there's something worthy of scorn and foreign arrogance, it's probably that.
Does that mean that you could run m3o on k8?

(sounds like m3o is a microservice framework?)
Not if you are securing your email with a security key and enforcing that you can only access it from devices that meet security guidelines (as is easy to do with Office 365 and almost easy to do in GSuite). Unlike SMS, where you could lock down your phone and take every precaution and an attacker could still compromise your SIM via your carrier.
I think there’s a sweet spot in well-funded Series A companies. You get the benefit of a small team and large impact inside the org which feels nice to a certain kind of person. The company is big and mature enough that you get decent impact on the world as well. Also great for many people

And most importantly, the company can afford to pay well. Not quite FAANG level, but plenty for you to reasonably plan to retire (in a FIRE way) at 50 instead of 65.

And heck if it does hit, you’re early enough for a nice cushy bonus.

edit: yes the difference in comp is easily 100k+, but making 180k+ cash to not be a small cog in a gigantic machine, to me, doesn’t sound that bad
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It's not that it's legally permissible, it's that it's within bounds of what all parties agreed to.

If I agree to sell you my car for $5,000 then you show up with the money and give it to me and take the car, I don't get to change my mind later and get mad that you didn't give me more and call you immoral.
You can thank Zhiyi Zhang for working on that for the past year or two[1]. I'm very happy to hear it's working well for you.

[1] https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=search&h=HEAD&st=a...
I’m not arguing one way or another, just stating what is going on. It’s amazing how much heat I’ve been getting for sharing the news.

The issue is the PA house didn’t break any laws with their voting laws. The PA Supreme Court did however change the intent of a law. Again, not arguing. Before the election the Supreme Court Requested separating the ballots so they could later reverse if necessary. They were split 4-4 on the issue last time, presumably it could be 5-4 this time. Hence betting markets are still up in the air.

Regarding “convincing” the Michigan data. point is it doesn’t need to be convincing to overturn an election, but should be reviewed. And it likely will.
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Not in my experience. I haven't run into a game that hasn't worked on my PCI pass-through setup.
> This process is fairly normal and we will know the actual outcome once the electors vote

Right but this is a fairly convoluted way to do elections, no?
Spotify to buy podcast ad company Megaphone for $235M
Historians no longer use the term Dark Ages and haven't for years now. Late Antiquity and the early Medieval era were more complex than that.
The founder couldn’t have done anything without his employees. And yet he takes $3.7M, leaving almost nothing for his employees. It certainly sounds like the employees got royally fucked and he got the lion’s share of the payout.
Not necessarily true. I was a mid level product engineer at a recently IPOd company (joined 2 years pre IPO). My base salary was $200k, and the stock and bonus more than doubled that.

There was a little bit of “pick the rocket ship” gamble - I had an Uber offer that probably would have been ended more like $250k/year, but it’s not unreasonable to get half a mill joining a late stage pre-IPO startup, and base salary is high enough you do it with little risk.

Hell, I know some mid-level post-IPO folks at Square making $700k due to it 10xing in share price.
That's your opinion. I've seen a lot fraud evidence and a lot of lawsuits started this week. Wait and see.
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Very clever with your smoke signal comments!

Waiting for TV networks to call elections is not the same as having people watch TV in Europe. Getting angry at Fox News for calling Arizona is, for example, quite strange for me, because in my opinion, news networks shouldn't "call" the elections.
> Of course, not everyone can get an offer at a FAANG

Note that this is true for many reasons, not all of which are related to technical ability. Not everyone should try to get a FAANG job, either.

Factors candidates may consider:

* how much time they want to spend interviewing/prepping

* what their previous experience has been

* where they went to school

* where they are willing to live

* what type of work they like to do

* what type of organizations they enjoy being part of (largeco, smallco)

* how much control they want over their work

* what kind of impact they want to have

* how much they want to learn (and what type of knowledge--general vs specific)

In addition to salary, all of these play a role in determining whether a startup, small biz, other software company or FAANG make sense for an individual.
Maybe you should bring it to the lawyers who are having their lawsuits thrown out.
You misunderstand 83b, that’s just about paying the income tax on restricted stock grants up front instead of as it vests. You still would owe gains on the appreciation of the stock. QSBS allows some or all of the gains to be tax free.
Wouldn't video evidence of murder be really strong evidence? That doesn't sound like a low bar to me.
lock-free code is free of deadlocks, but it is not free of livelocks and usually there's no guarantee of progress...

In mutex-based code, usually you want only open calls (i.e. calls with no mutex held, so you only ever hold one mutex at a time).
In your testing stack you only recommend Amplitude ... why? What's your experience been with other options like Heap or MixPanel?

Personally, we built something like Heap internally (this was years ago, before Heap existed) and the store everything & analyze it later approach really helped us dig into the reasons why a particular test had failed and understand why our hypothesis was wrong or what we'd misunderstood. Or even to explain counter intuitive results (eg. how could making a page load faster decrease conversion ... that one was fun to figure out)
There's a sense of entitlement here that's not sitting well with me. Don't get me wrong, I think employees of a "startup" deserve to get some sort of payout during a liquidation event, but I think that payout should be directly proportional to how much risk was assumed.

Did they take a full standard salary? (Doesn't have to be SV 100k+ salaries, but standard for whatever is paid in their area). Did they do more than just code? etc etc

By your logic, the butcher who worked for market wages in a meat processing company should get a big pay day because Nestle decided to buy them.
I have the same positive experience of efficient consistency with their products, also the reliability on keyboard shortcuts as well as the advanced navigation features make a big difference in my everyday work
Sure, but after they move on you're left with nothing but your homes burnt down and your family dead, while they're still the largest economic and military power in the world living it up in their first-world mansions. Pyrrhic victories taste just like defeat.
What's interesting is that games are one of the main reasons the market share is negligible. It used to be games and Office, but home users can increasingly get by with the web version or Google Docs or LibreOffice. But people still keep Windows on their PCs for games.

If the games start to run on Linux, what's still keeping people on Windows?
That sort of stuff falls directly under the "consumer protection law" umbrella.
I wonder how the fact that this is a German company relates to people in the US always being told that they have to pay multiples of international drug prices so the US companies can do the research the rest of the world is not doing.
Do we know that such advanced chip manufacturing was developed just in Taiwan? It would seem that European countries have great education and economy and yet we cannot see any innovation in this space? Is there any Fab in Europe that could challenge TSMC? Anything in the US?
What is so special about Taiwan that it was possible there despite all nuances coming from its political and geographical situation?
When it comes to training humans and animals, positive punishment is far less effective than most other training techniques like positive reinforcement. Don't Shoot the Dog[1]!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Shoot-Dog-Teaching-Training/dp/0...
Trump's odds have actually gone up since the media called it. He's at 11% now. (Source https://electionbettingodds.com/ )
CNN flipped back Wisconsin to uncalled recently.
He's on pace to win Arizona. And has a non zero chance to have some of the late ballots thrown out in Pennsylvania.

Two of the swing states, have key ridings with a history of corrupt and stupid leadership. Its a bad combination that gives Trump a betting chance.

Example, former Mayor Kilpatrick in Detroit was sentenced to 28 years for blatantly obvious self enrichment schemes.

People betting on Trump now are, are hedging on the "count all votes" mantra, even if good intentioned, led to ballots counted, that should not have been, and he can prove that in court.
I'm sorry, are you actually suggesting that US schools don't teach history or civics? Based entirely on your experience of Americans recommending movies to you?

It would be tempting to suggest that European schools fail to teach critical thinking, but I'll resist that urge, as it's obviously unfair. Your comment doesn't suggest to me a failure of European schools, the problem is likely much more specific.
It's probably a small claims court matter, and those usually side with the customer.
> A few states aren’t done counting votes

Enough have finished to give Biden 270 electoral votes.

> there will be recounts in others,

Those aren't going to change results. At a state presidential level, a recount might adjust a margin of victory by ~1,000 votes. The margins in those states that have been called are above that level.

> a few lawsuits alleging improprieties have been filed

And several of them have failed summary judgement because the Republicans couldn't build enough of a case to sustain them.
C++/C# integration is still painful and unsupported/unreliable outside of Windows Desktop version.

Microsoft is instead steadily expanding JS scripting support. They even added JS UDF recently.
Agreed, but that's why my argument is that if you have the chance to work at a FAANG, work there first, then you can easily afford to take time off and do whatever you want after a few years.