skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's amazing... Starting at 14 years old! And a few years from retirement age now.
The idea that it is learning outside a structured environment is "improbable" is part of the problem. Most college isn't very structured in the first place.

I think it is a problem with expectations. Kids seem to take on massive debt, then wonder why the job they get after spending four years at a school taking lots of classes that have nothing to do with the skills they need doesn't pay well enough to make their debt seem worthwhile.

The truth is that lots of kids are pushed into a path that wastes a huge amount of their time, energy and money, because what they need to actually become valuable is going to happen after they graduate.
I've never met anyone who equated 'quality' with IKEA. Cheap, yes. Practical, maybe. Convenient, certainly.

But quality? Sorry but haha. No.
Company got aquired, I got $0
Ok, but one of his main complaints was that he was completely bored by the story and that it was short and meaningless. Sounds like he wanted more and better story.
I've seen a bunch of TV shows (police procedurals, etc.) in which the heroes matter-of-factly use surveillance infrastructure to fight bad guys. There are occasionally some in which the surveillance technology is used against the heroes, but even in some of those, the heroes tend to somehow get access to the infrastructure, and use it to turn the tables.

Before surveillance was a thing, a variation that was ordinary in TV shows was for the heroes to break very important rules/principles they were sworn to uphold. For example, roughing up suspect, or even expressly denying them some procedural right gratuitously, almost as if the show was trying to condition people that those rights aren't actually rights for some other kind of people.

The rules were in the way, and the heroes cared and were tough, and did what needed to be done, to fight the bad thing.

It seems a dangerous idea, in a society based on people buying into admirable rights and responsibilities, but from what I've seen even casually and anecdotally (as a techie, not a humanities researcher or social scientist), the idea seems to have been drip-fed for most/all of our lives. So long, I couldn't guess whether it was an idea that already resonated strongly with people, and media just pandered to that, or it was planted/nurtured by media.

This famous speech starts later in the progression towards a much worse situation, but seems like it might be relevant: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_..."
Are you still susceptible to this if they are ISOs? My understanding is that ISOs are only ever taxed at the time of sale.

Sounds like you're dealing in an ISO quantity beyond the limits my mind can comprehend though.
Go to levels.fyi and retroactively give yourself an SDE2 / SDE3 job for the years you worked at the startup, then compare that to the payout someone would have had from working at AirBNB for the last few years. Even if you assume you liquidated all the RSUs as they vested, it's tough to say that the cushy, low-stress $300k+/year FAANG job would've been a bad choice.
Isn't that still like $7b[1] at the average 15m? Compare that to $45k[2] * for the 76k[3] women in the workforce, that's only ~$3.5b.

Its US women vs the global S&P list, but it is interesting to compare, now that you mention it.

[1]https://aflcio.org/paywatch

[2]https://www.catalyst.org/research/womens-earnings-the-pay-ga....

[3]https://www.catalyst.org/research/women-in-the-workforce-uni....
It happens all the time. It is why software developers in incredibly high margin tech companies will ask for incomes >$100,000/year, while servers at low margin restaurants are left to ask for minimum wage. Tech companies can end up never making a dime and restaurants can produce fortunes, but on a statistical probability basis, the profitability of a tech company is more likely to round out to that $100,000 per employee figure and a restaurant the minimum wage figure, on average. That makes those asks to be quite reasonable and the market settles there.

When the future is unknown, when the futures contracts are being established, one can only guess as to how much money that labour input is going to return. The value that is established for a given job, commensurable to its relation to producing that future income, is always done on a best guess basis, knowing that reality can swing widely in either direction. It's an average, of sorts.

If you think the prevailing best guess is wrong and that a restaurant will easily make enough to give you back $100,000 as a server, you can defer your payout until that quantity is known. This arrangement does happen, but is usually eschewed as the worker would usually rather have the guaranteed known quantity, based on the best guess of their contribution in the profitability, even if removed from the final earnings, for their work. It reduces their risk.

As an aside, servers at restaurants are an interesting example as they do commonly play both sides. They lock in some of their income on the future's market, but also capture a share of the profit when it is made. There is a lot of flexibility in your options. Typically, most workers prefer to stay within the futures market entirely, though, as they want the security of a known quantity for their income, rather than making millions one year and loosing millions the next.
This is why Agile's Retrospective is so awesome to have on your team. Agile doesn't work for a lot of the work I do (data scientist) but if there is anything worth grabbing and incorporating into other PM frameworks is the restrospective. If done right, it would have prevented this issue and other team community communication related issues. I highly recommend it. That and a time machine would be nice.
I'm disappointed they never released a Cray Z computer.
Is it possible to capture raw photons using a digital sensor, right before they would have entered a lens front element. Then simulate lens refraction through multiple elements in software? This would allow you to change out lenses in post production. Anyone done any work on this?
My wife went into anaphylaxis at an urgent care facility. The doctor there administered an epi and then called 911 to get an ambulance to the nearest hospital.

We ended up getting a >$2,000 bill for a 10 minute ambulance ride because the ambulance company was out-of-network. The ambulance company then had the audacity to send the bill to collections before the 30 day pay period even expired...

So yea, even if you have good insurance you can still get bit by these issues in emergencies! Unfortunately, this new bill does not even address the out of network ambulance issue.
Cover the lid with decals from the latest software stacks? Throw in a "Music Band" one? :)
I did an early exercise (83b election) when I started at a startup a few years ago, paid about $30k to exercise all my options, granting me about 0.3% ownership. Five years later, AWS made our product obsolete, and company was acqui-hired, all regular share holders were wiped out, so I lost my $30k (and worked for five years at well below market). Oops.
Why so hard to believe? Bellingcat's investigations are near universally targeted at US rivals - most often Russia.

Furthermore the conclusions are always the ones they'd want (e.g. "Russia shot down an airliner").

If Bellingcat did the exact same thing in reverse and exclusively and regularly blew the lid on secretive NATO operations using morsels of information pieced together online the idea that it would be FSB backed would barely even be considered controversial. It would be assumed because... well, because Occam's razor.

Julian Assange leaked from everyone including Russia and he was designated a Russian spy because he didn't leak "enough" on Russia ffs.
I left about $20k in options on the table when I left a company that was acquired about 4 months after I left. My coworker who stayed ended up doing great, but not because of options. The company put him on a $100k-per-year retainer for 4 years to stay on and help port the project.

Retainers are often much better for the little people.
Asperger's does not give one a natural wit, usually it's very much the opposite.
Based on the article it looks like it only looks at the rotations of galaxies and not the higher order organization of galaxies, which dark matter accounts for and MOND does not.
Does Clozure still exist for Mac? I don't follow MacOS anymore, but it used to have a pretty decent GUI.

(Not as good as its ancestor, Macintosh Common Lisp, which also had a GUI builder and other cool stuff, but recommending OS9 apps these days is probably pushing it)
Interesting. But this is also what I mean about quality. This is a low quality company, right? Like, it's not like it was a $100M acquisition on the upswing. They'd dropped 2/3 of their value which means it was damaged goods. So I'm still with my original question which at core is whether employees could have seen this and worked somewhere else. I don't know.
> Also, you don't have to audit apps yourself if there's an entire community of volunteers doing it for you, and perhaps even writing alternative FOSS apps.

Didn’t OpenSSL with Heartbleed show that the “many eyes” argument for FOSS doesn’t hold water?
Most watches are identified by their movement (guts), as opposed to the branding you see on the face.

The people who make movements are a much smaller bunch.
Not yet, but I have considered it. How do you see this integrating? Some kind of file browser / upload plugin?
Is it even legal? You spent money on your options, if they get extinguished, you should be compensated in some way
AKA "how I become insufferable in record time".
It would also be nice to support other currency symbols. In Europe there are € and £, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currencies_in_Europe
When do you think the internet was invented, in the 00s?
Cryptography is a well-developed professional field with rigorous peer review. Their products do what they're supposed to almost perfectly, and many people use them.

Perhaps you could point me to an equivalent field for making society better, with a well-developed utopia that lots of people live in today.
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What you consider as super-hackers are hype driven developers and architect-astronauts to me :) We are not talking about same set of people.
If the company has to advertise it during the interview, there is a higher chance than not it is bullshit. The #1 rule of marketing is advertise your weakness.
They got in his hotel room while he was out
yeah, it is indeed hard to without stepping through the images. I posted that one because it was the current position at the time
I have a great Junghans watch.

I also have a couple of Japan-only Casio/Oceanus watches.

I haven't worn any of them in quite some time.
Have you verified the valuation of the common stock the company is reporting to the IRS?

The common stock (what you probably get for your options) is usually valued at significantly less than the valuation from the latest raise.
Now that they are in competition with online universities world-wide and more people are in trouble with just paying their rent, this is not a surprise at all. European and Australian universities should be jumping at this opportunity:

They need to organise themselves to use one platform for giving online lectures. Nearly a year after the start of COVID, universities are all over a place with their software. Some unis allow every lecturer to decide how to do the course forcing students to install sometimes 3! different applications for taking the lecture, sharing documents and taking the exam - per course! Sure, there's overlap, but it's a little crazy.

Then there's the problem of proctoring - the best way to sell your students data and invade their privacy. If for reasons beyond your power the internet flakes out or the software has a bug, it's either fail or simply resit. MOOCs seem to have already solved this problem, but many universities fail to do any kind of research on the subject.

What's pretty bad is that many universities don't record their lectures despite it being a wonderful tool for learning. You can pause, rewind, speed up, clip and discuss lectures after they happen and increase collaboration with students and the lecturers, but the opportunity seems to be willingly ignored. Even worse, some lecturers are staunchly against being recorded for fear of saying something wrong, but will gladly invite any proctoring company into the homes of their students.

We still have a long way to go.

Despite many people bemoaning the current pandemic, I think it is having a wonderful impact on the status quo. We had to be rocked out of our comfort zone to be force to innovate because we would've taken decades longer otherwise. This year was a good year.
The jury is out until the verdict comes out.
It's definitely not flaky hardware.
compensation in the form of stock
Russian "opposition" leader Navalny

"dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned"

If I may play devils advocate here:

How come that a Nazi that had no importance

1. Became a valueable target of Puting?

2. Became the darling of the west?

3. Cui bono?

Is Aleksei Navalny a Liberal or a Nationalist?

While his positions are broadly endorsed by Russia's opposition, some have voiced alarm about past ethnically charged statements.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/is...
There I saw defferences between the "cheaper" Sigma and the premium Nikkor ones

I've always wondered what the difference is between Sigma and a brand like Canon or Nikon.

I used to have both Canon and Sigma lenses. The Sigmas felt different, and the pictures they produced had a different "look" for what was supposed to be an equivalent lens. My eye isn't trained for these sorts of things, so I was never able to quantify it.

What is it that Sigma does that makes its lenses cheaper than the others?
Russian passport and cellphone records are for sale. It's as simple as that. The Russian state is corrupt at the top, but it's also corrupt all the way down to local officials with database access. There's a large pool of people with access to these records so it's not even especially expensive.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48348307
In theory, the “web of trust” would solve the trust issue. You trust Dev A who trusts Dev B. Therefore, you implicitly trust Dev B. In practice, bad actors and “rouge” developers make it harder than that.
Very good point! I'm caught between a rock and a hard place...

Apart from their other downsides, stackful coroutines can make asynchronous code less readable. For example, it's not obvious that your self:move() call is split across several frames.

Implicit coroutine construction has the silent failure mode which you describe.

Explicit coroutine construction, (coro f), would make `yield-from` even more noisy than it already is!

I wonder whether a naming convention would solve the problem? If all coroutine functions and methods have names like fire-arc* and move* , then your synchronous call to fire-arc* would stick out like a sore thumb. This would also force the programmer to visit every callsite after changing a synchronous function into an asynchronous one, or vice versa. It wouldn't exactly be convenient, but I think I value explicitness more highly than convenience in this case.
“Lisp dialects” is as if one talk about “dialects of curly braces languages”.

I would argue that Python is closer to Scheme than Common Lisp is.
It depends from country to country. Germany pulls it off by tracking most students out of the university path at a young age. Instead, those students are basically forced into vocational schools. The US public would never accept that.

You still need to be upper-middle-class to rich to go to university in Germany. The difference is that you don't have to pay for it.
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We can be sure that mr indiscretion will be flying out of windows soon. Or die with six covids in his back. He did Nazeem it coming, won't be going back to the cloud-district very soon, unless flying vertically down to it. He used to be a spy like you, but got an arrow to the tea. Putin' me off hold. Putin' me back on line. Putin' my nose into other people's dirty business. Kris Kremlin has got a new target.
In my case it was the anesthesiologist who was out of network. Looking at the bill, they looked like just another practice. When I found their phone number and address, however, it turned out that their practice was part of the hospital.

I called their number and ended up talking to someone in their office and they agreed to waive the fee. I wonder if this is part of their process: if there's pushback, waive the fee.
> the pro lens being 2-3 stops brighter

Is it brighter for the same camera body, aperture and depth of field?

If so, what would one look for in a lens's specifications to describe this difference?
Yeah, but those manufacturers are not a huge market.

For a time, a fair number of people didn't wear watches at all, and used their phones.

Those are the people that I'm seeing with Apple Watches (and other devices, like FitBits).
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Oh yeah, that's true! Also worked well between analog and digital SLRs in Nikon's case. After accounting for different film/sensor sizes. My old Sigma is showing its age so, last time I tried.
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He can write it off as a total loss.
>My advice is to find an accountant your first year at a FAANG and let them handle everything. Don't do it yourself.

If you do go with an accountant, treat it as a learning experience so you can do it yourself or at least go over their work before submitting it. You'll be surprised at how often accountants make mistakes or leave money on the table.
The article was presumptuous, but it didn't ridicule anyone.
Even if it's two sides of the same coin, the term Chekism captures the bizarre way the USSR was run better, I feel.
Options aren’t stocks. They are an option to buy the stocks. Exercising your options means buying the stocks. They options contract has a price for stocks set up front. Ideally the price of the stock has risen over time so when you exercise the option to buy the stocks, you are buying the stocks at a lower price than their current market value. Thus you make money.
Account is over two years old but this is your first comment?
I'm still $3k in the red. The company is about to go public "any time now" (but unfortunately I've been severely diluted, I don't even expect to break even... well maybe if the Fed keeps pumping up markets)
Not mute, "moo". It's like a cow's opinion, you know, it just doesn't matter.
Duplicating a packet in the network is called multicast, and it isn't implemented in the real Internet.

Most large-scale broadcasts use technologies such as HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) or MPEG-DASH, which carve a video into 3-second intervals that are then distributed using ordinary HTTP over a CDN. The problem with these technologies is that they have a latency of a few seconds, which means that you cannot have a meaningful conversation over them.
Nothing in my post pretends that, and "how should we know the media card carrying unarmed civilians we shot were journalists" doesn't help their case as much as you think.
Without ever having heard of this case, I'd like to add two, maybe unrelated, datapoints:

* I know Matthias Kirschner personally (though not very good). This story does not fit the character I met.

* There is a campaign of disinformation, character assassination and harrassment going on against the Debian project, the FSFE, and their members (maybe other projects as well). This has been going on for multiple years now, presumably all orchestrated by the same individual, impersonating a multitude of different persons.

Edit:

I also met Malina Galina in person, she made a positive impression on me. I just found out the linked text also shows up on her twitter account.
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Nikon needs a buyer. It converted into a camera company during the DSLR boom when phones and compact cameras couldn't take good enough pictures.

Now phones have eaten both compact cameras and hobbyist DSLR markets. Prosumer and professional DSLRs/ILCs are a niche market and Nikon is becoming a niche company.

If your hobby is shooting sports, wildlife or stars (big balls of gas), buy an ILC. If all you need is a travel camera, an iPhone is a damn good one and it's smart enough to beat 9 out of 10 humans fiddling arround in Lightroom.
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A stock option is a contract that entitles the holder of the option to either buy or sell stock at a price specified at the time of the contracts creation (this is the “strike price”). The price can be anything. The value of the option is, very roughly speaking, the difference between the current price (“spot price”) and the strike price. The action of using your contract to actually do the buying or selling of shares is called “exercising” the option, and it “uses up” the contract. Each contract is for 100 shares (a “round lot”). When exercising your option and then buying or selling the shares immediately at the strike price would make you money, the option is said to be “in the money”. If not, the option is “out of the money”.

The parent comment is noting that their options are out of the money, so they’re worthless. No point in exercising.

Options are highly complicated financial instrument though, so this is a very rough explanation. This is not financial advice.
> If the company doubles in value and I have the same amount of money, then what's the point of getting options instead of USD?

Huh? You should compare the current value of the options to their value at the last fundraising round, not between pre- and post-money in the same round.

The doubling in value happen between (e.g.) the Series A raise and the Series B raise, not at the time of the Series B raise, and when you compare the value of your options between the raises that's when you'll see the increase in value.

For example, imagine you have 10% of the company and after the Series A raise the company is valued at $1m, so your share is $100k. Now you go and work for two years and increase the value of the company to $20m (pre-money). Your 10% is worth $2m now. If the company raises $5m for 20% ($25m post-money) in a Series B you now have 8.3% of the company (you were diluted) but your 8.3% is still worth $2m.

The stock option reward happens while you're building the company.
Man, I'd like to see some more info on the whole housing industry in general

It seems to be completely FUBAR to me. In Japan, housing ISN'T a glamorous investment, and I think that helps the house pricing situation a lot.. You can get a nice apartment in the fanciest part of downtown Tokyo for cheaper than a dangerous hole in the wall in San Jose
Just enough?

Python has the full program with multiple inheritance, metaclasses, abstract classes, slots, attributes, properties and decorators.

One can go wizard level with Python's OOP facilities.
I grew up in Sacramento and now live near Palo Alto. Sacramento has great public schools. I went to a public IB high school, whose science teams regularly placed in the top 3 in the US for Science Bowl/ Science Olympiad. In many parts of CA, the best schools are private (LA), or you have to pay millions of dollars for a house in the good districts (Palo Alto).

In Sacramento, they have what is called 'open enrollment', which allows people to send their kids to school outside of their district, if there is a program there that isn't available locally. I had many classmates from across town, and one who lived halfway to Tahoe.

I personally think that areas like Half Moon Bay and Scott's Valley will benefit from remote work. It's close enough to go into SV when needed, but farther than many people would have wanted to commute daily. And they're beautiful, with good weather. SLO will probably benefit also, and I imagine that schools will change in these areas, to become more like SV/LA. That's probably good for SF/LA families, though locals might not like the changes.