skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anthony Levandowski got a $120m bonus. What makes you think he is less of an outlier than your friends are in finance? (although FWIW unless your friends are very senior I suspect they're lying about getting million plural bonuses)
The great thing about my business model, such that it is, is that if I keep pushing that number higher I won't have to demand anything.

Winking, but not in the least bit a joke.
I tried to get her out and visit her family (in a different country), but she is isolating more and more. I will try to be more persistent.
Only 28 states have right-to-work laws. In the rest, unions can force you to join or not work at the company in question.
That's nonsense.

In your terms then, just let everybody be self-employed and contract them, rather than employ them. That's the same result I want, that people are responsible for themselves and making a contract with somebody to do some work for you doesn't come with any additional baggage. Just plain money for work.
Relatedly, Canada has struck down America's status as a safe third country for refugees as "U.S. immigration detention violates their human rights." [1]

"Nedira Jemal Mustefa, among the refugees turned back and on whose behalf a challenge was launched, described her time in solitary confinement in the United States as 'a terrifying, isolating and psychologically traumatic experience,' according to the court ruling."

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-refugee-safethird/...
Sorry to hear about what you and your fianceé are going through. That really sucks, especially considering that you have both been so careful. Pretty unfair, life.

I hope you both weather it fine. Some people seem to experience almost no symptoms; I hope that is the case here. Maybe she only got hit with a small viral load given how safe she has been... in which case hopefully her body is able to defend and create antibodies. Would be curious to hear how things evolve for you, if you’re willing and able to share.

Good luck.
Sure cases as a metric has been overemphasized and unnecessarily increases fear. But the fact that that metric isn’t ideally measured or presented shouldn’t take away from the fact that the metrics that are most critical like hospital capacity are getting to frightening levels right now .
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Do you think that if FireEye shared with the public how they attributed it to Russia, Russia would make the same attributable mistakes again?
Agreed. "Reeducation camps", etc. Which is why I asked the question and think about it a lot. There don't seem to be any straightforward answers.
You asked me what could be done. I answered. I'm sure you have your reasons why you don't do more. But you asked.

> The problem is that no one wants to "discover" disclaimers.

Again repeating something I already said. It is indeed a problem. There are ways to address it. I personally think you do the absolute minimum.
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> Would the U.S. ever take a similar approach?

Would the US ever admit their exceptionalism is perhaps flawed?

Would the Europeans ever admit their exceptionalism led to ignoring Taiwan's alarm bells?

I highly doubt it. They are not stupid, they know what's going on in China and they are not telling everybody else because they are worried of losing credibility as leaders.

Almost all of our current response assumes the Chinese Communist Party is capable of being transparent and honest.

This is what worries me but perhaps the Chinese money has too much sway on YC and Silicon Valley in general to realize you are all being led into a death trap.

Pay attention to January 6th very carefully. A few hedge fund managers I speak to tells me they are hedged for a potentially a massive shock.

Similarly, the market seems to show that Biden's increase in corporate/wealth tax will become a reality at a time when the market desperately needs lower taxes and less punishment for the wealthy.

Some extreme end of the hedge fund managers think that the USD is going to collapse but I believe that this is just another ploy by people who bought Gold years ago are trying to dump their positions on people who buy this shit up.

the USD will never be allowed to fail because the rest of the world's currency is backed by it.
I made a hammer to put nails in things so I guess it’s evil to ask someone not to bash my brains in with it
Interesting question. I wonder if Google has a scale speed limit for an individual tenant's sites, or perhaps each URL? It seems that the underlying gov.uk page remained up throughout though.
The market cap of Tether is $21,807,025,291 according to coinmarketcap. Wouldn't the rush to trade all those tokens for something else push up the price of BTC?
Yes the current Taiwanese government is truly one of the world's finest, and the US governance one of the worst.

One of the reason I enjoy reading https://pedestrianobservations.com/ and other in depth discussions of public transit is that it's really quite the barometer for overall civic function. The rate of new public transit is also a fine derivative, and as such even more "low latency".
Again, it is a fake distinction.

Suppose you had a robot. Would that robot be labor or capital? Assume the robot has the same capability for work as you.

At the end of the day it is a machine, so "capital". Likewise you own your body, it is your capital.
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Um, that seems like a consequence of the nature of acting, which is short term gigs with lots of competition rather than a consequence of unionization.

The only actor I personally know just does it on the side for some extra cash rather than it being her day job.
Why is it harder to fire people that don't meet performance standards of they're in a union? Which union members are striking to support poorly performing colleagues aren't union members and bosses aligned here - in general people don't want to carry their colleagues (if they're performing badly because they're lazy/incapable)?
If you update your Hacker News profile with an updated bio and contact info, then perhaps we'd be able to help ;).
It’s crazy that Ethereum has risen so fast! Some people I know were predicting it to go up to $1000 by the end of 2020 when it was $630 in December so I bought in then. They were only off by 4 days since today is Jan 4th. I’m glad I did because it is up by a higher percent than Bitcoin.
This seems to be less about "tech" compensation than "startup" compensation, on a first reading. The bits about having to wait for liquidity don't apply when working at a public company, and 4 year vesting schedules don't matter very much when you can sell immediately, either. The only factor there is the 1 year cliff, which, for discounting purposes, is not very long relative to the 30 year timespans referenced elsewhere.

I'm between the 2 examples: I'm not a 20 year old, and not a 60 year old. I think I would still take the promise of a billion in 30 years, but, only if there were a reasonable floor to that promise. How high the floor would have to be depends on exactly what I'd be required to do to get it. In 30 years, I hope to be a few years into retirement, but still young enough that I'll have a decent amount of life expectancy left to enjoy it.

This also means that, although I would be considered a senior engineer by now, I won't be looking to "cure cancer" with a 2 year old startup, as one of the YC job ads on the front page suggests, simply because the risk of joining a 2 year old startup is so high, and won't pay off for such a long time that the future discounted expected return is far, far less than just joining a public company now.
Sites like these: https://feinternational.com/, they guide you through the process, but you have to reach certain MRR(2k minimum I think), the price of the SAAS business is calculated using a multiple of the MRR(20x~48x).
This is probably an indicator that outside counsel is saying "antitrust might be a real thing again, why don't you lower your profile a smidge." Nothing says "cartel" louder than a "joint venture" comprised of 3 companies with $2.5 trillion in market capitalization.
While there are plenty of toy Stirling engines, they do have real world applications. They are used as heat pumps in cryocoolers, and there are even variants with no moving parts, the Thermoacoustic Sterling Cryocooler.
Thanks for the great feedback! I definitely want to explore a company profiles product - will be interesting trying to make that feel rich enough with only a few companies on board at the beginning.

As for Quip I left in July but I'll be sure to pass the feedback on!
It's not that hard to draw it: 'I am satisfied that this man is the one who killed my dog'. Whether you are convinced that this is the man, or whether you are pleased that this particular man killed your dog are clearly different senses.
I think the difference I’m talking about is that if you crash a car into one of these things it could conceivably be an accident (and my guess is it almost always is accidental). Shooting a utility box until the magic blue smoke is all gone is deliberate.
That seems to speak to your own biases.

Now if I spun this conspiracy to say that Chris Christie created a traffic jam so that child sex traffickers protected by the mayor of Fort Lee couldn’t easily escape, while the New Jersey state police conducted a raid on secret bunkers under the GWB. Would you believe that? Because if you do, I have a bike to sell you in the basement of the Alamo.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C5-1/...

The constitution always congress can if they want to.
Overall yes, but exactly what you mean by "China" here is highly ambiguous.
Not a keystroke and I'm probably being captain obvious, but I use pythons execfile for this.
It wasn't fair to others for you to stick it out because your heart wasn't in it so you wasted everyone's time training you for a few months only to quit when you are finally half productive.

The real reason you left is the commute and office decor. Moving from a 15 walk to an hour trainride is a big change. Moving to an environment where people care more about product than impressing people is a huge culture shift.

In the end covid would have forced everyone wfh anyhow.

"I figured it wasn’t really fair to my colleagues at Nuro to stick in a job that my heart wasn’t in."

So, in the end, I decided that option 2 was the best fit for me. I continued at Nuro and did my best to get up-to-speed and to contribute to my team’s work, but at the same time jumped right back into the job market"
The coal plant is in Nevada so it keeps California clean.
Here in Florida, we got so tired of the stalling that we wrote medical marijuana into a 2016 constitutional amendment initiative, since that's the only way to get something approaching a law without legislative cooperation.
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Trump and QAnon followers in the US don't just believe COVID is fake, they commonly throw tantrums, threaten, and actively attack, and even murder people wearing masks and asking them to wear masks.

QAnon Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene Refuses to Wear Mask at Congressional Swearing-In

https://news.yahoo.com/qanon-congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-g...

St. Louis County man threatens to 'shoot up' church over mask request

https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/st-louis-county-man-threaten...

Family Charged In Security Guard's Death After Mask Dispute

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

US family 'murdered shop guard for enforcing mask policy'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52540266

NYPD: Woman Attacked By Couple After Asking Them To Wear Face Masks In Elevator

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/11/18/brooklyn-face-mask-a...

ATTACKED FOR WEARING MY MASK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kII1ST3Z2Xk&ab_channel=JonFo...

Men attack Target employee after refusing to wear face mask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI5Xbw4ec-0&ab_channel=WPLGL...

Woman attacked in N.J. Staples after asking customer to wear mask

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87kJWYt_foY&ab_channel=NJ.co...

There are many other examples.
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The power move is to have an offer in hand and then tell your company that you're considering leaving for <reason>, but you'd like to give them a chance to beat your new offer by <increasing salary to $X, resolving reason X with a team move>.

Some companies will flat-out refuse to negotiate in this way as a matter of policy, and some will really appreciate you giving them the opportunity to bid to keep you; it really depends on the company and their comp strategy. I think as long as you're earnest about the conversation and don't try to run a bidding war, most companies won't burn bridges with you over a round of negotiations in this fashion.
Exactly how a discussion with a Marxist is expected to go down, just invent random concepts and twist the meaning of words until a discussion becomes impossible

I prefer to stick to physics, rather than those arbitrary concepts of "capital" and "labor". Let's cut the bullshit and look at reality. Moving/changing things costs energy, that is the reality.
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User feedback: I don’t know if read.cv will be around forever since it’s a new thing. I feel compelled to give it a shot since I’m attracted to the cleaner low-noise profiles compared to LinkedIn. I was scanning the marketing material to see if there was an option to export a CV as static HTML in case I wanted to self-host the CV. The closest thing was the bullet about printability, which I assume means I can at least save as a PDF. Even so, an static HTML export option would have made it even more compelling to setup a profile.
Best not mention the COVID app.
not to hijack the thread, but does anyone know or recommend an economic calendar REST API feed?
Rising housing prices help people underwater on their mortgage get above water.
> If you take an absolutist, principled or binary view, then most imprisonment is a torture of some sort. It causes severe psychological distress. That's what a prison is. The differences are in the nuance, and you might call those subjective.

That's what prison in America is, but that's not what prison either has to be, or is everywhere else in the world.

If your goal is to torture people, America's system is very effective. If your goal is to rehabilitate people and make sure they don't go on to commit more crimes, America's system is an abject failure.

Recidivism in the US is 55% after 5 years, as compared to Norway's 20%. Apparently not treating people inhumanely is a great way of getting them not to commit more crimes. [1] Who would have thought?

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/recidivis...
Also the minor leagues aren't unionized and they make poverty wages.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/baseball-broshu...
I’m picturing someone in a Hong Kong “apartment” cage saying, “Wait you guys have whole rooms?”
If the judge's interpretation is correct, then it seems that the UK is in breach of its treaty obligations, which bar extradition for political offenses.
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"working on a product that would take many years to reach mass-market adoption due to pesky little things like manufacturing and road safety."

I know that sentence was probably meant to be humorous and not taken too seriously, but it comes off as smug and disdainful. Manufacturing is very difficult, and road safety is anything but trivial.

He joined the company because he believed in the mission, but then decided the lifestyle tradeoff wasn't worth it? His conviction must not have been very strong to begin with.
i would guess that a hypothetical survey of the software engineering profession would rank "solving intellectually challenging and interesting problems" as one of the top values if not the top.

if you buy that, it's no surprise that many software engineers (albeit not necessary ultra professional ones) are willing to give away their labor for free to the world, on the internet, in their (spare?) time. to them, it's just a fulfilling use of time, and that it may be valuable on its own or on behalf of capital, isn't really a big deal.

it should also be no surprise, then, that despite potentially automating away entire industries (e.g. transportation) whose proceeds will ostensibly go to those deploying the labor of the engineers, they're perfectly willing to settle in for a "good salary", "cool perks", "comfortable lifestyle", and, most importantly, being fed very difficult problems to hack on. as long as the SWE isn't too bored or too uncomfortable, i think they'd continue to plow ahead, even if their employers stand to gain $Billions from whatever they're doing.
This looks cool, really nice design. It would be good to list a few more example profiles, it's hard to get an idea of what a profile would look like by only seeing yours.
I don't think the National Enquirer is a "right-wing media outlet," so much as a sleazy tabloid whose owner happened to be friends with Donald Trump. See e.g., https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-national-enquir..., in which the same owner tat tried to blackmail Bezos started publishing in 1999 "Why I should be President" articles from Donald Trump, during which time Trump was (briefly) a member of the Reform Party before he became a Democrat.
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Coincidentally I was just watching these Yale lectures which touch on economical history of unions in the 20th century. Might be of interest to HN readers.

https://youtu.be/q53DF6ySOZg - The Resurgent Right in the West

https://youtu.be/T3-VlQu3iRM - Reorienting the Left: New Democrats, New Labour and Europe's Social Democrats
Why are you so critical of Facebook and not the other big tech companies?
It might also help you refine your data model to use other structured standards as a reference. It’s helped me think about building my own personal site presentation.
Useless pedantry, and wrong, to boot. Given a low enough baseline exposure to the virus, which would otherwise cause disease, it certainly is possible that wearing a medical grade mask could lower one's exposure sufficiently to not get the disease. One may still be exposed to the virus, but, given the reduced viral load, one may not experience symptoms.
Can you quote ?
I've read[1] that it can make Meltdown/Spectre attacks possible and thought I'd seen many more reports and discussions about it, but seems I was mistaken.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3646
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Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch.

I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways to do it that does not involve people's pictures.

Edit: Wow this got a lot of upvotes. So, I'll continue for a sec: There is so, so much conscious and unconscious judgment and game playing with pictures, I don't even know where to start. Let's leave this to be simple, clean and beautiful without the faces.